Sorry I've been gone for so long!!!!! There are a few reasons as to why:

I've had writers block

I've been enjoying spring break (I've been out every day since splitting up from school and haven't been able to get to my laptop!!!!)

Anyways, I'm back now!!! Thanks to all the people who have followed me on this and added this to their favourites and so on, I still get surprised when I look on my emails and see that yet another person has added this story to their fave stories list!

Oh, another thing, if anyone needs a Beta Reader, I'll be happy to help!!!

Anyway, I trust that you've all had a good Easter, and will enjoy this chap. See ya laters!!!!

R&R

EgyptianShadowWolf xXx

Yugi sat in his room on his bed, his knees drawn to his chest, with his arms folded round them. He had sobbed far into the night, and now his eyes felt dry. Sukai wasn't going to make it.

Sukai was going to die....

Yugi looked down at the white dragon pendant that hung round his neck. He had been given it to keep track of Sukai's progress. The dimmer it glowed, the worse she was.

How cruel could fate be? He thought, how cruel could it be to let Sukai get ripped away from him like this. When The Mage had told Yugi, he could no longer think. He could no longer think or feel. All he knew was that his world was ending.

And now, 6 hours later, the reality had hit him like a slap in the face. At first, Yugi had blamed Ramses, as he was the one that had attacked Sukai, but he soon realised that he could not, as Ramses and been under a spell, and he was not in control of himself.

Yugi sighed and collapsed back on his bed. He looked up toward the ceiling and saw pictures of him and Sukai, when they were both in younger happier times. Yugi cast his mind back to when he had first found Sukai's dragon egg.

He was 16, and was in town with some of his friends. He had always dreamed of dragons, and liked to watch the mighty Syoku Ryu dragon Riders fly past overhead, causing a breeze to flow through the streets. Yugi had been walking through some of the back streets when he came across a glistening silver stone, half hidden by some rubbish bins. He went over to it, curious and gently touched its cool surface.

Yugi then remembered at how he had taken the egg home, and kept it in his room, without anyone knowing, and how surprised he was to come home from school one day to find a baby dragon on his bed, attempting to eat his pillow.

Yugi smiled faintly at this memory. His first ever memory of Sukai.

And then he brought his mind to think of the last time he had seen Sukai, lying down, her eyes closed, in pain. His last memory of her.

Yugi bit back a fresh flow of tears. Why did it have to be his dragon?

Everyone else's dragons had turned out fine. Sure, some of the dragons were still a little jumpy, and some growled whenever Ramses came near, and, yeah, Ookami's dragon Sora now refuses to go out into open fields, but at least their dragons are not strapped to a life support machine in a hospital.

Yugi felt like screaming.

He was now a dragon rider without a dragon. He would miss Sukai for the rest of his life. He would be kicked out of the Syoku Ryu.

Yugi felt like giving up. There was no more point. Nothing else to fight for. It was all gone. Before it had barely started.

Two more hours passed and Yugi was still in despair. A knocking then sounded at his window. Yugi ignored it at first, but then it just got irritating. Yugi sighed heavily and went to his curtains and drew them back.

And nearly jumped back two feet.

Ramses head pushed open the Balcony door and gave a Yugi a quizzical look. Yugi then noticed that Yami was jumping up onto his balcony. Ramses was standing on his back feet, his front feet on the balcony railing.

Yami had his calm smile on his face.

"I'm sorry, but Ramses has taken a big liking to you, so he wanted to check on you. We've both heard about Sukai. I'm..." Yami faltered and his smile momentarily went.

"...sorry.."

Yugi sighed again.

"That's the biggest load of rubbish I've ever heard." Yugi said, wrapping his arms round his chest.

"Excuse me?" Yami asked, slightly offended.

"The dragon wanted to see me? It's more like you did" Yugi said, his expression not changing.

"Well, I did, yeah, but Ramses did as well"

Yugi looked at Ramses. He had had enough of dragons for a while. And now it seemed he was being stalked by one. Yugi knew he was being over dramatic, but he couldn't help it. His own dragon was several miles away, lying unconscious, dying, while some people where probably next to her, talking about how they were going to bury her.

