CHAPTER 2: Gone Missing
Jay sure was happy to get his bed back.
"Yippie!" he shouted the moment he saw Lloyd walk into the living area where all the others were gathered.
And then he immediately ran off to the ninja's room with a handful of his blankets and pillows.
Mystery laughed and told Lloyd she was going to go to the bathroom, then left down the hallway.
"So. what made you want to leave the room." Cole asked him.
"Uh. Bored I guess."
"Bored?" Nya said with a frown, directed at Lloyd. "You know your such a-"
"Pile of trash?" Lloyd suggested.
"I was going to say such a Nadakhon… but yeah."
The others looked at Nya with confused faces.
"Um… okay? I guess I'm a Nadakhon." Lloyd said after a few seconds.
"Did I hear the evil name of that Djinn I hate?" Jay shouted as he returned to the room.
"Yeah I was comparing Lloyd to him." Nya shouted back.
Jay gasped.
"Nya! You must be really mad at him!" he said.
"Sounds about right." Nya laughed, with a glare in Lloyds direction.
"Am I the only one who's extremely confused right now?" Lloyd asked the others in complete and utter confusion.
There was a chorus of "Nope's" and "uh-uh's"
"Inside Joke." Jay said, smiling at Nya.
Nya smiled back, and things in the small room began to feel a bit awkward.
"So! Lloyd's feeling better!" Kai said. "It's nice to have you back buddy."
"Here. Here!" Cole agreed.
Jay whispered something to Nya and she laughed.
The others shared a look, before there was a knock on the doors of the Monastery.
The Ninja usually didn't get visitors, seeing that they lived on one of the highest mountains in Ninjago, and to reach the top, you would have to climb an extremely long flight of stairs. When they did, however, they always immediately answered. Who knows what it could be. Usually something bad…
Lloyd burst the door open.
It was a girl, and she seemed to be very out of breath.
A girl Lloyd recognised far too much.
"June? What's going on?"
"Lloyd!" She grabbed his shoulder to keep balance. "Something's happened."
The rest of the ninja arrived at the door at this.
"What?" Jay asked, getting that look on his face. A mixture of excited and terrified, with a little pinch of funny.
"People in my town keep going missing." June breathed.
The Ninja invited June inside, and gathered around to discuss the issue that the girl had brought to their monastery.
Jay was confused and disappointed on the whole matter.
Usually the police took care of these kinds of things. Ninja's were reserved for more formidable threats.
Like djinns who kidnap Jay's fellow Ninja, because they look similar to the person he once liked.
Jay hated those kinds of djinns. Not that he'd met any other kind of djinn before. The other ninja, save Nya, had forgotten about even meeting the one djinn in the first place, which Jay couldn't fathom. How could you forget the day ninjago was torn apart bit by bit because of a power hungry djinn who wanted to marry Nya.
He and Nya hadn't forgotten, but that was probably because they were the only ones not affected by Jay's wish for none of the djinn craziness to happen in the first place.
Jay glanced over at the others.
"So, why did you come to us?" Lloyd asked the girl.
Jay couldn't help but notice a hint of familiarity in the eyes of the girl and Lloyd when they talked to each other. He whispered his observation to Nya and she agreed with him.
Somehow Lloyd knew this girl.
"The police won't listen to me. Our town is such a small one, that the important officers of Ninjago City, don't really care" the girl replied in a soft tone.
"Wait, I thought that every town, big or small, had at least one officer in it?" Jay spoke up.
"She was the first to disappear." The girl whispered. "Next was the children at the elementary school."
"That's terrible," Nya gasped.
"Yeah." loyd agreed, "and we are going to find them."
"Okay," Kai said, "but we need to wait for Mystery to get back before we plan anything." he shivered. "Remember last time we made a plan without her."
Cole made a scared sound.
"Yep. how could you forget." he said.
"Yeah, you're probably right." Lloyd said, and pinched his arm twice.
Jay remembered Lloyd and mystery telling them about their strange connection. If either Mystery or Lloyd were to experience bodily pain, the other would feel the sensation just as one had. They explained though, that the other would not feel anything if one were simply touching a soft blanket, only sharp pains were felt, that's why Lloyd and mystery used pinching to tell the other something. When Lloyd pinched his arm twice, it meant that he needed to speak with Mystery.
A minute later, she walked into the room and plopped down on the empty chair next to Lloyd.
"Man, this place is a maze." She said, then, "Who's that?"
She gestured to the girl who was on her phone now for some reason.
"Oh!" She looked up from the device suddenly, "I'm June. Nice to meet you…"
"I'm the Mystery Green Ninja, you can call me Mystery if you want, or just Myst."
Jay looked at June who was on her phone again.
"Uh…" he started to ask her what was so important, but she clicked her phone and apologized to everybody before he could get the words out.
"I'm so sorry, some people in my village just informed me that another child has gone missing! People are scared." she said.
"We must hurry then." Zane pointed out. "The longer we wait the more people might disappear."
"Zane's right." Lloyd said, looking around the room for something. "Um. Has anybody seen my Ninja Suit?" he asked the others.
Nya and Jay shared a look.
"We. Took it out to the trash." Jay said.
"Wait what!?" Lloyd screamed.
"You're the one who threw it away." Jay said.
Lloyd groaned.
Jay laughed.
"He was joking." Nya smiled, and tossed him the suit. "I have it."
"Thanks," Lloyd said, with a little glare at Jay. "We should get going. June, lead the way."
"When you said 'lead the way' I didnt think you meant ride a dragon across the sky, in front of all of your other dragons." June screamed, somehow managing to keep her voice soft, and failing to keep up the balance on Lloyds dragon.
"Can you just drive it?" she asked him. "I'm not that great at flying things.
"Yeah. sure. Just tell me where to go." Lloyd said as he switched spots on his green dragon with June.
Once he gained control, Lloyd heard a noise behind him. Mystery was approaching him on her green dragon.
"Is June alright?" she asked.
"I'm fine." June called back.
Mystery, seemingly satisfied, turned around and continued to ride on from the back.
When they finally arrived at the small town, Lloyd heard June breath a sigh of relief, as Lloyd made his elemental dragon disappear. She stood there for a moment, Lloyd assumed she was catching her breath, then she walked away from him, and over to Mystery.
This confused Lloyd.
They hadn't even known each other until today, I guess they just caught on quickly… thought Lloyd.
"Well I'm going to head home." June said suddenly. "Can somebody escort me, so I don't get captured or something? I'm feeling a little nervous about all of this."
Lloyd jumped at the opportunity. He'd wanted some alone time with June since he saw her face appear at the doorstep of the monastery.
Before he could offer however, Mystery patted June's back.
"Of course." She said, "I'll escort you home, and the others can start investigating."
June and Mystery started to walk off in the other direction.
Strange, Lloyd thought.