Hello, there. I forgot to put an author's note on the last chapter, so here goes. This is my first fanfiction ever, so constructive criticism would be appreciated. As for the chapter, don't expect one a day like this one and the last one. I just happened to have a lot of free time today.

While Lilith slept fine that night, Dyo's mind would not let him sleep soundly.

He had no clue where he was, but he knew that he was not where he was supposed to be. He was no longer in the cave, but he was in a place that looked similar to what it looked like whenever he blended with shadows. The only difference was that there was no world outside of the shadows. He was just surrounded in darkness. That girl that found him was not there, either.

"Lilith?" he called out, only to get silence in return. Maybe if he had his memory back, he'd know where he was.

Just then, he heard something move in the dark. Quickly turning around, he didn't see anything. He then used his powers to feel the shadows around him. There. Something was certainly there with him. What bothered him, however, was that it seemed to be everywhere at once. He frantically looked around, still only seeing the darkness. Whatever it was also prevented him from using the shadows to hide. Now he was truly worried. Not knowing what else to do, he ran. Since there was no landmark in sight, he just ran in whatever direction he was facing.

While this being was obviously following him, it didn't seem to be trying to harm him. Comimg to a halt, he turned around with a hard expression.

"Show yourself!" he yelled into the darkness.

As he did, something seemed to be materializing out of the shadows. It was dragonic, but that's where the familiarity ended. This unknown dragon was completely black, with wisps of shadow flowing off of him. It's eyes were completely white, seemingly glowing in this empty void of nothing but shadow. It starred at him with a neutral expression, not moving or saying a word.

"Who are you?!" asked Dyo, trying to maintain a hard exterior under it's stare.

In response, it cocked it's head too the side, like any other dragon would do when it was confused. Yet, it remained expressionless. What happened next, Dyo would openly admit scared him. He could hear a voice in the distance that was getting increasingly loud. When the voice finally reached him, it was nothing more than a whisper, but he still understood it clearly.

"No memory?" the voice asked.

Dyo began frantically looking around yet again, but nothing else was around except for the other dragon.

"Who was that? Where did that come from?" he asked, this time with much less bravery in his voice.

The being tilted it's head again. The distant voice could be heard again. Building it's volume until it could be clearly heard.

"Me." the voice said simply.

Dyo was now absolutely horrified. He had no idea what this thing was, but he wanted no part of it. He wanted to wake up.

Now, a completely different voice could be heard, this one female. Dyo could have sworn he felt someone shaking him, but no one was there. Both the voice and the shaking stopped. After a few moments of silence, a very loud roar echoed through the area.

Lilith was beginning to worry. She had been shaking and yelling at Dyo for a few minutes now, and he wouldn't wake up. She thought that he might completely forget even meeting her. Then an idea popped into her head. She'll wake him up the same way she did yesterday.

Taking in a big breath, she let out another loud roar. And for the second time, it worked.

Dyo snapped his head up at the sound, and his eyes immediately found Lilith. He starred at her for a moment before coming to his senses. He got his breathing under control before speaking.

"What's up?" he asked in the most normal voice he could muster.

"What do you mean ' what's up'? I've been trying to wake you for for ten minutes!"

"Really?" Dyo responded, trying to seem like he didn't know what was going on. "I'm sorry."

Lilith breathed a sigh before speaking. "It's alright. I just thought you were going to lose your memory again."

Dyo nodded before slowly getting to his feet. He then looked outside the cave and noticed that the sun was already well into the sky.

"Wow. We must have slept well." noted with a smile. To his surprise, this made Lilith giggle. When he looked over to her, she was smiling at him. She walked past him and into the outside light.

"Woah..." he whispered to himself. The sun seemed to make her scales glow. Her slender body moved with a grace that he his didn't. Then she turned around. Her eyes were almost an even brighter shade of pink than her wings, and her face in general was just so-

"Are you gonna keep starring, or are we actually going to go?" Lilith's voice interrupted his thoughts. He realized that he was starring, and that he had been caught doing so. However, her tone of voice surprised him. It almost sounded... playful.

Just then, a mischievous thought entered his mind. "Hmm... I don't know. I kinda like the view." he said with a mischievous tone of voice.

At that sentence, Lilith's smile grew even larger. She waked up to him quickly, getting very close to Dyo which caused him to shrink back a bit in surprise. For a moment, she just sat there. Mere inches away from him and in complete silence. Dyo sat there awkwardly, wondering what she was doing.

Then, with no warning at all, she turned away from him and took off into the air. Caught off guard by the action, Dyo sat there for a moment before going after her. Once he caught up to her, she said "We should head back to Warfang."

Dyo nodded his head in response, but stayed quiet. As the word Warfang left her muzzle, however, a familiar and unwanted voice was heard.

"Warfang."

