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Congrats on updating your third fic of the series! Here’s a celebratory doodle! Mostly because a flustered Branch is a funny Branch
Thank you! I'm really excited to be back! The doodles are so fricken cute! Oh his holy realization! lol
Hello I’ve been reading through your fanfiction and tumblr posts and it all seems super cool! I feel bad for Rose who was in Branch’s stomach at the time and got the burnt of the power chord attack. Make me wonder if her fate would’ve been safer with her mother then.
Mpreg is a guilty pleasure of mine, so honestly Poppy being the bearing never really crossed my mind. Branch would properly be even more stressed if it was his partner carrying rather then him to be frank. Dude has so much anxiety over family.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
GUess who's back babaY! The long awaited Sequal is here!!!!!!
Preview:
"A lot can change in a couple of years, at least for Branch it had.
Too think only eight seasons ago, he was living alone in an empty bunker. Trapped in a world of routine and grayness. Now, as he looked around the grand training arena stretched out before him, with the large field, target range and armory nestled in the walls, that were carved into the old wood of a redwood stump, his life couldn’t be more different."
... Or after the Chef's Attack and the new Bergen/Troll peace alliance, it seemed like life could finally settle into a new safer normal. With Branch's identity revealed to the public, and the real life conquenses of his work known, Troll Village can finally move forward not only happily, but safely as well. The Forest Guard, the first defense force in generations is slowly but steadily being established, giving the village breathing room to truly live in joy and peace. However, a new, older threat now lurks on the horizon. Secrets hidden and paid in blood are unlocked and webs of lies are untangled. Branch can only hope that everything and everyone is strong enough for what is coming next...
... Sequel to "Rise of the Forest Guardian" and will try to update every other weekend.
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Hope anyone still here is excited. Sorry it took so long. Had a lot of chaos at school, and I'm trying to find work writing.
Nexo Knights/Ninjago (DR) Crossover - Ideas/Headcanons/Summery Plot - Jay and Nya are Clay's Parents
Okay, weird title, but this was a recent fever dream that I wanted to share so....Here we go with this utter mess...
To start! Instead of Ruina being slowly corrupted by the Forbidden Power Bracelet after the fact, she was killed during the Battle of Monstrox's defeat, along with the rest of the Wizards council, leaving Merlock as the only magic user left in Knighton. Key word being the last magic user in Knighton. Shortly after, there had been strange, but sparse, reports of a sorcerer, one with hair white as snow and a very wide round hat, wandering around the outskirts of the kingdom. It was rumored that he used some sort of tornado based magic, but vanished as suddenly as he appeared. Merlock investigated the rumors and in sensing the left over magical residue concluded its origin was not of Knighton, but of elseware. A place where Magic still flowed free in the blood of the people. Other realms. It took years of study, desperate, mind breaking study, but eventually Merlock was able to break through the barrier between the realms, and pulled through a young dark-haired girl who had the remains of magic running through her veins. A girl who looked like his sister. Merlock didn't expect the baby boy in her arms, to be pulled through the portal with her.
Let's flip perspectives for a moment.
Ninjago was recovering from the attack of the Crystal King (Crystalized), when Jay and Nya decide to start their family. After being separated when Nya joined the sea they don't want to risk waiting anymore. There's a period of peace after the Overlord is finally destroyed and they take advantage of that. Three months later Nya announces she's pregnant. Everyone, their fellow ninja, friends, and extended family, is ecstatic. When it came to naming their son, Nya and Jay thought long and hard about the meaning of it. They wanted to honor the past, but also look forward to the future with something unique. Eventually settling on combining their birth father's names (Cliff + Ray = Clay) and giving Ed's full name for the middle place. Clay Edward Walker is born into a loving home (monastery) filled to the brim with Uncles and Aunts ready to spoil him.
But the happiness doesn't last.
Late one night, Nya and Baby Clay are pulled into a portal of unknown origin. Jay watched as his love and child was ripped away, left sobbing at the broken cradle when he was unable to grab Nya's outstretched hand in time. The search for Nya and Clay afterwards is near desperate. Zane and Pixal doing in house detective work to figure out the origins of the portal. Lloyd and Cole reaching out to their Allies across Ninjago and the neighboring kingdoms to expand the search. While Jay and Kai work closely with Master Wu. At one point even using Travelers' Tea to locate Nya, but it seemed as if where-ever she was taken was further then even that of the Never-Realm.
Three years of searching passes, Then the Merge hits.
On Nya's end, she and her baby are being held captive by Merlock. Now Nya doesn't think the wizards evil, Merlock explained multiple times that he just wanted her help in restoring magic back to his realm. However, that's not something she can help with, not in the way he believes she can. Elemental powers only can have one mortal host at a time, and she passed on hers to Clay when he was born. Any remains of magic he was sensing on her, was either her spinjiztu or traces that her elemental water abilities have. She tries to explain but Merlock doesn't get it, at this point his mind is so far gone that he keeps mistaking her for some one named Wanda. Worried for her safety and the safety of her baby, trapped both in a strange realm and by a possibly unstable magic user, it leaves her open to rather cruel manipulation at the hands of this strange talking book in Merlock's library.
