Retelling the Video

All In 4

Jooheon's Point of View

I stood around the corner, out of sight but able to hear what was being said. The mayor had survived the fire that burned down the City Hall. He had seen Minhyuk and two others running away, and he was thirsty for revenge. He had gathered angry townspeople and the military and was planning on taking revenge in our whole group.

I went back to my house, where Shownu was waiting. I had been planning to take them to the greenhouse today anyways, and now it was more important that we go as soon as possible.

I grabbed my things and stuck a blue flower into my mouth idly. It tasted like candy and made me a lit more relaxed. Shownu and I collected the others, telling them that we were going somewhere. I didn't tell any of them where we were going or why.

I led them to the greenhouse, chewing on the flower. It was really delicious. I opened the door and was greeted by a current of warm air rushing into the cooler air outside. I let the others in first and locked the door behind me, not that it would do much good seeing as the rest of the building was glass.

I knew there was something important I needed to tell them, but I couldn't remember. I wandered around, feeling their expectant gazes in me. I grabbed a lavender flower from a pot and wander back over to them. The blue flower was gone now, so I spit out the stem.

"M'kay. I had something I needed to tell you, but I can't really remember right now. So instead, let's make a fire and some flower soup, like when we were little," I said to the others. They looked confused but nodded.

Shownu and Wonho walked around, gathering wood and putting it into a mound in the middle of the greenhouse. Minhyuk pulled a lighter out of his pocket and set some tinder on fire, watching in satisfaction as it slowly lit the rest of the wood on fire.

Hyungwon and Kihyun came back with their arms full of blue flowers and set them on a wooden table near the fire. I.M came back with paint, a mortar and pestle, and some beakers as well as a small, decorative metal bowl. Shownu and Wonho tended the fire while I.M, Kihyun and Hyungwon crushed the flowers up. Minhyuk went around painting everyone's faces with the paint I.M had found.

After a while, the fire was blazing and we all sat in a circle around it. I.M, Kihyun, and Hyungwon finished with the flowers and hung a glass beaker over the fire with some contraption Wonho had made, the beaker full of water and crushed flower petals. I had wandered around more earlier while everyone was doing stuff and I found a bunch of cute little glass vials.

I watched as the liquid in the beaker thickened as a result of the petals melting into the water. When I felt it was ready, mainly when all the petals were melted, I poured the liquid into the vials. The left over liquid went into the metal bowl and I gave one vial to each of my friends, keeping one for myself. We passed the metal bowl around over the fire, each touching the metal bowl and passing it to the next before we dumped the remaining liquid into the fire.

Thick bluish smoke filled the greenhouse and I started feeling really happy. All the stress I'd had for so long just melted away. I saw the others' stresses melting away like mine as they relaxed and enjoyed the presence of their friends around them.

We all passed out I guess, because when we woke up no one had any idea of what had happened. I heard loud noises in the distance, outside the greenhouse. I looked out a window and smacked my forehead. That's what had been important.

"Guys, you need to put these clothes on now. You all know how to shoot a gun right," I asked as I shoved white clothing and combat boots into their arms, quickly getting dressed myself. I remembered putting all this stuff in here a few days ago in case something like this happened.

"What's happening Jooheon? Why do we need these clothes and weapons," Kihyun asked.

"Okay so, I hate myself for getting distracted by that damn flower but, I found out yesterday that the mayor survived that fire and he saw Minhyuk running away. He gathered the military and townspeople and they are coming for us right now. We are going to have to fight. Try to stay with a buddy if we get separated," I told them.

When we were all dressed and armed, I grabbed my white flag. It had a black x spray-painted onto it. We used to us it in fake battles back when we were kids. They all gasped when they saw it.

"For the X Clan," I said. They nodded and we walked out a back door. We tried to avoid the mob and get into the town unnoticed, but I heard a shout and knew we were found. I quickly lost track of the others as they ran from the bullets that fell around us.

I ducked behind a building and shot at a military man. I almost threw up as the bullet hit his nose and sent a spray of blood out the other side of his head.

It was going to be a long fight.