Spiral: I'm sorry, i'm sorry! im sooooooooooooo sooooooooooooooooooorrry! i wasn't supposed to enter the document which is now days of forget chapter 2! it wasn't completed yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! and now, i must start off from where i left off so. . .poo. . .it ruin the dramatic impulse. . .not that i know what a dramatic impulse is. . .nvm. . .
disclaimer: i no no own dragon knights. ohkami-sama does, BUT SECRETLY I WISH I OWNED RATH BECAUSE HE IS MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE! ((not really)) I JUST REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY WISH HE WAS MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE! ahem okay, im done. . .wait a minnit. . .i told you! NOW IT'S NOT A SECRET ANYMORE, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! bangs head repeatedly with mallet
oh, and, and, here's some replies to ur reviews!
RathIlluser-012: um...some personal space please, BUT GLAD YOU LIKE IT!
aquajogger: thanks! im glad you like the line, "what's a twit?" because i worked hard on finding the right thing to say, but anywho, IM SOOOOOO TOUCHED THAT YOU THING MY STORY IS THE BEST RATH-LOSES-HIS-MEMORY-IN-THE-SOFP-AFTER-CESIA-GETS-HER'S-BACK-IN-BOOK-7 FANFIC! ((wow, that's a long word!)) and i've always thought of Nohiro as Rath's kinda long lost twin brother. . .dun, dun DUN! oh, and, i was struggling to find a good title, but i wanted the story to be on as soon as possible, so i just thought of a crummy one! but if you have any title suggestions, please tell me! ((I'll definitely change it!))
bananaluvie-rc: yay! i updated::both cheer: thank you that you think its awesome! ((wait a minnit...that sentence didn't make sense...))
silverblueenchatress: sorry I haven't updated sooner::ducks from a stream of pots, pans, books, and bookshelves: but hey, I did something, right?
The Shadowess: u THAT'S FUNNY! I SHOULD PUT THAT IN! . . .YOU'RE LETTING RATH TAKE THE DAMAGE! YOU BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD PERSON::is a rath lover:
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Days of Forget- Chapter 3
'And why is it that I can't remember?' Cesia prodded deep into the darkest crevices and alleyways of her memories, but still could not track down the reason she had suddenly remembered the Fire Dragon Knight. 'Why can't I figure it out? Damn it! This is giving me another heada-"
"Hey! Look! White stuff's falling from the sky!"
"Hn?" Cesia's train of thought snapped in two as an interrupting voice entered in.
"Look!" shouted Rath once more.
Cesia's violet eyes followed the direction of his fingers to out the window.
And outside, drifting delicately down onto the garden grounds was definitely "white stuff". It was snowing. The snow had laid a thin layer of powdered sugar atop the many trees, flowers, and other exotic plants in the queen's garden. The whole place seemed almost angelic. Like a slice of heaven was brought down to descend upon Dusis.
Cesia laughed and laid a hand on the boy's shoulder. "Rath, that's snow."
"Snow?" asked Rath questioningly, "what's that?"
"Wow, he's even stupider than I thought!" Thatz interrupted suddenly. He had taken to sitting on top of the small wooden table in the corner, chomping away at the bowl of fruit that was now just a bowl. "The dork doesn't even know what snow is!" he jumped off the table with one big leap, and grabbed Rath by the arm. "Come with me, I'll show you what fun we can have with snow."
"Wait! W-where are we going? CESIA!" yelled Rath helplessly as the Earth Dragon Knight effortlessly dragged him down the hall.
As the two disappeared from her vision of sight, Cesia couldn't help but laugh a little. Rath. He was so helpless and childish now. He. . .wasn't bothered anymore, not that he had ever said he was being bothered. But even so, even if he hadn't told her, she could always tell he was bothered. Writhing and murmuring in his sleep, unconsciously walking around during the day. What memories could affect him like that? Yes, this was much better. He was carefree now, rid of painful thoughts.
Cesia sighed happily and took a seat. Finally, rest. 'He almost seems-'
"CESIA!"
The said girl almost toppled over out of her chair at the sudden outburst. "Huh! What?"
"CESIA! GET DOWN HERE!" shouted Thatz's voice again. Though it wasn't cheery and bright anymore. The Earth Dragon Knight sounded much unlike himself. . .he was worried.
"Cesia, something's happened to Rath!" said Rune, alarmed. He was looking out the slightly ajar window down onto the snow-covered grounds.
"Be right there!" she shouted back, quickly grabbing a coat and running out the door. What was wrong this time?
Her question was soon answered as she made it to Thatz. Rath was lying on the ground, curled up in a ball. Cesia couldn't tell what he was shaking from the most, the cold, or his own fear. His eyes were shut tight, as sweat slowly began to drip down his face. The Dragon Knight's skin was even paler than Cesia ever imagined skin could ever be.
