So...first story! Yayyyy!...Ehe, sorry, just...been contemplating how to tackle becoming a fanfiction writer and I decided to start with Nexo Knights. It all started with an idea while I on the toilet, What if I took The Concept of an AU where the roles were reversed and applied that to Nexo Knights? Well, this is what I came up with and I'll be the first to admit...Yeah, I'm no professional. but I make up for it in having one too many ideas, I'll try and Polish up my Skills as I continue this piece of fiction, but until then: I hope you enjoy...also apologies if I take awhile to make the next chapter, My brain just moves really slow

Nexo Knights Belongs to LEGO

Shattered Crown
Chapter 1: The Jester and The Book, Part 1

The City of Knightonia, Capital of the continent Spanning Knighton Kingdom. Jet black, Light gray and Golden walls protected its similarly colored inner walls, where squire bots and people alike roamed the ground of the city, some were going home, others gathered around the TVs. But most? Most made their way to the centre stadium of Knigtonia: The Joustdome. Inside of the Joustdome itself, in one of its locker rooms. Sat a group of 5 young knights, freshly to graduate….

"Okay, Peasants! I hope you're all prepared. for I, Lance Richmond, Will be the greatest Knight the realm has ever seen!" Lance said, doing his hair up and preparing his fine black armour, White high lights and accents declaring it his own. "Ah, there we are! Gotta say: Love the black colour, makes the richmond White really pop, don't you think?"

"Whatever, Half-Wit" The Princess of the Kingdom, Macy, spoke out in a scathing sneer. Smashing her beloved mace against a training Bot, sending it into the wall. "Ohhhh~ I never get tired of that, Bonecrusher, Do you?" She asked in a hushed, Sultry Whisper to her mace.

Axl, Holding a plate of food in his hand and being unfortunate enough to be standing close enough to hear the princess of the kingdom whisper like that to her mace….He looked at a Servant Bot, and handed him his plate. "Axl's stomach….upset, eat later" He groaned. The servant bot nodded, took his food, and went to put it somewhere for him to eat later.

Arron flew around the room on his modified shield, shooting at targets with this laser crossbow. "Gotta say dudes and dudette! Todays gonna be rockin'! Aside from lance's….being himself-"

"Hey!"

"-I'm glad to see everyone being so stoked!...well" Arron Said, slowing to a halt on his hover shield. "Almost everyone" He said, turning to look at the last person in the room, As did the other three knights.

There, Clay sat, donned in his full knight gear with his visor down, simply staring at the ground. "..." There was only shallow breathing coming from him…

"Well…uhhh…it seems the Worthless Orphan is as silent as ever" Lance joked in a mocking voice, getting a look of disapproval from Arron and Axl. Macy shook her head.

"Don't bother scolding the Moron, Guys. Lance is just Jealous that Clay has been the top student since he first made it into the Knights academy" Macy sighed, getting a angered look from lance.

"Well, Princess." Lance began, pouring as much venom into the word "Princess" as possible. "That filth wouldn't have joined us if it weren't for the fact he somehow managed to impress the king and queen with his swordsmenship! Of which he is still rubbish with" Lance spat, pointing towards the fully armoured knight. "Not to mention just how Off he is, I mean: he's never ever seen without full armour or His visor Up-"

"Medical Condition" Axl suggested, Standing up straighter. "Clay Skin, Much weaker to sunlight or armour has medical tech"

"-He only ever talks in strange hand gestures-"

"Sign Language, My dude" Arron spoke, landing and putting a hand on his hip. "One of my sisters and a few friends of ours are mute, It's why I'm able to translate what he's saying"

"-And He's friends with Jestro of all-"

"Lance, unless you want me and Bonecrusher turning your jaw and crotch to fine dust. Shut the bloody fuck up" Macy sneered, raising her weapon above her head menacingly. Causing Lance to shut up and back up.

Clay nodded, his sign of thanks, and Stood up. Walking over to the group, he began making a few signs with his hands.

"Clay says that the Jestro will be having the opening act, And he wants to go see it" Arron said, translating the signs clay was using.

"Ugh, do we-" Bonecrusher was promptly shoved into Lance's face. "-weeeeeeeeeeeee have to wait to see what that funny guy has in store for us?" He nervously readjusted, thankful when he saw the Princess' mace being lowered.

Arron chuckled, And clay began to walk out the Area to their viewing platform to watch Jestro Perform, certain it'd be an amazing performance.

