(Meanwhile....)
Suho's Pov
"Hyung, I'm tired. Let's rest." Said Lay as he did light punches on his knees.
I shook my head, protesting that idea. "We can't. We have no idea what's going on with Jaehee, Luhan and Tao so we must quickly get to them."
"You have a point but this forest is huge, do you think we can even find them? They're not even at the hideout." Said Kris, scratching his head.
We went to our hideout earlier but there were no signs of the 3 of them. Where on Earth did they go?
"So let's rest for the night, okay? Even we get tired too." Chen agreed with the others.
I sighed. They were right, I do feel a little tired after all the search. "Alright, let's go to a nearby motel since our place is still too far from here."
We would have used our super speed but everyone is too exhausted for that.
You'd think we're high and mighty because we're werewolves and vampires, and that we don't get tired--nah, that's just a myth.
Don't believe those craps, we need to replenish our energy too at times.
Anyway, we decided to take a rest at a motel just located 10 miles outside of the forest. Luckily, the motel was cheap and nobody recognized us. Heaven must be on our side.
We went up to our room which was located on the 2nd floor of the motel. The place wasn't fancy or anything but we only needed to rest for the night, we're probably going to go search again early in the morning.
As soon as we walked into the room, we immediately found our comfortable positions--Kris, Xiumin and Sehun shared a bed next to the door, Chen and I shared the other one next to the bathroom, Lay made himself comfortable on the couch and the others were on the floor.
After leaving the club, we decided to recruit vampires from different parts of the city and so far we recruited at least 6 vampires who never agreed with the ways of the Phantoms.
We haven't searched outside of the city yet because we didn't want to leave Jaehee and the others behind before knowing they were safe.
With us alone and the 6 newly recruited vampires, it still wasn't enough to beat the Phantoms. We need a great number of armies to take out the Phantoms and their minions.
(1 hour later)
It was almost 8PM when there was a sudden knock at the door. Chen was in the bathroom taking a shower, and the others were sleeping, I was the only one up.
"Who is it?" I asked as I took cautious steps towards the door.
The man on the other side of the door spoke, "I have a delivery for Mr. Kim Joonmyeon?"
A delivery?? But who besides us knew we were here? Something smells fishy.
And it didn't help knowing that Chen has been in the shower for nearly 2 hours without making a single sound.
The members woke up because of the noise. "Who is that?" Asked Chanyeol who was the first to wake up.
"He said he has a delivery for me." I replied.
"Careful, hyung. Could be a trap," said Sehun as he got off the bed. I nodded my head in response.
I turned the doorknob slowly and slightly open the door and taking a peek at the man outside. He looked like a normal deliveryman and I smell no bloodthirst from him.
"Who is it from?" I asked the man.
He looked everywhere around the box, probably searching for the name of the sender. "It doesn't say."
After making sure that the delivery man was just a delivery man, I took the package off his hands and he went on his way.
I walked into the middle of the room and placed the package down on one of the bed, the others circling around me as they tried to get a good look at what was inside the box.
"Do you think the Phantoms sent this?" D.O asked over Kai's shoulder as he was a few inches shorter than the latter.
Kris replied, "It could be from the manager."
"Impossible. The manager couldn't have known where we are." Lay disagreed.
"Well I say we open it quick, if its a ticking time bomb then shouldn't we difuse it immediately?" Said Chanyeol as he stood next to Xiumin who gasped at the possibility. "Let's open it." The latter quickly said.
We all agreed to open the package but as soon as I ripped it open, Sehun popped out of the bathroom. "Guys! Chen hyung is gone."
"What?" My eyes widen and I quickly ran to the bathroom, all thoughts regarding the package slipped my mind at that moment.
When we walked into the bathroom, the shower was on but no sign of Chen anywhere.
What the hell is going on?
"I came to tell Chen hyung about the package but he didn't respond and I had a bad feeling so I forced the door open but I couldn't find Chen hyung anywhere." Said Sehun.
The shower was still running, I closed the tap so we could think in silence. When I looked up, the window next to the shower was left open and that was when it hit me; vampires were here.
Vampires have the ability to turn themselves into black fogs which gives them the ability to move from one place to another, it is even faster than running.
Only vampires who drank the Phantoms' blood could have this ability since it was originated from them.
So there was definitely no way we could catch up to Chen.
"What should we do? Shouldn't we go after them? They have Chen!" Kris was dangerously fired up, if he doesn't control his anger he might even go berserk.
Chanyeol placed a hand on Kris's shoulder as he tried to keep him relaxed. "Calm down, we didn't say we won't go after him. We just need a plan."
