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Ch. 12 Attack on Corona
The seven Ninja, as well as Maximus, Rapunzel, and Eugene continued their trek through the forest. For the most part, Kai was using his Golden Sword of Fire to cut down branches and vines to clear the path for everyone; while Jay, Nya, Cole, Skylar, and Zane surrounded Rapunzel who was riding on Maximus, while Eugene walked on the left side of the horse and Lloyd on the right side.
"How much longer till we get back to Corona?" Jay asked.
"We should be back in about an hour." Eugene answered.
"Is there a reason we're all going so slow? I'd say we can all get there in twenty minutes if we all run." Jay stated.
"It's best if we just keep moving at this pace and avoid running into any traps." Kai replied as he cut down a large branch.
"Kai is correct." Zane began. "With Pythor and Gothel together, anything can happen."
"I still can't believe she's alive." Rapunzel said with a worried look as Pascal laid down on her shoulder to comfort her.
"I know." Eugene agreed. "We saw her turn to dust."
"You think Pythor might have done that?" Rapunzel wondered.
"Not by himself." Lloyd replied. "He's a lot of things, but he cannot resurrect people."
"So whoever or whatever brought Pythor and those Nindroids and the Stone Warrior here, must have been the same force that resurrected Gothel." Nya theorized.
"But why Gothel?" Cole wondered. "Why bring her back to life?"
"I don't know, but whatever the reason, it can't be good." Kai stated as they continued forward through the forest.
"Not that I'm complaining or anything, but why does it feel like I'm being guarded or something?" Rapunzel questioned as all the warriors we're around her.
"You said yourself how far Gothel's willing to go. We're just not taking any chances with her." Skylar replied.
"And the same goes for Pythor." Lloyd replied. "No way of knowing what that guy's got up his sleeve."
"But why is he against you guys?" Rapunzel asked. "Didn't he help you bring down that Chen-guy?"
"I'm guessing it was a 'common enemy' kind of thing." Cole guessed. "There are some snakes you can trust, just not that one."
As they kept going, Lloyd couldn't help but wonder. Rapunzel said that Gothel never really had any powers, so why did he sense some kind of dark power inside her? And it felt strangely familiar for some reason; he knew he felt this kind of power before, but where? The best thing to do right now was just to keep moving and get to Corona where it would be safer.
Unknown to our heroes, a certain being had already beaten them to Corona. Underneath the bridge leading to the Island kingdom, sneaking across the wall we're Pythor and Gothel; with the transparent Overlord not far behind them.
"Are you sure you know where you're going?" Pythor asked Gothel who was leading them.
"Very sure." Gothel answered. "There's an entire system of abandoned tunnels from this kingdom's early days. Perfect way to sneak in or out."
"So, you are suggesting we use these tunnels to aid in our capturing of Rapunzel?" Pythor guessed.
"Yes."
"No." The Overlord replied getting both their attention. "It will be too much of a risk, due to you're recent blunder Gothel, the Ninja will no longer let her out of their sights."
"What do you recommend then?" Gothel questioned, taking some offense to that previous comment.
"Is there an armory in these tunnels?" The Overlord asked
"Yes, but why?"
Pythor was soon to realize what the Overlord was planning. "My Lord, are you planning on attacking this kingdom?"
The Overlord gave a small cackle to confirm it, much to Gothel's surprise.
"But, with all-due-respect, wouldn't that alert the Ninja to your presence?" Pythor questioned.
"Perhaps." The Overlord admitted. "However, due to Gothel's blunder; the Ninja know she's alive and are aware of your presence as well Pythor. It will not take them long to suspect my presence. At least this way, I can instill fear and terror into this kingdom, so they know exactly who their new master will be."
Pythor gave an evil grin. "As sinister as ever, Mighty Overlord." The white serpentine then turned to Gothel. "Now then Gothel, lead the way."
Gothel nodded and opened a hatch to the wall, revealing a dark entrance way; in which the evil trio entered.
The heroes then exited the forest and came into view of their destination; of which they we're all glad to see.
"Corona! Finally!" Jay exhaled.
"Come on then, let's go people." Kai urged as they picked up there pace and came to the bridge, where a nearby guard took notice and ran towards them.
