Chapter 18

No One's P.O.V.

Lloyd walked and walked and walked and well walked for who knows how long. No rest. No food. No drink. No stopping. Feet aching. Sweaty under his ninja garb and he wished for it all to stop. Lloyd's throat dryer than he thought, saliva would do nothing if he had it. Lloyd still hasn't regain his sight and never changed. Charlie suddenly growled and pushed Lloyd to the ground.

Lloyd coughed harshly once his chest hit the floor. Lloyd felt woozy and nearly passed out but Charlie kicked Lloyd's legs.

"Drink!" Charlie ordered and Lloyd felt the top of his head grow wet.

"You.. realize I can't see or move." Lloyd voice was almost unrecognizable. Charlie scowled an brought out a pocket knife. He cut off the zip tie from his wrists and Lloyd arms went to the ground. The boy in green slowly pushed himself up and his head turned to a passing river but he couldn't see the wonderful sight of shimmering rocks and the glowing crystal water. "Where is it?"

Lloyd reached out in front of him, missing the water. Charlie rolled his eyes and his arms were crossed over his chest.

"In front of you." Charlie answered coldly. Lloyd looked behind him where he thought Charlie was and made a 'really' face. Charlie smirked, "I'm right here."

Lloyd was surprised and turned his head to the right more.

"If you get water into your eyes it will burn, don't be stupid and try to clean your eyes." Charlie said and Lloyd twisted his body to the river again. Lloyd crawled a bit forward till he felt the water at his knees. Lloyd sat and cleaned his hands in the water, cupping his hands he drank down the water. His throat felt funny from not having anything in awhile so he went slow.

After a couple of times repeating the drinking system, Lloyd brought his face closer to the water and closed his eyes. He cleaned his face and didn't wish for the water to hit his eyes but did want his vision back.

Lloyd cleared his throat. "I know if I clean my eyes it will burn but if I did will I get my vision back after the pain?" Lloyd asked and Charlie bursted into laugher.

"That's funny! No of course not!" Charlie held his stomach and laughed. Calming himself, Charlie wiped a tear away, Lloyd was holding water cupped in his hands. "Your serious?!"

Lloyd went to cleaned his eyes and Charlie ran to him and kicked his hands. The water spilled on the dirt and Lloyd shock his hands drying the water off and from pain.

"Your crazy kid, if you keep doing stupid stuff like that then I will just watch you kill yourself. Heck! You can't even see!" Charlie grabbed the back of Lloyd's shirt and pulled him to his feet, choking him for a brief second. Lloyd swayed on his feet and Charlie dug for a new zip tie. "We're leaving."

Charlie searched his pocket and Lloyd stood there staring off at the blurs.

Charlie cursed under his breath, "You got lucky kid, that was my last zip tie. But I do have an idea."

Lloyd closed his eyes upset but relieved to not have a zip tie cutting into his skin. "And what would that be?" The green ninja asked going along, not very interested.

"This." Charlie said and pulled out some white powder within his fingers.

"You know I can't see." Lloyd said and didn't turn to the man.

Charlie smirked, "I know, that's what makes it better."

Charlie blew the whiter powder off of his hand and into the air around Lloyd's head. The green boy began to cough and held his hands by his mouth. Lloyd fell backwards into Charlie's open arms unconscious. Charlie rolled his eyes and pulled the boy onto his shoulder.

"This might be faster or an absolute pain." Charlie sighed to himself and walked through the river for it's currents weren't strong and the water wasn't deep. Charlie continued to walk to his destination Ninjago City.

The Bounty

Back at the Bounty, Nya had the control squares and the bag of white powder in a different room soon to be studied. Nya walked back onto the deck after moving them to a different room.

"If there were Charlie's control squares on Zane and Jay, couldn't there be some on any of us?" Nya pondered, Jay put his hands up thinking to himself, 'I'm clean.'

"Where were the square thingys?" Jay questioned walking to Cole.

"Lower back" Cole answered and Jay lifted the back of the black ninja's garb. Jay rubbed his hand on Cole clear back checking for anything.

"Nothing here." Jay announced and Cole relaxed. Jay walked to Nya to check.

"Oh no you are not checking me." Nya said and put a hand up to stop him. Jay stopped in his tracks. Nya looked to Kai. "Kai is my sibling so it is fine for him to."

Kai shrugged and walked to his sister. Nya had her back from the group and Kai lifted the back of her shirt a little. "Clean."

Nya smiled and turned to check Kai. "Wait your checking me? Charlie couldn't have gotten me."

Nye sighed and lifted his shirt, "Your okay Kai." The fire ninja smirked knowing he was right.

"Now onto the next step, finding Lloyd and Charlie." Jay stepped in.

"Jay is correct, when we were under Charlie's control we both saw something that should not become reality." Zane added and Nya went off to the wheel of the Bounty to turn off auto pilot and get the adventure on a roll.

"Jay I think it is best you don't come with us." Cole said before Jay had the idea of going. The blue ninja opened his mouth to protest but he shrugged, nodding with a small smile. Jay turned to go follow Nya.

