This is where Im gonna stop saying this ownership stuff, I think we all get the point by now.

I cant really think of anything else to say, sorry. But please, if you have a questions or concerns please feel free to ask or let me know in the reviews.


Then something wakes Silver up, she senses two new beings have just appeared on the island, but she's the only one who senses them. She slowly gets up and goes to find them, careful not to wake any of her friends up.

They actually find her and her friends pretty quickly, as the two appear in a tree right in front of their party. "Well, well, well. It seems we've found all 12 dragons and their friend at once, I remember her very well."

"So what do we do with them now? Especially since one of them has changed already and gained new powers."

"Bring them all in, same plan as before."

Silver glares at them. "Who are you?"

They look at her. "Ah yes, how rude of us. I am Rufus, and I am the 2nd strongest of the 10 Wizard Lords." He's of average height, with long blond hair and an outfit that looks Italian.

"And Im Orga, Im the 5th." He is very muscular, similar to Laxus. With long dull green hair, no shirt, cuffs on his wrists, tattoos on his shoulders, white pants with some kind of covers over either side of them, and black shoes.

"And I am Silver, 10th, but I didn't want to. So get the hell away from here." She keeps glaring at them.

"Do you really think that will happen? Not a chance girl, our ranks were reduced to the 5 Great Wizard Lords thanks to you and your dragon friends." Orga counters, annoyed with her.

"Yes, I indeed remember that day. So tragic, but that is why we must avenge them Orga." Rufus talks calmly, like always.

"Hey it was your fault. Now do me a favor and get the hell away from me and my friends." Silver is still trying to make them leave.

"You were right Rufus, she is dumb. She didn't even bother to ask how we being non dragons got here without dragons."

"Indeed, I remember just how ignorant this one is."

"Oh shut up! I really don't care how you got here, I just want you gone!"

"Im very sorry, but that will not happen anytime soon." Rufus and Orga stand their ground.

"Then how about we help ya?" The 12 half dragons are all awake now.

"Ah they've finally woken up, good." Orga comments on this.

"Great, your all up." Silver smiles at them.

"Yeah, now who're these two jokers and how the hell did they even get here?" Gajeel looks up at them, ready for a fight.

"I dont know how they got here Gajeel, but their from the Magic Council." Silver answers.

"From what I remember these two are the 2nd and 5th of the lords." Marin adds.

"Seriously? God damn it." Blaze doesn't like the sound of that.

"How right you are on both." Rufus congratulates her.

"Exactly." Orga then moves his hand and in one quickly motion all 13 members of Neko Dragon get shocked by a giant sphere of black lightning.

Silver slowly stands back up. "What the hell was that?"

The dragons all get back up too. "...It was black lightning...but why didn't you just eat it Laxus?" Ruby asks him.

"I tried, but I couldn't for some reason." Laxus answers, getting frustrated.

"That's what you get for trying to eat above your limits, Im the Lightning Half God. Im like you, only more powerful." Orga adds.

"...A...A half god?..." Wendy trembles a bit.

"He's a half god?...I never thought that was possible...Guys I can teleport us back to the temple now." Silver gets cautions and offers to them.

"And that's why Im here, we cant have you using the pesky power of yours to escape Silver. Memory Make: Forget." Rufus casts a spell on Silver and suddenly she cant remember how to use her teleport spell.

"What was that, what did that guy just do to you Silver?" Ruby asks, getting worried.

"Huh?...I cant...remember...the spell." Silver holds her head and tries to remember it.

"We have no choice but to fight then, just keep your guard up everyone!" Jura announces and everyone stands, battle ready.

Then suddenly the sky goes dark. "Huh, what's this?" Marin looks up at the sky, confused.

"Memory Make: Night of Falling Black Stars." Rufus makes stars made of Orga's black lightning fall down on them all.

"Everyone move it!" Sting yells out and they all try to dodge the attack, but the stars follow their movements.

"They follow us?!" Layla questions and they all get hit hard by the attack.

They all slowly get up. "Damn it, they got some strong spells." Silver takes notice.

"No joke, any ideas?" Shadow asks.

"Hit em hard and hit em fast, Light Dragon Roar!" Sting fires it at them, but it goes right through them like their not even there.

"Sorry, that was just the memory of us being there and you cant hit memories." Rufus explains.

"...So then...we cant hit them either?" Wendy questions, beginning to feel hopeless.

