The Water Bone Demon (LMK/Ninjago)

Shards of an empty promise

Jay was sitting on nya's bed and held the shards of the blue stone in his hands. He looked at them in silence. When he and the others had returned from the museum after bringing the artifacts back to it, he had went straight up to the girls room only to find it empty, window open and the blue stone that Jay had gifted Nya crushed into pieces lying on the floor.

The Master of Lightning breathes heavily, shaking as he didn't even care to blink the tears away from his eyes that made his vision foggy and unclear "Jay?" asked the Master of Earth, carefully sticking his head through the slightly opened door "are you..." he wanted to ask but Jay shook his head before Cole could finish his sentence "why should I? I thought...I..." A sob Interrupted the blue ninja as he rubbed the tears away from his eyes only for more to come.

Cole quickly made his way to the other, placing himself carefully on the mattress next to Jay "We're all shocked, but I'm sure she had her reasons" he tryd to convince the younger one while also trying to convince himself.

Jay looked at the shards in his hand "like what? That she secretly hated me?" Cole shook his head "no that's not the case and you know that too, Nya would never hate you!" Jay wanted to believe the words of his friend but why else should Nya break the stone and leave "then why? Why did she break it? Why did she leave?" Cole tryd to find an answer, but he had no idea.

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Nya stood in front of an old building where a shop once existed, the shop now gone leaving only two empty rooms with crumbling walls and electricity that long time ago had stopped working. She smiled, pushing the glass door open and stepped inside.

The master of water waited until the door had fallen into the lock behind her. Only then did she raise her voice, "You have done a good job, my faithful servant." Her voice was accompanied by a barely noticeable hiss. A man- the one who had given Jay the necklace. Sat in a dark corner on some wooden boxes as he had watched the Master, a grin spreading on his face "Welcome back, my lady" he laughed almost crazy walking towards the white haired girl as he bowed deeply infront of his lady.

Her blue eyes looked down on him, her arms hidden behind her back "I assume you have already start working? Tell me" she ordered allowing the man to stand up again. The gray haired man still kneeled infront of the Master looking up to her with now blue glowing eyes just like the ones of his Lady "I had gathered some informations about a clan of Snake warriors, apparently they once ruled over this city before they all got locked underground" the man explained.

Nya nodded allowing him to continue "each of those snake clans have different powers and are controlled by whose ever has their hands on a staff..." Nya interrupted him as he spoke "whose in control over those snake now?" she asked seeing how a smile crept on her servants face as he pulled out a piece of paper lifting it up for his lady to see.

The picture showed a purple snake with red eyes and two long fangs, the snake was rather tall and had arms in which it held a staff shaped like a snake.

She smiled "then we should go and lead them on the way of...destiny" she said eyes flashing blue.

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MK stumbled forwards only to be stopped by something wrapping around his middle, looking down he saw that it was the tail of the darkfurred monkey who was looking at the teen with a sly grin "we just arrived and you already want to kiss the ground?" he asked in his usual mocking voice "Macaque, please" the shadow turned to look at the black haired girl as she locked into his golden eyes slightly shacking her head.

Shrugging he put the boy on his feet's and releasing the grip on the teen "alright alright" the shadow said still smirking. The girl looked around trying to see any hind of that demon but there was nothing, only a city in the distance. MK was the first to point it out "I think our best chances would be that city over there, oh and Macaque?" the monkey looked at the successor who was looking him up and down, the demon understood and nodded.

Changing into his human disguise the Monkey looked at the city that MK had mentioned, a rather big one with buildings reaching into the sky, kissing the Clouds even from the distance he saw the neon lights shimmer.

Without them they wouldn't have be able to spot the city at all in the darkness "how can it already be dark? When we left it was barely Noon" asked the dragon girl to what macaque let out an audible sight "not Every realm followes the rules of ours" he said as he started walking towards the city, closely followed by MK and Mei.

The dragon girl and the Monkie kid followed the disguised Monkey, following him was not the easiest consider their surroundings to be almost pitch black- the only exception being the lights coming from the city and a few stars hanging on the cloudy night sky, Mei looked forward squinting her green eyes. The silhouette of the cloaked form walking in the front was almost invisible and could only be seen thanks to the city light that Were framing the Shadows body.

Her eyes moved to her side on which MK walked arms playfully swinging on his side as he made jump like steps and hummed a tune that Mei just knew all to well, it was the song he always listened to whenever delivering noodles for pigsy. She couldn't recall the name of the song.

"Why are you humming bud? Are you happy? Or is it distress?" asked macaque suddenly without turning around, the successor stopped in his jumpy steps and scooted his feet's through the sand "I don't know, maybe...both?" he answered, unsure of what the actual reason was, he just started doing it. A chuckle could be heard coming from the dark figure "come on, it's not far anymore".

After a while they finally reached the city, and the second they had entered it macaque was basically forced to pull the two teens to each of his side. Arms hanging around their shoulders so that the two wouldn't run off. Eventually he had to give in but made them both promise on staying in eyesight to the monkey.

They nodded and darted away, scattering around the streets pressing their faces against the shop windows, Mei was mainly concerned with asking every passing dog owner about their dog and petting them. MK was mostly interested in the stores and neon lights, they were different than those back home. While the neon signs that were scattered all over the city in Megapolis were holograms, the ones in this city were really signs that you could even touch.

Macaque on the other hand had his eyes on a mountain, not to far away from the city. The Moon casting a weak light onto a building placed on top of the mountain. He frowned, felling a familiar coldness coming from that mountain. He felt it. Felt her.

"MK" he whispered loud enough for the teen to hear who was pressing his face against the cold surface of a window to try and peek into a clothing shop "Hm?" the teen hummed peeling his face away to look at the disguised form "what is it?" asked MK as he completely stepped away from the building moving toward macaque as he beckoned him closer.

The Shoadow wrapped an arm around the teens shoulder swirling him around, until he was facing the mountain "I need you to use your gold vision, I can feel the Bone Demons powers coming from that mountain" the Monkey explained. The boy nodded, eyes flickering to gold as he looked through the darkness, he nodded "yes I can see the blue whisps, but...she has already moved on..." he whispered eyes flickering back to brown. Macaque hummed "doesn't matter, we need Informations and this place seems like a good place to start".

Calling the Dragon girl back, macaque once again leaded the small group towards the mountain.