Ninjago: Dragons Rising S1

It’s been one year since The Merge when all 16 realms united and the Ninja disappeared. Arin is a self-taught Spinjitzu amateur living in Crossroads, a blended community, with his inventor friend, Sora. They enter their mech in a race that’s interrupted by a young dragon named Riyu being pursued by dragon hunters from The Imperium. Sora bonds with Riyu and discovers latent elemental powers. Arin and Sora are rescued by Lloyd, the Green Ninja.

Lloyd frees Arin and Sora from the prison train, and they escape with the young dragon, Riyu, who gives them a clue to find his home. They return to the Ninja Cave to research Lloyd’s maps. Sora repairs the Bounty, and they travel to the land of Three Peaks to reunite Riyu with his clan. The Claws follow them and capture Riyu’s Matriarch, who grants Lloyd a mysterious new power to fight back. Riyu stays with the Ninja.

Lloyd trains Arin and Sora by impersonating Master Wu, but his lessons won’t stick. Sora and Arin sneak out of the Monastery to go to the Crossroads Carnival where they rescue Lobbo from Kreel, only to uncover a larger kidnapping plot. A villain named Dorama is using Whack Rats to create fireworks. Lloyd follows his students to the carnival, and a memorial to his missing teammates reminds Lloyd that being a Ninja used to be fun, too.

The original Bounty crashes into the Monastery with no pilot. Clues inside lead Lloyd, Arin, Sora, and Riyu to Kai’s last location, the former Realm of Madness, and they find Mud Creatures attacking two dragons.Nya stops Lloyd and the others from siding with the dragons who are eating sacred mud. Kai returns but leads the dragons into the Mud Creatures’ village. Riyu figures out the mud is making the dragons aggressive and stops the fight by overcharging their powers.

A MergeQuake unleashes a monster on the Cloud Kingdom. The Ninja, passing by on the Bounty, defend the floating city. After battle, Nya searches the kingdom’s scrolls about the Merge while Arin and Sora confront a scribe named Euphrasia, a Master of Wind who hides her powers. When the MergeQuake reopens, Euphrasia reveals herself to save the Ninja. Nya stays behind to research after finding information protected by an unknown curse.

Another clash with Rapton leads Sora to believe that the Imperium has completed a dangerous invention from her past. A flashback shows Sora’s youth as a rising star in the tech world until she discovers her invention will be used for evil. In the present, Sora returns home with Lloyd, Arin, and Riyu, but the four get split up. Sora runs into a figure from her past while Arin hides Riyu and Lloyd meets a new Elemental Master.

Lloyd battles a new Elemental Master named Wyldfyre, then agrees to help the young, feral fire-user free her family. Meanwhile, Arin falls in with a young group of Imperium do-gooders, and Sora is faced with an impossible choice when she comes face-to-face with Dr. LaRow. Lloyd discovers Wyldfyre’s family is a dragon named Heatwave. An alert informs the entire city of their prison break, including Sora who has just brought the Photac army to life.

Wyldfyre’s flashback shows her childhood raised by Heatwave until the Merge allows The Imperium to capture the dragon. In the present, Wyldfyre and Lloyd free Heatwave and other dragons and face a standoff against the Dragon Hunters and Sora’s Photacs. Lloyd grabs Arin during the stampede, and Sora escapes the lab in search of Riyu. With a boost from the dragon, she could use her Elemental Powers to shut down the Photacs, but Riyu is kidnapped.

It’s dragons versus Photac beasts in the streets of Imperium! The claws stop Lloyd and Wyldfyre’s efforts to free the escaped dragons. Sora and Arin search for Riyu. The young dragon’s spark would allow Sora to shut down the Photacs for good. Unfortunately, the Teen Protection Force brings him before the Empress. Meanwhile, Nya and Kai reunite under mysterious circumstances and face an apparition from the past.

