"Lloyd, do not do that!"
"Why, Zane? Do you want to die and never see Pixal again?"
"No, I do want to see her with every piece of my circuits, she's the one that I can't stop thinking about every second, I miss her so much… But the amount of power that blast is going to emit is far too uncontrollable! There's about an 86% chance that you won't survive and the mountain and everyone in it will also be disintegrated!"
"Isn't it a chance we should be willing to take? To save us and everyone else, to save the Merged Realms from these inhumane beings and a giant lizard that has wings?"
"What do you mean by 'inhumane beings'?" Arin asked.
"I think it's obvious! Ever seen a human that looked like any of the Five?"
"Oh yeah… Now that I think about it, that's true, they don't remind me of human weaklings." Wyldfyre said.
"You're human!" Arin growled.
"Not completely – I was raised by dragons and have dragon powers!"
Lloyd was getting annoyed by that arguing. It was getting louder and louder and the boy was getting angrier and angrier. He rolled his eyes in annoyance and quickly interlocked his fingers, while still having one of his hands engulfed in purplish pink and green.
Nya's eyes widened.
"No, wait-"
"Lloyd, you'll wreck the mountain and fracture the crust of the Merged Realms-" Cole exclaimed.
The boy laughed and said:
"It's nothing our world couldn't endure." A soft smile appeared on Green ninja's face.
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A sharp exhale let Lloyd's mouth.
"Wow… Didn't expect a blast this huge… And this tiring…" Lloyd raised a hand on one of his eyes and looked around.
The walls were a lot thinner and were still crumbling piece by piece. A huge hole appeared in front of him, dust now enveloped the whole area.
Lloyd covered his mouth and harshly coughed.
Then he looked around and saw nearly everyone passed out – Arin, Wyldfyre and Riyu were pretty much glued to the wall and slowly sliding down, the rest were either literally in the ground or laying on it. At least it seemed they're alive because of faint breathing surrounding the cave.
A purple red enormous dragon suddenly appeared out of nowhere, the Forbidden Five surrounding it.
"A wise trick indeed, Conduit."
Lloyd took a pulled back a bit but stepped on something. "Ow!"
He turned around and saw Jay awake, which was surprising, since nearly everyone else was still passed out and 'Rogue' seemed like he only laid there without passing out, just to fit in and not seem all that different.
"If you're going to go backwards, watch where you step!"
"Well, sorry! I couldn't really see you since there are guys that want to use me for their benefit and there is a chance that it'll be painful to me!"
Jay looked to the side a bit and saw the Five and ThunderFang nearing the Green ninja.
Nokt quickly jumped up while Lloyd was distracted and shot a powerful blast at the boy.
"Look out!" Walker pushed the Conduit back and countered Nokt's power with his lightning.
Lloyd stood there for a minute, not understanding what was happening. Then he blinked a few times.
"…Thanks, Jay."
The Master of lightning got into a fighting position and snarkily asked:
"Are you just going to stand there and wait until everything is destroyed or will you help me?" A hand reached forward.
Lloyd was not expecting this outcome but only shook his head and grabbed his ex-friend's hand and quickly span, imitating a bit of a swirl.
Rogue didn't anticipate to be fighting like a vortex with a sensei but still complied, stretched his legs and made lightning huge whips that were bigger than usual and filled with green and unusual purple power.
The Forbidden Five lounged at the duo and the dragon fired a flame from its not completely healed jaw.
Just as the mostly red chaotic power clash reached for the unstable swirl, it became bigger, faster, stronger and more glowing – it turned into spinjitzu.
Lloyd threw Jay in the air and grabbed him by the hands.
"I don't get it, what is this power and why do you let me use it like it's a part of me?!"
"Because it is a part of you, Mouth of lightning!"
"Stop calling me that!"
The boy laughed and unknowingly, Rogue joined in.
The larger-than-usual spinjitzu turned back into the two guys at times, and at those times, they would fire off huge blasts and surge whips at the dragon and the human-looking beings that tried to attack them at every second.
This kept going for some time, until a few of the Ninja awoke and joined in on the fight, blasting water, ice, rocks and heat at the weakened group.
A huge roar of anger filled the mountain and it shook.
Everyone covered their ears and Lloyd looked at the weird red purple and white light from ThunderFang's side.
The boy realized that it was going to do something bad and was probably going to hurt Jay.
Lloyd Garmadon didn't like and feared the idea that came into his mind, but there was so little time left.
He took huge and fast steps to Rogue – to push him out of the way.
And he succeeded, meanwhile getting blasted by the unknown power blast from the dragon.
A few seconds after the Green ninja's view went to black he saw the old Jay's face filled with a few tears on his face and fear, disappointment – because now he'll think that he failed to protect him, all because of Lloyd and his stupid decision.
The boy clenched his fist and completely sunk into the might of the energy of ThunderFang, it was so chaotic and flashing that he covered his eyes and closed them.
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"Finally, the problem has been taken care of." The dragon smirked and a guy with closed eyes, darker clothes, messy, long, deep brown hair with a tip of blonde at the top and some white extra horns and ears suddenly appeared.
Jay was shaking, he had no idea why, but he was shaking and felt his breathing and heart beat fasten.
"Get rid of them, Corrupted Conduit."
Everyone else looked at the figure and each other, worry filling their eyes.
The Forbidden Five smirked, or at least, that's what it looked like.
A sinister laugh came from the figure. It shook its head, its horns and ears now purple and red, marks on its face appeared and also turned the same colors as the horns and ears, taking the form of uneven and red and purple pallet color-changing spirals.
An aura that was the same glow as the dragon's power, with hints of pink now covered the being.
"Such magnificent chaos…" Rox seemed amazed.
"Aw, you're too kind." The figure opened its eyes to show crimson red and purple gaze, the eyelids had some kind of a glow that nearly made the stare look without pupils.
It just fired an enormous blast at the Five and the dragon, and they completely disappeared, making it look as if the group got disintegrated.
"No one tells me what to do, vermin." A chaotic voice that still reminded Lloyd came out of it, then it smiled, showing very sharp teeth while at it.
Then it turned around at the Ninja.
"You realize what you just heard, right? So, under no circumstances will I work for ThunderFang, so you're probably thinking I won't kill you right?"
"How did you know?" Frak asked.
"Just my intuition, that is the only one right here, because yours is telling you that you'll leave alive, but you won't." It smiled.
"Why's that?" Wyldfyre inquired.
"Because I'll kill you, just to end my boredom, dragon girl." It opened its mouth and sharp teeth were clearly shown, the Corrupted Conduit pointed a finger at its mouth and said:
"Plus, I'm just hungry."