Wow, thanks for the reaction to the last chapter, it's been great!! ;) Aaaaahhhh, my adoring public.... (only kidding, lol!!!!) A-Truesdale guessed what was coming next in the story at school and I was like 'DAMN!!!! Have to think of a new idea.....' and sorry, Gaara'sLittleAngel94Xx, you guessed wrong. Remember, all dragon Riders are welcome!!! Soon, the new list of dragon riders will be up on my profile, so keep your eye on it.... If you haven't already seen it, go check it out and watch for your OC!!! Anyway, in the last chapter, there was a huge fight concerning.... well everyone and you got your first glimpse at the Mage's dragon (not literally but you know what I mean ;)....

Now, I need you all to vote on something. There are two sets of two earth dragon riders that have been put up for being the heads of the earth department, but I like them all, so I'm letting you decide.

Set 1

Imorei and earth dragon Armemnon

Yahmata and earth dragon Telrious

Set 2

Kaise and earth dragon Ase

Juuri and earth dragon Alien

Tell me which ones you prefer!!! E&R!!! (Enjoy & Review)

EgyptianShadowWolf xXx

Yugi watched the busying day pass by from his favourite high spot.

The air dragons' training arena consisted of a mountain, though not very big, it was the tallest point of the whole dragon training centre. There were tunnels in the mountains that people could walk along, but you had to be careful that you didn't get hit by a passing dragon.

There was one tunnel however that only Yugi knew about, as he had made it himself, and was disguised behind a large boulder. And if anyone had ever found it, no one would really be able to fit through it, as he made it small enough for only him.

Earlier that day, he pushed the boulder to one side crawled through, turned slightly to move it back in place, then crawling the rest of the way to the end. It then led out to a ledge that overlooked everything. At night, when people of domino city put their lights on, it looked beautiful.

Yugi sat there now, head resting on the side of the ledge, gazing over the view, not fully taking in what was going on. His mind was distracted.

He still remembered Sukai being sent off to the dragon healers. And he still remembered what the nurse had said. He cast his mind back to when Sukai had only just been set off...

Yugi watched with tearful eyes as his beloved dragon was taken away by two older and stronger dragons. He started to run forward. He wanted to see where they were going.

Hands grabbed his shoulders and pulled him back.

"NO!" Yugi had shouted.

"NO, LET ME GO WITH HER!"

"Yugi!" a calm but strict voice had said.

"Yugi! She's in the care of the dragon healers! She'll be fine! Yugi stop shouting!"

Yugi had stopped struggling and looked behind him to see who was holding him back.

It was an earth dragon rider known as Momo. Yugi knew this dragon rider, as she was one of the younger dragon riders, like him. Her dragon, Daikai, was a year younger than Sukai, and wonderful dark green colour.

Behind her was Tatsuya with her water dragon Aoi. They both had concerned looks on their faces.

"She'll be O.K, won't she?" Yugi had asked and both girls had exchanged glances.

"Best see a nurse about that..." Tatsuya had said.

When Yugi had done that, he asked the same question.

The nurse had a solemn look on her face.

"Well, Sukai is a strong dragon, but I'm not going to lie to you. She is in a bad state. A very bad state.....It's 50:50 whether she'll pull through...."

Behind her, her water dragon had recoiled a little, with sympathy in its face....

Yugi sighed.

50:50.....

Yugi bit back a fresh flow of tears. This was Ramses fault. This was Yami's fault.

Yugi suddenly got up and crawled as fast as he could out his secret tunnel and through the main tunnels. He ran right out of the Air area and ran toward the earth. He ran through tall pine trees and over boulders. He had to find the dragon responsible.

Soon, he was running by the side of the earth training rings, getting astonished looks from the riders. He ran for a long time. He didn't know where he was going. He didn't care.

Then a shadow cast over him. He glanced up, but lost his footing. He fell on the ground with a cry.

He glanced ahead of him and saw a dragon land. It was as black as ebony.

Ramses.

Yugi stood up, shaking slightly from tiredness. His leg hurt quite bad, as he'd landed on it.

He clenched his fists, as he stared up at the large dragon. Ramses was quite still, gazing at Yugi.

Yugi should have known it from the start. When Yugi had first seen Ramses, he had piercing red eyes.

Red eyes. The colour of evil....

"Where's your rider?" Yugi asked in what he hoped was a brave voice.

Ramses growled slightly and turned his head toward the far right, indicating that Yami was quite far off.

"Take me to him. NOW" Yugi demanded. It occurred to Yugi that he wasn't thinking straight. He was asking his opponents dragon to take him somewhere. This dragon could kill him in one move....

Ramses turned and laid on the floor, looking from his back, to Yugi. Yugi took a deep breath.

And climbed aboard.

Ramses suddenly took to the air and flew in the east direction. Yugi could feel Ramses' power flowing through his body. This was a proud dragon.

Ramses seemed to fly for a while. The more astonished looks on rider's faces said it all.

