SPOILERS FOR DRAGONS RISING SEASON 4 PART 2!!!
Jay sat stiffly next to Kai, Lloyd's memorial stood proudly behind them, the light of the setting sun casting the white stone of the statue in gold. Kai had visited the memorial every few days since Lloyd had died, they all had tried to ignore how he had started coming back with the smell of alcohol on his breath, but it got to a certain point...
Nya had come to Jay begging for him to go with Kai, Nya being busy trying her best to take over the teacher role for the younger ninja that the others had abandoned in favour of wallowing in their sorrows. Cole hadn't stepped foot in the monastery since they returned from that mission, and Jay knew he hadn't returned to the Land of Lost Things either, he was busy somewhere doing anything except thinking about ninja work. Kai was mumbling something under his breath, the bottle in his hands empty at this point. Yeah time to go back home.
"It's your fault." Kai hissed under his breath as Jay wrapped his hands around Kai to help him stand up. Jay paused. Kai still didn't look at him.
"W-what?" His voice cracked as he spoke. Kai ripped himself away from Jay, stumbling up onto his feet as their eyes met for the first time that day.
"It's all your fault." Kai gripped the bottle tighter, his other hand balling into a fist. The furious expression he had towards Zilvar that day was instead turned on Jay now. "Kai, you're not thinking right- I think we should go back to the-"
"How dare you." Kai stepped forward. "How dare you take my brother away from me. You never returned back to good, did you? Has all of this been a ploy to make us suffer?" Kai laughed hysterically as he brought a hand to pull at his own hair. "Well, it worked! You did it! Good job, Jay!" Tears formed in the corners of his eyes. "You really fooled me." His voice broke in a sob as the bottle slipped from his hand and he fell to his knees. Face buried in his hands.
"I-" "Don't." The aggression was back in Kai's voice, though his face was hidden from Jay's view. "If you really care... then leave me alone."
Jay stood there helplessly for a moment. But what could he do? Everybody was going insane. Jay had just gotten them back and now they were gone again. Kai was suffocating himself. Cole was gone. It was a wonder why Zane hadn't flipped his memory switch yet. Nya was trying but Jay could see how much harder she punched the training dummies, losing herself in her training to the point where her knuckles would be bleeding. Lloyd wasn't even dead! He was alive- he was out there! Jay saw him the night of his funeral... he had to have... if he didn't then... then Lloyd was dead. Lloyd. The mischievous kid who would steal Jay's comics when he wasn't looking. The little boy who had run off giggling each time he caught one of them in a prank. The child who had a destiny too big for him.
His statue loomed over Jay now. The pain he had felt for Zane and Nya's deaths were nothing but a memory for Jay, they hadn't fully come back to him yet, the emotions of those events buried beneath the fact that they were alive. How do you forget death? How do you look at the statue of a dead friend and feel nothing? At some point, Jay had collapsed to the floor, curled in on himself.
How did Jay forget the child that Lloyd Garmadon had once been?
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