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Hello everyone! 

Another story, yes I know what you're thinking again. (I hope so) How do you have so much time?! I don't but I like to write so this is a draft I made when Ninjago monstrosity just came out and I have like five chapters already? I don't have a schedule for uploading like some of my other stories, just when I have a chapter ready. 

Hope you will enjoy!

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It is a warm evening, the air is thick because of the sun that has shined the hole day. But now the sun has dissapeared behind the sea. I sigh, this world. This is our world but why doesn't it feel right to me? 

The world has changed so much since the merge and I just don't know how to move on after this world destroying event. I am here alone, alone in the monastery. I don't hear Jay and Cole videogame, I don't hear Kai screaming at me for beating him again with sparring, I don't hear screws falling or being used by Zane, Nya or Pixal and I don't see the smoke coming out of Master Wu's room while he is mediating. 

I am alone, alone. 

Alone in a world that has changed so much that I don't even know if it is the same world as I lived in before. I am just waiting, waiting for my familiy to return to our home. But maybe they aren't going to return, maybe they are.... 

No, I am not going to think like that. Ninja never quit and I know that my family will never quit and so will I. I grab some tea, maybe that helps me calm down a bit. I walk through the monastery hallways and arrive at the courtyard, it is abandoned. There are all leafs on the floor of the courtyard, it feels like I am back in time. 

That time that we got back from prime empire and that the hole monastery looked like it was abandoned. But this time, the others aren't here. I am all alone. 

Suddenly I see a shadow and I look up. It is the bounty! But how did it get here? I let my little cup fall in surprise and then I run towards the bounty and climb on it. I look around and then I see someone walking at the back of the bounty. 

I jump into spintjitzu, the person consumes into the spintjitzu and then I trow the person to the ground. I power up my elemental power and to hit the person but then I see its scared face. A face I know very well. 

'Kai!?' I scream out in surprise and he says and trows off his mask:' What the heck Lloyd?!' I help him stand up and then we hug, he turns around while hugging me and I say:' Sorry Kai, I haven't seen anyone in weeks' 

He smiles that its fine and then we walk towards the monastery. I am finally not alone, I am not alone. 'Where did you end up?' I ask while we arrive in the courtyard but Kai doesn't answer, he walks straight into the monastery. He is ignoring me, he never does that! 

I follow him inside and then I see him. He is laying on the sofa in the middle of the room, snoring. He seems in a pretty deep sleep. Where the hell was he? He wasn't in a good place because he wouldn't be this tired if he woke up in a place with people. 

I need to know where he has been and what happened because this isn't good. 

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Kai pov

'Master?' I ask when I see Master Wu standing on the open field, full of things I don't understand. 'Master Wu?!' I say again full of disbelief, how can he be here? How can he be in the land of monsters? 

He dissapears into the fog and I scream:' Wait!' I begin to run towards my master, leaving the fire knight mech alone at the field. 'Fire wielder!' I hear the fire knight mech say before I leave him behind in the fog. I run over the field full of mud, following my master into the emptiness of this cursed land. 

'Master Wu!' I scream again but he doesn't stop, how is he this fast?! 'Master Wu stop! Everyone is gone! I have been looking everywhere!' I begin to cry, losing the last of my hope that they are still out there. 'Where are you going?' 

I am getting annoyed now, but then I see him. He is sort of flooting above a lake or sea, above water. A glow appears beneath his feet. 'I've been so alone, help me please!' I beg and then I begin to walk into the water, my biggest fault. 

'What is this place?' I ask and then there appears a image, a image of my family. The family i've been looking for, my family. They say in unison:' You've made it! You did it! You're safe! Come on, join us! Its finally over.' 

They are here, they are all here, all safe. 

I can't believe this is real, I made it! I am finally with them again! I am finally with my family again! 

I step into the water and feel myself sinking to the bottom of the lake or sea. The image of them still being there, still them. 

Still safe. 

I hear the faint noises of the fire knight mech behind me but I ignore it and continue. I touch the image and it dissapears, I look into two white eyes. 

This isn't real, I am not safe, I am not with them. 

It was all a lie. 

I see the tentacles coming towards me and they grab me and pull me so tight that I can't breath. I close my eyes in hopelessness and think, this is how I end. 

This is my way to end, I am never going to see them again. 

Tears begin to stream from my face but then I hear someone screaming:' Kai! Wake up! Kai!' 

My eyes open and I stare into two emerald eyes, into Lloyd his eyes. Lloyd? How is he here? 'Kai? Are you okay? You've had a rough dream I think' He says, I finally hear his voice again, am I back? 

Am I back in the monastery? 

Did I make it? 

Did I made it back? 

'Kai? Did you hit your head or something?' He says again and then the memories begin to flow back from what happened yesterday. I am back, I am finally safe. Lloyd is here, that is all that matters right now. 

I stand up and hug Lloyd tight, I feel that he is shocked. But after a while, he hugges back. I back off and sit down again, to exhausted to do something. Lloyd sits next to me and asks:' What did your nightmare go about?' 