Yugi's lost it.... Losing his dragon has gotten to him.....

But Sukai wasn't lost. Not yet.....

Ramses turned his head slightly, piercing Yugi's amethyst eyes with his emerald green ones. It took a few moments to click.

Wait? Green eyes? But Ramses' eyes had been red...

Yugi was distracted by Ramses suddenly landing and roaring out a greeting to a shadow in the rock. They were back by the air department, in another rock ledge, only bigger than Yugi's one. Yugi dismounted Ramses and faced the shadow. He knew it was Yami.

And sure enough, Yami revealed himself. He surprisingly had an ashamed look upon his face. Yugi was speechless. The argument he was hoping to have with Yami flew straight out the window. It was obvious now that Ramses' attack had not been planned. And it also seemed that Yami had nothing to do with it.

"Yugi....I'm sorry....I....I had no idea that Ramses would....." Yami trailed off, making half hearted hand actions.

Yugi swallowed painfully as he thought of Sukai.

"How could you?" Yugi demanded.

"How could you even think to hurt anyone's dragons, especially after we took you in!. There is a flippin' war because of you!" Yugi began to shout.

Yami gave a surprised expression. Yugi instantly knew he shouldn't have said about the disagreement between the armies.

"There's a war?" Yami's question pierced through his mind.

"No. Forget I said anything. I should be with Sukai right now. Hope you're proud of yourself" Yugi said, turning round.

"But I didn't plan it!" came the desperate reply.

Yugi turned round again to look at Yami.

"What do you mean?"

"I didn't plan it! Ramses started to growl and then he just took off. The weird thing was I couldn't contact him, like his mind was blocked to me. Also, his eyes went red.... it was scary, as his eyes are green...."Yami trailed off again.

Yugi glanced at Ramses. Indeed, his eyes were green.

Yugi began to think.

"Dragons don't randomly just attack. There has to be a reason." Yugi said to himself.

Ramses gently nudged Yugi's back, and Yugi spun round quickly, shocked. Ramses' eyes met his, and he instantly knew that Ramses was not an evil spirit. He was just like any other dragon.

Yugi frowned. There had to be some misunderstanding. Yugi was pretty sure that Ramses had been the one to cause the fight.

"It was almost as if he had another mind, like he was a different dragon..." Yami seemed to say to himself.

Yugi's eyes then widened in realization. He thought back to a lesson that had once been taught in one of his first years in the Syoku Ryu. He tried to remember exactly what the teacher had said.

"Dragon Manipulation. It's a strong spell. Cast by spirited dragons and their riders, who are mostly physics, they can turn dragons against their allies, even against their own riders. It can happen to any dragon that has a strong mind, it's highly complicated. Once the spell has been cast upon the dragon, the person controlling the spell also controls the dragon, and the dragon will do anything that the spell caster tells it to. Almost as if the dragon has another mind......"

Yugi ran through this in his mind. It made sense.

"You're dragons mind was taken over...." Yugi said slowly. Yami's face showed mixed emotion, including confusion.

Yugi quickly explained what he knew, and Yami's face turned to horror. Yugi then realized that the whole army thought that Ramses had done it on purpose. He had to make sure that any consequences. Then he thought of Sukai and his heart ached. But there was nothing he could do about that now. She was in good care.

Yugi thought quickly.

"Yami, I need to borrow Ramses, NOW!"

Yami nodded to Yugi and then to Ramses, who immediately turned so Yugi could climb on. Once he was, Ramses leapt over the side of the ledge and spread his wings, souring over the trees below.

"To the ice arena!" he instructed to Ramses, who nodded once and soured sharply to the left. They flew above trees which quickly turned to ice.

Once Ramses had landed, Yugi ran to where he could see Ookami, Hyou and Kibou, all by their dragons, talking amongst themselves. When they saw Yugi, they smiled. Then they saw Ramses and frowned.

Once Yugi reached them, he quickly explained what he thought happened, but to his surprise, all three shook their heads.

"Stop making excuses for him. He injured your dragon, you should be against him, not with him!" Ookami said critically.

"But it wasn't his fault!" Yugi said desperately.

Kibou stooped slightly to his level and put a hand on his shoulder.

"I understand you must be not thinking straight. It's quite hard I know to take in that your dragon is critically injured. Believe me, I've felt that pain. But you don't have to go to extremes to prove that you're not thinking straight. Everyone knows that you must feel terrible Yugi..." Kibou calmly said, staring into his eyes.

Yugi scowled. Great. Now they thought he was mad.

He was just about to protest when another dragon rider ran over. And he seemed in a hurry.

"Quickly, You must.....come with......me!" he cried breathlessly.

Kibou, Ookami and Hyou all looked at each other.

"We'll be back soon Yugi" Hyou said to him, before mounting Bast and flying off, with Ookami and Kibou in pursuit.

As Yugi watched them fly off, his mind began to race.

Just a few moments ago, he would do anything to see Yami and Ramses kicked out. Now, he was fighting to keep them in.....