That haunting voice could clearly be heard by Dyo, but when he looked over to Lilith, it was clear that she hadn't heard it. That wasn't what bothered him the most, however. What did is the hostility that the word was said with. Whatever that thing is, it doesn't like the dragon city.

For the rest of the flight the two flew in relative silence. But for Dyo, it was anything but. This thing that he could hear really didn't want to go to Warfang. It would repeatedly say that the place was evil. Sure, the place didn't really like shadow dragons at the moment, but they weren't evil... Were they?

Dyo looked over to Lilith and asked, "Hey... How many dragons in Warfang have actually gotten violent towards us?"

Lilith tilted her head in thought. "I'm not sure. I'd say that there's only about a hundred of them."

"A hundred? That sounds like a lot to me." said Dyo, wondering why she made it sound like a hundred dragons wasn't that many.

She then turned and smiled at him. "There's five thousand dragons in Warfang."

Dyo went wide-eyed at this. Something about being around that many dragons didn't appeal to him. Especially when a lot of those dragons weren't exactly going to be welcoming.

"Don't worry." Lilith's voice snapped him out of his thoughts. "It's actually getting better. A lot of the dragons there are starting to see that all shadow dragons aren't bad."

Dyo decided not to respond, and instead silently turned his attention back to his flight path. After another fifteen minutes of flying, the city came into view, and Dyo's jaw dropped. This had to be the largest dragon city in existence!

Lilith giggled at his expression. "Awesome, isn't it?"

"Yeah." replied Dyo, with an awed expression still on his muzzle.

A pair of guards that were on the walls at the time spotted them. Having recognized Lilith, they made no move to stop the two, but still eyed Dyo suspiciously. However, Dyo paid them no mind. He was too busy starring at the city in front of him. Unlike earlier, he was able to keep his composure on the outside, now that an entire city could see him. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that Lilith was heading downward to a courtyard. Turning to follow, he noticed that houses lined the outside of the courtyard.

The two shadow dragons landed on the west side of the courtyard, and Lilith stopped in front of one of the houses. "This ones mine." she said to Dyo with a smile. Dyo then looked past her to examine her home. It was a simple one story house made out of the same stone that most buildings in Warfang were made out of. While there didn't seem to be anything special about it, the home still looked cozy.

"What do you think?" asked Lilith with an expectant look on her face.

"I like it. replied Dyo with a warm smile.

Then, a few very unwelcome fire dragons decided to make themselves known to the two. Lilith recognized them instantly.

"Well. What do we have here?" one of the three said in a mocking tone. "An extra body to practice on?"

Lilith gasped at the sight of the three dragons that chased her out of the city yesterday. She immediately began to push Dyo.

"We need to leave. Now." she said hurriedly.

Dyo, however, was in no hurry to leave. He barely gave any sign that he heard her. He instead kept his gaze on the three dragons in front of him. When she looked at his face, she shrunk back in surprise. His pupils were mere slits, and a low growl was coming from his muzzle. Lilith backed up in fear of what was about to happen.

"Look at this! The new guy thinks he's hot shit! Lets prove him wrong." the lead fire dragon commanded. As he did, they both began running at Dyo, their teeth bared. He reacted quickly, dodging one of their tails easily. Lilith was right about the dragons here. They were untrained in fighting.

' This should be easy.' he thought to himself. Their strikes were not calculated. They were slow and crude, making them easy to dodge and counter.

The second dragon leaped at him, trying to pin him. Once the dragon was directly over him, Dyo disappeared into his shadow. The assailant hit the ground where Dyo just was, and Dyo reappeared above him, kicking him in the head with his hind paws. At the sight of his comrade being bested, the other hot head charged at him again. This time, Dyo didn't have the opportunity to hide in his shadow. Instead, he turned so that his left side was facing his foe. At the last second, when he was about to take the full force of the charging dragon, he swung the tip of his wing around. It caught the fire dragon on the chin, dazing him and knocking him down.

This was not the end, however. The final fire dragon shot a sudden fireball in his direction. Dyo quickly dropped to the ground, ducking underneath the projectile. He cringed as almost unbearable heat past over him, burning his scales as it past him. As soon as it was clear of him, he stood back up and faced the final dragon. Using his wings to give him a boost, he darted toward his last opponent.

After the fireball missed, the leader of the three had a look of shock on his face. How could one lowly shadow dragon defeat two mighty fire dragons? It didn't matter. There was no way in hell he would be defeated. No shadow dragon would ever best him.

Before he could make sense of what was happening, Dyo slammed his horns directly into his foe's chest. He carried the fire dragon for several feet before whipping his head to the side and throwing him off. Dyo skidded to a halt directly after and quickly turned around, only to find that none of them were attempting to get up. He won.

His fallen foes weren't the only dragons there, however. Lilith was starring at him, her mouth open in awe at what he just did. Dyo looked back at her and cocked his head to the side.

"What?"