"Stay away from my friends!"

The group fell silent as their eyes examined their lost teammate who had disappeared all those months ago. "Harumi?!" The group all exclaimed, a bit overwhelmed but definitely glad to see her safe and sound. But now, she was here to save them all. Though, it didn't stop the oni lord from chuckling at her appearance.

"I knew you'd come." He started in his usual confident raspy voice. Harumi didn't glance away for a second even though she wanted to see her friends' relieved smiles. Instead, she had to look at the face she used to smile to for months now.
"You finally decided to come out after hiding? Good choice." He chuckled.

With a snarl, Harumi leaped down, carefully as she can not to disturb Cloud by giving the puppy the rollercoaster of her life. She wasn't finished with Garmadon though. She lifted her weapon up to point at the enemy. "I wasn't hiding, I was waiting for the right moment and figured I should go after you when my friends need me the most. You will pay for everything you've done, Garmadon." Her eyes, black as space, dead serious.
The white haired girl growl and waited for the man's reaction.

"I have done what I needed to do in order to conquer Ninjago." The man replied, covering his slightly shock of concern when he noticed Harumi's tired state. She was pale as raindrops and eye bags were under her eyes. "Is this even about Ninjago anymore?" Harumi snapped, catching Garmadon out of his thoughts. As much as he wanted to hold the tension between them, he couldn't help it. "Harumi, why do you look like that?" He inquired, referring to her slip arms and weakened state.

Harumi narrowed her eyebrows, ah so he noticed she had been living on bread? Good for him, he shouldn't care enough to offer solutions, he doesn't care about anyone or anything. What does he even want? Why mess with her friends and family? Why, did she do something wrong that upsets him from the Departed Realm?
"Shut up." She silenced him.

The combat of silence between the two individuals continued until from above them, they heard: "Someone please explain me what's happening!!" The typical clueless blue ninja shouted downwards to Garmadon and Harumi.
"Harumi came back?! Since when?!" He continued, catching the water ninja in an eye contact. Nya just seemed way too shocked to even respond to Jay's usual nonsenses. He'll discover everything real soon.

Harumi glanced over at her puppy. "Go free the resistance, I'll handle Garmadon." She checked her backpack and took out a small blade she has found laying around in the streets. Perhaps it was an SOG guard that dropped this unwillingly. Cloud frowned at her owner's request, sure it was for the better and the puppy may not understand immediately but she had to do it. If she wanted to give a chance to Harumi to win her fight against Garmadon, she had to do it.

Not really having a choice, Cloud have a bark and ran over to where the resistance was. There were a few guards surrounding them but the puppy was trained by Harumi while they were on the streets. Cloud had a weapon that was mainly dog instincts. "Here it comes!" Jay screeched, backing into the wall even more as the white-furred Pomeranian charged into the guards, opening her canines.

"You're pretty good!" Garmadon complimented the white haired girl as she spun behind him to block his duel swords.
Only having one small blade, Garmadon didn't play fair by summoning two purple daggers. "I know, you don't need to tell me!" The white haired girl observed his front and checked for his potential weak spots before she jabbed her weapon's handle to his eye. Garmadon couldn't have foreseen the attack coming from this close. She struck but missed.

"Too bad!" Garmadon lashed out whilst receiving a hit on his cheek. Harumi gulped, well she just messed up there. She wasn't sure if one single blade was able to withstand against duel daggers and an angry oni. 'The fight fuels him...' she thought, almost cursing as she had just remembered. But violence was the only way, it was their only resistance. "Take this!" Garmadon yelled as he swung his two blades in a parabola line, it disarmed her single blade swiftly.

Harumi backed away, her sword being flung to the ground, far away from her.
The resistance and Cloud all stopped for a minute to glance at the fallen sword,
"We've got to help her!" Kai insisted as he tried to fight his way through. They needed to help their friend as she had came to help them. Cloud barked and bit into the arm of an SOG guard. If she was raised by the calm princess stored away in the jade palace, then perhaps she'd feel a bit bad for hurting all these people.

