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tourettic-brookstone · 3 years

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Sickeningly Sweet

"Happy birthday, dear Llo-oyd. Happy birthday to you."

Claps and cheers from the ninja made Lloyd's face blush a light red. Cole, Jay, and Kai whooped loudly while Zane clapped politely besided them. His face, usually neutral, showed pure joy. Sensei Wu and Pixal stood to the side stoicly, hiding their smiles. Badly.

A large, chocolate cake with heavy chocolate frosting was placed before Lloyd, who looked very uncomfortable with all the attention on him. He grinned awkwardly as Nya lit the candles one by one. She beamed at him and stepped back.

"Now blow out those candles and make a wish," Cole said with a huge smile.

Lloyd looked around, nervous and excited. He never celebrated his birthday before. Not like this at least. It was always interupted by another villain attack, or went unnoticed by all the stress and work of being one of Ninjago's heroes.

His mother never celebrated it with him, either. Before he was dumped at Darkly's, she paid little attention to him. She seemed obssessed with trying to reverse the effects of the Devourer's bite it out on Lloyd's father. And don't even get him started on what the boys' at Darkly's did on your birthday.

He stared down at the flames of the candles, and closed his eyes. He made his wish, and blindly blew out the candles. His friends cheered once again as he reopened them. He watched as a previously blown out candle sparked back to life.

"Wha?" He looked up at the ninja in confusion. Cole, Jay, and Kai snickered. Kai licked his finger and pinched the flame out.

"Trick candle," Kai grinned.

"So, what'd you wish for?" Jay asked, putting his hands together in anticipation. Lloyd opened his mouth to respond, but was interrupted by Zane.

"According to my database, one's birthday wish isn't supposed to be shared, or it will not come true."

"Oh, come on, Zane. I've shared tons of birthday wishes with my dad, and they've all come true," Cole argued.

"Might I ask what those wishes were?" Zane asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I wished for a labradoodle that had pink ears and tail."

"And did that come true?" Kai butted in with his arms crossed and a look of smugness.

"Uh–well I–No," Cole sighed. He tilted his head down in shame and embarrassment.

Wu and Pixal giggled and Nya smiled. Kai patted Cole's back while Nya turned towards Lloyd, who still sat awkwardly.

"You look uncomfortable. You doing okay?" she asked him. She began removing the candles from the cake while giving him a concerned look.

"Oh, yeah. It's just, I don't know what you're supposed to do while everyone's staring at you,' he chuckled anxiously.

"Trust me, I don't think anyone knows. You just gotta sit through it and wait for it to end," she said. She took out the last candle and licked off the bits of cake stuck to it. That was the eighteenth candle.

Eighteen. That's how old Lloyd was. That's how long he's survived. That's how long he's been made to suffer.

"Whoo! Cake time, baby!" Cole shouted. He seemed the most excited out of everyone. Which was no surprise. He really loved cake. Especially when Zane and Pixal made it.

The ninja took a seat at the table, chatting excitedly. It's not everyday the Green Ninja turned eighteen.

Nya had left to throw the old candles away and returned with a sharp knife. Zane offered to cut the cake in order to evenly divide the slices between everyone, but Nya said she could do it.

Nya did her best to cut the cake into eight even pieces. While Zane and Pixal were both Nindroids, they still wanted to participate in all the typical birthday activities.

The slices weren't perfect, but hey, that's alright. Today wasn't about the cake. It was about Lloyd.

Who was currently wiping a huge smear of frosting off his nose put there by Kai. He and the ninja laughed and nearly choked on their cake. Mainly Jay and Cole.

Cole was already on his third piece, and everyone else was digging into their own. All except Lloyd.

He wiped off the frosting and stuck it on the side of his plate. What he couldn't get off, he hesitantly licked.

When Lloyd was a child, he loved candy and sweets. Heck, he terrorised a whole village for them. And that's what made them lose their sweetness.

Sweets always reminded him of Pythor, and how the two of them would go around and steal the village's candy for kicks and their own selfishness. Pythor reminded him of how he was such a stuck up brat that he released the Serpentine because he wasn't given what he wanted. And that reminded him that because he released the Serpentine, he put Ninjago in danger of the Great Devourer.

Reminded him because of that, they needed his father's help to defeat the Devourer with the Golden Weapons, who ultimately stole them right after. He then released the Stone Warriors and set the power of the Overlord on Ninjago, who after that, took over all technology and indirectly killed Zane.

They then had to travel to Chen's island to find Zane and helped turn Chen and his followers into Anacondrai, where they had to sacrifice his father to stop him.

Then Morro crawled his way back into Ninjago, and set the Departed Realm on Stiix and Stones. Between that, Cole was turned into a ghost, and Lloyd was possessed for the majority of that adventure.

Then, a throwback to the Devourer, it had killed and injured far more than Lloyd and the ninja first thought. That was mainly about Harumi and how she raised his father back from the dead, only to eventually die herself.

Lloyd nearly shead a tear thinking about Harumi. He stared down at his slice of cake.as all the horrid memories flooded back. He tried to forget, cause forgetting eased the pain. Eased the anger. But sweets always brought them back.

"Lloyd, are you alright?" he heard Pixal ask him.

Lloyd jerked his head up and looked at her surprised. Sensei Wu had turned to look at him, too. He saw the other ninja were paying no attention, focusing on talking with each other and eating.

Lloyd looked between Wu and Pixal and debated on telling them his true feelings or not. About how he hated the taste of sugar because it reminded him of his first "friend's" deceit. How candy made him think of all his mistakes leading back to the moment he couldn't handle a little public shame.

How he was constantly thinking about how he was depicted at Ninjago's greatest hero, but he was the one who put it in danger in the first place. How every night he thought about if his mother didn't abandon him and he never wanted to be evil, none of Ninjago's disparities would exist.

How that when he blew out his candles, he wished for the pain to end. For things to go back to being what they once were. For everyone to be happy.

But he didn't.

He awkwardly looked back down at his plate, where the chocolate delicacy taunted him. Teased him of the joy he could have had.

"Yeah," he chuckled. "It's just that. . .

I forgot I don't really care for sweets anymore. . ."

#ninjago fanfiction #ninjago fic #sensei wu #lloyd garmadon #kai smith #nya smith #jay walker #cole brookstone #zane julien #pixal borg #garmadon #princess harumi #This is my first fanfiction so its probably bad. It's also late at night so that probably doesn't help. lmao Oh well #pythor #morro

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