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Chapter 4

Raven started walking in the direction Josh had pointed to. "Fly why don't you?"

"Can you stop talking like that please?" Raven asked as she didn't want to have to listen to him talking in that weird voice all night.

"Find Kayley you want me too, then put up with voice you must!"

"This is going to be a long night." Raven mumbled, as she took off from the ground and glided gently out over the sea.

"Robin, Kayley is in the east of the city." Raven said into her communicator.

"How do you know?" Robin said "She could be anywhere, what makes you think she's there?"

"Let's just say a little dragon told me." She replied as she watched Josh sniffing the air trying to catch Kayley's scent in the wind.

"Land now you must, down there she is." Josh said as he gazed at the forest below him.

Raven landed in a clearing near where Josh had pointed, she waited for him to turn back into his human form then asked "Are you sure this is the right place?"

"Hey you asked for my help, you don't think she's here then go find her your self!" he replied at the thought of Raven thinking him a liar.

"Alright, if you say she's here then I believe you, but I think we should wait for the others to get here before we go looking for her," She pulled out her communicator and said "Guys we are in the woods, come and find us and then we'll look for Kayley together."

"Right we'll be there soon." grunted a rather annoyed Robin.

From the shadows of a nearby tree a cloaked figure watched as Raven and Josh started to talk about Draconis, the planet where the half-dragons live.

They must be here looking for the other half-dragon thought the mysterious figure. But I'll get to her first then you will pay for what you did to me. And he walked backwards following a nearby river till he found what he was looking for.

Next to the river sat Kayley, crying into her hands. The figure moved forwards through the bushes and moved up to Kayley so quietly she didn't notice him.

"You ok?" he asked

Kayley jumped up and turned round so fast she tripped off the log she was sitting on and fell backwards into the river.

"ARGH" she said as she felt the cold water chill her insides.

"Oops sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." The boy said, offering her a hand.

"Oh no it's ok; I didn't know you were there. How long have you been stood behind me?" she asked with irritation in her voice.

"Not long," he said as Kayley took off her wet jacket. "I'm Ghost by the way."

"I'm Kayley, nice to meet you." She said. The cold night air was starting to make her shiver as she stood there dripping wet, but she did not notice, she was too busy taking in Ghost's appearance. He was quite tall with black hair down to his shoulders. He wore a black cloak over a plain black t-shirt and his baggy trousers were covered in chains.

His appearance made her feel slightly uncomfortable, but she did not show it.

"Hey, your shivering, wear this, it will warm you up." Ghost said as he slung his cloak around her.

Thanks said Kayley not realizing she was speaking dragon tongue.

You're welcome, your friends are looking for you, I'll take you to them. Ghost said as he led Kayley through the woods.

"Wait, you speak dragon, I thought only dragons and half-dragons could speak it." Kayley asked.

"If dragons can learn to speak human, why can't a human learn to speak dragon?" replied Ghost in English.

Kayley stopped for a moment and regarded Ghost carefully. He seems human. Thought Kayley, but, she sniffed the air, changing her nose slightly, so it had the capabilities of a dragon's. She smelt Ghost. The natural human smells, and something else, something she couldn't put her finger on.

Kayley snapped out her thoughts before Ghost got too far ahead. He didn't seem to notice Kayley's short absence, and he stepped though a small passage, with huge plants on either side.

When Kayley stepped though after him she was in a clearing, Ghost was no where to be found. She looked around again and instead saw Raven and Josh both looking the other way in relative silence.

For a moment Kayley pondered about Ghost, but then thought she should make her presence known. She gave a slight cough, Raven and Josh turned to look at her.

"Kayley where have you been?And why are you soaking wet?" queried Raven. Before Kayley had a chance to formulate a coherent sentence Cyborg came crashing through the trees, following a wildly sniffing green basset hound.

"Hey, we found them!" Beast Boy shouted, reverting to human form but still sniffing the air, it took him a moment to stop.

"So, what did we miss?" Cyborg asked excitedly.

"Nothing, we were just standing here waiting for you guys and then Kayley turned up, after a dip in a lake, it seems." Josh replied, grinning at his sopping sister.

