Shattered

Chapter 3

Lloyd would never get used to human expression.

Kai's face was full of a bunch of different emotions. Confusion, fear, shock, disbelief, and many many others. But the one that showed on his face the most was concern. Goddamn concern.

Someone just told someone that they saw that person die, and they have the absolute audacity to be worried for that person instead of running away screaming bloody murder.

Kai's eyes were wide and a little bit glassy, his hands were shaking and clenching over and over and over again, as is brain processed and reprocessed the information.

"Why?"

"Why, what?"

"Why did you see us die?"

"I didn't said anything about-"

"I kinda figured that part out, Lloyd, what happened?"

Lloyd paused for a moment. Why? What was he supposed to tell him? Well, there's a lot of things that Lloyd could tell Kai. That Morro played with his mind for months on end while he was taken? That he was forced to see all of them die on horrific and brutal ways? That seeing just flashes of certain colors can send him spiraling and his mind screaming? What was Lloyd supposed to tell him?

"Morro, well-" Lloyd paused once again. He could do this. Just like before. Just give him enough information and then hopefully he could go back to hibernating and being distant from everybody else.

"Morro, he wanted to have complete use of my body, right?" Kai nodded, eyebrows furrowed, "Well, to do that he needed to break my will, I guess? I mean it's hard to take control of someone who's constantly fighting you, so he started going through my memories and playing with my mind a little bit. He would show all of you, everyone who I cared about, slaughtered and butchered over and over again. He said that that was what I was going to do too all of you, and I guess even now, even after he's not here anymore, it hasn't...gone away yet? Does that make any sense?"

Kai's eyes were almost glowing when Lloyd finally finished his rant. His hands were clenched and they were glowing a red and white mixtures, his arms were shaking from the strain of keeping his powers back.

A deep, low, almost feral growl escaped his lips soon followed by sneered, ruthless words.

"I should've killed that son of a bitch when I had the chance."

"Kai, it's ok-"

"No, it's not Lloyd!"

Kai unclenches his fist and the fiery glow spread from his fists up his arms. The sleeves of his gi smoked and burned away in pieces onto the ground.

The red color burned the back of Lloyd's eyes and sent a familiar jolt in the back of his brain, the pressure was almost enough for his knees to buckle and the white hot spikes of pain were signs, warnings for the things my brain is going conjure up.

Each color gave his brain a different reaction. Jay's blue normally sent him towards the chained spikes and the green mist, Morro, taking control of his mind and body, thoughts and feelings. Of Morro shattering everything that Lloyd every stood and fought for and breaking it down brick by brick until he was nothing but an empty shadow, an empty vessel of himself.

Orange and yellow gave him the feeling of falling from the cliff on that ship. His stomach dropping and the air flying past his face, a suffocating pressure against his entire body, and the crack of his bones, joints, tendons, everything when he landed against the hard ground. And then the feeling of Morro rebuilding his body, reshaping and remodeling his body back to a usable condition, then walking (or rather limping since his leg was still trying to reconnect with him) away from the crash site almost as if nothing had happened.