#the power i would be wield if I could put Simon on my deck

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Skybound AU Chapter One

Summary- While being held captive by Nadakhan and his crew, Jay succumbs to a bad case of amnesia, forgetting absolutely everything.

Word Count- 1886

Warnings- Mentions of kidnapping, amnesia, mentions of injuries, I think that’s it, but tell me if i’m missing anything.

A/N- This is a re-post of the one and only (for now) chapter of my Skybound fanfic (due to me accidentally cutting off the last sentence on the original post and me taking months to realize it) I hope you all enjoy, and if you already read this before sorry about that error. It’s fixed now!                                                                                              ~Simon

Jay’s brows furrowed in discontentment as he scrubbed a scrub brush against the deck of the Misfortune's Keep, wishing that he could be anywhere else. “Guess I can check being held captive by pirates off my bucket list… oh wait. It’s not on my bucket list because this is something that never happens to anybody… except me apparently. What are the odds?!” Jay thought. He gazed around the deck. At one point Clancee, the serpentine pirate, showed up. He was besides Jay talking about something the blue ninja had hardly been paying any attention to. “If only I could get a message out to my friends.” Jay pondered in his head, scanning the deck again, he looked over to the far side of the deck to see two other pirates, Flintlock and Doubloon, talking over some blueprints as they had been for the past few minutes. Looking closer, Jay could see an ink and quill set. His eyes widened as his brain hatched a brilliant idea. Only a moment later, Flintlock and Doubloon walked off the deck, leaving everything, ink and quill included, laid out on the deck. “Perfect…” 

“But I never made a wish,” Clancee rambled as he swabbed the deck, happily chatting away to his barely attentive captive. “No, no, no. Not I... heh. Couldn't think of anything to w-wish for, even if I tried. Got everything I need right here. Never fit in with the rest of the Serpentine, so I'm happy enough to have a family.” Jay turned over to Clancee as he set his scrub brush down, and as he began to stand up, clutched his back in pretend agony.

‘Ow! Oh, my back! Ugh!” Jay wailed dramatically. “Oh, that's it. If only I could wish this pain away.”

“Huh? What did you say?” Clancee asked, putting down his mop. 

 “I've finally reached my breaking point!”

“J-Just hold on.” Clancee looked at Jay in shock, but in a split second, took off hastily towards Nadakhan’s quarters. “Captain! Captain! You need to come here! We broke him! We finally broke him!”

Jay let a playful smirk danced across his face for just a second, but quickly exchanged it for a more serious expression as he sped over to the discarded blueprints and quill. He flipped the blueprints over and took the quill out of the ink,  beginning to write his message. "Friends, if you find this, I am doing fine. Please—Ugh, stupid quill. How did anyone ever write with these things?” Jay half shouted at the inanimate object as he dipped the quill in the ink and continued writing. "Don't worry about—me. Worry about stop—stopping Nadakhan. Your friend"—

“I told you not to take your eyes off him!” Jay hears the captain of the Misfortune's Keep bark as he picks up a bottle laying conveniently on the deck and, in a panicky manner, shoved his message in the bottle, taking off across the deck as fast as lightning… or as fast as he can with the vengestone ball and chain around his ankle “You let him escape? Find him!” Nadakhan yells as Jay hears at least half of the pirate Djinn’s crew tailing behind him. As he ran across the ship, he spotted a box of tools, picking them up and throwing them behind him, hearing a grunt and hoping that it would be enough to at least slow his captors down. Unfortunately for him, it wasn't. He stared over the ledge of the ship, then back at his pursuers. He was cornered. Better yet, they were wielding the tools that he threw at them just seconds ago as weapons.”Oh great…” Jay thinks, glancing down at the open skies below him, His eyes widening as an opportunity showed itself to him. Jay spreads his arms out and tips himself backwards, falling off the Misfortune's Keep and into the open air. 

“Oof.” Jay said as he landed on the top part of the Pirate’s Raid Zeppelin, just one ship in their ever growing fleet. “Haha! Bye-bye!” He says cheekily as he waves back at the pirates staring at the blue ninja in befuddlement. However, his victory didn’t last for long as Clancee was pushed off the Keep, Nadakhan yelling at his crew to capture his prisoner before he gets away. Clancee regains his footing, and quickly lunges his mop into Jays face. Jay barely manages to dodge, surprised by the serpentine’s fighting skills. Jay manages to dodge again, but is quickly knocked off balance by the Raid Zeppelin lurching forward with more speed than it had before, then crashing into a nearby piece of floating land. Both Jay and Clancee were knocked off the top of the Zeppelin and would have fallen down into the sea far below if it weren't for Jay hastily grabbing onto one of the thick black ropes that held the islands together. He looked down to see Clancee holding onto the ball and chain around Jay’s ankle for dear life. Looking further down, Jay saw a tiny floating piece of Ninjago. He lets go of the rope, dropping down into it, Clancee barely holding onto the small island as he drops as well.

