The ship that was given to Tatenashi and I was hurdling through space towards the planet Arus. At the peak of the tallest mountain on Arus lies the temple my grandfather constructed thousands of years ago. Piloting this ship was Tatenashi, while I sat in the passenger sleep. I lie asleep with my head resting upon the glass keeping the cold vacuum of space at bay from the two of us inside the ship.
Suddenly I was atop the IS Academy. I looked around, only to find a throne with an all-black humanoid figure with only dark purple eyes visible sitting upon it. It was the Destroyer. I tried shooting my elemental powers at him, but nothing happened. The Destroyer laughed. He pointed one of his fingers at me and purple lightning flew out of it and into me. I went flying back and skid across the roof of the building right toward the edge. I withered in pain and looked to see the Destroyer now standing in front of his thrown. He put his hands together to create a purple orb. He shot it into the air and it struck the sky. A tear in the sky began to form. I looked around to see buildings begin to get sucked into the tear. I recognized that tear, it was the rift that Wulf had told me about. The Destroyer pointed his finger at me and a sphere began to surround me. I tried punching it to break free but to no avail. He pointed his finger at the rift and the sphere I was trapped in followed. I let out one last scream but woke up before I entered the rift.
I jerked awake, smacking my head on the glass cockpit screen. I sat back in my seat and began rubbing the new injury on my head. "Looks like someone had a bad dream," Tatenashi commented.
"Yep. How far away are we from Arus?" I quickly diverted to a new conversation.
The ship jumped out of hyperspace, and we floated in front of a large planet similar looking to Earth. "We're here." She turned smiling at me. The ship flew down towards the largest mountain and landed on the top of a cliff. As the cockpit began to open, I noticed a temple that had a large stone door, with carvings covering it, and two tall red columns stood on either side of the door with black tops. This was the Temple of the Creator.
Tatenashi and I walked toward the temple, where I marveled at the carvings on the door. I rest my right hand on the door. My hand was next to a specific carving that immediately caught my attention. It was three ninja facing off against what looked like a demon. "That's you, Nathan, and Lloyd." Tatenashi pointed out.
"And the Destroyer." I grimly added. It was a depiction of what the final fight between the Destroyer and us ninja would look like. She and I looked around at the rest of the door. The carvings depicted the story of the Creator.
Suddenly a plume of light blue smoke exited underneath the door and the two Kitsune guardians that Nathan, Lloyd, and the Sensei met appeared from the smoke. "We are the guardians of this temple." One of the two boomed. "Leave this place, and never return, or we shall make you leave."
"I don't know who you two are, but this is my grandfather's temple, and I will use it to get home," I told them getting in a fighting stance. I had no idea who these guys were, but I did know that I would be entering this temple one way or another.
"So, the last grandson of the Creator has finally arrived." One of the guardians acknowledged me.
"You know who I am?" I inquired.
The guardians both nodded. "Hunter, the youngest grandson of the Creator. One of the Masters of wind and former Master of Orange Energy. Sent on a quest by Wulf to stop the Destroyer and close the rift."
"How do you know all of that?" I questioned them.
The guardians laughed. "We are tasked with knowing everything about the Creator. Everything that you have and will go through has been prophesied for thousands of years."
"Then you'll both understand that I must get through to complete my quest."
"You will, but not yet. You must face our test." The two guardians then rushed me. Thinking quickly, I pushed Tatenashi away from me so that their attack wouldn't hit her. Both guardians struck me in the chest with their fists, sending me back several feet. I tried to grip the ground with my left hand and tried to steady myself.
"Please stop! I don't want to fight you!"
"You do not have a choice, boy!" The two guards clapped their hands, causing blue smoke to appear around them. Both summoned staffs into their hands and charged toward me again. They swung their staffs high into the air, ready to strike down on me. Pulling out my techno blade I blocked their attack. Using my elemental powers, I pushed them back into the temple doors.
The two guards stuck the door and fell to their knees. "I will not fight you!" I shouted at them. I tossed my techno blade far on the ground before me to make my position clearer.
"Why do you refuse to face your destiny, boy?" One of the guards asked me.
