Chapter 4: Hospital Hostilities
(Kai and spectator's perspectives)
When Kai came to he found himself staring at a white tiled ceiling. What happened? Where am I? He thought. Then it all came back to him. Breaking down the bathroom door. Finding Lloyd bleeding out on the floor. Holding him close in his arms. The others flying the bounty to the closest hospital. Them taking Lloyd from him. Fighting all of the ninja at once to get back to Lloyd. And then… nothing.
Kai tried to get up, but found himself unable to move more than an inch in any direction. He was restrained.
Kai's eyes darkened to a dangerous shade of red. At first he tried to burn his restraints, but he found that they were made of vengestone. He then started thrashing around, trying to rid himself of the bonds that held him down.
Suddenly he felt one give way. Then several people rush into his room. Most of them were the rest of the ninja, but there were also a few nurses with more sedative, ready to use it on Kai if needed.
"Kai, Kai! Calm down!" Nya shouted, holding down the arm that Kai had freed.
"Chill out dude!" Jay said joining Nya. But Kai wasn't listening to them.
"You're going to tear the whole building down man!" Cole said, adding his strength to restrain Kai's arms.
"If you continue this course of action there will be multiple injuries for you and the people around you." Zane calmly said, trying to reason with Kai.
"Enough Kai!" Master Wu shouted, slamming his staff onto the ground. Kai finally fell silent but glared at Master Wu with narrowed eyes.
"Where is Lloyd." Kai growled out of clenched teeth. Even though his fury had subsided a little bit he still wanted to be with his beloved Lloyd.
"In his own room that is not in the insane wing, recovering from the razor blade cuts he apparently gave himself." Master Wu said, irritated at the amber eyed teen before him. "Kai, how did that happen? What aren't you telling me?" Wu continued more gently.
Then Jay cut in, saying "Uh you mean us, right? What aren't you telling us, Lloyd is our leader and our friend too." The other ninja nodded in agreement.
Kai lowered his eyes to the floor not wanting to tell them. He had wanted Lloyd to be the one to tell them about it. Lloyd had always said that he would tell the rest of them when he was ready. But now Lloyd wasn't there to do it, so it fell to Kai.
"We're waiting, Kai." Master Wu said impatiently.
Kai took a deep breath and started telling the other ninja about how Lloyd was suffering from the trauma of banishing his own father to the Cursed Realm, and then the torture Morro put him through. He told them how Lloyd would have nightmares about it and how he would try and hide it, but Kai could always tell that something was off. And then he finally told them about how the night before Lloyd had had another episode but instead of going back to bed after Kai calmed him down he went to the bathroom. Kai told them how he heard Lloyd hissing in pain behind the locked door. And how he broke the lock to get to Lloyd. He explained how he found Lloyd on the ground lying in his own blood with a razor blade in his hand. Then how he shouted for the others with Lloyd slowly dying in his arms. When Kai was finished the room was so quiet you could have heard a pin drop.
Finally Master Wu broke the silence, in a horse whisperer he said "How did I not notice any of this, he's my nephew. I should have been there for him."
"Yeah well you weren't, I was there! I comforted him when he woke up screaming his father's name!" Kai snapped. The other ninja flinched upon hearing his brutality and bluntness towards their Master.
"I saved him from the river! I faced my biggest fear for him! I swore to protect him!" Kai was now shouting again, finally letting all of his anger out.
"And you failed!" Master Wu shouted back. "Lloyd is lying on a hospital bed here because you failed to protect him, because no one knew about this! Because you didn't tell us!"
"It wasn't my story to tell! It was his! He was going to tell you guys when he was ready!" Kai's eyes were shifting back to red as his temper rose.
"Kai, Master Wu. Please stop! None of this is helping!" Nya said, trying to calm them both down. But they weren't listening to her.
Cole ended up holding Kai down while Jay, Zane, and Nya dragged their Master out of the room.
Kai's screams of rage and fury could be heard throughout the whole hospital. They even managed to make their way to the room where a blond boy laid in bed, his left wrist wrapped in layers of clean white cotton. Then, as the last echoes of the screams faded away, he opened his emerald eyes.
