TIGHTROPE | Llorumi fanfiction

Pt 1 The Little Things Give You Away

Don't want to reach for me, do you?

I mean nothing to you,

The little things give you away...

And now there will be no mistaking,

The levees are breaking...

"Lloyd, are you okay?"

Silence. Kai approached him from the back and sat next to him on a fallen pillar of marble. Not long ago, the Palace of Secrets was standing here. Now it was brought down to ruins, just like half of the city.

The Ninjas were working day and night to help find people buried under the destroyed buildings. Meter after meter, they cleared the area and saved lives.

Lloyd was deep in his darkest thoughts. Ever since the moment he saw Harumi falling down from the building, he looked like a ghost. Thoughtful gaze, emotionless face, silent moves, and... quietness. No more hopeful bright green eyes, no more determination and courage.

"They didn't find the body, did they?"

Lloyd himself had examined every stone of that building, but she wasn't there. How is that possible? Did she disappear, has she already been saved by somebody or... or was it another trick?!

"Look, bro, I'm sorry..."

"They didn't find it, did they?"

"..."

"This is all my fault" - Lloyd thought to himself. It was he who let his enemy wrap him around a finger, it was because of him the Ninjago City was destroyed again. He was just too weak - she was right about this, too. She was right all the way...

Kai quit his attempts to cheer up his friend. Right now, there is no way to bring him back to life. Only Lloyd can save himself.

All you've ever wanted

Was someone to truly look up to you...

And six feet underwater

I

Do...

Few months later

Everything went as usual. The ninjas were on their task stopping yet another gang of fanatic freaks from an armed attack on the Ninjago Museum. The police had known everything three days before the attack. The building was evacuated, the streets were closed, and now it was time for the ninjas to spring the trap and bring those punks to jail.

The 'punks' called themselves "The M-Cult", but that's pretty much everything the ninjas knew about them. They were all wearing ninja-like masks except their supposed leader - 'The Tattooed Man', who had multiple tattoos all over his naked torso.

Sounds like typical everyday ninja business, huh? But it wasn't so that day. That day was one hell of a mess.

Whoever were that "M-Cult" people, they had the power. And the backup. There were simply too many of them, and the 'tattooed man' was a way too skilled fighter for a pack of thieves. While the ninjas fought the 'A-team' that attacked the building from the main entrance, the 'B-team' blew up the backing wall and captured their target - a big antic mirror of an unknown origin.

'Cultists' quickly loaded the mirror on their truck and would be gone already if it wasn't for Lloyd. At the very last second, he kicked the driver out of the car and jumped in. All he needed was to get rid of those freaks, so he just hit the gas pedal and drove away with the mirror. He couldn't let them get away with the crime like they'd done before, he couldn't put the Ninjago in danger one more time. The more gangsters will approach him, the easier it would be to catch them later.

It was a tough chase. Lloyd wasn't a good driver, so it took all of his concentration to drive through the city center at high speed without destroying everything on his way.

Left.

Right.

Right.

Road blocked.

Turn around.

Hurry. Hurry.

Finally, Lloyd got to the seaside road. On his left, there was a beautiful view of the calm sea, but he was far too concentrated to look at it. Just in a minute he will reach the police post...

BANG!

Lloyd was hit by a car from the right. The collision was so strong that his car was knocked out of the embankment. The truck was quickly filling with water, leaving Lloyd unable to breathe. The crash was so strong that green ninja fell unconscious and couldn't even attempt to escape. His lungs were slowly filling with water as the truck was sinking down in the dark-blue abyss...

The truck was pulled out of the water just less than an hour later. The mirror was not found inside.