I had another idea... *Sigh* I just couldn't not write it. This one features Ed, Edna, and Jay mostly but of course the others may make an appearance. Warning: Character Death. I dunno if it is considered major or not though...

And thank you Foreverdreamer12 for the beta-reading, again! It helps a bunch!

Prepare to cry...

"Ma? Pa? Please, somebody answer!" Jay held his bright blue smart phone to his ear and nervously paced on the wooden floor of the Bounty. Jay smiled when a voice replied through the phone, but it was just another false alarm.

"This is Ed Walker." Ed's aged voice sounded from the small device and Jay sighed.

"And this is Edna Walker," Edna giggled uncontrollably.

"Sorry we can't reach the phone right now," they both yelled in unison into Jay's ear, "We will call you back as soon as possible. If it is urgent, feel free to call our son Jay at 1-800-ELECTRIC. He is the ninja of lightning." More laughing rang from the receiver and Jay shut off his phone. He didn't bother sending a message, he already sent about 30.

Jay bit his lip and sat down on his thick bed. His phone got lost in his blue comforters and he, lost in his thoughts. His parents never went this long without calling. Heck, no one in the Walker family ever stopped talking, Jay included.

Jay was knocked out of his trance when a fist pounded on his door. His heart accelerated and Jay grabbed onto his chest, "Come in! Good Garmadon you almost gave me a heart attack!"

Nya slowly walked into Jay's room, her head was bent and it looked as if she was crying. Of course Jay didn't wait to ask if she was okay.

"Nya, what's wrong?" Jay asked concerned. He placed a hand gingerly on her shoulder and turned her to face him.

Nya's lip quivered and she shook her head, "Jay..." She seemed unable to continue, her whole body shook with sobs. Jay, seeing Nya in such a broken state almost cried as well.

"Hey, come and sit on my bed. It'll be okay." Jay assured Nya and massaged between her shoulder blades.

Nya bit her lip and wiped her teary eyes, "J-Jay. I am so sorry."

Jay looked confused, his brow creased, "What are you talking about? You haven't done anything wrong..."

Nya's brow creased, "You-you haven't heard? I figured y-you would be the f-first to know."

"Nya, tell me what is going on?" Jay demanded, panic etched in his voice.

"Edna called the phone last night, she tried calling you but she said you didn't answer. Ed had a stroke, he is in the hospital on life support. Didn't you know?"

Jay's eyes widened and his mouth dropped open. Tears threatened to fall of his face. His heart accelerated faster and the world seemed as if it froze. Nothing was important anymore. Nothing except his family. Jay got off of his bed and grabbed his phone from the tangled up sheets. He walked to the Bounty's living room and grabbed his keys from the key-holder.

Nya called out for him right when he opened his car door, "JAY! Don't you want someone to come with you? It'll help."

"If you want to come with me, fine. Just hurry!" Who cares if Jay was still in his striped pajama pants, who cares if he was wearing a shirt ten times too big? Jay and Nya got in the red van and sped down the road. Minutes later they arrived at Ninjago Memorial Hospital, the place Ed was staying until he recovered. If he recovered. Jay didn't even want to think about that.

"Do you know what room he is staying in?" Jay asked Nya while the couple shuffled through the white hallways.

"She didn't say," Nya apologized and ran to the information desk, "We have to ask."

The lady at the information desk smiled kindly to them, "How are you today?"

Jay faked a smile, "We're at a hospital. You tell me."

Nya punched Jay on the arm, "That wasn't nice."

"I'm sorry, I'm just really worried." Jay looked back at the lady, "We are looking for Ed. Ed Walker."

The lady typed a few things into the computer in front of her and nodded, "He is in room 284. Go straight, on the third hallway turn left and head up the elevator, on the second floor. You should find your way from there."

Jay nodded and grabbed Nya's hand, "No time to lose." The two ran to the elevator and pressed the '2' button. Crappy elevator music played on the trip up.

"280, 281, 284! There it is!" Jay pointed to a wooden door with '284' on a metal plaque. He ran up the door and put his face on the thin glass. He tried looking at his father, but baby blue curtains covered his sight.

"Do you think we are allowed in here?" Nya asked Jay clinging onto his arm.

"Of course. Even if we aren't I am his son and a ninja. They'll make an exception." Jay grabbed the door handle and turned it slightly. To their luck, the door wasn't locked.

"Pa? You in here?" Jay asked it more to hear his voice than to know if he was in here, he already knew he was... Well he was fairly certain.

"Jay, honey is that you?" Edna's voice cried from the other end of the curtain. "Come here sweetie."

