Kai's POV

The wind that made the temperature drop 3 degrees blew past my spiked hair. The tall oak trees covered the bright sun. My tear- filled eyes started to burn, so I wiped my hand across my eyes. "Where could he be?!" I asked. I had to think. "Wait! I know where he is!" i just realized he was captured by skeletons, so he should be at the Underworld! I remember there was an entrance to the Underworld at The Fire Temple, so that'll be where I'm headed. "I'm on my way, father!"

Nya's POV

When I finally stopped crying, I walked out to the Bridge. I saw everyone but Sensei and Kai. "Where's Sensei and Kai?" I asked. "Well, let's just say Kai and Jay got in a fight, and now Kai's with Sensei." said Cole. "Oh boy... Has anyone figured out why he's acting like this?" Everyone shook their head as an answer to 'no'. "Kai's going out to look for someone." answered Sensei, walking out of his room. "Wait, who's he looking for? Where did he run off to? Why isn't he acting right?" asked Jay. "I don't know where he ran off to, but he's going to look for his father." I gasped. "What did you tell him about father?!" "All I said that he was captured by skeletons, and no one knows where and what happened to his body." "Don't you know anything about Kai?! He'll do ANYTHING to save father- ANYTHING! He's probably been killed by some monster, or is under someone else's control, thanks to you!" I stomped back to my room.

"Out of all the lies he could've said, he just had to encourage my brother to go and find father!" I complained, laying in my bed, "Why would he do this..? He could've at least told me before he just- ran off..." I know he's the one who protects me all the time, so I'm going to protect him! I just hope I'm not too late...

Kai's POV

I was in the Underworld. No guards so far... but I'm thinking there will be some... "Hello? Father? Is anyone here?" I asked, looking around. "It's just you and me... Kai..." saia a strange voice. "Who's there?!" "Don't be afraid, fire boy... it's just about your father..." "What about him?!" "You've come for him, correct?" "Yea..." "Well, you're too late to look for him. He's been slain 15 years ago!" "S- Show me then... so I can believe you..." I said, choking back a sob. "Very well..." The man with the strange voice came out of the Shadows, pointing towards a door. He had pitch black skin, and no legs or feet, just black smoke. I ran over to the door and opened it. What I saw shocked me. I saw many bones- human bones- lying everywhere. The smell of death went through my nose, and the sight of dry blood and rotten flesh was scattered everywhere. One skeleton caught my eye. It was laying in the middle of the room, with a knife sticking out of its upper left rib cage. "I- Is this my father..?" "Yes, Kai... Garmadon slayed him when he was captured by the skeletons. I was there at the time... I remember his last words..." "What were they..?" "I'm sorry, my family..." Tears started rolling down my cheeks as I grabbed onto my father's skeletal hand. "No... F- Father... I- I miss you... I wish I could've done something to save you... I'm sorry..."

While I was too focused on my dead father, the ghost was sneaking up to me with a knife in his hand. When I heard the sound of the knife, I grabbed the knife out of my father and blocked the other one. "Very clever, Kai..." "I won't let you hurt my family ever again!" I slashed the knife at the ghost, but the ghost blocked my attack. "Uh oh..." The ghost's knife then stabbed my arm, cutting deep into it. "AAAUUGH!" I screamed, falling to the floor. "You're next in line, Kai... The Flamey bloodline shall be over!" "KAI, NO!" shouted Nya. She came running into the room with her Samurai X suit. "Why is Nya here, Kai?" "Why would I tell you?" I asked, talking back. The ghost grabbed onto my neck, looking at me. "Never talk back to me ever again! Or else you'll die right next to your father!" "Let. Him. GOO!" Nya threw her boomerang at the ghost, making him fall to the floor, dropping me. "Nya... it's... too dangerous! You shouldn't... be here!" "I have to help my one and only brother! I love you, Kai... I don't want you to go... I lost mother and I lost father... I don't want to lose you..." "That's very touching, Nya... but your brother's time is over!" The ghost stabbed his knife into my other arm. "AAAUUGH!" Tears from the agonizing pain kept streaming down my face, falling to the floor. "Stop hurting him!" "Why should I listen to you, Nya? Your father's dead, your mother's dead. Soon, your brother will be dead, and no more fire powers anymore..." Nya ran over to the ghost, slashing her sword at him. "You fool! You shouldn't mess with me..." I got up and slashed the knife once again at the ghost, making him fall. "You two are strong together... you must've had some bond for awhile..." "You shall fall and rot here, ghost! you will never mess with my family ever again!" I shot a fireball right at the ghost, but he also made a shadowball, making it collide with my attack. "Is that all you got? Pathetic!" The ghost was like a human- sized machine gun. He just kept on shooting shadow balls at us, but we kept dodging them. "Take this!" I made my fists into fire, punching with them at the ghost. "You don't know what I can do, Kai..." He punched me with all of his force, hitting right at my head. I fell head first on the floor. After that, all I could see was darkness.