"Rapunzel! Princess Rapunzel!" The guard exclaimed as he ran up the Rapunzel still on Maximus and bowed down. "Your majesty; your parents have been worried deeply for you."
"You don't have to worry, I'm fine; thanks to some good friends." She assured, gesturing to Eugene and the Ninja around her.
"Yes your majesty." The guard replied with a smile. "I will notify you're parents right away." He then ran across the bridge as fast as his legs could carry him.
"Alright then, we made it to Corona with no trouble at all." Jay began. "Now there's nothing that can go wrong."
As soon as he said that; everyone (even Maximus) sighed as all the humans, and Pascal, face palmed.
"What?"
"Jay, I love you." Nya began "But you have an act for saying the wrong things at the wrong time."
"Aw come on, what's the worst that can happen?"
Underground tunnels
A large wooden door was opened as Gothel and Pythor walked in, each of them carrying a lit torch for a light source, with the Overlord not far behind them. The villainous trio then walked into a massive hall that stored dozens, if not hundreds of old abandoned knight armors.
"Well, this will most certainly do." Pythor observed with a smile.
"Indeed it will." The Overlord agreed as two transparent hands formed from his transparent body, and several streams of dark purple smoke flew from them and flew towards all the armors.
As each column of smoke hit a separate suit of armor, it quickly turned black as the smoke filled it.
Gothel knew she was in hot water with the Overlord at the moment, and knew if she was to gain eternal youth as promised, she'd have to do something to help regain the Overlord's trust. She knew never to betray him again, and just agreed to go forward with the initial deal; help him, and gain eternal youth.
"My mighty Overlord." Gothel began, trying to sound sincere. "I realize you have no reason to trust me, but allow me to make it up to you."
The Overlord slowly turned to Gothel, while still working, his red eyes now focused on Gothel.
"I'm sure we both know that this army of yours will not last, so allow me to suggest some 'volunteers' who'd be more than happy to work for you. I know of two who can be especially useful."
"I am listening."
As he listened to Gothel's proposal, one of the armors was now completely black and a pair of blood red eyes formed in its head.
Our favorite team of heroes had just crossed the bridge and into the kingdom. Rapunzel felt it was safe enough to at least get off of Maximus, but the Ninja insisted on accompanying her to the castle.
The citizens soon caught sight of their beloved princess and the ninja and all cheered.
"There, now you see?" Jay stated. "We get the hero-treatment, I'd call that a victory."
"Jay, I believe the saying is 'do not count your chickens before they hatch.'" Zane told him.
"Aw come on, you too Zane?" Jay questioned.
"We can't afford to let our guard down; remember what happened last time?" Lloyd reminded.
"That was with Chen and his army, that has nothing to do with this." Jay responded.
"It may not be Chen, but it is Pythor." Kai argued.
"Oh what's the worst…."
Before Jay could finish, the ground itself began to shake, rocking the heroes around quite a bit. Several citizens of the kingdom we're nocked off their feet, some stands we're brought down; even the King and Queen felt it inside their castle as the entire ground surrounding the island began to shake.
"What the… earthquake?!" Cole questioned.
"No, Corona doesn't get earthquakes." Eugene responded as the ground continued to shake.
"Relax! Everyone relax!" Skylar instructed as the ninjas, and their friends tried to keep a steady grip on the ground.
The rumbling soon came to a halt. Everyone remained silent for a few seconds, expecting something to come soon after.
"See? Nothing to it." Jay told them, feeling relaxed.
As soon as he said that, a black metal hand came up from the ground and gripped onto it, shocking the nearby citizens and getting the heroes attention.
Another black metal hand rose from the ground as well, and another, and another, and another; from nearly every spot in the kingdom, more black metal hands came bursting through the ground. When that was done, whole bodies began to emerge; each one looked the same.
These beings had the appearances of black knights, with a black sword in each hand, and dark purple smoke seeping from the openings, each one had a pair of blood red eyes.
Once they rose, each began to attack a different part of the kingdom, slicing nearby stands, scaring citizens, and within seconds the whole kingdom was thrown in a state of panic.
All the heroes soon glared at Jay.
"Me and my big mouth."
