Curiosity killed the cat, but
for a
while I was a suspect.
-Steven Wright
OK, did anyone notice that I changed Diego's name to Domingo? I didn't even realize it! I'm sorry everyone! I guess its Domingo now though…. Its drilled in my brain that way. Well, anyways, on with the story.
The Others- Chapter 6
Ryo padded along the mossy forest floor, visions of the other boy in his head. He couldn't knock the fact that this boy seemed almost familiar to him. Like the others had when he had first met them. But he brushed the mutual feeling off as he arrived back at the camp. White Blaze turned to look at him, and he shrugged towards the cat.
"I'll explain everything later." He stated as the cat nodded. With a confused sigh at everything that had been going on in his head, he laid down to go back to sleep like the others around him. But his dreams were filled with visions of the odd boy, and the feeling that there was still something missing, even after he had met this boy.
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Sage struggled to get up with only one functioning arm. He had come home late. Very late. And to make matters worse, he found out that Domingo had followed him the entire time, and was well aware that Sage had not listened. And that led him to his arm. Domingo had been angrier then Sage had ever seen him. After yelling at the boy, he had lashed out, only once, with his claws. Sage's left arm was torn and bleeding, and he was now struggling to clean the wound at a small creak near the cave that he called home. He winced as he watched the water around his arm turn pink, and he pulled it away after the running water stung too much. Sage wasn't stupid. He wrapped a large leaf around the wound many times then tied two vines around it with his mouth and his free arm. After struggling to do that, he made his way back towards the cave. Not at the cave, but near it. Domingo had punished him accordingly. If he didn't want to sleep at the cave and would rather go out and play detective, then he wasn't allowed in the cave. Sage fell asleep on a rock, curled up in a ball, shivering slightly.
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When Rowen awoke, much earlier then usual, by about 2 hours, he decided to venture off, and check out what else was around this forest. He wandered around for a while, a run in with a few deer being the most exciting thing he came across the entire time. That was until he came across a small creak. He followed it for lack of anything better to do, yet froze when he saw a figure knelling next to the water's edge. He held his breath, not wanting to be discovered by the boy, and watched as the boy clutched his left arm, pulling apart vines and leaf that he had used to make a cast. Rowen winced when he saw the boy's injury. It was severely infected, and deep enough that it needed to be stitched. And the boy didn't look like he know anything about how badly injured he was. In fact, the boy seemed to be as primitive as they came. He dawned only a loincloth to cover his lean figure. The boy cried out as he dipped his arm in the water, and Rowen knew that the water was not healthy and pure enough to cleanse the wound. Most likely it would just make it worse.
"Excuse me?" Rowen finally said, not being able to take this boy treating himself like so. The boy looked up in surprise at being watched, but the expression on his face turned into anger almost immediately.
"Another one." He growled, as he rose to his feet. Rowen was slightly shocked at the height of the boy. Knelling down, he had seemed far less dangerous. Rowen stepped back the moment the boy pulled out a sword. It was interesting, it wasn't store bought. It was definitely hand-made, and crafted quite well to be exact.
"Why won't you people just leave me alone?" Rowen looked on in confusion.
"How did you hurt yourself?" Rowen asked softly, as the boy looked away.
"That matters not to the likes of you. Human." The blonde growled as Rowen laughed.
"News flash dude. You're human too." Rowen didn't see it coming, and was knocked out of breath at the impact of the other boy. Which wasn't too bad, the boy was not heavy in the slightest, in fact, you could see his ribs when he stood.
"I am not human!" He growled, face next to Rowen's.
"Humans are evil. They pollute our lands and kill the forest. I may look like one, but as far as being one? I am not." The boy was about to jump up, when Rowen grabbed him.
"Let go of me." The boy demanded as Rowen kicked the sword from the boys grip.
"Stop struggling." Rowen warned as he pulled some medicine out of his pocked. He was suddenly glad that he was the one that carried the first aid utensils with him.
"I said let go!" The boy yelled, his struggling growing more frantic. Rowen had to literally sit on the boy to stop him.
"You are hurt. You need help." Rowen stated, putting a glob of the medication on his fingers.
"Even if I did, I would never get it from a human." Rowen rolled his eyes. He could easily guess that this was the wolf boy.
"Just calm down and it wont hurt as much." Sage growled again, and Rowen patted his head.
"Good wolf boy." Rowen joked, but yelped as the boy's teeth clamped down on his finger.
"Oww!" Rowen exclaimed.
"Jerk." Rowen muttered. Sage just smiled. His smile vanished the moment that Rowen placing the ointment on Sage's cut. Sage screamed. Obviously, it hurt and the boy was not used to medication. Rowen never saw it coming. When a 100-pound wolf lunged at you, you felt it.
"Mother!" Sage exclaimed as he scrambled to his feet. Clutching his arm, he ran over to the safety of the wolf. Rowen scrambled to his feet and stepped back when the wolf growled.
"I'm sorry! I was just trying to help him! He's hurt, he needs it!" She growled again, before nuzzling Sage to make sure Rowen hadn't hurt him.
