End Of Nightmares (Book 3)

Chapter 111: Good Luck, Dreamcatcher

Hwasa drags herself across the cratered land, drenched in her own blood and chunks of flesh stuck at some parts of her uniform. All she heard are bells ringing, an aftereffect of being so close to explosion. All around her she can sees two things; complete human beings or their remains, shredded all the way to Sunday as if they had been grinded in the meat grinder.

"Wheein!! Solar!! Anyon- Wargh!" Hwasa slips, face first into the lump of viscera o the ground. Some chunks slips through her mouth, which causes her to throw up. Drained, she could no longer got back up to her feet, dragging herself through the sea of blood, flesh, and dirt with her arms.

"Lily... Wheein..." Hwasa pants, her fatigue taking over her before she lays flat on the ground. She wheezes for air, coughing in between. The next cough almost knocks her out, blood sputtering out from her lips. The shockwaves damages the capillaries in her lungs, slowly flooding her lungs with blood from within.

"Hwasa! Hey, stay awake!" Lily somehow found her in the midst of carnage, cradling Hwasa's head in her arms. She immediately mutters the incantation, healing Hwasa with her temporal reversal technique. It took Hwasa a few minutes before she regain her full consciousness, sitting cross legged in front of Lily.

"You okay?"

"Yeah. Thanks. What's the news on everybody?" Hwasa asks for Lily help to stand up, wiping off the blood and chunks of flesh all over her.

"We're still doing the count. And.... It's not looking good..." Lily shakes her head.

"Wheein. Have you seen her?"

"No. Let's search for her." Lily leads on. Bodies after bodies being flipped, their throats sore from shouting. But still no Wheein.

"Wheein... Where are you..." Hwasa starts to tear up, wondering what fate had befell her dearest friend.

"Hwasa. I need your help." Lily whispers, tugging on Hwasa's arm. She leads her to a crater filled with water, though now heavily dyed by blood and viscerae with dead bodies half submerged inside it.

"Stay here. I need to get down there to get all the bodies out." Lily jumps in, wading through the water and putrid stench of death as she pulls all the bodies out of the water while Hwasa receives them on the ground level. No complete bodies can be retrieved, and at one point Lily just handed Hwasa a boot with severed foot in it.

"I should have enough energy for this now..." Lily takes a deep breath, readying her stance. She thrusts her arms up, the all the water in the crater get lifted up in the air, she slowly pushes her hand forward and release her stance. The water now splashing on the outer rim of the crater, leaving the crater water free. Then she sees it. The deep blue hair is pretty easy to recognize, even when it is smeared with mud.

"Fuck...." When she turns that body over, there she is. Jung Wheein, her eyes dull and cloudy.

00:00:00. Corporal Jung Wheein, 16. KIA.

From the petechiae in her eyes, she must have drown to her death. How and why she drown, only those in the crater knew, for only they had seen the end of Wheein.

"Lily. Any more?" Hwasa looks into the crater. Lily does not have the heart to reply, jumping out of the crater with Wheein in her arms.

"Lily?" Still Lily does not reply, laying the body on the ground as she pulls out a black satin sheet out of thin air, covering Wheein's body immediately.

"Lil. Hey. What's wrong with you? Who's that?" Hwasa frowns, turning Lily to face her. But the deep blue hair sticking out if the satin sheet answers Hwasa's question.