THE DARKEST HOPE

Chapter 7

THE DARKEST HOPE

❧ Chapter 7 ❧

    Suga laid on the dirty ground strongly wishing he was already dead. The pain in his body tormented him terribly, especially the pulsating torture in his leg. But what was worse of all was the excruciating thirst that twisted and scratched his insides unbearably. At one point he started hoping he would lose consciousness but his treacherous body refused him even that. So he laid on the ground biting his lips against the pain and gripping his gun almost compulsively as his last line of hope in this small buried room that appeared to have become his grave.

The dehydration caused him to feel blurred and disoriented. His brain was starting to make tricks on him. The room suddenly started to look wider, the ceiling lifting up and then suddenly the walls and selling approached at immense speed as if trying to crush him.

"That's not real, that's not real." he kept repeating to himself but it seemed real enough to make his heart speed up and his hands shiver. "Damn, I'm loosing my mind."

The darkest corners of the room started to look suspicious and threatening. The blackness was growing from them as if long clawed hands were crawling their way towards his victim.

Suga closed his eyes and shook his head trying to chase the vision away. But when he opened them it seemed the darkness's monsters were still there, approaching viciously. He could even hear them, crawling in the night, coming closer and closer. Yes! The sound was definitely real. Some light scratching and other small but disturbing noises up in the ceiling. Something was definitely approaching.

"The vampires found me!" Suga picked up the gun and pointed it towards the approaching noise. He was trapped and immobilised but was not going to give without a fight. He was a hunter and now was his final hunt! He would show them!

Suga tried to clear his head and stay calm, precision and haste were of the greatest importance. He held the gun tightly with as much strength he had left and waited.

The noise came closer and closer. He could distinguish some heavy breathing and panting. His thoughts were scattered and sporadical but determnined at the same time.

"Come closer, vampire, I'll take care of you just like I took care of those before you. One more monster in my records." he thought angrily.

Somewhere up in the ceiling the thing was scratching. Obviously it was trying to claw it's way inside. The noise continued for several minutes disturbing and frightening. Then a panel fell from the ceiling and a large black figure dropped in the room.

"I got you now you son of a bitch!" Suga yelled and at the same time furiously pulled the trigger.  A blinding light flashed inside the small room and a deafening bang echoed inside its walls. The dark figure fell on the ground, or did it? For a minute or so Suga saw only black and his ears drummed from the noise. He vigorously moved the gun in different directions not sure if he got the monster or missed it.

"Hey, IDIOT, what are you doing?" The voice was human and angry and didn't sound vampire like at all. Suga narrowed his eyes trying to see in the darkness before him. "Are you trying to kill me, what's wrong with you?"

The dark silhouette rose slowly from the ground. "Hey, don't shoot, it's me!" The figure approached. Jungkook! Suga couldn't believe his eyes. Hope and joy rushed intensely inside him. Oh, god, the boy found him! And he was so happy to see him, probably he's never been more glad to see anyone his entire life. He dropped the gun and for the first time since what seemed like an eternity his body relaxed a little despite the physical pain he was feeling.