The Others- Chapter 15

"Duh duh duh….. duh duh duh….. duh duh duh….. duh duh." Mia felt a hand clamp over her mouth.

"This in not mission impossible, and it certainly isn't time to be humming loud enough for our enemies to hear!" Rowen exclaimed, as Mia hung her head.

"Sorry." Rowen sighed but said nothing. They were here to save Ryo, and they didn't want to waste time.

"Well they can't be that far away. This place isn't THAT big." Rowen laughed.

"Speak for yourself Mia." The red head shrugged. It was then they heard someone cry out in pain, and loud laughter.

"Looks like Sage taught me more then I thought!"

"Damn it! This boy bites as well!" Dais exclaimed as Rowen and Mia giggled quietly.

"At least his teeth aren't as sharp as that other boy's. And he's not actually wolf…." Cale snickered along with Ryo.

"You guys are wusses! Sage doesn't bite THAT hard!" Dais and Sekhmet turned to him in shock.

"Yeah right! He draws blood!" Ryo snuffed at the thought.

"Well, he doesn't hurt me." Sekhmet laughed.

"Oh, I wonder why?" Cale glared at the boy. Sekhmet was actually happy that Ryo was with the wolf boy. With the blonde taken, he could get back on track of making Cale his. He wanted Cale! His his his!

"Well, if you'll let me go, I have a boyfriend to get back to that you kinda took me away from before I could see if he was ok." Ryo stated as he casually walked over to the door. And as soon as he opened it, he was met with a beautiful but deadly face. He sighed and rolled his eyed. Kayura, of course.

"Aww man! Of all people…" He grumbled as he retreated back to his seat on the wooden chair that had been carelessly left in the middle of the otherwise barren room.

"Well, little boy, it's been decided that you will be sent to this place, with out without the others. Talpa is mad that we haven't been cashing in your boys, despite the fact that we had two of you previously. So, we've decided to take you there, then we can go back and get your little boyfriend and the fish boy, and then we can cash you in and get a lot of money!" Ryo growled under his breath at the woman who merely laughed and walked over to Dais.

"Did the mean little tiger boy bite you?" Dais nodded solemnly as Kayura laughed.

"Poor thing, I'll make it all better later honey." Both Sekhmet's and Cale's eyes widened at the comment. Kayura grinned at the other two men.

"Well, come on boys, time to get tiger boy to his new home."

"What?" Ryo exclaimed in shock, as the woman grinned. Before he could even think to react, his arms were tied together and his legs in the midst of being tied.

"Hey! This is not part of the entire escape plan!" He shouted as the Warlords smiled, bringing a gag to his lips and muffling his cried of protest. Immediately, in the warlord style, he was knocked upon the head as darkness claimed him.

~*~*~*~

"Sage, calm down!" Kento exclaimed, as he watched the boy pace back and forth his room.

"Something's wrong, and they aren't going to be able to get Ryo back, and then I'm not going to see Ryo again, oh god! This is so bad…" Sage froze.

"I have to go! You have to let me go!" He quickly bolted to the door, only to have Anubis stand in front of him, arms crossed across a broad chest. Sage whimpered pathetically, as he stormed up to his room like the angry teenager he was. Cye sat on the floor, Indian style, tossing his stuffed animal into the air, grinning while doing so. After Sage was gone from site, he stopped to speak.

"Ummm, Mr. Kento, Mr. Anubis, he's just going to leave from his window." It was then Cye went back to playing with his whale. Both men's eyes widened at the truth in the young boy's words. In unison, they bolted up the stairs, to fins that indeed the little boy was correct.

"Damn it! Why didn't Cye say anything earlier?"

"Am I in trouble?" A tiny voice asked as Kento turned and sighed.

"No Cye, you aren't. Didn't mean to make you think you were. Just wondering why you didn't, that's all." Cye nodded, the stuffed whale, which he had begun calling "Ocrana", deep in his clutches.

"Are we going to go find Sage now? And Ryo too?" Cye asked softly as Kento nodded.

"Come on Anubis, you know just as well as I do that Sage can't take care of himself out there. Maybe if he was being sent into the wild, but in a city around humans? You know he'll get lost and be a hell of a lot of trouble." Anubis nodded.

"Well, I'm going to go get a backpack so that we can take some food, and money, and things we may need. With his ability to hide and usually, emphasis on usually, stay out of trouble, this might be harder and take longer then we think." Kento nodded in agreement.

"Come on Cye, we're going to go pack, and then we can go find Sage." The tiny auburn boy nodded as the other two men led him off, White Blaze at his side, having come with him when he pursued the men who had run up the stairs.

