Enter The Ninjaverse

CHAPTER 23

"I didn't know ghosts existed! What's it like being a ghost!? I read they can't feel things, can you?! Wait, you're see through, how are you standing on the floor? Are your clothes ghost too?! That sword looks different, is it ghost?! Can you fly, float, can you walk through walls?! What are you doing in this place? Wait, no no don't answer those, can you possess people?!"

The young boy that the group had learned was none other than the famous Dragon Lord gasped as he continued to run circles around Monty. The ghost stood still with a blank expression, almost like a bored animal caught in the headlights. The boy was zipping around Monty with his eyes flashing entirely white in a way Lloyd and Harumi could easily recognize as the power of Speed being used over and over again. The group were in one of the many rooms in the building, having been escorted there by the boy after Monty's demand for a space to answer the questions.

"I can't feel anything unless I try, even then it's only a fraction of it," Monty responded with the most neutral tone that he could, his words stiff, "Yes my clothes are a ghost. Not, the sword is not, it won't turn into a ghost like I can. Yes, I can possess people, that's how I got in here. How do you know about ghosts?"

"Oh, the First Elemental Master wrote about a bunch of things in his scrolls!" The boy beamed, "Ghosts, snakes, djinns, big animals, basically anything that could hurt his descendants! I got to read all of them since I'm related to him. And his scroll on ghosts was so cool!" He gasped, "But we don't see them anymore! He got rid of like, all that stuff! And now I get to see it! It's like... amazing!"

Lulloyd and Lloyd were both stunned trying to make heads or tails of who was in front of them, both from the fact he looked nothing like them in body structure, and how his face seemed to be eerily familiar. It was like looking at a version of themselves both as children, drawn and then brought to life in front of them with more energy than either of them had. Harumi had already scanned him with her watch while he was talking and was furiously going through data from it.

"So... Lloyd," Lloyd began awkwardly, "You, uh... you're the Dragon Lord we've heard so much about?"

"Yep!" The boy answered happily, "Lord over all Elemental Dragons and such! But I don't wanna talk about me, everybody knows about me! I wanna know about you guys! Look at you! You all look so... flat!!"

"Should we tell him?" Harumi whispered fiercely to Lloyd. Lloyd paused to consider that notion.

"We're from another universe," Monty took the choice away by stating it plainly to the boy, "I'm Monty, that's Lloyd, Lulloyd and Harumi. You said you were Lloyd?" Monty stole a look at the Lloyd he already knew, "We're gonna need a nickname for you so this doesn't get confusing."

Lloyd rolled his eyes as Harumi went back down to her watch. The boy didn't seem to care, instead standing still. The action almost looked like his brain was a computer given an incredibly complex program it was trying to run through. When it finished, he looked up and his smile grew to proportions that none of them had ever seen.

"YOU'RE FROM ANOTHER UNIVERSE?!" The boy shouted, his eyes flashing cyan and his voice being amplified by sound. Lloyd had to cover his ears for a moment. The entire room vibrated from the sound before he realized his mistake, "Oh, oops, sorry! I kinda call on that without thinking..."

"Y-Yeah..." Lulloyd lowered his arms from his own head, "Uh... we're chasing down some people that got away from us and came to your world. And, uh, we were looking for you to give you information."

"You mean like assassins?" The boy suddenly grimaced,, "...Okay not exactly, I mean I don't think you all are trying to kill me. But I mean like, you tracked me down, hunted me, and got all the way here, just to give me information? Me?"