Her throat was dry.

Her body was dirtied with dirt.

Her breathing stuck.

Her body loses her soul.

Her eyes was teary.

But not anymore,

As she watch her town burn, ashes of human and wood. 

      She walked around the town, listening to the music to her ears of agonizing screams of her people, wailing of crying children, the crackling sound of wood and concrete. She hummed a song happily, harmonizing the torturing noise.

      She stared at her own reflection, her smile stretched into psychotic, her elegant image was gone forever.

Torn, ash-stained white dress from her people's remains.

Bare, dirtied legs and arms.

Dry, disheveled long hair.

"I look beautiful", she muttered.

....why is the town burning, you ask?

well, it was the princess's doing.

.....because her people buried her alive.

***

      My cheek is against the floor. I groaned and sit up to find out I'm in the exact same place as I were before. But there were no boxes, nor there were the group.

      I stood up on my own two feet, my legs wobbled out of exhaustion. How long have I passed out? 

      A strange elongated, jelly arm stretched out straight to my face but I manage to dodge it. My cheek felt a slight burn. I fell on my bottom hard and dropped my bar.

      I cursed under my breath out of annoyance. I scurried to the nearest wall and lied my back against it. I feel so tired and exhausted. What is wrong with me? It was as if my soul is sucked off.

Or if I have any soul at all.

      A girl in a familiar white dress was walking forward, her blank expression with no emotions. I assumed that she is SuA. 

      SuA stopped a few feet from where I sit, staring down at me. I breathed in and out, the energy within me drained. "SuA, right? Everyone is worried about you", I huffed as I struggled to breathe. "Let's-"

" No", she bluntly said. I scrunched my eyebrows together.

"What?"

      "Join us. Burn with us", she responded. "Or we'll eat your flesh like how you consumed our ashes."

I laughed, feeling like a different person. "Make me", I challenged.

      SuA suddenly screamed hysterically. Branches of arms and hands shattered the floor from below and grabbed her legs and arm. Their burnt arms wrapped around her body, suffocating her. I watched as they fully wrapped her like a cocoon until they no longer move.

Then came a human-like howl from where the black gel mist were before.

***

Jungkook

"Let's go!" Hoseok shouted and we charged an all-out attack.

      Just as we planned, the boys planned to target an attack at the top while the girls attack at the bottom. Then I sensed something was off. 

No Name was not there.

      "Where is No Name!?" I shouted from afar as I swing my blade diagonally to the gel's chest. The creature yelled painfully and spurted its vomit.  A small size of its vomit hit my leg, a hissing pain burn a small hole on my pants.

      "We lost her!" Handong reply with a shout and continue to throw knives at the gel, every stab causes black oozes to squeezed out of its body, its burnt smell wafted around us.

Why does it smell so burnt?

***

      I  gathered up all of my remaining energy and sprinted for my weapon before I charged an attack. Black oozes squeezes out of its body and started to fill the floor, coloring it black, a burning smell like charred corpses.

      I let out a cry as I jump out of the floor and slashed its face diagonally, another slash from a mysterious force on its chest. The gel wailed and aimlessly swayed its fat arms before it was about to grab me in the waist. I was able to dodge it and clumsily landed on the floor as my energy completely ran out.

      I heard a muffled scream from SuA, bashing on the cocoon violently. I exhaled a sigh in frustration and scurried to stand up.

      Until a set of gel-filled fingers wrapped around my body and grabbed me high in the air.

*** 

Yoohyeon

      "How did we lose her!" I shouted at Handong. Handong didn't reply at first as she is too focused on throwing knives at the beast. "I-I don't know!" she replied. I furrowed my eyebrows, suspicious of her tone. Then a gel arm outstretched toward my direction. I dodged it and fell on my bottom. I groaned painfully and quickly hide behind the box where No Name and Handong hid.

      A mirror distracted me from the battle. I stared at my own reflection. Then something was behind my image. 

      A branch-like cocoon, its splinters fly around as a force bashed it from inside, the cocoon pumped like a heart. The force successfully create a hole, an eye appeared from the hole.

