The dust was still settling around him when Kai finally opened his eyes. All around him lay rubble, remnants of Biovolt strewn everywhere in the midst of a crater like hole. Shakily he pushed himself up onto his knees to get a better look around. His head throbbed and his body was cut and bruised. There was nothing left standing around him nor could he see anyone left. What happened to Boris and Voltaire? Had he finally destroyed them? A low humming echoed throughout the crater getting steadily louder…something was lowering, closing in just above him. Looking up Kai saw his worst fear above him grinning madly.

"Nice try, Kai, you may have destroyed our base but you can never destroy us."

Boris cackled madly as the helicopter rose in the air, disappearing through the still descending smoke and dust.

He'd failed. After all he'd done, he'd failed. Kai knelt there in shock taking it all in. Angel was gone, Boris and Voltaire had survived and he alone bore the scars to show for it. What now? How could he go on without her? The emotions he had never showed before were over-powering him. The stress of his mind, the pain of his still bleeding wounds, and the exhaustion of his abused body finally could handle no more. At first he started feeling strangely dizzy, his vision became clouded. In the background he heard a distant humming again, but before he could even think to look back his world went black and he could but hear shouting in the seeming distance before all fell into a deafening silence.

Tala and Jess sat anxiously on the edge of their seats in the helicopter. It had been two days since Kai and Angel had disappeared and jess had been frantic. She knew something was wrong and when neither angel or kai had turned up she had immediately phoned Mr. Dickinson. Now the blade breakers as well as she and Tala had all split up into 3 helicopters and were searching the area…all seemingly without hope. Tears began to well up in Jess eyes as they flew over mile after mile without any sign of them. What had happened to them? Were they okay? Were they dead? Had they been captured? What! Unable to contain her worry any longer Jess started letting the tears falls silently down her cheeks. Ever since they had gotten into the aircraft Tala had been silent. What had happened to Kai? He knew Voltaire and Boris were around…could they have kidnapped him? Or worse….killed him? A soft sniffling sound broke Tala from his own worry- some thoughts as he turned to see tears falling heavily from jess' eyes.

"Hey," he began softly wiping away her tears, " what's wrong?"

"What if their dead!"

"Don't think that…Im sure their alive."

"How can you be so certain? I mean we haven't heard from them in two days and we can find no trace of them. Its almost as if they never existed."

Tala brought her into a firm hug letting her cry into his shirt,

"Listen to me Jess, everything will be just fine. You'll see. We'll find them. I promise. We'll figure out what's happened. Okay?"

Jess nodded her head against his chest trying to calm herself down while Tala did his best to soothe her . Suddenly the helicopter swerved to the left throwing Jess against Tala as they hit the side of the helicopter hard.

"You alrgiht?" Talal asked hurriedly.

Jess nodded as Tala helped her back onto the seat before yelling up to the pilot.

"What happened!"

"There was another helicopter, nearly ran straight through us."

"What?" Tala wondered aloud peering back through the windows to see the retreating form of a helicopter. Instantly he recognized it as his blood ran cold,

"did you see where it came from."

"Over there in that crater-like hole."

"Get us there now!"

"Tala whats going on?" Jess asked timidly.

"That was a Biovolt Helicopter."

Angel gasped in disbelief and fear, " do you think they have Angel and Kai?"

"I dunno….but were about to find out."

The Helicopter was now flying slowly over the massive crater as Angel and Tala strained to see through the dust and smoke. Yet to their dismay, so far, they had seen nothing. The helicopter was just about to pull back when a small trace of blue caught Tala's eye. He instantly focused as much as he could where he had seen it, straining to look through the smoke hiding the object form his view till finally….he saw it. There kneeling amongst the destruction was Kai.

"Kai!" Tala screamed, " lower it! Theres Kai!"

Quickly the Helicopter lowered itself as Tala threw open the side door in apprehension still screaming Kai's name. yet is was as if he couldn't hear him. 12 feet from lowering far enough to the rubble for Tala to get out, Kai suddenly collapsed.

"No Kai!" With that Tala jumped and within seconds was at his fallen friends side.

"Kai, coem on wake up." Tala pleaded as he turned his friend over only to gasp in anger and shock at all the wounds and blood., "What did they do to you."

