Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:42:26 +1300
From: Arthur <artcart65@vodafone.co.nz>
Subject: Elios 3

				   ELIOS

				 CHAPTER 3

			      NEW DISCOVERIES

				 BY ARTHUR


artcart65@vodafone.co.nz


The boys awoke in the dim light of a new dei, they could hear the faint
whisper of wind on the outside as it moved past the entrance pipe, it
seemed to all of them that the first winds were going to aid them in hiding
their new cave as they had made quite a large trail from the original place
to the cave as they had carried and pulled each box from their treasure
cave.

After a light meal they sat down to think what they would do, they knew
that at this time of the lowering sunlight, the winds would get stronger
and last longer as the dark time increased and the sun time lessened, it
was always the way. After some discussion, they decided that Elam and Elvan
would make some light sticks from the thick soft wud boxes with a small
fire starter from the pieces they had from before, Elios did not want to
use the `MANUAL' blocks until he had had the chance to look them over more
thoroughly, he was somehow sure that they held the secret of the ancients.

The boys set to work making the rolled fire sticks for light until the two
that were going searching had eight each, Elios found the box that had the
symbols of the `MANUALS' on it and proceeded to open it fully while the
other two began their hunt into the darker recesses of the cave, Elios
could follow their progress by the two small flames as they receded from
him.

Elios finally opened the box and saw inside many, many of the blocks, all
were packed in on their sides so he could only see the folded part, he
decided to take them all out and put them on a free table so he could
spread them out, once he had them where he wanted them he looked them over,
he again began to feel frustrated for not being able to make sense of the
symbols but something deep in his mind was trying to get out.

Finally he decided that the only way to tell what each was, was to open
them and look at the pictures, it was going to take him a long time but he
was sure he had plenty as the wind outside was picking up and was now
almost to a roar as it passed the mouth of the pipe, he also noticed that
some of the sand was being blown into their new cave by the wind, he looked
around for something to close the pipe with, it took a little time but
finally his eyes settled on a strange shelf above the pipe hole, there was
a linked metal rope holding the shelf in place, Elios thought that it was a
strange place to have a shelf, also it was rather small for anything, he
moved to the hole to have a closer look.

A short time passed as he gazed up at it and then it was like a light
coming on in his head, he jumped up on the table and reached for the rope,
with a small push upward, the rope came free and the shelf dropped down
with a loud `clang' sound, the sound of the wind and the fine sand was
immediately cut off, now he could only hear the faintest of murmurs from
the pipe, he was intrigued by the symbols on the closed shelf that he now
knew was a small door, they said.

`EMERGENCY EXIT'

Of course this meant nothing to Elios but it did seem strange that the
ancients had to put symbols on everything, he became determined to find out
the secret of the symbols, maybe it would give him new insights if he could
understand them, again Elios looked at all the blocks spread out on the
table, a strange feeling ran over him, something about them was familiar,
but, what?

Elios pulled over the table they used for their fire and added some more
wud, again he looked at the blocks, something was there, time passed
rapidly but unknown to Elios as he stood trying to work out what it was
that was familiar, at last he gave up and with a bitter feeling deep inside
he gave vent to a very loud scream of frustration and banged his hand on
the table, turning around he stormed about the cave using all the worst
words he knew until, while he was still a little distance from the
humiliating blocks he gave the two finger gesture of insult and challenge
that all boys used when they wanted to fight another boy, as he spun around
and gestured at the table of blocks, something clicked.

Looking at the two fingers so insolently pushed into the air at the blocks
he saw something else, his fingers made the same symbol as that of one of
the levels of the breeding caves and then, like a bolt of lightening it hit
him, he rushed back to the table and looked again, pushing blocks aside as
he looked at the wide range of symbols, suddenly total silence settled over
his cave as he saw it, even his breath was silent as he slowly turned about
and looked for his friends lights but they were nowhere to be seen, in a
whirlwind of action, Elios jumped as high as he could and yelled out, this
time in glee, he had it, he had the secrets of the ancients symbols,
dancing with a new found joy, he rushed back to the table and began to set
about sorting out the blocks.

