A/N:What's up?Well,to find out,you'll have to look down...Yeah,I'm humorless right now for some reason.This story is starting to near it's end,probably with just a few more chs. to go or so.But that doesn't mean I'm fresh out of ideas or anything!Here,as usual of course,are repiles!

Repiles:

YFWE:I haven't had a lot of time to get around and look out for updates,but I'm trying.Is this an excuse you may ask?And I awnser:Not really...I'm not making any sense,am I?Lolz,update soon and I'll try to keep a look out for them.But seriously,my life is compeletely wild at this point and time.When will it settle down again?Only time will tell.Byez!

KrazieShadowNinja:O-K.You're friends call you that...?You're guy friends?Hmm,you must have some pretty 'interesting' friends,KSN.lol,I don't know about hunny,but one time some of my guy friends came over to our house about five or six years back and,slipping through ahalf-open window at midnight when we were all upstairs watching TV,raided our kitchen and tossed eggs,milk,sryup,criso and a tube of Neopoliation Ice Cream around and left it for us to find.By the way,it's "weird" not "wierd".C yaz!

Worker72:Well,I can't gurantee things won't be differcult for them,but I also can't give out info but at the same time I 'can' tell you that you will find out in this very ch.And yea,it would be depressing then,huh?lolz!

AmericanDragonFan:Well,if you did supposively fall out then that wouldn't be the 1st time. -eyes YFWE knowingly- But anywho,update soon with you're story and I'll get around to reading it soon!Byez 4 now!

As most of you,whom I didn't reply to can imagine,I really want to get on with the story.But in the final news of my 'repiles' corner,I 'will' reply to everyone's review the following ch. after this.Until then,read onwards!

Continueing...

Haley could sense where this was going,as though she could have forseen it as things to come.The sky was starting to grow a sort of transcendental ebony,as wind from out of nowhere swept the dusty and vacant ground floors.Peering over at Jake from the corner of her eye,she was certain he was contemplating something over in his mind,as he suddenly turned his eyes to her and they locked.And for the first time since they had met up again,a strong and powerful mutual understanding was brought before them.As Jake nodded over to the slightly nevous-looking Phoenix's.

"They'll be our back-up,"Jake told her loftily,as the wind was picking up near them and some of the soil was rising up and shielding him and Haley from the others,"But we have to attack now,"he went on,pointing his claw to the increasingly expaning sheet of dust that was blocking them from him,"Before the wind dies down and we don't get this chance again."

Haley nodded back in agreement,as the two of them dispersed their wings and with the the sand sliding off their faces,rose into the air and dove into the unknown dust bowl.Making out the figure of the Dark Dragon just up ahead from them,Haley and Jake descended downwards and together,accumlated enough fire powerto create a large flaming ball.

"Jake!"

The sound of Rose's call for him,nearly made Jake drop the attack all together,but only when Haley glared his way to concentrate on attacking the Dark Dragon first.Did Jake reluctanly nod and together,the two of them sent the massive burning ball down upon the fading figure of the Dark Dragon,it's connective embers pierecing right through the decreasing whirlwind of brownish sand particles,as it struck the seemingly blinded Dragon below.Grinning triumphantly,Haley turned to share the thrill of the moment with Jake,only to see him disappear in the still thickened wall of air.That's when confusion on what to do next set in,

"What do I do now?"Haley wondered aloud,turning every which way as the vigorous,dirt-infested wind died down and she started to make out the large Phoenix she had seen earlier,flapping in mid-air just a few feet away,"Get lost,"she hissed at it impaitently,"I'm trying to find Jake."

But instead of retreating or even attacking,the large bird only nudge her arm with it's long,pointed bill and flew back down.To the possiblity it might be trying to tell her something,Haley sighed in defeat and followed it down to the ground.As it all cleared away and a sceene of grim horror meet her eyes,she didn't even look as the Phoenix she hardly even trusted, which took a place beside her and calmly awaited her decision.

"Where is everyone!"Haley screeched loudly,as only the barrien waste-land and an electric-barred cage full of squawking and squealing Phoenix's caught her eye,"They couldn't have just vanished like that."

