Chapter Twenty-Two

(A/N; Hey guys! This will be the first chapter written by CharlottesCookie! I hope you guys like it! :D)

Chorong's POV

It felt like I only closed my eyes for a few minutes before I opened them, decided that I couldn't sleep anymore. Amidst the death silence that engulfed us, I kept hearing stuff like something dropped or something moved somewhere inside the building, and it had kept me awake. So I shifted on my back and stared at the dirty ceiling. The old battered mattress under me was very thin that I literally felt the cold ground under me. So this was what sleeping in the prison feels like.

I turned to my side and saw the others were fast asleep. When we decided to stay for the night, we cleaned the cells and the guys did all the dirty jobs like killing the imprisoned zombies in it. How did they even get bitten in there? Beats me, I don't even know. It only proved that nowhere was safe anymore. We pulled thin mattresses from each cells and gathered them into two cells, one for the guys and another for us, girls. We chose the cell that was less dirty and closer to the door because who knows if we might need to bolt out later. Better safe than sorry.

I heard something hit the cell bars and my head automatically snapped to the 'wall' that was separating us and the guys. Kai was flailing his arms in his sleep and one of his hand hit the bar again, sending a loud clang echoing across the room. I cringed, expecting everyone to wake up but no one did. Perhaps they were all too tired. I kept my eyes on him as he hissed and mumbled something before continuing snoring softly. He must be murdering zombies even in his sleep. Cute.

I sighed harshly as I sat up. The hard ground was really killing my back. "Why are you still awake?" I jumped on my seat and placed a hand on my chest as I tried to steady my breathing. Jungkook was sitting outside of the prison, next to the main door to be precise. "God you scared me!" I whisper-shouted at him. He simply grinned and I stood up, making my way towards him.

I sat on the cold floor next to him and stared at the sleeping forms of our friends. "Why are you up?" I asked, Jungkook only kept his gaze ahead.

"Someone needs to keep watching." He answered nonchalantly. "You?"

"I can't sleep." It was chilly so I brought my knees up and hugged them, hoping to bring them some warmth.

"What do you think happens to Chanyeol and Eunji?"

Jungkook seemed to be thinking for a while before he shook his head. "I don't know, but I sure hope that they are okay." He looked at me. "Don't worry, we'll search for them tomorrow."

"Me too."

"Well why don't you try to get some sleep?" He said. I brought my eyes to him and saw that he was smiling. Butterflies erupted in my tummy and I can only hope that he didn't hear my loud heartbeats.

"You'll be needing them tomorrow. I promise I'll keep you safe."

Oh god I better go away or I'll die of lacking breath.

"O-okay." Did I just stutter? Great, now he'll get ideas about me. I mentally face palmed myself.

Before I can embarrass myself any more, I speed walked to the cell and laid back on my mattress, knowing that sleep was the last thing I'd get tonight.


Eunji's POV

I groaned as the side of my head throbbed. I feel like puking but there wasn't anything inside my tummy, which made everything worse. I peeled my eyes open and was blinded by the sudden light. I squeezed my eyes off before opening them again, slowly this time.

They adapted to the bright surrounding, and I can see better now. It was quite dim before I passed out, and now that I got a clearer look, it seemed like I was inside an abandoned warehouse.

I wet my chapped lips and forced myself to sat up. Suddenly, I heard a door being slammed open in the distance, sending echoes through the huge space. God help me, if that doesn't wake the dead up I'd be forever thankful.

A man walked in through the metal doors, dragging someone, followed by a group of other men. I squinted my eyes to them just to widened them up a second later. The man threw the battered body next to me and a small gasp left my mouth.

"Oh, I'm glad you're up." The green eyed guy said to me. His dirty hair was long that it blended well with his beard.

"So that I'm not forced to do this to you too." After he finished his word, another man holding a bucket stepped forward and threw the contents to the body next to me.

Chanyeol jolted awake, coughing the water that went inside his mouth and nose. He was given a hard time, it was shown through the bruises that covered his skin, and the way he groaned as he turned onto his side.

