How 21 Students Saved the World

23 - The Last 20 Minutes of a Movie

Si Cheng took off his jacket and balled it up as tightly as he could. "Yuta, whatever you do, please stay awake-"

"I really don't want to stay awake and figure out what happens afterwards," Yuta mumbled, his eyes drooping. "I'd rather sleep."

"Yuta, don't fucking play games with me," Si Cheng muttered under his breath, pressing it on the wound. No one has dared to take out the spear, in fear that it'll cause pain, blood loss, and god knows what else, they were in high school, they didn't know how the human body worked. They didn't even know about filing taxes. "Please, Yuta, stay awake, please."

A lot of the members of their school were surrounding them. They had been applying pressure against the wound, helped Yuta sit up and lean against the tree, help treat any other injuries he had, but at last, he asked them that, while he was thankful, that their efforts were in vain, and he just wanted some peace for a bit.

"I- I'm trying to, but I don't know how much longer I can stay awake, Si Cheng," Yuta said, his voice a bit slurred. He coughed, covering his mouth with his hands, and it was easy to spot the light amount of blood that spatter his hand. "I'm just mad that I didn't get to die heroically-"

At that point, Si Cheng fell on his knees, covering his face as he sobbed, hunching over the ground. "Please stay awake, I'm begging you."

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Taeyong, with his deadly grip on the shovel in his hands, made his way towards the water tower, where the light was coming from.

He could see four aliens at the base of the water tower, milling around. They probably weren't like the smart alien who had talked to them earlier before Si Cheng decapitated him, so just those normal rabid ones who reacted intensely to noise.

Noise.

Taeyong looked around to make sure no one had followed him, not wanting them to get injured. His eyes widened when he saw Jaehyun run behind him, Doyoung, Johnny and Ten right behind them. "You guys need to go," he said. "I need to do this alone-"

"You are out of your mind if you think I'm going to let you fight them alone after everything we've been through today," Jaehyun whispered to him, grabbing his arm to pull him back. Taeyong was pulling away, resisting, but Jaehyun didn't budge.

"Let go of me!" Taeyong yelled, finally managing to get out of Jaehyun's grasp. "I have to do this, Jaehyun! Everything is my fault!"

"It is not your fault, no one knew what was going to happen!" Jaehyun yelled back at him. "We don't need any more deaths, Taeyong!"

Taeyong shut his eyes, tears pooling in them. "I know," he croaked out. "That's why I need to do it."

He turned around and put two fingers in his mouth, whistling the aliens over, despite Jaehyun yelling at him to stop. "YOU GUYS WANT ME!" He yelled at them, the aliens immediately noticing him. "DON'T HURT THEM!"

"Jaehyun, you need to stop him!" Doyoung yelled at him. "He's going insane!"

"Could be the adrenaline," Johnny muttered, appearing next to Jaehyun, handing him a knife. "Go help him, idiot, he already made his mind."

During the whole commotion, the four aliens started running towards them, emitting a whole range of screeches, and Taeyong raised the shovel up, sprinting headfirst to the group.

The blood from his cut eyebrow was dripping down on his face, some droplets getting into his eye, making his vision a bit blurry, but that didn't stop him as when the first alien came into contact with him, he swung the shovel onto its head, the alien falling on the ground.