We are getting a lot of stuff here, everyone. :3
We're finally getting the big reveal of Nova's past!? *shocked face*
We are also getting some more Lloyd and Nova fluff.
And some lore about the purple ninja. >:3
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*At the Destiny's Bounty, the ninja are sleeping, but the alarm clock starts blaring, waking the ninja up.*
"Ugh." Cole hits his head on the top bunk.
"Uh, Aah!" Lloyd falls off his bed.
*Kai throws something at the clock, making it hit a gramophone and making it louder. The ninja groans, but Zane, being a Nindroid, is unaffected by the noise. Lloyd uses his Energy to shut it off.*
"Is it Wednesday already?" Lloyd asked.
"Sunrise exercise. I hate sunrise exercise." said Jay.
Wu comes in, ringing a mini gong. "Ah. Good morning, morning, morning! Up, up. It's a new day, students. Before we begin sunrise exercise, I noticed the dragon made another mess outside. It looks like a two-person job, hehe."
The ninja looked at each other worried, knowing what was coming soon with Wu ringing his mini gong.
"Uh, what was that, Sensei?" said Cole.
Kai simultaneously". "Did I hear an SOS call come in?"
Zane simultaneously. "I sense I need to be somewhere else."
"Lloyd, haha. I'm sure you and Nova got this, heh." said Jay.
"Aww, you might've been able to dump chores on me and Nova when we were smaller, but we are grown up now. That's not fair!" said Lloyd.
Kai sighs. "You're right, Lloyd. We need to settle this like men. With a round of Rock, Paper, Clamp! Okay, on three! One, two, three!"
"Wait!" said Lloyd quickly.
"What? Did you change your mind?" Cole asked.
"No it's not that, I just thought it was weird that Nova hasn't bursted through the door, yelling at us like all the other times." said Lloyd.
"Huh, you're right, she hasn't. That's weird." said Jay.
"I actually haven't seen much to her these past few days." said Zane.
The ninja looked at each other, wondering if she was okay.
"We can check up on her later, now let's get back to a round of Rock, Paper, Clamp!" said Kai.
*Lloyd chooses rock, but everyone else chooses paper.*
"Haha, paper beats rock!" said Jay.
Lloyd groans. "How does paper beat rock?" Lloyd prepares to clean up the dragon. "Me and Nova always have to do the dirty work."
*Nova was hiding in the shadows watching, while trying to avoid doing the cleaning.*
"Looks like I've made them a little worried, after we got back and the corruption got worse." Nova thought to herself. "But then again, I did have to sneak out at night and "buy" myself some longer gloves without them seeing."
*Nova snapped out of her thoughts when she heard Nya.*
"Hey, I have a mission for you guys." Nya slides down the Bounty's anchor. "It's the Museum of Ninjago! They've asked for you guys! Something really strange has happened."
"What?"
"You're gonna have to see it to believe it." said Nya.
"Here, Nya. Hold this." Lloyd gives her the bag.
"Hey guys, wait up!" Nova said, running past Nya to catch up with the others.
"Wait a minute. What am I supposed to do with these?" Nya looks at the dragon. "Oh."
*The ninja reach the museum.*
"I still don't understand how you didn't come into our room telling us to shut up." said Lloyd, looking at Nova confused.
Nova simply shrugged. "When you get older, you kind of get used to it. But it doesn't mean I like waking up early in the morning."
"Then where were you? Don't tell me that you were trying to skip out of the cleaning, and leave me to do it by myself?" Lloyd asked with a glare.
"Me skipping cleaning? Noooo never, I would never do that to you." Nova said, trying to act all innocent.
Lloyd kept glaring down at her and was about to say something but was cut off before he could say a word.
"Oh, thank heavens you're here!" said the Curator.
"We heard there was an emergency?" Wu asked.
"Yes, come, come. Quickly, this way. The Stone Warrior exhibit opens to the public tonight, and this couldn't have come at a worse time." said the Curator.
"Uh, what couldn't have come at a worse time?" Kai asked.
"Ninjago City appreciates your help in destroying the Great Devourer some time back, but it appears its toxic venom has seeped into the city sewer system and has had the most unusual after-effect." said the Curator.
The ninja simultaneously. "Aargh!"
Kai simultaneously. "Ugh. It stinks!"
Nova was pinching her nose trying to block the smell, even though it didn't really help much.
*The Curator opens the doors to the gift shop, revealing the transformed merchandise.*
"Awww, they are so tiny and cute!" said Nova, smiling.
Zane gets hit by one of the figurines. "Ah!"
"We've got this covered. I think we can handle a few toys." said Jay.
"And please, could you contain the fighting to the gift shop? The doors to the new exhibit will be opening soon. Thank you." The Curator closes the doors and lets the ninja do their job.
