Author's note: So we have reached the last chapter. In this last chapter I've included a little Spanish to the story. I had to use one of the translator in English. SO forgive me if it's incorrect. The translations are at the end. Some of the Malay sentences are already translated in the story for your convenience. Some that aren't translated in brackets can be found at the end of the story. But you can guess what it means. ;)

Here a quick re-cap.

Caesar (accidently) got kidnapped.
The yogurt lady is hurt.
Dr Chandra, Rafael and Violeta has just realised that Caesar and Dr Chandra's 'son' is missing.
What else?
I think that's all there is to it.

Right.

Expect a lot of ridiculousness in this last chapter.

Review is appreciated. I like to hear what you think. :)

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THIS FANFICTION is not related to anyone in the real world. This is purely fiction and may not even be logically true.

Edit: A special Thank you to Feathered moon wings for correcting my Spanish. XD

Chapter 4/4 - Little Caesar and The Sun.

The end is almost near for our little hero. The story takes a different toll from here. Panic and distress had hit Dr Chandra, Rafael and Violeta. People had gathered to see what was going on as the three was creating quite the scene at the main gate. Rafael was on the phone speaking to the police while Violeta and Dr Chandra gathered a few people to search for their children. She took out several pictures she kept in her purse of little Caesar. But the compound was quite big so they decided to start near warehouse 75. However their decisions couldn't get any worst. Word travelled fast and the kidnappers heard about the hullabaloo. One of them returned to the warehouse.

The burly man was busy washing Caesar's hand by a sink when another burly man came. This one was bald and looked unlike the locals. "Mereka sudah tahu. Kita kena keluar sekarang." (They're on to us. We have to get out of here.)

"Kau gila? Macam mana nak seludup semua keluar dari tempat ini!?" (Are you crazy? How are we going to smuggle the kids out of here?)

"Van kan ada!" (We have the van right!)

"Mayat polis tu?" (What about the cop's body?)

"Ah tinggalkan saja." (Ah, Just leave it.)

"Tapi..." (But...)

Caesar switched off from hearing anymore. It wasn't interesting enough to him. Plus he didn't understand most of what they said other than 'van' and 'police'. Something else had caught his attention. Buzzing on the ground near a pail under the sink. It was faint but for someone who has a big curiosity and whose ears were closer to the ground, it was very distracting.

He had just picked up the buzzing phone when one man lifted him up like a sack of potato and placed him with the other children in the self made cage. They left him without checking, and if they had checked they would have notice the lady was gone.

Back at the main gate several police cars had arrived. It was something like that out of an action movie. Rafael and Violeta were entertained by a policewoman while the rest, who were equipped and heavily armed, stealthily made their way to Warehouse 73.

They closed off the area and several police crept closer. They scaled the wall and moved to the front door. On signal they rammed the door and charged in; some even broke through the window and propelled down. They search high and low and at long last one of them report in. "Sir? gudang 73 kosong. Ada ikan saje, Sir." (Sir? Gudang 73 is empty. There's only fish here."

Yes, it was just like a scene from a very bad cop movie. So, bad that several warehouse down from them a few propped up metal rod fell. The same metal rod that covered half of the number 8 and made it looked as though it was the number 73 instead of 78. The same metal rod that tricked our poor yogurt lady and left her bloodied and in pain.

Speaking about the lady. I think it is time we revealed who she actually is. Her real name was Solaris Chandra the second daughter of Remy Chandra. Yes, that's right. She is Dr Chandra's daughter whom the man love to call 'my sun'; much to the annoyance of his wife. "You'll make her think she's a boy if you keep calling her that," she kept telling her husband and after being nagged for more than he could handle, Dr Chandra changed 'My sun' into 'Matahari ku' (it means 'My sun' is his language). However Dr Chandra had too many international friends who didn't understand his language. So 'Matahari ku' was short lived (but not as short as 'My Solaris'. His friends kept thinking he said 'My solar rays' which was even worse than 'my son'). His daughter grew up into a fine young lady. She was a bit tomboyish but she became the star of the police department. She was their number one detective if I'm not mistaken. She does have several weaknesses like things to do with directions. Directions of any kind. Her left can be her right and her 'Yes, Sir.' can mean 'Do the opposite right?'. To many in the police department, and from this point in the story, she was known as Detective Solaris, or just Solaris.

"Have we heard anything from Detective Solaris?" her sergeant shouted at the front gate.
"No sir! Last we heard she was going to check out warehouse 73, sir," replied a skinny officer.
"What is that girl up to!?" his sergeant said angrily. "She better not messed up! 6 months tracking those criminals will all go to waste if we don't get them right here, right now!"

