Alchemy Of Abyss

Chapter Five~4

"HELLO," a woman shouted from far.

Donggun followed the voice and saw the back of a woman in her twenties; she was walking and shouting for someone to answer. "Camellia," Donggun said to himself when he laid his eyes on her.

She shouted; nothing was heard but the echo of her voice. Donggun walked to her and stood right behind her. "Camellia," Donggun said, she startled and turned.

"I'm Donggun... Liam's father," Donggun said and looked at the ground, hiding his face from Camellia's gaze.

"Liam's father...!"

"Tell Liam I'm sorry," Donggun said and looked into Camellia's eyes. She felt the sadness coming through his teary eyes. "Liam and Nadine need your help... I shouldn't have stayed there, I unveiled a secret... time is repeating itself and erasing everything... it is my fault, I shouldn't have told Addaya what I saw." Camellia was completely confused, Donggun looked at her and said, "follow me."

Donggun returned to the tree while Camellia frowned. "Where did this tree come from?!" she said.

"Touch the leaves and you will know everything," Donggun said and left Camellia standing alone. Camellia didn't notice that Donggun had left her; she reached to touch the leaves. Within seconds, Camellia gasped hard after her mind absorbed all the memories of Donggun.

"What the hell?!" Camellia said and felt a sudden dread as Donggun watched her from afar. Both felt a powerful earthquake, mighty vibrations made Donggun close his eyes, praying it would stop. The earthquake was hard and powerful and felt like the ground was swallowing whatever was on it.

The white-collar man appeared again, expecting them to be gone, yet shocked when he saw Camellia leaning her body on the acacia tree with her arm crossed, looking precisely at him. "You shouldn't be here," he shouted. "You must save them all."

Camellia walked slowly toward him, and her tattoo glowed underneath her shirt, revealing her glowing blue strings that transformed into her deadly sword with each small step she took.

"I don't understand the nerve you people have" the man's eyes widened, and his body began shaking uncontrollably; he knew her name, and he knew what would happen to him. "You drain this poor man of his destiny and power... you killed him, and erased him from existence, for what?" she stopped right before his teary eyes.

"I wish there was any trace of his human soul inside his body, but you didn't give him a chance... and neither will I." Camellia thrust her sword into the man's heart, his painful scream and the mightiness of the light coming out of his body and the sword filled the whiteness void and covered it whole.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 18, 2009, 11:35 pm.

As doctors and nurses walked in and out of Liam's room, no one knew what was happening to him. Everything looked fine, from multiple blood tests to full-body MRI scans. He was perfectly healthy. After a while, they tried to wake him up, but he wasn't responding to them. They gave up the intense tests and gave him powerful painkillers to calm him down. One doctor who treated Donggun earlier walked into the room, looking directly at Adaline. "Doctor, do you think it's related to what happened earlier to Donggun?"

"I don't know, Liam didn't have a seizure, he had a fever, and Liam's screaming was like someone getting his bones broken!" Adaline said and sighed. Confused about what was happening to her son. Throughout her career life, she muddled for the first time with no obvious answer.

The doctor checked his recent results. There was absolutely nothing wrong with him. He looked again at Adaline and asked, "Do they have any history of any specific disease?"

"No, both are completely healthy," Adaline said, and eyed Liam's resting body. The doctor asked one of his interns to check for a neurological disease that might be the answer to Liam's mystery condition.

Liam's fever was still up, but he was much calmer. Donggun was waiting outside the room thinking about his son and what he saw while Adaline left Liam and went to the doctors' lounge. Liam screamed again, yet this time louder. Donggun slammed the door and saw Liam's whole body in shades of red and forcefully shaking.

Words in Hangul appeared again on his forearm while he was screaming painfully. His sweat covered the pillow beneath his head and the thin bed sheet covering his chest. His heartbeats were increasing drastically, marking his way into a heart attack. Donggun ran outside to call the doctors and the nurses, who suspiciously weren't near his room.

Everyone came running when they saw Donggun panicking state before they got closer to the door. Donggun heard a sudden sound of stopped heartbeats coming from the monitor. He went inside, followed by everyone; they were all in shock. Liam disappeared.

They looked everywhere; he vanished. "WHERE IS LIAM!?" Adaline screamed angrily when she walked into the room. The entire staff was confused. There was no way for him to get out without them noticing.

Donggun stood shockingly in the middle of the room with fear taking over his soul. His loud, screaming thoughts blocked his hearing. One name kept repeated in his brain.

Addaya.