(This happened a little after the thread, Dead and Loving It, so don't feel bad if you get confused.)

James sat in a chair in a bar. Listening to the music, people talking. Some of DCS were sitting at the bar table talking. Not yet realizing James was there. Darrk was out hunting. James was here because he was waiting for someone. The scar along his eye and jaw bone reflected in the light.

This scar had been given to him by Silintary, after the demeaned spirit had taken his body. James had gone to see Obsidian and was granted a new body, made of skeleton. But with consequences. James now had a short temper - a very short temper. If you ticked him off, he'd go off like an illegal firecracker. He just wasn't the same, even his personality had changed. Also, the new body, was a curse. He and Darrk would never be rid of it. They were Fear. But James had got his body back and Silintary was trapped inside hi again.

Actually, they were two things, the Hybrid Booster and The Fear Booster. Two completely different things, yet oh so deadly.
James leaned back in the chair so that it only stood on two legs. He put his hands behind his head and interlaced his fingers. He relaxed. No one in here had recognized him, not yet. Which was good, looking at it from one hand, the other hand... James needed to stop that hand thing, it was good to think things out clearly, but.... it was bad too.

Alexis raced down below in the city, there was no sign of humans nor dragons down below. Looking up water dripped from sheets of metal and pipes. Buildings stood at her sides as she walked the dead street. Black skies filled in with dark clouds, rainfall was aroused beyond the stips of the clouds. Even she could smell the rain.

In fact there was a dragon down there, and a hydrag.

Darrk was crouched low to the ground. Watching a hydrag. It was a young adult one, so Darrk really wasn't killing a defenseless creature.
He looked at it as it sniffed through things, He realized the best way to kill it.

If he could get onto its back and take one claw and rake it down the vertebrae where the shoulder meets the spine the creature would die, quick and painless. It would make no sound, it would feel nothing. With Darrk's enhanced senses he could tell exactly where the hydrag was.

A man walked into the bar not looking at James, but James new him, it was Malone. Malone walked to a table and sat there.

Alexis stopped at a corner, rain dripped from the clouds as it poured from her shoulder blades, back, snout, and neck. To her left was an empty road and other side was a dead end. Thrusting her head and body back, Alexis turned her body around to her right and headed down that road.

Darrk stalked silentley, waiting for a single moment. That same hungry look in his eyes grew stronger.

James dozed off.
He stood in a glenn. A river ran threw it, there was a figure a shadowy figure of human and dragon. They spoke, "Blood is thicker than water."

Water streamed down her back, making little rivers and falling off her belly as it reached it's end. Dripping from her muzzle and lower jaw, Alexis blew water from her nostrils and kept racing down the road, hopefully to lead somewhere else rather than this place.

Darrk heard the sound of claws. So did his prey. He looked over and saw Alexis, so did the hydrag. It bolted and Darrk stood up, snarling in frustration.

Alexis was unaware of the hydrag and Darrk Hyrt, she was in her own world at the moment, and not for long will it last as the clambering of her claws scraping the road with cause some sort of animal to awake.

She had ticked him off, and he wasn't in the best of moods, because like James, his temper had worsen.

James woke with a start, a tri-barrel pistol held in front of him. "Hello James." Malone said.

What has she done? Aside of being herself, Alexis doesn't do much in any matter. Besides, if she had done something, it's nothing to get your panties all in a bunch.

"Hello Malone, you going to shoot me?" James taunted.
"Finally."
"Well lets see, um, last I checked, you couldn't even hit a giant rock." James said.
"Prove it."
"Okay, shoot me." James said, he was pushing it. Malone's hands got sticky with sweat, his hand kept shaking. There was a loud bang and the sound of breaking glass. "Wow! Way off." James said. Malone had missed by three feet, hitting a empty glass bottle.

Feeling the environment around her, Alexis felt another presence. Not of Darrk Hyrt, but the Hydrag. She didn't know where, but she launched herself forward into a run.

