The Truth: A Ninjago story

Harumi & Lloyd

Part 4: they're all dead

(Lloyd)

Her eyesight was blurry from all the tears but when she saw that I was fine her whole body lunged into mine for a hug though it could have been one of relief she was crying even harder saying that she couldn't heal all of them and somewhere practically dead alrighty "it's okay, calm down...know tell me what happened" I hand to put her head to my chest so that she could calm down but when she started to tell me I noticed the bodies "when Jay's mom disappeared a door opened and this green fog can out I was fine but everyone else stared to drop like flys or crows I could wake them no matter how hard I tried the only thing that worked seem to be keeping their heart rate up then when I tried to wake you... I might have used a bit of your power" her eyes looked up at me almost pleased and frightened at the same time "I think that if you could help me use your power, I could wake them" she sat up and out of my enbrace "why didn't you use it in the first place?" "I'm...you have had your whole life to use it without hurting people and with my power, the, lest I can do to hurt, is induce a coma...I have enough body in my closet I don't need more exspeally them" we both looked at the circel of our friends laying there looking paler then ghost and once again I had let my heart get in the was 'she is a killer' my mind told me "come on...we will start with nya" moving over her body I nelt down to check her pluse which was supisingly strong "maybe we sould start with skylor" harumi was nexted to skylor's as she nelt using her power to what I could only asume as trying to heal her "well, you do have the power" her powers where a lighter green then mine but in this case they almost looked like fairy dust "when I first learned how to somen my powers I was no older then 9 but when I was 9 I loved comic books and the heros so I would pretent that I was that hero in a time of need I could somen it" "and now?" "now?" "what do you think about when you need it now that you are older?" "well most of the time it's just a reaction othere times I think of them" we both knew that 'them' was my family and rally the only family I had every had "who is your 'them'? Her smile was faint like a butterfly had landed in her memories "vania" confused but understanding that family comes in all shapes and sizes "so think of her" her eyes lids close reminding me that we need to see some sun when we get out of here. The soft pixe dusty of her powers grew into a dark green closer to the color of mind but not there just yet...poof, gone "it didn't work" she said taking a deep breath to try again "wait, what if you didn't heal them all one at a time but instead all at once?" picking up skylor and placing her next to Kai and Nya I dragged Jay and cole to the circle while Harumi watched me "if you had a surge of energy then you would have to go from person to person trying to heal them" maybe she thought I was crazy or maybe brilliant she picked Vaina and caird her to the others then helped me with Zane and pixal "now what?" "you think of a powerful memory of your childhood or parents" "why not vania?" "well I am thinking that with vania you don't feel unsafe or hurt but with things that do hurt we have more to act on" we had to stay silent for that comment but it wasn't like I was wrong "how did you meet Vania?"

(Harumi)

I had liked it when Lloyd had held me when I cried but as soon as I said bodies his cold exister was back. Only when he asked "How did you meet Vaina?" did I feel safe from shattered Ice "when I was an orphan lily took me to see Shintaro and the king who so happen to have a princess my age because vania didn't have meny friends I was made the princess personl best friend...from then on she has alway instited that I was her sister more then a friend but I made some mistake and yet she still loves me" I had been looking off into the distance of my memories but when I looked back peeing my pants a little because Vania's face as right in front of me looking really well "oh...I did it" hugging your best friend is even better than hugging the guy you have a thing for... We could have been 14 again with the way we reached. "what happened?" everyone's eyes turned to me for I was the only one would have been awake "when jay's mom left you just started dropping like flys...I think the camber that she opened had poisonous gas in it" "what camber?" "the one that has lloyd's body" the sass of my mother slipped through my mouth and I regretted it because it wasn't my place. Though I could see vania smile because she never thought I had to be someone other than my usual self, which she was right, it always held me back and made me a fake. "It's kind of late and with our track record maybe we should wait until morning for you two to go you...thing" Vania had the right idea because everyone agreed even Lloyd who you would think to be done with his ghost of a body.

We fell asleep soundly, but as we did, she knew what was to come.

(Lloyd)

Morning came with the past of a dream like they always do. Sometimes it would be the first moment I thought we connected or when I saw the building fall. I thought I knew all I needed to know about her but there were still surprises. What weighed on my soul was the fact I don't really know her at all... before she was a princess speaking her mind not letting feeling get in the way of what she wanted but now... Now she was broken.

Hurt in ways that I could only see and not know, the scares she bears and she bears alone.

Looking at my body float alone made me wonder why I had to fall for her and why she had to be evil with a side of good. I could see the scars on my body just as clearly as I noticed them on hers. My body looked peaceful as the phantom of energy coursed through my veins "you almost look like a painting" Harumi's voice said behind me I didn't turn knowing she would sit behind me "Is it weird? Seeing yourself asleep?" "yes...but it's all going to be over soon so I'm not to weirded out" a chuckle escaped my throat. I could see her smile in my peripheral vision "can I ask you a question?" her head nodded "why did you change your ways?...pixal said it was because you died and vania say that you were never evil but I say you and..." I kept rambling on not really knowing how to stop but I did when a soft whisper said "I didn't" "good morning love birds are you really to give Lloyd back his body?" of course only jay would walk up just as she said it. But does this mean that she is evil still...does this mean that when I come back my family is going to be held at a knife's end or worse actually dead? What does she have planned? what does she need? Who does she need? Why is she doing this again? I questioned myself as I walked the steps stupidly to my own grave. Why am I sad and surprised at this? She stood at my body I couldn't see her but I could feel her start, my power was no longer a phantom but a supernova...it was too much power.

(Harumi)

I have to do this... I have to die.

(Llyod)

I was looking through my eyes, I felt my hands, my feet, my tung, my body "did it work?" it was her voice...Harumi's. Was she going to kill me when she had just given back my power? Opening my eyes I finally could see her's...

I might have glanced at them before but when staring at them through the light of power energy floating around me (which I assume she only came in because she was the only one who could) god someone could die in those eyes...I could die. "Are you okay?" groggy I sat up, my ass hurt from sitting for so long. "Yeah, I'm fine" "okay, what's your name?" her smirk had a sassy comeback coming so I said "Lloyd, what's yours?" her eyes creased as she helped me up, but her smile faded as the light vanished around us, the color of her skin went to ash as her lips said "Nevaeh".