The Others

Chapter 10

When Sage awoke, his head was throbbing with an unknown pain. Finally, after the pain subsided enough, he brought himself to open his eyes and survey his surroundings. He was in a small, rather barren room, and he had guessed that they had taken all furniture out for fear that he would use something as a weapon.

"Are you ok?" A soft voice asked as Sage jerked to face the sound.

"Who are you?" He demanded as he felt a hand on his arm.

"That doesn't look to good. Mum always told me that if I have a cut, to cleanse it with salt water." Sage yanked his hand away from the other boy.

"Who are you?" Sage repeated as he heard the other boy laugh.

"I'm Cye Mouri, and you would be?" Sage sighed.

"Sage."

"Last name?" Sage shrugged.

"I don't have one." Cye nodded.

"Well I didn't either, but Ocrana said that when I was abandoned by my parents when I was 4, their ship was the "S.S. Mouri" So she named me after that. Cye she came up with." Sage nodded.

"Who's Ocrana?"

"Mum of course! She's a whale!" He laughed cheerfully as Sage's jaw hung.

"What is this? I was raised by wolves, Ryo was raised by a tiger, and now you were raised by a whale! What is the world coming too…."? Cye shrugged.

"Wait! You were raised by wolves?" Sage nodded.

"Yes."

"Now it makes sense. I was wondering why they had taken you." Sage nodded.

"And I presume that you were taken for the same reason?" Cye nodded.

"They said I am worth money? Why are we worth money?" Sage shrugged.

"I think for research."

"What kind of research?" Again Sage shrugged.

"I don't know." Cye sighed as he sat next to the other boy. Sage shifted slightly, so that he was facing the other boy, and to make sure that his arm didn't get crushed between his body and the wall.

"What did you do to yourself? That doesn't look to good." Cye pointed out to Sage's arm. Sage simply shrugged in response.

"My wolf father scratched me." Cye's eyes widened.

"Well that is not very nice!" Cye pointed out.

"If he is your father then he shouldn't hurt you. I on the other hand don't have a father."

"No loss there." Sage muttered as Cye smiled.

"I can sense that there is tension between you." He grinned at the blonde.

"No duh." Sage pointed out as Cye glared at him.

"I am just trying to lighten the mood." Sage didn't mean to snip at the other boy, but not only was he raised to be testy, he was also just getting used to this society and was not at all exited when he was taken from his life, AGAIN.

"Sorry, didn't mean to snap at you. I'm just… annoyed." Cye nodded.

"I've been here for a few days. They're not too bad, I suppose. Sometimes they hit you, but usually they're gone and they simply leave you in a room."

"Well that's such a reassurance." Sage stated with a roll of his eyes.

"Well, they should be here soon. They wanted to get all three of us before they give us too… whoever it is that wants us." Sage's eyes widened.

"They better not touch Ryo, or I'll be biting more then just their fingers." Cye burst out laughing.

"You bit them?" Sage nodded slightly.

"They were asking for it!" Cye continued to laugh.

"Who is Ryo?" Cye finally asked.

"He is one that is raised by a tiger." Sage stated softly, envisioning the raven-haired boy with the tiger blue eyes and well built body.

"A tiger? And he wasn't eaten? Wow!" Sage laughed.

"His tiger is nice I am told. Its name is White Blaze." Cye nodded.

"That is so cool! I wish I could meet him and the tiger." Sage nodded.

"They were going to a "library" When I was take. What is read?" Cye thought for a moment of a good explanation. He had been reading simple children's books when he was abandoned, so he had the gist of how to read. It seemed that Sage was not as fortunate.

"You were raised by wolves, correct?" Sage's head bobbed up and down.

"How old were you when you were abandoned?" Sage shrugged.

"My mother told me since infancy. I have never seen another human till I ran into Ryo. I now regret jumping and snapping at him."

"Don't tell me that you bit him too." Sage glared at the other boy who winced at the violet intensity within the orbs.

"I did not! I have only bitten Rowen, for being an idiot, Sekhmet for also being an idiot, and Kayura for trying to touch me."

