Chapter 7

When he woke up this time, he was back in the room he was in before, but this time he was not tied up. Immediately he grabbed one hand over the painful face, which had turned pretty blue after Ray had hit him so hard. He blinked around and looked around, but to his amazement there was no one else in the room except himself. He sat up and only now did he notice the wet trail that had drawn in a circle around him, and there was also quite a lot of liquid in the room on the floor. He stumbled to stand up, but his eyes went black and his legs gave way again. Kai lay flat on the floor and waited until he could see clearly again. Then he crawled carefully up to the liquid and sniffed it. "Spirit", he said quietly to himself, "he wants to ..." but then he was already interrupted. "You got it. Yes, he will. You will get a little foretaste of hell, honey", Ray stood in the entrance and looked at Kai with wide eyes.His lips were sneering and he was holding a box of matches in his hand. "Ray ...", Kai wanted to say something, but he didn't know what, and he didn't have much opportunity either. "No Kai. Now let me talk for once. I've been worried about you since I've known you. Because you never talk, because you don't let anyone look inside you. All my life I've only thought of you every day, because you drove me crazy, because you stole my heart. And you knew it. You purposely wanted to make me suffer because you're sadistic and love to hurt others. And then when it was almost over "You were suddenly nice, out of the blue, you wanted to be my best friend for no reason. Now I know the reason for it: You never cared about me, you just had pity. And you wanted me to be poor." but can at least die happily. But you were wrong, Kai. Look what you made of me.You are the one who prevents me from dying. I really thought you cared about me, but I guess I was wrong. Well, I'm sorry, but you don't give me any other choice, "Kai could clearly hear the pain in Ray's voice. He no longer seemed to be the monster that wanted to wipe everything out, no, he seemed more like an injured one little child abandoned by his mother. "Ray. You're wrong, "Kai's voice sounded softer than ever before, and he hadn't believed that there was such a side to him," you mean a lot to me. Do you think I find it easy to get over it? Damn it I love you! "That upset Ray and individual tears found their way down his cheeks. Kai took something out of his pocket, which made Ray visibly friendlier." Driger ... "he whispered softly," Kai, I think I do I was wrong ... but I can't help it, it's too late.You will die with me Once and for all. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust ", a smile formed on Ray's lips and he was about to light a match. At the last second, however, something happened that nobody would have expected. Suddenly a person appeared out of nowhere, the Kai The stranger slapped Ray in the face so that he stumbled backwards out of the room onto the floor. Little by little, Kai's perception cleared and he clearly recognized Tala's face. Indeed, it was Tala, the Ray on it prevented Kai from finishing off. Ray struggled understandably, and tried to push Tala away. But he was stronger than Ray, so he had no great chance. In the meantime, Kai tried to get up and disappear from the room, but because of his legs hurt like hell, he dragged himself slowly out on all fours. Ray had somehow been able to push Tala away from him and he actually managed to to light a match and throw it into the mausoleum.In an instant everything went up in flames. The fire was reflected in Ray's eyes and out of the blue he began to laugh hysterically. Tala lunged at Kai and roughly pushed him as far away from the fire as possible. "See? I did it. Kai, you will die. With me. We will be together forever. Isn't that wonderful?", Ray sounded like a psychopath who had escaped from a clinic. "You're wrong, Ray. You're already dead, you've been dead for a long time," Tala's words echoed in Ray's head. Ray was quite angry and was about to leave to teach Tala and Kai a lesson. But Tala was faster, pushed Kai aside and lunged at Ray. A bitter struggle began between the two. In the meantime Kai dragged himself to a grave to be able to prop himself up somewhere, and then to watch the two of them. His eyes became more and more blurred and he knew it wouldn't be long before he would pass out again.And he had guessed right, he actually lost consciousness after a short time. The only thing he still noticed was that Tala was yelling his name out loud.

