Ulrich walked the streets alone at night. He was heading to the park, for a date with Yumi. He grinned at how he ended up asking her.

Flash Back (A few days earlier)

"Spike I can't do this." Ulrich said as Spike pushed him in to the park.

"That's why you have me here. Besides she's probably not even there."

"Is your relationship with Erin so screwed up that you think you always have to help me with Yumi?"

"Now what kind of stupid question is that? Yes, my relationship with Erin so screwed. And I don't think I need to help you. Because you do need help."

They eventually came to a clearing. Spike pulled Ulrich down into the bushes, For leaning up against a tree play fetch with Fang was Yumi.

"Damnit they weren't sabots to be here before us." Spike whispered to himself.

"What!" Ulrich whispered. Yumi looked over to the bushes.

"(Shit)" Fang thought to himself. "(Think! Think! Think! Think! Think! …Got it!)" Fang grabbed a stick and pounced on Yumi. "(Come on, come on, throw it again, throw it again!)" Fang said (I know he thought it but you know what I mean.) happily.

"Okay" Yumi said as she threw the stick, but not before looking back at the bushes. Fang raced after the stick.

"(This is so degrading.)" Fang thought. "(Spike you owe me big time.)"

"You set this up!" Ulrich whispered.

"Well duh." Spike whispered. "For God sakes I have to trick Erin into going out on a date with me." Ulrich was about to say something when Spike but in "Oop her back's turned." He said as he kicked Ulrich out of the bushes. Ulrich jumped to his feet before Yumi turned around.

"Ulrich, hi." She said as she turned around.

"Uh hi." Ulrich replied.

"(This is taking to long.)" Fang thought. He trotted up behind Yumi, and pushed her into Ulrich. Ulrich stood there with Yumi in his arms. Fang walked into the bushes.

End Of Flash Back

Ulrich sat on a bench under a street light.

"Ulrich." Said someone behind him. Ulrich turned around to see Yumi.

"Yumi hi." Ulrich replied as he got up and walked towards her. "Shall we?"

Later

Yumi and Ulrich walked through the forest talking and laughing.

"You're serious, Odd snores?" Yumi asked.

"Yeah and Jeremy talks about Aelita in his sleep." Suddenly Yumi's eyes went wide. "What?" Ulrich asked as he turned around to see a shadow (An actual shadow).

"That's the shadow I told you about."

"The one that followed you through the sewers?" Yumi nodded.

"The name is stalker. (That fits)" The shadow hissed. Ulrich glared at the shadow and stepped infront of Yumi. "Come on boy lets see what you've got." Stalker challenged.

"Alright." Ulrich said before he charged the shadow. But when he jumped at it… he went through it (Duh he's a shadow). "What the… I … I went right through him."

"Yeah, but I won't go through you!" Stalker yelled as he punched Ulrich in the face sending him flying.

"Ulrich!" Yumi shouted as she ran up to and knelt down by him. "Ulrich are you alright?" Ulrich appeared to be in a daze.

"That guy packs a punch." He said.

"Come here you!" Stalker exclaimed as he grabbed Yumi by the wrist and pined her to a near by tree. Stalker pulled out a needle, stabbed it into Yumi's arm and took out some blood.

"Let her go!" Ulrich shouted as he tackled Stalker to the ground. "So I have to catch him by surprise if I want to hurt him." Ulrich thought. Suddenly Stalker punched Ulrich thus sending him flying again. As soon as Ulrich stood up he was hit by a brogue of punches.

"You know I, got my name from having to stalk your girlfriend." Stalker explained. "Day… and night." Stalker's voice deepened at the last part. "You know she's not to bad looking underneath all that black clothing." Suddenly Ulrich punched Stalker square in the face sending him flying this time. Stalker turned into a young man with blond hair and ice blue eyes. Needless to says Stalker was pissed. He turned back into a shadow and seemed to grow claws.

"Prepare to die boy." Stalker said as he lunged at Ulrich and slashed his shoulder. Ulrich landed on the ground hard clutching his shoulder. Stalker walked up to Ulrich ready to go in for the kill when.

"STALKER!" Someone shouted. Stalker turned around to see Griff standing on a tree limb. "X.A.N.A. wants you now get going!" He shouted.

"But I…" Stalker tried to say.

"I said get going!" Stalker growled then looked back to Ulrich.

"I'll just take this then." He hissed as he took Ulrich's now blood stained coat. "Later."

When Stalker was gone Yumi ran to Ulrich who was still on the ground. She knelt down beside him. To Yumi's surprise Ulrich pulled her in close to him and glared at Griff.

"He's still trying to protect me." Yumi thought. Griff jumped off the limb and landed next to them. Ulrich pulled Yumi in closer. Griff knelt down by Ulrich and looked at the slash marks on his shoulder. Just then Ulrich passed out.

"Come on I'll take you to the factory." Griff said in a kind voice. Yumi moved back. "You're going to have to trust me, otherwise your friend's going to bleed to death." Faced with this Yumi stood up with Ulrich hanging on her shoulder. Griff turned into a hippogriff and let Yumi and Ulrich on his back. Once they were on, Griff took off. Yumi held on to the hippogriff for dear life.

