Sitting on the edge of the fountain in front of the chatue, Duze loks at his sword and examines the blade. He sees and stares at the name on the blade.
"Zanza, Where have I heard that name?" he whispers to himself wondering who the name belongs to and how he knows them. "My be it was a gift or something." he thought.
"Dude, Lets go we can't have you sitting there stareing at that sword again." Rainne said suddenly.
"Oh sorry, got lost in thought." he said as he stood up.
"Yeah. So where did that beutiful elveen girl go to? The one you use to hang out with." Python asked as they walked towards the southeast gate of San O'doria.
"Who do you mean? I don't remember hanging out with an elveen women." he stated.
"Oh yeah, I forgot. After you came back after being gone for five years you barely remembered us." Python said with a slight chuckle.
"QUIT REMINDING HIM PYTHON. We got a mission to do." Haunter said yelling at him.
"Thanks." Duze said with appreciation for his friend. "So whats the mission?" he asked.
"Grave robbers at the tomb. They need us to investigate it." Haunter said.
"Hey stop her." shouted a galka chaseing a red haired mithra. She ran into Duze head on.
"Hey watch where your..." he said as he trailed off and started to stare at the beutiful women.
Turning in midstride. "Sorry about that." she said while waving at him.
He waved back at her still stareing at her while she disappeared around the corner.
"Man beutiful women will be the death of you someday." Rainne said jealously.
"Well at least I'll be happy when I die." Duze said as he turned to see a chargeing galka.
Then he ran into Duze sending him flying. When he had hit the ground he heard the man shout.
"Stop that girl. I'm gonna kill that cat, even if it's the last thing I do." Duze got up and brushed himself off.
"Duze, If he's talking about the women that ran into you, we got to do something." Haunter and Python said in unison.
"Don't worry, no one throws me except orcs, even they have problems. Wait for me at the gate. I'll take care of this." Duze said as he started running towards the dirction that the galka went.
"What about the mission?" Rainne shouted. Looking over his shoulder.
"I'll meet you there, when I'm done with this." he shouted back.
About five minutes later he arrives at the south auction house.
"Where is he?" Duze asked himself as he looking around. He keeps looking aroud for a while when he finally spotted him on the top level of the auction house when he started to run again.
"Hey stop." he shouted at the galka. he didn't listen and kept running. "Fine then." Duze said as he stopped. "Bind." he said as he cast a spell that stopped him in his tracks.
"What the.. Who did this?" the galka said trying to look around.
"I did." Duze said as he walked up to him. "Now why and who are you chaseing after?" he asked him.
"That mithra that ran into you." he grunted. "She dishonored me." Duze gave him a look of disbelief.
"How did she dishonor you?" he asked.
"She saved my life. So now to get my honor back take her life." he said as he started to break free from Duze's spell.
"That is no way to reclaim your honor, and by the sound of it you should be thankful." Duze said trying to calm him.
"Nothing you say or do will stop me from killing her." he said as he became completely free of the spell. He pusshed his passed Duze and started to head the direction the women had went.
"Poison." Duze cast another spell to slow the galka down to give him some time to reach the women to see if he could help.
The galka once again stopped but this time he turned to see duze but he had disappeared. He felt someone tap on his shoulder and turned to see who it was and instead of saying anything he had puked all over the head priest, who had overheard his conversation with Duze.
When Duze saw this he started to laugh, but he turned to see the red haired women run into the passage way that went to the top of the wall. He started to run to catch up with her. Stopping near the top to catch her breath, a sense of safety had came over her.
"Hello." She had jumped hearing this even though no one was there. Duze became visible right in front of her. "Sorry about that." Duze said as he scratched the back of his head. "I took care of that galka that was chaseing you." he said.\
"You didn't kill him did you?" she asked out of concern for her persuer.
"No, He'll live the poison is only temperary. He'll just be sick for a bit. That and the head priest heard of what he was going to do to you, so he'll be confined for a while." Duze explained to her.
"Oh, thank you and sorry for running into you earlier." she said thankfully while bowing apoligeticly.
"Don't worry it didn't hurt. By the way what is your name?" Duze asked eagerly.
"I'm Zanza Soyu of the federation of windurst..."
"And the royal bodygaurd of th princess of the country of Jeuno, am I right." he said as he finished her sentance.
"Yeah, but how did you know all that?" she asked cautiosly.