Using his wits and the last of his available magic, Monstrox is able to convince Nya that the Bracelet of Forbidden Powers has the ability to send her home and he'll teach her how to use it. Nya's not foolish enough to just try it instantly, and ask he'd help her. Monstrox says he's just as a trapped as she is, and plays up how dangerous Merlock actually is. Claiming that Merlock trapped his soul in the book after he tried to stop Merlock's frantic search for a way to revive his lost sister. SO desperate to save his blood line that he'd destroy the only remaining magic other then himself. Now properly scared for her and Clay - sure as a baby his elemental powers wouldn't awaken for years, but if Merlock even sensed any sort of power on him Nya doubted the wizard would be willing to let them go - she puts on the bracelet, and is slowly consumed.
Merlock catches on to what's happening before Monstrox fully convinces Nya to take him with her. However, it's too late, Nya's mind is fracturing underneath the weight of foreign dark magic. The wizard is left with no other choice but to petrify her, locking her body in a stone skin. The incident provided clarity to Merlock, and he is wrecked with guilt for what he has done. In his attempt to save the magic of his realm, and his own family, he had destroyed someone else's. He abandons all his research regarding other realms, locks Monstrox deeper in his library and as for the boy...Merlock leaves Clay with nothing more then a note and his name on the steps of the Kingdom's best orphanage. He doesn't know the surname that Nya carried so he gives the boy his own, a pitiful attempt to repay the lad after he cost the child his mother. Merlock keeps a distant eye on Clay, always watching but just out of sight of the lad.
The wizard pulls strings when needed, getting Clay into the Knight academy, paying for his school underneath the guise of a scholarship. As the lad grew, Merlock suspected he looked more and more like his unknown father. Only retaining his mother's deep blue eyes. Strangely though, while he senses magic on the boy, Clay never exhibits any traditional signs of being a wizard. Given his origins from another realm, Merlock guesses that Clay's magic might not function like that of his nexo powers, and it painfully obvious to the wizard now. Not to mention dangerous, if it did ever physically manifest, not even Merlock would know how to properly train Clay or what the boy was even capable of. He swears to tell the boy the truth of his origins after the graduation ceremony, with the kingdom at peace and Clay's studies completed there would be enough time for the young man to properly process the shock, but Jestro finds the book of monsters first.
Clay graduates, and the events of the series happens. Merlock 2.0 carries the guilt of his original self but isn't aware of the weight of it just yet. So he's rather blunt when he reveals that he basically kidnapped Clay and his mother from another realm in order to try and bring magic back to Knighton. By then Clay is under the effect of the stone curse and doesn't taken it well. Though now he understands what the strange bubble force that has been frothing underneath his rock skin is, unknown magic, and it just adds to his reason for being imprisoned. He's is a bomb of mysterious power and dark rage, and he doesn't want to hurt his team.
In truth the stone curse, has been slowly activating his elemental abilities, a sludgy true potential if you will. They sensed an invading dark force in their host's body and slowly worked on repelling it. Eventually breaking the spell right at the climax of season 4. However, what were once latent abilities are now at the tipping point of discovery and Clay trying to hold them back fearful of making the battle against the Colossus worse as he works with Robin and Ava. Merlock 2.0 agrees, not sure how foreign magic would react against Knighton Magic.
However, nothing his fellow knights are able to do is enough to take the monster down. Not even Mechlock is making a difference. looking down at his hand alit with an unfamiliar blue glow, Clay takes risk. If nothing from Knighton could destroy the Colossus of Destruction, maybe something from elseware would.
The moats surrounding the capital had been empty for years, but the springs underneath them still flowed with wet life. Clay didn't know this about the moats, not until he raised his hands and let whatever power that was writhing with him loose. A great flood is summoned at his will, washing away the ground troops stone monsters and knocking the flyers down before dragging them to the bed of the moat burying them all alive in a watery grave. Even better the ribbons of water alive and thrashing are able to puncture through the smallest cracks in the granite of the Colossus. Weakening the stone flesh and with the help of the other knights causing it to crumble. using the water trapped inside of colossus Clay rips apart the monster until it's nothing but muddy rubble. He then passes out where he stands, running off the high of his true potential awakening.
Nya was watching all this from above. Her memories are fractured and mind corrupted, but something about the fight, a flood against a giant beast it feels familiar. In the same way the lightning of her staff felt familiar. Some part of her longs to go after her son, but retreat wins over her will.
Clay nurses a migraine all through out the after party, while his friends just pepper on question about how it felt to use magic. Too which he doesn't really have much of an answer too, it was like a crazy adrenaline rush plus as if he had been swimming for hours on end. Even now everything feels weird, the water in the pipes is whispering to him, and he can feel the rumbling of the underground spring. Robin asks if this means Merlock will train Clay now, and the wizard now turned mech is forced to explain for a second time that the nature of Clay's magic is unknown to him so...he regretfully can't. The only person left alive who might know something about Clay's new found powers is his mother. Ruina vanished after the battle, and Clay claims he wants to go after her. Get answers and maybe try to save her. Merlock warns that her corruption is deep and who ever she once was might be lost forever. Clay says its worth the risks.
