Hey everyone, Happy Friday and happy 4th of July! I don't have much to say but I thank you all for the reviews in my first chapter and to answer XShinkuKikinX's question, yes my OC Lucas will in this story as well as my FanFiction's sister's OC, Laurie. But anyway, enough blabbering, enjoy this new update of Kai.

Chapter 1: Taking the Shots

Kai... Kai... Kai...

"Kai!" a voice whispered loudly. "Stop daydreaming and focus."

Kai snorted and shook his head to observe his surroundings. He could see that he was in a poorly lit area with the moon as its source of light from the sun roofs. He then remembered he was in an abandoned warehouse that was stacked with old crates. He shook his head cleared again and turned his gaze until he made contact with amber eyes of the team leader, Cole, Ninja of Earth. "Sorry." he whispered the apology. "I...was thinking of something."

Cole narrowed his eyes through the slit of his black mask and smacked the fire ninja upside the head. He rolled his eyes to sigh. "What's more important?" he questioned him. "You daydreaming or our mission?" The Ninja of Fire glared at him for the sarcasm. Not his fault. "Because right now we got armed men and hostages to save. So shut your imagination and focus."

"Why did we get called up to do this?" Jay, the blue ninja, Ninja of Lightning, asked. "Why couldn't the police just negotiate with them and we can relax?"

The earth ninja turned to him and smacked him. "And let the bad guys get away with the bank heist?" he retorted. "We're ninjas, Jay. We don't let the bad guys wins. Especially Serpentine or Garmadon." He turned to look over Kai's body, as they laid down on a rafter to watch everything below them, to Zane, Ninja of Ice. "Zane, what do you see?"

The white ninja's eyes were closed as he was using his sixth sense to detect the danger for the team. He felt a buzzing feeling in the back of his head stop and opened his dark blue eyes to stare at the three. "I sense six armed men in this facinity." he replied while pressing his earpiece to commincate with the other two ninjas. "Two with the hostages. Two with assault rifles. One with a shotgun and one with a sniper." and points at the goon on the other side of the warehouse platform.

Kai lifted his head to see the armed goon on the platform and kept his head down. "You see him, Lucas?" he asked the grey ninja through his earpiece. "He's right near you."

"I see him. I see him." Lucas', the grey Ninja of Water, voice replied. "I will take him and the guy with assault rifle. Laurie will stay with Lloyd because he had to sneak out again. Especially when his guardians told him to stay put with my dad and Nya."

"Hey I wanted to help." the green ninja's voice chasisted. "I'm a ninja too, you know."

"And with this mission, could end you getting shot." Cole retorted. "Lucas, take the sniper and rifle man out and then take the squirt home."

"Ten-four, Cole." Lucas replied with a whine from his cousin.

Kai and the others watched a grey figure quietly sneak up on the sniper and quickly disappeared to the darkness. One down, five to go. "Haha!" Jay laughed quietly. "Nice one, Lucas."

Zane quickly felt something buzz his head to gasp quietly and raised a gloved finger to his lips covered by his mask. "Quiet, brothers." he whispered, voice barely audioable. Everyone became quiet to his warning. "There's one below us." he said and pointed downward.

Kai looked over the rafter and saw the danger Zane warned them. It was one with the shotgun and he was directly below them. The red ninja gaze around and noticed he was next to stacked crates. Perfect. he thought. He looked up at Cole. "I got this one." he said and received a nod from the black ninja. Kai quietly stood up without making much as a squeak and jumped back.

He felt gravity take hold and softly landed in a crouch behind the crates. He quietly snuck through until his back was quietly pressed against a box while making sure his katana on his back wasn't clattering. He peered around to see his target near him, but stopped as he could see another goon walking on the next floor above them. Come on. he said to himself. Move. He watched the goon turn around and saw his chance. Now! He quickly ran up to him to throw his gloved hand over his mouth to hear his muffled screams and dragged him back while putting him in a headlock. He kept a firm grip while he struggled until he fell limp and laid him down; unconscious. "I got him." he sighed to catch his breath through his earpiece. "I'm gonna scout around."

