Chapter 36

It had been what; 4 hours sense his team ditched him. That alone ticked him off, he was supposed to be the leader, and wasn't really ever left behind any more. But to make matters worse this mission was about the safety of his own girlfriend, and he did NOT want to be left out. But Lloyd DID get some sleep, about 3 hours. Sure it may not have been what they had in mind but he wasn't going to sit around and do nothing longer than he had to. He had hoped they would be back by now, but they were still "getting her phone fixed" but that was probably already done and they were trying to give him more time to rest. But Lloyd wasn't about to do that, what he was really doing was mapping out all the places the kidnaper could have taken Cassie.

But he couldn't even do that of ten minutes that without being interrupted, his phone beeped, indicating he either got a text or a notification. But only one of the two possibilities was on his mind, that he got a text, and most likely this text would be from the ninja saying they needed his help! Lloyd turned on his phone and frowned, it was not a text but a notification from the app for Scouts tracker collar. Lloyd groaned, it was just the weekly notification, but seeing he obviously had nothing else to do he went to the app. He scrolled though the ads to get to the map, showing all the places that Scout had been sense they had gotten the collar for him. Lloyd frowned, the map was totally off! It never showed Scout being at his Mom/Dad's monastery. Lloyd called his mom just to be sure that Scout didn't actually run away.

After what seemed like eternity his mom actually picked up her cell phone (which she barely had on her anyway), "Hello? Lloyd?" Misako said

Lloyd sighed in relief, thank god someone actually checked caller ID, "Yeah, it's me Mom, I have a question…" Lloyd started.

Misako interrupted her curiosity getting the better of her, "Is there any progress in the search for Cassie?" She asked.

Lloyd frowned and sighed, "No, but I actually have a question about Scout, did he run away at all?" Lloyd asked his mother

Misako frowned in confusion at the seemingly random question, "No he hasn't… why do you ask?" Misako asked her son.

Lloyd gave a slight smile; at least Scout wasn't missing as well… "Oh it's just Cassie and I bought Scout this tracker collar, and I just got the weekly notification for it and it's data seems really off, but I just wanted to check in with you, just to be sure." Lloyd said, trying to explain the situation to his mother.

For a moment there was just silence on Misako's side of the line, but eventually she spoke, "Lloyd, about that…" She started, "Scout never had a collar, I just went out and bought him one a few hours ago…" Misako said.

Lloyd pursed his eyebrows, "But if I don't have the collar and if you don't have the collar that means… Cassie has the collar! Which has a tracking chip in it!" Lloyd exclaimed realizing he had the key to finding Cassie all along!

Lloyd wasted no time and jumped off the bounty.

Kai was at Bryn's house "interviewing her" about what she saw at the campfire last Friday. But in reality Kai was just seeing how Bryn was handling all this, and the other ninja's wanted to give Lloyd time to rest before they came back, so they allowed him to see her. Kai knocked on her door, sort of scare to learn how she was dealing with Cassie being kidnapped, she was Bryn's best friend after all. A few seconds later the blonde haired teen opened the door, looking not so great, her usually tan skin looked pale, and there were noticeable bags under her eyes .

Kai tried to hide his frown he didn't like seeing her this way, "so… I just wanted to see how you were handling all this… and update you on our search, OH! And "interview" you on what you saw Friday…" Kai explained, though he could have sworn at the mention of being interviewed her already pale skin got paler

Bryn's lips trembled slightly, "Of course… let's go to my room, my dad's is on a conference call down here and he would have my head if I interrupted it." Bryn explained.

Kai nodded and followed her up to her room.

Kai's mouth dropped at seeing Bryn's "room", it was huge! It had a theme of a dark purple, white and black. After a moment of staring at her room he noticed that Bryn was already sitting on her couch's, which were purple, and walked over and sat down next to his girlfriend. "So Bryn, really… how are you handling this? I'm worried for you." Kai told her.

Bryn bit her lip, if only he knew who was really responsible for her best friend getting kidnapped, Bryn sighed, "I could be better, but I'm fine, how is everybody else dealing with it?" Bryn asked curious to how her kidnapping had effect the other ninja.

Kai frowned, he had figured she would have vented to him a little more, "they are all fine, dropped everything to help, and Lloyd… he is a little to focused and hasn't sleep for 3 days straight, and I'm afraid he's getting to rash and… scared to loss her, especially after just losing his father." Kai said, venting his worry for his best friend a little.

Bryn lowered her head, feeling guilty for causing so much pain, "Kai… there's something I need to tell you" Bryn started.

Kai's head shot up, "Yes" he said, wondering what Bryn had to tell him.

Bryn bit her lip so hard that she tasted blood, "It just this kidnapping… it's all my fault…" Bryn continued.

Kai froze understanding what she meant also as soon as she said it, she was probably blaming herself for Cassie's kidnapping because she was kidnapped at her party! Of course! why didn't Kai think of that before! "Bryn I understand, but you shouldn't blame yourself for it just because it took place at your party" Kai explained to Bryn.

Bryn eyes couldn't hold the tears any longer, and they freely flowed down her face, "But Kai…"

Kai silenced her by pressing his lips against hers.