The sky outside suddenly fractures as the coalesces finally reaches the realm of Knighton, pulling the realm into the patchwork of the others already collected at the hands of the Merge.
Let's jump back to Jay for a bit.
When the Merge hit, there had been a sense of hope for Jay believe it or not. Now that the realms were together he had a better chance at finding Nya and Clay. After escaping from a bunch of weird dudes in suits, he went off searching for his family (Ninja included). Eventually meeting up with Kai in the Kingdom of Madness with the Kraglings, and getting picked up by Lloyd and the new ninja. Maybe it's his parental instincts finally having something to hold onto, but he takes to being an uncle to Arin and Sora all too quickly.
After freeing the dragons from imperium, Jay ends up bonding with the only lightning dragon of the bunch. Jiro lost a lot too, and Jay finds companionship in that.
His and Kai's relationship actually becomes strained temporarily, Jay hasn't stopped searching for Nya, and Kai was similar, but when Wyldfyre enters the picture Kai's attention is split and Jay sees that as Kai forgetting his sister. Replacing her with his new daughter. They talk it out and make up, but not before Kai is lost to Never Space.
At the tournament of the sources Jay keeps and eye out for Nya, sure her powers would've passed on their son by now, but its a slim hope he holds on too.
It hurts him all the time to watch as his brothers move on and build new families with their own children while his son is still missing. It's too the point that he can only really be near Zane and not feel pain, at least until the ice ninja finally finds Pixal. He's happy for Zane don't get him wrong, but Jay can't help but feel jealousy that Zane found his love while Nya is still gone.
Lloyd sympathizes a little bit when Arin runs away, but it isn't the same. Arin came back home.
By the time that weapon of desolation is seized and Empress Beatrix is stopped for the second time. It had been 9 nearly 10 years since Nya and Clay were taken. Rumors of another realm joining up with the merge lands eventually reach the crossroads and the Ninja by association, and with it comes the story of how a water wizard defeated a giant stone monster with a flood. Its thin chance, but its a chance and Jay is taking it, loading up Jiro with supplies and flying towards the new realm.
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I might make a part 2 if people are interested in this idea.
So...we can all agree that Lloyd just has the strangest situation specific training days right? Like he has the New Ninja practice combat in rollar skates, and all of the kids are like super confused because, when are they ever going to fight in rollar skates.
And Lloyd fully remembering the maniac psycho that is Master Chen, just says, "Since Kai's lack of ability nearly got us killed while fighting his almost father-in-law."
More then once he's made a lesson about the importance, of never opening mysterious tombs without proper supervision! "Already done it twice! The first time was only mostly okay, but it took years for that, and the less said about the second the better."
He has the kids spar and makes them hash out petty grievances while doing it, so they get used to talking while fighting. Because - "You never know when you have to talk down a corrupted team mate while they're mind-controlled and trying to kill you."
History lessons have this underlying tone of - "You need to know this one the off chance that you some how time-travel. It is more likely then you think."
Ninja get invited to something? - "Alright, how many weapons did you manage to hide in your formal wear? No, I'm not upset that you tried, it's actually good forward thinking, I'm disappointed you couldn't bring more."
Zane dies again - "Oh, don't worry he'll be back. Death sort of a 50/50 thing with us in general. You'll likely do it at least once in your ninja careers."
This might seem nonsensical but. I can’t stop giggling at the idea.
Morro in the Ninjago movie verse. On the beautiful off chance he isn’t evil I’d like to think hijinks ensue.
In think a theoretical sequel movie would be about Morro returning to Ninjago,
Thanks to @empressgeekt ‘s post, I can’t stop thinking about Garmadon mispronouncing Morro’s name like Lloyd’s: https://www.tumblr.com/empressgeekt/805220310846750720/so-considering-that-morro-is-the-only-character
💬 1 🔁 4 ❤️ 31 · So, considering that Morro is the only character (off the top of my head), other then Lloyd to have double consonants in h
Garmadon would spend half the time hearing people say “hey, Morro’s returning! Don’t you want to go see him?” And Garmadon would go “bro idk who that even is, fuck that”
Eventually he would see Morro because of plot reasons, and he’d go “oh my FSM, MO-RO-RO!! My favorite ninja ever?!!!!!” And they’d be best friends
I like to think Morro would have been a really misbehaving alt kid growing up and Garmadon would’ve vibed with that on their visits. Wu would constantly try to stop Garmadon from being a ‘bad influence’ on Morro, and they’d constantly bicker over whose the better mentor figure and stuff
All in all I think it would be really funny if Movie!Morro was super close with Garmadon, maybe even more than Wu because of some past complication, and Lloyd would be upset to find out about it. It’d be a nice flip on their dynamic in the show; instead of Morro being jealous of Lloyd for being the Green Ninja, Lloyd would be jealous of Morro for having a better relationship with Lloyd’s dad than Lloyd himself LMAO
Anyways you see the vision right.