"Rath?" she kneeled on the ground before him and took him in her arms, making him sit up on the snowy ground. She looked in his eyes. They were filled with a fear that she had never seen in him before. "Rath, what's wrong?" she asked worriedly.
"Cesia," he said through chattering teeth. Slightly purple lips made out the words. "It's cold."
She stared blankly back at him, unsure what to make of that comment. It was just like before, with the water from the faucet. "Well of course it's cold, that's what snow is, cold."
Rath leaned closer into Cesia as he shivered more. "Pl-please, I d-don't like it. T-take me b-back ins-side. . ."
"Don't worry! It's okay, we'll get you inside!" Cesia hastily wrapped her own jacket around the boy, "Thatz, help me get him inside! Rune!"
"Ah! Yes?" The elf had just gotten to the snowing site and was breathing deeply from running down several flights of stairs. He thought to himself how Cesia was able to get down there so quickly, but it was just a passing thought, and so left quite shortly.
"Can you do anything to make him better? Heal him or something!" she shouted quite angrily at him. This was situation she had never been in, and so did not know what on earth to do. THAT bothered her.
Rune nodded and proceeded to fill his hands with a warm, golden light. His faerie healing power gathered from his fingertips, then began to flow out and spread. It cast its glowing tendrils over to the shivering boy, wanting desperately to fill him with warmth again. But then. . .
"Agh! Rune, what's happening!" The fortuneteller quickly released Rath as jolts and sparks of small, red and black jolts of lightning sprung from the boy's body, attacking anything within it's reach. The sparks succeeded in warding off Cesia, and now focused on removing Rune.
The elf twitched slightly as the demonic bolts raced up his arms, infusing themselves into his body and sending shocks of pain throughout the rest of him. "Ahh…Argh!" Try as he might, even though the pain was the source of tears in his eyes, he couldn't make himself let go of the dangerously shivering boy. The bolts were what was keeping him and Rath stuck together.
"Rune! You have to let go!" yelled Cesia through the Water Dragon Knight's shouts of pain.
"I'M. TRYING. TO! AARGH!" he yelled through gasps of breath. "Ah!" Rune's eyes flew wide open with surprise as a large spike erupted from the ground and cut right through the microscopic gap between his hands and Rath's body. The rock split the very air around it, and also split the demonic bond connecting the healing power and electrical shield.
Rune was thrown backwards, the light of his hands fading. His consciousness expected to crash into something. A wall, or maybe, a tree? It would be painful, that was all he knew. But what he didn't expect was him to land on something rather soft and most definitely not solid rock or wood, or even marble.
"H-hey, Rune! You okay?" asked the Dragon Knight of Earth, taking in large amounts of breath, seeing as the wind was just knocked out of him from interfering with the elf's crash course. ((note: this is NOT a Yaoi moment. But in the mangas, it always seems that Thatz saves Rune a lot, especially in the first and second mangas))
"Ah? Y-yes, thank you. . ." he answered, regaining a bit of lost breath. "What happened? Something blocked me."
"And you're asking ME?" That laughed and helped the elf sit up. "Not the wisest decision there."
"Not the time to be joking around Thatz!" Rune went to where Rath lay on the snow, Cesia wrapping more clothing around him hastily. "What's wrong with him? My powers don't work!"
Cesia tried unsuccessfully to pick the shivering boy up, which ended up with her dumping him unceremoniously onto the ground. "I think that whatever is making him so cold repels all outside magic! Argh! I don't know what to do!"
"For starters, let ME carry him," said Thatz, easily picking up the Fire Dragon Knight and carrying him into the castle. "You coming or what?"
"Yes!" answered both Rune and Cesia in unison as they quickly followed the Earth Dragon Knight back inside.
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"Is he okay?"
"Well, his fever's let down a little, and he isn't coughing anymore, I'd say he'll be better with a long rest and a good meal." Cernozura changed the soaked towel on top of Rath's feverish forehead and quickly changed it to a new one. She glanced to her left and saw both the Water and Earth Dragon Knights and Cesia staring worriedly at the sleeping form of Rath. "You don't have to be so worried," she said, smiling.
"But he was just burning like hell and acting as if he were going to die!" yelled Rune and Cesia together. Thatz just stared at the chamberlain with his eyes slightly wider than before.
"Oh, you never knew? He used to do this all the time when he was little, which is why we never let him outside on snowing days," said Cernozura bluntly. It was quite obvious to her, seeing as she was always the one to take care of him when he became ill. "It seems the snow has some kind of negative effect on him. It's always been like that. We're not really sure why."
