Hey guys! So, here's the next one, I think you might like it, who knows! enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Ninjago, just my OCs

Time Tip: this is shortly after Lloyd has learned his recent elemental powers (wind, life, light)

Ashlynn crouched and stared at the squirrel in the clearing. She shifted on her haunches, trying to flatten herself. She was doing a hunting lesson, as a dragon. So far, in her training, she's caught a butterfly...She needed this squirrel. It sniffed around and kept eating. Ashlynn took a small step closer...

She pounced. However, she just jumped short and landed in the dirt, an inch from the squirrel. It squeaked and took off. Ashlynn got up and took off after it. It darted up a tree and she climbed after it. It jumped in it's hollow. Ashlynn climbed up and stuck her nose in there...

The squirrel bit her and she squawked. she fell down the tree onto the ground. She grumbled and rubbed her nose.

"OOOOOOH, these things are infuriating!"

'Patience, Ashlynn. You must calm down. This takes time, you're trying to learn at an age where most young dragons don't even leave the nest yet'

"Yeah, yeah, whatever..." Ashlynn took a drink at a nearby river and walked to where the other's were.

It's just about how she left them. Lloyd was standing in the clearing, his eyes closed. He was doing his element life training. The other's were scrounging the forest for safe herbs and plants and whatnot.

Amanda saw her. "Did you catch anything?" Ashlynn grumbled, then laid down in the shade of the trees, not to far from Lloyd.

Lloyd sighed. He wished he could help her. He was watching her hunt, or at least her form hunt. How did Sarah ever manage to watch everything move so slow? He wished he could give her some tips, but he didn't know anything about hunting. She said it was hard, everything had to be quiet, from her footsteps to her breathing, she even had to find a way to quiet her heartbeat! He wanted to help her.

He walked away from her form and looked around. The forest was quiet, and empty. Or maybe just this part of the forest. That didn't make it better, what did everything have to hide from? He saw the forms of Ivy, Ray and Breeze not to far away, just surveying. For what? Slowly, Lloyd was getting a feeling about something...and it wasn't a good one. He walked a bit more...then felt it.

Another dragon, a wild one. It's aura matched the woods, so he didn't see it at first. But it was moving at a walking pace...which meant it was fast...and heading towards Lloyd's body. In a panic, Lloyd accidentally breathed out.

Lloyd's gasp for breath and his stumble caught the attention of the others, who just saw the dragon barrel out of the woods towards him. "Lloyd, look out!"

"Move!"

But before Lloyd could run, the dragon roared and raised a paw, it's claws ready to strike. Then something hit Lloyd and he blacked out.

"Oh god, oh god, oh god! He's dead! He's dead, what we are gonna tell Sensei?!"

"Calm down, Jay! He's not dead, just unconscious"

"Still, what are gonna tell Sensei?! Oh, he's gonna kill us!"

"Is he gonna be okay? Ashlynn hit him pretty hard" Ashlynn?

"Well, Zane said he-Wait, I think he's waking up. Lloyd? Can you hear me?"

Lloyd groaned and rubbed his head. His side hurt, like something hit him...like a train.

"Easy bud. You took a nasty fall"

"What...What happened?"

The guys looked at each other. "What do you remember?"

"That dragon came out of the woods...and then...what happened?"

Before anyone could answer..."Dammit...Kim, the bleeding isn't stopping!" Bleeding? Lloyd looked over...and his breath caught in his throat.

Ashlynn. She wasn't moving. she was lying on her side, blood everywhere. Kim and Amanda were trying to stop it with large leaves, but it wasn't working. "Ashlynn!" Lloyd shot up and started for her, but Kai held him back. "Kai, let go!"

"Lloyd, you need to stay out of their way so they can help her" LLoyd struggled, his eyes filling with tears.

"Kim, what do we do to help?"

"I-I don't know! The bleeding isn't stopping...I...I think that dragon might have hit something important..." Lloyd was gonna be sick. Ashlynn. She pushed Lloyd out of the way to protect him and took the attack. Speaking of which...

"Wh-Where's the dragon?"