Omg! This is awesome!!!! Garmadon being s nephews uncle never fails!
Lego Monkie Kid/Lego Ninjago Crossover - Kai is Mk Reincarnated
Okay so, my lego rabbit hole has now extended from Ninjago into LMK, and of course I have explore the concept of crossovers between the two, and I've notice a pattern between Kai and Mk, either Kai being a lost Spicynoodles baby (which also makes way too much sense), or their related in some why/mistaken for each other. And then I saw the freaken season five finally of LMK, and thought...what if Mk did die there and was reborn as Kai?
So, here's the shower thoughts that spawned from that late night realization. I'm calling it! The Burnt Noodles au!
Mk fulfils his destiny, sacrificing himself to the Pillar, the cycle is saved or at least that's what he's lead to believe, though he wishes he got to say a better goodbye to his family, he's at peace knowing they are safe. Nothing could be done for him however, Nuwa in return for his sacrifice gives Mk a choice, an eternity of peace underneath her care, or to be reborn as a mortal. Mk knows what will happen if he makes the first choice, his friends will some how get wind of where he is and end up getting hurt trying to save him. As painful as it is to admit, they will be better off without him getting them in trouble.
Mk chooses to be reborn. A new life, a new name, a new destiny. One he hoped he had a say in.
Mk wakes up in the three year old body of Kai Smith, he didn't expect to have the memories of his past life, but he's not angry at that fact. Not much he can do about it as a toddler. So, he just tries to live his new life. He has parents this time round, his origins not some puzzle for him to solve, just simply fact. Ray and Maya are sweet as pie too. They live in an apartment above his new father's forge (Heh, he has fifth dad now, Mk should've started a club with t-shirts), and while not exactly a noodle shop the work of a blacksmith is still really cool. Mk was honestly surprised that Ray let him sit on his lap as he worked on a very shiny sword for a customer, well until Mom came downstairs and yelled at Dad for letting their toddler son so close to the forge.
That was another strange thing, for all the good in Mk's previous life, he had never had a mom before. Nuwa might count, but she never did any of the mom things that Maya seemed to love to do with Mk. Maya would read books to him, sing lullabies, let Mk help her in the kitchen, and let Mk cling to her whenever nightmares become too much. Though, it takes Mk a few months to realize that he might not be the apple of Maya's and Ray's eyes alone forever. One day they sit him down and explain he's going to have a baby sister, and well, Mk is ecstatic.
Mk meets Nya when she's a tiny little loaf wrapped in a blue blanket, with a sprout of black fuzz on her head. She's lumpy, sleepy, and cries like she's dying whenever she's hungry, but Mk is obsessed. This is his baby sister, nothing is ever going to happen to her not one Mk's watch. He does notice the resemblance between Nya and Mei, and part of him is regretful. He didn't protect Mei like he should've, just standing by as his best friend was dragged into more and more of his messes. That won't happen with Nya, he won't let it.
Ray and Maya vanish one day, Mk doesn't know how or why. Some part of himself is angry, how could they do this Nya, but another part of him is suspicious. Why would two loving parents just leave with out warning? Didn't matter at the time. Mk is left alone as a small child once again, only this time their isn't a friend noodle chef to help him, and Nya is even smaller. Mk has to protect her. So, he starts to work the shop, it's hard, and he gets burned a lot, but after asking the previous village smithy (the retired one before Ray) for a little help, he can make enough to care for Nya with the help of his neighbors. It's hard, but Mk is fine with it, Nya is safe, thriving in school and that's all that matters.
Mk, or well, he's started just calling himself by Kai at this point. Mk is dead, Kai is his own person. Distant from his previous life, letting this new one bloom into it's own. He's accepted that. Kai is fourteen when Nya is kidnapped by the Garmadon's forces. Initially, he wants nothing to do with the heroes of this life. There was no Monkey King, or brotherhood, or pilgrims, in this world. Ninjago is a different realm from the last one, (Kai realized that when he was little and had to explain a picture of Monkey King to his new parents, and how they thought the picture was actually of Kai's imaginary friend), but what it id have were the Elemental Ninja. A team of ninja with elemental powers who vowed to protect the lands from threats. Never a night passed when Ray or Maya didn't tell Kai stories about their adventures. He like the stories, but he wanted them to stay as stories, because deep down, he knows that those stories don't tell the listener about how hard and dangerous those adventures really are. So, no, Kai wanted nothing to do with the ninja.
But Nya was kidnapped, and Kai had no staff or magic, only a old guy with an honestly impressive beard who offers Kai the chance to become a Ninja and save his sister. Kai doesn't hesitate.
Master Wu, at least in terms of teaching, is better then Monkey King at the whole mentor thing. Not like this guy was telling Kai everything he needs to know, yeah that was not happening, both the beard and the monkey are basically the same on secret keeping, but Wu was definitely better at training schedules and lesson plans. He's taught people before, and knows what he's teaching. Looking back on it, Kai was now pretty sure Monkey King was winging it at least those first couple months. He refuses to fight with a staff, instead learning swords play, because Ray made swords and called them cool.