Looking around he saw what he needed, taking a piece of wud from the fire
he shook it until the flames died and he had a blackened stick next he
carefully cleared an area on the floor that would give him the space he
felt he would need, if there was one thing every boy did learn, it was the
numbers, all boys knew how to make the shapes of the numbers, all the way
up to ten, it was a necessary part of bargaining and so he began to mark
down all the numbers up to two tens plus six with a small space between
each number and a large space between the line on top and the line below,
this is where he would put the ancient symbols that matched the symbols on
the breeding levels that they got their names from, he knew a lot of boys
from other levels so by saying the boys name he would be able to work out
the sound of an ancient symbol and then make out the secret of the symbols.

Elios started with the first level, he knew a boy called Atro, from that
level so it must be that the symbol `A' sounded like `arh' Elios looked at
one of the blocks and saw a number of the same symbols, next he moved to
the number two level symbol it was a `B' what boy did he know from there,
again his eyes lit up, he didn't need to know a boy from there, he already
knew the sound because they had lived in the boys level `B3' and it sounded
like `buh' and so Elios worked away almost in a fever of excitement as the
symbols he had at first thought were unreadable became clearer and clearer
to his young eyes, at last, after what seemed like eternity, he had all the
symbols out on the floor and now knew what each sounded like, he hoped he
was right as he had been working on the problem so long that his stomach
began to growl with hunger.

Elios straightened up from the table and stretched his sore limbs, his
naked body shining in the dim light of the fire, looking around for his
friends he saw that he was still alone, where had they gone? Were they lost
in the darkness of this huge cave and its many mysteries? As he looked into
the dark where his friends had disappeared, he heard far in the distance a
loud clanging sound and the faint echo of a bad word, it sounded like
Elvan's voice and then he saw the faintest of glimmers from one of their
light sticks, they must be coming back, Elios felt better and decided to
open a few food cylinders for their return.

As he sat opening the food cylinders he could see the light getting
stronger as the boys got closer until he could call out and they answered,
there was definite excitement in their voices as they finally appeared from
the dark, both were on their last light stick and were very happy to be
back with their friend, it had been quite an adventurous dei.

The boys sat down at a table to eat their food, with a small smile of
pride, Elios lifted the square cylinder up and told the boys.

"This is called, spam."

The two boys looked at Elios as though he was a mad boy like some of the
ones that were put out into the night from the breeding caves when they
came out wrong from their breeders as sometimes happened, Elam asked what
he was talking about and how did he know what the ancients symbols were,
Elios began to explain his long day to them, how he had discovered what the
symbols were and how he had worked them out, both boys leaned back with awe
on their young faces at the inventiveness of their smaller friend, Elvan
picked up another cylinder and gave it to Elios to read, this one was easy
for Elios as it only had three symbols, slowly he spoke out the symbols.

"Huh-arh-mmm, harm."

Both boys clapped their hands at the revelation from their friend, it was
true, he had broken the ancient secret of symbols, next Elios asked them
about their searching, they regaled him with stories of hidden caves within
the big one and all the wonders that were hidden inside them, it looked as
though it was going to take them a lifetime to see it all and work out what
it all was for, their main concern was the lack of light to see it all,
sooner or later they would run out of fire sticks and then they would be
back in the dark, Elios got a thoughtful look on his young face and then
confided in his friends once he had it worked out.

"If the ancients were that smart they would have some way of getting good
light when they wanted it, there has to be something or somewhere that has
light for them to see all their symbols all the time or they wouldn't have
put the symbols on everything they made, all we have to do is search for
it, next sunrise I'll start to look at the symbol blocks and see what I can
find."

The others nodded their heads sagely as they looked at their friend as
though he was a special person, for the first time in his short life, Elios
had a deep feeling of pride at his accomplishments of the dei. Finally the
long hard dei caught up with them and they both stripped off their
breach-clouts and joined Elios under the cloth cover of their sleeping mat,
Elam was the first to move in close to Elios small butt and begin to prod
softly for entrance into his tight hole, it had been a couple of dei's
since they had, had the strength to want to play a boys game and Elios was
willing to let them find his small hole to play in.