"I am alright mother… It just… hurts." Sage tried to keep the tears from shedding. The burning sensation in his arm was unbearable. This human wasn't helping him! He was hurting him.
"Go away! I told you to leave!" Sage exclaimed.
"And take your friend with you!" He added as Rowen shook his head.
"I was only trying to help." Rowen muttered.
"Leave!" Sage demanded as Rowen shook his head.
"You know that if you don't get that treated you will get feverish and it could kill…." Sage's eyes flared in anger.
"Go away!" Rowen winced at the boys raised voice, before going into a run. He had to tell the other what just happened.
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"Guys! I just ran into the wolf guy!" Rowen gasped through breaths the moment he made it back to their camp. Ryo glanced up.
"You mean the blonde guy?" Rowen looked at Ryo oddly. He nodded faintly.
"How did you know that?" Ryo sat up.
"Because last night I ran into him. He jumped on me, and told me to get out of his forest." Rowen laughed.
"Same guy. I tried to help him. He's really hurt. He's got gashes on one of his arms. They're really infected. I had medicine, and I sat on him to hold him down, but then he screamed, and a wolf came and knocked me off him. Then he yelled at me to leave. And with a big, over-protective wolf around, I was not going to press issues." Ryo nodded.
"Same here. But I didn't meet the wolf. Just him." Rowen nodded.
"So you must be the one he was talking about." Ryo looked on in confusion.
"Huh?"
"He was talking about another human. He told me and the other human to leave." Ryo nodded.
"How badly hurt is he?" Mia asked as Rowen turned to face her.
"Really bad. If he doesn't get help, it'll kill him. I wonder how he got so hurt anyways. An animal would have to have done it, but he lives with the strongest animals in the forest. No one messes with wolves." Kento shrugged.
"Maybe a wolf did it." Rowen shook his head.
"No, she was protecting him."
"There could be more then one." Anubis piped up from where he say, cooking. Rowen shrugged.
"Could have. We need to find him though. He needs help. And we all have to be there. I was able to hold him alone because I had his working hand. And I got his sword away from him too. That played a major part in it." Ryo nodded.
"He is quite a swordsman. I wonder how old he is. I mean, he made that sword himself. But he doesn't look very old at all."
"I know Ryo. Its weird."
"Ok everyone, time to eat!" Anubis exclaimed as he handed everyone their food. He made sure to give Ryo a fork, along with a warning glance. As soon as Anubis turned, Ryo stuck his tongue out that the older boy. Rowen and Kento stifled their laughter.
"Well, let's set out after we eat. We need to find him." The others nodded to Mia, as they all began to eat their food.
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Sage was in and out of consciousness. All he could feel at the moment was his mother licking his face, and that was it.
"Mother! Is brother going to be ok?" Acrian asked as he pranced around his older brother.
"Acrian, be quiet, please. Your brother needs rest." Sage listened to their conversation until his sister ran in, panting.
"Mother!" Kiarei exclaimed as her mother turned to her.
"What is it, young one?" The panting pup bolted over.
"There are humans in the forest! Five of them! I think that they may be after brother!" Sage listened to his little sister run over to him.
"Stay here, young ones. Watch over your brother." The two pups nodded. Minutes after his mother left, Sage heard two people enter the cave.
"I don't want to do this to him, but he need medical attention." Sage groaned. That voice. The obnoxious blue-haired boy.
"Rowen, is that him?" A highly feminine voice added. Sage forced his eyes to open and watched in blurred vision as the blue haired boy nodded.
"He's got a fever. And Oh my gosh! Look at his arm!" Mia exclaimed.
"Don't come near the pups." Sage croaked, his throat sore from lack of liquid. He struggled to sit up, and pulled the pups to him, falling back against the cave wall.
"Wow. Seems that he's not as mean as I thought. He's just over-protective. The entire time he was attacking us, he was doing it to protect the little ones. Well, don't worry, Sage, we aren't going to hurt the pups." Sage sighed in relief. That was all that mattered to him, the pups' safety.
"We just want you." An alarm went off in his head.
"We don't want to hurt you, but you need medicine. It's killing you!" Rowen exclaimed at the moment Ryo and the others arrived at the cave. Ryo looked in horror at the blonde.
"My gosh! He looks really bad! We have to get him to a… a…" Ryo thought for a moment as the word came to him.
"Hospital!" The others nodded. Rowen knelt down next to Sage.
"Pups, we don't want to take him away from you, but he needs help or you aren't going to have brother for very long." The pups backed off.
"Ok Sage, they say its Ok, now all we need is your Ok." Sage didn't want to talk. Rowen sighed and slid his arms under the boy, lifting the barely clad boy into his arms. Sage tried to struggle, but he just couldn't force that much movement on himself. His head was about to explode, his body was extremely overheated, and he was dehydrated. He hadn't had anything to drink in a day and a half.
"Come on guys, we better get him to the hospital." Rowen stated as Mia set her hand on the blonde's forehead, and immediately pulled it away.
"He's like a human sauna!" She exclaimed as Rowen nodded.
"Come on, before the wolves get back." Ryo stated as the group ran out of the cave.
To be continued……….