Ninjago: Tales of the Merge

Journey to the Land of Three Mountains

Marina POV

We followed Lloyd to a monastery that was on top of a very high mountain. As soon as we entered, Lloyd starts to look through a bunch of scrolls.

"I can't believe it! I'm in the Monastery of Spinjitzu!" Arin said excitedly. "I gotta say, though, it's a little weirder than I pictured it."

"The weird stuff is new." Lloyd said as he continued to look through scrolls. "This place got real strange after the Merge."

"Arin, focus. We have to find the dragon's home." Sora said.

"So where is it?" I asked.

"After the Merge, Kai began to explore some of the new lands." Lloyd said.

"You know where Kai, the fire ninja, is?" Arin asked.

"Not exactly. It's a long story." Lloyd replied. "But Kai sent notes about the places he'd seen. I'm pretty sure I saw those mountains in here somewhere." The baby dragon runs towards us with a scroll.

"What did you find?" Sora asked. Lloyd took the scroll, unrolls it, and began to read it.

"The Land of the Three Mountains." He said. "But it's far away, and the only airship I still have, is the new Destiny's Bounty." "Where is it?" I asked.

"It's in the hanger bay," Lloyd said. We followed him there and saw a large ship with rocket boosters and sails. Wow! That must be the only known flying ship in Ninjago!

"Whoa!" Arin said.

"But it isn't finished." Lloyd said. "And I don't have the skill to complete work on the engine."

 "I might know someone who does." Sora said. She raises her hands, trying to use her powers, but nothing happens.

"Ugh, really?" She asked. "Back me up, buddy. Do elemental powers come and go?"

"No." Lloyd replied. "Well, sometimes. Elemental powers can be complicated. It can take a lot of work to achieve one's True Potential."

"True Potential?" I asked.

"Yeah," Lloyd replied.

"Okay, then. I'll get this thing going the old-fashioned way." Sora said, sighing. "Marina, can you give me a hand?" "Sure," I replied. I took a nearby toolbox and we start working on the engine.

"You know when you say the fact that everyone including your parents despised you, then you ran away?" I asked.

"Yeah?" Sora asked.

"You probably don't know what happened to them after the Merge, right?" I asked as I hand her a wrench.

"No," Sora said, taking the wrench.

"Well, Arin's story is not as complicated as yours, as he lost his parents in the Merge," I said. "But my story was more complicated then yours, Sora. Its not just why I ran away from Imperium, but also what happened before I came to Imperium," "Really?" Sora asked. "What happened?"

"Well, I lost my parents when I was five years old," I said as I start to fix the piston. "They drowned, and I had to go to an orphanage. But I was there for only one week until she came,"

"Who?" Sora asked. 

"Trish," I replied. "She was a woman who worked as an Imperial Guard for the empress. She came to the orphanage and adopted me. That was when she took me to Imperium for the first time. I lived at her house for the next 10 years until well, you know the rest," 

"You lost your parents at a young age and then spent a week at an orphanage?" Sora asked as she had just finished mending the engine block. "Your life must be really complicated,"