My truck flew through a portal back to Ninjago and into Sensei Garmadon's monastery. Several of Garmadon's students watched as my truck skidded and crashed into one of the trees inside the monastery. Some of the students ran over to see if I was alright, and helped me out of my truck. "I need to speak with the Sensei immediately." I commanded to them.
The two Sensei sat drinking their tea together in their office. A student pulled open the door leading to their office and I rushed in. "Hunter? Did you stop her?" Sensei Wu asked me.
I shook my head.
Sensei Garmadon's eyes widened and he dropped his tea cup. The tea cup fell to the floor on it's side and tea spilled out of it. "What happened!?" Garmadon stood up, grabbed me by the shoulders, and shook me. I looked panicked, I had never seen Sensei Garmadon this panicked before. "You need to stop her! You are the only one that can do it!" the former lord of evil was still in awe at me not being able to stop her.
Wu put his hand on his shoulder. "Brother. It's time we tell him Teneris' full story." Wu instructed. Garmadon nodded. Sensei Wu took a step forward. "You already know the simplified form of Teneris' story, but let us tell you it in full detail." I sat down and one of Sensei Garmadon's students brought me a cup of tea. "It was a very long time ago. The First Spinjitzu Master and Creator were in the most gruesome part of their war with the Overlord and Destroyer. The Overlord had just recently created an army that he believed would win the war; The Stone Army."
Garmadon cut in. "While on a mission, the Destroyer and Creator had critically wounded each other. The Destroyer escaped but the Creator was unconscious and taken to a nearby village where he was nursed back to health. He was healed by a woman named Teneris. The Creator saw her as the most beautiful woman ever and they fell in love. They soon got married and had three kids, the oldest being your father. Sixteen years after the birth of their first child, Teneris had believed that she had located the Overlord's base. She had planned to search the base with the help of the Creator."
"The Creator needed to prepare, but Teneris believed that they were already ready." Wu added. "The Creator had warned Teneris not to leave until he thought the time was right and the First Spinjitzu Master was notified. Teneris refused to believe that the time to find the weakness of the Overlord and his indestructible Stone Army was now. She had left to go spy on the Overlord's base. Once she had reached the base, she saw the Stone Army preparing something, a weapon which we knew as Garmatron. Teneris planned on leaving but found something of interest."
"Dark matter." Garmadon grinded his teeth saying those words. "She had figured out that the pool of dark matter that she found was what created the Stone Army and that if she could study it, then she could find a weakness in it. Teneris thinking that she was safe to grab a small amount got closer, but she let her guard down. The Stone Army had known she was there and had been watching her. As she was scooping up dark matter, General Kozu moved quietly towards her. As soon as he got the chance, he kicked Teneris into the pool of dark matter. The Creator had found out and rushed to the Overlord's base where he destroyed it, causing the Overlord to move more West. Once the Creator had found where he had found his wife dead. Her arm sticking out of the pool of dark matter as a cry for help. He knew that if he even touched her, the dark matter would move to his body and corrupt him so he had to leave her body there." The two Sensei paused for a moment. "Your father took this the roughest. We were as old as your father at that time and helped him go through this rough period."
"The village where the Creator lived grieved over her death, but back at the pool of dark matter, something had happened to Teneris. It was as if the dark matter had resurrected her and corrupted her. Teneris no longer looked human and looked like what you saw today Hunter. Teneris is your grandmother." Sensei Wu admitted.
My grandmother, dad always told me she passed away from old age. What else did he keeping from me? What are the Sensei keeping from me? "Teneris had gone headed back to the village, but her personality was now that of evil. As if she were bitten by the Great Devourer and the venom had already taken over her body." Sensei Garmadon continued the story. "Once she reached the village she began to attack it and demanded that her husband, or "darling" as she called him, come to see her. The Creator obliged and met with Teneris. She was still deeply in love with him but saw he and the First Spinjitzu Master's presence as a hindrance on Ninjago and with that she tried to kill him. At the time, the Creator was developing a Crystal in which it would be able to take and hold the Destroyer's power. Teneris had now unlocked an elemental power inside her and was now a true embodiment of the power of darkness in a sense. As the two lovers fought, the Creator was left no choice, your father had brought the Creator the crystal and the Creator used it on his wife. Teneris' body had become all power based and once the Creator used the crystal on her, it did not just take his wife's powers but it also took her since her body was completely made of dark power. The crystal had contained her inside of it. The Creator was devastated even more now. He swore to keep her trapped in that crystal. To make sure that he was never without her, the Creator forged a staff of creation and combined the crystal with the staff so that they could be together for after. Shortly after, the Creator was killed after he took the Destroyer's powers with his second crystal."
