Nate was running an errand, going to shoppers row to pick up some groceries for his mom. However, something was on Nate's mind.

"Nate you look worried," Whisper said as he floated by.

"I've just been thinking, it's been a while since we've seen any new yokai," Nate replied. It had been awhile since a yokai had messed with Nate and his friends, which was somewhat odd.

"I don't see what the problem is," Jibanyan said

"I guess you're right," Nate said.

"Besides, yokai are everywhere, you could probably just shine your watch anywhere and find one," Whisper proclaimed.

"Oh really?" Nate said before he tried using his watch. As he was doing so the watch passed over someone with a blue fedora.

"Wait a minute," Nate said as he noticed someone on the hat.

He moved the lens to the top of the hat, which reviled a small green dragon yokai. The dragon kid was about the size of Jibanyan but slightly smaller, he had orange spikes on its back, he was wearing a bib with an orange swirl on it, he had orange hair with small purple horns, and he had a blue crystal ball on his head.

"Whoa who is that yokai?" Nate asked.

"Oh anyone can identify him, he is, um lets see, he is, oh yes, Draggie!" Whisper said while he searched on his yokai pad.

Draggie

Slippery

"Okay, but why is he on that guy's head?" Jibanyan asked.

Meanwhile over by Draggie.

"So who are we going after first?" Draggie asked the boy he was on.

"I was thinking we should start with Katie," said the boy.

"Oh yeah, she a cute one," Draggie replied.

"Wait what !?" Nate shouted, thinking Katie might be in danger.

"Hmm, huh?" Draggie said as he looked at Nate and make a stunned face. " Ghaah, um Ben I think we've been spotted!" he said as he tugged on the hat.

"What do you mean?" the boy asked before he looked at Nate and gasped. "Uh ,I think it's time to go,"

he then took off, holding his hat so Draggie wouldn't fall off.

"Hey get back here!" Nate said as began to chase after the mysterious person, with Whisper follow right next to him and Jibanyan following not too far behind.

Nate was so determined to find out what this person had planned for Katie, that he ran through the cross walk without waiting for the light to turn green.

"Nate you need to wait for the light!" Whisper shouted as he followed his master.

"There's no time for that, we have to stop that guy before he does something to Katie!" Nate retorted.

Jibanyan was still on the crosswalk trying to catch up "Hey wait for me NYAAAAA!" Jibanyan said before a truck knocked him away and into the stranger, which knocked him and Draggie down.

"I thought it wasn't going to rain cats and dogs till next week," Draggie said.

"Well lets scram before a dog hits us!" The stranger said as he grabbed Draggie and dashed into an ally.

Nate ran in after the strange duo, with Whisper following not too far behind.

"Don't worry, I'm fine nyao," Jibanyan moaned.

The stranger halted at a dead end.

"Oh this ain't good," The stranger said.

"Ya think?" Draggie said.

Nate had finally caught up. "Got you!" Nate shouted, which made the the stranger jump a bit.

"Yeash, I thought this wasn't going to happen until chapter 7," the stranger mumbled.

"What?" Nate said, sounding somewhat confused. Whisper was able to catch up.

"What did I miss ?" he asked.

"hm, I was wondering when the ghost would catch up," the stranger said. This shocked Nate and Whisper, this boy could somehow see yokai.

"Whaaa, you can see me!" Whisper said with his shocked face on.

"Who the heck are you?!" Nate said.

The stranger turned around slowly and dramaticly, which silenced the others. The stranger then slid his hand across the rim of is blue fedora, then said. "The name is Ben,"

Ben had a dark blue fedora and wore a cape-like trench coat of the same color, he also wore some old blue crocs, he had long pants with two blue stripes, a long brown cape on his back , and he wore a black shirt with a cyan crystal that had two crystals sticking out on the two corners and two coming out of the sides. Ben was a rather tall person ,his eyes were blue, and his hair was brown with some blonde mixed in.

"What do you want with Katie!?" Nate demanded.

"Oh, you heard that?" Ben said as he turned around while pulling down his hat.

"Yeah, you really need to work on that," Draggie said.

"Enough stalling you vile fiend!" Whisper shouted.

"Alright, alright," Ben said sarcasticley with his hands in the air. "I was just waiting for all of you to catch up,"

This confused Nate and Whisper, until Jibanyan hobbled in.

"Oh Jibanyan, I forgot about you," Nate said.

"It's fine, not like I got hit by a truck or anything nyaow" he said with sarcasm and pain.

"Yeash, and I thought your human friendships were bad," Ben stated. This caught Nate's attention.

"Whats that suppose to mean !?" He shouted.

"Its quite simple Nate, your friendships are weak," Ben said. This statement shocked everyone, except Draggie.

"My, Friendships?" Nate slowly said.

"Your human friends keep teasing you, Katie doesn't get how much calling you average hurts," The word average brought back bad memories to Nate. "and to make things worse, all it took to sever your friendships was a nasty butterfly," Ben said.

"And all it took to get rid of Enefly was one of my rock slides, I wonder what that means?" Draggie added.

"You were the one who got rid of Enefly ?!," Jibanyan asked.

"Yep, it was easy," Draggie said before he let out a cute sneeze.

"Enough about the butterfly, you still haven't said what your going to do Katie!" Nate Demanded.

"I suggest you call Tattletel to make him talk," Whisper said.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, no need for that, I'll talk, I'll talk," Ben said sounding pretty scared at the idea of Tattletel.

"Fine, now spill," Nate said.

