A Deadly Fate

Burning Hope

Chapter 5

The ninja made it to the Bounty at the gorge and immediately saw the issue. Nya ran out on the deck and greeted the ninja with her frantic words.

"There's more smoke and I was going to check it out myself but I thought if it was Clouse wouldn't be able to deal with him." Nya said really quickly and Cole held up his hands and shushed her softly.

"Hey, its okay. You did the right thing." Cole said quietly to calm Nya down.

"B-but you guys were at the memorial!" Nya tried to fight but Cole shook his head and put his hands on her shoulders.

"Don't worry about. Now we have to change. You coming?" Cole questioned and he removed his hands from her shoulders.

She looked away with tears threatening to fall, "I better not."

Cole shrugged lightly, "If you say so. Lets go." The ninja left to their bedroom and performed spinjitzu into their ninja gi. They strapped their weapons on and headed out to the deck again. Nya was back in the control room looking out the window watching them leave. One by one the ninja jumped over the side and formed their dragons. Cole looked over to the window and smile to Nya before jumping. This brought her to tears because that was the last thing Kai did before he left and didn't return.

The ninja glided towards the huge smoke trail and didn't bother to pull their hoods up. "Do you believe its Clouse?"

Cole turned to see Zane, "I honestly don't know. Hopefully we didn't leave the memorial for nothing."

"It would not be entirely for nothing, we are doing this because its our duty to protect Ninjago. That is if it happens to be Clouse." Zane reassured and Cole smiled softly to him.

"Well said Zane." Cole said but with the air rushing by his voice was almost drowned out. "I don't think I would have be able to say anymore at the memorial anyway..."

"Cole, we are all here for you." Zane tried his best to comfort and that was enough for Cole to tear up.

"Thank you"

Kai woke up gagging up more water at his side. He puked up water and hints of blood. When he finished puking he coughed till he could barely breathe. He trembled and his breaths were harsh against his throat.

Kai hadn't had anything to eat or drink in what he assumed days. He had a huge rushing water source near him but he was afraid of being swept away and drowning. He never thought in his life he would be afraid of something like water.

Kai groaned in exhaustion, he was so tried of waking up puking. His eyes trailed up to his raging fire and realized he must have not slept long because it was still ablaze. He rolled onto his knees to crawled closer to it from a sudden chill that went through his body.

'So this is the end of the master of Fire? Stranded in a gorge on a pathetic little island.' Kai lied on his side next to the fire and curled up into a ball. He scoffed at himself. He honestly didn't think this was how he was going out.

Kai couldn't control the painful coughs that followed after his previous thoughts. His coughs sent sand onto his face and into his mouth.

Kai groaned in annoyance and had a sad attempt to spit the sand out with a dry mouth. His vision started to get hazy and Kai slowly and shakily brought his hand up to his forehead and tried to smack it but it was too light.

Kai started to breathe harshly thinking that if he fell asleep he wouldn't awake up again. He groaned again and tried to push himself up but his arms were shaking so bad, he barely moved.

His heart ached thinking about his brothers and his vision blurred more from on coming tears. He turned back onto his side facing the fire and he slowly reached out for the flames as his vision turned black.

Like a switch being flipped, Kai's eyes opened wide. His hand rested on the blaze wood pieces. He couldn't find the strength to scream in pain, he just opened his mouth in shock. He grimaced swiping his hand from the flames. At the sight of his burnt and blistering hand he felt the urge to throw up and he did. He barely propped himself up on his bad arm and he threw up some more water and blood.

'How much more water am I going to throw up?' Kai groaned in pain. His chest felt like it was going to collapse if he kept throwing up and coughing. 'I didn't think I could burn myself with my own element.'

Kai wheezed from all the pain that consisted of his swollen ankle from the rope snake, the sword slash on his forearm and mouth, the burn on his hand, his chest and throat from the coughing and throwing up, his head from the bump and bruise, and stomach from the loss of food.

Kai slowly rolled onto his back away from the throw up and fire to stare up at the sky. His vision constantly blurred and focused to his annoyance but he did nothing knowing it wouldn't stop. His breaths were harsh and raspy and made a terrible sound.

'At least I can kept my eyes open.' Kai thought to himself knowing that the longer his eyes were open the longer he kept himself alive.

Kai moved his burnt hand to rest on his chest and his eyes traveled to watch the smoke, still thick and moving upwards. His eyes were getting harder to keep open from the dizziness that came from slight movement of his eyes to watch the smoke. His vision danced with dots but some of the dots got bigger and moving.

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