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Chapter 9
Zane slowly opened his eyes after his hibernation mode was deactivated. He looked around the room as the others as they were getting out of their beds. He then looked at Lloyd and the small kid ninja looked at him back with a raised eyebrow of curiousity. Zane was still mad towards Lucas for what happened to his home and would hold a grudge on him forever. He vowed in his head he would have his revenge on Lucas the next time they encounter him.
Lloyd looked at Zane curiously. He heard the phrase 'Curiousity Killed the Cat', but he was curious why the white ninja was angry still, even from last night. The others haven't told him what happened to the forest to make him furious at something. The kid ninja looked away from him and got out of his bed, took his shower, changed into his green outfit and left the room.
No matter how many times he shook it out of his head, Lloyd kept thinking about Zane. Was his humor switch broken to make him angry until it's repaired to make him calm? Was his falcon destroyed and couldn't find it anywhere to make them come back late? Lloyd had many questions to ask him, but he knew Zane wasn't in the mood to talk and decided to stay quiet.
When Lloyd walked in the dining room, a familiar smell wafted in his nose and it smelled spicy. Lloyd could tell that Kai was making breakfast because when he cooked, it always has to be spicy and hot. Goes well with his element and his ego. He took his usual seat next to Cole and Jay sat across from them and Nya went into kitchen to help her brother. After a few minutes went by, Zane finally joined them, still mad, and sat next to Cole. Finally Kai and Nya came in, each with plates balanced on their arms, and passed them around.
Cole, Jay, and Lloyd eyed their omelets because they knew Kai made it spicy to where it could burn their mouths. Jay looked at Kai, Nya, and Zane eat their omelets without feeling the burning effects in their mouths. He cut an edge piece with his fork and carefully brought it close to his mouth and takes the piece with his lips. After a few chews of the egg and tasting the peppers, Jay's eyes grew wide and his face was bright red. He quickly swallowed the piece and blew out the hot air, like a dragon, from his mouth and could feel the heat on his lips and could quickly drank his water to cool his mouth. He was breathing heavily after his fiery experience and the others were laughing at him, except Zane. "Seriously, how can you guys stand the heat?" he asked Kai and Nya.
"Well Zane is ice and a nindroid so he's probably cooling the omelet in his mouth somehow." Kai smirked and took another bite of his omelet. "But for me and Nya, growing up in a blacksmith shop, you get use to the heat."
When everyone finished their omelet, Lloyd and Cole were careful than Jay was, and everyone sat in silence to digest their fiery breakfast in their stomachs. The one plate that was in Sensei's spot was cold. They haven't seen Sensei all morning and were starting to get worried.
"I'll take this to Sensei." Nya announced and took his plate to his room.
As soon as she left, the alarm started blaring in their ears. The ninja groaned and quickly stood up and ran up to the bridge. When they entered the bridge, Jay typed on the keyboard with lightning speed on his finger-tips. The computer screen displayed the map of Ninjago and a red dot was placed on the location in trouble. Kai's eyes grew wide in shock on the location and knew it was his old village. Zane glared at the map and studied the location to know the person who destoryed his home would be there. "I will have my revenge." he murmured in his breath and ran out.
The others saw their brother leave and ran after him. When they reached the deck, Zane had his mask over his face, weapons drawn out and jumped off to transformed into his vehicle.
"Zane!" Cole called after him. Cole and the others, including Lloyd, threw their masks over their faces and stood on the ledge. Cole looked at Lloyd with a hard stare and Lloyd instanly knew the quote.
"Yeah, yeah I know." Lloyd sighed and removed his mask. "Stay here where it's safe and I have to train for the day."
"Mhmm." the ninja hummed together and jumped off.
The three ninja felt the wind blowing past them as they free-falled to the ground. They drew out their weapons and transformed into their vehicles before Kai and Cole made contact with the earth and Jay flew above their heads and all picked up the pace to catch up with their ice brother.
The afternoon sun rose high in the sky by the time Zane stopped on a hill and transformed from his vehicle. He overlooked the hill and saw the village was deserted. He couldn't see farmers in the rice fields. Or children playing with fake weapons. There were three more flashes of light behind him and the ice ninja turned around to see his brothers behind him.
"Zane, what's your problem!?" Kai asked angirly, "You had to run off into danger without knowing the problem. You're worse than me."
