Still by Your Side -||Lloyd x Reader||-

9

Nadakhan looked at the Realm Crystal before holding it up and summoning his crew back. "Captain, I knew it was only time you'd come for me." Flintlocke smiled at the Djinn. "Flintlocke. As my most loyal first mate, let me be the first to welcome you. I know you'd been marooned for far too long. Is your gunpowder still dry?" Nadakhan asked.

Flintlocke took out his gun and fired at a group of birds, but they fly away. " You missed." Nadakhan pointed out. " Did I?" A tress leaves fall down. " Ah-ha! You still got it. Well, what are you waiting for? Say hello to the rest of the crew." Nadkhan said as more sky pirates approached.

"Well, if it ain't be Doubloon. What's the matter, ain't happy to see me?" Flicklocke asked the Doubloon who switched his face to the happy side. " Dogshank.  Could use a muscle like yours where I've been." Flicklocke looked at the large muscular woman. Monkey Wretch screeches, "Go fix a turbine, Monkey Wretch. A flower. Forgive me, Lady Dogshank." He held out a flower to her.

" Never liked flowers." Dogshank snatched the flower and crumbled it. "And I ain't no lady." She laughed. " And last and definitely least, Clancee." " I-I-It's good to see us all together, F-Flintlocke. I-I told everyone I met about you and how, how, how—" " Clean my guns, will you, Clancee?" Flintlock cut him off and gave him his guns.

 " So you got the band back together. My regrets Delara is not here to see this." Flintlocke looked back at Nadkhan. "She will be missed, my friend. Meanwhile, we should celebrate." "You've got the Realm Crystal. We could go anywhere." Flintlocke pointed out.

 " Where to, Captain? The Straits of Tropicana, the Isles of Sunseto? Or perhaps we'll drink from coconuts in the Cove of Crystal Waters?" Flintlocke suggested." All of those sound nice, but I have the perfect place in mind." " Oh. Well, now you've piqued my interest."

"What are you doing to get us out of here!?" Cole instantly shouted the second Dareth picked up the phone. "This is no place for a Nindroid!" " I don't look good in stripes!" Kai complained. " I ain't my fucking Great Grandfather!" "They're all so mean! Help us! You have to help us!" Jay shouted as well. Lloyd shushed us. " While we're stuck in here, the Djinn is out there." Lloyd told Dareth.

" I know, I'm doing everything I can. Borg wanted me to let you know that the Djinn broke into Hirshi's Labyright Stronghold and took the Realm Crystal. The good news is everything else is accounted for. The bad news is the Djinn may now have his old crew back." Dareth informed us. It's nice to know that Borg still trusts us. I always liked that man.

" You have to get us out of here, Dareth. You're our manager. What are you doing to manage this?" Kai asked. "Did you get the cake? I baked some tools in it for you to cut through the bars." Dareth whispered. "Cake? We didn't get any cake." Jay was confused and I slowly turned to Cole. " Uh, how was I supposed to know there was something in it? I just thought it was crunchy."

" You ate our only way out!?" Jay shouted. "Well, sounds like you're on your own. Be strong, little ninja." Dareht put down the phone. " What do you mean on our own?" "You're not leaving us in here!" " Wait, Dareth!" " Motherfucker!" 

Dareth walked to the warden. " If anything happens to them in here, you'll have to answer to the Brown Ninja." " If there's a Brown Ninja out there, maybe he belongs in here too." Dareth gulped, "Uh, I'll give him the message. Gotta go."

We walked in line as we were served food. It was fucking goop. The lunch lady dumped the bucket onto Kai's tray. "A little extra since you're my favorite." She smiled at him. " You said you wanted special treatment," Nya remarked. Another lunch server put a small thing of crackers onto my tray. " Sorry dear all I got." He smiled. He was missing about 4 teeth. " Thanks bro," I smile. Fucking crackers lets go boys!

"So the bad guys are out there, while the good guys are in here. It's not fair." Jay said as we walked to a table. " What was it your favorite move character would say? Fair isn't a word where I come from." Cole you messed up the line. " The word was fear.  And if intergalactic space hero Fritz Donnegan was here, we'd already be out." Jay corrected.

I sighed and looked around. I noticed the big boy Stone Warrior who looked up when I passed by. I smiled at them and they waved, I waved back. "Ugh. Is this a muffin or a fossilized rock?" Cole asked as he hit the muffin on his tray. " Earth Ninja, no one likes you. What's Earth anyway?" A lunch server dissed Cole as he snatched the muffin and spat on him.

" He's a Jay fan." The lunch lady said as if that solves anything. Jay chuckled. " Hi, guys, care for some ninja company?" Lloyd tried to be friendly but the prisoners just growl and leave. " Fucking assholes." I sit down next to Lloyd. I picked at my nails and fingers which were still black. "Guess they can't all be fans." Zane mentioned.

"We may be out of the action, but that doesn't mean we can't take action. So what do we know about this Djinn?" Lloyd asked. " Did someone say Djinn?" Ah fuck, he comes Caption Soto, stabbing his fork leg into Lloyds tray. Why is his leg now a fork? "You best not be speaking about Nadakhan the Djinn." " Wait, the motherfuckers name is Nadakhan? What a loser!" I laugh. 

" Hey, it's Captain Soto. The first captain of the Destiny's Bounty." Jay remarked. "And it's Jay, the whiny sniveling blue pajama man who says everything obvious." Oooo, he got him there. "Why can't anyone here be nice?" Jay questioned as Nya giggled. " But who be you? I don't know you. Are you another pajama woman?" Soto asked Nya.

" Yes, you can say that." " No. You look really familiar for some reason." Soto looked at her closely. " Let's cut the small talk. You know him?" Lloyd asked. " Know him? I was the one who caught him." Soto corrected Lloyd. I listened and also watched the giant Stone Warrior pick up and yeet a lunch server. " So you were the one who trapped him in the teapot? But how?" Kai asked.

"Catching a Djinn is harder than steering a galleon upstream in a storm with a leaky hull. But let me try to articulate me words so that you can visualize it. Long ago, me crew aboard the Destiny's Bounty, the finest ship ever built. Save one other: MisfortunesKeep. Nadakhan the Djinn was the most feared pirate of the high seas. Since he was from another realm, his powers were unmatched. He and his crew were always a step ahead."

"The trick to catching a Djinn ain't be getting him into the vessel. It's making sure he don't poof away when you try to do it." Soto told us. "Ha! Easy. Just wish him into it." Kai thinks he sooooo smart. " Easy? Everyone knows you can't wish for more wishes, you can't wish for love, and you can't wish to harm others. Wishing a Djinn into a teapot would most certainly fall into that category." 

" What do you mean you can't wish for love?" Cole and Nya stared a Jay. " What? I'm asking for a friend. Heh." Jay shrunk down in his spot. " Don't let us stop you. You were just about to tell us how to catch a Djinn." Cole ushered him to go one. " Certainly. To stop a Djinn, you must—" " Well, well, well. Looks like you saved us some seats. Now let's talk about those spare parts."

FUCKING MECHANIC. " Not now, Sprocket Arm. We're dealing with first-tier bad guys here. You're fifth tier. Maybe fourth tier, tops." Cole insulted. "Fourth tier?" The Mechanic did not like that. " Look at that, pajama people, they have all the weapons. And you are chained." Soto laughed. I smirk knowing the Stone Warrior will help us. Hopefully, please you big beautiful warrior. " Yea. Sounds like it's almost a fair fight." Cole added.