"I'm not. During these past several weeks, I've learned a lot about myself." I began to walk towards them. "I never wanted to even be a ninja, but destiny said otherwise. I found what held me back the most and unlocked my true potential. I then understood that destiny had given me a gift. It was my duty to use that gift and protect those who cannot protect themselves. For me to accomplish this goal, I need to know who my enemies are and more importantly who my friends are. You are not my enemies, the Destroyer is. He hopes to ruin every dimension, and if I must be the one to stop him, I'll do it. No questions asked."
The guards chuckled and then stood up. "You truly understand the weight of your powers, we'll give you that." One stated.
"What you choose to do with those powers decides the kind of person you are." The other kitsune guard told me. "Protecting those that cannot protect themselves is just a small part of the job."
"There's something else?" I questioned.
The guards nodded. "We'll leave the answer to that question to our boss." They both turned and headed toward the temple doors.
"What about the test?"
"You passed." The guards waved Tatenashi and me to follow them. See and I exchanged confused looks and began to follow the two guards. I walked over and picked up my techno blade, and then continued toward the guards. When we had reached the kitsune guards, they snapped their fingers in unison and a purple glow emitted around the edges of the temple doors. By themselves, the doors began to open to what seemed like a void of darkness.
"Come, Creator. We must move quickly." The two guards walked into the darkness and disappeared.
"I don't know if that looks safe," I stated.
"Come on, "Creator"! Live a little!" Tatenashi laughed and ran to join the guards in the darkness. I let out a deep sigh and shook my head a little and then ran in after them.
When I entered, I was in utter darkness with only Tatenashi. "Where did the guards go?" I asked her. She shrugged. Suddenly, there was a large clap, and the darkness dissipated, revealing one of the most beautiful rooms I had ever seen. The walls and columns were several stories high and were made of a medium nougat brown colored stone that had greenery consuming them and taking over. In the center stood a large statue of the Creator, made of the same material as the rest of the building, with one foot up on a rock, looking and holding a sword up high. Carvings covered all but one wall, which was filled to the brim with scrolls that were being covered by some vines. Randomly throughout the floor, there were tiny streams of water that lead to large greenery areas adjacent to the walls. The temple was filled with other kitsune guards that were tending to these greenery areas, as well as the scrolls.
Tatenashi and I began to walk forward when suddenly I notice other people walking into the temple from another entrance. It was my brother, Lloyd, and the Sensei. I perked up and shouted my brother's and Lloyd's names. They both turned in surprise, but then perked up. Large smiles adorned our once-sad faces. The three of us ran to each other, where we met at the statue of the Creator. We three greeted each other with a large hug. "I'm so happy your safe, little brother." Nathan hugged hard, with a few tears in his eyes.
"We all are," Lloyd added, hugging just as hard as Nathan.
When we finished hugging, I looked toward the Sensei. "It's good to have you back, Hunter." Sensei Wu smiled.
"It is indeed." Sensei Garmadon smiled as well.
"Don't think you two can get out of this." I laughed. I walked over to them and pulled them both into a large hug. The two Sensei laughed.
"It looks like you brought a friend." Garmadon pointed out Tatenashi.
"It's thanks to her I got here." I smiled at her.
Tatenashi blushed a bit. "Well, it's thanks to him that I am free from the Destroyer's control."
"While I wish we could spend more time in this moment, we have to save our friends from Cryptor and his Nindroids outside the temple," Lloyd said.
"Oh yeah, the Nindroids now have the same armor as the Stone Army, so they're indestructible now," Nathan spoke irritatingly. "So, we can't beat them."
"Great." I sighed. My attention was suddenly driven to the carvings on the wall. They were more carvings of the three of us. "Look at these." I pointed out.
"There's us entering Ninjago." Nathan pointed towards a carving of him and me falling into Sensei Garmadon's school.
"And us fighting the Mech Master." Lloyd ran down the wall and pointed to Nathan defeating the Mech Master with his water knight and Lloyd and I helping.
"There's even us entering this temple." I ran farther down and pointed at us all seeing each other as we entered the temple.
"Seeing your past is great and all, but you guys will have no chance to get to see any of our futures if you can't stop the Nindroids." Tatenashi butted in.
"How about we change that." A voice none of us had heard before boomed. We turned around to see a new Kitsune guard in much fancier robes stand before us with the two guards we met before on either side of him. "Greetings ninja. I am called Tamotsu. Head guardian of the Temple of the Creator. I am glad to see you've made it here all right." The fancy-robed guard bowed. I couldn't put my finger on it, but his voice sounded familiar. "You are already aquatinted with Teruo and Haru." He gestured from the left and to the right. The two guards we had all met bowed together.