Seven black knights charged the heroes, and the Ninjas we're the first to attack back, with Rapunzel, Eugene, and Maximus not far behind them.
Kai blocked on sword strike with his golden sword. He parried and shoved the enemy's sword away from him before stabbing the armor, the golden sword lighting on fire and piercing the armor. Strangely, it had no effect at all.
"What the?!" Kai questioned before being forced to withdraw his sword and jump back.
"Who are these guys?! Where'd they come from?!" Eugene questioned as he rolled out of the way of another sword strike and tried to punch one knight in the face, but it had no affect.
Rapunzel used her frying pan to block an attack from another black knight. While she tried to parry the sword with her pan, she was able to get an opening and smack the pan across the head, knocking the helmet off. She looked to see who the man inside might be, but soon went wide eye (with Pascal on her shoulder doing the same) as she saw no one inside the armor.
Even more surprising, as soon as the head came off, the armor fell apart and the smoke dissipated.
"What… there's no one inside?" Rapunzel questioned. "Guys!" She called out to everyone. "There's no one inside! They're all empty!"
"What?! How is that possible?!" Cole questioned as he formed an earth gauntlet and punched the head off another black knight, resulting in it falling apart as well.
Zane then froze one suit of armor in place with the thrust of his hand. He performed a scan on the armor and realized Rapunzel was right.
"She is correct." Zane stated. "There is no sings of life inside them."
"Which means we don't have to hold back!" Lloyd exclaimed as he jumped and avoided one strike. He brought his hands together and formed a green energy ball, which began to quickly grow. With a yell he let the energy loose. It impacted all the armors, dispersing the dark energy, while leaving all his friends in tact.
"What the heck is going on?" Nya questioned.
"There is some kind of, dark energy controlling them." Zane reported.
"Well whatever the case, there's more likely to be more of these things all over Corona." Skylar assumed.
"Most likely." Cole agreed.
"My parents." Rapunzel realized. "We have to do something!"
"And we will." Kai assured. "We'll split up. Lloyd; you, Rapunzel, and Max stay here and clean up the north side; Skylar and I will take the east; Cole, Zane, and Eugene take the south; and Nya and Jay take the west."
"Lets do this!" Jay cheered.
"NinjaGO!" All Seven ninjas said as they formed their Spinjitsu tornadoes and sped toward their respective locations, with their friends being close behind them.
Corona Prison.
"Hold it! Hold…" A guard yelled, pointing a spear in a certain direction; only for a white snake-like tail to wrap around his throat.
Pythor then swung the guard into a wall of the hall he was in, knocking him out. Gothel and the Overlord soon entered the hall as well.
"Hmm, not much resistance." Pythor observed.
"Of course not." Gothel replied. "Most guards here are too busy dealing with the 'mess' we left for them."
"Gothel." The Overlord spoke. "Why are we here? You suggested we'd find two men who could aid us, where are they?"
"Not far." Gothel replied simply.
She opened a door into a prison hall and entered, after walking by a few cells she spotted one that was occupied by the two she was looking for.
"Hello boys." Gothel greeted with a smile to the Stabbington Brothers.
"You!" Both brothers exclaimed at the same time as they grabbed the bars with anger evident on their faces.
"Oh my, why the temper?" Gothel asked nonchalantly.
"You know damn well why!" The brother with the eye patch responded.
"We had a deal, and you left us here!" The other brother responded.
"Aw yes." Gothel recalled. "I do apologize for that. But what would you have to say, if I could get you two out right now?"
"Really?" One brother questioned.
"No way, forget it!" The second brother responded.
"Whatever you have planed, do it on your own you old hag." The first brother told her.
"Oh really?" Another voice spoke out. The two turned the source of the voice and we're utterly surprised at the sight of a white humanoid snake standing in front of them.
"Even if we promise you revenge on that accursed Rider, and the very same ninja who put you in here?" Pythor proposed.
The two quickly recovered from their shock.
"Beat it snake boy." The brother without the patch replied.
"The hag here promised us the same thing a while back." The eye-patched brother agreed.
"That's not all that will be given to you."
A purple transparent being with soul-piercing red eyes soon came before the cell; the brothers could only take a few steps back, being in this being's presence, something about him frightened them, it felt like evil, pure evil.
