Disclaimer: I don't own SMRTH- Wait! *shuffles through contracts and consults legal advisor* Nope! Still don't own it!

Author Notes: Just to clear a few things up from the last chapter. 1) Yes, I'm saying that the Power Primate has given Chiro and the monkeys the power of omnilinguality. (I mean are you really telling me that every planet that they've visited all share the same language? On Earth alone there are thousands.) 2) It hasn't given Chiro the power to read written language, because in theory, a spoken language is much easier to translate than a written one (even mystical powers have limits after all); Antauri – and as we will see, the other monkeys - have gained the ability to read the language via the spells side effects. And 3) All Korean terms I use are real, including names; I've done some research

Rating: T

Warnings: Violence, language, and possible death (only OC's though)

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Chapter 3
Annyonghi Kyeseyo

TIME: 3 Hours Later
LOCATION: Seoul, Republic of Korea

Antauri sat in the dark silence of his room, thinking about his day. Well, more the part where he was heading back to the apartment. What had started out as a rather banal walk home had turned very… interesting.

Where do I know that name from?! Chiro…

He only got a headache the more he thought about it. He sighed, and lay down upon his bed.

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The door of the pitch-black apartment opened with a click. Hyun Jae entered and flicked on the light switch, illuminating the room.

She sighed. "Home, sweet home."

"Hmm," was Antauri's response.

She walked into the small kitchen and placed the candy on the granite countertop as Antauri walked in and sat at the circular, wooden, kitchen table.

"So how are you feeling?" Hyun Jae asked.

Antauri smiled and gazed at her with his drooping silver eyes. "I'm perfectly fine Jae. You shouldn't worry so much." Well that wasn't completely true, after he sat down on that bus he found that he was exhausted and still had a throbbing - yet much smaller than before - headache.

Jae smiled as she put Antauri's dasik away. "Alright Antauri if you're sure." She then looked at him and frowned slightly. "But you look ready to collapse, so go get some sleep okay?"

He sighed, she was absolutely correct "I suppose you're right."

Jae smirked "Of course I am."

Antauri merely snickered; he then stood up and exited the kitchen. "Good night Jae."

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The room he lay in was relatively Spartan. Jae had told him that she could afford much more than he had asked for, but Antauri had insisted. Besides the fact that he refused to take advantage of Jae, he really didn't mind. The walls were blank of the adornments that would normally be present. There were no pictures, paintings or posters. The furniture matched this theme; only a small bed, desk and chair were present.

On the desk, which was kept meticulously organized, sat a lone wooden picture frame; the picture it held was of him and Jae at the Children's Day festival last month. Despite the happy memories it instilled, he frowned. Although he cared for her deeply, having Jae alone wasn't enough, especially when he was certain there were people in his past that cared for him.

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"Finally! I found it!" Chiro shouted, gaining the attention of several passer-bys who could only wonder why the strange foreign boy was yelling. After seeing "Antauri" get on board the bus with that girl he had met earlier, he had chased after it to catch up. However, the high speed of the bus, combined with heavy traffic and his inability to use his jetpack as long as other people were around, meant that he soon lost sight of the vehicle.

Chiro was devastated until he realized something. The freaky sense that had led him to this weird city was working again. After several hours of trying to navigate the maze of streets, he had finally found the building. Having gotten lost multiple times had made him impatient though and he hadn't really looked at the building; its levels stacked on top of each other like a cake. When he took a good look, he was slightly surprised.

This is where Antauri is staying?! His eyes widened. The place was obviously high class, even someone not native to the planet could tell. How the heck can he afford to stay at a place like this?

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In the apartment's living room, a TV gave off its fluorescent glow as the man on the screen advertised...something, Jae wasn't paying attention. Nothing good is ever on when I have free time.

Right now she was thinking about school, or rather what would happen when school was over. Antauri and she would be graduating in less than a year. Although Antauri didn't have much of a plan for after high school, Hyun Jae knew he would be fine; he was that sort of person.

No, Hyun Jae was worried about herself. She wanted to get into the South Korean police force, but even getting into the police academy was nearly impossible for a girl and graduating was another story all together. Every year only a few female applicants graduated and Hyun Jae was determined to be one of them. She was both academically and physically fit for the job and money wasn't an issue.

