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Savior
Dying. He hated the word. He hated the concept. He hated it more then anything. Death he would handle. But the entire concept, feeling your strength start to fade, feeling the darkness overwhelm your sight, having to wait for the end. The entire idea terrified him.
He had only dealt with death twice. Once when he was ten and his dad was diagnosed with cancer, he waited a year and a half for death to end his suffering. Then when he was a medical student and studied the care of a four year old who had been in a car accident. She had gone in under four days.
He hated the thought of dying. And he hated to deal with the dying.
Did this world have no mercy? Didn't it see all the suffering, the pain, and the loneliness? It's like…a whole other earth. And he could barely stand it.
Within forty-eight hours things had gone from bad to terrible for the girl. Being too stubborn to rest, her wavering health had plummeted over night. She had refused sleep in case any emergency with Matt, then her exhaustion turned to fever and still she refused sleep. They had to drug her to force her to rest.
Maybe that's how the DigiDestined were. Stubborn to a fault.
Or superhuman.
There had been no change in Matt. Some might think that was a good thing, as long as he wasn't falling farther from them it would be okay. That was not the case. The more time he spent breathing off that machine, the less of a chance there was he'd ever get off of it.
"Mr. Guvin, aren't you going to eat dinner?" Guvin looked up from a cold plate of food to see Izzy sitting beside Sora. The red faced girl he attended to seemed not the hard headed beauty who had refused sleep and medication so she could stand watch over her bishonen boyfriend. Now she was but a child who now needed Koushiro to feed her and give her drink.
"Mr. Guvin," Izzy repeated.
"I'm fine, Izzy. Thank you."
"If you don't eat Mr. Guvin your food will go cold."
"Yours already has," was his mumbled retort. Izzy frowned and turned away to wipe Sora's brow with. "Do you like her?"
Izzy looked up at him. "What?"
"Well, I'm just trying to understand why you spend every waking moment over her. Your yourself have not rested or eaten in two days." Izzy snorted in disbelief. "Do you love her?"
"Yes," Izzy replied softly. "I love her as any friend would. And if I could do anything for Matt, I would." Izzy stood up from the bed and walked over to the table that Guvin sat at. He plopped himself into a chair across from him. "We, the DigiDestined, have been friends since the summer of 1999. We trust each other; we would give our lives for each other. No matter what. If I could I would take Matt's place in a heartbeat. Our bonds are unbreakable. We know every dirty little secret, every possible habit. This is the way we are. We're a team and we're a family."
"That's incredible."
"What is?"
"The relationship you and your friends have established in a matter of four years is deeper then a normal person or family could active in a lifetime."
"Is that so?" Izzy mused with a smile.
"You think that's funny?"
"I think it's interesting. Your amazed, its common place for me." He stood up abruptly. "Which reminds me, Ken wants an update on Kari. He'll want one on Sora and Matt too, so be forewarned."
"But you didn't eat."
"I'm not hungry." He glanced nervously over at his friends in the corner, looking as if he was terrified to leave.
"They'll be here when you get back. It's not like their going anywhere."
Izzy walked toward the door and pulled it open. He paused halfway out. "Its not them leaving that's the problem." He started to close the door. "And you know it."
Guvin sighed. Did he also mention he hated dealing with those who survived the dying?
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Izzy knelt before the Kaiser on one knee, his head bowed in false respect. The Kaiser typed away at his mid air keyboard, uncaring of Izzy's presence. Finally, after at least ten, the Kaiser stopped typing and looked to Izzy as his slave's knee began to ache. "What do you have for me?" Involuntarily Izzy's grip on the papers in his hand tightened. "Speak!"
"There is no way that I can find to save Hikari," he forced, his throat tight and voice high. It took all his strength to keep his voice steady.
The Kaiser physically tensed, not because of his own surprise, but because of the uproar Ken caused inside his head. He was half tempted to grab his hair and pull as an attempt to stop Ken. But he wouldn't give his slave the pleasure.
"Is there no hope?"
Izzy looked up from the floor, momentarily forgetting to stay in character. He lowered his eyes quickly. "I would like to keep looking. I don't want to give up on her yet?"
The Kaiser cracked the whip over Izzy's head. The red head grimaced. "I know you aren't my slave. I know that the ring I put on you is inoperative. Get up." Izzy forced himself to his feet, unsure to the Kaiser's new revelation. "I want you know I don't like this idea, but Hikari trusts you and I'm afraid if the ring did work she wouldn't. I also don't want you to place you back with your friends because you know too much." He smirked. "And I'm sure you wouldn't want the ring off since it would make you mute and gimpy once again."
