Chapter 14

Lloyd opened his eyes and groaned in pain to broad sunlight. He found himself lying on his stomach and feebly tried to lift his chest off the ground and coughed up water and spit out sand. He turns his body around to face a large pipe that sticks out on a cliff side. He was rubbing his head to ease the pain and began remembered what recently happened. He remembers escaping captivity from his father, the fight on the subay, and saving Lucas from his brothers. Lucas! He just remembered that Cole was the one who hit him in the back of the head with a pipe and passed out while they were escaping. He quickly got up to his feet and frantically searched for him and called out to him.

"Lucas!? Lucas!?" he calls out to him, "Where are you!?"

He spots something grey with brown hair and realized it was Lucas, lying on his side; not moving, and Lloyd quickly rushes over to him. Once he got to Lucas, he rolls him onto his back, and shake his shoulders to wake him up. When he didn't hear Lucas make a groan or movement, he places an ear to his chest and could hear a faint pulse. Lloyd becomes frightened that his cousin wouldn't wake up and tries to remember first-aid; but was frightened to remember till he heard Nya's lesson in his head.

"Remember Lloyd, if we are ever on a mission and if we get seperated and you spot any one of us lying motionless, what do you do?" her voice ran through his head, "You give them C.P.R."

"Ok Nya."

Lloyd took a deep breath and collected himself. He places a hand on Lucas's chest and his other hand on top of his hand. Then he presses down frimly, but not to hard to harm him, for thrity times. He scratches his head to remember what to do next, then he remembered, but he might be alright with it, but he'll have to it for his cousin's life. He lifts up his chin, pinches his nose, opens his mouth, took a deep breath, and blew into Lucas's mouth to make his chest rise up and down. After that, he just sits there and waited to see if he'll wake up; but nothing happened. Lloyd started to become more paranoid that it wasn't working and remembers more of Nya's lesson.

"Also Lloyd, after the first attempt and the person isn't responding, try again and again till you get a strong pulse."

Lloyd places his hands back on Lucas's chest and pressed down again and again to get his heart beating, and breathed into his lungs to get oxygen in his body. He keeps doing it over and over for five minutes, but Lucas isn't responding to the aid. Lloyd's eyes were starting to sting, not because of the sand or salty air, but at the verge of tears. He refused to shed the tears and giving Lucas aid till he woke up.

"Come on Lucas, you must wake up, you promised you wouldn't leave me!" Lloyd crys out to him and presses down harder, "Lucas come on! Lucas!? Lucas!?"

After the last breathe, Lucas still didn't responded and laid on the ground; quiet. Lloyd's eyes were stinging more, as Lucas wasn't waking up. He lays his head on Lucas's chest and lets the tears flow down his cheeks and cries softly. Lloyd couldn't bear the thoughts of Lucas not waking up from a...coma or worst. His cousin was always there for Lloyd when people made fun of him at the comic book store and Lucas would stand up for him. Or whenever Lloyd had a nightmare, Lucas would wake up with him and take him out onto the deck to play his flute to help him fall asleep and Lucas would stay with him till morning came. Lloyd loved his cousin since he never had a blood relative, besides his father and uncle, and kept crying till he felt a jolt and his head was being lifted.

Lloyd lifts his head off Lucas's chest and watched it rise up and down. He wipes the tears of his face and looks at Lucas, who was coughing up water and slowly opening his eyes halfway. Lloyd stopped crying and smile to see Lucas awake. Lucas turns his head slightly to see Lloyd's face red and stained with tears, but was smiling.

"Hey there shrimp." he spoke to him in a quiet tone.

"Lucas, you're alright!" Lloyd perks up and wraps his arms around his neck to hug him.

Lucas accepted the hug, but was having difficulting breathing, "Of course I alright, but I won't be if you keep choking me."

"Sorry." Lloyd apologizes and lets go of him.

Lucas lifted his head off the sand and rubs the back of his head to groan in pain. He looks around his surroundings and found themselves on a sandy beach that was maybe miles away from Ninjago City. He looks at Lloyd and found out his green backpack was missing, and looks at his chest to not see two black straps and his sai's were missing as well. He looks around and spots their backpacks and his sai's scattered around them. He feebly tries to prompt himself up, but laid back down as he was still in pain.

"Lloyd, gather our bags and my sai's and find me a stick that I can use to walk." Lucas tells his cousin.

Lloyd quickly got up and ran to pick up their bags and Lucas's sai's and place them next to him. He looks around and spots a long stick, lying on the ground, ran to it, picks it up and tries to bend it to see if it was strong; satisfied it wasn't rotten and runs back to Lucas. Lloyd slings the bags over his shoulders, places Lucas's sai's on his belt, pulls Lucas to his feet,and hands him the stick. Lucas grabs the stick and places it underneath his right arm as a crutch and Lloyd grabs his other arm and throws it over his neck to give him support. Once they were prepared, the two ninja's began to walk away from the pipe. Lucas staggered to walk, but kept his strength, and pushed himself to walk, with Lloyd walking as his pace.

After walking a few miles from the pipe, Lucas began to regain his strength back and used his stick as walking stick instead of a crutch. He looks down at Lloyd and noticed he was limping. He looks at his legs and saw a thin red line staining his right pant leg.

"Lloyd, stop right here, I want to if you're alright." said Lucas.

Llod lets go of Lucas's arm and sits himself on a rock. Lucas puts his stick down and kneels down to inspect Lloyd's leg.

"Lucas, I'm fine." Lloyd lied, because his leg was in pain, "It's you I'm worried about."

"You can't fool me Lloyd." said Lucas, "I know you're concerned about me , but I want to check on you. Now let ma see your leg."

