Drum was the first to woke up. He gasped when he checked the clock and was about to woke Gao, when he realised it was a Sunday, meaning that they didn't have school. The red dragon looked at his buddy and lightly smiled, he let the boy sleep as he walked out of the chamber and climbed down the stairs, quietly when he noticed that Tenbu was still sleeping in mid air. The dragon wondered how the old dragon could even do that, but made no comment. He checked in the dojo and saw Jackknife, still asleep, that's good. He had some trouble sleeping since he knew what happened to Tasuku.

He walked towards the kitchen when the bell rang multiple time. The red dragon heard everyone waking up.

"How can wake us up this early?" Tenbu grunted as he woke up and flew towards Drum.

Drum raised his shoulders while Jackknife grumbled, "Open the door and shut him up."

Drum took his real form, since he couldn't easily open the door in his SD form. When he opened the door, he saw someone he never knew before.

"Finally you answer Drum," he said.

Drum wasn't sure how to reply. He heard the Mikado's family climbing down the stairs and hoped that Suzumi wasn't too angry at him for something he didn't voluntary do, "Hum… Who are you?"

"Hum? You don't know me. I am the messenger of the ruler of Dragon World. I am Saint Holy Sword Dragon remember?" He looked more like a mini-panda with his black and white fur, green eyes and a white dragon tail. He wore a yellow jacket, red tie, a pink shirt, red shorts and a small sword.

Not at all, Drum thought as he replied, "Of course. Why did you come here? Everyone was sleeping and-"

"I have an important message to you Drum and I'm sorry," the mini-panda bowed to them before turning towards Drum, "The funeral of your mother is ready. You and Gao as been asked to come since you were the one who gave her justice."

"It's today," Drum whispered.

Suzumi crossed her arms and asked, "You mean that you are going to take my son to your world?"

"Of course," Holy replied.

Suzumi crossed her arms and wasn't convinced at all. Gao and Drum knew they needed to be convincing for this.

Chapter 124: Funerals

Drum was back in his SD form and a little exhausted after he used every argument he had to convince Suzumi to let his buddy come with him at the funeral of his mother. He wasn't even sure how he indeed managed to change her mind after everything he told her. He sighed with a small smile, knowing he managed to accomplish something surely great, since it was convincing her to change idea.

"Do not worry about Gao. Dragon World is not as dangerous as you believe and I'll be there to make sure nothing happens to him," the red dragon concluded.

Suzumi nodded, "You have to make sure that nothing bad happens to him, or you can be sure that I'll know about it," she crossed her arms as she said those words.

Drum knew that he would be in trouble if anything happened to Gao, she could destroy me if she is really angry. Good thing I'm not going to let anyone hurt him. He calmed himself after thinking that, "I know Suzumi."

"This is going to be the first time our son is going to another world," Gao's father whispered.

"I was also a little nervous when I came on Earth. I never changed world before and Earth was a completely new one, but I was focused on my task and didn't really feel it," it sure was a long time ago… Not that long, but it feels like a long time ago.

"We have to go now or your father is going to get impatient Drum," Holy said nervously when he realised they were really starting to get late for the funeral.

"We should go now," Drum said, not waiting to face his father wrath with everything currently happening on Earth.

"We won't come back too late mom," Gao said.

"You better be," she replied.

"Bye big bro," Hanako said.

"Enjoyed our world," Halberd said with a small smile.

Gao and his buddy reached Dragon world. When they landed on the ground, Gao was observing around him what the world looked like. The boy saw that their location was near a forest and not a small forest. It was a very large forest that felt like a dream or in some movies he saw during his life. He smiled at how amazing it was when Drum said, "I know my world is impressive, but we cannot afford to be too late."

The red dragon was back in his real form with his drill in his hand. He was nervously checking on his drill and sign in relief, the drill is in good shape. I would have check it up if I knew it was today. I hope father won't give me a morale speech. This is not the time for it anyway.

"Let's go," Gao said while observing everything around him.

They walked on the road leading them in a town. Gao looked around him and it felt very alienating for the boy. The last time he saw something like that was when he went to camp with his father, one year before Drum entered in his life. As for the town, he found it that it looked like the ancient Grecque architectures.

