Tides of Reality| Ninjago | Monkie Kid | ROTTMNT

Chapter 35 - The Five who Lived

Oh goodness... Finding that damned portal with the whole army of red visors at your tail was extremely hard.

But not immpossible!

It took only... two lives from Jay, one from Lloyd and Liv and another three from Mei.

The first thing that greeted the six of them in Terra Domina was a swirling vortex of colours, that would surely give a few members of this group sensory overload and a giant red and black building resembling a temple in front of them.

"The moment we step in, the level should start, so let's make sure you all know the rules." mei started out, with Sky finishing for her. "So you can't stop and don't die, because everyone else will be taken back to the start-"

"Uh, why won't we just go one at a time then?" Liv cut in with a... reasonable question. Why won't they? It's actually going to be easier and probably a lot safer.

"Okay. Who's first then?"

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Mei will admit that her new form definitely helped her out in completing the level. She could easily hover in air whenever she wanted, make bigger and riskier jumps and change to one of the side tracks whenever she wanted to.

As the first one to attempt, ahe also finished first and waited for the rest.

Liv and Jay went together for whatever reason and came right after her. Following right after was Lloyd and Kai.

The last came Sky, out of breath and barely standing. Her body, instead of being an advantage was instead a liability and slowed them down.

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After a 15 minute break, the group started pressing forward again. The next was an endless maze that everyone beat really quickly thanks to Mei's ability to fly.

The best and most thrilling obstacle, however was the battle arena, where Kai fought against Garmadon to get the third key-tana. He did lose a life on this, but he had three, so it wasn't a big deal.

In Livinia's humble opinion the fight could've been better.

They kept on going forward and encountered a walkway with spinning stars. It was quite obvious that touching them would cost someone a life.

Okay, so the pattern was pretty simple. The spin around the walkway, being on the path for 2 seconds and then under for the same amount of time. Pshhh... It's gonna be easy peasy.

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It was, in fact very easy. Almost too easy for Terra Domina, if Sky was being honest.

Eh, she's gonna take it.

The next was that damned sushi restaurant. "Huh, seems weird for a restaurant to be here of all places. Everyone be on guard. We can't be too relaxed." They made sure to voice their false suspicions.

Just as she finished that sentence, a women in traditional japanese clothing appeared in front of the group and led them to their table.

It didn't take long, until she screamed and started attacking Lloyd, because he was closest to her. Everyone assumed a fighting stance, understanding, that this is just another level.

The japanese woman jumped away from Lloyd's spin kick and pushed up a lever on the wall. "Also on special today. Monster Sush-" Liv didn't let her even finish her line, before she threw a stool at her, effectively taking away her last HP points.

The monster sushi started attacking Jay, Kai and Sky slowly but effectively taking away some of their hp points. Fortunately they were fairly easy to get rid of, and after a few slashes and bites disappeared.

The moment the were gone, three chefs jumped out from the space presumed to be the kitchen and striked a pose.

Plates and knives began flying in the air, as the three got right up to attacking everyone in sight.

"Take cover! Each of those knives takes 20 HP!" Sky screamed, upon being hit by one.

On command Kai, Liv and Lloyd flipped over a few tables as to hide behind them. Now the only person who couldn't really avoid the projectiles, was poor Mei, who already barely fit in the small room.

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She respawned. Again.

It was honestly more annoying than anything else. Watching her HP going down to reach 0 and then she was coming back again.

Anyways the kids quickly pushed their makeover shields closer to the three minibosses and jumped to attack.

A few swings of their respective weapons and the opponents were down 60 HP. Only 120 HP to go.

They took cover again and, after a few seconds, jumped out to mass attack again.

A few of them got hit with a knife or a plate here and there, but they were working together and strategizing to defeat the enemies.

She didn't want to say it made her proud, but the truth was a bit different. The kids were actively making her a very proud big sister figure.

At first she wasn't really close to them, visiting only Sky, but through the years she has grown closer with them. And now she knew them. Loved them. Spent time with them.

she now knew that behind Kai's wilderness and big ego sat lack of self worth. She knew just what toppings each of them liked on their pancakes. She knew that Jay would often play videogames if he was stressed or stuck on a problem with his inventions. She knew that Liv, despite not using big words in her everyday vocabulary, understood most of the ones Zane and Jay were using. She knew that Zane would secretly watch random shows on Ninjflix if he couldn't sleep.

She would work out at the gym with Cole on slower days. She liked listening to Lloyd talking about his comics.

And she saw herself in Harumi. Raised in a palace, as royalty, bubbly and full of energy? Very eager to make friends?

It was her family now. She had to live with Cole's attempts at cooking, Kai's hair gels littering the bathroom, Jay and Cole's midnight game marathons, Zane's strange taste in movies, Liv sometimes forgetting that not everyone knows ninjago history like she does and going on rants about some misconception in a book, Lloyd stealing everyone's candy and Harumi's attempts at getting a puppy. And she honesly loved it.

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In a few minutes the three minibosses disintegrated, defeated.

And right when they did, from the kitchen emerged the final boss of this level.

He started talking about mastering every aspect of sushi and quickly pulled out a few pairs of chopsticks from behind his back. Wielding this weapon, he stepped over the counter and got right to attacking the closest person to him, who turned out to be Kai.

The red ninja was holding fairly well against the enemy. That gave them to probably analize his fighting style, or watever was that what Liv usually did and and figure out his attack pattern.

After every attack, the boss had an opening, lasting for 0.4 of a second.

"Hey, I'm here!" Jay started taunting, driving chef's attention to himself while the rest tried to land a hit.

"No, not there!" Liv shouted, when Jay signaled his HP level going down to 31.

They all did this, one after another, allowing the rest to slowly but surely getting down the boss's HP.

"Hey, can anyone change me?" Sky's voice sounded across the room. It was calm, but with underlying panic quickly starting to show.

Her HP level window was floating to the right from her face, displaying a haunting number of 13.

The boss attacked once again.

Mei wanted to scream, when Sky disintegrated, leaving only a yellow cube on the ground in their place.