A/N: So I'm really sorry that I haven't updated in a long time. I hope this chapter makes up for that. I'm fairly certain that this is my longest chapter yet. Also I don't think I did a disclaimer yet so… I don't own anything here except the idea. Dragonlance belongs to Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (I think), and Starbucks, Hot Topic, Big 5 Sporting Goods, and Scooby Doo characters belong to whomever it is that owns them. There now I can cross that off the list. Sorry for such a long author's note, though I'm not sure anyone actually reads this so I don't know why I'm apologizing.

Chapter 3

"I'll have a medium mocha please," I said to the barista.

"I'd like a chocolate milk please!" Heather said, obviously excited at the prospect of getting some chocolate milk that she didn't have to make herself.

After Heather and I got our drinks, the four of us found a table and sat down. All of a sudden my phone buzzed. I pulled it out of my pocket and slid it open. Ruth had replied to the text I had sent her earlier about my plan to take Raist shopping and how Tas had now shown up.

Good idea. Need any help w/ clothes? And who's tas again? Is he the one with the bow?

Um no that's tanis. Tas is the short one that steals things. Also help would be appreciated. I replied.

My phone buzzed again. K. Meet you at the mall in 30?

Sounds good.

"Slight change in plans guys," I announced, looking up from my phone. "My friend Ruth is going to meet us at the mall in thirty minutes."

"Ashley, what's a mall? It sounds awfully interesting. Please tell me what it is." Tas said.

"I would love to Tas, but we need to leave in a few minutes and I need to use the bathroom. Why don't you ask Heather?" I said as I got up to find the bathroom. "Heather keep an eye on Tas."

I came back a few minutes later to find Heather talking to her friend Daphne, who must have shown up while I was gone, and Tas trying to strike up a conversation with Raistlin, who was ignoring him. I walked over to our table and picked up my cup. It felt pretty light actually. I took off the lid and looked inside to find it was empty. I sighed; I didn't realize that I had drunk it so fast.

"Alright we better get going," I said, walking up to Heather. She said good-bye to Daphne and we exited the coffee shop.

"So Raist, remember anything recently?" I asked. We had been driving for ten full minutes in an awkward silence; well it would have been an awkward silence, if Tas would ever shut up. So I guess it wasn't really because of an awkward silence at all, I was just trying to get Tas to shut up.

"No." He replied curtly.

"Well oookaaay… " I said and the car ride returned to Tas talking animatedly and everyone else ignoring him.

We finally reached the mall to find Ruth standing outside the entrance. We got out of the car and walked over to her.

"Hey Ruth!" I exclaimed. "How has your weekend been so far?"

"Same old, same old. My mom threatened to take away my cell phone if I didn't clean my room."

"Let me guess, you just shoved everything in your closet." I replied giggling slightly.

"You really know me too well, Barbie," she replied with a smirk on her face.

"If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times, don't call me Barbie. I find it demeaning. After all I'm not some ditzy blonde chick."

"And that's exactly why I call you that. Anyway we came here to shop, so shop we shall!"

"Yeah, let's go. Hey wait a minute… Has anyone seen Tas?" I asked looking around wildly.

"What do you mean, 'Has anyone seen Tas?'" my sister asked. I could hear the rising hysteria in her voice.

"He was here a second ago and now he's gone," I answered.

We rushed into the mall just in time to hear an announcement over the loudspeaker:

"Would the parents of… What's your name kid? * mumbling* The parents of Tasselhoff Burrhoof? * more mumbling * What? It's Burrfoot? Tasselhoff Burrfoot. Will his parents just come over to the security center for the love of… Hey where are you going? Get back here! You need to wait here for your parents!"

"Shit," I swore. "Well at least we know where to start looking."

How did this happen? I thought to myself as I ran into yet another store, I think it was Hot Topic this time, chasing that stupid kender. And when did Tas become so damn fast? In fact, if it was actually possible, he seemed even more energetic than usual.

"Ruth you go left and I'll go right. Heather, Raist, go try to block the entrance in case he gets by us."

The two of us snuck up on either side of Tas. When I gave the signal, we both jumped at him in an attempt to tackle him. Unfortunately, and that moment Tas must have seen something shiny, for he moved out of our path. Ruth and I collided with a loud crash. I felt a sharp pain in my head and I prayed that I didn't have a concussion. We both sat there, dazed, in the middle of the store, ignoring the staring people.

"Were you trying to catch me?" Ruth and I yelped and scrambled into a sitting position to see Tas looking down at us.

"Ummm… Yeah?" I replied weakly.

"Why?" he asked.

"Because you can't just cause havoc here."

"Yeah. You need to stop," Ruth added.

"Funny, that's not what your mom said last night," Tas replied, trying to look thoughtful. However after about two seconds he burst into hysterics.

I sat there and stared at him. Really? That's the best he had? He wasn't even here last night. I looked over at Ruth and my brown eyes widened. Her fists were clenched and she had a look of pure rage on her face. Seriously, I was a little scared of her myself, and she wasn't even mad at me. Next thing I knew, she was chasing Tas out of the store, yelling something about castrating him.

"While that sounds interesting, I don't know what that is and you seem very angry so it can't be good. I think I'll pass," Tas called back to her.

