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bostrichidae · 11 months

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ice cold (part 1)

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Ow.

Where was he now?

Was he in another realm?

That wasn't good.

The other writers would track him down for sure.

I need to prepare.

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Gold is not a durable metal. But the main purpose of this sword was not to slash and destroy. It was to assist.

Numen wasn't a blacksmith. He'd never learned any skills outside of writing, as he was a monk of Cloud Kingdom. But as he admired the sword, he figured his powers might be useful in the realm of Ninjago. After all, the monks were much more powerful than whatever the broken realm had to offer. Seriously, Ninjago's broken- in half. The Dark Island and Mainland Ninjago weren't always separated. But that's a tale for another time. Right now, he just had to give himself some sort of defense against that insufferable Fenwick and his pet... what was its name again? Nugget? Nympe? Nimbus? Yes, that was it. Fenwick, the master writer's apprentice, and his weird pet Nimbus. And whatever else the Cloud Kingdom could throw at him to try and convince him to return.

Right, the sword. It was infused with some of Numen's own powers; the blade could reflect the future and show you your opponent's next move. It would be quite useful. But not outside of a fight. He needed something farther reaching. He needed to see far into the future, even if those visions were brief and vague. So, he went in search of a vessel.

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It was perfect.

Numen grabbed one of the icicles and broke off a chunk.

Two more grew in its place.

What a fascinating crystal.

Who knew the Caves of Despair housed such beautiful wonders?

Too bad he couldn't explore the First Spinjitsu Master's tomb; the trials were created by the original Master Writer, a close friend of the FSM. There was no getting past them unless you were a highly skilled spinjitsu master, which alas, Numen was not. He was just a runaway monk looking to create a futuresight crystal.

As he grasped the chunk of ice-crystal-stuff, he called upon his birthplace. This would take the last of his power, cursing him to the binds of mortality.

But Numen's fucks had ran out a long time ago, not that he had many to give in the first place.

It swirled around in the air. A tingling feeling, making its way up his spine. The sensation made its way down his arm, leaving through his fingertips and entering the now-glowing crystal. Numen's strength was leaving his body, and his legs began to shake. So he let them collapse. When all of his power had been drained, and he was weaker than he'd been his entire life, Numen found it in himself to fall asleep right then and there.

That was too much for the crystal to hold.

It wouldn't return to Numen.

Small bits of energy trickled out of the crystal and were absorbed into the ground. It bloomed and spread like an infectious disease. But that was no disease. For as a select few travelers (and ninja) would soon find out, the ice saw you not as you were, but as you someday would be.

He finally escaped that cave. Turns out, there'd been a cave-in near the old Grundle den. The geothermal vents had erupted due to an outside influence. Caused by some mischievous kid who thought he'd be able to find the FSM's tomb. When Numen went to investigate, there was only a skeleton left. The skeleton wore tattered green clothes, almost like some sort of fucked-up ninja gi. Well, whatever. He'd just have to find another way out.

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It's been one hundred and eighty-six days since I left that cave. I can feel my mortality growing, creeping, waiting to strike. But that's all right. I don't fear death. The only reason I'm still alive is to make sure that these artifacts don't fall into the wrong hands.

There's a man standing there. He is young, about thirty years old. His stark-white hair provides a beautiful contrast to his royal blue cloak and pale skin. I can see a beard beginning to grow on his angled face. Despite the cold, he does not shiver. His skin does not flush, and he does not turn his back to the icy wind. Rather, he seems at home. Like a spirit of the blizzard. I know I do not have time left. Sometime today, I will die of old age and extreme temperatures. This man is my only hope.

"Protect them."

#ninjago headcanons #ninjago fanfiction #previous master of ice fr fr #lego ninjago #ninjago #ninjago cloud kingdom headcanons #this has been sitting in my drafts for like a month heheh

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blursed-ninjago-ideas · 4 years

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Stolen

Take this gift (throws in vague direction of Mod Ivy) and suffer with it. The only benefits to being my friend is me hurting you with angst.

TW: mind control, violence blood, strangulation, attempted murder.

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Nya knew it had been a bad idea to go into the pyramid. They’d never had much luck with ancient tombs and. There had been the Serpentine tombs, the FSM’s tomb, the various ancient temples in that whole mess with Harumi, and probably more she couldn’t think of. They should have turned back after the first boobytrap, after the first time they almost died, after the goddamn skeleton-

But they hadn’t. And Jay had opened the tomb. At first the situation was only mildly concerning, they had dealt with Serpentine before, even if this one might be considerably more creepy than the others, but-

Her interest in Nya’s brother drained any and all good will Nya may have had towards someone left in this place. And when she expressed what she wanted to do to him, Nya geared up for a fight.