"The First Spinjitzu Master did not last long with out his friend, and sacrificed himself to stop the Overlord and Stone Army and bring balance to Ninjago a month later." Sensei Wu finished. "That Hunter is the story of this woman Teneris, your grandmother who came from that Crystal in your grandfather's staff."
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. My grandmother is alive. "I'm going to face her." I said slamming my hands on the table in front of me and standing up.
"Be warned young ninja." Garmadon sipped his tea. "Your grandmother isn't who she was before falling into the dark matter. If what you plan on doing what I think you are, you will have a tough time. You will need to go to the Memorial of the Creator in Ninjago City, the First Spinjitzu Master created that for him after his death, that's where she is headed."
"Why is she going to his memorial?" I questioned.
"To resurrect her love and make him like her." I nodded understanding that this would probably be the most difficult thing I've ever done. Not only would I have to stop my Grandmother but quite possibly my Grandfather as well.
Once I was outside the monastery, I hopped into my heavily damaged truck. The engine puttered to a start. "Not much longer now girl." I moved my hand back and forth on the front console. "We just got a few more journey's left together." My index finger pressed a button on my right and a portal began to form in front of me.
The two Sensei and Garmadon's students watched me as my truck and I flew through the portal that the truck had created. "Why did you refuse for us to go fight brother?" Garmadon asked his younger brother.
"This will be Hunter's most dangerous task." Wu spoke to his brother. "This fight will truly decide whether or not he will be allowed to wield the powers of the creator."
My truck flew through the dimensional rift and landed back in the IS Dimension in front of my brother and I's house. As soon as the truck stopped I got out of it and ran into the house where my brother was sat playing video games in the living room. "Brother." I panted. "We need to go."
"Busy." He replied concentrating on his game. I used my elemental power of wind on him and turned him around. "Hey I thought we agreed on no elemental powers in the house." Nathan was quite upset. "Why are you in your ninja suit?"
"Because we have an issue." I said to him.
Nathan's mood instantly changed and he got up and nodded. He ran into his bedroom and came out with his ninja suit on and elemental sword in hand. "Let's do this."
"Ninja Go!" The two of us shouted.
I jumped into my truck and Nathan pressed a button on his wrist to call his jet. As soon as Nathan was in his jet we started heading towards the IS Academy. "Where to?" Nathan asked over our comms.
"To Ninjago City but more importantly the Memorial of the Creator." Our vehicles opened rifts and flew through them, back to Ninjago. Another rift opened in Ninjago and we landed on main street and our GPS lead us to the Memorial of the Creator. When we arrived at the sight of the memorial no one was there other than tourists. We walked through the large memorial area to find a large statue of the Creator with armor on holding a sword with energy flowing out of it. "Looks like we're the first ones here." I said to Nathan.
"You never explained to me who exactly we are dealing with Hunter." Nathan stopped me.
I let out a sigh. "It's a long story, but it's our Grandmother Teneris and she wants to resurrect the Creator but turn him evil like her so that they can truly be together for ever."
"We won't let her bring him back like that. Not on our watch brother." Nathan said putting his hand on my shoulder. I smiled at him and nodded.
Nathan and I quickly got the tourists out of the memorial to prepare for Teneris' little visit. As Nathan finished up getting the tourists out of the memorial, I headed back to the Creator's statue. A plaque lay below the statue saying: "It does not take the power of control to decide the future, but the power of love. - The Creator" I put my hand on the plaque. "I promise Grandfather, I will let you continue to rest in piece."
Not long after I said that, the ground began to shake and Nathan ran over to me. "I think grandma is here." He said pulling out his sword and igniting it. A rift opened at the front of the memorial where Teneris appeared. She was floating and had Ladybug, Cat Noir, and a large amount of baddies from their dimension beneath her. "That's a lot of people to fight." Nathan took a step back.
"Don't worry Nathan." I looked back at him. "We got this."
Teneris and her gang stopped about 25 yards away from Nathan and I. "Well well well." Teneris started. "We meet again child." Her eyes turned to Nathan. "And it looks like you brought help this time."
"Yeah! Your other grandson!" Nathan shouted to Teneris.
"Grandmother, we don't want to fight you. We know what your planning and this can all stop right now if you just give up." I sternly said to her.
"You two don't seem to understand, I will bring my darling back. If I need to destroy you both to fulfill that wish than so be it." She summoned her bow.
"Grandmother please." I tried to reason. She didn't care. Teneris only wanted one thing, her husband. She shot an arrow at Nathan and I and we shot it with our elemental powers.
"I see you are BOTH elementals on my side. No matter. I have enough people to destroy you." She snapped her fingers and the akumatized people rushed towards us. Nathan and I blasted the first few bad guys away with our elemental powers and then used spinjitzu on the rest, knocking them all at Teneris. As they reached her, she slammed them out of her way. Teneris began to shoot multiple arrows at me specifically and I kept blocking them with my sword.