Elios opened his legs a little wider and let Elam start to push in deeper
and Elvan wrapped his strong arms around the smaller boy and put his lips
to Elios and begin the slow kiss they all liked, Elios pushed his butt back
so Elam could go as deep as he could and Elios would feel all that strong
hard muscle move inside him with pleasure as Elvan covered his lips in a
long soft kiss as Elam began to move in and out faster.

Both Elam and Elvan had their own likes when they played the boys game with
Elios, Elam, like now, preferred to have Elios on his side so he could lift
Elios upper leg high and go all the way deep inside his friend, Elvan liked
it when Elios was on his hands and knees and he could mount him from behind
and at the same time hold the small slim hips with his hands until he was
close to spurting his boy juice then, he would grasp Elios smaller boy tool
and pump him as fast as he could so he could feel Elios spasm inside when
his juice shot out at the same time, both boys always made sure that Elios
was pleasured as much as they were when it came to the games.

As the sound of Elam's soft grunts got louder, Elios pushed back as far as
he could and his lips and tongue hungrily sort out Elvan's mouth for his
oral pleasure, Elvan's hard boy hood pushed with insistence against Elios
soft stomach as Elam pushed in hard and held himself there as Elios felt
the pulsing of the hard muscle inside his small butt, soon it would be
Elvan's turn so Elios sighed in contentment that his two closest friends
looked after him in such a way.

Elvan then moved behind Elios as the boy got up on his hands and knees for
him, Elam and Elvan always thought it was better for Elam to go first as he
was thinner although longer than Elvan who was quite thick but shorter,
Elvan spread open the small slim butt cheeks and rubbed his hot aching
glans against the small hole that now had a little of Elam's boy juice
leaking from the reddened hole, slowly Elvan used the white boy juice to
make his thickness slippery then began the slow push into the waiting heat,
Elios grunted as the large head pushed through his tight muscle and then
sighed with pleasure as the rest began to stretch and fill him, he was now
going into that place where he always felt so good as Elvan began to push
and pull his slim hips over his thick boy hood.

Elam regained his feeling and slipped under Elios soft body then began to
swallow the smaller boy to his pubic bone as Elvan began to speed up with
his thrusts and soon he gave his final strong push as deep into Elios as he
could reach and moan out his boy juice inside the heat of Elios small tight
hole as he felt the tightening and pulsing of Elios loosing his own boy
juice, both boys shuddered with the intense feelings that overtook them
both in that moment of climax.

Elvan collapsed onto Elios back as the smaller boy did the same, Elam had
just enough time to swallow the sweet taste of Elios and move from under
him before the other two boys collapsed onto the sleeping mat, both
exhausted by their efforts, a little later and all three were wrapped in
each others arms as they drifted off to sleep after a fantastic day of
discovery and boy fun.

As the boys slept the wind outside became a roaring sand storm, these types
of storms could last for days and would often kill anyone caught outside,
the boys were unaware of the turmoil going on outside and slept in peaceful
bliss as it raged on around their new cave, unknown to the boys, their
entrance was quickly becoming full of the wind blown sand, but, it was also
hiding them away from any prying eyes that might have made them open to an
attack.

The next morning was a time for putting together all they had learned the
previous dei, Elios to his learning blocks, as he now called them, and the
other were put to work with burnt sticks to draw a picture of their travels
on the hard stone floor, as the fires burnt lower it was necessary for the
boys to open more of the hard wud boxes, the contents were piled neatly in
their place as Elios had asked, they were finding that there was an
incredible amount of items hidden in the many boxes but Elios was
determined to find all the answers in his learning blocks before they began
to inspect any of them.

The main thing that confused Elios about the ancients symbols was their
need to double up on so many symbols, he could see no reason behind their
need to do this, Elios decided to ignore the use of double symbols and just
pronounce the words as though they had only one symbol, it became obvious
after a short time that this made it easier to understand them.

