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Hello everyone! 

This story first was a oneshot but people liked it really much, so I decided to make it a story that I will continue but I can't afford updates every week. I have a lot of other stories that I update every week, check them out if you want, so their will be slow updates. Chapter will be around 1.000-1.500 words and that's it. 

Hope you will enjoy!

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Lloyd pov

'Kai!!!!! NO!' I scream and fall to my knees when he dissapears in the portal. Kai is gone. Your big brother is gone forever. I feel so useless, I felt so useless. He always protects me but I couldn't protect him for once! I am so stupid. I am not a good leader. I hate my....... 

'Lloyd!!!! LOOK OUT!' I hear someone screaming and I turn around to see a red blast coming towards me. I see one of the forbidden five smirk at me before the red blast hits me. 

I feel my feet leaving the ground and I feel the pull of the portal I am flying currently to. I don't even try to grab onto something, so broken am I. I can see Kai, he will be their on the other side. I want to close my eyes but then I see Sora, Arin, Wyldfyre and Nya looking at me in terror. 

They are going to lose their leader. They will lose me. I am leaving them and I will never return. They know that and they don't want it. But it is happening and their is nothing I can do. I feel regret. A lot of regret going through my body. 

My heart hurts if regret and then I hit the portal. I dissapear in the portal, leaving Ninjago behind. My body feels heavy as I wake up on the cold floor. I open my eyes and feel some pain but what I see is weird. 

I see staircases everywhere, on the sides, on the ceiling and also just on the ground. What is this world? It looks weird and very impossible. I try to stand up but my body is so tired. A blackness creeps up that I know very good. 

No! I can't... why now?! 

I sit up and a vision appears.

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I sit on a chair, chained and then I see my vision becoming black because something is placed in front of my face. I feel myself trying to break free but it is no use. I hear myself screaming in pain when I hear the sound of the gong. Kai crying. Arin standing next to Ras. Jordana laying death on the floor. Cinder looking scared. The forbidden five all free, why are their six?

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Waking up in chains wasn’t what I expected when I woke up but it is what is happening right now, again. I try to break free of the chains that bind me to the chair in the middle of the room with also those weird staircases. Where are the others? They were right next to me after..... 

After Kai got sucked in the portal by Ras. After I got sucked into the portal too. That is how I ended up here, with those weird staircases. Then the vision..... Jordana died. I had pain. Someone shattering their goodness. Arin joining Ras. 

What is happening in Ninjago?! 

I need to know! I need to go their and save th..... 

I hear footsteps coming from one of the staircases and I see three people walking down a staircase. Three of the forbidden five. They have a wolf mask in their hands and someone else  the gong with the hammer. They stand in a circle around me and the one with the wolf mask comes closer. 

What are they doing....? 

Then I realize. 

The person in my vision who shatters their goodness! That was me! That is why I screamed in pain! That is why their where six not five! They are going to shatter my goodness! They are going to make me a new member..... 

ME......

I try to break free and beg to let me go but it is no use. They don't move while the mask comes closer to my face. I close my eyes and cry softly. 'Please, I don't want this. Please' I beg with tears streaming down my face and then the mask touces my face. I try to break free for the last time but it is no use, it is already to late for me. 

'Lloyd?' I hear someone asking and see Kai standing on one of the staircases with a person made of bones. He is scared and then he screams:' Lloyd!' But he knows it is to late because a member of the five hits the gong and I feel pain. 

So much pain. 

I scream in pain when I feel a part of my soul burning away, leaving only the dark side in my soul. All the thoughts I had as a kid about being like my father come back and consume everything. I feel the rage going lose in my brain and horns beginning to grow on my head. 

My oni-form. 

Because of the goodness dissapearing from my soul, my oni-side can take over because that was the only thing holding it back. The pain disappears and I open my eyes, now purple with a little shade of gold in it. 

I stand up, the chains dissapearing from my wrists and neck because of my oni powers. I turn around towards Kai, once my brother, now my enemy. I power up my powers, ready to attack him. His eyes are full of tears, knowing what happened and that their is no turning back. He shakes his head to not believe it is true but he knows and I know it is. 

Suddenly, the other three members dissapear, three people have been sacrificed for them. I feel the same happening to me and I smirk at Kai. His eyes are begging me to stay but he knows I can't and I don't want that. 

I dissapear and appear again at Ninjago. Back in the living world, the world that hates me and I can let it pay for all the pain that it gave me. 

I look around and see Jordana laying down in pool of blood, dead. I see Cinder looking scared, standing next to Ras with Arin. He looks at me scared and stays close to Ras most likely his new master. 

I step next to Nokt and smirk at him. The forbidden six is complete. The ninja trapped in Nether-space, how much else do you want? 

Ruling the world offcourse! 