======[Joustdome: Jestro's Dressing room]======

Jestro Sighed as he finished getting his left shoe on, looking in the mirror to make sure his jester outfit was on right, he picked up some lipstick and applied it. His naturally snow white body didn't need much makeup after all. "Almost done….remember Jestro: Just smile, you're here to make people laugh with you, to make people Happy. Just gotta nail the act, Just g-gotta nail…the…act..." He took a few deep breaths…and put on the biggest grin he could manage. "Right then, let's go!" He exclaimed, getting up and turning around dramatically. His Cape fluttered behind him as he walked over to his dresser, pulled out a belt of knives, and put it around his waist, and began marching down the hall to the main stadium floor…but not before bumping into someone.

"Oh Jezz! Sorry-" He said, only to stop when an old hand placed itself on jestro's shoulder.

"Worry not, jester, there are much better things to waste energy being angry about then you simply bumping into me" Merlok said, a cold but understanding face staring into jestro's own. "Do not be late now, jester, you know what happens when one makes the king and queen wait" Merlok said. Jestro nodded fearfully, and made a mad dash for the main grounds of the Joustdome, unaware of the sinister intent in Merlok's eyes….

Jestro Ran out into the stadium, doing a quick front flip into a summersault to make it look like he had intended to get that running start, and the crowd seemed to love it. Letting out a small round of applause. "Way to improvise that entrance, me! Let's see if we can't keep that momentum going" he thought, doing a flourishing bow as he landed.

"And with an amazing entrance: The royal jester himself, Jestro, arrives on the scene for our opening act!" Came the voice of Herb Herbertson over the speakers, The crowd settling down.

"That entrance was positively stunning! Jestro, No pressure but I cannot wait to see how you top that!" The voice of Alice squires rang out next. Jestro looked up at the royal viewing area to see the shadowed over forms of king and queen halbert staring down at him. He gulped, turned away, and collected himself before speaking.

"Thank You! Thank You! Today friends, I Will do my most famous trick!" Jestro spoke out, looking down to get his knives out, unaware of the wave of glitter like light that passed over the crowd for the briefest second. He pulled out his knives and began to juggle. "Juggling Knives while telling jokes! Now: What's the easiest way to find a princess? Follow the footprince!" He exclaimed, laughing loudly…Only to pause when he noticed no one else was laughing. "Okay…What did the king name the extra knight at the table? Sir Plus!" He joked, once more laughing…only to halt his laughter when he noticed no one laugh still, in fact: Some of them started to look angry…"Okay, tough crowd…uhhhh…Oh, this one's a knee slapper: What do you call a dragon that can juggle Knights? Talon-ted!" He said, laughing once more…

Only for a rotten Tomato to be launched into his face, causing him to fall back and drop his knives. "H-Huh…?" Jestro slowly got up…and was met with a booing crowd and barrage of rotten produce being thrown at him, the poor jester ducked and weaved as he ran for the exit, tears of confusion and hurt pooling in his eyes.

"Well…that took a turn for the worst" Herb said, humming as events proceeded. "Alice, what do you make of this?"

"Honestly: This seems like an over reaction, yes his jokes were kinda bad but still…poor thing" Alice said, Jestro running through the exit back into the halls…and past a grinning merlok

"I do not get mad, Jester…I torment" He said in a rasping chuckle, watching as the produce covered jester ran off crying. "I must be ready, the new knights will be out soon…" Merlok said, looking out to see the knights, Lance joining in on throwing produce, Axl shaking his head solemnly, Arron looking around befuddled, the Princess looking sorry, and Clay?...Well, he couldn't tell, but it was likely that clay felt sorry for the jester as well. "Hmph, Clay must let go of his attachment to that jester…it will not do him any good" Merlok said, walking off.

======[Meanwhile, With the Knights…..]======

"Man….I actually kinda liked that last joke" Arron said, Having winced the moment that people began throwing rotten fruit and veggies at Jestro, even while he ran. "Does…anyone know what got into everyone other than lance? Like, i wanted to laugh, but I…physically couldn't" he said, just as macy clonked Lance in the back of the head with Bone crusher, causing him to cease his actions immediately.

"No clue, it's like they all just…..turned on him suddenly, and as for us being unable to laugh…no idea there either" Macy admitted, rubbing Bonecrusher with a cloth to get the 'Lance Germs' off it.

