The ghost activity had died down a little bit, and as you would expect, the ninja were using this time to look for Zane. Kai had snapped out of his deep caring just for Lloyd and realized that the team was to be tore apart of Zane wasn't found. Still, nobody or any place have any sign of the missing nindroid. The planned search area for that day was the Forest of Tranquility. But the forest offered nothing to give the ninja team any clues of Zane's whereabouts. It was mainly Cole who kept the search on.
"At this rate we'll never find him!" exclaimed Jay after yet another day of searching.
"Yeah Cole, we understand that you feel obligated to find him, but it's been weeks and every possible location has turned up without a trace of him." said Kai.
"There are still several places we haven't checked." said Cole. He crossed his arms. "And I won't stop until I know for sure all is lost. And I don't think so just yet."
"Cole, face it. Even if he was still out there, we can't hunt ghosts and look for Zane at the same time." said Kai.
"Yeah, the people of ninjago take priority, Zane would want us to help them before aimlessly wandering the known world looking for him." said Nya gently.
"AND I MADE A PROMISE TO P.I.X.A.L THAT I'D FIND HIM!" screamed Cole before he started breaking down in tears. He failed, failed Zane, failed P.I.X.A.L, failed the team, failed Ninjago.
Kai let out a sigh and placed a comforting hand on Cole's shoulder.
"Look Cole, if you want to keep looking for Zane then you can, the rest of us need to protect the people." said Kai.
"I thought we were a team!" cried Cole. "I thought we protected each other! We lost Zane once and it tore us apart, I don't want that to happen again!"
"Cole, listen the only one who is driving us apart is you,you're the only one who wants to keep looking for Zane, if we're going to stay a team maybe you should listen to your head before your heart." said Kai.
"AND MAYBE IT'S TIME THE PEOPLE OF NINJAGO START LOOKING AFTER THEMSELVES! DON'T THEY HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE PAID TO PROTECT THEM? I THINK WHAT YOU'RE ALL REALLY SAYING IS THAT NONE OF YOU CARE THAT ZANE COULD BE OUT THERE, LOST, ALONE, SCARED, HURT, OR EVEN DEAD AND YOU DON'T GIVE A STONE WARRIOR ABOUT IT!" screamed Cole. Then he collapsed into a sobbing mess of tears.
"Cole please, we do care about Zane. But this search is taking so long, that our hope is virtually gone." Jay said.
Cole didn't listen. He just kept sobbing. Kai sighed.
"Tell you what." He said. "We'll give it another week before we stop looking ourselves, but we can still have the Ultradragon and falcon looking for him." said Kai gently.
This time, Cole listened. He sat up and wiped his nose.
"Alright" He sniffed. "One more week."
"Sometimes hope is all a ninja has and if we hold onto it we can do anything" said Nya.
There ya go, Ninja Pony! No need to worry about a hiatus notice! I just put that up because I didn't want to seem like I abandoned the story. How did you like it? Omg a dove just flew past my window. There's birds EVERYWHERE!