Ninjago Oneshots

beware of the hanging man |||-the kinda happy ending

PoV Lloyd
I beamed around a corner and in my head I repeated what Wu told me.

Stay calm. Talk to him about the next victim.

Suddenly I felt watched and as I looked up the windows had turned into bloodshot eyes, gazing down at me.

"Hey buddy", I said nervously. Come on Lloyd. You got yourself in this mess, get yourself out of it.

The others are waiting with the rope, they just need to hang it around the spirits neck, then he will be powerless and we can deevilize him.

The eyes blinked, but kept staring.

"You did...some great work, I'm impressed. About the next victim, well", I started.

"Boo!", a voice suddenly said next to my ear. I screamed, very much terrified.

Then I heard the familiar cackling and the eyes closed and turned into windows. A cold hand on my shoulder made my fear grow into a new dimension. The spirit was behind me.

"Yeah, I'm pretty impressed too, usually I get a valid job and can leave, but wouldn't it be fun to kill everyone?", the spirit said in an old accent, floating around me.

His hair was flowing in the wind a bit, that carried the smell of blood.

"Yeah, I want to give you a job!", I finally brought out.

The spirit nodded.

"And what might that be?", he asked.

"It's...a boy! Taller than me, just slightly. His hair is a mix of blue and brown and a bit of green or was it purple", I stammered.

Suddenly something shot out of a corner and I was pulled away from the scene as the spirit cried out in pure rage.

Jay had put the rope around the spirits neck, which had bound him to the mortal rules.

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I sat in a circle. Next to me was Wu, drinking tea.

Across from me where Jay and Cole, who were fighting over the last piece of something that I didn't know was edible but apparently it was for ghosts.

Zane was putting away the black book in a shelf. We had put a lock on it so it couldn't be opened as easily.

I sipped at my tea.

On my father side sat Kai, the hanged man's spirit, well, he used to be. It's been years and he was learning fast.

Soon the whole ghostly team could go to the afterlife.

"Lloyd, there's something I never dared to ask, but", Wu started. I looked at him, as he continued:"Back when you summoned Kai the first one he killed was your father. What did my brother do to you?"

I looked at the wall, where a picture of my father was looking down at us.

"He hit me. A lot.", I sighed.

Wu nodded.

Jay ate the thing and Cole went to pout in a corner.

And somehow, even though I would never recover from the horror I've been through, it was alright.

Everything was alright.