A Deadly Fate

Day of Red

Chapter 4

"I swear you guys! I saw smoke over there!" Jay tried to convince his friends of what he saw. The ninja were back at the Bounty, that had moved closer to the gorge. Zane's neck was fixed and his voice modules were in order. The strong currents bent his neck back and broke a few wires. The ninja had informed Nya of her loss. Nya was grieving in her room with Lloyd comforting her. After hours of searching, Kai was never found, he wasn't declared dead yet but the team was going to do a final search the next day to at least find any evidence if him being alive somewhere.

"You keep saying that it might be Kai, just quit it Jay.. You're convincing yourself so much that he is alive. I know the truth hurts... face it... he wouldn't have survived that fall." Cole said slowly feeling his heart break. The ninja realized that danger was involved with what they did and injuries would happen but death never really crossed their minds.

Jay's heart shrank and he whispered, "Cole... I am hurt by this too.. but you have to look into this with me. It could be Kai but it also could be Clouse... I would feel weird if I didn't check it out." Jay explained softly and gently knowing how much his leader was hurting, he was blaming himself. Cole thought it was his fault because they recently fought and as leader he could have stopped it from happening.

Zane, who was standing off to the side, finally spoke up. "I agree with Jay in this situation, Cole. But I believe that this smoke Jay was telling us about is most likely gone by now."

Jay gasped of what Zane said and ran to the window to check. "Nonononoo!" Jay whined and ran from the window out to the deck quickly forming his dragon to start flying around. Cole and Zane followed as fast as they could. Jay, taking the lead, began flying toward where the smoke was. Unbeknownst to them, they had flown right above the fire ninja after awhile of flying.

Night

Kai woke up suddenly gasping for air and throwing up water on the spot he passed out in from exhaustion. He trembled and got to his knees. The fire ninja dizzily squinted at the sky and saw stars twinkling down at him. It wasn't stars from being dizzy but stars in the night sky.

If Kai wasn't stranded on the little island or freezing from the cold breeze hitting his wet ninja gi, he would actually enjoy staring at the stars. His vision cleared and his dizziness stopped for a moment. The sky was beautiful.

Kai forgot the predicament he was in for a minute and exhaled a breath of relief. Suddenly his stomach rumbled and he held his stomach in pain. He didn't have a single thing to eat the entire day and he was hungry.

When Kai let out a harsh breath of pain and from struggling to keep a steady breathing pattern, he saw his own breath from the cold. He didn't realize how cold he was because of all the pain he was in dulling it down.

From behind him he heard a shriek of an animal most likely becoming food for whatever killed it. He slowly turned his body to faced the trees and turning his back to the water. Kai never noticed how thick the woods was but he did now because of how dark it was inside.

Kai shuddered and hugged himself to keep warm and comfort himself. He shivered and stared fearfully into the darkness of the woods. He imagined creatures of unknown origins crawling around and eyes staring with deadly intensions watching him.

He curled more into himself and tucked his head in between his knees. Kai would never admit to being afraid of anything but that night he was terrified.

The Next Day

Kai was right about that rope bridge from the start. That bridge would bring "death" and it would be on the newspapers. All over Ninjago the news of Kai's death spread. Tears of fans and citizens stained the concrete. The day it was revealed Ninjago's population wore red to remember the fire ninja. The mayor wanted the ninja to come into the city to have a memorial and say a fews words to the citizens. But first the ninja were going to do another sweep of the gorge, they were going to confirm to the city if Kai was really dead.