"Whoa! Stupid little guy." said Lloyd.
Nova went on to use her decay powers on as many as she could get.
"Alright. Playtime's over. Ninja, go!" Kai uses Spinjitzu.
"Ninja, go!" The other ninja do the same thing, only to destroy the entire gift shop.
"Uh, oops." said Zane.
"Nice going you guys, instead of these guys destroying the gift shop. You guys did it instead." said Nova with a sigh, shaking her head.
"Hahaha! Whoo! Hahaha!" A Figurine cheered as it escapes the room. Wu chases after it.
"Come here, you little..." Wu stomps on it. "Ah. Huh?" He sees Misako come out of the other room. "Misako?"
"Wu." said Misako.
"I, uh..."
"It's been a long time." said Misako.
Jay clears his throat; the ninja approach them. "So, uh, you gonna introduce us?"
Wu clears his throat. "Uh, yes. This is Misako, Lloyd's mother."
*Everyone but Nova gasps.*
"My...my mother?" said Lloyd.
"Ah. Lloyd? My little boy. You're so much bigger than I remember." said Misako.
"Yeah, well, it's been a long time." said Lloyd.
"I didn't want us to meet like this. I have a reason why I've been away." said Misako.
"Bitch, you left your child all alone, without any family to look after him. Only to search for answers to a stupid prophecy." Nova thought, but didn't say out loud.
"Well, I don't wanna hear it." said Lloyd as he walks away.
"Lloyd, wait. Please!" said Misako.
*Lloyd closes the door behind him.*
Nova looked at the others before she quickly went after him so he wouldn't be alone.
"Leave me alone, I don't wanna hear it." said Lloyd, annoyed.
"Not even me?" asked Nova, coming over to him, so they were now walking together.
"Oh Ocea, I...I thought you were—"
"Your mother." Nova finished his sentence.
Lloyd gave a small nod with a sad look on his face as they got to a big hole and sat down together by it.
Nova touched her shoulder against his. "Hey, I kind of get what you are going through. Well, not fully but kind of." She said.
"How so? didn't you say that you were homeless for most of your life?" Lloyd asked.
Nova turned to look down into the hole. "Before I was homeless, I lived with my family."
"I had a mother, father, an older brother and a younger sister. All was going great until.....until my father got into a car accident....he....he didn't make it. I was very upset about it, since we were very close to each other." Nova told him with a sad smile on her face, but it was weak.
"I'm sorry for your loss." said Lloyd, wrapping an arm around her to try and give her comfort.
"But I still don't get how you became homeless from that." He questioned.
Nova let herself lean against him and rested her head on his shoulder.
".....I was only for a few months until my mother started seeing someone else....he seemed nice at first, but I couldn't accept him taking my father's place.....so when he became my new stepdad. Everything went downhill from there. He turned my family against me, and it seemed like I was the problem....I ended up being ignored, yelled at.....b....beaten up. It didn't matter if I did something wrong or not, I was always the one to be blamed for everything." Nova explained, taking a deep breath as she was trying not to cry.
"....I had to sneak around in the house at night when everyone was asleep, just to survive in that house, and then...I just couldn't take it anymore, so I ran away and never looked back." She finished as tears were now running down her face.
"Oh Nova....I'm so sorry to hear that." said Lloyd, now pulling her into a hug, thinking she probably needed that.
Nova accepted the hug and cried into his shoulder as she finally could let everything out and to someone close to her that she trusted.
She hadn't felt this close with someone since she lost her father, not even with Ronin, so for her this was a very big and vulnerable moment for her.
They stayed like this for a while until Nova had calmed down and pulled away from the hug. "Thanks greenie." She said with a soft smile.
"Any time Ocea." he said, smiling back.
"Hey, I was the one trying to comfort you. Not the other way around." Nova said, gently punching his arm.
Lloyd chuckled at her. "Haha, sorry, but thanks for trying to comfort me, and being here with me."
Nova started blushing a little and turned her head, looking away from him. "N-No problem, you know I'll always be there if you need it...." She said, getting a bit shy.
Lloyd smiled softly towards her, as he was now also blushing. "Thanks, Nova, and I'll also be there for you whenever you need it." He was about to place a hand on top of hers, until the doors opened to his mother, who had been looking for him. Pretty much ruining the moment.
"Lloyd? Lloyd!" Misako finds him and Nova at the bottomless pit exhibit. "I'd watch your step. That sinkhole doesn't have a bottom, son. It's where I found the ancient Stone Warrior."
"Uh, "son?" You've been gone my whole life! There's nothing you can say." said Lloyd, getting all angry again.
