Chapter 44: Grave Danger
With the help of Aria, Morro made his way safely through the tomb. They were currently stuck on the 3rd riddle. As Aria walked through the maze she kept staring at her reflection.
"Aria are you in love with yourself and not me?" Lloyd questions out of nowhere.
"What?" Aria looks at him confused "No, I'm just curious. These caves were rumored to show ones future, I read it in a book, but I don't..."
"Yeah," Lloyd looks at his own reflection "Same here, we still look the same."
"Wait a minute, I think I see me!"
The two turn their heads to see the ninja looking at their own reflections.
"It's Morro! He's in the maze too!" Cole shouts as he sees Morro on the other end.
Morro appears and swings his sword at Jay.
Jay runs away "Aah! He's attacking an unarmed man!"
"Come on," Lloyd grabs Aria's arm and they run off into the maze to find the exit.
After awhile they find Morro in front of a hole that led into the tomb.
"You found it," Aria smiles.
"Well, what's the plan?" Lloyd asks.
"We force them to hand over the realm crystal." Morro replies
"Reinforcements are outside for them as well as our own," Aria shakes her head "we need to ensure we get the realm crystal."
"What I'm worried about is the rebel captain," Morro says "we haven't spotted him since that one time in Stiix."
"For all we know he's already inside the tomb," Lloyd tells him.
"He doesn't know where it is though," Aria points out.
"Perhaps, but we need to make sure those idiots don't take the realm crystal." Morro says "It's safer in our hands."
"Let's go get it then," Lloyd jumps into the hole.
Aria and Morro look at each other before following after him. They approach the opening to see the ninja all bowing in respect, before Zane takes the realm crystal. Morro separated from Reika's body and grabs her.
"Warn me before you do that next time," Reika complains as she almost falls over.
"Man she really is weak," Aria whispers to Lloyd who tries not to laugh.
"How does it work?" Kai questions
"How it works is you'll hand over the Crystal, or say goodbye to your friend"
The ninja look up and see Morro out of Reika's body, holding the sword to her.
"You know if you were Aria I actually wouldn't mind this so much," Reika comments weakly.
The ninja stare at her with a 'really' look.
"So what'll it be?" Morro asks the ninja.
"If we give him the crystal we don't know what they'll do with it," Zane tells the others "It could be worse then the other ghost."
"But if we don't, when has he never made good on a threat?" Cole questions "Look at Reika, she's too weak to protect herself."
"She's not too weak to make jokes though," Kai comments.
"Ugh, either option totally stinks. What do you think, Kai? What do we do?" Jay asks him.
"Stop stalling! Give me the Realm Crystal, or else!" Morro shouts.
"We're not stalling! We're thinking!" Kai says and the Ninja huddle together "He's totally right, I'm stalling. What are we gonna do?"
"Ugh, this guy really chaps my hide. I swear, when this is all over..." Cole's anger made the ground tremble a bit.
"Now that Morro's out of Reika's body, our powers are starting to come back" Zane points out.
Jay grunts "Yeah, but like Lloyd, they're weak. And we're in no position to fight back"
"Times up!" Morro shouts "You leave me no choice"
"Wait! We'll give you the Realm Crystal!" Kai tells him.
Morro laughs, Kai heats up the realm crystal before throwing it. Morro catches it but drops it into a river because it was too hot.
"The Crystal! What have you done!?" Morro shouts and pushes Reika into the stream with wind.
"Lloyd," Aria turns to him.
"I'm on it!" Lloyd replies as he jumped down from where they were.
Kai and Cole chases after Reika while Zane and Jay goes after Morro and Aria. Zane freezes the Sword before Morro can stab Jay. Jay uses his Lightning, but Aria dodges and it hits Zane instead. Meanwhile, Kai and Cole were attempting to grab Reika as Lloyd went after the realm crystal.
"Cole, get Lloyd!" Kai shouts as he grabs hold of Reika.
Cole flew beside the river chasing after Lloyd to get to the realm crystal before him. Kai managed to get to the side of the river and pulls Reika onto it. Cole attempts to get the crystal but Lloyd's eyes glow pink and the crystal floated into his hand.
"No!" Cole shouts.
Aria reached her hand out and helped Lloyd onto the side of the river.
"They're gonna get away!" Jay scrambles to his feet as Morro joined Lloyd and Aria.
"Let's go!" Morro shouts.
The three run towards the exit of the cave as Zane, Jay, and Cole follow after them. Zane uses what power he had to create ice under Lloyd and Aria. The two of them falling and the realm crystal thrown to the edge of the cave.
"You idiots don't understand what you're doing!" Lloyd shouts at them.