Teneris kept walking closer to me as she continued to shoot her arrows at me which caused me to need to back up. "A few more feet." Teneris said under her breath. Nathan flanked her from her side and went in for a strike with his sword. She blocked it with her bow and then pushed him towards the ground. Nathan landed and then shot a beam of water at her from his hand.
The water struck Teneris' face and caused her to spin backwards a few time. "Foolish child." She flew down towards him as fast as light and punched him into the ground. "Stay. Down." She ordered him. Nathan was in the ground very injured after that punch. Teneris got up and began to walk towards me. She flew towards me now and pushed me up against the statue of the Creator. "Soon my love, we will be united." Teneris started to allow dark matter flow onto me as she had her hand on my chest. "Don't worry, grandson. You will black out and soon the Creator will take control of your body." I couldn't say anything, the dark matter caused too much pain to me as it began to cover my body. The pain caused me to lose consciousness and the last thing I remember hearing was Teneris laugh as I blacked out.
My eyes slowly opened to find myself laying in a dark place. I slowly began to get up, when suddenly I heard a voice behind me. "So she's too strong for you huh?" I quickly stood completely up and turned around to see a man behind me. It was my grandfather, the original Creator. "That sounds like my wife alright." He laughed. "Very strong willed and will complete any task she sets her mind to." The creator snapped his fingers and the family room of my old house appeared. The creator took a seat on the couch in front of the TV. "Nice place you've got here." The Creator said looking around the room. He patted the seat on the couch next to him. "Why don't you take a seat." He smiled.
I sat down next to him "Where are we?" I asked him.
"We're in your mind. I thought I'd summon your happy place. It appears that your old home was your happy place." I sat silent and looked down at the ground. "What's wrong?" He asked me.
"I failed grandfather. Soon Teneris will get what she want's. She'll have resurrected an evil you and they will destroy who knows what." I looked at him with concern.
"Hunter, let me ask you something, did you read the plaque in front of my memorial?" I looked at him and nodded. "The plaque said: "It does not take the power of control to decide the future, but the power of love." Do you know what that means?" I shook my head. "It means that the only way to bring a bright future is not through control of something or someone, but by using love."
"Love?"
"Yes. Love. I knew that Teneris would one day return and I knew that she would try in any way to make me like her so that we could be together." The Creator paused for a moment. "Here's something that only I and your father know. When your grandmother returned to the village to find me, she never really had the intent on killing me, for she still loved me. She had said that with her power, the two of us could not only defeat the Destroyer and Overlord, but the First Spinjitzu Master as well and rule Ninjago for our selves. The Dark Matter had brought out the evil that lay within her. When I said no she said the First Spinjitzu Master and I's presence was a hindrance on Ninjago. I knew that I could easily kill her and defeat her for good but I couldn't come to terms with losing her, let alone having to kill her myself. I used a containment crystal to suck her into and capture her with. Control was what fueled her, but love was what defeated her. My love for her was what allowed me to suck her into the containment crystal. The same goes for my brother, the only reason that I could take his power was because I loved him, and Ninjago and wanted a better future for it. Love was what got Ninjago through those rough times, and that is what we must use to defeat my wife."
"WE grandfather?" I was surprised.
"Yes. We my grandson. Stick out your hand." I did so and he held my hand.
My eyes quickly opened to see that the dark matter had almost completely covered my body. Teneris, not noticing I was awake, continued to laugh.
"Love will defeat you!" I shouted at her. She looked up with her eyes widened. The dark matter began to crack and I broke free from it.
"I-impossible!" She said. I fell to the ground but caught myself. I slowly stood up and opened my eyes to reveal that my eyes were all orange. "What are you?" She took a few more steps back.
"I can not stand to see you like this my love." My grandfather's voice came out of my mouth.
"My darling? You are back."
"Yes my dear but not in the way you hoped. I should have destroyed you when you first came to me in the village all those years ago so you wouldn't have to suffer like this. I'm sorry."
"Fine. If that's how it is going to be. Then I will send you back to where you came from and take control of Ninjago myself!" Teneris lifted her hands up and dark power began to appear from them. She launched the power at me and my grandfather used my body to summon an orange energy barrier to block it. Woah. I've got Power!
The creator shot a beam of energy out from my hands at Teneris and she shot a beam of dark power at the beam. The two beams collided and began to push each other back and forth. "I won't let you take all that I've worked to protect!" The Creator shouted at Teneris.
"You can't live through that boy forever, soon you will be gone and he can't defeat me with out you." Teneris shouted back.
