Chapter 12
Death tried to move back, but was struck across the head by a swift spin kick from Kim. The young girl looked quickly at the gauge on her arm, it still read at full. Gathering every ounce of strength left in her body, Kim began a relentless assault on Death, her fists smashing into its skull. Death showed no reaction, as its body was pounded unremittingly. After a few minutes, Kim noticed that the darkness around them began to disappear. Death's shroud of darkness was fading, revealing that they were in a massive room.
"This is…" Kim looked around, still trying to take down Death, and noticed various machines and devices materializing around her. They were the very machines that had brought Death to this world. If she could reactivate them, she could send Death back, and maybe bring back everyone that had been lost.
"Enough…" Death growled. The dark specter flew back, his arm whipped forward, and a large bloody scythe appeared. Death grabbed it firmly with both his skeleton hands and slashed the air with it.
Kim leapt at a large console that had appeared and glanced at its controls, the machine was the device that she had been looking for. She quickly began to press a few buttons, and the machine came alive. A loud electric sound began to crackle and a tear appeared in mid air. Death turned around, almost startled by the anomaly.
"I have to exist in this world!" Death pleaded. "Let me be! I'll give you anything you want!" it cried out, as its cloak was being pulled into the tear.
Kim continued pressing buttons, increasing the power, "I don't want you in this world." Kim looked up, as Death appeared to be holding onto some invisible surface, his scythe torn from his hand.
"You'll never see her again if you get rid of me…" Death pleaded, its skeletal face being pulled and stretched.
Kim stopped for a moment, her heart skipping a beat, "Shego…" She whimpered. Kim reached over to the "abort" button and pressed it. The tear in the air began to grow unstable and closed.
Death brought itself back to the ground and it approached Kim. His hand reached out to her, grazing her cheek, "You really do love that girl don't you?" Death asked. Kim nodded, as a tear ran down her face. Kim felt lightheaded, Death's face became blurred, and her eyes shut. It felt almost as if her body were floating and with no where to go.
It seemed as if days had passed, Kim opened her eyes and she shot up, looking around. She was in a dark place again. The sounds of silence were present once again, almost laughing at her, mocking her. A panicked feeling began to come over her, when…
"Are you okay Kimmy?" A familiar voice asked.
"Shego"" Kim cried.
"Yeah, it's me Kimmy. Who else did you think it was?" Shego asked, confused.
Kim's eyes began to focus, cutting through the darkness. She was in her room, with Shego.
"Kimmy?" Shego asked again.
"I dreamt that you and I were in this company… and that you and everyone inside was dead… and there were these monsters… and…"
"Kim… I'm here aren't I?" Shego smiled, taking Kim's hand, reassuring her, "We're together." Shego kissed Kim's hand held it close to her chest. "See, there's my heart beat."
"It all just felt so real." Kim stared off at a wall, her eyes focusing on something. It felt almost as if it were staring back at her, when, suddenly, she could see, a pair of red eyes glinting back at her. Her heart began to race, almost pounding, until Shego placed her hand on hers.
"There's nothing there Kim." Shego said, reassuringly. She kissed her tenderly on the lips and placed her forehead on Kim's. "Let's go back to sleep, it's late." Shego moved her arms around Kim's waist and embraced her tightly, "I promise that I'll still be here in the morning." The two young girls gradually began to drift back to sleep, both holding the others hand tightly, never wanting to let go. Never wanting to be apart ever again.
