Jung JoonYoung's Sympathy gives me chills and makes me feel xx

They ran back to the clearing, Izzudin on the lead. When they arrived they were met by a puffy eyes Lily and a pale Zulfikar. They were sitting side to side near a big tree.

They looked up to the group as they arrived. Zul met Izz's eyes.

"She's gone." He croaked and Lily started to cry again.

Izzudin turned to his side as his eyes started to get blurry by the tears. Miezza patted his shoulder to comfort him, but she too, was crying silent tears. It was exhausting. People kept passing but the attack didn't even cease a bit.

Now they were down by another member, they only had six members and two leaders.
Miezza looked around.

"Where are the Numbers?" She asked quietly. The constant tears were draining her energy.

Zul looked at her. "Lissa died. Number Two killed her. Her own father." He answered. Hisham and Noorizan wore a clear shock on their faces. Jyra nodded solemnly.

"No wonder I heard about it before..." She trailed off.

"Apparently her father had the power to drain magic. Alex and Dylan has no more magic when we arrived-" his voice stucked in his throat while he was reliving the memory in his head. Who knew, it was the last time he'd ever seen Sheronica or hear her voice.

"So I told them to leave." He finished, trailing his eyes to Farra whose eyes were equally red.

She nodded. "It was never their fight anyway."

"Listen, I know we're lacking more people than we used to. But our friends would want us to finish this war without them. They would want us to live." Farra said. "We are going to win, I'm sure of it." She added, and Hisham gave her a small smile.

"Now let's go and kick some butt."

***

They were at it again, kicking and draining their energy on killing as much hooded creatures as they can. They faced difficulties in killing the massive army because the creatures knew exactly what their powers were and each of the Alphabet's specialities.

"They know about us." Jyra said between gritted teeth. They were now scattered because they lack in number. Some of them even fought alone.

"Yeah." Lily breathed as she ducked from an attack. She released another shot of fire balls but she was tired so she missed the head. In result, the creature stood up again, its broken limb grew again. Lily grunted loudly.

"I can't take this anymore!" She screamed. "Jyra, get down!"

Jyra turned at her briefly, forehead crunched in confusion until she figured out what Lily was going to do. Her eyes widened and she crouched on the ground, head down.

Lily screamed as she threw her hands open, her veins were popping out of her neck and hands. Instantly, a bright light emitted from her body and it exploded, sending the everything in the area bursted in fire.

She dropped on her knees, her hands on the ground as she panted. Jyra brought her head up from the ground to Lily.

"Are you okay?" She scrambled up to her feet and jogged to her friend, she helped her up.

"I'm fine. A bit tired, that's all." Lily replied between lungful of air.

Jyra grinned. "I've always known you have it in you! You killed like, fifteen of those beasts in one go! Right on, sister!" Lily smirked.

But their happiness were short-lived as the explosion proved to attract more of those creatures to their way. Jyra groaned.

"Oh dear God!" She leaped into her fighting stance to get rid of a coming enemy.

"I heard..." both of their heads turned to the slight curly haired girl who stood not far from where they were. "...an explosion."

Jyra's eyes widened. "Miezza don't just stand there and help us!"

Miezza ran to their aid and killed three creatures with her wind. "What did you do? You seemed to attract the dead." She yelled while her hands and legs were busy.

"Lily used her light and now we're fighting 60 percent of the creatures here." Jyra grumbled an answer.

"I'm sorry!" Lily replied exasperatedly. She dodged a killer blow and she fell on the ground lying breathlessly.

She rolled to her side and dragged herself up. She was just too tired. She wanted it to end so that she could just go to sleep. Or maybe postpone it to another day when she has enough rest.

Suddenly everything turned silent. She felt a sharp pain on her chest as she heard someone screamed, and it took her brain a while to process that it was actually her voice. She heard someone yelling her name. She turned her head sideways as she swayed and fell on her side.

Miezza came to her view, she looked panic as she yelled something to Jyra who was still fighting the creatures at a distance. Jyra also looked shocked. Lily wasn't surprised when she saw her actually tearing up. She sensed that Jyra wanted to go by her side, but someone has to stay away and fight to cover for both of them.

Lily coughed up blood and it sprayed onto her face, wheezing to catch a breath. She shot a bloody smile to Miezza.

"I-it hurts.." She said weakly. Miezza nodded.

"I know, I know. I'm sorry, I can't do anything." She said. A lone tear now made its appearance.

"It's fine." Lily attempted a smile, but it came out as a grimace instead. She took deep breaths and shut her eyes. The pain was becoming too much.

Miezza cried louder until her sobs turned to hiccups. Finally the girl stopped breathing and Miezza knew she was gone.

***

"It's no use." Noorizan said, wrapping thick roots on several creatures and killing them simultaneously.

Hisham grunted and released another wave of golden arrows to the incoming group. He might looked like the least tired one because he could attack from a very long distance, but no, he was just as tired as his team members as the hooded creatures began to multiply and became immune to their powers as time goes by.

How? They also didn't know. It might linked to their blood since they had Sheronica's DNA and kind of improved by the Numbers, the hooded creatures were basically unbeatable. They can heal two times faster than the girl, and having a leader's blood in their vessel which was also one of the original in Alphabet clan became a weakness for the remaining members.
But they can't afford to back down now.

They had to finish the battle.

The three of them stood in each other's eye range where they could watch each other's back while keeping themselves alive.

One creature managed to sneak behind Hisham, but luckily the guy saw it at once and stabbed its head with his arrow. He turned his head around to see how his friends were doing. Noorizan had managed to raise a big tree, almost as big as he did at two of their practice. It was smaller, and swifter.

Hisham smirked. Finally Noorizan changed his mind about sizes. Not all big things are better. Sometimes smaller things are more advantageous. His tree was like a mutant. There was no roots, so there wasn't any mess, Aieyn would probably be proud. Not like Hisham would ever tell that to Noorizan.

The branches were thinner but stronger, and he had added sharp thorns on it, so that the tree attacks will be more severe. It also looked like it was immune from any attack, due to being insusceptible of any scratches.
Hisham turned to Zul who was slightly far away. Then his eyes widened.

"Zul look out!"

Zul was moving his hands and feet, but he could barely feel or register what he was doing. It was like his body was too accustomed to fighting that he didn't have to think what to do. So he let his mind to wander off elsewhere. Bad decision.

His mind recalled her long dark hair when his hands were busy running blades on the hooded creatures neck, slitting them until they fell on the ground floor, gurgling and crumbled into dusts. He remembered her features; how her mouth shaped like an 'o' when she was surprised, or how her little button nose scrunched up when Miezza and Jyra told her about Edward Cullen, the vampire that sparkle.

His mind game was so strong that he vaguely heard someone calling his name, until he was already lying on the dirt.

In his eyes, Sheronica had came to his view, looking down at him while smiling. His logic side didn't want to believe what he was seeing. It was a recollection of the past, what his brain wanted him to see, what he wanted to see. So he closed his eyes and opened it again so make sure if he was seeing right.

When he opened it again, Hisham was towering over him, and he started to feel the excruciating pain on his left side of the shoulder. Hisham had a hand on that painful shoulder and Zul clamped his jaw from screaming. He closed his eyes again and there she was, grinning down at him, telling him that he will be fine, that he didn't have to worry anymore.

She told him to let go, and he did.

***
I'm sorry.