"Well, I'm going to talk anyway. You wanna know what I've been doing all this time? Long before Sensei Wu ever knew who would be the Green Ninja, I knew it would be you. And I knew you would eventually have to fight your father. I dropped you off at the Boarding School so I could go learn everything I could about the prophecy, in hope of one day preventing the final battle. Of good and evil. All this time, son, I've been trying to save you and your father. Long before time had a name, Ninjago was created by the First Spinjitzu Master—" Misako went on to explain.
"Yeah, yeah. We've heard this story a hundred times." said Lloyd.
"But you've only heard half of it. In Ninjago, there has always been a balance between good and evil. So you know about how the First Spinjitzu Master created Ninjago, but what if I were to tell you in order for there to be light, there must be shadow, and within shadow, there is darkness. The blackest of darkness that existed from the very beginning. An evil spirit called "The Overlord." Misako explained.
Nova quickly froze when she heard the name Overlord, taking a few steps away from the others without them noticing.
She looked at her hands as she started shaking a little, remembering that nightmare she had with him.
"Did you know about this, Sensei?" Zane asked.
"I had hoped if I'd kept the secret, that name would never be spoken again." said Wu.
"The balance was at stake, and their battle could have gone on for eternity. Each side powerful, neither could conquer the other until the Overlord created his indestructible warriors: the Stone Army. The Spinjitzu Master did what he could, but he knew he would soon be defeated. So instead of losing the war, he divided Ninjago in two. And lucky for us, since then, there has been no trace of the Overlord or his Stone Army, until my recent discovery." Misako explained.
"So that's why the battle has yet to be decided. It was never finished." said Kai.
"But where is this Dark Island? I've never heard of it." said Cole.
"Disappeared, I presume. But the legend states that so long as the balance between good and evil remains even, the Overlord shall remain trapped from this world. I have always feared your father's ambition will ultimately lead to a shift in the balance. That is why he must be stopped." told Misako.
"We have each felt the power of the First Spinjitzu Master, passed onto us in the form of the elemental weapons. But now that power has been inherited by the Green Ninja, which is why only Lloyd can defeat the ultimate evil, or else all of Ninjago will fall prey to its darkness." said Wu.
"Leaving you was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. But faced with saving you and the world, I had no other choice." said Misako looking at Lloyd.
Nova took a deep breath to calm down before looking over at the others. "What about the purple ninja? And the prophecy around it. "Only when the darkness rises once more, shall be then, the purple ninja are to make a choice. Between darkness or light." Can you explain what that means?"
The others looked over at her a little surprised as they had kind of forgotten about that along with that she was even there.
"Well, I was able to find some info about that prophecy while out on my search." said Misako as she went on to pull out another scroll.
Nova walked over with the others so they could have a look at the scroll.
"It is said here that the Overlord once created a small shadow with his darkness, and hid it away. Until it is ready to return, and join him in taking over Ninjago once and for all. But when that day comes, depending on what that shadow choses, it will unlock its true potential in darkness and be given a choice between the darkness, which would mean joining the Overlord, or the light in which the shadow will go against its creator and join the light." Misako explained.
"That's what it means. Lame, at least it's a good thing none of us is the elemental master of darkness." said Jay.
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure if that shadow ever showed its face, I would kick it right back to where it came from." said Cole.
"Can you guys imagine having the shadow. The so-called purple ninja be part of our team? Because I can not." said Kai.
"Being that the Overlord made the shadow from his own darkness, I'm pretty sure the purple ninja would join him in taking over ninjago." said Zane.
"Nova, are you okay? You look a little worried." said Lloyd, looking at her.
"I'm fine, Lloyd....just a little surprised to hear that's what the purple ninja is about." said Nova with a small smile.
"I knew it.....I've denied it for so long since what he said in my nightmare, but now I know...I really am his creation...and.....if the team found out....if Lloyd found, they would kick me out or worse...kill me."
*The Stone Army exhibit opens, and the crowd chatters.*
"And now, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you this museum's greatest find. It outdates every other piece we have here, found right underneath this very building. I give you, an ancient Stone Samurai Warrior!" told the Curator.
"Whoa!" said everyone. The Devourer's venom seeps through the ceiling and lands on its head.
"It's alive!"
"Impossible! It just looks life-like." The Curator gets grabbed and thrown onto a pillar.
"Have you discovered a way to prevent me from facing my father?" Lloyd asked.
"I'm sorry, not yet. But I have reason to believe there's still hope." said Misako.
*The Stone Warrior breaks in, shocking everyone.*
"WHOA!!!! EXCUSE ME?! Will somebody please tell me: WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!!" screamed Jay.
"The Stone Warrior." said Misako.
"The Devourer's venom has awakened him!" said Zane.
"Oh, great! Kai, take care of him." said Cole.
"Um, me? Okay, blockhead. Take this!" Kai's sword breaks from the impact. "Well, in my mind's eye, I saw that playing out entirely differently. Whoa!"
