Someone Like You (Lloyd x Reader)

Chapter 18

A/N
-If some things don't make sense, that's because I'm in the midst or rewriting all the other chapters so give me a minute as I feed you with these upgraded chapters (:

Torches
-X Ambassadors

"Bring in your forces of nature, bring on the storm that's raging
And if you get lost in the shadows, there's a fire inside you
Be the light that guides you."

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Kai was wrong. To be completely honest, he was the furthest thing from being right. After the Great Devourer attack on Ninjago city and the ninja's masked faces being on the front headlines for weeks, it didn't take long for my mother to come and find me. So with deep sorrow, Sensei Wu acknowledged the authority my mother had over me so he let me go.

Now the ninja team was down to four again.

And despite my hope of the situation being unable to get worse, it did. The ninja now took residence in Ninjago City while we moved out to Jamankai Village in hopes to reconnect with my brother that had passed. I vaguely remember him as I was so young, but whenever mum showed me a picture I can imagine what could've still been.

However, the loss of my brother was a distant memory whilst the ninja was still quite relevant. But I couldn't let myself dwell on what I knew what could never be again. So I buried myself in the academics of school, much to my mother's delight.

Although, it never stopped me from trying to harness my elemental powers, despite no longer have access to the Golden Weapons. Not that the ninja did either, Garmadon still held them in his grasp. As far as I was aware anyway — not that they kept me updated. They were probably too busy with ninja battles and training Lloyd to one day to fight his father.

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Diary Entry #34

Lloyd... oh my dearest friend, Lloyd. Fate hadn't been kind to him. First he was assigned to be Lord Garmadon's son, now he's the prophesied Green Ninja. Not only was he to save the entirety of the world from the darkness, but defeat his own father in battle. And Lloyd wasn't much older than myself, and I was twelve. No one ever this young should be fighting the waging battles that have been declared since the beginning of time. At most we should be worrying about pimples, puberty, and moving onto the first years of high school.

It was unfair.

At least I could somewhat live a normal life now. But was it really worth it? The ninja were family to me, and I knew we had a strong bond... but so did my mother and I. Realistically, it probably was worth it to be a given a second chance at a normal childhood. So maybe I should just hold onto that and accept that despite the elemental powers I wasn't allowed to use outside of home, I was normal.

But hey, at least mum's taking me to the Ninjago City library. I suppose despite the peacefulness of Jamankai, it wasn't supplied with all the literature that mum could ever want.

PS. Hoping I can convince mum to take me to the comic store so I could try my luck with seeing the ninja again.

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Fortunately, despite being able to read people like she read her books on Ninjago's history and mythology, she fell for my request of; wanting to go to the children's bookstore so I could attempt getting into good reading habits.