Hungry Savages
A/N:
Etsuko: Hello everyone! Here is a brand new story for you to read. And I'm doing a collaboration with my friend!
Neko Nico: Hi!
Etsuko: She's another writer here so check her out too. Her name on here is Neko Nico Ni
Neko Nico: Yep though I haven't updated in a while I'm trying to.
Etsuko: You'll do it soon! I believe in you!
Neko Nico: Hehes
Etsuko: Okay so this story is about the Hikari's being from the jungle. One day the rich and civilized Yami's travel to the jungle to explore. They come across the four Hikari's taking a bath in the water fall.
Neko Nico: Hehes
Etsuko: I wonder how the Hikari will react. Oh well. Let's start with the prologue. See you soon!
Neko Nico: Yeps!
Etsuko: Please favorite, follow, and review! Ciao Ciao!
Summery:
In a world of jungle and wilderness, the Hikari live in peace in their jungle home. One day while bathing in the waterfall four civilized men find them. Will the Hikari let the men civilize them or will the jungle turn them into savages.
Prologue
In the deep deep jungle it was a warm day. Four little dirty boys played around in the jungle floor. One little boy has white hair and red eyes with pale skin. He is the youngest of the group. Another little boy has blonde hair and honey brown eyes with peach skin. He's the oldest of the group. The second oldest was tan with sandy blonde hair and violet eyes. The third oldest is pale with amethyst eyes and tri-colored hair. He was also the the smallest though not the youngest.
"Yugi you're it." The little boy with blonde hair tackles the boy with amethyst eyes.
"Jonouchi!" Yugi pouted
"What? You're it!" Jonouchi laughed and pokes his nose.
Yugi smiled.
"Now count." Jonouchi smiled.
Yugi nodded
Jonouchi went to hide in the near trees. The boy with white hair climbed up one of the trees.
"Ryou be careful." The tan said
"Shhh don't give me away Marik." Ryou pouted as Marik went to hide. Ryou climbed up on one of the branches and smiled as he waited. Yugi finished and went looking. Jonouchi smiled as he waited behind one of the big trees. Yugi looked through the bushes as Ryou watches Yugi through the branches before something bright catches his eye. He looks up to see people with fancy clothes and tents.
"Guys! Guys! Look!"
Marik jumped out of the tree he was in flawlessly.
Yugi looked. "What is that?"
Jonouchi came out from behind the tree.
"Come up! Come on." Ryou said.
Yugi climbed up.
Marik followed and looked. "Its weird."
Jonouchi followed them. "What is it?"
"I don't know. But they look small." Ryou said.
"Let's check it out." Yugi said before jumping out of the tree.
"Yeah!" Jonouchi jumped down.
Ryou nods and followed suit. "I wonder if they have berries."
Marik jumped down. "What if its dangerous?"
"Then we'll just run." Ryou said.
"Besides what's the worse that can happen." Jonouchi smiled
Marik nodded. Yugi ran towards where they saw the tent. He stopped about 100 feet from it and hid behind a tree. He peeked out. Ryou looks out. They saw big men working on more tents and they had machines and maps.
"What is it?" Jonouchi asked.
"It looks weird and grey. It doesn't smell good either." Ryou said. "Imma look closer." Ryou starts to tiptoe
"Ryou wait." Marik said before one of the machines turned on. It was loud. Marik yelped and hid. Yugi glared at it. Jonouchi was ready to attack it. Ryou yelped a bit making some of the men look at their direction. Quickly Ryou felt himself get picked up and flying. He looked up to see his father carrying him and running. He turned around to see Yugi and Jonouchi getting carried by the warriors and Marik's older brother carrying him. Marik looked up at his brother. Ryou's father ran further into the coverage
"Daddy? Whats going on?" Ryou asked.
Marik's brother held him close as they ran. Ryou's father only stopped when he felt they were deep enough. He set Ryou down.
"Odion?" Marik asked as the warriors put Yugi and Jonouchi down.
"What have I told you about the edge of our land? It is off limits." Ryou's father said. "You four are lucky we got there. Yugi your grandfather will hear about this. As will your mother Jonouchi."
"But we were just looking. They had a weird thing that made a loud noise." Ryou said.
"They are not good people. That big thing hurts our jungle." Odion said. "Those people hurt us."
"We weren't that close." Marik said.
"I do not want you near those things again." Ryou's father said. "Any of you. It is dangerous."
"But why?" Ryou asked.