"Your right," Izzy grumbled. "So you trust me still to walk around as I have? You aren't scared I may try something?"
"Not scared. I don't fear you. And no, I'm not troubled by the thought of you still at free range around my base. I know you won't try anything because there are too many lives at stake. Matt is on a breathing machine supplied by me, Guvin doesn't know how to handle this world, your friends are still locked away, and Kari still trusts me over you. You won't try anything." He got up from his seat. "So don't cop an attitude with me, because you won't be the one suffering, you'll be the one to watch."
"Yes…master," Izzy grimaced.
The Kaiser walked by him chuckling. "Good slave." He plucked the papers from Izzy's hand and left. Izzy growled angrily before walking out.
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"Kari!" He jumped up from his nightmarish dream to find a solid dark room. He blinked, trying to clear the darkness from his vision. 'Where…what…' His breathing quickened even more when he realized where he was. "No…"
He pushed himself off the floor and steadied himself against the wall he had used as support as he slept. His blanket piled at his feet and he kicked it away before raising his head to the ceiling. He couldn't take this anymore. He was all alone in a room full of people. Everyone who he cherished the most, who gave him comfort, was gone.
Sobbing pulled him from his stint of self-pity and he stepped forward. The sobbing instantly stopped. "Tai?" He called out.
"Oh….TK, its only you…" A light by the bed flickered on and Tai appeared distraught, hunched over, and beaten in the dim light of the single lamp. "I couldn't sleep…if I woke you up I'm sorry…I was just-"
"Shut up Tai," TK snapped.
"Yeah…"
"So, how long has it been since Izzy came by?" He asked, desperate for conversation. His voice cracked and sounded froggy. He hadn't spoke in a few days, just cried and sat by himself.
"He came by the two days after he took your brother and Sora. It was around midnight I assume." TK felt a knot in his throat; it made it hard to breath. "He said that Sora was getting worse and there's no change in Matt. There's a doctor taking care of them. The Kaiser brought him from the real world."
"Is he good?"
Tai looked at the door and then back at TK. "He said that Dr. Guvin has no idea what the hell he's doing here in the Digital World, but he's a good doctor and a fine man. I don't think you have anything to worry about."
"Yeah, nothing," TK muttered bitterly.
"I'm not going to pretend that until I get Kari back I don't hate you. You and your friends got us into this mess." Tai subconsciously touched the growing bump on his forehead. An earlier scrap had gotten him thrown into a walk by an Apemon. "But for right now we've got to live true to what we are, the DigiDestined, the protectors of the Digital World. We've got to keep HOPING that we will get out of here. Because we will."
"Right Tai…" He sighed. "Your right Tai…"
"Get some sleep TK," Tai ordered.
"I can't. I don't want to." He closed his eyes and leaned against the wall. "I have to get out of here."
Tai stood up. "What if we did?"
"Um…what?"
Tai jumped over the bed, careful to avoid Cody, Joe and Mimi who had scrunched together so Tai and Cody could lay down too. Not that the pair really minded. Cody however did not enjoy sleeping on the bed while his friends lay on the floor, but they had insisted and he couldn't refuse.
"I've got an idea that might help us get out of here. But we can't all go. So now it's just between you and me. Now listen…"
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He hated himself. He hated what he was going to ask. Was this a solution? Was it just buying time? Was dying still unavoidable, just postponed?
Yet he pushed himself to walk faster. Why did this seem to be the only solution? Was this what they would want? No…
Just do it…Stop thinking and give them a chance at life…
But was it really a life? The Kaiser wouldn't make them like him.
The debate shook him to his very soul and raged in his mind. That is why he didn't vote. He left it up to Tai and TK and it had become anonymous. They hadn't gone to the others with this. Tai thought it would be best if not all of them knew.
He pushed into the Kaisers throne/computer room. The Kaiser sat typing at his airborne computer while Kari sat by his feet, totally zoned. He stopped before the Kaiser and cleared his throat. The possessed boy looked up at him. "Yes?"
"Why is it that this dark ring fixed my voice and limp?" Izzy asked.
The Kaiser lifted his hands from the keyboard and it disappeared. "I'm not sure exactly. Why?" The Kaiser was in control. Izzy could tell by the lightness in his voice.
"Because…" He took a deep breath. "Do you think it could help Matt and Sora?"