"Ten-four, Kai." Cole's voice said. "We saw Lucas take one of the rifleman out and we're gonna scout around too. That's three down, three to go."

"Plus I don't know where my cousins went." Lucas added. "They were just behind me."

"Well that's because Lloyd snuck away from me." Laurie, the orange Ninja of Wind said. "I don't know where he went. I'm looking for him."

Kai gasped to himself. Laurie was somewhere in the warehouse with still armed goons searching for Lloyd. He cared and loved the wind ninja and doesn't want anything to happen to her since she was still training to become a professional ninja like they were. Whether against everything that has happened, he didn't want her to get hurt. The Ninja of Fire took a deep breath and pressed the fire symbol on his earpiece. "Laurie," he called for her. "Promise me that nothing happens to you and Lloyd and both of you are safe. Can you promise that?" he asked.

Laurie heard the fire ninja's worriness to sigh. She knows that he worried for her safety ever since she joined the team. Whether it was when she was in her tornado to kill herself, Belinda, the stone warriors that killed Rhea. Almost everything when on missions. He cared for her since she was still understanding her elemental powers, wind, and didn't want anything to happen. The orange ninja sighed and pressed her earpiece. "Sure." she replied to reassure him. "I can promise you that, Kai." She removed her hand from her ear to clutch her bō staff tightly. Where did my brother go?

The wind ninja quietly peered through the large warehouse to seek out for a boy dressed in green. She gazed around the warehouse to feel the hairs on her neck stand up as it reminded her when her brother and Rhea was kidnapped and was searching for the Serpentine. Only that it wasn't Skales that took the two, but was a samurai warrior made of stone by a dark deity named the Overlord. That shadow that had used a girl as his assassin or pawn while deliberating her to think she was a mute by a curse. But wasn't. The red head pushed it aside to not rethink the past and continued her search for Lloyd before any of the goons find him. Where was he?

Laurie continued to quietly transverse through the warehouse while hiding behind crates and platforms to conceal herself from danger. She heard heavy footsteps and quickly pressed herself against a nearby crate and slowly peered to see the other goon with the assault rifle and held her breath to feel sweat form at her brow as he walked towards her to have her heart race.

CRACK!

"Huh?" the goon's voice wondered and the footsteps became quiet and distant. Laurie sighed. "Boss! We may have intruders here! The police sent the ninjas! Snips is out!"

Laurie heard the door of an office swing open to see two goons run out and head towards the direction of the call. She could see, from her spot, three hostages, two male and one female, tied back to back together with tape over their mouths to gag them. All looked frightened and worried. She then heard soft footsteps and watched a small figure in green enter the office. She gasped. "Lloyd!" she whispered. It was him that made that sound. Just so he could sneak in and help the hostages. She now saw how grown up he became since she was gone with her mother and was a huge help. She created a small smile underneath her mask and quietly ran after him.

The wind ninja stood by the doorway to look back in case anyone was turning back and entered to hear muffled surprises. She quickly held a finger to her lips and they nodded while Lloyd was busy untying the knot that held them together. "Hurry, Lloyd." she whispered to him.

Lloyd rolled his emerald green eyes to his sister's rush. His brows were stitched together in concentration as he worked his way through untying the complicated knot. He squinted his eyes as he was starting to lose patients to the knot until it finally loosen and the rope fell to the floor. "I got it." he quietly said in triumph. The three hostages smiled after they removed the tape from their mouths and the rope off of them. "Now I know an exit we can use. My guardian and I can lead you the way. But we must be quick and quiet. The police should be here soon." The hostages nodded and stood by the door.

Laurie peered from the door and quickly pressed her earpiece. "Guys," she called. "Lloyd and I have the hostages safely. We're taking them to an exit. Keep them away from us."

"Ten-four, Laurie." Cole acknowledged. "Kai, you're the closest one to them. Make sure nothing happens to them. We'll take the rest out."

