〖JJBA - EN〗- Last Judgement

Chapter 20: A bunch of incompetents.

Yarpline, United Arab Emirates. December 23rd, 1988.

[default: English / italic: French]

Two days after the events in the desert, (Y/N) was awakened in the early morning by Kakyoin who was gesticulating a lot in their hotel bed. She blinked and yawned, before realizing what was going on. He was in the middle of a nightmare. So she started shaking him gently, brushing his locks away from his forehead.

"Noriaki...Noriaki, wake up."

The boy woke up screaming and she had to wrap her arms around his waist to calm him down. She pulled him against her and he snuggled into her embrace without hesitation, panting and sweating.

"Where... Where am I?" he asked, looking around, terrified.

"In our hotel room, in Yarpline. Everything's okay?

- I... I had a terrible nightmare, it was really scary...

- Really? What was it?

- I can't remember... I forgot. But it was appalling. Luckily you woke me up... Thank you."

She kissed him on the forehead. He was able to catch his breath against her chest, before she asked him,

"Are you feeling better?

- Mmmmh..." he said, half asleep in her arms.

"We have to go, caro... We have a plane to catch.

- ... that's true. Hey wait... I have a cut on my hand?"

She looked down at his hand upon hearing his words. Indeed, he was bleeding, staining the sheets and the young woman's pajamas at the same time.

"Strange... I must have cut myself during the night...

- I guess... Hurry up, let's get ready."

After quickly getting ready, the two teenagers left the hotel to meet the rest of the group outside. They were about to fly nearly 500km by plane. Except that they were alarmed by a little boy's crying.

"M-My dog... He's dead!"

A few steps away, a dog was lying in his blood. (Y/N) gritted her teeth, shivering. But it was Kakyoin who had the strangest reaction. Eyes wide, staring into nothing, he was holding his head. (Y/N) grabbed his arm to pull him out of his thoughts.

"Everything is fine?

- A dog... I feel like I saw a dead dog recently.

- It's despicable, but it's none of our business Noriaki, we have to go. Come."

She pulled him with her towards the plane's landing strip. Joseph was quarreling with a man who refused to sell him his plane.

"We agreed on this yesterday, you even took the money!

- I'll pay you back. It's just that a baby got sick, he has a high temperature. And since there's no doctor here, we have to take him to town.

- And the other plane, we can't have it?

- It's down for maintenance. The plane will be back tomorrow evening, you can have it then.

- Tomorrow evening? It's a matter of life or death for us too!" Joseph exclaimed, taking the pilot by the collar. "We can't stay stuck here for two days!

- Well, you want the baby dead then?

- Well...

- Maybe we can fix the situation", a lady suggested, holding the basket where the suffering baby was in her arms. "These gentlemen could take the baby with them and take him to the doctor.