Sage Moric's Story

It was a normal every day kind of day in the middle of Pleasant Ridge, the sun was out and the kids were on their ways to their schools. Parents off to work and the streets hummed with cars. Just like every other day Sage was getting out of his bed and groaning away the sun as it hit his eyes. Another day in this Podunk town with nothing more to enjoy then getting back to bed. He slide out of bed and hopped in the shower taking a quick wash and changing into his normal, white button up dress shirt tight yet comfortable blue jeans and the hat his dad gave him when he started school. He picked up his bag and headed out of the door. The town seemed a bit strange today, all the adults seemed to be a little sluggish on their responses when heed greet them. Eh maybe they were realizing this place was boring as hell. He hopped on a bus and road it to the school and waved to a few friends as he wandered in straightening his hat out and yawning as he broke the point of no return.

It was strange all of the older students looked run down he sat in his spot tapping the brim of his hat to make it pop up slightly so he could see in front of him better. He tilted his head to the side watching the door and the clock for the teacher to come in. it was getting latter and later and for some reason the teacher wasn’t coming in, it was strange his teacher had been late a few times but there was always a reason and never this late. He started to get up to head to the office and ask what was going on than the disciplinary head walked through the door holding a stack of paper and the teacher’s books. She looked worried and far too young to be head of keeping the students in line but she was what she was and Sage couldn’t question it.
‘All the teachers seem to have come down with something today’ the girls meek voice came over the dull roar of the rooms chit chat, ‘I have taken it upon myself to go from class to class and issue some work, at least until I can contact someone from the board of directors or someone to find out what’s going on and get some substitutes in the classes’ the girl looked scared out of her mind, like something had just jumped out of the wall ripped her dress open and pulled her still beating heart from her chest just to show it to her and put it back. ‘When you are finished with the assignment please gather in the auditorium, hopefully by that time I’ll have gotten some information and will address the school apriority.’
The girl handed out a rather basic worksheet that they had done a few weeks back and left the room, it was strange all the teachers cars where in the parking lot yet she said they were all sick. As soon as the girl left Sage could hear her telling the same speech to the next class over. That is when the students in his own class where talking about how that girl shouldn’t have the right to do such a thing as this and they thought they should just leave now. Looking out of the window he could see some students already made that choice and where walking home. Something was going on and he didn’t know what, that alone was bothering him.

There was a horrible lack of anything teacher-related and the classes seemed to be thinning out already. Emeline had Siana's hand in a horrible death-grip, but the older of the two didn't mind. Eme was scared and not used to this many people around, that's all. However, when a few seconds later Emeline dropped her hand completely and rushed into one of the classrooms, Siana groaned in irritation. She would not be chasing that child around all day. Emeline stopped right next to a boy in a cowboy hat. She began to whistle a hello, but Siana took it upon herself to not freak him out more than he normally would be, what with all the teachers missing. She clasped Emeline's hand around her own and smiled politely before turning to Emeline, whistling out a short high and a short low note, then another high short note, then a short middle and then high note. She nodded and whistled 'sorry' to the male (Short middle, high, low notes).

"She means she is sorry if she scared you. We don't get out all that horribly much, to tell the truth, and she is so very used to speaking in our language. She knows sign language too, but we never use it. Do you know sign language? She can speak to you if you can." Siana said with a smile. "Oh yes, this is Emeline and I'm Siana. Nice to meet you" She held out a hand towards the man while still holding her sister with the other. Eme whistled another hello, and this time Siana was there to translate. "She says hello"

Sage was just about to head out of the door when a rather young looking girl curst through the door and right up to him. It was rather strange seeing as he had never seen this girl before, it got even stranger when the younger girl whistled at her. Was she one of those loli girls that liked older men? He shook his head a few times and mentally punched himself for thinking of such a thing, whatever the case may be he started to speak to the girl but was cut off from an older girl, one closer to his age came in and took the younger girls hand. It was safe to guess this older girl was her sister seeing they looked similar. He listened to her speaking and chuckled a bit. “Well I don’t know much, I know a few basics like the alphabet but tats thanks to a chart I got in school a few years back”

He reached up adjusting his hat slightly as the girl introduced her sister and herself; he chuckled slightly at her reaching out wrapping a strong farmers hand around hers and shook it slightly. His palms where tough and slightly dry but still held tenderness in how he held her hand. He grins shaking her hand pulling his free. He bends his knees dropping into a crouch to be on eye level with the younger girl. He reaches out with his hand placing it on the top of her head rubbing her hair slightly. “Well I'm Sage, I’m not the best in the class but I can show you two around a bit if’n ya like” without noticing he let his ‘farmer accent’ slip out making him sound like a Texan slightly. “Seein as how the teachers are all sick, class is a bust, I can’t go home till class is out or Pa would work the clothes off my back thinkin I skipped”
Further in the town adults started to pass out while they were driving crashing into other cars, students on the streets and building. In a strange moment of silence a troop of 5 choppers flew over the school rather low, blowing out a few windows in the top floors. People all over the world started to pass out there they stood leaving what they were doing often causing deaths or at least great injury. Whatever was going on wasn’t just happening in this little town and no one knew why. Sage looked up as the choppers flew over and thought to himself, “they are really low, what is going on?” hearing the windows on the oppose side of the room give out Sage moved between the girls and the windows he was near catching a pane of glass to the back. He groans and falls to one knee doing his best to keep the glass from flying at the two girls and jumps up yelling out of the empty window. “THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!” His question was answered quickly via a number of fire balls in the outskirts of town as the choppers hit the ground.

