Lloyd enjoyed the warmth of the afternoon sun shining on him as he sat on the grassy hills on the outskirts of the tea farm. He closed his eyes as he could feel the warm summer breeze go by him, ruffle his messy blonde hair and tickle his skin ever so lightly. He smiled as he opened his eyes and looked out over the lands, over the hills and mountains. He always enjoyed when peace and quiet was around in Ninjago, seeing as how there always seemed to be trouble around the next corner.

His train of thought was interrupted as a young boy, wearing purple clothes, came running towards him as if there was no tomorrow.

"Master Lloyd, master Lloyd!"

Shouted Nelson, Lloyds… Student. Yes, it still sounded strange Lloyd thought to himself. As he and the other ninja were now furthering their training by becoming sensei's, having students was necessary. While Nelson was less like his apprentice, and rather more like a kid that aspired to be a ninja and visited him whenever he could to learn… "Cool ninja stuff", Nelson was still regarding Lloyd as a sensei. Lloyd certainly did not feel like a sensei, not that he knew what one would feel like when one was one. Still, Nelson looked up to him as if he indeed was a wise sensei, and Lloyd had to try his best to uphold the image Nelson had of him.

"Yes Nelson?"

Lloyd asked as he turned his head to the small boy, who at the moment was busy trying to refill his body with oxygen. Nelson had visited the tea farm a few months after he and his brothers and sister had visited the hospital and made him a ninja for a day. He had told Wu how he wanted to become a ninja, and that he would train day and night to make it a reality. Wu had told the boy to come back next week, with clothes that he did mind getting dirty.

It had taken everyone by surprise, even Nelson himself that Wu agreed to train him. Or at least that was what everyone thought. After Nelson ran out the door smiling ear to ear, Wu had turned to Lloyd and told him that HE would be the one training the young boy. Lloyd's first reaction was to laugh, but when his uncle only smirked, he quickly realized that he was not joking. After a week of pleading and telling his sensei that he was not ready to teach anyone anything, he found himself waiting for the young boy, equally terrified to what the boy was as he walked up the hill to the tea farm.

Nelson had been surprised at first when he saw Lloyd, but when Lloyd told him that he would be training him, the boy gasped and jumped up and down excitedly, while Lloyd was in the process of desperately trying to remember everything Wu and his brothers had taught him when he was a child. He had told Nelson at that time that he needed to "get fit" prior to learning any of the more advanced training he had in store for him. He told the boy to do exercises every day and so forth. Nelson happily obliged, and Lloyd had time to consult his brothers for help on the matter.

That was over four months ago, and it was now summer. Nelson was on summer break, which meant that he spent every day with him and his family, training and helping out at the tea farm.

"I think I just did Spinjitzu!"

Nelson exclaimed, as he looked at Lloyd with a big grin on his sweaty and slightly dirty face.

Lloyd raised an eyebrow at that; He had begun to teach Nelson a little bit about the basics of Spinjitzu, but he highly doubted the boy had already achieved the jitzu.

"Really?"

"Yeah! Well, I-I think I did. There was a lot of spinning, and I fell, and, well it was hard to see clearly, but-I mean yeah! Totally did Spinjitzu!"

Nelson raised his arms and made his hands into fists, and Lloyd couldn't help but laugh as he patted the patch of grass next to him, signaling the boy to sit down next to him. He did remember how it felt the first time he did Spinjitzu, when he was aboard the destiny's bounty fighting captain Soto and his crew. Nelsons excitement certainly matched his younger self's excitement at that time.

"Well done Nelson. Think you can show me?"

Nelson who had collapsed besides him, looked at him with a bit of a surprised look, before his eyes darted to his side and he began stammering a bit.

"Y-yeah, totally. Well not now you know, because well I am so tired, and I might need time to y-you know perfect it and work and-"

Lloyd laughed and patted Nelson on his back.

"It's alright. These things take time. Trust me, I know."

Nelson smiled and relaxed as Lloyd reassured everything was alright, and that he had nothing to prove to him.

"You have been a ninja for a long time, haven't you Sensei Lloyd?"

Lloyd looked at Nelson, who met his gaze with a warm smile and what seemed to be eagerness to learn more about his sensei. Lloyd nodded at him.

"Mhm. Ever since I was a child."

Nelsons pupils grew in excitement, and his mouth opened in a gasp.

"Just like me then!"

Yet again Lloyd raised an eyebrow at what his student had said, but he smirked and ruffled the boy's hair as he said:

"That's right. Just like you."

Nelson giggled, and his cheeks were slightly red as he blushed at the attention and pandering Lloyd was giving him. Apparently Lloyd was a big deal to the boy, though Lloyd himself did not think of himself as such. I mean yeah, he was the grandson of the first Spinjitzu master, the one who created Ninjago. Aand the son of Garmadon, the man who had saved Ninjago both not only the Great Devourer, but an army of Anacondrai warrior's hell bent on conquering Ninjago. He supposed he had also saved Ninjago from the Overlord, arguably evil incarnate. He was also an elemental master of Energy one of the, if not the one, strongest elemental power of them all. Being a master os Spinjitzu and Airjitzu helped too he guessed. Okay, so maybe he had done some things in the past and present, and yes he did know a sacred fighting art or two, but he did not FEEL like a mighty warrior or anything. He was just Lloyd, the ninja who had blonde hair, wore green, read comics, ate candy, and had a big loveable and goofy family.

