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Chapter 3- Forgive and Forget

"Screw this!" yelled Serge as a white aura surrounded his body. "Luminaire!"

A bright white light was expelled from Serge's entire body, knocking back all of the Shadow Cats that held him. Now that he was no longer in their grasp, he pulled out the Mastermune. His eyes scanned the area and he quickly realized that there were no Shadow Cats around him. He scratched the back of his head, wondering where they were since his Luminaire didn't have enough power to wipe them out. Already he was starting to get tired of this.

"HEY!" he shouted at the top of his lungs. "DON'T JUST ATTACK ME AND RUN AWAY!"

"Who's running?"

Serge scanned the area for the source of the voice with his eyes. His body was slightly shaking, as if he was scared. Something about it seemed familiar to him. The only person who could make him this scared was…

"Give up yet?" the voice returned, echoing throughout the area. "Then I'll give you another hint."

Serge's grip on the Mastermune tightened, preparing for whatever this thing was going to throw at him. The shadows in front of him came together, forming a single entity. Soon the shadow rose from the ground, changing into a figure with a body that may have resembled a normal human, but its head was shaped like a Dragoon's helmet with shadow devil horns and golden-yellow eyes, yet it had no mouth just like the Shadow Cats. As for the rest, it looked exactly like a shadow.

Serge glared at the thing before him. "What are you?"

"A demon." it simply answered.

Serge growled under his breath for being given such an obvious answer. "I know that! Who the hell are you!?"

The thing chuckled, despite not having a mouth. "I am what is left."

"Say again?"

"I am Dread." The being lifted its hand, pointing its shadowy finger it at the Chrono Trigger. "My mission is to restore the girl's memory."

Serge stepped back from hearing an answer he didn't expect. Yet anger filled his being as he knew who Dread was gunning for. "Let me guess, you're with Lynx, aren't you?"

The demon simply nodded his head in response.

"I don't understand." A white aura surrounded Serge. "Why would Lynx want to restore Kid's memory?"

Dread chuckled at this. "You don't know?" He placed his shadow hand onto his head. "Then this'll be even more fun then I originally thought."

Serge held out his hand, ready to use an element. "Are you going to tell me or not?"

Dread tilted his head, curious as to what kind of Serge was going to use. "You're going to fight me alone? In your current condition, after pleasuring yourself to that woman, you stand little chance."

Rage had completely filled Serge's entire body. He may have watched Kid, but he would never ever do that. Not unless he wanted to die in the most painful way possible!

"Photonbeam!"

A large beam of white light shot out of Serge's hand. The blast hit Dread in the chest, knocking him a few feet away from Serge. The demon got up slowly only to see one angry Chrono Trigger. Dread was beginning to get amused by Serge's actions.

"My my. You sure are touchy about the girl." His hands transformed into razor sharp claws, yet still had that shadow look. "Then this will truly be interesting."

Before Dread could attack, a large fireball hit him from behind, knocking him forward. He landed on his hands and sprung back up only to see his target right before him, her foot on top of Lucca's old machine. He looked back to Serge, only to see him still ready for combat.

Dread's hand returned to normal as he gazed at the duo. He knew he would not be able to defeat both of them, not yet anyway. So that left him with one final option. "Another time perhaps." A dark portal appeared behind him. He waved his hand at them one last time before stepping in.

Serge ran forward with his swallow, ready to cleave Dread in two. But it was too late and his weapon crashed into the ground. He looked back to Kid, whose face was hardened and dead serious. He picked up his weapon and walked towards her, slightly afraid of what might happen.

"I'm guessing you heard what that thing said, eh?" he asked her, but his only response was a nod. Serge smiled, trying to cheer Kid up. "Don't worry. I won't let him…"

He was interrupted by Kid, who had just punched him in the jaw. Serge fell to the ground and looked at Kid with a shocked expression adorning his features.

'What the hell was that for!?' he thought. 'It's not like I….OH NO!' He suddenly panicked. 'If Kid heard everything, then that means…..SHIT!'

He got up, brushing off any dirt that had gotten on his clothing. Serge looked at Kid and reached out for her, only to have her turn her back on him.

"Kid…." His voice sounded a little frightened and nervous, knowing what Kid would do to him. "It's not what you think."

Kid turned her head around enough to see Serge, but not reveal her entire face. What she thought he had done to him had hurt her immensely. "Disgusting."