But these were terrible people, she had witnessed what the man has done to the princess. She shouldn't feel sympathy if parts of their bodies started bleeding. "This dog is awesome! I could never find one that's this loyal!" Cole remarked, attempting to punch an SOG guard out of his way. As the Smith siblings started to knock some of the numerous guards out, the younger sister glanced at the princess whom was their saviour. "What are you looking at, sis?" Kai snapped her out of her thoughts.

Nya shifted to the side with an uncomfortable look. "Her end. It's not going so well." She replied.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Her jaw was met with the cold ground once more. Harumi grew sick of it, why didn't she have enough power to defeat him? She swore to him to save the last battle to her, yet here she was practically making a fool of herself. "O-ow..." she grumbled as she tried to stand up only to be sent flying backwards and crashed into the garbage depot's walls. It was Garmadon, overpowering her.

"Had enough yet?" The dark oni lord snarked as he noticed her whimpering state. "I have no power.." retorted Harumi quietly, her legs were shaking, her face was dripping with fresh blood from a wound to the head, clenched teeth covering the true beast within. Garmadon and Harumi glared at eachother. That's until the white Pomeranian ran over to Garmadon and collided her small ears with his arm. "Huh?" His blood red eyes darted up.

The ninjas were running straight for him, running wild and vengeful without their leader. Despite their elemental powers being awfully exposed to attempt to threaten him, the oni didn't feel too in trouble. He lifted a single head up and smiled. "Much too slow." He corrected the charging ninjas. A purple aura shot out of his hands to cancel out the titanium ninja's ice. The dark aura and ice beam. crashed into each other, creating a small explosion on the loser's end, which was Zane. The nindroid was sent flying back and crashed into a set of trash cans.
The lightning ninja could have sworn that he saw shockwaves sprout out of the robot. "Zane!"

Seeing their fellow ninja as well as 'brother' crash into the pile of trashcans like that was enough to make the rest of the resistance burn into a fit of fury and make Harumi wince. Garmadon glared down at the white haired girl and narrowed his eyebrows. "You." He raised an arm forward, purple aura glowing out of the palm of his hand. Harumi hisses softly as she felt herself become weightless for a second. Ah right, she recognized this setting before. She in the air, being held by the throat, with Garmadon's powers.

Cole was the first to react, after seeing his brother get ransacked by the dark lord and now seeing his sister being lifted into the airs, he was pretty pumped up. "Garmadon! Let go of her this instance!" He growled, pumping his hands together and creating controlled sequences of the earth in his palms, they flowed a tangy orange. Garmadon turned around, looking genuinely surprised at the incoming attack. "Earth hands." He mumbled.

Well to defend himself from that, he'd have to drop the princess in his hold.
He flinched on the inside, no, he didn't want to hurt her. But this was war and she had betrayed him. This would probably hurt less than how much she hurt him already. He was her enemy and she probably acknowledged that sooner than him hence her merciless escape. "Sorry." He mouthed over to Harumi's struggling
self. His hand closed into a fist.

And she was launched to a window pane, smashing the glass entirely.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The resistance's eyes widened at the sight of a bloody Harumi crawling towards them. "N-No...p-pl....please...." despite being thrown like a broken doll towards shards of glass, the girl attempted to still save her friends. With shards in her arms and even more bleeding from her forehead. Her eyes almost shut from the pain, but yet, she still continued crawling to her friends, the family she might lose again if she doesn't do something. "L-Lloyd...I-I..." she sobbed as she watched Garmadon get close to Cole.

The dark lord was laughing as he activated his own powers again. Now, there were two purple beams being sent straight to the earth ninja. Harumi whimpered and stretched an arm out, one that was still bleeding on impact. "L-Lloyd...please h-help-" she gritted her teeth, urging herself to crawl closer to the resistance. Her mind was fuzzy, her world became blurry. The words being exchanged all around her were incoherent. But she was able to make out a few words before the end.

"Don't bother, backup is coming." Garmadon reminded Cole, Jay and Nya, who now decided to combine their elemental powers together to make them seem like a stronger team towards the almighty and powerful Garmadon. All three of them gave him furious looks, it seemed like even their eyes glowed into their elements' respective colours. Cole growled at Garmadon roughly with maroon flares, Nya was preparing a tsunami of emotions with cerulean flares and Jay was the thunder god with white pupils. The purple beams were targeted to all three of them. Harumi cried out as the end of the world had just started.