The helicopter had finally lowered so picking Kai up, with some difficulty Tala carried him over putting him in the helicopter.

"do you see Angel?" Jess asked anxiously.

Tala shook his head dejectedly before turning to Kai.

"Kai wake up, can you hear me, Kai."Tala tried to wake him, he shook him he called out to him till finally Kai came weakly to.

"Kai! Where's Angel?"

"Tala?"

"Yes, now Where's Angel."

Tears formed in Kai's halfway opened eyes as his breath lodged in his throat,

"She's dead" Kai choked out.

"No!" JEss cried in shock. She couldn't be dead. Not Angel. No.

"Are you sure." Tala questioned hoping Kai was just delusional.

"Yes." Kai whimpered with difficulty but before he could be questioned anymore Kai was unconscious and nothing would bring him back again.

Not knowing what else to do Tala pulled Jess into a comforting hug as he silently signaled the pilot to return, ordering all to hers to do the same. With Kai laying hurt and unconscious on the floor and Jess crying her eyes out on his chest he didn't know what to do. What would they do now? Would things ever be the same again for Jess…would Kai ever get over this. The next few hours seemed to go by in a blur… from the blade breakers shock at seeing Kai to their hearts breaking at the word of Angel death. Nothing slowed down even as they rushed Kai to the hospital and waited for hours on end to hear what was to befall their friend. Time seemed to almost not exist any longer…the shock, anger, and loss was too much for all of them as they sat waiting…wondering…grieving. Kai had been in critical care for 6 hours already and still not one word had passed between any of the blade breakers. Mariah sat still quietly sobbing into Ray's shirt as did Jess while the others sat staring off into to space not able to comprehend this knew reality. Finally the steady tapping of the doctors footsteps echoed through the long, empty hallways as he approached. He wasn't shocked when none stood, or rushed to him instead all simply looked up at him praying that no more pain would be added to their load of grief. For a moment all looked at each other in silence before Tala finally spoke the question they all wondered.

"How is he?"

"He's stable now. Though I must tell you he was in quite bad shape, yet we stopped his internal bleeding as well as bandaged his wounds. Thought right now I think his most life threatening wound is his emotional trauma. We did find traces of a strange drug in his system but it doesn't seem to be affecting him at all so we wont worry about that. He should be able to leave tomorrow as long as he has a few months of rest to recover."

"Is he awake right now?"

"Yes, but I'd advise you all to see him tomorrow when you pick him up. I think he needs to be alone right now to rest an dcope with some of this."

All nodded in agreement before sluggishly standing to their feet and stumbling dumbly out to the cars Mr. Dickenson had sent for them. It all seemed unreal to them as they traveled home. If only it were.

All night Kai lay awake in his dark and lonely hospital room, thinking. How could he have doen that? How could he have killed her? The one person who brought light to his world…the one person who had actually seen and loved him for who he was. The one who could strangely make him smile and was starting to get through his defenses…to free him from his own fortifications…but she was gone. How! Why? Why did she have to die? Why did he have to kill her? Why didn't he stop himself…stop the drug… he should've been able to. Tears for the first time in his entire life were falling for Angel. The Angel that was no more. This was all his fault. He knew she loved him…fro reasons he always wondered…she was everything to him. Its strange how close one becomes to someone without realizing it. Throughout the night he recalled every happy moment spent in her presence…the warmth of her touch…the gentleness of her voice…the spark in her eyes…the determinaton and even playfulness of her personality…everything he had lost …all because of him.

Groggily, two weary eyes opened in the darkness, the fiery green depths straining to focus on her surroundings. A loud humming noise filled her ears, deafening her, as pain coursed through her entire body making her nearly immobile.

"So our little fighter finally awakes." cackled a cold smooth voice.

With great difficulty Angel craned her head to see who it had spoken though as soon as her vision had focused she'd wished she couldn't see at all…There grinning down at her sat Boris and Voltaire.

"Where am I" Angel asked wearily not abel to quite figure out where she was.

"About 80 miles outside of Russia."

"Where's Kai."

"Oh I wouldn't count on him coming for you, little one."

"And why exactly is that." Angel snarled.

"Because young Kai is convinced that you are dead."

"Impossible, Kai would never believe a lie like that. Especially one from the likes of you."

