Memories of Love

A/N: Here's the sequel to The Young Blackbird.

IMPORTANT: The first story starts before the series. This one is after everything in the series happens. It takes off where the Final Four left off. Italics aren't working so 3 little ***'s are for coming in and out of dreams. '……' is thinking, "……" is talking, and //……// is the organoids talking. For this fic, both Raven and Reese understand Shadow and Specula.

Disclaimer: I own everything. Raven, Reese, Shadow, Specula, Zeke, Van, Zi, ect…in my dreams. I do own my own characters. They are the one's that you've never heard of before. Don't want to give away too much ^_^!

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He was running. He had to get away. An open door. Maybe he can hide in there! The young boy ran into the room. There were some boxes in the corner. He would hide behind those.

"Where are you, boy!" a man called out. He walked into the room that the younger male was hiding in. There was a sound behind the boxes. Was that heavy breathing? "I've got you now, you little fool. Did you really think you could hide from me?" he called as he hit the boxes away to reveal a frightened young boy with long black hair.

The child shielded his head with his arms. He hated this man more than anything. He even hated him more than the zoids.

"Get out of that corner right now before I have to make you." the white haired man threatened, but the boy did not move. He was too frightened to move.

"I said move!" the older man yelled, but still the young boy did not move. He stayed crouched in the corner, blocking his head from whatever blows he was to receive. It was a futile effort, but still he tried.

"Fine. Have it your way." the man said drawing the whip from his belt.

The young boy saw the man raise the whip into the air. He heard the whip slice through the air. It would hit in a spilt second…

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Raven awoke with a start. 'Not another.' he though. 'The second damn dream in three nights. When will the memories fade? Well, I'm up now. Might as well get going.'

He got out of his sleeping bag and put on the jacket that he always wore. He rolled up the sleeping bag and climbed out of his tent. He then took that down and stored it all away in the Geno Breaker and started breakfast. Shadow was sleeping by one leg of the Geno Breaker.

Raven lit the fire and put some water on to boil to make coffee. As the water heated he turned to look at the other tent.

'What a lazy woman.' he thought. 'I don't know why I let her come along.'

He walked over to the tent and unzipped the door. He looked in to see Reese still sleeping peacefully in her sleeping bag.

'Almost looks pretty like that.' he though. 'Almost, but not quite.'

He leaned in and poked her in the back. She stirred a bit but still slept. He poked her harder. This time it worked.

Reese opened her eyes to see Raven crouched by the entrance to her tent.

"What do you want?" she asked.

"Get up." he said in his normal cold tone.

"Go away." she answered turning away from him trying to go back to sleep.

"Get up." the dark haired man repeated tearing the covers off of the woman. Luckily for her she was fully dressed in the same thing she always wore; her blue dress and pants.

"Get up now, or you're staying here and you're not getting breakfast."

Reese gave him a cold glare before pushing past him and out of the tent. She looked around to see Specula sleeping by Shadow.

Reese helped Raven finish making breakfast. They had some pancakes and bacon. They sat there drinking the rest of their coffee and staring at nothing really.

"Where are we going?" Reese asked.

"Next town."

"You think they'll except us?"

"Doubt it, but it's worth a try." Raven said taking a sip of his drink.

They had helped to defeat the Death Saurer when Hiltz took control, but people still didn't trust the two of them. He couldn't blame them. He wouldn't trust himself either if he was them.

"What are we going to do there?" the zoidian asked.

"Why do you ask so many questions?"

"Would you rather I just read your mind and find out that and much more?"

"You stay away from my thoughts." he said turning to give her an icy stare. "The last time you did that, you made my remember my past. You have no idea what that did to me, do you?"

"Prozen did something to you didn't he?"

"Shut up, Reese. It's none of your damn business." With that, the conversation was over and Raven finished putting the rest of the stuff away in the Geno Breaker.

"I'm taking a walk." Reese called to Raven.

"And I care?" Raven replied coldly.

Reese ignored the comment and walked into the forest. She didn't pay much attention to where she was going. A few minutes later a little creek came into view. She decided to sit down and take a small rest. She needed time to think.

This bad feeling had been with her for a while. She had thought it was caused by Hiltz, Prozen and the Death Saurer, but the feeling had not left when they were destroyed. It still lingered in her mind. She was so deep in thought that she didn't notice a boy walk up behind her.

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A/N: A cliffhanger! I know you don't like them, but it's what make you want to read more. You get curious. I know I do. Next chapter soon.