A fire's shadow

A broken team with a chance

A/N So I know the last part of the previous chapter was in Lloyd's POV, but from now on it will be in third person POV unless I say different.

It took three hours before Nya stopped trying to jump off the ship after her brother. At one point she even hurt Cole, Zane, and Jay, a little when they tried to stop her. Lloyd, however, he didn't try to jump off the ship, he didn't go around screaming, and he didn't try to comfort the others. He just sat in a corner of the living room and stared out into nothingness. He was lost in the thoughts that haunted his mind. The words Shadow told him echoed in his head and all he could see was the sad eyes Kai had given him before he jumped. Nya was devastated, sad, angry, and shocked. But Lloyd was just broken. Tears streamed down his face, but he never noticed. He just felt so broken and alone, that nothing mattered to him right now. Wu had tried to help out his students with the screaming water ninja, so not even he noticed just how much Lloyd was broken. Lloyd's memories of Kai was the one thing keeping him from completely breaking apart. But the memory he kept coming back to, was the one where Kai became corrupted by the elemental staff. No matter how much Lloyd tried to think of different memories of his best friend, that was the one he kept coming back to. Shadow had been right, Lloyd had really thought Kai meant what he said that day. But he never said anything about it to Kai. He didn't want to give Kai a reason to be angry with him. Lloyd lost the interest to do anything. He had no motivation to smile or laugh. Suddenly Lloyd felt a flash of indescribable pain in his head and an image of Kai's face flashed before his eyes. Lloyd let out a gasp and his breathing quickened in shock. The pain was gone as fast as it came but it had given Lloyd a feeling that didn't leave. Now only one question echoed in Lloyd's mind. Could Kai be alive? Lloyd didn't know. But he knew he had to find out. There was no point in sitting around thinking he was gone if Kai was alive out there. But then another thought came to Lloyd's mind. If Kai is alive, then that means, Shadow is too. Lloyd wouldn't want to think of what could happen if Shadow got enough power to get free, and what would happen to Kai if he did. Lloyd didn't want to find out. Lloyd finally got back to reality and saw that the others were all in the living room trying to get Nya to calm down. Lloyd stood up and walked over to them, causing their heads to turn in his direction. "Lloyd...?" Lloyd was taken back at the fact that even Zane, the one who's almost always calm, sounded like he was on the edge of tears. Lloyd wiped away his tears, "We can't sit around anymore." The others gave him sad, but questioning glances. "W-we don't know if he's......you know.....I mean there could have been water or something taking his fall, or he could have summoned his dragon, there's a lot of things that could have resulted in him being alive..... So we have to start looking for traces of what happened to him... If he's alive, then that means that.....Shadow...is as well..." Nya was the first one to give any response to the statement, "Then....why are we sitting here.....? I don't want to find him d-dead..... but if there's a chance he's alive....then.....then I want to try...." Wu gave a proud look towards his team, but they all saw the sadness in his eyes. They all knew that there was a chance their protective hothead was gone forever.

They all summoned their dragons and flew away, backtracking from where they had been when Kai jumped. When they flew lower they saw that it was indeed sea where Kai had probably landed. The ninjas cheered when they realized that Kai had most likely survived the fall from the bounty. But Lloyd was worried, if Kai was alive, then Shadow was too. The ninjas continued to search for the red ninja. After a while, they found land. They all landed their dragons and started to look for signs of Kai. Suddenly Nya let out a happy scream as she found a burn mark on a tree, indicating that Kai had been there. "He's definitely been here, but why would he randomly burn a tree?" The question Lloyd knew the answer to, "He fought something or someone. And I think I know who." The other ninjas gave him a questioning look and he returned it with angry eyes causing them to realize what he meant. "We need to find him. Before Shadow gets what he wants." Lloyd agreed with Cole, and so did the others.