OK, lets see how fast I can get these chapters out! Dum de de de dum…. Ok, disclaimer, not mine. And I've said that on all my other fan fiction, and the first chapter, so do I really have to say it again? OK, as I said, I only have one couple decided, and I am now having the hardest time with Ryo. It's like, split right down the middle. Should he go with Mia, or Sage? Well, anyways, I'm babbling again, so for your sake, I'll stop. Enjoy! (Not) J
"So, Mia, you've got the paper, you've got the map, who is closest?" Mia glanced over her papers, before looking back up at the group.
"Uh, the mountains. That boy. He's the closest. But he's also the hardest to find. It says here that his tiger, who sources have heard him call "Blaze", is strong enough to carry the boy on his back." She grinned and turned to Rowen.
"Hey, Ro, you're pretty fast. Wanna go head on head with a giant tiger?" He glared at her as she laughed.
"Didn't think so." She turned to her two other friends and smiled.
"Well, what are we waiting for? We slept on it, we thought about it, we figured it out, let's go!" The boys nodded.
"We're off to the Fireside Mountains, to find this boy worth lots."
"Mia, that sounded nothing like the wizard of Oz."
"Watch me not care!" She stated with a wide grin, as she paraded out of the hotel. The other boys sighed as they followed after her.
~*~*~*~
"OK, so the boy's near the Oki Island, right? So all we have to do is go there, right?" The males nodded.
"Kayura, they say that he lives in the water by day, and the land by night, because he can't sleep in the water. Why don't we wait till night?" Dais pointed out as Kayura sighed.
"How about we stay here, on the beach, until night, and then we can get him then." Cale sighed.
"It's too bright! I don't like the light. It… it bothers me." Dais covered Cale's mouth.
"What he meant to say is that he'd love to Kayura." Cale glared at Dais, who whispered down to the blue haired man.
"Kayura. In a bikini. The entire day. Hint hint. Shut up." Cale grumbled as Dais let go of him.
"Man, Dais, I knew you liked her, but still. Do you really want to have to be around her for an entire day?" Dais nodded as Cale sighed.
"Fine, your funeral. But if she were to get burned, I'm going to laugh. She is going to get so mad, and you are going to get the brunt of her anger."
"She's not that bad. If you had a burning back that was all nasty and peeling, you'd be mad too."
"I do burn easily. Stupid sun and its stupid light. When we get there. I'm staying under a tree." Sekhmet stepped up.
"If you REALLY want to get the boy fast, I can poison the water. That'll get him out of there fast, heh heh heh."
"No killing the fish, or the boy Sekhmet." Kayura warned as Sekhmet walked away muttering.
"And don't think I can't hear what you're mumbling!" Kayura called after him.
"Come on, Cale, you go get Sekhmet. I'll go get the boat ready that Master Talpa is letting us use." Dais smiled.
"Have fun getting Sekhmet." Cale glared at Dais.
"Have fun being stuck, alone, with wild Amazon woman." He stated as he walked away.
~*~*~*~
"OK, Mia, this is what we call a fork in the road. Why is it here? You have a map."
"Umm…. I don't know. According to the map, we, uh, shouldn't be here." Rowen sighed.
"Let me see that." He yanked it out of the young woman's hand, with a yelp of protest.
"Mia! You were reading the map backwards!"
"I was not! See? This is where we started and…" Her voice trailed off when she realized the truth.
"Oh gosh! I'm so sorry!" Anubis patted her back.
"It's OK, no harm done, right Rowen?" Rowen sighed.
"Actually…"
"Right Rowen?"
Umm, yeah, just a few more hours of walking back, and then we have to go on this path here, and then we have to go here, and then, after that, we have to go here…" Kento groaned.
"Who else is getting a headache?" Mia and Anubis raised their hands.
"Aye!" Rowen glared that them all.
"Well sorry! I'm just telling the truth."
"And hurting our heads."