"That's right, but we cant hit you. Lightning God Charged Particle Cannon!" Orga blasts them with a ton of black lightning, like a large cannon.

"I don't think so, Ice Dragon shield!"

"Poison Dragon Shield!" The two of them quickly raise their shields.

"Forget." Then they forget their shields and the lightning cannon hits the group hard.

"Damn it...they keep hitting us with the Forget spell...Memory Make: Forget!" Silver gets Rufus to forget his Forget spell. "Now...Magic Canceling...Deluxe!" She then makes them both lose their magic and they have a seal on them to prevent them form regaining it as long as the seal is on them, she breaths heavily after all of that.

"Ill admit that was pretty smart of you Silver, but we are at the Abyss of Sorcery. You cannot keep us down so easily." Then in a flash their magic returns to them and Rufus remembers his Forget spell.

"God damn it, these guys are playing dirty!" Gajeel glares at them now.

"Forget playing dirty, how the hell did they do that and what is the Abyss of Sorcery?!" Levi questions, very confused.

"You wont get the chance to find out, I remember it. Magic Canceling." Rufus cancels all of their magic.

Shadow tries to stop it by eating it, but he cant. "Why wasn't I able to eat that?!"

"Weren't you listening? We're at the Abyss of Sorcery and with our powerful magic we can do near anything." Orga answers.

"...This is so not good at all...Now what?" Blaze asks, also starting to feel a sense of hopelessness.

"The Abyss of Sorcery...I know that..." Silver casts a strong spell, restoring all their magic powers. "Im not going to back down either..." She glares at them again.

"Where exactly do you know it from Silver?" Ruby asks her friend.

"...Someone told be about it, its not a physical place, but you can pretty much do anything with magic once you get there...The impossible can be made possible there." She answers and explains to her friends.

"So the fact that they have it is bad news for us? Damn it all, any other ideas?" Laxus asks.

"...No...these guys are out of our league..." Shadow answers and that only makes everyone feel even more hopeless.

"But guys, I know about it too...So we're not fully out matched." Silver tries to keep them in it.

"Maybe, but right now the odds are not in our favor at all. Plus we're all still drained from our battle with Acnologia and Im pretty sure its not enough to just know about it Silver, we have to get off this island." Shadow counters.

"If your done giving yourselves a pep talk, Lightning God Storm!" Black lightning rains down from the sky.

"Everyone get off this island, meet back at the temple!" Shadow yells out quickly.

"Right!" Everyone yells as well, then right before the attack hits, everyone scatters into small teams of three and one team of four.

"How futile." Rufus grins at this.

Silver quickly runs to the shores of the island. "Oh man...I wish they didn't make me forget my teleport spell."

Shadow, Wendy and Gajeel are with her. "For sure, we could really use it right now."

"I lost Levi when we all scattered, I hope she's okay." Gajeel worries about his mate.

"Im sure everyone will be fine, but we gotta get out of here now." Wendy reminds him.

Back in the forest in several places the other three teams are Levi, Laxus and Blaze. Jura, Cobra and Ruby. And Marin, Sting and Layla. Orga appears in front of the first team. "Going somewhere? Lightning God Bellow."

Then Blaze pushes Laxus out in front. "Hey wait, what the hell are you doing?!"

"Your the Lightning Dragon, you deal with this!"

"Blaze, you know it wont work like that!" Levi reminds her, but then an loud explosion follows.

Meanwhile with the second team. "Okay I think we lost em." Cobra looks around, not seeing anyone following them.

Then a big shocker hits when Acnologia appears in front of them in his human form. "But you failed to lose me, oh and also your attacks earlier did next to nothing to me."

"You gotta be kidding me, someone help!" Ruby yells out.

"You guys go, Ill hold him back! Earth Dragon Quake Fist!" Jura makes several earth fists like before, but this time Acnologia moves his hand slightly and they all vanish.

"Your too weak, be gone." Then Acnologia throws Jura back with a single, quick attack.

Silver hears all the explosions. "Guys...the others...their in trouble." She scans the island with her spell to locate all their friends.

"Then lets go find em!" The four of them all run back into the forest to find everyone else, meanwhile Acnologia is throwing the second team around like ragdolls and Rufus has arrived at the location of the third team.

Sting then turns around with a look of despair on his face. "Its impossible, I don't think we can beat them!"