"Help me; and I will promise you all the treasures and riches that you desire and your revenge." The Overlord proposed. "Otherwise, you two can just stay in here and rot."
"Who… who are you?" One brother nervously asked.
"All will be explained in due time." The Overlord answered. "If you decide to join me. The choice is yours, and now is the time; so make your choice."
The Stabbington Brothers looked to each other. After a few seconds of pondering, they came to a decision.
"Alright…" One brother began.
"…We'll help." The other brother finished.
Pythor and Gothel smiled at that.
"But, we want our dues when this is over." The first brother stated.
"And do not screw us over this time." The second brother finished.
"You will get what you deserve, that I promise." The Overlord assured. He raised a transparent hand towards the bars and they then fell apart, allowing the Stabbington Brothers to step outside, both of them smiling evilly.
Castle Courtyard.
The King and Queen came running out of the castle as many guards came running towards them.
"What the devil is going on?!" The King exclaimed.
"My King and Queen, we are under attack." A guard responded.
"Attack?! By whom?! Where is our daughter?!" The Queen worriedly questioned.
"We appear to be under the attack of magical beings, of whom we do not know. However, your daughter appears to be safe with the Ninjas." The guard replied.
Both the king and queen breathed a sigh of relief, knowing she'd likely be safe with them.
"What about the people?" The King asked with concern about his kingdom.
"We are keeping them safe inside." Another guard reported. "But we should…"
Before he could finish, several black knights broke through the gates and approached the group.
"Your majesties, stay back!" a guard exclaimed as all the guards stood in front of the King and Queen with their swords drawn.
Tension built between the two opposing parties, before the black knights could strike though, there was a load roar from the sky.
All heads looked upward to the Ultra-Dragon soaring down from the sky. It opened its outer left head and sent a stream of fire downwards, separating the black knights from their prey. The Ultra-Dragon landed and growled at the knights.
The black knights charged forward, but the Ultra-Dragon blasted ice from its inner left head, freezing them all. It swept its tail and shattered all the frozen black knights before roaring.
The King, Queen, and all the guards looked in awe at the mighty dragon that stood to protect them. It turned to the King and Queen and gave a humble growl.
"Our thanks, mighty dragon." The King said gratefully as he and the Queen bowed.
"Perhaps, its best we provide a helping hand." The Queen suggested to her King, looking towards the Ultra-Dragon who motioned with its outer right head to get on its saddle.
The King and Queen smiled at each other. "Well let's get to work."
"Your majesties! Wait!" A guard came running from the castle called to them, carrying a sack. "Take these, I'm sure the Ninja may need them."
The Queen opened the sack and she and her husband looked wide-eye at the contents, the remaining Golden Weapons; the Scythe of Quakes, the Nunchucks of Lightning; and the Shurikens of Ice.
"Yes, I'm they'll be quite grateful." The Queen agreed.
Roof of the Prison
The Overlord, Pythor, Gothel, and both Stabbington Brothers had entered the roof and took the chance to look at the chaos ensuing below them.
"That's quite a show." One brother admitted.
"Indeed, though the Ninja are likely to advert this chaos." Pythor responded.
"It matters not." The Overlord spoke. "Now it's time we take our leave."
The Overlord raised his hands again and the many stone gargoyles on the roof of the prison began to glow dark purple. The gargoyles all lifted from the roof and came together; as they hovered closer and closer, the glow began to brighten; until they we're all inches from each other and there was a bright flash, forcing most of the villains, save the Overlord, to shield their eyes. When the flash subsided, they looked in awe to what stood before them.
A massive stone gargoyle now flew in front of them with bright red eyes. It growled before lowering its head and allowing the villains to climb onto it.
"You sure they won't notice us leaving?" The second brother questioned.
"With the chaos down below, I doubt it." Gothel replied.
The Overlord gave a slight cackle as the Gargoyle flew away from the kingdom with all its passengers.
Lloyd blasted forward a large ball of green energy that blew away five incoming black knights. He performed a roundhouse and kicked another head off an incoming one. He back flipped to avoid getting sliced by another before coming in with an energized punch that blew up the helmet, letting the armor fall apart. Another came in and he blasted a point blank energy blast that blew the armor apart completely.