The criminals as you could guess were the kidnappers. A bunch of thugs that not only deal with human trafficking but several other crimes in Asia too. Unfortunately they were only a small part of a bigger organization. This group consists of people of different race and nationalities. Every one of them bent on money and power. Of course they're only a small band of man. The real evil is still unknown and at large. However catching these punks was the first step that will make a lot of difference.

Now let's go back a few minutes into the past to the last time we saw Solaris. She was bloodied and hurt in captivity with the children while Caesar had just been dragged away. The kidnappers thought she was dead so Solaris took the opportunity to take action. She vowed to make sure all the children safely return to their parents, even if it means she couldn't see hers. She had to do something. The tiny vest little Caesar gave her helped to boost up her confident.

When the burly man had left she rolled over and slowly got to her knees. One hand was always on her wound. With little Caesar's help she had managed to stop the blood from over flowing. The wound wasn't deep but it did hurt. She took a pipe to the head and a cut to the abdomen but she could still move.

She staggered to her feet and made sure the children were safe. They all were albeit a little shocked. She went to the door and just as she thought, it wasn't lock. Bad guys, if only they were all this stupid. So she stepped out a bit. There's a little bit of snooping left to be done. According to what she's seen so far there were three kidnappers here. They're waiting for a call and that call will lead the investigation to the source. All she need is to plan the bug.

I won't go into detail about where Solaris went or what she was up to or how crazy she was about leaving the children alone yet again. But I am going to bring the story back to the present and focus on our little hero.

The two men who carried Caesar back to the man made cage were busy discussing about how to escape. They placed Caesar behind the wired door and quickly left. From a far Caesar had noticed that the lady was gone but he only thought to himself, 'It's hard to pretend she's sleeping if she's moving around. Oh, I'll just pretend she's sleep walking then. That's logical.' He shrugged of the matter and waited for the men to leave. Just like every time he waited for his parents to leave so he can cause all sorts of mischief. For you see Caesar was learning a new kind of curiosity as he grew. The kind that allowed him to see the inside of inventions. Of course without the supervision of adults. So when the close was clear he took out the phone and looked it at every angle.

"Can I call my mum?" a small voice asked. For the first time that day Caesar actually listened to them. He stared at the girl who spoke. She stood close to Caesar. Her hair was curly red, skin pale with freckles and there were tears in her hazel eyes. Caesar felt bad for ignoring them earlier on and stretched his hand with the phone to the girl. She took it and suddenly handed it back. "It's your dad," she said "you should pick it up."

Caesar took the phone and saw Dr Chandra's picture and the word 'Dad' on the screen. 'That's not my papi,' he thought but pressed the green button anyway. "Hola, habla César. ¿Quien es?" he said like how his parents taught him. 'Oh no, wait,' he suddenly remembered, 'We are in another country. I should say it in English, not Spanish.'

Back at the front gate Dr Chandra tried several times to call his daughter. Then at long last someone answered and spoke something he didn't understand. "Hello? Who's there? Can I speak with my sun."

"This is Caesar. Your son isn't here Dr Chandra."

"Caesar!?" Dr Chandra shouted in surprise. He knew it! He knew Caesar was with Solaris. Then he noticed the area had gone quiet. He looked up and everyone was staring at him. Then, as though someone had pressed the play button, they all jumped on him. Caesar had to hold the phone away as the voices were screaming on the other end.

"He...hello?" he said out loud while still holding the phone at arm's length.

"César! Es mamá y papá! Where are you mijo?"
" El Kindergarten. Este lugar no me gusta. La seññorita yogurt, esta lastimada. Can you come pick me up? The other children want to go home too." He said calmly.
"Tell us exactly where you are, mi hijo?" his parents asked again desperately. They sound of a hurt yogurt lady only made them anxious.
"I'm at warehou-..." a hand snatched the phone from his tiny hands before he could finish. He was surprised and looked up. The burly foreign man loomed over him, with crazy eyes and nostrils like a bull.

"Kau nak kene!? Macam the lady!?" (You want me to hit you is it? Like the lady!)

He raised his hand ready to slap Caesar. However, Caesar's power of deduction was faster and he quickly put two and two together. He deducted that 'the lady' the man was referring to could only be the yogurt lady. Therefore this man was one of the bullies.

"You hurt the yogurt lady didn't you!?" he asked angrily.

"Yeah. I did and now I'm going to hurt you because you've been a bad boy! Just like that woman!"

Then the words Solaris had told him earlier rang at the back of his mind. '...you can only use it in defense and not for offense. Unless, it's for protecting the ones you love. Then you can go all science on them.' Caesar felt several strange feeling he didn't understand but his tiny little eyebrow went down into a frown and both his hands slowly curl into a fist and rise into an awkward boxing stance.

Consciously, he was trying to defend himself. Subconsciously, he had come to acknowledge the yogurt lady as someone important to him. She was interesting and kind to him.

"You're a bad man!" he said as he gave an intense frowned a 5-year old could manage.