Bryn's tears however didn't stop even as they kissed, she wondered if he would still love her if he had let her finish.

Jay, Nya, Zane, and Cole were at a pizzeria getting lunch and looking though Cassie's newly repaired phone, and so far found nothing, and needless to say, they were all pretty restless. Nya turned to Zane as Jay and Cole were talking, "Zane, are we still going to tell Lloyd our ninjago gossip… idea that we came up with Saturday?" Nya asked.

Zane frowned, "No. Not yet anyway, he would be devastated if we accused Cassie of anything. Let's wait and see if we find her, maybe then we will tell Lloyd" Zane explained

Nya nodded in understanding, "You really think she's going behind our back? Is this entire kidnapping staged?" Nya asked.

Zane shrugged, "Let's wait and see how this turns out before we accuse anyone."

Lloyd parked his motorcycle at the side of the ominous warehouse, sadly he didn't have the energy he thought he had, and still couldn't summon his energy dragon, but he still had enough energy for his motorcycle. Lloyd walked up to the warehouse; there was a window he could punch out to get in. Lloyd punched the glass only to have it crack a little; it was bullet proof, Lloyd smiled at least it wasn't energy proof! Lloyd thought as he sends a ball of energy at the window, shattering it.

Lloyd jumped in the warehouse and landed ready to be attacked, but he wasn't…. which he thought was strange, but ignored the weirdness and continued forward. After searching all the hallways he came to a large storage room in the center of the warehouse with three doors on each wall, the only three rooms he hadn't searched.

Lloyd wasted no time in blasting the first door down and of course in that room there was nothing, Lloyd sighed, of course it was. Lloyd blasted down the second door, nothing again. Lloyd was angry now and summoned a LARGE ball of energy, about the size of him and sent it at that last door, not just making a hole in the metal of the door, but exploding the entire thing.

Cassie was leaning against a wall in her prison being bored, as usual, when the door she had assumed was impossible to break, she had been punching it for a while, with the only result being bloody feet and knuckles, when suddenly it exploded sending her back into the wall, and being showered by shards of metal, most just hitting her not cutting, however some did, she got one large cut on her forehead.

Lloyd ran, in a large smile entering his face to see Cassie and ran up to her.

Cassie saw Lloyd run up to her, and forgot about her cuts and ran up to him and wrapped her arms around him laughing and crying, happy it was all over.

Lloyd gladly returned her hug and couldn't seem to wipe the smile off his face, until he smelled blood, and he connected the dots, "Cassie! Did I do this?! "Lloyd said pointed to the large cut on her forehead, "you look horrible!" Lloyd exclaimed noticing the blood seeping out her knuckles, forehead, and feet, and also noticed two large bruises on her face.

Cassie just laughed noticing Lloyd's LARGE bags under his eyes, "you don't look so good either"

Lloyd frowned, "Seriously Cass I need to bandage that, I have some on my motorcycle, once we get out of here tell me everything, okay?" Lloyd suggested.

Cassie smiled and nodded, 'You just called me Cass" Cassie noticed.

Lloyd's smile returned, "So I did" Lloyd said as they walked out of the warehouse.

A minute or 2 later

Cassie was sitting on a rock as Lloyd wrapped up her injuries; Lloyd took note that she had broken her foot from kicking the door. Cassie flinched as Lloyd finished treating the last of her injuries when she realized she could finally find out how long she had been missing, "Lloyd how many weeks have I been gone?" Cassie asked.

Lloyd frowned, "You haven't been gone for weeks, Cass you were kidnapped on Friday, it's Monday" Lloyd explained.

Cassie's eyes widened, "NO WAY! Are you sure?!" Cassie asked.

Lloyd nodded, "Cassie are you sure you're alright? You are acting pretty calm for just being heroically rescued from being kidnapped for a weekend." Lloyd said, sneaking in the part about his very "heroic" rescue.

Cassie nodded, "Fine, nothing really happened, the entire time I saw no one, at all, hay! Where all the other ninja? I assumed they would want to come with" Cassie, ignoring the heroic rescue part.

Lloyd pale, he didn't tell anyone! Sensei Wu might have found out he was gone and thought he was kidnapped too! "Oh… I didn't tell them I found out your location… like at all… I should probably text them now.

Cassie nodded, her right hand still holding tightly on to Lloyd's.

Lloyd pulled out his phone to text Kai he had found Cassie. A few seconds later Kai responded asking for a picture of them together to prove it.

Lloyd turned to Cassie, "Kai wants a picture of us to prove that I really found you." Lloyd explained.

Cassie nodded and smiled as Lloyd snapped a quick photo to send to Kai, the replied to the photo they send was something only Kai would say after his best friend had just reunited with his kidnapped girlfriend.

"That's going on chirper"

I'm BACK! Sorry for disappearing for a week! It was a really busy week! And hopefully it won't happen again!So Lloyd finally found Cassie, in very weird kidnapping circumstances... hum…. That probably won't help Zane became less suspicious of her for doing something, which I assume you guessed what he thinks Cassie's doing.

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