"What are you doing there? You're gonna get both of us killed. Didn't you hear me?"

"RUN!"

"NOW!"

Jimin snapped out of his trance almost startingly when the policeman fumed at him.

Just as he turned his head to run, a deafening scream was heard. A scream that was of the police officer's.

Gulping down his saliva, shaking in fear, Jimin slowly rolled his eyes back just to witness the horror-stricken sight of the former cop being bitten. A mad woman was clinging onto him, ripping out the shreds of his flesh leaving a thick scarlet stream of blood to splatter everywhere.

Jimin was paralyzed with fear as he observed that 'thing'. Her eyeballs were crazily white, her mouth wide-opened with a jaw that seemed dislocated, her bones cracking, and purplish-grey veins popping out of her pale skin. Her freshly open wounds and rotting flesh were enough to make anyone puke.

Just when the undead finished her job with the officer's body. She lifted her head sluggishly then her deadly eyes met Jimin's. With a lone drop of sweat rolling down his temple, he began to withdraw his footsteps back.

Then with a sickening scream and twitch, and blood mixed with saliva dripping from her widely opened mouth, she staggered towards him.

Jimin was panting heavily as he managed to shove himself inside a car in the midst of all that running. Catching himself in a totally perplexed state, he made sure to lock all four doors. He could feel his head spinning, his whole body freaking out. He didn't know where to go. He had no idea where he was. All he could hear was the thundering screams and see the corpses littered around from the car's window.

"I shouldn't have left him alone there. I shouldn't have left his hand. I shouldn't have—" Jimin was feeling frustrated as he was regretting his decision, recalling everything that happened a few minutes ago.

~

"Whoa whoa whoa!" Taehyung was frightened when he first stepped on the slippery ice surface. For a few minutes, he just moved around the edge of the rink while holding onto the wall.

While Jimin was already gliding across the ice rink. He looked so natural, so smooth, so graceful. Both of his skates were parallel to one another, pointing at the same angle, making him go farther and faster across the rink. He was clearly enjoying his time while skating.

On the other side, there was Taehyung who was still struggling to stand on his feet.

Finally taking a deep breath, he mustered up some courage to move away from the rail and progress forward. His body was stiff as ice. He wobbled, and with his knees bent slightly, and leaning forward, he attempted to slide down the ice rink. He had only managed to travel for a shorter distance when someone dashed by him which made him lose his balance.

"Aaah!" His arms flapped like an air propeller before he fell right on his butt.

Jimin first chuckled at the sight then soon he burst out into a series of laughter.

"If you are done teasing me, then help me up!" Taehyung almost glared at Jimin as he said so.

"Here you go." Suppressing his laughs, Jimin held him by his arms and stood him up. "C'mon, hold my hand."

"You aren't planning to leave my hand later, right?"

"No, I'm not. I'm never gonna leave your hand, okay? I promise." Jimin assured the latter with a warm eye smile as he took his hand in his.

"Just trust me." Those words unexpectedly sounded dramatic to Taehyung at the moment.

Soon, both of them were now gliding down the skating rink easily. Hand-in-hand, smiles adorned on their faces, they seemed to be happy together.

But who knew that it will only last for a just little while?

It seemed like everything collapsed within just a blink of an eye. Before they could decipher what was going on, there was a whole ruckus.

Shortly, the place was filled with dreadful screams all around. There was a commotion of people trying to save their lives from the horde of creatures, that popped out of nowhere. They almost resembled zombies. They maniacally started biting the people, tearing their flesh apart without even showing a sign of mercy.

Jimin and Taehyung were too alarmed to say a word as they were now hiding in a corner amid all the fuss. They didn't realize since when they were hugging each other, trembling in fear.

"W-What will we do now, Jimin-ah?"

"Will we d-die here?"

"Taehyung-ah, look at me!" Jimin shook Taehyung violently who was too terrified for willing to hear anything.

"I don't want to die like this. I don't want to be bitten. I don't want to become like one of them. I—" Taehyung was having a panic attack as his chest heaved, gasping for longer breaths. He was covering his head with both of his hands, his head buried in between his knees.

"L-Listen,"

"We all will die here, Jimin-ah! We all will—"

"I said listen to me, Taehyung-ah!" Jimin roughly shook him again and made him look into his own eyes as he was now grabbing him by his face.

Taehyung went calm and silent as he listened up to him.

"We will not die here, okay? I will take you out of this damn place. I won't let anything happen to you. I will make sure to protect us at any cost. We just have to stay together." Jimin sounded firm and determined as he said so. "You believe me, right?"

Taehyung nodded as they both stared at their tightly bound hands which were sweaty for one last time before they went out of there as everything seemed awfully still now.

"Let's go there." Jimin, who was followed by Taehyung entered a restaurant that was surrounding the main arena.

As soon as they stepped inside, there was a grieved silence. Then unanticipatedly, a zombie who was first dragging his half-torn feet with blood oozing out pounced upon Jimin, pinning him down to the floor. "AHHH!"

Jimin was trying so hard to push it back off himself. But he couldn't as he was overpowered. He almost got his neck bitten by that vicious creature when Taehyung grabbed a chair and smashed it on the infected's head repeatedly until he went limp.

"Jimin-ah!" Taehyung immediately stood him up and squeezed him in his arms as they both took a sigh of relief.

Within a snap, another zombie crawled out of behind one of the doors and blocked Jimin's path.

"Shit!"

"Let's meet at the Olympic Park. Wait for me there, alright?" Jimin's voice faded behind as he ran outside and they got separated."

Tears welled up in Jimin's eyes as he had a flashback of how drastically things went downhill in a matter of few minutes.

"I cannot stay still like this and do nothing. Taehyung must be waiting for me. I have to go to him by any means." Jimin mumbled to himself as he looked around after the banging of the zombies on the car's windows had stopped as they probably got lured by some other stimuli.

He slowly unlocked the door and stepped outside. He extirpated a rod from a nearby lamp post. And just dashed out with every bit of energy he was left with, aiming for his destination.

He tried his best to dodge all the zombies that got in his way with the help of the piece of rod he had. He was almost there, the Olympic Park.

A smile formed its way on Jimin's lips when he saw Taehyung crouching down beside a bench.

Jimin rushed to him without wasting a second and his legs finally gave out as he landed on his knees right in front of Taehyung but he didn't care as all he cared about at the moment is that he got his friend back.

As soon as he looked into Taehyung's eyes, they were completely blank. Jimin's heart sank to the bottom when he realized that the person in front of him wasn't his friend, he was long gone.

He was infected, like one of them.

Jimin's eyes landed on Taehyung's arm as thick blood was dripping out from his freshly open wound. But Taehyung hadn't fully turned into one of those creatures yet.

"Jimin-ah, just leave!"

"No, I'm not going anywhere without you! Nothing's gonna happened to you!" Jimin cried and begged him. "Let's go."

Once a first tear rolled free down Jimin's cheek, the rest followed in an unbroken stream as Jimin embraced him tightly.

"It's too late, Jimin-ah." Taehyung's eyes were filled with sorrow as they looked normal for one last time before with a few twitches and cracks, which were followed by an intense scream, he turned into one of those. And bit his dear friend right then and there.

Jimin's body jolted in his arms as he was being munched on harshly. A smile of assurance then crept up to his lips as the last words slipped out of his mouth—

"S-See, I kept my promise, Taehyung-ah. I didn't leave your hand till the end." 

Author's Note:

Hey guys! I know the story turned out to be emotional. I just tried to write what came to my mind. So hope you still like it.

I purple you 💜