Nelson tugged at Lloyds arm, and Lloyd snapped out of his thoughts to turn his attention once again toward the boy.

"Can you show me your powers again? Please?"

Lloyd rolled his eyes at the request. Nelson had asked him a thousand times to show off his powers, to the point that Lloyd had gotten tired of it. But the puppy eyes of the child that held his right sleeve and looked right into his soul persuaded him to compelled him to do what the boy so desired.

He held out his hand, and a green light began emitting from it, before a ball of massive and pulsating energy began forming around it, shining brightly as it swirled around. Nelson looked in awe at it, and Lloyd smirked as he suddenly fully opened his hand, and the ball of energy shot forward, and exploded in the air. The blast created a wave of air that knocked Nelson over, and Lloyd watched as the boy gasped and laughed as he immediately asked Lloyd to do it again. Lloyd shook his head, but still smiled at how excited the boy was.

"No Nelson, I will not do it again. My powers are dangerous Nelson."

Nelson stared at him with even more excitement now, and Lloyd sighed. He had chosen his words poorly.

"Can you explain what your power is again?"

Lloyd was a bit surprised at the question but looked at his hand as he began forming a smaller ball of energy, to show Nelson.

"My power is energy, the source of all elemental powers. It's the thing that courses through our bodies Nelson, what enables us to walk, lift things up, even turn on the television. There are many forms of energy; light, heat, electricity, sound, mass, moving objects, gravity, fuel, chemicals, and so on. We use many of these different types of energy to enhance our lives every day. It can also never be destroyed; only transformed into something… Different."

Lloyd showed the small ball of green energy to Nelson, and with his hand he manipulated the form of it, made it change size and forms. Nelson looked intensely at it as Lloyd moved it about.

"Energy is all around us, inside us, in the air, the ground; it exists all over the universe, and it can do all sorts of things."

Lloyd evaporated the ball of energy in his hand and looked at Nelson who threw himself back at the ground of grass and laughed.

"Cool! So you can shoot lasers like Goku, right?"

Lloyd stared at him for a moment, a tad bit thrown off and disappointed that what he thought was an inspiring and detailed speech about what his powers was, had simply resulted in his student drawing comparisons to him and a fictional character.

"…. Yes Nelson, I can shoot energy out of my hands, but-"

"Like Kamehameha, right!?"

Nelson now had his hands on Lloyds crossed legs, and he looked at Lloyd yet again with those big eyes and easily impressionable face.

"Yeah sure why not."

Lloyd had given up at trying educating his student on the matter properly. Besides, he was not too far off. What Lloyd could do was emit insanely powerful bursts of energy, which he simply passed to other objects. The energy of an object is how much work that object can do to another object. Well, Lloyd could to a hell of a lot of work to other objects, and as such he had a lot of energy inside of him. He could manifest that energy into many things.

This could be in to form of a beam that could shatter mountains, or a surge of energy that would alter the other object, like the jungle raider car Lloyd had altered in the tournament of elements during the skating competition. Lloyd could alter things with his power, create things, but just as well destroy them. This was why he always had to be careful when he used his powers; otherwise he could hurt his friends, or even worse; kill them.

Nelson held out his hands and made blasting sounds with his mouth and Lloyd smiled as he watched the boy pretending to shoot lasers out of his hands.

"Hey Lloyd… D-do you think… Do you think I have some special powers?"

Nelson looked at Lloyd very shyly for a moment, before staring down at his hands which were intertwining nervously in his lap. Lloyd knew from the nervous tone that this was a very delicate matter, as the boy most likely really wished he did indeed have powers like him and his brothers and sister. Lloyd looked up to the sky, where clouds with orange color from the sun moved slowly across.

"Who knows?"

Nelson looked up at him, and before he could say anything, Lloyd looked at him with a warm smile and calm eyes.

"I had no idea that I had any kinds of powers when I was a child, and neither did Nya; she discovered them years later."

Nelson looked at him with big eyes, mouth slightly open and it slowly turned into a big smile.

Lloyd put a finger over the boy's mouth to stop him from screaming happily.

"I can't guarantee that you have any kind of special powers Nelson."

The smile on the boy's face dropped, as well as his eyes and his head. Lloyd took hold of his chin and lifted his head up.

"What I can promise however, is that you don't need them to be a ninja. You can learn how to fight without any special powers. You can learn Spinjitzu without special powers, and you can learn Airjitzu without special powers."

Nelson looked at him intently, and the corners of his eyes were starting to fill up with tears.

"It's not the powers that make you special Nelson; it's you."

Nelson sniffed and blinked the tears out his eyes, and hugged Lloyd as he nestled his face into Lloyd's chest while Lloyd patted his back and stroked his head softly.

"It's alright… I got you."