After a long time had passed, Elios gave a small yelp of excitement, the
other boys ran over to him.

"I think I've found how they made light." Elios told them.

The boys looked down on the table at the open learning block; at the top of
the thin sheet of wud were the symbols for `FEILD ACCESSORIES' Elios tried
to explain what he thought the symbols meant according to the pictures in
the block. In the picture, a man was standing in a dark cave, in his hand
was a strange black cylinder and from the front of it was a ray of light,
it looked even brighter than the sun, Elios spelled out the symbols under
the picture.

"FF-LL-ARH-SS-HUH-LL-II-GUH-HUH-TE"

Both boys gave Elios a funny look but the boy held up his hand for them to
wait while he ran the symbols over and over in his mind until they fell
together like he had taught himself until finally he had the word.

"Flarshlight"

To Elios it wasn't so much the word but what it meant and the picture
explained that to him with ease, somewhere the ancients had a cylinder that
could make light, he had to find it and now that he knew what symbols to
look for, he set all three of them to search every box until they found the
same symbols, it took longer than he thought it would but, as they neared
the last of the boxes he saw it, a box of about four hands on each side and
the same high, Elios asked the other two too carry it closer to their fire,
just the same as all the others, this one had the symbols of the mans name
and a description of what was inside, in this case.

`USMC'

`FLASHLIGHTS'

'20 UNITS BATT'

`20 UNITS ERGONMIC'

Elios understood the tow tens as being the number of items and so surmised
that there were two tens of each but he couldn't work out what a batt or
ergonomic was, still he would see what he had and then try to understand
the new symbols later.

Once at the fire, Elios quickly worked on the top and had the box open in
no time, he was becoming very good at opening the hard wud boxes by now,
inside were rows of smaller soft wud boxes, there were two sizes of boxes,
one was more square and the other was longer and wider, he removed one of
each and lay them on the table, they were both the same colour as
everything the man owned, a strange dull green but the hand drawn picture
on the box told him what was inside each one.

Taking the longer one first he carefully opened it and tipped out the
contents, there was one long round pipe with one end being bigger than the
other and had a round clear gles face with a small gles thing inside, he
turned it over and over in his hands then put it down, next he looked at
the ten plus two smaller cylinders, they were quite heavy for their size
but he now had another picture to work with as, on the back of the
container that the smaller cylinders were in was a set of drawings and the
symbols of fig 1, fig 2, fig 3, he didn't know what a fig was but the
numbers told him all he needed to know, it was a picture of how to use the
flashlight.

Elios looked carefully at the fig 1 and took up the long pipe and,
fastening his hand around the bottom he twisted in the direction of the
small spia, much to his delight it began to unscrew and soon he had it off,
he put both parts on the table and then looked at fig 2, taking his bled
out he carefully slit the soft gles covering on the ten plus two cylinders
and took out three of them, checking the fig 3 he turned them over until he
saw the difference at each end.

When he was sure he had it correct he slid each cylinder in one by one and
made sure to keep them facing the same way as in the fig 3 picture, once
done he looked at fig 4 and began to screw that piece back on to the long
pipe, once that was done he looked at his item, it was now heavier than
before but there was still no light coming from it, had he made a mistake?,
Elios went back to the fig pictures and ran everything through his mind
again, no he had done everything right so, why was there no light, turning
the flashlight around in his hands for a while he suddenly realised that
there were a very small part of the pipe that had a raised area and felt a
little softer than the rest of the pipe, shrugging his slim shoulders he
pressed down on the soft area with the his finger, all three boys yelped
with surprise as a strong beam of light erupted from the round gles end.

Instantly all three boys oohed loudly as they saw the beam stretch all the
way to the furtherest dark recess of the cave, lighting it up like sun
light or even brighter than the sun, instantly the boys began a happy
dance, not only for the new light but for the smartness of Elios marvellous
mind and his ability to work out the secret of the ancient symbols, they
now had a real light source to search the cave but Elios wasn't finished
yet, he wanted to see what the other sort of flashlight was and how to use
it.

