Thank you to all of you who have favourited, followed and left reviews! They all mean so much! A little bit of plot building before we return to Kai...

Lost

It pained Lloyd to think of how long it had taken them to realise that something was wrong, very wrong. The wedding had been fantastic, everything had gone so smoothly and Jay and Nya had had the time of their lives. But at some point after the whole team had come together on the dancefloor and totally nailed the Cha Cha Slide to the delight of all the guests, Kai and Skylor had gone missing. At first no one had batted an eyelid; they were young, totally loved up and no doubt had snuck off somewhere for some privacy. But when it came to the time for the speeches and no one could find either of the ninja couple anywhere, that's when they knew. Kai had spent hours perfecting his speech, and there was no way he would miss an opportunity like this to embarrass Jay. And Nya meant so much to Kai... Lloyd sighed. Kai just would not do this to her. Once he had realised he could not find his red clad brother Lloyd had gathered the rest of the team to him, trying to be discreet and not let the newly weds know that there seemed to be a problem as they split up and turned over every inch of the old Temple of Airjitzu. But it was difficult to keep anything from Nya, especially if it concerned her brother, they just seemed to have this sixth sense with each other sometimes. Lloyd sighed again as he recalled the haunting look on her face when he had finally cracked and given into her demands to know where her brother was and what was going on, Jay having to hold her upright as she collapsed into him. And they still didn't know where either of them were…

"Dammit!" He banged his fist on the table top, sending the map of Ninjago and scraps of notes onto the floor and waking Cole from his slumber, head having fallen onto his folded arms where he had slumped at the other end of the table, now eyeing him heavily from under unruly wisps of his dark hair.

"Lloyd Montgomery Garmadon, time may be fraught but there is never cause for profanity." Lloyd's uncle, silhouetted by the rising sun at his back, turned to look at the green ninja from where he stood at the window of the small mission room they had set up on the first floor of the temple. None of them felt it would have been a good idea to leave for the monastery yet, not wanting to miss any clues as to the whereabouts of the missing masters of fire and amber.

Lloyd bowed his head, "Sorry Sensei." Rising wearily to his feet he picked up the map and squeezed Coles shoulder.

"This is just ridiculous. How can they have just disappeared like this? Especially Kai?"

Cole sighed heavily, rubbing at his eyes and then gazing out of the window, mentally kicking himself for having given into slumber; there were far more important things to be doing rather than sleeping right now!

"We're missing something, Cole. Maybe we are looking at this all wrong." Cole raised an eyebrow at Lloyd as he turned to look at him.

"Go on." Cole's voice was thick with sleep, but his dark eyes were bright and listening. Lloyd walked back over to the table, his own green eyes hooded with tiredness but also burning bright.

"Let's get everyone up and then go back through what we know, and then try to think of some different angles."

"A wise decision, Lloyd. A wise decision." Wu continued to look out of the window, absentmindedly running a hand down his beard. "I'll ask Zane to make everyone some breakfast. You need to eat and keep yourselves vigorous, even more so in the face of peril." Their sensei turned and made his way to the lounge where the other ninja had fallen into restless sleep.

"Ok, so we all saw them last on the dancefloor around 7pm." Lloyd looked around and met the eyes of each ninja, pausing slightly longer at Nya's red rimmed eyes and biting his lip. They had all picked at the breakfast Zane had made, and although he did not want to eat he had to admit he did feel slightly better now he had some substance inside him. He took a sip of his coffee, then looked up at his team. Sorely incomplete...

"And that was it?"

"We've been through this Lloyd. None of us saw them after that." Jay huffed and shifted his arm around Nya, trying to comfort her.

"I'm sorry Jay, I'm just trying to make sure we haven't missed anything." Lloyd paused and took a breath.

"We have all assumed that they have been taken against their will, but there's been no sign of any struggle. Surely Kai would have used his powers, and we know he is probably the best hand to hand fighter amongst us,"

Cole gave a soft snort, "Don't tell him that when we find them!" The others raised small smiles.

"Yeah, well… but that makes it even stranger that we have not found anything. And we all know that Skylor's not exactly weak, she's a solid fighter in her own right. And with her multiple powers, she's incredibly strong. If there was a fight surely we would have found evidence of it?"

Zane looked up, "Which would lead to the conclusion that there was no struggle."

"Exactly." Lloyd breathed.

Nya sat up, shrugging away from Jay. "They were drugged?" her eyes were wide and hardening.

"I don't believe so Nya, we would still have seen evidence of their being dragged out, and their being carried would surely have been spotted by one of us or a guest." Zane stood and put a reassuring hand on Nya's shoulder.

"So what, then?" Jay frowned, his hands went up and his voice rose in pitch. "People do not just vanish into thin air!"

"They must have left of their own accord. For some reason, without struggle." Lloyd met Zane's gaze, who nodded in agreement.

"I would also ascertain this conclusion. They either both left of their own accord, or…" Zane's voice trailed off.

"Go on Zane. Don't sugar coat anything for me, you know I won't stand for it." That Smith spirit was awakening in Nya as she turned her eyes unblinking up to the nindroid.

He frowned and continued. "…unless one of them persuaded the other to leave without fight."

"Zane what the heck are you saying?" Cole's eyes were now hardening. "Kai would never leave Nya's wedding without extremely good reason. And Skylor is one of us, she,"

"Possesses mind control." Lloyd softly butted in.

"But why would Skylor get Kai to leave? And to just disappear like this? It's been two days Lloyd…" Nya sobbed again, burying her head into Jay's shoulder, who looked up to the green ninja who was running a hand through his blond mop of hair, bright green eyes blinking and unseeing, deep in thought.

"Lloyd, why would she do that?"

Zane shifted and answered. "We do not yet know her motives, but at the present time this is our best conclusion; that Skylor has used her powers to take Kai somewhere unknown. We have to accept the possibility that Skylor has kidnapped Kai."

The ninja team looked around at each other, in various states of disbelief.

"Well, there is our different angle of approach…" Lloyd muttered softly, shaking his head, thinking to himself I hope it's not true, but what if it is…?