"Want to know my problem, Kai!?" Zane spatted back, "I vowed to have my revenge on Lucas to what he did to my home! And you should see for yourself to what he's done here!"
Kai walked past the ice ninja and looked at his village in horror. He quickly ran down the hill and walked through the destruction. The village was different than the forest because each shop and home was burnt down or scorched. Smoke filled the air as the remains were burning in embers or still burned in the ashes. This wanted to make Kai cry. He caught sight of his father's blacksmith shop and quickly ran up to it. When he reached the shop, Kai could see the same tire tracks were left in the ground, like in the forest, and away from the destruction. The fire ninja began to feel sorrow climb up and removed his mask to look at his home.
Everywhere Kai looked, weapons were bent and broken. Armor was bent to where it was useless. The walls were blackened and red from a recent fire that was put out before it caused further damage. Kai didn't mind the smell of smoke and ash as it sadly reminded him of home. He looked at the furance, that helped heat the metal to be made into weapons, to see it was destroyed and on top of it was a small black box.
Kai realized the box, and the weapons, and tracks, and the burned down village were the same experience's Zane felt. He no longer felt pan of sorrow in his veins. He felt anger running in his veins. Kai drew out his sword and pointed it at the box. He screamed in fury and a blaze of a orange flame engulfed the box and incinerated it to ashes. The others were watching him from behind and saw his rage when he burnt the box. Cole asked Jay if this what happened to Zane yesterday and Jay nodded in reply.
"Kai, I sense anger in you from what Lucas has done." Zane observed.
Kai put his sword back on his back and turned to face his brothers. His eyebrows were stitched together in anger and looked at Zane as his eyebrows were the same. He too was now hungry for revenge now and wanted to avenge for his village.
"I sense it too." he finally said.
When everyone reached the Bounty, Kai was angry as Zane was, and Cole and Jay were worried about them. The two ninjas went on a pursuit to find Lucas, but the tracks were washed away before they could find him and regrouped with the others as the sun was setting. Nya walked up the steps to the deck and could see her brothers face was angry as Zane's.
"What happened?" she asked.
Kai looked around the deck and saw Lloyd was no where to be seen. "Lucas burnt our home and village down." he says angirly.
Nya gasped to hear the sad news and a small tear rolled down her cheek. She and Kai spent their entire childhood there and it slowly brought more depression to her heart. So many memories they had together with their parents until they were gone and until Sensei came in and told Kai he must become a ninja. She could see why her brother was mad, but she wasn't mad or hungry for revenge. She was just depressed.
"We don't think Lucas left because he wanted to." Kai continued with his tone, "We know he left because he wanted to."
"So you're blaming my cousin for what he's doing to you." Lloyd spoke up.
Everyone looked around to know where Lloyd was overhearing them. Lloyd stepped out of his hiding spot, behind a barrel, and his eyebrows were stitched together in anger. Not to his cousin, but towards them.
"You still think he left because he wanted to, while I still think he didn't!" Lloyd spat out.
"Lloyd, your cousin did this to us to make us weak!" Kai snapped at him, "He destroyed Zane's home and my and Nya's home! Your cousin chosed to leave because he wanted more power!"
"He didn't choose to leave, he was forced!" Lloyd shouted back at them from the night before and was metaphorically face to face with the fire ninja with his small height. "When will you realize he's not doing this!"
"Open your eyes, Lloyd! When will you realize that Lucas chosed to leave because he wanted to make us suffer, including you."
*Lloyd growled through his teeth and walked away from them and walked up the steps to the bridge. Kai watched him walk away and was now mad at the kid and Lucas.
"Once an apprentice to Garmadon, always an apprentice to Garmadon." he says.
Lloyd stopped halfway up the first flight of stairs after what he recently heard. He balled his hands into fists and could hear his fingers pop in each knuckle and the fire in his chest rose up in anger. He turned to face Kai and his lips were curled to show his teeth. His face was bright red and his eyebrows were closer together and was breathing heavily in more frustration. Lloyd placed his right foot on the edge of a step behind him, above his other, and squatted down to steady himself. He screamed in rage and lauched himself at Kai and made contact.