Clay made a few signs. "Clay says we should check on Jestro after the ceremony, and wants to be sure that the guy's alright after what happened" Arron said, nodding. "Agreed dude, come on guys, They'll be calling us onto the field once everything's set up" Arron said, the others nodded, and followed him back to the locker room, With clay hoping that jestro would be okay…

======[10 Minutes later…..]======

"Here's the moment you've been waiting for, folks! The Graduates of the Knighton Knights Academy will now take centre stage!" Herb called out, electing cheer from the Crowd as the Knights lowered down from a platform, The still overcasted shadows of the king and queen watching.

"Starting off: The heir to the richmond family fortune: Llllllllance richmond!"

The crowd went wild as Lance got on his hover horse and rode around, taking out several targets as he hovered around, lifting his visor and giving a smile and a wink to all the ladies in the crowd, causing some to faint. "Richmond charm, never fails to woe the common class" He said under his breath, putting his visor back down and continuing on.

"Next Up: Hovering in on his shield at high speeds with a lust for life! Arron Fox!"

Arron Rode around on his hover shield, shooting down a few flying targets as he did some tricks for the crowd. "And this one i call: Catch me if you can!" He said, throwing his hover shield up into the air and falling down, before whistling, causing the shield to automatically fly down and catch him, causing even more cheers somehow. "Oh yeah! Just my style!" He yelled, jumping up right as he continued flying around.

"After Him, Axl! Digginton's Number One, Seven time ultimate eating contest champion!"

Axl grunted, walking up to a heavy target. "Axl Crunch, Crash, CRUSH!" He yelled, slamming his axe into the bulky target's head, then dragged it down, cutting it in two. Axl let out a roar of victory, causing People to chant his name!

"Princess Macy Halbert! Heir to the throne and Best female knight of her year!"

"Damn straight!" Both Macy and her mother called out, Macy looked up at the overshadowed figure of her mother…and nodded, before rushing at a group of combat Squire Bots, who charged at her with the hope their superior numbers could defeat her….Bonecrusher, being a good mace, promptly smashed them all to bits, electing a positive response from the crowd. "And that's what's gonna happen to filthy monsters who dare invade the kingdom!" She roared, Holding Bonecrusher up high.

"And last but far from least, The Number One Knight and Best to ever graduate from Knight School so far: Clllllllay Moorington!"

Clay stepped out, a casual stride as he waved to the people before drawing his sword and shield, a wave of Squire bots charging them, he ducked and weaved, slashing bot after bot in Twain, Oil pooled on the ground along with robot parts and pieces.

"Nice one, clay!" Arron exclaimed, flying down to meet clay in the center of the stadium. Lance parked his hover horse right next to the two and hopped off, Macy and Axl approaching.

The King and Queen looked at each other, nodded. And the king pressed a button on his throne, causing the platform they were on to start hovering down to the new knights to give a speech….yet, clay couldn't focus on that. Instead, One thought buzzed in his mind:
"I hope Jestro is okay…"

=====[Back With Jestro…..]======

Jestro ran, He didn't know where he was going, what he was doing, all he knew was that he needed to get away from the Joustdome. Almost everyone in Knightonia had just booed at him! Cussed him out and thrown rotten fruit and veggies at him! "Am I gonna lose my job? Are the king and queen as mad at me as the audience was!? OH GOD AM I GOING TO BE EXECUTED LIKE THE LAST GUY!?" He mentally panicked as he ran for it, not looking back once. "I need to leave the city-NO! I need to leave knighton as a whole! But where do I Go? Maybe-"

Psssst, Hey clown boy

Jestro Halted in his tracks upon hearing that voice. "W-Who-"

Come find me, I'm in merlok's library

Jestro gulped, certain this was a trick to lead him to certain death…but he had to give it a shot. So, Jestro began making his way towards the library, noting that with the graduation ceremony Underway, the Castle's guards were distracted enough that he could slip through to the old Wizard's library. Once at the door, he opened it, slinked through, and closed the door as quietly as he could. "O-Okay, I'm Here, W-Where are you?"

See the Book floating in the glowing orange light? That's me

Jestro paused, and slowly turned around with an extremely nervous look on his face, hoping to god that this was an execution trap now…Instead: he was met with The aforementioned "Book" upright, with a face, staring at him. Jestro Panicked and was about to let out a scream when the book interjected.

"Hey! Sssssshhhhhhh! Don't want the guards to know you're in here" It Said, Jestro took a moment to collect his breath…then nodded. "Good, now come closer and pick me up. That Ceremony The king's holding for his new Knights may be a good distraction but it won't last forever" The Book said. Gesturing for jestro to come closer as best it could.