"Most likely." Ken cocked his head to the side. "Do you want me to use one on them?" Izzy forced a nod as he cast his eyes to the floor. "I'm not going to make them like you. Sora, Love would know better, but Friendship would risk your lives to escape and save them."
Izzy stared at the floor. "I know. I understand. But this is what I…want."
"You discussed this with your friends, correct?" Izzy opened his mouth to disagree, but shut it again with a nod of his head. "Alright, give me a minute." Ken didn't seem to like what he was going to do, but a light in his eyes reminded Izzy the Kaiser was still there, willing to do the dirty work. The tap-tap-tap of his fingertips against the keys resonated through the room. Two dark spirals appeared before Izzy. Regretfully he reached out and took them in his hands. They were surprisingly light.
Ken jumped down from his chair, which sat on a two-foot high pedestal. Gently he pulled Kari down beside him. Taking her hand, he looked at Izzy with momentarily sad and remorseful eyes. The Kaiser masked them over in a second. "Come on." He led Izzy down the hall to the medical room where Guvin looked up from the breathing machine by Matt's side. Izzy refused to look up at him as Ken left Kari by the door and took on of the spirals. Ken walked by Guvin, also refusing to look at him, and the click of the spiral being locked was the only and first sound Izzy heard in the room. Out of the corner of his eye Izzy saw Sora whipped her head toward Matt and Ken. Her eyes widened. He walked over to her and she just shook her head, she lost her voice yesterday.
"Please…" She strained. He grabbed her arm; just she began to fight desperately. He grabbed both of them and locked the spiral on one arm with a click. "Izzy…Izzy please." Her voice cracked. Her eyes filled with tears and fear.
"Dark Spiral activate," the Kaiser whispered. In an instant Sora went limp in his hands.
He stepped back, breathing fast to try and cover up a sob that threatened to erupt from his throat as he stared at her. "M-make them get up."
"But-"
Izzy looked over at Guvin. "Take the breathing mask off Matt. Confused Guvin looked to Ken who only nodded. "Now make them do something!" He yelled, unconcerned that it was the potential Kaiser he was yelling at. "See if it worked!"
"Okay," Ken sighed in defeat. "Slaves. Get up." Matt suddenly bolted up, blue eyes tinted with red, struggling to breathe. He coughed and sucked in air in a struggle. Sora sat up shaking as he red eyes whipped around the room. Slowly Matt's breathing became steady and Sora's eyes fell upon Izzy and Ken. "Speak!"
"What is it you bid of us?" The pair asked in unison.
"Is that what you wanted Knowledge?" Ken asked bitterly. "I will leave them to you." He turned to the pair. "He is your master, not me. Follow his order." With that the blue haired boy left, grabbing Kari's hand as he did.
From where he stood, in taken aback by his patient's sudden recovery, Guvin watched as Izzy crumpled to the floor sobbing.
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He wept bitterly, shaking and hugging himself as he rocked back and forth. Why…why had he done what Koushiro had wanted? Why did she beg like that? No…why did he have to live.
He felt two arms wrap around his bare chest and someone kiss his cheek where a hot tear rolled down. He opened his eyes to see Kari holding him tightly. He pressed face into her shoulder, brushing his face against the soft nightgown she wore.
"Ken, its okay," she whispered. His breath caught in his throat. She was talking, coherently at that. "It'll be okay."
He pulled away. "Kari?" He felt like sobbing all over again. But he just stared at her in shock.
"Don't cry?" She whispered.
"I can't stop…I can't…" He whispered softly and leaned against her.
"It'll be okay."
He lay down on the bed, still holding her. She whispered 'it'll be okay' again just trying to get it through his head as his tears kept falling. Slowly he bad to slip into a nightmare-ish slumber.
He sat up with a jump, trying to figure out what happened. He scrubbed his face with his fingers. Kari had…
His eyes snapped to Kari who slept beside him. Had she…? But… She was asleep…it must have been a dream…it had to have been a dream…
Kari...............
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TK stared at the window, his mouth a thin line across his features. Outside was pitch black. Perfect. Beside him Tai stared out too. "Alright," Tai breathed. "One…Two…THREE!" The pair rocketed forward and propelled out the glass window. Glass stabbed into them as fell through the frozen bitter air and landed with a hard crunch in the snow. Despite the pain the two took off across the snowy wasteland.
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Cool, ne? I got a really really really cool idea for the next chapter, its gonna rock! Muhaha, someone might die. Might. Have I got you interested? Well, I'm on summer vacation so I'll try and get it out soon. Later dayz, don't forget to review.
