Kitmit ran a finger over the bandage on her mouth. Did I hurt my mouth too, she wondered. Well, give her a break! She was pretty much just born here, people! Andre flew over toward Kitmit and took a good look at her. "So, you mean... the Feligard is gone." Mr. Dark looked up, relieved that somebody finally understood. "Yes." Andre turned toward him. "And now that the Feligard is gone, you found this." "Yes." "And... they're both named Kitmit." "YES already!" Andre turned back to Kitmit. "And they have the same eyes." "Ye-- what??" Mr. Dark ran over and looked at Kitmit closely. She leaned back a little because both he and Andre were a little too close for comfort, staring at her. After a minute or two, Mr. Dark pulled away. "Well, I'll be darned..." Razoff stepped forward, Sky craned his neck to see what was going on. "Wait, are you trying to say that our huge evil cat of doom has transformed into... THAT?" Andre flew closer to Razoff. "That seems to be the case. Only, it seems that she's lost her memory..." Mr. Dark turned back to them. "Well, she DID hit her head. Among with a few other things..." He turned to Kitmit. "Why are you standing? Your foot was almost... DESTROYED when I looked at it!" Kitmit tried to say something, but made a really weird muffled sound. Sighing, Mr. Dark took off the bandage. Kitmit rubbed her mouth. "Is my mouth all better?" Mr. Dark growled and looked up at the ceiling. "Polokus, kill me now..." Kitmit was suddenly on the floor. She wasn't exactly careful when she decided to sit down, making everybody jump when they heard a loud thumping noise. They looked down at her, she tried to pull the bandages off of her foot. She kept tugging and tugging until, now very annoyed, Mr. Dark knelt down and took them off for her. Kitmit smiled and waved her foot around a bit. "My foot doesn't hurt, see? All better!" Mr. Dark and Razoff gaped at her. Andre was a little busy, Sky had suddenly decided that he was a cute toy and started to hug him like a teddy bear.

Mr. Dark reluctantly touched her foot. "But... that's IMPOSSIBLE!" "Apparently not," Razoff said. "I CAN'T BREATH!!!" Razoff turned toward Andre and Sky. "What do you care? If you breath you die!" "THAT'S NOT THE POINT!!!" Razoff sighed and said, "Sky, drop the fuzzy bug, okay?" Sky grinned happily and let go of Andre, who fell to the floor with a funny little smacking noise. Andre looked up. "Next time you want a kid, get a puppy or something instead." Mr. Dark grinned underneath his cloak. "Why, so he could stuff it two years later?" Normally, even Razoff would have laughed at that. But since the return of his son... he had been thinking a little differently. It was his obsession with hunting that got him into this mess. He had an angry Feligard after him, whose mother he had stuffed. He had captured another Feligard. He guessed that she wasn't in his basement anymore, mainly because he was practically trampled to death by something huge and grey not long ago. Speaking of basement... "Uh, you guys, I think we forgot something..." Razoff walked out of the tent, Sky got up and decided to follow.

Razoff turned to look behind him and pointed toward the tent. "No, Sky, you stay here. I'll be right back." Sky stopped and looked up at Razoff. He felt like they had been appart forever, and now his dad didn't want him around? Sky turned and started to walk toward the tent, his head drooping in sadness. Reassured, Razoff continued on his short trip. Cassandra was out here and he was afraid of how Sky would react if he saw her again. When he nearly reached the tent, Sky looked back and saw that Razoff was walking pretty quickly. He didn't want to miss out on what his father was doing anymore. He turned his back on the tent, took a deep breath, then started to follow him. Sky was very skilled in things like hiding and dodging. He always got up in the middle of the night to play games and he would have to act fast so that Razoff never caught him.

From tree to tree, bush to bush, he followed. Razoff even looked behind him to make sure that Sky wasn't following once in a while. Sky was getting a bit closer, then thought he heard something. Looking to his right, his breath caught in his throat. Looking straight at him from beside a campfire was a dragon. Cassandra appeared to be sleeping, but her dragon friend was watching very closely. Sky then noticed--that dragon had no eyes! How could it possibly know where he was and what he was doing?? The dragon hissed and slithered toward Sky, who was too afraid to move. When it was towering over him, it bent down so they were face to face. "You shouldn't be out here. I heard what your father said." The dragon watched Sky expectantly. It knew that nobody could understand it's hissing but Cassandra, but the sounds it made should have scared him into going back to the safety of the tent. Sky looked at the ground, ashamed. "I know..." The dragon's mouth nearly fell open. "You can understand me?" Sky looked up, a tad confused. "Yes... what isn't there to understand?"