"I fell in the river, it's no big deal, a guy called Ghost gave me his…cloak thing to keep me from freezing." She gestured with the black garment.

"Who? We didn't see anyone." Josh glanced around, his oddly draconic eyes scanning for any sign of someone they didn't know.

"He said his name was Ghost, and then he said 'your friends are looking for you' in dragon tongue and led me here. Then he just…wasn't here anymore." Kayley wouldn't have believed he existed herself, were it not for the cloak and the hypothermia.

"Well, we should get back to the tower; I'll tell Robin we got her." Cyborg jabbed at his arm until Robin's face appeared and he relayed the message.

"Where has she gone now?" Josh padded into the common room, a look of resignation on his face.

"Lost Kayley again?" Raven asked, almost smirking.

"Actually yes." Josh glared at her. "You seen her?"

"Maybe." Raven continued to read her book.

"That really doesn't help me." Josh growled.

"I know, but if you must know, she's on the roof." Raven glanced at the half-dragon as he fumed.

"Why not just tell me that?" He almost shouted.

"I like to watch shadow dragons suffer." She repressed another bitter comment on the subject and left it at that.

I'll give you suffering, demon He grumbled, stalking out.

"You'd better be glad I can't understand that." Raven shouted after him.

Kayley sat on the edge of the roof, fingering the corner of the cloak Ghost had given her earlier, something about it made her feel uneasy. A human, as far as she knew, that could speak in the dragon tongue was quite a rare thing, in fact she didn't know of a single case.

There must be something I'm missing about him, I mean, where did he go earlier? She grumbled to herself.

I come and go as I please, one of the perks of being a living shadow. A familiar voice rang from behind her.

She spun, trying to spot the interloper, but saw only the empty roof.

"I'm here." The voice came from beside her; she turned in time to spot the shadow on the side of the air conditioning unit mould into a human shape.

She gasped as a feature formed in the endless blackness until her mysterious benefactor from earlier was sharing a roof with her.

"We meet again." He said with a charming smile.

"Indeed," Kayley couldn't help herself, the old-fashioned agreement just slipped out, "Here's your cloak, thank you." She thrust the black cloth at him; he took it and threw it over his shoulders, obscuring him into a shapeless mass with a head.

"Ah, that's better." He shuffled it into a comfortable position.

"Can I ask you a question?" Kayley asked boldly.

"You just did, but go ahead." Ghost replied pedantically.

"You're not entirely…well, human, are you?" She asked him quietly.

"No, but then neither are you." He pointed out, inspecting his nails.

"But you aren't a dragon, or even a half-dragon. What are you?" She stood to face him.

"I am what I am, that being neither human nor inhuman, neither living nor dead. I am trapped between the two. I spend my days as a shadow. A Ghost. Have been ever since…that's not important." He trailed off rather lamely.

Kayley, who is that? Josh's voice carried across the roof, using his native tongue in an attempt to confuse the stranger.

My name is Ghost and I'd appreciate if you didn't try to trick me with dragon tongue. the 'living shadow' spun to face the dark dragon.

Josh noticed a look of pure hatred run through the stranger's eyes, but as quickly as it came it was gone, the dark hazel remaining an unreadable, unemotional pool. Josh dismissed it as anger at the attempted deception.

"I suppose I'm going to have to meet everyone else now then?" Ghost suddenly asked.

'Yes, I think you'd better." Josh said, his voice wavering slightly, something in the stranger's tone made him feel like all the happiness had been sucked from the tower. To make a shadow dragon feel this way was quite a feat, they were the bravest of all types, besides reds, who were basically all brawn and very little grey matter.

I really didn't want to He said aside to Kayley and followed Josh into the tower.

It still unnerved the pearl dragon to notice that when he moved he seemed to be walking on the air just above the floor and neither his footsteps nor the multiple chains on his jeans made a sound.

Read over and finished by Reamis, as a special new year's gift. So you'll forgive if the style and pace of the writing varies in minor ways. (Readhis stories! Woo free advertising!)