"Quite true, Ice Blade of Black Lightning." Rufus holds Sting in place with ice then shocks him with more lightning.

"No Sting! Leave him alone, Nature Dragon Blade!"

"Im with ya, Ice Dragon Blade!" They both slash at Rufus, but once again it does nothing to him as he charges up an attack to finish off Sting.

"I already told you, that's just the memory of me being there." The girls both get very scared as his power builds, but then someone quickly rushes in and stops his attack with ease. "Hmmm, I remember you."

"You cant fly away, so try fighting me." Bluenote appears between Rufus and the three dragons, they stare each other down, while Layla and Marin grab Sting and run away from the two non dragons.

Silver notices another person on the island, then she runs towards it to find out who it is and she finds Bluenote and Rufus. "I cant believe it...He's here..."

"Whose here?!" Gajeel yells.

"Whose that?" Wendy asks and they all see Bluenote too.

Then back with the first team. "Water Dragon Cyclone!"

"Fire Dragon Roar!" They manage to blow Orga back a little, then they keep running.

"Memory Make: Night of Falling Stars."

"Nice try, Gravity Change." Bluenote changes the gravity and the stars go up and not down.

"Hm, not bad. I have no memory of that attack ever missing its target, Memory Make: Scorching Land." Rufus then makes the ground burn up like lava.

"Too easy, Fall." Bluenote makes the ground all around him fall and the lava sinks into the earth, then two mages decide to use their fists to fight and Bluenote is actually able to hit Rufus.

"What? I have no memory of being hit." Rufus looks very caught off guard.

"Im at the Abyss of Sorcery too dumbass." Bluenote gives him an answer and the two keep fighting with everything they've got.

Silver keeps watching Bluenote fight Rufus. "Amazing, he's so powerful..."

"I don't know who this guy is, but he's buying us some time. Lets not waste it, find the others!" Shadow announces, then they keep looking for the others and they all kinda find them.

As all their running has lead them back to the same clearing where the four of them are and they brought Acnologia and Orga back with them. "Stop following us, Blood Dragon Sword!" Ruby turns around and tries to slash at Acnologia.

"Too slow." But then a single blast from Acnologia's mouth sends Ruby flying back, her attack failed and she got badly hurt.

"Back off, Fire Dragon Talon!" Blaze kicks Acnologia in the back, but then her leg really starts to hurt for some reason. "AAAAHHH! Its broken!" She falls and Acnologia gets back up, meanwhile Bluenote and Rufus's fight is shake the area to no end.

"Blaze! Ruby!" Silver runs to them both and casts a spell to heal them.

"With me Gajeel, Darkness Dragon Waxwing Flash!"

"Got it, Iron Dragon Club!" They both go to attack Acnologia, but they don't notice Orga moving in to attack them.

"Never let your guard down in the middle of a fight, Lightning God Charged Particle Cannon." Orga hits them both with it and they go flying into a tree with a big explosion.

"Shadow! Gajeel! This is too much!" Wendy falls to her knees and holds her head, crying hard at all this pain and chaos.

Meanwhile Acnologia has moved in on the third team. "Marin!" Layla calls out to her.

Marin is in Acnologia's grip and is badly injured, then he shoots a blast from his hand and damages her more. She hits the ground, but is able to glare up at him. "...B-Bastard...We refuse...to die...or be captured..."

"Well your options don't look so good right now." Acnologia shoots another beam at Layla, it hits her shoulder and she drops Sting on the ground and falls down herself. All three are now also badly injured.

Silver clenches her fists. "...Damn...Everyone is in trouble...I got to try something..." She thinks of something and begins charging for a spell, everyone all sees the magic circle in the air and a red phoenix in the middle. "Forbidden Spell: Tears of the Phoenix!" She casts the spell and all of her friends, including Bluenote have rain fall on them. The phoenix tears heal all their wounds, some of them heal in an instant and they all even get a power boost. Silver then begins breathing heavy as that was a very high leveled spell.

All 12 half dragons get back up and are fully healed. "Woah, nice work Silver!" Laxus is impressed with her.

"I agree, I didn't know you could do that." Shadow also looks at her, very impressed, then worried. "But are you okay?"

"Yeah...Ill live...Its a forbidden spell...It took a lot out of me...but Ill be fine." She smiles to reassure him.

"Eh? A Forbidden Spell? That's a new one for even me." Orga comments on it.

"Indeed, I have no memory of a spell like that." Rufus agrees.