All six of us look at Cinder, Ras and Arin, all of them knowing this is the end. 'Ready to pay for what you did Ras?' Nokt says smirking next to me and I smirk at Arin with my purple, golden eyes.

'Let us show you what the forbidden six can do'

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Kai pov

I can't believe it, my little brother. Like this!? He.... he is sweet and nice and always kind but now, it is like he turned into a ice cold maniak. All because of the wolf mask, why did the forbidden five even do that? I don't understand, why him? 

Because he is the green ninja and he gets targeted all the time. Why does he always have to endure the pain! Why can't the villains just target one of us sometime! Why always him?! 

Because he is the green ninja. 

I roll with my eyes, I know it is because of that but he still didn't ask for all this! He is still just a kid who has been through a lot and has a great responsibility that someone can't have on this age! He is just a kid.... 

If I could, I would just take away all his responsibility and pain and let him have the childhood he deserves without being alone without parents you're whole childhood. If I became the green ninja, he wouldn't have gone through all this! 

Maybe it is true, destiny sucks. 

I stare at the place my little brother just stood, gone by a second with a evil smirk on his face I thought I would never see again. The same when he was a kid, the same when he released the serpentine and the same when he made us angry and stole Wu his lesson book. 

'Kai?' I turn around and see Nya coming through one of the hallways, running. 'Nya....' I tremble and she runs towards me and gives me a hug with tears in her eyes. 'Nya, what happened?' I decide to ask, I don't want her to know what happened to Lloyd just now. 

'The forbidden five, they all got free but then.... I was alone and they just sacrificed me for nothing! Now I am here too..... We are all here except for Arin, he..... He joined Ras after Lloyd, Riyu and Sora got sucked in' She says crying and I am shocked, this is a lot. 

How could Arin possibly do this?! How could he betray us like this?! 

'We need to find the others, we need to find Lloyd! He will know what to do.... He always does' She says letting go of me and starts to walk away. I look to the side, the tears almost leaving my eyes and I grab her hand. 'Nya..... You were sacrificed for Lloyd' I say and she turns around shocked. 'He is back in the real world?! But I though the blood moon only worked for the forbidden five...' I can't hold it anymore and begin to cry in her chest. 

'Kai? What is wrong?' She asks and I say crying and trembling:' They.... the forbidden five.... They shattered Lloyd his goodness..... They put on a wolf mask and..... He is gone Nya. He is gone!' I see she is in shock when she stares at the wall. I see tears rolling over her face, touching the ground with a soft sound. 

'No........ Lloyd......' She says and collapses on her knees, she starts crying really hard. I kneel down and hug her, also crying. 'He..... How could they possibly do such a thing?' She says not believing what happened to Lloyd. 

I hug her tighter and say:' I don't know......' I look up and say scared:' But their is something I know, it isn't the forbidden five anymore.'

'They are the forbidden six now'

Sora pov

'Sora!' I hear Arin his scream in my head and then I wake up. I gasp deep and breath heavily. 'Where...? Am I?' I tremble and I look around. Their are all staircases, hallways around me, always at the ceiling! 

This must be Nether-Space, I am sacrificed. 

Ras won. 

I am all alone in this cursed realm, I hate this! Why does life always need to punish me?! Wait... Nya is still out their and Arin. Kai, Lloyd, Wyldfyre and Riyu must be in here! I need to find them! I stand up and walk through some hallway to reach someone, to not be alone. I walk up a staircase and always lose my balance, I look into the hole I almost fell in and I don't even see the bottom. I gasp and walk further until I hear. 

'This place is like the biggest and confusing prison ever! Why do I need to be here again?' Their follows growl from Riyu and then Wyldfyre says again:' Ugh! I didn't to anything wrong, I wanna punch that tiger guy in my face with his..... Sora?' 

I have walked to the end of the hallway and see Riyu and Wyldfyre sitting on some platform, both annoyed. 'Riyu!' I scream and he jumps onto me and I embrace him tight. 'I missed you too Riyu' I say and he growls again but gets interrupted by Wyldfyre:' Enough of this emotional stuff, time to get out of here!' 

I roll with my eyes but nod too, she is right. 'We need to find the others, Kai and Lloyd also need to be here if I am right' She nods and then she begins to scream:' Kai! Lloyd! Are you here?!' After some seconds of waiting, she says:' They aren't here, lets break through these walls' She powers up her elemental power and wants to fire it but then I hear a echo. 

'Wyldfyre?' It is Kai, Wyldfyre screams back:' Yes! Also Sora and Riyu are here!' I roll with my eyes and then we hear his answer:' Follow my voice!' Wyldfyre begins to listen where the echo comes from and we follow her through some hallways until we see Kai and Nya? 

What is she doing here? And where is Lloyd? Weren't all the forbidden five free already? 