Both ninja's rolled on the floor and Kai laid on his back while Lloyd sat on his chest. Lloyd drew his right fist back and shot it towards Kai's face; between his cheek and nose. Pain shot through Kai's face when Lloyd punched him and could taste blood in the back of his mouth. Still mad at Lloyd, Kai deflected another punch from him and then grabbed the back of his shirt and pulled him away. Kai quickly stood back up and lifted Lloyd off the ground from the back of his shirt. Lloyd kicked his legs and squirmed to fight more to continue releasing rage on Kai for his cousin. Small blue lightning bolts escaped on his palms and Lloyd dug his fingers into Kai's arm that had the hold on him.
Kai could feel the electric current run through his arm and up to his chest. When the current reached his chest, Kai felt like he was punched by Cole and dropped Lloyd as he was sent flying back and into a barrel and broke it into pieces. Everyone ran up to check on him to see if he was alright. Kai, still filled with rage, pushed everyone aside and stood in a attack stance at Lloyd.
Fire formed in both hands and using both hands, Kai pushed the fire in front of him and acted it as a flamethrower would. Lloyd pointed his hands at a rain catcher barrel to gather water and pointed it at Kai's fire and the water responded and stood in front of him to protect himself. Both elements made contact and were pushing against each other. Steam came off the center of the collided elements as both ninjas pushed their hatred towards each other. Lloyd having the advantage in elements kept extinguishing the flames from coming near him and towards Kai. But Kai, being a trained ninja, pushed the fire forward with his strength and the fire slowly made its way towards Lloyd. The kid ninja was starting to become frightened and remembered a lesson from Lucas about pushing the water towards to defend yourself and placed a foot behind him to keep himself supported.
"What's going on out here?!" Sensei shouted as he walked out of his room to know the problem. Kai's fire evaporated in the air and Lloyd's water splashed on the wooden floor. Sensei gave his nephew and student an angry gaze; wanting to know the cause of the fight. "Well?"
"He started it!" Kai and Lloyd shouted and pointed at each other.
Sensei rolled his grey eyes and knew he wasn't going to get a better response from both of them. "Lloyd, what happened?" he asked.
"He disrespected your son, uncle." Lloyd replied at Kai, "In fact, they all disrespected him and our family." and stormed past his uncle and into the ship.
Sensei looked at Kai and walked up to him to hear his explaination.
"What?" Kai asked, "It's obivious because Lucas destroyed my village and Zane's home-Whoa!"
Sensei used the end of his staff to swipe at Kai's legs made his back hit the floor. Then he placed the end of his staff at Kai's throat, while his palm was on the other end of the staff; ready to strike at his trachea. Kai was now shaking in fear as he could see the hatred in his teacher's eyes. He was at the verge to beg for mercy and the others ran to help, but Sensei told them to stay put.
"My son would never do this to his family!" Sensei shouted at Kai, "I know he's feeling pain as you all are, but he's not the one doing this for himself." Sensei removed his staff from Kai's throat and walked back to his room. Kai crawled his way back, scared, and stood up. The others ran to check on him if he was alright and he said he was. Sensei stopped at his door and turned to face his students before disapperaing from the deck. "I believe you owe Lloyd an apology to what you did to make him mad." he tells them, "Or consider yourselves no longer ninjas." and disappeared.
Kai glanced over his shoulders to see everyone was scared, including Zane. But both he and Zane were still furious at Lucas. But he felt bad for Lloyd though. He felt someone push him forwards and turned to face Cole. "Why me? he asked.
"Because you know you were the one who started it." the earth ninja retorted, "So you're the one whose going to apologize or we won't be the ninjas to stop the Summer Solstice battle."
"Seriously Kai, I don't want to give up fighting and go work on scrap metal with my parents." Jay added.
"Fine fine, I'll do it." Kai sighed and made his way into the ship.
As Kai walked through the ship to find Lloyd, he didn't know where to find where he stormed off to. He didn't find Lloyd lying in his bed. Or in the basement training room to release his rage on a punching bag or a dummy. Kai was starting to get worried if the small ninja left the Bounty and ran off somewhere. But his worry left him as he heard something in the living room.
