Chapter 22: Ninjaball Run

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"Lloyd focus" Wu proceeds to pour some tea "In order to bear the fate of on your shoulders, you must first learn to bear the weight of all of us"

Lloyd is using his feet to balance the Ninja and Wu. Aria is sitting against the wall with her fans.

Wu sips tea "Focus"

"Sensei, I'm starting to think this was a bad idea" Jay says nervously

"Yeah, Sensei, he's just a kid" Cole agrees

"In order for him to succeed, we must all trust one another" Wu lectures

"yeah that's why Aria's being balanced too, right?" Kai asks sarcastically while gesturing to the blonde girl in the corner

"I'm too young to die" Aria says as she places her fans down

Behind them, outside, some machinery is heard as Lloyd starts straining from holding all the weight on his feet. A wrecking ball slams into the wall, making Aria scream and everyone fall and land on the ground.

"Aria!" Lloyd shouts worriedly.

The dust settles and everyone looked shocked

"A-Aria" Cole says

Aria looks at them "what"

Aria was standing in front of the wrecking ball with one hand on it, It was completely  stopped in place. Aria looked and took her hand off it.

"I-I... what!" Aria shouts freaked out

Wu smiles "good reflexes, training is going well then"

"...I acted without even knowing I did it!" Aria shouts

"No no no!" Dareth runs into the room "It wasn't supposed to start until tomorrow!"

"Tomorrow?" The foreman turns to the builder "Let me see that order" The builder hands him the order slip and he looks at it "Oh, yeah. My bad. Sorry about that. We'll be back in the morning"

They both leave. Dareth groans as he picks up one of his "trophies," which is bent.

"Uh, Dareth, what is this all about?" Cole asks

"Well, I fell behind on some of my payments and some developer named Darnagom Enterprises is buying the entire block to put in some stupid frisbee-golf course. They say if I don't come up with 50,000 by tomorrow, the dojo is gone" Dareth explains

"But, we already lost the Bounty. We can't lose the dojo now" Jay complains

Aria looks at the sign "Darnagom? When you rearrange the letters, it spells—"

"O grandma?" Jay interrupts

"No, it spells Garmadon" Zane clarifies

"Right sorry" he laughs "yeah that would make more sense"

"Um, my dad is behind this?" Lloyd questions

"If he destroys the dojo, where will we train Lloyd and Aria?" Cole asks

"Exactly, but how are we supposed to get $50,000" Kai questions

Nya walked in "The Ninjaball Run, the biggest and most dangerous road race in Ninjago, is the next day and the grand prize is one hundred thousand dollars"

"We can enter with the Ultra Sonic Raider" Jay suggested

"And I can enter with my Dragon. You did say I needed the practice" Lloyd says

"So it is agreed. You will all enter this Ninjaball Run to save the dojo" Wu declares

"Aria will you be riding with Lloyd then?" Zane asks

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