Yes, I do own the Trials by blood Series XD! LOL!(I don't often get to say that, normally my fanfictions are about other people's stories, but this was requested by blackorcid. so here it is XD!)

Chapter 1

"Why are you moping?" Kist growled at the water drake. Vydra looked up at him, running his hands through his golden blonde hair. His ever-changing blue eyes looked so full of despair that it hurt Kist to look into them.

"I'm not…"

"You are. Don't you have a mate to entertain you?" Kist didn't miss the wistful look in Vydra's eyes as his blue earsails twitched.

"Do I?" Vydra asked. Okay, if Vydra was going to play mind games he was out. No one knew how to be vague quite as well as Vydra when he was in one of his moods and Kist had no patience to deal with him.

"Where is your mate?" Kist asked from the doorway, glancing back at Vydra.

"Hmm, I wonder," Vydra looked at him pointedly.

"Bastard," Kist grumped, stalking out of the room. He wasn't in the mood for this crap.

Kist nearly barrelled Silver over in the hallways as he turned the corner.

"You okay, Kist?" Silver asked, laying a hand on his arm.

"I will be when that stupid water snake quits messing with me!" Kist snarled, all but shoving her aside as he stormed toward the other end of the hall.

"Vydra, are you giving Kist a hard time?" Silver asked as she came into the room. Of course it was really a rhetorical question. When wasn't Vydra trying to push the fire dragon's buttons?

"He asked questions that I can't answer, so I gave the best answers I could. Not my fault he got all pissy over it," Vydra pouted at her.

"You ever think of just telling him the truth?" Silver sat down next to him and slung an arm around his shoulders.

"You want to go and tell him that I'm unhappy with Katrack and wishing I was with him instead? You go right on ahead. If I tell Kist how I feel its going to put him in a tough situation. He's not gay, and Katrack is his master. Either way its going to hurt him needlessly. He'll feel like he's betraying his master and he'll feel guilty for not loving me the way I love him. So why Would I tell him the truth?" Vydra droned, leaning his head on her shoulder.

"Kist already feels guilty enough for absorbing my true mate. If he found out that the reason Katrack and I are fighting all the time is because I love him instead it would probably make him hate me, or himself."

"You don't know that until you try. Kist might be more understanding than you think. And, if it does all go to hell, I'll be Miss mediator like I always am whenever you idiots have a problem," Silver snorted, kissing the top of his head.

"Now quit cuddling with me and think up a way to cuddle with him," Silver grinned at him.

A timid smile stole over Vydra's face while his cheeks flamed bright red at whatever thoughts just crossed his mind.

Kist pounded his fist on the wall. Why the hell did Vydra get to him so easily? He knew that was exactly what the brat had been aiming for, and he'd taken the bait like he always did.

"What has you so angry?" Katrack asked as he used his power to light the candles in the room.

Kist flicked on the lights and raised an eyebrow at his Drake.

"Ah, I forgot about the human lighting system," Katrack blushed with embarrassment as he put out the candles.

"Vydra's being a pest. Can't you do something about him? He's driving me up the wall with all of his pouting," Kist grumbled, his vibrant green eyes darkening with irritation.

"Vydra and I are at odds lately. He is being quite stubborn and won't let me touch him. I am not sure how to deal with his mood swings as of late. I was hoping you would have more insight into the issue. He refuses to mate, thus refusing to breed. I keep telling him that he needs to procreate if he is to restore the clan, but he just tells me to shut up and storms off to bother you instead of talking to me about what the problem is," Katrack shook his head sadly. Kist felt for him. Katrack truly loved Vydra with his entire being, and had longed to be with him for so long. To have Vydra and then have the little Drake suddenly pulling away had to hurt like hell.

"Vydra is usually an open book and since Silver saved him from his last master he has been mostly gracious and even timid aside from the occasional teasing. I don't understand why he's acting out."

"Perhaps you can do some investigating for me? Look into his behaviour? I understand if you refuse, as he is your friend, but you are the only one who I trust with this task," Katrack looked like a dog who had been kicked too many times.

Author's notes: Dear Blackorcid, I've finally finished the fic i wrote for you XD!