"Excuse me, but we're not done here." Bluenote reminds them and they go back to fighting.

Then Acnologia begins to look rather pissed. "That's it, I have had it with your interfering Silver! It appears now that Ill have to do something drastic."

"Its a spell I made myself." Silver answers Rufus and Orga, then looks at Acnologia, scared at what he's going to do.

Then Sting steps forward and stares down Acnologia. "Look I've had enough of all this bullshit, I say whatever you got I can take it!"

"Very well, this spell will ensure Silver stops interfering." Acnologia quickly moves close to Sting, then touches his arm and Sting is gone. He's just gone, that spell teleported him to a random area in the world and the rest of the team are all left stunned.

"...Sting..." Layla begins to tear up.

"He's gone..." Marin adds.

"...Rrrr...Everyone! Get your asses off the island now!" Shadow yells out in anger, realizing what that spell did.

"Shadow...what did that spell do?" Silver looks at where Sting was and gets very worried.

"It works like a teleport spell, if he touches you he sends you to a random far away place in the world. I think that's what he ment when he said he was done with your interfering, he plans to seperate all of us." Then Shadow grabs her wrist and they start running, as Bluenote, Rufus and Orga keep fighting.

"But wait, what about Bluenote?" Silver looks back at him, Rufus and Orga.

"Who? And what about him?" Shadow doesn't know who she's talking about and keeps running, not wanting to lose anymore friends. But Layla refuses to run and glares at Acnologia.

"How dare you do that to my lover, now your gonna pay!" Layla yells in anger, but then Acnologia gets her too and she's gone now as well.

"How pathetic." The Dragon King comments, sounding a little bored.

Silver glares at Acnologia, but keeps running with Shadow and the others. "How are we going to get home? I cant use my teleport spell."

"We'll think of something, everyone watch out!"

Acnologia runs after a few more of them, but then Ruby jumps in front of him. "Ill hold him off, get to safety my friends!" She uses herself like a shield, but then quickly she's gone too.

"That's it, you just crossed the line bastard!" Laxus comes at Acnologia with fists of lightning, but he easily brushes him aside and goes after Blaze.

"Well Looks like this is it for me, see ya later boys and babes." Blaze says with tears in her eyes and grins before she vanishes too.

"No!...You bastard!...How dare you!" Silver glares at Acnologia.

"...B-Blaze...No...NOW YOUR SO DEAD!" Marin runs at the Dragon King with her ice blades and tears in her eyes, followed by Laxus once again.

"Do not let your emotions cloud your judgment." Then in one more quick movement both Laxus and Marin are gone as well, now the friends are down to only six dragons. Half of the total they had.

Bluenote continues to fight against Rufus and Orga. "I remember it, Abyss Break!"

"Lightning God Bellow!"

"Gravity Push!" Bluenote easily repels both their attacks.

Then back with the remains members of Neko Dragon Shadow gets very pissed and goes into his Light Darkness Dragon Mode. "ACNOLOGIA YOU BASTARD, LEAVE US ALONE!" He glares at him with tons of power surging from and all throughout his body.

Silver keeps Wendy close to her, not wanting her to vanish too.

"Im with ya man, no way if this our final stand! Iron Dragon Club!" Gajeel hits Acnologia right in the face, but it looks like it did nothing.

"I agree, stand together and we'll prevail! Water Dragon Scald!"

"Ill help too, this loser is going down! Poison Dragon Roar!" The two of them stand on either side of Gajeel and attack as well.

"...I...Im sorry Silver, but I have to help them! Im not just gonna be scared and run away this time, plus Im worried about Shadow! Sky Dragon Sword!" Wendy escapes Silver's grasp and runs in to help them. All three of their attacks hit hard too, but once again nothing and they're all shocked by his true strength even more.

"Leave it to me, Light Darkness Dragon Rough Silk and Ray!" Shadow hits him with both and once again he seems to shrug it all off, this makes Shadow even more angry. "Light Darkness Drive!" He then charges at the king with all his speed. "Light Darkness Dragon Sword Horn!" It hits him very hard, but he blocks it with one hand and flicks Shadow aside like a bug.

"Why is nothing working? None of their attacks are doing any kind of damage." Silver comments, feeling very scared.

"Your all far too young to hurt me in any way, now be gone." Then in three quick movements Gajeel, Levi and Cobra are all gone. Then he turns to Wendy who is scared stiff with her mouth gapping open.

