The Existence Imperative

*“Fritz Donegan????? For real!?”*

— Jay meeting his hero, Fritz Donegan for the first time

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The Guardians of Existence

## Chronological Order

**Closing the Circles** Chapter 6 (subtitled ***The Existence Imperative***) is the sixth chapter in the *Closing the Circles* series and 13th overall story arc in *Legends of Ogaji*. It is preceded by *Of Rotten Heritage* and followed by *Mirror Me Part 1*.

The focus characters are Jay and Zane from Ninjago Earth-17, and the main antagonist is Clouse. The Guardians of Existence serve as the villainous faction of this season.

It was originally written in 2018.

As of now there are no full-length episodes written for this chapter.

## Official Description

*Jay returns to Ninjago Earth-17 only to find that it was not as he had left it, and there is an evil yet to be awoken from deep below the earth... and high up into the stars.*

## Plot Summary

Jay and Kaitlin return to Earth-17, and she decides they need to take a break. Now, Jay's old team has a grudge against him, and Kai is especially jealous.

They soon find out that two powerful beings are plotting to steal their Elemental Essences, and they are taken in to The Starfarers, a group of Intergalactic space police who track down and destroy hostile aliens. Jay and Zane fit in nicely on the new planet, but have to fight with Kirchon's army.

Eventually they find that two of Kirchon's minions are from a group of beings called the Guardians of Existence, and they serve their master, the King of the Underworld.

Jay and Zane defeat them and meet up with G and the Dragon Keepers and find they had the same issue with the Guardians. They track them down and find out they've been kidnapping Elemental Masters to free their king, and so the Ninja get together to stop them.

They find out that their king is Clouse from Ninjago, and they stop him and free the prisoners. Zane unlocks his Ultimate Potential.

## Parts

Unlike previous chapters, this chapter is separated into three longer parts, rather than episodes.

SpitBrain
Earth-17 join the Starfarers
in taking down Kirchon the
 2
Fenwick
Elemental Masters from other
dimensions and finds out there
 3
that the Guardians of Existence
have been following them, and
they must take them down to
rescue their friends.

## Characters

### Protagonists

#### Dragon Keepers

* G Frost (leader)
* Luke Cunningham
* Samuel Strumar
* Jay Walker
* Zane Julien (earth-17)

#### Starfarers

* Barry Bawn
* Fritz Donagan (leader)
* Brendon Balk

### Antagonists

#### Kirchon's Army

* Kirchon The Invinsible
	+ Norkir
	+ Kerkhof
* Marlene
* Libber
* SpitBrain
* Other aliens

#### Guardians of Existence

* Clouse (leader)
* Red
* Chokun
* Oceila
* Fenwick
* SpitBrains
* Gold
* Purple

## Author's Notes

* This chapter was meant to be an indirect end to the Ninjago Ninja's journey, focusing on Jay from Earth-17
	+ This is the final chapter in the "Other Worlds" story arc, which was started in *World of Snow,* which detailed the events of Zane's return to Earth-14, and then to *Snake King* to show Kai on his world and then so forth.
* This is my favorite of the Other Worlds chapters since I did what I wanted to do (tell the story of Jay and his home world,) but also made the story unique.
* The Starfarer Base that appears in episode 1 was a MOC that I created.
	+ It was a house that I wanted to make because I realized that with LEGO I can build whatever I want, and I wanted to make a cool house. I was very very proud of the build. Really upset that it got destroyed.
* The antagonist in the first episode, Kirchonn the Invincible, is a character from the Ninjago comic book "*Stone Cold*."
* The second episode, the *Multiverse Tournament*, is the second tournament episode in the series.
	+ The first one being *Tournament of Shadows.*
	+ This event originally wasn't going to be included in this chapter. I wrote dialogue for GDStudios' 3rd OC tournament on Instagram, that included G, and by the end added Red and Chokun into the mix, and decided to add it to the storyline.
		- Gabe actually found out that I did this and commented on it! Pretty funny!
	+ All of the characters that appear in the Multiverse Tournament episode are other Ninjago fans' real OCs.
* The idea of Clouse being the King of the Underworld is a popular fan theory among Ninjago fans, following his appearance in the *Dark Island Trilogy*.
	+ Clouse's appearance in this chapter is reminiscent of the Skull Sorcerer from LEGO Ninjago Season 13, as the leading theory before that season aired was that the Skull Sorcerer was actually Clouse in disguise.
		- This theory ended up being wrong, but it was a cool idea.
* Fritz Donegan's design is almost identical to a stripped-down version of Julian Albert.
* This chapter marks the first appearance of Zane from Ninjago Earth-17, who later becomes a major character in the last two chapters in *CtC*.
	+ This is also the third chapter where a character unlocks their Ultimate Potential.

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