"How naïve you are…little one, he is convinced your dead because he's convinced he killed you."

"What! No! He'd never do that none the less believe it."

"Lets just say the memory is a very fragile thing. Easily rewritten."

Angel glared at them in anger, pain, and above all shock. If Kai didn't come for her…who would?

"face it, little one, your ours now…and no one will ever save you…because in all reality…you don't exist."

The Shock and fear hit angel like a hammer as Boris injected her with some sort of sedative again. And once again, she was banished to the darkness of her nightmares.

A week had passed since Angel's death and Kai had never been more distant. He never left his room which was always dark, he never spoke atleast never in sentences, and he virtually was never seen. Of all the people affected by Angels death he was perhaps the worst. Jess still grieved but Tala was with her almost every time a tear fell from her eyes...but for Kai...he cried himself to sleep in the cold lonesome confines of his room dreaming that Angel came back and was there with him...telling him it was alright...it wasnt his fault. But she wasnt. It was a cool overcast day when Kai stepped out of his room, out into the gloominess that oculd never match the overcast darkness of his heart. He felt like he didnt even have a heart anymore, it was more than shattered, more thab broken it had all but disappeared from inside him and what pieces remained were dead and cold...lifeless. Slowly he trudged alone toward the cemetary where he and Angel had first started planning that fatal mission. The funeral was today...the funeral fro an empty grave to match Kai's empty breast. He couldnt tell you what was said, or how long it lasted for the whole time he could but stare dumbly at the cold stoen slab before him. All he knew is that all were there when he arrived and by the time he actually remembered where he was all but alone...Jess and Tala remained. A few moments later they too turned to leave when jess suddenly halted beside Kai motioning for Tala to go on ahead. For a while she simply stared at him, but what Kai didnt even seem to acknowledge her...all he saw was the cold and empty stone bearing his love's name...his love who would never come back again.

"She loved you, you know." Jess started softly, not sure if he was listening or not, " She really loved you. And if i ever knew a thing a bout Angel, i know this above all...she still does and always will."

"she's dead" Kai spoke in a monotone yet broken tone.

"Death cannot stop love Kai, all it can do is delay it for awhile." /jess gave hima small smile before walking on to join Tala at the cemetary gate leaving kai alone to think.

No matte rhow hard he tried he couldnt put into words or thoughts the emotions that ran through him as he stood there. It was as if time had stopped and all the world held its breath as he stood fixated staring dumbly at a simple name carved on a rock. His mind and heart flooded with pain, guilt, and loss...he was empty and cold and more lonesome than he had ever felt before.No matter how he tried to express it his mind always came back to one thing...one poem that somehow seemed to make complete sense to him for the first time. As if in a dream he spoke his voice slow and monotone, broken beyond feeling,

"Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.

O, well for the fisherman's boy,
That he shouts with his sister at play!
O, well for the sailor lad,
That he sings in his boat on the bay!

And the stately ships go on
To their haven under the hill;
But O for the touch of a vanished hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!

Break, break, break,
At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come back to me."

In silence Kai drew in a breath taking one last glance at the cold gray stone before turning and with empty stride set off for his room wondering if he'd ever feel alright again...

she is my inspiration
she is my destination
and i want her, to hold my heart in her hands
and she is the one, that holds my life in her heart
right from the start

when will i see her again
when will i see her

she is the one who brings life to my heart
but i find myself in doubt
thinking all this is my fault
but i know that she loves me but i always questioned
why
and she thinks that love comes from the stars
but i know she's right but i, i need her
she's mine, all i need is what i need

when will i see her again
when will i see her

(chorus)
she, she's a lot things
she, she's my everything

Ok well that was the last chapter without the sequel...least i think so. Thanks to all of you guys who reviewed and stuck with this story even though its taken me months to finish. Im prolly gonna get milled for my ending here but that leads me to my next question...doyou guys want me to do a follow up sequel? It may take awhile but hopefully not aslong so yeah if u want it letme know. So yeah tell me what you think and by the way the poem "Break,Break, Break," is a poem by Tennyson and the song "She" is by Radial Angel Awesome song too so yeah review and tell me what you think. Later andhope you guys werent too dissapointed with me. Later and Peace out.

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