Book 2 : BTS 👀, Skz🥰, Ateez✨

Bloodthirst 1.4 : The Pink Prison

"Are you nervous?"

I look at Sejeong. The three of us are sat on chairs in the middle of the Arena. I look at Seungmin who gives me a thumbs up. How useful.

"I don't know." I look around "Have you ever experienced something like this?" I ask her

She doesn't answer me as I hear steps approaching. I look at it's Woozi, Seungkwan and someone else that I don't know. However, their behavior is drastically different from usual. Their eyes are a bloody red.

"Seungkwan." I hear Sejeong whisper in horror.

"Vernon." Maria says.

Another man approaches. It's Jeonghan. He looks at me. I can see his eyes pleading. I frown, not understanding what is going on at all. I feel it, the bloodthirst. An intensity that I had met before in Hoseok for example. When Jeonghan shows me a knife and make a small cut in my hand I hiss.

That's when I hear someone growl. Like an animal. I look at Woozi, but he is immobile. Held together by someone else. I can hear the whispers in the arena. Sejeong and Maria experience the same treatment, but the eyes of the three men are locked on me. I look at the stage, where I see Jin smiling at me. I could have said whatever yesterday.

He didn't believe me.

If I came in third place, then there were no issues for me.

What a bastard.

"They are all focused on you." Maria chuckled "Your blood seems more delicious apparently."

"Yeah, but my ability to suppress bloodthirst is stronger than yours." I enveloped my cut with my ability and soon enough the eyes of the men switched to Sejeong and Maria.

"As you may have all gather, this is going to be a game of hide and seek." Jin announced as he stood up. "Your area to hide is the arena, the lodging rooms. Woozi, Vernong and Seungkwan have been subjected to intense bloodthirst triggering during the whole night." How cruel. "You girls have to run. Avoid being caught. With a head start of 3 minutes that starts now."

Without thinking one more second, I got up and began running towards the corridor. I had to be quick and smart about this.

"What are you going to do?" Sejeong who had caught up to me asked as Maria was a bit further behind.

"When does the game stop?" I asked her.

"When they find two out of the three of us." She answered as I stopped in the middle of the corridor. Maria caught up to us out of breath. I looked at Sejeong and then at Maria. And back at Sejeong.

"Let's put all the chances on our side." I teared off a part of my dress.

"What do you mean?" Maria asked.

I didn't like this. However, Jin was testing me. I looked at Maria and without an hesitation, I slung the tissue around her neck, positioned myself behind her and squeezed. In a hurry, Sejeong prevented her from moving.

"She's unconscious." She said after 30 more seconds had passed "I don't know how long it'll last." I put her against the wall. Her heart was beating, and she was still breathing.

"Only one minute left." A voice said from the speakers scattered around the arena.

"It'll be more than enough." I looked at Sejeong "I'll go on the right."

Sejeong kept eye contact with me.

"Parting ways?" She asks me.

"It's better. They'll go my way anyhow." I remove the coat of ability I've put on my bloody hand. The blood is anyhow dripping on the floor.