When I woke up that morning I found myself wet. It took me a moment to realise that I had been dunked into a river. I scrambled to the surface and took a deep breath of air. 

"REFLAMEN!" I screamed. 

Reflamen was on the banks of the river, laughing so hard bursts of fire were flickering from his nose. He lay down on the ground as he tried to get his breath back. I swam over to the bank, then had an idea. I imagined the ground beneath Reflamen to suddenly flick up, like a catapult. Reflamen went sailing through the air before landing in the river with a gigantic crash. 

I made it to the shore, weezing with laughter. Reflamens head made it above the water, he looked around in surprise. 

'What was that?' he said.

Laughing to hard to answer I showed him an image of the ground below him flicking him up and into the river.  

'Yes, but how did that happen?' said Reflamen, as he looked through my memories, 'Ohhhh.'

He gave me a dragonic glare. I shivered in fake fear, before suddenly standing up and running into the forest. Reflamen swam to the bank and got out and started to race after me. We chased each other around the forest for a while until Reflamen managed to pick me up from the air. 

He carried me to the river, then dove head first into the water. I swam, laughing, to the bank. 

'Okay,' I said, 'We better get going, it's almost eight.' 

Reflamen swam up next to me. He breathed warm air all over me, drying me almost instantly.

'Okay, let's get going,' said Reflamen.

I jumped onto his back and we began our trip back to the Resistance. We flew back fast, but Reflamen seemed to take his time, twirling through the wind, with fancy flips and twists. 

It was about eight forty by the time we got to the Resistance. Reflamen entered with a sudden burst of speed and did a pinwheel in the air before landing at the Resistance. 

'Show off,' I said.

Reflamen snorted. 

"Hello," said Rogan, who was standing at the side of the landing area.

"Hi," I replied as I slid of Reflamen.

"So how was it?" asked Rogan.

"It was great!" I said smiling, "It was by far the funnest thing I've ever done!"

"Was it now," said Rogan.

He started to walk over to us, "Where's your saddle?"

"Don't need one," I said, "It's actually really comfortable up here, and it's relatively easy to stay on."

Rogan frowned, "You sure you don't want a saddle."

I nodded my head.

Rogan shrugged, "Alright, your funeral."

Suddenly a man came running up to Rogan.

"There's a dragon approaching the mountain," said the man.

"Really," said Rogan, 'You sure it wasn't Reflamen."

"No sir," said the man, "It's hard to make it out, but it looks like a black dragon."

Rogan drew his sword, "There's only one black dragon it could be. Prepare the archers."

"Yes sir!" said the man.

"Wait!" I said before the man could leave, "Don't worry he posses no threat."

"And how would you know that?" asked Rogan, crossing his arms. 

"Trust me," I said, "I know this dragon wouldn't harm you."

The man looked at me, then back at Rogan, "Sir?"

"Tell the man to stay down," said Rogan, "I trust you Derrick, but if the camp does get destroyed, I'm blaming you."

I smiled at him.

'Move to the side,' I said to Reflamen.

'Why? Who is this dragon?' replied Reflamen.

'It's Derrick's dragon,' I said, 'Shadowrang.'

'Shadowrang?' exclaimed Reflamen, 'Why would a dragon be named that.' 

'You'll see,' I said.

I looked into the distance and saw a black dot steadily approaching. The dot started to become bigger, and before long I could just make out the shape of a dragon. It was completely black, almost shadow like. The sun didn't gleam of it's scales like it usually did. The sun almost made the dragon look darker, like a black dot on white paper. It was also approaching at incredible speed.

'Derrick must be a really good rider to be able to stay on at that speed,' said Reflamen.

'You have no idea,' I said.

Reflamen began to surch my mind for answers, but I closed it to him, so he couldn't find out.

'Hey, come on! That's not fair,' he said.

I just laughed. 

The black dragon was finally close enough to be able to spot the rider on it's back. Sure enough, the rider was Derrick. His dragon swooped in and landed on the platform. It was actually very small for a dragon, it only came up to my shoulder, but it was pure black, every inch of it, including the horns and talons. It's eyes were yellow, like most dragons, and they stood out so much that you couldn't help but look into them. It's wings were closed into its body but I could tell that the wings were almost as long as the dragon itself. 

Derrick climbed of the back of the dragon, patted it on it's head, then started to walk towards Rogan.

"Derrick?" said Rogan.

"Hello brother," said Derrick smiling.

He reached behind his back and pulled a long golden staff, with a red and black ball on the top.

"I think this is what you've been looking for," he said.

Rogan could only nod his head. Derrick gave him the staff. Rogan gave the staff to the man next to him and told him to put it in his tent. The man ran off.

"You're... you're a rider," said Rogan surprised.

Derrick smiled. 

