Authors Notes: Out a little early today since I just had this chapter stuck in my head. Whoooo here we go :D

Bronze Colored Heart

Chapter 13

No End

The sun was setting now, and the sky changed to a bright orange color causing everything around the jungle to change color too. Even the shadows looked red.

Lloyd looked around him, He was trying to make rope out of the vines. He needed to make one at last two yards long for what he was planning, but doing so with one arm wasn't very helpful. Luckily it was just dislocated. He rammed his shoulder into a tree pushing it back into place. He took the vine he had made and swung it around his neck and tied one end to his wrist and the other to his forearm. It was a makeshift sling. He wasn't to sure if it would last the night since it was so poorly made but it would have to do.

Lloyd sat back against the tree for a moment taking in his surroundings. He could hear the clank of weapons or tools really close by. Those were defiantly not his ninja. They were far more quiet then that.

He saw a red blurr go by. He adjusted himself to hide farther in the bushes. He peaked through and spotted someone that caused him to smile.

"Kai…" He whispered just enough for the ninja to hear him. Kai turned to see Lloyd leaning against the tree. Lloyd was able to see him better. Their was a large gash across the red ninjas chest. Nya stopped short to see Lloyd too. She sighed visibly and looked him over.

"Your okay." She said she seemed to be visibly alright but it did look like she'd have a black eye.

"Yeah fell on my arm wrong though." He said showing his makeshift sling. "But Kai…" He said pointing to his chest. He could see the muscle through the skin.

"Yeah one of the wires to the mast came up and snagged me after it broke. Saw it in slow motion, it looked pretty cool till I realized what had happened." He looked proud of his new wound. Him and his scars.

"Nya you're going to end up with a shiner I'm sorry to say." Lloyd said touching the side of her cheek. Nya sighed and nodded.

"My brothers elbow did that one." She said and shrugged her shoulders. Lloyd just chuckled

"Did you see the others?"

"No dude when you told us to scatter I took Nyas hand and ran." Kai said looking at his sister who looked a little worried. Lloyd knew why. She was worried about Jay.

" All I remember seeing was you running off in the other direction. I wasn't to s…" Lloyd was nearly barreled over by Cole as he ran. Lloyd fell forward into Kai and Nya.

"Jay!" Nya yelled with him now in her arms.

"Not so tight…" He said in pain.

"Sorry…" She said kissing his forehead. "Better?" She asked. Jay just smiled wistfully.

"Yeah…"

"Alright you two get off…" Kai grumbled from the bottom.

Nya helped Jay stand up, he held his midsection and gasped when Cole picked him back up.

"Dude you don't g…"

"I just don't want to lose anyone else alright? You scared us." Cole said walking over to the water and pulled out his water bottle.

"Cole?" Lloyd asked holding out his hand for the water bottle. He knew it wouldn't be easy to fill it up while holding Jay.

"I think us losing Master Wu hit him the hardest.' Kai said to Nya who nodded her head.

"They have Zane, Echo, and Kate." Jay said running his hand over his face trying to get rid of the sweat that was beading up on his face. Nya looked up when Nya pulled out a handkerchief and blotted his head.

"What are we going to do Lloyd?" Jay asked taking a drink from his water bottle before handing it to Nya.

"Well obviously we'll have to save them. We need to find somewhere safe to hide till Nightfall."

"Aww yeah we get to be ninja!" Jay said. Lloyd thumped Jays nose.

"Except you."

"Daww." Jay rubbed his nose

"Kate!" Her name...that was her name wasn't it? Thats all she could hear for a little while. She then heard the loud clanking noise. It was pretty insistent. She slowly opened her eyes to see that she had been thrown unceremoniously on the floor of a cell. Across from her was the cell where she saw Echo in. He was banging on the bars. He was on his knees crying out for her and his brother. Kate felt something heavy on her legs. She slowly moved to see Zanes leg was on top of hers and realized very quickly that she was also laying on top of his arm. She slowly sat up and moved out from under him or on top of. It was like they were both shoved into one another. She leaned against the bars and looked at Echo. His ramblings had stopped when he saw her moving. Her head still throbbed greatly. She reached up to feel her head and realized that their was a large gash on her temple.

"Echo…" Her voice was weak and her tongue felt fat.

"Shhhh." He reached out to her. She reached out to him. All she could feel was his finger tips. She let her had fall back down and she looked around at Zane. Her movements must have woke up. His head moved to the side allowing for her to see that he must have gotten hit over the head.

"Are you alright." Kate said taking his hand. He nodded his head and looked around the room. He sat up and looked at the door. It was expertly build they wouldn't have a hope of getting out of there.

"Echo are you alright?" He asked knelling down to look over Kates wound. It had reopened in the struggle. Her shirt he had retrieved for her from her closet (Or what was left of it) was now bloody on one side from the gash. The shirt she had vacated was wrapped around Echos leg attempting to keep it together. Oil was leaking from one side.

"Is she alright? They tore her from me, and she fell." Echo asked worried.

"Why don't you just tell the lady that you love her." A guys voice echoed down the hallway.

"Oh no…" Zane grumbled looking through the bars at the familiar brown mop on Ronins head.

"Who is that?" Echo whispered to his brother.

"Ronin...a sneak theif. Also responsible for kidnapping myself and Pixal and giving us over to Master Chen where Chen nearly off-lined Pixal."

"Oh you don't remember the second time too? I hacked you and turned you into the authorities." Ronin said. Echo shook his head not really liking this Ronin guy.

"I do not recall that time." Zane said glaring. "But thank you for reminding me."

"Echo?" Kate looked back up at him. She looked so tired to him. "We need to get back. Jays hurt. You...you gotta." She swallowed hard and then started to cough.

"She don't sound good tincan. The hell happened to you all?" Ronin said sounding genuinely worried for them. Zane sat back pulling Kate onto his shoulder. Seeing as this was his brothers new girlfriend he was taking it onto himself to take care of her for him.

"Bounty...we crashed the Bounty after being shot down. Jays been shot, and Im sure mine and my brothers wounds are...fatal if we do not get help soon." Zane said looking at him.

"The others are on their way right? They can save you?" Ronin asked looking at something in his shirt.

"How much?" Zane asked. Ronin looked over his shoulder and smiled.

"You act like its always money for me." He said. Zane shook his head.

"It is...or you could always call this a personal favor to get back in my good graces." Zane said feeling Kates weight increase on his shoulder. She must have been falling back asleep again.

"Kate...I need you to stay awake." He whispered to her. Kate mumbled something, and jumped when she felt him pinch her hand. "Apologize Kate...but I had to get you to stay awake."

"Ouch…" She looked at her hand. It was rather red now. She looked up at Echo, he was leaning back against the wall now. His eyes were still on her.

"Echo?" She called to him. "Echo…" She thought about something, and honestly that something didn't want to come out so she had to force it past the cotton balls and Vaseline in her head. "You're perfect. The rust, the gears, your heart."

"I do not have a heart Kate." He smiled and threw a piece of dried mud at him.

"You may not have a physical heart Echo...but you have more heart then these people do." Kate watched him for a moment thinking perhaps he had fallen asleep. But he slowly sat up to look her in the eyes.

"You're beautiful." He whispered. Kate didn't expect that sort of response. She blushed and looked back down at herself.

"Not right now I'm not...I look horrid...I'm caked in blood. I'm sure I have bruises e…"

"You are...beautiful Kate." Echo said letting a small smile show. "Now please...rest. We can talk about this stuff when we're free."

"Alright sparkplug...heres my plan." Ronin said with a smile.