Everyone was in a rush. Nya was steering the Bounty towards Ninjago City while the ninja were gearing up to search on ground while the Bounty is stopped.

"The Bounty has reached its max of energy usage today, I will have to land the Bounty somewhere safer. But I am going to drop the anchor so right when you are on ground I will have to bring it back up. Metal is a conducer of-"

"Yeah yeah we get it sis! Just drop the anchor quickly and bring it back." Kai said anxious to find Lloyd and beat Charlie. Cole face palmed while Kai sat on the rail.

"Zane are you sure you can go?" Cole asked in worry and the nindroid nodded with a smile.

"I am alright, Cole. There is no need to worry." Zane said in monotone voice. Cole patted his shoulder.

"If you feels.. off or need a break tell us." Cole almost ordered and pointed a thumb to Kai and himself.

"I will inform you if that is the case." Zane assured his friends and he sat on the rail next to Kai.

The Bounty speakers clicked, "Good luck you guys and be careful of Charlie's white powder, don't breathe it in!" Jay voice came through.

Cole made a face and Zane immediately look to his friend, "Oh great he has more of that stuff?" Cole mumbled to himself. "Yeah I know Jay." Cole responded.

"You do? How? Why?" Jay questioned in confusion.

"Zane and I were trying to figure out what it was when we found you and I breathed it in. Zane wasn't affected because he's a nindroid." Cole explained and sat on the railing.

"What are you talking about?" Kai looked at the Black ninja completely lost.

"Right, Charlie has some white powder stuff if you breathe it in... I am not sure what happens I just coughed pretty bad." Cole answered with a shoulder shrug.

"It depends on how much you breathe in. You can cough, pass out or die." Jay quickly added onto what Cole had to say. Kai nodded with his eyebrows raised.

"Okay, don't breathe in the white powder." Kai told himself while pulling his legs to the other side of the railing look down at the lightning in the clouds.

A loud painful sound of feed back spilled from the speakers. "You ready guys?" Nya's voice now came out.

"Yup." Kai answered while his friends pulled theirs legs to the other side of the railing. They climbed down to the anchor and stood on the ends. Zane and Cole hung on tight to the middle of the anchor. "What are you two doing?"

"Last time we did this I almost blacked out." Cole kept his grip tight.

"Last time my system nearly came to a stop." The nindroid blinked as his glowing blue eyes gave off little light.

Kai kept his eyes on the two and slowly hung tight to the middle.

"Anchor dropping on three... 3!" Nya skipped right to three catching them off guard and the metal stopper plummeted down. Once the ground met up with the anchor, swirls was all Kai could see. They recovered to their feet after a few minutes of cold rain hitting them and the anchor went back up to the Bounty.

The rain attempted to mat down Kai's hair but he constantly ran his fingers through his hair to keep it in shape.

"Okay team let's go look for Lloyd." Cole ordered and took the lead.

"Don't forget Charlie. And I thought we agreed not to be called team." Kai protested following the Earth ninja.

"Yes but I brought it back for old times sake." Cole said to the fire ninja. The search began for the missing green ninja and the evil doer.

Back with Lloyd

Lloyd snapped his head up and quickly noted he was still on Charlie's shoulder. Charlie dropped the boy to the floor and began to look at each building along the street they were in the middle of. No cars or citizens passed. Lloyd looked around and still couldn't see. He noticed the tall fuzzy buildings and made a guess he was in Ninjago City.

Charlie was being oddly quiet but Lloyd didn't complain. He stood up and Charlie just stared off looking at the buildings. Lloyd looked in the air for any signs of the Bounty. None.

Lloyd sighed and dropped his head, something in his head made him bring his head back up. In his sight a block away was a blob of the Bounty sitting there with what it looks like it had the anchor down. Lloyd smiled then looked back to Charlie's blurry figure, still staring at the buildings. Lloyd turned to the Bounty ran for it.

He felt joy inside, his friends were so close! Yet he felt fear, what if Charlie caught him? He knew the results were not going to be pretty. Lloyd came to a stop and held his arms out in front of him looking for the chain up. Lloyd eventually ran into it, literally. The green ninja climbed quite sloppily not being able to see very well. Lloyd pulled himself over the railing.

"Guys! Guys I'm here!" Lloyd shouted panting and held one hand to his chest. Lloyd squinted and walked to the closest wall, his hand touched against the wall and he went down the stairs slowly. "Guys?!"

Lloyd tried to look around but his sight wasn't doing him a favor. Eyes trying the scan the hallway he stood in. He heard a voice above his head and in excitement he turned around quickly to run up the stairs, instead he tripped over the last stair and lied on the ground holding his chest.

Lloyd closed his eyes and held his chest in pain, the pain worsened and Lloyd coughed.

"Lloyd! Lloyd!" A voice called but it was fainted and merely a fuzzy. For some reason he was scared of this voice. Lloyd groaned and didn't move.

"Lloyd! Get up!" Lloyd snapped awake from his realistic dream and couldn't open his eyes. He was wet top to bottom and a piece of cloth was over his eyes to protect them.

Lloyd groaned, "What's going on?"

"It's raining.. I had to cover your eyes." Charlie said over the rain and his fast foot steps.

