Five years later in Bastok mines Duze is working with the other miners to get the day's qauta met when Foris walked up to him.
"Your late again Duze." he said as he put his hand on his shoulder.
"Sorry, My wife came to see what's takeing me so long again?" he asked his friend.
"Yeah, Everyone left hours ago." he told him.
"What keeps you here Duze?" he asked worried if his friend is alright.
"It's nothing. Just something keeps bothering me about what happened five years ago." he said as he put his pick away.
"Oh. It's none of my business, but lets get out before the bats wake up." he said as he started toward the entrance.
Duze followed him back to the entrance where his wife was waiting for him.
"The dream again?" Zanza asked him as she walked up to him with a young mithra girl.
"Yeah, hi Yoko." he said as he picked her up.
"What took you so long daddy?" she asked him.
"I'll tell you when your old enough." he told her as he kissed her forehead.
"How was your day?" he asked Zanza they started home.
"Not to bad but that dream keeps bothering me. Maybe you need to relax Duze, take your mind off of it." she told him.
"We made you a cake daddy." yoko told her father.
"A cake? What kind?" he asked her as he tickled her.
"It's a surprise." Zanza told him with a smile.
"Oh a surprise." He said as he looked at yoko.
"Maybe the tickle monster will find out." he said as he chased her trying to tickle his wife. They laughed the rest of the way home.
When Duze walked in and lite a candle all his friends jumped out of hiding.
"SURPRISE." they shouted.
He stepped back in surprise.
"You put them up to this didn't you." he said to Yoko. She shook her head and pointed at her mother.
"So it was mommy." he said as he let her down. "You remembered." he said as he hugged his wife.
"You know I never forget your birthday." she said before she kissed him on the cheek.
Warpig came up to Duze with a present.
"Happy birthday Duze. What does this make you? A hundred." he said with a laugh.
"No. Twentyfive." he said as he took the gift with a laugh. Foris was hiding with the food as Duze walked up to him.
"Always thinking with your stomach aren't you Foris?" he asked his friend.
"When your wife makes it, it makes me not wantto go home." he said still eyeing the food.
Duze looked at her as she was talking with friends.
"Yeah, but do you think if what ever happened five years ago didn't happen we would be here having this much fun?" he asked him as he leaned up against the wall.
"Dunno, maybe maybe not. Who knows? I'm glad it did." he said as he started grabing food to fill his plate.
About four hours later the party died down and everyone started to leave to go home. Duze thanked everyone for coming as they left. Later that night someone knocked at the door.
"Well I woder who that is?" Zanza said as she was about to move a sleeping Yoko off her lap when Duze put his hand on her shoulder.
"I'll get it. She needs her sleep." he said as he went to the door. Zanza got up and carried Yoko to her room and tucked her into bed and went to the door.
"Hello Duze." a galka said as Duze opened the door.
"Hi, what brings you here?" he asked him.
"Not much just wanted to wish you a happy birthday." the man said with a sad look on his face.
"I know that face. So waht's up?" he asked him as he let him in the house.
"The Mayor asked me to find someone to go get a mist lizard, but I didn't know if anyone would be up to ask." he said as he sat down in a chair.
"So you came to ask if I could do this." he said as he sat in another chair opposet him.
"Well yes and no. He said that the offering for the turtamen outside the city had gone missing, and we need a new one." he said as he rubbed his hands together.
"You wanted to know if I would do it but you don't want me to leave my family on my birthday. Right." he said as Zanza brought him some tea.
"You could do it Duze. It might get your mind off the dream you've been having." she told him as she sat next to him.
"Maybe. When do I have to leave?" he asked the man.
"As soon as possible. We need it by tommarow night." He said.
"Ok, I'll leave as soon as I get my things ready." he told him as he shook his hand and lead him out the house.
"I thank you very much and be careful out there." he said as he started to leave.
"Will do." Duze said as he closed the door.
"Well you haven't use it in a while but here is your sword and these." Zanza said as she held up a string of link pearls.
"I'll call Foris if anything happens while I'm out." he said as he straped on his sword and put the linkpearls around his neck.
"Ok I'll be waiting when you return so don't get lost or anything." she said as she hugged him. He started for the door when Zanza handed him a couple tickets."These should help." she said as she hugged him again.
"Don't worry I'll be back in no time." He said as he started for the chocobo station.
A couple of hours after he had gotten a chocobo and started towards North Gustaburg one of the pearls started to glow. Wondering which pearl it was has talked into it.
"Hello anyone there?" he asked hoping for a response.
'Hello is that you Duze?' a person said from the other end.
"This is Duze, but who are you?" he asked as his chocobo caried him further.
'This is Haunter don't you remember. You disappeared five years ago.' Haunter said.
"What happened five years ago?" he asked.
'Not sure but we gotta talk about Deameon, he's been looking for you.' he told him.
"Where are you at?" Duze asked him.
'Over near the Dem Crag. Why?' Haunter asked.
"I'm on my way there now, we can talk when I get there." He said as he got the chocobo to move faster.
'We'll be waiting.' Haunter told him as he got off the pearl.