Ninjago The Lost Deities

Prologue: The Outside

Nalia is four years old and first meets Wu at eight years old.

Those wondering, she meets Morro, who is 17, while she is 4.

Little info to know:

The Cave Nalia is living in can slow down aging because of a strong spell put in it; she would be 90.000 years old if she hadn't lived in the cave. But since she has lived in it for so long, she is still only four years old, mentally and physically, with only a little growth.

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The day was like every other day inside the cave Nalia lived in, with a few torches lighting the place so she could at least see something in the darkness.

Nalia had lived in this cave her whole life, so she knew it inside and out. But she had never tried leaving, not because she couldn't, but because she was scared of leaving the only safe place that she had known.

But she hadn't been alone all her life. Some old man always visited her a few times to see how she was doing. He brought her all kinds of items, but mostly food and clothes. Even a pair of glasses that helped her eyes from burning in pain whenever she saw the elemental aura around him.

Nalia doesn't know how long she has lived in this cave because everything slowed down, anything from aging, like food or even people slowly. Which at least helped with the food not growing bad for a very long time. The old man had told her last time that she looked like someone at least three years old, even though she would be much older with how long she had been alive.

She got time to pass but played with whatever toy or item she could find in the piles of junk in the cave. If she weren't playing with anything, she would sing songs to herself that would echo throughout the cave, making it seem louder and not as lonely.

Then, one day, the sound of the cave's entrance opened up, and soon enough, footsteps could be heard walking in.

"It must be somewhere in this cave; it has to be, then it will show sensei that I'm the true green ninja." said the person in a somewhat grumpy voice.

The person was walking through the cave until they heard the sound of someone singing inside. "Don't tell me someone got here before me." The person picked up the pace as their footsteps echoed throughout the cave.

Nalia was sitting on a rock singing to herself until she began hearing the sound of someone's footsteps. She started smiling as she thought it was the old man she hadn't seen for a while.

She jumped down for the rock and began running towards the sound. "Old man, you're back! It's been forever since-" she said, smiling but stopping. Her smile faded when she saw it wasn't the old man.

Nalia took a few steps back. She didn't know this stranger, and not knowing something scared her.

"......W-who are you?" she asked in a scared tone while trying to keep her distance from this person who looked to be a boy in his late teens in front of her.

The stranger looked at the little girl with crazy, wild hair and glasses, who was looking up at him. "What's a stupid kid doing in this cave?" he asked annoyedly.

Nalia looked around her junk while still watching him closely. "I'm not stupid; you are," she said before pulling out a wooden sword the old man had given her as a training tool, though she wasn't much into that stuff.

The stranger looked at her with the wooden sword, unimpressed. "Really, kid? Do you think a wooden sword could do something to a real sword?" he asked, pulling out his sword and pointing it straight at her.