"No, no they don't."
The ninja, Morro, Lloyd, and Aria all turn to see the realm crystal floating in the air until the ghost shows himself. The ghost of Kaname, who wore the same white uniform as Aria's white knights.
"No!" Morro heads towards him.
"You were always stepping out of line Morro," Kaname says as his eyes glow red.
Kaname was suddenly in front of Morro and he knocked him back onto the ground behind Aria and Lloyd.
"Morro!" Aria shouts before turning back to look at the ghost who was right in front of her.
Lloyd went to knock him away from Aria, but Kaname grabbed onto his arm and an audible crack was heard. Lloyd shouted in pain before he was thrown over Kaname's shoulder.
"Lloyd!" Aria stood up to run to him but stopped when Kaname turned to look at her again.
"I warned you not to do this your highness," Kaname says "why didn't you listen to me?"
"I don't know who the hell you think you are," Aria growls.
"On the contrary, I know who I am," Kaname replies "It is you who doesn't know who you are."
"I know enough to know who the bad guy is," Aria says.
"View me as you wish." Kaname responds.
"Aria move!" Morro shouts.
Aria looks back at Morro before she was grabbed by the throat and held in the air by Kaname.
"Stop him Kai," Reika tells her brother weakly "please, he's really the bad guy."
"R-right, I know that." Kai agrees before standing up "Guys!"
The ninja snapped out of their shock and sent what power they had towards Kaname immediately. The ghost simply threw Aria away onto the ground before disappearing from the spot.
"Damn it," Cole curses.
Kaname appeared at the edge of the cave, facing the group of people "You are the protectors of this world, stopping me would only hinder you all in the end."
"You think you're doing what's right, but you'll destroy this realm in the process!" Kai shouts.
"Yeah!" Jay agrees.
"Do as you wish, it means very little to me." Kaname says "I will ensure the safety of this realm by myself if I have to. If you wish to join the Deltorian's in their fate, then so be it."
Kaname disappeared once again and the ninja stood in place. Morro ran over to Aria as Lloyd got up from the ground.
"Your highness!" Morro reached down to her.
Kai picked up Reika and carried her on his back as he walked over to the ninja who stood not too far away from Morro, Lloyd, and Aria.
"Is she ok?" Cole asks hesitantly.
"Only unconsciously," Lloyd replies angrily "like you care."
"We do care," Kai tells him harshly "we wouldn't be asking if we didn't!"
Lloyd turns away from them as Zane walked closer to them.
"May I inspect your arm Lloyd?" Zane asks, noticing he was holding onto the arm Kaname grabbed.
Lloyd looked at him suspiciously before releasing his arm, allowing Zane to inspect it.
"It's not a clean break," Zane tells him after assessing it "you need to keep something around it so it can heal."
"Yeah yeah," Lloyd replies as he walks over to Aria and attempts to pick her up with his good arm.
"Relax kid," Jay says as he went in front of Lloyd "I got her."
"Why should we trust you?!" Morro growls as he takes a defensive state, guarding Aria. "It's all your fault he got the crystal."
"We didn't know you were trying to stop another ghost," Zane argues. "We thought you were the ones trying to curse Ninjago."
"Yeah, we learned about Kaname in Cloud Kingdom," Kai says "despite everything you've done we're willing to help you for the sake of Ninjago. Put your pride aside and let us help."
"We're not on your side," Lloyd tells them.
"You don't have to be, but for this once let's call a truce ok?" Cole suggests. "Lloyd can't carry Aria with a broken arm and Morro can't carry her cause he's a ghost. Just let Jay carry her."
Lloyd looks at Morro who drops his guard and steps aside.
"You better not drop her," Lloyd says.
"I won't," Jay assures him.
Jay bends down and picks up Aria, carrying her on his back, before they all walked up to the cave's exit seeing the bounty and Morro's ship not too far away.
"Looks like Ninjago's gonna be cursed," Reika comments from Kai's back.
"Yes, but now we have you back" Zane says.
"And we have our powers back" Jay adds.
"As you get strong, so will we." Cole tells her. "Now that we're all working together, there's no way we'll loose against that Ghost."
"Yeah don't get use to it," Lloyd says before he looks at Aria who was still unconscious on Jay's back "We're only doing this for her."
Aria whines and Lloyd moves her hair out of her face.
"I just wanna ask one thing Kaname," Aria looks up at him as he holds his sword out "Why? Why would you betray me like this? I trusted you with my life on countless times, and you've never once failed me."
"It is because I would do anything for you my princess," Kaname responds as he holds his sword up high, preparing to swing "that I must burden myself with this task and become a sinner."
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