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

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"One more round of palm ties, and I'd say she's secure enough for sea." Lloyd said as we continued building a raft. " Why is it all sea vessels are shes?" Nya asked. " I don't know. Because it takes a lot of paint to make them look good?" Cole joked. I laughed along with he and Lloyd but Nya intimidated them. " Nya, take a fucking joke." I sigh. Lloyd turned his laughter into coughing.

" I kid, I kid. Lighten up, water lily." Cole told the lady. Nya scoffed, " I get it. My personal mission to rid the world of its prejudices is wearing thin." Lloyd looked for more palm ties but didn't see any of them, "Hey, uh, did anyone take my ties?" " Not me." Cole responded. " I didn't touch them." Nya added. " Why the hell would I take them?"

"Huh. I could've sworn they were right here. All this sun must be baking my brain. I'm going back into the jungle to collect some more. " Lloyd left and it was just the three of us. "You know, I think the real reason sailors name ships after women is because we name them after the most important people in our lives. Mothers, wives, sisters, the people we trust to protect us when life gets choppy." Cole started up. Oh boy.

" But Jay didn't trust me. Why didn't he tell me he saw a future with me? Even if I never believed it, if he told me, all of this could've been avoided." Nya added. " Nya, Jay is a soft boy at heart. He hides his pain under jokes. He was scared you would reject him. Sure he is an idiot sometimes and makes horrible choices, but like Lloyd said,  if you want something bad enough, you find a way to make it happen. That's what he was trying to do. Because he loves you." I told the fellow girl. I just what Jaya to sail ok.

" He hides his pain under jokes?" Nya questioned. " Yeah. He bottles that shit up too, found him crying in a corner one day and he spilled all his problems because his bottle was too full. Poor baby." Nya now felt worse. She sighed and reached for her hammer but it was gone. "Huh. Where's my hammer? It was right here." Nya was confused.

Cole saw something on the ground, " Whoa! Did you see that?" Cole pointed out. " See what?" Me and Nya said together. The sand moved up in front of us. " There's another. There's two of them. I think I know why things around here go missing. Get off the ground!" We jump onto the raft. "I think we need to be quiet. I think they're attracted to noise." Cole whispered.

" Hey, guys! Look at how many palm fronds I found!" Lloyd shouted, coming over. " Greenbean, get off the-" I tried to warn but a worm creature emerged, cutting me off. " Are you kidding me!?" Lloyd sighed and Airjitzued to a tree. The worm came up and we jumped off, the worm destroyed our raft.

" There goes our raft." Nya sighed. " Fuck." I mutter as we crawl away. "Just another day at the beach." Cole added. " This way! To tighter ground!" Lloyd said and we used Airjitzu to get to said higher ground. Nya almost got eaten but used Airjitzu.

"Hey, you just did Airjitzu for the first time." Lloyd pointed out. " You want something bad enough, you find a way to make it happen." Nya remarked. " We need to get off this island." Lloyd said. " You fucking think Greed?" I groan. I called him Greed for I created negative nicknames for when I'm upset. Kai is pride, Nya is wrath, Jay is sloth, Cole is gluttony, Lloyd is Greed, and Zane doesn't have one because he doesn't fit lust. He isn't sinful he is baby. That makes me envy because, well I envy alot.

Jay mopped the deck while seagulls fly overhead, pooping on everywhere and him. " Ugh. So that's why they call it the poop deck." Jay sighed as Monkey Wretch screeched. "That's your side of the story, Monkey Wretch. The way I see it, I can use my free time as I like." Clancee told the monkey. " Clancee's right. Just because there's a new low man on the totem pole, don't mean Clancee has to give up swabbing the deck." Flintlocke stood up for Clancee.

" Thank you, F-flintlocke. It relaxes me. I told you I was in the right." Clancee left. Jay sighed once again, " The crew listens to you." "Nadakhan is a good captain. My job is to just make sure his ship runs smoothly." " But how do you make sure everything runs smoothly when your captain doesn't tell you everything you need to know?" Jay had a plan.

" Oh yeah? Like what?" " It's nice of you all to help him make this world..." "Djinjago is for all of us." Flintlocke instantly said. "Maybe. But how long do you think he'll keep you around when he gets infinite wishes?" "Everybody knows, Nadakhan don't get no wishes and ain't nobody can wish for that." Flintlocke reminded.

"That's not what he told me. After a Djinn prince marries on Djinn land, he gets it all. And I've seen how he looks at Nya, reminding him of his Delara. But what do I know? Heh, I'm just the low man on the totem pole. You've helped him build so much. I'm sure he'll need you around when he can wish for anything. But listen to me. The crew listens to you. If you're gonna stage a mutiny, now is the time. Before he's all powerful. Don't let him take advantage." Jay warned.

"What lies is our little canary whistling now, hmm? Perhaps another ploy to escape?" Nadakhan appeared. " it's true. He's the one that's lying. He told me everything at dinner." Jay said. "Right, and I have trouble shooting water in an ocean." Flintlocke and Nadakhan laugh. "Oh, we're being too hard on our guest. Perhaps it's time we involve him in some of our on-ship entertainment?" Nadakhan suggested.

"You don't mean Scrap-N-Tap, do you?" They laugh. "Uh, what's Scrap-N-Tap?" Jay asked. Jay was brought to an arena and Monkey Wretch confronts him. " The rules are simple. May the best one win. Let the scrap begin!" Nadakhan said. The pirates cheer. " Take this thing off and let's make this a fair fight!" Jay told the Djinn. "Fair? Haha. We're pirates!"

Monkey Wretch attacked Jay for a bit and the ball and chain ended up landing on him. "All right, you had your fun. I'm tapping out. Who's next?" Jay said, wanting to be done. " Oh, no. The loser doesn't tap out, only the winner does. You have to stay in until someone else loses. Who's next?" Then Jay lost to Doubloon, then Dogshank, then everyone.

Soon enough, everyone went to sleep and Jay was in a cell. " Well, you have to eat." Clancee gave Jay food. " I'm not hungry." " You f-fought really well. You held your own like a real pirate. You should have this to look the part." Clancee dropped something into the cell and left " An eye patch? Just like what I saw in my future. It's all coming true." Jay muttered to himself.

"Psst. You always talk to yourself?" Flintlocke asked. Jay sighed, "Only when I thought I was by myself. What do you want now?" " Maybe you're right. Maybe he doesn't need us after all of this. But the only way we're gonna stage a mutiny is if we can get his sword away from him. You think you can handle that?" Flint asked. Jay scoffed, "What am I supposed to do? I'm the one locked up down here."

" Wait until he's asleep and make your move. We'll be right behind you." He dropped the key and left. Jay escaped and entered Nadakhan's room. He grabbed what he thought was the sword but it was fake. The lights turned on and there everyone was. "I told you we'd be right behind you." The pirates laugh. " Well, I was wrong, he did fall for it." said Nadakhan. "Yeah. Even I'm not that pinheaded" Clancee added. Jay sighed and groaned. "If we're all up, I guess we have time for another round of Scrap-N-Tap." The pirates cheer. " That is, unless you want to wish it all away. Huh? Go ahead, make your wish."