I count five people in here but for who is Nya sacrificed? Is Lloyd.....? 

'Sora, Wyldfyre, we need to tell you something' Kai says trembling before we even reach him. His eyes are red, Nya her eyes too. They have been crying. Did someone just die or something? I didn't expect they would cry ever, they don't look like that as a person. 

'What?!' Wyldfyre asks and Kai gasps. He looks at Nya and she says trembling, tears beginning to flow down her face:' It is Lloyd' 

'His soul is shattered'

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Arin pov

I look at my previous master, if I can call it my previous master. He doesn't look like I know him, he has horns, purple, golden eyes and claws. His suit is golden with purple, I don't think it is his suit. It is his skin. 

What happened to him? Why is he like this and on the forbidden five, no six their side?

Ras jumps forward, blocking Nokt his shatterspin and knocking him in a wall. Rox goes towards me but I dodge and use spintjitzu to also hit her away. I see Cinder taking on Drix and Kur, Ras is taking on Rox and Zarkt while Nokt is almost regaining consciousness. 

But where is.....? 

'Lloyd?' I ask when he stares at me, right in front of me. I stumble back and say:' Lloyd, what happened to you?' He smirks and says with a deep and scary voice:' I became stronger, didn't you want to become stronger Arin? See, now you can. You just need to put the mask on and feel the strong side of you coming out' 

I stumble more back when he comes closer with a smirk on his face, but then I realize their is a wall behind me, I can't run anymore. I am trapped. He grabs a mask from his back and says evil:' I know you want to put it on Arin, I know you want to be stronger. This is your chance' 

I am crying in fear and scream out:' No...... Please, I don't want this. I don't wanna be like you!' He stops walking and looks shocked, like my words made him snap. I see his eyes turn green one second but it dissapears again and they become purple with gold. Suddenly, two wings appear on his back, golden wings with purple particles. 

How does he have wings now? What didn't he told us about himself....? 

'It is too late to stop this Arin, their is no turning back! Put on the mask and you will be safe, with me' He says and I see tears in his eyes and they are sometimes turning back to green and back to purple and gold. I cry:' Please Lloyd..... I am sorry. I know you don't want this.....please' 

He doesn't flinch or something, instead he stands close to me and pushes the mask on my face. I don't even try to put it off, I know I don't stand a chance. I hear the gong and the tears fall on the ground and make place for pain. 

It feels like my soul is burning away, some of my soul. 

So much pain. 

I think I am going to fall unconscious if the pain keeps going. Another time sounds the gong and I feel more pain, a part of my soul is almost gone.

The good part. 

My goodness. 

The pain is to much to handle for my body and I fall unconscious. Just before everything becomes black I hear Lloyd whispering. 

'I'm sorry'

Lloyd pov

I stand up, leaving Arin his unconscious body and turn towards the other members of the forbidden six. Ras is on the ground, coughing blood with Kur and Drix holding him on the ground. Rox stands smirking with the gong in her hand, looking at me and a new ally who is still on the ground, red particles around him. 

I see Zarkt ending a bleeding Cinder, he tries to smoke away but it is no use. You can't escape from the forbidden six. With a slash in his belly and he lays still, not breathing. Cinder is dead. I walk towards him and whisper sarcastic:' You could've been a loyal member, what a shame you choose for Ras to lead you' 

I walk away and kneel down next to Ras, trying to not hurt my new wings. So my goodness prevented me for growing wings? That part of me is really weak then, it doesn't even want wings! 

I whisper to a angry, almost dying Ras:' Do you see what you did? You let your members die and one joining our side, the so called leader you are' I stand up and walk away but then I hear him growling:' You can kill me if you want, you only need to know the big mistake you are making hybrid. I know that you don't wa.......' 

Drix cuts his head off his body before he can finish his sentence, blood pooling around his body and head. I roll with my eyes and turn it towards Arin, he is waking up. I see him opening his eyes, red eyes. 

He stands up, yellow gi now red with yellow because of the shattering. I walk towards him and smirk:' Arin, ready to conquer the merged lands?' He nods smirking and says:' I feel... so much stronger. So much power.' I lay a hand on my shoulder and smirk:' There is more to learn, let me train you to become stronger, a honorary member of the forbidden six' 

He nods enthousiast and evil and then I turn around to the other members of the forbidden five. 'Throw there bodies in fire, we leave at sunset towards the monastery of spintjitzu' They nod and begin to pick up the bodies of Cinder, Ras and Jordana. This is exactly going to...... 

A vision appears and I am suddenly standing in the middle of the source dragons. Not these guys, can't I do what I want for one minute! 

'Conduit, you need to snap out of this' Says the source dragon of energy, the only one that I know. 'Uhm no! I can do what I want you seven cosmic frogs!' I scream and try to wake myself up but it isn't working. 

