Rising- Rei
First there was darkness and he floated in the silence. His body was numb, without pain. He was peaceful but he felt
that something was missing. Something more than the nothing he lived in. he didn't know how to help this feeling so
he ignored it. After a while he became aware of a warmth. A tingling light spreading though his body.
'Rei' A voice called. It felt familiar and he struggled to answer. He couldn't remember how it was done though.
'Rei' a golden light was growing in front of him, dispersing the night. He reached out to it and felt the warmth
flooding through him now.
'I am Rei' he managed. In front of him the light came together and took the form of a white and golden tiger. Rei
smiled in recognition.
'Drigger' he sighed. The tiger leaned down to Rei and nudged his forehead gently with his own. A white light began to
surround Rei and soon it was all that he could see.
Rei opened his eyes and screamed. The pain was back.
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'You can see your friend now.'
It was the young man who had shown Kai to Rei's room. Max Kenny and Tyson stood up.
'I'll show you the way.' Max looked around to the stairs out front but he couldn't see Kai anymore. Kenny saw him
looking.
'It's okay Max. He went ages ago. I think he's had enough of hospitals for tonight.' Max nodded reluctantly and,
together, he and Kenny hurried to catch up with Tyson and the young man.
Finally they reached the room and the man told them to go in. Tyson pushed open the door and the three of them
filed in.
Rei lay in the white hospital bed. His eyes had been closed but he opened them when they came in.
'Who's that?' he asked cautiously. The three Blade breakers stopped in the threshold and gazed in dismay at Rei's
blood red eyes.
'It's us Rei. Kenny, Max and Tyson.' To their relief, Rei smiled.
'Why don't you come and sit down instead of crowding at the doorway?' They looked at each other surprised.
'How did you know?' began Kenny.
'Oh come on guys. I can tell just by the sound of you!' Tyson smiled and went over to sit on the bed by Rei and the
others followed.
'How do you feel Rei?' asked Max. Rei frowned thoughtfully.
'Well… they pumped me full of drugs and it doesn't hurt to move anymore but I still can't see. I think they must have
given me a happy drug though cause I keep on feeling like laughing.' He grinned.
'oh…' said Tyson, slightly nonplussed.
'Hey, where's Kai anyway?' continued Rei. Not at all put out by the fact that he was pretty much the only one talking.
The others looked at each other not even sure what the answer to this was.
'Well?' asked Rei again, getting impatient.
Finally Kenny answered the question.
'He disappeared after saving your life.' Rei was silent.
'He saved my life?' he sounded surprised. Tyson nodded and then remembered that Rei couldn't see him and said,
'Kenny worked out that you had been poisoned by Biovolt and Kai realised what poison they were using. Luckily he
knew a way to save you. We're not sure what happened then. He managed to get permission to see you and give you
the antidote or whatever it was… he didn't actually tell us how he did that…'
'Drigger.' Said Rei quietly.
'What?'
'He gave me Drigger and it saved me.' There was a short silence as everyone let this news settle in.
'what happened after that?' asked Rei finally.
'He came back down to the waiting room in a state and only stopped for long enough to tell us that you were okay
before he practically ran outside. We followed him out but all he would tell us is that he didn't like hospitals. We left
him alone after that and soon after he walked off and disappeared.
'It was brave of him to come up here if he knew he was scared of hospitals.' Said Rei quietly.
'Scared?' asked Tyson incredulously. Rei smiled again cheekily.
'hard as it may be for you to understand, Tyson, Kai isn't completely insensitive and even the best of us have
something we fear, whether it's irrational or not.' Tyson grinned back.
'I guess so.' He answered. 'It's just weird to think of Kai being scared.'
Rei closed his eyes, still smiling weakly. He was pale and there were slight bags under his eyes.
'Are you sure you're okay Rei?' asked Max, worried. 'Rei?' there was no answer. Rei had fallen asleep.