Meanwhile, Nathan was slowly getting up out of the crater that Teneris created when punching him. As he stood up on his feet he saw Teneris and I shooting elemental powers at each other. "Woah." Nathan said to himself. "Kick her butt Hunter!" He heard growling come from behind him and turned to see the akumatized people walking towards him. "Looks like I got a few butts to kick myself. Ninja Go!" He used spinjitzu and knocked down as many people as he could but it was no use. They just kept getting closer and closer to him.
Cat Noir jumped at Nathan and yelled cataclisim. Nathan dodged the strike and continued to dodge multiple strikes from Cat Noir's claws. He pushed Cat Noir away with his water and Cat Noir hissed like a cat in pain. The stone guy then grabbed Nathan and slammed him to the ground. "Get 'em!" The stone guy shouted to the others.
The akumatized people all began to dog-pile Nathan. Nathan looked to see how my fight with Teneris was going and saw that she was winning. I've got to help him! Nathan thought to himself.
"Hunter. I am weakening, we must defeat her soon." I heard the Creator's voice say to me. Teneris' beam was getting closer and closer to me. I tried to force it back but was not strong enough. A scream came from behind Teneris, It was Nathan, he had thrown all of the akumatized people off of him and jumped at Teneris. He caught her off guard and impaled her with his sword. Teneris stopped using her power and fell to her knees. The Creator and I stopped as well. Teneris looked up at me. I could feel how the Creator felt. He knew what he had to do but didn't want to. "I'm sorry my love." He spoke softly. He created a large orb of energy and shot it at her.
"Darling?" Teneris spoke with tears rolling down her eyes. The orb collided with her and began to disintegrate her. Hawkmoth was watching from a distance. As Teneris slowly disintegrated into dust, the akumatized people started returning to normal and the akuma's left their bodies.
"NO!" He yelled in anger. "Quickly Ladybug and Cat Noir, take off your miraculous'." As the two reached for their miraculous' they turned back to normal.
Ladybug quickly got out her yo-yo. "That's enough evil doing for you little akuma." She began to spin her yo-yo around. "Time to de-evilize!" Her yo-yo captured every akuma that there was and she let them go after they were turned into butterflies. "Bye bye little butterflies."
"Thank you Hunter, for helping defeat my wife." The creator said to me.
"It was no problem grandfather."
"It's time I go now. Thank you again, and you can keep the powers" I felt as if the Creator had winked at me and I could feel the Creator's spirit leave my body.
"Brother." Nathan caught me as I fell after the Creator left my body. "You okay?"
"Yeah." I laughed. "There's always something happening in Ninjago."
"Darling!" A voice spoke. It was Teneris, but she sounded happy. Nathan and I looked up to see the Creator and Teneris' spirits together, but now Teneris was how she was before falling into the pool of dark matter. The spirits hugged and slowly disappeared.
"At last the two can rest." We heard Sensei Wu say. Nathan and I turned to see the two masters walk through the crowd of people.
"You two have done well." Sensei Garmadon said proudly. "Your parent's would be so proud of you two." Nathan and I smiled. "Now why don't we get these people back to their dimension?"
It took multiple trips but we soon got everyone back, but before we left we said goodbye to Ladybug and Cat Noir. "Thank you both so much for your help." Ladybug said to us. "Without you, I'm sure that Teneris and Hawkmoth would have won."
"We couldn't have done it with out the Creator himself." I said to them. "With out him, I wouldn't get to have this power that was used to defeat Teneris." I formed an orange energy ball in my hand. This new orange energy elemental power caught the attention of the Sensei. As we walked away and said one last goodbye to the two heroes of this dimension, Nathan and I headed back to our vehicles with the Sensei when they stopped us.
"Hunter please show us your power again." Sensei Wu asked. I agreed and created a ball of orange energy in my right hand. "Oh my goodness." Wu was in awe as he got close to the energy ball. "Brother do you know what this means?" Sensei Wu turned to Sensei Garmadon.
Sensei Garmadon nodded. "It mean's that the next Creator will rise very soon. The Creator must have used his presence in your body to help give you a boost in your power. He must have foreseen something. Something very big that will come in the near future. "
"It's time for your true training to begin, Hunter." Wu walked towards me and put his hand on my shoulder. " It's time for you to train to become the Creator. Are you ready?"
A confident look formed on my face. "Yes I am."
THE END
Next Time on Dimension Holders Adventures:
Nathan will travel to another Dimension to stop someone from trying to destroy it by creating an elemental power for himself. Nathan must truly learn to stand up for himself, fight on his own, and find out how to be a true hero. He will find love and new friends which will majorly affect how he goes about fighting this new foe. Only Nathan can defeat this new menace along with the help of an old friend. All of this next time on Dimension Holders Adventures: "Nathan's Journey" coming soon.