Chapter Three: Ignition

[Leo]

"I can't believe it's really you." he said eyeing me with a smile.

"I can't believe I'm here." I said looking around with a nervous look.

"What are you so spooked of? You've been missing for years, relax have a good time. A welcome back to the Blood Dragon's if you will."

"I'm not 'back' if you will...not fully anyway." I said turning away and looking out the window, placing my hands on the table.

"Not fully? Are you being cryptic again Leo? You know how I hate that."

"No, I'm not. I don't remember my life at all...I'm in a constant state of amneisa and I'm being constantly hunted by some group named 'Tainted'. No matter where I go, it's like they know where I am...instantly...I've had a few people help me, but they vanish as soon as they came, and won't tell me anything about my previous life."

He thought it over for a second, looking around with a sigh.

"Cryptic as always. You're name is Leo Uzamaki, you're a really good pilot, one of the best infact. You grew up here since I could remember, with me. I remember the good times, the times when our fathers-"

"Wait," I interupted "our fathers?"

"Yes, don't you remember...you don't remember your own father? Well the man who became your father when you were left here on the station all those years ago..."

"How long ago?"

"Lets see...we figured out that you were three years old when you came aboard, and you grew up here for 18 years, then you vanished for three more years, so that would make you 24 years old as of now."

"I see...my father? Is he...alive?"

"Yeah, he's alive. Havn't seen him for a while though. Think he's on some big mission. Not sure for what though. These bounty hunters coming into Chugoku have been becoming more and more troublesome, so he's been forced to bring his battleship out of retirement and hunt them one by one each time they come into the system."

"Think I can talk to him?" I asked.

"What's with all the questions Leo? I can understand how you've lost your memory, but hell man...listen...he was pretty pissed with you dissappeared, said you took Takashi with you and you two committed treason to the Blood Dragon people by leaving...just vanished. Your father was furious and even spent a few years searching for you, but gave up about a year ago, said that if you really didn't want to be apart of the Blood Dragons you wern't any more, I'm surprised that you even got on board with out the station opening fire on you, even after I said your name aloud in the channel."

"You bastard-" I started.

"Hey, I'm following orders Leo, nothing else, nothing more."

"Whose orders?"

"Theirs." he said pointing...across the bar, I saw Autumn.

"Hello again...Leo."

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You fear oblivion. Yet you forget. The universe remembers every atom of your being. Even dust hums your name in the dark.
The Banished Legion | Astral