Gao noticed that there were more and more dragons surrounding them as they walked in the same direction. Most of them were bipedal like Drum with many who were bigger than Drum. That made the boy realised how much impressive Drum's father must be to defeat many dragons who were taller and maybe even more powerful than himself.

"We are almost here," Holy said.

They heard a dragon complaining, "Those bastards are giving me more work. Who do they think they are?"

They saw a dragon holding a mop glaring at one dragon walking away from him. It was a tall dragon with gray and dark skin with two black horns, long red hair, amber eyes and a scar on his snout. He only wore a short as he continued grumbling a few things.

"I don't want to hear any of your complain Batzz. Return to your duty," the other dragon told him, not even looking behind him.

The dragon named Batzz furiously grunted, but cleaned the floor as he grumbled, "You'll pay for this one day."

Drum used his tail to push his buddy forward, "Don't go close to him Gao. He is a dragon who has a lot of ambitions, but he is currently harmless to dragons," he nervously grumbled, "I think he still is after a year," he checked back, "He sure grew bigger in that year."

"He is also getting really stronger Drum. He might become one of your rival and try to be the ruler of Dragon World," Holy warned the red dragon.

Drum lightly grinned, "I'll make sure I won't lose to him," he checked at the gray dragon who was still grumbling a few insults at the dragon who ordered him to return to his duty. He internally gulped as he wondered how much taller Batzz might become over the years.

"We are here," Holy said.

They looked forward and saw that there was a large temple with the door opened. The XIII was in front of the door, eyes closed and waiting, surely for Drum to be there. There was a small altar in front of him with the skull of his mother, cleaned up and with all the dignity it deserved. Drum could clearly see that with his superior eyes sight while Gao just saw the skull there. In front of the ruler of Dragon World, many other important dragons were there and waited for him to begin the ceremony.

"When his Drum going to appear," a dragon grumbled impatiently.

Drum gazed at the dragon and lightly coughed.

The dragon grunted, "Finally."

Drum glared at him and continued forward with Gao by his side. When they passed the crowd, Fang Slade Terrestrial The XIII opened his eyes and grunted, "You are late."

Drum gulped when his father gave him a disappointed gaze. He wanted to defend himself about the reason he was late, but said nothing.

"Let's go Gao," Drum said.

"Yeah. He looks a little angry at you," Gao whispered.

"We were late," Drum whispered back.

"Yeah."

After a few minutes of silence with Drum and Gao standing up beside The XIII. The XIII eventually raised his hand. He obtained the silence and looked around and checked if everyone were giving enough attention towards him.

"Dragons! We are here today, so we can finally allowed my mate to rest in peace. The one who ended her life is still in jail and is about to receive his judgement for his crime, but now is not the time to talk about this," he looked at the skull of his mate and turned back to the dragon crowd, "My mate was known as one of the most powerful dragons of Dragon World. Many of your parents or ancestors had fought against her and lost. With her power over the flame, she was known as the Empress Of The Fire. She died in her SD form, but when she was in her real form, she was as tall as the mountains, just like any of the Original Dragons."

Drum gasped when he heard than and thought, my mother was an Original Dragon? Just like Tenbu. I can't believe it. How did dad defeat her? His thought was cut shot when his father continued talking.

"I am going to remember her as the mate that was by my side for many years. I was the lucky dragon who managed to defeat her in a long and exhausting battle, but that was when I fall in love with her," he closed his eyes and continued, "You will all remembered her as the one who once fought against some of the strongest Darkness Dragon from Darkness Dragon World."

Drum was silently listening to the rest of his father speech about his late mother and everything she did for Dragon World during her living time. He remembered that when he was born, she was focusing on him instead of the needs of Dragon World, since his father could handle everything by himself, until she was murdered when attacked on the back.

Eventually, the speech from his father came to an end. The dragons said no words as Fang Slade Terrestrial The XIII gently took the skull of the Empress Of Fire. He turned toward Drum and Gao and said, "Come with me."

Drum and Gao followed him as they entered in the temple for the final ceremony.

Gao wondered how the ceremony would be as he gazed at his buddy, who was in deep thought. The boy remained silent, knowing it was a sacred moment and shouldn't be interrupted by any questions. He would wait later to ask them.

AC: This is the end of this chapter.

Next: Ceremony.