Here's chapter two guys! It's great to see people like this!

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Chapter Two

It was dark.

That was the first thing he noticed.

Then the pain hit him. It was white-hot, like being jabbed with tiny, hollow needles, like he had been run over, like he had been fired out of a cannon, and flew straight into a brick wall, only to continue falling down to the pavement far below.

It hurt.

Lloyd shifted his shoulders, and found himself propped up slightly against pillows. They were soft, and he could tell there were at least two, meaning he wasn't home. If he was at home, he'd only have one, and usually, his head ended up under it, not on it. Half the time, Lloyd didn't use a pillow. He'd just smash it in into the gap between his mattress and the frame of his bed.

Slowly, testing his injuries, he rolled his head to the left, twisting his neck, and keeping his shoulders the way they were against the pillows. It didn't hurt, but he could feel his body throbbing in pain, on the off-beat of his heartbeat.

Thud. Pain. Thud. Pain. Thud. Pain.

He groaned, struggling to blink, trying to clear his eyes to see where he was.

That was when he realized something was wrong. He couldn't fully close his eyes, and he couldn't see. Lloyd was panicking. Something to his left beeped frantically, the sound faint to him. 'What's going on? What happened?' Lloyd began moving his fingers, a wave of pain shot up his arm, burning his nerves, making him grimace in agony.

The beeping sped up, still quiet, and beside him, something moved. Lloyd felt the mattress under him shift. A chair scooted back, scraping against the floor, loud, but soft at the same time. "Lloyd?" Someone asked; his mind too fuzzy to identify whose it was. Rough, strong fingers brushed the top of his hand. He jerked his hand away, scooting over. His body protested against the sudden movement. Lloyd moaned, adjusting himself so it hurt less, and the hand reached out again, stopping an inch away from Lloyd's hand.

Kai sighed. He was glad that Lloyd was awake, but he was out of it. Completely unaware about where he was or how long it had been since he last woke up. "I'll be right back, Lloyd." He mumbled softly, getting up and walking out of the small room with the glass wall that Lloyd hadn't been moved from in two weeks.

It had only been a week and a half since they had managed to stop the ice's progression.

"Sir?" One of the student nurses said, seeing Kai out in the hallway. She peered around him, and looked into Lloyd's room. "Is one of your friends on their way to come get you?" She knew he hardly left that room, unless someone else was coming to watch over the pale, near-comatose boy. She tapped her long, thin fingers against the handle of the cart, some food in covered dishes, labeled with room numbers, and patient names, and small cups of pills, also labeled. Kai could see how nervous she was. She constantly shifted from foot to foot, toes curling and uncurling in her hospital issued shoes.

He shook his head. "No, he woke up."

The young woman nodded, dark brown hair falling past her headband. A hand left the cart, brushing the locks back. "I'll go let Nurse Jackie know then…" she began to push the cart away down the hall. "After I finish with this, of course…"

Kai nodded. "Alright. Just hurry though. I think he might need something for the pain.

"Gotcha." With that, the girl began moving with haste down the hall, turning the corner, clearly struggling with the cart.

Kai went back into Lloyd's room, sitting back down. He pulled out his phone, sending a quick text.

He's up.

Jay heard his phone buzz, watching the screws in front of him on the table jitter around as it vibrated. Setting down his tools, he looked at his phone.

He's up.

Jay's eyes widened in surprise, and he got up, walking out of his workshop, and quickly dashing up the stairs onto their porch, running inside. "Nya! He's up!"

The love of his life turned a box of decorations in her arms. "Really? He's awake?" A smile grew on her face, and she set the box down on the floor. "Jay, that's great!"

"I know!" He said, smiling uncontrollably. "…Do you think the others know?" He pulled out his phone, scrolling through his contacts, finding everyone's numbers, selecting them for a group text. Zane, Cole, Garmadon and Misako, Wu, everyone who might not have known yet. Jay put the exact same thing Kai had sent him.

He's up.

As soon as it was sent, Jay put his phone away, and hugged Nya. She hugged back, smiling as she pressed her head against his shoulder.

"We should probably go get Kai…he probably hasn't left Lloyd's side since yesterday…"

"Definitely." Nya agreed, laughing a little, remembering how protective Kai had been towards him since he found Lloyd. Her laughter stopped. "Jay…how do you think Lloyd's going to take the news?"

He sighed, brushing a hand through his hair; the other hand rubbed his cheek, wiping oil from his hand on his face. "I don't know, Nya…we'll have to wait and see."

In the small hospital room, the boy kept moving his head back and forth, trying to see anything around him that would let him know where he was. Lloyd was panicking, and could feel his heart pounding in his chest, beating painfully against his ribs.