"Please stop!"

Garmadon was relentless.

"Please..."

The three ninjas were no match, they all fell and Harumi was to blame.

For not coming sooner.

For being so weak and letting a crash into glass ruin her like this.

"No......"

Garmadon smiled as he began to corner Kai and Cloud, both looked terrified.

And in a fitting rage, Harumi pushed herself to stand up despite her hazy state.
Full of rage,

"I told you to save the last battle to me!!!!"

Tears and blood, both mixed dripped from her eyes as she seemed like a true fearsome demon coming to challenge Garmadon. But it was only the princess' hopes getting lifted. She never challenged Garmadon and such a promise was said for nothing.

Her world became all dark afterwards, such cruelty on her part for not knowing the aftermath of the battle.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sinking in a deep hole and ceasing to breathe, that was Harumi wanted to do right about now. Her eyes were still red despite being cleaned from the blood dripping down hours ago. Speaking of, what time was it? The princess tried to move her arms, before hissing loudly.
She couldn't move them much, she remembers now. It was because of that stupid Garmadon that she was back in here. Borg tower, she recognized the place completely.

But what she didn't comprehend was why the walls were all pink, her room here wasn't decorated in such girly decorations. Like for example, her dresser was empty, just had pictures of her family above them, not giraffe rattles and building blocks. What was going on?
She shifted to her left to stare out her window, the infuriating pastel blue curtains ticked her slightly. But despite all that, she was able to see the clear moonlight. She sighed and laid back down in bed. This was so useless.

"So." She started, practically laughing in broad darkness. Laughing at her own failure once more. "Why am I chained up like this? Why can't he just-" she struggled to get out of bed only to feel the cold air press against the chains on the bed with her. She was cuffed and her feet were bond tightly. Well did Garmadon really just want her to sleep in this room, all alone and chained at all times? She can understand that, she tried escaping numeral times and it was only now,

A sharp pain sliced her back. Ah, must be from the cuts that the glass left. Garmadon was nice enough to take it out of her, right? She didn't feel the sharp shards stand on the bedsheets, now did she?

"It's only now that he decides to not trust me." She hissed as she tried to change her position. Garmadon just wanted her to lay all night in the supine position? Ridiculous and uncalled for. "The least I'll trust him whenever he does this to me then." She promised in her mind prior to shifting to the side, only to spot a fluffy white ball in plain darkness. Harumi instantly recognized who it was, her clouded anger bubbled away. "Cloud?" She called for her puppy.

But the dog lay in bed unmoving, Harumi panicked for a second. "Cloud, hey." She called a big louder but shut her mouth the minute she tried gasping out for her dog's name. "The thirst..." she let out a long sigh. No, she shouldn't waste too much of her enemy. Cloud was just knocked out, Garmadon wouldn't bring her dog's dead body in her room, no. He wouldn't get back at her like that. Plus, Cloud has yet to leave a scent in the room...she...Harumi halted her thoughts all together. "Cloud will be okay." She told herself.

She groaned. Now this, this was absolutely terrible. The girl scanned the room, looking closely as if she'd be able to find something to escape with from this room. Before she could dive back into an uncomfortable sleep, she hears her room door opening and in came in Ninjago's #1 fan. Harumi growled lightly at the presence of Garmadon and turned her head away from him. She couldn't let him know that she awake, or else she'd be bothered with hearing his spiteful talk.
But it was too late, Garmadon caught the moment she shifted away then walked over to the side of her bed.

"Harumi." He started quietly. Well whatever he had to say, she didn't want to hear it. Probably just some reminders that she shouldn't try to escape and all, meet up with her friends again and stay with him instead. Hey, he might bribe her with another dog for all she knows. 'Go away.' She just wanted to yell at him. However, she couldn't do that for two reasons. The first was the thirst and second was that she was in pain. Garmadon made his way to sit at the edge of the bed. "Look, I'm sorry." He apologized again.

Ah enough already, she doesn't want to hear those meaningless words anymore.
If he's gonna keep apologizing and yet the next minute, he'll cause her pain, what's the point anymore? So she doesn't budge, she lays down and forcibly shuts her eyes.
Too sudden that Garmadon understood right away. He rubs her back and sighs.
"I know I know but really, I'm sorry. You know that I didn't want to hurt you." He revealed.