"On it." said Kai.

Laurie peered through the doorway to see the area was cleared and motioned everyone out. She could feel her heart still racing and her breathing quick and shallow as she and her brother were motioning the three people to the other side of the warehouse. She just hoped she or her brother get shot from anyone. She looked over her shoulder and had Lloyd lead the way to the exit and she'll bring up the rear.

Danger! the wind howled in her ears. Behind you!

There was the sound of a weapon being cocked and the wind ninja quickly turned on her heels to gasp and remained frozen to move. In front of her was a muscular man dressed in all black with a buzz cut haircut and a loaded pistol in his hand. "Hello Poppin." he said coldly. Laurie remained frozen in fear of gunpoint and felt her body and breathing shake. The assaliant simply smirked to the ninja being trapped. "I wonder how the Ninja will react when they see a down teammate."

Laurie gasped and felt the blood drain from her face. She faced threats of death, unlike how her cousin died and resurrected to become Lloyd's guardian. But she didn't want to face death itself. She looked over his shoulder to see someone dressed in red with golden shoulder armour and headpiece to his mask. Kai! Without thinking, the orange ninja screamed. "Kai, help!" she screamed to him.

Kai turned his head to the cry and gasped to see Laurie frozen with fear and at gunpoint. He heard rough footsteps to another goon walk up to aide his comrade. He could feel his blood turning to ice in worry and started to panic. Laurie, the girl he was in love with, was going to get hurt. He was too far away to help reach her on time. He backed away to think of a plan and averted his gaze to see a motorcycle. Handle bars were wide and low with the front wheel in an angle by the support springs. The fire ninja thought it was slightly similiar or not to his old Spinjitzu motorcycle, but he knew how to ride one. Without hesistation, he quickly ran over to hop onto the seat and kick-started the cycle while twisting the throttle to hear the engine roar and sped off from the tires screeching on the cement.

The red ninja raced down the warehouse to gain the goon's attention and swung his leg out to knock him off his feet and disarm him and twisted the throttle harder to gain more speed. "Laurie!" he shouted. The lead boss turned from the orange ninja to the red ninja racing towards him in full speed and quickly turned around and fired his weapon. Kai heard the weapon firing the bullet and it echoed in his ear through the roaring engine and cried out as he felt the iron bullet penitrate his chest, raking his entire body. He felt unbalanced to swerve and feel himself being launched off the bike and land roughly into a crate.

Laurie gasped as she watched Kai take the bullet for her and fell to not hear anything from him as the bike collided with him in the mess. "Kai!" she scried for him. Nothing came form him. The wind ninja felt her blood boil and turned to the boss to glare at him. She could feel the air shifting around her and quickly held her hand out toward him. The boss goon felt himself being pushed off his feet and yelped as he flew across the warehouse until he made contact to a concrete beam and fell to unconsciousness. The wind ninja held her hand down to feel adrenaline swim in her body and could hear sirens blare outside and saw the police swarm in and quickly ran to Kai. "Kai!"

The wind ninja knelt next to the fire ninja's limp body and felt tears cascading as he wasn't responding. She couldn't see the blood in his suit and became worried. Oh why did he have to be the red ninja? She won't be able to tell how badly he was losing in blood. "Laurie!" she heard everyone shout to her.

The orange ninja lifted her head up to see her friends running up to her and Kai. "Guys, Kai just got shot to protect me." she exclaimed. She began to wonder how Nya is gonna react about her brother's shot. She was Kai's sister after all and is scared for her brother since he was all she had left since their parents died. Laurie brought herself back to remove Kai's mask and looked at him worriedly as he remained still. "I...I..." she stuttered and quickly untied his belt and opened his gi to reveal his white undershirt to blink. "What the?"

She gazed around his chest to inspect for blood or any wound, but there were none. She furrowed her brows with everyone as they examined him and couldn't fathom it. Kai looked like as if he wasn't shot at all and healed. But Lucas or Lloyd weren't around him after his fall. It doesn't explain anything now. Everyone heard a small groan escape from the red ninja's throat and quickly surrounded him. "K-Kai?" Laurie spoke.

