The Truth: A Ninjago story

Harumi & Lloyd

Part 8: Change of Heart.

(Lloyd)

It was a mistake to let her go but I had and regretted it. But she had done the right thing I had though that when I arrived at talons house I would see the body of talon but I didn't. Yes, I did see a body but that was the consequence of talon and his greedy evil ways. I had been searching the night looking for Harumi but I never found her and feared that she was gone again. "Hey Lloyd" Skylors cheerful attitude scared me as I entered the kitchen in search of coffee "did you get any sleep last night?" wanting to ignore her I said, "nope" "why?"wrong move "I was looking for harumi" "why me?" hearing her voice I rolled my eyes "of course you have been here" turning I didn't see the white blonde hair that touched her bum when she walked. Instead, it was chopped short and dyed to a strawberry blond color with waves "Wow... you look really hot" Skylor wasn't wrong in her comment she did look hot and different. Like she was ready to start healing, and I know what people are thinking. Just because you get a haircut to try something different you are ready to change? But in reality, people heal in different ways like getting tattoos or piercings and new hairstyles. It is definitely a part of the category. "Thank you, I wanted something different" excited by her new look I almost forgot to ask "is that were you where last night after you left talon's" she sat down like it was nothing to note because of my voice "yes, by the way I need to check on those kids" "oh well umm they are fine I called the firecheif and told him the situation and what to happen...WHILE I WAS LOOKING FOR YOU" I really didn't have anything to yell about but she did leave, almost kill someone, and get herself raped all in the same night. She took a sip of her coffee then turned ever so calm to me and said "WELL, MAYBE YOU JUST KILL ME ALREADY" damn it she wasn't ready "WHEN WILL YOU GET OVER THAT, I WILL NEVER KILL YOU" "WHY NOT, I HAVE KILLED MENY POEOPLE; HELL, I EVEN RESRUSETED SOME TOO" it wasn't the fact that I let her go or that she still felt guilty for being The Quiet One. No, we were yelling for one reason she didn't see anything to live for but I did. "YOU KNOW YOU WHEREN'T RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY OF THAT" I wanted to shake her, to plead but I knew she had to come to that reason on her own. "BUT I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR ONE THING" "REALLY, WHAT?" "openning a tomb that had a virus in it and now everyone is infected and turning into crystals" the forgotten voice of skylor turned out red faces back to reality "what?" "oh yeah, it seemsThe Quite Ones tomb was boby trapped and the thing that almost killed us is now trying to kill ninjago" "but..." vania chimed in "you can save them" "howww?" Harumi was doubtful about anything that concerned her powers "well you two just so happen to be one of the most powerful partner powers in Ninjago so..." "so you two can connect your powers and heal everyone is one swipe" "one swipe?" now I had doubts "yup go to the highest point in ninjago and just...create a bubble to cove ninjago" even as the golden ninja I have never been able to cover someone in my power let alone a whole city. Yes, I knew it was possible. My powers can move mountains, so I didn't doubt my power but myself.

(Harumi)

I wasn't worried because I had a plan and in this plan, I was finally going to die, Lloyd wouldn't even know what was happening. You see we were climbing the tallest of mountains with a cliff overhang in which we would create a bubble over Ninjago and save it. In order to do that we would have to use our powers together and transfer them over to each other but I lived in Shintaro long enough to know that really I just needed to block Lloyds powers and give him mine, killing me. I will finally be free and in death, I will feel one thing, No Pain. "Harumi" trapped in my own head about my own death "Yes" "are you listening?" "yup" I could feel Lloyd looking at me "good, Now Lloyd put your hands out straight...and put harumi in between" you see when vania said that Lloyd didn't even buffer in putting his hands on either side of me and my body temperature seemed to rise and I was sure that you could see steam coming off of my head. "Okay now rotate your hand upwards, Harumi place your hands ontop" very skeptically I looked at vania knowing that somewhere in her mind lived a 15-year-old matchmaker.

My hands fit perfectly into his, we raising them to Ninjago, our arms standing side by side, the powers connecting even in the veins of our blood; we are the saviors of Ninjago and our powers are like the rising sun healing everyone in the path. My plan was coming to an end so I had to open my eyes to see them perfectly fit into mine, not a boy's hand but a man's; the fingers defined the knuckles looking to protect me from anything. My back laid onto his, he was defined into loving me. Oh to be loved by this man, to be wrapped into his arms; to cry in him. It was a feeling so strange that one could not express it the feeling of my power leaving my body the resting place it had been for years but in the slow motion of things I could see how his powers were the only thing putting Ninjago together, how it completed him to be the savior again. Just like the strange feeling had come so did the pain a pain that only came when it was done; a heart-wrenching pain. one that only grew like someone had hold of it and was squeezing it so hard that the only thing I could do was move and try to make it go away but my mouth could have spoken better for all they heard was my silent screams of pain until I could do no more and my own powers were gone.

I knew I had done it, my plans were over I didn't even feel the pain now but I could see it. In his face, I could see the pain of losing your loved one he was falling no he was flying because he...loved me

And now...I didn't want to die.

(Lloyd)

I could feel it the moment I heard her moaning, a feeling that I had only felt once when she had fallen with the building, she was dying. I could feel the echo of her pain like her heart was a grape someone was squishing to have wine. I knew the pain both physical and emotional had rendered her unconscious but all I could do was watch, it was like someone had spelled me to stay, it seemed my feet and brain couldn't communicate. I didn't know what to do but beg for her to stay...with me. But she saw no future and so she chose to have no future; 

but that didn't mean the future had nothing for her.