"Father! I have news," Zane said, as he ran towards Dr. Julien, who was in the center of Ouroborus with Marcell, looking over the blue prints.
"Is it the Falcon?" Dr. Julien asked.
Zane nodded and said, "Yes. I just received a signal that he just made it to Ninjago city."
"Oh perfect. Let's gather everyone together so that we can see what's going on," Dr. Julien said with a smile, and Zane smiled back and nodded.
After everyone was gathered to the center of Ouroborus, Zane and Dr. Julien tried to think of a way to display whatever the Falcon was seeing through Zane's eyes.
"I can assist," Auria said, as she stood next to Zane.
"How? We don't have a screen, and we can't take out the computer system from the Bounty," Dr. Julien asked.
"Christa, Flare, the sheet," Auria said to the girls, as they nodded and quickly ran off.
"The sheet?" Jay asked.
"Wait for it," Auria said.
When Christa and Flare returned, Christa was holding a folded white sheet, while Flare was holding two long sticks.
"Where should we set up?" Flare asked.
"Right there," Auria said, as she pointed to an area in front of the audience of people.
Flare and Christa went right to work, as Flare stuck the sticks in the ground, while Christa jumped up and stomped them deeper into the ground to make them stable. Then Christa unwrapped the sheet, and she grabbed one corner while Flare grabbed the other. They stood balanced on one foot on each pole, and then they took out two little daggers from their pockets and stuck the sheet tips on the pole with said daggers. After the girls jumped down, they took two more daggers and stuck the bottom tips of the sheet on the bottom of the poles.
"Okay... and what is this for?" Cole asked.
"You'll see," Flare said, as she and Christa stood next to the others.
Auria stood in the front-middle of the crowd, and told Zane to stand next to her. Then she held onto Zane's arm, and she told him to use his Falcon vision.
"How will this be able to project-" Zane cut himself off when he realized what Auria was planning to do.
"Is there something we're missing here?" Kai asked.
Then Zane nodded towards Auria and used his Falcon vision. As he did so, Auria flipped a switch near the right side of her head, and the little blue lens flipped over her eyes. A small electric current passed from Zane's arm to Auria's hand, and when she looked towards the sheet, a projected image from the lens appeared on the sheet that showed the Falcon flying close to Ninjago city.
Everyone gasped.
"Whoa! That's amazing." -Jay
"Now that's cool." -Cole
"How did they do that?" -Nya
"What the?" -Marcell
"Wow! Awesome." -Lucy
"Now we can see the Falcon's travels through Ninjago city," Auria said with a smile.
"Genius! How you could have accomplished such a feat is astounding. How did you know that it would work?" Dr. Julien asked Auria.
"I didn't surely know, but I just thought that it would. I can project images or videos, and he can see them, so I thought that it would work if we worked together," Auria replied.
"Good thinking. It worked very well," Sensei Reine said, as they watched the Falcon flying above the city streets.
"Hey, what's that?" Cole asked, as he looked at where the Falcon was flying over.
"Is that one of those 'C' shaped machines that you and your people made Marcell?" Sensei Garmadon asked Marcell.
"Yes, it is. What is that thing doing in the middle of an intersection?" Marcell asked.
As the Falcon drew a little closer to the device, they saw that the area around it was dark and eery. The 'C' shaped machine was glowing white on the bottom, but then the light was sucked into the machine, as a dark substance was formed between the top tip of the 'C' to the bottom tip. Then a flash occurred there, as a creature jumped out from it unto the floor.
"Uh, what is that?!" Kai asked, freaked out by the little creature that was formed by the machine.
"But... but that machine had no power source or anything," Marcell said, looking at the functioning machine in surprise.
Then the little creature on the 'screen' lifted it's head higher up, as everyone was able to get a better look at the creature:
It had the head of a dragon with two horns on top that pulled back, and a thin snout with sharp teeth that overlapped around the chin. It had a small body, with little arms and big hands with sharp white claws, and sort-of-fat cylinder-like legs with sharp white claws on them as well. The tail was long enough to reach the floor with white spikes going from the tip of the tail, up to the back of the creature's neck. It also had two horns coming from sides of it's chin, pulled back, and it had dragon wings on it's back that were closed. The creature was all black besides the white horns and claws, and there was a red band of scales around it's white-with-black-slit eyes that went around it's head.
