marium-I didn't "make you think". It did die :( / :) (don't know if I should be sad cuzz a baby died, or grin cuzz I know what happened). I only watched the first 4 episodes of Rave Master, since they started and cancled it while we were living in Europe and we just happened to come across the first DVD. It's not nearly as good as the manga.

morferedir-I think I just randomly put in chapter 18ish that he aachieved that over the corse of Dark's stay in Holodrum. Like, it was slowly happening through out the story and it just mentioned it recently, I guess. Truth is, I decided at random that he was just a little to short.

I luv Vaati-No. It calls him a he. They just don't go "it's a guy" cuzz everyone can see it. But it definitely says "He" in the previous chapter a few times. And they name this kid in this chapter. You know, patients is a virtue.

Chapter 21

Dark sent the baby down in another crib that had been added to Aki and Ruo's room. "He really does look like Shadow…" she sighed "I miss him…"

Vaati picked the baby back up. "He needs a name, you know"

"mm…"

"I mean, I'd be kind of mad if my parents never bothered to name me"

"hm…"

"…Dark?"

"ah! Right. Right, a name…"

Vaati sighed "Dark… why don't we name him Shadow? He looks just like him." Dark didn't look too taken by the idea "Do you like that name little guy?" Vaati asked the baby "Do you like 'Shadow'?" The baby gave a sort of combo between blowing a raspberry and a giggle "I think that's as close to a yes as we'll get for a while" Vaati laughed.

"Fine. Name him Shadow" Dark said, looking away "See if I care"

Setting the newly named Shadow back in his crib, Vaati turned to Dark "You should. He's yours. You seemed pretty happy about it a few minutes ago"

"Then give me a few more minutes and maybe I'll be psyched again" Dark scoffed and stormed out.

Shadow began to cry.

Vaati smiled and bent over the crib "Don't worry. She's only being this way because she misses you" he assured the child "Given how the two of you always behaved, I really never would have guessed you cared about each other so much"

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Rune Caster: Shortie. Sorry. Maybe I've cleared up the whole "Did the baby die or not?" and maybe I've made it a million times worse. I planned on settling the whole thing in this chapter but I decided to do one more with a massive time jump and what not.

Also, I'm planning on doing a story next where this one sorcerer character kind of dies and ends up being turned into a robot because the other peoples don't want to lose him yet. Can't think of a good name, though. Got any good ideas?