'You can't deny us conduit, you need to get yourself healed again' Says a red source dragon and I scream back, powering up shatterspin:' You don't understand, you all don't understand. This is the real me, the strong me' 

I let go of the shatterspin I was holding a large explosion appears, pushing all the source dragons away, collasping. 'See you later alligator' I close my eyes and open them again, standing next to the wolf mask dojo. Arin next to me, he looks worried a bit. Before he can ask if I am okay, I say:' I've got some good and bad news!' 

The others of the forbidden six turn around and I smirk. 'The source dragons became our enemies' Nokt smirks, he already knows. 'The good news is...' They all look at me smirking, they know. 

'We get the opportunity to rule not only over the merged lands, but also over reality itself' 

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Cole pov

After we stabilized the cloud kingdom, we returned to the monastery with the blood moon gone for some time. Still no word from Lloyd and the others, until we hear someone knocking on the door. I stand up and open the door cautious, behind that door is Lloyd but not the Lloyd I know. 

He has purple, golden eyes, the green completely gone and his suit..... Or is it his body? It is like he is in oni-form with his golden skin tone. 

'Lloyd?' I ask and he smirks and then I see a person behind him blasting powers at me. The powers hit me and I fly back into the courtyard right into the doors of the monastery. Zane immediately stands at my side with Geo, Frits and Spitz also here. 

When Zane sees Lloyd, he immediately scans him and when I look at his face, I see fear. 'Zane...' I say weak and he says:' I sense something awful happened to our friend, I scan a high amount of hate' 

I try to stand up but then we hear his voice. 'Nice observation Mr. Roboto, but the truth is that I only became stronger' Lloyd says with a deeper and creepier voice than his normal voice. The person behind him that blasted him, shows himself and it is Arin?! But he has just like Lloyd, changed. Red eyes, red and black clothes and he has a evil smirk on his face. 

'So what do you think to do know huh? Some ninja you are' Lloyd says and I scream to Spitz and Frits:' Go inside!' They immediately run inside and that leaves me, Geo and Zane to fight Lloyd and Arin. 'Ah, I never thought you would be that nice to children, like you were to me when I first met you all' Lloyd smirks and I say:' Stop it Lloyd, it wasn't like you was that nice back then' 

He smirks and says:' I guess it never dissapeared' 

Arin jumps towards us in shatterspin, hitting us to the wall of the monastery hard. My back hurts but then I see Zane using his ice on Arin to let him get stuck but he immediately uses shatterspin to shatter the ice. I see Zane can handle him, I need to focus on..... Lloyd! 

He has grabbed Geo by his throat, almost choking. 'Geo!' I scream and use my earth powers to make a rock appear underneath Lloyd, trowing him away. Geo drops on the ground and I kneel down to see how he is doing. 'Geo, you okay?' I ask and he smiles. 'I'm fine Cole, focus on getting your friend back' 

I stand up and look at Lloyd who is smirking at me. 'Fell in love with a boy Cole? I thought you liked Vania and fell for girls, guess I was wrong' I become red and scream:' That is not true!' I jump towards him and want to punch him in the face but he dodges and says:' Hey don't be that argessive, their is nothing wrong with liking boys' 

I throw another punch at his face, he dodges, a punch to his legs, dodges. 'I. Don't. Care' I say with clenched teeth and power up my powers and jump forward the punch him in his belly. He doesn't move, good for me. When I almost hit his belly, I stop. My hand stops in front of his chest. I am breathing heavily. I don't want to hurt my friend, even if he isn't himself or turned on us. 

'Pathetic' I hear Lloyd say after I collapsed onto the ground in guilt. I look up and see a red glow coming towards me fast. I make myself ready for the attack but I know this is going to kill me. Lloyd is going to kill me. I see purple and green appearing in the shatterspin, matching the red. 

It comes closer to my face until I hear someone screaming:' No Cole!' 

I look up and see just in time a person jumping in front of me, taking the hit instead of me. When I look better, I see him. He lays on the ground, death. His eyes still open with his kind yellow eyes. His mouth is open from the scream. 

His last words. 

I crawl over to him in sadness and in shock. 

'Geo?' 

I shake his body but he doesn't flinch or move. His belly is cold. He is death. 'Geo? Geo wake up. Geo!' 

I try to shake him awake one more time but he doesn't wake up. He is death. Tears begin to roll off my face and then I remember who killed him. I stand up, angry and crying at the same time. 'You killed him' I say harsh and angry, Lloyd smirks and says:' I tried to kill you but maybe, he just loved you too much to see you die. Now he can watch from above' 

Lloyd lunges at me and I do to, I smash with my elemental powers in his belly and he hits the wall with force. I see him smirk when I come close and start to punch him into his face, over and over again. 'You shall pay for what you did to him!' I say and breath heavily from the punching. 