I look to the ground and say:' Nothing serious, just a nightmare' I feel that he still looks at me with his green emerald eyes. 'Kai, this wasn't a normal nightmare. You were screaming our names!' 

He heard it, he did. 

I look up and meet his green emerald eyes and say:' I woke up after the merge on a strange island that didn't exist before, it was tough and hard to survive there. I kept wishes for you all to be safe but I knew that it wasn't true' 

I look down again and tears begin to stream down my face. 'Hey, you're save now okay? I am here, the legendary green ninja is here' I look up and smile. 'Offcourse, the legendary green ninja is here and he can protect me till the end' I say sarcastic but smiling. He smiles back and says:' See, you haven't been attacked since you've got here' We hear a loud bang and Lloyd sighs annoyed. 

'Why did I have to say that?' 

We run outside and see a large crater in the sky, it looks like the thing we got consumed in. 'What is that?' I scream, trying to say it as loud as possible for Lloyd to hear in this storm. 

'I don't know, it look like that thing we got consumed in' I nod and then I feel the pull from the crater. I fast run behind the fontain so I don't get sucked in and I see that Lloyd also is trying to reach me but he is lighter than me so he is struggling. 

'Lloyd! Take my hand!' I extend my hand and he also does. Our fingertops touch each other but then the wind is picking up. Lloyd slides backwards, right to the crater. 'Kai!' He screams when he slides further backwards. I look around the corner of the fontain and scream:' Lloyd! Grab the wall!' 

He begins to fly through the sky, right into the crater but he can grab hold of the wall just in time. I breath in relief but then I something or someone coming through the crater. 

I remember the head, this is the monster the guardian dragon was fighting with! I remember his ugly eyes and ugly body everywhere. Lloyd sits down on the ground, behind the wall that saved his life. 

How is that monster here? 

He needs to be in the land of monsters, he can't be here! Then I see the monster swing his arm out of the crater, right towards the wall where Lloyd is behind.

'Lloyd!' I scream, my eyes growing bigger in fear. He smiles at me but then he wall explodes and I see Lloyd being lifted by the monster. 'Kai!' He screams in fear and I see that his face is filled with terror and fear. 

'Hold on!' I scream and run forward. 

You won't take my little brother from me like you already  took a piece of me! I am not letting you get him to! 

I power up my fire and then blast it at the creature but the creature shields him with his arms. Lloyd is in one arm! The fire hits Lloyd's body and I hear him scream in agony. 

'No!' I scream and jump forward while the creature begins to return to the crater where it came from with Lloyd still in his hands. He is unconscious from the flames that burned his skin, my fault. 

All my fault. 

My fire touched his skin, my fire burned him. 

I did this, I am the reason all of this happens! 

Maybe I really became in the land of monsters a.....

Monster. 

The growl of the creature makes me look up, Lloyd is still in his hands while he dissapears in the crater. 'No!' I scream and jump onto the creature but he dissapears and I fall into the crater. 

I look back and see the monastery, my home again dissapearing. I fall through the sky until I land onto something smily, I fast jump up and see that I am back at the cave where I met the fire knight mech. 

I am in the land of monsters, I am back at the place I escaped. I am alone, again. 

Lloyd...... 

I need to find him! He is out there! He is also in the land of monsters in the claws of a monster! 

I see laying next to me the hat I wore every day in this land. I put it on and think, I am going to find you Lloyd, I promise. 

I am back in the land of monsters with a mission, saving my family for real this time.

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Lloyd pov

'Kai!' I scream in fear and then I see flames coming towards me, Kai his flames. My eyes grow bigger, did he....? The flames touch my skin and I feel it burning, it is hurting so much! I feels like your being eaten from the inside. I scream in agony and the pain is so much that I lose consciousness.....

I wake up with the feeling that I am being watched. I look around and see that I am in some sort of nest? There are eggs laying in it with me next to it. I look around and I see that I am not in the monastery anymore, I don't think I am in Ninjago anymore. 

The sky is gray and it is raining really hard, there is some white light shadowing this place but there is no source of the light. I see that next to me is some kind of mountian and in front of me a hill with some very dead trees on it. 

I stand up and try to walk but then I feel the burns on my body. I fall down and look at my legs. The fabric of my gi is burned, the skin behind it red and it is even bleeding a little. I try to pull of something of my gi around my arm but then I see that it is also burned. My arms are also bleeding, I now feel the pain and I fall down. 

I feel the wet straw and branches under my body, but I can't move, my body is in to much pain right now. I try to stay in consciousness but it is hard when your body is screaming in pain! Then I hear something move, I look to the left and see that the mountain next to me, isn't a mountain. 

It is the creature that took me here! He bends over and looks at me with his ugly and creepy eyes. I feel my eyelids becoming heavy and I close them. I hear someone or something screaming before I lose consciousness in this creepy place.

Where the hell did I end up this time?

