Hello everyone! Now, before I start and before you all murder me, I know how annoyed you all will be when you see this. I mean, you finally see this story has updated after...uh... *quickly checks* three months (holy shit, sorry guys). Excitedly, you click on the story to read the latest chapter, and what are you greeted with?

A note. An update by the writer. Explaining why the hell they haven't updated the story.

Yeah, I'd be a tad annoyed too.

I'm really, really, really, sorry. I feel like I owe you an explanation to my absence, and you're going to get one.

When I posted chapter 12 of Journey with Dragons, I was ridiculously excited to write chapter 13. It was one of those chapters that I had been looking forward to writing as soon as I planned it out. I was so excited that I started writing it as soon as I had posted chapter 12, which was a major downfall on my part. After writing the first three or so paragraphs, it didn't feel...right to me. So I deleted them and rewrote them, but they didn't feel right either. I kept going through this process for a few days, feeling more and more irritated and more put off until eventually I didn't feel like writing it at that point of time.

It didn't help that life and work and emotional problems got in the way as well. I guess the best way to put it was I kind of went into hibernation. Writing hibernation so to speak. I decided to take a break and (try) to focus on my life and get sorted, but I've never really been a strong person, so I kind of just began to float through December to January to February.

Eventually my birthday came by, I bought a new laptop, dropped out of my Apprenticeship (keeping my job yay) and started talking to some old friends again. And then a few days ago, I felt myself waking up from my 'hibernation'. I sorted out my folder and files for my story and I'm going to start writing chapter 13.

Exciting, huh? :D I can't say when I'll upload it. It all depends how much motivation and spare time I have. And then there's gaming to be doing as well.

As well as apologising, I'd like to thank you all for being patient with me. Thank you for reviewing this and following this.

I'd like to thank my great friend SkittleSoup for urging me to carry on this story and helping me by giving me ways to improve. I don't know if you know, but you were a really big help. c:

I'd like to thank my awesome friend thegreatdusknoir for being my long distance rock. You have no idea how grateful I am to you. *gives you a Shaymin*

I'd like to thank Luna the Zekrom for being my personal editor *laughs*. I greatly appreciate the corrections and suggestions you give me in all of your reviews.

And finally, I'd like to thank everyone (yet again) who has given this story the time of day. Whether you've simply read the first chapter and moved on, or alerted, favoured and reviewed the story; I'm incredibly happy and thankful all the same.

Until the 13th chapter.

See you soon.

Dolan