Suddenly I come at senses again and stop punching Lloyd. I stand still, looking at me bloody hands and Lloyd his bloody face. 'What have I done?' I ask myself while looking at my hands but before I can look up, I hear Lloyd saying:' Pathetic, you couldn't even kill me while you had the chance' 

I feel a sharp pain in my belly and look down to see Lloyd his golden sword stabbed through my belly, I look him in the eyes and collapse. He smirks and he wants to say something but his eyes flicker green for a second and then he speaks:' Bye bye Rocky. Have fun with your partner in the departed realm if that realm still exists' 

My eyes close and I feel my body becoming numb. All the strength leaves my body but I force myself to open my eyes one more time. I see Lloyd walking away from me and then I whisper weak:' Ninja never quit' 

I fall down on the ground of the monastery where I once began my job as ninja, where I learned how to fight and met my family. That family is broken and gone, just like my life. 

See you in the departed realm Geo, I can only hope Lloyd comes at his senses again for the safety of the others. 

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Lloyd pov

'Ninja never quit' I hear Cole whispering behind me, I turn around and see him laying on the ground, death. 'Pathetic' I whisper but I feel deep down, sadness. Stop it, you are stronger now. You are not that pathetic little boy you once were. 

Come on Lloyd, it isn't that bad. Or are you scared to lose from me? No Cole! I will definitely win from you! Give me a controller and I will prove it! 

I remember me getting slaughtered by Cole in that videogame, I could cry but I never gave up, now I beat him. In real life, to the dead. Still, I feel sadness in my belly. Why does it hurt this much? He isn't my brother, he thought I was a brat the first time he saw me! Just like the others when they first met me! Maybe it is better, they didn't like me in the first place. They never liked me or cared for me! I am alone like I was, always. 

I hear some footsteps behind me, I turn around but not in time. I see a dagger coming close to my face until suddenly it drops out of the hand of the person who wanted to murder me. He drops to the floor, glitching and the dagger falls onto the ground, almost touches my foot. 

'No other than the perfect robot Zane, what was it that Kai always called you?' I kneel down and says right in his face:' Mr. Roboto' He glitches one final time before dying out, I turn him around and use shatterspin on his body, feeling the sensation of my goodness shattering one more time. He flies into pieces, he is done for his life. 

How long has he lived? Maybe a hundred years? Maybe less or more, I don't know and I don't care. I never asked him did I? I feel guilty, why do I feel guilty? I don't care about him! I never cared about him! He is just a piece of trash on one pile and being made in the form of a human. 

He i...was nothing. 

I smile and see Arin grabbing from the ground, his body is already gone. 'Good job Arin, you proven your loyalty again' He smirks and turns around to see Geo standing in front of the monastery doors, protective but broken. 'I won't let you kill them' He says scared, really scared but also sad. I laugh and smirk. 'Did you really think we came here to kill?' 

A silence follows and Arin whispers in my ear:' Isn't that the reason we came here?' I roll with my eyes and hit in in the side, he will learn his lesson. 'We didn't came here to kill' I walk forward and smile again. 'We came here to get to the library' He looks at me confused and asks himself:' You do? You don't want to kill me?' 

I smirk and grab his by his neck, letting him getting choked by my grip. 'N...o....' He can say before I whisper quiet:' I didn't came here to kill you but I thought it would be nice for you to be with your friends, who died' 

His eyes roll to the side, his head feels weak. 

He is dead. 

I drop him to the ground and whisper:' Pathetic' I stand on his head, hearing a crack from his skull breaking. From now on, it is my favorite sound. 

'Wasn't that a little to harsh?' I hear Arin say next to me again, how can he be this pathetic after he shattered his goodness? 

I turn around, angry and scream:' You don't know anything don't you! You are the most pathetic person I've ever meet! The moment I saw you for the first time!' 

My eyes are blazing and I see him stumble back, scared of me. 

Nice. 

'You. Will. Never. Be. Good. Enough.' I say slowly and angry. He collapses onto the ground, crying. I pick him up by his neck and spit in his face. 

'If you want to live, than get out in time before I change my mind' I drop him on the ground and he immediately stands up, to slow. 'Now!' I scream and in my hands appears purple fire that blasts at Arin. He stumbles up and runs out of the monastery, scared for me and broken. 

Just how I like it to do with my victims. 

I turn around again and walk into the monastery that I burned down as a kid, maybe I should do it again. Just for fun. Just like back then. No Lloyd, first we need to go get those relics and kill the kids or maybe use them for our own good? What will break them more, killing or torturing? 

Torturing offcourse! People always hurt more when they see someone getting hurt because of them then themself getting hurt, easy game. Why are people so pathetic and care so much? Life could be so easy for them if they didn't care this much. 