Getting the title of the "fire ninja" and the red gi, makes Kai want to apologize to Red Son for stealing his esthetic and laugh at the irony of it. He could practically hear the fire demon throw a tantrum over it.
Having classmates is also different, but Kai doesn't really appreciate Wu's other students until after Nya's rescued. However, despite being initially guarded, he has to admit that he's missed having friends to joke and play video games with. Cole is steady and reliable, honestly he feels like the big brother that neither Kai nor Mk ever had, and his appreciation for food reminds him of Tang. Jay is loud and jokey (and other then the whole new level of a protective streak that he had unlocked in Kai when he expressed interest in Nya), but deep down it's clear that he cares about his fellow ninja, building and fixing things around the monastery to help out. Zane was...weird. Not in a bad way, just different and Kai sort got that, Mk was weird too.
It's Lloyd that changes everything however.
When the prophecy of the Green Ninja is discovered, Kai just assumes it's him because heaven forbid he ever get to live a normal average life! He always has to be the hero, but one some level he hopes its him, so that no one else he cares about has to carry that heavy gi.
Then the golden weapons glow for Lloyd, this little kid that has been a pain in Kai's side since the first day he showed up, is this life's prophesied hero. Destined to fight and defeat his own father, and he's not even half the age Mk was when he picked up Monkey king's staff. It's not fair. Not in any way. So, Kai vows to do whatever it takes to keep Lloyd safe. He can't stop destiny, but he could make it a little more bearable. Like when Pisgy made Mk's favorite noodles after a bad nightmare, Like Mei would remind Mk to take breaks and drag him out to arcades or watch a movie, like when Sandy invited Mk over to help with the boat but made him play with the cats the whole visit. Like when Tang bought him new art supplies claiming it was 'on-sale'. Like when Monkey King stopped the sparing drills to play a game of what was basically hide-and-seek after a hard day.
Mk, Kai, wasn't the baby of the family anymore. Hasn't been since Nya was born, and now he had a little brother too. He lets Lloyd crawl into bed after nightmares, he sneaks little bags of candy to the kid, and wraps the kids injuries when he pushes training too hard. The incident with Tomorrow's Tea hurts, because Lloyd hasn't even completed his training yet, and destiny has already started taking from him.
Years pass, the family is broken down and rebuilt again ten times over. They lose people, find them again. Fight back evil only for it to come back swinging. Kai loves it, though hard and painful, he knows he can't run away from it (he's ashamed of the time he tried too, leaving Lloyd alone). So, he just fights on to protect the people he loves.
Speaking of love, Skylor was interesting. Kai can't remember Mk ever having a crush on anyone, but maybe romantic interests change depending on what life your living? Either way, Kai was thrown into this world of romance without any sort of instruction manual, so he wasn't very good at it. He peeked on her through the paintings, he forgot to call her, and sometimes could not read the room. However, she was patient and after the whole Crystal King thing, Kai managed to actually take her out properly. Ray and Maya loved her (oh wait that's right, Mk wasn't abandoned for a higher purpose this time! His parents left to protect him, so brownie points?!), and some part of him wondered if his other dads would approve. Pigsy would love either love or hate the fact that she ran a noodle shop (Tang would love it). Kai wasn't sure about Monkey King, he was about as oblivious to romance as Mk was. There was also the whole thing about him basically crushing on a girl version of Red Son with cooking skills, but that was a break down for another life time.
When the Merge happens, everything changes yet again.
(and here's where I'm pulling in some details from my own NDR au, my Fic, "Crying Cranberries" especially, you only need to know that Kai found Wyldfyre in the Land of Monsters and adopted her, and he lost an eye to the monster lands).
At first it's awful Kai is trapped in a hell scape of monsters and death, he wants to go home, he wants his family, be it past or present. The fight is endless and it leaves a mark, taking out his left eye. Then in the chaos and madness he finds a little girl, a little girl who is so bright, so passionate, and really naive. She's not dumb, that's for certain, but she doesn't understand how badly this world can hurt you back, doesn't matter how strong you are. It's not a lesson that Kai will let her learn the hard way, at least if he can teach it too her. He never understood what it was like to have someone look at you like you're their whole world, Nya once had but he was a kid too then. Now he knows better, and though ti terrifies him, Kai is proud to be Wyldfyre's dad.
By this point, Mk is nothing but a memory. Kai is here, alive and happy. The world wont' stop attacking his family, but they hold on to each other. Mk had that, but Mk didn't get to fall in love, Mk didn't have baby siblings, Mk didn't get to come full circule and have kids of his own. Kai did. Though, just when life feels stable it throws you a curve ball, and with the Merged Lands were shifting, a 17th realm, one kept under wraps by the FSM himself, was about to crash with the rest of the world.
Let's back up, and flip the mirror, to see what happened outside of that pillar.
Short answer: everyone and everything is a mess!
