A/N: hope you are all enjoying the story so far...i am afraid that this story will have to end soon, as i want to get my second book started (Flame Rider II)...Hope you Enjoy!
They came out of nowhere. Batman was the first to go down to four tornadoes. Emmet and Lucy followed, with Benny and Unikitty both ending up in the same tree. Dragono had been flying above the group with Blaze on his back.
'Let me down,' Blaze ordered, 'they need help.'
'Whatever is down there is not something that you want to mess with,' Dragono stated, 'and I doubt that you can take on four of them.'
'Watch me,' Blaze replied, jumping off Dragono's neck.
Time froze when Blaze hit the ground. Literally. Everything stopped, and as Blaze rose to his feet, he could see four Ninja spinning around in slow motion. The outfits of the Ninja were Red, Blue, Black and Gold.
"Well, it looks like these warriors need to learn a lesson about ambushing friends of mine," Blaze muttered to himself.
While it felt like half an hour had passed for Blaze when he let time unfreeze, only thirty seconds had actually passed for everyone else. The four Ninja found themselves stuck in the trees that the group had been thrown into, while the group were all standing on the ground.
"What the hell just happened?" the golden Ninja demanded, "And who are yooouuuu?!"
The Ninja all fell to the ground, as Dragono landed in the tree, causing it to bend into the ground. Blaze kneelt next to the golden clad warrior, and spoke softly.
"I am a man of unthinkable powers," Blaze whispered softly, "You attacked my friends, and so I simply reversed the situation."
'But how?" the Red Ninja asked, taking off his headdress, revealing brown spiky hair.
"No one can move that fast," the Black Ninja stated, taking off his headdress, revealing black hair that swept to the side.
'Not even Lloyd can move that fast," the Blue one added, revealing orange hair as he removed his headdress, "You must have some kind of time related powers!"
"More than that," the golden Ninja stated, revealing blonde hair when his headdress was removed, "You'd have to be a god or some kind of super being."
"Lloyd? Man it is so good to see you again!" Emmet shouted, hugging the surprised Ninja, "You look so different. Why? How?"
"Time changes things," Lloyd explained after escaping Emmet's near-death grip, "Many things have changed in the short time since the Kragle incident."
Emmet nodded, before asking, "Who are your friends?"
"They are Ninja like myself, but of course you have probably already figured that out," Lloyd answered, "The Blue one is Jay, the Black one is Cole, and the red one is Kai. Who would you four be?"
Lloyd said this, motioning towards the three humanoids and the dragon. Blaze looked at his three companions, before saying, "The female with wings is my sister, Maria. the female without is my friend, Anna, and the dragon's name is Dragono."
"What about your name?" Cole asked, "Who, or what, are you?"
"My name is Blaze Sigma Darkrunner," Blaze stated firmly, "and like my sister, and I am the offspring of Life and Death, but unlike my sister, I am the unholy offspring. This means that I am more powerful than any of my previous incarnations, I'm able to do things that no one else can, such as reanimate the dead."
"You can do that?" Jay asked.
"The more important question, I guess," Kai stated, "Is why are you here?"
"We have grave news," Maria stated, 'A dangerous being from our worlds has appeared here, and we have come to remove him, and if possible, destroy him."
"What does he look like?" Lloyd asked.
"Well, he can take on many different forms," Anna explained, "And while he enjoys taking the bodies as hosts, his most natural form his that of an orb of crimson energy."
"That sounds like the overlord," Kai stated, "Do you know anything else about this being?"
"Only that his only goal in life," Blaze replied, "Is to destroy anyone and anything that stands in his way."
Blaze really had no clue as to what had happened. One minute he was lying in a bed, sleeping peacefully, the next he was standing in a workshop, with the four Ninja surrounding him and table, with a small chunk of metal on it.
"What am I doing here?" Blaze asked.
"You said that you could bring the dead back to life," Jay explained, "And we lost a very close friend to the Overlord when we finally beat him."
"We were wondering if you could," Kai started, before stopping suddenly, unable to find the right words.
"We were wondering if you could bring Zane back to life," Cole stated.
Blaze looked at the table, and then back at the four Ninja. He wasn't one for breaking the most basic rules around the dead, but he needed the support of all of the realms, so he replied with the one thing he could.
"I'll do what I can," Blaze stated, "But I can't make any promises."
With that, Blaze took a step towards the table, and placed both his hands on the last remaining piece of Zane. The Angel then closed his eyes, and started to mutter under his breath. What he said was in a language that only the Darkrunner family knew of, a language that spoke of only life, death, time and nature.
Suddenly a soft glow appeared on the table, under Blaze's hands. That glow started to pulse, as it shaped itself into the form of a mini-figure, and then started to send small tentacles towards the five people in the room.
When the tentacles had connected with everyone, the glowing body flashed a bright white, before taking on a solid form. Blaze collapsed, and the Ninja looked around, confused slightly as to what had just happened.
"How long have I been asleep?" a voice asked from the table.
"Zane!" the four Ninja shouted in unison.
"You all sound so surprised," Zane stated, sitting on the edge of the table, "and your suits look different as well."
The four Ninja looked at their suits, and noticed that Zane was right. Each suit was the colour of their elemental powers, but looked more like a clone trooper's armour, with hoods instead of helmets.
"This must have happened when Blaze brought you back," Jay stated.
"Where is Blaze?" Lloyd asked.
The Ninja didn't have to look far, as Blaze had fallen to the ground pretty much where he was standing when he had brought Zane back from the dead. But now he was fast asleep, his wings covering his torso as he dreamt.