It was SuA.

      "Yoohyeon! Yoohyeon!" she screamed. I shouted back her name before the branches covered the hole, muffling her screams.

      "Yoohyeon! This is your chance!" Namjoon shouted.

***

      I cried in suffering as the pain sizzles against my skin, frying my body as the hand gripped me tightly. It was no longer the cold feeling like before.

      Not long after, the beast bellowed loudly, making my ears ringed. Then it releases me and I dropped to the floor weakly from that height.

      I tried to sit up despite the immense burn against my stomach area. I sobbed and having breathing difficulties. Whatever this realm is, SuA must've handled it better than me. 

      Sweat trickled down my forehead. I crawled against the wall and watch the creature swayed its body. This time, its chest burst open widely. More black oozes exploded from its heart, painting the wall and floor like an abstract.

      I sighed and leaned my head to the side. I spotted a few matches spread around messily. I crawled to get it, stretching my hand out as I struggle to breath. I let out a wheeze and force myself to pick up the match and leaned against the wall, bringing the match against my chest.

      The beast became weak but alive. I didn't see how its head were split open, exposing its throbbing brain. It was a blur when that happen.

      Quickly, I start a fire with the match, swiping it against the floor, a beautiful dancing flame. The beast was about to grab me again.

......but not today.

***

Hoseok

      The beast's head split open in a disturbing way, revealing its brain. In an instant, the brain was stabbed until it was taken off from its cavern. Two figures appeared behind its gigantic source of mind.

"Siyeon?"

"Jimin?"

      They landed on the floor. Siyeon kicked the brain off of her pointy bar, the brain bounces just in front of the beast's bottom.

      "What the heck!" I yelled and instantly sprinted away from the beast, warning the others to run away. A fire licks the beast starting from its arm before it spreads like wildfire to its whole body. The beast cry louder and screeched. We covered our ears out of the sound.

      Then the sound slowly subsided. I let my arms fall to the side as we watch it turn into ashes, the small dusts hovered in the air.

Where the hell does the fire come from?

      "That was easy, wasn't it?" Siyeon bragged. I saw Yoohyeon and Gahyeon rolled their eyes and gathered around her for a hug, except for Handong.

      "Where are you guys all this time? I've been searching all around for you!" Siyeon asked.

      "The problem's mutual", Namjoon said and looked at every one of us. I pressed my lips together and glanced at Jimin, which I just noticed him staring at me.

      "Hyung, I didn't mean it", he said as he dropped to the floor.

      "Gahyeon said that you throw SuA into the mirror. Why?" I asked.

      "And you messed up my mind, too!" Gahyeon shouted angrily.

      Jimin shake his head. "I was panicked. That thing, the one we just fought, were chasing us. SuA was slowing down so I have no choice when I saw the mirror wobbled. So I did what I should do."

      I sighed. I spotted Gahyeon whispering in Siyeon's ears. Siyeon widened her eyes and glared at Jimin. She walked towards him and threateningly raises her bar against Jimin's neck, the dark atmosphere intensifies.

"Are you the dead one?" she asked grimly.

      Unexpectedly, Jimin laughed sarcastically. "Are you guys serious? I wanted both SuA and I to enter the mirror, but the realm allowed SuA only. I was pushed away to die."

***

      After burning the cocoon and set SuA free, I wrapped her arm around my shoulder and walked through the hall for the mirror. When I touched it, the mirror became solid. I groaned in frustration and squeezed my brain out to remember the nearest mirror.

Then I recall that there's a mirror where Gahyeon rests.

      I dragged SuA along the hall, forcing my energy to grow no matter what, feigning ignorance of the fatigue.

      I opened the door to our room and went straight for Gahyeon's room. I stood in front of the mirror, an unconscious SuA and my weak image displayed in the mirror.

      I silently wish that this mirror could work and pressed my hand against the plane.

      I was relieved when it works, pulling both of us into the real world.

      In a matter of seconds, we arrived into the real realm. Then I heard a metal fall against the floor. I looked up to see a person looking at us in disbelief and betrayal.

It was Namjoon.

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