"Aydub? Are you listening?"

What happened?

"I can't tell if you are listening or not, can you answer me?"

I'm in that odd place where I saw Nao and that pink haired girl. I can't remember anything. My heart aches and my body is in pain, what is going on?

"Aydub, you can't remember anything for a reason. Now can you listen?" I look up, its that girl! The pink haired girl I saw with Nao, "Who are you? What am I doing here?"

"Well, for starters you know who I am. The reason you are here is because Nao wanted to talk to you." The girl waved her hand over to an empty spot which shone and Nao appeared.

"Aydub! Its so good to see you!"Nao squeezed me tight and gave me a smile.

"Nao, who is that girl, and what am I doing here?"

"As she said before, you know who she is. I want to ask you something though."

"Sure, what is it?" I cross my arms and lean my head forward.

"I wanted to ask you, do you wish to start your life over again?"

"Why would I want to start my life o...Again???" I stare Nao in the face, again? I had another life? It hits me, I glance over at the girl, "Nao, is that girl me?" Nodding Nao's smile dissapears, "Yes Aydub, the girl you see over there is infact you. Well, she was you, she is your fomer self Aydub."Oh goddess...

My vision is blurred, was that a dream? I touch my side and wince in pain, "What the hell?" Sitting up I hear a faint snore and look to my right. Hishima is curled up with a small cat. The cat looks at me curiously and meows.

"Hi there kitty, " I reach my hand out to pet the cat but I draw my hand back in pain, "Ugh, my body..." This room, its the room where I fought those Ogre Warriors...and almost died. Standing up, barely, I walk over to Hishima and lay my hand on her cheek, "I'm so sorry Hishima, I really am." Tears run down my cheek as I picture the scene that happened, how scared was she?

"So, this is where you are, Aydub." A man's voice calls out, I don't recognize it. I look towards the opening and see a tall black haired man standing in the door way with two swords in hand. Remembering what Olsa told me, the swords are a cutlass and a bastard sword.

"You know, for a Dark Knight you're young. Such a waste of a good hand in war." He raises his cutlass and appears next to me, "Your in for a heap of trouble kid." A sharp pain shoots across my back then my waist.

"What the hell?!" He won't stop hitting me and I can't move, what is this? Wham! I hit the ground, cut and bruised. How was he so fast? Why didn't he stop after 5 hits? I stare down and a foot hits my chest slamming me into the ground, "You haven't had an opponent like me before have you?" His eyes, they look souless and endless, a deep dark teal color. This man...he's so different, where'd he learn that technique? Why hasn't he transformed into a Paladin if he's looking for me?

"Who are you? What do you want?!" I strain my voice to talk as his foot slowly crushes my chest. Smirking the man grabs the collar of my shirt and my scarf lifting me into the air, "Who am I? You can call me Royan. What do I want?" He drops me onto my feet, "Simple, to kill you." To kill me! This guy, who goes by Royan, wants to kill me! The ground is hard and slippery as I try to walk backwards away from Royan. He raises one of his swords and readies to charge at me when his sword drops to the ground and he yelps, "OW! What is this cat doing here!? Get off you flithy animal!" Royan shakes his leg trying to shake the cat off when it claws him higher on his leg. You don't know funny until you see a 20 year old trying to get a kitten off of his leg. I can't help but laugh as Royan tries to get the cat off.

"Suidamo here boy!" The cat's ears prick up. He lets go of Royan's leg and runs over to Hishima, "That's a good boy Sui!"

"Geh, "Royan rubs his leg, "stupid animal. Girl! What are you doing here?"

"Me? The question is, what are YOU doing here?" Hishima says crossly as she picks up her claymore.

"Hmph, I am not going to answer a brat like you. Now you answer me." Royan stands up tall slightly holding his chin in the air, really slightly though.

"Well, I'm here because of him." Hishima points over to me, I'm still laughing from the cat-Royan-leg act. As Royan turns his head to look at me Hishima runs over to him and attempts to slice him in half, "Got ya!" Her eyes widen, "What the..." Hishima flings back 20 feet. Royan is un-hurt. Turning towards me his stare stops my laughter and freezes me. What's this feeling? I feel like knives had been thrown through my heart and head. Royan is causing this, what is with this guy?