Serge took a step back in fear, not expecting that kind of response, but he shook it off and walked closer to Kid. "Kid. You know I would never do that. Okay, sure, I saw you in the buff, but…."

He stopped when he noticed the looked in Kid's eyes. They were filled with anger, but at the same time, they were filled with sadness and hurt. It pained him to know that he was the main problem in all of this. Her head turned away from him as she walked back to Arni.

Serge ran after her, trying to finish explaining. "C'mon, Kid! You know I would never do that to you, right?"

"Get away from me." she spat out in fury, continuing her normal pace.

"I swear! Just let me explain!" He finally caught up to her, but was knocked to the ground by a powerful kick from Kid. He slowly raised his head to see her tear-filled eyes. It was a look that didn't suit her.

"To think, this is what you've been doin' all dis time then." She laughed bitterly. "So the only reason you blow me off whenever I want a talk is because you're jacking yourself off to me or god knows how many women."

"But I…" he tried to explain again, but was cut off.

"Yep. You sure were busy, weren't ya mate?" Her hands had turned into fists as a single tear got past her defenses. "While I'm being hit on… while I'm still trying to get over the fact that I'm nothing but a motherfucking clone… while I was nearly raped again… you just… just…"

Serge gasped he heard the rape part. He felt like a complete idiot for letting that happen. "Kid…" He got up and gently placed his hands on Kid's shoulders. "I'm sorry…"

"What the bloody hell would you know!?" she shouted in anger. "I thought I could trust you and then you do this!?" More tears streamed their way down her face. She shook of Serge's arms, not wanting to be touched by him. "You bastard! Tell me something, are you also fucking Leena as well!?"

Serge's eyes widened, seeing as how he had never expected Kid to act like this. "Kid! I'm telling you the truth! Don't tell me that you would actually take the words of some demon who served Lynx over me!"

Kid held back her fist, ready to hit him again. Serge closed his eyes, giving up and just letting her pummel him. Kid was about to hit him, but stopped after realizing her actions. She didn't know what to do anymore. She knew she was angry at Serge and one part of her wanted him to feel her wrath, but another part of her wanted to believe him. Hell, she barely even let him get a chance to explain himself and she was taking the words out of someone who worked with Lynx. Her hands fell to her side and she stared at the ground, at a complete lost to what to do now. After a couple of seconds passed by, he opened his eyes to find Kid running away from him. He chased after her.

"Sonic Sword!" shouted the young Dragoon as the blade beam emerged from his sword and headed straight towards Grobyc.

The cyborg jumped to the side and into the air to dodge another one heading towards him. His hair glowed with a bright pinkish color as he whipped it back.

"Hair-Cutter!"

He whipped his head towards Glenn as his hair had turned into a very large laser whip. It cracked open the ground and a large surge of dark energy spewed from it, knocking Glenn a good couple feet away from Grobyc. The cyborg wasn't finished with his onslaught as he pointed his arm at Glenn.

"Rocket-Fist!"

Glenn looked up and saw Grobyc's fist flying towards him. The Dragoon grabbed both of the Einlanzers and knocked the fist away. He was about to go after Grobyc, but stopped as he saw two familiar people running towards Serge's house, taking notice of Kid's teary face. Unfortunately, the fist that he deflected a few seconds ago was heading straight towards Kid.

"Move out of the way!" he shouted.

Kid turned her head and saw the fist flying towards her, but it was too late to dodge. She closed her eyes tightly, bracing herself for the pain to come. What she didn't expect was being hit by an object close to her size. She slowly opened her eyes and found Serge clutching his chest with Grobyc's fist right next to him. She was shocked to say the least.

Grobyc and Glenn immediately ran to Serge's side to check on him. They picked up their friend/leader by his shoulders and helped him into his house. After getting inside Serge's house, they went into his room and helped him onto his bed. Serge's eyes slowly opened as the pain was starting to subside.

"Apologies." said Grobyc.

Serge raised an eyebrow.

"He means he's sorry for hitting ya." explained Glenn, nervously scratching the back of his head and giving an apologetic smile to his wounded friend. "And I'm sorry about deflecting it to you and Kid."

"Don't worry about it." He scanned the roomfor any sign of Kid. "Where's Kid?"

"Dunno." Glenn replied coolly.

"Grobyc-believes-Kid-may-have-went-to-the-pier." answered the cyborg.

Serge got up, but was quickly pulled back down due to the pain in his chest.

