A/N: Damn it! I have so neglected this story, and I'm sorry! I would have made this chapter longer, but I have to edit the next few pages because I put the an added feature on Word that won't be accepted by the database, so I have to change the text so you still understand what I was writing about.

Thanks for reading; thanks for caring!

Chapter 15

"No!" Ryo snapped. "He can't die!" He shook his head looking into Sye's eyes.

"It's not your fault." Sye whispered gently.

"I feel like it is because it was me you saved really. You told me you would die for me and here you are." Tears fell down Ryo's face and Seiji put a hand on his back supporting him.

"Call those dragons back, Sye!" Rowen demanded and they all looked at him. "Call them back! You know you can! Ask them to send us home." He begged.

Wolf stood in the light of the moon and he just started howling. At first it was an annoyance, then it was music and the heavy flapping of wings could be heard soon in the silence.

One dragon descended into the room, then melted back into smoke and floated down to the ground in front of Wolf. He turned back into a dragon-man and they could see it was the one that had killed Aries.

He gracefully walked forward, causing everyone to part so he could walk up to Sye and see him well. He looked down on Sye with a blank face.

"Please, send me and my friends back to our own world." He asked. The dragon man scowled, as if he did not approve of this idea. "I will return, Warrior; give me the means to and I will return." He mumbled. "Just send us home."

His facial expression lightened and he nodded. With one swipe of his hand another diamond shaped portal had appeared. He backed away from it.

Rowen picked up Sye into his arms and walked over to it. He went through without a second thought, holding tight to Sye. Seiji and Ryo were next.

"It was cool meeting you all!" Ryo yelled as they left. They held hands as they waved goodbye and took one last look at the dragon-man before they went through together.

They ended up at Rowen's house which wasn't very good. Why did they end up so far away from where they had gone in?

"I'm taking Sye to the hospital." Rowen told them.

"You want us to come?" Seiji asked, staying next to Ryo.

"No, I'll have my cell with me though. I'll call you when I know something." He placed Sye into his parent's car and ran into the house to retrieve the keys. He came out with his cell phone as well. He got in the car and pulled out.

"God speed." Seiji whispered as they sped off. "We should go find your bike." He noted as he turned to Ryo.

"It's nearly five miles into town." Ryo groaned at the thought of walking after all they had done. Being held in a cage for days on end, worrying about whether his friends would survive long enough to save him, worrying if they were still alive, watch them fall into a magical trap and get put in a cell together, watching Sye almost die before his eyes… the appeal of walking five miles into town to retrieve his bike was not a very high one.

"Then we have plenty of time to talk about what happened to each of us." Seiji smiled briefly. "I'm still pretty freaked about all this."

Ryo nodded and they started their walk into town as they talked about the events of the last three days.

Rowen finally made it to the hospital and he checked Sye in, telling them he had been poisoned with something, but he didn't give any details and he let them take him. He waited for three hours for results.

Finally, a doctor came up to him.

"Your friend is lucky. We caught this just in time. I'm going to keep him here over night to medicate him and make sure this goes away. You can come back tomorrow and probably take him home. He must have the greatest determination of anyone, either that or he has someone very special to live for because this should have killed him a day ago."

"Can I see him?"

"He's sleeping now and shouldn't be disturbed if you're going to come for him tomorrow."

Rowen nodded, happily. He'll live! He laughed lightly, then did his best to answer the doctor's questions about how it happened. They wanted to keep him for another few days, but Rowen wouldn't have that.

He called Ryo and Seiji and told them the good news. They were happy and they had found Ryo's bike. Ryo would be sleeping over Seiji's apartment that night and wouldn't be home until the following night, in time to see Sye.

Rowen went to his home, taking the roads slowly for once. When he got home, he released all his muscles and realized just how tight he had been the whole time.

As he drove down his road, he saw Sye's duffel on his front porch where he had put it a few days ago, before their journey.

Once he was home, the first thing he did was take a long hot shower. He started thinking about how beautiful Sye's body had looked when they had changed and he was only in his boxers. His legs weren't particularly hairy at all and the skin looked completely smooth and beautiful. He could easily imagine Sye without boxers, but he had no idea how big Sye's organ was and it made him hard thinking about it.

