Notice: This is a collaboration chapter with the worlds of "Ninjago: The Hidden Spinjitzu Master" and "Ninjago: New Legacies" SilverStorm8 and FoulEncoder471 have shared credit in this chapter as it is a mix of both writing styles and works, please make sure to check out the stories of both digital authors.
Alt-title: Mirror Realms
"Speech"
'Thought'
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(3rd POV)
Within the Mirror Realms there lied one world with three powerful children created by a being of primordial power, though this realm was centered around one, the one who could not remember the true occurrences of his past: Theo, currently the physical host for his brother Enzo, also known as Enzo. To focus on this boy we must first view the story of another.
The world wept at her arrival and the rain that fell down from the sky corresponded with the tears falling from her eyes. She had an empire in short notice but it meant nothing, it was all going to end so whether she liked it or not. Kara missed her siblings and wanted to see them more than anything else, but she knew she had a mission to do
'Hmm, that's strange... I sense another presence here, stronger than my brothers and close to my own. This should not be possible as only few should have the ability to traverse the Mirror Realms' Kara's eyes glowed azure as she felt the power of her brother laying within this being 'Oh Enzo, you absolute fool. You headstrong arrogant asshole, you let someone else imitate your power' Kara mentally remarked.
'I fucking hate having to clean up his mess, honestly if it was Theo I wouldn't mind due to him always having helped me in the past, but... He doesn't remember' Kara sighed "Andy, you're in charge now" Kara created an orange portal "O- of course, Kara" Andrew Replied nervously "Alright, double the efficiency for operations, we need these parts shipped to Chen's island by sundown!" Andrew then shot a random thug a sharp glare "Get the hell back to work, you want those paychecks, right? Get moving those crates, boss' orders!" Upon hearing this the thug heaved the boxes and started moving them along to the dock to the ferry, Kara chuckled at this before walking into the portal.
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(Akira)
Akira had made a great amount of distance with each flap of her wings, she could have easily reached Ninjago city by now, but decided to take her time and see what differences there were between this mirror realm and hers. 'Ouroboros was left in ruins, and the Sea of Sand isn't as hot, nor has the remains of serpentine cities like New Ouroboros or the Pyroviper city.' Akira thought. She was currently flying above the temple where Aspheera was imprisoned, and saw no signs of the kingdom that was once there so long ago.
She landed in front of the Fire Temple of Torch-Fire Mountain to see it had essentially melted down by the eruption. You wouldn't even know it was a temple unless you had already known about it before. Raising a hand that brimmed with the elemental essence of creation, what was once destroyed was rebuilt as the temple was restored to its original state, before walking through the door.
As she walked through the temple, Akira glanced behind her before she kept going further into the temple. She had already known that someone had sensed her presence, most likely due to the corrupted power she stole as it was something that she has yet to learn how to fully suppress. Being discovered was also another reason why she hadn't gone straight toward Ninjago city, she really didn't want to help fix it again, therefore she led them here instead.
With a wave of her hand, a small throne was formed just before the entrance of the inner volcano. Akira smiled as she sat down. "Time for some drama." She said aloud, sensing as the figure walked through the temple doors. It looked to be a human woman, but Akira knew better, she could feel the suppressed power that radiated from the woman, and that power was something that only one born of Dragon and Oni heritage could have. But, Akira could also sense how similar the woman's power felt to Theo and Umbralsage.
"Who, or better yet, what are you? And why are you here?" The woman asked, the questions lingered in the air for but a fleeting moment before Akira replied. "A dragon." The woman deadpanned. "No shit. As if I couldn't tell by your wings." She retorted, before taking a small breath. "But, it's clear to me that you are not just a dragon. So I ask again," her arms gleamed with the essence of darkness. Akira's eyes shone with intrigue seeing the elemental essence she did not have. Or so she thought.
