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Days of Forget-Chapter Four

"Wha…" the Blue Dragon Officer stared blankly at the boy, the corner of his lip twitching into a poor imitation of a smile, "Haha! You're kidding, right?" He laughed half-heartedly and patted the boy on the head. "Jeez, just cause I've been gone a while you don't have to be so upset."

"What're you doing?" Rath looked up at the taller man, staring at the hand resting in his hair. He quizzically turned to Cesia. "Is this how you say hello?" he asked, pointing to the Kai-stern's hand.

"Ah...uh…well…" the half-witch's head was currently too busy with unfinished ideas and words to fully concentrate on what was being told to her. 'Oh crap, what am I gonna do?'

"Well in that case…"

While Kai-stern stayed in shock and Cesia stayed in her confused state, Rath slipped out of the older man's grasp and walked over to the only person whose name he could actually remember. And then…

WHACK!

"OW! RATH! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!"

Cesia clutched her head in pain after receiving a sudden blow to the head from the anemic Fire Dragon Knight.

"Well, since that's how you say hello, I just realized that I never said hello to you properly!" he exclaimed, with that goofy happy look on his face again, "And so I thought that I'd say hello to you quadruple as much, and so…yah…that's pretty much it!"

'I need a psychiatrist…' thought Cesia to herself.

"Cesia?"

Oh no…

Kai-Stern turned a shaking head to the demon girl. "Wh-what's going on? Rath…he really doesn't remember?" His face was a sickly white, as if this were the end of the world.

Cesia sighed and thought for a moment. Once again, she was going to have to tell that very long story of how Rath's stupidity came to be. This was going to take a while…

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"And that's basically it," she stated bluntly, grabbing Rath by the ear to prevent him from breaking any OTHER priceless works of art. She turned her head, making the sound of a rusty faucet, to face the boy and hissed, "STAY. PUT. GOT IT?"

Rath's eyes turned to the size of very large plates and he nodded his head up and down vigorously.

Kai-Stern watched in a daze, from the boy on the ground to the girl in the chair. "By any chance…" he muttered, "Do you know how to get his memory back?"

"Well…" started the girl, putting a finger to her forehead, straining to remember, "All I remember Rath saying after I had gotten back my memories was that it just happened. It was sudden…and… something else…" she looked over to Rath to see if he could provide any useful information.

But currently the boy was skimming through a picture book, not wanting to be disturbed.

'For Dusis' sake, I bet the boy can't even read a word of that…' she thought to herself.

Kai-Stern stared downcast at the floor. "So as of now we have no clues how to retrieve Rath's memory?"

Cesia really wished she could do something for the officer, he just seemed so sad. "I'm very sorry. I swear, I'll try my hardest to get them back."

"Ah, it's fine, really," said Kai-Stern, lifting his head up and smiling. "Don't worry yourself over it, it wasn't your fault. I'm sure he'll remember someday." He took his coat in his arms and waved a good bye. "I'll see you later. I'm going to go…practice sword fighting with Tetheus or something. I haven't done that in a while, I'm afraid my talents might be rusty."

Rath's head perked up as the man proceeded to leave the room. He wasn't exactly sure why, but when first meeting this new stranger, his head had immediately told him that this person was fun…and he liked fun things. "Where are you going?"

The Blue Dragon Officer looked back at the Fire Knight on the floor. "To find Tetheus. Why?"

Rath's eyes glistened with curiosity. "Why?"

"To practice sword fighting."

"Can I come?"

Kai-stern stared at him, and he stared beamingly back. The officer finally gave a true smile. "Sure."

"Yay!" Rath hopped up off the ground and followed Kai-Stern out the door. "Did you know fighting is fun? It's even better with swords! Oh! And I can make fire appear! Like this!"

Cesia could hear his questions and exclamations from the library as he walked down the hallway, followed by a scream as a maid attempted to put out the fire that had sprouted forth from her uniform.

Rath and Kai-Stern ran down the hall to hide themselves from blame, just like they had done…always…

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dark-birdie: WAH! Such a short chapter… TT I'll make the next one longer, promise! Sorry for the wait, but at least it got here! DON'T FORGET TO REVIEW!