Savior
Dying. He hated the word. He hated the concept. He hated it more then anything. Death he would handle. But the entire concept, feeling your strength start to fade, feeling the darkness overwhelm your sight, having to wait for the end. The entire idea terrified him.
He had only dealt with death twice. Once when he was ten and his dad was diagnosed with cancer, he waited a year and a half for death to end his suffering. Then when he was a medical student and studied the care of a four year old who had been in a car accident. She had gone in under four days.
He hated the thought of dying. And he hated to deal with the dying.
Did this world have no mercy? Didn't it see all the suffering, the pain, and the loneliness? It's like…a whole other earth. And he could barely stand it.
Within forty-eight hours things had gone from bad to terrible for the girl. Being too stubborn to rest, her wavering health had plummeted over night. She had refused sleep in case any emergency with Matt, then her exhaustion turned to fever and still she refused sleep. They had to drug her to force her to rest.
Maybe that's how the DigiDestined were. Stubborn to a fault.
Or superhuman.
There had been no change in Matt. Some might think that was a good thing, as long as he wasn't falling farther from them it would be okay. That was not the case. The more time he spent breathing off that machine, the less of a chance there was he'd ever get off of it.
"Mr. Guvin, aren't you going to eat dinner?" Guvin looked up from a cold plate of food to see Izzy sitting beside Sora. The red faced girl he attended to seemed not the hard headed beauty who had refused sleep and medication so she could stand watch over her bishonen boyfriend. Now she was but a child who now needed Koushiro to feed her and give her drink.
"Mr. Guvin," Izzy repeated.
"I'm fine, Izzy. Thank you."
"If you don't eat Mr. Guvin your food will go cold."
"Yours already has," was his mumbled retort. Izzy frowned and turned away to wipe Sora's brow with. "Do you like her?"
Izzy looked up at him. "What?"
"Well, I'm just trying to understand why you spend every waking moment over her. Your yourself have not rested or eaten in two days." Izzy snorted in disbelief. "Do you love her?"
"Yes," Izzy replied softly. "I love her as any friend would. And if I could do anything for Matt, I would." Izzy stood up from the bed and walked over to the table that Guvin sat at. He plopped himself into a chair across from him. "We, the DigiDestined, have been friends since the summer of 1999. We trust each other; we would give our lives for each other. No matter what. If I could I would take Matt's place in a heartbeat. Our bonds are unbreakable. We know every dirty little secret, every possible habit. This is the way we are. We're a team and we're a family."
"That's incredible."
"What is?"
"The relationship you and your friends have established in a matter of four years is deeper then a normal person or family could active in a lifetime."
"Is that so?" Izzy mused with a smile.
"You think that's funny?"
"I think it's interesting. Your amazed, its common place for me." He stood up abruptly. "Which reminds me, Ken wants an update on Kari. He'll want one on Sora and Matt too, so be forewarned."
"But you didn't eat."
"I'm not hungry." He glanced nervously over at his friends in the corner, looking as if he was terrified to leave.
"They'll be here when you get back. It's not like their going anywhere."
Izzy walked toward the door and pulled it open. He paused halfway out. "Its not them leaving that's the problem." He started to close the door. "And you know it."
Guvin sighed. Did he also mention he hated dealing with those who survived the dying?
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Izzy knelt before the Kaiser on one knee, his head bowed in false respect. The Kaiser typed away at his mid air keyboard, uncaring of Izzy's presence. Finally, after at least ten, the Kaiser stopped typing and looked to Izzy as his slave's knee began to ache. "What do you have for me?" Involuntarily Izzy's grip on the papers in his hand tightened. "Speak!"
"There is no way that I can find to save Hikari," he forced, his throat tight and voice high. It took all his strength to keep his voice steady.
The Kaiser physically tensed, not because of his own surprise, but because of the uproar Ken caused inside his head. He was half tempted to grab his hair and pull as an attempt to stop Ken. But he wouldn't give his slave the pleasure.
"Is there no hope?"
Izzy looked up from the floor, momentarily forgetting to stay in character. He lowered his eyes quickly. "I would like to keep looking. I don't want to give up on her yet?"
The Kaiser cracked the whip over Izzy's head. The red head grimaced. "I know you aren't my slave. I know that the ring I put on you is inoperative. Get up." Izzy forced himself to his feet, unsure to the Kaiser's new revelation. "I want you know I don't like this idea, but Hikari trusts you and I'm afraid if the ring did work she wouldn't. I also don't want you to place you back with your friends because you know too much." He smirked. "And I'm sure you wouldn't want the ring off since it would make you mute and gimpy once again."