~*~*~*~

"Crap! Rowen, it's too late! They already are taking him! In fact, they already took him!"

"Mia, this is all your fault! I bet they heard you humming!"

"Me? You're the one that you can hear from a mile away because your shoes!"

"Shoes? You're one to talk Miss platforms!"

"Will you two shut up?" Surprised, both whirled around to come face to face with Sage.

"Sage, what are you doing here?" Rowen hissed, as the blonde ignored him.

"Sage, you know that you're too hurt to be out here! Look at these cuts!" Mia traced her fingers down the cuts on his face as he winced.

"Sage, you have to go back! We'll go get Ryo. You just go back to Anubis and Cye and Kento." Sage shrugged.

"They're trying to find me, so they won't be there anyways." Mia sighed, along with Rowen.

"You ran away?" Sage shrugged once more.

"Why not? Ryo was taken because of me. He was protecting me from harm, and that makes it my fault. Henceforth, I should be the one going to save him."

"Sage, you need to go home." Sage sighed in anger.

"I should have known you'd act like his. Well if you don't seem to realize that Ryo is just about the only person I care about, and that I lo… care so much that I'd be willing to risk my life, then you don't know jack shit. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a boyfriend to save." It was then Sage bolted down the hallway.

"Sage! Come back!" Mia called after him, but she realized it was too late. The boy was already gone. Grumbling, Mia turned to Rowen.

"Well, I guess all we can do is try to find Ryo, then try to find Sage after that." The azure boy nodded.

"Come on Mia, let's go." She nodded in agreement as the two walked off.

~*~*~*~

Ryo groaned as he awakened, pain throbbing in his head, and his vision slightly blurred.

"Where am I?" Ryo stated as he glanced around the forest he was placed in.

"Crap!" He exclaimed as he realized where he was. Kayura hadn't lied about what they were going to do to him. He shivered. He did not want to be here in the slightest, especially without Blaze. Glancing around, he realized that this place was identical to the forest he had lived in before. They had gone to great extends to recreate his previous habitat. But unlike his Sage who was more then willing to go home (As long as he got to take Ryo, of course) and live in his old life, Ryo was enjoying these new things. Hamburgers, toys, Sage… Yes. That was what he missed mostly. Sage. His Sagey. His Blondie. His, his, his! He tried to shake off his possessiveness. For all he knew, Sage wasn't even alive. That blow had been fierce, and the boy had been bleeding a lot when Ryo had gone.

Ryo wrapped his arms around himself, trying to think of better, happier thoughts that did not end in Sage's death. Unfortunately, with the fact that he was not in a good place now, bad was all he could think of. Shuddering, from fear or cold he didn't know, he began to walk in search of a water source. He was parched. Trudging along quietly, he listened for the sound of water. Finally, the tiny trickling of water falling off rocks came to his ear as he grinned. Water. He could sure go for some of that right about now. But these men were stupid. Unlike Sage who had hunted and killed, forging for his own food, and basically, though the wolves helped a bit, fended for himself as soon as he was old enough. Ryo had had Blaze to get the food. He himself had more searched for places to sleep, clean water, ect. So how the hell was he going to survive here with no Blaze? He sighed as he made his way down the bank of the creek. He suddenly laughed. This place was an exact replica of where he had been. In fact, it was the exact lake that Rowen had had his first run in with Sage. Ryo grinned. Sage and the wolf had kicked Rowen's ass.

Ryo allowed himself to sit on a rock, after drinking the water, and pull his knees to his chest. Burying his face into his legs, he began to cry softly.

~*~*~*~

Sage had stolen a bike. He knew that stealing was wrong, or at least that was what Mia had said when he tried to take an ice cream from the store, but he had simply licked it so she'd have to pay, and happily waltzed off, ice cream in hands. He smiled faintly. He'd just proven Mia's words to be true. He was the biggest troublemaker of them all. Well, it was his fault Ryo was gone, and it would be his job to go get the boy back At any cost.

To be continued…

A/N: *Cowers in fear* Please don't kill me for not writing! It's not that I haven't written a lot, that's hardly the case, I wrote 4 chapters of other stories that are not posted on ff.net, so it's not true I tell ya! And I swear that I'll TRY to work more on this one, but I have stupid standardized testing ad then finals in about 2 weeks. And if I ever post the one's I was working on, ones a Seiji/Ryo and ones a Seiji/Touma. Well, now I am REALLY over-due for "The Outcasts", so I better be on my way and working on that one! Bye bye!