"The reasons your friendships are so weak is because of that," Ben pointed at the yokai watch. "Or more specificity, your secret about said watch,"

"Whats that got to do with anything," Nate said.

"The yokai watch and your yokai friends are a big part of your life ,and since you choose to not tell your human friends, your leaving them out of all the fun, and thus you and your human friends continue to slowly drift apart," Ben said.

Nate was silent for a moment, was his human friendships really drifting apart. "But what does that have to do with you?" Nate asked.

"You see, I care very much about friendships, and I don't like to see them struggle" Ben said sounding more sincere. "So I intend fix the issue that keeps you and your friends apart!"

"And just how are you going to do that?" Whisper said.

"You'll see hehe," Ben snickered.

"We won't let you get away with it, Jibanyan get him!" Nate said.

Jibanyan then jumped towards Ben while shouting "You got it Nyate, Paws of furry!"

"Draggie stone!" Draggie then summoned a giant stone to block Jibanyan, which knocked him back.

"I did nyaot see that coming," Jibanyan moaned

"We need to try something else Nate!" Whisper said.

"I know," Nate then pulled out a medal with a cicada on it. "Come on out my friend, yokai medal do your thing, summoning Cadin!"

Summoning Charming

Alarming

boom boom

walla walla

dance dance

Charming!

"Cadin!" the cicada yokai said.

"Cadin use your sword skills to slay that dragon!" Nate shouted.

"Hey no need to get harsh!" Draggie said, feeling a bit scared.

"Don't worry my friend, I know who can help us," Ben said with confidence.

Then a thought dawned on Nate. "Wait you don't think?

"Hmhmh," Ben chuckled before reached in his coat for something.

"No, its not possible!" Whisper said.

Ben then pulled out, a yokai watch! This shocked everyone.

The watch was a light cyan blue, it had many small crystals around its white base, and it was attached to a cobalt chain like a pocket watch.

"Nyao way!" Jibanyan shouted.

"He's got a yokai watch to," Whisper said.

"How is that even possible!" Nate asked

Ben then pulled a yokai medal out of his pocket, he then flipped it in the air and preceded to say "Come forth my friend, Snartle!" he slowly slid the medal into the watch, he then spun the watch by the chain before grabbing it and saying "Yokai summon, go!"

Summoning Brave

Sumo shave

Flame on Grave

Flash team

a

Brave!

"Snartle!" the masked swordsmen yokai said.

"Ready for a battle Snartle?" Ben asked.

"You bet boss!" Snartle said be for he saw Nate. "Wait a minute, I know you" he said slowly and menacingly.

"Who me?" Nate pointed to himself, while feeling a bit intimidated.

Snartle then looked furious.

"YOU DIDN'T WAIT FOR THE LIGHT TO TURN GREEN WHEN CROSSING THE STREET!" he shouted, which terrified everyone.

"Um, I can explain," Nate pleaded, but Snartle was still furious.

"I'll make you pay for not obeying the rules, For Naughty Brats!" Snartle then let loose a furry of sword slashes that completely wrecked everyone except Ben and Draggie.

Everyone was silent.

"Well um, that happened," Ben said.

"So um, what now?" Draggie asked.

"This should help," Ben said as he put another medal into his watch.

Speedy

artful

sing

a lala

everywhere

Heartful

"Betterfly!"

The butterfly yokai then fluttered down to its caller.

"Betterfly would you be a dear and heal up Nate and his pals?" Ben asked the butterfly yokai, to which it replied with a nod.

Betterfly then proceeded to flutter over Snartles victims and said, "Paradise!" which then healed everyone.

"Wait what?" Nate said as he got up.

"Ming?" said Cadin.

"I feel great nyaow," said Jibanyan.

"I feel like a fresh flower on a spring day!" said Whisper.

"Ehe, sorry about that," Ben said feeling a bit silly about the ordeal.

"I guess Snartle overdid it," Draggie said.

"Sorry boss," Snartle said.

Nate tried to grasp the situation, before he saw that Ben and his yokai were on the roof of the alleyway.

"Hey get back here!" He shouted.

Ben looking as sly as ever simply said. "Don't worry about your friends, we're not going to anything bad to them,"

"We don't even know what were going to do," Draggie added.

"You won't get away with this!" Jibanyan shouted.

"We won't let you!" Nate shouted.

"You tell'em Nate!" Whisper added.

Ben just chuckled. "Be my guest!" He taunted. "But remember this Nate!" Ben then pointed at Nate. "As long as you keep your yokai watch a secret, your friendships will never grow, they may even die!"

After this stunning statement, Ben and his yokai left. "Chao," Ben said as he turned around and made a waving gesture.

"Bye, nice to meet ya," Draggie waved in a cute way before following his partner.

Nate and his yokai didn't know what to make of it.

"So this Ben can also summon yokai," Whisper said.

"This is quite the dilemma ming ming," Cadin added.

"So what nyow ?" Jiabanyan asked.

Nate was silent. Was what Ben said true, was his secret really keeping him from being close to his friends ?

Ben: Hey sorry for taking so long, school has been a nightmare, I will probably be able to post more in december.

Draggie: I hope so, I want to see what happens next!

Ben: Anyways, Thank you all for all the reviews so far, it really helps motivate me, and any tips on how to improve are greatly appreciated.

Draggie: Yeah, he needs all the help he can get.

Ben: I should be mad, but you're totally right Draggie.

Draggie: See ya next time!

Ben: Choa!