"I don't know, It seems that we had met before somwhere." he said as he turned from her, and sat on a step.
"I don't think so but may be." she said as she sat down next to him.
"A year ago I had returned from something, but I have no memory from what I had returned from, and ever since then I had these dreams with a person like you and another in it." he told her as he pulled out his sword to examine it again.
She looked at the blade and saw the name that was on it. "I vaguely remember giving a sword like that to a dear friend but I can't remember who or where." she said to him as she looked at him feeling that she should know him somehow.
"I don't know either when I came back I had this sword with me, but don't know how I got it." he said as he looked at her feeling he should remember her as well.
"There might be a way to get our memories back." she said still looking at him.
"Yeah how?" he asked as he to was still looking at her.
"I was supose to meet a friend at the king's tomb before I ran into that man." she said as they started to draw closer to each other.
"My friends and I are going there for a mission." he said as they kept drawing closer as to kiss each other but before they did they heard a familier voice.
"There you are?" the galka said as he came towards them.
They both snapped back into reality.
"Shit. How do we get out of here? Thats the only way out." she said as she stood up with Duze.
"This way." he said as he grabed her arm and pulled her towards the top. They stopped and looked around. "Do you trust me?" he asked her as the galka was getting closer.
"What?" she said as she watched the galka advance.
"Do you trust me?" he had repeated.
"There is no where to go and its payback for what you two have done to me." the galka said.
"What are you planing Duze?" she asked as they are forced to back up due to the galka.
"Don't worry." he said as he grabed her holding her tight and ran at the galka.
"What the hell? Are you crazy?" she shouted in his ear.
But before the galka could hit them Duze had jumped and used him to push off to launch them over the side of the wall.
"Are you really insane Duze, This is suicide." she yelled.
"Nope just hoping the Galka thinks it is." he said as he rolled in midair to prepare to hit the ground.
The galka ran to the edge and watched as they fell. Duze loosened his hold on Zanza to let her push away to roll when they hit the ground. She had lost her abilty to control how she landed and hit the ground hard and fractured her leg.
"Zanza!" Duze said as he hit the ground and rolled with no injury. He ran to her while she was holding her leg. "Don't move. I'll carry you." he said as he picked her up. He looked at where they had left the galka when he noticed that he to had jumped. "I think it's time to go." he said as he carried her out the gate.
Rainne, Python, and Haunter were about five miles from the southeast gate when they heard Duze's voice over the link pearl. Rainne grabbed his pearl.
"Hey Duze what's taking so long? were almost to the tomb." he said.
"Sorry but I'm on my way with Zanza." Duze replied.
"What? The women that ran into you?" Rainne asked as everyone stopped.
"Yeah she's coming with us." he said.
"Don't tell me your dating her to. Right?" Rainne said jealously as Haunter than hit him.
"She's injuried and we have that galka chasing us. So prepare for company." Duze said as they heard the galka shouting.
"How far are you two?" Haunter asked as Rainne was holding the top ofhis head.
"About three miles south of the gate." he said still running.
"We're at the ruins just outside of the tomb's entrance. So hurry before more gobs arrive." Haunter told him as they when behind a wall.
"Ok will do." he said.
About 15 minutes later they get to where Haunter said he was at but they saw no one. From behind the wall Haunter waved them over to where they had hide. He carried her be hind the wall when they saw Rainne crying to himself.
"What's wrong." Zanza asked looking at Rainne.
"Why is it that everyone else has a girlfriend and I don't?" he said before Haunter hit him again.
"He's just jealous because he thought you and Duze are in love." he told her.
"Me and him?" she asked with a slight blush to both her's and Duze's faces.
"We'll have to get moving before he gets here." Duze said trying to get them off the subject. He looked over the wall to see if the coast was clear.
"Anyone out there?" Haunter asked him.
"Just a small group of gobs doesn't look like they know we are even here." he answered as he ducked behind it again.
"Thats good. I think these walls go all the way to the tombs entrance so we can use them for cover as we get there." Python said as he looked at the wall and followed it. Duze picked Zanza up again and followed the wall keeping himself from being seen by the gobs.
A couple minutes later a section of the wall calapsed in front of Duze and Zanza. comeing through the calapsed section was the galka.
"Not again." Zanza said as he looked at them paying no attention to the others that were behind him.
"I got you this time." the galka said.