"Your right," Izzy grumbled. "So you trust me still to walk around as I have? You aren't scared I may try something?"
"Not scared. I don't fear you. And no, I'm not troubled by the thought of you still at free range around my base. I know you won't try anything because there are too many lives at stake. Matt is on a breathing machine supplied by me, Guvin doesn't know how to handle this world, your friends are still locked away, and Kari still trusts me over you. You won't try anything." He got up from his seat. "So don't cop an attitude with me, because you won't be the one suffering, you'll be the one to watch."
"Yes…master," Izzy grimaced.
The Kaiser walked by him chuckling. "Good slave." He plucked the papers from Izzy's hand and left. Izzy growled angrily before walking out.
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"Kari!" He jumped up from his nightmarish dream to find a solid dark room. He blinked, trying to clear the darkness from his vision. 'Where…what…' His breathing quickened even more when he realized where he was. "No…"
He pushed himself off the floor and steadied himself against the wall he had used as support as he slept. His blanket piled at his feet and he kicked it away before raising his head to the ceiling. He couldn't take this anymore. He was all alone in a room full of people. Everyone who he cherished the most, who gave him comfort, was gone.
Sobbing pulled him from his stint of self-pity and he stepped forward. The sobbing instantly stopped. "Tai?" He called out.
"Oh….TK, its only you…" A light by the bed flickered on and Tai appeared distraught, hunched over, and beaten in the dim light of the single lamp. "I couldn't sleep…if I woke you up I'm sorry…I was just-"
"Shut up Tai," TK snapped.
"Yeah…"
"So, how long has it been since Izzy came by?" He asked, desperate for conversation. His voice cracked and sounded froggy. He hadn't spoke in a few days, just cried and sat by himself.
"He came by the two days after he took your brother and Sora. It was around midnight I assume." TK felt a knot in his throat; it made it hard to breath. "He said that Sora was getting worse and there's no change in Matt. There's a doctor taking care of them. The Kaiser brought him from the real world."
"Is he good?"
Tai looked at the door and then back at TK. "He said that Dr. Guvin has no idea what the hell he's doing here in the Digital World, but he's a good doctor and a fine man. I don't think you have anything to worry about."
"Yeah, nothing," TK muttered bitterly.
"I'm not going to pretend that until I get Kari back I don't hate you. You and your friends got us into this mess." Tai subconsciously touched the growing bump on his forehead. An earlier scrap had gotten him thrown into a walk by an Apemon. "But for right now we've got to live true to what we are, the DigiDestined, the protectors of the Digital World. We've got to keep HOPING that we will get out of here. Because we will."
"Right Tai…" He sighed. "Your right Tai…"
"Get some sleep TK," Tai ordered.
"I can't. I don't want to." He closed his eyes and leaned against the wall. "I have to get out of here."
Tai stood up. "What if we did?"
"Um…what?"
Tai jumped over the bed, careful to avoid Cody, Joe and Mimi who had scrunched together so Tai and Cody could lay down too. Not that the pair really minded. Cody however did not enjoy sleeping on the bed while his friends lay on the floor, but they had insisted and he couldn't refuse.
"I've got an idea that might help us get out of here. But we can't all go. So now it's just between you and me. Now listen…"
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He hated himself. He hated what he was going to ask. Was this a solution? Was it just buying time? Was dying still unavoidable, just postponed?
Yet he pushed himself to walk faster. Why did this seem to be the only solution? Was this what they would want? No…
Just do it…Stop thinking and give them a chance at life…
But was it really a life? The Kaiser wouldn't make them like him.
The debate shook him to his very soul and raged in his mind. That is why he didn't vote. He left it up to Tai and TK and it had become anonymous. They hadn't gone to the others with this. Tai thought it would be best if not all of them knew.
He pushed into the Kaisers throne/computer room. The Kaiser sat typing at his airborne computer while Kari sat by his feet, totally zoned. He stopped before the Kaiser and cleared his throat. The possessed boy looked up at him. "Yes?"
"Why is it that this dark ring fixed my voice and limp?" Izzy asked.
The Kaiser lifted his hands from the keyboard and it disappeared. "I'm not sure exactly. Why?" The Kaiser was in control. Izzy could tell by the lightness in his voice.
"Because…" He took a deep breath. "Do you think it could help Matt and Sora?"
