Chapter 5: The Calming
(Lloyd's perspective)
Lloyd's first thought when he woke up was: Kai. His second was: Where the heck am I? He sat up in an unfamiliar bed in an unfamiliar room.
There was a beeping sound coming from his left and he turned to see a heart monitor attached to him. There was also a nearly empty blood bag with an IV leading to his left arm. As Lloyd's eyes followed the IV tube he saw that his left wrist was wrapped up. Why is that? He thought to himself. He couldn't remember. Or could he. There was something nagging him about his surroundings, there was a reason he was wherever he was.
Didn't it have something to do with… "No! I-It can't be true!" Lloyd exclaimed. He slowly started to unwrap his wrist. At first there was nothing but unmarked skin. But then he saw it, a long set of stitches going down his forearm and ending just before his palm. And as he took the last of the bandages off he saw the rest of them. Six other small cuts were horizontally on his wrist, none as long or deep as the first but each would still leave a scar.
Lloyd was horrified at what he saw. "I-I did this?" He whispered to himself. "W-Why?"
"Only you can answer that." Lloyd whipped his head around when he heard the voice. He had been so busy looking at his arm that he hadn't noticed Nya and Jay walk in.
Lloyd gave them a weak smile, he was embarrassed that they had managed to sneak in without him noticing. I'm a ninja, I should have heard them. He mentally scolded himself.
"H-Hi guys." Lloyd said. He then realized that he had been stuttering the whole time. Nya went over to Lloyd and gave him a hug saying, "We were so worried about you. The doctors weren't sure if you were going to make it. You lost a lot of blood."
"Gave us all a good scare too." Jay added.
Lloyd gulped as he heard Jay's words. "I can explain, you see…" he started, but was cut off when Jay interjected, "I know we all want to hear it, but can you maybe calm Kai down first? He's furious that he's been separated from you and he looks like he's gonna murder someone if he doesn't see you soon."
"Yeah, the last I saw of Kai was him screaming your name over and over." Nya added.
"Oh" was all Lloyd could say. Poor Kai. He thought. He must be so worried about me.
"I want to see him." Lloyd said, starting to get up.
Just as he had managed to place his feet on the floor a nurse came in.
"Oh, you're up!" They exclaimed.
"I want to go and see Kai." Lloyd told them.
"Of course of course. He has been asking for you ya know." They said with a smile.
"Screeching is a better word for it." Jay muttered. Nya elbowed him in the side and gave him a look that said: Don't you talk bad about my brother.
"What!" Jay whined rubbing his side. "It's true!"
The nurse finished examining Lloyds cuts and declared him able to visit Kai. "Just don't do anything to reopen them, alright?" They warned. Lloyd nodded in agreement.
He looked at Nya and Jay and asked, "So, where is Kai."
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Lloyd stood outside of Kai's door and listened to the sounds he heard coming from within. He heard muffled screams that sounded vaguely like death threats, and once he thought he heard the woosh of a flame being extinguished. But mostly he heard the same noise over and over, it sounded like Kai was saying 'Oyd, Oyd, Oyd' repetitively.
"You don't have to go in if you don't want to." Nya said, gently placing a hand on Lloyd's shoulder.
"Yes I do. It's my fault he's in there." Lloyd replied.
He took a deep breath, opened the door, and nearly got hit by a fireball.
"Gah!" Lloyd exclaimed, just barely ducking in time to avoid getting burned. Being a ninja definitely had perks.
"Kai, cut it out! You almost hit someone!"
Lloyd heard someone yell and saw Cole run up to him apologizing along the way.
"Sorry about that, he managed to get the vengstone cuffs off and–" Cole stopped mid sentence as he realized exactly who Kai had almost hit.
"Lloyd! It's you! Feeling better buddy? You're here to see Kai right?" He said excitedly, giving Lloyd a pat on the back that almost knocked him over.
"Of course he's here for Kai." Jay said, poking his head out from behind the door where he had jumped to avoid the fireball. Well mostly avoided it, a strand of his hair was smoking and there was soot all over his face.
"Come in Lloyd, I think if Kai sees you it will get him to calm down and not set Jay's hair on fire." Zane said, coming up behind Cole.
"Wait, my hair is on fire!?" Jay exclaimed.
But then Nya used her powers to drop a giant ball of water on him that soaked Jay.
"Now it isn't." She said gleefully.
"And now I'm wet." Jay said, with a frown.
"Hey! Careful with that! Ghost over here! Remember!?" Cole shouted, jumping back to avoid the water splash.
While all of that had been going on Lloyd had already walked past Cole and Zane and was making his way towards Kai who was once again struggling against his restraints.
Kai started screeching again and now that Lloyd was near him he could hear what Kai was saying.
"IF YOU DON'T LET ME OUT OF HERE RIGHT NOW I'LL KILL YOU ALL!"
"I NEED TO SEE LLOYD!"
"I WANT HIM NOW!"
"I'M GOING TO KILL EVERYONE WHO STANDS IN MY WAY OF SEEING HIM!"
"AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Lloyd was having mixed reactions, on one hand Kai was very determined to find him and Lloyd was touched by that. On the other hand Kai was threatening to kill everyone which was not ok.
Lloyd decided to step in before Kai went through with his plans.
Kai was in the middle of screaming Lloyd's name when Lloyd walked up to him.
Lloyd saw the look of fury and rage in Kai's blood red eyes vanish the second he saw him.
"LLOYD!" Kai shouted, in joy this time instead of rage.
He tried to hug Lloyd but was unable to because of the restraints on him.
Lloyd smiled and hugged Kai who whispered in his ear, "I was so worried about you. I'm never letting you out of my sight ever again."
Lloyd sighed as he heard Kai's words. He was happy to be with Kai again.
Lloyd undid Kai's restraints so that they could hug properly. But Kai had other plans.
"Come here greenie." Kai said, patting the bed next to him.
Lloyd sat and was immediately enveloped by Kai's strong arms for a hug that quickly turned into cuddling.
Kai was spooning Lloyd with his left arm over Lloyd's body and his right one propping up his head. Lloyd snuggled into Kai's chest and his eyelids started to droop down, pretty soon he was fast asleep.
(Kai's perspective)
Kai thought that Lloyd looked very cute snuggled up against his chest and patted his head lovingly a few times.
"Don't worry my love, I'm here for you now. And I always will be." Kai whispered.
He tucked a stray strand of Lloyd's hair behind his ear and gave him a kiss on the forehead before settling down and with a yawn, falling asleep himself.
(Spectators perspective)
The other ninja quietly snuck over to Kai and Lloyd who were sleeping together while still cuddling.
They all grinned at each other and slowly backed away, wanting to give the couple space.
