Black Pearl

Chapter 7

"Let go!" She tore away from my grip.

"What are you talking about? A swim? A SWIM?! Are you crazy?! YOU CAN'T FUCKING SWIM!" I yelled. 

"Let. Go." 

"Yea, and I'm the next Miss Korea." I rolled my eyes.

"I'm not going to say this again. Let. Go."

"Over my dead body." I stared at her, hard, not backing down from the glare she was giving me.

"Are we doing this? I don't want to fight you." 

"We don't have to, just don't go for a so called swim." 

"You don't know the pain."

"Oh, I think I do..and you know I do." 

"Fine. If I win, you'll let me go..willingly. If you win, I'll comply and never go for a swim or any funny business." 

"Deal." 

As soon as I said that magic word, all hell broke loose. She threw a punch at me first. She only sent more, when I doged it. At this point, I was wondering..what the hell was I thinking? She may not be that fast, but she is strong. My train of thoughts were broken, when a punch landed on my face, making my body crash into the sand.

Not wasting another second, she threw herself on me. I took a few of her punches before kicking her off of me. I quickly stood up. This fight with her was hurting me both, physically and emotionally. She also stood up and threw a punch at me. I quickly blocked, kicking her away from me. My eyes widened at what she pulled out. 

I forgot about the fact that Sohyun unnie always carried a knife with her.

"Why you so surprised?"

"This isn't what we agreed on."

"There were no rules going against this either." 

I had to be realaly careful now. Not only that, but cautious. Even the slightest wrong movement could have me dead. She came on charging at me with a knife. 

I tried grabbing her by the wrist, but I missed, and I had my arm cut instead. 

"Fuck! Dude, put that away. It's a fair fight. It has to be."

"Life isn't fair."

It was like she was possessed. Oh, I wasn't wrong about that part. She was, in fact, possessed. Not by a spirit or something, but depression. Seems like her depression got the best of her. All the things she had bottled up, the petty little things, lead to the situation right now. The cold and sharp knife came in contact more than a few times. For every scratch she gave me, I could only land 1-2 attacks on her. She kicked me right square in the stomach, sending me a few meters back. She had no expression on her face as she raised her knife. She stood before me, getting ready for that final decision, where she would win. Obviously, she wouldn't kill me, but she would certainly wound me badly. She threw the knife at my already bloody lower abdominon. Milaseconds after she released the knife, another one crashed into it, making both of them land meters away from us. 

"Girls! What happened?!"

"Sohyun! What are you doing? Oh my God..what did you do to her?!" Minjae unnie questioned her as she helped me sit up a bit. 

"Hey! I asked you a-"

"No, this is all on me. I challenged her." I coughed a bit of blood out.

"You're all bloody! Shit..what do we do?!" 

"Calm down Ari..I'm okay..more or less." 

"What's this all about?" 

"Let's just say she was bout to go on a little swim." 

"She can't swim though."

"Exactly." Her voice was clean, scary and cold.

"Please, you know you're precious. You very know well that without you, life wouldn't be the same."

"Sohyun..calm down a bit..here, Ari, why don't you go help her fix up a bit. Me, Miso, mom and Jisoo will have a little talk with you missy."

"Hey gir-woah..Yixing, help her out a bit. Luhan, use your telekinesis and bring a bed here. Kai, get a first aid kit. The rest of you, calm down and just help as much as you can." Mr. Wu's voice chaged 180 degrees in less than a second. 

"Hey! Give her back! Guys!" At his command, I felt 2 bodies at my left and right side, helping me tand up.

"You guys are so slow." I was taken out of their hold an was getting lifted by a giant. He was flying, not high though. He was fast in getting me to one of the tents. There, I found everything what a hospital would have. Well..almost everything. I was placed gently on the bed. 

"Hi! I'm Yixing and this won't hurt at all." He smiled widely and I nodded. The first thing I noticed were his dimples. He placed his hands over my wounds and the little ones were gone. My biggest wound was in my abdominon. A second before, I thought the world was going to end. The next milasecond later, I felt nothing. 

"I..Is that all? You're done?"

"Yup...well kind of..I just need you to take your shirt off so I can wrap this around you." In his right hand, he held gauze. In the other hand, his left, was holding a bandage wrap. It felt a bit awkward, but complied. He didn't try anything weird though. He simply put the gauze on, and then, started to wrap the bandage around me.

"You held back." I saw Ari leaning against the table as he finished wrapping the bandage.

"Oh..um..yea." 

"Why?" She straightened her posture and sat on the end of the bed.

"I wasn't actually going to kill her..or hurt her." 

"Why not?" This time, it wasn't Ari's voice. It was someone else's.

Someone new.