Yarne had traveled back in time to prevent a dark future from occurring: a future in which the fell dragon Grima is awakened. To prevent such a horrible fate from befalling upon the citizens of Ylissle, and the rest of the world, he traveled back in time to about a year before Ylissle had gone to war with Plegia. He searched for his mother Panne, but could not find her. Afraid that he was the last Taguel, he panicked. He believed that he was going to die, and forever be known as "That idiot that let his race die out" Because of this, well… I'll let you find out for yourself…

Yarne was walking throughout the forest; he was just a regular 17 year old guy, well if you consider a guy that can turn into a giant rabbit normal that is. He took gentle, timid steps. He didn't want to wake up a bear and get himself killed after all. He accidentally stepped on a twig, and it made a loud snap.

"GAH!" Yarne panicked, he thought something was chasing him. He began running as fast as he could, believing that something was chasing him. After a while of running at his top speed, Yarne slowed down and looked around. "I guess I" he took a breath "lost them." He didn't realize that nothing had even paid any attention to him.

He looked around; nothing seemed to be following him. He found some berries. He was very hungry, but he wasn't entirely sure if they were poisonous or not. On one hand, they didn't appear to be deadly. But on the other hand, why take the chance? But then again, he was pretty hungry…

"What are you doing with those?" A young blonde girl seemed to come out of nowhere.

"GAH!" Yarne was startled; he dropped the berries and jumped behind a tree to run away from the little girl.

"Mister, I'm sorry for startling you" The little girl's head tilted and her blue eyes seemed to say that she was genuinely sorry. Yarne calmed down.

"Umm, it was nothing really; I just wasn't expecting to see a little girl out here" After Yarne had recomposed himself he began talking to the little girl.

"You know those berries are very poisonous right?" The little girl said matter-of-factly. Yarne felt like an idiot, as he just about killed himself, as well as the rest of the Taguel. As the last remaining Taguel race he felt like he had a huge burden on his shoulders to survive. However, he was a bit embarrassed to admit to a little girl she just saved him from a stupid mistake.

"Of course I did, I was just thinking of maybe using them to get rid of some mice in my home" Yarne lied.

"Oh? You don't really look like an apothecary… How long have you studied?" The little girl was curious.

"This little girl is too smart, what am I going to do?" "I'm, uh, just an apprentice. My master wanted me to get some of these berries to practice." "Yeah! I totally nailed that; she'll believe me for sure." However the little girl was not impressed.

"Shouldn't you be spending more time learning how to use plants for medical purposes? What's your master's name?"

"Man this little girl is persistent" "His name is Ongaku" Yarne used the name of his childhood friend.

"I see, and what can you use an Aspen Tree for?" The little girl pressed.

"Umm… you can use the bark to… prevent aging?" Yarne had no idea.

"Well, either you're a very bad liar, or a very bad apothecary apprentice. You were about to eat that berry. Don't you know that if you don't recognize it, you shouldn't eat it? That's the most basic rule" The little girl had seen through Yarne's lies. "You must be hungry, follow me" The girl had walked north.

"Wait! What's your name?" Yarne figured that he would be fine following this little girl. If she was going to provide him food, that was fine with him.

"My name is Merak"

"Mer-ick?" Yarne repeated

"Uh-huh! I think it's a good name. I've always wondered what it means though" (Author's note: Merak is a female Turkish name that means "Curious One")

"Oh, where are you taking me?" Yarne asked after they had walked for a little while. "And why did you talk to me? Shouldn't you not talk to strangers?"

"Well, I'm taking you to my house to meet my older sister, she takes care of me. I talked to you because you were going to eat that berry and I didn't want you to get sick, I accidently ate one, one time. And I was super sick. Good thing my sister is super smart. She likes to study lots of things. Oh, and if you never talk to strangers, how are you going to make new friends." Merak had a lot to say.

"I really like you, you look like you have bunny ears" Merak was referring to what looked like rabbit ears in Yarne's hair. "And why are you so hairy?"

"Well… have you ever heard of the Taguel?" Yarne asked. Instantly Merak shook her head.

"No, never, what's a Taguel?"

"Well, a Taguel is like a human that can transform into a rabbit" Yarne explained.

"That sounds so cool, how come I've never heard of them before?" Merak tilted her head to the side.

"Well that's probably because I'm the only one left" Yarne lamented.

"Oh, did you lose your family? Oh, maybe I shouldn't ask that? I know I get sad if somebody asks me about my mother" Merak sympathized

"No, it's okay. I did lose my family, my mother died fighting in a war. But that was a while ago."

"You lost your mother because she fought in a war too? Wow! Maybe your mother and my mother fought together! I bet they were good friends. That's why we're friends because our mothers were good friends huh?" Merak liked the thought that both of their parents fought together. Yarne, however, knew that this was not true. After all, his mother hadn't even met, let alone married, his father yet. He technically wasn't born yet… but ah, those are details to be discussed later.

"Maybe they did, I guess that would explain why we're friends" Yarne still felt like this girl was a total stranger to him. But she was already bringing him to her home. Maybe they're already good friends.

They continued walking until they came across a cottage in the forest. Instantly, Merak ran inside and called out.

"Fatima, I'm home! I brought a guest, I hope you don't mind" Merak ran to Yarne. "You might like Fatima, she's nice, but she's so focused on her work sometimes."

"Well, I wonder what kind of work she does…" Yarne wondered aloud. Suddenly there was an explosion. Yarne instantly panicked and hid behind a tree.

"Fatima! Not again!" Merak instantly ran for a bucket of water she had prepared earlier, knowing her sister, she knew she would need it later. She grabbed the water and ran inside. She tossed the water to the set of chemicals Fatima was working with, putting out the fire (Do not put out a chemical fire with water, this is just a story, use baking soda instead.)

Fatima was a strawberry blond girl of about 18 years. She had green eyes that looked almost like emerald. She began to cry.

"Why can't I ever do this experiment correctly?" She fell to the ground.

"It's okay Fatima, you can try again. You'll figure it out. I promise. Maybe you're using a fire spell that's too powerful. You should try it again." Merak tried to make her sister happy again.

"Maybe you're right." Fatima dried her tears. "Thanks Merak, you're so smart, you'll be a great scientist."

"You're a good scientist too; remember you have to be as good as her." Merak hugged her older sister. Yarne had walked in, after he was certain it was safe.

"Oh and who might you be?" Fatima stood up and tried to wipe the ashes off her dress.

To be continued

Side note: Thanks for reading this fan fiction. More will come soon. And if you happen to be a "Bowser the Lonely King" fan, just know that I'm going to finish that eventually. I just had writers block so I figured I would write another story. Yes this will feature some OCs just because I don't want to include the other characters… yet.

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