In The Lab

Griff set Ulrich down on a table and began to look around for something.

"What are you looking for?" Yumi asked. Griff continued to look around until he picked up a vile marked Ulrich with green liquid. He walked back over to Ulrich and poured some of it on his wound. Ulrich groaned in pain, but his wound began to heal. "Thank you." Yumi said somewhat shocked that Griff was helping them. Griff nodded and walked away. As soon as Griff left Ulrich began to wake up.

"Y… Yumi…" He groaned.

"Hey." Yumi greeted. Ulrich smiled. Then his eyes went wide, he shot up. "Where's Griff!"

"He's gone." Yumi explained.

"Where are we?"

"At the factory." Yumi had to stop herself from laughing. "I have to hand it to you Ulrich, this is one date I won't forget." Ulrich smiled then laid back down.

At Erin's House

"We're leaving now." Amanda said.

"Okay." Erin replied while sitting on the couch watching TV.

"Bye!" Rick called as he left.

"Make sure Sam goes to bed after the shows over."

"Awwww mom." Sam moaned.

"Bye love you." With that Amanda was gone.

30 min. Later

"Alright squirt time for bed." Erin said.

"Awwww, but I don't want to." Sam whined.

"Okay, you want to sleep with Fang tonight?"

"Yes" Sam said with enthusiasm.

"Well Fang's bed time is right now so if you want to sleep with him you'll have to get ready for bed." In a flash Sam was gone and just as soon as he left he came back in his pajamas.

"Come on Fang." Sam said as he grabbed Fang's collar and began to drag Fang away.

"Night Fang Night Sam." Erin said.

1hr. Later

Erin sat on the couch watching TV till she heard something outside. Erin slowly made her way to her room. She walked over to a near by safe. She opened it to revel… nothing.

"What the hell?" She said. "Where's my gun?"

"Looking for this?" Someone behind her asked. Erin turned around to see Drak.

"You."

"Yes me."

"What do you want?" Erin asked.

"Is it so much just to talk?" He asked in a rather innocent tone.

"You think I'm going to fall for one of your mind game." Erin snapped.

"You do realize that your nephew is right next door, and I happen to have a gun." Faced with this Erin had no choice but to compile.

"Fine."

In The Kitchen

Erin poured Drak a cup of coffee and sat down.

"So you said you wanted to talk? What about?" She asked. "If X.A.N.A. wants another date, you can tell him no."

"Can we leave the battle field behind us? At least for now?" Drak asked.

"If you give me my gun back."

"Sorry I can't trust that." Drak replied as he put the gun on a table behind him.

"So if you're not here on business then what are you here for?"

"Like I said… just to talk. There is know reason you and I can't act civilized." He explained.

"Can you? You tried to kill Spike." Erin said obviously agitated.

"X.A.N.A. put something in me. It makes it so I have to fight Spike."

"Can't you just get out of it." Drak shook his head sadly.

"I can't remember who I am. That means I can't get away." He said. "That's how X.A.N.A. controls a lot of people."

"But when we met at the factory, you spoke as though you knew who you were."

"I do and I do not all at the same time." Drak leaned over the table. "I need you to help me. I can't keep living like this. My brother is afraid of me." Suddenly a high pitch beeping was heard, Drak's face went pale. "I have to go. I don't know when I'll be able to talk to you like this again." With that Drak was gone.

"How can I help him when I barley know who I am?" Erin asked out loud.

On a Train

Spike and Lace were in an isolated room on the train, Lance was sitting on one side reading a book, and Spike was on the other sleeping.

"Hey Spike." Lance said trying to get his brothers attention.

"Hunnnnn?" Spike said sleepily.

"You think the others are okay?" Spike shrugged his shoulders. His head still hurt from earlier that day (banging it on a tree will do that to you) so he did not want to talk.

"What if X.A.N.A. goes after Yumi or Aelita or even Erin." Spike sighed.

"Look if X.A.N.A. goes after Yumi Ulrich will be there. If Aelita is attacked Jeremy will know about it and call those of us that are close."

"And Erin?" Lance inquired.

"Erin can take care of herself." Spike replied flatly. "Man it's getting hot it here." He said before Lance could comment about his last sentence. Spike took off his coat and shirt.

"But what about Erin's heart problem?"

"Okay if you're so sure that the girls are getting attacked then why haven't we been attacked?" Spike asked.

"Because it's hard to get on a moving train." Someone said behind them. Spike and Lance turned to see a knight and an archer (kind of looks like green arrow).

"Okay, we'll call them at the next stop." Spike said, obviously convinced that his friends were in trouble.

"You won't make it to the next stop." The knight said. Spike slid on his gloves and charged the Knight as Lance took on the archer. "Come on boy you can't beat me I'm covered in thick armor."