"Because we said so. They're dangerous men. Just like how you know the leopards and snakes are dangerous." Odion said.
"But they look like us. Just bigger." Jonouchi said.
"Stay away from them." Ryou's father repeated.
Yugi huffed but nodded.
Marik looked at Odion
"Stay away from them. I meant it Marik. Don't get smart." Odion said.
Ryou looks down. "We just wanted to see."
Marik nodded.
"I understand you're curiosity." Ryou's father lifted his chin. "But stay away from them."
"Yes daddy." Ryou said before hugging him.
He hugged back. "Besides you four have chores to do before it gets dark. Go on."
Yugi groaned.
Jonouchi groaned. "Didn't we just do them?"
"Yes yesterday. Go on boys." Odion ruffles their hair.
They nodded and went. Ryou's father's smile fell once they were gone. "We need to keep a close eye on those men and their...things. If the come too deeply in we'll need to move."
"We'll keep an eye on them. If they start getting close we'll come warn you." Odion said. "They can back too soon. I didn't expect them for another full moon."
"I know." He said.
Yugi huffed. "I hate fishing."
"It's kinda fun." Ryou said.
"It would have been better if we could still see those men." Jonouchi said.
Marik shrugged as he pulled out another trout trap. "Hey!"
Yugi looked. The trap was cut into.
"Someone messed with our traps." Ryou pouted.
"Hey this one too!" Jonouchi said as he held one up.
"But those aren't animal marks." Yugi said. "Look it's nothing like teeth marks of anything I've seen."
"We should go back. What if it's still here?" Ryou shook.
"Oh come on, we can figure it out. Maybe it was a bird." Jonouchi said.
"Uh uh." Yugi said.
"What bird can do that?" Ryou asked. "No we have to tell someone."
Marik nodded. "First we should check if there are any that still have fish."
"Okay." Ryou said as they started to pull out the rest.
Marik shifted nervously when they all were pulled. "No fish."
"My grandfather is gonna be pissed." Yugi said
"But it's not our fault." Jonouchi said.
"Come on. Let's take the cages and show them. So they know we aren't lying." Ryou says taking a few. Marik nodded and grabbed some. Yugi did too. Jonouchi picked up the last ones. Ryou started to go back before they heard a stick break. Marik froze. Ryou looked back. Jonouchi got in front of them and glared. Marik peeked and saw something hunched down.
"W-w-what is it?" Ryou asked.
"I don't know." Jonouchi starts to move towards it. Marik gulped before it stood straight.
"It's one of those things like us." Yugi said.
"Hey! What are you doing here?!" Jonouchi called out.
"No don't!" Marik said as the it turned and looked at them.
"Oops." Jonouchi said. "Walked back really slowly."
Marik did as it came closer. "Run." Marik said. Jonouchi quickly took Marik and ran in the jungle. Yugi took Ryou and ran. Marik only relaxed when they got to their village.
Jonouchi looked back. "Where are Yugi and Ryou?"
Marik looked. "Oh no." He said as Ryou's father came over.
"What are you two doing? Where's Ryou and Yugi?" He asked "Something happened to the fish traps. And then we saw someone and so we ran." Jonouchi said.
"And left them?" He asked.
"They were running too." Marik said.
"They were right behind us." Jonouchi said
"Get in a hut. Odion!" He called before running as Odion follows.
"Come on." Jonouchi takes Marik in the hut.
Yugi looked around them. They were surrounded.
"Easy. We don't want to hurt you." One said.
Yugi glared at him. Ryou whimpers. Yugi glared. He laid a hand over the tooth dagger they each had for protection. He glared at the one who looked like him.
"Hey come on. It's okay. You're lost." He said.
Ryou got his and pointed it at the one who looked like him.
Yugi glared.
"Are you sure they are lost? I mean look at them." The one who looked like Ryou said.
Yugi glared.
"Maybe they don't understand us. Maybe it's those savages Mal's sister is always talking about." The one who looked like Yugi said.
Ryou and Yugi growled.
"Then what do we do?" He asked.
Yugi pulled his dagger out and pointed it at the one who looked like him.
"Maybe We should tell the guide back at the camp." He said.
Ryou lunged at the one who looked at him with the tooth dagger close to his neck.
He caught his wrist and looked down at Ryou with a blank face. "Not bad." He smirked. Ryou's eyes widen and tried to pull away.
The one who looked like Yugi quickly took away the dagger tooth and grabbed him. "Come on let's go take them." Yugi struggled. The one who looked like Ryou nodded and followed pulling Ryou as he took the dagger away. Ryou punched his look alike in the gut.
