So I intended to spend all morning on this chapter, but then I started watching Attack On Titan...and...yeah.

Have we figured out that I own nothing yet? Would I really be making you guys wait 58-57 days if I did?


Chapter 11

Lloyd's POV

Walking down the stairs, I made it to the base of the light house. Holding the flashlight up, I scanned the shelf, looking for the jar he had told me had something that would make the tea less bitter. "Have you found it yet?" Dr. Julien asked, all the way back upstairs. Getting on my tip toes, I reached for it, my arm brushing a different jar off the corner of the shelf. It fell, shattering at my feet. 'Oh gosh, not good!'

From everything Sensei had ever taught me, shattering strange jars of unknown herbs and tea usually was bad. I could tell from how it looked on the floor.

A cloud of whatever had been inside the jar flew up, getting into my nose, mouth and eyes. Coughing loudly, I felt something happening. As the air in the room cleared, I opened my eyes again. This time level with the spice rack. "Uh…there might be a small problem." I shouted back, jumping a little at the sound of my voice. I sounded...older. "I did find what you told me to find though!"

Climbing back up the stairs, jar in hand, Dr. Julien looked at me twice. "Oh...this'll be fun to explain..." He said, shaking his head. "I'm going to guess that there was a jar of Tomorrow's tea on the shelf as well?" Handing over the container, I tilted my head.

"Tomorrow's tea?" I asked, my eyebrows furrowing. "Is that why I'm older?"

He nodded, opening the jar. picking up something from inside, I watched him drop it into my teacup. A sugar cube. The hot tea made it dissolve quickly, falling to the bottom of the tea-cup. "Which also brings another question up, how much closer are you to your destiny?"

Inwardly groaning, I rolled my eyes. We always ended up on the topic of my destiny. He made me train as much as I could within the confines of the tower. Mainly because the Leviathan didn't know I was here, or at least not yet anyways. I kinda wanted to keep it that way, mainly because we didn't know what would happen if it did know I was here. I mean, it wasn't like I exactly had a way off here either, but still, better safe than sorry. "I'd assume it's closer. Which is pretty bad. If I had a lot of time left, it puts less of a strain on the other's to find me."

Silently, we sipped at our tea, watching clouds blow over the horizon. Sun-stained, fluffy wisps of clouds.


A few days had passed by uneventfully, I spent most of my time training now, and I was a lot better than I was before. I didn't have to take as many breaks. Most nights, after about an hour of talking to Dr. Julien, we'd both go to sleep. I still slept on the small cot on the landing, while he stayed up there, so if the Leviathan checked, he could see he hadn't left.

Tonight's conversation had left me wide awake, wishing I could contact the others.

"Dr. Julien," I had asked as I watched the little tea robot roll across the table. "You never told me anything about your son."

He had given me a strange look. "I thought I had." In reply, I shook my head. "Ah, I must have forgotten to. I did mention him though. Might as well tell you the whole story." The sun had set, and the lightbulbs had taken over, a soft light lit the small tower. "As you know, I was an inventor. But my workshop was in a very secluded part of Ninjago, not many people would be willing to visit. I built a robot, one who would be able to act as a son to me. I named him Zane."

Laying on the small cot, I curled up under the blanket. Dr. Julien had said goodnight hours ago, and I was still wide awake.

Thunder rumbled loudly in the distance, It was probably really far away, but I knew that out here, any thunder sounded minutes away. 'If Zane knew his dad was alive...' Yawning, I closed my eyes, listening to the sound of rough waves, and a distant giggling sound.


There was a loud crunching sound that woke me up, making me fall off the bed, carding my hair through my fingers. Pushing myself up, I ran up the stairs, and looked out the window, startling Dr. Julien.

There, stuck on rocks outside, was the Destiny's Bounty. My breath caught in my chest for a minute, afraid that my dad had finally found me, and wasn't going to leave without me. 'But would he even recognize me?' Relieved, I exhaled.

Standing in silence, I watched the ship, waiting for something to happen.

Sure enough, someone jumped off the boat. Kai.

The others followed, stopping, and looking up at the stairs. As they started making their way up the stairs, I turned around. Dr. Julien was already making his way down the stairs to unlock the door, his ridiculous key ring in hand. Starting to follow him, I took the steps two at a time, quickly catching up. Reaching the floor, Dr. Julien pulled me aside, looking me in the eyes.

"Lloyd, you don't look the way you did, they probably won't recognize you."

"I know, I really do. It's just that, I miss them, they're the only family I have besides my dad." I said, but not even that thought could keep the smile off my face. "Zane'll recognize you."

He nodded, and went to unlock the door. Taking a deep breath, I let the smile vanish, calming myself down.


So I bet some of you are wondering why the others wouldn't recognize Lloyd, right?

Well, when Lloyd aged, Dr Julien found an extra pair of clothes for Lloyd to wear, so he could help him, that and the gi isn't very comfortable to sleep in (I tried on my brother's judo gi once, and that thing is uncomfortable as hell). Usually when Lloyd would be training, he'd put on his gi, but since he had been sleeping, he was wearing the spare clothes.