The man stopped mid way. He laughed heartily and asked, "Kau nak buat ape? Pukul aku? Who do you think you are? A boxer?" (What are you going to do? Hit me? Who do you think you are? A Boxer?)

"No, I'm Cesar!" he said calmly and then screamed "papi! I'm at 78!"

The man jumped but then looked at the phone in shocked. He still hasn't hanged up yet. On the other side of the phone, Rafael and Violeta who heard everything yelled to the sergeant, "They're at 78!"

The burly man looked at Caesar and advanced to hit a blow. Then WHAM! He fell on his side after a wooden board made impact with his left temple. Caesar looked at the man then at his fist. 'Science works and that was just from the power of observation!' he thought innocently when suddenly a familiar voice called out which startled him. "Well done kid! Good stalling. But come on there's no more time to waste."

Solaris stood, a bit hunched as she drops the board and ushered the kids to follow, "Mari kanak-kanak. Let's go home." Some had trouble carrying the babies so she took two in her arms and led the way. She moved slowly and the kids followed her like baby chicks. All except Caesar who had went the other way. "Kid! Science is this way~!" cried Solaris as she noticed the little kitten had disappeared. "but yogurt lady! The door is this way!" she heard Caesar's tiny voice from afar.

'Crap! Turn Right Solaris! Not left!' Solaris thought, "Coming!" and said at the same time.

They all moved clumsily to where Caesar was and saw the huge warehouse door with the number 78 painted on it. 'Dang, that's huge,' the female detective observed the huge warehouse door. 'There's no way I'm strong enough to push that open.' She looked around, 'There has got to be a smaller door for an injured lady with two babies around here!'

"The men took me pass this door when he wanted to wash my hands. I don't remember how I got in. How'd you get in yogurt lady?" Caesar asked out of the blue.
"Through the window, but you don't try that till you're like 20 something ok," she replied casually. "Listen kid. I might need to see if the door would open. Can you~"
Solaris couldn't finish her sentence because the band of cops from earlier dashed in. This time with even more enthusiasm, maybe because they know it's the right warehouse. There was an added extra bit in the background. Helicopters with news camera flew about. 'Oh, boy.' Yes, the whole thing went on the news.

"Caesar!" two people shouted and made a bee line for the boy while knocking everyone in their way. Caesar was lifted off his feet but this time it was the way he didn't mind. He giggled as Violeta and Rafael cuddled him. Two police came and took the babies off Solaris. So she had time to looked at the giggling Caesar. For a moment she could've sworn he looked like a normal boy. Not the one that spoke all sciency.

"My sun!" Dr Chandra shouted and limped towards the group. Rafael and Violeta turned to finally realized who the person Dr Chandra was talking about. 'Dr Chandra's son is a girl?' both thought silently. The both of them found out why Solaris is called 'my sun' later and laughed inwardly for thinking of something else. As for Dr Chandra, he said he'll never forget to introduce his children if they are around. However, he forgot about it in about a week later.

Sorry, back to the story shall we.

"Hey Dad," Solaris said still somewhat hunched with a hand on her wound.

"You're bleeding!" he cried in horror.

"It's just a flesh wound. Little Caesar there helped me stop the blood. See?" She showed them the tiny vest tied to her abdomen.

"Why did you took Caesar with you? That was very irresponsible of-"

"She didn't take me here. Those men did," Caesar interrupts as the police dragged the men out.

"I think yogurt lady needs to go to the hospital now." he continued "When the adrenaline rush is gone the pain will come back...and then you'll faint and then die."

All four adults stare at the boy for a few seconds until Solaris broke the trance. She started laughing and so did the other three.

"Why are you laughing?" Caesar asked. 'Did I say something funny?' He wondered.

"I was just thinking...ahahaha... of how right you are." Solaris said with a smile and then slowly fell backwards onto the ground.

"Solaris!" "Yogurt lady!" "Someone get the doctor!" They all screamed together.

The last thing that went through Solaris head was what Caesar had told her about yogurt. Maybe that is true too, she wondered and everything went black.

That marked the end of Caesar's little adventure. Solaris snooping took the case to the next level but she was out of it. She was hospitalized for about a week. Caesar often visited her and played doctor till the real doctor ran out bawling. Of course he didn't do it intentionally.

After the week, Solaris took a month leave from work and spent most of her time babysitting Little Caesar. Fortunately for him, she was a very fascinating person. Unfortunately for both, his parents' research took them off to another country and they had to move, yet again.

"So, this is it kid. It was fun while it lasted." She smiled and kneeled down to Caesar's height.
He had his usual tiny vest on, head of hair that defied gravity and an added backpack with a small spaceship stitched to it. (no doubt, it's the handiwork of Violeta Salazar.) The airport was full of people but it wasn't too noisy.