"I give up. Lets just turn around and go back, kay?" The other's nodded as they began to walk back down the path. About and hour into their return to where Mia had, ahem, miss calculated with the map, They realized something that was not good. This boy did not want to be found. And he was very smart, and went to extents to protect himself and the tiger. Mia fell down a very, very deep hole.
"MIA!!!!"
~*~*~*~
"Mum! There's a boat! Why is there a boat?" Ocrana surfaced from under the water, turning to her son, and then to the small boat.
"Humans. They've come for you."
"Me? But mum, what would they want with me?" He questioned as he swam closer to the Whale.
"You are one of them." Cye shook his head.
"I may have been born from them, and technically I may be their species, but I am not one of them. I live with you, and the fish, and Clayna." He smiled. Clayna was his best friend. She was a dolphin. She would take him everywhere, and show him the sites of the sea. He had met her when he was swimming. He had found her stuck in a fishing net, and being the good Samaritan he was, he had rescued her. And they had been un-separable ever since.
"Cye, we must go deeper in the ocean if it is not your wish to go back to your people."
"It is never my wish mum. They pollute the waters, terminate our kind, demolish our homes, and poison our waters. I wish not to be a part of them, for all they do is cause pain and destruction to those of the sea." His mother could do nothing but smile.
"I have taught you well, dear son. Now do not go to the island, OK?" Cye nodded.
"Of course I will not."
"Good, now why don't you go find Clayna and you two can play?" He nodded.
"I haven't seen her in awhile, that's a good idea. Good bye mum, I'll be back tonight!"
~*~*~*~
"Mother, did you here that? It sounded like screaming, from a very far distance."
"Sage, it was in the mountains. What goes on up there is none of your concern, nor is it mine. We live our own lives down here, in the forest." Diego nodded in agreement.
"Boy, you care to much about things that are none of your concern. You are far to nosy for your own good." Sage hung his head.
"I'm sorry, I was just…"
"Say nothing." Sage shut his mouth as he slunk over to the pups.
"Hey guys."
"Daddy yelled at you. Why did Daddy yell at you?" Sage smiled.
"Daddy always yells at me. But he did it because he wants me to be less nosy."
"What is nosy brother?" Sage sighed.
"I like to ask things that don't concern me."
"Oh."
"But isn't that what Mommy calls "Cur… Cur… Curiosity?" Sage nodded.
"Yes, but Father has a different aspect of it. He thinks I am too old to be curious. But that's OK. As long as mother is here, I am fine." The puppies giggled, as they crawled over him.
"Play with us brother!"
"Yes brother, play!" Sage laughed.
"Fine. But first we must eat. Lets go ask mother if I may take you two hunting."
"But brother, you do not fight with your teeth!"
" I know. I fight with weapons I made." He un-sheathed his sword. It was hand made, and it had taken him a long time to make. It was how he had spent most of his days since he was about 12, now at the age of 14.
"The blade is so pretty! Can you make me one! Please!" Sage shook his head.
"I'm sorry Kiarei, but you don't have hands, how would you carry it?"
"In my mouth!" She licked his face to emphasis her mouth.
"Acrian, why don't you go ask mother?" The other, quieter of the two puppies nodded, as he ran off to their mother.
~*~*~*~
Ryo's head shot up at the sound of a scream.
"Blaze, what was that?" Ryo leapt onto Blaze's back, as they ran towards the sound of the scream.
"It was one of my traps, wasn't it?" Blaze nodded as he continued running, Ryo sitting high astride his back.
"I hope I didn't hurt the person! I just didn't want anyone to take you, and oh no!" Ryo stated as they followed the sound of the voice.
To be continued…
Authors note: yes, Ryo is very smart, he makes traps, he he he. Gotta love him. Well, since I talked so much in the other chapter, I really don't have anything left to say, except, can everyone now tell the only couple I know I'll be having? Well, thanks to the brave souls that are actually reading this!