I arrive in the kitchen and see come ears beneath a sofa. How pathetic are these kids? They can't even hide properly! Did Cole learn them something in the first place?! 

'Never played hide and seek before?' I blast the sofa and grab the first kid, a snake. I roll with my eyes and throw the kid against the wall, leaving in unconscious. 'Spitz!' The other kid screams and kneels down at his unconscious body. He turns in panic in a bird and back to his human form, formling. 

A kiss. 

A kiss on my cheek from a person I really loved and didn't betray me. A person I really love. I still need to leave her. 

'Please don't kill us!' He says crying and I bend down, lift his chin and say really slowly with a babysitter voice to make them feel better.

'Oh, I will do worse to you two'

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Arin pov

'Arin! How is it going?' I hear Alfonzo Frohickey asking me when I walk by his market, he seems happy. Far from my emotions right now...... 'I'm fine' I can say and I walk further, feeling my throat stinging from Lloyd his hands that almost choked me. 

My side is burning from the hits from his power, new power. Not the green nice power but the purple dark bad power. The dark side of him. I still feel no sympathy for him, I hate him! Maybe that is because I shattered my goodness too..... 

I want him gone, I want him dead! I want my old life back with Sora, L... Riyu and the other ninja but without Lloyd! He never meant something to me! He always hold me back from my true potential without powers! He wasn't a good teacher, he was a maniak. 

A stupid kid who thinks he is good and perfect. 

'Ugh!' I scream really loud, all the people around me look at me in the crossroads. I roll with my eyes and walk further, climbing up the ladder to our old apartment. I lost the grapple hook so I need to climb now. 

When I arrive at top, the apartment doesn't look the same as it did before. No sounds coming from, the walls orange?! Is someone else living in our apartment?! I storm inside and bump into someone, he falls onto the ground like me. 

I clutch my head in pain, we hit each other hard. 'What are you doing in my apartment?' I hear him say and I want to growl back angry but then I look at him. It is a snake, a orange snake that I remember pretty good. 

Flashback

I take a deep breath and press my hands together, just like I've seen Master Wu do a hundred times in videos. My heart's racing, but I try to sound calm — wise.

"Focus your Spinjitzu, Arin," I say in my best Wu impression.

Then, in my own voice, I answer, "Yes, Master Wu."

I spin, arms out, trying to feel the energy swirling around me. For a second, I swear I can almost feel it working — but before I can finish, someone yanks my hood from behind.

I crash to the ground, hard.

A tall kid towers over me, his shadow cutting across the pavement. He's smirking. His friend stands beside him, snickering.

"Aww, did that hurt, ninja nerd?" the big one says. "I thought ninja were supposed to be tough. Oh wait — maybe it's because you're not a ninja, loser."

My back hits the wall as I scoot away. My hands tremble, but I try to sound confident.
"Careful! I–I'm fully trained... well, partially fully trained. But my mom says I'm getting way good."

They laugh. The big one glances over at my mop — my makeshift Master Wu, complete with a taped-on beard and a towel for robes.

"Who trained you? Mr. Mop Master here?" he jeers, and shoves it over.

His buddy crouches behind me. I don't even realize what's happening until I'm pushed again, tripping over the other boy and landing flat on my back.

"Who cares about ninja anyway?" the big one says, laughing. "Just a bunch of babies in pajamas."

My face burns. I want to get up, to shout back, but my voice gets caught in my throat.

Then I hear a hiss.

All three of us look up. There's a kid perched on top of the wall — with scales glinting on his skin and sharp yellow eyes watching us.

"You better not be making fun of the ninja," he says. His voice is steady — not loud, but strong.

The bully scowls. "This has nothing to do with you, Snake Boy."

"The ninja don't sit back when someone's getting bullied," the kid says, jumping down. "And neither do I."

The bully freezes. Then he bolts, his friend scrambling after him when the kid lets out another hiss.

I'm left sitting there, still catching my breath. "I probably could've handled them," I say quickly, brushing myself off. "But, uh, thanks for the help."

I stand up and offer a hand. "I'm Arin."

He takes it. "Frak."

He bends down and picks up my mop, holding it carefully. "You, uh... make this yourself?"

"Yeah." I rub the back of my neck. "Kind of dorky, huh?"

Frak shrugs. "Better than mine. I made one out of my uncle's shed skin. It's kinda gross, I guess, but... I love Master Wu and the ninja."

That makes me laugh. "No way!"

He grins. "Ninja, go!" He spins in a sloppy circle, pretending to do Spinjitzu.

I can't help it — I join in. "Lloyd's my favorite! Though, I did get a Zane haircut once."

"Cole's the best," Frak says, pretending to smash the ground with his fists. "My dream is to get an Elemental Power, just like the ninja."