"Okay Malone, we make a deal. I get out in one piece, and you in about a zillion." James said.
"Not a good deal." Malone snarled.
"Hey, I didn't miss." James said.
The security had now realized James and Malone had pulled out tranquilizers.
"Oh, wow, a tranquilizer, that won't work." James said.
"Why not?" One asked.
"Because I'm gettin' out of here in a few seconds." James said. Nothing happened. "Okay this is awkward."

Stopping instantly Alexis looked upwards at a very large building. It struck her eyes as it was immediately profounded. Looking down the large structure, she found a glass window. Looking behind her, Alexis launched herself forward into the glass window, breaking it as she burst through.

Malone laughed.
"I wouldn't be laughing." James said sternly.
"Why not?" Malone smiled.
"Because," James smiled as Darrk Hyrt crashed through the door. "I am gettin' out of here."

Feeling the glass crack and break under her paws, Alexis felt a cold draft in the room, but not from the window. From somewhere else in the facility. Her scales began to prick, like the hairs of a human. Snarling in her mouth, she moved forward. This place looked ancient and old, depending on the cob webs and what not inside the building. To her it seemed pretty old indeed. Glass was shattered on the tiled floor, cob webs hung from the cracks and bends in the walls. Even on the machines and ceiling there where cob webs, where spiders had made their homes. Flies hung from them as well, dead because their juices where sucked away from the spider's feast. Alexis looked around the building, she didn't know where Sabstion was either. Maybe he was off looking for her or doing his own business.

Times like these is where she wishes she was home. But, nows not the time. This facility was interesting to her, in which part made her want to explore more of the building. Checking out what else is beyond the walls. Maybe there's a secret behind them, something the citizens themselves never though to know about this place. But, the one questions that stuns her is: What had happened to this place? What made this place go down? What made it dead and abandoned?

Darrk magged James. "Well hate to say good-bye, but I don't really need to be here." He turned Darrk around and they left, DCS fired at him, but missed.

Halting, Alexis looked around the facility, eyeing every piece of instrument and machine. Moving forward a cob web caught in her face. Blowing air from her nostrils, the cob web blew away. Alexis ducked her head and moved away from the cob web, passing a large, broken down machine. Lifting a lib, a snarl and hiss escaped from her cracked mouth. A scurry moved about the room, and crashed into one of the machines and then raced again. Her golden star began to light up and glow. Along with her golden markings that appeared over her day racer form, stripping them away from her body. Alexis' eyes turned a bright gold, gleaming. Her claws drug into the tile as she stood in her stance - still - not moving a muscle. Waiting for what is going to jump out at her.

Meanwhile, another dragon was searching for someone. He followed a scent trail which led to the facility where Alexis was. Fireshadow was his name.

Snarling and hissing Alexis tuned her gaze to a shadow that was moving about in the facility. Her eyes began to change a pitch black colors, with her Darkness form fading through her legendary form, stripping away her golden markings and color, replacing them with her Darkness markings. Anger consumed her mind, along with being very volatile and lambent - fluorescent or glows. Her black mag glow gleamed around her body expressing her anger and frustration that made her cause her temperamental change.

Fireshadow found the facility but he sensed a great darkness.He stopped near the door,nervously observing.He saw a dark dragon but he did not know that it was Alexis."Man!I'm not gon' in there.It's too risky.Sure I can fight that dragon,but why risk injury?"Fireshadow said to himself.

A bellow blew in her throat, loud and scornful. Moving forward to get a better look of the creature it scurried behind more of the machines. Snarling, Alexis stalked closer into the darkness, feeling the environment around her. Skittering and scurries flew again, claws scraped and scathed the tiled floor. Charging up a mag stream, Alexis stepped back form the machines. Her eyes were glowing black, she is still a gold draconium dragon, but she can switch between her bone-marks and bone color. The mag ball upon her head where the Ionix bone-mark lied, Alexis arched her head back, then shooting a large mag stream at the machines, exposing a bone-like dragon.