Lloyd sighed and stuck his right leg out. Lucas rolled the kid's pant leg, up to the knee, to reveal a long cut on his leg. The cut started up to his calf and ran down an inch or two, and saw blood slowly oozing out. Lucas began to wonder how he got it, but noticed Lloyd's leg was shaking, and looked to see him breathing fast at the sight of blood.

"It's nothing major." he says to relax him, "We can clean it and patch it up to stop the bleeding. Hand me my bag."

Lloyd took a couple of deep breaths and unstrapped Lucas's bag and handed it to him. Lucas unzipped the bag and reaches in to pull out a wash rag. He then grabs one of his sai's from Lloyd's belt and wipes the blade across the rag and immediately the rag is soaked his water. He puts the sai back onto Lloyd's belt and proceeded to clean off the dried blood on his leg. Once the leg was clean, he looks at Lloyd, who looked frightened for he knows the worst was about to come.

"I know you won't like this." he comforts Lloyd, "But it's the only way it won't get infected."

Lucas placed the rag onto the cut and proceeded to clean it. Lloyd winced in pain and gritted his teeth as his cousin was dragging the rag across his open wound. As Lucas cleaned the wound, something happened. The rag began to glow blue, shine brightly to make Lucas and Lloyd close their eyes to the light, and it disappeared. They both opened their eyes and looked at each other confused to what just happened. Lucas removed the rag off the wound, or what use to been, as the wound was gone on his leg; not even leaving a scar. Lucas then looked at the rag and was surprised to see it stained free from the blood and was brightly white, like it was nevered used in the first place.

"Whoa, what just happened?" Lloyd asked surprised.

"I...I...I don't know." Lucas admitted, "Did my powers...heal you?"

Lloyd shrugged his shoulders and rolled down his pant leg and found no blood on his ninja suit. They both found it still confusing. Lloyd got off his rock, and applied pressure to his leg and didn't winced. He then walked around for awhile then ran around without limping. Lucas watched his cousin run around and wasn't staggering or limping and began to ponder on what just happeneded.

"Fascinating." he muttered to himself, "It seems that I have discovered a new power to my element. And if I can master this technique, I can heal more than wounds, maybe even bones, and possibly I can heal our brothers from the venom. Is it possible?"

"Hey Lucas, what are you thinking about?" Lloyd asked.

That brought Lucas back and looked at Lloyd, who was looking at him curiously. He looks up at the sky and notice it was getting darker and saw the sun was setting behind them, as it was casting long shadows. Lucas knew it soon would be nighttime and had to find shelter soon, because his brothers would use Zane's falcon to find them or search for them themselves.

"I'll tell you later Lloyd." he responded, "But right now lets find some shelter for the night."

Lucas threw the rag back in his back, zipped it closed, and slung it over his shoulders and picked up his walking stick. Once they were prepared, they walked down the beach as the sun was setting. After walking for a few more miles, the sun had finally set and the moon rose high in the sky, and they came across a cabin. Lucas knocked on the door and waited for a response; but no-one answered. He turns the knob and found it unlock and the door swung open. They both walked in, Lucas found a light switch and flipped it on to illuminate the cabin. They looked around and found it deserted and covered with dust and cobwebs.

Lucas surrounded himself in his grey torando and does a quick sweep to remove the dust and cobwebs to reveal the cabin more. The cabin had a kitchen, a living room with a fireplace and had a bunkbed. They opened a door to another room, which was the bathroom, and Lucas turned the faucet of the shower to see if they had running water; and they did. He turns it off and turns to Lloyd.

"We're going to stay here for the night." he tells him, "And since you're the youngest, I'll let you get first dibs on the shower. Plus, can I have my sai's back though?"

Lloyd, completely forgotten he had them, and hands them back to Lucas. Lucas stepped out of the room to let Lloyd have privacy and looks around to the cabin to see what else was forgottened. He went to the kitchen and opens all of the cabinets and drawers to find nothing. He grunted as there was nothing to scavange and turned to see Lloyd coming out of the bathroom and dressed in his green pajama's.

"It's all yours Lucas." Lloyd informs him, "It gets cold at first, but it'll warm up later."

"Thank you Lloyd." said Lucas and walked into the bathroom.

Lucas quickly showered to remove the dust, sand, and cobwebs from cleaning the cabin and changed into his grey pajama's. He steps out of the bathroom and couldn't stop Lloyd anywhere. He begins to panic as he didn't see his cousin anywhere, and began to think that his brothers already found them.

"Lloyd? Lloyd?" he asks around the cabin.

"What?"

Lucas turned his head and sighs in relief to see his cousin on the top bunk.

"Nothing, I'm just over exaggerating." he responded and unrolls his sleep mat on the bottom bunk, "Now lets get some sleep."

Lucas placed his bag on his bed and turned off the lights and laid down on his bed. The sound of the ocean waves crashing onto the rocks and sand made Lucas relax. Being the ninja of water and being near the ocean made Lucas peaceful to be surrounded with his element. It reminded him of Kai being somewhere hot, or Jay soaring great heights, or even with Zane meditating in frozen waters, and Cole climbing up shear cliffs. Everyone of his brothers were like him when they are near their elements and it brought pain to his heart that they aren't with him.

"Lucas, you still didn't tell me what you were thinking about back on the beach." said Lloyd.

"Well Lloyd, what I was thinking that I may have discovered a new power with my element." Lucas explained, "I know this may be new to us and we might be running out of time to save everyone, but I must master this power because I think we may found the cure. So all day tomorrow, we'll train and master this technique, then save everyone. For now get some sleep."

"Ok. Night Lucas."

"Night Lloyd."

Lucas listened to his cousin shift in his bed and heard soft breathing coming from him. He shifted into a comfortable position and wondered how he's going to master this healing power of his and closed his eyes to drift into slumber.