Akira placed a hand on her chest. "I am Akira... Ouroboros, and I am of Dragon-Oni heritage. Just... like... you." She pointed at her with a smile, Akira's arms crackling with her silver power in response. "As for why I'm here? Well that's private information." The woman's eyes narrowed with suspicion. "Ouroboros? He was banished to the departed realm decades ago. Despite this I sense you are not from here, a power resonates within you that is not yours, or at least one of his" The woman's eyes glowed azure as she stared down at Akira, the pressure around them more than noticeable. 'She is indeed powerful.' Akira mused.
Akira raised her brow with a scoff, already knowing who the woman was talking about. "Well the Ghal'ok did try to harm someone I care about." She chuckled. "So you could say that I had to disarm him." Akira quipped, gaining a confused expression on the woman's face, before it turned into realization. Instead of feeling a sense of fury, the woman instead began to laugh heavily. "Yo- You actually– He finally got put in his place, huh, I thank you for that; My name is Kara, what's yours?" The woman revealed to be 'Kara' replies as she switches her demeanor to something more composed, and possibly even joyful. Sadistic joy regardless of the truth of that fact, even that is obvious enough.
Akira slightly deadpanned. "Akira is actually my real name." She began, getting a slight sheepish expression from Kara. "Ouroboros is from the fact that I'm its princess... well, at least where I'm from." She added. A few moments of silent awkwardness ensued before either of them spoke. "So... is this the moment where we fight or....?" Akira questioned, fiddling with her armor to try and take away from the awkward moment.
"Do you wish to fight? I ask why you believe we should, even if we were it would only cause needless damage. This is unjustly inconsequential to you as this is not your realm, despite this the same applies to me, however I do not wish to destroy what is not of my own, if at all." Kara replied as her azure eyes that had once glowed returned to their normal green and bland blue colors and the pressure that Kara had generated ceased to a full stop in an instant.
Akira shrugged, not seeming all that disappointed. "Eh. It was a 50/50 chance on whether or not we would fight." She answered, her tail flicking a rock into the lava. "You know, considering how Theo didn't attack me, but Ghal'ok attacked on sight even." She sighed with a shake of her head. "Didn't even bother to say hello or introduce himself until I confronted him either."
Kara raised her brow. "Ok, you keep calling Enzo Galok or whatever, what does that mean?" Akira giggled. "It's pronounced: Ghal'ok, and it means pervert." Kara snorted, rubbing her temples. "Tha-that's funny." She commented. "Even so, this is only somewhat correct. Enzo does not experience romantic attraction to others, however he does have a limited sense of a sexual one, but he isn't a creep or anything like that." Kara explained before remembering what Akira had just said before "Wait, did you say 'Theo'? You mean to say that you saw him, when?" Kara's composure shifted slightly.
Akira shifted in her seat to get more comfortable. "He came to my mirror realm about... a month or two ago. From what I could sense, his powers were unstable and he was jumping around mirror realms." Kara sighed. "That was the work of Voidwraith." Akira tilted her head with curiosity. "Who is this... Voidwrath?" She asked. "He is the most powerful being to ever live, he is a danger to every Mirror Realm and he's after Theo. I was sent here to get him directly but I'm only biding my time until I can get him out." Kara felt a dark presence behind her as soon as she said those words.
"Hello, sister." The being who materialized itself out of darkness took the form of Theo, but with ink black eyes, he was not who he appeared to be. "Enzo..." Kara replied shocked with his sudden appearance "I sensed your presence, what are you doing in this realm?" Enzo asks; Enzo suddenly jerks back in shock and annoyance once he noticed Akira.
Akira grinned maliciously. "Oh, hello Enzo." She began in a sickly sweet tone. "How nice of you to join us, but not even in your own body? Tck, tck, tck." Akira's mocking sweetness only irritated Enzo further. "Did I do so much damage to force you to make such a switch?" Enzo clenched his fists in anger, instinctively releasing a portion of his corrupted power.
"Partially, after you blasted me out of your Mirror Realm I was split off from my physical body, and the void outside the Ethereal Divide forced me out of the space between the Mirror Realms, not to mention I could barely use my power until I found a host, or truly travel from one world to another, the exception being the closest realm to me. I had to take a body and Theo's was the closest one, do you have a problem or anything?" Enzo's hands were now brimming with the corrupted energy, demonstrating how he was growing more spiteful by the minute.
