"So…You're just giving her to me?" Asked a man with red eyes.
"Think of it as more of a loan. I don't need her at the moment, and letting her go to waste would be a destructive thing to do. So I'm letting you use her as you please." A man with slits as his irises said.
"Is she obedient?" Asked the man.
"Obedient is an understatement. Any order you give her, she will carry through, just give her time. I can't promise that she'll listen to you right away, Garmadon." The other man smiled.
"That's fine, Damshe. I can make her listen to me." Garmadon growled.
"Don't. She won't respond to cruelty. Be patient, please. She'll probably listen to you because I ordered her to, but if she doesn't…Just give her a little time and she will." Damshe crossed his arms.
"Fine. Now where is this 'child of hell'?" Garmadon rolled his eyes.
"Cynder?" Damshe called. A girl with an eyepatch walked in,
"Yes, Sir?" She said, looking toward Damshe.
"This is Lord Garmadon; he's going to be your boss for a little while, well I deal with something. Please listen to his orders." Damshe told her.
"I will, Sir." Cynder bowed her head obediently.
"Hello Ms. Shade, I've heard nothing but good things about you." Garmadon smirked as he held out his hand. Cynder stared at his hand,
"Hello…What do you want me to do?" She took a step back. Garmadon looked at her,
"Straight to the point. I like that." He waited for her to shake his hand.
"Cynder has a thing about physical contact. Anyways, I have work to be doing. Blue Bunny, behave and follow his orders." Damshe told Cynder in a strict tone. Garmadon looked at his hand and moved it to his side.
"Yes, Sir." The auburn haired girl nodded.
"I'll see you soon, Blue Bunny. Call me if I'm needed." With a slight motion of his hand, Damshe disappeared.
"Cynder, I want you to do some recon for me." Garmadon told her.
"Who do you want me to follow?" The auburn haired girl asked.
"The ninjas, you should be able to figure out who they are rather quickly. They very popular." Growled the four armed man.
"Yes, Sir." Cynder walked away to start her job.
"Wait! How can I get a hold of you?" Garmadon shouted. She froze; she placed her backpack on the floor. She unzipped her bag and took something from it.
"Here." Cynder handed Garmadon a card before zipping her bag and slinging it back onto her back. She walked away after hiding her backpack under her cloak.
A man with blonde hair slept soundly, though his dreams where not as pleasant.
"So your name is Zane, right?" A woman purred as she placed her hand gently to his chest as she moved closer to him. The blonde haired boy's face turned red,
"Ye-Yes, my name is Z-Zane." He stuttered nervously.
"That's good enough for me, good night Zane." The woman smirked as she brought up her fist.
"Huh?!" Zane yelped as he bolted awake, drenched in sweat.
"Oh dear…I should warn the others…" Zane got up, noticing no one was in the room. He walked from the room before entering another one after walking for a little bit.
"Good morning, sleeping beauty. We thought you were going to sleep all day." Teased the boy in red.
"Why did no one wake me when we were supposed to get up?" Zane asked.
"You looked like you were having one of your weird dreams, plus we tried. You wouldn't wake up, dude." The boy in red chuckled.
"Oh…" Zane looked away.
"So what did you dream about?" A girl in red smiled.
"I dreamt about some strange woman." Zane looked at his feet as he thought about the smirk on the strange woman.
"Oh...Tell us more?" Purred the one in black jokingly.
"She asked me who I was and then tried to punch me. I woke up before I got to see the outcome." Zane looked at the boy in black.
"Not the kind of dream we thought you had." The one in red laughed.
"I do not enjoy being teased, Kai. The strange woman was very disturbed; she had an eyepatch and did not seem friendly. The vibe she gave off was weird..." Zane muttered, shuddering.
"Do you know where you were in the dream?" Asked the only girl in the room.
"I believe it was a bar, I do not remember much. I do know this, when I woke up, I felt like we were being hunted…Or watched…" Zane sighed, covering his face.
"Calm down, Zane. Maybe we can find this woman and prove your dream wrong." The boy in blue smiled.
"Dude, you're dumb." Laughed the boy in red before continuing "That's a horrible plan!"
"Kai is right, Jay. That is a bad idea, if she is hunting us, why would she spare us if we saw her or met her before we are supposed to?" Zane asked.
"I have no idea…Besides it was just a thought!" Jay huffed.
"It is alright, but I fear that my dream was a warning. We need to be careful." Zane mumbled, paranoid.
"Alright, we will be careful, Zane. You should go get changed, we'll continue this conversation when you come back." The girl smiled. Zane nodded and walked away.
Cynder hung down from a tree, she held herself on the tree using her legs. She kept her hand firmly on the branch she hung from. She laughed,
"Wow, believing a dream. That's hilarious. I think I'll execute him first, that is once I'm given the order to execute these 'heroes'. They're not heroes; they're just children crying for attention." She pulled herself back into the tree.