"The Overlord created his Stone Army from an indestructible material only found on the Dark Island." said Misako.
"Ah, great. You could've mentioned that earlier." said Kai.
"Lloyd, use your powers." said Wu.
*He does so, and the Warrior is knocked back. The ninja cheered, but it wasn't damaged.*
"Wait a minute. How are we supposed to destroy this thing?" Cole asked.
"You can't." said Misako.
"Aaahh! Hehe, easy big guy, maybe this is a sign you need to lose a few pounds, hehehe." said Jay as The Warrior pushes him back, and he almost falls into the Hole. Wu extended his Nin-Jô for him to grab. "Close call!"
"Let me have a go at it." said Nova, walking past the others as she glared at it with her purple eyes.
"Alright big guy, you wanna dance, well then let's dance." said Nova as she used her decay powers, which actually seemed to work, as she was able to turn one of its arms into dust.
"That shouldn't be possible." said Misako, shocked.
Nova smirked at seeing it working, until something happened that she hadn't expected. It spoke.
"The heir. Fighting. The wrong side.~"
Nova's eyes turned back to normal as she looked surprised and snapped out of her attack.
*The Team gets thrown out of the room. Misako groans.*
"Ah! This is gonna be much harder than a bunch of bobble-heads, fellas." said Kai.
"Yeah, well, then it's a good thing we're in a museum." said Jay.
"Why is that?" asked Misako.
"Cause we're all about to become history! RUN!!!!!" said Jay.
Nova, for once, just started laughing at his joke, which wasn't the best time to laugh at as they all began running.
"The guy's got a pair of sneakers on him. Pick up the pace, go, go, go!" said Lloyd.
"Why fucking sneakers." Nova thought in her head while giggling.
"Oh, man. He's pretty fast for a big guy!" said Kai.
*The ninja closes the doors, but the Warrior is slowly breaking it.*
"Ah. This thing is unstoppable!" said Cole.
"Indestructible, to be precise. Besides, of course, against Nova." said Zane.
"That door ain't gonna hold him forever." said Kai.
"Then let's settle this like men. With Rock, Paper, Clamp. Loser has to face him, so the rest can escape." said Jay as everyone, including Lloyd, joins. "Nu-uh, not you, Chosen One."
Kai sighs. "On three. One, two—"
"Wait a minute, that's it!" said Lloyd.
"What's "it?" Wu asked.
"If you guys can keep him busy, I think I know how to stop him." said Lloyd.
"I say we give the kid a shot." said Cole.
"You're just saying that 'cause you're too afraid to face him." said Jay.
"Do you wanna face it?" Cole asked.
"Just give him the shot, for fuck's sake." said Nova.
"I say we give the kid a shot." said Jay.
*Lloyd goes through an air vent.*
"Be careful, Lloyd. And good luck." said Misako.
"Thanks, mom." said Lloyd.
" I can't believe that's Lord Garmadon's son." said Misako.
"Don't forget, he's yours too." said Wu.
"Hm. He's had a good teacher." said Misako.
Wu, referring to the ninja and Nova. "You mean "teachers." And a good friend."
*The ninja are trying to distract the Warrior. Cole cuts some ropes, making a skeleton model fall on it.*
"Whoa! Direct hit! Haha!" said Jay.
"Nice going, Cole!" said Nova, smiling.
"All right!" said Kai.
"Hey-hey! Did we get him?" Cole asked.
*The Giant Stone Warrior emerges from the debris.*
"He's still standing!?" shouted Nova.
"He's still here!" said Kai.
"You think Lloyd's ready with his plan?" Zane asked.
"I hope so!" said Cole.
"He better be, or I'm gonna kill him after this!" said Nova.
*They run away.*
Misako trips. "Ah! I may not be a ninja, but I can look after myself." She slides down a banner, instructing everyone else to do the same. She hides behind a pillar, but the Warrior sees her.
"Over here!" shouted Lloyd.
"Lloyd!" Misako ran to him.
"Shh. Hey, loser! Paper beats rock!" shouted Lloyd as it angrily runs towards him, he grabs his mother out of the way. The Warrior falls through the floor, revealing the bottomless pit.
"Of course, the bottomless pit. I'm so proud of you. I feel like the balance has brought us together." said Misako.
"Stay with us. Help us fight the good fight." said Wu.
"If that's okay with my son." said Misako.
"Hey. The more, the merrier." said Lloyd.
Nova gave a small smile as she watched the others gathering together. She turned around as her smile slowly went away, and she began walking away and into the shadows.
"....After the Overlord is defeated in this season.....I'm leaving this team....they would never accept for who I really am.....and....I don't think I would be able to handle going through season three with the Overlord again. Along with other things....Hopefully, I can find Ronin back at the Stiix when this is all over."