'Well you did anyways.' muttered Harumi.

As if hearing her, Garmadon stood up and made his way to the door. Harumi was curious for a second whether he really was going to leave or not but her nightly dreams were crushed when he returned with a bottle. She bolted up immediately at the sight of it. What was it? "Look, I have something for you." He said, bringing the bottle closer to her. There was a kind smile on his face and Harumi was the only one frowning in the room. No, she shouldn't drink this....but the thirst, FSM.
"I know you're thirsty so I got you something." He reassured her.

"This certainly doesn't look like water. Why's it in a bottle?" She questioned quietly to herself. Her cuffed fingers circled the bottle, examining every bit of it before she bit her tongue. She was so close to bringing that mysterious bottle to her lips. No, she shouldn't, despite being thirsty. "What is this?" She wanted to ask but it wasn't like Garmadon would tell her anyways. Harumi cursed under her breath as she couldn't take it anymore. The thirst was too strong. Quickly, she brought the bottle to lips, swallowing down the strange silky textures of the liquids.

All too quickly did she figure out that Garmadon wanted her to forget about the resistance once more. She dropped the bottle and held her head. It felt like exploding, well naturally, her memories were being wiped away for the second time this month.

Well speaking of second time, it was the second time today that she dropped unconscious with Garmadon around.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The next morning, Harumi woke up, feeling rather strange. Short arms, an irritating voice, short legs, a button nose...
It all clicked too quickly. No one would have guessed that "becoming a baby" would be on the "things I've done for a second time". list she started yesterday.
'Well this sucks." She couldn't talk nor complain, she was a baby.

She examined the room she woke up in a bit more and realized that it was a change of environment completely. "Bwuh?" She tilted her head in surprise, not expecting the pink walls to become into this scary dark purple. She groaned and looked to her side to spot the oni lord awake and standing by some weapons displayed by the wall. 'That should do the trick.' Harumi thought with a fierce smile as she spotted the weapons. As a baby, she crawled over to where the weapons were, laughing and cooing. It was her celebratory speech.

Though, Garmadon scooped her up and bounced her in the air. A big smile was formed on the father's face as he heard baby Harumi giggle once more. But she didn't want to laugh, she didn't want to.
"You're probably wondering what you're in my room." He cuddled her close to his cheeks. Harumi giggled again and her small fingers reached over to touch his cheek. 'FSM.' The girl sighed. 'Baby instincts.' she couldn't control them.
Garmadon nodded at the weapons, now that they far from her hold and started to explain. "I decided to bring you here tonight since I didn't want my precious daughter sleeping in chains." He cooed.

'Precious?' snarled Harumi. In his eyes, the princess was anything but precious. Why was he still trying to earn her trust when he already messed things up with his actual son? Well whatever, she had to deal with his antics for today. Just another regular day in Borg tower, wasn't that great? Garmadon shuffled over to his drawer and took out a short-length book.
"Do you know what this is?" He questioned, bringing the book and baby over to her own room.

'A colouring book, obviously.' The teenaged mind that Harumi had at the moment beat her baby body. Her small mouth opened to exclaim her answer.
"A-Boo!" Right, she couldn't pronounce things just yet. Alright, reminder of hers, never to even bother drinking that bottle containing the magical baby juice anymore. Or else she'll never forgive herself. When they arrived, he set her down and opened the colouring book in front of her. Harumi blinked as she noticed all the pages were blank. "A-Boo?" She questioned again.

'So he really went out all of his way to get me a new one? Why?' She thought for a second as she examined the different pictures, her baby-like fingers flipped the pages. Seems like the theme of this colouring book was springtime. There were flowers, frogs, butterflies...so many things left to colour. "Yes you're correct! It's a colouring book!" Garmadon congratulated her and took out the wax crayons for them to colour with. He knows how much Harumi loves drawing therefore he went out of his way just to get her a new colouring book. 'But if he did then..he planned me to become a baby again...' she made the connections in her mind.