"This will be fun but it'll be far too easy to kill these pathetic rats. I wish they were better fighters, but I doubt they'll become better fighters any time soon. So let's just bide our time until this gets more interesting." Cynder stood up and jumped from the tree. She landed harshly on her feet.
"Let's go report back to Master." The girl cloaked in darkness walked away.
Zane stood on the deck of the Bounty, training with the others. His eyes watching everywhere. He was knocked off his feet by a little boy in green.
"Come on! This isn't as fun when you aren't paying attention, Zane!" The little boy shouted as Zane got up. Zane shook his head,
"My apologies, Lloyd, I suppose my mind is elsewhere." He smiled gently at the young boy.
"I know, the others told me. Relax, it was just a dream! Now come at me with everything you've got!" Shouted Lloyd energetically.
"Hey dude!" Kai shouted as he walked out. Zane yelped, startled. Kai walked over.
"Jeez Zane, lighten up. It's only me. Maybe a drink will calm your nerves." Kai suggested.
"What do you mean? Do you mean going to a bar for some alcohol?" Zane asked, looking at Kai uncomfortably.
"Yeah man. You want to come?" Kai smiled gently.
"No! That is where the woman in my dream attacked me!" Zane cried, jumping back.
"I thought you couldn't tell." Kai crossed his arms.
"I couldn't! But the vibe was one from a bar!" Zane yelped nervously.
"Come on dude, you're coming with me whether you like it or not. Why? Because your dream is making you paranoid and it has only been like four hours since you had it. So maybe a drink will calm you down." Kai grabbed Zane's arm and began to walk. Zane nervous and slowly walked behind Kai.
"Oh come on!" Lloyd shouted, annoyed.
Garmadon paced back and forth in a room as he thought about something. Cynder sat at a table; she was reading some of the papers that were strewn about the table.
"Did you know that the red ninja fucked a toaster?" Cynder asked, looking up at Garmadon.
"What? No! Why would I know that!?" The red eyed man yelped, startled by her question.
"I have no idea. I also don't know what you have knowledge of. But according to his medical file, he tried to fuck a toaster and got his…He got it stuck in the toaster. He had to go to the hospital." Laughed Cynder.
"I don't care; don't ever tell me anything like that again! That's an order!" Shouted Garmadon.
"Whatever." The girl with an eyepatch went back to her reading.
"Where did you even get that?" Garmadon walked over.
"I stole it from their freezer. I was bored; they weren't in the room, so I snuck in and took a large envelope with stuff like this inside of it. It has stuff on everyone, even the white ninja." Blue Bunny chuckled.
"What's it say on him?" The four armed man asked curiously.
"You told me not to tell you about stuff like that." The auburn haired girl stretched out in her chair.
"Just tell me." Garmadon shouted, annoyed.
"Alright, just don't get mad at me for telling you." Cynder rolled her eyes and looked at the papers.
"Zane is pansexual, technically male, and apparently used to do drugs." Blue Bunny chuckled, grabbing a folder and handing it to Garmadon.
"He did cannabis, to be specific. It was medicinal…These are records of a human. The boy had cancer. The robot is based off the human, since the human died." The girl with an eyepatch sighed, feeling slightly sympathetic.
"What's with that look?" The red eyed male hissed.
"Phantom's daughter had cancer, we think she's dead. She never finished her treatment…" Mumbled Blue Bunny.
"Phantom?" Garmadon gave her a confused look.
"My demonic bracelet?" Cynder groaned and then went back to reading. Garmadon sat down and opened the folder.
"Zane Milo Julien, deceased." Garmadon read aloud, surprised.
"Yup. Which leads me to believe that the robot is simply a copy, and has no idea of it. But that isn't important; I found stuff on the robot too. But they're more like engineering notes than anything. They're confusing, I plan to ask Phantom about it when he wakes up." Cynder was reading a paper.
"Go do some more recon, you can read when you return." Garmadon gently said, as he read the file in his hands.
"Yes, Sir." Cynder got up and walked away.
Zane sat at a table in a bar, a bottle of beer was open on the table. Zane held in his hand a cup of whiskey. He sighed as he looked at his cup.
Kai had walked away with a woman, and Zane didn't need to guess to know what they were going to do. Both the girl and Kai had been drunk and he didn't doubt that they would be confused when they woke up tomorrow.
Cynder sighed as stared at the bar, preparing herself to manipulate the robotic boy. From what she could guess, he cared deeply about everyone's mental and physical safety. So that meant getting his sympathy, getting him to care about her so she could use his feeling against him if needed.
She took a deep breath and walked into the bar. Once inside she look around before walking over to the bar, sitting on a bar stool and ordering a glass of scotch.
Zane stared at the woman who had just entered the bar; he began to panic as he soon realized that she was the woman from his dream. He got up; he headed towards the door when she looked over to him.