Nya's POV

I ran over to my unconcious brother. He was in bad shape. Cuts on his arms, and a big black and blue mark on his forehead and the back of his head. "Kai..! Wake up! Wake up!" I said, shaking his shoulder. "He's unconcious, idiot! He won't wake up for awhile now, which gives me time to kill him!" said the ghost. "No! I won't let you kill him!" I ran out of the fortress, running to the exit.

When I got back to the Overworld (Ninjago), I set Kai on the ground. We were back at the Fire Temple. Lucky thing I brought bandages. I couldn't bring ice, or else it would just melt instantly because of the high temperatures. I did all I could do. I used the bandages to wrap the wounds on his arms and on his head. Then I called the Bounty. "Guys? It's Nya. We need you to bring the Bounty to the entrance of the Fire Temple." Cole picked up the call. "Why? What's wrong, Nya?" "I found Kai at the Fire Temple and he's unconcious right now. We need your help." "Alright, we'll be there in about a minute."

When the Bounty finally arrived, Cole, Jay, Zane, Lloyd, and Kate slid down the anchor's chains, running towards me. "What happened to him?" asked Jay. "No time to explain. Kate, I did all I could do. You have to heal him." "I'm on it, Nya." said Kate, grabbing onto Kai. She made a hoverboard floating up to the Bounty. The rest of us climbed onto the anchor, going back up to the deck.

Kate ran with Kai to the "E.R" you could say, and the rest of us followed her. "This might take awhile, I need everyone to stay out of the room." said Kate. Everyone nodded and walked out of the room. When we got out of the room, I started to cry in Jay's arms. "Jay... I'm worried about him..." I sobbed. "Kate's healed him before, remember? He'll survive..." replied Jay. "I- It's just... all he wanted to do was to see his father again... and... look where it led him... I feel so sorry for him... I just want to help him... but I didn't... I feel horrible..." Jay ruffled my hair and tried to soothe me. "You did help him. You saved his life. You ran with him to safety. That's being a true, brave, sibling." I smiled as I looked up at Jay. "Y- You're right..."

Kate finally came out the door, taking off her gloves. "He's alive, he just needs some rest." said Kate. We all sighed in relief. "Nya, how did this happen?" asked Cole. "Kai went to the Fire Temple to go to the Underworld. He said something about seeing father..." "What happened to your father?" asked Zane. "H- He was captured by skeletons when I was very young... and he was slain by Garmadon in the Underworld..." "My father killed your father?!" asked Lloyd. "I'm afraid so, Lloyd." "Who attacked Kai?" "From what I saw, it looked like a demon or ghost of some sort in the Underworld." "Strange indeed... We all thought ghosts didn't exist..." "Shouldn't we really go back and get revenge?" "We should think of a plan before we attack, and also wait for Kai to wake up..." "Kate, am I allowed to check on him?" "I don't see why not."

I walked to the door and quietly opened it. I could see Kai laying on a flat bed with his hands on his chest, breathing silently. There were bruises on his arms instead of bandages, and he had his head rested on an ice pack. His forehead was covered with bandages. I walked over to his right and shook his shoulder gently. "Wake up, Kai..." As he slowly opened his eyes, I smiled softly. "Nya..!" said Kai. He quickly sat up and hugged me. "A- Are you alright?! Where's the ghost?" "I'm fine, brother... I escaped from the ghost and brought you here." "Thank you Nya..." Tears started to roll down Kai's cheeks. "I wish I could've done something sooner... if I did father would still be here..." "Father's death is not your fault, Kai..." "I just want him alive..." I slowly ruffled Kai's hair as he was sobbing in my right shoulder.

Ghost's POV

"Those kids of the Fire Weakling are cowards. Kai will soon see that he's destined to join me and bring destruction to Ninjago. Nya will be devestated and never fight back! Soon I will have revenge on them and rule Ninjago!" As I was laughing evily, I held out my knife with Kai's blood and the black blood of the darkness mixed in together.

Author's Note- I almost cried while writing this tragic chapter... :'( I apologize greatly for the long wait... School is just so annoying and so is homework..! Ugh! Goodbye! ;)