Jestro nodded, and after a moment of hesitation, he approached the book walking around a tablet. "Hold it" The book said, causing jestro to halt. "Pick up a staff, any will do just so long as it can channel magic" It added, Jestro nodded, and picked up a Staff that was…unique, it was like two Snakes coiling around each other, one red, one purple, and at the tip was a red sun with a purple crescent Moon eclipsing it, a Green gem in the centre of the sun. "Yeah, that'll do nicely" The Book said as Jestro continued towards it, picking it up. "So…What are you? Some kind of…magic talking Book?" Jestro asked, head tilted sideways in confusion.

"I'm not just any magic Book, I…was human at one point but that explanation can come when we're as out of the castle as can be, just know: I need your help, and from what I gathered from using my magic senses, your in even more need of help then I am" The book continued, causing Jesto only ever more confusion.

"O…kay, what do you want me to do?" Jestro asked, humming as he looked around. "I already got a magic staff but….I don't really see much use for it since I…don't know how to use magic" He added, biting his lip in Nervousness as He counted the seconds going by.

"Grab that Bag, It'll make carrying magic books out of here much easier. But Don't put me in there, it…stinks even worse than a skunk's behind in one of those '' The Book said, Using his tongue to Gesture to a bag, which Jestro reached to grab…before stopping.

"W-Wait, Y-You want me to steal from M-Merlok?" He asked nervously, shaking in his boots. "Yes, Trust me, It's all for a good reason I'll explain in time but right now: grab the bag, and grab a few Spell Books" The Book said. Jestro looked between the book and the Bag…then grabbed it, before Looking around for a good spell Book. "L-Let's see….advanced Rituals for summoning Spirits…..Magical safety for dummies-Taking that" Jestro said, grabbing the book as soon as he saw the title and stuffing it into his bag and going on to look…and soon, found one written by merlok himself. "The Nexo-Power Compendium? I've never seen a book like this before….what is it for….?"

"Grab It, I have a sense Merlok Might have plans of some kind." The Book Saidt, And Jestro didn't think twice before stuffing it in and running over to pick The Book Up. "That's about all I'm willing to grab, got it?" Jestro stated in a firm tone of voice, staring right into the book's eyes-"God almighty, I will NOT get used to staring it in the eyes…" Jestro thought, Holding back a gag. "Good news: That'll be all we need for now, Now Let's skedaddle before-" Before the book could finish, the door began to open, and Jestro Quickly turned around, hiding the Book and Bag in front of him.

Clay walked in, Looking at Jestro in confusion. Jestro looked back at him, a nervous smile plastered on his face. "O-Oh! uhhhh….H-Hey clay, was just….uhhhh….c-checking to see if there were any Magic Joke books in Merlok's library" He said, chuckling nervously, and clay made a few signs. "L-Lying!? I-I'm Not lying, I…uhhhh…O-One sec" He said, before picking up both the book and the bag and rushing over to the back of the library, unaware clay had drawn his sword…

Jestro knelled down and pretended to pull a book off the shelf. Looking fearfully at the book. "W-What do we do now!?" He asked in a panicked whisper, unaware of the quietly and slowly approaching clay. "I hoped it wouldn't come to this just yet…Open me to page Four, the wave that staff over me, fair warning: Soon as you see magic happening on my Pages, Stand back" The book instructed, Jestro took a glance back at clay…and upon seeing him approaching with his sword. Did as instructed immediately. Turning The Book to his third page and waving the staff over it, and upon seeing what was on it, jumped back in fright.

Clay had hastened his approach when Jestro noticed him. But had halted when Jestro jumped away from the book, Watching as purple smoke and glowing orange bubbles start to rise from the books pages, Then an arm of glowing Lava and blackened stone, and shortly following…was a monster, a large, Cycolptic Magma Monster. "Clown Boy-"

"My name's Jestro-"

"-Ah, sorry, Jestro" The book coughed a bit before getting back on track. "Jestro, Meet Sparkks, Sparkks, Jestro '' The book said, Sparkks turned to look at the extremely nervous Jestro, humming…before waving in a friendly manner.