Lloyd moved his hand to his eyes and touched the fabric. Charlie tossed Lloyd off his shoulder and his back hit a tree truck. The lightning flashing and the thunder roaring in the background. The green ninja let out a harsh breath. Charlie smiled and dug into his pocket Lloyd sat against the tree, curiously lifted the cloth to his forehead.

Lloyd gasped, "My vision got worse!" Lloyd blinked and blinked looking around. His vision was like trying to look through many layers of white plastic bag. Charlie quickly looked up.

"Hey! Keep that over your eyes!" Charlie ordered and Lloyd held a hand in front of his face.

"I can't see my hand! I can't see my hand!" Lloyd panicked. A drop of water from the wet tree above dropped down and rolled down between Lloyd's eyebrows and ran into his eye. "Ow."

Lloyd hissed and held a hand to his right eye. "Ow ow ow okay that really burns!" Charlie looked over and sighed in frustration.

"Kid you don't listen!" Charlie pulled the cloth over Lloyd's eyes as he was in pain.

"Why does it hurt?! It was one drop of rain!" Lloyd asked through his clinched teeth. He held both hands over his eye with the cloth between his hands and eye.

"Because the powder you breathed in got into your eyes. It's clouding your vision and water starts a chemical reaction causing it to bubble. I wouldn't be surprised if you can't see out of that eye anymore." Charlie said as if it was normal news to give. Lloyd opened his mouth agape.

"Why didn't the powder react to my eyes being moist? And you could have said that before I took off the blindfold!" Lloyd shouted to the evil doer.

"I tell what I want to tell, kid. I don't have to tell you anything." Charlie had a blank face but it didn't matter to Lloyd.

Lightning flashed and Charlie grabbed Lloyd's wrist, making the boy jump, and pulled him up.

"Time to move." Charlie said and Lloyd crossed his arms in warmth and frustration.

"What if I-" Charlie cut him off from his hand slapping over Lloyd's mouth.

"No one gets what they want." Charlie whispered and he leaned against the tree with Lloyd angered in his arm.

"Lloyd?!" A faint call was heard off in the woods. Lloyd's mouth opened under Charlie's hand, but Charlie beat him to it.

"If you dare to do something stupid you remember the consequences." Charlie threatened in a whisper. Lloyd hesitated but nodded slowly. Charlie had one arm around Lloyd arms and chest with the other over the mouth. Charlie began to walk away slowly.

"Lloyd are you out there?!" The voice called and Lloyd felt his heart beat fast.

'Please find me please find me!' Lloyd cried out in his head. The green ninja knew what he had to do.

Lloyd bit down hard onto Charlie's hand and ran out of his grip. Charlie held in a scream while Lloyd tried to run blindly.

"Kai! Guys! Help me!" Lloyd shouted and he picked up the pace feeling confident.

"Lloyd?!" Lloyd heard a called to his left and stopped, he turned that direction. "Lloyd!"

They must have seen him and was about to take his blindfold off. Lloyd was stopped when something crashed into his side. Lloyd was on the ground with Charlie grabbing him.

"Let me go!" Lloyd shouted and tried to fight back, with the lack of sight he was getting nowhere.

"Lloyd! We're coming!" Lloyd knew that voice too well, Kai the Master of Fire.

"Guys!" Lloyd shouted and Charlie had Lloyd's wrists behind his back and pulled him up roughly. Kai, Zane and Cole were running to them, adrenaline rushing. Charlie held a cold piece of sharp metal found to be a knife to Lloyd's throat while holding him in a strange positions. The guys stopped a few meters away, panting and furious.

"Charlie.." Kai said if the word was poison. Lloyd was shaking from the cold rain and fear.

"I'm sorry.." Lloyd said and the knife was held closer to his throat.

"Your 'friend' has made stupid decision, trying to get to you. He knew the consequences for disobeying me and now you shall watch your 'friend' die." Charlie said and kicked Lloyd to his knees.

"But.. you can't kill me you need me." Lloyd said realizing the truth and Charlie twitched at that.

"I need no one, kid." Charlie said coldly and Lloyd interrupted again.

"No! You said you wanted power but what is the uses of a burnt out power source. If a light bulb is burnt out it will not light, like us elemental masters." Lloyd proved his point and Charlie growled in anger. Charlie pushed harshly with his foot against Lloyd's back and the blonde boy fell in mud.

"You want the kid? Come and get him." Charlie spat and gripped a good amount of white powder into one of his hands to stop all three of them. Kai cracked his knuckles.

"No problem." Kai glared at the evil man and curled his hands to fists.

Hello everyone! I have good and bad news.

Bad- I am not posting weekly anymore.

Good- I am not stressed, you get longer chapters like this one and the chapters are just way better.

Some of you may know, I started school a while back and that added onto my stress. I have been going through some drama that is making my brain fling everywhere. Doing this benefits everyone and honestly my chest is lighter.

If I ever do plan on posting I will on any day. Keep your chin up. Good luck to everyone who started start are is going to start school. If you don't have school then good luck on anything that is your challenge.

~LeonardoTheLeader