A fight she didn’t get to have. She had no idea how that Serpentine had managed to do it, but that spear had knocked back everyone. Everyone except Kai. And now he has hovering in the air, body twitching and convulsing, and the glowing golden light that raged like fire was being pulled from him, and he was screaming.

They tried to fight her. But that snake-that thing-was more powerful than the five of them combined. As she hit the wall, Nya’s head rang in pain, vision blurring slightly, the only real thing she could see being the light slowly drained from her brother.

And then the light left him, and he dropped to the ground. For a split second Nya thought he might be dead, but then she heard a loud intake of breath, and Kai sprang to his feet, stumbling for a split second.

“Okay, snake lady, now you’ve got it coming,” he growled, and Nya couldn’t help but admire her brother’s attitude. Then he thrust his fist out-only to stop short, plain brown eyes growing wide in alarm. “What the-where is my-”

“Cold without your fire, isn’t it?” the snake asked, slithering closer. “I thank you for your gift, former fire elemental.”

She spun only once, but that was enough to send Kai flying back into the wall with a resounding crack that made Nya yell in alarm. Despite that, he stumbled to his feet again, one hand on his head and the other growing to his sword. Nya moved forward to help him, but-

The snake queen moved faster than either of them ever could. In a split second she had knocked Nya back, and had her spear at Kai’s throat.

Her spear, now glowing with fire.

“You have a fighting spirit I have not seen in a very long time,” the snake said, slithering closer to her brother, one hand grasping his chin. “I admire that.”

“Thanks for the compliment,” Kai hissed, his tone wavering only slightly as his now dull brown eyes focused on the spear at his throat, flames licking at his skin and tip drawing blood. “I don’t appreciate it all that much, though.”

The snake laughed, the sound high and raspy. “You truly are a specimen. The only human I ever knew was quite the opposite. “A fighter, yes, but also a coward. A betrayer. I will never trust another human again thanks to him.”

“Well, I hate to break it to you, lady, but you can’t trust me either,” Kai growled. “If this spear weren’t at my throat, I’d already have your head cut clean off.”

The snake’s laugh was darker this time, devoid of any humor. “You’d have tried.”

For a long moment, the snake didn’t do anything, spear held at Kai’s throat while Nya glanced desperately between the two, searching for a way to attack her without her noticing and killing her brother.

Then the snake’s hand on Kai’s chin yanked up, bringing them face to face. The snake stared into Kai’s eyes, expression turning into a twisted grin.

“I think,” the snake said slowly, “That you would be very useful to me.”

Nya realized what her plan was a split second before Kai did, a gasp escaping her throat as she prepared to throw her spear straight through the snake’s throat, morals be damned-

But then she was yanked back by Cole, one of his hands grabbing her spear and the other going around her waist.

“Don’t,” he hissed in her ear. “She’ll kill him if we try to help!”

Nya struggled, but already her fury was fading into a cold sort of horror at what she was seeing. The snake’s eyes had changed, from the golden-red they’d been when she’d taken Kai’s powers, to red swirls. Kai’s own eyes were wide, the dark brown slowly overtaken by the snake’s hypnotism, expression slightly slack as his struggling became futile. Aspheera was gripping his chin hard to keep him in place, bruises already forming around his neck and jaw, and small trails of blood where her nails cut into his skin.

And then Kai collapsed. Aspheera drew back with a satisfied smirk, and for a couple of seconds all the ninja just watched as Kai, for the third time, stumbled to his feet. His movements were slow and sluggish this time, as if he were waking up from a nap.

When he raised his head, all of them gasped, despite the fact that all of them knew it was coming. Kai’s eyes had turned a dull shade of red, and they were fixed on nothing, devoid of emotion.

Before any of them could stop them, Nya ran forward, the snake making no attempt to stop her as she grabbed Kai by the shoulders.

“Kai,” she said, glaring into his eyes. ��Listen to me. Focus on my voice.”

“You’re wasting your time, human,” the snake said, voice infuriatingly smug. “I have spent years down here with nothing to do but practice. He’s under my control now.”

“No!” Nya yelled, turning to face her with tears in her eyes. “Kai’s my brother! I know him! He will break through your control!”

“Well then,” the snake said, eyes narrowing on her. “I suppose we might want to put him through a test. Servant,” she commanded, eyes fixed on Kai, who snapped to attention. “Kill the girl.”

Nya didn’t even have a chance to react before Kai had drawn his sword and swung it at her, barely missing as she jumped back. The snake chuckled as Kai continued his wild attacks, either missing her by inches or drawing small cuts all over her.

“Kai!” she yelled, ducking a blow that, if it had connected, would have taken her head clean off. “You’ve gotta fight her!”