Cesia thought for a moment. Did this have something to do with what happened on the ship? She remembered Rath waking up shaking like heck. Then he went to the faucet and yelled because the water was too cold. 'There's something wrong with him. . .' she thought for the umpteenth time.
But despite all her thoughts and worries, all was well in the Dragon Castle for the next week. Of course, there were Alfeegi's ranting, but that always came and went. ((except for the time when he blew up at the discovery of Rath's lost memories, now THAT lasted for at least three days)) Rath spent his leisure time, which was ALL the time, either following Cesia everywhere she went or reading fairy tales in the library. ((fairy tales. . .))
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!" Cesia threw her book across the room and massaged her forehead thoroughly. "Will you just LEAVE me ALONE!" she yelled at the boy smiling at her from across the table.
Rath ducked just in time as the book zoomed over his head. "Why?"
"It's annoying to have someone staring at you 24/7!" She picked up her pen next and threw it at him.
The boy caught the writing mechanism with amazing reflexes and threw it back at her, hitting her square in the forehead.
"OW!" The half witch fell off her chair as a book was chucked at her. "WHAT IN THE NAME OF DUSIS WAS THAT FOR!"
"You started it, remember? Or maybe you don't remember. . .I have trouble remembering things too. . .what's my name again?" He turned his head slightly to the left as he had begun to do as a habit.
"It's been a week already, and you can't even remember your own name!" She shouted back, rubbing the spot where the pen had hit her and sitting back into her chair.
"Nah, I'm just fooling around with you, my name's Rath, right?" He twirled a spare pen in his hand as he continued to stare at her.
"Can't you go bother someone else!" she asked, annoyed.
"Nope."
"AND WHY NOT!"
"Cause girly-boy is too nagging, Earthy-guy sleeps all the time, Angry-man is too, well, ANGRY, Lordy-guy gets on my nerves, weird-hair-guy-"
"Okay! I've heard enough!" she interrupted, not wanting to hear the whole entire list of Rath's obscene nicknames. She brought her head to the table's surface and started to bang rapidly.
"You shouldn't do that, it's going to hurt more later on. . ." said Rath, laying his head on his arms which were crossed on the table.
"I. . .DON'T. . .FRIGGIN. . .CARE. . ." she growled, hitting her forehead more rapidly. 'I need someone to take this guy AWAY from me. . .' she thought to herself.
"I'M BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!"
"Ah!" Cesia toppled over in her chair once again as a voice rang loudly throughout the whole castle. "ARGH! I'm seriously getting tired of this!" she shouted, getting up from the ground."
"Ah, welcome back Sir Kai-Stern! May I get your coat for you?" came the voice of a castle maid.
"It's alright, I'll take it with me," answered the cheerful voice back. "By the way, do you know where Rath is?"
Cesia continued to listen to the conversation in the hallway. Finally! This was her chance to get rid of Rath!
'Every time Kai-Stern comes home, Rath always. . .but Rath doesn't remember Kai-stern. . .OH NO!' Cesia frantically got up from the table and grabbed Rath's arm, pulling him out of his seat. 'How will Kai-Stern feel if Rath suddenly didn't remember him! I bet he'd feel dreadful! I can't let Kai-Stern meet him!'
"I believe Sir Rath is in the library with Miss Cesia," answered the maid.
"Oh, okay then, thanks!" said the Blue Dragon Officer.
'Damn! I can't go out through the main entrance now!' cursed Cesia, hearing the officer's footsteps approaching the door. 'Let's see. . .maybe there's another way out?' But there wasn't time. Kai-Stern was already turning the doorknob. 'No other choice then!' "Rath! Get in here!" The half witch shoved the boy into a nearby closet and stood in front of, just as the Blue Dragon Officer walked into the library.
"Oh, hi Cesia!" greeted Kai-Stern, looking around the library. "Is Rath here?"
"Uh, n-no! Why don't you go check his room!"
"Oh yeah, good idea," said Kai-Stern, turning to leave.
Cesia sighed with relief as she walked away from the closet door.
"Hey Cesia. . .can I come out now?" The closet suddenly opened and Rath walked right out into the open, looking around for the girl. "Hm?" He stared at the newcomer who had just stopped himself from leaving.
"No! Rath!" yelled Cesia hopelessly, trying to unsuccessfully hide the boy from Kai-Stern's view.
"Rath? What were you. . ." started Kai-Stern, turning to face his friend.
"Who are you?" said the boy bluntly.
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Spiral: Ah! Finally done with chapter three! It feels goooooood! Sorry for the long wait, but I hope this long chapter was enjoyed! Don't forget to review! Ja neh!