4: Cye's dream & Trouble at Rowen's
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When Cye opened his eyes, he found himself submerged in darkness; There was no light he couldn't see his own hands in front of him, for all he knew he was floating in midair with nothing to catch him if he fell, when his feet touched the cold wet ground. Several lights appeared around him with their own individual colors; dark blue, red, green, and orange. He looked down at himself, he was buck naked!
Luckily for him no one was around or so he thought, a gust of wind that came from nowhere caused torches he didn't even know were there to come to life with fire, Cye jumped back in surprise finding himself wearing some type of metal sub-armor. He stared at the outfit curiously as he looked upward to gaze upon a shadowed figure sitting upon a thrown, decorated in flowers.
Discolored sakura blossoms dance around the figure too small to be a male body structure. Cye watched the supposed female rise from her place climbing down the stone stair way, once she stepped into the light her face was revealed but her eyes stayed shadowed by her hair that stuck her face on the sides as if were wet with perspiration. The woman turned around to gaze at four diamond shaped crystals pulsing with colorful energy, as she came nearer. Cye walked over to get a closer look until an all too familiar voice echoed throughout the hall.
"Woah! Ryo, toasted him!" Came Kento's voice. "Nice job buddie," Another one followed, he sounded like he was from Jersey but Cye couldn't be sure he. "At least their all right," Came another voice, this time a formal tone in the person's voice. "Yeah, Right,"
His robin blue eyes widened exceptionally when he heard his own voice inside the red crystal. Cye reached out to grab it, when the woman's hand grabbed his wrist, he tried to pull it away from her grasp but her grip only tighten a great deal more. He winced in pain uttering a curse under his breath before she snapped her fingers with her free hand.
Four spot lights appeared behind him and four armors the color of the crystals (minus light blue), in a sitting positing with their arms hugged close to their sides and their invisible hands resting on their laps, the metallic masks almost had the same soulless look about them as the white armor he had seen before. The woman smirked behind Cye's back before turning his head to face her gaze. Cye cringed getting the same feeling he had gotten from principle Michi. She brushed her nose passed his face, her drool drenched wolf fangs gleamed in the light. "Torrent is coming," She whispered spitefully in his ear as he wrist began to bleed.......
Torch of spirit sought through five, Drinking strength from immortal fire, The darkest prison sheds the light, Churning beneath a swirl of salt, Burning within a throne of rock, Floating among the eye of ages, Un-mourned in the stream of the sky
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A strangled cry ripped from Cye's throat as he sat up in his bed clutching his pillow in a death grip, he scanned his surroundings; he was in his bedroom, there wasn't a grand hall with torches to chase out the cold, there werent's voices of his friends or others, there wasn't a woman and there wasn't any armor to be found anywhere around him, except.....
The glowling ball! He looked across his bedroom to the floor mirror not find the blue orb underneath it, but instead he found it pulsing a warm sensation in his left hand. He opened it slowly discovering the light blue orb was in the middle of his palm, a thin beam of light emitted from the orb hitting him in the middle of his head, the Japanese symbol of TRUST glowed brighter than before. Cye winced slightly as his forehead began to burn, it didn't last long.
Once again, Sayoko kicked the door open, this time with his surfboard in between her arm. The blue beam of light vanished, and the orb ceased it's glowing as she came toward him. "What are you doing with my surf board, Sayoko?" He asked cocking an eyebrow at his sister.
Sayoko grinned sheepishly, sitting the board up against the wall next to his night table. "Oh, nothing--- I was just gonna perswade you into getting up by cracking this fine beauty you see beside me!" She exclaimed proudly rubbing the surf board. Cye glared at his sister narrow eyed as he climbed to his feet realizing he was still wearing his school uniform.
Sayoko sighed scratching her neatly brushed hair, jabbing her thumb at the bedroom door. "Maybe you should go freshen up," She yawned, stretching. Cye nodded scratching his face, before coming up to his sister and planting a kiss on her cheek. Sayoko was taken aback by the kiss as Cye went racing out of his bedroom before she could do anything.
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Rowen awoke in his bedroom, with the morning light shinning through his shades, his peaceful sleeping expression transformed into a grumpy, lip twiching one. A sweatdop appeared on top of his head when he felt himself being bounced up and down by feet on his matress, and high-pitched singing followed.
"I'm a barbie girl, in a barbie world, life in plastic, it's fantastic, you can brush my hair, undress me everywhere, Imagination, life is your creation," Rowen recongized the voice, as Satsuki Date's. He kicked his legs wildly trying to get the girl of his bed, she must of been jumping out of the way, he didn't feel her feet anywere. "Urrrffh-- singing," He grumbled into his pillow.
Satsuki had been on the floor when Rowen started kicking, she watched him fall asleep again as if she were never in the room to begin with, she sat in the spinning chair near his desk, her leggs crossed and her hand on her thighs. Mr. Rowen (as she affectionately named him), was harder to wake up than her older sister Yayoi, who could sleep like the dead when she wanted. Another moment passed and the boy didn't get up, she sighed glancing around the room, Satsuki spotted not one phone in the bedroom, so she decided to get attention by doing what she did best.... holler. "OH, ONII-SAN! MR. ROWEN WON'T WAKE UP!" Satsuki waited for a few moments before hearing a groan from oustide the bedroom in the hallway.
