Hannah Rhodes had been sent to the hospital once again. No one knew where her mystery pains were coming from but it had started about two months ago.
This time it had been in her leg, and all of a sudden she had collapsed. Hannah had struggled to get up, but with the searing pain in her leg, her vision blurring, and her eyes tearing up, she just couldn't. It had literally felt like her leg had been set on fire. The burn was there to prove it, she would later find out. But that was impossible, wasn't it?
Hannah lay in the hospital bed, clutching the sheets, trying to find something, anything, to distract herself from the pain in her leg. No matter what she did she couldn't focus on anything else, and simply had to wait until a nurse came back to give her more pain medication.
It felt like hours, months, years before the nurse and her mother finally came back into the room (in reality it was more like seven minutes). The nurse walked in expressionless, while her mother looked conflicted.
The nurse turned and told Mrs. Rhodes something, handed her some pills, and walked out of the door. Her mother turned the pills over in her hands a few times, and turned to Hannah with a pained expression, it was very obvious that something was worrying her; Hannah just had yet to find out what.
"What did the nurse say?!" she asked eagerly "What's happening to me?"
Hannah's mother came and sat on the edge of her bed; she sighed and handed the pills to her.
"Every single person in Ninjago has a soul mate, you know that." Hannah nodded and her mother continued "And every person is connected somehow, it could be anything, and you never know what it until you do find your soulmate, that is, if you are fortunate enough to."
Hannah nodded, all of this sounded familiar to her, things that had been told to Hannah her entire life.
"Well, you know my connection to your father was his name on my arm." her mother pulled up her sleeve
When she did, showing Hannah the name Aaron on her forearm, but it was faint, almost matching her skin now. This tended to happen when someone's soul mate died, and while the person still loved them, they slowly moved on. Sometimes the name never faded from the arm, and the person stayed alone the rest of their life.
But none of this was new to Hannah, and it made her wonder why her mother looked so worried now.
"We found out what your strange, phantom pains have been," her mother looked at her leg, at the burns "It seems that you are connected to your soul mate through pain."
"What?!" Hannah shot up
Pain was the rarest way to be connected to your soul mate, about a one in a million chance. Judging the size of the burns on her leg, whatever her soul mate did do to them was hurting them just as much as it hurt her.
She looked to her mother, not knowing what to do, but her mother didn't say anything. She had never expected to discover this so soon. Usually when you discovered your soul mate mark, which meant you would meet them soon, usually within the year. At sixteen years old, this was a very young age to meet your soulmate, (the average age was around twenty to twenty five) and while Hannah was excited, she didn't want to settle down so quickly, she had wanted to explore the world, go to new places, and see new things.
'Now those dreams are crushed…' she thought 'why did it have to be so soon?!'
Hannah didn't complain though, as much as she wanted to. She just lay back down into the hospital bed, waiting for her mother to leave the room. When she did she sat back up again and looked down at her leg. She just stared at it, wondering what could have caused her soul mate to have such an injury. Whatever they were doing must have been dangerous.
Hannah lay back down in the bed and looked at the ceiling, wondering what he looked like.
'He should be tall…. Maybe dark hair, and pale eyes,' she thought 'Or light hair, and dark, deep blue eyes… oh I don't know'
While she had been thinking, her eyelids had started to get heavy, and she fell asleep, dreaming about what her suitor would be like.
It was quiet at the bounty, and Sensei Wu quite liked it. It was nice and peaceful there, nice and quiet.
'Too quiet…' he thought, opening his eyes 'why are the ninja not back yet?'
As if on cue, there were loud thuds above him, letting him know the ninja had returned. Several more thuds followed the first few and they continued down below the bounty. Instantly Sensei Wu knew something was wrong. He rushed out of the room and into the medical bay.
Lloyd lay on the bed; his gi's pants leg had been burned and ripped off, leaving a long, hideous burn.
"How?!" Sensei cried "What Happened?!"
He walked forward and the ninja stepped back, giving him room to inspect his nephew. The ninja fell silent and stared at the floor, Kai was the first to speak.
"We went into the building, it was terrible. We tried to get everyone out as quick as possible… he shoved some people out of the way as something was about to fall on top of them. We dragged him out and flew back as quickly as possible." Kai looked back down to the floor once he had finished his explanation
Sensei Wu looked over the injury "Jay, Bring Sensei Garmadon in here. Zane, bring PIXAL in; we need to scan him and see how this will affect him. I already know it's not good."
"Yes Sensei." Jay and Zane replied, and left the room to get PIXAL and Wu's brother.
The remaining people in the room stayed silent, as if still in shock. Each of them stole glances at Lloyd, who looked as pale as death. They waited until Garmadon and PIXAL returned.
When they had returned, Garmadon ran over to his son, looking him over as fear filled his eyes, it was unlike Garmadon
"Fix him." he begged PIXAL "Do it please. Fix Him!"
Wu took his brother by the arm and led him over to a chair, where he sat and hung his head.
PIXAL walked to Lloyd and began her scan.
"He has third degree burns," she declared "He will need intense medical care, and possibly synthetic skin."
"Thank you PIXAL," Wu said to her as she left the room, he turned to the ninja "We have a long day tomorrow… it won't be easy… be ready."
This is the first chapter in a Lloynah AU! If you haven't read Young Love (by KatTheGracefulKlutz), you should, you'll get to know the character Hannah a little more. But be aware that if you are coming here brand new to the story, you won't really miss out on anything, (since this isn't part of the Young Love fanfic, it's just a little more Lloynah for ya) but you should still go read it! Thanks for reading, please comment and give feedback! ~ Carson J Williams