She sighed, the money her parents left her would be more than enough, but she really missed them. Her father had been a lawyer, and it was through him that Hyun Jae came to be interested in law enforcement. He was extremely talented and had made the family millions. Three years ago however, both her parents had died.

It was supposed to be their second honeymoon, she recalled, and mom had always wanted to go to Hawaii. Unfortunately, the plane they were taking had faulty wiring; a cockpit fire had broken out over the Pacific, and the plane...

Well, to keep it short, they'd never found their bodies.

"Jae?" Hyun Jae jumped off the couch and whirled. Standing there was Antauri in his matching gray pajamas, a fitting choice she had supposed when he bought them.

She let out a sigh of relief. "Antauri what are you doing up? I thought you were asleep." She was a little ticked, Antauri always snuck up on her like that without her ever hearing him.

"I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep" he answered smiling. His smile then disappeared to be replaced by puzzlement. "What about yourself? Normally you're in bed by now."

Hyun Jae glanced at the clock on the wall, the hands of which read 11:24. "Oh! I hadn't even noticed it was this late!" Her stomach growled, seemingly in agreement.

Antauri coyly smiled. "You forgot to have dinner again, didn't you?"

Jae was known for doing this; Antauri always had to remind her when it was time to eat. This habit of hers gave Hyun Jae the nickname of "Gandhi" at school; in fact she remembered when Antauri found out about the name, it was his first week with her, in fact, and his third day at school.

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"Uhhn…" Jae banged her head on her desk during passing time as her stomach protested its lack of food. Why couldn't that clock hurry up so they could go home already? And why had she forgotten both breakfast and to pack a lunch!? Again!?

"Jae?" Hyun Jae looked up from her banging and saw Antauri leaning over her desk, looking concerned. "What's wrong?"

Jae smiled and calmly responded. "Nothing Antaur-" She clasped her stomach and moaned a little.

"You're hungry?" he asked.

Jae nodded. "Yeah."

"But when I offered to share my lunch, you said you had a big breakfast this morning."

"Yeah I um, lied," she admitted.

"Why?" he asked even more puzzled. "I had enough more than enough."

"Hah." At the sound of the laughter both looked up to see a young man their age snickering. "It's because she's Gandhi, that's why new kid. I thought you would know that about your girlfriend."

Hyun Jae growled a little and threw her pen at the boy's face. "Shut up Jin-Sang."

The blue pen hit the boy between the eyes and fell to the ground. "Hey! What was that for!?" he exclaimed.

"Go away Jin-Sang!"

"Fine." He sighed, and walked back to his group of friends.

Hyun Jae glared as he walked away; she was getting really sick of all these people calling her and Antauri a couple.

"What did he mean?" she glanced back at Antauri.

"What does Gandhi mean?"

Hyun Jae was confused for a moment and then laughed. "Oh, it's about my whole 'always forgetting to eat' thing. You know, like how Gandhi always went on hunger strikes?"

Antauri was perplexed. "Who's Gandhi?"

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Hyun Jae would later find out that besides his general amnesia, Antauri had absolutely no knowledge about history or animals what-so-ever.

Just adding to the whole angel from heaven/ anime thing, she thought as she came out of the memory, Then again he could just be a runaway from North Korea. History education there is extremely distorted, and they have practically no wild animals left.

"Jae!" Hyun Jae snapped out from her train of thought to see Antauri standing in front of her. I have got to stop doing that.

"Yes?"

"I asked, if you wanted me to make dinner for us."

"Oh!" Jae blushed a little "Umm, no that's all right, I'll do it."

Antauri smiled at this; though she forgot to eat a lot, when Jae cooked the results were usually fantastic.

Hyun Jae got up and made her way into the kitchen. After flicking on the lights she opened the fridge. Hm, let's see. We've got some leftover someyon and gochujang.

"How about some bibim guksu?" she called out

"That would be great." Antauri called from the living room.

The phone rang. Antauri glanced to his side at the cordless phone. He picked it up mid-way though another call.

"Hello?" Antauri answered.

