Stay alive

Chapter 2

Taehyung woke up with pain. Confusion immediately lit up in his head, because why would he be hurt? He remembered entering their plane and then he felt his eyes closing as he felt a warm presence against his side. Jungkook. Maybe Jungkook was lying on him in a way that hurt? But how? Taehyung just didn't understand.

His hands hurt, his face hurt, his entire chest hurt, his legs hurt. His entire front side hurt. It wasn't a stabbing pain, but more like a warm burning pain. But why? As he started to focus more on his body as sleep disappeared from his mind in a rapid pace, he noticed that he was lying on a hard surface face down. The ground wasn't smooth and covered with something that felt poky and wet at the same time. It didn't make any sense, so Taehyung opened his eyes to get some answers.

Green was the first thing he saw. Everything around him was green, combined with some brown parts. He needed to blink a couple of times to figure out he was surrounded by leaves and branches. Since when did he sleep in the forest? Last time he checked he was sitting in a plane. As he became more aware of his surroundings, he decided to remove his face from the dirty ground, but then the pain in his hands intensified when he placed both of them on the ground.

"Aisshh" he hissed and immediately lifted his hands too look at them. His eyes became twice as big when he noticed that the palms of his hands were red and scrubbed raw. And then his eyes traveled to the rest of his lower arms and noticed that he was covered with abrasions. He figured out he must have fallen on the ground and tried to catch his weight by sacrificing his arms as his skin was rubbed raw with tiny little scratches and red spots. It looked awful, but to be honest it looked worse than it felt. At least when he didn't touch the skin, because the moment he carefully touched his damaged skin with his fingertips he felt the burning sensation increase within an instant. So no touching he decided.

But he was still lying on the ground with his face partially in the soil and leaves underneath him, and he could feel that his face had some scratches as well. So he really wanted to stand up and figured out how he ended up like this in the first place, but how was he going to stand up without using his hands? The boy awkwardly tried to lift himself using his elbows instead and eventually managed to roll himself on his back before heaving himself up into a sitting position. He gasped as soon as he saw that not only his hands and face, but also his legs and stomach were hurt. His sweatpants were broken at multiple places and he could clearly see the abrasions on his thighs. The entire front side of his thighs were injured like his hands, but thankfully his lower legs had been spared as it seemed. Probably the only part that have been saved from his front side, since his stomach and chest were also completely rubbed raw when he carefully lifted his shirt.

One thing was sure: he didn't just tumble over his feet and caught his fall with his hands. His entire body had caught his fall and half of his skin was now angry red with scratches and tiny blisters. Moving around was hurting his skin as it pulled at some places, but thankfully the pain was rather bearable so Taehyung could eventually stand up on his own. And as he stood on his feet he decided to inspect his surroundings. He was in the middle of a big forest, or maybe a jungle since every single spot was covered with plants, leaves, branches, and trees so high that he could barely see the top. He could see tiny sun rays peeking through the thick blanket of leaves and he felt the humidity that hung around the air. Yeah, it was probably a jungle, not a simple forest or park.

He carefully took a few steps forwards as he inspected the place around him. It was quiet apart from some insects that made constant noises in the background, and Taehyung suddenly wondered where the rest of his members were. He was in a plane with them last time he was awake, or was that a dream? But he soon got the answer when he spotted a part of their plane in the distance. Taehyung's heart stopped beating for a moment and he felt his undamaged skin going pale when he realized that nothing was a dream. He had been on a plane, and he was in a jungle right now, so 1 plus 1 together meant that their plane had crashed. His heartbeat suddenly started to pick up to an impossible fast rate as he immediately wanted to know where the others were. It was too quiet. Where were they?