"WENDY!" Shadow rushes over to her, but he's too late.

"...Shadow...Silver...take care...Until we meet again..." Is that last thing Wendy says, with tears overflowing from her eyes.

Then she's gone too and there are only two dragons left, then Shadow gets more mad then ever before. "THAT'S IT, LIGHT DARKNESS DRAGON FLASH FANG!" It blast it at Acnologia, but he easily dodges it and now Shadow is out of energy as he falls on the ground and is unable to get back up. "Rgh...Damn it..."

"Shadow!" Silver runs over to him. "Shadow, are you okay?" She kneels down to him and still looks worried.

"...S-Silver...Im just...drained..." He weakly answers her.

Then Jura moves in on Acnologia. "You've taken all of our comrades from us, now you will meet your end! Earth Dragon Secret Art! Shaking Core: Tectonic Slam!" He hits Acnologia with tons more power then even a 10 on the seismic scales, but Acnologia blocks it with his hand, it does nothing once again and now Jura is gone too.

Shadow then manages to get up, but falls back down to his knees in despair. "...Gone...Their all gone...Im the only one left..."

Silver sheds a few tears and uses a spell to help Shadow regain some power.

But then Acnologia closes in on them. "Just one more, it was extremely foolish to think you ever had a chance of defeating me."

Shadow looks at him and realizes they are too weak to beat him, then he pushes Silver aside and looks back at her with tears overflowing from his eyes. "...Silver...please...don't be sad...We will see each other again...someday...Until then...I love you." Then he's gone too and Silver is all alone again, with no half dragons at all.

Silver looks shocked that their all gone. "No...No, No!...YOU BASTARD, HOW DARE YOU TAKE AWAY THE PEOPLE I CARE AND LOVE!" She glares at Acnologia deadly and an enormous amount of magic can be felt coming off of her.

Bluenote, Rufus and Orga have all stopped fighting as well and the sun has begun to set over the island. "...My son...It was for the best...they all were to fall." Bluenote comments with his eyes closed.

"Ill remember this day forever, the end of the Neko Dragon guild." Rufus comments as well.

"We were supposed to capture them, now who knows where they are." Orga adds.

Then Acnologia, still in his human form stands over Silver, not afraid of her at all. "It is done, I have no further reason to be near you. Goodbye for now Silver." He then begins walking away from her.

"No! You tell me where all my friends are!" She continues to glare at him, deadly.

The Dragon King doesn't turn to her. "Your in no position to order me, besides I don't control where that spell sends them. So I have no idea, but anywhere is better then being near you." He then turns into his dragon form and flies away into the clouds, no longer seen.

Then Silver falls to her knees, crying hard. "...Its not fair...Its just not fair...We all finally got all the dragons back together...and now...who knows where they could be?..."

Rufus and Orga have already left and Bluenote stares at her. "Silver, this is the end of the current journey between you and the dragons. Now it is time to look ahead to the next journey, for when one door closes another one opens. Dwell on that for a while, grow strong and seek them out. Only then will you all be reunited as one again." Then he disappears too, leaving her all alone as the sun continues to set.

She tries wiping her tears away. "This isn't fair...Im not sure where to even look for...or how to find them..."

There is no one around her to answer, as the sky grows darker and darker with every second.

She summons up the tent, lays down inside it and prays that all of her friends are safe. "Please...be safe." Then she closes her eyes and falls asleep.

The following day all 12 of them wake up and see where they ended up.

"Woah, this place looks...new." Wendy is now on an island in the sky.

"Ugh, damn dragon king. Where am I anyway?" Gajeel is now at an abandoned, but functional iron works plant.

"Just five more minutes, Im almost there. UH?! Damn it, I was so close too." Blaze is now in some magma fields at the base of a volcano.

"Ah...Its so pretty here, but where is everyone else?" Levi ended up in the middle of the ocean in the middle of a big coral reef.

"Uhhh...not my best idea...So what happened anyway?" Ruby is now at an abandoned medical center, but it used to be the best in the world.

"Blaze stop, not now. AH! ...Weird dream, what is this place though?" Marin is in the middle of a blizzard on a frozen island.

"...If I see him again he's dead...What is this place?" Cobra is in a place called the Toxic Bogs, where only the highly venomous can survive.

