Dream Writer [COMPLETED]

CHAPTER 26

            Gyuri was making her away her across the gloomy castle hallway with guards behind her. She lost all her focus that morning. She doesn't feel or look alive. *Maybe I should have stop writing from the beginning. What would my parents react when they know I start writing again and end up killing someone dear to me?*

The door to the rundown greenhouse opened. Gyuri stepped in and saw Jinyoung at the garden table there. She looked down to see her feet almost disappear as the dead leaves covering the whole place. Gyuri met eye with Jinyoung. She dusted off the seat across him and sat. Jinyoung eyed her every movement. He pushed the turquoise book towards her.

Gyuri reached out her hand onto the table. She placed her hand onto the corner of the book, where a dead leaf was. *Please let my trick work!*

"So should we proceed, dear writer?" Jinyoung smirked. They met eyes.

* * *

Daniel stepped onto a rock. He faced forward towards the open area before him. "We're here" he announced. "The Water Kingdom"

Wonwoo followed him. He turned to him, puzzled. "You kidding me?"

"Yea of course. This is a lake" Daniel replied and continued to walk ahead.

They stopped, facing a huge rock beside the lake. Daniel turned around to face the woods. "It's there"

Wonwoo turned around. His mouth agape. Not far in front of them, between the trees, was a small gate made by transparent material, water.

They approached the gate. Wonwoo walked around the gate and eyed it. "But this just like a door to me, but made of water. But how can water stay like that in the air without barrier. Anyway, I could say this looks like sliding door"

"What is sliding door?" Daniel asked. "The one you saw at my place, at the balcony" Wonwoo replied. "Anyway, is this really Water Kingdom?"

"Yea. But you need to go through this gate. The kingdom is hidden behind this gate" "But will you be okay?"

Daniel turned to Wonwoo. "You mean?"

"Because you're a cat. And this is water" "Nah, don't worry about me. I'll be fine" Daniel chuckled nervously. "I hope"

"Anyway, let's go" "Alright" Wonwoo made his way through the water suspended area. Daniel took a breath. "Come on, Dan. You can do this! It's for Gyuri" He held in his breath and went into the gate.

* * *

Gyuri dropped the pen. She couldn't lift her head as she started to sob. Her story proceeded with Jinyoung's soldier attacked a kingdom that none of the villagers survived. Jinyoung had a smirk across his face. He stood and left her.

Gyuri was once again in the bedroom alone, already calmed down. She went to the bedside. She looked around. Her hand slipped onto the bedside drawer, putting the leaves she picked up. Her hand reached up to her head and pulled a hairpin off her head. Once again she looked around, to ensure she was completely alone. Gyuri began to scribble on the leaves using the hairpin.

* * *

Daniel and Wonwoo walked around the village of the Water Kingdom with hood over their heads. They walked in the shadows between the building, through the alley. The two watched as a few of Jinyoung's men walked around on patrol.

"Jinyoung is here" Daniel voiced. "We just need to find him" Wonwoo replied. "I'm sure he's around" "And why are you so sure?" Wonwoo turned to him. "This kingdom is huge af"

"Because" Daniel smirked. "I know where to find him"

"You what?!"

Daniel gave him a wide grin. "I have something to tell you" he turned to him. Wonwoo was ready to hear his story.

"The other morning that I woke up after I 'pass away', I was healthy, like not beaten up at all. I was starving that morning. And so I walked around to look for something to eat. Then I came across this" Daniel paused. And Wonwoo was looking forward for him to continue the suspense part. "I saw a tree" Daniel continued. "What the- what- You kidding me?!" "No. Listen. On the tree trunk, was words scribbled onto it. That I believe from Gyuri" "Gyuri? But how can-" "No idea. But the note was about her location and that she's safe but held under Jinyoung's captive. And about how you too can change the story, since it's our story. I can't do so because I'm just a character here in this world"

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Wonwoo stood. "No" Daniel pulled him to sit again. "Gyuri already set the time for us to attack. It's tomorrow"

"Really? Aish" Wonwoo sighed. "So what should we do now?"

"We wait" Daniel replied, confidently.