The Suju Games

Chapter 10: The Confession

(Henry)

        Henry let out a terrified scream as the mutt clawed at his face, he tried to stab at it repeatedly with his knife, but it didn't seem to be of any use. This is it, he thought, ready to give up. I'm gonna die. He thought of his family back home, and then of Zhoumi. Zhoumi wouldn't want him to give up, Zhoumi would want him to fight. So fight. He let out another scream and turned them over so that the mutt was beneath him, he used one hand to hold both its paws and the other one he used to stab it with his knife. He stabbed again and again and again. Eunhyuk and Donghae, seeing what he was doing, got some strength and fought back as ferociously as he did. Together, they fought all of the mutts until they were lying in a dead heap on the ground. Henry collapsed to the ground, clutching the wound the first mutt had made on his chest, it was bleeding heavily, he had never felt so much pain before. 

        Donghae and Eunhyuk quickly ran over, "Give me some water, quick." Eunhyuk told Donghae, who scrambled around looking for his bottle before hurriedly giving it to Eunhyuk. Eunhyuk tore a bit of his shirt off, soaked it in the water, and then gently began to wipe the blood clean. Henry clenched his fists and gritted his teeth to keep from screaming from the stinging. 

        "Do we have any bandages?" Eunhyuk asked, and Donghae shook his head, "Fuck." Eunhyuk swore, "Get me some leaves." Donghae hurried to get get some leaves and brought them back to Eunhyuk, "Rope?" he asked, and Donghae got some rope from his pack. Eunhyuk used the rope to tie the leaf around Henry's body, to try to prevent as much blood from coming out as possible. 

        "I look like a jungle man." Henry tried to joke weakly. 

        Eunhyuk dusted his hands, "That'll do until we can find some real bandages." 

        "Thanks hyung." Henry smiled gratefully, "But now you should tend to your own injuries." 

        "What? This?" Eunhyuk asked, pointing to the cuts all over his body, "Theres nothing much to do really, just gotta clean them, thats all." 

        Henry nodded and drifted off to sleep. 

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        (Kibum) 

        "Tributes!" Kibum sat up upon hearing Lee Taemin's voice in the sky, "Right now, all of you have something you need desperately. Tomorrow morning, we invite you to a feast, there will be a pack for every group of allies, inside it, is something that may decide whether you live or die. Your pack will have the number of your and your allies district on it. Good luck! And may the odds be ever in your favour!"         

        Kibum scrambled up, "I have to go get it. Its the medicine for you, I know it is." 

        "No." Sungmin caught hold off Kibum's leg, "Its a trap, theres been too little bloodshed, too few people have died, they're trying to draw us together to kill each other by going there!"

        "Thats even better!" Kibum said, "The faster we get killed off, the faster whoever will win gets to go home!" 

        "You think it'll be you, don't you." Sungmin asked quietly. 

        Kibum did not answer. 

        "If you go and die, who will take care of me?" 

        "I won't die." Kibum promised, "Just stay here. Please. Promise me." 

        "I-" 

        "Promise me!" 

        "Okay, I promise." Sungmin said, lying back down miserably.