Dreamscape | Ninjago One-Shots | Part Two Available

heart of stone | ninjago series

takes place during season 10
Warning spoilers

Title from the song from SIX.
I love the cover by Annpantsu, it's AMAZING!
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Lord Garmadon.

That was his name.

And it was one of the only things that made up his identity.

The risen oni only remembered being roused by insistent chanting before entering into the world of Ninjago. Small snippets would come back, names, emotions, jagged images. But it was all clouded by the red haze of pure dark power that coursed through him.

"That's you," Lloyd said, smiling almost as he looked at the image in one of Garmadon's four hands. The smile tilted downward as he looked to his father. "Don't you remember?"

Garmadon stared at the image. An old grey haired man, standing beside a younger Lloyd. There was something familiar there. Something small. Something good. Thats what scared Garmadon the most.

Rage followed the fear, a deep dark feeling his was used to as he threw the picture. Garmadon could hear the hurt in his supposed son's voice but he ignored it as he strode away.

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Garmadon swung his sword, parying blows with precision as he fought. But out of the corner of his eye he could see Lloyd struggling against an oni, he fell back and cried out as it closed in on him.

Something was triggered inside of him again.

Fear.

But it wasn't just any fear.

It was almost a paternal fear. Garmadon reacted before he even knew it, knocking the oni away with ease.

Lloyd blinked in shock, gasping as he stood. "You saved my life."

Garmadon realized his walls were slipping and he raised them higher and thicker, lacing an uncaring tone as he retorted with an excuse.

Lloyd's own brilliant green gaze hardened. He replied with an equally hard tone as he faced his father. Garmadon smirked as he seethed out words, but he wore his heart on his sleeve. A typical, weak, trait of humans. He could see past that anger and find the lies weaved in. This puny, bratty, human lime thought he could squeeze him back into a cell.

"Why are you smiling?" Lloyd demanded suspiciously.

"Maybe I'm happy." Garmadon replied smoothly, grin widening more.

"That's not a happy smile. It's an 'I'm-up-to-something' smile." Lloyd narrowed his eyes.

Garmadon blinked. Maybe this child wasn't as much of a naive little turd as he thought. He did bear the same blood as his own. Garmadon forced the expression to fall for a blink before trying again. "How about now?"

Lloyd's brow scrunched, face fixed in an 'are you serious' expression. "That's the exact same smile."

"No its not." Garmadon argued, he didn't like the smart tone the ninja was using.

"Yes it is."

Garmadon felt his voice rise.

"No its not!" As Lloyd shot back Garmadon caught sight of an oni sneaking up behind him. With a yell he blasted at Lloyd, he ducked and it hit the oni. Lloyd stared in shock at the form.

Garmadon frowned, all smiles gone as he became aware of the depleting time. They had to get moving.

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