Monster's Labyrinth ~ Hyunlix

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(Leni • GoodBooks, Crystal Castles)

The horrendous sight of a woman finally seemed to notice the group. She let her body collapse on the floor, where it lay writhing and jerking.

"Kill me!" She screamed. She looked up at the group with terrified eyes. Her sclera were a deep purple color, black goo spilling like tears over her cheek out of them.
"Please!" She cried out. "It's going to kill me soon anyway and you can still get profit out of it!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, even though it was completely unnecessary, completely insane.

"Profit?" Hyunjin heard Felix whisper in confusion. He looked at his husband, who looked just as confused. The man's eyes suddenly widened.

"She's the target!" He gasped. He looked at Hyunjin, almost in a way of asking for confirmation. Hyunjin nodded, slightly bewildered by the sudden situation.

"Yes!" The woman screeched. She looked around at the group, her body was twitching uncontrollably, and she seemed to be in a lot of pain. "Kill me!" She suddenly froze. Her body dropped back on the floor. After a second or two her body started jerking and spasming more aggressively, giving her an utmost possessed look. She fell face flat back on the floor.

However everyone was frozen into place. They did not know what to do. Completely horrified they watched as the woman tried to form a cohesive sentence, to no avail.

Killing her seemed wrong, but she was dying either way, right?

Seungmin was the first to step forward. His gaze was empty, almost as if he was in some type of trance. He accidentally bumped his shoulder against Minho, who looked at him in confusion and shock. Seungmin didn't even throw the other a glance.

Without any further question he took the gun out from his left pocket. He put his finger on the trigger and pointed it towards the pleading woman.

The woman screamed before the loud gunshot was fired, and the woman finally stopped moving as the blood seeped out of her temples.

The group looked at Seungmin in complete shock. They couldn't believe Seungmin could kill a woman so cold blooded. His gaze was still empty. He stood creepily still and it looked like his head was an empty maze, so many pathways and curves but no thought to solve them.

"Congratulations!" The robotic female voice said in a neutral tone. "You can now ask for your gift."

Seungmin didn't hesitate. His gaze was fixed on the nothingness in front of him, he seemed completely off the world.

"I want the key." He said. Nothing more.
"Key?" Changbin repeated. "You mean from the exit or something? Is there an exit?!" He gasped.
Seungmin didn't answer.

The robotic female voice didn't return. Instead the ceiling opened, just like it had done when Hyunjin had had to kill that poor boy. The long robotic arm lowered. It had a black box in its hand. Seungmin took it without hesitation.
But he didn't open it.

Everybody started calling his name, desperately hoping he'd just respond to them.
The arm went up again and the ceiling closed.

"Seungmin, what the fuck is going on?" Changbin asked. He was standing slightly behind Seungmin. Seungmin's gaze suddenly seemed to focus again. He turned his head around and made eye contact with Changbin.

And then he collapsed.

Of course Changbin caught him without hesitation. He needed no help since he was quite strong. He slowly lowered the limp man to the ground and grabbed his jaw.

"Seungmin?" He yelled worriedly. The black box lay long forgotten on the ground. "Seungmin, please fucking answer me!"

"Be quiet!" Jisung hissed at Changbin. "Hyunjin, are there any monsters around?" He asked anxiously.
Hyunjin didn't ask any questions and just pulled up his sleeve. He quickly tapped the GPS and zoomed out. He saw a blue dot, and five green dots surrounding it. But nowhere was a red dot to be seen.

"No." Hyunjin sighed in relief. Changbin was still desperately trying to wake up Seungmin, who looked freakishly pale.

Jisung nodded. "Then we'll set up our camp here." He looks at the woman's dead body, which they now noticed reeked of blood and something else they did not want to know the source of. "Or well..." He gulped. He looked at the group for a moment and then over at Changbin. "Changbin, you're capable of carrying Seungmin, right?"

After they had set up their camp, Seungmin had finally woken up. Of course they had brought the black box with them, but they hadn't opened it yet. They had tried though.

When they had asked Seungmin what the actual fuck had happend he had simply shook his head, still completely bewildered and mourning over the blood he officially had on his hands.

"I truly don't know! I don't remember!" He said, desperate for the group to believe him. Changbin nodded in a confused manner.
"So you truly don't remember shooting that woman, or asking for a key?"

For a split second there was a tinge of relief, or maybe even something else in Seungmin's eyes, but it was so curt that only Jisung seemed to notice.

"Key? What key?" He said in such believable confusion Jisung almost thought he had imagined that earlier.
Almost.

"Here." Hyunjin handed him the black box. Seungmin looked at Hyunjin for a moment and then took the box. To everyone's annoyance he then started to examine the fucking box. When he finally opened it everyone tried to take a peek inside it, surprise very noticeable on their faces.

They had actually wanted to open the box earlier, but no matter what they did it didn't want to open. Eventually the group gave up since they didn't want to damage the key in any way. Or whatever was in the box.

Seungmin gasped. "It's a necklace?" He said. He sounded pretty much dumbfounded, almost dissapointed, which only confused Jisung further.

What is going on here? He thought. The whole group started to push together so they could simply look at what made Seungmin react in such a manner.

"Does it have a hanger?" Felix asked. Seungmin nodded. He lifted a simple silver chain out of the box. On it a beautiful pendant in the form of a ring hung on it. On the ring were no special stones or any other thing, but there were very small teeth, carved out of silver. The type of teeth you see on a laser cut key.

"It sure looks like a key." Minho scoffed. Jisung gave him a punch in the side with his elbow. Seungmin didn't say anything and just examined the ring carefully.

"Where do we need a key for?" Changbin asked. "I mean you specifically asked for the key, so then where's the lock?"

Seungmin's ears turned slightly red, but so little that only Jisung noticed it, yet again.
"I don't know." Seungmin sighed. He looked down at his lap. Jisung felt like bursting.

He's lying. Jisung thought. What does he have to hide that we can't know?

"Jisung!" Minho called out for him for the fifth time. Jisung looked at him slightly confused and bemused.
"Yeah?" He asked. Minho looked at him with one raised eyebrow.

"I asked you if you're ok, you look a little pale." Minho said worriedly. He stepped closer and out of habit put his hand on the shorter's forehead to feel the temperature.
"I always look pale here." Jisung chuckled grimly. Minho scoffed in a bemused way.

"Well paler than normal then." He admitted. Jisung shrugged his shoulders. He looked at the group, and found them all staring at him. He felt his ears turn red. For some reason he couldn't say what he wanted to say, that he didn't trust Seungmin. He felt like it would draw the group apart.

But what if Seungmin turned out to be dangerous to them?

"I just don't like seeing people faint." He quickly made up. He shrugged his shoulders and walked over to Seungmin.
"Now show me that ring, I'm curious."