Normal POV

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Aura wakes up to find himself in a room that he wasn't familiar with.

The spotless walls and shiny floors were there, along with a comfy king sized bed that he was laying in.

But that wasn't the first thing he saw.

It was a pair of yellow eyes, looking back at him with joy, worry and excitement.

Aura jumps out of the bed goes to make an escape out of the balcony nearby.

Unfortunately, the doors closed tight before he could get out.

The cat from his chase approached him. "Aura, calm down. I will not hurt you."

Aura's eyes widened as he backed up from her. "Who are you? How do you know me?"

The cat frowns. "What are you talking about? You know me and I know you. We have been best friends for years."

Aura shook his head. "I have not even met you."

The cat's ears folded down as she looked at him with worry and approaching sadness. "It's me, Blaze. How could you not remember meeting me?"

Aura felt that name was familiar, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

Blaze tears up some. "Y....You don't remember me?"

Aura sighs. "I......I do...n-"

Aura felt that ache he felt from before return, but twenty times more powerful than before.

Aura held his head in pain as he fell onto his knees, yelling for it to stop.

Blaze runs to him and holds him. "Aura!"

Several flashbacks play through Aura's mind at full speed, memories returning faster.

His birth

The death of his parents

Being brought to the Forbidden Valley

Meeting Blaze in his dreams

Training and meditation

And finally...

Blaze disappearing from his dreams, for good.

It all came back in one emotional punch to Aura's heart.

When it ended, Aura looks at Blaze with tears of joy and eyes filled with excitement and happiness.

Aura stutters some. "B-Blaze? ......Is it....is it really you?"

Blaze smiles while her tears were still present. "Yes! I'm here now."

The two hug each other in their emotional reunion together.

Two best friends have been reunited again after being separated for several years.

Blaze whispers. "I told you I would find you one day."

Aura chuckles a little. "I know, and I found you too."

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Chun nan Jungles

Suzuki looks around the place as they kept traveling across the treetops. "Where's Aura? He said he would meet up with us after checking something out."

Tanya stops to check a section of the jungle. "He will catch up with us. Aura always keeps his word."

Suzuki nods. "I know, but we already had two moments where we almost lost him. We can't add three to the list."

Tanya smiles back. "He fought off a well-trained ninja with his bare hands. If he does get in trouble again, he will come out victorious."

Suddenly, the branch they were on collapsed as both of them fell to the ground.

Two darts hit them, knocking them out with tranquilizer fluids.

A few Fallen ninjas walk up to them and carry them towards the factory.

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Sol Dimension

Blaze's Palace

Aura was with Blaze at the garden, spending time together like they used to do.

Aura looks at Blaze. "So why did you disappear? I know we promised to stay together as friends, but I felt that you abandoned me when you left."

Blaze sighs, feeling regret for leaving him and feeling upset that Aura would think she would abandon him. "My advisor and everyone at the castle was concerned that I had been neglecting my duty to pursue some "imaginary friend" that I had been talking to in my sleep. They got a priest to use the Sol Emeralds to clear my dreams and nightmares. That also included breaking whatever link we had together."

Aura groans. "And my teammates told me my mind made you up."

Blaze smirks. "If I was made up, how come I can do this in your dreams?"

Blaze touched Aura's shoulder with her fire powers.

Aura flinches back. "Ow! That stings!"

Blaze giggles after taking her hand off of him.

Aura looks at her. "It really is you."

Blaze nods. "Yes. Now we can spend more time together."

Aura shakes his head. "Sorry, I cannot. I have a mission to complete."

Blaze wraps an arm around him. "Then I will come with you to help."

Aura takes her arm off. "This is my fight. I cannot let you get in danger because of me."

Blaze summons a fire ball. "They will have to get through waves of fire before I let them harm you."

Aura raises an eyebrow. "You are not going to let me just walk away, are you?"

Blaze giggles. "No. Now let's go find this enemy of yours."

Aura nods and stands up with her. "Yes."

Aura felt his head again. "I am still trying to figure out how I forgot about you. It all feels strange."

Blaze's tail sways some. "We can find out together. Where were you when you lost your memories?"

Aura thinks. "I was at the monastery.....with.....with...I don't know, I need to find Ki for answers."

Blaze walks with him out of the garden. "We can use the Sol Emeralds to get back to your dimension."

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Fallen Factory in Chun nan

Suzuki and Tanya were locked up in a dark and dank cell, no windows or sewers to escape through.

Suzuki looks at Tanya. "I can tell you something Tanya?"

Tanya nods. "Go ahead, we got time."

Suzuki sighs. "I never told Aura this.....but I'm scared.......scared of what'll happen to the valley if the Fallen destroy it.......or if the outside world knows about it..."

Tanya looks at him. "Why?"

Suzuki looks at a corner in the cell, filled with filth. "I grew up in the streets of a city once, left behind by parents who disowned me. The only person who gave a dang about me was an old lady that fed me whenever she came by. One night, someone broke into her home to rob her, but killed her in the process."

Tanya frowns. "Suzuki... I...."

Suzuki continues. "A month after her death, the city bought out her neighborhood and built a casino there. A freaking casino! A woman trying to help me lost her home to that."

Suzuki glares at the filth with a cruel hatred. "I found out by snooping around that the robber was sent there by the mayor of the city I was in. He planned to have her killed so he'd have a good reason to make profit off of her land. The cold monster...."

Tanya speaks up. "Suzuki, I did not know you went through something like that."

Suzuki finishes. "Why I hate the outside world is because they can only take from you. If they learn about a healthy land like my home in the valley, everything is gone. The house I'll buy will be replaced with another wasteful building. My job will be taken away by some military or police force who will protect the place instead of me. And my girlfriend....will be taken from me to be sold to some man who doesn't know her."

Tanya puts a hand on him. "They will not do that. I swear on everything that you will see a better life after this."

Suzuki calms down and looks at her. "Thanks Tanya."

The cell opens as two men pull Suzuki up to his feet.

Tanya looks at them. "What are you doing?"

They pull out a syringe and inject Suzuki with it.

Suzuki is dropped down before he feels his eyes go blind from a bright light. "Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!"

Tanya yells out. "Suzuki!"

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Hope this spices up the story a little.

If you have questions, let me know.

The next chapter will come soon.