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Chapter Eleven – Making My Own Sepulchre

When they finally caught up with Ray, Max and Sarah, the three looked at them accusingly.  Tyson blinked wide-eyed and walked over to Max and swung an arm over his shoulder, "Hey buddy. We gonna get out of here or what?"

Ray glared at Tyson and Kai glared at Ray for glaring at Tyson.  Sarah watched the whole exchange with a sweatdrop rolling down the back of her head.

Max nodded enthusiastically, "Yep and then we can get some food…" he paused as he stomach growled, "…ya know.  Cause I'm kinda hungry."

The others face-faulted but kept walking, except for Sarah who was now being pushed by Ray.  Kai sighed with relief as he walked at the rear, trying not to be jealous of the way Tyson was resting on Max.  He was glad they had gotten out alright… well they were almost out.  Kai was sure that Voltaire would not be able to find them in the secret passage.

As if to spite him, there was a loud rumbling noise.  Tyson jerked away from Max in surprise and spun around to see if Kai was alright.  Kai blinked and shrugged.

Max finally voiced the question on everyone's mind, "What was that?"

Ray embraced the blonde boy from behind, "I don't know Maxie…"

Sarah pulled a face at the reference to her dog and commented, "Maybe they've found us?  We could be being attacked."

The rumbling noise sounded again and all of a sudden the ceiling above them started to crumble.  Kai pushed Tyson forwards into Ray and Max, who in turn bumped into Sarah's wheelchair.  The loose rock and plaster fell where Tyson had been standing just moments before and blocked Kai off from the rest of the group.

***

"KAI!" Tyson yelled and leapt at the wall of rubble, frantically pulling as many pieces of cement and plaster as he could away from the pile.

Ray pulled Max over and they both helped Tyson, even though it didn't seem to be doing all that much of a difference.  Sarah let out a small cry behind them.

"Sarah? What's wrong?" Ray asked, looking back at the brunette girl.

"I… can't sense Kai anymore…" she informed them all, her face paling in horror.  Tyson's heart pounded so hard in his chest he was sure that the rest of them could hear it.

"What do you mean you can't sense him?"  Max asked.

"Before… I could feel this strong link… I wasn't sure what it was.  But when Kai came and rescued me it got stronger and I knew that we were joined together somehow… but now… it's gone."

Tyson looked at Sarah numbly and asked, "Does… that mean… Kai…" he trailed off not able to complete the question.

"That Kai is dead?" Sarah finished for him and shook her head, "I don't know… it could be possible.  I hope he's not though…"

Tyson let out a whimper and fell to his knees, "Oh Kai… please be okay."

***

On the other side of the debris, the previously unconscious Kai was slowly waking up.  A bit of plaster had hit him on the head as it fell and Kai had blacked out.  He looked around now, unsure of where he was.

"What… what's going on?" he murmured and sat up.

He regret is as his head pounded and water swum before his eyes.  He held his head in pain and grit his teeth.  He was strong; he could handle a little bit of pain.  He wondered how he had gotten into the dark passageway.  The last thing he could remember was waking up beside Tyson and yelling at Ray and Max for spying.

"Ugh," he groaned then looked down and shrieked, "No! AH!"

He leapt up and checked himself all over.  It had happened again.  Just when things had finally gotten better… this had to happen.  He had no recollection of being himself from before… only his memories of his accident.

Sarah started to cry, "I'm Kai again!"

***

Tyson's head jerked up as he heard a loud shriek on the other side of the rubble.

"Was that Kai?!" he exclaimed, looking at the debris.

Ray blinked and followed Tyson's gaze, "I… think so…" Ray wasn't sure of what he had heard.  But it was definitely something.

Sarah wheeled her chair over to Tyson, "I still can't sense him.  But if you heard something… then it has to be Kai.  He's the only one who was behind us… unless…" Sarah's eyes widened, "Unless Voltaire caught up with him!!!"

Tyson yelped and got up, grabbing the injured girl and shaking her, "Don't you dare say that!  Kai would never let them get him! It must have been him.  I only heard one voice!"

Sarah's eyes widened and she flinched at Tyson's harsh tone of voice.  Ray intercepted and pulled Tyson's hands away from Sarah's throat.  He turned to Tyson and spoke to him calmly.

"Hurting Sarah isn't going to help Kai, in fact if they are linked as Sarah said, it may hurt him," Tyson shuddered at the thought, "Maybe you should try calling to him.  He might have heard you yell his name earlier and that noise we heard was him replying."

Tyson glanced apologetically at Sarah and turned to remains of the ceiling in front of him, "Its worth a shot…"

He took a deep breath and yelled as loud as he could manage, "KAAAAAIIIII!!!!!"

Max cringed and Sarah covered her ears as Tyson repeated the same name over and over again until his throat went hoarse.  Ray grabbed Tyson and shook him, "Stop! If you keep yelling you'll never hear him if he replies!"

Tyson rubbed his throat and sat back down on the dusty floor.  All he could do now was wait.

***

"KAAAAAIIIII!!!!" Sarah heard Tyson yell from the other side of the ruins.

Sarah blinked slowly, "I'm not Kai…" She looked down at the dirty baggy blue pants and frowned reiterating to herself again, "I'm not!"

She sighed and shook herself off and got as close as she could to the rocks without inhaling the dust that swirled across the floor.  She'd better answer otherwise they might think that Kai was dead or something.

"TYSON?!" she yelled at the top of her lungs.

She heard him yell Kai's name again and kicked the wall, he'd probably yelled over her shout.  He kept yelling and then finally there was complete silence and Sarah wondered if they had given up and left.

"TYSON!!!" she bellowed again.

***

"TYSON!!!" a deep, yet faint reply came through the depths of the rubble and Tyson's face lit up with happiness.

"Oh he's okay!" he crowed and hugged Max, who was the closet person to him.

Sarah smiled weakly and Ray did the same after a fleeting glare at Tyson for hugging his Max.

They all quickly set to work at pulling out the large chunks of cement again, except Sarah who could do nothing but sit in her chair.

It took them a while but finally there was a large enough gap and Tyson poked his hand through and reached around for Kai.

"Tyson!" the voice on the other side was louder this time and a gloved hand grabbed onto Tyson's own.

"Oh Kai thank goodness. I was so worried," Tyson chattered ecstatically as Ray and Max continued to heave more pieces of rock out of the way.

"Uh… yes," Kai replied shakily.

Suddenly there was a big enough gap and Tyson jumped backwards in time for the debris to fall to the side and revealed Kai to them.