Setting: Chase Young's citadel. Present day. The next morning.
Cherushii found KJ in the library, sitting on her bed and reading a book.
"Wow, it's 9:00 and you're already awake." She observed with a laugh.
KJ rolled her eyes and put the book down.
"Oh shut up. What do you need?" She asked.
What're you reading?" Cherushii asked back, completely ignoring KJ's question.
"Uh..." KJ flipped the book over and checked the title. "Potions and Spells of the Heylin."
Cherushii rolled her eyes. "Wow. Heylin authors really know how to title books."
"Why would Chase have a Heylin book?" KJ wondered.
"She doesn't know that Chase is evil." Cherushii realized.
"What exactly did Chase tell you?" She asked aloud.
KJ sighed. "He said how we first met, then how we met a second time, and that I fought him for my freedom and lost, and then that whole Shix thing. Why?"
Cherushii shook her head. "Oh, nothing. What were you reading up on?"
KJ reopened her book and flipped to the page she was on.
"It's a potion...The Lao Ming Lon Soup."
"Oh, come on." Cherushii mentally sighed.
It was like KJ was beating around the bush with her memories of Chase.
"I've heard of that one." She remarked.
"It's horrible. You sell your soul for eternal youth." KJ added.
"And it makes you a demon. When you drink it, a demon possesses your soul."
KJ laughed. "It'd be fun to tease someone about that, though."
Cherushii nodded. "Oh yeah. So, I'll be practicing nunchukas in the weapon room."
"I might join you later. Chase wants to start my retraining today."
"Alright. Bye." Cherushii left the library and closed the door.
Chase had told her everything. EVERYTHING. Even some things that Cherushii had preferred not to know.
"Man," She muttered, "How did I get roped into this?" She asked herself.
"Roped into what?"
Chase appeared behind her with an amused look on his face.
Cherushii rolled her eyes. "So what do you want me to do, exactly?"
"I'd think that you'd be able to tell from my story yesterday."
"You're pathetic." Cherushii laughed. "I should rip out your trachea and eat your flesh right now."
Chase was really beginning to think that asking this girl for help was a very, very bad idea.
"But sure." She continued. "I'll help you. Now, you want KJ to remember, right?"
Chase sighed from annoyance.
Cherushii laughed again. "I'm kidding. Well, first I need to know what kind of spell you used."
"I don't remember what book it was in. KJ was the one who found it." Chase confessed.
It was Cherushii's turn to sigh.
"Well you better find it. I can't help you unless I know what spell it is exactly."
Chase frowned. "I remember part of it."
He extended his hands out in front of him, with his left hand pointing up, and his right hand pointing down.
"I can't remember what I said after that, but my hands glowed a dark blue." He explained.
"And when you touched their heads it made them forget, right?"
Chase nodded.
Cherushii thoughtfully lifted a finger to her chin.
"There's only a handful of spells where you combine words with hand signs. This memory spell doesn't erase a person's memories-it locks them away inside of a person's brain."
Chase raised an eyebrow.
"And what do I have to do to unlock those memories?"
"Hmm..." Cherushii thought. "Well...since there are technically five brains in KJ's head, you'll have to do something really drastic."
"Like what?"
Cherushii laughed. "You're lacking in the creative department."
Chase glared at her.
"You could do something that would really shock her. Something that would shock the old KJ into comatose." She grinned. "Oohh...comatose..."
Chase groaned. "Alright. That's all I needed to know. You can go now."
Cherushii shrugged. "Okay. I was going to do some nunchuka training anyway."
As she started to walk away, Chase realized what she meant.
"I actually meant that you can go home now."
Cherushii shrugged again. "No, that's okay. I'll camp out in the library with KJ, like I did last night."
Smiling to herself, she continued walking to the weapons room.
"Something that would shock the old KJ?" Chase repeated to himself. "What would that be?"
Frowning, Chase slowly turned around and headed towards his meditation room.
For the next few weeks, all Chase did was retrain KJ, and meditate on what Cherushii had told him.
Speaking of Cherushii...she was a different matter entirely.
"Your friend needs to leave." Chase told KJ one day.
She laughed. "Why? Does Cherushii scare you?"
Chase glared at her. "No. She's in the way."
KJ rolled her eyes. "You've seen her maybe twice in the past three weeks she's been here. What are you talking about?"
Chase didn't reply; he only started to walk away.
"You know you're scared of her!" KJ yelled after him, laughing to herself.
Chase ignored her. "If I want that girl you, I'll have to take extreme measures."
He smirked. "And I know just what to do."