"Back off Enzo, less you want to deal with two hybrids." Kara's eyes glowed Azure in defence of Akira. "Aww, look how nice your sister is, you should really take some lessons on that." Akira said whilst now being upside down on the throne, the orange light from the lava reflecting off the gold of her armor. "I guess that means I can't cut off your other limbs and eat them. There's really no point if they're no longer saturated with your corrupted power." She added, floating around the throne and slowly moving backwards towards the lava.
"Well, this was a nice conversation and all, but I got things to do, a little bit of exploration, a few pranks here and there, you know how it is. Ta-ta." Akira giggled, actually making sure to seal away the corrupted power she stole so as to not be so easily found again before dropping into the lava, using a portal to teleport to a random location in Ninjago.
"It's suicide, this girl is breaking all the rules enforced by our father, we should stop her." Enzo suggested, Kara simply chuckled "Please, you never cared about that before. Admit it, you're just angry that you got beaten by her." Kara replied "Even though she is more powerful, I don't fear her. Akira and Theo don't understand what they're messing with. Regardless of any grudges we are here to stop Voidwraith before it's too late." Enzo retorted.
"You're angry about this now?" Kara asked as her own energy started leaking "You are the reason we were in this situation in the first place... You are why Theo forgot us, you invaded other realms and tried to play mastermind who held all the strings, you failed Enzo. You gave Voidwraith everything he needed and you caused countless realms such immeasurable pain. You do not change as a person like everyone else, you quite literally cannot, it's in your nature." Kara's aura started to flare causing Enzo to stumble back.
"I despise you almost as much as I do our father, your act may fool Theo but it doesn't even phase me. You are a selfish asshole who only does everything for himself. Despite all of the hatred I still care about you as you are my brother, but if you ever even attempt to ruin Theo's life in the slightest I promise you a death far more brutal than the Anacondrai Princess could offer, and it won't be a delightful process to come back to life." The force of Kara's aura was enough to send Enzo into the wall of the fire temple as she held Enzo by the throat.
"Do I make myself clear?!" Kara's face shifted into that of an Oni as her voice darkened, despite how much Enzo struggled he did not show a hint of fear, rather surprise "What happened after those 20,000 years?" Enzo asks, "You will find out soon enough." Kara replies as she throws him into a portal far away, albeit still within the realm.
(Scene break)
"Jump up, kick back, whip around and spin. And then we jump back, do it again. Ninja, go! Ninja! Come on, come on and do the weekend whip, ohh yeah." Akira sang aloud, having taken her time climbing—more so jumping—down the Golden Peaks, the very place where the Golden Weapons were forged.
As she reached the bottom, her eyes shined with an idea. "Oh, yes! That would be so much fun!" She giggled. "Besides, it's not like they really need it right now, and even if I did keep it, those three can deal with any Oni they come across. Fuck, I don't even need it, I'm just gonna steal it for shits and giggles."
Using the element of wind, Akira summoned an elemental dragon to begin flying towards Ninjago city. Whilst she could just fly on her dragon form, the small surge of power would most likely give away her position, allowing someone to track her down. During this journey, her eyes flickered orange, giving her a short view on where one of her icons were.
The perspective was an aerial view from her orange icon, showing a fight between a giant lizard that shot blue beams of energy at a three headed golden hydra-like dragon, which had responded to the attack with its own yellow lightning-like beams.
Akira observed the fight, watching how the two beasts struggled against each other's strength , as well as making sure to get every little detail about the lizard's appearance. Why? Because she thought it looked cool, so why not transform into something similar or maybe even change something about her own dragon form. "Hmm. Maybe for another time."
The elemental dragon flew faster, speeding across the sky and closing in on the city. Before Akira reached the city, she dispersed the dragon and began walking towards the city as she shifted into her human form with her armor dissolving into energy, being replaced by a purple and dull gold kimono.