"Most likely." Ken cocked his head to the side. "Do you want me to use one on them?" Izzy forced a nod as he cast his eyes to the floor. "I'm not going to make them like you. Sora, Love would know better, but Friendship would risk your lives to escape and save them."
Izzy stared at the floor. "I know. I understand. But this is what I…want."
"You discussed this with your friends, correct?" Izzy opened his mouth to disagree, but shut it again with a nod of his head. "Alright, give me a minute." Ken didn't seem to like what he was going to do, but a light in his eyes reminded Izzy the Kaiser was still there, willing to do the dirty work. The tap-tap-tap of his fingertips against the keys resonated through the room. Two dark spirals appeared before Izzy. Regretfully he reached out and took them in his hands. They were surprisingly light.
Ken jumped down from his chair, which sat on a two-foot high pedestal. Gently he pulled Kari down beside him. Taking her hand, he looked at Izzy with momentarily sad and remorseful eyes. The Kaiser masked them over in a second. "Come on." He led Izzy down the hall to the medical room where Guvin looked up from the breathing machine by Matt's side. Izzy refused to look up at him as Ken left Kari by the door and took on of the spirals. Ken walked by Guvin, also refusing to look at him, and the click of the spiral being locked was the only and first sound Izzy heard in the room. Out of the corner of his eye Izzy saw Sora whipped her head toward Matt and Ken. Her eyes widened. He walked over to her and she just shook her head, she lost her voice yesterday.
"Please…" She strained. He grabbed her arm; just she began to fight desperately. He grabbed both of them and locked the spiral on one arm with a click. "Izzy…Izzy please." Her voice cracked. Her eyes filled with tears and fear.
"Dark Spiral activate," the Kaiser whispered. In an instant Sora went limp in his hands.
He stepped back, breathing fast to try and cover up a sob that threatened to erupt from his throat as he stared at her. "M-make them get up."
"But-"
Izzy looked over at Guvin. "Take the breathing mask off Matt. Confused Guvin looked to Ken who only nodded. "Now make them do something!" He yelled, unconcerned that it was the potential Kaiser he was yelling at. "See if it worked!"
"Okay," Ken sighed in defeat. "Slaves. Get up." Matt suddenly bolted up, blue eyes tinted with red, struggling to breathe. He coughed and sucked in air in a struggle. Sora sat up shaking as he red eyes whipped around the room. Slowly Matt's breathing became steady and Sora's eyes fell upon Izzy and Ken. "Speak!"
"What is it you bid of us?" The pair asked in unison.
"Is that what you wanted Knowledge?" Ken asked bitterly. "I will leave them to you." He turned to the pair. "He is your master, not me. Follow his order." With that the blue haired boy left, grabbing Kari's hand as he did.
From where he stood, in taken aback by his patient's sudden recovery, Guvin watched as Izzy crumpled to the floor sobbing.
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He wept bitterly, shaking and hugging himself as he rocked back and forth. Why…why had he done what Koushiro had wanted? Why did she beg like that? No…why did he have to live.
He felt two arms wrap around his bare chest and someone kiss his cheek where a hot tear rolled down. He opened his eyes to see Kari holding him tightly. He pressed face into her shoulder, brushing his face against the soft nightgown she wore.
"Ken, its okay," she whispered. His breath caught in his throat. She was talking, coherently at that. "It'll be okay."
He pulled away. "Kari?" He felt like sobbing all over again. But he just stared at her in shock.
"Don't cry?" She whispered.
"I can't stop…I can't…" He whispered softly and leaned against her.
"It'll be okay."
He lay down on the bed, still holding her. She whispered 'it'll be okay' again just trying to get it through his head as his tears kept falling. Slowly he bad to slip into a nightmare-ish slumber.
He sat up with a jump, trying to figure out what happened. He scrubbed his face with his fingers. Kari had…
His eyes snapped to Kari who slept beside him. Had she…? But… She was asleep…it must have been a dream…it had to have been a dream…
Kari...............
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TK stared at the window, his mouth a thin line across his features. Outside was pitch black. Perfect. Beside him Tai stared out too. "Alright," Tai breathed. "One…Two…THREE!" The pair rocketed forward and propelled out the glass window. Glass stabbed into them as fell through the frozen bitter air and landed with a hard crunch in the snow. Despite the pain the two took off across the snowy wasteland.
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Cool, ne? I got a really really really cool idea for the next chapter, its gonna rock! Muhaha, someone might die. Might. Have I got you interested? Well, I'm on summer vacation so I'll try and get it out soon. Later dayz, don't forget to review.