"The package." D.O reminded us. We completely forgot about the package.
We went back into the bedroom and wasted no more time in getting the package opened.
Silenced immediately fell around the room, we were staring at a piece of bloodied clothing and a lock of hair tied together with a red string which smelled of blood.
"Hyung, w-what is that?" Kai's eyes widen at the lock of hair. I couldn't answer him because I was also frozen at the sight of the bloodied cloth.
All I could think about at that time was Chen's safety.
Because this lock of hair definitely belongs to him.
"That's not what I think it is, is it?" Asked Kris as he covered his nose because of the strong smell of the blood.
I gulped and reached for the hair. "This smells of Chen. It definitely means they have him." I put the hair back into the box and looked at the members---they all have terrified expression on their faces.
I took a deep breath and said, "Get it together. We don't know for certain if they did something bad to him, that's why we need pull ourselves together so we can find him asap."
It took quite a while for them to pull themselves back to reality and after they did, we began to work out a plan to find Chen and get him back.
"Luckily, Chen's smell left a trail so we can easily find him. What we need to worry about is how we could infiltrate their lair and get out of there alive." I ponder over this.
This is a suicidal mission, we haven't even recruited half of the vampires yet and Luhan isn't here so there was no way we could take them all out.
"For now, our main priority is rescuing Chen. We can think about the rest later. The more we wait, the longer they have Chen in their custody and we don't know what sick things they are doing to him right now. If we don't go now, we'll never make it to him in time." Said Chanyeol as he waited for our response.
"Chanyeol's got a point. Are you guys ready to do this?" I waited for their answers and when they finally nodded their heads in agreement to Chanyeol's plan, we set out on a dangerous rescue mission. "Let's go."
= = =
Luhan's Pov
(Somewhere in the woods)
I stopped walking when I felt a pang in my chest.
Usually when I feel this, it could only mean 2 things; either my loved ones are in danger or we're about to encounter something dangerous.
It felt like my whole body was going numb from the sharp pain in my chest, my knees gave in as I fell to the floor, Jaehee ran to my side, a sign of worried flushed on her face. "Luhan, are you okay!? What's wrong?"
If I didn't have this pain in my chest, I would hugged her right now but I couldn't control my body at the moment.
"I'm find, I just need to compose myself." I assured her but she didn't look convinced. As expected of Jaehee, her kind heart was what made me fall for her in the first place.
Is this what it feels like.....
.....to love someone?
"Do you want to rest for a bit? We've been walking for 7 hours straight." She said.
"Don't forget, I'm a hybrid, the only kind to exist in this world. I will not be defeated by the mere action of walking." I stick out my nose, making myself look like a snob and she laughed at it.
Her laugh is really breathtaking.
"Okay, Mr. Hybrid. I won't tell you to rest again."
I smiled at her cheekiness.
So we continued walking down the woods. There was nothing but trees, not even a path to lead us back to the road.
Suddenly the peace and quiet was disrupted by a screaming voice. It sounded like.....
"Tao!!" Me and Jaehee looked at each other when we said that.
We quickly followed his voice, it led us to an open space where there were no trees blocking the view, only green grasses swaying rhythmically against the wind.
However, there was something written on the ground and without realizing it, we were already standing on it. "What the hell is this?" Jaehee tried to leap out of the circle but I stopped her.
"Stop! This is an Èmaculà circle. It is only used by the Phantoms and their minions, it's a spell that traps non-humans inside the circle. If we step out of the circle, we'll burn to ashes."
"Are you kidding me?! God this Phantoms have so many tricks up their sleeves." Jaehee rolled her eyes in annoyance.
I find that adorable to be honest.
"Well well, look who we have here." A hooded figure stepped out of the shadow, 2 other hooded men appeared on each sides.
"Hyung!" Someone called.
We turned our heads to the direction of that voice and relieved to see it was none other than Tao running towards us.
"Tao!" Jaehee exclaimed. Even after all the things Tao did to her, she was still happy to see him.
That's Jaehee after all.
"Boy am I so glad to see you." I said.
"We need to break this circle." He said as he examined the writings around the circle.
"I can create a counter spell to break the circle but you need to buy me some time." Since my blood was far superior than the two of them, I was the only one who could counter the spell.
But I need Tao to buy me some time while I work on breaking the circle.
He nodded and said, "I can do that but hyung, please hurry. I'm not strong enough to take on all 3 of them."
Tao was strong but his body hasn't fully trained yet so it would be difficult for him to defeat 3 fully-awaken vampires.
"Be careful Tao," said Jaehee as she looked at him.
He replied her with a smile and said with confidence, "Don't worry. I won't lose."