EXO(엑소)TREE OF LIFE:《RED FORCE》

PT.1 X BLACK & WHITE X PT.1

The look in his eyes showed pain. But he didn't want to emit that aura, he felt awful for putting Lay in the position he was in. Just seeing his hands constantly holding onto his skull, pressing hard as his fingers dug deeply into his scalp, when he let out muffled screams terrified Luhan. He knew that Lay could very well die, with the sacrifice he made, but he was so gracious enough to take the pain for him. No matter how much he'd have to suffer. Luhan tried to smile for him, he tried to smile for all of them. Especially Tao, who was suffering every minute. His organs were functioning irregularly, and  there wasn't a day where he'd gotten any better. So much so that it'd gotten to the point where his body was rapidly aging his immune system, and other parts of his body until they gave out.

It was hard. Kris wasn't even here, since they'd gotten captured. On their first arrival, they took the two, Suho and him together. But, only Junmyeon came back. That was the first tragedy, and it still hurts the eleven deeply. It took a great toll on the remaining Primicerius. Without Yifan, it was like the yin missing from the yang. And his more demanding aspect quality was what kept the 12 of them together, while Junmyeon's compassion and encouragement kept them at ease. But he could no longer do that, not with all the weight that was put onto him. All they knew was that they had to get out soon, or else Tao would die. But what could Luhan possibly do? He lost his power and gave it to Lay, he was the same as a man who'd gone mute from trauma.

Xiumin made sure that he hurried to bring Kai back onto his feet, placing his arm over his neck then reaching over for the crutch that was laid flat onto the floor in front of  Sehun's limp body. He'd given up hope all together. "What are we going to do?" He questioned looking at them all for an answer. Some sort of answer. Nothing was clear to them. "Junmyeon!"

Xiumin's yell woke him up from the sulking. It was time wake up. "You know that this is not how we were meant to rot our lives. Kris, or no Kris, we need to get the hell out of here."

He tensed up. But he was right. And the rest of us could see that. Seconds later Sehun, was groaning, and he'd gotten up from his beating that Chanyeol gladly bestowed upon him.

It didn't take him long to place himself on top of him, and give him the greastest hook of a lifetime,me, before a large bellow had woken the sleeping giant up. "time to get up."

Chanyeol pushed Sehun off of him, then stood up with a big red mark waiting to swell up marked on his jaw. "Well, we can do this. All we need to do is have someone stay here and look after Tao―

"I'm fine." He shrugged it off. "A little chest pain, isn't much to worry about. Besides, I think I'm the only other person here that's capable of properly defending any of you without your powers. Well, maybe that, and Baekhyun. I'm not really sure about the rest of you. If my heart gives up on me, then that's on me. Not any of you, not Junmyeon, not even Yifan....no matter how much I hate him for leaving us."

"You don't know that for sure." Chen breathed in trying to steady his breaths. "Y-You don't know that Kris left us, we don't even know if he's still alive."

"Trust me, he is." Tao got up on his own and regrouped with the rest of the members. Kai who was helped onto is crutch could now manage on his own without the help of Xiumin, and Junmyeon stayed at the edge of the lower bunk contemplating.

"Is he gonna budge?" Sehun inquired, licking his lips.

The members only looked at him like he was crazy and even went so far as to glare. "What?"

"GO TALK TO HIM."

"Aigoo, alright then."

Junmyeon p.o.v

I sat there, just...sat there while it happened. I can't believe they took him away. They took her away, again. Maybe we really were supposed to die. If that's the only way out.

"Hey old man. We're going, whether you're coming or not really isn't on us. Either you hold on to your false conception of love, and honor or you die here with no purpose and lose our respect. It's up to you. I know I've already given up But at least I'll give up, fighting."

I only shook my head at what that boy just said to me. "Give up fighting? Do you even know what you're saying."

"No, but at least I'm saying something. Not like you've been helpful for the past year."

Hyeonju....is this what you want? Is this what you're trying to tell me...you always did say, that Sehun was gifted. After all, he's your child. Your baby boy. But it seems like Ignis has rubbed off on him huh, well Eunha? "Guess that's a no then for Junmyeon." "No, I'm coming."

He looked back at me confused. "Excuse?"
"I know you're not deaf, Ventus."
"Don't call me that...." he walked off.

Kyungsoo watched as Sehun darted off in the opposite direction and could only keep that fed up expression on his face, while bringing his attention back to the locked door. "I have a plan."

The eleven grew silent  at the mention of a plan. Huh, so then action was something that they still had. "Kai, I dont know if you can still stand right....or well, so I'm afraid that I'm gonna have to carry you through this since I am the strongest in the group. Chanyeol, I  know your flames have been dying down, but we don't want to hurt anyone as soon as we get out, we need to wait for our medication when they begin to run tests. They're preparing us for some big project, we don't know what it is yet, but they had to kill one of us for it. Lay is out so he can't help us on this one, and neither can Luhan since he already lost his powers to him. Lay will be fine, as soon as he takes said medication, and will be mellow enough since his is different than ours. Lay seems to be fine, for whatever reason upon taking it, and can think straight so we need to find a way to get ahold of whatever they have and get a great deal of it to help Lay. Though it only lasts for a period of three hours, which he'd need to take it again. During that time span, Lay will be able to transfer Luhan's ability to speak back into his brain function, and he'll be able to give switch places with Tao to sustain his life force so that he can regulate his organs aging to death. For that remainder of time, Tao can manipulate time for about thirty minutes however Lay will in turn take on Tao's pain and his heart will take a great deal of damage from it, which is where Chen comes in. The nurses supply him with enough energy to regain his electricity, and he will use shock inducements on Lay to help his body become more resistant to the heart attack. During the time frame, Kai can only teleport over short distances, so he'll bring me over to the control room which is sure to be heavily guarded. I can take any damage that they throw at me, and he can aid me in evading any lethal damage. Chanyeol will try his best  along with Xiumin to freeze, or block off any section of the base with blaze, to hinder their movements in trying to lock us back up. Sehun will be responsible for keeping Junmyeon in check―

"why me?" I bawled out, while everyone was staring at me again. But, I'm the leader. Why does Sehun have to keep me in check? I waited for an answer from D.O, patiently, seeing as no one else was going to give me an answer. Then that's when it hit me.

"Look, Junmyeon, we know that you've been having thoughts of suicide. You've been up day and night, for a week 'contemplating.' We know that something is wrong with you, and that ever since Kris left, you've been buried with burden. I know, because I've seen you fiddling with your finger beating yourself up over it. Late at nights, when Tao would choke on his own blood, I've heard you tell him over and over again, in his sleep, that it would be fine if you died. Because if you died, you knew that was the only way we could get our powers back. Even though you knew, that was a lie. But anything was worth trying."

...he was right.

"After the thirty minutes are up, Tao would return to his aging state and Lay will go back to his normal self for the remainder of the three hours, and that'd give way for the two of them to get the hell out of the main room and into the maze."

"Then what?"

"We fight our way out of the maze. Then, we find her. We find Eunha." Eunha...Hyeonju...no many how many times, how much you change, when you are born again and again, we're bound to be together. Our feelings will never fade....but how are we gong to get you on our side again?