Nya and Cole shakily lifted Kai up. They carried him together out of the room, seeing he was in shock from the events that had occured. Jay followed after them, along with everyone else. Ali and Dash stood in the room in silence.

"He protected him," Ali muttered. "He was trying to save all of us."

Dash looked up at Ali, seeing the tears in his eyes.

"He knew so much about all of us that no one knew," Ali continued. "Things that we might never figure out now. Things that we might never learn."

Dash looked down at Lloyd, and walked up to Ali.

"We should go," she whispered.

The gun Ali stole from her sister slipped from her hands. She simply turned around, starting to the door. She walked out of the room, Dash at her side. The gun clattered to the ground with a bang. Lloyd's dull, lifeless eyes were staring right at it, unmoving. Watching a hand reach for it and pick it up. Watching the person make their way out of the shadows. They turned to the green ninja a let out a sigh.

"There was so much potential in you," his voice spoke, rough and jagged. "I'll make sure you still get that chance."

He picked up the corpse, carrying it out of the room. As he passed the killer, he kneeled next to her. He waved a hand over her face, golden dust falling from his hands as he face turned from a frown to a peaceful smile.

"Enjoy your freedom," he whispered to her. "Make use of it while you can."

He climbed to his feet, carrying Lloyd out of the room. He looked down at the green ninja's dull eyes, and gently closed them.

"Helping others," he muttered, "is the way we help ourselves. And I'm going to help you."

"What do you mean he was gone?"

Everyone had finally regrouped at the Temple of Airjitzu, letting Kai go back to rest. Jay and Cole had returned to the base, retrieving all the lost elemental powers before going to collect their lost brother's body. Apparently, when they arrived, it was gone. Along with Linda, but something was off. They found Linda's weapons and a note in the room.

"The room was empty, as if no one was ever in there," Jay said.

"All the tools, weapons, furniture, everything was just…..gone!" Cole said.

"That doesn't make any sense at all," Ali muttered.

"We also found this," Cole spoke softly. "It seems to be from your sister."

Ali took the small note from the black ninja. She frowned at it as she opened it to read it.

My dear sister, Ali,

I am not sure what has happened over the past several years, I cannot recall anything. The last thing I remember was being with you, on our island, with our parents. I think I've done something wrong, because I woke surrounded by multiple different weapons. I've left, and I do not expect to see you again. I fear you might not believe me, but if I hurt you, or anyone else I care about, I'm sorry.

Your sissa,

Linda

Ali's frown diminished as she read the note. Tears built up in her eyes, looking at the writing and the signature on the note. As well as the word sissa, the name the two sisters called each other when they were little. Only when they were little.

"Zane wasn't at the cave," Dash sighed. "There wasn't any signs of struggle or of a break in."

"None of this is making any sense," Ali muttered.

Ali looked up as footsteps echoed above them on the balcony. She saw Nya walking towards the stairs.

"How's Kai?" Jay spoke up.

"I finally got him to go to sleep," Nya sighed. "He just isn't himself."

"No one is ever themselves after they watch their best friend die to save them," Ali muttered.

There was an eerie silence between all of them, before there was a beeping sound from the control room.

"That's the message indicator," Nya frowned.

They all looked at each other before running into the room. Nya jumped onto the computer, typing on it to try to open the message.

"Do you think it was just malfunctioning?" Jay asked, standing beside his girlfriend.

"I doubt it," Nya frowned. "There's definitely something there."
She clicked open and an email folder opened. On it were random digits, things no one was able to understand.

4 15 14 20 0 3 15 1 15 18 0 21 19 0 15 18 0 23 5 12 12 0 16 1 2 18 12 2 19 0 2 12 9 20 25 0 20 1 19 20 18 15 25 0 5 22 5 18 25 20 8 9 1 1 22 5 18 25 15 14 5 0 16 12 5 1 1 20 19 0 15 21 18 0 15 14 12 25 0 8 15 16 5.

"It's just a bunch of random numbers," Ali frowned.

"It's something," Jay frowned.
"It's numbers," Dash told him. "How do we get something from those numbers?"

"I'm tracing the source of the email," Nya said.

"Well, where's it from?" Cole asked.

"It says-" Nya stopped when a video opened.

"It wasn't me," Jay said, his hands up as he backed away.

Then everyone gasped. A figure appeared on the screen from the blurriness and glitches.

"No way," Nya muttered.

"I'm sorry I'm doing this in a video, but it's really important," his voice spoke quietly and quickly. "He's here. I don't know how or who is working with him, but he has me hostage. I heard something about him trying to resurrect someone, but I don't know who. I don't know where I am, but I know I'm not alone. And you can't, under any circumstances, come for me. Please, he will kill me."

"Zane," Cole muttered.

"He's coming," Zane muttered, looking away from the camera. "Look, I don't know what he's planning, but he's doing something. I might be in his plans, I don't know. I just know he wants two of us, two in specific. I don't know who, but you have to watch out for each other. Incase you don't hear from me again, I'm sorry. I've done all I can."

In the background, the sound of a door opening and footsteps echoed on the film.

"What are you doing!"

"This is it, I'm sorry," Zane said into the camera.

The camera flew from his hands, and startled look on his face as he landed and rolled away from him. Then the video cut off. An ear piercing scream from their nindroid friend was the last thing they heard.

"He was so terrified," Jay muttered.

"I've never seen Zane that scared in his life," Cole muttered.

"Zane said he was coming," Dash muttered. "Who was that he?"

"Wait a minute, that other voice we heard," Nya frowned.

She pulled the video back up, able to access it. She fast forwarded it to the end, listening to the voice.

"It sounds familiar," Nya frowned.

She played it again.

"What are you doing!" the voice yelled.

"Where have we heard that voice before?" Cole questioned.

"No," a whimper came from the door.

Everyone turned, seeing a terrified Kai in the doorway.
"Kai, I told you to sleep," Nya urged her brother.

"He can't be alive," Kai muttered.

"What?" Jay questioned.

"He can't, he can't, he can't," Kai screamed.

"Whoa, calm down," Cole ran to his brother in red. "What are you talking about?"

Cole helped Kai sit down in a chair as Nya formed a ball of water in her hand. She sprayed her brother with it. It snapped him from his trance, causing him to shout the name of the voice. The name startled everything, scaring them and causing them to realize the threat before them. The threat that had Zane. One they thought they would never face again.

"Overlord!" Kai screamed as all the faces paled in the room.

Dun, dun, dun. And to make you all even more angry at me, that's the end of the story! There will be another in the series that will end it all, but that won't be for a while. I've been doing a couple other stories that I've maybe done half of, and then given up on that I've revived. I'm thinking I might finish those and post them at some point, but I'm in the middle of exams, and it's rather stressful. I also have a lot a skating competitions coming up soon, so I have to be preparing for those too, so my writing time is dying down.

To sum everything up for you, don't expect too many updates within the next week or so. I'm just going to be too busy. Only thing that might come is one of the other smaller stories I'm writing that might be posted.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter.

Sweetheart114 signing off!