Special thanks to ZaneWalker for letting me use this story idea, hope you find this satisfactory!

Disclaimer: Do I look like I own Ninjago? No, if I did, we would not be waiting until 2014.


Fallen, Lost, and Alone

Chapter Two: Candlelit Waters

Two Weeks after Zane's Death

Nya's POV

I put my ear buds in, lying under my bed, staring up at the wooden slats, my back flat against the dusty floor, turning on my mp3 player, I closed my eyes and just held the snow white candle close to my chest, we all had one, and we were going to light them tonight, in honor of Zane.

Another tear ran down my face. He shouldn't have died.

I'll sing it one last time for you
Then we really have to go
You've been the only thing that's right
In all I've done

And I can barely look at you
But every single time I do
I know we'll make it anywhere
Away from here

Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear

Louder. louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say

I knew the music was playing, but it just didn't reach my ears. I didn't want to hear it.

I wanted to hear Zane, telling Kai that Jay would never hurt me, or him asking me how I was, or him politely telling Cole that his cooking was bad.

Someone was knocking at the door, I watched it open, and saw Kai kneeling down beside my bed, looking at me. "I knew I'd find you here."

"Because I used to do it when I was a kid?"

"Because I know you." Kai said, wiggling his way under until he was right next to me. "You did this when mom died, and when dad died, because whenever they would play hide and seek with us, you and I would hide under their bed, right behind the box with our baby books."

"It was always a tight fit, but we managed." I said, smiling at how we thought we were so clever, because our parents always pretended that they didn't know where we were.

"Are you ready?" he asked, and we both began to crawl out from under my bed. I nodded, even though a part of me inside felt like it was shriveling up, and falling off. Like we were nailing the lid to Zane's coffin shut without him being in there.


Jay's POV

I wrapped my arm around Nya's shoulders as we all sat by the fire side, holding our candles. She leaned her head against my shoulder, a small smile on her tear stained face. I looked at the wooden raft-like structure we had built, nestled in the center was a small board with ten places to put our candles, behind them would be a picture of Zane, all of it surrounded by white flowers. The raft bobbed in the water, the empty sky overhead was perfect, stars glimmering, and no moon in the cloudless night.

Kai stepped forward, and lit his candle, Cole then walked over and lit his candle off of Kai's, I stuck the wick of my candle in Cole's small flame, and Nya lit her candle off of mine, passing the fire off to Lloyd, who took it to Garmadon, passing it to Misako, to Sensei, and then to Zane's dad. As we all placed our candles in their places, leaving one empty to represent Zane, I pulled out a piece of paper Sensei had handed to me earlier, telling me to read it after we had placed the candles on the raft.

"Uh, Zane wrote this list before he met Sensei, it's titled ten things, and Sensei thought it would be a good idea to share it." Everyone had sat back down, and I felt a little self conscious, I know the others wouldn't let me live it down if I stumbled over a simple word. "Number ten; beat the record for holding my breath underwater." The guys smiled, if Zane hadn't accomplished that one then there had to have been another superhuman out there. "Number nine; fit in with the others here." That's right; Zane felt that he hadn't belonged at the orphanage he had been at before coming to the monastery. "Number eight; become captain of the biology quiz bowl team." That one got all of us to laugh, he sounded so normal, like an average high school student. I felt a tear slide down my face, and Cole took the paper from me, picking up where I had left off.

"Number seven; do something risky. I sure hope that Zane accomplished that, I mean come on, he helped defeat a giant snake, I'm pretty sure that counts." We all laughed at Cole trying to lighten the mood. "Number six; figure out why I know what is going to happen before it does. Number five; find out who my family is." I looked over at Dr. Julian, he had lowered his head, and I could tell he was crying. "Kai, your turn." Cole mumbled, passing the paper off to Kai.

"Number four, find someplace I belong." Kai bit his lower lip, like he didn't want to cry in front of all of us. "Number three;" He continued, voice cracking. "Number three; go on an adventure. He closed his eyes and held the paper tightly; Lloyd hobbled over to where Kai was, taking the paper.

"Number two; find out what makes me so different from the others." Lloyd looked over the last statement, and took a shaky breath, not even caring to wipe away his tears. "And number one; find a group of friends that I will know for the rest of my life."

"Well, we know he did most of those, except perhaps the eighth thing…not too sure about that one." I said, but I couldn't even laugh at my own joke. It wasn't that funny anyways.

Cole and I untied the raft, and everyone took a moment to place something on the raft, something that they wished they could have said, something that he had taught them, something that reminded them of him, I was the last to drop a small, folded up piece of paper on the raft, landing in the middle of the candle circle.

It was just the lyrics to some of the songs he liked.

Pushing it out into the dark water, we watched as the candles lit the path that the raft took, stopping in the small lake. I looked up at the starry sky. Zane's funeral was tomorrow, and I really wasn't looking forward to it.

They reach a little deeper, they see what's in your soul
and even when they leave you know, you'll never let them go
the world's a little richer, just cause they came along
Their love goes on and on, so why do they go so soon?
The ones with souls so beautiful. I heard someone say-

There must be Borrowed Angels, here in this life
They come along, into this world, and make this world bright
They can't stay forever, cause they're heaven sent
And sometimes, heaven needs them back again


Songs: Run- Snow Patrol, Borrowed Angels- Kristin Chenoweth

Next chapter is after a major time skip! try 2 years and 4 months!

ZJ: Hello!

Me: Go, shoo! away with you! Go to the next chapter ZJ!

ZJ: Alright.

Me: I totally ripped off Sammy Lieberman's list from Dance Academy...you would not believe how hard it was for me to come up with 10 things Zane wanted to accomplish.