"Grobyc-would-not-recommend-pursuing-her. The-blow-that-Grobyc's-fist-had-hit-some-of-the-chest-region-and-part-of-the-neck. And-due-to-the-fact-that-both-Grobyc-and-Serge's-innates-are-opposing-only-resulted-in-more-damage."

"You don't get it. I have to find her!" Serge tried to get up again, but this time, he was stopped by Glenn, who roughly pushed him down.

"You are not going anywhere, Serge." Glenn's face hardened and he became far more serious after remembering Kid's face. "What happened? And don't try to weasel your way out of it either! I saw Kid's face, so something had to happen."

Serge sighed. He figured they had to know, especially about the new enemy called Dread. "Fine. It all started when…"

Serge began to explain everything, including what happened earlier this morning, which resulted in Glenn laughing his head off. However, when Serge began to mention things like spying on Kid when she was taking a bath, Glenn merely passed it off as hormones acting up and ended up teasing him. But when Serge explained about the Dread and Kid incident, Glenn slapped him on the back of the head before Serge could finish explaining.

"YOU WHAT!?" Glenn's jaw had practically dropped before he had hit the Chrono Trigger. "Are you fucking retarded!? Do you realize what she would do if she caught you doing that!?"

Serge rubbed the back of his head as he glared at his so-called friend. "I'm telling you I didn't do that! True, I did see her naked, but I would never actually…"

"It doesn't matter now!" Glenn took a deep breath and calmed down before continuing. "She thinks that you did do it, so you have to find some way of getting back on her good side."

"Kinda hard to do that when you won't even let me stand!"

"Then start thinking before acting!" He walked away from Serge. "And make sure you don't screw it up! Otherwise, you'll never get another chance to sleep with her!"

Serge glared at Glenn as he laughed his way out of the room with Grobyc following him.

He laid there on the bed, trying to think of some way of telling Kid the truth without getting hit, or worse, making her upset. The visions of her tear covered face kept crawling into his mind. It just made him more depressed and hurt than before, especially knowing that the problem was him. If only the demon known as Dread never appeared, then maybe he would not be in the situation he is in now.

Suddenly, his cat jumped on top of him and raised its paw, revealing its claws. It appeared that the cat wanted revenge for what Serge did to it earlier. Serge sweat-dropped and braced himself for the pain to come.

Kid sat on the pier, her feet dangling of the edge, hovering above the water. She was all alone and that's the way she preferred it as she stared at the sunset. The events of today kept flashing through her head and she still couldn't believe she acted like that. She still wished she had given Serge enough time to explain everything, but would she even believe it?

This wasn't the first time her trust had been betrayed, and it probably wouldn't be the last. Still, she just beat the living hell out of someone doing that, but with Serge….she had broken down. This wasn't like her. That was the second, or third if you count Serge travelling into her past and rescuing her, that he saw her cry.

"Out of everyone," she said to herself, "Why are you the only one I show my true emotions to?"

"Love has a lot of weird effects."

Kid placed her hand on the handle of her dagger as she turned around, but quickly relaxed when she found out that it was only Leena. The young girl sat down next to Kid and continued.

"When you are in love, a lot of weird stuff can happen."

Kid stared back into the water below, avoiding Leena's gaze. 'Great.' She thought sarcastically. 'Some bugger probably hates me up there if I'm stuck listening to this broad.'

"I saw you earlier with Serge." Leena received a glare from Kid, but tried to reassure her of the situation. "Don't worry! I'm over him, remember? I was just curious as to what he was doing. But did you really have to go that far?"

Kid looked back at the water and shook her head slowly. "Something inside of me just snapped. I just…If he just likes me, then he should say it."

Leena sighed. "Now you're the one acting like me." Kid's eyes widened at what she just heard. "Did you know that Serge never even told me he loved me? But I thought it would be obvious that he would end up with me. Then you came along, and I saw how worried he was about you when he was in Lynx's body."

"He was worried?"

Leena nodded. "He didn't tell you?" Kid shook her head. "Figures. Anyway, when I saw him, he was practically obsessed over you, blaming himself for everything, and fighting all sorts of monsters just for you. He even killed my father."

Kid gasped and looked at Leena, who was now frowning. "I'm sorry."

"Don't be. At least I know where he is now." She looked Kid straight in the eye. "You should tell him how you feel, even if he did do that, which I still highly doubt."

