It's finally here! Beyond the Light sequel of Second Chance.

If you don't have read Second Chance, please read that one first before this one. Otherwise you'll have no idea what's going on.

Enjoy and please let me know what you think! :)

There was not much pain. Only shock and disbelief ran through him the moment he felt the bullet going through his chest. It went so fast afterwards. The knife left his numb growing hand and blood filled his lungs and a lot more inside his body. Strength went away and he fell off the man he hated the most. The man he just wanted to kill.

It's over… I'm really dying…

His view clouded and black spots formed. His numbers would ran out any moment now. The last thing he thought about was that Light hadn't left him alone like A did. This time he was the one that left his friend.

I'm sorry, Light.

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B sat, still confused, on the dry sandy ground. He did die… but he didn't. When he had felt his last heart beat and it became black before his eyes, he lost consciousness. Only to wake up again in the place he was in now.

His hands went to his chest and checked for the bullet wound, but found nothing. There was no blood on his black shirt and nothing on his dark jeans either. There was no hole that went through his chest.

How… Where is… How am I still alive? Am I even alive?

B tried to stand up off the ground, but something made him lose his balance and he struggled to not fall over. There was something on his back that wasn't there before.

He turned his head to look behind him and his eyes widened. Behind him he saw two large wings. They looked leather like, like a bat's.

What the hell…?!

His hands went to his back to the space between his shoulder blades and felt that the wings were clearly part of his body. They felt like a part of him now he had noticed them. He could feel the wings like his arms and even move them, creating wind around him.
He flapped his wings faster and was slightly startled when his feet lift off the ground.

I have wings. I can fly. Not that I mind, but where the hell am I?!

'Look what we have here! A new one!'

B jerked around to see who said that. His eyes widened slightly when he saw a creature much like Ryuk and Rem. A Shinigami. This Shinigami had a hook as left hand and a feather headdress. It was hard to see a Shinigami's gender, but something told him this was a male.

The Shinigami laughed at his surprised face. 'Welcome in the Shinigami Realm. Don't look so surprised… You must have used a Death Note to come here so you must know about the rule that if you use it, you go to Nothingness.' The Shinigami smirked. 'You're stuck here for eternity.'

Alright, at least I know where I am now. I knew about the rule, but I never thought "Nothingness" would mean the Shinigami Realm.

'Wait… you said I'm a new one? A new what?' he asked curiously.

The creature grinned. 'I mean you're a new Shinigami. If a human writes something in the Death Note, they will be doomed to live as a Shinigami in afterlife.'

B frowned. 'But… I don't look like a Shinigami at all… I look human, except for the wings.'

'Yeah, that's how you can see you're a new one. Shinigami's who just got here keep their human appearance for a while with only some Shinigami features. After a certain amount of days you will change into a full Shinigami and you'll lose all of your memories as human,' he explained.

'So I'm a half Shinigami then? For how long exactly?'

'If you count from the time you died, it's 168 days until you'll lose your human memories forever and you'll be a full Shinigami.'

168 days… that's six months. I've still got half a year until I'll lose my past.

His thought were interrupted when he saw the Shinigami staring intensely at him.

'What?'

'Hmm, just wondering. Could you be the interesting human Ryuk found on Earth? He hasn't returned to the Realm yet so I guess not…'

'I'm a friend of Light Yagami, the human Ryuk gave a Death Note to,' B said. 'I helped him with his goal to create a perfect world and he helped me taking revenge.'

The Shinigami snickered. 'Ah, so that's how it is. Well, I suppose your goals didn't go as planned, eh?'

B glared. 'No, it didn't go as planned.'

If it did I wouldn't be here!

'I've never heard you say your name by the way,' B said. 'I'm known as B.'

'Ah, how stupid of me to forget! I'm Zellogi.' He tilted his head a bit. 'I don't know exactly what is normal in the Human World for names, but isn't one letter strange for a name?'

B shrugged. What does it matter if this guy knows his full name. He's already dead anyway. 'My full name is Beyond Birthday, but I've been called B for a long time.'

Zellogi nodded understandingly. 'I like that name. You should call yourself that. It isn't unusual for new Shinigami's to change the name they had as human when they get here. Think about it.'

"B" stood for his time at Wammy House anyway… maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to consider Zellogi's advise.

'I will.'

'Good!' Zellogi opened his wings and he raised from the ground. 'Then follow me. I will bring you to the Shinigami King. All new ones have to go to him to get a Death Note for yourself. Otherwise you'll be dead very soon and this time I mean really dead.'

He nodded and opened his wings too flapping around with them again until his feet came off the ground. He would need some more time to get used to this, but for someone who just discovered to have wings he was doing quite well.

Zellogi chuckled. 'Don't worry. It won't take long before flying with those wings will be like a second nature to you. Now let's go!'

While they flew over more of the Shinigami Realm B began to understand why Ryuk was so bored here. There was much dry sand, rocks and the plants he saw were all dead trees and bushes. Of course it wasn't odd everything in the world of Death Gods would be… well… dead.

He saw more Shinigami and most of them looked up curiously to see who he was, but he didn't care about them. All what he cared about was one special fact.

Light would come to this Realm and become a Shinigami too.

He never dared to think about what lay beyond the light, beyond death. But now he knew where the both of them would be going.

I'll see you again very soon, Light.

Just to let you all know... I've made a Fanfic Trailer for this story (that's what you get if I'm bored and I'm playing around with After Effects).
You can search on Youtube for: Beyond the Light [Death Note Fanfic Trailer], or go to my deviantart to watch it there :)