Lloyd dusted his hands and turned around to see Rapunzel surrounded by four black knights.
"Rapunzel! Hang on!" Lloyd yelled as he ran to help his friend.
Rapunzel actually didn't need much help as she blocked one sword with her frying pan, and bashed the helmet off the first one. Number two swung his sword, Rapunzel ducked and swiped upwards with the pan, knocking the helmet off that one as well. She blocked a punch from number three with the frying pan, then tripped it over and bashed the helmet off with the pan. When number four was about to swing, she just swiped him off his feet and kicked the pan off his face.
Rapunzel turned to Lloyd who just stared.
"Wow." He said simply. "Didn't know you had it in you."
"I may have been kidnapped twice in a few days, but I am no damsel in distress." Rapunzel said with a smug grin as Pascal nodded to Lloyd on her shoulder.
"Maybe not." Lloyd agreed, before blasting an energy beam from his hand, which flew past Rapunzel and blew up an incoming black knight from behind. "But it doesn't hurt to have someone watching your back."
"Thanks, but that's covered."
Both turned to Max who had a sword in his mouth. He parried swords with a black knight till he knocked the sword out of its hand and sliced the head off. He kicked two black knights with his behind legs and trampled down on an incoming fourth. The mighty horse stood triumphantly over the fallen enemies.
"That is one strange horse." Lloyd said with wide eyes as Rapunzel playfully elbowed him.
Kai blasted fire from his right hand, fire so hot it melted the armors of three incoming black knights; while holding another back with his Sword of Fire in his left hand. He thrusted forward to force the knight off of him before slicing his head off with his flaming golden katana.
He turned around to Skylar who motioned her hands to form a tornado which sucked in five black knights before motioning for the tornado to fly upwards. When it was high enough, she lowered her hands and the tornado disappeared, allowing the five black knights to fall back to the ground and break upon impact.
"Morro was never that creative, you're really getting the hang of this." Kai congratulated.
"I'm a fast learner." Skylar replied with a smile.
They looked forward to see twenty more black knights running toward them. Both ninjas looked to each other with grins.
"I've got an idea." Skylar said with a ball of wind in her hand.
"You're reading my mind." Kai replied, catching her idea with a ball of fire in his hand.
They both threw their hands forward, unleashing a massive torrent of both fire and wind that completely engulfed all twenty black knights. The wind forced them all back while the fire melted them all quickly. They both stopped their attack and looked to see the molten pool of metal in front of them.
"We really do make a good team." Kai said proudly with Skylar nodding in agreement.
Jay threw both his hands forward and sent a large surge of lightning toward three incoming knights. When the lightning made contact with the metal there was a bright shock before each suit of armor exploded. Jay then flipped and kicked the helmet off another incoming knight before turning around with an electric punch.
Nya was near a water fountain and surrounded by six black knights. She motioned the water from the fountain to surround her arms in the form of water whips. She snapped one whip and knocked the helmet off one of them. She used the other whip to wrap around two more and slam them into two others, breaking them apart upon contact, before sending a large stream of water to the last one, causing it to break apart from sheer force.
"Looks like they can't take the pressure, huh?" Jay joked to Nya.
Nya rolled her eyes. "Your so cute when you try to sound funny."
However, the ninja couple soon found themselves surrounded by twenty five black knights, forcing them to come back-to-back near the water fountain.
"Well Nya, I'm open to ideas." Jay hopped.
"I don't have any good ones right now." Nya replied.
The many black knights slowly approached them, however, a roar from the sky caught their attention as the two looked up.
"It's the Ultra-Dragon!" Nya exclaimed.
The Dragon flew above them and roared, a passenger soon called down to both of them.
"Sir Jay! Sir Jay!"
"Wait, is that… the king?" Jay questioned as he recognized the passenger on the dragon.
The King reached into a sack and pulled out a familiar golden weapon. "Sir Jay! Catch!" He threw down the item to Jay who caught it.
"My nunchucks!" Jay marveled at the Golden Nunchucks. "Thanks you're majesty!" Jay called up to the King, and the Queen with him, as the Ultra-Dragon flew to help out the others.