Garmadon grabbed the purple crayon and Harumi hesitantly grabbed the pink one.
She flipped the first page and her eyes glimmered. "A-oh tteruh fwy!" She exclaimed seeing the uncoloured bug appear. Garmadon chuckled and nodded at her exclamation. "Yes, that's a butterfly." He said. Harumi wasted no time, she immediately began colouring the uncoloured bug with a big smile on her face. Baby instincts, she remembered. She didn't want to smile in the first place.
Then again, she thought she had the avantage here but clearly not.

It had only been 25 minutes of colouring and her eyes felt droopy. Harumi cursed to herself, if she had caught her hands on a weapon and this happened to her, she'll curse babies for all eternity. That is...if she wanted a kid with Lloyd or something..
She sighed, well that possibility was crushed, she was left without a partner. All thanks to the man colouring this butterfly with her. Baby Harumi yawned, alerting Garmadon that she was tired.
'Come on Rumi, come on..' she encouraged herself not to fall asleep.

However, Garmadon swooped her off her feet and lifted her to the air. "Awww is someone sleepy?" Garmadon cooed and Harumi giggles. She laid out on the cradle and Garmadon draped a blanket over her.
Harumi was smiling, not ready to settle down but in her mind, she was cursing even more. 'Why do I need to feel sleepy?' She wondered in an annoyed tone. Why do babies can't survive a week without rest? This was war and she couldn't rest, she needed to free her friends and get back to them. Not get back to him.

But as she saw the man dim out the lights and walk out of the room. Harumi sighed and brought the blanket closer to her face. She began to drift off to sleep as the wind blew into the room, bringing the little child in a breezy sleep. She was sleeping peacefully but deep down, tears could have been rolled down her cheeks. 'Come on wake up already.'

She opened an eye despite the sleepiness and caught a sight of the white puppy, she seemed to be awake now. Harumi frowned and crawled upwards to face Cloud. The puppy was almost ecstatic to see her again but Harumi felt really bad for what she was about to do. 'I'm sorry Cloud.' Was she gonna forego with her plan? Frankly, she wanted to go back to sleep but she needed this. She needed this chance to escape.

"Cmere pwuppy..." she raised her fingers out to climb out of the cradle.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Garmadon was smiling, what an amazing night. He had brewed himself some tea and figured that he could enjoy some for a night. It's not often that he brews tea with Harumi to take care of and Ninjago to rule. But he recalls in his youth that he enjoyed tea with his younger brother. He was in his room, sitting on the ground and had the cup brought halfway to his lips. "What a better way to celebrate a memorable day.." he hummed to himself.

Well that's to hear a crash coming from his baby's room. The best way to celebrate today's capture was to hear a loud crash coming from baby Harumi's room. "FSM!" Garmadon cursed out, dropping his tea on the table and rushing over to where the room was. He quickly passed several guards on patrol and the latter wondered why their lord smelled like freshly brewed green tea.

The trip was rather short for an oni's speed, he had to pass the kitchen on the eight floor then pass a few more halls like the medical room and the elevator. When he busted in, he found a dreadful sight.
The curtains were torn, the sky was exposing a navy sea of wonders. The crayons were scattered everywhere and wax was drawn the walls. Harumi was in the centre of the room, crying her eyes out. Garmadon looked over to his left and spotted the small dog, awake and howling. "What happened here?" He walked over to where Cloud was.

The dog had her head stuck in the trash bin, Garmadon swiftly pulled her out and tossed her gently to the crying baby. Garmadon growled, well so much for a peaceful night, not to mention, a night of tea after several years. Garmadon approached Harumi and hissed, his blood red eyes glowing in the dark. "I expected you to be sleeping. What did I say?" He lifted her off the ground again. But he looked like a ferocious monster in her eyes. Harumi started to cry a waterfall, she was terrified for her life.

'Got your attention now, dinosaur brain. What are you gonna do to me?' she thought from herself with a proud smile.
Ah but it was way too simple, what she had to do was crawl out of bed and capture Cloud. "Listen closely." She had told her dog and the latter was confused ti why she sounded like that. But neither way, the dog still listened. Harumi grabbed the crayons and told Cloud to rip off the curtains and knock off every single item on the tables and dressers. Sure the dog didn't understand right away but Harumi knocked down a few things on her own to show the dog the way.