"The power of the temple," Garmadon stated.
"Correct," Tomatsu confirmed. He gestured towards the statue of the Creator for us to follow him, as he began walking towards it. When we reached the statue, Tamotsu turned back to us again. "Long ago, the Creator saw that it was not his destiny to defeat his brother, it would be the destiny of one of his grandsons. He foresaw his brother commanding an indestructible mechanical army. To combat them, he created a power to give the next Creator and his guardians." His eyes moved to look at a person size statue that was on the edge of the center pad of the Creator's statue. It was a statue of one of us. In fact, we all noticed that there was a total of three statues. One of Lloyd, one of Nathan, and one of me.
"All three of us." Nathan looked at Lloyd and me in disbelief.
"It really is destiny," Lloyd spoke under his breath.
Suddenly a large bang came from outside the door Nathan, Lloyd, and the Sensei came in. "You must move quickly, ninja," Wu warned us. We did as he said and ran to each of our corresponding statues.
We stood next to our statues, but nothing was happening. "What now?" I asked Tamotsu.
"That is for you three to figure out," Tamotsu told me as he turned around and walked closer to the scroll wall where the rest of the kitsune guardians grouped to watch the three of us. I looked at Lloyd, hoping he knew what to do. Lloyd confusingly shrugged, but Nathan seemed to notice something. Upon further inspection, he noticed that the statues were all making the same pose. They looked as if they were shooting off elemental powers into the statue of the Creator's sword. The sword pointed upward toward a crystal orb that was attached to the temple's ceiling.
Making sure what he was thinking was correct, Nathan decided to address what he noticed. "We have to shoot our elemental powers into his blade!"
The banging from the temple doors began to get louder. "Are you sure!?" I shouted to Nathan over the loud banging. He confidently nodded. Lloyd and I looked at each other and nodded. "On three then!" The three of us began creating our elemental powers in our hands. "One. Two. Three!" Our powers shot from our hands and collided in unison with the Creator's stone blade. The blade began to glow a bright blue color. We stopped using our elemental powers and watched as the glow on the blade grew brighter and brighter.
"Quickly!" Tomatsu shouted to us. "Pull out your weapons!" The three of us did as he commanded and held our Technoblades firmly.
"What's happening?" Tatenashi asked the Sensei.
"They're unlocking the power of the temple!" Wu said in awe. The powers, now one shot from the blade into the crystal orb, splitting into three more separate beams, that collided with each of us. I could feel a new power flowing through me. All three of us could. We all shut our eyes and began to let the forces of the Creator take control of us. Slowly we all began to float, and let go of our technoblades, but they floated with us.
New ninja gi began to form around our bodies. The outer robe of the gi had our signature colors with a black piece of clothing underneath it. A large sash wrapped tightly above our waists and consisted of a bright blue scale pattern like that of a dragon, however the last few feet of the sash's ends were solid black that hung down low on our gi. Black fabric wrapped around the shins of each of our legs, holding our gi tightly to our lower body. Finally, a bright glow appeared on the sashes of our suits, with our names appearing on them.
However, the power of the creator was not done. Our technoblades began to shrink in size, and Lloyd's even merged into one. The handles now began to extend, forming a dragon hilt, but keeping the technoblade end. Carefully, the weapons floated back into our hands as the beams of light from the crystal orb had us slowly fall back to the ground. With our feet now touching the ground, we opened our eyes to watch the new dragon hilts ignite; forming blades that matched our old elemental blades, but now with the technoblade ends at the bottom of the hilt.
The light, as quickly as it shot it, dissipated and left the three of us standing there, in complete shock as to what just happened. "That was incredible!" Teruo cheered.
Lloyd, Nathan, and I ran to each other excitingly showing off our new weapons. Our excitement was soon interrupted by Sensei Garmadon shushing us. "What is it, father?" Lloyd asked with a big grin on his face that matched Nathan's and I's.
"Listen….The banging. It stopped." Sensei was right it had stopped.