Emeline had clinched her hand around her sisters before Siana had even noted the sound of the choppers, but at the time she figured it was simply a response to talking to another, as she never really got out. She was, of course, proved horribly wrong when she was in the middle of "Well I know my way around the school already, but if you know how to hunt I have a spare bow- it would be fun" when the choppers flew by and Sage got angry. At that point she hefted a shivering Eme onto her back. She was heavy, but Siana was used to it. When the windows fell and Sage jumped in front of them, Siana turned and held Eme to her chest like she was a newborn baby.

Siana dropped Eme back to the ground after a while, but she still held onto the child for dear life. Emeline whistled a high long note and a series of notes, and Siana nodded and turned to Sage. "Hey, if on our way back we don't get hit by another chopper, we should go hunting some time. I can't with Emeline normally, but if two people were there to watch her, I'm sure it'd be fine" Siana said smiled before going after Eme, who had already ran over to the door. Outside, there were throngs of scared looking people running about. She didn't know where they were going- a bunker or closet perhaps? Didn't matter to Siana, so she grabbed her sister and placed her on her back, as if she were giving her a piggy back ride. Emeline was heavy, but Siana was more than used to it as she held her like this at least once a day. Siana carefully avoided the people until she got to the front door of the building and flicked it open. Outside, it was fairly calm, save for a few people who had come from the building and one car that had crashed into a tree. Siana didn't stop to look at what was inside- she didn't need Emeline scared more than she was. Siana could see the smoke of the remains of the choppers rising up, and she inwardly grimaced.

Once Siana had gotten them into the yard, she rolled Emeline off of her back and grabbed up her bow and arrows. The last thing she wanted in the world was for them to get damaged. The pair both walked inside and Siana pointed to Emeline's door. The smaller girl nodded and walked over to it and inside it. It had no windows because they had removed them when kids along the street would bully Eme. Siana, bow still in hand simply because she had pretty much forgotten she was carrying it, walked to her mother's room. Her mother didn't look much better and looked asleep, so Siana shut the door and locked it with the key above the door frame- Emeline had been known to wake her mother from her rest for truly trivial things, so Siana started to make a point out of locking that door when her mother was sleeping. Her mom could open it from the inside when she was ready.

Siana stepped into her sister's room and propped the bow and the arrows against the bed before sitting on the floor with her sister. Emeline was stacking block after block of Lego's into what looked like the base of a house of some sort.

"Hey, want my help?" Siana asked, and when she received a nod in return, she began to pick up blocks from around the room and bring them over to Emeline. She wanted her sister to forget the whole chopper thing because that might cause problems later on, and truthfully Siana wanted to forget as well.

Standing back up and dusting the glass of his most likely bruised back he groans whipping a blood from his back. He slowly shook his head at his hand as the girl spoke. Hiding the red from the younger girl he nodded to the older one. “Could be fun” he walked to the door watching the girls leave down the hall, the disciplinary started darting down the halls checking on room after room. She would stop at Sages side and nearly have a heart attack and pulled him into a closet filled with the schools access medical supplies. There wasn’t much she could do other then pick the shards of glass out of the 4 inch long gash on his back spread on a load of Neosporin and wrap his body with a load of ace bandages holding gauze on the wound as tight as possible.

Being child hood friends the girl was clearly panicking over the wound of her dear friend but soon soothed by a ruffling of the hair and a soft hug. Sage stood up and starched his back slightly and looked to the disciplinary and spoke in his country boy accent. “Hey, there were two girls here; they kinda panicked a bit when the choppers fell. They headed off in the direction of the smoke from those things, imam go see if I can find them, make sure they are safe and what not, you got things here?” she gave him a nod and he was off, he hardly had to change his path as he walked people scattered at the look on his face. Out of the door he followed the path he had seen the girls walk while glancing out of the small window in the supply closet.

Luckily the girls lived close, he had often heard younger kids mocking the mute girl as he walked home and strolled up to the door laying three solid knocks on the wooden door. “Hey, you two okay in there, its sage, just wanted to make sure things where okay here before I started round town to see if there’s any adults still well enough to go check out those crashes! In his mind millions of ideas ran through his head of what could be happening, there were plenty of things he wanted to do, most of them involved running home and dragging his father out of the fields to handle this stuff. Yet he knew his father would have given him a radio and a flash light and sent him to check door to door for able bodied folk to go and try and help.

So far, Siana and Emeline had created half a tower. It was leaning slightly to the left, but they kept building anyway. When the pair heard the door knocks, Siana told her sister to continue building the tower before she walked over and opened it. It was Sage, so Siana opened the door completely as he spoke.

"We're fine in here- my mom is sleeping, but I can wake her up if you like, see if she's able to help. Me and Eme were just building a tower of Legos when you came over," she said, but her words were followed by a large crash from Emeline's room. "Well, we were building a tower, but I guess we will be starting over again" she chuckled the words before turning towards the door to Eme's room. "Hey, you okay in there?" she asked, and when she heard a short note in answer, she smiled as she turned back to the door. "Yea, she's fine. Well, if you find anybody, don't hesitate to come and find us so we can help too" she said lightheartedly. Emeline chose that moment to walk from her room and right to Siana's side, whistling out her high, middle, and low notes so they formed a hello. Not that Sage would know that.

"She says hello again" Siana said simply as she wrapped her arm around her sister protectively. "Oh, Sage? Before you go, could you make sure the people in that car over there.... aren't... dead? I can't bring myself to go over myself" she looked down as she said the words, suddenly very sad she couldn't muster the courage to look herself. "I just really don't want Emeline to go wondering off and seeing that" she added as she gestured to the girl beside her, who was smiling lightly and looking out at the street.