Fun With Fire
By: Ozonebaby
Part One: In the Beginning...

"Tee hee hee!!" Rowen skipped around the mansion, brandishing a Teflon non-stick frying pan. Cries of laughter and insanity radiated from him and echoed throughout (a whole bag of pixie stix would do that to anyone). Suddenly, Rowen's happy little charade was put to a stop when a fuming redhead interrupted grabbed his pan. Confused, Rowen spun around to see the culprit.
"Damnit, Cye...Give it back!! It's mine!!" Rowen squealed.
"Why can't you just be normal, Rowen?" Cye quizzed, trying to be nice, but Rowen noticed that he was mad, besides the cracking in his voice; Cye's face was totally red.
"What's the matter, mullet-man?" Rowen asked with a silly grin. (*Author's note-if you don't know what a mullet is, for shame.)
"I DON'T HAVE A MULLET!!!!!!" Cye cried." And besides, LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO MY FLOWERS!!!" He pulled out a single withered marigold splattered with blue and red paint.
"I didn't do that." Rowen said innocently." You pulled it up yourself."
"THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEAN!!! YOU SPILLED SUGAR ON MY FLOWER BED AND THEN PAINTED THEM!!!"
"Ohhh.... that. Well, I thought that they could use some color, yellow is so boring."
"Well, thanks, you freak. YOU KILLED MY WHOLE GARDEN!!!"
"Get over it mullet-man, there's always next year."
"How many times do I have to tell you...I DON'T HAVE A MULLET!!!"
"Mullet-man, mullet-man, you've got a mullet!" Rowen chanted in a singsong voice.
"That's it, blue boy, you're goin' down!!" Cye, then, lunged at the hyperactive blue-haired boy, and found himself meeting the floor rapidly. Rowen doubled over, laughing hysterically and chattering like a maniac squirrel. Suddenly, something shiny caught Rowen's eye.
"Oooo...shiny." He creeped up to the fireplace, where the object lain. " A lighter...hee hee." At the sound of this, Cye wearily lifted his head up.
"What do you have, Rowen?"
Rowen picked up the lighter. "Nuh-uh-thing" he sang with a grin on his face. Cye arched an eyebrow at him. Rowen, then, spun around and held the lighter out. Cye's eyes flew open wide.
"What are you gonna do with that?" Cye asked worridly. Rowen looked homicidal. His eyes wandered over to one of Mia's houseplants. Rowen skidded over to it and read the label.
"Wandering Jew....hee hee...Jew." Then he looked back at Cye.
"Don't even think about it, Ro."
Rowen's sugar crazed mind had gotten the best of him. "What would happen if I did this?" He lit the lighter and the plant went up in flames. "Cool..." amazed, Rowen watched it burn, while Cye slowly got up to find some help. He made his way to the door, when all of a sudden, a not-too-happy-looking blond knocked him down.
"HEY, WATCH WHERE THE HELL YOU'RE GOIN' FISHBOY!!!" Sage exclaimed as he wandered into the room. He rolled his eyes at the downed Cye and noticed an all-too-happy Rowen. "Hey, Ro, what's up?"
"Hmm...Sage?" Rowen asked with fake sophistication.
"Yeah?"
"Is hairspray flammable?" Rowen started to smile more each second.
"Uhh...yeah, I think so..." Sage sniffed the air. "Jeez, is something burning?" Rowen started chuckling, and Sage couldn't figure out, for the life of him, why, until Rowen pulled out the shiny red lighter. Sage's eyes went to the size of saucers. "Uhh...Rowen, are you feeling okay?" Sage asked as he started to back away, slowly. Then, he started running.
"No ya don't, Sagie-wagie!" Rowen jumped him. They both went down in a struggling frenzy. Rowen tried to get a handle on the lighter and hold the squirming blond. Finally, Rowen lit and half the side of Sage's head was engulfed by flames.
"AHHH!!!!" Sage ran straight for the bathroom. He busted through the door, startling a bathing Ryo, and stuck his flaming head under water, causing the whole room to fill with steam. Ryo, trying to back up in the corner, just sat there, dumbfounded.
"Ahh.... that's better." Sage sighed as he pulled his head out. He automatically walked over to the mirror and wiped off the steam. Noticing that his hair, apart from being a bit damp, was perfect, as always (not even a sledgehammer could mess up that do!). "Ha! I am so gorgeous!!" Sage exclaimed as he primped. Seeing this, Rowen fell over in the doorway, bubbling with laughter. Sage peered over at him with snake eyes. "Ohh...I'm gonna get you back you blue-haired bastard.... just wait. No one messes with Sage Date's hair and gets away with it.... no one."