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Lloyd is dead.
At least, that's what the ninja believe.
After losing their leader, the monastery that once felt like home becomes unbearably quiet. Each of them grieves in their own way, but Kai takes the loss harder than anyone.
He blames himself.
And eventually, he walks away.
Kai quits being a ninja, abandons his friends, and disappears into the shadows of Ninjago. Nobody knows where he went-or what he's becoming.
Months pass.
Kai finds a new world beneath the city: underground fighting pits where strength is everything and mercy means nothing. At first, he's simply trying to survive. But as the fights become more dangerous, so does Kai.
He gets stronger.
Tougher.
Colder.
The cheerful, reckless Fire Ninja everyone knew slowly disappears.
Soon, Kai becomes an undefeated legend.
A mysterious fighter who enters the most dangerous pits, fights opponents armed with weapons, and somehow walks away victorious every time.
Nobody knows his name.
Nobody has seen his face.
They only know his title:
The Phantom.
Then, everything changes.
Lloyd returns.
Alive.
The ninja are overwhelmed with relief. Their friend-the person they thought they had lost forever-is finally home.
But Lloyd's happiness quickly turns to confusion when he asks the question nobody wants to answer.
"Where's Kai?"
The room falls silent.
They tell him the truth.
Kai quit.
Kai left.
And nobody knows where he is.
Determined to bring their missing brother home, the ninja begin a mission to find him.
But when they finally discover rumors of an undefeated fighter hiding behind a mask, they realize they may be searching for someone very different from the Kai they remember.
Because Kai didn't just disappear.
He became someone else.