"Oh, wouldn't that be the best?" I say, throwing a wild punch. "I've been trying to learn Spinjitzu on my own. It's going great... but also kind of terrible. My parents keep telling me it's only a matter of time before I get it right."

Frak gasps, like I just told him something amazing. "I'll practice with you!"

I grin so hard my cheeks hurt. "Deal."

We start spinning, side by side. The air doesn't twist into a tornado — not yet — but it doesn't matter. For the first time, I don't feel silly or small. For the first time, it feels like I'm really training.

Like maybe one day... I actually will be a ninja.

End of flashback

'Frak?' I say at the same time he says in shock:' Arin?' He extends his hand and I take it, surprising myself with that. 'How did you....?' I ask and he chuckles and says smiling:' After the merge happened, I lost my parents and I thought about you. I meet some frog guy and he said you lived here and would come back, eventually' 

I smile while I think back at Mr. Frohickey, he actually is a good friend. Just like Sora. Don't think about her Arin, she is gone and is never coming back. 'So, how are you Arin? Have you mastered your spintjitzu yet?' He asks and breath deep in before I begin telling everything that happened to me all this years. 

Trusting him to understand me. 

'It is a long story......'

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Hi everyone

Like all of you have seen recently, I haven't updated a lot and that is because I have a lot on my mind right now. I want to update more frequent on both Regret and my rewrite series and I am also currently writing a book that I want to publish for real, that also takes a lot of time. I just can't do all that and update this story two or three times in a weak, I am sorry but this is story is discontinued, for now! I know everyone says that but I will come back on this story for sure but then, it is finished.

Thank you for all the support, it isn't your fault, it is mine and I am very very sorry.

Hope you enjoyed!

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Hiii everyone! 

I have good news! I finished writing this story so I will start uploading again, the ending might be abrupt but I needed to end this story so I did, I hope it is good. I maybe will upload today if I am done editing, and maybe upload all the chapters next week? I am still thinking it out but I am back on track yayyyyy! 

Hope you enjoyed!

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Lloyd pov

My sword is sliding over the floor, making a sound people would find annoying but that I enjoy. The sound of power, my rule over this land and no one can stop me. The doors open and I look over the beauty from Imperium, the place that was powered by dragons, my kind. Now it is powered with dragons but this time, not innocent dragons, the source dragons, they will pay for their actions.

I have managed to capture one, I just meditated and pleaded the source dragons for help and that I have changed my mind. A lie. But they fell for it and the source dragon of motion came, I smirked and managed to catch her with the same electricity the Imperium used for capturing dragons. She tried to fight back, she might have some wounds but further she is just going to get drained all the time. I will make to leave some space for the other source dragons.

The humans who didn't want to work for me, I killed them, luckily Dr. Larow decided to stay and drain the source dragon as soon as possible, to offcourse give her energy to me. I blow some purple fire off the balcony, this is place where I killed Percival yesterday or was it today, I don't know anymore. 'Sir'

I someone asking from behind me, the claws of the hybrid I called them, also it is the Imperium of the hybrid now. I turn around and ask with my glowing and creepy eyes:' Why are you interrupting me?' He stumbles back and he says then:' They found something you might wanna see' He turns around and I follow towards some place I don't know, most likely the advanced system lab. Dr. Larow is sitting at the table, standing up when I come in. 'Sir, we found.....' I grab her by her throat, she is choking.

'I don't care what you found, you should be busy draining the source dragon, not this!' I let her fall, grabbing her throat in pain and panic of almost dying. I turn around and meet the eyes of Rapton, that idiot but he is good as leverage. 'Sir, we found out about a other powerful dragon, Thunderfang' I look at the picture of him on the screen and smile. 'He is rejected by the source dragons, he wants revenge on them' I hear Dr. Larow saying, still choking. My smile grows bigger and I ask loud:' Where?' Rapton pushes a button and a realm is showed. 'The first realm......' I whisper and Rapton asks confused:' What did you say?'

I burn him on his arm, and he cries in pain, I turn around and order:' You all stay here and rule over the kingdom, you will have energy out of that source dragon when I come back or else.....' They look afraid, just how I like it. 'Is it save for you to go alone Sir?' I hear one of the claws of the Hybrids say and I roll with my eyes, my eyes glowing red before performing shatterspin, hitting the guard and chopping off his head. 'Never. Call. Me. Weak.' I look at the others who stare in shock and fear at me and the guard who I just killed. I smirk and walk away, ready to get Thunderfang out of his eternal prison. 

Kai pov

Weaks or maybe months have gone by, walking through this eternal place without an ending. Wyldfyre has given up hope that she will ever get out of here, but I haven't lost hope. We will get out of here, I am sure of it. 'Aghh!' Wyldfyre screams, echoing through the many hallways this place has. 'Ugh, screaming isn't helping us getting out here Wyldfyre!' I spit at her and she rolls with her eyes and screams again. I roll with my eyes and cover my ears from the sound.

