A/N: Until I can find the note book for Loss and Gain, enjoy this new tale.

A dark shadow ran through the thick brush of the forest. It moved with grace yet power as it ran from its unseen enemy. The rain came poring down without mercy as the shadow continued it run. It never stopped, it could not. Not as long as the monsters still lived. The American Dragon needed to know what had happened to the others. The monsters had to be stopped at all costs, or the world would fall. The shadow finally slowed and looked back. Fire shined brightly through the rain. Once a peaceful clan had lived in the valley the flames now consumed. Screams and cries could be heard. The shadow took a deep breath and let out a mournful howl that sent a clear and powerful message to its home.

" I will save you, I will return."

With one last glance at the place it had once called home, the shadow turned and ran, and followed the sent of human camp a few miles away, safe and sound away from the violence. Right where the American Dragon was close by….