Picking up the rustling sound of something up and behind her,Haley whirled around to stare with grief,as she knew insticntively where everyone was.Seething,she shot up into the air at the last moment and flew straight into the castle's entrance,where she saw the thing that she was dreading the most to see was at that moment within view.A struggling Jake and Rose where shackled back againist the support beams from the inside,as the Dark Dragon was in flight just thirty feet from where she was and was useing the Dragonite to further hypnotize the Dragons,as they began to move forward and the electic-cage around them started to short-circut,as his power over them started to intenify.

"Let me guess,"Haley's voice echoed up to where he was,her whole demeanor somehow cool and even,"You staged that whole thing as a diversion,so you could slip away undetected and finish what you already started,"she geared herself in a locked stance,as she let the fear of what might happen next fall to the back of her mind,"I bet we didn't even hit you,but that doesn't mean you're going to get away with it,not as long I-"

"Haley,get out of here!"Jake shouted out to her hastily,as he and Rose continued to try and pull free,"It's another trap,you're being ambushed!"

Before she could inquire him on what he meant,Haley felt someone grab hold of her tail and before she had time to react,tossed her a great distance out of the castle.Usingher tail and legs,she managed to push forward while still going at about forty miles an hour and hault just as she was less then half a mile from the clouds.Curving her wings to aline with the rest of her body,Haleyjetted back down to where her eyes met a smokey gray Dragon,who seemed to be older then some of the other Dragons,as it was turning to go back inside.But as soon as it's darkened eyes caught sight on her,the Dragon shot a blaze at a rapid pace.

"Whoa,"Haley breathed in surprise,as she just barely dodged the head-on furor and re-postioned herself where she was,"Talk about fire power."

Asshe was coming within just a few feet from the adept lackluster Dragon,she braced herself for the risky attempt she was about to perform and just missing another one of it's attacks,meandered around it and taking her elbow,proceeded to thrash it into the back of the old Dragon's head.At first the Dragon froze up but as it tried to turn and face Haley,it only managed to send out a puff of smoke before collasping all together.

"It does not matter,"The Dragon spat at her bitterly,as she changed back into the form of the banished former-counciler Chang,her blackeyes narrowing sharply on an uneasy Haley,"The new Dark Dragon will avenge my Master and both you're worlds will plummet into ultimate submission."

The aged woman was then still,as the blow to the back of her head sent her into an unconscious state,although she appeared to be alright.Haley looked over at Jake and Rose,an impulse to go over and try to free them surged,but as the Dark Dragon's new army of brainwashed Dragons were starting to march forward,she knew what she had to do.So,still assuming the Dark Dragon thought that Counciler Chang was still keeping her prequipped,Haley bolted into the air and with her tail,slapped the Dragonite out of the Dark Dragon's claw and whipped out her own Anti- Dragonite.With her finger's crossed,Haley winged it by extending it out and in front of the Dragons,which amazingly haulted them from moving,

"That tears it,"he roared in outrage,catching the Dragonitein one claw while shooting streaks of dark lightening at her,"You have foiled my plans for the last time!I tolerated you at first,but now you're just a pest!"

But as the lightening was coming dangerously close to her,while her attention was focused on just maintaining a strong hold over the other Dragon's with her glowing azure stone,Roland came out of nowhere and putting one clawed-foot up in his path,caught the assault with ease.

"Trade?"Haley inquired the bird gratefully,handing the stone to him,as he quickly let her take hold of the with held black lightening as if it all where just trading cards,"Thanks,"she thanked him,as she faced the Dark Dragon with resolute burning in her emerald eyes,"You see,what goes around...unforunately for you,comes around.You think you can just waltz up out of nowhere and take over every Dragon on Earth without insulting the first two American Dragons,if so,you're completely mistakened."

The two circled each other,as the Dark Dragon seemed to be wincing with obvious tension.Although he didn't appear to be wanting to make an effort,the second he seemed to let his guard down some and she wasn't as fixed for a brief second,he lunged for her in a last attempt to stop her.But catching him on the rebound,her senses quickened enough forher to remember to shock him.The attack took him by surprise and sent him hurtling back onto the balcony.Only when the power of the blast had seemed to absorb and subside,did Haley gently float back to the ground and take a few steps forward.But as the curling black smoke parted,it revealed to her aboslute disbelief,the form of the and only,Alex Robinson.

Well,in an unlikely (partly that is) turn of events,it seems the idenity of the new Dark Dragon has been seen.What will the future hold for all?Find out in the dramatic conclusion of...Dragon Steel!I always wanted to do that.

LP