"Haterocromia iridum," the boy said suddenly while brushing his fingers on her cheek.

"Is there something on my face?"

"No. It means your eyes have two different colors." Caesar giggled. It amuses him that the lady was so simple. (but it was actually him who was complicated). She took out her compact powder and checked her eyes. They were both dark brown. She looked at Caesar sideways and whispered "I have my contacts on. How-When did you find out?"

"The first time we met, you cough out yogurt and your contacts fell out. I tried to save it with a shtick."

'Oh,' she didn't even notice.

"why do you wear contacts? Your eyes are beautiful." she blushed. 'So adorable,'

"Because it helps me not to stand out. My work requires me to stay hidden. So that I can help people," she replied.

"You hide yourself to protect others?"

"This world is a tough place to live in Kid. Sometimes you have to hide your true self from people in order to help them." she said.

Caesar listened and kept that in mind. He didn't fully understand it yet but those words will be used later in his life. He would keep to himself the truth in order to protect. Solaris didn't know she had just planted that idea in the little boy's subconscious. She really should watch out what she says to kids. Actually, we all should.

"My sun, don't forget to take your medicine. It's passed the time already. Jangan lupa untuk makan dahulu." Said Dr Chandra as he stood a bit farther away with Rafael and Violeta. Solaris was about to stand when he notice a frown on Caesar's brow. "What's wrong little emperor? Got your pants tied in a knot?"

"Makan...it's a very distracting word." Caesar said. Solaris didn't know what to say so she bought some pineapple candy for him. If only she knew how distracting that word was.

"Makan is food right?" Caesar asked as he walked hand in hand with Solaris to the boarding hall. Solaris and Dr Chandra had a special pass through the airport securities.

"Uh, actually it means 'eat'. Makanan is food. Why do you ask?"

"I don't want to keep thinking of it. So what do we say when people ask 'Sudah makan?'"

"If you haven't eaten you say 'Belum', which means 'Not yet', but if you have then just say 'Sudah' which means 'i have'.'"

"Wow yogurt lady, you're evolving. You're getting smarter." Caesar said cheerfully as though one of his experiments was a success.

"I think some of your smart vibe is rubbing onto me. Hey, want to learn more neat words. Heard you're heading to Malaysia. The language there is somewhat the same if not different."

"Sure," Caesar said happily.

The conversation went on till the plane arrived. They parted with a good note. That was the last Caesar saw of Solaris and Dr Chandra. He still remembers the event a little but they've lost contact with them.

"That, my dear mijo is the end of the story."

"You made that up didn't you?" Rex asked as he eyed his brother from bed.

"If course I didn't. It's a true story."

"Then why did you say you didn't remember them?"

"I said little Caesar remembered the event a little. I didn't say I've forgotten about them."

"Ok, then...how did you know about what the police and what mom and dad were up too. Or the yogurt lady?"

Caesar just chuckled. "I pieced it together from what mum and dad and Solaris told me. It was a very memorable event. It's not every day that you get kidnapped."

"But-" Rex started and was immediately interrupted by Caesar.

"But nothing mijo. You asked for a story about me and you got one. Now sleep or else Dr holiday will have my head if you're still not well tomorrow."

Rex eyes dropped. "Ok," he gave in and yawned. "But you owe me a true story next time."

Caesar said 'Good night' and left the room with a smile. Maybe he shouldn't have told that story. Then again it was the only one on his mind at the moment. Suddenly his phone rang.

"Apa khabar kid?" a voice said from the other side.

"Khabar baik." Caesar said in a weird accent.

"I see you still remember." the woman teased.

"No, it's just that I never forget." he replied. He was still smiling.

"My father says he just found the documents you're looking for. How would you like me to send it?"

"Actually, I think I'll come down. It's been years since we met, hasn't it?"

"It sure has kid. I'll come pick you up at the airport. Just call me when you have arrived."

"That won't be necessary. I have a means of traveling that could get me there in half the time needed. How about I'll meet you at the warehouse. Tomorrow."

"Sounds good to me. I got some business there anyway. Got to go kid. See you soon."

"Goodbye for now Yogurt lady."

The voice at the other end laughed and hung up.

He had lied a little to Rex. He did kept in contact. Friends always do even after years of silence.

THE END.

Spanish Words.

Hola, habla César. ¿Quien es? - Hello, Caesar speaking. Who's there?

César! Es mamá y papá! – Caesar! This is mom and Dad.

El Kindergarten. Este lugar no me gusta. – The kindergarten. I don't like it here.

La seññorita yogurt, esta lastimada – The yogurt lady, she is bleeding

Malay words

Apa Khabar? – How are you?

Khabar baik. – I'm fine thank you.

Mari Kanak-kanak – Come children/kids.

Jangan lupa makan dahulu – Don't forget to eat something first.

Thank you for reading until the end. XD

Rabbit-miza