Book 1: The Other Garmadon

Ninjaball Run

Lyric POV:

Do you sometimes ask yourself if having a brother means that you hang around with grown men trying to make him the greatest hero of all time and watch them train your brother to the point you overreact is a good thing? Well, in my perspective, it's not.

Uncle wanted Lloyd to do something, and that something is him being upside down supporting himself with one hand, carrying the ninja and Uncle himself.

" Focus." Uncle pours some tea. "In order to bear the fate of Ninjago on your shoulders, you must first learn to bear the weight of all of us."

I look at all of them worried since this is a very bad idea.

Uncle sips some tea. " Focus."

"Sensei, I'm starting to think this was a bad idea." Jay said.

I raise a brow at Jay. "And you only thought of it now?"

Jay looks at me sheepishly.

"Yeah, Sensei, he's just a kid." Cole said agreeing with Jay.

"In order for him to succeed, we must all trust one another." Uncle lectured.

Lloyd starts straining from holding all the weight on his feet when a wrecking ball suddenly slams onto the wall causing them to fall to the ground while I got bumped to the ground.

"What was that?" Cole asked.

We stood up and saw a builder and a foreman, wearing hard hats.

On cue, Dareth appeared. "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! This wasn't supposed to happen until tomorrow!"

" Tomorrow?" The foreman turned to the builder. "Let me see that order."

The builder hands him the slip and looks at it. "Oh, yeah. My bad. Sorry about that. We'll be back in the morning." They apologized and left.

Dareth groans with a frown on his face as he picks up one of his trophies which is bent.

"Uh, Dareth, what is this all about?" Cole asked confused just like the rest of us are.

"Well, I fell behind on some of my payments, and some developer named Darnagom Enterprise is buying the entire block to put in some stupid frisbee-golf course. They say if I don't come up with 50,000 by tomorrow, the dojo is gone." Dareth explained.

"But, we already lost the bounty. We can't lose the dojo now." Jay complained.

"My trophies. Oh, my fakes trophies!" Dareth sobs.

"Wait a minute. "Darnagom?" When you rearrange the letters, it spells-" Zab=ne realized but Jay interrupted. 

" "O grandma"?" Jay guessed.

"No! Garmadon!" Kai scolded.

"Right." Jay laughs sheepishly. "That would make more sense."

" Um, our dad is behind this?" My brother asked as I sighed in disappointment at our dad.

"If he destroys the dojo, where will we train Lloyd?" Cole asked.

"Any chance you got 50,000 in that teapot of yours." Dareth asks our Uncle.

"Worry not, Dareth. You're not in this alone. We're all with you." Uncle states.

And then Nya entered the room. "Did someone say 50,000-"

Jay gasps cutting Nya off. "You didn't happen to win the lottery?"

"No, but I heard about Ninjaball Run!" Nya said.