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-- A little after sunset --

Jaden came into the Obelisk blue dorm to see it almost abandon. Absolutely no one was around. He went in and into the training room to see Satorious and Aster talking.

"Uh... guys?"

"What?" They both said as they turned to face him.

"Do you realize that there is almost no one here?"

"What? But that's impossible." Aster said.

"Come see for yourself." Jaden said. So, they went out and Jaden was right. There was no one there. It was so quiet that you could hear the crickets outside.

"Something is not quite right here." Satorious said, and went up the stairs into Zane's room while Jaden and Aster stayed downstairs. He tried to open the door, but it was like something was jamming it. "What's going on in there?" He whispered to himself.

Then, a voice came from inside the room, and Satorious reconized immediately.

"I'm sorry, but the Truesdale brothers are busy at the moment. Please leave a message after the beep." He said, which was followed by an evil laugh.

"Monkey! You open up this door right now or I'll slice it in half!"

"Oooo... then what? You gonna kill me?" Monkey asked with a fake scared tone, then laughed again. "Face it, Satorious! You could never hurt me and you'll never be able to! Even you're not heartless enough to kill your older brother."

"I am not heartless!"

"Then that's even worse! I'd love to spend my time catching up, little brother, but I've got a scheduale to keep." Monkey said as he ran out of the room, onto the balcony, then jumped off the balcony, and made a run for it.

Satorious slashed the door in half and it fell down. What he saw shocked him. The room was a mess. Everything was on the floor, it looked like there had deffinately been a struggle. He saw Zane laying on the ground, looking almost dead and Syrus was completely gone.

'How come I didn't hear any of this going on?' Satorious thought, then quickly called for Aster and Jaden to come up.

When they finally got upstairs, they also saw the mess, and by then Zane had woken up.

"What happened?" Zane asked.

"You okay, Zane?" Jaden asked.

"Syrus?" Zane asked, but then realized it was Jaden and looked around the room for Syrus, but couldn't find him. "He took Syrus." He said, sounding more concerned, now more than ever.

"Don't worry, Zane." Jaden said. "We will get him back and make Shroud pay."

"Monkey." Satorious corrected him.

"Whatever! Monkey, Baboon, Chimp! Whatever you wanna call him! We'll make him pay!" Jaden said. "But this is only gonna happen if we all work together. Now who's in?" Jaden asked as he put his hand in the middle.

"You know I'm in." Zane said as he put his hand on top of Jaden's.

"Me too." Aster said.

"Me three." Satorious also said.

"Are you making a team without us?" Someone said from the doorway and they all looked up to see Bastion standing there with Jesse, Hassleberry, Atticus, and Chazz.

"You can join too."

"No thanks." Chazz said. "But you can drop us a line. Let us know how it all turns out." He said, and was about to walk away when Bastion grabbed his jaket collar and brought him back.

"We will." Bastion said.

"We will?" Chazz asked him.

"Of course we will." Bastion said. So they brought their hands in too and all broke away with an agreement.

"Just one question. Who's gonna lead us?" Jesse asked.

"It should either be Satorious or Zane." Bastion stated.

"I think I should." Satorious said. "Monkey is my brother."

"Yes, but it's my brother who's kidnapped and I was possessed by Monkey for a long time."

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"It's got everything to do with anything."

"I don't think it does."

"Well, I do think does." Zane argued.

"Will you both stop this!" Aster yelled. "Look... we'll take a vote. Majority rules."

"I can deal with that."

"I can't! We don't have time for this! We should be looking for Syrus right now!" Zane yelled, and Aster pointed to him.

"Sorry, Satorious, but it looks like Zane wins this round."

"Thank you. Now lets go!" Zane said, then ran out of the room with everyone else following him.

-- That night --

Everyone who had come along on the little journey was now deep in the woods, with the full moon overhead. It was a really creepy path they were walking on, but no one was backing down an inch. That was of course until something happened that made all of their flashlights go off at once.

"Okay. That's creepy." Bastion said.

"You're telling me." Jaden said.

"You guys can't back out now. We need you." Zane said.

"Have I ever backed down from anything? I don't think so. So why would I back down from this?" Jaden asked. "I'm not scared of anything." He said, sounding pretty brave.

Then, they heard a twig snap and Jaden screamed as he hid behind Bastion, causing Zane to chuckle.

"Not scared of anything, huh?" Zane asked.

"Oh, shut up." Jaden said.

"Quiet." Satorious all of a sudden said.

"What is it?" Aster asked.

"I hear Syrus. Now shush." He said. Soon, he narrowed it down to where Syrus was. "Jaden, Bastion... you're standing on him."

"Beg your pardon?" Bastion asked.

"Move." Satorious said as he shooed them away a couple feet and started to dig up the dirt.

Soon, he found an underground door. He opened the door and Syrus was laying there. He went into the underground tunnel, picked Syrus up, and brought him back up.

Syrus had been thrashing around and that's when Satorious heard him, but he had passed out from lack of oxygen when Satorious had been digging him up.

"Syrus?" Zane asked as he knealed down beside him. "Is he okay?"

"He ran out of oxygen while he was down there. Someone is gonna have to do CPR." Satorious said as he put Syrus down.

"I'll do it." Zane said. Then leaned down and began giving Syrus CPR.

After a couple of minutes, Syrus started coughing and his eyes opened.

"Good boy. Good boy." Zane whispered to Syrus as he placed Syrus' head near his heart.

"What happened?" Syrus asked, weakly.

"You were kidnapped." Satorious explained. "Monkey took you."

"Monkey? But I thought Zane killed him."

"I thought that I did too." Zane said.

"Well, that's what I want to ask." Satorious said. "When you stabbed Monkey... where exactly did you stab him?"

"In the stomach. Why?"

"Because the only way to kill a dragon is to stab him through the heart. That's how he came back."

"So, I gotta kill him again?" Zane asked. "Wow! I never thought that I would say those words."

"Yes. You have to kill him again." Satorious said.

"And this time do it properly." Aster added, and Zane stuck his tongue out at him.

"You have to remember that when I "intended" to kill him... I didn't know that he was a fuckin' dragon!" Zane yelled. "And even if I had known I still wouldn't of known how to kill him properly!"

"One question... where did Satorious go?" Jaden asked.

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Great! First Syrus gets kidnapped and now Satorious has gone missing! What the fuck is going on?!

Find out on the next chapter of Dragons of Light And Darkness!