Fireshadow peeked through the door of the facility.When he saw the dragon Alexis saw,Libris came to his mind."What the..that looks like a miniature Libris...his son,maybe?"Fireshadow said to himself.As far as Fireshadow knows,Libris was a great,Grey Boned dragon.Some say that Libris was the last Grey dragon but Rivitt(spelling?) says that Libris is not alone.

Darrk jumped over a railing, standing outside the facility. He turned around. Dcs right behind him. He let out a loud roar, he was trapped, he and James were trapeed.
but not for long.

Anger coursed through her mind, the dragon backed up away from her realizing her anger. Her pitch black eyes changed as she blinked to a ghostly white. Snarling at the dragon Alexis charged up another mag stream.

Fireshadow can only look on.He watched as Alexis charged a mag-stream.Fireshadow turned around to see what the noise was all about.He saw Darrk and his rider.

There was more than just those three cops from the bar, but no matter. they would all die. James smiled, too easy.
"You guys, really don't want to medd me with me today, or anyday at that mater."James snarled, Darrk let out a hiss."But, hey look at it this way, i've given you all warnings, no more."

Fireshadow turns into his Stealth Form to observe the happenings all around.He was unsure.

(This goes with the song that I was listening to from the Deep Blue Sea Soundtrack. Trevor Rabin - Journey. Love the songs and composition!)

The boned dragon - known as the Gnull - stepped back as Alexis stalked forward. Glass crackled under her paw, then something leaped on her back. Snarling Alexis mag locked the creature there and shot it up in the air, slamming it into the ceiling of the facility. Alexis then looked over at the boned dragon. Its bones were black, with little flesh on it's bones. The harsh dragon took large steps back, with it's bones clacking on the tiled floor. Alexis let out another screech to warn the boned dragon that she doesn't want to deal no more. But, the dragon knew not. Suddenly, a black shift in black mists surrounded the boned dragon, it's bones grew larger and longer, expanding it's height to hers. Standing, facing her, it let out a roar, Alexis snarled and let one out back. But as she was. something gripped her back leg and pulled her back.

Kicking Alexis' claws managed to get caught in one of it's bones. Screaming in pain, she didn't want to have to rip it out. So, she flipped her head over and clamped her jaws on it's neck, trying to remove her claw. As she shook, her claw finally came loose, but the dragon behind her took a hold of her neck and pinned her. Alexis twisted her body as they held onto her with a tight grip. Swinging her paw, she thwacked one of the dragons' head right off, kicking her back legs to a stance. The bone dragon that had a grip on her neck was still locked on. Alexis stood on all quarters and limbs, pushing the dragon back into one of the machines. Electricity and sparks flew as the dragon was smashed into a box with levers, buttons, and what not. A jolt of light and electricity shot up one of the wires and into the lights, cracking them and the bulbs. Fire erupted from the box and scorched the box and metal, along with the wires. Standing there Alexis breathed in deeply.

Darrk saw the fire, but saw the police... running away?
"OK not normal." James said.
A black mag hit Darrk in the shoulder, slamming him into the wall of a building, and James out of the saddle.
Moordryd.

Clicks and little noises fluttered in the room. Those noises were from the Gnull, it's a way of their communication from one another. Alexis stood snarling as the walked in circles around her, she was getting tense from all the noises - even them.

(THE SUSPENSE!!!!!IT'S KILLING ME! :P )

Fireshadow decided that these creepy dragons were not like Libris.These so called Gnulls are more like undead dragons.when one of them escapes Alexis' gaze and heads toward the facility door,it runs straight to the jaws and claws of Stealth Form Fireshadow.