The dragon was amazed now. Sky looked beyond the dragon and at Cassandra. "She didn't hurt dad... did she?" The dragon snapped out of it's daze. "No, she didn't." It looked down at Sky. He seemed to the thinking hard about something. The dragon put a wing around Sky, like a hug. "Do you know who she is?" Sky continued to watch her. "Mom..." The dragon's mouth fell open this time. How could he possibly know that?! "But... how..." "I knew all along. I don't know how, but I did." Sky suddenly turned around and started running. "HEY! Where are you goin now?!" The dragon already knew he was going after his father. It also knew that it shouldn't interfere. That boy had his father taken away from him, just like Cassandra. Maybe they needed some time alone. "Great, one of those two'll be after my tail when they find out I let him go." The dragon sighed and slithered back to it's partner. Through that yelling, it couldn't believe that Cassandra was still asleep.

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Sky watched from behind a bush as his father entered the mansion. Sky's mouth fell open the second he saw it. Their once beautiful house looked like it was nearly burnt down, and half of the house looked almost collapsed. Not only that, but it was in a bit of a different place than he remembered. Sky watched as Razoff struggled with the half-crushed door, and started to run after him when he was sure the coast was clear. When he entered, his mouth fell open once more. Statues, paintings, carvings-- all of Razoff! And several mirrors as well. Sky walked after his father's footsteps and stopped beside a huge painting. It looked like he and Sky were supposed to be in it, but this time... Sky's face looked like it had been cut out, but Razoff's face was torn to shreds. All that the little guy could think of was how all this happened and why. How long had be been away? He followed him further and further until he came to an all-too-familiar staircase. The staircase that he fell down that time ago. Beneath the staircase was a door that Sky never saw before. He heard footsteps from insie the door somewhere. As Sky approached it, he could barely see a thing. It was a long staircase, winding down into a new level of the house. Nowhere else to go, he thought to himself. He began to walk down the stairs, feeling along the wall so that he knew where he was going.

It seemed like forever, but he finally saw a light ahead. With the stairs now visible, Sky quietly ran down the rest of the stairs and froze at the sight. This place was huge! There were cages everywhere, like a prison right below his own home! It must have been added after Sky left. He kept on walking, until he finally heard voices. "You stupid big nosed-- HOW could you forget ME down here?!" "Calm down, Frog Boy, I'll get you out..." He heard the jingling of keys together and heard a metal door swing noisely on its hinges. Gathering up his courage, Sky looked around the corner and saw his father talking to what looked like a huge blue frog. He thought he saw that frog from somewhere, but where? Razoff turned around when he heard something like a strangled gasp and saw Sky.

"Sky, what are you doing here? I told you to go back to the tent!" But Razoff realized that his son wasn't listening, he was staring at Globox with the most petrified look on his face than he's ever seen before. "Sky? What's wrong?" Sky's mouth fell open and he made a forced squeak, but then he suddenly began to run away. "SKY!!" Razoff began to run after him and, extremely confused, Globox decided to follow. It took a few minutes, but Razoff finally found Sky. He was huddled in a corner, trembling. The poor little guy didn't know his way around and quickly got lost. Razoff approached him. "Sky? What's wrong?" he said in his calmest tone. Then, Globox rounded he corner and looked at them. Sky screamed and pointed at Globox. "KEEP HIM AWAY FROM ME!!! DAD, KEEP HIM AWAY!!!" Razoff kneeled beside Sky and held his shoulders. "Sky, what's wrong with you?" Sky began to shake harder, he looked like he were about to cry. "Please, please... keep... him... away..." Razoff gasped when Sky suddenly fainted. "SKY?!"

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AUTHOR'S NOTE---

I know some of you are probably wondering what's wrong here. It's all explained in my story Sky has Fallen, but that part of the story isn't going to show up any time soon. Just so you know, Sky is somehow turned into Rayman because of a failed experiment. Basically, his body is mutated to create what Rayman is known as today. But he was still young, still the same age and size of Sky. When he meets Globox in the future, something bad happens. His memory is wiped in the future, which creates the ongoing story of Past in Present. But as Sky has been reborn, he has a bad memory of Globox. He can't remember it, but it still strikes fear into him. Thus, making him freak out really badly. Not a very good day for the little guy, is it?