Silent Fall
Mia, Ryo, Rowen, Sage, and Kento were all assembled in the hospital waiting room impatiently awaiting Cye's diagnosis. Ryo and Kento were pacing the length of the room and, personally, it was making Mia dizzy just watching them.
"Why don't you two just sit down?"
Ryo gave her a menacing look and Kento just ignored her completely.
"It was just a suggestion." She added. "You're doing yourselves no good by getting all stressed, there's already enough of that among you five anyway."
"I'd listen to her if I were you." Rowen piped up from a chair in the corner of the room. "Cye's gonna pull through, he's a Ronin, remember?"
Ryo slowed his fevered pace but did no more.
Sage was asleep in a chair between Rowen and Mia. The use of his healing powers on such short notice had only added to the strain of the vision he had received from Cye.
This is what had been going on ever since Mia had 'borrowed' the keys to Kento's van and followed them here with Rowen and Sage. They would not allow White Blaze into the hospital despite his frequent attempts and he was severely frightening the staff. That is, until Ryo finally came down and convinced him to stay outside; needless to say, White Blaze was a little disappointed.
Kento was still going crazy when Ryo returned and looking bound and determined to tear someone's head off and very well might have done so had a doctor not wandered in at that very moment.
Rowen nudged Sage awake.
"Your friend has lost a lot of blood."
"How is he?" Kento demanded roughly.
"Will he be okay?" Mia asked, a good deal more nicely.
"I understand your hurry and your friend-" He paused to glance at the clipboard in his hand, "-Cye Mouri, is alive. I suggest that he get counseling to prevent this from ever happening again."
"Can we see him?" Ryo inquired.
"Are you family?"
"The only one he has." Kento answered automatically.
"He's still asleep but I don't think anybody will mind. Follow me."
A dozen hallways later they were poised outside one of the hospital recovery rooms. Ryo opened the door slightly and the bright light from the flooded into the cramped room to land on the dimly illuminated bed. The lonely sound of a heart monitor met their ears.
"If any of you have any questions, a nurse should around sometime tonight." With that, the doctor turned and left.
The four remaining Ronins and Mia entered Cye's room. Cye lay at length upon the bed, his skin pale and an IV attached to his left arm. Only the slight rise and fall of his chest reassured the assembly that he was alive. White bandages stood out on his wrists, the skin beneath them most likely stitched close.
Ryo would have never imaged that a Ronin would ever try to go by his own hand; the thought never graced his mind. But to see Cye there, and to know what he had done to himself was more that a little bit frightening. The silence and tension in the room was too much to bear.
"I can't believe it." He mumbled numbly.
"Where did we go wrong?" Asked Mia quietly.
"I don't know, that's probably what he's going to have to tell us."
Of all people, why him?
Everybody took a seat as they began to discuss their next course of action and Ryo made a mental note that Cye had some explaining to do once he woke up.
Cye awoke lightheaded, disoriented, and wandering idly where he was. It wasn't until he heard the other Ronins voices around him did he begin to jump to conclusions. The last thing he remembered was Torrent, and before that there was only cold, fear, and pain. If the others had found him like that they would have taken him to the hospital most likely. Was that where he was?
He opened his eyes and instantly found the room spinning. It was a moment before he realized that his head was actually what was spinning and he blinked a couple of times to clear it.
"Hey, I think Cye's awake." Kento announced.
To Cye his voice seemed distant despite the fact that Kento was in the room there with him. When his eyes finally focused he could make out the faces of everybody standing above him.
"Cye, buddy, how ya feelin'?" Kento asked enthusiastically.
"Okay, I guess." Cye replied, his voice cracking.
"Good," Ryo frowned, "now you want to tell us why you did that?"
This took a moment to register in Cye's mind; they had him on a lot of painkillers. "Oh, my wrists," he remembered. "I'm sorry, guys, I was a little out of my head."
"Dude, you must have been really out of your head to do something like that!" Kento gawked.
"You gave us all a terrible scare." Mia continued and Sage and Rowen mumbled their agreements to her statement.
"I don't want this to ever happen again." Ryo said with a level of seriousness that only he could muster.
"I promise." Cye mumbled, suddenly tired. He had wanted so much to tell Mia what Torrent had told him and see what she could find in her grandfather's files, but that would have to wait he was just too tired.
"I think we'd better let Cye get some sleep, why don't you guys go down to the cafeteria and see what you can find to eat." Mia suggested.
"Yahoo!" Kento whooped just before Cye succumbed to sleep.
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Ack! No cliffhanger! Nonononononono!!!
This is probably going to be it until finals are over; studying has pretty much taken up all my time, good reason too.
Disclaimer: *yawns* I don't own the Ronin Warriors.