Kai groaned while sliding his eyes open to reveal the chocolate brown irises and gazed around with a blurry vision. He felt his eyes clear up and slowly prompt himself to look at everyone's worried and confused looks while his body raked in pain. He groaned while holding his head. "Man that hurts." he finally groaned. "What happened?"

Everyone looked at him concerned. Doesn't he remembered being shot and crashing that could've killed him? The ice ninja saw his wondering look and knelt next to him. "What happened was that you were shot and took a bullet to the stomach." he replied and noticed the fire ninja's eyes growing wide. "We witnessed when you tried to save Laurie and took the bullet and crashed from the motorcycle. But yet when we examined your body, we didn't find any traces of blood or open wounds. We don't even know how you're alive still."

Kai had let all of the news sink in and simply shrugged his shoulders. "He must've missed." he guessed. Although, he could've sworn he felt his body broken and torn as he was shot. But as Zane said, there was no blood or wounds to tell. The Ninja of Fire shook it away to clear his head and looked at him team and family with a small smile. "Did we at least succeed on the mission?" he asked.

Everyone noticed his small smile and softly smiled back underneath their masks and nodded. That made Kai relieved that they won't need to face dangerous obstacles again. They all heard footsteps coming towards them and all turned to the chief of police and a detective walk up to them and removed their masks. They could see past them to see the goons being arrested while paramedics were outside with the freed hostages. "Hey nice work on the mission." the chief congradulated them while scratching his pencil thin mustache. "If it wasn't for you, they would've gotten away with it all."

Lloyd simply chuckled and leaned against his cousin while crossing his arms. "Ha, it was no sweat." he said and looked up to receive a hard stare from Lucas. He rolled his eyes as he knew the look. Another rant from his cousin and sister for sneaking out.

"Yeah. It's our job to protect and make sure the baddies never win." Jay added.

The chief simply gaze a small smile and it quickly vanished with a small huff. He turned his gaze to Kai and noticed he was underneath a broken crate with a motorcycle by his feet. "Uh... Are you gonna be alright?" he asked. "Something happened?"

Kai nodded and pulled himself up with Zane's help. His body cracked and popped like he was stretching in the morning and felt strong to support himself. Most times, people would feel weak to support themselves, but Kai was the opposite. "Yeah I'm fine." he replied and fixed his gi and tied his belt around him. "I just had a bad motorcycle accident to protect her." looked at Laurie with a warm smile.

Laurie shyly smiled back and kept an arm near him in case he needed the extra support. "Well then," the chief continued. "We still thank you for the help and stopping these clowns."and turned to watch the boss being taken away. "We'll call you if we ever need anymore help. We'll leave the Serpentine and Garmadon to you alone."

"Will do." said Cole and watched the chief and detective walk away and turned to Kai. "You think you can walk?"

"Yeah I can." the Ninja of Fire replied. "Not the first time happened on a motorcycle accident." He remembered having his old Spinjitzu vehicle and had an accident when trying to conjure it more and learn how to drive. "I just want to go home and sleep." and started walking his first step, but stopped as something caught his wrist and turned to Laurie.

"Kai," she said. "If you need any help on the way back, I'll be happy to help and can't thank you enough for what you done and..." She was stopped as felt her lips sealed by his and lost herself.

Kai pulled away from her to smile. "I know you want to help, but I'm fine." he said. "I thank you for the help, but let you know I am fine and love you no matter what." and gently grabbed her hand while wrapping his fingers with hers. "Come on, let's go home." and lead the way with her by his side and the others following.

So how was it? Kai gets shot and yet survives... Something seems a bit off to his survival, wonder how. Well I do but you need to read more and find out. But anyway, I hoped you enjoyed it, have a fun and safe 4th of July and a wonderful weekend and see you all next week for the next update. :)