Hi guys! I'm still alive =)

Sorry for not updating in…a LONG time, but from now on, you'll get updates about once or twice a month till the story is finished! I promise!

And why, you ask, should you expect me to keep this promise? The answer is simple: I have to practice my typing so that I can accurately get more than 35 words/minute without looking at the monitor or keyboard, otherwise I won't be able to graduate!

By the way, this chapter is unusually short, but a lot of things happen in it, so yeah…

Without further ado, let's start on the next chapter of Dragon Riders!

It was when they were walking towards camp that Emily noticed something. Her jewel had changed color. It was now a dark purple, instead of a normal multicolored one. It's probably some new kind of magic making it act this way, she thought, and kept walking, making a mental note to tell Kara and Adriane about it later.

"Hey Lily," Kara whispered to her, using the code name. "Xena just told me that my dad took the revelation thing so badly that he practically ran out of Ravenswood."

"Really?" Emily whispered back. Then she gasped as a sudden wave of nausea hit her. The last this she remembered was Kara's voice screaming "Oh my God! Xena, come here quick!"

What she didn't know was that "Xena" never did come; that it was Arya who came instead, running…running from half a mile away toward a panic-stricken Kara who had realized that one of her best friends was missing…

Adriane

"Here we are." The Dark Sorceress led her toward one of the many doors in the castle. "Now we may sit and talk in peace." She smiled her vampire smile as they entered what looked like a sitting room, though it was hard to tell; there was barely any light.

Adriane glared at her. If she were not bound by the sorceress's gossamer ropes, she would have already been knocked out by Adriane's magic.

Liked it? Didn't like it? Tell me in a review! I mean, I'm proud if it because I typed it up from my notebook in less than half an hour, but what about you?

By the way, there's, 403 words here, including the author's notes, and without the author's notes, its 232! I guess I might, just might, be able to graduate!