hello everyone so I've been toying with this idea for a while and rest assured i will update my other stories but I just wanted to get this up before I wrote it entirely in my head.
Zane looked at Lloyd just hanging there by his hood and watched his brothers walk away before making his decision. He got Lloyd down from the roof and grabbed his arm
"Where are you taking me?' asked Lloyd sounding scared
"Listen Lloyd, I'm an orphan myself, and due to the absence of your father and the fact that I can't see anyone who had a decent mother acting the way you do I can venture a guess that you are an orphan as well, you are young and i don't want anyone to go through what I have so I'm adopting you." said Zane
"I don't want to be adopted by a ninja" said lloyd stubbornly
"Would it help to tell you that i am going behind the other ninja's back by doing this?" smirked Zane. The deviousness of this caused Lloyd to smile as they walked to city hall. The adoption went through without a hitch, the fact that Lloyd's mother hadn't been present for years and basically abandoned him coupled with the fact that lloyd's father was an evil villain lost both of them parental rights over Lloyd.
"Wait so what do I call you?" asked Lloyd, he had always called Garmadon Dad but now Garmadon was no longer legally his father he was confused.
"You can call me whatever you want" said Zane
"Ok whatever you want" said lloyd playfully
"Very funny" said Zane ruffling Lloyd's hair
"I'll just call you dad, it's not like my old dad cared enough to take me with him" said Lloyd. Zane pulled Lloyd into a hug. Lloyd was hesitant at first, it had been years since anyone had hugged him but he eventually hugged Zane back.
"Come on let's go home" said Zane noticing how tired Lloyd was. They hopped onto shard and took off, lloyd clinging to Zane as his fear of heights took over. Zane was forming a mental plan of how to sneak Lloyd into the monastery and hide him. He looked at shard who was a very smart dragon and could see that she knew what he was thinking and nodded her head
"Now Lloyd for the first few days I'm going to need you to bunk with shard in the dragon stables, she will keep you warm and protect you while I talk to Wu about you staying with us, but don't worry, I'll bring you food every day then after training you and i can do whatever you want" said Zane knowing he had to put an incentive into the deal
"Ok" said Lloyd
"Don't worry, there are nights when I sleep in the dragon pens, mostly because Jay snores quite a bit" said Zane with a smile making Lloyd laugh