Kai sat down in the chair beside his bed, reaching over for Lloyd's hand. "Lloyd, can you hear me?"

He stopped moving, and turned his head towards Kai, the fuzz leaving his mind a little, letting him focus on Kai's voice. Lloyd nodded a little. "K-Kai?" There was a cracked dryness in Lloyd's voice. It was scratchy and ragged from disuse, having been stuck inside of Lloyd for the past two weeks as he slept.

Kai nodded, smiling a little. "Yeah, Lloyd. It's me. How're you feeling?" He kept his sentences simple, and his tone light, not wanting to freak Lloyd out any more than he already was.

The boy lying on the bed coughed a little, his throat dry. "Hurts..."

"What hurts?" Kai asked, leaning forward, placing his elbows on the edge of the bed. "Head? Eyes? Chest? Legs? Your arms?" With each question, Kai was panicking a little more.

"Everything…" Lloyd murmured, reaching up to pull the breathing mask off. "What's this?"

The corner of his mouth twitched up. "It's a breathing mask, Lloyd. To help make sure you kept breathing, and that you got enough oxygen." He got up, leaning over Lloyd, removing his hand from the mask, moving it back into place. "Keep it on until they say to take it off."

"But it hurts…"

"I know it does, but you need to keep it on. Lloyd, Nurse Jackie's going to be here soon, and she'll give you something to help with the pain, okay?"

Lloyd laughed a little, his ribs complaining a little from it, making his chuckle peter off. "Why are you talking to me like I'm a little kid, Kai?"

"You just woke up. I thought you might need me to keep things simple." He said.

There was a knock at the door, and the same nursing assistant was standing there. "Sir, she wanted me to ask if he needs anything to help with the pain…also, she wanted to know if he thinks he can swallow that tea he was given. It'd be a good idea to give him some more, just so that stuff doesn't spread anymore…"

"Tea?" Lloyd asked, looking in the general direction of the girl. "I think I could drink some…"

She smiled. "That's good! I'll let her know. Since you're talking, do you need some pain killers?"

He nodded a little.

"Alright, I'll let Nurse Jackie know, and she'll be right here with that." The girl said, smiling and turning on the ball of her foot, toe catching on the doorframe as she stepped back into the hall.

Kai laughed a little as the girl left. "She's always pretty jittery like that. Stumbling and tripping over everything. Maybe she likes you." Kai teased.

Lloyd snorted a little. "Why would she like me?"

"Oh please, you know chicks find you cute." Kai said, rolling his eyes. "Don't pretend you don't notice it."

"I do, but I chose to ignore it."

He shook his head. "You sure are a strange one, Garmadon."

Lloyd was propped up in his bed, the breathing mask gone.

"Are you ready for some more tea?" Kai asked, holding the cooled cup in his hand, having to help Lloyd get the straw into his mouth.

"I guess." He reached out for the glass, and Kai handed it to him, Lloyd sipping the tea, forgoing the straw this time. "It's bitter…"

"Your uncle said it would help. He's the tea expert, and he said it had to be bitter." Kai explained.

Lloyd shrugged, and continued drinking it, getting used to the unpleasant flavor of the tea. As he swallowed it, the question in the back of his mind came up to bother him. "Kai…why can't I see?"

He swallowed. Kai had been hoping that Lloyd wasn't going to ask him that until anyone else was in the room. Kai tapped his fingers against the edge of the chair, teeth worrying his lower lip, chewing lightly on it. "Lloyd…when I found you, there was a bag over your head…" He started, taking the cup from the recovering teen. "And when I took it off, there was this…stuff, on your face. It was covering your eyes. As soon as light hit it though, you screamed like it was causing you pain."

Lloyd swallowed, not liking where this was going. "K-Kai…?"

"They've been trying the last two weeks to try removing it and nothing's worked…it kept growing over your face until about a week ago, when Sensei brought that tea. It seemed to have stopped it from growing."

He stayed silent, taking the information in. "So I can't…I can't see?"

Kai shook his head. "Even if they could remove it, Lloyd, they said that the damage it caused to your eyes would be irreversible." He hung his head, upset that this had happened to Lloyd.

Lloyd swallowed again. "Kai… Am I…?"

He nodded, even though Lloyd couldn't see it past the icy covering, and the bandages hiding his eyes from the light. Kai spoke again, but the words didn't quite reach Lloyd's ears. Instead, the words spun around him, echoing loudly in his head.

"I'm sorry Lloyd, but you're blind."

And now, the stage is set for all sorts of adapting fun for Lloyd.

Truthfully, I had this chapter done the Friday before I posted the first chapter. I just wanted to wait until I at least had part of chapter three done.