Part one of the awakening of the effected Zweilts. Sorry it's a little later than I expected. Happy readings. :)

When Hotsuma woke up he the smell of disinfectant overwhelmed him. He looked around at the purple walls and realized he was in a hospital bed. An IV was connected to his arm as well as a heart monitor. In the hospital bed next to him was Shusei. A few bandages covered his arm and neck. His eyes were shut, the only sign of life emitting from him was the subtle movements of his chest and the beeping of his heart monitor.

"Shusei?" Hotsuma asked looking over at him but too tired to move.

"I don't think he'll be answering you while asleep," a female voice said and Hotsuma looked over at a woman in a seat.

"The all elusive leader of Tamashii Clan," Hotsuma spat at her.

"If I'm not in your dream, it's very likely you won't find me," Nikki agreed.

"Why weren't you?" Hotsuma asked glaring at her.

"I wasn't in the wing at the time of the attack," Nikki said.

"What happened?" Shusei croaked.

"Shusei," Hotsuma said trying to get up to go over to him.

He was stopped by the wires connected to him. He raised a hand to rip them off only to be stop by a smaller hand. He looked up agitatedly to see Nikki giving him a look.

"Hotsuma I'm fine," Shusei's quiet voice said, "Don't try to pull out your IV."

"What happened?" Hotsuma said glaring at Nikki.

"A Duras snuck in this morning," Nikki said, "a Zweilt was late to their post and missed its entrance. This particular Duras was an Opast. He had the power to pull you into a truly real dream."

"Which means anything that happens in the dream happened out of it," Shusei guessed.

"Exactly," Nikki explained, "we didn't realize what was happening to you guys. You were just running around destroying things and gathering cuts and bruises the whole time. Things around you were being destroyed and we had no idea what was going on. Once the Duras was spotted we figured he had something to do with it. He was extremely allusive of the clan we sent after him, since the Giou and Tamashii Clans were in the range of the effects except the Takashiro and I. We were both at the leader's meeting. Turns out he's a Duras who puts creatures in your dreams that take the shape of someone you've met. They attack you in the dream but you sustain the real damage when you wake up."

Silence crept through the room

"What does the mean about Luka and Yuki?" Shusei finally asked.

"They woke up," Nikki said, "Instead of making them disappear you imaginations went to the worst possible solution. It made you think they were dead when in reality Yuki using God's Light forced them from the dream."

"So the creatures were as damaged by the light as a regular Duras?" Shusei asked.

"Yes," Nikki agreed, "It's hopefully the only one with that gift. We destroyed it but I'd hate to run into it again. The damage it caused was undeniably the most in years."

Cory woke up disoriented in familiar purple rooms. He cursed the fact Nikki had decided white was too clinical. It's not the like smell of disinfectant didn't give it away. He was in a hospital bed. He looked to his left and saw Adam laying the bed, his shirt opened and his chest bandaged. An IV was connected to his arm and the heart monitor beeped steadily.

Cory looked over at the IVs in his arm and raised a hand.

"Don't you dare tear them out," Adam's sleep coated voice warned, "They're there for your health. I might be stuck in bed for now but I'm going to kill you if you even try it."

"Are you okay?" Cory said sitting up carefully so he didn't disrupt the drip.

"I'm fine," Adam said, "A little tired but I'll be okay."

"What happened?" Cory asked.

Adam repeated what Nikki had told them earlier.

"If they took on the appearance of someone I knew why did you have white hair?" Cory looked over at him.

"Why were you dreaming of my past before they came?" Adam asked.

"What?" Cory asked.

"They took someone in your dream and recreated them," Adam said, "you must have been dreaming from back when my hair was still white, before I had dyed it."

"I was," Cory admitted begrudged.

"What were you dreaming of?" Adam looked over at him curiously.

"Nothing," Cory said after a few minutes of thinking.

"Doesn't seem like nothing," Adam said raising an eyebrow.

"It wasn't that important," Cory said.

"But I think it was," Adam said, "it was the scars wasn't it?"

"That could have been you," Cory finally said looking up, "It was you until Kyle accidently got rid of them."

"That wasn't an accident," Adam said looking up at the ceiling, "Out of sight, out of mind or so I had hoped."

"I feel like it's in my nature to hurt," Cory finally admitted, "If he couldn't help it who's to say I ever will?"

"Getting angry is a part of being human," Adam said finally, "But you've learned to control it better. It won't ever magically disappear. You just need to live with it."

"And if I can't?" Cory said.

"Then I can't help you," Adam said, "I can love you all I want but you need to love yourself if you ever want to get anywhere."

"I know," Cory said, "I know."

Tsukumo sat straight up pulling his IV and leaving a burning in his arm. He looked over to the right and saw Toko looking over at him.

"You're up," she said, relieved.

"How long have I been out?" Tsukumo asked.

"No more than the rest of us," Toko said, "About 2 days."

"What happened?" Tsukumo asked trying to straighten out his fuzzy mind.

Toko explained what Isuzu had explained to her earlier.

"Is everyone okay?" he asked her.

"Everyone is fine and in recovery already," she said, "you were the last one to wake up. I was afraid we'd lost you. They found a poison in your veins. Isuzu said you probably got it while fighting one of the fakes. You were the only one who had it so it took you the longest to get better."

"I'm fine," Tsukumo smiled slightly, reassuring her as best as he could, "just a little dizzy."

"Side effect," Toko explained, "of the antidote."

"Is being hungry another one?" Tsukumo asked as his stomach rumbled.

"No," Toko laughed slightly, "that's from not eating."

"Then we should get some food," Tsukumo said and Toko laughed, knowing her brother was going to be okay.

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