Akira grimaced with discomfort. 'By the sources, I hate this fragile form.' She mentally complained. She walked into the city with something akin to a royal grace, her unique purple hair with silver highlights attracting attention from some citizens, including a few more... perverse stares from some men and even a few women.
"Excuse me, could our daughter get a picture with you?" A man and woman in a seemingly royal green attire asked Akira, the child with them looked oddly familiar to a child that she had seen before. "Uhh. Yeah, sure." Akira replied, moving into a position to kneel behind the child with the clearly adoptive parents beside her, whilst a royal guard took the photo. Despite trying to keep herself hidden, Akira made the bold decision of using a small bit of magic to make the background more interesting than the usual city plaza.
Both parents and the child were genuinely surprised and impressed at the small display, with the child showing genuine interest, something rare for them these days. "Oh my. Are you an elemental master?" The adoptive mother asked, causing Akira to raise her brow. "I am yes, but that wasn't my elemental power. I'm actually surprised you know of elemental masters, not many people know about them anymore."
The adoptive father chuckled. "Well we've known about them for years, given that we're the Emperor and Empress of Ninjago." The Emperor said before his wife added. "Not to mention the recent happenings with the elemental masters and Chen's followers running around." Akira's eyes narrowed ever so slightly, she remembered Chen, despised him for what he did to her pops.
But before her hateful thought process could continue, the young girl spoke up. "Was that really magic? Or some parlor trick?" Akira responded by generating a solidified orb of crystallized magic and giving it to the girl. Her eyes were wide, filled with curious wonder. She looked up at Akira. "Can anyone learn magic?" She asked with a small amount of hope.
Akira nodded. "Most people can, but it also depends upon what kind of magic they decide to learn." The girl titled her head, whilst her adoptive parents listened with their own curiosity. "There's different kinds?" The disguised dragon nodded. "There's human magic, serpentine magic—though that's mostly lost to time—there's dark magic and light magic, as well as elemental magic, though that last one is nowhere near as powerful as elemental power. Especially when a water elemental master could just throw your attack back at you."
Before their conversation could continue, the mother interrupted. "Alright now, I think that's enough questions for today dear Harumi." She began, grabbing onto Harumi's hand, who reluctantly accepted. "After all, we don't know how busy this kind lady is. Who knows we might have made her late for something important."
Akira waved her off. "It's fine, though I do have to get going now." She said, suppressing her power further as she felt a familiar presence approaching.
The Empress waved goodbye as they walked away. "Bye-bye now!"
(Theo)
Darkness, an endless world of ever-expanding darkness "What happened, did I black out?" I asked seemingly nothing, wait what is this place? Is that... Me? "Glad to see you awake, brother." Someone taking my form remarked "Enzo..." My eyes widened in realization "Why am I back here again, I was just at Garmadon's funeral and then it all went dark, and I mean that literally." I motion to the void around us.
"I did it for good reason, I really did. You see your little snake friend is here in this realm causing a bit of chaos." As Enzo replied the world shifted around him, further supporting my theory of this pocket realm belonging to, and presumably being created by him. "Akira's here?" I ask, I honestly didn't expect to see her for a long while but I won't complain at the chance to see a friend "I believe you may have forgotten the word where I said she was causing chaos, that key word." I roll my eyes.
"Even if she is here, why should I believe that she is causing trouble to this realm, I know she wouldn't do it" I retort, Enzo scoffs in pride "Please, you knew her for about five minutes and you think you know everything about her." The way he says this sounds oddly suspicious. "What a coincidence, the first time we met you sent the Overlord to kill me, then you attacked me on Chen's Island, and then you possessed me." I feel my powers leaking out uncontrollably so I calm myself down.
"Well I did merge with you with your consent. Either way, maybe you should think about the fact that Akira is the adoptive daughter of the late General Arcturus." He adds with a grin forming on his face, what's his game, I wonder "What's that have to do with anything?" I can feel the wind blow between us, or whatever this realm's version of wind is "I have watched her from afar, she battled the Elemental Masters many years ago for fun, not to mention she tends to go off a bit about how much she represents the Anacondrai culture so why not take a bit of revenge on her adoptive father's part?" He adds as his eyes glow as black as ink, my eyes widen in realization, though not in the way that you would initially think.
