Two years later.
Lloyd POV: Even after all this time I still have trouble believing that it happened. Wu was still in the hospital because he ended up in a coma. Jay and Zane both went to work with Borg, Cole taught several classes of martial arts, and Nya.
She quickly became obsessed with trying to find the group that killed Kai, but they disappeared right after they did without a single trace, and pushed the guys away when they told her to let it go. I didn't tell her that, so we do talk sometimes but not very often. I, myself, have been doing nothing different.
Since I'm the green ninja I have to the protector that Ninjago needs, even if I know that my head isn't in the game.
I was standing on top of a random building and staring out on the city. After the funeral they offered to put a statue of Kai in the park, but we all agreed that it wasn't what Kai would want. So we just simply put him next to his family's blacksmith shop. Ending where he started his journey.
I sighed and backed away. Just then my phone vibrated, it was Nya.
I answered it and said, "Hey Nya. Want can I do for you?"
"Hey. Get to my place. I finally have a lead." She said, and hanged up before I could answer.
This is the fifth time she has called one of us with the notion of a lead, however she did sound more hopeful.
Maybe this time she actually did have a lead.
I summoned my dragon and took off. She set up her base at the blacksmith shop, probably to be closer to Kai, and had multiple blackboards and papers pinned to the walls with information all about the guys that killed him.
When I got there I jumped off and walked to the door. After I knocked once she opened, pulled me inside, and shut the door.
"Finally. I thought you would never get here." She said.
She was wearing a plain black tank top and leggings. Her hair was slightly messy and her eyes were shape but looked tired.
"Yeah, sorry about that." She just shrugged it off and led me to the next room, her theory room, that's what she calls it at least.
"Okay, so what's this lead that you found?" I asked as we entered, still as messy since the last time I came in.
"Well at first I thought it was nothing, until I took a second look, here." She passed me a piece, Kai's release form.
"How did you get this?"
"All I had to do was ask. Anyway look at the time." She said and pulled out her computer.
I looked. It said 10:32, and that wasn't right. We received his body at 10:55. Normally it would only take five or seven minutes for us to get there. There was at least a good ten minutes missing.
"There was a delay, but what does that have to do with anything. It could have been just a mistake." I said, putting it down.
"That's what I thought too, until I looked at the security tapes. Look at this." She turned her computer around and pressed play.
Right at the time when Kai's body was released a doctor came out and a few seconds later a couple guys dressed in black with a large black bag sneaked in the room and came back out with the same bag.
"I don't get it. Why go through all that trouble to sneak in if you won't take something." I said, really confused.
"That's what I thought too. But I do have a theory and that's why I called you. I need your help with this next part." She said, closing the computer.
"With what?"
"I think these guys stole Kai's body and I need to check."
"You want to dig up Kai's grave."
"Yes. I want to make sure he's there." She said, putting on her black jacket.
"I don't know Nya. Maybe we can find another way." I said.
"This is the only way. Please, I can't do this alone Lloyd." She did look too tired to do this by herself, plus I was already here.
"Okay." And I followed her.
We put Kai next to the tree right beside the shop and craved his name into it. It took us a long time to dig his coffin and when we finally did I jumped down and looked back up to Nya.
"You sure you want to do this?" I asked for the last time.
"Yes." She said in the same determined voice.
I nodded and opened it.
We both gasped.
How and why.
Why would anyone do this?
The coffin that laid before us was empty and has been empty for a long time.
Kai was never put in the ground.