Ninjago: Tales of the Merge

The Crossroads Carnival

Marina POV

We walk through all the streets in Crossroads with Riyu, who was disguised as a dog.

"I'm not sure this shaggy dog costume will fool anyone," Arin said.

"It's carnival time. Everyone will be too distracted to look at him closely." Sora said.

"There's a lot of fun here," I said. "Of course, they will be distracted."

"Welcome to the Crossroads Carnival, Riyu and Marina!" Arin said. As we walk around, I could see a creature waving a large hammer in the air and said, "Come wield the traditional Munce hammer and test your strength!" "Wow!" Arin said.

"Interesting!" I said.

"Sora, Marina, look at that!" Arin said, pointing to a stand where a purple skin creature was holding what looked like an ice cream cone saying, "Get your Moss-Milk ice cones! Freshly cave-squeezed!"

"Should we try it?" I asked. "Looks delicious,"

"Maybe later," Sora replied.

"Come, everyone! Champion mech racer Lobbo buys for all!" Lobbo shouted near the Moss-Milk ice cone stand. "Lobbo lobbo!" A crowd ran past us to get a cone.

"Guess Lobbo's blowing through that prize money he won from the Mech Master 5000  race." Sora said.

"Look! Dorama's tent!" Arin said, pointing to a nearby tent as we walk past it.

"Don't miss tonight!" We heard a hologram of Dorama said. "My best fireworks show yet!"

Next to the tent we see the dancing robots from the junkyard dancing in front of what looks like our mech from the Mech Master 5000. Now I know where it went.

"Hey." Sora said. "Those are the pieces of our SA Mark 01! The junkyard crew must have salvaged the mech's wreckage and used it for their display. That stuff belongs to us!"

"Yeah!" I said. "Give it back!" The robots seem to ignore us because they continued dancing.

"I gotta go enter my pie." Arin said. "The deadline is, like, now!" "Now?" I asked. So we rushed to enter his pie.

Finallly we got to the Pie baking Contest stall and to my surprise, Mr Frohicky was running it.

"Arin, Sora and Marina!" He said happily when he notices us. "Oh, I knew I'd peep you scallywags before the deadline. You weren't gonna miss a shot at that bling, were you, Chef Arin?"

"This is my year, Mr. Frohicky." Arin said as he gives his pie to Mr Froghicky. As soon as he does, a a snail person wearing an apron and chef hat bumps into him from behind.

"Hey!" Arin scolded him. "Watch it!"

"Heh. Ready to come in second again, kid?" The snail person asked. "Because your pie looks as mangy as your weird little dog."

"I'm guessing that's Garb-Barg," I whisper to Sora, who nods.

"Watch it, Grab-Barg." Sora said. "We're not ... huh?" We notice that back at the Moss-Milk ice cone stand, a group of rat people are grabbing Lobbo and his money from the Mech Master 5000.

"Alarm! Alarm!" Lobbo shouted. "Is this the end of Lobbo? Lobbo lobbo!" We watch in horror as the rat people place him and his money on a truck and spead away on it."

"We have to save Lobbo!" I said.

"I'm on it! Follow me!" Arin shouted as he takes out his grappiling hook and follows the truck with it.

"Follow? Follow how?" Sora asked.

"Maybe you could turn that into a ride," I suggested, pointing to our mech from the Mech Master 5000 near the dancing robots. "I'm sure they won't mind if we use it,"