Feeling obliged to go and say hello, Zane walked over and sat on the bar stool beside the one she was seated.
"Greetings." Zane nervously stuttered out. Cynder had already drank the glass she ordered,
"Hi." She mumbled, sounding tipsy.
"Are you alright?" Zane asked, concerned.
"Yeah…Just dizzy…" Cynder laughed, and hugged him. She smiled as soon as he couldn't see her face. She had poured water into her scotch and drank it; to her getting his sympathy was only a game, nothing more.
"Why are you drinking?" Zane asked, gently pushing back Cynder.
"Cause I'm trying to drink away the pain." She pretended to slur.
"Pain? Why are you in pain?" Zane asked, concerned.
"Cause, I lost my best friend. My only friend…He died." The sociopath grabbed the counter as she pretended to sway.
"Oh…That is terrible…What was his name?" Zane asked, already feeling bad for the girl.
"His name was Michal, my mommy and daddy killed his daddy and him when I was younger. They were the only two people who even gave a damn." Blue Bunny placed her head to the counter, and pretended to sob.
The blonde boy felt bad for the girl, he couldn't believe that his dream portrayed her as such a terrible thing.
"Why would they do such a thing?" Zane asked.
"Cause they hated me." Blue Bunny let out a few fake sobs. The blonde haired boy pets her head gently.
"They cannot hurt you anymore…Can they?" He sighed, he felt horrible. Zane wanted to help, but he wasn't sure how much he could help.
"No…They're dead but the terrible things they've done still weights on my conscious." Cynder brought her head up and wiped her wet face on her sleeve. She had to keep the illusion by having cried crocodile tears.
"Oh dear…Would you like a hug?" Zane held his arms out to her. She hugged him,
"It is alright, they can no longer harm anyone. What they did was not your fault." Zane rubbed her head. Cynder frowned, thinking back to when she was little.
Tears dripped from her cheeks as she realized that what she had told him was slightly true. She did feel horrible that her parents killed the only two people who ever tried to help her. But her feelings she had to ignore, she had to do her job. Nothing else mattered, only her job.
Cynder sniffled as she broke the embrace to wipe her tears away with her sleeve. Zane took out his handkerchief and gently wiped her face. He noticed blood on the white handkerchief,
"Are you alright?" The blonde haired boy asked.
"Yeah…My eyes been damaged for a while." Cynder had used a fake slur throughout the conversation, but she decided to stop using it as she was getting bored.
"See you around." Cynder placed some money on the counter before she gently kissed Zane's cheek and walked out. Zane's face turned red,
"S-See you a-around!" Zane stuttered.
Cynder walked for a little while before she stopped and looked back at the bar, she sighed.
"I can't believe I lost my cool. I can't let that happen again. But at least it worked in my favor. I'll have him wrapped around my finger before you know it. Then it'll be easier to execute him since he won't run from me." She muttered.
"You know that you need to be careful, you don't need to get attached to the person you might have to murder." Someone said.
"I know, Phantom, I honestly don't care about him. I want to kill him, he's an idiot and his soul deserves peace. It's a warped human soul from my guess…The actual human boy, whatever is left of him, deserves peace. He doesn't deserve living forever in agony." Cynder muttered.
"Because you assume a warped soul hurts?" Phantom questioned.
"Yeah, and because…He doesn't seem happy, honestly. Even after I changed his opinion of me, he seemed upset. Or at least his eyes said he was. Maybe he isn't, but I will kill him if ordered. Orders are everything, I will not disappoint Damshe." Cynder told Phantom.
"Just be careful, Amanda." Phantom sighed.
"I know, Daniel, I will be." Blue Bunny chuckled.
"I haven't heard you call me that in a long time…The last time you called me that was when I asked you not to." Phantom groaned.
"Well if you call me Amanda, I'm going to call you by your real name." Sneered Cynder. Phantom groaned annoyed.
Zane walked home alone, he watched his surroundings as he went over what happened at the bar in his head.
"She kissed my cheek…I wonder what her name is…I hope she's alright." He noticed the Bounty was in view.
"Almost home…Then to bed…I think I drank a little much…" Zane almost walked into a tree.
"The world is spinning and blurry…" Zane collapsed to the ground.
Author's Note:
So this story was actually going to be the prequel to "The Dark Lover" but I kinda noticed that I started this in the wrong season. And I'm far too lazy to rewrite all of this just cause I fucked that up. Anyways so now this is a fanfiction that stands on its own.
I put Kai as pan because I feel like Kai would fuck anything that moves, don't ask me why I feel like he's like that because I have no idea. Zane is also pansexual in this, but that's more because of the fact that I think that he wouldn't care about gender, he'd probably just care about the person.
And the mention of Zane being human will come more into play later, and I don't think that it's likely that in the show Zane is a copy of a human child, but this is a fanfiction, so bare with me.
All questions are welcome, I will not give out spoilers though. I hope you enjoyed reading the first part of this!