"Haunter take Zanza and get to the tomb I'll slow him down." he said as he used part of the wall to jump above the galka to throw her to him. Haunter caught her to keep her injury from getting worse.
"Duze you can't stop him by yourself." she said with worry in her voice.
"Don't worry I just need to give you guys a head start. now go." he said as he drew his sword.
"So you believe that you can slow Daemeon the beastman god. Lets see." he told Duze as his sword appeared out of nowhere.
"Duze run." Zanza shouted.
"He's right we need to get to the tomb, we can take up shelter there and put up a barrier to keep him from getting in." Haunter said as they started to run towards the tomb.
"Your friends won't make it there the local gobs and orcs are waiting there for them." Daemeon said as he swung his sword.
"Trust me they will make it and defeat anything that stands in thier way." Duze said as he blocked with his sword and countered.
"While I'm alive they undefeatable." he said as attacked again.
"What you don't know Duze is that gods can't die. But if they interfer with mortal's lives they loose thier power and then will die." he explained to Duze.
"So like I give a care how gods can die." he said as he parried the attack.
"But you should care you are a god yourself same as your sister." he said trying to make an opening in his defenses.
"No way I'm a god. I wouldn't be here living if I was." he said trying to keep his composer. "Even than I don't have a sister." he said finding an opening in Daemeon's defenses and attacked.
The blow hit him and he acted like it did nothing.
"I told you you can't slow me, and when I find your sister she will die, and my coming will not be interrupted." he said as he disappeared.
"Could my dreams be memories? Maybe but I won't find out just standing around here." he told himself as he started to run towards the tomb.
Meanwhile near the tomb everyone was trying to clear a way to get into the tomb.
"I hope Duze is Ok." Zanza said as she watched the fighting when suddenly she saw another mithra appear out of nowhere and cast a spell.
"Earthquake." and the ground trembled and swallowed the beastman that were blocking thier way into the tomb.
"Death. Thanks for the help but we need to get into the tomb quick." Zanza told her friend.
"I know Daemeon is back follow me." Agodlessdeath told them as she walked into the tombs entrance. Everyone looked at each other and followed.
Ten minutes later they see Duze running towards them. Then they see what he is running from a black dragon.
"Hurry put up a barrier." he said as he ran into the tombs entrance and turned. Death, and Rainne stood on each side of him and they all started to cast a spell.
"Barrier." they said in unison.
At that moment a barrier had sealed the entrance and the dragon ran into it.
"What ever Daemeon told you Duze it's true." Death told him.
"I don't believe him, but we gotta job to do." he said as he picked up Zanza and started to move further into the tomb.
"What he tell you Duze I want to know." she asked him.
"It's nothing. He was trying to distract me when we were fighting." he told her not want to believe any of it.
"So what did he tell him Death?" Rainne asked as they kept a distance from the others.
"He told him what he is, and who he was going to kill his sister." she whispered to him.
"Ah even I'm not sure that he is ready to know what he is nor the prophacy." Rainne told her.
"But they came here for answers. They have the right to know thier past together." she told him as she watched as Duze set Zanza down to treat her injured leg.
"You see how they act around eachother. Its like they are unsure about thier feelings." she told him.
"Yes, I felt that but if they knew thier destany maybe it won't happen." he said trying to protect Duze and Zanza.
"Because with them knowing thier destany, and what he is won't it drive them apart?" he asked her.
"True but they at last need to know their past." she told him.
"Ok we need to tell them when we get to the center where it's safe." he said in agreement.
"Zanza are you ok? Zanza." Duze said as she fell unconcious and started to fade.
They looked at each other.
"The princess is in danger and called for her." Death said as they ran to thier side.
"What's going on I feel light headed all of a sudden." Duze said as he calapsed and fell unconcious.
"Go to her she needs you more than you know." death whispered as she kneeled next to him and watched him fade as well.
"Ok what the hell is going on? Where did they go?" Haunter asked.
"They went to find the answers they seek." Death told him.
"We gotta help them. We need to go with them we're his friends." Python said.
"Where They went we can not follow. It is something that they have to do on thier own." Rainne told them.
"What you knew all along how to get his memory back and didn't tell him. He's your friend." Haunter said in anger.
"Don't worry they will be back." Death said as she stepped towards him.
"Sleep." she said as she cast a spell to put them to sleep.