"Did you just admit to watching Akira like a perverted creep, across dimensions no less?" I deflect, Enzo's eyes widened as he was clearly pissed by what I had said "What? No, of course not, I– Ugh, why does everyone always assume i'm some fucking creep; For crying out loud I spy on almost everyone outside the Mirror Realms, you included!" Enzo retorted "Enzo, I thought you said we were brothers–" I replied disturbed "Shut up! Not in that way, i'm not some incestful freak, and I may be a horrible person but that is fucked up even by my standards, extremely fucked up!" Enzo made sure to emphasize the last part quite well as he composed himself.
"Point is, Lloyd is in the city right there where Akira is messing about, imagine she runs into the kid who's in fact the son of the one who banished their adoptive father." Enzo's smirk returns "Enzo, you do realize that she guards Lloyd like a protective sibling, just as I do with mine. What makes you think that she would take her revenge out on Lloyd, let alone a kid in general? I know that much at the absolute least, you can fuck off!" My hands bristle with the essence of Golden Power and strike.
Enzo blocks my attack with his hand "Fatal mistake, brother. I made Necral Power specifically to counter and overpower Golden Power. This void is full of necral power which I control, you and your slimy so-called friend may have replicated it, but it belongs to me." Enzo's form starts to shift "You don't have to worry, I won't control you. I'll let my power and the darkest parts of your mind take that role." Enzo currently takes the appearance of his main alias of Umbralsage, I panic as my heart rate starts to increase drastically.
"W- Wait, Enzo please! Don't do this, please don't hurt Akira, Lloyd, or anyone else!" I beg as my eyes start to fill up with tears, only few manage to drop "That all depends on you, brother. I look forward to what chaos and destruction you will bring, toodles." Enzo suddenly disperses into the dark liquid materials the pocket realm is made of, and before I know it, I am engulfed fully.
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Akira was mentally laughing ecstatically at the prank she just pulled. The prank consisted of changing the colors of the bowls, plates and utensils of Chen's noodle shop, the only reason she didn't do more was because Chen was behind bars and it was now his daughter who was taking over the shop. So she decided to go easy on her, she seemed like a nice young woman, master of amber too.
Everyone was of course very confused about the switch in colors that included a super reflective white, or an obnoxious mixture of pinks, yellows and browns. They were still safe to eat with so after a while everyone slowly began eating their food. She's not gonna mess with someone's food like that, that's just fucked up.
'The noodles are good though.' Akira mentally commented on the taste, devouring what she had left. "Excuse me, ma'am." Akira glanced to her left to see Chen's daughter... Skylor if she remembered correctly. "Would you like some more noodles?" She asked. Akira nodded in reply, if her tail was out it would be wagging like crazy. "Yes, thank you." Skylor walked away after writing something down on her notepad, pushing the door open and entering the kitchen.
[BOOM!]
Akira slammed her fists on the table with fury blazing within her amethyst eyes and breaking the table in half. "What is that fool doing?!" She hissed, sensing that Theo was the one causing destruction in the city, and for some reason his presence was shrouded in the corrupted energy that came from Enzo.
She took a deep breath to calm herself, and dropped some extra cash on the broken table before standing up and walking outside. Akira saw Theo rampaging through the city, destroying everything in his path. "Where are you?! I know you here!" He yelled, aiming to destroy a car with citizens inside, but luckily not before the ninja stopped him.
"Theo? What happened to you?" Jay asked, visually frightened with the amount of power he had displayed "It's like how he was back in Chen's island, do you think Enzo could have done this?" Kai adds "Enzo shows emotions of rage and twisted joy, while whoever is in him now is making his head all mixed up with different emotions. I believe something may be causing Theo to act out in this way, but this is without a doubt the same power that boosted the Overlord" Zane observed.
Theo noticed the Ninja, and without a second thought he activated his rising dragon technique in the form of the element of fire and blasted from the mouth of the avatar created from the fighting style, and it was aimed specifically at Lloyd.