"Yeah but that doesn't make you a better fighter!" Spike said as he slashed off the knights armored arm (just the armor no the actual arm).

"How!" The knight yelled completely shocked.

"Like I said better equipment doesn't make you a better fighter."

Meanwhile

Lance was having his own problems with the archer. As their fight escalated into the hall.

"You think you can beat me!" The archer yelled. The made their way into the last car. All of Lance's punches had been deflected thanks to the archer's bow. Then the archer managed to punch Lance in the face hoping to send him flying. But instead Lance just took it and didn't move.

"Now's my chance." Lance said to himself as he returned with a swift kick to the chest. Lance charged him, encircled his arms around the man's waist and began to run to the end of the car.

"Oh no you don't!" The archer yelled as he took out an arrow and thrust it into Lance's shoulder.

"Ahhh!" Lance howled in pain but kept going until he got to the end of the car. He then opened the door and began to push him out. The archer stabbed Lance in the back with another arrow be for he pushed him out. Lance turned around to see everyone into car was staring at him. "Think, think stupid think!" Lance mentally yelled. "No ticket." He said as he yanked out the arrows.

With Spike

"Your going down." The knight said as threw Spike through a wall. Spike would have fallen out if he hadn't grabbed the side of the wall. Suddenly Spike grabbed the knight.

"Not without you!" With that Spike let go of the wall (but not the knight). They both fell. Out of the car and hit the ground hard.

Spike and the knight stood up.

"This isn't over Spike!" The knight yelled before he limped off.

Back On The Train

Lance looked in their room (or cabin or whatever you call it) noticed the hole in the wall, and that Spike was missing. "Must have fallen out." Lance said as he made his way to the hole and looked as though he was going to jump out. "He'll be fine he knows the way home." Lance laid down with Spike's coat over him. "Spike must be cold without his shirt or coat on." Lance thought.

Outside

"Damn it's cold out!" Spike shouted. Just then it began to snow. "Aww come on!"

Else Where

"Where were you?" Griff asked as Drak touched down infront of him (he's in his dragon form).

"I could ask you the same question." Drak replied as he turned back into his human form. Griff said nothing. Drak looked behind him to see Stalker walking into X.A.N.A.'s quarters. "Oh great Stalker's here."

In X.A.N.A.'s Quartrs

Stalker entered a room bathed in a deep crimson. X.A.N.A. was sitting in an armchair, while Nova worked on his armor in a near by corner. Stalker put both the vile of Yumi's blood and Ulrich's bloody coat.

"Well done Stalker. You will be rewarded." X.A.N.A. said as he placed the vile with Yumi's blood in a near by box. "Nova, you can leave now." Nova bowed and began to leave, but was stopped by Stalker grabbing her wrist.

"How bout I collect my reward tonight?" Stalker asked not looking at X.A.N.A. but at Nova. Nova's stomach lurched.

"Pleas don't say yes." She mentally prayed.

"Very well." X.A.N.A. replied. Nova went pale. She felt something snake around her waist she looked down to see it wasn't an arm but instead a white tail.

"Sorry Stalker but, she's mine tonight." Drak said as he pulled Nova away from Stalker (with his tail). Stalker glared at him only to have Drak glare back. X.A.N.A. looked at all three of them.

"Stalker, Nova you are dismissed." Both Stalker and Nova turned to leave.

"Go wait with Griff. I'll be out soon." Drak whispered. Once they were gone Drak turned to X.A.N.A.

"Why did you protect her?" X.A.N.A. asked.

"Sir I did not see it fit to have Stalker do that to her." Drak replied.

"Why?"

"She has a lot of potential. And a lot of spirit."

"That much spirit is not good." X.A.N.A. explained. "If an animal has that much spirit you need to brake it. She needs to be broken. Stalker needs to…" Before X.A.N.A. could finish Drak but in.

"I'm willing to take her on as a teammate." Drak said abruptly. X.A.N.A. looked at him for what seemed like hours. Just then X.A.N.A. grabbed his sword and swung it at Drak, stopping just before his neck. Drak didn't even flinch.

"Fine she'll stay with you and your brother." Drak bowed and left.

Once Drak shut the door behind him, he heaved a sigh. He looked over to his brother and new teammate.

"Griff go move another bed into our room." Drak whispered into his brother's ear. He looked to Nova. "Come on." Nova followed him.

In The Hallway

Nova continued to look at the ground fearing what Drak might do to her and what Stalker would do if she refused him. Drak saw the fear in her eyes.

"Don't worry I'm not going to do anything to you." He said. Nova looked up at him. "Your not worth that time." Despite the insult Nova smiled (Drak didn't notice). Drak opened the door to his room. "You'll be staying here from now on. Your our new teammate." Nova was shocked at first but then hugged him. "Hey let go, let go!" Drak shouted.

"Awwwwwwww." Griff said as he pulled a bed in.

"Shut-up." Drak snapped.

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Okay… not much else to say about that. So what do you think. Can Griff and Drak be trusted. And what's with Drak and Nova. Why do you think he protected her? Pleas review.