The creature lifted it's head higher, and screeched out into the skies, as it's wings opened up.
"What the heck is that thing?!" Flare asked, looking at the creature in disgust.
"It's like a mini dragon man," Christa said, with her hand under her chin.
Then the 'C' shaped machine activated again, and after another flash, another red-eyed creature jumped out.
"That machine is being used to create those things," Misako said.
"Tell the Falcon to look around for more of those creatures," Sensei Wu told Zane, and he nodded.
The Falcon continued flying along, and then everyone was able to get a better look at Ninjago city:
The streets were mostly empty, besides the few people who would run away and hide. The skies were dark, with dark purple clouds and a black, misty sky. Most of the buildings in Ninjago city were broken and burnt on the corners, and on various parts around them. There were those red-eyed creatures walking around the streets in groups like an army, and some were flying around the buildings.
There were other creatures that were similar to the red-eyed ones, but they were various types:
One other type of creature had a blue band of scales around the eyes, and a much wider mouth than the red-eyed one. It had very tiny wings, and it's body was double the size of the red eyed one, but it's inside was actually hollow. The Ninja crew witnessed the blue-eyed creature eat a large wooden barrel, and it's belly expanded out to hold the barrel inside, which made it a little shorter, and there were slits in it's belly like if it was a cage.
Another type of creature had a green band of scales around the eyes, and a smaller mouth than the blue-eyed one, but bigger than the red-eyed one. It had no wings, but it's claws were more hook shaped for climbing, and it's back legs were more like a T-Rex for running. It's tail was long like the red-eyed one, but it's teeth were thinner and there were less of them then the red-eyed ones.
The next type of creature had a yellow band of scales around the eyes, and a smaller mouth than the red eyed ones. It had wings, but not for flying, they just stay closed on it's back. The claws were also hooked like the green-eyed, and it's body was smaller than the others. It's tail was double the size in length of the green- and red-eyed ones, and it had four thin fangs that just reached over it's chin.
This next type of creature had an orange band of scales around the eyes, and a bigger mouth than the yellow-eyed, but smaller than the red eyed. It had broader wings than the red-eyed ones, but it's body was half the size of the red-eyed ones. It only had two thin fangs that reached it's chin, and it's claws were thin and a little longer than the other creatures. It also had a smaller and thinner tail, and it had two extra little horns on it's head.
The next typed of creature spotted had a purple band of scales around it's eyes, and the same sized mouth as the orange-eyed ones. It seemed to be telling the others what to do. It's wings were mostly closed like the yellow eyed ones, and it's claws were not so long, but they were hooked. It's tail was pretty long to the floor, and it was the same size as a red-eyed ones. It had four more horns on it's head like a crown, and it had thin teeth like the green-eyed one, but one set of the bottom teeth went just above it's nose on the sides of it's mouth.
As the Falcon looked at each of these groups of creatures, it was noticed that the number of creatures from largest to smallest was as follows: red-eyed, blue-eyed, orange-eyed, green-eyed, yellow-eyed, and purple-eyed. They were wondering around the city streets and a few rooftops, as the Falcon saw two other 'C' shaped machines releasing yellow- and green-eyed creatures.
"Those machines are creating an army," Lucy said.
"An army of beasts," Flare said.
"They took over Ninjago city," Cole said.
"How did this happen?" Kai asked.
"We left the city unprotected... it was our error," Sensei Wu said, sadly, as the ninja and kunoichi looked down sadly.
"We can't dwell on that thought. We have to focus more on reclaiming the city again," Sensei Garmadon said.
"He's right. What's done is done. We must learn from our mistakes so that we can make better decisions in the future," King Terrin said, as everyone continued to look at the projection of Dark Ninjago City.
Hence the title of this chapter being Dark Ninjago City. But it's not over yet...