"Shadowrang," he said, the dragon looked up at him, "Come and meet my brother."

Shadowrang walked up to Derrick then looked at Rogan. He said something to Rogan that I couldn't here. I walked over to ther group.

"Aah, Derrick," said Derrick.

"Hello, good to see you back," I said smiling. 

"And good to see you," said Derrick, "Reflamen's done a bit of growing since I last saw him."

"I know, we wen't on our first flight last night," I said, "And what about this guy. Shadowrang... wasn't it? Interesting dragon."

Derrick smiled, "You seem to know a lot about him."

"How could your tell?" I said smiling, already knowing what he was going ot say.

"You don't seem that surprised at all, you seem almost comfortable," he replied, "and you called of an attack on me before I got here."

"I'm not even going to ask how you know that last part," I said.

Shadowrang seemed to be studieing me in and almost suspicious way. I looked down at him and smiled. 

"Hello," I said.

'Hello,' replied a voice in my head, 'I've seen a lot about you from Derrick's memories.'

'Really,' I replied, 'And what did you think.'

'You're a man of many secrets,' said Shadowrang, 'Almost like my Derrick, and the fact that even I can't break into your mind is even more suspicous.' 

'You can trust me,' I said.

'I know I can,' replied Shadowrang, 'But can you trust me?'

'Yes,' I replied.

Shadowrang seemed taken back by my answer, 'Really?'

'Yes, why do you think I called of the attack. I know who to trust and who not to, Shadowrang, so you don't have to worry about me,' I said.

Shadowrang nodded his head in gratitude. During the time that me and Shadowrang were talking Derrick and Rogan had gotten into an agument.

"He's a dark dragon!" said Rogan, "Do you know what that means! It means that you are turning, Derrick! A dark dragon wouldn't choose you unless you were becoming evil! You know that! And the fact that the Forbidden Blade has chosen you as well it makes it all the worse!"

"What do you want me to do?" yelled back Derrick, "I can't get rid of the blade, you know that, and Shadowrang is my dragon! You know the link between dragon and rider is unbreakable! And I don't feel any different as before. I'm still the same person. I may have become a dragon rider, and my blade may be the most destructive force on the planet, but that doesn't mean that I'm turning! Shadowrang isn't evil either, if anything he's a peace keeper. He hates killing, more then I do!"

Suddenly something else appeared in the distance. As it got closer I recognised it.

'What? But that wasn't exsposed to be in the story,' I thought.

'What shouldn't be in the story?' said Reflamen.

'That,' I said, directing Reflamen's eyes to the blob in the distance.

'Oh, great,' said Reflamen.

"But he's a dark dragon!" replied Rogan, "He will turn, just you wait, and when he does, you will to!"

"Well what do you think I should do, get rid of him! He's my dragon, if he goes, I go," said Derrick.

"Aaah, guys," I said.

"We can't have a dark dragon in the camp! It will go against everything we've ever known! And you can't leave because we need you here, we're planning an attack on the king next month!" yelled Rogan.

"Guys," I said, trying to break up the fight.

"Well you choose, if he goes I go. If he stays, I stay. Simple as that!" yelled Derrick.

"GUYS!" I screamed.

"WHAT!" they both yelled at once.

"If you would care to notice, there is a large force of about twenty dragon riders coming towards us, and they look like there in battle formation," I said.

Both Rogan and Derrick looked where I was pointing.

"Get the dragon's ready!" said Rogan, "Dragon rider attack, Dragon rider attack!"

He turned to Derrick, "We'll talk about this later, for now, get on your dragon and we'll see what you can do. I might even change my mind about Shadowrang here."

Derrick looked at Shadowrang, then back to Rogan.

"But he can't kill them, it's not in his heart," said Derrick, almost pleadingly.

"Well, if he can't then capture them," said Rogan, "But he might not have a choice."

Shadowrang seemed to gulp. Derrick walked over to him and patted him on the head. They seemed to have a mental conversation with each other. Shadowrang nodded his head. Derrick then jumped onto Shadowrang's back. 

I looked at them, before running over to Reflamen and climbing up his side, onto his back.

'Why do you think there here?' said Reflamen.

'I don't know,' I said, 'They might have followed us this morning, or maybe they were on patrol, looking for us, and spotted Derrick and Shadowrang.'

'Most likely the later one,' said Reflamen.

'I told you we shouldn't have gone to the city,' I said.

'Hey! Don't start playing the blame game on me, you were the one that agreed,' said Reflamen. 

'Alright, sorry, but this wasn't exsposed to happen,' I said, 'We only have to hope that no one important gets killed.'

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Hey guys. New chapter. Hope you enjoyed, vote and comment if you did. What where your thoughts on Derrick's new dragon. It was very hard to come up with a name for him. Anyway, thanks for reading, See Ya!

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