Kai, Nya, and Zane come to Lloyd’s aid. The Ninja and Wyldfyre hold off the Claws and protect the escaped dragons from inside the new Monastery. Lloyd and Zane investigate a mysterious energy source beneath the city to power their escape and discover a new ally imprisoned by the Empress. Sora and Arin’s rescue of Riyu is interrupted by a rematch with Ras. Sora uses a spark from Riyu to defeat their enemy and shut down the Photacs.

The Ninja settle into a new normal after their victory against the Imperium. Lloyd struggles to keep up with the responsibilities of being a Ninja, mentor, and master of the Monastery. They stop another MergeQuake, but the disturbances are getting more frequent. Nya’s research guides them to a templeand three Dragon Cores that could stop the quakes for good. Meanwhile, Beatrix plots her revenge and plans to steal the Cores for use as a weapon.

The Ninja split into three teams to find the Dragon Cores that will end the MergeQuakes. Nya pairs with Sora, and Kai ends up with Wyldfyre. Lloyd and Arin head out on the Bounty, but a training mishap crashes them into the sea. To repair the ship, the Ninja must reclaim a floating village from an ocean gang and their monstrous pet crab, but the situation is not what it seems.

Wyldfyre and Kai barely escape another obstacle on their journey. Despite their personality clash, they finally reach the Wyldness. The Dragon Core is possessed by Lava-tides, who force the Ninja to clean up the mess Wyldfyre created when she lived here. Meanwhile, Zane needs a part to study the Monastery’s teleportation gate and follows Mr. Frohicky into Crossroads where they are hosting a Zane Day celebration.

To locate the yellow Dragon Core, Nya uses a Djinjagan spell that accidentally curses herself and Sora. They become the target of unstoppable spectral Howlers. Sora, the dragon, flies the Ninja to an old ally, Arrakore, the last of the Djinn, but he does not have the magic or the will to help. Back at the Monastery, Mr. Frohicky tries to prove his worth as an Assistant Keeper to Zane, but nothing seems to go right.

All three Ninja teams near the end of their hunt for the Dragon Cores. Kai and Wyldfyre scramble for the purple Core against Dorama and the Lava-tides. Lloyd and Arin enter a trial for the pink Core with unexpected consequences. In the Valley of Lost things, Nya and Sora search for the purple Core but instead find an old friend.

Cole reunites with Nya to help her and Sora retrieve the purple Dragon Core in the Land of Lost Things. Unfortunately, the core powers a machine keeping Cole’s new home with a group of young runaways safe from a monster hunting the land. Sora studies the machine with the help of a new Elemental Master. Back in the Wyldness, Kai teaches Wyldfyre how to treat Heatwave’s burns and hopes the younger fire-user realizes she has more to learn.

Arin and Lloyd follow the stolen pink Dragon Core through a portal into the Administration. The Ninja navigate its maze of cubicles and bureaucracy, inadvertently rescuing Zane along the way. They track down the Core but have to lose an army of Agents if they want to escape. Arin also finds a clue in the continued search for his parents and meets a familiar face in the process. Meanwhile, Kai teaches Wyldfyre the importance of finding calm.

The Empress’s rise to power is revealed through flashbacks as present-day Beatrix attempts to construct her new MergeQuake weapon. Deception from a minion delivers her a serious setback. All three teams of Ninja sneak back into the Imperium to retrieve the stolen Dragon Cores. They find help with unexpectedallies and form a plan to infiltrate the labs. Unfortunately, they may not reach the Cores before Beatrix completes her weapon.

The Ninja battle the Empress in the streets if the Imperium as Jordana uses the Dragon Cores to bring her MergeQuake weapon online. Kai and Wyldfyre take out the armory, and Sora and Arin join the resistance on their mission to turn the people against Beatrix. The leaders of the resistance are revealed!

Beatrix uses her new weapon to open MergeQuakes across the Imperium. The Ninja, with the help of rebellious citizens, defeat the Empress – but they are too late! MergeQuakes reach a tipping point and put the epicenter of the Merge – Crossroads – in danger. Lloyd must tap into his connection to the Source Dragon, learning not just how to save Crossroads, but the entire united realms.