"And why do you say that?"

Leena smiled wickedly. "Because there's me around."

They both burst into laughter after she said that.

Soon the laughter died down and Leena continued. "But seriously, you should talk to him. Odds are he's suffering just as much you." She put up her hands defensively. "Not that I'm saying his life is rougher or anything! Ahe-he….."

Kid got up from her seat and smiled at Leena. "Ya may not be my favorite person in this world, but you're alright."

Leena smiled as well. "Right back at you."

Glenn leaned on top of the table, his stomach growling as if it was a dinosaur from Gaea's Navel. He remembered that Orlha was supposed to be cooking dinner, but she was nowhere in sight. He was looking forward to her cooking, but now he was starting to get hungry. He didn't even get time to eat lunch and unfortunately for him, he couldn't cook and there was no more cereal.

He slammed his fists against the table like a four year-old. "Where the hell is the food!?"

Grobyc, who was lying in the hammock out of curiosity, lifted his head and stared at the whiny Dragoon. "The-food-is-not-here."

Glenn felt his eyebrow twitch at the cyborg. "I know that you freaking hunk of scrap! I mean, where the hell is Orlha!?"

"At-the-restaurant-in-this-village-is-where-Grobyc-last-saw-Orlha."

Glenn suddenly stood up from his seat and glared at Grobyc. "Why the hell didn't you say so earlier!?"

"Never-bothered-to-ask-question."

Glenn became even more frustrated with Grobyc's answers. He was about to hit the cyborg, but the sound of the door opening caught his attention. A smile came to his face, thinking that it was Orlha. He quickly frowned when he saw that it was Kid.

"Where's Serge?" she asked in a demanding tone.

"Upstairs in his room. But listen, about today…"

Kid raised her hand in front of his face. "Oi, just forget about it. I'm gonna make things right with him. But tell me this, did he really…"

"No." Both of them turned their attention towards Grobyc. "I-have-scanned-him-and-he-apparently-is-telling-the-truth."

Glenn crossed his arms over his chest and tilted his head in confusion. "You can do that?"

Grobyc nodded.

"Fine, I'll take your word for it, but if I find out that you or Serge is lyin' to me freakin' face…" She held out her dagger and pointed it at Grobyc. "I'll be sure to turn you into scrap! Got it?"

Grobyc simply nodded, but Glenn could have sworn that the emotionless cyborg just sweat-dropped.

Kid walked up into Serge's room and laughed when she saw his claw scratched face. "Bugger! Looks like the cat got ya good."

Serge saw Kid and smiled softly at her. "I see you're doing better. Are you still mad?"

Kid wandered over Serge and sat right on his bed. She took off the glove on her hand and gently placed it on Serge's cheek. This shocked him to no end and it even felt good to him, but it was ruined when she painfully pinched and pulled it.

"You still spied on me when I was nude!" she wickedly smirked. "You honestly didn't think I wouldn't get back at you somehow, did you!?"

Eventually she let go of him and he rubbed his swollen cheek.

"Kid," He stared deep into her sky-blue eyes. "I'm so sorry about earlier."

"Forget about it." Serge raised an eyebrow. "Leena told me everything that Glenn didn't." She sighed, not finding apologies easy for her to do. Yet she still managed to smile warmly at Serge. "I never knew you were so worried about me, mate."

Serge blush a bright red and was a little confused by the situation. "So you believe me?"

Kid nodded. "But if you ever spy on me again…" She cracked her knuckles, which made Serge turn pale. "I swear to whatever God that's still breathin' that I will break every bone in your body! Got it!?"

Serge quickly nodded and smiled. "Yep. You're definitely back to normal." He managed to sit up, all the while clenching his teeth in pain. His arms wrapped themselves around her shoulders and he pulled her into a hug. "I'm sorry that I've been brushing you off. I swear I won't leave your side."

She felt something wet on her back and realized that he was crying. Kid returned the hug and massaged Serge's back with her hand. "It's alright, mate. I forgot that I'm not the only one with problems too."

Serge lay back down on top of his bed while Kid rested her head on top of his chest. The young Chrono Trigger only felt warmth instead of pain when Kid was on top of him. Kid was content as well, but there was still one question she had on her mind….

What were the memories that she had forgotten?

Author's notes: There! That should hold you guys for awhile. See ya later!

And if you like Kirges, be sure to read "Final Cross May Cry"!