C H A P T E R 5

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After a few hours, there was visible land on the horizon. Very big mountains were seen so it was hard to tell what hid behind them.
Crew started yelling "Land!! Land!!" "We're here!" and they cheered as their adventure was peaceful, with no storms and harsh waves!

Garmadon was out on the deck already, talking with some people and overhearing conversations, as being in the same Room with an edgy boy was a bit overwhelming.

Morro upon hearing people mention land became curious,he couldn't stop himself so he came out of his room and saw the land they were talking about. He leaned on the ship's fence and enjoyed some last bits of sunlight for the day.
Garmadon decided to walk to him and strike a conversation, as they would reach their destination within an hour. He came and leaned on the ship's fence, but Morro tried not to look at him.
"Sooo-" Garmadon tried to say something, but he was cut off Morro asking"Is that where you're taking me..?" to which Garmadon made quite an annoyed gesture and said ""Where you're taking me,where you're taking me", Morro you ain't my prisoner, will you stop saying that?And yes, this is where "I'm taking you"". Morro grinned a bit hearing Garmadon notice what words Morro's been using. But he didn't bother fighting over things they already did and continued by asking "And..what's there?" to which Garmadon replied "Well that is the Mountain of a million steps, same island where the Monastery and Ninjago City are,but on the other side, since the Ninjago Island is divided into many parts. Behind this corner is a little port, but the ship cannot go through as there are rocks which would cause the Ship to get destroyed and sink, so we will take a little boat once we reach that corner." ...Morro was now curious "What Boat? And wait, why are we going with a ship if it is the same island as...where we were?"He didn't want to mention the monastery.
Garmadon then started walking towards one side of the ship and gestured Morro to follow him.
"Come, There are few boats here on the side of the ship. I'll show you, but for your second question, we didn't go through land as it's quite far, complicated and risky. As I said, the Ninjago Island is divided in few parts, and the part we are headed to is divided by big mountains, there are few ways through them but it's dangerous and we wouldn't go on foot....you understand I believe?". "Oh...I see" Morro replied and then Garmadon showed him the boats he was talking about "And these are the boats."

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{ TIMESKIP TILL THE SHIP REACHES THE "CORNER" }

The ship has reached the corner Garmadon mentioned to Morro and Morro would now see the small port they were talking about and the crew dropped the anchor. Two Boats were put down onto the water as not many people were leaving at that "station". 8 people were leaving in fact, out of about 50 people on the ship.
Morro was a bit scared, seeing the waves play with the boats as if they were a ball and he's never till being on the ship seen such a big mass of water that was only fish know how deep...
 The ropes ladder was thrown down hanging on 2 ropes, and people started boarding the boats.
Garmadon told Morro to go first but he was scared, though he didn't want to admit it, but it was visible anyways and one guy who already boarded the same boat the 2 were supposed to go onto said "Comeee oooooooooon, Don't be a little pussy" and many laughed, but Morro was annyoed.
Eventually he came down the ladders and lost his balance upon entering the unsteady boat.
He fell onto his knees and would have face-planted the wooden "chair" part if there wasn't a person sitting on it, so his hands kind of went in front of him and came into some stranger's embrace lol.
He quickly reacted by pushing himself onto his butt and moved backwards in embarrassment, but to his (un)luck He got yelled at by Garmadon "Move.!" Which kind of made Morro jump and quickly move while trying to hold the balance.

Once Garmadon boarded the boat, it was exactly 4 people on the boat, and 4 people on the other boat which were leaving, plus one more person on each boat that would return the boat back.
That one person on each boat started rowing and they had some help from the others on the boat till they reached the land. The boat Morro and Garmadon were on was quite quiet compared to the other boat where you could hear laughter and talk.
Once they reached the land people came out and said their goodbyes, or didn't.
Behind the port was a "little fort" with quite nice walls (it looked like a mixture of a building style in Japan with Croatian walls, Quite a lot like Dubrovnik(King's landing from GoT) and inside too).
Morro then started following Garmadon through the fort which blended into a town which wasn't very populated, it was a nice place, but with little civilization at that moment.Abandoned buildings and watchtowers that looked like they once defended some kingdom, but nothing either Morro nor Gamradon knew about as they talked about it. Morro was quite surprised that Garmadon didn't know much of the history of this place.

"We'll sleep here." Garmadon said as the sun was no longer up and they both were tired.
Morro was ready to go ito some corner and sleep there but Garmadon led them to some "hotel" and paid some money to get a one-big-bed room since rooms with 2+ beds were occupied.
 Morro wanted to sleep on the floor 'cause he didn't want to be near anybody or take someone's space but Garmadon convinced him to go on one side of the bed an he'll go on another as there was more than enough space.
After some talking they set off the torches and went to sleep, though neither of them could really sleep, but none would admit it so the first part of night passed in awaken silence and noises of trying to find a good position to sleep in.

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