(Cole walks toward Yang.)
Yang: Just give up already.
Cole: No. I'm keeping you here until the eclipse ends and the rift closes. Your evil will never return to Ninjago. (They clash their weapons.)
Yang: What are you even fighting for? Your friends have abandoned you. (Laughs.) Your master has abandoned you. You are all alone.
Cole: No! (Yang destroys his sword.) Can't...go on...alone.
Yang: Yes. Yield. Soon I will be gone, but you will remain forever Departed, destined to haunt this temple forever as the new Master of the House. (Laughs.)
Cole: I'm...fading away.
Yang: Just one more lonely ghost. Not a friend in the world.
Nya: Cole!
Cole: Huh?
Yang: What? Who's that?
Violet: We're here for you!
Cole: My friends. (He stops fading and kicks Yang.) Ghost or not, I'm gonna do what I came here to do, Yang.
Kai: We have to help him.
Nya: I can't bring it any closer. The wind's still too strong.
Cole: And you're wrong. I'm not the one who's alone. You are.
Yang: No. I have my family. (He points to his students.)
Cole: No, you have prisoners. That's not family. That's captivity. (He punches Yang.) Whoa, I feel...different. Like, like, I can punch through ...anything. (He destroys the Yin Blade. The students return to normal, but are still ghosts.)
Yang: No. No! You broke my spell!
Cole: The rift! If you hurry, you can be free of this place forever! (The students uses Airjitzu and enter the rift. They cheer as they become mortal again.)
Wu: The rift is almost closed.
Yang: My...my students. Leaving me. I...I failed.
Cole: Yeah, you did.
Yang: I always fail.
Cole: Yeah, you—Wait, what?
Yang: I dedicated my life to studying the martial arts. Alone. I got arrogant, I wanted to live forever.
Cole: Why? No one lives forever.
Yang: Because I knew the day I was gone, no one would remember me.
Cole: All of this was so you wouldn't be forgotten?
Violet: Oh no. (She senses this) I can't believe it.
Jay: What is he doing? Is-is he talking to Yang?
Wu: The rift cannot be opened again until the next Yin-Yang eclipse.
Zane: Which, according to my calculations, won't happen for 3,721 years.
Kai: Cole, the rift! You gotta pass through the rift!
Yang: You must think I'm a fool for having such a petty desire.
Cole: No, I get it. Believe me, I get it. I know what it's like to feel forgotten. Alone. It-it hurts. But Master Yang, you are already gonna be remembered forever.
Yang: Me? How?
Cole: You created Airjitzu.
Jay: Cole! It's now or never!
Violet: My powers......they're......getting.....stronger!
Cole: Now come on, there's still time to go through. Both of us.
Yang: No, I'm afraid that's impossible. The curse of the Temple requires that at least one ghost remained behind as Master of the House.
Cole: One of us has to stay here?
Yang: It must be this way.
Cole: Hey! What are you doing?
Yang: Settling my debt. (He launches the screaming Cole through the closing rift. The rift closes and the wind becomes stronger.)
Wu: Brace yourselves. It's going to be a hard landing. (The ninja land and get off the ship.)
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Day of the Departed OC
FanfictionViolet and her friends celebrate Day of the Departed by honoring the ones they lost. However, Yang manipulates one of their own to release all the villains! However, they receive help from the ghost of an honorary family member.