"Ivy chased him off, Sarah followed after her. They need to get back and help-"

Sarah and Ivy came back, Ivy having a bunch of large leaves in her mouth. "We're back, how is she?" Sarah sat down next to Ashlynn, who gave a pitiful moan.

"Not good...what does Ivy have?"

"I-I don't know. She gave up the chase for it though" Ivy then placed some leaves down and chewed some. When she was done she spit a wet glump out and started chewing again.

"Oh, Sarah, your dragon is amazing!" Kim took the glumps and started pressing them in the wounds. Ashlynn squalled and Amanda tried to calm her down.

"what is it?"

"I forgot the name, it's impossible to remember, but my friend's mother was an herbalist, and she called it the chewed leaf. You chew it up and apply it to a wound, it stops the bleeding when you don't have anything else nearby. Help me apply this! You guys, make a stretcher of a sack of leaves or something! We need something that the dragons can carry Ashlynn back!"

They got to work. Jay and Zane crafted a bag out of vines and leaves, while Cole got them. Kai had the job of keeping Lloyd back. Kai knew that Lloyd would loose it if he got close to Ashlynn in this state.

"Okay, it's done!"

"Help me carry Ashlynn, we need to get her back to the apartment!" Everyone but Lloyd, who was placed on Breeze, because he would have a hard time getting down, surrounded Ashlynn. "One...two...three!" They picked her up, who whined, and placed her on the bag. "Okay, Ivy can carry her back, she's stronger"

"Let's go"

"Easy now" They got back to the apartment, and Ivy was slowly setting Ashlynn down. She set her down fully and everyone jumped down. "Quick, go get the first aid kits!"

Jay and Sarah ran in, Lloyd behind Jay. Lloyd had to help now, he could help now. They rushed in the room, startling Wu and Nya. "what's going on?"

"Ashlynn got hurt, badly" Jay grabbed the kit and Lloyd grabbed the other medical supplies that they didn't get a chance to put away. They all rushed back up to the roof.

They set the supplies down in front of Kim and she started working. It was a minute or two when she looked up at Lloyd. He was looking white, and scared. "Get Lloyd inside, he doesn't need to watch this"

"what, no! I-I can stay out here, I..."

"Lloyd, go inside. Now that we have supplies, she should be fine" Kim looked up at Kai. "Please, get him inside..."

Kai nodded and slowly guided him back inside. He got him in the room and Lloyd sat on a bed. "Are you okay? You gonna be sick?"

Lloyd slowly shook his head. "Kai...what happened?"

Kai sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "Well, we saw that dragon come out. We thought it was going to hit you, but...we didn't even see her move. She barreled into you, pushing you out of the way and...it got her, badly. The other three came out and Ivy got a hit on it. It ran and she chased after it. Meanwhile, we checked to make sure Ashlynn didn't accidentally kill you while Kim started getting to work" Kai puffed out some air. "Good thing she's a doctor-well, kinda. I think all she's missing is a degree" Kai chuckled, but his smile disappeared when he looked at Lloyd.

Lloyd stared at his hands, they were clasped together. He was quiet. "Right..." Kai sat next to him. "Lloyd, she'll be okay. She's strong. No doubt if you were hit, you wouldn't be as lucky..." Kai sighed. "I know, it's frightening when someone get's hurt like that...and it's hard when you feel like you can't do anything..."

Lloyd looked up at him. "did...something happen to...Nya?"

"Yeah. When we were little, Nya fell out of a tree and broke her leg. I was so scared, I didn't know what to do. I couldn't move her, but I just couldn't leave her. Eventually, our dad went looking for us and found us. I couldn't do anything, and I didn't want to feel that way again...I wanted to help..."

Lloyd nodded. "...I hope she'll be okay..."

"She will. Count on it"

Few hours later

The door opened and Kim walked in. She had her gloves off and she had blood up to her elbows, her sleeves rolled up as far she she could. She immediately went to the sink. She scrubbed at her arms.

"Hows Ashlynn?"

"She'll be fine...that chewed leaf really help. But the bleeding stopped, so she should heal better now..." Kim took a deep breath.

"You okay?"

Kim smiled. "I'm fine, been a while since the last surgery I've done..."

"And I was glad of that" Sarah walked in.

"What happened?"

