Crystalline Chaos (Ninjago x reader)

Chapter 17

3rd POV

"Focus." Sensei Wu said as he drank 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."

    Lloyd groaned in annoyance as he extended his arm a little bit, this arm was the only thing holding him and the rest up in an unstable formation. Lloyd was balancing on one arm, Zane standing on his feet holding Kai and Jay in his arms with Cole on his head and Sensei Wu on Cole's shoulders.

"Focus." Sensei Wu repeated

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

"Yeah, Sensei, he's just a kid." Cole agreed but Wu merely shook his head.

"In order for him to succeed, we must all trust one another." Wu said. Lloyd groaned from the immense strain. But before any of the ninja could say anything more a wrecking ball suddenly crashed through the wall, throwing them all to the ground with a shriek.

"What was that?" Cole asked aloud as he got up and stared at the gaping hole where a wall had been not that long ago. They watched as a builder and a foreman emerged, both shocked there were people inside

"WHOA, WHOA, WHOA!!!! This wasn't supposed to happen until tomorrow!" They suddenly heard Dareth shriek as he walked up to the two men. The foreman scratched his head, confused by Dareth's words.

"Tomorrow? Let me see that order." He told the builder who quickly handed him a piece of paper. He quickly glossed over it before turning back to Dareth with an apologetic smile on his face. "Oh, yeah. My bad. Sorry 'bout that. We'll be back in the morning." He told him before leaving. Dareth sighed in defeat and started picking up his trophies, leaving the ninja stunned by what had just occurred

"Uh, Dareth, what is this all about?" Cole asked Dareth, confused.

"Well, I fell behind on some of my payments and some developer named 'Darnagom Enterprises' 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 told them dejectedly.

"But, we already lost the Bounty. We can't lose the dojo now." Jay said, starting to panic with the idea alone.

"My trophies. Oh, my fakes trophies!" Dareth ignored Jay and instead started bawling over his trophies.

"Wait a minute. 'Darnagom'? When you rearrange the letters, it spells-" Zane started but was interrupted by Jay.

"'O grandma?'" Jay guessed.

"No! Garmadon!" Kai yelled at him, annoyed.

"Right. That would make more sense." Jay said with a nervous laugh.

"Um, my dad is behind this?" Lloyd asked, tired and sad by his father's constant interjections.

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

"Any chance you got 50,000 in that teapot of yours." Dareth asked Wu who only gave him a sorrowful shake of the head.

"Worry not, Dareth. You're not in this alone. We're all with you." He reassured the man in brown when a familiar Samurai walked into the room.

"Did someone say 50,000-?" Nya started to ask, but Jay interrupted her with a gasp before she could explain himself.

"You didn't happen to win the lottery?" Jay asked, not noticing Nya's grimace as she plowed on.

"No, but I heard about Ninjaball Run!"

"Ninjaball Run?" They all asked her, confused.

"It's the biggest road race in Ninjago, with a prize of 100,000 big ones. And it's tomorrow." She explained, but Dareth only shook his head at her suggestion.