After the world seemed to stabilize, there's like a day or two were no one speaks to each other, just not trusting themselves to not lash out, or unable to do anything. Wukong is practically catatonic, not even the little monkeys can get him to react, he just lies where he's left clutching onto the head band that fell off Mk during their fight. Macaque was the one who dragged the king home, and is sticking close despite his own grief. Pigsy has thrown himself into his work, and while productive, is not taking care of himself, too angry to face anyone but Tang yet. Mei is similar, throwing herself into her training so she won't lose another friend. Sandy is probably coping the best with his grief, though he is buried underneath a mountain of therapy cats every night.
Tang eventually pulls himself together enough to plan a memorial, Mk deserved one at least. With Macaque's help (once more Wukong is still a glorified throw rug at this point) he makes it happen on Flower Fruit mountain. Everyone, even Red Son {with a gift from his parents} and Nezha, is in attendance. No one speaks, just put flowers and pictures on Mk's grave, and try not to lose it on each other, because they are all blaming themself equally. Then the sky splits open all over again, and there's no pillar to save them.
They manage to take cover in the mountain caves, but things are weird when they creep back out. The Flaming mountains are gone, Flower Fruit Mountian is on a península now connecting to some weird garden like forest. Megaopolis is patchy, parts of it missing or replaced with something strange and unfamiliar. For the most part, their homes are semi alright. Pigsy's restaurante is alright, just has a tree growing around it. Red Son phones his parents and their alright, their fortress is half underwater, but their alright. Mei can't get through to her parents, and their house is missing too. There's also a strange monastery on Flower Fruit Mountain that no one remembers being built. Even Heaven is confused as to what the heck just happened, and why they suddenly have a collection of equally pompous super dragons as next door neighbors.
In some twisted way, this new dramatic world shift snaps everyone out of their wrecked state and they start trying to figure out what that storm was. Thankfully the answer is pretty easily found one the internet is back up and running. To everyone shock, their were sixteen other realms that none of them knew about and now their realm had merged with the other sixteen. Tang is thrown in a whirlwind of research trying to catch up on all the changes the merge brought to megaopolis, and their realm, and he stumbles upon something called a "Summoning Lost Soul Spell". The spell itself was meant to bring something called a departed soul back to a realm of the living, and while he's trying to move on, and he knows the others are too. He still shows them the spell. With the merge the concept of death was completely re-written, Ghost and Skulkin were now viable for the dead to become after their lives ended.
Pigsy: Just what are you saying Tang?
Tang: I'm saying we could bring Mk back.
Some of the gang, like Macaque and Red Son are more hesitent to go through with it since this spell is not of known origin, but I think we all know the choice they make.
Let's jump back to Kai. At this point the blood moon as past and he's trapped in the never space with Bonzle. Which if you excluded the whole being trapped with four evil elemental warlords, actually the place more confusing then threatening. Nothing like the land of monsters. Not that Kai wanted any reminders of that place. They've settled in for a moment, a little corner, when a bright yellow seal appears underneath kai, recongizes this magic but doesn't believe it. A portal opens and bonzle is dragged with kai as they were spat out in a heap, and Kai comes face to face with friends from a life lost too short.
Wukong knows it Mk, the moment the body tumbles into the mountain dust. The kid looked different, missing his head band, covered in scars, but gold vision doesn't lie, this is the same soul. This is Mk. Tears are shed and a group hug commences, only Mk remains frozen not reacting. The months in NeverSpace have taken their toll add on the stress of this reunion...
Kai passes out.
Panic ensues as Tang, Pigsy, Wukong, Sandy and Mei all rush Kai back to Monkey King's hut for medical treatment, Macaque and Red Son ready to follow when a voice calls out from the ground. Bonzle is laying there, her skeleton broke apart after Kai fell on her.
"Uh? Mind giving me a hand? I'm afraid I've been dismembered." - Bonzle, in most chilled out tone ever.
Bonzle thanks them afterwards, introduces herself and asks what they wanted with her almost brother-in-law? Macaque and Red Son are confused by this, Mk didn't have any siblings nor was he married, not to their knowledge least, and upon asking to explain what she meant...
"Oh, well, you see my brother is engaged to his brother, but not married yet...so I guess I'm not his sister-in-law...yet? yeah, it's kind of complicated even for us" - Bonzle.
(sorry guys, I'm a firm fan of "Wine Aunt Bonzle", so she's Geo's adopted sister in this)
Kai is set up on Wukong's couch under and over two mounds of pillows and blankets, when they finally arrive at the hut, Mei, Mo and Wukong watching vigil, with Tang, Sandy and pigsy prepping lunch, Mk's favorite. Bonzle is finally noticed by the rest of the group she sets things straight to best of her limited information. She tells them that the guy on the couch is Kai, a red ninja, and not whoever they thought he was. Which, they don't really believe, but Bonzle just shrugs at their denial she might be missing something after all, they weren't the closest of the ninja. She asks how they knew to get her and Kai out of NeverSpace , which leads to a whole conversation about the half-dimension being an inescapable prison of never ending stone and a lack of physics, and everyone wrongly assumes that Kai/Mk was put in that place due to being the harbinger of chaos, and that Mk was going by a different name to keep his identity secret.
Tang asks why Bonzle was in there, and completely unfazed she explains that she wasn't a prisoner, she was just a key who got stuck on the wrong side. Kai stirs before she can answer.