"Poor savages. They don't know how to play nice." The Yugi look alike said.
He groaned. "No shit."
Yugi kicked him between his legs.
He winced. "Little shit." He glared.
Ryou tried to pull away before they heard a call. Ryou looks as Odion and his father come out. Yugi looked. Ryou's father went after Ryou's look alike. He punched his gut before kicking him in the face.
"Shit!" He growled and let go of Ryou. Odion did the same to the Yugi look alike.
"Fuck." He let go of Yugi. Ryou went to his father and hugged him.
"Let's go." The Yugi look alike went to the Ryou look like. The Ryou look alike nodded. The Yugi look alike ran with the Ryou look alike back to the camp.
Ryou's father took him and ran. Yugi went to Odion who picked up Yugi and runs. Yugi held onto Odion.
Ryou look at his father. "I'm sorry daddy we tried to get away."
"I know." He said as he ran into the village. "Are you two hurt?"
Yugi shook his head. "But they have our teeth knives."
"We have plenty. As along you two are ok." He said.
"Do we have to move?" Ryou asked.
"No they're children too so the people that they're with won't believe them." Odion said.
Yugi nodded. "The nets-"
"We saw. We'll make stronger ones. For now just stay close to the village." Ryou's father said
"In fact don't leave it." Odion said. "Come on Yugi I'll take you to your grandfather."
Yugi nodded.
"Come on Ryou we need to eat." His father said
Ryou nods and holds on to him.
Odion takes Yugi to his grandfather.
In a hut with some vines in front of it an old man with amethyst eyes and spiked hair was cooking. Yugi entered the room.
He looked down. "Hello grandpa."
"Hello my boy. Did you have a nice day?" His grandfather, Solomon, asked.
"Um.." Yugi kicked his foot around.
"Go on Tell me your side of the story."
"Well at first we were playing and we saw some weird things. We went to the edge of our land and-"
"You know you're not suppose to go to the edge of our land." He said.
"I know. I'm sorry. But then when we were at the river getting out all the fish nets we found them ruined and all the fish taken. But no animal did it. We were coming back here but then those things showed up. They separated me and Ryou from Jonouchi and Marik and they tried to take us." Yugi said
"Oh Yugi." He quickly goes to him and hugs him. "Did they hurt you?"
Yugi shook his head. "No but they took my tooth."
"It's okay we can replace your tooth." He kissed his cheek.
Yugi nodded
"I'm so glad you're okay."
Yugi nodded. "Grandpa what are they?"
"They're people like us but they live in a different world. One of corruption and greed. Where all they care about is gold."
"Oh."
"They think what we do is wrong. That we should live their lives. Here let me tell you a story."
Yugi nodded.
"When I was still the head of our warriors we heard a large crashing sound. Our warriors and leader went to check what it was. We saw them. It wasn't their first time there but it was the first time they saw us."
"What happened?"
"They told us they wanted peace. To explore our land. So we let them. We showed the around and in good faith they showed us many things but it didn't last long. Soon they started to capture animals. Started to cut down the trees."
Yugi gulped.
"They were about to destroy our jungle."
"Why? That's not fair! It's not their jungle!"
"They didn't view it like that. They believed everything was theirs. Your grandmother and Ryou's grandmother had a plan. They snuck to their camp at night and released all the animals back. They destroyed their camp and only left their boat in tack so they could leave."
"But they didn't."
"Not at first. It was a war between us. Until they finally realized they would starve. We cut off their food supply. We broke their weapons. The animals would attack if they stepped foot outside of their camp."
Yugi nodded.
"Finally they left. When we moved because of the fire we found out they would just travel to other parts. They came with more weapons more men. Until finally our leader had to take action."
"What happened?"
"Sometimes adults do things to others to make them see what they are doing is wrong. After that they kept coming but it seemed like it was a tour. They would bring people to the jungle to explore. While they cut our trees, those explores would come. They called us savages. These explorers wanted to capture us. Do experiments with us. Soon our leader realized that we can no longer be seen by them. So we moved deeper in the jungle to where we are today. Soon they limited their time at the jungle. I believe they thought we all died. They come a few times a year but by that time we would have already taken measures so you kids wouldn't see them. I guess they came early."
Yugi nodded. "They called us s-savages I think. They talk weird."
"Yes they do have a weird language." He holds him. "But for now it's all in the past."
Yugi nodded.