Elios took out the smaller box and began to open it, it was obvious right
from the start that this one was different apart from begin smaller, using
his bled he opened the small soft gles covering and took out the strange
item, it had the same gles end but this one was facing of the side and not
at the end, on the main part of the cylinder was a strange piece of thin
metal, Elios lay it on the Table and went to look at the pictures of the
figs.

Again following the numbers, Elios copied what they said, it was not long
before he was pumping the small metal handle furiously as the light shone
out from the gles, he stopped pumping the handle and watched as the light
stayed on but as time went by he saw that it was losing some of its power,
being inquisitive, he began pumping again and the light got stronger again,
now he understood, one flashlight was stronger but had to have the batt
things, one was smaller but would always go as long as you squeezed the
handle enough to keep it alight, all the boys were ecstatic at their new
finds, Elios especially as he now knew he had learned the symbols
correctly, from now one it would be easier to work things out as long as he
had the fig pictures to help.

The boys decided to assemble one more flashlight each and take one of the
ergonomic ones as a spare, they could now begin their real search of their
new cave home, for all of them had agreed that this cave was theirs and it
would be their home to come back to after they went searching, it was
somewhere to call their own and a good base to work out from, the valley
was small and didn't seem to attract much attention from other searchers so
while the winds were howling outside they would put all their efforts into
looking at all of their cave and then settle down to work out all the new
treasures they had found.

And so their real search began, Elios, never being one to take things for
granted, told the others to follow while he used only one flashlight at a
time, he would take the lead for a while using his flashlight and then one
of the others would take over with their light and so on until they had
seen all of their marvellous cave system, they had put some cylinders of
food in their sak's to take with them and had rolled up three of the
sleeping cloths as well, they planned to stay on their search until they
had seen everything they could in their new home cave.

Finally leaving the big cave it was only a few steps when Elios came to the
first door, it was marked like all things to do with the ancients.

`USMC'

`GALLEY'

After working out the sound of the symbols, Elios pushed on the door,
nothing happened and he turned to look at his two friends, Elam stepped
forward and showed Elios how to wrap his hand around the knob on the door
and turn it and push, the door easily opened at Elam's touch and Elios
flashed his light around the cave, what he saw made him suck his breath in
with awe.

The cave was larger than he thought it would be, everything was made of
white shiny stone or bright shiny metal, the other two boys turned on their
lights to look at all of the cave, it soon became apparent to Elios that
this was used only for cooking although he couldn't see where they had
their cooking fires but it was obvious it had never been used, he looked
around the tables and there, sure enough was a `MANUAL' it was a lot
thicker and bigger than the ones he had so far seen but as soon as he
opened it and saw the first fig picture he knew what he had for sure, the
only thing that confused him was why they had two smaller caves in the same
place, one was marked `FREEZER' and the other was marked `COOLER' at this
stage he didn't know what they were but was sure his new `MANUAL' would
tell him all he would need to know, after a final look around they decided
to keep on with there search.

The next door was just across from the first and was marked `DRY GOODS'
Elios turned the handle and pushed on the door, again he was struck with
awe, it they had thought that their treasure was a lot then this cave
dispelled that idea very quickly, the whole cave was lined with the a shiny
white stones, inside every spare space was covered in metal shelves and
down the middle was a long metal box with small round knobs on it, the
first thing to strike Elios was the fragrant smell of the cave, he didn't
know what it was but it made his mouth water.

All the shelves were full of white Saks, soft wud boxes and row upon row of
the food cylinders, everything had its place marked with the ancient
symbols which Elios soon worked out was what the item was, in the long
metal box in the middle of the cave they found small soft and hard gles
cylinders, inside were so many different seeds he was unable to comprehend
what they were but the smell they gave off when he opened one was mouth
watering and at the same time intriguing.

The boys left this cave to explore more, they knew it would take a long
time to work out what everything was for but at this stage they were pretty
sure it was all for cooking food. A little further along and they came to a
new door, opposite was one marked with the same symbols `BUNK ROOM' Elios
ran the sound of the symbols out loud until he had it sounding right then
he opened the door and flashed his light around.