Akira's fists clenched tightly as she began feeling very complex emotions. 'Not my Lloyd, this is not my Lloyd.' She breathed heavily before she finally came to a very simple conclusion. "Aah, fuck it." With blinding speed, she nearly teleported in between Theo and Lloyd, effortlessly parrying the attack and knocking the corrupted Theo back.
"That was a fatal mistake" Theo remarked as he dashed at superhuman speeds at Akira, manifesting his own blade with the essence of creation, however before he can strike Kara appears out of a portal and intercepts it with her own blade in turn. "Theo cease, this isn't you. I– We don't want to hurt you" Kara's eyes glow azure as uses Spinjitzu and transfers the energy from it to her sword as she throws it at him.
Akira huffed with annoyance. "I didn't need your help." She stated, returning to her Dragonian form with a flash of silver light. "I hate that form." She murmured. "I'm stronger than you, even if you didn't need my help at that time, you should know that Theo currently has not only his full power, but Enzo's as well. It will take both of us to incapacitate him, so your current hopes of beating him one on one are nothing but delusion as long as he's focused." Kara retorts.
Akira scoffed with disappointment as markings grew along her body, just like when she first fought Enzo. "You complement my strength by saying I'm stronger than your brothers, but now say I'm too weak?" Even more markings grew around her body as armor, and weapon-like appendages grew on her body before being surrounded by her high tech armor. "How disrespectful of you to assume I never held back against Enzo."
With her full power unleashed, the area around them changed. The asphalt roads cracked, and any nearby vehicles began to contort as they floated into the air. Kara's eyes slightly widened with impressed surprise. "Power is not what I was referring to, you are overconfident to win with your abilities and natural prowess alone. You lack the experience I have had, ironically despite you claiming to be superior to Enzo, you remind me quite a bit of him. You think you can cause chaos here just because it's fun? That is your mistake, if this is how you always remain then you won't even stand a minute against Voidwraith, better to focus on the fight we have at hand." Kara elaborates.
Theo manifests a Spinjitzu tornado of dark grey unlike his typical violet color, Kara overpowers this using Forbidden Spinjitzu despite not even wielding the scroll, shocking Akira "We need both of us to get through to him, not just me, together." Kara motions for Akira to join her as she dodges another unchoreographed attack. Theo manifests two blades of necral power to combat the two of them in marksmanship. "Even though you haven't known him for long I know you don't want to hurt him, I know you care about him, please!" Kara pleads as emotion leaks from her voice, as it was breaking up in sorrow.
"Fine." Akira formed her own blade of silver power before following Kara's lead, deflecting blasts of Necral Power. Kara smiled "Despite this, I truly do believe that you care about him" Kara replied, Theo's first blade of necral power clashed with Kara's katana, while the second defending against Akira's blade.
With every clash Theo's Necral sword had against Akira's silver blade, small silver cracks began covering his blade, showing just how effective her Silver Power was against Enzo's Necral Power.
A minor cut appeared on Theo's left cheek, however it healed instantly "Look, we may be able to slightly overpower him individually, but we can only defeat him together." Kara explained, "We need a strategy." Kara's hands were imbued with the element of wind as she throwed a burst of air to defend against one of Theo's attacks.
Theo switched to the essence of darkness as the area around him started to crystalize, to match this Akira and Kara used their Golden Power to neutralize it, suddenly Theo's eyes returned to normal "I- I don't want to hurt any more people. I can only hold it back for long, please, you have to kill me!" Theo begged as his eyes were flashing from his initial color to ink black repeatedly "Please..." Theo was starting to lose control.
"You have to–No I won't let you do it! It must—We cannot be destro—end it." Theo replied softly right after arguing with whatever seemed to be controlling him prior, but in a tone enough to say everything that needed to be said.
Akira scoffed, shifting to her dragon form. "Stop being so shortsighted and filling your head with unnecessary self-sacrifice when there's a better solution." She pinned him to the ground, and opened her maws. Silver energy began surrounding Theo and began forcefully pulling on the Necral energy that enshrouded him, the power flowing into Akira's maw before it began tugging on the soul that did not belong as the silver energy gave Theo more clarity.
