Lies Of The Serpent: A Ninjago AU

Chapter 58: Convincing Garmadon

Wu's POV

I walked through the portal to the Realm Of Madness, which I made using traveler's tea.

"Hello, brother. What took you so long? You brought the katana from our youth. Funny. You never had the courage to cross the temple wall yet now you have the courage to come here," Garmadon said. I sighed.

I'd been weak back then. A coward. But I'd learned to be brave a long time ago.

"Why have you come to this place of darkness?" I asked.

"A place as wicked as me? Don't you see? Here I feel at home. In Ninjago I was physically unable to hold all four spinjitzu weapons. But here dark magic has made me stronger and what was once impossible is now possible!" He turned to show that he now had two arms instead of one. I stared shocked. How could this had happened?

"You came here only to posses the weapons of spinjitzu?"

"Yes, brother, and I refuse to allow you or your petty ninja to stop me!" He grabbed four weapons and attacked me. Soon we were fighting.

After a couple moments of us fighting Garmadon said, "I thought you'd be better at fighting since you're teaching people ninja skills."

"And I'd thought you'd be stronger since you've had all this time to train. But I was wrong."

He chuckled before pushing me off the mountain we were on.

"I guess mom was right. That strength you'd had was not permanent." I glared at him. It seemed none of my family would forget the incident.

"Or natural. Just like your path towards villainy," I said as I did spinjitzu.

All of a sudden mysterious monsters made out of mud appeared. I began to attack them, using spinjitzu.

"Brother, I've not come here to," I began, but he interrupted me.

"You will pay for your visit. Mud monsters, attack!" The mud monsters began to walk towards me, swallowing me in their mud. "You no longer belong here, old fool! You should've known better than to try to stop me."

I struggled against them.

"I didn't come to stop you. I came to warn you. To tell you," the mud swallowed me for a second, but I quickly put my head out, "Your son's in danger," it swallowed me again.

Garmadon pulled me out. I breathed heavily.

"What has Lloyd gotten himself into?" Garmadon asked.

"He has opened a can of worms I fear I will never be able to close." Although I knew he should know about mother being there to therefore also being in danger, I didn't tell him. He'd find out soon enough.

"You mean we will never be able to close," he helped me up. "Get up. You can tell me more later. First, we need to return home. How did you find me?"

"Traveler's tea. But I used it all and now have no way back."

"There is only one way to return to Ninjago. But to get there we must past through the mountain of madness, and it is a long and dangerous rood ahead." I smiled. Just like old times. Just me and Garmadon against the world or the little we actually saw.

"I wouldn't have it any other way."

"We should leave before it really gets dark." I stared at him confused. How could it get darker than this?