It was a long cave, on the floor was a strange type of covering that was a
brown colour, the sides were of the same dull green as the boxes had been
and, in two long rows were some shelfs but these had their own legs to
stand on, the boys moved close to the first one, it was square and made
from a grey metal they had not seen before, in the middle it was covered in
thin metal ropes that went from top to bottom and side to side, Elios
pressed his hand down on the metal ropes and found that it bounced with the
pressure, at the end closest to the Cave sides was a strange roll of
something covered in the soft gles the ancients seemed to use a lot of,
Elios also tried pushing on it, it too bounced under his hand.

Elios looked closer and sure enough there was a fig picture underneath the
soft gles, shining his flashlight on it he saw that it was all set out on
how to open the gles and set out the items inside. Step by step Elios
followed the fig picture, he also learnt that the gles was called `PLASTIC'
after removing it had unrolled the thick may inside, after that he unfolded
the white cloths then the two cloths that were the same as the ones they
had for their sleeping mat, at the same time and after slowly sounding out
each set of symbols, he learnt that each item had its own name.

The thick pad was called a `MATTRESS' the thin white ones were `SHEETS' and
their sleeping cloths were called `BLANKETS', Elios along with the help of
his two friends set the items out on the `BUNK' just as the fig pictures
showed him then, all three at the same time, jumped onto the sleeping
platform called a `BUNK'.

They all loved the soft bouncy feel of the `BUNK' and then and there
decided from now on they would sleep in here instead of on the harder floor
although there would not be space for all three on one `BUNK' they were
sure that they could come up with an idea to make that possible, there was
no way they were going to sleep apart after spending their whole short
lives together. After a little more playing on the `BUNK' they left the
cave that Elios now called a `ROM' dropping the second O as he could see no
need for it so from now on he would call all the smaller caves `ROMS'.

They left the `BUNK ROM' and continued their search until they came to the
end of the passage where it then went both to their left and right, Elios
asked his friends which way did they search last time, they told him they
looked in both directions and there was as much interesting caves one way
as the other, Elios decided to go left and they others followed along until
they came to the first door, it was marked as being the `USMC
ADMINISTRATION' Elios opened the door and looked in. It was a very basic
`ROM' there were two lines of tables each with one chair, on the table
covered in `PLASTIC' were smaller boxes, one with a gles front and another
with a number of metal ropes running from it, it seemed that these boxes
were called `IBM', he picked up one of the fig manuals and put it in his
Sak for later, there were also other items he couldn't put a fig to but was
sure they had a special use, at the end of the `ROM' was a half wall behind
which was another bigger table also with the same boxes and other things,
Elios could not see what the `ROM' was for so closed the door and continued
down the long passage until he came to a door marked `GEN ROOM' he opened
the door and looked inside.

The three huge items meant nothing to Elios eyes but he quickly went in
search of the `MANUAL' he just knew would be somewhere like in every other
`ROM' it took only a short time to locate what he wanted and so, closing
the door they went onward. Door after door they investigated until they
came to what was obviously a very big metal door, in the centre was a large
wheel with handles attached around the outside, the centre of the wheel had
two large metal bars fitted on to it which ran across the width of the door
and disappeared into the wall on either side, again the strange symbols of
`EXIT' were on its surface.

By this time the boys had been searching for a long time and their stomachs
were starting to grumble at the exercise and lack of food, as it seemed
that this was the end of the passages in this direction, they all decided
to stay here and eat then take a good long rest, they only knew by their
stomachs that it must be late in the dei and so set about eating and laying
out their sleeping mats.

Settling down to eat, Elios looked in his Sak at all the new learning
manuals he had collected, it was going to take him a long time to go
through them all and find out what everything they had so far seen meant or
could do for them, plus he still had all the other smaller ones back at the
main cave to understand as well, Elios had also noticed that his flashlight
was getting dimmer and so while they ate he added three new batts and put
the others in his Sak, no one in this dei and age wasted anything of value.



TBC


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