"Nya! Soak them!"
"On it!"
Nya motioned a massive bubble of water to form from the fountain, which soon exploded and soaked all twenty-five black nights in water. Jay then lifted his nunchucks and twirled them at a fast rate, the end began to spark with lightning as a bright blue bolt of lightning came down from the sky and hit the nunchucks which blasted outward into several bolts, each one striking the metal armor. Water, metal, and lightning mixed until all the armors exploded, leaving only the two ninja.
"Whoever said water and lightning don't mix." Jay cracked as Nya giggled a bit.
Eugene parried swords with two black knights. He blocked one before kicking it in the chest area; he ducked from another swing from number two before slicing its leg off. He took the moment to kick the helmet off. He then blocked another attack from the first one before head-butting the helmet off that one.
Cole formed two earth gauntlets to block the swords from three black knights. He blocked one attack before punching the helmet clean off. He blocked the second one and picked him up before throwing him into the third one. A fourth black knight came charging in; Cole thrusted the stones from his gauntlets into projectiles that took off the black knight's arms before Cole came in with a kick to the helmet, knocking it off.
Zane threw his hands forward to one knight, freezing it solid, and then shattering it with a punch. A second one tried to come in from behind and he repeated the same process. Zane found himself surrounded by four more, he took the moment to blast energy from his hands and freeze the ground around him, causing all four knights to tumble over. He then ice skated in a circle and in one fluid motion, kicked all the helmets off.
The three heroes we're soon surrounded by twenty black knights.
"Zane, you're the Nindroid, got any suggestions?" Eugene asked.
"I am finding multiple solutions, most of them ending quite badly." Zane responded.
"Any of them not ending badly?" Cole questioned.
Before the knights could charge in, Zane soon noticed something. "My friends, our luck has changed."
Both looked up and saw the Ultra Dragon, with the King and Queen, high in the sky.
"Rapunzel's parents?" Cole questioned.
"Their riding your dragon?" Eugene questioned as well.
"Sir Cole! Sir Zane!" The Queen called down to them from the dragon as she and the King took out two familiar weapons. "I believe these are yours!" She threw down to Zane his Shurikens of Ice, while the King threw to Cole his Scythe of Quakes.
"We owe you guys big time for this!" Eugene gratefully called up to the King and Queen as the dragon soared threw the air.
Cole looked to his Golden Scythe. "Oh baby, I missed you." He then kissed the scythe.
Zane then twirled his Shurikens before throwing them outward. Each Shuriken impacted every black knight, causing them all to freeze instantly in their place and return to Zane.
"My turn." Cole then brought the scythe down onto the ground, the blade cutting into it, causing a massive tremor that shook and shattered all the frozen black knights.
"I really gotta get me one of those." Eugene marveled at the two golden weapons.
"If we find one pal, it's all yours." Cole told him.
"Now it is time we turn the tide of this chaos." Zane announced.
From there, the Ninjas and their friends we're able to force all the black knights back and take them down. Not just them, the King and Queen flew the Ultra Dragon which performed attacks from the air onto all the black knights down below. The guards even started to fight back as well. With all their combined effort, most of the Black Knights we're destroyed.
Save for thirty of them which we're all forced into the center of town surrounded by every single guard in Corona. The seven ninjas we're at the front as well; surrounding the black knights.
"Lets finish them guys!" Kai shouted as he blasted a stream of fire; Jay blasted lightning; Lloyd shot energy; Zane blasted ice; Cole shot out earth; Nya shot water; and Skylar blasted air.
The combined elemental attacks impacted and destroyed all the armors in one single elemental explosion.
With that, the guards all shouted in victory. Most ninjas took joy in the celebration as well. Nya hugged Jay; Cole and Zane high-fived, and Skylar gave Kai a quick peck on the cheek. Both he and Lloyd then high-fived as well.
Eugene came up and hugged Rapunzel who did the same. The Ultra-Dragon landed near the couple as the King and Queen got off. Nothing else to say, both parents embraced their daughter lovingly while Eugene, Max, and Pascal looked at the moment with a smile.
Several citizens came out to celebrate as well.
The ninjas congratulated each other, save for Lloyd and Kai who only looked at the shattered bits of black armor with concern.
