A Dragon Among The Stars

The past!

"Come and have a seat beside me Kiel" Said the old man. Kiel took a seat, he realized that he wasn't nervous as he was, he felt like he was just meeting some old friend, which was strange to him.

The old man placed his face close to Kiel's face, he stretched his arms, gently caressing his face, carefully checking his features with wide eyes.

"You look very much like your father, I'm sure he would have been happy if he looked at you, all grown up." The old man sighed as he took back his hands.

"My father? You knew him? Wait, I don't even know your name, yet I feel close to you." Kiel asked, his face painted with the thick puzzlement. He had a lot of questions ever since he arrived, he felt that this old man in front of him would clear all of his doubts.

The old man slapped his thigh and said. "Oh! Right! How forgetful of me, My name is Arnold Molino, you might not remember me, in the past I used to work for you father, we were close back then." reminiscing as he sipped his tea.

"Arnold... Arnold... you... were the head guard!" Kiel exclaimed.

"That's right! You remember me!?" Arnold said excitedly as he held Kiel's shoulders.

"I remember that name... from a nightmare... Leo... Lara... I remember those names" Clutching his head from the pain, he tried recalling those names, and who they were.

"that's right! Leo! Your father's name was Leo! While Lara was your mother" Arnold's hands started shivering from overly excited. Izakel called out "Teacher don't get too overly excited!"

Arnold let out a long breath, calming his rapid beating heart. He waved his hands "I'm okay, I'm okay..." he took his attention back to Kiel and continued. "do you remember the name Izakel?"

In a daze, he said in shaky voice "Izakel... mother was also holding a baby, who father called Izakel" he dazedly at Kiel at Izakel. "same name as you..."

Izakle nodded and in a soft voice "hello brother" he had a strange face. Having complex emotions, seeing his brother who only just met in person.

"he's your brother Kiel, Izakel, back then he was just a new born when that incident happened" Arnold said, pointing at Izakel.

"that nightmare... all of those were real" Kiel said, obviously agitated, he continued "all them real... how come..."

"they weren't just some nightmare your brain made up, it was the trauma you had from the incident years years ago. they were memories surfacing from your unconscious mind. " Arnold explained.

"I also had the feeling that they were real, so I tried searching for some clues. I tried hiring a lot of investigators just to find answers, but all them couldn't find anything , and I only known their first name which made it more harder" Kiel reasoned. The nightmare felt so real that made Kiel feel that they were real. All of his efforts were all naught and could only give up since he couldn't get any information, like they didn't exist at all, which made him give up and think of it as something his brain came up with.

"of course they wouldn't find anything. That incident was tightly gaurded, only a handful of people knew of it. Especially with the Stanford's influence which only made it difficult." Arnold didn't found it surprising, he knew of the Stanford's capabilities, there were a lot of people they could use with their influence. . He was a believer of the phrase; "know thy enemy, and know yourself and you'll win all of your battles" he's one of the people who knew the almost everything about the Stanfords.

"Stanfords!? You mean that Stanfords!?" Astounded, Kiel exclaimed.

"Is there any other Stanfords? Of course I'm talking about them, the family behind the company your working for!" Arnold said in anger. The incident has always been fresh in his mind, he never forgot what those damnable Stanfords had done to him and his master.