Special thanks to ZaneWalker for letting me use this story idea, hope you find this satisfactory!

This fic is gonna be really sad. That's all I can say.

Disclaimer: Neither ZaneWalker or I own Ninjago, otherwise Zane would be the focus of a ton of episodes.

Edit 9-22-13. Going back through and fixing any errors left behind. Adding line breaks, italicizing thoughts.

Fallen, Lost, and Alone

Chapter One: To the Sea

Cole's POV

Damn it, we should have seen it coming, hell, Zane should have noticed Garmadon trying to sneak up on him.

But that wasn't how it went, all of us were too busy fighting the stone army off, and trying to protect Lloyd, to notice it, at least not until Garmadon spoke.

"I'll ask you one last time, drop your weapons, surrender, and I'll let the robot live." He brought Zane's elemental blade closer to his neck, he wasn't joking. The others looked at me, and then I brought myself to look at Zane, he wasn't struggling, and he wasn't' afraid.

"Cole, do not listen to him! I will be alright! You have to keep fighting, even if I am not with you physically, I am still in your memories, as long as you remember me, I will be right beside all of you, I will be with each and every one of you." Zane closed his eyes, as though he believed I would let him die.

"No Zane! I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I would die for any of you on the team." Garmadon brought the blade right against Zane's neck, and I knew that time was running out. I felt someone touch my hand, and turned to see Dr. Julian standing there.

"Listen to Zane, its part of his purpose. I promise, whatever Garmadon does, I'm sure it can be fixed." I looked back at Zane.

"Good bye father, Cole, Kai, Jay, Nya, Lloyd, Sensei, Misako, and thank you for being part of my life." I stepped forward, my sword drawn, ready to give it one last chance.

"No! If you want to kill Zane, you're gonna have to go through me." I stood my ground, ready to attack without mercy if he tried to kill Zane.

"Cole!" Dr. Julian shouted, and I turned my head. He gave me a sad smile. "It's going to be alright."

"No it's not!" Jay shouted, pointing at Garmadon. "Look!"

I turned back around, and found that Garmadon had picked Zane up, and he hurtled Zane over the cliff side, and as he watched Zane fall into the water below, he drove the blade into the ground.

Zane's POV

I watched the water as I fell, how it reflected the light, how calm it looked as it crashed against the rocks that soon would be my grave.

I went in head first, the currents were too strong to fight, and I was tossed against the rocks.

CRACK!

I hit one final rock, and began to sink further into the inky waters, resting far too deep for any of the others to come retrieve me, assuming that the currents would not rip me apart before then.

I am sorry for leaving all of you. It was better me than Lloyd. Help him fulfill his destiny.

Lloyd's POV

I could not believe what my father just did.

Red.

It was everywhere, I couldn't see past it.

Anger.

I don't even remember what happened.

Pain.

I couldn't ignore it, it was acid filling my ankle, and it was throbbing inside.

Victory.

We won; my dad was back to normal. Everything was going to be okay now.

Lies.

As Dr. Julian wrapped an ace bandage around my sprained ankle, everything that happened hit me like a load of bricks. Zane was gone; he had sacrificed himself for the team. I couldn't stop the tears that fell. I almost did, when the others were diving into the water, minus Cole who was trying to wrench Zane's sword from the ground, looking for a sign he was alright and just meditating under the surface, while I just sat on a rock, my knees pulled tight to my chest. A soaking wet Kai dragged himself out of the water, sitting next to me.

"Lloyd, we can't find him." Kai said, and since his hair was dripping water onto his face, it was impossible to tell if he was crying, his tears would have blended into the water perfectly. "He wouldn't want all of us to be like this, miserable; he'd want us to move on."

I looked back up at the cliff, where Cole was struggling to remove Zane's sword. 'Dang, dad must have wedged it in pretty well for it to cause Cole to work for this long...maybe he was just afraid that it would break, leaving part of it embedded in the earth forever.'

"We have to remember what he said to us Kai; he's always going to be with us, just as long as we remember him." I said, looking out over the water, the form of the Ultra Dragon heading towards us.

One Week Later

Kai's POV

I don't think anyone had really sat down to eat, or actually cooked a meal in a week, I know I avoided stepping in the kitchen as much as possible, none of us had it in us to take Zane's apron off of its hook on the wall, waiting to be used.

I sat on the edge of the Bounty's deck, my legs dangling over the side; we were over Dareth's dojo, really high above it, as in above the clouds. The granola bar was in my hand, still wrapped in its reflective grey wrapper. I looked out at the city, Zane should be here.

I stood up, leaving the granola bar where I had been sitting. Now wasn't the time to eat a stupid granola bar, even if it had chocolate chips in it, even if I was hungry. I headed into the training room, it was empty, walking over to the punching bag, and I closed my eyes, letting every emotion well up inside me.

One

Zane hadn't deserved to die.

Two

I should have done something!

Three

It's all my fault that Zane's gone.

Four

God, why didn't I move? I could have saved him!

Five

It's my fault he's gone.

There were so many tissues used writing this...I don't even know what to say down here, but I want to know what you thought. I feel horrible about what I did to Zane, I truly do.