Jae glanced from the kitchen entrance, eyebrow raised.

"Yes this is him speaking." Antauri nodded and gained a look of confusion "I see. Are you sure it's me he wants?"

Who's he?

"All right, thank you. I'll be right down." Antauri hung up the phone and started back to his room.

"Antauri, who was that?" Jae asked as she emerged from the kitchen.

"It was the lobby receptionist, apparently there's a young boy down in the lobby looking for me."

Jae's face took on the same look of confusion as Antauri's. "Did she say who he was or what he looked like?"

Hyun Jae stood there for a moment thinking "Okay Antauri, you go get dressed then. Dinner will be ready by the time you get back, okay?"

Antauri smiled "Thank you Jae."

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Unfortunately for Antauri, the elevator was broken. Normally he wouldn't mind this, but he was in a bit of a rush and they lived on the 28th floor. Finally, after 700 stairs (give or take a few), Antauri had reached the lobby. At the front desk was the landlord's niece; Eun, who often acted as the receptionist, packing up for the night. From the way she looked, Antauri supposed that besides his initial estimate of exhaustion, she was also sick.

"Hello. Eun?"

Eun jumped and screamed a little. "Don't hurt me! Take the money!"

Right, Antauri remembered a few seconds too late she's extremely skittish.

Eun slowly turned.

"Ohh. Hey, um, Andauri?"

"Antauri, Eun."

"Right right right, sorry bout that, um ye-" Her face scrunched up suddenly. "Wait a sec." Eun reached down to pickup a tissue from the desk and sneezed into the paper. Eun crumpled up the tissue and disposed of it before turning back to Antauri "Sorry, cold or allergies or… something. Right anyway, some foreign kid came in here a few minutes ago asking for you. He said it was super important and he needed to see you right away."

Antauri glanced around the room but saw no one else amongst the marble floors.

"Don't worry; he's just in the bathroom right now. He should be out any second."

"Thank you Eun, you should head home. You look like you're ready to collapse."

Eun sighed and picked up her bag, "I am, and I have an entrance exam tomorrow too. I'll need all the sleep I can get." She hefted the bag onto her back and made towards the entrance. "See ya Tauri!"

"That's Antauri."

"I knew that!" she shouted back as the large glass door shut behind her, leaving Antauri alone in the apartment lobby.

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Okay Chiro, you can do this. Chiro pushed the bathroom door open and entered the small hallway that branched off the lobby. It's Antauri, everything will be great, and he can help me find the rest of the team.

Of course, such a positive train of thought was difficult to keep up in such a stressful situation. But how did he become human? Why is he here and not looking for the rest of the team? What if it's not actually him?

Unfortunately for him, there was no time to rethink this. If the receptionist girl at the front desk was right, Antauri should be waiting in the lobby right this instant.

Chiro emerged from the hall into the lobby to see a young man with black hair facing the opposite direction, looking out the glass doors that made up the entrance of the building.

"Antauri?"

Could it really be?

The young man turned around quickly, his eyes flying open at the sight of Chiro. Those eyes, they're the same color as Antauri. He made his way closer"Antauri it's me; Chiro."

Please, it's him, I know it, this has to be A- "Chi-ro?" Antauri said slowly, as if in pain. He then closed his eyes and held his head "Chiro h- how do I kno- know you?" Chiro was both worried and confused

"Antauri what do you mean? Don't you remember?" Antauri didn't answer and only grimaced in pain. Chiro reached out for the young man "Antauri what's wrong?!" Chiro grasped his shoulder to provide support when Antauri suddenly gasped, eyes flying wide open. Then, he passed out.

Chiro caught the young man, before quickly setting him down on the floor. Oh man, oh man! What do I do?! Despite having basic first aid knowledge -you had to if you're going to spend large potions of your time fighting for your life- Chiro did not know how to deal with fainting, so he was panicking a little.

Okay Chiro, first things first, He glanced towards the glass, and thus see-through, doors. Fortunately, no one was walking by or charging in to 'help'. Let's get Antauri out of the lobby, where everyone who passes by can see us!

