The Failure
Chapter 4
Tyr pulled the unconscious Harper onto his lap and opened his mouth, he slowly poured a little of the green fluid into his mouth. Harper reacted almost immediately spitting up the green fluid. Tyr quickly covered up Harper's mouth forcing Harper to swallow the medicine. He lifted his hand from the young man's mouth and looked away in discus. He sat down next to the young engineer wiping his hand on a piece of blanket.
"Do you need anything else?"
Tyr jumped, he had totally forgotten about the little girl.
"No, just leave before it gets worse."
The girl nodded and quickly left. Tyr stayed near Harper, the fever was slowly going down, but the alien guards were soon right, soon after Tyr had given Harper the medicine he became delusional and began screaming. It was quite obvious that he was trying to escape something because of what he kept muttering.
"No...go away. No...No... Ahhhhhhhh."
Tyr leaned over Harper and watched him intently. All of the sudden Harper's eye's shot open and he sat up quite quickly.
"No...no. Not again...oh please not again..."
Tyr did not know what the boy was seeing, but he had to stop Harper from hurting himself. He could tell that the boy was distressed and obviously was seeing something that was not actually there.
"Boy, what is wrong with you? It is me. Tyr"
Tyr tried to place a hand on the young engineer jumped and tried to escape from his comrade's hands. His body was not ready for this sudden burst of movement and he quickly fell over.
"Boy, your delusional. It is me. Tyr"
Harper tried once more to get away, but his legs gave out and he fell to the ground. Tyr tried to help Harper, but Harper screamed and hit at him. Tyr blocked the wayward hands and waited for Harper to adjust to how close he was. Ten minutes passed before Harper was semi- comfortable with how close to Tyr he was.
"Are you calm now boy?"
Harper jolted when Tyr spoke. Tyr was loosing his patience with the young engineer. Tyr waited until Harper was calm, and then he thought of a way to restrain the young engineer.
Two hours passed...
Tyr had lost all patience with the young man. Harper was physically exhausted, but would not sleep. Tyr tried to give him food, but Harper would not take it. Tyr waited until Harper was half asleep to make his move. Tyr jumped up and walked over to where Harper was sitting. Harper woke up with a start, Tyr was right next to him. Harper scratched, punched and kicked trying to get away from Tyr. Tyr took the hits and grabbed a hold of Harper.
"Stop it little man. Tyr Anasazi of Kodiak pride and I am your ally. Boy snap out of it."
Tyr dragged Harper back to the side of the wall and pushed him into a sitting position against the wall. Tyr mixed up some of the other solution, then looked at the directions:
Drink blue liquid when fever is down, when patient becomes delusional, restrain and submit small amounts of the blue liquid ever ten hours.
Tyr frowned at the directions he mixed a small amount of the blue liquid. He turned towards the young engineer who he was still holding down.
"Open your mouth, boy"
Harper stayed still not following the directions given to him. Finally Tyr gave into force, which was not a big thing for him he rather enjoyed it. He forced Harper's mouth open and poured the blue liquid into his mouth. Tyr covered Harper's mouth with his hand and waited until he had swallowed. Tyr let up and sat down next to the delusional man. Harper tried to spit up the blue liquid, but did not succeed. Harper looked over to Tyr and blinked for a couple of minutes. Harper noticed he was no longer in his nightmares but in a small cell with a very annoyed nietzchian sitting next to him.
"Tyr?"
Tyr looked over to the young confused engineer.
"Yes boy."
Harpers looked around and then back to Tyr.
" Umm, just guessing but were being held captive aren't we?"
Tyr nodded in annoyance.
"So umm. Big man. What are we going to do now?"
Tyr looked blankly over to Harper.
"Honestly boy I don't know"
Harper looked around and then down to his body. His clothes were torn up and he could feel the soreness in his body.
"Tyr, thanks... I mean thanks for helping me."
Tyr looked at the young engineer and snorted.
"What makes you think I saved you? Maybe those creatures just decided to be nice."
Harper laughed at Tyr trying to sound like he did not help.
"Yeah what ever big man."
Tyr looked around and then back to Harper.
"Were going to fight soon..."
Harper looked up from his blank stare and then focused onto Tyr.
"Fight? Umm Tyr...man what are we fighting."
Tyr growled in annoyance.
"You don't remember anything. Do you?"
Harper shook his head.
"Well, I remember the aliens and then being carried and then being here. How much did I miss."
Tyr growled and closed his eyes trying to focus on other things.
"A lot huh. Man this sucks."
Tyr turned towards Harper.
"Little man if you hope to survive to even get to see the battles you will shut up now and go to sleep I will wake you up in ten hours. That is when you get to have more medicine."
Harper moaned and curled up against the wall.
"You know for someone who is not willing to admit that they helped someone out. You sure can be a jerk."
Tyr just mumbled under his breath about stupid earthling. The sun started to rise and the light came through the barred windows. Tyr opened his eyes. Today was going to be the day that they had to fight. He looked over to the still sleeping Harper and then back up to the light slowly drifting in.
authors note:
please tell me what you think. I need to know if im going to continue this story.
