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Chapter Three

Kai squinted his eyes at the nurses and doctors. What were they trying to say? That he and Rei just imagined Tyson and Max? That no one was really there, and they were talking to -at best- imaginary images?

"What do you mean," Kai hissed, "by 'no one was there'?"

"We mean as it sounds Mr. Hiwatari," a doctor spoke, "The only thing there was air."

"Air? No," Rei whispered, "They were really right there!" He yelled.

"Perhaps you two should go lie down," a nurse said softly, gently grabbing Rei's arm and trying to lead him out.

"Yes," another nurse added, leading Kai out, "it must be the shock. We're sorry. We shouldn't have shown you two such a thing."

Shock?

Was this true? It was a major possibility. No one looks at the mutilated corpse of someone they know well and care for without this feeling. It's a natural responce to the body when a person experences heavy emotions...and what was seen was enough to cause this, or send a person into hysterics, or even to an asylum.

Hallucinations?

Is that what it was? Is that all that was there in the room with them? An illusion of a sort? Was this the reason that two of their best friends suddenly showed up out of nowhere and talked with smiles on their faces, even though their bodies lay just before them? Did I really create somethings, no, someones to cope with what I don't want to see and hear? Am I really suffering from the delirium of shock? ...I don't see why not.

'Am I...Am I going crazy?'

"No..."

'Yeah. Yeah I am.'

"No you're not."

'I just thought I saw my...dead...friends walking, and I heard them talking.'

"Because you did, and they were."

'How would you know?'

"I helped to allow it to happen."

'And who exactly are you?'

"You already know me, very well might I add."

'I know you?'

"Yes."

'I don't reconize your voice.'

"Really? Then shall I show myself to you Rei?"

'Yeah.'

A bright light exploded before Rei's eyes. A loud roaring sound echoed in the darkness. Lightning struck a few feet from the boys face, and a figure came into view. Green and white fur...

'Driger?'

'Dranzer?'

"That's right Kai."

'What's going on? And what do you mean you 'helped allow it to happen'? Allow what to happen?

"You saw the others? The wielders of Dragoon and Draciel, right?"

'Yeah. You're the one who did that?'

"I was only apart of that."

"We all helped."

Kai turned to face the newly heard voice.

'Rei? Driger? He asked, suprise in his voice.

Both the tiger and the boy nodded in acknowledgement.

'What's going on?' Rei and Kai asked simultaneously, wanting to understand what the heck their bitbeast done, or even, what they were doing. So far, what was said made no sence, neither did having the other in their dreams moving on free will with a mind of their own.

"We've prolonged their departures," Dranzer answered the two, 'their' meaning Tyson and Max.

'What?' the two boys breathed in shock, 'How can-'

"There are some things that even we do not understand, and there powers that even we don't know we have, " Driger began, shaking his head slowly, "so we cannot answer questions such as those. All we know is that it happened just after the accident, but before anyone was brought to the hospital."

'Okay, then answer this: What do you mean when you say you've prolonged their departures?' Kai spoke.

"It's what it sounds like," another new voice echoed in the darkness that swirled around the four.

Bright blue and bright purple glowed in the distance. Dragoon and Draciel. The two bitbeast came closer and stopped, though they were still a distance away.

"The magic won't allow them to come any closer to the four of us for now," Dranzer answered before anyone could ask.

"But they will be able to when the two of you wake," Driger added, once again answering questions before they could be asked.

'So then, can you explain the magic?' Rei asked the bitbeasts before him.

"Yes," Driger nodded, "From what we came up with, the two boys souls are held within their bit pieces. When you two awaken, you will most likely hold in your hands."

Dranzer nodded the confermation towards Driger, whom'd turn to him after he'd finished his sentence.

"I can feel Dragoon and Draciel's energy comming closer."

Driger turned to face the two Bladebreakers.

"It's up to you two to watch over the boys and the bits." Driger spoke.

Kai and Rei nodded in return. They both understood it, but didn't quite believe what their bitbeasts had said. Prolonged departure? It sounded like some type of ghost story, or the type of plot that would be seen in a horror movie in a theatre, but not like something you'd ever expect in real life. But here it was, and this was their real lives. Part of them wanted to wake up and slap the doctors for slipping them a shot that put them to sleep and put such an idiotic dream in their heads, another part was scared. Scared of what? Scared of waking and finding this to be nothing but a dream, or of waking and finding out it was real?

Either way it went, both teens couldn't wait to wake up. Why? Because both wanted to see if they had gotten the bit of...well...someone they really wanted to see. They both wanted to see Tyson and Max, but they just...wanted to see one more than the other.

Tyson's grandpa. Mr. Dickenson, and Max's father sat quietly in the hospital room currently occuping a sleeping Kai and Rei. They were told of the boys 'outburst' of violence on their way to their rooms from the place Max and Tyson lay. Of how the two sleeping boys ran from the escorting nurses into random rooms or to face random walls claiming to 'talk to Tyson' or 'talk to Max'; they were also informed of what happened in the room with Tyson and Max and how the boys passed out, but woke claiming to have seen their friends. The doctors had to give the boys something to help them sleep.

Mr. Dickenson sighed deeply. Nothing good would come to the boys when they woke.

A groan echoed in the ears of the three older men.

Kai's eyebrows knitted downward before relaxing. He was still for a moment before streching out his arms and legs. Rei, on the bed next to Kai's, streched just as well. After a series of groans and yawns, the two boys slowly sat up on their beds.

"Good afternoon," Mr. Dickenson greeted, but was ignored.

The two boys seemed to be staring at their closed right hands. Slowly, however, they opened their hands. Two small objects rested in their palms, the light from sun in the open window flashing over the items. A small smile tugged at the ends of both boys lips.

In Rei's palm was Draciel.

In Kai's palm was Dragoon.

Mr. Dickenson could have sworn he heard a sigh of relief from the two of them. A smile formed on his lips, more sad than happy, for he knew the news he was about to tell them would wipe away the content looks on their faces.

Kai and Rei fell back on their beds, a flopping sound of their heads hitting the pillows was heard. They both turned to face the other, showing the other the bitbeast in his hands, before sighing again.

'I guess I can wait to tell them,' Mr. Dickenson thought to himself, deciding not to tell them of what was to happen to them.