A/N: So here is my next chapter. And I must say this. My summer sucks this year. My moms boss just died on August fifth. She was such a spunky up beat person. And now I don't get to listen to her on the radio in the morning on my to school this year. I don't if I'm necessarily mourning. I did enough with Ryan. I just don't think I have anymore in me to mourn. So here's to another life gone, but one less aching soul in the world.

Again, this story is dedicated to all those who have lost loved ones, and those lost loves themselves. Steve, Savanna, Karri, you are now on that list.

Now my amazing reviewers! Those few people that keep me going. Seriously people I feel so alone over here! I am not above begging for reviews. So for now thank you billions of bunches to...

I.F.T.S.

And Coolcat101s

Now grab a cookie from the plate, sit back and read! Read away over the rainbows and blue skies!

I am insane aren't I?

"Ve~ This is the Bone Sea. Where all the skulls of people and raptors past have been returned to the ocean." Feli and Ludwig had headed away from the village limits today after two weeks re learning the lay out, to the far most northern beach on the east side of the large island. Easily a half day's trek by casaraptor, they had left early this morning, and it was already past noon. And despite his empty stomach growling, Feli knew better than to go in search of a fruit tee or even attempt to fish. You did not eat on a journey to the Bone Sea, for it would anger the spirits that could no longer partake of such things.

"Why are we here," Ludwig began as he slowly dismounted from Berlitz and fallowed Feli to the edge of the cliff, "I know I lost my parents, but why come here now. I know its not common to visit the dead." He asked. Feli didn't respond as he stood at the cliff's edge. The low ferns and tangled vines across the ground ended several meters back from the drop, and the raptors refused to go any further, as if scared of what lay beyond. Feli however showed none of that fear as he slipped to his knees in the dust covering the ancient magma cliffs. He bowed his head with his hand folded in his lap in silent prayer before opening his soft amber eyes to peer down into the sharp cut cove below.

Ludwig approached slowly, respectfully. And when he reached the edge and looked down he couldn't help the sharp intake of breath. The sea bellow was the same clear blue as the rest of the ocean around the islands. Green sea grass swirled with the tide on the bottom, maybe twelve feet under the surface, which was another good fifty feet down. The cliffs around were as black as any other with the thick layers of volcanic ash, lava, and water cooled obsidian. Yet settled in piles, and half buried in patches of sand, and poking up between the long swishing green blades, were skulls. Hundreds and hundreds of skulls.

All kinds, from the smallest of but toddler children, to the massive, pointed, and hallow ones of the oldest and largest casaraptors. Lower jaw bones had often been separated from the upper portions, and all of them had been bleach white by long time sun exposure. He winced as he watched a human skull, adult by the size, picked up by the tide and thrown again st the cliff, so that it spider webbed with cracks. He noticed others that bore similar markings from being tossed about. And others that were flat out missing pieces.

Ludwig slowly sank to his knees beside the brunette as the omega had, and sent up a silent prayer of his own almost automatically. This place invoked a feeling in him. Not the fuzzy, warm ones that most of the places he had re visited lately had. No this one was far more foreboding, and sorrowful, and left a bitter taste in his mouth like the herbs Kiku had made him eat for pain.

Opening his eyes once more he glanced over to Feli and found his eyes tracing something in the water. He fallowed his line of sight, and soon icy blues alighted on the pale gray form of a strange creature cruising into the cove. It had flat horizontal fluke (tail) fins, and elegant rounded pectoral and dorsal fins. It twisted almost playfully in the water, showing a pinkish under belly. It possessed a muzzle of sorts, though stunted and round. Over all it somewhat resembled one of the great sharks of the deep waters. Yet it was far to small to be even a juvenile one, being only about ten feet long to the sharks fifty, and the fins were turned the wrong way and rounded, not sharply cut.

"What is it?" He whispered curiously. Feli glanced at him for a second. His eyes were just as curious yet held a soft sadness as they should in a place such as this. If it weren't for the bones, one might have called it beautiful, but as it was, it was still a sad beauty to behold. Like when you see that single blossoming flower placed over a long forgotten grave on gray dreary mornings

"No one knows really. They live together in groups, but only one ever comes in at a time. Kiku once told me that they take the souls of those whose bones rest here back out to deeper water and then throw them up to gods in the sky when they leap." Feli explained quietly as his gaze fallowed after the creature as it circled in the cove, nuzzling through the bones, as if looking for something. It left a large casaraptor skull and then turned sharply left into another pile. Jabbing its muzzle into a small human skull, that of a child really, it wheeled about and darted from the cove much faster than it had come.