But of course, to make the scene more believable by Garmadon, she had to dispose of her partner in crime. 'I'm sorry Cloud.' She had thought before throwing her small puppy into the trash bin. But looks like Garmadon was still angry with her despite the mess she worked so hard on to get his attention and mainly spite him. "Go back to your bed and sleep! For real this time! Or else you'll be in very big trouble in the morning!" The oni scolded. Tears dropped even more from her cheeks as she tried to struggle out of his grasp.

Garmadon growled, he growled and growled and growled and Harumi kept whining. This was not going well. "Harumi!! Listen to me!!" He yelled before bearing off his fangs and hiss loudly at the crying annoying baby. Now that was just an absolute horrid nightmare for both of them. Harumi was instantly put down and Garmadon approached her quietly. He didn't know what to say anymore, he was in shock. "Harumi.." he whimpered, watching the baby stop crying on her own.
But man did he feel terrible about it.

He didn't mean to yell at her, he was just mad. "Harumi listen, I didn't mean to." He apologized once more and the baby's actual clever mind couldn't take such a word like that. 'Blabber blabber blabber, doesn't mean it in the end.' Harumi thought to herself. But she didn't bother to squabble, Garmadon eventually left her alone for the night. The baby had to sleep in a messy bed for the night.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Not much time passed until the baby wakes up in an uncomfortable environment. Her pigtails wafted back and forth through the night as she instantly recognized that she wasn't sleeping in a bed. In fact, she woke up in the arms of a stranger. It was obvious by the fight hold of her. The baby didn't whine nor scream in retort. She was kind of sleepy but, 'Well this could be interesting. Hey mr. Kidnapper, where are you bringing me?' The princess thought.

Harumi's vision was blurry all she saw was the skyscrapers all lit up through the night. The princess frowned before she tugged at the man holding her. The abductor flinched and she got a good look at him. Her head tilted in almost awe, "Twanwan?" She blabbered out. The person who had in her in their arms growled and lifted their head back up. It wasn't SOG guard with their atrocious mohawk. But what was particular about this guard was that they had black eyeliner and a fish tattoo on their left cheek. Harumi's eyes widened.

Oh she remembers him. It was Fishtank, that one low-ranking guard from the SOG.
'How did Garmadon not get rid of you yet? Gosh you're terrible.' She sassed out.

Fishtank brought the now awake baby down the stairs over to the ground floor. But the ground floor wasn't the only floor he was bringing her down over. Harumi began to whine when Fishtank went down a couple more of stairs. Ah did the smell get to her? "Shut up, you're gonna get me caught!" The SOG guard began to shake the baby girl rather violently. It even made the floor 1 patrolling guards glance to his direction. "Yo captain Fishtank, what are you doing with an infant?" The guard Lester asked the fish-associated guard.

Lester was accompanied with two other friends of his. Two female guards, one had striking red hair with red lipstick along with the latter who had purple silky hair.
"Yeah Fish, that's so lame." the redhead named Monica chewed some bubblegum as she approached the four guards. Harumi whined, seeing the dungeons for herself, oh man, she didn't wanna go.
Just the thought of being in that cold cellar made her want to return back to Garmadon and apologize for making such a mess.

"Um guys, we probably shouldn't bother Fish. We have one job." The purple haired guard told the two others. She was Kelulu, one of the only guards that enjoyed going to libraires and reading. So now Harumi was stuck with four guards, Fishtank, Lester, Kelulu and Monica. "Eh whatever, just don't get caught by emperor Garmadon." Lester encouraged Kelulu's warning and Fishtank gave them all eye rolls. "Just watch me, you idiots. Then you'll be sorry for ever speaking to me."
Fishtank growled and opened the dungeons doors.

The musk air blew into their faces and Harumi didn't like that, didn't like that at all. "Wahhhhhhhwwwww!" cried the baby, her legs and arms kicked as she tried to get free. But Fishtank wasn't having it, he glared at the three guards who were in charge of guarding the tower's first floor at night. Yeah, that's right, Garmadon hired day and night shift guards. Fishtank was just incredibly lucky to have stumbled upon two fangirls of his including a jealous comrade. "I'll kick your behinds for all eternity, just watch and wait." Fishtank promised and Lester gave a sneer.

