Ten years ago, Jay Walker was banished by his own team for a crime he never committed. Betrayed and broken, he lost all hope and vanished into The Desert of Doom. Now, after a decade in solitude, fate grants him a second chance: a new world, new path, new people, new villains, and new trials that will test him in ways he never imagined. But scars don't always fade... what will happen when the past catches up... and Jay is forced to face Ninjago again?

[Lloyd Garmadon x Reader] She was adored, he was ignored, Her life bloomed like a rose, his, thorned and torn. She owned the world, his dreams mere mist, His heart, cold, spurned hers with a cruel twist. As she dimmed away, his eyes opened wide, She was the star he wished beside. The brightest gleam in his darkest plight, She was his beacon, his guiding light... (Takes place on S3-S7 (Skybound will be skipped)) [currently being rewritten]

It's been 15 years since the merge. Harumi's been living in isolation, until one day, something happens that forces her to face her past. (Takes place after the events of DR season 3) Note that anything in the book that may seem rushed or glossed over is setting stuff up that gets expanded upon later on. Content warnings for language violence alcohol sexual assault suicide llorumi

Nya needed a date, and Jay... Well, he was convenient.