Nick woke up laying down in a cloud floating high above his home town, or at least what seemed like his home town. He looked up to see the stars  even though it was bright as day out. He looked back down and found the school where Maya, Sophia and Rose all were probably wondering where he was. Nick stood up and walked to the edge, he figured with his power he could get back down to them. He started to use his power when a voice behind him said,

“Wait! Do you not want to stay, it’s fine if you don’t, but, you can’t return to that world, you are now dead.”

Nick spun around to see Maya standing right infront of him.

“What do you mean dead, if you're here too you must be dead then and you were unharmed, how would you be dead.” Nick said.

“I am dead, I have been dead for decades maybe centuries, it is hard to tell time up here.” She said.

“I was just with you down there.” Nick said.

“Oh, no no.” She said comfortingly. “My name is Meezan, I took the shape of the person who you cared for the most, to comfort you and let you know you were dead.” Meezan said.

“What do you normally look like?” Nick asked.

“I can change back to my normal form if you would like.” Meezan said.

“Yes, please, you are making me uncomfortable in that form, you make her look dead,”Nick said, he looked down towards the town, “I would never forgive myself if that happened.”

“I understand how you feel.” Meezan said.

Nick looked up to see Meezan’s body and face started contorting and slowly changed from looking like Maya to a women that looked to be in her late thirties. Her hair grew from her shoulder blades where maya kept it. When her hair finished growing it stopped at her waistline, her hair changed from Maya’s brown to a dirty blonde with some hairs starting to turn grey. She wore a long black dress with sleeves going down to her wrists. She also grew a couple inches in the process, her eyes changed from hazel to a dark red, as if she was possessed by something.

“Is this better.” Meezan said.

“Yes, thank you.” Nick said turning around to look at the town again.

They sat in a moment of silence, when Meezan broke it, “You can’t go back as I explained earlier.”

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“Yeah I am going anyways.” Nick said. “I don’t care if it pulls me back I am still going.”

“I will not allow it.” Meezan said.

“What are you going to do to stop me.” Nick said still facing the town deciding where he should land after he jumped.

Meezan appeared right in front of Nick, she was now standing in between him and the edge of the cloud.

“I told you, you can’t go, I will take you by force if I have to.” Meezan said.

“Wait, how did you get there?” Nick asked.

“Have you ever heard of the Awakening.” Meezan said.

Nick decided not to let her know that he had the same ability as she did, but he wouldn’t deny that he knew about it. “Yes, I have.”

“Well, I was the first known user of the ability.” Meezan said.

“How did you zoom in front of me without armour or some kind of increased strength?” Nick said.

“You don’t need another ability to use ‘Awakening’, you see this ability is able to charge and inject power into things, including muscles. So I simply super charged my muscles so I could run faster than the speed of light, which is why you couldn’t see me until I stopped.” Meezan explained.

“Oh, cool. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to get back to my friends.” Nick said walking around Meezan.

Meezan sped in front of him. “You will have to get past me first.” She said.

“Okay, kind of like this.” Nick said as he disappeared out of sight with speed.

“What, You have the ability. I guess I shouldn’t have underestimated you, but still you will stay dead and there is no way of changing that.” Meezan said as Nick dashed away.

Maya stood alone in the main room, she was bent over Nick’s corpse. Tears streamed down her face to her chin and falling on Nick’s chest. Her hand was clutching his hand, she had been like this for the past few hours, Sophia and Rose decided to give Maya some time alone with Nick, they went to go train until Maya came and got them. The holes in Nick still bleeding out uncontrollably. Maya stood up slightly straighter to see his face that had been drained of all of it’s color. She brought her hand to his face and stroked his cheek as she stared at his face and tears rolling down her face. Her hand dropped and she planted her face into his chest as she started to cry harder than she had just been crying.

Nick stood next to her watching her cry on his corpse, he realized that Meezan had been right, he couldn’t get back. All he could do now was watch Maya cry over his corpse, watching the scene brought tears to his eyes. He would have never been caught dead crying, but here he was, crying. Nick knew he had to find a way back to the real world, but couldn’t think of any way. That is when he had an idea, he if he could leave his body with death maybe he could go back to it. Nick tried returning to his body, but had no luck. He decided that he should go and find help in the afterlife, his goal changed from putting a stop to Alan’s plans, to finding someone who could help him get back to Maya. Nick slowly turned around and started running to the door, before he reached the door he turned his head and said, “I love you.” as he ran out the door with a tear falling from his chin to the floor. Nick started to charge up his suit when the ground in front of him blew up into hundreds of pieces as if something landed on it from a high height. He stopped while the dust settled from broken ground, once it settled enough for Nick to see though, he saw Meezan standing right in front of him.

“What did I tell you.” Meezan said.

“You told me I couldn’t return, and yet here I am.” Nick said.