"Sliced my leg open wicked hard on a rock ledge, a while before you joined us" Sarah showed Kai a big scar on her leg.

"Ouch"

"Can i go see Ashlynn?"

"Yeah" Amanda stood in the doorway. "She's asleep, but you can see her" Lloyd got up and went to the roof.

He opened the door and looked. Ray was on the roof, her wing over Ashlynn, who was shivering and pressed up against her. When Ray came back from the Spirit Coves, she now had feathered wings, so Lloyd guessed that she would generate a lot of warmth. He walked over and pressed a hand on Ashlynn's head. She opened her eyes a bit, then purred, pressing against his hand.

"Hey Ashlynn...I...th-thank you...th-thank you...so m-much..." Lloyd broke and tears fell from his eyes. He quickly wiped them away.

Ashlynn cooed, then shifted, moving her wing. Lloyd sat next to her and snuggled. After that, she seemed to stop shivering. Ray covered them both with her wing and settled down. Lloyd struggled to keep his eyes open, but it was warm, and Ashlynn's heartbeat seemed to soothe him...he closed his eyes.

"Lloyd" He was shaken away. He blinked away and looked around. It was morning. He was still resting against Ashlynn, who was still sound asleep. Ray was awake and...eating something. Amanda was shaking him awake. "Morning Lloyd. We were worried, then saw you here last night. We left you here because you were out"

Lloyd sat up and rubbed his eyes. He felt stiff...He got up and stretched. That woke Ashlynn up and she yawned. Ray noticed that she was up and dropped a...

Lloyd stiffened. "I-Is that...a leg?"

"A deer leg, yeah" Ashlynn started to eat it. "I guess it's better she eats something raw" Lloyd gagged. "C'mon, we'll get you a non-alive breakfast"

A day later

"This move is designed to knock the wind out of your opponent" Sarah struck the punching bag with an open hand, but all the force in her palms. "So you can throw them off and shorten the battle with you winning" Sarah grinned at Lloyd, then frowned when he was looking out the window. "Lloyd?"

He started and looked back. "Right, sorry, um...what was the lesson again?"

Sarah sighed. "Lloyd, Ashlynn is going to be fine, okay? She's healing well enough, she'll be just fine, okay?"

I know, it's just..."

"You're worried, I get it. But you have training today. Now, i'll show this to you again"

Lloyd went through his training today, but his mind was out of it. Wu had noticed it, and he was worried for his nephew. During sinner, when everyone was eating another night of take out food, Lloyd wasn't touching his food. "Lloyd, you need to eat"

"not that it'll do us much good. We need to get that oven fixed so we can have proper food"

"Or blow the apartment up" Everyone chuckled and Lloyd even smiled.

"Lloyd, again, don't worry about Ashlynn, she's going to be-"

"G-Guys..." There was a whisper of a voice and everyone looked up at the door.

"Ashlynn?! what did you do?!" Ashlynn, in human form, was standing in the door. In human form, her scars looked worse. They weren't bleeding as bad, but they didn't look good. She was holding her arm and she was stark white...with a tinge of green. She was covered in dry blood. "Why did you shift?!"

Kim and Amanda got up to help her, while everyone had just stood up in surprise. Ashlynn took a deep breath. "I...I didn't...didn't shift...M-Mirror...did..." It was like each breath was difficult.

"C'mon, we have to put new bandages on you" They walked her out to the room across the hall.

"Who would Mirror shift like that?"

"Dunno...Ashlynn's the only one who would know why Mirror would do that"

Lloyd hasn't moved, he didn't know what to do. What was happening?

Lloyd softly knocked on the door. "Come in" Lloyd opened the door. Ashlynn was asleep in her bed, new bandages on, Amanda sitting on her bed, stroking her hair.

"she okay? Did she explain why Mirror shifted?"

"No, not really. Ashlynn didn't say much. As soon as we got new bandages on, some food and water in her, she fell right asleep. She'll probably explain tomorrow"

Lloyd looked at Ashlynn asleep. "I hope...Good night Amanda"

"Good night Lloyd. Sleep tight"

I'll stop here, hope you guys liked this, I've been wanted to do this for a while, but needed the right time to do it.