Enter The Ninjaverse

CHAPTER 73

Author's Note:

If you're into reading scenes with music, I recommend Give Me All Your Love Final Remix at the point starting with ** and ending with **! All of TWEWY's soundtrack is incredibly underrated.

The Teardrop Gardens, or the Hanging Gardens as many people called them, were somewhat innocuous as one approached them on the back of, say, a flying dragon. A massive glass tubular skyscraper extended up into the sky, and aside from an odd green lighting, nothing seemed strange about it at first. However, as the group approached it, Lloyd saw that inside the building were massive teardrop-shaped glass structures hanging from various points inside of the building, almost like water sliding down the inside of a pipe. Each of the strangely shaped glass structures had a series of floors in them with fauna growing both on and through them. They almost looked like enclosed ecosystems, filled with plants that were unlike anything Lloyd had seen before aside from remote places in Ninjago. A series of elevators ran up the middle of the building, with large spiral stairs that ran down the outside of the building to each of the individual teardrop structures.

"I... what?" Lloyd blinked in confusion, "What is this place?"

"Approximately five years ago, this building was initially constructed with the goal of preserving endangered plants," Olive flew up close to Lloyd's dragon to call out to him, "However, due to a large and increasing demand for tourism, the building was retrofitted to this design to attract customers."

"But... why is it shaped like, that?" Lloyd gestured at it, "It's like, what?"

"The person who made this place really like rain, I guess!" Carnelian flew over and hugged Harumi a bit more, "It's nice to go to. I hear this place got super popular with schools!"

"We went once on a mission," Harumi explained to him, "Someone was using this place to transport illegal goods. Something about a plant that can cure everything? Roka? Locaca? Something about a plant that could cure something by exchanging something else."

"How is that plant appraiser doing, by the way?" Forte called out from her own dragon, "We never talked to him after he showed us how to find it!"

"Doesn't matter," Ren shook her head, "We are here for a mission. Let's do this quickly, girls!"

The group shouted in affirmation. As they approached the entrance to the building, Carnelian suddenly sent her dragon into a massive spiral, heading right for the ground. As she did, the dragon turned into a spiral of flames, licking back in a brilliant cone that lit up the world around it. The others quickly went into a dive after her, including Lloyd. As Carnelian neared the ground, she grinned and turned her dragon's wings. The entire cone of fire was suddenly shot in front of it, creating a pocket of hot air they crashed into and shot them up into the air. Carnelian grabbed Harumi and jumped off, doing a twirl in the air before firing Rhotatae from her free hand. One of her feet caught the disc and used it to spin in a circle down to the ground, landing just as her dragon did behind her and let out a roar of fire. Carn raised her hand and gripped her fist, causing the dragon to fade away into nothingness just as she dipped Harumi into a swoon. The large circular-shaped entrance to the building's main lobby and elevators was lit up with red and then faded away, drawing the attention of all the visitors to Carnelian with her hand pumped into the air.

"Boom!" Carnelian laughed to Harumi, "I finally perfected that one! No broken bones this time! Did you see that?"

"Oh my gosh!" One of the patrons shouted. Carnelian smirked.

"See?" Carnelian put her free hand on her chest, "I knew that trick would-"

"It's FORTE!" Another patron shouted. Carnelian blinked in shock as the group of ongoers all raced around her and Harumi to instead find their disembarking friends. Forte stood at the front of them, hefting her keytar in front of her just in time before a group of teens and young adults were surrounding her.