'Wyldfyre please stop, this isn't helping anyone' Nya says, offcourse my smart little sister knows how to stop her from screaming better than me.... wait she stopped. 'I know you are frustrated, we all are!' She looks at Sora who is nodding in agreement while I just roll with my eyes. Ever since Lloy..... I swallow. Ever since Lloyd shattered his soul, I have been annoyed all the time or sad. I see everytime I close my eyes, Lloyd his red eyes and I hear his blood curling scream.

I hate to sleep because those memories will hunt me forever and won't go away. It also isn't helping that I am stuck in some of space without an ending or way out with some idiots! 

Zooooooo. Zooooo.

I suddenly hear a sound I remember from before, the sound of a portal opening. I stand up and walk back to the room where Lloyd was, ignoring Nya screaming at me to explain why I am walking away. I walk around the corner and see a red portal, the same how we came here, our way out of this eternal place.

'Kai Smith! Explain to me..... Oh my first spinjitzu master' I feel Nya standing next to me, looking at the portal like it is the first spinjitzu master itself. 'I don't know why we are going here, but.... Wow' I hear Wyldfyre saying, silent for the first time in her life. 'A portal?! But... how?' Sora asks and I shake with my head and say:' I don't know but we better make use of it' I look to the sides and count:' One, two, three, jump!' We all jump at the same time into the portal. Colors flash in front of my face, blinding me but also seeing light again makes me smile. 

Zoooooof!!!! 

Suddenly I am on the ground, face to the floor, light on my face. I stand up and look around to see that we are in some kind of cave, I look around to see Sora, Wyldfyre and Nya next to me, also waking up. 'We made it! We actually made it!' Sora screams, hugging Nya while Wyldfyre begins the kiss the ground and screaming:' Take goodness I finally feel the real ground under my feet, I can't imagine how I would be if I was one day more in that..........' She stops when she looks up, I follow her glance and see a big yellow dragon standing behind two people, one is a orange snake and one is a boy in a yellow suit. Sora and I exclaim in shock at the same time: 

'Arin?!'

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Arin pov

I can't believe it, the news that Lloyd has take over Imperium or what it is called now, Imperium of the Hybrid, is all over the crossroads. After I meet Frak again, I decided to stay in the apartment with him to cool down a bit. It worked, I am good now but we have been busy. I have been to some libraries to look how to get people out of nether space earlier than the next blood moon because if we wait for that, Lloyd would have taken over all the realm by then.

The problem is we haven't found anything that could help us achieve that goal, yes using all the elements on three dragon crowns but how the hell are we going to do that? That will cost to much time and we don't have time! Out of frustration, I hit with my fist the wall, luckily not making a hole in the wall.

'You good?' I hear Frak asking, showing his head around the corner, but instead of waiting for my answer, he stands up from whatever he is doing and runs towards me, then I realize I burned the pie I was making. Frak turns off the oven and then turns towards me angry. 'What did I say?! Not day dreaming when you are waiting for your pie to be done! How many times do I need to tell you?! This oven becomes really warm really fast, different than a other oven!' I look to the ground in shame and say:' Sorry' He lays a hand on my shoulder and asks:' Come on' He walks towards the stairs that lead towards the rooftop, I follow him.

I feel the wind making my hair wave and the sun shining on my face, it is perfect. But then I see the Imperium of the Hybrid and I look down again, it is all my fault. I am the one who made him like this! If I just hadn't chosen Ras his side in that battle, both Lloyd and Sora would have stood beside me instead of only Frak. Before I can drop more negative thoughts on myself, a bright yellow flash blinds us, when I open my eyes again, a dragon is standing on the roofstop. It is a yellow dragon with some kind of symbol on his forehead, he has lightning in his fur and his eyes are from pure energy. Only one kind of dragon can be like this......

'Are you a source dragon?' I ask and he nods and speaks telepathically:' I am indeed young boy, I am here to help you' Frak looks confused but doesn't say anything, he understands I need to do the talking. 'Source dragon of....' He looks at me with his yellow eyes and says:' Energy' I smile ansd continue my sentence:' Source dragon of Energy, how did you feel our aid?' He looks up and says:' Source dragons feel what is happening in the realms, for sure when a conduit is using his power to capture other source dragons'

My mouth falls open, behind me is Frak just looking at us confused, not knowing what the hell we are talking about. 'Has Lloyd captured a source dragon?' The source dragon of Energy nods and says:' He has Motion, in the same prison Imperium had captured me. But that in not why I am here, I can help you free your friends from nether-space' Our mouths fall open as we look at each other in hope. 'How?' Frak asks and he lowers his body, ordering:' Jump on my back and I will show you'