"Who is Rowen?" Cye asked in curiosity as Sage groaned.

"The most annoying boy on the planet! He was with Ryo when they came and took me from the cave that I have lived in all my life."

"They took you from your cave?" Sage nodded.

"I was dying. The infection grew and spread to my entire arm. I got feverish and I was in and out of consciousness. So they came and took me to the hospital to keep me from dying. I am thankful, but they at least could have asked and told me everything they were going to do. And warned me about the evil needles!" Cye had to stifle his laughter.

"I am sorry about your injury. Why did your father hurt you anyways?" Sage shrugged.

"I went out when he told me to stay." Cye tsked.

"Now you shouldn't have disobeyed." Sage glared at him.

"I always disobey." Cye smiled.

"I can tell."

"Hey!" Cye laughed softly.

"Well, you look really tired, and it seems to me that you are not fully recovered. I think that it would be in your best interest if you were to take to rest." Sage nodded slightly.

'"I don't want to, but I see where you are coming from. Good night, Cye." Cye nodded as he watched the other boy curl up into a tight ball, sans his hurt arm which is had sprawled out to his side, and easily fall into sleep.

~*~*~*~

"You lost him!?" Ryo growled, anger in his eyes and his voice.

"We tell you to watch after him for the total of about an hour, and you lose him? What the hell are we going to do with you two?" Anubis and Kento both pulled away.

"Well, if the vending machine would have accepted my dollar, then we wouldn't have had to go get change, and then come back, and…"

"Kento, this is not the vending machines fault." Rowen raised his hand.

"Actually, the vending machine is…."

"Don't get me started!" Ryo yelled as Rowen cowered and hid behind Mia.

"Well, as my mother used to say, "There's no use crying over spilt milk". And I agree. I say we go find the warlords, and get him back!" Mia exclaimed as Anubis smiled in a thank you.

"I agree. We're sorry for our dim-wittedness, but the only thing we can go do now is go retrieve him. Any complaints?" No one said anything.

"Well, then lets rock!" The group grinned as they followed Anubis's lead and ran out of the hospital.

~*~*~*~

Sekhmet was annoyed, to say the least. Dais and Kayura were well aware of his sexual preference, and they both were well aware that he had his eye on the blue-haired man that he worked with. And though he had been making progress with Cale in getting the other man to come closer to Sekhmet, the moment they had captured the blonde boy, everything had abruptly changed. Cale was now fawning over the poor blonde, using his breaks to go pester their "Guest". And Sekhmet was not at all pleased.

Slowly the green-haired man padded down the hallway towards the prisoners to see if Cale was once again there. He gently opened the door and sighed at the sight. The blonde boy was cowering against his companion, looking utterly miserable, as Cale stood grinning, obviously harassing the boy with words.

"So, you like to bite people? I wouldn't mind you biting me a few times." Sekhmet sighed as he eavesdropped on the object of his affection.

"I don't want to bite you." Sage stated, annoyance in his voice.

"Are you sure? Because I would very much enjoy that." Sage cowered against Cye even more.

"I am sure. Now go away and leave me alone!" Cye pulled the blonde too him protectively.

"When someone is annoyed by you, that is your cue to leave! And Sage is not enjoying your words, so would you mind leaving?" Cale laughed at the auburn boy's words.

"Cale, I think that you should leave him alone. He's already traumatized enough by you, I think you've had your fun." Cale looked up as his eye's met Sekhmet's beady black ones.

"But I want to stay here." Cale stated as Sekhmet sighed. He walked over to the other boy, and grabbed his arm.

"Come on." Sekhmet then proceeded to drag the cursing Cale out of the room.

"Bye love!" Cale called out to Sage as he was dragged out of the room. Sage groaned the moment that the duo left.

"Why me?" He muttered as Cye stroked Sage's hair.

To be continued…

It's been so long since I worked on this thing! Go me! (Well, it's been long for me anyways) I've been working on the sequel to "The Mage's Tale" So I've been keeping busy. Well, I'll try to work on this one more! I swear! Well, bye bye! Hope ya enjoyed!