In his family he had grown up open to all options. His mother and father were semi-separated at the moment because they had both wanted to experiment with different people, but still remain married. The relationships of course hadn't worked out at all. His parents then really hadn't wanted to have sex together any more, hence the different rooms.

Rowen dried off and heard a knock on the bathroom door.

"I'm in here." He stated tiredly.

"It's dad." He announced and yawned deeply. "Can I come in?"

Rowen shrugged. "I don't give a shit." He leaned over the sink and started brushing his teeth for the first time in half a week.

His father came in and leaned against the large counter of the extremely large bathroom.

"So where have you been?" He asked crossing his arms.

Rowen had to think about what he meant for a moment, then he realized, he had meant the three day disappearance. "Oops, I forgot about school." He ran his fingers through his hair and dried his body off with one hand while brushing his teeth with the other.

His father went to the toilet and took a piss.

"Yeah, you kind of forgot. Where were you? Did your mom really piss you off that much?" He finished and flushed it.

Rowen had to think of what to say. He really didn't like lying to his father, but it was for the better that he didn't reveal the smaller details.

"I was with someone." He answered and washed his mouth out.

"Who? Sye?" His father wondered. Rowen looked up to him suddenly, as if offended. His father smiled warmly and shook his head. "You can't fool me. I see the sparks fly between you two. You aren't just fighting your mom on this one because he's your friend. You actually like him." He paused. "Did you sleep with him?"

"What is this? Twenty questions?" Rowen growled and wiped his mouth with a towel, leaning one arm on the counter and glaring at him. "So what if I did?"

"You didn't." His father whispered softly standing in front of Rowen again. He was quite tall compared to Rowen. "You want to though."

"What?" Rowen snapped.

"You're stiff just thinking about him." His father smiled and Rowen looked down at himself, then his father blushing.

"You're not suppose to look at your son like that, Pops!"

"Come on, stop fooling yourself." He demanded abruptly, stepping closer. "Are you afraid to be with him?" Rowen didn't know how to answer that.

"I love him, and I'm not afraid. I've gotten closer to him in the past three days and I discovered just how loyal he actually is and I…"

His father raised his brow, waiting for him to finish, but when he couldn't find the words, Alan smiled affectionately at his son, and just leaned closer and pecked Rowen's lips gently, and leaving before Rowen could respond in disgust.

"Pops!" He shouted and growled. He felt better about the fact that both his parents had bedrooms downstairs and his was up stairs.

Why did he use this bathroom? He could have used the one downstairs. He must have just wanted to talk to me. He spat in the sink, disgusted.

Kissing a man is one thing, kissing your own son is quite another –whether other families kiss their own or not… it just didn't happen in this family. He brushed his teeth again and left for his own room, down the hall. He couldn't quite sleep well enough, so he pulled out his cell phone and called the hospital asking them to connect him to Sye's room. The lady was a groggy bitch at first, but she complied after some sexy phrases whispered into her ear. Once he had Sye on the phone he was completely relieved and ready to go to bed. His soft voice was ringing in Rowen's ear. He sounded weak and depleted. Rowen felt bad for waking him up, but Sye didn't seem to mind.

"I couldn't sleep anyway. I pretended I could sleep so they wouldn't give me any of those fucking drugs that make you say stupid things and snore."

Rowen laughed. "I've missed you." He whispered and described what had happened to him since he got home, explaining his shower in detail, but he didn't much like explaining the kiss he had shared with his father.

"I'm jealous." Sye replied after he was done.

"Why?"

"I want to be with you." Sye groaned. "I hate hospitals. I promised myself I would never end up in one, ever."

"I'll come for you first thing." Rowen prompted. Sye agreed and sighed.

"I miss you." He stated and closed his eyes.

"I'll come for you as soon as I can." Rowen frowned and looked over to the clock. It was five in the morning. He wanted to go now.

"Goodbye, Rowen." Sye whispered tiredly.

"Goodbye." Rowen mumbled, saddened now as he hung up the phone. "He sounds so depressed. I have to get him out of there."

A/N: I'll work on the next part tomorrow and see if I can get it out before the end of the week.