Being greeted by faces from a faded life buried deep in his memories, is not the most comforting way to come too. Mei jumps on him again, crying happy tears, but at this point it doesn't feel like a hug from his best friend anymore. He's been Kai longer then he had been Mk, and while he does still care for Mei, she's more like a from a dream then someone he used to spend days together with. Pigsy is next, asking if he's alright in that same gruff fatherly tone he used after a big fight, and it makes Kai's stomach sink, like he's not the person who this warm loving tone is meant for. Wukong comes in for an embrace next and that's too much. Kai leaps away, looking to Bonzle asking if this was all real.
Wukong sees his successor, his kid in every way but blood, older scarred, with eyes wide like he was seeing ghosts, time has passed for Mk, more then the two weeks since the pillar and later the storm. That much was plain, but he still knows this kid. He assures Mk it's real, that whatever happened after the pillar is over, he's home, they got him back, he's safe. Only for Kai to look him dead in the eyes, shake his head and say...
"My name is Kai Smith, I'm the Red Ninja, a protector of Ninjago, Master of Fire and...Mk's reincarnation. I'm sorry but your student is dead."
Various stages of denial and grief wash over the crowd, wanting to know just how much Kai remembers, and eventually Sandy tells them to wait until they were at the dinning table because dinner was almost ready any they can have a calmer qna in a minute.
While eating, Kai slowly explains what went down with Nuwa, what she offered him, and how he knew that if Mk stayed alive they would all put themselves in danger in order to save them and at the time he couldn't allow it, so he gave in to destiny. Died and was reborn into another realm away from Heaven's gaze and destiny, Kai isn't sure why he kept all of Mk's memories, but he wasn't the kid anymore. He knows that hurts them, and he's sorry, but at the time it felt like his only choice and he doesn't regret it. He doesn't regret letting Mk die.
"So, any questions?" - Kai
Pigsy can't believe what he's hearing, but at the same time he does. This boy shares a face with his son, but their something different in his eyes (well eye). A hardness that burned, where Mk's innocence and nativity once sparkled. When he had seen a few more years on Kai face, baby fat fully melted away from his cheeks and jaw sharpened, he had assumed that Mk simply had been away for longer then they had missed him. Maybe a a few weeks was worth a few years where ever his son ended up. Now it was so much worse. Mk had lived an entire life without them.
Pigsy asks if Kai is happy.
Kai smiles, that Mk smile just more mature, and it's all Pigsy needs. Yeah, he is happy.
Red Son breaks first, because something in his speech was bothering him, "What's this whole 'master of Fire' title?"
Kai explains, going from who his new bio-parents were to the history of the elemental alliance and how it was a generational force of elemental ninjas formed to protect Ninjago. Which leads to explanation about the 16 realms and Ninjago's place among them. Which leads to the conversation of how Kai and Bonzle are going to get back there, much to many of them's discomfort.
"Do you really need to go back?" - Wukong.
"When I became the Red Ninja I made a vow to both my realm and my family to protect them and I will be keeping it. Especially with Ninjago's state at the moment, ever since the Merge it hasn't been exactly stable." - Kai
Que explanation on the Merge and Tang mentions how it sounded a lot like that storm that happened recently. Kai hones in on this and askes questions, how, when and what, and the exact times. The time of the Merge hitting LMK world, corresponded with the blood moon ritual that free the forbidden five, best Bonzle could figure is that the excess dimensional magic from the ritual allowed a 17, possibly unstable realm enough of a opening to join up with the Merge Lands.
"how would you know that?" -Tang
"I'm actually an extremely powerful 1000s year magic spell that gained consciousness and took on the form of a physical being, and my mother is kind of the top sorceress in mysterism, so i know a thing or two about magic." -Bonzle.
"Er...what?" - Pigsy
Kai ask to see how much has changed and Macaque walks them all out to where the land mass connected to FFM is and while Kai doesn't recognize off the bat but he knows that is from another realm. The fact that they seemed to be on the same dimensional plain only, is relieving for everyone. For Kai and Bonzle because this makes getting home a lot easier. And everyone else because they can hopefully stay in contact with Kai.
I'm not entirely sure what happeneds next, but some points are that
FFM is now linked to the Mother Garden and Zant-tanz comes over with gift baskets, wanting to greet the new neighbors and warn them that security was going to be beefed up for a while, but not to worry about it. It's not war prep, only an investigation into internal smuggling rings that need to shut down. He also informs Kai about the tournament and how he was kicked out. Kai is very disappointed he doesn't get to compete, but at least he knows his family is safe.
at some point Wyldfyre is brought up, and holy shit Kai is a such a Dad.
the monastery at the foot of FFM is brought up, and Kai and Bonzle know this mean's portal gate!
They end up in the city of temples just as Nokt and Roz start their attack.
NO idea were this goes next. Hope ya'll enjoy.!