Looking above, Jay sees another pirate jump down onto the island in hot pursuit. Jay slides down a connecting rope onto yet another small floating island, loosening the rope and severing it from the island completely. He begins a series of sliding down rope after rope, hopping from island to tiny island in hopes of losing his captors.That is until… he comes to a dead end. No more rope left to slide across. No more islands to hop unto. Nowhere else to run. Looking back towards the way he came, he sees the pirate who was chasing him the entire while, Two-Faced was his name, catch up to him. He glanced back to the open skies. Though, they weren’t as open as he thought, as he sees a shape of something breaking through the clouds not far from his tiny island. “Well… here goes nothing.” Jay thinks as he jumps onto the mystery object breaking through the clouds. Whatever it was he was on, it was solid and keeping him out of the pirates reach. He turns back to the pirates, laughing. However, his didn’t expect to see Two-Faced swivel his head around, changing from a peeved look into a face that burst out laughing at Jay. A whirring sound reached Jay’s ears. Next to the island Two-Faced was standing on, the Misfortunes Keep appeared through the clouds. The crew was on the deck, laughing at Jay alongside their friend.

“You seem to have landed on a sky mine,” Nadakhan’s voice cut through the air like a knife. A sharp deadly one at that. “One shot from Flintlocke and… kaboom.” The djinn’s eyes narrowed as he glared at his prisoner. Seeing the look of defeat in his eyes, Nadakhan’s lips curled up in satisfaction.

 “All right... I surrender.” Jay sighs. The bottled massage in his hand slipping from the death grip he had on it this entire time and falling into the sea below. He takes a step forward to jump off the floating death bomb he almost stranded himself on, when one of the chains he had attached to his ankle snagged on one of the bombs spikes.Suddenly, gravity had him. Pulling his weight off on the deathtrap. One second he was surrounded. The next second he was falling. He didn’t even register his wails of protest as he fell through the air, the ocean getting closer. The only sound was the wind ripping through his ears. “Well at least i’m falling into the ocean… and not on land…” He gulped at the thought. There was no way out of this. If he could summon his dragon he would. If he could do airjitzu he would. He cursed the ball and chain around his ankle for not only cutting off his elemental powers, but for also pulling him down with it. He yelped as the bone chilling water pierced his skin like knives. He kept his eyes shut as he flailed in the water, sinking further. The last sensation he registered before blacking out was something hard slamming into the back of his head.

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“Is he...alive, captain?” Flintlock asked, peering at the prone figure that lay on the cot in a closed off room in the ship's hull.

“Is he alive?… sadly yes.” Nadakhan grumbles, running his hand through his silky black ponytail. “If I had known that the blue one would have been this much trouble then I wouldn’t have kidnapped him. “Ugh, why do I always get stuck with the most annoying of setbacks,” He sulked.

“What are you planning to do with him? If he doesn't wake up I mean…”

“We could always use him as ransom against his little friends. They don’t have to know of his fate if he doesn't make it.” The Djinn pirate proposed the idea to his first mate, who stroked his mustache pondering the idea.

“Hmm… that is a good idea captain. However, might I suggest that we get rid of the bo-” Flintlocke stopped mid sentence as he heard the rustling of a blanket behind him. Whipping around, he saw as the blue ninja sat up on the cot, grasping at the bandages that were wrapped tightly around his head. “Wait, nevermind. He’s alive.” Flintlocke said. The ninja snapped his head in Flintlocke's direction, startled by his presence. His sparkling blue eyes widened like saucers as he looked frantically around the small room, then turned his attention back at the two pirates who stared back at him expectantly.

“W-who are you?!” Jay yelped, the scared tone in his voice bleeding it’s way into his sentences. “Where am I?!”

 Both pirates stared at each other, then back at Jay, utterly shocked. They both stood there gaping for a moment before Nadakhan cleared his throat, then turned to his number two with an order. “Flintlocke, could you go fetch some spare clothes from the laundry pile, our friend here is quite soaked.” The Djinn ordered smoothly.

“B-but captain-” Flintlocke stuttered.

“That was an order, Flinty. Now go. I need to have a chat with our… friend here.” The djinn ordered once again as Flintlocke took his leave, closing the door behind him. Nadakhan turned to look at Jay. The look of confusion and fear printed clearly across his face. Nadakhan smiled, floating over to the cot, staring down at his injured prisoner. “Tell me… Do you know who I am?” Jay shook his head in response, not making eye contact with Nadakhan. “You have no need to fear, my friend. You are safe here. This is your home.” Nadakhan lied.

“It-it is?” Jay asked cautiously, gazing at the Djinn.

“Do you not remember a single thing? Do you not know who I am? Who you are?”

“Who are you? … who am I?” Jay asked again, his grip on the thin blanket tightening as he struggled to remember.  Nadakhan smiled what looked like a sincere smile, but behind it held an air of wickedness. He wrapped his hooked arm around Jay’s shoulder, chuckling.

“You are Jay. A faithful member of my crew. And I am the Djinn pirate Nadakhan... your captain.”

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