"What are you doing?! Are you insane?!" The familiar dark voice of Enzo sounded out from Theo's mouth. Akira's eyes narrowed with sadistic glee. "If I'm going down, he's going down with me. Even if you take out my power, our souls cannot be separated by anyone except for–." Enzo's voice is cut off as he stares in horror of the new presence in front of him.
"F- father." He muttered as primordial energy foreign to anything in the Mirror Realms materialized in a physical form "Not now, he too has much to achieve." The being remarked as the souls are split apart into their original components "You restored my physical body, why?" Enzo asks as his own body is returned. "That is the absolute least of your worries, 'Umbralsage'." The being mocked as he made sure to emphasize the alias as they disappear into an unknown void.
Enzo's power rejuvenated itself to its full state despite it being devoured, Theo lays unconscious, and the city lay devastated. Enzo's plan had failed and he was defeated, just not in the way he would have expected, and in that instant he screamed in rage. "Voidwraith...." Enzo remarks spitefully revealing the being's name indirectly.
Enzo suddenly let out another scream, only this one was out of pain. Why? Because Akira slammed her tail in between his legs. "My plan was to devour most of your power and then throw your soul into a body that would be so useless that you would barely be able to use your powers." She repeated the action, getting another scream. "But this works too." Enzo scoffed. "You think you've won? Theo's still mine, I—." Kara leaps forward and knees him right in the stomach before using the element of wind to take the air out of his lungs before holding him in the air with the element of gravity.
"I warned you, Enzo." Kara's teeth sharpened to that of an Oni, surprisingly Enzo laughed once more. "Hurt me all you want, kill me even. I will just come back to life, regardless of this if I truly die you do too, and so does Theo, it doesn't even matter if you're stronger than me, even if I have lost, I still win. I gain the satisfaction of ruining his reputation."
The audible sound of Akira snapping her jaws shut could be heard as the last bits of excess Necral power inside Theo was consumed, cutting off Enzo's access to Theo's body unless a new pact was formed. "Fuck you." Enzo snarled hatefully. Luckily for him Voidwrait had just given Enzo's body back. A new grin had formed on Enzo's face as he saw Lloyd in close proximity, he regenerated and manifested a blade of Necral Power and accessed the element of speed and dashed towards him.
[SPLOOSH!]
The blade collided with skin, but not Lloyd's, Theo's; Enzo's eyes widened in shock as he dematerialized the blade, he actually looked worried for his brother for once "I- I– You'll just heal, right?" Enzo reassured himself as he channeled his power to try to heal Theo, a seal rejected him "Why won't you heal?! Despite what I did, I didn't want to actually hurt you, please just heal up!" Tears start to begin forming in his own eyes, and in that moment Akira and Kara stop.
Lloyd walks up to Theo, bleeding out on the floor "GET AWAY FROM HIM!" Enzo created spears out of his Necral Power directed at Lloyd as his eyes turned ink black "I will deal with you soon enough" Enzo created a spiraling dark smoke around himself and Theo "This isn't over, there is something wrong with the Mirror Realms. I will revive my brother, and you will not stop me." The smoke culminated around Enzo and Theo's body.
"Also, fuck you both!" Enzo said out of context before the smoke engulfed them and they were out of this realm entirely. "Theo may be in the wrong hands now, but I do believe what Enzo said despite all of his deceptions. It's best not to go after them right now, regardless of this I thank you." Kara's expression softened.
Akira huffed, turning her head away. "Yeah whatever." She mumbled, before chuckling. "He left like he was a cartoon villain." She whispered, glancing at Lloyd or the Golden Ninja if she were to go by his title. "Thank you for protecting us, but what has become of Theo?" Lloyd pulls his mask down.
Before Kara could answer, Akira spoke up first. "He basically got taken away by his brother, Enzo, who is probably into some weird shit with how he mind-ra... I probably shouldn't say that with children around." She stopped herself from completing her crude explanation when she saw civilian children nearby.