"Hello Jestero, Nice to meet you" Sparkks said…then Clay jumped up, slashing at the side of sparkks' head. "Oh, right, A Knight, I'll quickly just-"

"D-Don't Kill Him! He's…..he's my friend" Jestro said, looking pleadingly at the Cyclops monster, Sparkks stared into Jestro's eyes for a moment….then sighed. "Two eyes, no fair, I only have one…." Sparkks grumbled. "Alright! No lethal force…..I have been meaning to practice my grapples" Sparkks said, before rushing at Clay and Attemptd a grab, but clay dodged out of the way, beginning a cycle of attempted grabs and skilful dodges, sometimes with clay slashing at Sparkks and not doing much damage.

"W-What the-" Jestro couldn't help but shake a bit at the sight of Sparkks, Shivering in fears. "It's a Monster! A Horrible, Grotesque-"

"Oi! Don't call Sparkks or any other "Monster" that! They're known as Magmoids, M. A. G. M. O. I. D. S!" The book corrected loudly, causing Jestro to recoil. "Got it, Jestro!?"

"Y-Yes sir!" Jestro squeaked, shaking even more than before. "N-Now what!?"

"Now we scram! Sparkks should be able too-"

"Boss!" Sparkks said, drawing Jestro and the Book's attention back to The fight, which saw Sparkks now on the defensive from clay. "He's aiming for my eye! I could use some help here!"

"Crud! Okay, Jestro: Page One, wave your staff over the page as fast and as many times as possible" The book said, Jestro looked between clay and Sparkks. "A-And why should I!?" Jestro asked, panic evident in his voice.

"Because if you don't: It ain't gonna be monsters that destroy the kingdom, far, far from it" The book said, Jestro looked between the book, and the fight. "Tic-Tok, Joke Boy, Sparkks ain't gonna last much longer…." The book said, Jestro couldn't decide, couldn't think…Then set it on the ground and opened it to page one. "If I learn you're lying to me: You're going into a fire pit" Jestro Warned, waving the Staff over the paper as fast and as many times as he could. And Stepped back when he saw monster summoning magic happen. "Don't kill him!" Jestro called out as smaller, oddball (In a few cases, Literal balls) Magmoids popped out of The book and went to assist sparkks, boxing clay in for Sparkks to grab and put into a chokehold. "S-Sorry about this clay, b-but…Yeah, I'm just sorry-" Jestro said, turning to make a run for the door…and then Merlok opened it.

"What in Merlin's Beard is going on-" Merlok said, only to freeze up when he saw jestro holding the book. "You…" Merlok spat, voice Oozing with hate.

"Merlok…" The book said, looking up at jestro. "How quick do you think you can pick up on using a shield spell?" The Book asked in a nervous tone of voice.

"Ummm…N-Not fast enough…" Jestro answered, Equally nervous as he stepped back, each step echoing like claps of thunder in his ears.

"Decon-Ichor!" Marlok exclaimed, sending a bolt of magic at the Magmoids, knocking Sparkks off of clay and the others back. Clay landed on his knee, tired and shaking, Merlok used his magic to pick clay up and toss him out the library, closing the door behind him. "With that pawn out of the way…I can finally rid myself of you, Monstrox" Merlok said, turning to face the book.

"Woah, Hold on, Mon-" Jestro said, but was cut off by another magic blast that knocked Him and the Magmoids back.

"I don't like this…." The book said, coughing as he looked up at merlok. "B-Brace yourself Jestro, he's gonna do something big!" He called out, seeing merlok clear his throat as the magmoids got up and charged at him.

"Towa! Tague! SCIENSE!" With that, The magmoids, Jestro, The Book and A few other, none living Books circle around merlok…then, There was a massive explosion, one that decimated the Library, sending Jestro and the book flying as the spirits of the monsters seemed to return to the book…

The Other four graduate Knights ran up the stairs, to the entrance of what Was the Library, and saw clay, unconscious and Armour covered in dents, Axl ran up to him. Picking him up and leaning in close. "...Clay still breathing, Clay need help" He grunted, Arron had opened the library doors to look at the destruction…and winced.

"Wowza! This place is a wreck! Merlok's not gonna be-" Arron said…just as he stepped on something, and looked down…and made a face of horror. "Guys…get in here, we have an issue" He called out to his fellow knights, who quickly joined him.

"Arron, What's…" Macy said, trailing off as she saw why Arron was so dead silent. "...Oh Shit…" Lance said, gulping and shaking a bit. "No…good" Axl Added, staring at something so simple…yet so dread induced…

The Hat of Merlok, On the ground…seared almost to a crisp.

To be Continued….