Kai peeked his head through the doorway to smile to see Lloyd lying on the couch and still on the Bounty. He watched Lloyd, still in anger, throw a rubber ball to the floor and bounces off onto the wall and ricochetts back to Lloyd and catches it. Lloyd threw the ball a couple more times and caught the last one and stopped throwing it. He looked at the ball and immediately was engulfed in flames. He threw the fireball of the floor and wall, without leaving scorch marks, and caught it. He looked at the ball again and the flames are cooled off and the ball was covered in ice. With the iceball in his hand, Lloyd brought his fingers into his palm to crush the hollow ball into pieces and throws them to the floor.
Kai gulped as he thought Lloyd wanted to perform it on him, but didn't let fear get the best of him. He walked up to Lloyd and looked down at him. "Lloyd, do you have a minute?" he asked. Lloyd glared up at him and switched positions on the couch until his head was on the other side. Kai sighed for he knew it wasn't going to be easy and sat down near Lloyd's feet. "Lloyd, I know you're upset about Lucas and mad at me," he continued, "But the reason why I snapped at you is because I'm mad that my home was nearly burnt down, but my village was, and Zane is mad that his was destroyed as well, but we still think differently on Lucas and we think he's doing to hurt us. What I'm trying to say from me and the others that we're sorry."
Lloyd looked at the fire ninja with his angry gaze and placed a throw pillow under his head. "I forgive Nya, because I know she's not mad at Lucas. But I won't forgive you guys."
Kai was shocked to hear that from him. He felt broken that he wouldn't accept their apology, but knew it was because they were mad at Lucas. "I understand." he sighed, "I'll leave you alone now." and left the living room.
Kai emerged the deck and saw the others were sweeping up the broken pieces of the barrel he broke with his fight with Lloyd. When the last piece was sweeped up and thrown away, everyone saw the fire ninja on the deck and could see a mixture of emotions on his face. They could see he was hurt and angry, but he hid the anger well. Kai stood in front of them and all wanted to know how it went.
"Well?" Cole asked.
"He said he'll forgive Nya because he's not mad at you sis." Kai sighed, "But he said he'll never forgive us."
"Who could blame him?" said Nya, "You and Zane are mad at Lucas for what he did, but I'm the one whose upset about our home."
"And we understand Lloyd because he and Lucas cared for each other." Cole added, "But the next time we encounter him, we'll try to talk to him."
They all nodded to an agreement. But Kai and Zane still felt hatred towards Lucas and wanted to a chance to avenge themselves to what Lucas did. They looked at each others eyes and blinked in a understandment of their revenge and kept it their secret.
"Well I better get dinner started." Zane announced, "Jay, can I ask for your assistance?"
"Sure Zane." Jay replied and both ninja's made their way to the kitchen.
All throughout the day, they haven't seen Lloyd leave the living room. Or even come down for dinner. They were all worried for him, but still understood him on Lucas. Sensei asked Kai if he apologized to his nephew and Kai explained his story. Sensei nodded in understandment and announced that they could continue their duty as ninjas.
After dinner, the four ninjas walked to the living room and found Lloyd sound asleep on the couch. They all smiled to see him no longer mad as he gave off his silent snores, but knew he was still mad at all of them. They decided to let him sleep on the couch for the night and not carry him to his bed. Kai took a blanket from a grey bean bag chair and threw over Lloyd's body. And immediately Lloyd wrapped himself tightly to the blanket given to him and continued to give off his silent snores. They all smiled to him and switched the lights off to let him sleep and left to sleep in their room.
When the entered their room, they quietly changed into their pajamas and into their bunks. Kai listened as his brothers were fast asleep. He heard Cole give off his heavy snores, Jay's mumbles in his sleep, and Zane's silent snores. Kai's eyes weren't heavy of sleep because he kept thinking about his village being burnt down and everyone he knew was homeless. He hoped that everyone had relatives in Jamakai Village or Ninjago City or anywhere. After an hour of thinking, Kai's amber eyes finally gave away and drifted into sleep.
The clock chimed its third midnight after the fourth was found. Garmadon looked at the mirror and now it reflected his right cheek and part of his nose. The mirror began to shift and change again and showed the third location. Everytime he place a shard on the mirror, the locations were becomeing harder to understand. He looked at the mirror as it showed pictures hung on a wall and showed a picture with a curved blade. Garmadon didn't understood the location, but he'll describe it and send his apprentice to retrieve the next shard. He hoped his apprentice knew the location and return the shard to him to rule Ninjago.