"Dad! Are you here?"
"Right here William, hold on."
William arrived back at his home in Jamanikai Village, with the others too. Minus Brock, who had to go home to help his dad with something.
"Hey William," Lloyd smiled at his son.
"Hey dad," William smiled.
"Greetings Sensei," Sam smiled.
"Hey Sensei," Jason grinned.
"Hello Mr. Garmadon," Kyra waved.
"Please Kyra, Lloyd is fine," he chuckled.
"You know her!" William cried out.
"You don't remember her," Lloyd questioned his son.
"We hadn't met until now," William replied, confused.
"No," Lloyd said. "You were childhood friends. I would take you to play while us adults talked about things, remember."
"No, I don't remember," William sighed. "Why can't I remember?"
"I don't know," Lloyd replied to his son.
"I do," Kyra said, quietly.
William looked at everyone confused.
"What about you two?" Lloyd asked his pupils Sam and Jason.
They both nodded, saying they kind of remember her. William just shook his head.
"I need to go for a walk and think about all this," he sighed, walking outside.
"Why can't he remember me?" Kyra asked.
"I don't know," Lloyd told her. "I completely that you were the master of fire though. I kept thinking it was your brother and you would be the master of amber."
"Maybe it has something to do with what happened when Will was 8," Sam suggested.
"What happened?' Kyra asked.
"His amnesia, right," Lloyd sighed.
"What happened?" Kyra asked, clearly worried now.
"He was training with Sam," Lloyd started.
-Flashback-
"Higher William," Sam said.
William jumped and tried to kick Sam, who was taller than him. He fell back down and landed with a thump on the cushion under him. He groaned.
"Keep trying, you'll get it," Sam encouraged.
William stood back up and got ready to jump at Sam again. He sprung up, higher than any of his other attempts. He finally kicked Sam and tried to flip over to land again.
"William no!" Sam cried, but it was too late.
William landed on his head, hard. He blacked out on impact.
-End-
"We rushed William to the hospital, but he didn't wake up for a couple days," Sam sighed.
"When he finally did, five days later," Lloyd stopped.
"He didn't remember anything," Sam finished.
"Oh dear," Kyra said.
"He didn't fully recover I guess," Lloyd sighed.
Everyone was silent. No one spoke a word.
Meanwhile, William walked down the road, thinking to himself about what had happened.
"Everyone remember Kyra, faintly at least," he told himself, thinking everything through. "Why can't I?"
He continued walking around the block he lived on. He eventually stopped a few doors from his house to look up at the sky.
"Did she move and I didn't see her again? Is that why?"
William's issue was, he didn't remember the training session that he fell unconscious during. He didn't know he suffered from amnesia sometimes. If he knew, he'd understand why this was happening.
William kicked a pebble on the sidewalk and just stared at the ground. He was about to continue walking, but someone grabbed his hands and covered his mouth. He tried to scream, call for help, get anyones attention, but was unable to. The hand had a sleeping drug on it and William passed out. Then a snake, one of the one's who attacked them at the park, tied William's hands together and dragged him towards their base.
"Master will be so proud of me," she told himself, smiling.
She opened the manhole into the sewer system and climbed in with William in her arms. She walked towards their base, carrying William.
"Master, Slithera has returned," someone cried.
Slithera saw that his master was waiting for her, angry. When she walked into the light, carrying William, her master's expression changed and he walked towards her.
"I got the green ninja, Master," Slithera smiled.
William was slowly waking up at this point, his vision hazy.
"Good, bring him with me," Skales said.
William was forced to his feet.
"What happened, where am I?' he asked.
"You are our prisoner now, William Garmadon," Skales replied to him.
William struggled against the ropes that tied his hands, but he couldn't break them. He was forced to follow the evil snake that had kidnapped him. He looked around, trying to figure out where he was, but there were too many snakes to allow him an easy escape route.
"In there," Skales ordered.
William was pushed into a dungeon cell. He fell onto his stomach and wasn't able to get up with his hands tied together.
"Hold still kid," a man told him.
William shut his eyes, hoping he wasn't wasn't going to be hurt only for the ropes to be cut off.
"Up you get," the man said, picking WIlliam up.
William turned to see a man in a torn red t-shirt and torn jeans. His amber eyes seemed familiar, but he couldn't put his finger on it. His eyes hid slightly behind his partially spikes brown hair, a small smiled on his face.
"It's just a kid, guys," he said.
"Ok, what's his name?" a girl asked.
William looked and saw two figures sitting in a corner, huddled together. They slowly started getting up.
"My name is William," William said. "William Garmadon."
"Is this real? Or is my mind playing games with me?" the other lady said.
They came into William's view and William gasped.
"Mom?"
"He remembers you at least," the man chuckled.
William ran and hugged his mother tightly, not wanting to ever let go.
"I thought you were dead for the plane crash," he said.
"It's a long story, let's wait until we're out of here for it OK sweetie," Ali smiled. "Do you remember Kai and Skylor?"
"You mean Kyra's parents," William turned to see the other man and woman together.
"I see you remember Kyra," the man, Kai, smiled.
"I just meet her though," William sighed. "Everyone else seems to remember her now but me."
"It's the amnesia," Ali sighed. "He's still suffering a little bit."
"Amnesia?" William looked around, confused.
"It's a long story William," Kai told him.
"You knocked your head really hard when you were little and must have forgotten about Kyra, Skylor, Kai and Adam," Ali told him.
"It'll all make sense soon, Ok," Skylor told him.
"We'll have to wait and see how this turns out, Ok guys," Ali told Kai and Skylor.
They nodded.
"Wait, Auntie Skylor," William mumbled.
"I think it's coming back to him," Skylor said.
"That's right, Auntie Skylor and Uncle Kai," William smiled. "I remember them!"
"Hold on, Auntie and Uncle?" Kai questioned. "I'm not his Uncle. What's going on here Ali?"
Everyone turned to Ali and Skylor, confused. They had some explaining to do.
Happy Canada Day! If you're a Canadian reading this that is. I am Canadian so it works for some people.
Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. A fair amount happened.
Question: What do you think Ali and Skylor are hiding from everyone?
Have a great day!