Lloyd was frozen. He almost couldn't believe what was in front of him. The cloaks were nestled into the floor boards. "Please...Please tell me i'm seeing this right..." "You are...she left them with us." "But...why?"

"Lloyd?" The other ninja were on the opposite side of the door. "Look, man. I know it's upsetting..." The door opened. "Why don't we talk and-?"

"Hold on." Nya interrupted. "Are those...?"

"The cloaks?" Cole finished.

"They are...She left them behind." Lloyd stated. He picked up the cloak of concealment. Why though?

"Hey, what's that?" Jay asked and pointed to something peeking from the sleeve.

Lloyd grabbed it and opened it.

A dragon follows his heart home. -Ashlynn.
Also...I'm sorry.

Lloyd felt his throat close. "She...she wanted us to bring them...but, why? Why couldn't we go together?" "She must have had a reason..."

"Lloyd?" Kai asked. "What do we do?" The ninja all looked at him.

Lloyd looked back at the cloaks. "What do we do?" Silent. Lloyd felt a thousand thoughts flying through his mind. He swallowed. "Let's wait...I...I need some time to process this..."

Lloyd sat cross legged on the floor, staring at them and the note. He sighed. "A dragon must follow his heart home...I'm guessing that means to the Main Alpha's home." "...You do not wish to go, do you?" "...No. Not without Ashlynn. She...She was so upset..." He could remember her face. She didn't want to go, but she knew she couldn't stay. She was at a heavy cross road...

"She still doesn't know this land, she's wandering alone out there...She's exposed without the cloak..." He opened his eyes and looked at them. "do we need to wear them to have the affects?" He picked up the cloak of concealment. He held it close. He could still smell her scent on it. He could almost imagine hugging her, and her heart beating against his. "Follow your heart home..." He put it down, then got up. "I know what we have to do." "I know. And I agree with you."

Lloyd went into the bridge. They all looked at him. Nya hit a couple switches. "Just tell me where we're going. She said the home was hidden so-"

"We're going after Ashlynn." Lloyd stopped her. They stopped everyone.

"Um..what?" Jay asked.

"We're going after Ashlynn, and bring her with us." Lloyd stated. "She needs to finish this journey with us."

"But, we don't know where she went, how will we find her?" Cole asked.

Lloyd looked out over the sky and closed his eyes. "Help me out, please." Lloyd felt a slight brush of a breeze and opened his eyes. He was in the wall less dark room again. He saw a gold chain emitting from his chest and reached out to his dragon. He never got a good look at it before, but he agreed it fit him.

"Do you have a plan?" He was still speaking in his mind.

Lloyd nodded. "I need to be a dragon. I have to search like she does. And i need your abilities."

"You could have asked me in your head."

"I could have, but..." Lloyd faltered. "I thought maybe I could have found something else here..."

"I understand. Lloyd, we do not have a bond connecting us with Ashlynn. Trying to find her will be a feat."

"I know, but we're gonna try. No matter how long it take." He said.

His dragon smiled and huffed. "You are more dragon than you let on. The persistence of love drives you to large feats. I will help. Let us merge and use our abilities."

Lloyd nodded. He closed his eyes again, took a deep breath, and opened them again. He was back on the ship. But he felt changed. Colors seemed brighter and he could see more details if he focused on one spot. He could also smell better. And that was the first part of his plan.

He held the cloak in his hands as he sat on the mast heads. He held it close and smelled. The smell hadn't faded, which was good. He took a smell in the air. He was looking for a path, and he found a very thin one a while ago. They had been following it. "I wish i could know how long ago this was..."

"Dating smells is an advanced skill. We would have to have been doing it for years to date them." Lloyd nodded in understanding. He smelled...

"Wait...it got stronger." He opened his eyes. "We're getting closer to her." He stood up.

"Lloyd, something came on the radar!" Nya shouted. "It's rather big, it might be her!"

Lloyd felt anxious, nervous, like a boy picking up his first date. "Do you think she'll be mad?" "Possibly, but once you explain, she might understand." "I hope." The smell was getting stronger now.

"Lloyd-" Nya started.

"We're getting close, be ready-!" Lloyd said, but Nya cut him off.

"Lloyd, the readings...its a ship. And i think it's the flightless ship." Nya said.

LLoyd felt like a lead weight was in his stomach. They couldn't run into them.

"Alright...turn around, and-" He was cut off by two sounds. A roll of thunder and the ship alarms going off. The cloud came out of nowhere, and he turned to see their ship flying. But something was wrong. The flightless group were looking at them. They knew.

Lloyd jumped onto the deck, an iron grip on the cloak. He looked over the ship. The goons were on the edge. The leader was on this stand, with...another figure. They were bound and a bag over their head, but...the clothes...he knew those clothes.

"Ashlynn!" He called out. "Let her go!"

The leader pulled the bag off and Ashlynn blinked. "L-Lloyd?" Ashlynn's stomach dropped and fluttered at the same time. "We knew he would come after us...you felt it too...""The love stucken idiot...capturing the other lovestruck idiot..." "Lloyd, you have to leave! Its not safe here!"

"Give her back!" Lloyd screamed at the leader. His heart felt like it was going to explode.

The goons laughed, then Lloyd saw it. The really big harpoon. the one in the green mask went to it and readied it.

The other ninja ran on deck. "Dude, thats a big gun." Kai said.

"Lloyd!" Ashlynn screamed at him. "You need to leave! they're too dangerous!"

"I'm not leaving!" He screamed back.

Ashlynn growled, then looked at the leader. "You've hurt him enough, leave him be." That threw Lloyd off a little. What? She looked back at him. "Lloyd...You need to leave, you won't be able to face her!"

"Face, not fight. Its someone from your past." "But...who?" "Ashlynn, what are you talking about?!" Lloyd asked.

Ashlynn glared back at the leader. "Show him..." The leader looked at her, then chuckled. She reached up and took her mask off. Lloyd felt his whole world crash down.

It was Harumi.

Hello, writer her, I apologize for the format of this chapter, I was stuck in 100% writers block doing this whole chapter, so i apologize. I hope you still enjoyed!