I stared at the two strange items, completely unimpressed. Then I actually hesitated before asking,

"Um, Am I supposed to do something?"

Izzy turned pale,

"D-Don't you know what these are?" he gasped

"Ah, Lemme think about that.... Nope" I replied cheerfully.

Izzy was about to reply when Mrs Kamiya came back into the room.

"What! You're still here? Out! Out, hurry up now! Tai needs his rest if he wants to get better!"

Izzy just had time to close the box and put it on the invalid's bedside table before Mrs Kamiya bustled all three of them out of the room.

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I lie awake in bed that night, the box clasped in my left hand. My head is throbbing painfully again and my throat is on fire. My limbs begin to ache and I feel like I am falling...falling.... where there is nobody there to catch me..........

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~FLASHBACK~~~~~~~~~~~~~

There were lots of pieces of canvas stretched over poles. Lots of children, laughing - playing. There was a cold, white, wet sheet blanket covering the ground and many tall, leafy green things. There was a boy with red hair and a computer sitting under one of these things - Izzy? But a different Izzy. So different, yet so the same. How could this be? Could it be - yes! He was a younger Izzy! Another boy, this one tall and blonde, walked up to Izzy, holding on to a small kid who looked a lot like his brother... Matt. The small kid seemed familiar too but he could not place his face...

Turning round, I could see two girls and a boy playing. One of them, seeming more familiar then the others, turned and waved at me. Hey, Isn't that Sora? Yes. It is. With another tall girl dressed in pink. Why am I thinking - Sincere? The boy isn't really playing. I can see that now. He is reading a book on First Aid. Doctors? Where did I hear of those before?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~FLASHBACK~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I mustn't move. There is a small orange dinosaur running towards me and I think I'm gonna hurl. Instead of attacking me, it hugs me,

"Tai! Tai! Tai!"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~FLASHBACK ENDS~~~~~~~~~~

(This part is not written from Tai's point of view but needs to be known. Parts where Tai is talking will be in normal font while parts of non-Tai will be in bold)

"Tai! Tai! Tai!"

Kari's tears streamed down her face as she sat beside her brothers bed, shaking him. Tk had his hand on her shoulder and was doing his utter best to try and comfort her. She had taken the doctors news very badly, as had everyone else. Her parents were even now at Tk's parents house, crying as they awaited any news from the hospital. They had remained by Tai's bedside for hours until the doctor had forced them to go home but had allowed Kari to stay for a few minutes as she had not yet seen her brother. A surgeon, whose shift was about to finish, had promised to drop off the children.

"Kari, Please stop shaking him. It might make him worse" pleaded Tk, desperately. Kari turned to him, her face shining with tears.

"Oh Tk!" She cried, "A coma! What are we going to do? And I *hic* never even got a chance to tell him how much I love him *hic* and now, what if he dies?"

"Don't worry, Kari. He won't die. The doctors said that the chances are that he will live but won't remember anything at all. That's good enough Kari. We can teach him all over again. Don't give up hope"

At these words Tk's crest began to glow and Tai stirred slightly, then became still again.

"Don't give up hope, Kari" ********************************************** Will Kari give up hope? Will Tai die? Or will something in his heart and mind connect and save him? Find out in the next chapter! RaNdOmNeSs is out!