I instinctively threw myself in front of him. He might hated me for something that I didn't do, but it doesn't mean he deserved to be tortured like this.

"Asshole! What have you done to him?!" I screamed. I wanted to inspect him, but my hands were still tied up.

The green eyed guy smirked. "Just proving my point."

"I don't fucking care about your point." I snarled back. A man advanced toward us at my choice of words, but green eyed held his finger up.

"Now, now, you don't mean that. Your fates are in my hands, so you should be begging."

"I'll kill you." I said in a low voice, trying to strain the chains further.

Green eyed chuckled. "You know what, I'll give you another chance to think. But we should be moving." He motioned to us, and two of his men came and took Chanyeol away.

I screamed profanities to them as two of them started to grab my wrists. I struggled under their touch and I even managed to nudge someone hard with my elbow. He was mad because I hit his rib but my act was proven to crossfire when I felt a sharp sting on my arm.

My sight blurred and my knees buckled, as I helplessly watched them took Chanyeol away before I fell into oblivion.


Luhan's POV

I was starting to get this uneasy feeling deep inside me. Eunji and Chanyeol disappeared, just like that. She would never kill Chanyeol, right? No. Eunji's not that kind of person. Why am I even thinking that?

But where could they be?

And to make it weirder, I noticed something odd in our group today.

Chorong was blushing every single time she landed her eyes on a certain person. She thought no one saw her throwing secret looks to Jungkook, but seemed like she wasn't as discreet as she thought she was. And here I thought she liked Taehyung. Kris, Jude and Luis went out to search the perimeter for the two missing person since early in the morning. Now it was nearly ten and there's still no signs of them, so we started to build another plan.

"I think we should split up to search for them."

Jimin shook his head. "I don't think that's a good idea Kai. Whatever happened to Eunji and Chanyeol I'm sure it's not because of those flesh eater. Eunji is skilled as she is, and Chanyeol is with her, so ten walkers should not bother them."

"What do you mean?" Naeun asked.

She too was acting strange. She barely even spoken a word to Jimin, and even avoided him like a plague. What ever happened to them? Why was everyone acting so strange today? Urgh.

"I mean there must be someone behind all this." Jimin shrugged. "Just a hunch though." "So what do you suggest we do?" Taehyung asked.

"Well, we should cover the nearby building as much as we could, and in the same time stay together. We don't want the same thing happens to us again."

Just then we heard a sound coming from our left. We're all got ready with our weapons, and waited. The door into the prison was slammed open and in came three guys. "Gosh, put that blade away from my face." Luis said, eyes widened at Jungkook's katana sword that was directed to him. "Next time make a sign so that we know it's you rather than those zombies." Jungkook hissed, pulling back. All of us heaved a sigh.

"Sorry guys, we're only in a hurry." Kris said breathlessly. "We found something."


Kai's POV

We rushed to the place Kris mentioned and right now we're hiding behind vehicles that were left on the street. There was a lot of them, but I guess not one of them works since they're abandoned. Obviously.

In front not far from us was a tall building, which appeared to me as a slaughterhouse. It creeped me out, though I would never going to admit that.

"I swear if we don't find food after this I'm going to flip out really hard. You don't mess with a hungry girl." Naeun grumbled for the trillionth time for today. She should stop whining because I'm starting to feel agitated. I rolled my eyes and stared up ahead. There were two vans parked outside of the building and suddenly the metals door were opened, and a group of men walked out.

My eyes trailed to the others who was taking cover behind the vehicle next to ours and saw Luhan giving me the same look. He was shocked too.

"Holy crap." I heard someone muttered beside me and turned to Jimin who had his eyes fixed to those strangers. I followed his eyes and boy, did my heart dropped.

A man opened the back door of the van and another groups came out bringing two limp bodies that we knew so well.

A tall tanned guy with long hair covering his head barked orders in English and the men started to chuck the bodies into the vans. I didn't even notice my jaw was hanging open until Jimin voiced what's inside my mind and probably the others too.

"Now we know what happen to Eunji and Chanyeol."



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