Kai pov

I walk at quiet as I can out of the cave, trying to not wake the new monsters that are living here. I don't know them and I don't want them to know me. I just need to get out of here, get out of this living hell again. I sneak out of the cave and look out over the horizon again. 

Which way do I need to go? Last time, I did go to the right and came by that lake or sea with a fake Master Wu. but that is not where I need to go. I need to find Lloyd and Lloyd is with that ugly monster, that means I need to go back. 

I walk to the left and walk next to the dead trees from where I saw the ugly monster. The only thing I see now is some sort of mountian but there are not mountain here, that must be the monster. Suddenly I see something flying towards me, it is the guardian dragon! She is still here. 

'Ninja, why are you here again?' She say serious but then I run towards her and hug her, she isn't prepared. I was with her most of the time in here, she is the one that helped me escape this place. She could have gone with me but she decided to stay because she thinks she became a monster and monsters need to stay here or Ninjago will be destroyed. 

'I'm sorry, I jumped in some kind of crater when I tried to save a friend of mine. He got dragged into the crater by that thing' I say and I see her eyes grow bigger. 'That was that thing that appeared in the sky last night?' I nod and she looks up to the monster. 

'I've seen someone like you today, I thought it was you but he had a light hair color and green eyes' My eyes grow bigger when she describes Lloyd perfectly and I almost scream but remember just in time that monsters can here me:' That is him! That is why I came back! Where is he?' 

She looks at me with sadness and then she says:' He lays in the nest of the monster, a place we can't go. I tried because I thought it was you but then I saw him and I flew away. He didn't move' 

My heart begins to ache, what if he is death? No but maybe he fell unconscious because of my fire that burned him.... 

'What is it ninja?' The guardian dragon asks and I say sad, almost crying:' It is all my fault, I hurt him with my fire. I tried to hit the monster but I hit Lloyd instead' The guardian dragons bends over and says:' This person means much to you, am I right?' I look up and nod. 

'Lets save it then, I couldn't save my baby but I will help you save your family' She says and I nod with confidence. 

Lets get my little brother back and then escape this place for good. 

Lloyd pov

I feel that I am still unconscious but my body is moving. I am starting to feel annoyed at some sort, but also I still feel pain, a lot of pain. I hear something growl and something almost grabbing me but not doing it on the last second. 

Doesn't it want to save me? Am I not good enough to be saved? The next thing I feel is something slimy, my hole body is becoming slimy, it must have something to do with this monster. The monster that took me to this place, that took me away from my brother and from my home.

I feel it bend over, my body not able to do anything. His ugly eyes look at my body and I just hope it goes away. 

Please leave, please leave me alone. 

It doesn't, it opens its mouth and grabs me. It wants to eat me or not...? Out of his mouth comes some kind of white glow and I feel my body reacting to it. 

Suddenly I feel a headache, a really bad headache. It feels like my very essence is changing. I feel my mind slipping back to the past..... 

'No...' I begin to cry while I clutch my fathers body tight. He is death, he is death because of the overlord. 

'Fear not, you will be soon joining him' I hear the overlord say and that is enough. I let all my anger out and feel my body beginning to change. The only thing I feel is anger and rage, but I also feel power. 

So much power. 

My eyes look at the overlord his body, he killed my father. He is going to pay for what he did, for what he did to me and my family! I blast my power at him and he looks at me shocked while I start to blast at him even more. 

Then I look to the side, I see a oni with golden horns and a golden skin. 

Is that me...? 

But that is not what I want to be! 

This isn't me! 

I don't want to be like my father! 

Suddenly I stand on the overlord his body. He is death, I killed him. Then I sit on the throne of the crystal king, I see all the ninja bowing for me. 

I am the king, 

I am the golden oni king. 

This is me, I am a monster.  

There is nothing I can do about it, I am monster. 

I am a monster. 

I collapse and begin to cry. 

I am a monster. 

Monster. 

Monster. 

Monster. 

Monster. 

Then I feel someone screaming my name softly. 'Lloyd!' It is Kai but I hear him softly. 'Kai! Where are you?' I ask out loud, still full of fear and hopelessness. 

A white light fulls my eyes and then everything dissapears......

'Lloyd!' I hear someone screaming my name again, again and again. I open my eyes and see some green flying towards me. I still feel the slimy hands around my body and my body is still trembling from pain and exhaustion. 

I look at the green figure again and see that it is a dragon with some red person on it. 'Lloyd! Hold on!' The red person screams while I begin to lose unconscious. 

I say weak and confused before everything slips away and becomes black:

'Kai?'

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Hi everyone

Like all of you have seen recently, I haven't updated a lot and that is because I have a lot on my mind right now. I want to update more frequent on both Regret and my rewrite series and I am also currently writing a book that I want to publish for real, that also takes a lot of time. I just can't do all that and update this story two or three times in a weak, I am sorry but this is story is discontinued, for now! I know everyone says that but I will come back on this story for sure but then, it is finished.

Thank you for all the support, it isn't your fault, it is mine and I am very very sorry.

Hope you enjoyed!