He couldn't take much more.

"JUST GET OUT!!" Yugi screamed at them.

Yami and Ramses jumped. They had not been expecting this.

"JUST GET OUT, GO!!!! STOP STALKING ME RAMSES! STOP CHECKING ON ME, STOP PROTECTING ME, STOP HELPING ME, JUST STOP STOP STOP!!!!" Yugi was now shouting at the top of his voice.

Yami looked at Ramses before jumping onto his back and flying off as quick as they could.

Yugi watched them go before collapsing on the floor and started to cry, and eventually drifted off into a dreamless sleep....

Iris opened her eyes slowly and blinked several times before lifting her graceful neck and looking about. All seemed quiet, but there seemed to be trouble, she could feel it. She fully stood up and stretched before calling to Kibou silently.

'Kibou, wake up. We need to go'

Iris waited patiently until Kibou opened her bedroom window and leaned out, stroking Iris's face.

"What's wrong?" Kibou asked.

'I don't fully know, but I think it has something to do with Sukai.'

"Yugi's dragon? But she's...well, you know..." Kibou reminded her.

'I know, but there is something else as well, like Sukai doesn't want to go...'

"Like, her spirit, her ghost?"

'No, because she isn't dead. Not yet, it's strange, I don't fully understand it myself.... I want to go and have a look and to try and understand what is going on'

Kibou nodded and got dressed. This was the only problem with Spirit dragons. They could sense ghosts and demons and any kind of spirit, human or animal. But they could also help them....

Kibou left her bedroom and out the front door and clambered onto Iris' back. Together they flew through the night sky. They took the long way around, careful not to pass Yugi's house. If Yugi saw them, he might get upset.

Kibou felt the blast of cold air in her face and closed her eyes. She hoped Sukai would be okay.

Kibou then felt a strong surge of anger. An anger toward Ramses.

'Damn all dark dragons. Damn them to hell...' Kibou thought angrily. Iris growled at this thought. Iris didn't like dark dragons any more than Kibou did.

"Is this what dark dragons are put on this earth to do?" Kibou asked aloud.

"To kill and destroy innocent dragons and riders like Yugi and Sukai?" she asked again.

'Like our partners....' Iris thought sadly.

Kibou looked down at the passing houses.

"Yes..." Kibou said quietly.

"Like our partners..."

Yugi opened his eyes to find himself laying on the floor still from last night.

He sat up, and realised that he had been laying at an angle as soon as pain shot through his left side. He got up slowly and sat on his bed, trying to remember what happened in the night.

As he relived the events, he was shocked at himself. Did he really do that? Ramses wasn't stalking him, he was protecting him, from the other dragon.

Yugi cradled his head in his hands. His life was going so wrong now. Why?

Yugi got dressed and decided that maybe a walk would clear things up.

Yugi left his house and jogged to the park that was nearby and slowly walked among the trees. It must have been about five in the morning, as the sky was a medium blue, as if the sun was about to rise, but you could clearly see everything.

The park was empty. Good, Yugi thought. He wouldn't be disturbed.

As he walked, he thought about the whole thing again. When Ramses got taken over, when he had attacked, how he had attacked Sukai. But something wasn't right.

Yugi had thought this before but had brushed it off.

Sukai had managed to stay strong the whole fight, but had only fainted right at the end, when the fighting had stopped. Doesn't that mean she collapsed from exhaustion? And if that was so, why was she nearly dying if it was just exhaustion?

There was no other explanation. Between where she fainted, and now, someone somewhere had done something to her, to make her as weak as this. The new found explanation dawned on Yugi and he froze with horror. The world seemed to stop. But what could he do? He was just a dragon rider with no dragon.

Yugi then thought. That was his strength wasn't it? He had a dragon, who was down, but not out. This fresh new determination flowed through Yugi.

He was going to help her get through this.

He reached in his jacket and pulled out the dragon pendant. He then stopped breathing.

How could this be? It was not possible?

The dragon pendant.....

Was no longer glowing....