Hishima struggles to stand up, her balance is off. "Aydub, why have you chosen the path of a Dark Knight?" My lips tighten and I close my eyes tight. Don't say it, do NOT say it. "Morrighan is a traitor and can't be trusted..."

"So you joined the fomor side and joined forces with Cichol?" Royan takes a step closer to me his face harsh with that stupid smirk. "I didn't join anyone." I feel a surge of energy. Tilting his head to the side, Royan raises and eye brow, "Then why are you a Dark Knight?" A smile breaks across my face, not a happy OH YAY! smile, an evil I'm going to kill you now, smile. I hear Royan gasp and fall down. Hishima's struggling stops.

"Aydub!!!" Hishima tramples over Royan and tackles me, "Turn back! Turn back!" She repeats the same line over and over, turn back, turn back. I start to try to hug her when I notice Royan slinking his way out of the room, "Oh no you don't." My metallic voice freezes Royan in his steps making a shiver run up his spine. I lightly push Hishima off of me and trudge over to the pompous jerk, or should I say scaredy cat? I pick Royan up by the leather straps crossing his chest, "AH! Let me down y-you insolent sw-" I stare him straight in the eyes and a bead of sweat rolls down from his temple to his chin, "Finish the sentence, I dare you." For acting all high and mighty this guy is a complete wimp. My metal hand inches up towards his neck to strangle him.

"W-wait! Don't kill me!" Royan brings his hands up to try to get my hand off of his neck. I tighten my grip slightly, " Why should I let you live after you tried to kill me?" As he tries desperatly to free himself, "Please, "he coughs, "Let me go..." His struggling starts to slacken and his eyes are starting to close.

"AYDUB LET GO OF HIM!" Something stabs me in the back I drop Royan and take out the daggar that had been stuck in my back. Its not covered in blood and I'm not hurt, weird. When I turn around to see Hishima she slaps me, "What the hell is wrong with you?! You say you don't want to follow Cichol but you sure act like you are!!!" Hitting me on the head with the hilt of her sword I fall over. My body, its not armor! Ouch, that still hurt though. A hand grabs the back of my scarf and lifts me off the ground, "You are the only person to really irritate me in a long time kid." He sets me on my feet, "Your something else you know that?" I look up at Royan and his face is like...happy or something like that.

The three of us, Me, Hishima, and our new friend Royan, walk out of Barri dungeon. Royan tells us that the only reason he was looking for me was because I had a huge bounty on my head. As he explains why he needed it a rock hits his head.

"Ouch! Who the hell threw that?!" Royan, holding his head, looks around. Elen runs over and tackles Royan like he was her boyfriend or something. As Royan struggles to be free Elen just hugs him tighter, "Where have you been!? Grandpa and I were getting worried you jerk!"

"Let me go Elen!!!!!" Royan squirms as Elen pins him to the ground. Hishima and I laugh but it ends once we hear the thundering steps of Edern, "Well well well. Its the man who broke the rules and hopped over that fence."

Royan flintched as Edern shoved Elen off and picked him up by the straps on his outfit. Elen giggles slightly as if she knows what is going to happen. Hishima and I exchange looks of fear and worry. Edern hikes Royan up higher in the air while he flails about trying to become free.

"L-look Edern! I didn't mean to just I was really curious!" Royan is panicking and grabbing to unhook the straps. Edern pulls Royan in closer as if he's going to crush him. Hishima and I jump in to stop Edern when we realize he's hugging him. We fall flat on our faces and Royan is in shock.(If it were an anime it'd be some huge panda bear hugging a tiny fox with a ghost comming out of his mouth. His expression would be something like X_X)

After Edern squeezes Royan to death(not literally) we all go back into the mountian house. We all sit down and drink some coffee and tea. Exchanging stories about their lives I quietly look into my cup of tea. Maybe I should go back to my family...

"Aydub? You okay kid?" Royan lightly shoves me and I come back to my senses, "Yeah! Perfectly fine! Heheh..." My voice trails off as I get up and dump my tea into the sink. Walk off to my room I think about what happened and what is happening. Bangor will be my home for a while, I like it here.