There was something about Reinhardt that intrigued Lukas, and it wasn't the fact that the mage had a horse or that he could display emotions better than the redhead. The mage was always well kept and looked too doll like to be a human. His slicked back bluish brown hair, his slightly tanned skin that was perfection, his perfect frame, the warmth in his silver eyes, and if it weren't for the fact that he was dead inside, Reinhardt's voice would make him feel all warm in fluffy inside any time the mage spoke. But there was a problem. He was always in battle, nearly getting killed time and time again. It always bugged him, but now he had his chance to keep the mage all to himself.

Night came and the redhead finally had his chance. After it was for sure that everyone had gone to bed, he quietly entered into the mage's room, hiding a syringe in his pocket. It was so adorable how the mage slept, holding a ragdoll and talking about whatever was going on in his dreams, almost too adorable for Lukas to commit the act, but he had to keep the mage safe. The redhead sighed, rolled up the mage's sleeve and injected the syringe into the mage's arm. His skin started to harden and became more doll like. His eyes had glazed over and a string had came out of his back.

"I'm sorry to do this to you, but I had to keep you safe my prince." The redhead kissed the mage on the forehead before leaving the room, as if he had never entered it.

"Come on Reinhardt, it's noon, you have to get up." Lon'qu said as he somewhat pounded on the door.

"Maybe he's changing..." Tiki said.

"If he was I would've gotten a just a minute." The swordsman replied.

"Nothing?" Seliph asked.

"Guys, I've got this. I'm good a prying open locked doors." Matthew said as he attempted to push them away from the door.

"He never locks his door so something is up..." Lon'qu muttered as the thief unlocked the door.

"So he is awake." Seliph said as he walked in.

"Come on dude. This isn't funny." Lon'qu said as he knocked on the mage's shoulder, hitting the now plastic skin before a chill ran down his spine. "Ok, ha ha. Trying to get out of fighting for the day by placing a dummy in your bed in place of you. Now get out from under the bed and get ready for the day, we've gotta hit the 10th stratum."

"Lon'qu, there's no one under the bed..." Tiki said as she looked under the mage's bed.

"Seliph, go find him. He's probably in the library or something." Lon'qu said as Seliph nodded and left before Alfonse came by the room.

"So you got in." The prince said.

"Yeah. I'm guessing he's pulling the I don't want to fight today so I'm gonna place a dummy in my bed and go camp in the library act." Lon'qu explained.

"I was just there with Shade. He wasn't anywhere to be found."

"Interesting."

"If that's the case, then we need to do a wide search, assuming my guess is correct." Matthew said as he leaned on the door frame.

"What is it?" The two asked.

"Veronica knew how powerful he is and decided to eliminate him."

"But she has weapon triangle advantage over him..." Lon'qu said.

"And? You destroyed Bruno and your weaker than him because of the weapon triangle."

"Touche."

After many hours of searching the whole barracks and castle, Matthew's guess was confirmed right. What they had found was their mage friend, turned into a lifeless doll.

"How do I let them know that this happened? I have no way of getting to Freege and I haven't summoned his sister so..." Shade sighed.

"Maybe we just don't?" Anna suggested.

"It will delay the invevitable when/if I summon her..."

"Delay what?" Lukas asked as he walked by.

"Long story short, someone got into Reinhardt's room last night and turned him into a doll." Shade explained.

"That's awful!" Lukas said with as much emotion as he could muster up. "Is there a way for me to see him?"

"Actually I was gonna ask you to do something for me." Shade replied. "Seeing as you were pretty damn close to him, I was going to ask that you take care of what we found remaining of him until we either find a cure to it, or we can get a hold of any family."

"Ahh..."

"You can even take him into your room and do what you want with him. We figured that you'd be the most heartbroken."

"Guys, I found something that might lead to an answer." Matthew said as he appeared out of thin air as he always did.

"Really? Show us." Shade replied. Matthew headed for Reinhardt's room with the summoner and lancer following close on his heels, to find the mage sitting up right and shirtless.

"I was trying to find a needle hole to see if it was a syringe or magic and I found this." The thief said as he held a string that came out of the mage's back in his hand.

"Incredible." Shade said as she sat next to the now doll on the bed. "Now tell me Reinhardt, do you know who did this to you?" The summoner asked as the thief pulled the string.

"Hi, I'm Reinhardt, mage of Freege. Do you want to have a tea party?"

"That does not sound like the Reinhardt I know..." Shade said as she jumped back a bit.

"It's like he was forced to say that, and probably more stuff like that at gunpoint. He still has his vocal cords, but it feels way out of character for him." The thief replied.

"Well, it doesn't look like we'll be getting an answer out of him..."

"My concern is the whole tea party thing." The redhead said, trying to not be embarrassed.

"Let's just go and report this to Alfonse." Matthew said as he started to leave.

"Agreed." Then, Lukas was left alone with his new doll. He got behind him and moved his scarf up to reveal a switch with 3 settings: Girly Girl, Normal and Submissive. The redhead moved the switch from Girly Girl to Normal and quickly put the scarf back in it's place before moving in front of the doll and made out with it before whispering.

"I did this to keep you safe my prince. I hope you enjoy my love more than that icky battlefield."