He didn’t even respond, red eyes now narrowed in hatred. Before he had time to attack again, a green sphere hit him in the side, sending him crashing into the wall with a truly ugly yell of pain. Lloyd shot forward, energy sparkling at his fingertips.

“Kai,” he said, enunciating his voice clearly as he helped Nya to her feet. “Listen to me. You don’t want to hurt us.”

Kai let out a scream which sounded half feral as he shot at them again, using Spinjitzu to cross the gap easily. He promptly collided with Cole’s own tornado, which fueled by Cole's elemental powers, quickly overwhelmed him. His arm hit the ground first, and Nya flinched at the sound of it breaking.

“Kai!” Lloyd yelled as their hypnotized brother forced himself to his feet again, seemingly uncaring of the small sliver of white bone poking out of his skin. “You have to stop! We’re your family!”

For a split second, Nya thought she saw him hesitate. Thought she saw red eyes flit back to brown.

And then he threw his sword at her. She wasn’t able to dodge it properly in time, and it made a truly ugly gash along her side, blood oozing through her gi and down her leg.

She vaguely heard Jay scream, and then Kai’s own yell of pain as blue light flooded her senses. Strong hands were lifting her up, a voice talking in her ear. Then she let out a vague noise of pain as there was pressure pressed against her wound.

“No, no, no,” Nya heard Lloyd say. “Come on. Not you-I can’t-”

Nya groaned, forcing herself to focus through the pain. “It’s okay,” she said. “I think I can-”

They were cut off by another feral scream, and then both of them were forced to the ground as Lloyd was tackled. Nya didn’t even have time to yell for help before there was abrupt pressure on her throat. Kai was strangling her.

“Kai,” she managed to rasp out, lungs struggling to draw breath. “It’s me-it’s your little sister-”

The pressure increased, and Nya struggled desperately as her ability to breathe vanished. Through her slowly darkening vision she could see Kai crouched on top of her, both hands around her throat and red eyes hateful.

She didn’t even hear Aspheera telling Kai to stop, and she barely felt the snake using her powers to chain Nya and the others to a wall. When her vision finally cleared, she saw Kai struggling to climb the wall, broken arm barely noticed as he tried to get to her. To kill her.

“Well then,” Aspheera said, and Nya’s gaze drifted to her where she lingered at the entrance to the tomb. “I think that shows which one of us he will listen to. Not his family, not his beloved green ninja or little sister. Just me.”

Nya’s heart ached as Kai let out a pained whine underneath her, the hypnotism forcing him to continue climbing the wall despite how much it was damaging him. He hadn’t even made any progress, still angrily pacing on the floor, red eyes glaring up at her.

“Come, servant,” the snake said, slithering closer and caressing Kai’s cheek with her tail. Nya fought against her chains when she saw her brother lean into the touch, a small smile on his face. “We have many things to do together. We can forget them for now.”

“You bastard,” Cole said, eyes flicking between Nya’s wound, the snake, and then Kai. “How are you making him do that? Hypnotism isn't normally that strong!”

“Like it matters,” Aspheera said, lips curled upwards into what would have been a smile if it wasn’t so malicious. She ran a hand through Kai’s hair, and Nya watched helplessly as her older brother leaned into the touch like a pet.

"Kai," she tried again, relieved when his eyes turned to her. "Look at me. Look at my face. Do you recognize me?"

Slowly, he nodded, the movement so slow and tiny she almost missed it.

"Then who am I?"

Kai's mouth opened, then closed again. He looked unsure of himself all of a sudden, glancing away from both her and the snake, shuffling his feet almost nervously. "You're… you're my…"

Then Nya's heart dropped as Aspheera spoke next. "Go on, servant," she said, tail slowly forcing Kai's chin to face her, the rest of her tail slowly trapping Kai in place. "Tell me who she is."

Kai shook. "She's a person I have to kill."

Nya thrashed in her binds as Aspheera laughed, control over Kai once again secure.

"You tried," the snake said in an almost sympathetic tone. "But I have centuries of practice. You never stood a chance against my control, and neither did he."

"You-you fucking witch!" Nya screamed. "Let go of him, let go of my brother-"

"Quiet, girl," the snake said, spear pressed against Kai's throat, who didn't even react this time even as it drew blood. "I can always kill him and take another from your group."

She fell silent, glaring at Aspheera's back as she slowly left the chamber, taking Kai with her. At first she thought that the snake was just going to leave, but then her magic activated, and the chamber entrance was covered by the very doors that had held her captive.

Just before the door closed, Nya thought she saw Kai turn to look at her.

And then he was gone.

EDIT: Got so engrossed in the story I forgot to eat during my break. 10/10, you're fault I'm shaking. -Ivy

#blursed ninjago submissions #blursed ninjago ideas #ninjago #submission #reverse prompt time #blursed ninjago snippets #lego ninjago

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