Chapter 8

Every part of Kendall hurt. Darkness was surrounding him and he couldn't seem to shake it. He could hear voices, but they seemed far away and out of reach. He could recognize the sounds of sobbing. Why was there crying?

"They're dead?!" he heard them say. "But they can't be!"

"I'm not dead!" thought Kendall.

"I'm afraid they are," said Gustavo sadly. "And it's all my fault."

"Come on Kendall!" he thought. "You've got to try to communicate to them that you're alive somehow!"

Kendall fought against the painful darkness around him and finally managed to emit a small groan.

"Did you hear that?" asked Jo. "I thought I heard a groan!"

"No," said Gustavo. "You're just hoping you heard a groan. They are dead."

Kendall couldn't believe that Gustavo didn't hear him.

"I'm going to sound like some kind of zombie if I keep groaning, but..."

"Uh..." groaned Kendall again.

"See? Did you hear him that time?" asked Jo.

"I did," said Katie.

"Me too," said Lucy.

"Me three," said Camille. "Gustavo, didn't you hear him? He's alive."

Even though Kendall's eyelids hurt, he managed to make them twitch with movement. With all the strength that he could muster, he managed to open his eyelids slowly and look around. He was soaking wet and he could still feel the electricity traveling through his body, but he was alive.

He was alive.

"Uh..." groaned Kendall again. "What happened?"

"Kendall! You're alive!" shouted Katie rushing toward her brother and giving him a hug.

Kendall couldn't feel his arms yet or he would have hugged her back. He could barely keep his eyes in focus.

"What happened?" asked Kendall again.

"You four got shocked by a huge blast of electricity," said Katie. "You died."

"We died?" asked Kendall, alarm taking over but the pain making it so he still couldn't move. "Are the others okay?"

"They are still unconscious," said Katie.

"Did we change back?" asked Kendall with an edge of hope in his voice. "Please don't say we died and the change back didn't happen!"

Katie laughed, tears of joy spilling from her eyes, "Yes. It worked. You're back in your body."

"Oh thank goodness," said Kendall. "We have to try to wake up the others. Help me up please!"

"Jo! Lucy! Camille! Gustavo! A little help over here please!" said Katie as she slung one of Kendall's arms around her shoulder.

They immediately rushed over and helped Kendall to his feet. He was wobbly on his feet so he needed their support to get over to James, who lay in the water, his head lying slack.

"James," said Kendall. "Wake up dude."

No movement from James.

"Help me down," said Kendall.

They helped him down so that he was on his knees next to James. Kendall grabbed James by the shoulders and started to shake him.

"James! Can you hear me? Groan or something if you can!" begged Kendall.

Suddenly, when Kendall was about to lose hope, he heard James release a small groan.

"Kendall?..." he groaned.

"Yes James! It's me! Open your eyes!"

Kendall watched as a burst of movement occured underneath James's eyelids. When they fluttered open, James looked up at Kendall.

"It worked!" he exclaimed.

"Yep," said Kendall. "It did."

James started to weep silent tears as he looked at Kendall.

"Why are you crying James?"

"I'm crying because I'm so happy we're alive and everything is back to normal," said James. "They are tears of pure joy."

"Do you think you can help me see if Carlos and Logan are still alive?" asked Kendall.

"I sure can," said James. "I just need help up though please."

Lucy and Camille let go of Kendall and helped James to his feet. James went over to Carlos while Kendall went over to Logan.

"Logan! Wake up!" shouted Kendall. "If you can hear my voice, open your eyes!"

"Go away," groaned Logan. "I'm sleepy..."

"Logan, open your eyes! You're going to be late for school!" stated Kendall, spitting out something that he thought would wake him up.

"I'm up!" exclaimed Logan as his eyes flew open.

Logan groaned and clutched his head.

"Man! I have one really bad headache!" said Logan. "What happened?"

"Logan, you're back in your own body!" said Kendall. "We all are! It worked!"

"Really?" asked Logan, not quite sure if he could believe what he was hearing.

"Katie, could you please help Logan to sit up?" asked Kendall.

Jo kept a hold of Kendall as Katie bent down and helped Logan up.

"It's a miracle!" stated Logan.

"Yep," said Kendall. "It truly is."

Looking around, Kendall could see that James had also managed to arouse Carlos. Kendall sighed a sigh of relief. At least all of them were alive.

"You dogs surprise me every time," said Gustavo with a small laugh. "Why did you have to go and scare me like that?"

"It's not like we died on purpose Gustavo," said Kendall.

"Still, you dogs are going to be the end of me," said Gustavo shaking his head.

"Well," said Kendall. "I guess everything did turn out alright in the end after all."

"Yep," said James. "Although Kendall..."

"What?" asked Kendall turning to look at James.

"Who's going to pay my dry-cleaning bill?"

With that, they all laughed. It was nice to have things back the way they were suppose to be. For now anyway.

AN: Thanks to all of the readers and followers! I appreciate you sticking with this story all the way through. Thank you also goes out to everyone that favored it and took the time to review it! Your reviews meant a lot to me and are what kept me updating daily! I hope that you enjoyed the story from beginning to end. If you have any ideas for Big Time Rush stories you would like me to write, just PM me. Look out for more Big Time Rush Fan Fics in the near future! :)