Yakumo yawned softly as she walked around the campsite. Mushra and Kutal were arguing about which way to go and the kittens were playing with Hakuba. But there was one person who didn't seem to be their normal self. She approached Sago curiously and smiled softly.
"Sago?" she asked tapping him on the shoulder and laughed slightly when the cloaked Enterran jumped. "are you alright? Your very quiet this morning."
Sago grinned easily, despite his ill at ease. He could see the clear worry in Yakumos' eyes and didn't want her to dwell on him. "I'm fine Yakumo. Just a little tired from guard work." he glanced over at Mushra and grinned. "I nominate Mushra for guard duty tonight."
Mushra stopped his argument with Kutal to glare at the water Enterran. "Now wait a.."
Kutal grinned, "And I second the motion."
Mushra gasped and looked at him. "Wait a minute! That's not fair!"
Yakumo attention switched to the now pouting fire Enterran and she laughed good heartedly patting the teen on the head. "Don't worry Mushra," she smiled.
The fire Enterran pouted setting down on his hover board, floating there like an angry child for a moment before Hakuba lifted his head.
"Yakumo…," the dragon like robot said. "My sensors have detected something quite odd to the north…"
Yakumo went over to Hakuba, where the kittens were already settled in. "What is it? Can you tell?"
The robot lifted it's head confused. "The sensors , Yakumo, are stating that the reading is a homo sapiens….a human…"
"A human!?" they all cried in unison.
"Yes," Hakuba said, his metallic voice staying the same. "But it's life signals are weakening…."
Yakumo quickly climbed inside of Hakuba. "Take us there, quickly Hakuba…"
Mushra and the other nodded. Sago climbed onto his hover bike and began following Hakuba and the others only t realize something. The path they were taking was the same way he'd followed and found that creature. His eyes searched the area quickly, but there were no signs that anything had been there.
Mushra rushed ahead and stopped as they came to a cliff, turning pale as he almost fell off the edge. "Whoa…," he whistled, the others stopping behind him. He glanced over the edge. "That's a long way dow…."
He stopped mid-sentence, his eyes widening. "Yakumo!"
Yakumo climbed from Hakuba shell and went to the edge and peered over and gasped in horror. On a small ledge, a good 40 feet down the cliff, laid a still pale figure. Tears sprang to her eyes. "We have to get him off of there!"
Sago rushed to the edge and gasped slightly. The face of the person on the ledge was turned up towards him. Angelic features, gray white hair that fell over closed eyes that he knew would be blue gray. But….
"Sago, move it!" Mushra said rudely as he tossed a rope over the edge, one end tied around Hakubas' neck.
"R..right…" Sago said disoriented and stood back watching Mushra scale down the rope to the ledge below where he picked up the pale angelic looking teen and carried him effortlessly up the cliff. Sago stepped back as Mushra laid him down gently in front of him.
Yakumo rushed forward kneeling beside the teen, brushing strands of gray, silver hair from his face which was faintly bruised. His skin was pale and lightly beaded with sweat and his skin was frighteningly cold.
Kutal looked at the boy from over Mushras' shoulder and frowned. "He's so thin….he wouldn't even make a good snack…"
"Sago…please…grab a blanket from our supplies," Yakumo asked softly, staring at the boy in a mixture of awe and wonder. But most of all sadness and shock.
Sago nodded and did as Yakumo asked and helped her wrap the boy up in the blanket. Oddly enough there were very few bruises on the teens body and no serious injuries even though it was obvious he'd fallen from the cliff.
Yakumo stared down at the teen for several second before Mushra kneeled down beside her. The kitten crawled out from inside of Hakubas shell and looked at Yakumo and then the boy. Estee jumped down and rushed to the boys side and sighed and touched a strand of his hair lovingly, a faint blush on her cheeks as she took in the teens angelic face. "IS he really a human, Yakumo?" the female kitten asked excitedly. "Like you?"
Yakumo smiled sadly and nodded. "Yes…he is…I know it."
Kutal frowned and looked at sago who was staring at the teen as if he would jump up and attack. "Sago….you look nervous…."
Sago frowned and quickly made up an excuse in his head. "IT could be another trick like before. You remember what happened…."
Mushra nodded and looked at Yakumo crossing his arms. "Yeah…I say we leave him Yakumo"
"Mushra! How can you say such a thing!?"
Sago nodded in agreement and Kutal did too. "It's too risky," Sago said. He was 100 sure that this was no human, but that creature he'd seen the night before. "Let's just go…"
Yakumo looked torn as she stared at her friends, her hand resting on the head of the teen. But a groan caught al their attentions as the teen stirred and his eyes opened, pale gray blue orbs suddenly staring up at Sago. There was a distress and a want in those gray blue eyes. A listless lifelessness that begged for death. Sago felt his heart clench even as sudden fear and realization gripped him.
This was that strange creature from the night before, but the wings and claws were gone. But gone was not the eternal pain and sadness clinging to him.
Yakumo smiled warmly, happily. "Your alive…I'm so happy….Please tell me…are you human as well?"
The teen didn't even acknowledge her, those eyes boring into sagos. Tears welled in them and fell down his ale face, his eye lids fluttering weakly.
"Please…." he whispered. "Kill me…."
With those words his eyes closed and he fell unconscious once again.
To be continued
Sorry people I have to go do stuff….I'm on winter break so I'll be updating the rest of this chapter later.