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

17

" You have prepared our crew well. Hmm. They are much improved." Nadakhan told Flintlocke as Misfortune's Keep flew through the air. "And look at me, cap'n. I'm no longer airsick. Oops. Spoke too soon." Clancee ran away to commit. Poor Clancee. "I've been biting my tongue, Captain. But when we attacked the city, I saw the girl ninja, the one in red. She looked like Delara." Flintlocke told the Djinn.

" Really? I hadn't noticed." Nadakhan said sarcastically. "I believed that when I believe a pirate born to tell the truth. You should've told me. First, you don't tell me your plan, now you keep this. We've sacrificed a lot to follow you, but trust is a wind that blows both ways." Flintlocke was getting suspicious of Nadakhan and what he was doing. Nadakhan chuckled, "Which is why I am showing you this."

Nadakhan flew the ship to the new Djinjago which was created from the missing chunks of land from Ninjago. " Oh! Look at that. We got their ship!" Clancee pointed out. "That we do, Clancee. Heh. That we do. I know it doesn't look like much now, but this place will soon become Djinjago. With each Ninja my Djinn Blade consumes, the more power I'm beholden to resurrect my homeworld." 

"This is what you sacrificed for. Not some girl. For a home. I cannot do this alone, Flintlocke. I need you. I need our crew. Together, we can make this place ours." Nadakhan told Flintlocke. " To Nadakhan!" Flintlocke held up a drink. Flintlocke, Clancee,and Dogchank repeated Nadakhans name. "We have some world-building to do, and I have some ninja to find." 

We walked along a dock while Jay questioned why we couldn't take our dragons. "Judging from the map, we won't have enough energy to sustain the distance," Zane answered the blue boy. "We'd like to charter a ship." Lloyd told a man in a boat that's probably drunk. "Ahem. One eye may be glass, but me other eye sees clear as a bell, a wicked storm's a-brewing, and there ain't no ships to chart." The ship captain told us.

"Uh, oh, you're talking to me? Uh, well, then, let's find another dock." Cole told him and we started to walk away. " Hmm. All the others will be saying the same. Unless you own one of these beauts, the only way you're sailing out is on a wish and a prayer." The man told us. " A wish and a prayer you say. Hmm." Jay noticed a boat. "That wouldn't happen to be Cliff Gordon's boat now, would it?" " Why, yes. Yes, it is, Why do you ask?"

We set sail on this Cliff Gordan's boat and I was standing at the very front, looking out into the distance. I always liked going on a boat or ship into the ocean, makes me feel like a pirate! I know we are battling against pirates currently, but I still like them. We've battled against Garmadon and I still love that guy. He's going to be my father inlaw one day so I kind of have to.

"Ready about! Slacken a line! Now, now pay it out! That's well! Belay! Belay!" Lloyd shouted as he was behind the wheel. Confused on why Nya wasn't, she usually steers the Bounty. "Full steam ahead! Let's use the wind while it's at our back." Cole called out. Lloyd came down and gave Zane and Cole a canteen. " Here, you'll need this."

"Why do I need a canteen?" Zane questioned. "There may be no fresh water on the island. This way, we won't be without." "But I'm a Nindroid. I repeat, why do I need a canteen?" Lloyd now felt stupid.

"Chapter two of Cliff Gordon's Guide to Wooing Women. Don't tell them the truth. Tell them what they want to hear." Jay read out loud to himself and Nya asked what he was reading. "Oh. Aah! Uh, this? Uh, it's a book about, um, uh...understanding the power of your feminine side. It's a real page-turner." Jay lied.

" Really? Nya asked. "Uh, yeah, it's fascinating. It's really given me a new appreciation for—" " Oh no!" Nya cut him off. " What? Did I say something wrong?" Jay asked. " Storm. On the starboard bow!" She yelled. " That's not just any storm, that's an electrical storm! Get ready, Jay, we're gonna need you!" Lloyd looked at Jay. " Need me?"

Yeah, we used the poor boy as a lightning rod. " This isn't what I had in mind!" Jay shouted as he got electrocuted multi times. 

"You have to act as out lightning rod or else the storm will tear our ship apart!" Lloyd told him as lightning traveled down to Zane. " It's because we have a Nindroid aboard." Cole pointed out. " Zane, you have to go below deck!" Lloyd told him. "Zane shouldn't be alone! We all need to stay together!" Jay shouted as Zane left.

Zane walked along the inside of the boat and noticed a Minidroid Chess piece move. " Huh?" Nadakhan laughed and appeared. " Your move." " My move?" Zane repeated. "Yes. Surprised to see me?" Nadakhan picked at his fingernail. 

"On the contrary. " Zane sat down and played chess. "After analyzing Jay's reluctance for me to be alone, the only logical explanation would be his fear of your arrival. Signaling to me that you have visited him before. Since Jay is still here, it's understandable that he has not yet completed all of his wishes, and I sense it is the last wish that has trapped the others into your sword."  Zane is too smart of this world.

" So you are the smart one. Then I take it you do not want to make a wish." " Be careful Zane, it is foolish to believe you can outsmart him." Pixal warned. " Not now Pixal! I do want my three wishes. But on my third wish, it will not be I who will disappear, but you." Zane told him as Lloyd noticed a hurricane.

" Well, what are you waiting for? Make your first wish." Nadakhan told him. "For my first wish, I wish that you'll not twist my words, nor find a loophole, but understand the true intentions of the words that I speak, and carry out your will as I've thoroughly instructed." Zane wished.

"Very well, I understand you perfectly and shall take you at your word. Your second wish?" " It is imperative that from here on out, whatever harm may befall me, will be done unto you tenfold." Zane thought he was being smart and in reality, he was. "I have not heard that one before. Very good." Nadakhan complimented.

Zane was about to wish this last wish but Nadakhan interrupted him, "But for clarification, you said whatever harm may befall you." " What do you mean?" Zane asked. "What if said harm were done to say, someone else?" "Now you are twisting my words!" Zane accused him. " No, I am absolutely certain I heard you perfectly. No harm shall befall you." 

" I warned you not to do this, Zane. You must not make another wish." Pixal told the Nindroid, covering his vision with her own body. "By that definition, I could simply delete bits of information from your hard drive." Nadakhan deleted Pixal. " Pixal!" Zane shouted. " There's no harm in that now, is there?" Nadakhan smirked.  Zane gasped and yet again tried to make his third wish.

"Yes. Your all-important third wish. Make it count. But know no matter what happens to me, the sweet little voice inside your head will be all but gone. Erased. Checkmate." Zane started to panic. He couldn't lose Pixal, he loved her too much " I wish...I wish for it all to go away!"