Nelson eventually sat back, and was now sitting in Lloyds lap drying his tears with his sleeves. Lloyd could not say that he fully knew what the boy felt at the moment, or how important having powers was for him. Lloyd had never had those desires; as a young boy he had simply accepted he had no special powers and instead sought others with power. When he found out he did indeed have powers, it did not satisfy any yearning he had; it simply made him realize that he had a responsibility to learn how to master it and keep it safe.

"Thank you Sensei. I should… Probably head back home. Mom and dad are probably getting worried, heh."

Lloyd nodded and stood up, hoisting Nelson to his feet and waving goodbye as the kid ran down the hill to catch the bus. He stood and watched for a bit, feeling the wind once again and silently thinking to himself. That's when he felt an arm on his shoulder, and as he turned to the source of the arm, he saw that it was Kai.

"Spitting image of you I'd say."

He said with a smirk as he watched Nelson run across the grass, trying to do various acrobatic stunts that he failed at.

"Oh really? How so smart guy?"

Lloyd said with an amused smirk as he put his own arm around Kai.

"Well you know the excitement, the eagerness… Just like you."¨

Lloyd scoffed.

"I was not like that!"

Kai laughed.

"No. You were worse."

Lloyd elbowed Kai in the ribs playfully, and Kai laughed as he ruffled Lloyd's hair.

"Hey, no one touches my hair!"

Lloyd said as he laughed. The two of them dialed down and watched Nelson disappear as he stepped onto the bus that would take him home. They both sat down on the grass and watched the sun set down on the horizon. Lloyd sighed and leaned his head onto Kais shoulder, and Kai sneaked an arm around his waist.

"I was serious before you know."

Lloyd had his eyes closed and simply enjoyed the sun warming his face as he played with the grass in his hands absentmindedly.

"Hmm? About what?"

Kai looked at Lloyd and smiled; the sunlight illuminated his already blonde hair, and his face seemed to shine in the sunlight. Kai turned his head back to the horizon.

"That he is just like you was back then. Small. Eager to learn. Full of energy."

Lloyd smiled before he let out a yawn.

"Really now?"

Kai laughed a bit as he knew Lloyd was tired from a full day of training Nelson.

"Yup. You were always anxious to learn new things, to be part of the team. Whenever we tried to teach you something, you struggled with it until you were put to the test. Like when Jay tried to teach how to light a lightbulb."

Lloyd snorted as he remembered how he had blasted who knows how many lightbulbs when Jay tried to teach him how to light them up without overdoing it. But after the incident with the evil ninja sent by his father, he had learned to control his powers better. He supposed he was a "learning by doing" kind of student.

"You were also stubborn; you trained day and night to learn Spinjitzu, just like Nelson is doing right now."

Lloyd smiled as he looked up at Kai, who met his gaze.

"…. So what you're saying is that I was the best student you ever had?"

It was now Kai time to snort as he laughed and stared at Lloyd with a grin.

"You were our first and only student Lloyd."

Lloyd grinned at Kai.

"Still the best one."

Kai made "hmpf" sound and looked out again over the fields.

"Well, you had good Sensei's."

Lloyd giggled a bit at Kais remark and resumed watching the sunset with his boyfriend.

"Don't worry about training Nelson Lloyd."

Lloyd cracked an eye open and looked at Kai.

"We didn't exactly know how to train you back then either, but we kind of fell into it. The important thing to remember is that you can't make your student into you; you can only make them who they are."

Lloyd started laughing, and Kai looked at him with a confused look.

"What?"

Lloyd rubbed a tear out his eye and looked at Kai with a big grin.

"You sound like Wu when you talk like that."

Kais eyebrows were raised at the remark, before he flustered and showed Lloyds face away while stammering.

"S-shut up. As if."

Lloyd continued to laugh despite Kais hand covering his face, and he hugged Kai while giggling.

"Aw, did I touch a nerve?

I still love you, even if you're getting a bit old."

Kai looked at him with a very un-satisfied look, and Lloyd smiled before he pecked Kai on his lips, effectively dismantling his anger and throwing him off guard. Kai grumbled and lifted Lloyd into is lap, his back pressed against his chest.

"You're lucky you're so cute."

Lloyd laughed as he held onto Kais hands and leaned his head back to nuzzle Kai. Lloyd closed his eyes and simply relaxed, enjoying the last warmth of the descending sun, as well as the heat Kai provided. He nuzzled against Kais neck and breathed in his scent and exhaled.

"I love you."

The words rolled so naturally off his tongue, and he could feel Kai stroke his hands and kiss him on the head.

"I love you too Lloyd."

Lloyd's heart still skipped a beat when he heard Kai say those words, and he smiled into Kais neck as he slowly drifted into dreamland, still holding onto Kai who kissed him tenderly on his head and softly rubbed his hands as he held onto. He felt safe, and also happy that everything in his life had led him here, to the warm embrace of the man he loved, to the home where he had a family that loved him, and a life full of adventure. Lloyd let out a big sigh as he smiled, not knowing what tomorrow had in store for him, but reassurance that whatever awaited him, his family would be right behind him to help him out.