Suddenly the door that all the banging was coming from came crashing down, and Cryptor and his in-line Nindroid army marched in. All Cryptor did was point his finger at us, and a single Nindroid left the group and flew toward Nathan. An overconfident Cryptor thought a single Nindroid would be all he needed. Once it grew too close to himself, Nathan used his new weapon and swung at the Nindroid. The blade created a long sharp edge of water, that reached out and cut the Nindroid in half. The Nindroids now in half upper body crashed to the temple floor, deactivated. Cryptor's only visible eye widened, as his overconfidence left his mechanical body. "This thing is awesome!" Nathan jumped with joy.
"Attack!" Cryptor screamed in a fit of rage. The Nindroids let out a battle cry, pulled out katanas, and began to run and fly at us.
"Defend the temple!" I shouted to Nathan and Lloyd. The three of us ran to greet the Nindroids in combat. Nathan used a wave of water from his blade to cut a large group of Nindroids into pieces. Their pieces crashed to the floor. He then called upon a wave of water using his weapon and pushed a large group of Nindroids together with it, making them short-circuit.
Lloyd shoved his blade through a Nindroid's chest, deactivating it, but then used it as a shield to shoot green beams of energy at other Nindroids, destroying them. Nindroids still continued to surround him, so he ripped his weapon out of the Nindroid's chest and then slammed it into the ground causing a large pulse of green energy to be let out, sending the Nindroids flying.
I ran towards a large group of Nindroids holding my sword so the tip of it scrapped the ground. I then lifted it up abruptly, causing a large gust of wind to exit the blade and strike the group of Nindroids. They went crashing back into one of the temple walls, which happened to have a carving of Nindroids being blown into the temple wall by me. With us now having these blades, we easily took out almost all of the Nindroids. My attention was then turned to Cryptor, who I noticed had tied up teams RWBY and JNPR next to him. I ran towards him, but a Nindroid hopped in front of me to try and block me. Nathan jumped in and hacked the Nindroid with his weapon's technoblade, converting the Nindroid and making it attack its fellow soldiers. I ran up to Cryptor and kicked him so that he went to the edges of the temple door. Nathan, Lloyd and the others joined me, with the Sensei and Tatenashi untying teams RWBY and JNPR.
Cryptor still had several Nindroids behind him, and they all readied their weapons. "Why don't you show them the power of the Creator, Hunter!" Tomatsu called out to me. I turned to him and nodded. Putting my new weapon on my back, I began to put my hands together.
"I've seen this before. We should probably back up." Lloyd said to the others. "And you should probably run." He smugly said to Cryptor. I began to create a large orange energy orb. My energy powers had returned thanks to the temple. Cryptor and my eyes locked with each other. I then began to pull my hands apart and the orb quickly expanded. With the force of a thousand gusts of wind, I shot the orange energy at the General and his army.
"Uh-Oh," Cryptor muttered. A bright orange beam of light encompassed the rest of the Nindroid army. I ceased the elemental power and began to huff in the air for my now exhausted body. We all looked forward at what was left of the Nindroid army Cryptor had brought with him, but there was nothing there. Cryptor and his entire platoon of Nindroids were disintegrated.
"We…. did it." Lloyd chuckled. "Ha ha! We did it!" He reached over and grabbed Nathan and me into a tight squeeze. Nathan and I cheered along with him and squeezed Lloyd back.
"I'm getting in on this!" Jaune jumped in and joined the three of us. Tatenashi got behind the Sensei and pushed them into us to force them into this group hug. The rest of team JNPR and team RWBY began to laugh and joined in the hug as well.
All the kitsune guardians began to cheer and embrace each other, all except Tomatsu. "That's my boys." He whispered looking at me and Nathan.
The hug ended and the three of us pulled out our weapons. "Here's to our future!" I gleamed at Nathan and Lloyd. "Look out Destroyer! The Dimension Holders are coming for you!" The three of us clashed our blades causing a small elemental wave to dissipate from the weapons.
Little did we know, halfway down the mountain was a severely injured General Cryptor. The left side of his mask was missing, showing off his metal and wire-covered jaw. His right arm and a large chunk of his torso were missing, leaving exposed wiring in their places. He was running back down the mountain. "I have failed. I have failed." He said over and over. "The Destroyer will have my programming for this. He must know that the ninja are powered up and ready to face him." Cryptor continued to run down the mountain, as the rest of us were still cheering at the top of the mountain.
We finally had a victory under our belts.