They know Alexis so well that they will only stay inside, they're more of to be dark-seekers than they are or being day-watchers. The Gnull were dead dragons with a black skeletal structure and little flesh hanging from the bones. They were Phantom's squires or soldiers, but little do they comprehend and listen to orders from Phantom. Alexis snarled and bellowed in the pit of her throat deeply and with a mid tension gaping at her vibes and mood. She was stressful and not in the mood to be pestered by bone dragons that like to attack one another or another dragon.

The Gnull that Fireshadow pawned was just a smaller specimen.Fireshadow still didn't know what to do.He would just have to sit around and wait.Fireshadow's not stupid enough to go rushing in without making some necessary battle plans.He used his inteligence to plan something before going in for the fight.He even uses his intelligence to get him and Hayate,who was missing for 2 days,to get themselves out of sticky situations.You could almost say that Fireshadow is almost human when it comes to brains.He uses his brawn to back up his brains in a fight. :dragon:

Darrk stood and hissed. Desepchun rammed him and trapped him against the wall. James snarled at his brother,"You never do give up do you moordryde?"
"Neither have you."moordryde sneered.
"Well, why not we ave some fun then? UNLEASH THE FEAR!" James said a he placed the amulet on the gaunt.

A warm breeze blew at the back of her neck, she felt a little dew and mist coming at her neck. Looking back she saw one of the Gnull and it was larger than the rest. Snarling Alexis did not back down from it, even if it is larger than her.

"What's up with these Skeleton Dragons?"Fireshadow said to himself.Fireshadow then remembered about the task of finding Hayate.Fireshadow walked away from the facility and met two riders and their dragons who appeared to be fighting. :dragon:

The Gnull travel, hunt, and run in packs. Hoards pf them are scattered throughout Dragon City. Some are enemies to her and other dragons, some have of the Gnull have grudges on dragons or humans. Alexis snarled loudly - but deeply - with a constant depth to her snarl. Turning into a feral snarl as she crept slow backwards, thinking as she goes.

(Say...Do you have a drawing of a Gnull.I would like to see what it looks like.)

The two riders and dragons did not seem to notice Fireshadow's prescene even though as he passed them,dust flew from the ground that was made by his feet(he's still in Stealth Form).

(No I do not, but I can make one this weekend! It's Memorial Day Monday, which I don't have no school that day, so I have plenty of time. Also, I have to make my friend's dragon Darrk Hyrt into a bone dragon as well, because of Marcus' and Damien's influence of being the Original Death Booster and Dragon! Sorry, I am just babbling along.)

The black mag glow that seemingly glowed and fluoresced around her body. It grew darker, into a deep, pitch dark black. Backing up, Alexis stared at the mighty boned dragon, it seemed to be the leader of the little group. Lets just hope this group is small, the Gnull travel in hoards! Nearly 500-1,000 of them in one group. Most of them are under ground in the depths of the city. They live in the city called the Undercity. Alexis goes there every so often, maybe that's why they have such a huge grudge on her - well most of them. Snarling deeply with passion, Alexis leaped forward with her gaping jaws in the large Gnull's face, making it step back a few feet. Alexis didn't want to fight no more or to be tolerated. She had enough for one day and wanted to leave this place while she still can and is living. Don't be so tense little one, were just having some fun! He said to her in a enthusiastic tone. Alexis didn't like his tone, nor his attitude, so she went into defense mode.
How's this then? Alexis replied to him as she grabbed his under neck and pulled him how with incompetent force. His head slammed on the tiled floor as a piece of bone flew from his neck. Alexis snarled loudly and was brittle. Her snarl cracked and slowly went into a hiss. The Gnull got up and looked at her with it's red feral eyes. Very good, but not good enough, he snarled launching his body forward at her. Alexis instinctively side stepped him, making him crash into a beam that stood behind her. A crack broke the wall and stretched half way on the beam. A grunt came forward from his mouth as he got up shaking his head and body. Debre dropped from his bones, clearing away the delusion and weariness in his sight.