Hey I'm so sorry for not updating but I won't be for a whole week I'll be on a music camp… anyway for those who accused me of being a bad speller I use a word doc that is equipped with spell-check.

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Chapter 6: The life after Death.

Everything grew colder as Kai hit the floor, blood pouring through the open wound in his chest, sensing that Rose was near he tried to reach her but darkness consumed him…

"Hn?" Kai opened his eyes to find himself in a circular room, on the floor in the position he was in when he died. "Where am I?"

Kai stood up and took in his surroundings on the opposite wall was a TV screen only it wasn't showing a soapie or some other weird show, it had Kyrose crying over his body… Kai looked down at his shirt, blood covered his chest area. Kai searched the room for a mirror, when he found it he looked at his reflection.

His eyes held no light in them, they had a glazed appearance, his shirt was stained with blood and he could see more blood appearing down his side. He removed his gaze from the mirror and returned it to the TV screen, Kyrose was talking but he couldn't hear her… "Volume up." He said. Praying that his command worked, then he heard Rose mutter "Tala"

Kai's eyes widened, "Tala" he said, the screen changed, it showed Tala in a headlock, then being released. Kai took a few steps closer to the screen, then he heard a gunshot, he knew that he was watching the past and present at the same time, Tala heaved himself to a kneeling position, 'Wait a sec.' Kai thought as he saw Talas throat being slit, 'I'm in limbo, I'm not quite dead yet!' He saw Oliver walk in and Tyson pick up Talas body, 'But I'm not alive either…'

Kai feeling defeated, sat down on the chair that appeared behind him and said, "Rose" Kyrose appeared on screen again.

"Hey Tala how are you?" Kai said closing his eyes.

Tala sat up from his awkward position on the floor and saw the back of Kais head in front of him on a chair before a TV screen, "Kai" Tala stood up and went to walk over to him but caught sight of his reflection in the mirror. Dazed he went over to it and saw something he never wanted to…

Talas throat bore signs of strangulation but only he knew that they were from Bryans headlock, he also saw the fresh cut on the left hand side of his neck, blood poured from the open wound, Tala reached up to see if his mind was playing tricks, but as he felt the wound no sensation pain came to him only crimson drops of his own immortal defeat. His eyes held the same effect as Kais, dark and empty, "Kai" Tala whispered not for a moment taking his eyes off of his reflection, "Are we-?"

"Dead?" Kai asked finishing his sentence for him, "No" His gaze returned to the screen, Rose being whipped and forced into a van. "We are in limbo."

Tala walked over and stood beside Kai his eyes transfixed on the screen, "Limbo?" he asked his fallen comrade.

"Yes and this is the only place we can be." Kai said, "Ray."

"Huh?" Tala asked but his question was answered, as an image of Ray appeared, Oliver, Tyson and a shaken Max with him.

"This screen allows us to see what is happening out there, where our bodies are and where Rose is."

"If we aren't dead then why aren't we there with Rose and Ray?" Tala asked facing Kai.

"We aren't alive either Tala." Kai said looking down at his trainers, "Don't you see? So long as Ray has our bodies we can never be truly dead, and besides," Kai looked at Tala seeing the wounds that would never leave him, "Do you really want to die?"

Tala didn't know what to say, Kai took his friends silence as a 'No' and stood up. Turning his back on his friend, Tala could see a bullet wound in Kais back a small hole in his shirt accompanying it. "Kai!" The fallen blue haired man turned to face him, wishing for all time that questions never needed an answer. "Yes"

"Your back? Doesn't it hurt?" Tala asked bewildered.

Kai merely sniggered, "Does your wound hurt Tala?" And with that he turned around and jumped into the air, turning horizontal as he did.

Tala was shocked at his friends behaviour, but when the bed appeared beneath him and Kai smiled, Tala understood 'In limbo everything is at your command,' He walked over near Kai and went to sit down on the bed that had materialised before him at his will, 'but when your dead, everything is at deaths command.' Tala swung his legs up onto his bed and the covers folded up over him, "Kai"

"Hn" Kai muttered his face smothered by blankets, "Wha?"

Tala smiled "I think I'm gonna like it here." Tala began to drift off but a voice inside his mind exclaimed, 'DON'T SLEEP TALA!'

"Ahhhh!" Tala screamed falling off his bed and made Kai jump from his near asleep state.

"Waza'madda?" Kai said sleepily.

Tala was breathing heavily and was tangled in his sheets, "Don't fall asleep Kai."

At this news Kai sat bolt upright, "Why not?" He asked clearly annoyed that sleep now wasn't a way to pass the time.

'Why can't we sleep Ray?' Tala thought using telepathy.

'Because you will die…' Ray replied fading to the back of his mind.

"Because we will die." Tala said picking himself up from the floor and walked over to a second chair in the room to watch the scene unfold before him.

"Hn" Kai said getting out of his bed and conjuring a sword, "Well" he said as he put the newly acquired sword in its sheath that was attached to the waistband of his pants, "What do we do now?" He asked sitting next to Tala in his chair.

"Watch life unfold, since we can't be there to see it."

The duo fell silent as they watched their young friend Rose slash at Boris with her whip again… and again… and again…