The Dragonkin Twins

Ch 5: an odd day

Kai POV

I freeze in my tracks.

Sensei Garmadon, who I've known for years, is currently standing 50 away from me with freaking wings and a tail?!?!? The arms of his wings and the base of his tail are black and the webbing between his wings are dark purple, along with the underbelly scales on his tail.  He has lots of black fur covering the tip of his tail as well.

I stare at him. He extends his wings in a stretch and flicks his tail around. He finally turns to me and freezes. We stare awkwardly at each other for what feels like an eternity when he suddenly speaks up, "Uhh," he says slowly in an effort to explain himself. "This isn't what it looks like?"

Garmadon POV

Kai just stares at me, wide eyed. "You... have... wings..." He says slowly.

"Um, yes."  I say back to him.

"And... a tail..."

I stare at him. "Okay, so.... it's exactly what it looks like."

He looks at me for a few more seconds when he suddenly opens his mouth to scream. Before he can scream I put my hands out in front of me to stop him. "Pleasedon'tfreakout!" I say faster than I anticipated.

He stops mid breath. "What the hell are you?" He manages to breathe out.

"Well, it's a bit hard to explain." I decide to put my tail and wings away to make this conversation easier. The white light returns and my wings and tail disappear along with it, leaving me the way I was before.

Kai relaxes a bit and I motion for him to follow me up the hill so we can talk. We walk up the hill and settle under a large oak tree.

"Okay, so... what you saw back there..." I start.

"Um, yeah..." he tries to pick up the conversation. We stay silent for another minute or two when I clear my throat.

"Well, you know of my father, the First Spinjitzu Master?" He nods. "Well, he wasn't exactly... human."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, he created Ninjago, as you know, so that means he had to have come from somewhere else; specifically, another realm."

"Another realm? One of the other 16?"

"Yes. The first of the 16, actually.  There is a realm called the First Realm, home to the oni and dragons."

"Oni? What the heck are oni?"

"The oni are evil creatures known for destruction. You see, the dragon and oni were at eternal war with each other because the dragons were creatures of light, and the oni were creatures of darkness.  One day, during the battles, a child was born.  He was both oni and dragon.  The two sides then began to fight over the child, but eventually, the child left the realm, and created a new realm called Ninjago.  As you already may have guessed, this child was my father."

"None of this is explaining why you had dragon features?" Kai says.

"Actually, it does.  You see, my father was part oni, giving him the the form of a human, and part dragon, giving him dragon wings and a tail.  My father was a newly created species, called the dragonkin.  The dragonkin are an ancient species that only runs in one family, my family."

"Wait, so if being a dragonkin runs in your family, does that mean Master Wu is also one?"

I nod.  "Yes.  He is also a dragonkin.  This is also why we've lived for so long.  Dragonkin  can live for generations because of their origin, though we are not immortal, no one is truly immortal."