#bug kai ninjago

[kailverkami]

Missing bug Kai bc bro wdym there's no mention of him in season 4 ☹️

[chaotetothecore]

(inspired by @sodasyrup's wonderful bug kai design)

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kai drifts and dreams. how could he ever want to leave this soft embrace? so he never makes it back to the monastery. lloyd spends more than a few weeks alone, but maybe nya finds him there. they build a new ship, holding wishes where the bounty holds memories in their hearts.

they meet the kids, and worry when they meet wyldfyre. they can only tell her stories of the man who might be her predecessor, or who could've become her teacher. she does better when they find zane. kai always did better with him too.

an egg shifts where it lies in the sand.

the merged lands are a terrible place and when the blood moon comes around and bonzle is seized, zane goes through with her. he comes out with her too, much to everyone's relief.

when they bring jay back to the monastery he spends time with a portrait of the red ninja. he's not the jay these freaks are looking for, but he wonders if this red guy wouldve been easier to deal with.

somewhere, an egg lays empty and dried. a young creature with a scrambled mind tries to remember what he was looking for. oh there, a trinket on the floor. he picks it up, and it lights up suddenly, startling him to dropping it again. he clicks nervously. it is... a compass? something in him thinks so anyway.

his parent is looking for him. he scuttles along, dropping the new toy in his sling.

the husk of a great knight lies waiting at the opening of a cave. sir, its only a little longer.

a great dragon, revived in heart, wonders if she'll spot that little stranger again. or if he's already succumbed to root or rot in this place.

a great centipede has lived in this place for such a long time. this is the first time one of its eggs had become a creature of its own, rather than simply another piece of itself. is this pride? it's certainly warmth, in such a way that sparks distant memories.

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(cw: cannibalism technically, creepy children sorta. also if you know who our ill-timed friend is... ::D )

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baba wears a hat on its head. it wears a lot of hats. they stick to its chitin like they are bits of shell too. there are fancy hats with pieces of cloth hanging down, and even more that look like grasses. sometimes, kai clings to baba's long back and curls around one of them, content to nap as it climbs the pillars and walls of their home.

kai wears a hat too. it looks like grasses and its not stuck to him. sometimes when he looks at it he thinks of a very large bonething, resting in the warm wind. sometimes he puts it upside down in the water pool and sits his toys in it. his grass doll... his bonepiece doll... and now his "compass" doll. it makes light sometimes, and noise. it changes when he brings it different ways around the caves.

he plays with it now, following beside the slow current. his arms are soft and dull, where baba's are hard and sharp. he thinks baba would have a hard time pressing the little buttons on his doll. he has a hard time catching food sometimes because of it.

the current changes, slightly. the bonepiece clinks against itself as his hat is lodged slightly on the sand.

kai listens. it is small, the change. maybe small enough for him. he pulls his hat onto the bank. treads soft sand, listening for the movement of water upstream.

there.

it is making a noise, airy and sharp like wind through cracks.

before kai thinks about it he is trying to make it too. it doesn't sound as good.

the thing stops. kai creeps overhead.

"h-hello?" the thing warbles.

oh! kai knows that noise, somehow. is the thing not a foodthing? its not wearing a hat though... he crawls gently down a leaning pillar.

"is that someone there?" the thing is crouching, breathing quickly, pointing a weird lamp all around.

kai hangs just out of reach. lamps hurt when they fall on his face. "hehh-loh," he says softly.

the thing screeches as it turns around, lamp swinging violently in its fleshy arm.

yikes. kai knew it was good to stay back. three pats for him. pat, pat. pat.

"y-you, wait, you..." the thing stares at his face for a moment, "are you... from here? this place?" the thing spits out the last word.

that's a lot of noises. kai thinks the right ones are... "from... heeee-yur."

"oh... so there's people here. kind of. is there, anyone with you? uhhh..." the thing squints at him behind big clear circles, "... kid?"

"baba," he says confidently. he's getting good at these noises. it feels like he made them before, kind of.

"nice, perfect," the thing sighs. "i need to talk to someone who can, well, talk."

kai tilts his head. he doesn't think he's ever heard baba make noises like this. but baba is coming this way! slowly, maybe it had to untangle from around some pillars again. he chitters softly at the thing, hoping he understands what he means as he crawls further down the pillar to rest at eye level.

he reaches a hand out to pat the lamp. it doesn't look like the one that fell on him before. this one is long and skinny, and all the light is coming from one end.

"oh! have you, seen a flashlight before?"

"flash... light?"

"yeah, it's um. like this." the thing squeezes on something with its kai-like hand and the light vanishes.

kai chirps, startled.

the light comes back almost immediately.

"sorry, sorry!" the thing laughs. "that's just the, eh, fastest way to explain it, you know? flash light."

ohhh. kai accepts the flash-light gently, looking for the thing it squeezed.

"so, do you have a name? or... one i can say at least?"

"name?" kai looks at the thing.

"yes, um. a word, that means just you? not your baba or... anyone else? like, i'm tang! hello, nice to meet you." the thing raises an arm up at kai, who only blinks at it, uttering another soft hello.

"word?"

"uh. yeah, the noises. that we're making right now. words?" it drops its soft arm.

ohhh. words. okay. then, a word that is not for baba... was it?

"kai," he tastes. it feels different outside of his head. he cant wait to show baba, steadily approaching, all these new noises (words!) he can make.

"okay, kai! and kai's baba. when they... get here?"

"baba," kai nods. it's close enough that he thinks the thing can hear it too.

"and that's soon?" the tang-thing is fiddling with the edges of its otherskin.

"baba, here." kai corrects softly. he thinks hes found the button. it feels different from the rest of the cold flashlight.

the tang-thing stills. it swallows.

baba clicks its mandibles, not so far above.

kai squeezes the button. the light disappears just as the tang-thing shrieks again and silences under baba's smooth strike. maybe it was a foodthing after all.

kai skitters to where baba inspects its kill, gurgling wetly in the dark.

"baba!" kai says proudly. "i say words!"

baba looks at him, blinking slowly.

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bug? bug.

buuuuuuuuug

(i shoulda been sleeping)

i mentioned in my notes before that i suspect the old fire wielder was a monk of some sort. so. godly six arms for kai. (insect arms, for insect) ((please dont look too close at my arms, every set is different whyyyy))

moth on one hand, centipede on the other type shit

centipedes eat moths, btw. moths cant protect themselves at all. if you want to survive, it might be better to stop being a moth. if you want to stay...

[chaotetothecore]

i took a break from my other stuff lol

he do bite

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I CANT KEEP ARTING INSTEAD OF SLEEPING. I HAVE A JOB. >:(