With that, conversation was over. Fishtank threw in the baby and shut the door behind him. "Now that's a bit harsh, don'tcha think Fishy?" taunted Monica.
But the man was just not having it, he growled and approached the redhead.
"Oh quiet you, Garmadon doesn't send you out on terrible missions, now does he?" He argued. The argument went on despite closed doors, Harumi yawned before to rubbing her arms. "Wwahhhhnnnnnnnn..." she sniffled out. If she was left down here, she might die. A baby shouldnt be left in a cellar.

"P-Papa..." she called out, wandering around and pressing her cold fingers on the prison bars. She encountered a group of outcasts at the very end of the dungeon and their eyes lifted to see the baby crawling to them. "Hang in there, we'll save you." muttered a voice and Harumi couldn't comprehend why. She raised her head to see two injured men. One had black hair and was squeezing his aching fists while the boy with freckles behind him was attempting to wake up some metal companion of theirs. "Wuh?" the baby was confused.

She heard the boy with he bandage on their brow sigh in frustration. "Ok, this is not funny anymore. Someone tell me why there's a baby down here." They were all clad in red and had a few scratches on their bare arms. The boy with freckles shrugged and watched as the only girl of two group lashed out on the walls. "That's so low of him! Why would he?" Both of her fists collided with the stone walls. The wall managed to crumble due to her impressive strength but it made the white haired baby stumble back. "A-way! Away!" She yelled back in fear.

"Oh great job sis, you scared it." The red clad boy continued, pessimistic as ever, it seems. Harumi tilted her head as she saw the same girl to hit the walls walk over to her. "Don't be scared little one, I didn't mean to." The girl had a black haired bun with black eyes. She has a friendly smile on her face and stretched her fingers out of the bar, hoping for the baby to reach out for them. "You know, she looks familiar." The boy who was clutching his fists wrapped in bandages said out.
The red clad outcast and girl looked at him weirdly. "I think you need rest.."

The white haired princess crawled over to where the girl had her hand out. Almost like a pet, she came closer and closer to the girl. "Yes that's it, I won't hurt you. Can you tell us your name and who sent you?" She tried. Harumi giggled, suddenly feeling safe around these people. But she couldn't place a finger on them. Who were they? "My name is Nya, by the way. Nice to meet you. And those are my friends, Kai, my brother, Jay, my boyfriend, Cole and that's Zane over there." The girl introduced with a smile.

Harumi mentally halted. The smile on her face was replaced with a frown. She had a feeling, a memory...perhaps. But her mind was blank. She couldn't remember anything. Was the cold affecting her mind? "Ha...! Ha..!!" She replied to this "Nya" girl's introduction. "My name is Harumi! And please help me!" She wanted to call out if she could. But she couldn't, she was a grief sicken princess stuck in a joyful baby's body. Nya and Kai looked at each other before shrugging. "Haha is their name?" They concluded.

Kai.

"Ha.."

Jay.

The baby crawled even faster.

Cole.

Their eyes all lit up in surprise.

Zane.

"Ha...wu...wu...!"

Nya.

"Come on, you can do it." encouraged the water ninja. The boys behind her exchanged glances.

"My name-"

A sentence pronounced correctly was blurted ouf of the baby's mouth.

Lloyd.

"H-Ha...mi!"

She couldn't remember a single thing about these people. It's like she never heard of them.

"Hami? That's...a nice name.." Nya trailed off, kind of not expecting the baby to answer for her. Kai sighed and turned over to where the lighting ninja was. "Hey Jay, how is Zane?" He inquired. The freckled boy checked their conrade's temperature but the nindroid was out cold. Jay sighed and tapped Zane's shoulder. "FSM...Zane come on already, wake up.."

Harumi wanted to cry. Why are these people so familiar but she can't seem to remember them? The five of them all blinked and turned to face the baby, who now was walking off back at the entrance of the dungeons. "P-wapa..."she called, climbing the stairs using her hands. Desperation grew in her mind, she wanted to get to safety, she wanted to be with the people she remembered. "Papa!" As hours has gone by, the baby's pronunciation became better. The potion's effects were wearing off very soon and Garmadon knew it.

