Drum was sitting alone on the roof of the Mikado family house. He watched the blue sky with worrisome increasing each day in his heart. Three days passed since the duel between The Punisher and Azi Dahaka. The red dragon was worried with everything he knew thanks to Troubadour hints and his natural suspicions of the Darkness Dragon. He put his hand on his chest and wasn't sure what to do.

It wasn't the only problem that worried Drum, there was also the citizen of Tokyo who are openly expressing hatred against his kind and other's from other worlds that added with Azi plot.

Drum put his hand on his forehead, well aware that there were two evil plots going on at the same time between Tenchi and Azi Dahaka with different objective. If one of them succeeded, then it will be bad for every world.

There was another thing, but it was personal to Drum, his mother assassin was here, so close, but the dragon couldn't avenge her and it was lightly eating him inside. Even so, that wasn't his main worry.

We are watching Tenchi and thanks to The Punisher, it calmed down a little with the payment to repair everything the Thunder Knights destroyed. They are still in prison on Earth, but... Drum shivered, They got five years of dragon boot camp.

"Are you alright Drum?" Drum saw Tenbu joining him, "You've been here for a long time."

"Yeah... Where's Gao?" Drum asked.

"He's with his friends and the new cute girl one," Tenbu answered with hearts on his eyes as he spoke of Kazane.

"Right. I told him that I need to finish things," he looked at the book by his side. It was homework from school which was buried with his worried.

"You are really in your head for a while Drum. You can tell me what's going on," Tenbu said floating by his side.

Drum looked at his feet while his tail tapped the roof behind him. He turned toward Tenbu and asked, "Do you think Azi Dahaka is planning something? You seem to know him."

Tenbu scratched his beard and thought about it. That was on the outside. In the inside, he gasped and tried to nervously find an answer, remembering the pact he made with Azi, "I don't know. I know him, but just a little," and I lie by saying little. I'm sorry Drum.

Drum nodded, "Guess I'll have to work then. Thanks," he then returned inside.

Tenbu knew that Drum was disappointed, but didn't show it.

Chapter 91: Drum's Warning

During the night, Drum had trouble sleeping on the bed while he could hear his buddy sleeping without any trouble, he's lucky to sleep easily even if he knows there is problem in the city, but he doesn't know about Azi evil intention and I cannot tell anyone about it. Who would believe me? I'm not sure I can talk about it to Halberd, he's still preoccupied about what happened with the Thunder Knights.

Drum eyes remained open even if he tried to close them up. His slow breathing wasn't helping entering in the dream world. He crossed his arms and climbed off the bed. He walked to the left and right with his arm crossed behind him. His head watching the floor quietly, trying to find something to do.

I have to tell someone or I won't feel a little in peace, but I can't tell Gao, Drum grumbled and suddenly raised his head, "Maybe I can try talking to him."

He quietly walked toward the cellphone of his buddy and called someone, "I hope he's awake. If not, I'll have to wait to-"

"-Mushi Mushi,-" a voice replied partially awake.

"Jackknife. It's Drum," he said.

"-Fang Slade Terrestrial The XIV. Do you know what hour it is?-" Jackknife replied with anger written in his voice.

The red dragon gulped and replied, "Listen Jackknife. I know it's very late in the night," he checked the clock and it was 1h12 in the morning, "Or really early."

"-Get to the point or I hang out right now,-" the green dragon warned the red one.

"Okay. I need to talk to you and it's important. I have trouble sleeping since the duel between The Punisher and Azi Dahaka. Especially since what someone told me about the darkness dragon."

"-Maybe it's your hatred of the Darkness Dragon Drum. It's not a good idea to waste my time like that you know.-"

"Okay. I heard it from another Darkness Dragon Jackknife. I have to tell you in person. I don't care if you don't believe me," Drum said with some desperation in his voice.

Jackknife seemed to notice it as he replied, "-I'll meet you on the roof soon. You sound really serious about it.-"

"Of course I am," Drum replied.

The green dragon sighed, "-I'll hang up before I woke Tasuku.-"

Drum hung up after the green dragon did the same. He wondered, Will he believe me or not? I have no choice, but to try.

He opened the window and climbed on the roof, waiting for Jackknife to come. The red dragon tail lightly tapped the ground. He eventually rested on the roof like earlier and waited. He heard the sound of wings flapping and saw the green dragon in his real form coming at him. He eventually turned in his chibi form and landed by his side.

Drum could see that the dragon was tired and still a little pissed off to be woken up by his call, but not as much as Drum initially feared.

"I'm here. You can tell me what's worrying you now, so I can go back to sleep," Jackknife said, not wanting to lose time.

Drum nodded and organised his words, "Jackknife, I've been worried for a while. I'll start it," he said when Jackknife raised his claw with anger in his eyes. He grunted, "Anyway. I learned something just before Gao woke up from his coma. What I heard frighten me and I knew that Azi Dahaka is planning something."

Jackknife looked at Drum intensely and said, "Elaborate."

The red dragon nodded, "When I was in the hospital, before Gao came back, Troubadour came in and told me why Gao felt in a coma. He said that the Disaster Core, Azi gift, was preventing him from waking up. That's how I knew that Azi was planning something."

Jackknife gasped when he thought back, "Azi Dahaka try to give a Disaster Core to Tasuku. What does it do?"

"Kiri has one... So I guess it hurts their head a lot. After this, Kiri headache was gone and... That's it," Drum said, knowing how weak it was, "No. That was bothering me and I was watching Azi when I saw him, wondering what his plan was... Because that isn't good. It turned into worried after I saw him defeating The Punisher," he looked at his cute claws, trembling in fear and incertitude, "I don't know what to do. I can't beat him, no one knows Azi is planning something. Troubadour told me no one would believe me because Azi isn't looking bad right now," he looked at Jackknife, "I needed to tell someone. I can't hold everything inside of me. I can't tell Gao... So I call you."

The green dragon crossed his arms and was thoughtful. He wondered how he should reply to Drum. He wasn't sure if it was the true or not, but the more he thought about it, the more his reply to the red dragon should be, "I am not sure if you are honest or not Drum," the red dragon nodded and sighed when Jackknife continued, "But- There is things you said that are suspicious. The Disaster Core effect on both Kiri and Gao must have some true on it. Tasuku didn't accept it and nothing bad happened and no one else received it."

"What about Azi? He must be plotting something," Drum tried.

"Maybe yes, or no. There is always some doubt we can give him. Was he aware of the consequence or not? Is he really planning something? You said that Troubadour told you about that and that no one would believe you for probably the right reason if it is the case," the green dragon paused, "I know a little about Azi Dahaka, but that's enough to know that he's always planning things... Except for the kissing part on the cruise ship."

The two dragons shivered.

"Don't bring that back! I don't ever want to remember this!" Drum ordered.

"Me too!" the green dragon yelled, "And also Azi. Back to him anyway, he's probably plotting something, or already prepared it. If he is, we have to make sure to remain discreet about it. If Azi suspect something, he might eliminate us."

Drum thought back and quietly whispered, "Maybe that's why Troubadour hid me when I saw Azi during the duel. Should we talk about this to the humans?"

Jackknife nodded negatively, "No. For now, we have to keep this between us. We can't be sure if this is true or not and you surely don't want Gao to not believe you. As for Tasuku, I don't want to involve him or he'll go very far in his research and he might get killed, or worse," if Demios gets an opportunity, he thought before continuing, "That's why it's between us only."

Drum nodded.