Triviality In Battle

Chp 4. Use Of Lies

Kai's ear ran, the red ninja groans, his vision was blurry as he opened his eyes.

"Wake up, Kai!" A figure right in front of him spoke. He tried to focus on them but couldn't. From what he could see was a person in red shaking him. "Santa?.." Kai replied. "See I told you guys he's finally brain dead." A voice joked, it was definitely Jay. "Nah he was already brain dead, trust me." The blurry figure said to Jay.

The team chuckles. Kai blinked a couple more times to finally see who the figure was, it was his little sister, Nya. "What.." he spoke as he pulled himself to sit up. The whole team looked at him. Taking a quick look at his surroundings he saw that still in the Toxic Bogs.

"We're still here?" Kai asked as he looked at Nya. She suddenly had a soft smile on her face. "Not unless you want to stay. I, personally, wouldn't oppose." She chuckled. "Come on Kai, we still have a snake problem." Nya grabbed Kai's left arm pulled him up to his, and wrapped his arm along Nya's shoulders.

She shuffles along with her drowsy brother as the Ninja watch. "Well don't just stand there, like a bunch of monkeys get a move on!" She shouted at them, they scrambled to The Destiny's Bounty.

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Back in the nightmare of a forest he was. The sound of the leaves brushing against each other, the breeze flowing through the trees, the soft tweets in the distance. It was all natural to this point. Nothing new just a different spot in the same old plain forest. The blonde softly growls, this was all annoying. He left the volcano cave around sun rise and it seemed to be pasted noon.

"This is so stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" Lloyd shouts as he started to kick a nearby tree. He fell to his knees, his hands clawing the tree. He traveled so far, and so long just to only be hungry and tired. The forest was a like a endless labyrinth, that only got worse and worse. The child pushed himself back to his feet. Pathetic, that's what he was being, being a worthless idiot. He had to push aside his hunger and tiredness to become the villain he need to be.

Lloyd stumbles through the forest, he just.. no he needed to get out of here. The trees soon began to disappear, the grass below him started to thin out and turn more yellow with each step forward.

The luscious bushes turned into piles of sticks. Before he knew it he was walking through a light orange desert. The air was dry, and the sunlight bright. Oddly enough it was better then the forest bringing him to the brink of insanity. Lloyd kicks sand with every step. The area was empty beyond the rocky hills in the distance.

"Am I even going the right way?!" Lloyd screamed to no one but himself. He looks around, things were just sand and rocks, and sand, a even more sand. The blonde groans. He continued to walk forward although he lost hope to find Ninjago City a long time ago.

While stomping through the dry desert Lloyd spots something in the distance. It's black color stood out from the light orange sand. He starts to walk faster, it's could be a road, a building a car, anything! Soon he was close enough to see that it was a road. The road was long, but that means there's a path to civilization, maybe even Ninjago City.

He approached the road and decided that head walk down his left with the road. The young boy follows along side the edge of the road. It's just as dull as before, only just with a straight, endless road. Aleast there was some hope; a road meant there was civilization. Being in a civilization was better then suffering under the dry, cruel sun, as he began to sweat heavily. In some sort of town or city there was buildings, and trees to hide in their shadows.

The hot sunlight was no place for the all mighty son of Garmadon, the king of shadows! Shadows kept him safe from things like the heat, or bullies at Darkley's, such a cruel place. Children there were always picking on him for being 'weak' in villainy. They were Foolish, he wasn't weak, he was the best future villian compared to anyone in Ninjago! Soon enough ot would be him ruling over the very land filled with people who have been wrongful to him. Just like his father, he'll plan the most twisted plans for them.