"You don't have to worry about that, my team and I will evacuate them" Lloyd motioned to the other 4 Ninja with his hand, signifying them to help those around them. Lloyd's green gi turns golden as he manifests a Golden Dragon and puts out all the fire around him with gold glistening ice.
Whilst the ninja evacuated the civilians, Akira turned to Kara. "Alright here's the deal, I'm gonna help you get Theo back, then I'm leaving because it's clear I'm not welcome." Kara sighed. "The only reason Enzo was blowing his shit about it was because you admitted you were going to cause chaos." Akira looked offended. "I-do you not know what pranks are? The most chaos I've done so far was changing the colors of the bowls at Chen's noodle shop, and turning Kai's Gi orange."
"What the fuck?! How is my Gi orange?!"
Kara was genuinely surprised by how Akira had done that just now without her noticing, especially when Akira hadn't changed forms. "I'm not telling you how, a magician or prankster never tells." Akira said, in turn Kara smirked. "I don't really care to be honest. I don't see this as a competition of strength or power, I just want my brothers back." Kara replied. "Also we shouldn't go after Theo, at least right now. Some sort of seal was placed on him, and as much as I hate to admit it Enzo is his best chance of surviving, we need to plan for the future, or at least I do." Kara's blade returns back into the portal of which it was taken out of.
"Why is my hair pink!" Akira heard Jay scream out, as well as the laughter of Nya. "It is truly infuriating how you're not taking this seriously, I appreciate everything you have done, but why are you even still here?" Kara huffed. "Apologies, I'm just a bit stressed." Suddenly a group of people resembling terrorists appeared from around the ruined corners of the destroyed area and surrounded Akira and Kara. As it seemed like they were about to attack, they bent a knee to Kara.
With a wave of Kara's hands the buildings were suddenly fixed, the roads mended, all damage undone. "Andrew Huntsman, set forward." Kara ordered, the masked individual pulled down his mask and walked towards Kara before taking a knee once more, Kara raised her hand as elemental energy culminated and her eyes turned azure and Andrew's body glows white as he gasped.
"Aww, you have minions, how cute." Akira commented, getting an eye roll from Kara. "You have been loyal since the beginning, that deserves a reward: the elemental power of Lava, use it wisely." Kara's eyes returned to normal as the energy surrounding Andrew dispersed. "I would try that out later if I were you, we don't want to cause needless damage in such a public area." Kara specifically stared at Akira to emphasize that last part.
"I would like to see how you fight against someone who can match you in a fight, but if you accept I warn you it will not be as easy as your victories against Enzo." As Kara said that a portal materialized in front of her. "And also, it just seems like you naturally cause too much of a scene." Kara added with a hint of mischief in her voice as she walked through the portal. Akira flipped her off, before changing back into her Dragonian form and following Kara as she walked through the portal.
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Akira observed the area around her as she exited the portal. "Nice place you got here." She commented, sending out pulses of energy to get a mental map of the base. "One question, though." Kara raised a brow. "Yes?" She gestured for Akira to continue. "Why not use the Dark Island as your base of operations? I don't sense the Overlord, so surely that would be a better place, with more space and things like the Temple of Light, and the Dark Matter Pits."
"Speaking of such things, I am planning to relocate to Chen's Island within the next few weeks, however that can wait, space should not be an issue. I simply wish to test your capabilities, that's all. Even if you go all out I can mend the damage as soon as we finish." Kara replied "So, how are we gonna do this?" Akira questioned. "Hand to hand, weapons, powers and abilities, maybe even all at once?" Kara chuckled. "Anything you wish, Anacondrai Princess." Kara's hands bristled with the essence of creation.
Akira shrugged her shoulders. "Let's just start with one—like hand to hand—and go from there." Kara nodded as they headed toward a clearer area that would be more suitable for a spar.
"Alright then." Kara began, using creation to create highly durable gauntlets around her forearms, before taking a slightly casual fighting stance. "Lesson one: Hand to hand combat." Akira grinned, raising her armored gauntlets in her own fighting stance, before rushing toward Kara.
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