"Hmmm, my guild mates are all lost and Im in what appears to be a desert." Jura is now in the biggest desert in the world, it goes on for miles.

"Bastard dragon king, I hope everyone's alright though." Laxus ended up in a place with only tall mountains and dark thunder clouds year round.

"...Mmmmm...What? Where am I? Whose there?" Layla is now on an island populated only by plants, and their the most dangerous and powerful species of plants in the world.

"Guys?! Hello?! Is anyone out there?!" Sting is at a place called the Shimmering Caves, they shine all day and night thanks to the many varieties of rare crystals found only there.

"Silver! Hello? Where am I?" Shadow ended up in front of a house that he doesn't quite recognize, then someone walks up behind him.

"Shadow, we need to talk." Its Bluenote.

Then back with Silver, she's suddenly back at the temple in the morning. She wakes up and looks around. "What?...How did I get here?...Why the temple?" She gets up and remembers everyone is gone.

Still no answers come to her and no voices are heard, just an empty temple.

She looks down and goes into the library to try and look for a spell that could help her find her friends.

Two weeks go by and all 12 of them explore their new environments, they all get into some trouble, but they all adapt to them for now. And Silver still finds no spells that are able to locate them.

The magic neko rests her face in her hands, slowly gets up, walks outside and looks up at the sky, wondering if their all okay. Then she begins to recall a bunch of good and bad times she had with each of them. She sheds a few tears, thinking about all the times they all had together. But then she hears footsteps approaching the temple. She keeps her guard up and watches for whoever is coming.

Then the being appears, its the same female scientists from before. "Hello again Silver."

Silver looks at her, shocked to see her again. "...H-How...are you here?"

"Im sorry, I kinda read your file when you worked at the lab. I also heard about what happened, it was all over the news not too long ago." The older woman hands her the article, its all about the 12 dragons and how they are all now missing again.

This makes Silver quickly look down. "...I couldn't stop them all from disappearing...I don't know where they are...I had made friends with them all...and now their gone...and I cant find a spell to help me find where they are..." She begins crying again.

"I imagined you must feel awful, Im very sorry Silver. I know they were your friends, if I knew where they were Id tell you, but Im afraid no one knows." The older woman tries to comfort her.

"Its okay...I just have to get stronger...then Ill be able to fine them..." Silver wipes away her tears.

"What makes you say that? I thought you were already plenty strong."

"I know...but I cant find a spell to find them."

"Who told you to get stronger? Why don't you tell me exactly what happened."

"Okay...I think you should sit down." Silver begins explaining everything about meeting Shadow's father and the events that happened after the last time they met.

She is in complete awe by it all. "...Wow...just wow...I had no idea it happened like that. It all sounds so unreal, but I believe you. This would've been an incredible adventure for you, that is if they were still here." She then looks down a bit too.

"Yeah...that's why I need to get stronger...to find them all again."

"...Silver...did you ever think that maybe your not the only one that needs to get stronger? Maybe this was for the best. You all got separated because you were faced with opponents you couldn't beat no matter what you tried, just think about it for a second."

"But...Im...the weakest...No matter what I do...Im not much help...compared to the others..."

"That may be true, but think about how they must feel right now as well. Not only did they lose to the Dragon King himself, but they weren't able to keep you safe. Sure nothing bad happened to you, but they don't know that. I know you don't wanna always be protected by them, but still all they wanna do is keep you safe. There's always gonna be someone stronger then you Silver, the trick is just to accept it. The same way the 12 of them accepted you. Did that help at all?"

"A bit...but...I want us all to be together..."

"And Im sure they want the same, but if you all don't get stronger then the strong enemies will keep coming after you. You may have this temple where the Magic Council cant get in, but eventually they'll find a way. Hiding is no way to live Silver, they wanna see the outside world without fear. If you keep them here and only here, it'll be like they never left the lab. Do you understand what Im saying?"

"Yes...I cant keep them here forever...They need to find their own places to live and be happy...and even I cant stop them..."

"Good, then you do understand. But even so, they'll be back Im sure of it. They care about you Silver, just think about it for a minute."

Silver then begins to think about moments she's had with each of the half dragons that express how much each of them cares about her. "...Yeah, they do..." She keeps her head down, thinking about everything that's happened.

"See? They will be back, but when they feel their strong enough and their ready." The older woman puts her arm around Silver's shoulder, still trying to sound comforting.

"...I hope so...I don't want to wait forever..." Silver sheds a few more tears.