They sat in a somewhat comfortable silence just watching where the soul retriever had disappeared. No others entered after it, though a few oddly assorted small fish did. Ludwig was still vaguely curious though.

"Feli, why are we here?" He asked in a whisper once more. This time Feli fully faced him turning away from the hauntingly alluring water before and below them. His eyes swam with sadness and if the blond alpha wasn't mistaken, sympathy.

"Your father died not long after we first met, in a great shark attack. And I never really knew either of my parents. You brought me here once, in the height of dry season, to honor all of them." The omega explained with a split second glance back at the sea below. Ludwig looked back to the swirling cove for a moment. Another light human skull was caught up in the tide, and smashed against the rough black cliffs. A shiver ran up his spine, and he winced once again at the sight. Feli's look gained a new concerned sparkle, but Ludwig didn't noticed as he slipped halfway back into a more recent memory.

One of a small skeleton left half buried in the white hot sands of a brown and lifeless little island. Makeshift drift wood and grass huts lined the crusty and dry land behind him as he watched the wind re-bury and un-bury different parts of the once human body. The brittle white bones looked as if they might dissolve into powder and be carried off with the wind as the sand was. A scrape of spare leather still clung around the long dead vertebrae of the neck, identifying the body as that of a little blond girl he once knew...

Another one gone...

Like far, far too many others...

Dead... on a dead island...

"Ludwig?" The omega prince's worried tone brought him back from the waking half nightmare. It could have been worse. He met swimming honey eyes that glinted with worry. "Are you alright. Ve~ You looked scared of something?" Feli asked. He shook his head to rid himself of the last of the memory.

"I am fine. Just, this place brought up a bad memory. I'm alvight now though." He said standing and brushing the dust from his pant legs. Feli slowly copied him and watched as Ludwig head back to Berlitz who waited at the tree line. The casaraptor was as worried as the omega trailing behind and cooed to his partner in such a manner. The blond alpha patted his neck in reassurance.

"To early for this one?" Feli asked as Felicity came forward to meet him through the trees. Ludwig nodded hesitantly not looking away from Berlitz at all, still somewhat haunted but the image if the swirling sea of bones behind him. He didn't want to talk about it right now.

"To early. Maybe something a bit... easier?... to recall tomorrow?" He said. Feli voiced his agreement, but it appeared as though it never reached his ears. He simply turned Berlitz around away from the cliff side, mounted, and trotted off into the distance. He watched the green and yellow plume of his tail vanish and blend into the thickly foliage. Felicity nudged his side and looked after the blue raptor with the same concern her partner expressed. He leaned over her head and wrapped his arms around her neck from above. He rested his cheek against her cool red scales and watched the tall pale form disappear completely with a soft sigh.

"He's remembering things. But he still so distant from me Felicity... what do I do?" He asked the she-raptor quietly. His own voice sounded detached from his body to his ears. It held a quality of longing, one that wished to be held and comforted instead of left behind. Felicity cooed in he attempts to comfort him but while it was no less appreciated, it wasn't human comfort.

"Feli!" He looked up sharply as the brush rustled and Ludwig reappeared on a dancey Berlitz. The blue casaraptor was anxious to get away from the spirits that filled the air. Even if his master could not sense them, he could, and he did not like it. "Vhat are you vaiting for? I thought you vere right behind me. Come on." The blond said. Feli could feel the pull of alpha influence in the air, tinged with worry. He lifted away from his casaraptor's neck and blinked rapidly up at him for a moment.

"Oh nothing. Vee~ I was just thinking." He said simply before hoisting himself up into Felicity's now well worn saddle. The old shark skin was still smooth and sound as the day it had been made. Ludwig narrowed blazing blue eyes on him for a moment in disbelief, but seemed to accept the excuse as he waited for Felicity to take up position beside Berlitz. Feli sighed to himself before nudging Felicity to step up next to the blue casaraptor. When they drew even, the blond alpha gave a commanding nod, and the two set off away from the striking yet haunting grounds.

A/N: Well I have another funeral to attend on Saturday. Though no traveling half way across the country necessary this time thank goodness. Still its sad to see such a wonderfully bright and energetic person gone from the world.

Until next time you have this new information to ponder and mull over. What's with this dusty island that Ludwig knows of? Will Ludwig ever remember his old love for him? Or will he have to fall in love all over again? Well dorogoy (hint: its Russian), you'll just have to wait and find out.