Authors note: Well this one is doing much better than my last fanfic. I'm somehow still interested in it and I have four chapters. Please review and I hope my writing skills are getting better.

Flashback

Velen was ambling through the forest. Humming an unknown song. Lethe had been searching for him for a while now and Velen had been avoiding her. Velen was one of the units under her control and he hated training. Especially under her, she was very strict.

After about 15 more minutes of running and avoiding her Velen got tired. He thought maybe he should go back. She may be strict but she was his friend, and one of the strongest laguz out there. So he started to head back.

He made one major mistake. He walked along a path instead of in the forest. He wasn't even half way back when a net fell over him and someone knocked him out. He didn't even have a change to struggle.

He woke up to a dark room. He couldn't see much, even with his night-vision. He tried to get up but he hit his head on something metal. It was a cage, "Just great…."

The room got lighter and people started to file in. He noticed other laguz in cages as well. "This must be a laguz slave trade!" he thought out loud. "Yes, it is, try not to talk much, you'll be in that cage forever." Another laguz whispered to him. "Oh…sorry."

Velen had hoped that he would never be picked, but true to his normal luck, he was the first one picked that day. A man with cold eyes had walked up to the cage. "I'll take this one, he seems too cocky, I'll put him in his place."

The man placed him in a cart and a horse carried him to the man's house. He grabbed the cage and dragged it inside. He stopped in what seemed like a dungeon. The man unlocked the cage and threw him in the room and closed then locked the door.

A deformed creature came out of the shadows. "A new one eh?" Velen looked up. To see one of the most hideous things he ever saw. The man smelt like laguz but he had no tail. "Oh my….what happened to you?" The man held out his charred hand to help Velen up. "This man…he buys laguz just to torture them, you'll be lucky if you die quickly."

The man came down to inspect his new victim. "Very nice…we will have fun with you." He grabbed Velen and dragged him out of the cell.

Flashback over

"So, as you can imagine, I was tortured to near death, he burnt my tail off and it never grew back. So I took on the identity of a beroc. It took me years to figure out how to use their weapons"

Lethe stood there, shocked. She had heard of laguz slavery, but she never heard about it in detail.

"Now if you excuse me Lethe, I need to sleep. Goodnight."

Again, I am sorry if Lethe seems out of character, I hope you liked it, please review!