The older female hugs her. "Please don't cry anymore, Im sure they wont make you wait forever."

Silver gently hugs her back. "Ill try...but still...I help worrying for them..." She tries to wipe her tears away again.

"And they feel the same Im sure, but just have hope. They'll be back, someday."

"Okay...I will, thank you."

"Anytime, in the meantime you should do as you were told and get stronger. Both for yourself and for them, also keep your eye on the news. Their might be new info on them sometime, ya never know. Goodbye for now and good luck Silver." The older woman leaves the temple.

"Thank you and goodbye." Silver watches her leave and goes back to learning as much spells as she can, taking her advice to get stronger.

Then another week later a breaking news story comes on the viewing crystal in the temple. "This just in, another Magic Council HQ was just brutally attacked. It was done by the usual man Bluenote and what appears to be the dragon of darkness."

"Bluenote and Shadow?...Did he tell him?..." Silver looks at the news for more info.

"We don't have much information at this time, but we did recover this single piece of footage from the building just as the two disappeared. Lets go to it." They play it, its a video of Shadow with a message to Silver and all the other half dragons.

"Hey guys, I know all of can hear this. Its been three weeks since we've seen each other and Ive realized something's, we aren't strong enough to be free just yet. That's why starting now we're gonna use this time apart to our advantage, starting now we all must train. How long? We'll all meet back at the temple in four years. I know that sounds like a long time, but please just bare with me. It hurts me to, to be apart from you guys for so long, especially you Silver. But what's done is done, we're training for four years. All of you please stay alive in that time, get stronger, strong enough so that no one will ever beat us or threaten again, and meet back at the temple in exactly four years. Starting now. Good luck to all of you and I love you. All of you, goodbye for now." That's the end of the message.

Silver can feel her heart crack a bit, after hearing four years, but she knows its for the best. So she continues her research and plans to go to other master wizards to learn much more. Hoping she'll be able to be more help to all of her friends in the future.

Meanwhile all the others hear the message as well.

"Four years huh? Fine then, but when I get back Im gonna beat ya Shadow." Gajeel says confidently, then begins eating a piece of iron.

"That's a long time, but it is for the best. Ill make you proud big bro, I promise." Wendy says with tears in her eyes, looking up at the sky.

"Four years?! Is he insane?!...Oh well, at least Ill finally be old enough to get with Marin." Blaze snickers a bit, then turns back to her new found master.

"Same old Shadow, he just wants to make sure we're all ready for anything." Levi smiles contently, while floating in the gentle ocean.

"I hope everyone will be okay in that time, now where do I begin?" Ruby begins looking through all the medical books, learning all that she can.

"Tch, this should definitely be interesting. I wonder what everyone will be like after its all over?" Marin stares off into the ever present blizzard and wonders.

"I knew right away he'd say something like that, very well then. Lets get started." Cobra grins, licks his lips, then turns back to the giant snakes of the bog.

"That does seem like a long time, but I bet it'll fly by in no time if we all focus on our training." Jura says, determined to become as strong as possible.

"Huh? Is her for real? Ahahahah! This is gonna be a blast!" Laxus laughs, thinking about how much stronger he can become in that time.

"That's a long time to be apart from my Stingy, but until then Ill do my best to fulfill his expectations." Layla walks back into the thick jungle, with all the vicious plants all around her.

"Shadow...when this time is over, lets fight you and I." Sting says, looking up at the sky and thinking about his longtime rival. All of them heard that message in different ways, but it somehow got through to them all.

"Were you sure about that Shadow? I know you want everyone to become as strong as they can, but four years? Wont you miss them?" Bluenote and Shadow stand out on a cliff overlooking the ocean, in front of that old house Shadow ended up at.

"...I will Bluenote, but still I know they'll all be just fine. Get stronger everyone, I believe in each of you and when this time is over I want nothing more then to see you all..." Then Shadow cries hard at the thought of not seeing any of them for all that time, close his eyes and faces the sky. "I WANT TO SEE YOU!"

Silver was actually able to hear that last part, very faintly though. She looks up at the sky, understanding it. "Shadow...I promise...Ill get strong...I swear it." A few tears come down from her eyes, as she prays everyone will be okay. Then she starts her training for the next four years.


And so they begin their own journeys alone, to become as strong as they can. For themselves and each other. What will they be like after four years? Wait and see for yourselves.