Me: my first Kane Chronicles fic! Hope you like! :)
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Ow...why do I hurt so much?
She sat up carefully and looked around her. She had a small hope that she would recognize her surroundings. No such luck. She was in a small cave and that was all she knew. It was to dark to see anything else.
How I get here? She wondered. A horrible feeling crept over her. Wait, who am I?
A groan from her left caused her to turn. She couldn't make out the face in the darkness, but she was sure it was another person.
The person sat up and looked at her. He had startling green eyes that seemed to glow in the dark. "Who are you?" He asked in a tired voice.
She stared back at him- she wasn't sure if he was an enemy or not. Do I have enemies...?
She shrugged at him. "I don't know myself."
The boy looked at her for a second before looking towards the front. "There's a light up ahead," he said quietly. He sounded so drained. "Let's go."
He got to his feet unsteadily. She wasn't sure weather or not to trust him, but she didn't want to stay in the cave by herself so she quickly got to her feet as well and followed.
Cat-Eyed boy apparently could see rather well, despite the darkness. She stayed close behind him until they got to the entrance of the cave.
The sun hurt her eyes that had become accustomed to the dark. After a few minutes her eyes readjusted to the light and she could focus on her surroundings.
They seemed to be in a desert. Sand was everywhere. Nothing else was on the landscape.
This disappointed her greatly. She had hoped to have some recollection when coming out of the cave. She turned back to Cat-Eyed boy.
His green eyes didn't look as startling in the daylight. He had shaggy black hair and he wore a black t-shirt and jeans that looked as if they had been put through the paper shredder. Overall, he looked quite handsome in a rough kind of way.
He was looking at her quite intently. She imaged she herself couldn't look very neat. Her clothes- which were strange cotton like pajamas- were cut in places as if someone had tried to slice her with a sword.
"Do you remember anything?" Cat-Eyed asked.
She shook her head. "No."
"Neither do I," he said sadly.
She looked at him more closely. He looked drained and sick. The feeling that she couldn't trust had gone once she had seen him in the sunlight. While she still couldn't remember him, she knew that they knew each other and were allies. Allies, not friends, though she didn't know why that distinction.
Cat-Eyed leaned against the cave wall and shivered. His face was pale and it occurred to her that he might need medical help.
"Are you okay?" She asked.
He nodded. "The bags," he said. "There were bags in the cave, by the wall."
She blinked. She hadn't seen any bags, but then again she hadn't seen the entrance either. She quickly went into the cave and looked against the wall where Cat had been laying. She saw two object on the floor and grabbed them quickly, darting back out of the cave as soon as she was certain they were bags. She bent down on the sand and opened the bags.
Inside the first bag were two broken sticks, which looked as if they had once been one long stick. There were extra clothes, a box of pop-tarts, and a can of sprite.
She handed the drink to Cat. "Here."
He took the can and opened it. "On the tag," he said, shaking. "There- there might be a name."
She looked at the tag on the bag and squinted. The name was smudged. "It looks like Sally Jane?"
Cat closed his eyes tight, thinking hard. "No," he said in a strained voice. "Not Sally Jane, Sadie Kane. That's your name."
She squinted at the lettering. He was right, it did look more like Sadie Kane than Sally Jane. But was that her name? It sounded right, yet...
"The other bag," Cat reminded her.
Sadie (if that was her real name) opened the second bag, which contents were very similar to the other except without the broken stick thing. On its tag was the word Set.
"Set?" She asked, looking at Cat.
He frowned. He seemed to look like she had felt, the name sounded right, but was it really? "I suppose that's my name then," he said.
Sadie nodded. "Yes, I guess so," she stood up and held the bags in one hand. "So from this moment on, you are Set, and I am Sadie Kane."
Cat smiled. "So it seems." He looked around. "So, Sadie," he mused. "Two questions; one- How did we get here and two- what happened?"
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