After a while he woke up and he felt every single cell of his body. He hardly dared to breathe because it hurt terribly. As far as he could see, however, he was still leaning against the large wooden cross. Quite unexpectedly, he was picked up, which made him cry out slightly. He didn't know who was picking him up, but it was definitely not Tala. Kai closed his eyes, thinking it was all over, and he was very dizzy anyway. "Tyson ..." he mumbled softly. His "rescuer" smiled contentedly and after a few meters put him in a hollow. At least Kai thought it was a hollow in the earth. But when he then felt that something cold kept falling on him from high above, he slowly opened his eyes and finally noticed that he was lying in his own grave. And it wasn't his savior who put him in there, no, it was Ray. "Tala.Where is tala? "Was the only thing Kai managed to say at that moment." Your red-haired friend? Oh that ... it was grilled, "said Ray coolly. Kai stared incredulously at the supposedly dead man and mumbled incomprehensible words to himself. If he hadn't been in so much pain, Kai would have cried. But even that he wasn't in the mood Ray continued to shovel cold, damp earth onto Kai's body, and only after a while - there wasn't much left and Kai would have been completely covered in earth - Ray stopped unexpectedly and stared at what appeared to be at the other end of the pit lay or stood. Kai couldn't really see it, at least he couldn't even turn his head. All he saw was that it shone brightly. Ray seemed quite horrified, because he dropped the spade and sank to the ground. Kai's gaze was cloudy, he could not see it exactly, but it seemed as if tears were running down Ray's cheeks. Kai gave a terrible start, which cost him a low moan, when suddenly something white, cat-like over the pit a Jumped on Ray.This has now been completely torn to the ground. The Chinese tried in vain to defend himself by pushing the oversized cat away, but he did not have the strength to do so. And Kai recognized it now more precisely. It wasn't a cat Ray attacked, it was Driger. Meek as he was then, he wasn't today. The tiger didn't give Ray a chance. He tore Ray's clothes with his huge paws first, leaving bloody scratches on pretty much every part of the lifeless body. Ray writhed in pain, which Kai was quite surprised, because after all, Ray was already dead. Driger, on the other hand, played himself with Ray for a while, just like a cat plays with a mouse, before she finally brings it around the corner. Only when it was enough for him did he bit through Ray's aorta with his blood-smeared teeth, so that it no longer moved.
Driger, whose white fur had turned red with blood, went to the pit and stared at Kai with an angry look, baring his blood-smeared teeth as well.Kai was scared and afraid, and he was visibly relieved when Driger turned and ran away. Driger leaped lightly over Ray's now finally dead body and moved quickly towards the mausoleum, where the flames were still raging. Fearlessly, he plunged into it, apparently looking for something very specific.
Kai stayed exhausted in his pit, closed his eyes and prayed that it was all over now. At first he didn't even notice that Driger was back, but when the tiger dropped Tala on the ground, he noticed. Driger suddenly disappeared in a glaring beam of light, and after a while Kai passed out again.

Kai looked around blinking, the bright neon light dazzling him very much. "You woke up," Tala remarked unnecessarily. Kai looked around. Tala sat on his bed to his right and smiled at him. Kai turned his head away and rubbed his temples. He had a hell of a headache. "Where am I", he asked his red-haired bed neighbor."You are in the hospital, the cemetery attendant found us the next day", Tala answered him with a broken voice. "And Ray?", Kai asked further. "Well ...", Tala was visibly uncomfortable, "Ray was ... buried again."
The blue-haired Russian turned away and tried in vain to go back to sleep.

Kai was released after just a week. Tyson, Max and Kenny had given him a cat because they thought that Kai could now need someone to talk to a bit, even if it is not a human, because he would not open up to human beings anyway. It was a white Ragdoll with a gray pallor on its forehead, gray paws and ice-blue, beautiful eyes. Kai had named her C'est because he wasn't in a good mood when Tyson and the others took her to the hospital and he wasn't very fond of the cattle. Today he regretted thinking that way back then, but she probably had to keep the name for the rest of her life.The young Russian lived on the sixteenth floor of a rather posh hotel in central Tokyo, Tala lived in the suite next to him. The two Russians had rented the whole floor. Kai wanted to be alone, and Tala just didn't want to be alone.
The two of them just came back from dinner and got off the elevator. Tala said a meager goodbye to Kai, for which he earned a low hum.
Tala had already gone into his room when Kai was still looking for the key card and only unlocked the door a little later.
Ray was there. He was wearing a white suit and his expression was like that of an angry tiger. Wild and angry than ever he spun around, threw a large, blue, hand-blown flower vase that was on the floor, and went to Kai's throat. Kai screamed, he was afraid that he would suffocate.
It wasn't Ray. It was C'est who jumped over the white couch to the floor and