Infected - Ch. 12

    Sips, Duncan, and Sky stood in stunned silence. None of them could believe it. Tyler had just sacrificed himself for their team... And now he was gone. How could they have possibly kicked him out?! What were they thinking?!
    "He... He got the flux too." Seto murmured, turning around. "I sensed it when he came in."
    Suddenly, the bottle filled with purple, gaseous substance flew up into the window and hit Seto. He gasped and fumbled with it, just barely managing to catch it. He turned around as Tyler grabbed onto the window edge, an exhausted expression on his face. He stared straight ahead with wide eyes. "That... Was close..." He panted.
    Seto smiled and grabbed his arm pulling him into the room. He stood beside him, one hand clasped on the  Sorcerer's shoulder.
    "You got the flux?" He asked.
    Seto nodded. "It's safe."
    "Good... Heh..." He smirked at Sky as he approached. He let go of Seto's shoulder and the two stared each other in the eye.
    Suddenly, Sky hugged him. "I just wanted to keep you safe, you idiot..."
    Tyler smirked and patted his back. "I know." He replied. "But nobody's really safe around here anymore."
    With a sigh, he pulled away. "So!" He said. "Where to now?"
    "Rythian's." Duncan said.
    "But it's getting dark out..." Sips pointed out.
    "We'll make camp in the woods between here and Rythian's then, and get his catalyst early tomorrow." Sky said. "We can't stay here though... I think I speak for all of us when I say I don't want to spend another second here."

    Although, Dyncan had proven time and time again that his specialty was explosives, he also proved to be very good at starting fires. After several broken branches and quite a few sticks of dynamite, a rather good campfire was made.
    The scientist sat by it, grinning as he warmed his hands. The sun had set long ago, and it must have been around midnight.
    "I'm bored..." Tyler moaned
    "Again?!" Sips asked, looked up.
    "I need something to do!" Tyler sighed and sorted through his backpack. "Aha!" Finally, he pulled out a small-looking guitar.
    Duncan raised one eyebrow. "Why do you even have that?"
    Tyler hugged it close to him. "It's my baby." He replied.
    "Since when did you play guitar?" Sky asked.
    "First, since always. Second, it's not a guitar, it's a ukulele. Tyler held the ukulele like it was supposed to be held and chewed his lower lip thoughtfully. "Hmm... Ah!" He grinned and played probably to most popular song to be played on a ukulele.
    "Oh my god, Tyler." Sips laughed.
    Sky grinned and sang, "Somewhere over the rainbow... Way up high. There's a place that I heard of once in a lullaby~"
    The five boys sat there under the stars laughing and singing all night, and for once they were able to lift the weight they each carried off their shoulders and pretend like things were the way they used to be...