Chapter Twenty-six- In the Void



In a dark void with no form three figures float. It has no beginning and no end it seems. They are surrounded by a blackness beyond imagination. Time does not pass here, for those inside there is no past, present or future. There is only darkness inside and out. Yamato, Takeru, and Ken stay trapped inside a shadow, with their souls hanging outside their body.

Somewhere between being a boy and a man, they are alone. They are stuck in a frame of mind with no escape, before they found love and friendship.

"Everyone hates me. I do nothing but get in the way. Why do I even bother hanging around? They don't want me, they don't need me. No one does. I'm so useless. My life has no purpose. I'm nothing but a little crybaby who accomplishes nothing. The only reason they let me hang around is because they don't want to hurt my feelings...." TK's brain can only focus on these thoughts, of worthlessness. He feels like a little boy again, sitting on the dock of the amusement park, waiting for his brother to come back. The world doesn't want him, even his brother, who he thought was his closest friend and guardian has abandoned him now.

"Man, why was I ever born? I'm going to be stuck in this rut forever. It's like I've outlived my usefulness or something. TK doesn't need me, nobody needs me. Everybody's changed and become a better person but I'm the same jerk I always was. I wish I could just hide away somewhere and die, no one would care anyway...." Matt is an empty shell. He feels like he's sitting at the edge of the lake again, with no friends, no purpose. For some reason, he hasn't been able to grow, to find new challenges and new feelings of worth. Life is emptiness.

"Insects, worthless insects are all they are. No one in the world is worth even a fraction of what I'm worth. Why do they even bother going on with their tedious lives? They should know they'll never amount to anything. I'm the only one on earth who even deserves to live. It makes me sick just thinking about it. Oh well, no one ever said being perfect was easy...." For Ken, he is standing on the top of his apartment building, look out over the city. Covered in a veil of darkness, he can feel only hate and anger.

When one isn't loved or appreciated, they begin to lose themselves. All hope or happiness is gone, the glass becomes half empty. With their souls torn from their bodies, Matt, TK, and Ken have forgotten the love that they had found. They are completely alone in the universe, with absolutely nothing. This is a fate worse than death, to live endlessly with nothing but the torture of loneliness.