Lego Ninjago; Unknown Legacy

Chapter 12, The Underworld

A portal opened up in a dim lighted room. The only thing in the room was a throne made out of bones and purple stone. The room was lit by purple torches mounted along the circular walls that enclosed the space. Garmadon walked through the portal with his right hand rubbing his left shoulder. He walked across a small bridge connecting the rest of the floor space to the small floating rock that held his throne. He sat in it for a little while and closed his eyes, as if he was trying to listen to something. When he opened his eyes, they grew a very dark purple, enraged with energy. 

"Samukai!!!" he yelled as he slammed his fist down on his arm rest. 

Less than ten seconds later the four-armed skeleton walked into his room. 

"Yes, my master?" he asked

Before he even stopped walking, Garmadon harnessed a ball of lighting that surrounded his hand and shot it at the skeleton general. Samukai was knocked back into a wall and was held against it by the continuous stream of lighting that was still being shot at him.

"Now, when I sent you to the location of that golden weapon, I didn't send you to toy with them. I sent you there to retrieve it and not get your bones kicked around," he said as he still kept him pinned to the wall.

"My master, I had no intention of failing you, but those kids were strong than expected. How could they even be that skilled with their elements, didn't you say they had just been recruited by your brother?" he asked.

Garmadon pushed his hand forward and the lightning grew stronger. Then he stopped. Samukai dropped onto the floor and slowly stood up.

"You're lucky, I honestly don't know why I bother keeping you here. Kruncha is already looking for the last golden weapon they need. When he's done accompany him and a group of skeletons. I hope you don't fail this time. For your sake."

Samukai left the throne room. He walked out of the castle and headed to another floating rock. They were all connected by wooden bridges and the Underworld was dark. The only that kept it lit were purple torches. Still, it was a surreal place. Samukai walked across a few bridges and reached a piece of land that had a large flat strip of rock that went on for maybe a few miles into the darkeness. On the rock was a building. It was the garage. Believe it or not skeletons were pretty modern. Samukai walked through a smaller door. The inside was way bigger than the outside of the building let it seem. It was filled with vehicles. Small motorcycles, big atv's and other things. The walls had tools hung all around the garage. There was a large vehicle concealed under a huge white tarp. Under the vehicle was a skeleton working on it. 

"Frackjaw!" samukai yelled.

"What's up?"

The skeleton slid himself from under the vehicle and stood up. He wore a similar chestplate as Samukai. It was decorated with red spike near the shoulder, and it had a red skull symbol in the middle. He also wore a biker helmet with goggles.

"Is the ATV ready?" Samukai asked.

"Almost, don't worry it'll be done for the next voyage." Frackjaw replied

Samukai began to walk out of the garage, but Frackjaw spoke.

"Hey you okay though?"

"What do you mean?"

"I hear Garmadon smoked your butt when he called you over there," Frackjaw said with a smirk.

Samukai grabbed one of his daggers and threw it with his right hand. He barely missed the skeleton and it lodged itself into a tool rack behind him. Frackjaw got the message and went back to work on the vehicle. He walked out of the garage and made his way to a different floating rock. This one had building with two big swords above its door, but besides that the building looked plain on the outside. He went in and saw another skeleton by a table with a bunch of weapons on it. The walls had many swords and axes and knives hung throughout, just like the garage but without the tools. In each corner of the room stood a bunch of storage boxes and some weapons were scattered on the floor.

"You should really clean up this place Wyplash, it's a mess." he said.

The skeleton turned around and waved at Samukai. He wore a bamboo hat and his armor had white spikes on his shoulders. He had a small crack on the side of his head followed by a slightly smaller hole. Samukai walked over to him.

"Got any daggers that are stronger than these?" he said as he threw his four on a table.

"Sure thing, I'll take a look in the back and see what I can find." Wyplash said.

He disappeared through a door in the back of the room. A few minutes later he came back out and presented Samukai four new daggers, but they were made out of a stronger metal. He also handed him a new Chest plate. Samukai grabbed the stuff and left the building. He placed the new daggers behind his back. Two of them attached to his new chest plate and the other two were kept in his sash around his waist. He walked to another floating rock, but this one was far from the others. It had just a few chunks of smaller rock on it. Samukai made his way to a rock standing up. It was taller than him and it had a bunch of cracks in it. He stood in front of it and closed his eyes. Then he let out yell and threw a punch at it. He would come to this rock to practice his punching. One arm after another he let out punches, hitting different spots of the rock. He then pulled out the daggers and swung at the rock. Sparks flew when they made contact with the rock, yet they had no damage. The surface of the rock had been cut deeply though. Samukai stepped back and noticed his breathing heavily. He sat down and stored his daggers away. He sat there in silence. The only thing giving off light was a torch at the end of the floating rock. 

What does Garmadon expect from me, I was the one who ruled these idiots, not him. He took my place, and he expects me to respect that?

Thoughts were racing through his mind. Then he heard footsteps. A skeleton appeared from the rope bridge.

"Sir, the ninja has been located at the temple of the Raging River," he said.

Samkukai stood up and back to the vehicle garage. The ATV Frackjaw was working on was ready on the large strip of rock as well as some smaller motorcycles. Skeletons were running all over the place. Frackjaw was waiting in the large vehicle as well as another skeleton with a blue and red jester hat. Skeletons with black chest plates hopped onto the other vehicles and awaited an order to leave. Samukai climbed onto the vehicle and stood behind Frackjaw as he revved up the engine. Samukai looked to his right and in the distance, he saw a pair of purple eyes for a second, and then they disappeared. He shook his head and focused on the large road stretching in front of him. He raised his arm up and every vehicle roared. Frackjaw stepped on the gas pedal and the ATV shot forward. The motorcycles quickly followed. The speed dial quickly went past 50 mph, then past 100 and then 150. They had to be moving fast so that they could reach the overworld. The Underworld around them transformed into streaks of blue and purple lines as the dial reached 200 mph. Then they were gone.