Unfortunately, Chiro soon learned that Antauri now weighed much more than he did previously; he had only made it into the hall that lead towards the bathroom before he had to put Antauri down. Okay, this is ridiculous, I'm not getting him anywhere like this. Then, as if someone had been listening, Antauri started to glow. Chiro had to shield his eyes, Oh crap, not again!

When the glowing had ended, Chiro opened his eyes. As soon as he did, he gasped.

"What? Did the spell wear off?"

Sure enough, on the floor in front of him was now a silver, robotic monkey. Said monkeys eyes then began to open.

"Chiro?" he whispered, struggling to wake up.

"Antauri, are you okay?" Chiro moved to help after initial hesitation.

Antauri began to stand up, taking Chiro's hand for help. "I'm fine Chiro, just disoriented." He sighed as he stood on his own "What happened, Chiro? Where are we?"

Chiro was dumbfounded "Antauri don't you remember anything?" Antauri leaned against the wall and closed his eyes to think. "We were… fighting with Valina and Mandarin. Then… one of Valinas spells went wrong. After that…" he trailed off, staring into space.

"Antauri?" Chiro spoke up after several seconds of this.

Antauri then spoke "Hyun Jae."

Hyun Jae? Isn't that the girl I saw at the stands? Wait! Maybe Antauri knows her; they did get on the bus together.

Antauri sighed "Where's the rest of the team Chiro?"

Chiro got off from his train of thought at this and tapped his finger together "Well umm…"

Antauri sighed. "The spell must have affected them too." He pushed off from the wall. "We must go and find them then."

He made his way towards a side exit at the end of the hall.

"Antauri wait!" Chiro ran after him.

Antauri turned around "Yes Chiro?"

"Antauri, don't you want to at least… say good-bye to that Hyun Jae girl you were talking about?"

"NO CHIRO!"

Chiro stepped back in shock; Antauri never yelled at him like that. Antauri looked away sadly

"I'm sorry Chiro but… I know what she would do and… we've dragged enough innocents into this mess."

Okay, Chiro could understand that; but he still had one thing to ask. "Do you love her?"

Antauri stared at him for a moment, shocked by the question, then sighed "Yes but… not in that way. We should go now Chiro, and find the rest of the team."

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Hyun Jae was speechless; what she had just heard was incredible. I mean spells!? This is insane!

After waiting for several minutes up in the apartment, she had gotten sick of waiting over a meal that was very quickly becoming soggy. After discovering to her annoyance that the elevator was broken, she began her long trek down the stairs. After arriving in the lobby, she was surprised to see it completely empty. Soon however, she heard voices coming from the small side hallway.

She still hadn't peeked around the corner yet, Antauri could always catch her when she tried to eavesdrop on him, and she wasn't willing to risk it. But what is he talking about 'dragged enough innocent into this mess', and whose Valina and Mandarin. Mandarin was only slightly strange to her, she knew it was Chinese. But Valina? What was with all these weird names?

Then that Chiro kid asked the question. "Do you love her?"

Hyun Jae was floored. She had never thought of Antauri that way. To be honest, she wasn't sure about how she felt about him.

"Yes but… not in that way."

She let out a silent sigh, but she couldn't tell if it was of relief or sadness.

"We should go now Chiro, and find the rest of the team." Then she heard the alleyway door open.

She launched into the hallway to see it empty with the door closing.

I have to stop him; she thought as she sprinted down the hallway, I have to find out what's going on here. She slammed the door open

"Antauri!" But the alley was empty. "Antauri…" she whispered as she looked around desperately for any sign of him. There was nothing. She soon sank to her knees as her eyes began to tear up. I didn't even get to say goodbye.

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End Chapter 3

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Annyonghi Kyeseyo- Korean for good-bye, said by the departing party (as opposed to those staying)

Children's Day- multiple countries celebrate Children's Day but it is especially popular in East Asian countries, in South Korea it is celebrated on May 5th

Bibim guksu- cold, spicy noodle dish in Korea; popular during the summer; literally means 'stirred noodles'

Someyon- very thin noodles used for bibim guksu, a good western comparison would be angel hair pasta

Gochujang- Korean condiment similar to hot sauce used in the creation of bibim guksu, made by fermenting a mix of rice powder, chili powder, and soybean paste