Drawn

Chapter 1

Summary: It's not just the present generation of dragons who are drawn to Yona…and Hiryuu is closer to the surface than anyone guessed.

Yona was a chatty baby from her earliest days, always babbling and giggling at unseen people. King Ju-nam was convinced she was talking to his wife, Yona's namesake, who had died about a year before her birth.

Guen, Abi, and Shuten couldn't help but hang around their reborn King. "Man, if he'd been a girl the first time around he wouldn't have needed us." Guen commented, dangling his necklace for baby Yona to try and grab.

Her hands always passed through it, but she kept trying.

"He must really have gone senile to come back as a girl." Shuten retorted, standing guard by the window.

"Haven't you had enough of questioning His Majesty's state of mind?" Abi asked drily, offering Yona his necklace to try and grab. "And quit hogging her attention."

"It's nighttime; shouldn't both of you stop hogging her attention and let her sleep?" Shuten pointed out. "She'll never sleep through the night if you keep doing that."

"Since when did you become an expert on kids? It wasn't until the last few years of your life that you even bothering hunting down your sown oats." Guen complained. "The moon's not that high up! She'll be fine."

Shuten and Guen glared at each while Abi just sighed. Yona decided it was the funniest thing ever and starting giggling madly.

Her mother poked her head in with that. "I wish your spirit guardians would not keep you up, no matter how happy they make you." She walked over and straightened the light blanket covering her lower half.

She was unusual in refusing a wet nurse, feeding and looking after Yona herself. Yona beamed up at her mother, focusing all her attention on her. "Sweet dreams little dove. Not that I need to say it." Her mother kissed her forehead and left the room.

Shuten couldn't help looking triumphant.

"Wonder if we could enter her dreams?" Abi mused later in the night, Guen and Shuten dozing on each other. "We could with Ouryuu."

"He's a dragon; rules might be different." Guen proposed with a yawn.

A noise beyond the wall drew all their attention. The three couldn't help tensing in anticipation of an attack, until Guen gasped. "Ouryuu….?"

A small section of wall slid open, and their eternally young brother crawled in. His eyes had more life in them than they had seen in a while. The trio watched sadly as he crawled over to where baby Yona slept, his wife trailing behind. "Hello brothers," Kaya greeted them. "He couldn't keep away."

"Still can't see you?" Shuten asked.

She shook her head. "But Zeno and Kaya can be together in Zeno's dreams, even if he can't really remember in the morning."

"He can see other ghosts, so why…?" Abi asked as Zeno knelt by baby Yona, working up the nerve to look inside the crib.

"Too much pain." Guen answered, somewhat gruffly.

They all crowded around the crib, peering in as Zeno finally looked inside. Yona opened her eyes as he did, as if she had sensed his presence, beaming up at her Ouryuu.

A pulse rippled through the room, and Zeno clutched his medallion as he bit his lip. The voice from so long ago echoed through the four dragons' souls.

Warriors of the Four Dragons

From now on, you are our other halves

With Hiryuu as your master, protect him, love him, and never betray him

For as long as you live!

"….I wasn't…expecting that…" Zeno panted, Yona looking up at him with concerned eyes. "Wouldn't the original vow been enough…?" He wondered, as he licked blood off his lip, the cuts from his fangs already healed.

"Ou…" Attention was refocused on Yona, frowning as she struggled to address Zeno.

Zeno ran his fingers gently over her crimson hair, easing her frown. "Zeno's fine, Miss-"

"Miss?! He was the most formal of all of us!" Shuten roared.

"Shh!" Kaya hissed.

"-just not expecting what happened. But Zeno can feel you better now, so it's fine."

Yona eyed him like she was trying to determine if he was telling the truth. She held her arms out, a clear request to be picked up. "If Zeno does that, he won't be able to let you go again."

Reaching inside his tunic, he pulled out a stuffed animal in the form of a crimson dragon. "Zeno couldn't get everything for the other four, so I'll be back four more times." He promised her as he placed the dragon next to her.

Kaya elbowed Guen, gesturing to the door, which was open a fraction. 'Her nurse?' She mouthed.

'Her mother', he mouthed back.

She didn't seem inclined to intrude on the scene, a gentle smile on her face.

Yona snuggled up with the dragon, yawning as she did. Hands clenched on the side of the crib, Zeno leaned over and kissed her head. "Zeno will be back soon Miss." He whispered, slowly retreating to the small door in the wall.

"Kaya will see you next time brothers!" Kaya exclaimed, following Zeno as he left.

The door slid open gently a few minutes after Zeno's departure. "He told me not to turn Ouryuu away should he come, and I can see why. So much sadness…" Yona's mother whispered. "But it might be crueler to have him stay. Nothing changes faster than babies."

The trio exchanged questioning looks, not knowing the 'he' she was referring to.

"Should I be jealous of another man appearing in your dreams instead of me?" Her husband, the current King's second son, teased as he joined his wife in the door.

"Oh hush you." She chided. "If that was the case then I'd have to be jealous too; you did say you saw him too."

"True…" Her husband conceded. "Is it selfish, if I don't want the fire to ever awake?"

"We'll be selfish together, then, and create as many happy memories as possible, should the darkness Hiryuu-sama spoke of comes." She answered as the door slid shut, leaving a sleeping Yona and three flabbergasted ghosts.

To my BoE fans: I'm sorry; I found a new blond to torture. I'm on vacation this week, so I will get off my ass and post a new chapter by next Monday.