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Chapter Four

...Deceased...No longer alive...

'You two aren't...'

...Departed this world...Expired...

'This isn't a joke!...'

...Returned home...Gone...

'You two are...'

...Sayonara...

'You two are dead!'

Max screamed aloud, his scream echoing off of the steel wals that surrounded them. The boy rose his hands, clutching the sides of his head as it shook from side to side. Tyson absently stroked the others blond hair, wondering if Max was thinking the same thing he was just thinking, if he was constantly hearing Kai's words in his head as well...

'You two are dead!'

Tyson squinted his eyes at the words, shaking his head from side to side in disbelief and sadness. Dead? No way! No way in hell! They were damn well alive, and Kai and Rei are just bastards who are screwing around way too much!

...how good did it feel to cuss them out mentally? ...not as good as Tyson thought it felt. That did nothing more but raise his emotions higher and spark a small flame of anger.He ran his fingers through Max's hair still, attempting to calm the whimpering boy and himself, but it was no use. Max didn't respond and the feelings still ran through him. Max hiccoughed loudly. Tyson pulled his friend into a hug to comfort him, but still it was no use. Max didn't calm down. How could he? It's impossible to fetch water from a river that's ran dry.

"Damn Kai..." Tyson whispered aloud to himself, gripping Max tighter, tears slowly falling from his eyes, "damn him..."

Max lifted his head to look at his friend and saw how the tears slid down his cheeks as he glared before him. Max turned towards the direction of the glare, and glared as well. Ocean blue eyes fixed angrily on the two figures lying still on stretchers, covered with a thin white sheet. It was those two impost--no...it was Max and Tyson... lying there...all...dead-like. Max's eyes fell to the tile.

The two jumpped slightly at the sound of the door opening. A doctor entered the room, walking towards the two bodies.

"Poor boys..." He whispered, then he crossed his arms over his chest and shivered. "Man, it's freezing!" He yelled, his breath visible before all pairs of eyes in the room.

"Really?" Tyson asked, he and Max standing, "What's the temp?"

The doctor didn't answer him, he only walked past them and walked out of the door after examining the bodies.

"Well that was rude!" Tyson yelled, planting his hands on his hips, "Jerk off!"

Max nodded in agreement.

"Hey Tyson?"

Tyson blinked.

"Yeah?"

"Are you cold?"

Tyson looked in thought before responding.

"Not...in the...slightest..." He said, his voice dropping lower with each word. Tyson decided to test another thought in his mind. He inhaled deeply and blew. He saw nothing. No white puff of breath was visible. He looked over to Max, only to see he had the same reaction as himself.

"Y-You don't think..."

"It would explain what just happened..." Max answered, his eyes downcast.

Tyson shook his head rapidly. He wasn't going to believe such a thing. He was alive and he knew it! ...or at least he did before he tried a test, and walked through the wall.

He stopped short, looking all around at the hospital. People clad in all white walked around under a well lit ceiling, some with clipboards, some with trays, others carring nothing. They all seemed to be chatting with someone near them, all talking about the same thing:

The two boys in the room in critical condition, and the two other boys suffering from the grief.

"'Suffering from the grief'?" He heard a voice to his side. He didn't have to turn to see whom it was.

"Let's go."

Before the boys could walk any further, however, they were surrounded by a faint glow of light, blue surrounding Tyson, purple surrounding Max. They tried to reach the other, but it felt as though it was now use. Beams of light wrapped around their legs, their arms, and pushed down on their heads, dragging them into a wide, glowing whole on the floor.

Tyson and Max screamed as they fell in, the world now seeming so far away...and yet no one saw a thing.

Kai and Rei stood, walking past the adults and figures of athroity in their way. Kai snatched open the hospital room door, he and Rei walking out, anger evident in their strides. Who did everyone in that room believe they were? How dare they say that! They just didn't understand...

The two boys walked into an empty room, closing the door behind them and locking it. Rei exhaled deeply, sliding against the locked door. He sat on the floor, bending one leg upward and resting his arm on it, his other leg straight and other arm supporting his weight. Kai sat to the opposite wall in the small room, his seating position the same as Rei's. The two sat silently, the sound of their breathing and the buzzing from the light on the roof the only things heard.

Mentally unstable? No. They were perfectly fine. They were as stable as two blocks stacked on top of one another. They weren't insane, they weren't!

"They don't understand," Rei spoke lowly, his golden orbs staring dully at the thin lines in between the tiles on the floor.

"Of course they don't," Kai responded, glaring at the roof as if it offended him in some way, "they don't see what we do. They can only believe what their eyes show them, and never the thin lines inbetween. That is humanity. If something can't be seen by others it isn't there. If it can't be proven to have exist, it does nor did not, and the handfull of people that do see the something that can't be seen, or have unwritten proof of something...well, you know."

"Are the ones dubbed 'mentally ill'," Rei scoffed, "How close-minded. Because we're given something that no one else has? Because we can see what they can't see? Heh, think they're jealous?" Rei joked bitterly.

"Yeah," Kai responded in the same bitter tone, rolling his eyes at the words they were told, "Maybe we should tell them 'Our bitbeast showed Tyson and Max to us!' Do you think they'll let us alone?" Kai asked, sarcasm dripping like acid through a thin sheet of metal.

"The perfect solution Kai! How do you it?" Rei replied with sarcasm as well, a smile tugging at his lips.

"Haven't you heard, Rei? I'm a genius!" Kai closed his eyes and tossed his hand up in a careless manner before resting it back at his side, a small smile on his lips.

"Genius, huh? I beg to differ."

Rei and Kai turned towards the new voice in the room with them, a glare set on their faces. They had had enough of everyone in their hospital room and left, so this was most likely a nurse. Well she--

"Hiya guys!"

--was a he with brunette hair, glasses, and a laptop under his arm that held a bitbeast within it, that was currently laughing.

"Chief?" Rei asked, confusion written in his voice and facial expression.

Said boy smiled, nodding.

"Hey, don't forget about me!" Kenny's trapped bitbeast yelled, "I'm here too!"

"We know that Dizzi," Kenny sat down on the floor next to the raven haired boy.

"How did you get in here?" Kai asked, noticng the door behind Rei wsa locked and unopened.

"Oh that? I got in through the door behind the curtain," Kenny stood, moving the white curtain to the side to reveal another door. "Don't worry, I already locked it."

"Why are you in here?" Rei asked, following the Chief's movements as he returned to his seat next to him.

"Well, officially I'm here helping the staff look for you two," Kenny replied, pulling his legs up and resting his laptop in his lap, "but I'm not going to do that."

"Aw, is Kenny being a bad boy?" Dizzi teased.

"Then what are you gonna do?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Kenny smiled, "I'm here to help you guys!"