"Papa! Please help me!" She cried out, her hands letting go of the stairs and she grew capable of running up the stairs on her own. Tears began rolling down her face and she aggressively grabbed out the elastics from her pigtails and her hair be set free from the baby looks. "Papa! Please!" She called out again and this time, Harumi was met with red eyes, drowning in tears. A four-armed man came running down from above the stairs. A worried look was seen on his face as Harumi immediately recognized who it was.

"My baby! What happened?!" He embraced for such a very long time when she managed to run up the stairs. Harumi sobbed and wrapped her arms around his neck. "I-I don't know.." she admitted. Garmadon nodded and lifted her off the ground. He brought her away from the dungeons and shut the door. He glared at the four beaten up guards laying on the floor unconscious. "Can't do their jobs right, ugh." He growled. Harumi whimpered and pressed her hand to her forehead. "Dad.."

They were walking up back to her room.
"What happened Rumi, what's wrong?" He whispered quietly as one of his arms reached out for the 'floor 9' button on the elevator. The princes sighed and just cried. Was she too embarrassed to admit something? Especially in front of Garmadon, she didn't like him all too well but now, she needed his help more than ever. "Dad I don't feel too good." She gave a pained expression and Garmadon immediately looked at her. His red eyes scanning everywhere for the source of the problem. "Did you get hurt somewhere?" He asked.

Harumi shook her head and just pointed at her neck. "Dunno...feels a little warm." She guessed. Garmadon shrugged, letting the lift's doors close and he pressed a hand to her neck. His hand instantly pulled away from there and he laughed. "Oh yeah, you're right. You might be getting a cold. What were you even doing down there anyways?" He questioned, trying his best not to laugh too much. But it was almost hilarious seeing his baby puff out her cheeks in disappointment. Guess he knows how much she didn't like getting sick. Why didn't she though? When you're sick, you can just relax.

Sure your nose may be stuffy, your throat can be sore and worse of all, you may be heated up in an extreme fever but you get to stay in bed and get better and especially leg your loved ones care for you. But Harumi? It was like she couldn't afford the time for something petty to take over her. Like how she didn't have time to get sick and instead, fulfill a special mission of hers. Well whatever, he needed to give her some medicine. They strolled over to the medical room and he heard Harumi hum in confusion. "Don't know, can't remember." She sighed.

Garmadon placed her down on the counter and searched for some medicine for the child. "Ah well, don't worry about it, I took care of those guards anyways so if they tried something-" Garmadon was pauses by Harumi, who almost chocked.
When he found the bottle, he placed it on the table and rubbed her shoulders. "Are you alright?" He referred to the sudden choke and she said it was all good. "Now drink up. It'll help you." He poured the liquid down on a spoon and raised it to feed it to her.

The smell was already terrible, it was like a metallic serum. "Nope! Don't wanna." sassed the white haired princess as she saw the medicine approach her lips. Garmadon sighed and tried to push the spoon in between her lips. "But don't you want to be better?" He replied. The white haired girl nodded and shoved away the spoon, not standing the smell anymore.
"I do! But I don't wanna drink that." She said.

The dark oni lord had an idea. He began zigzagging the spoon and sprouting out coos like: "Here comes the airplane! Quick now!" It worked like a charm and Garmadon chuckled. "Sorry, that's the only way!" He had exclaimed when Harumi grabbed the spoon for herself and swallowed the metal-tasting serum. She laughed for a few seconds before dropping the spoon. "Ahaha...haha.." she started to giggle, Garmadon raised an eyebrow at her droopy eyes. "Better?" He inquired, to hopefully keep her active.

But Harumi just fell off the counter, slamming back first into the ground and passing out. Garmadon just stared at the fallen child in confusion. His nails scraped the bottle.

'Huh, passing out is a side effect?'
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A/N: Hi guys! Lilla here and thank you for reading chapter 74!....I don't have much to say honestly! This chapter has been finished being written on Friday at 2AM. I worked all week just to finish this and I know it's pretty rushed but hey, what can I say? Well, sadly, I'll end the note here, I'm pretty exhausted! Cya in the next one!