I'm glad everyone seems to like the dragon knights being six year olds. I thought it would be really cute and it appears I was right. I'm so happy everyone likes!

NOTE: Nadil, Shydeman, Shyrendora, and Fedelta are the ones that followed the dragons to the future. Just telling you that because I don't want to explain how they found out that they had gone to the future.

Now on with the torment, I mean story.

A Different Life Chapter 3

Lykouleon sat in his office trying to do his paperwork when Ruwalk walked in. "I saw Alfeegi. I thought he was going home."

"I thought so too. That is, until he brought that back with him," Lykouleon said, pointing his pen at Rune.

Ruwalk's mouth just dropped open. "He got changed into a six year old?"

"Yes, and Alfeegi had to adopt him since he was at an orphanage."

Ruwalk went over to the now sleeping Rune and picked up the stuffed animal. "And Water got turned into a stuffed animal?"

"Yes. And if I'm guessing correctly then Rath and Thatz are six year olds as well..."

"And Fire and Earth are stuffed animals as well."

"You guessed right there," Kai-Stern said as he walked in the room. Being dragged into the room with him was Rath. Tetheus walked in behind them, Thatz was punching and kicking him since Tetheus had thrown him over his shoulder.

When Rath saw Rune, he immediately stopped fighting Kai-Stern and ran over to him. "Wake up, Rune!" he said shacking the small elf.

Rune opened his eyes and when he saw who had wakened him up, he ran over to Lykouleon and hid behind him. Rath's huge grin turned to a frown at this. "Come on, Rune! You have to play with Thatz and me!"

"No I don't!" Rune yelled hanging onto Lykouleon's arm. "You two are always mean to me when I play with you!"

"Well, at least they remember each other," Ruwalk muttered to Kai-Stern who was now beside him.

All the offices were now in Lykouleon's office and after hours of chasing Rath and Thatz around, they had gotten all three knights to go to sleep.

"So, what are we going to do about this?" Kai-Stern asked as he took off his glasses to clean them.

"Well, they'll grow, so I say the best thing to do is just wait for them to grow up," Alfeegi said.

"He's right. There's nothing we can do to change them back," Lykouleon said. "The problem we have to face now is Nadil and what we're going to do about him. He already knows that Rune is a child and he'll take advantage of that."

"The question is: Does he know about Rath and Thatz?"

"I don't think so. If he did then he would have sent Shydeman and Shyrendora after them, just as he did with Rune."

Alfeegi was the first one to talk after the lord finished. "So then, we must be careful and protect Rune right now."

"Yes, but since you did adopt him, he is your responsibility." Alfeegi just glared at Ruwalk.

About a week later, Alfeegi took Rune home once more. They had decided to take all three knights to work every day, and then Alfeegi would take Rune home, while Kai-Stern took Rath home, and Tetheus did the same for Thatz.

"Alfeegi?" Rune asked him as the shut the front door and locked it.

"Hm?" Alfeegi asked looking down at him.

"Who's the Nadil person you keep saying is probably after me?"

"You weren't supposed to know about him."

"But I do, so I want to know."

"He was just someone who doesn't like Lykouleon very much and might have tried to use you against him, but, it's alright now. He's been taken care of," Alfeegi said smiling down at the child.

"Ok," Rune smiled back and skipped off.

'Damn, you just have to love that kid,' Alfeegi thought.

At about midnight Rune woke up to see someone in his room. He knew instantly that it wasn't Alfeegi because the person was too tall. Also, this person felt too evil to be the former white dragon officer.

"Who are you?" he asked in a frighten voice.

"Don't be frighten, young prince of the elves," the intruder said bowing. He continued, but Rune didn't hear him since he was now hopelessly confused. "You shouldn't be with Lykouleon. The dragon lord will just let your powers die, but I'll make sure they don't."

The person stepped into the moonlight and Rune knew who it was, even though he had asked Alfeegi about him only a few hours ago. 'Nadil!' Rune 's mind screamed right before everything went black.

Ok, there's the next chapter. Hope you like.

I don't own DK