I think Skylar is in Dragon raises or a Season close to i
She even has a convo with Kai about what happened after the tournament
we can only hope
So, I just learned today that Frak is half venomari, the snakes that cause hallucinations with their venom, and now I can't get the idea of him accidentally biting Lloyd out of my head like. Think of the shenanigans that the new ninja could get into with having to keep their drugged out of his master out of trouble!
"No Master Lloyd that's the oven! Arin isn't throwing himself into fire!"
The Older Ninja are used to this after Kai's run in with the venom, and just start baby-proofing the monastery so Lloyd doesn't hurt himself on accident.
Kai is really concerned if he was this bad last time.
Nya and Wyldfyre are collecting blackmail.
Frak is just so so sorry. Like sobbing with guilt, and worried that Lloyd is going to throw him out. Only for Lloyd to hug him (Yes while still high), and say the bunnies will be alright (they don't have bunnies).
It'd be really funny if Sora was also involved somehow (like maybe all three of them were training together when it happened), cause I can just picture Frak as a sobbing mess when he confides in Sora that he literally spat on their master's face and he's like, "what should we do??? Should we tell the other ninja? Should I face the consequences of my mistake and just hope they won't be mad at us cause it was an accident?" And Sora, who's a child prodigy with a tendecy for perfectionism and also a little mean, is just like, "yeah, no. We should. We should change our names and run away to another Realm. Yeah, it's feasible, don't worry about it."
Cole walks right in the middle of Frak and Sora packing their bags and immediately goes into Dad Mode. He starts coming up with embarrassing stories from the other ninja to make the kids feel better while Kai and Zane are chasing after Lloyd around the monastery. Nya and Wyldfyre are effectively no help at all.
Yes you can write this.
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A wolf, like his sister. Her strength found him in this form of a stranger offering guidance to reunite them once more.
“What is your name?” Kataru asked.
“Ras.”
Akita I promise you, I will do all that is required to return you to our forests.
Kataru put the mask on. ... Or what happened to some of our favorite formlings when the merge hit.
So, I just learned today that Frak is half venomari, the snakes that cause hallucinations with their venom, and now I can't get the idea of him accidentally biting Lloyd out of my head like. Think of the shenanigans that the new ninja could get into with having to keep their drugged out of his master out of trouble!
"No Master Lloyd that's the oven! Arin isn't throwing himself into fire!"
The Older Ninja are used to this after Kai's run in with the venom, and just start baby-proofing the monastery so Lloyd doesn't hurt himself on accident.
Kai is really concerned if he was this bad last time.
Nya and Wyldfyre are collecting blackmail.
Frak is just so so sorry. Like sobbing with guilt, and worried that Lloyd is going to throw him out. Only for Lloyd to hug him (Yes while still high), and say the bunnies will be alright (they don't have bunnies).
Can’t wait to see your Rise of the Forest Guardian (In your Field of Forgetmenots Series) continuation around Summer to Autumn.
can't wait to post it!
Another short headcanon, but we can all agree that Skylor is a sniper right? Like you can't tell me Chen wouldn't train his daughter in all manners of war-fair and this man would be crazy enough to love firearms. Skylor is an amazing shot, be it with a pistol or long range. She just doesn't use it often as the ninja don't really use modern weaponry.
(Also, it would play into her ship with Kai, since Kai's weapon is usually a sword. The sniper and the swordsman dynamic anyone?)
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“I guess it’s true, the greatest love stories do always end…in tragedy.”
The voice was unfamiliar and weak, but so sweet and comforting. The last warmth that she ever whispered.
He screamed and sobbed, feeling like something was ripping and shredding him from the inside out. Clutching her cold form closer, holding on to a phantom from the depths of his mind that he couldn’t name.
Jay woke up crying.
...
She was just so tired. It had been non-stop war since that storm, and she wanted nothing more then to go home.
Go back to the monastery.
Hug her brothers.
See Jay.
“Get away from her!”
... Or Jay has no memories of his before and isn't sure he wants to know. Meanwhile Nya wants nothing more then to find her family again.
Opinion about Skylar and what if the Lego company decided to continue her history in the other seasons ?
From a story stand point, I definitely feel like she's under utilized, but I don't know enough about the Lego Company itself to give an opinion on their stance with her. There's a lot they could do with her, and while I do think Kailor is very cute, I do feel like if you're going introduce a love interest they have to be their own person, not just an accessory to the character their made for. They sort of did that with her, but they didn't dig deep enough for me in some places. I feel like especially in dragons rising, she could have a lot of fun character dynamics with the new ninja, Sora and Wyldfyre especially. She and Sora have similar backstories regarding terrible parents, and so many jokes could be made with Wyldfyre looking like a Kailor love-child.
Keith would be the green ninja
WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO TORTURE OUR LITTLE GRUB WITH DESTINEY LIKE THAT?! LOL
What if Pixar and Zane change places during the history of the Fang blades
You mean like, if Pixal was the ice ninja and Zane was Borg's creation? Not really sure. I haven't studied the sorce material enough to make a concrete decision.
Likely, Pixal would be a little more combative with the other ninja seeing as how she's a lot less nonsense then Zane. And I pity poor zane getting possessed by the overlord and losing his first love to it, only to get scraped shortly afterwards.