Jay couldn't keep the tears in. Seeing his father in such critical condition broke him. Tubes and bandages covered Ed's bare, and rather hairy, chest. Edna wrapped her son in a warm hug and lead him to the cushioned seat beside Ed's bed. Jay wiped away his tears but after he did so more tears took their place. Edna took Jay's head in her lap and ran her fingers through his chestnut hair softly. "Baby, it's gonna be okay."

Edna looked to Nya standing awkwardly at the foot of Ed's bed an motioned for her to site beside them. 'I knew I liked this girl,' Edna thought to herself.

Nya smiled affectionately and took her seat. She, copying Edna, massaged Jay's shoulders in any attempt to comfort him. Racking sobs escaped the young boy's body.

"I-I was so rude to him. I-I w-w-was always yelling at him and calling him rude f-for embarrassing m-me in front of my friends. It turns out I w-was the rude one." Jay sobbed into his mothers lap.

"Don't say that, hon. He knew you didn't mean it." Edna comforted.

"Th-that isn't the point. The last thing I s-said to him w-was, 'You're a jerk! Leave m-me alone!' How can I-I living knowing my father died a-and I-I never got the chance to say g-goodbye?" Jay pulled his head out of Edna's loving arms and looked her in the face.

"Jay, he hasn't left. He is still here. When he wakes up you can apologize. We'll live life and forget this ever happened."

Jay looked at his father and sighed, "I-I wanna see him. Alone for a m-moment, please."

Edna and Nya nodded and left Jay alone in the room. When he heard the click of the door closing he looked to his father and grabbed his aged hand.

Beep. Beep. Beep.

The sound of the heart monitor seemed to haunt Jay. The sound was too familiar for his liking. He brushed away his thoughts and focused on his father.

"P-Pa. I'm so sorry. Everything I said, i-it wasn't true. I wish there was some way to make it up to you." Jay bit his lip and studied Ed's pale face through blurry eyes. "I wish y-you would wake up already. I just wanna go back home."

Home. The word hit his heart like a brick. They say home is where the heart is and in this case it truly is. Home is where Ed and Jay made their first invention together.

Jay, just a boy, clung onto the heavy silver wrench. A little robot sat in front of him and his father.

"Come on Jay, I need these nuts secured." Ed pointed to a few bolts on the silver robot and smiled at his young son.

Jay giggled and clumsily bolted the nuts, with his fathers help of course.

Ed beamed at his son, "You did it Jay. You finished the robot. What are you gonna name 'im?"

Jay thought about it for a moment and sloppily wrote the robot's name with Sharpie on the robot's neck. ED 3000.

Jay wiped away his tears for the umpteenth time and smiled, "I m-miss those times. I still have ED 3000 you know?" Jay continued talking to his father, pretending he was actually getting an answer. After a few minutes Edna and Nya joined him once again. For hours the three talked to Ed, assuring each other it would be okay.

But...it wasn't.

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

The ringing filled the whole room and after it started everyone in the room started crying. It seemed like hundreds of nurses and doctors filled the small hospital room.

Procedures were preformed on Ed as the beeping continued. Two nurses pushed Edna and Nya out of the room. Jay screamed and lashed out at the nurses. "LEAVE ME ALONE! THAT IS MY F-FATHER!" Two nurses grabbed him by the arm, elbow to elbow. Jay's feet kicked against the tiled floor as the nurses pulled him away. The screaming was soon reduced to silent sobs, "L-let me see him. One more time."

"I'm sorry. I truly am." The nurse left Jay in the hallway and locked the door on him. "What time?" Jay managed to hear her ask another doctor.

"Time of death, 3:57PM."

Jay fell to his knees and his crying brought the attention of everyone in the hallway. He curled up in a ball and screamed out one more time. Nya, teary-eyed and red in the face walked over to him and picked up his thin weight. She carried him to her car and set him in the back seat.

Edna took her seat in the passenger side and Nya in the front, "I'm sorry Jay."

All three of them together sped of in the car. Edna was already coming up with funeral plans in her head, still upset about her husband's death. Nya was angry. Why did death decide to take Ed? Why do this to Edna and Jay? Jay...he was a mess. His hair clung to his face, sticking to his wet tears. Sobs still shook his body.

Ed was gone. All the tears in the world wouldn't fix that.

So I have finished. How did it make you feel, please review!

Do you think I should add a few more chapters with the funeral and them telling the others. maybe have the setting years later with Jay laying on his tombstone or something...? I'll let you guys choose. Ciao!