"Yo guys we won, why the long faces?" Jay questioned.
"No way this is random." Kai stated, getting the attention of the other ninja.
"Huh?" Cole questioned.
"What do you mean?" Nya asked her older brother.
"Kai's right." Lloyd agreed. "First Gothel's back to life, then Pythor shows up, now this."
The other ninjas soon caught on to what they we're saying.
"You're right." Skylar agreed. "These things gotta be connected."
"It's not just that." Lloyd stated. "I sensed a dark power from all these armors, the same kind in Gothel. I know I've felt it before, but I couldn't place my finger on it; but now I know what it is." He said with a scowl. "Correction, I know who it is."
"Yeah." Kai agreed with a scowl. "Only one being has the power to do all this."
Before anything else could be said though, the shattered pieces of black armor began to shake and rise. The citizens, guards, Rapunzel, her parents, Eugene, Max, and Pascal ceased their celebration and looked in surprise at the pieces of armor that began to hover. Every piece of corrupted armor in the entire kingdom began to slowly rise before quickly flying to a location just above the ninjas and coming together.
All the pieces of black armor merged together, taking the shape of a large black sphere. Once the armor sphere was finished merging, pieces of the armor began to glow blood red and move to take the form of eyes.
Every man, woman, child, and animal in Corona looked to the massive red-eyed sphere, which then spoke.
"Hello Ninja. It's been quite some time, hasn't it?"
That voice made every living being in Corona tremble, the very sound of it made them feel sick, as if it we're the voice of evil itself. The ninja we're the first to recognize the voice.
"Oh my god." Nya breathed in shock, putting a hand to her mouth.
"No way." Jay uttered.
"The Overlord!" Kai yelled.
Eugene and Rapunzel looked to each other with surprise when they heard Kai say that name; the same for Eugene and Pascal.
"How… that's not… you can't be here. It's not possible!" Zane exclaimed.
"We saw you blow up! How are you still alive!?" Cole questioned
"Foolish mortals. You may destroy as many of my bodies as you wish, but as long as evil still exists, so shall I."
"Just what are you doing here?!" Lloyd questioned in an angry tone.
"What it is I always want. To plunge all into infinite darkness. Starting with this kingdom."
"You don't have the power to do that though, do you?" Skylar questioned.
"Yeah that's right." Kai stated. "You can wait a whole century and you will never regain your full power on your own."
"And there's nothing to help you with that either." Lloyd sated. "My Golden Power is gone, you can't use that anymore."
Oddly though, the Overlord actually laughed.
"What's so funny?" Jay questioned.
"You may be the chosen one Lloyd; but it's not always about you. He, he. You fools have unknowingly led me to another way for my powers to be restored."
"What are you talking about?" Lloyd questioned.
"You'll find out soon enough. By the time you do though, it will already be too late. Ha ha ha ha! HA HA HA HA!"
As he laughed, Lloyd blasted a green energy beam at the sphere, destroying it.
The kingdom was now deathly silent. Children hung onto their parents, mothers held their children protectively, husbands did the same for their wives.
"This is bad." Jay said.
"Yeah, really bad." Cole added.
"Agreed." Zane stated.
"No question now who our 'great darkness' is." Lloyd observed.
Skylar looked to Nya, both girls had worried expressions on their faces.
"What does he want this time?" Kai asked himself.
"Kai?"
The ninjas all looked to Rapunzel slowly approach them, with a worried look on her face, Eugene wasn't far behind her.
"Was that really him? The Overlord you told us about?" She asked.
"Yeah, that was him." Kai replied with a nod.
"How bad is our situation, exactly?" Eugene asked.
"Scale of one to ten; a hundred." Kai answered, causing the two to look in shock.
"I'm sorry, 'the Overlord'?" The Queen questioned as she and the King approached the ninjas, never hearing that name before now.
Kai sighed.
"Inside, now. It's a really long story."
Done.
Oh. My. GOOOOSSSSHHHHH! That was long! That may have been the longest chapter I've written for this story. I hope you all like it.
The Overlord has revealed himself, things are about to get intense for our heroes, what's gonna happen next?
Thank you all for being so patient.
See you next time.