Hiya! I do hope you like this chapter. Thank you, YSYF, for correcting me on that one thing. My life's been crazy these last couple of days and I can't believe I completely forgot that part about the Dead Dragon. [sighs] Oh well. Hopefully it'll get better in the next couple days. Anyhoo, please review. And yes, I have been updating rather quickly, but that's only because during the weekends I have all the time in the world to work on my fics. Well, at least until I go to bed that is. Don't expect chapters to come once a day for now on though. I'll probably only do that on the weekends. Ya know, a chapter on Friday, then another one on Saturday, then another one on Sunday. Maybe......

Disclaimer: [yawns] It's the same thing as in the last chapter. OKAY??? So leave me alone......

Chapter IV: I Think I've Gone Crazy

So, we're all traveling through Mt. Villude, and of course, I'm bored. The only thing that was keeping me from slapping Phirala like crazy was Hajeri. All Phirala has been sayin' is 'I'm hot'. She finally shut up though when Hajeri threatened her.

"So, um, why are we going through this place?" Selistia asked.

"Because we have to go through here to get to Seles. I want to stop by there and say 'hi' to Dart and Shana." I answered, looking over at Phirala. "And how are you doin'?"

"Just peachy..." Phirala had just put up her short blonde hair in a ponytail earlier. "Ya know, I've never been through here, and now that I have, I don't wanna go through here ever again."

"Don't worry. We'll be outta here in no time." I reassured her. We had already been traveling for several hours, and now we were almost out. We only had an hour left to go...maybe...

An hour and thirty minutes later, we could now see the town Seles.

"Hurry!" I ran away from the group. Hajeri sighed, but followed. Selistia had a hard time catching up to us. I stopped in front of Dart and Shana's house, and knocked on the door. Shana opened the door.

"Crystal! Please, come in!" Shana greeted us with a warm smile. The four of us sat down in the living room. Well, Hajeri didn't; he leaned up against the wall in a dark corner.

'That's just like him.' I shook my head. "So where's Dart?"

"Oh, he got home late last night so now he's sleeping." Shana sat down in a chair beside Phirala's. "So how is everything?"

"Oh, a Dragon attacked Donau several days ago, and now we're tryin' to figure out who would make the Dragon attack. We just hafta find the last three Dragoon Judges." I looked at Shana. "Would you happen to know where they are?"

"No, but a month or two ago, Saphira stopped by here. She left early the next morning so I don't know where she went." Shana laid her hands in her lap. "It's terrible that a Dragon would attack Donau. I honestly thought that Dragons wouldn't be a problem anymore."

"Me too, but one attacked twice. Two kids the first time, then Donau the second time. I don't know what element it is. It did melt the city though, but I don't know what element could do that..." I stared at the floor.

"Well, when Rose, Dart, Lavitz, and I went to the Dragon's Nest to fight the Jade Dragon, there was a Dragoon with it. Maybe this new Dragon has a Dragoon somewhere...hidden." Shana quickly turned her attention to the stairway, where Dart was standing.

"Hello, Crystal, Hajeri, and Phirala." Dart looked at Selistia. "Who's she?"

"Oh! I completely forgot! This is Selistia, she is gonna be traveling with us for a while. Right?" I looked at her.

"Yeah. It wouldn't hurt. I like the traveling anyway." Selistia leaned back in her chair.

"So where are you headed after you leave Seles?" Dart asked me.

"Um, Fletz. I'm hoping to find Mike, Saphira, or even Milro there, then after we leave Fletz, we'll be going to check on Donau; to make sure that it's okay." I stood. "Well, I hope you don't mind us stayin' here for tonight. It already seems to be gettin' dark." I looked out of the window. It was indeed getting dark.

"We don't mind at all. Let's me show you to your rooms." Shana also stood.

I was just lying there in the bed, staring at the roof. Hajeri was in the bed to the right of my bed, Phirala slept on the floor between our beds, and Selistia slept downstairs on the couch.

'I wonder what the Dragon's element is...' I continued to stare at the roof. 'I also wonder who this spirit belongs to...' I took out the dark blue sphere and held it up. It began to glow, but very little. It was probably reacting to Hajeri and Phirala's Dragoon spirits. 'The Future Dragoon spirit.' I put it back inside the pouch. 'I wonder what it looks like...' I looked over at Hajeri, who was muttering something. 'Sounds like he's havin' a bad dream.' I sat up and continued to stare at him. I looked down and found Phirala, who was all stretched out across the floor. I decided to wake Hajeri up, for no reason what-so-ever, except that I wasn't a bit tired and he was havin' a bad dream. I grabbed my pillow and tossed it at him. His hand caught it before it hit him.

"Why'd you do that?" He sat up.

"Well, um, you were havin' a bad dream so I decided to wake you up before you ended up...well, um..."

He just stared at me. "Go back to sleep, kid." He laid back down.

"Okay, but, um, can I have my pillow back?"

"You gave it to me." He muttered. My pillow was now under his head.

"NO. I didn't GIVE it to you, I threw it at you to wake you up. So can I-" The pillow hit me directly in my face, knocking me backwards. I just laid there... "Thanks..." 'Not really what I was expecting, but...' I sighed. I heard Hajeri laugh softly. "Very funny..." I muttered.

I yawned as I sat up and stretched. The room was still a bit dark, but only because the sun was now just starting to rise. I looked over and noticed Hajeri putting on his white t-shirt and then his black trench coat. I looked down. Phirala was missing.

"Where's Phirala?"

"She's downstairs, eating." Hajeri answered.

"Oh......" I got out of bed and slipped on my boots and my sweater jacket. I ran my fingers through my hair to straighten it out. I let out another yawn. Selistia came into the room.

"You guys want some breakfast? Shana was nice enough to fix us some."

"I'm comin'." I made my way out of the room. Hajeri followed.

After finishing our breakfast, and dragging Phirala away from her food before she made herself sick, we were now outside of Seles.

"I know a short-cut inside Mt. Villude that we can take to get to the other side quickly." I told everyone. Everyone nodded and we began walking...again.

So we were now back inside the oven-I mean Mt. Villude and I was looking around.

'All I hafta do is remember where it is......' "Aha!" I ran towards the stone wall to the left of us.

"I think she's gone insane." I heard Hajeri say.

"NO. I haven't. There's a secret passage behind this wall." I stared at the stone wall. "Somewhere."

Hajeri walked up to the wall, and pushed on it. The door that was there was pushed open.

"That secret passage?" Hajeri looked down at me.

"Yep. That one. Come on! We'd better hurry!" I ran down the long, narrow passageway.

We came out of the secret passage just thirty minutes later.

"Fletz should be just a couple hours away." I looked around. That's when I saw something. That exact same ghost of my father. I knew it was him because he was getting closer each time I saw him. This time, he was only six feet away from me. I could see his eyes clearly, and they were filled with...evil. I quickly turned around only to find out that Hajeri and the other two had already walked several feet away from me. I looked back at the ghost. He just stared at me. 'I think I've gone crazy.' It was my second time seeing the ghost of my father. I had really gone crazy. I turned around and ran towards the others.