Heather, Raist, and I burst out of the store chasing Ruth and, as soon as we caught up to her, Tas. We weren't the only ones for long though. Turns out Tas had an inexhaustible amount of insults.

In one particularly memorable insult, Tas ran up to an extremely hairy man and asked if one of his parents was a Minotaur. The man started to breathe heavily through is nose, strangely making him look like he was half Minotaur. His actions only made Tas laugh even harder, and he started mooing at the man. The man then pulled back his fist and swung and connected with my left eye, when I had run up to try to grab Tas, who had conveniently run off.

"OWW!" I yelled, clutching my eye. "What the hell?" I looked up and saw he had left and was pursuing Tas.

"Well I don't know how it's possible, but it's been almost an hour and we still have yet to catch Tas. Anyone have any ideas?" I asked. The four of us were sitting on a bench, resting.

"Maybe we could lure him into Big 5 and catch him in a net," Heather stated sarcasticly.

"That just might work…" Raistlin whispered. The three of us turned and stared at him. Since he had shown up he had barely spoken three sentences.

"I was joking…" Heather said.

"Alright, let's say that we went with that plan. How would we lure Tas to the net?" Ruth asked.

"Oh, I got it! We could tell Tas that Raistlin will whoosh him to a duck pond and that we will lead him to Raistlin," Heather suggested.

"I can do that?" Raistlin asked, still speaking softly.

"Yeah, along with various other magical things," I replied. The insanity surrounding the whole Tas debacle had made me momentarily forget that Raist didn't have any of his memories. Another thought suddenly hit me. Why did Tas have all his memories, but not Raistlin? I shook my head. That would have to wait until later. It was time to focus on the task at hand: capturing Tas.

"Then let's do it," I said.

"So everyone know what the plan is? Heather, you are going to go look for Tas."

"Alright!" Heather said running from the isle towards the exit.

"As I was saying," I continued, "Raistlin, you go stand over there, behind the net. And remember stay right there, no matter what. Ruth, you go stand lookout at the entrance and when you see them coming, come back here. Then come over to this hiding place we set up. Once Tas comes and steps on the net we laid out on the floor, we will pull on this rope, which runs through that convenient pulley on the ceiling and is connected to those four ropes tied to the edges of the net. Everyone got that?"

"Well, if I didn't before, I sure do now," Raistlin replied sarcastically.

"Looks like amnesia didn't change your personality," I mumbled.

"What did you say?" Raistlin asked.

"Nothing!"

"Their coming!" Ruth yelled, running towards us ten minutes later. She came up to our hiding place and grabbed on to the edge of the rope.

Sure enough, not even a minute after Ruth was in place, Heather came hurtling down the isle, Tas in hot pursuit. As soon as Tas was fully on top of the net, Ruth and I both yanked on the rope. Good news was that we caught Tas. Bad news was that we also managed to catch Heather as well.

"I think I now know how Shaggy feels," Heather said. "OUCH! WHAT THE HELL TAS?"

"Let me out of here! Raist said he would whoosh me to a duck pond!" Tas was yelling as he flailed about, smacking Heather in the face in the process.

"Tas," I stepped out from my hiding place, "he doesn't remember how 'whoosh' people to duck ponds," I finished, using the hand that wasn't holding the rope to finger quote the whoosh.

"He doesn't?" Tas asked. "But if he doesn't remember how that why did she tell me… Ohhhh," a hurt look appeared on his face. "You were trying to catch me again."

"Really? What was you're first clue? Maybe the fact that we're hanging above the ground IN A NET?" Heather asked sarcastically.

I heard a snort from somewhere behind me, I assumed it was Raistlin. However I didn't have much time to dwell on the fact because Heather was livid.

"So Tas… Are you done terrorizing the unsuspecting shoppers, because until you say yes, you are staying up there."

"You know, as much as I'd like to say no, I'm kind of tired. Whatever it was that I drank, while it gave me tons of energy, I think it wore off," He said, adding a yawn at the end as if to make a point.

"Wait what did you drink?" I asked.

"Whatever it was that you got at that place. You must have forgotten about it, because you left it there when you went to the bathroom. I figured you wouldn't mind. What was it you called it? A mocha?"

"WHAT?" In my shock, I let go of the rope. I heard Ruth yell out in pain, and the next thing I knew, Heather and Tas came crashing to the floor. "You drank my coffee?"

"Yeah, but you know when you let go of the rope and we fell, it kind of really hurt."

E/N: So there you have it! I think this may be the longest chapter I have written yet. Again, sorry I took so long to update, I'm taking AP Physics and not only is it really hard, but there is a lot of homework. Anyway, enough excuses! So at BoldBlondeandBeautiful: I think you read my mind about the Tas and coffee plot bit. Are you psychic? What am I thinking right now? Also I can't decide what characters I want to bring into the story. As of right now the only characters I have down are: Stanley from my other story, Dragons of the Lost Hero, maybe, and Goldmoon definitely. So if you have a character you want to see, leave a review and tell me! Though please remember when suggesting that I have only read Soulforge, Brothers in Arms, the Chronicles (War of the Lance), The Legends Trilogy (Time, War, and Test of the Twins), and Dragons of a Summer Flame. So please don't suggest any characters from any other books that may take place in that realm, because I won't be able to write them. Thanks!