Alchemy Of Abyss

Chapter Five~5

Adaline was shouting at the nurses to find Liam. They left the room, searching for him. Donggun followed them with slower steps. His mind was spinning, and his voice was barely heard. "It's my fault... It's my fault..." As he was walking, his head was down, and his eyes filled with guilt and pain. People were running to find Liam; Adaline's angry screaming voice filled the hospital.

Donggun stopped in the center of the floor, right across from the nurses' desks. A sudden voice called him. It felt as if the voice was inside his head. He looked in the voice's direction and found a man standing at the end of the floor near the emergency stairs, staring at him.

In a few seconds, the man appeared before him. He looked deeply into his eyes. Donggun gazed; he saw those eyes before; clear empty eyes with a sharp icy stare. The man put his hand on Donggun's shoulder, his touch awakened forgotten memories and mistakes. Donggun knew how it began and how it would end. He looked at his son's room and stopped his tears from running down his face.

He touched Donggun's shoulder, causing him to shiver and collapse to the ground. Donggun looked hopelessly at the man while his tears ran swiftly over his face. "I did it! How! How could I hurt them?!" Donggun said, sobbing.

"You chose this path... you destroyed their lives," the man's voice echoed in Donggun's head.

"Don't punish me, please," Donggun begged.

"The first time you had a choice to walk away... but you didn't... you chose your desire over anything," the man's voice echoed again in Donggun's head as he grabbed his arm roughly from the floor.

"Please wait!" Donggun begged one more time before the whole place faded into darkness.

"Wow, what a mystery horror move you have," Camellia said, standing behind the man. He flinched and looked back at her. "I like how mysterious you are here... very creative." She tilted her head and looked at Donggun, who looked terrified. "Why do you keep picking him for power drain? He's not the only one."

She shifted her eyes to the man's clear icy stare, his tight grasp on Donggun's arm loosened. He shifted his body, facing Camellia, whose smirk was visible through the dim place. The man's eyes locked on hers, his body shivered, and his eyes widened as they traced the mighty light coming from her left-hand lighting the whole place.

Donggun watched them quietly and slowly crawled away. Camellia grabbed Donggun's head with her glowing left hand and said, "Sorry sir, it would hurt like a bitch." The blue blinding light glowed her hand over his head, his body fazed into thin air along with his loud painful screams.

The man stepped back; He could no longer control his hands; they were shaking in an odd, trembling rhythm. His body was crippled, and his eyes filled with terror, his lips parted, whispering her name.

She looked at him, feeling anger boiling every calm nerve in her. "I killed your troop many times... the same way... the same moment, but the important question here is—" her sword formed between her hands, a quick thrust into the middle of his chest. His face and body glitched and changed. "Why did you get here, Mariat?" he groaned loudly as she twisted the sword inside his shaking chest. "How could you trust Harut? He is insane."

A mighty light escaped from every cell of him. "You said we're weak and deserve nothing but despair and pain... well, I think that means you're wrong." Her tenacity over the sword and with enough force, she leaped with the sword out of his body and slashed his head. In a tiny fraction of a second, the brilliant light of his body and the sword splashed over everything, swallowing it.

Cairo, Egypt, December 19, 2009, 3:20 pm.

Nadine sat alone in the investigation room, shuddering her legs, and rubbing her left balm with her right thumb. The room was small size with a big square mirror across from Nadine who kept looking at the door next to it.