"Satsuki, I thought I told you no yelling, I hate it when you do that," She heard Sage grumble as he came into view from in the hall, stepping into Rowen's bedroom holding a tube of styling gel. Satsuki climbed off the spinning chair skipping toward the lump in the bed, she pointed to it with a huffy face. Sage arched his eyebrows in question, before she skipped over to him, grabbing him by the hand and pulling him over to the bed as he rubbed his eye with his free hand. "Mr. Rowen won't wake up! I even sung "Barbie girl" and IT didn't work," Satsuki fumed folding her arms across her chest. Sage stared at her for a moment, shoving the styling gel tube in his pocket.
The little girl's small plaid-printed skirt and polo short-sleeved shirt, and pink bow in her hair were semi-wrinkled, which meant he had to staightened it out before he took her to school, that is if the blue haired boy had a phone in his house. "It's only 6:18am Imouto (little-sister), he doesn't get up this time of hour," Sage yawned picking up his sister on the ground and setting her on Rowen's bed. Satsuki nodded, she guessed not everyone was an early bird like her family (minus Yayoi half of the time). "I'll be back, I've gotta see if there's a phone down stairs," Sage informed pointing a finger at her. "Stay here." Satsuki nodded as he turned his back to her heading out of the bedroom, before poking his head back into the bedroom. "I mean it, Bakemono."
Satsuki's face turned beet-red at the mention of being called a monster. "I'm a not a monster Niisan!" She exclaimed turning her nose up. Sage smirked and traveled down the hall with his hands in his pockets. His gaze was fixed downward at the living room below him as he climbed down the stair way, he noticed a man slumped on the couch with a bottle of beer in his grip snoring loudly.
Sage made it to the last stair.... it creeked loudly, his heart stopped beating for a second as he looked up at the man possibly alseep on the couch: He stirred but didn't wake, he guessed this man was Rowen's father. Sage let out a sigh of relief as he made his way tiptoe-ing across the living room floor in fear the man would wake up.
When he spotted a phone on the coffee table that was against the wall beside the kitchen entrance, he quickly made his way over to the phone discarding the tiptoe method and picked the phone from it's cradle. He dailed his home number awaiting for someone to pick up, his family is usually up at this hour. *click!* "Hello?" Came a tried voice. Sage's eyes lit up like the stars themselves.
"Okassan!" He cried happily, but kept his voice down.
"Sage, love, is that you?" Mrs. Date's voice was lined with worry. "Where are you? How you didn't come home last night?"
"Hai, I didn't mean to worry you like I did, I'm over a friends house, Satsuki is with him as well," He explained quickly, glancing at the man, he was still sleep to his relief.
"A friends house?" Mrs. Date's voice, sounded confused. "You made a friend, other than you cult of girl-fans?"
"Hai-hai, his name is Rowen Hashiba. The school's genius, Mom," Sage explained totally forgetting about the drunk man on the couch. "He's nice, Satsuki likes him a lot."
"Do you?" Mrs. Date asked curiously. Sage nodded, though she couldn't see this of course. "Yes mother, he doesn't seem to afraid of me at all or evnous because all girls flock toward me. I sense something strong from him. As if I've met him before."
"Probably, just Deja vu, honey," Mrs. Date replied dryly at his comment. "And remember, your bound to sense something from him. You do have the gift of sensing energies around others, it's only natrual that you'd sense something from him."
Sage said nothing for awhile, before turning around to see if the man on the couch still, but he wasn't anywhere to be found. He almost dropped the phone, before his mother's voice brought him back from his shock in time to catch it. "Sage, are you alright?" She asked. "Uhh, yeah, I just thought I saw something is all nothing to worry about." He paused for a moment. "Mom, could you have Yayoi come and pick up Satsuki, please, she does need to go to school before 7:30."
"What's your friends adress, Sage?" Mrs. Date asked. Sage calmly gave his mother the adress, and informed if Yayoi stratched his flash-red sports car, he would have her hide if possible. Mrs. Date ignored his last comment and agreed relucantly to his terms, before hanging up. Sage placed the phone back on it's cradle turning around slowly, he raised his head and came face to face with the drunken man with menacing look upon his face.
Sage jumped in susprise causing the man to smirk. "Who are you, young man?" The drunk/Mr. Hashiba asked. Sage turned his face away, unable to withstand the fowl alcholic breath from the man. Mr. Hashiba let a growl form deep within his throat when he saw the look of disgust on Sage's face, he grabbed the boy by the jaw and turned his face toward him.
"I said what's your name?" Mr. Hashiba hissed, Sage could barely withstand his fowl smell a second time, so he answered. "Sage.... Date," He managed to get out, when Mr. Hashiba let go of him. He staggard backward managing to regain his balance. "I'm a friend of your son." Mr. Hashiba snorted before turning away heading over to the couch once again.
Sage sighed of relief making his way over to the stairs, watching the man from the corner of his eye as he climbed the stairway quickly. He heard small feet paddling against the hardwood floor heading in his direction. "Onii-san, Mr. Rowen is waking up!" Satsuki exclaimed cheerfully, watching a look of relief appear on his brother's face.
That's about it for now~! R/R and lemmie know what you think of it! Sakura123~ Author's note this was orignally one chapter but it was too large and it got jumbled up, so sorry if this is as well jumbled up.