Euphoria || 김석진

Chapter 1: The Return

Delicate...

So fragile that a gentle breeze would topple it to the ground, causing it to break into billions of unidentifiable fragments.

Each fragment was a unique piece of an unidentifiable man's memory...

Each piece stacked a top another making a fragile, yet bloody house of cards...

A young woman scurried along a cobblestone pathway leading to an unknown darkened alleyway. All that was heard on this silent moonless night were the young woman's hurried footsteps hitting the cold hard ground below her.

Painful gasps escaped the young woman's parched lips as she left a trail of bloodied footsteps behind her. Glancing to and fro, she knew she was being followed, but she didn't care. She knew she had to find help, because there was no way she was going to escape his grasp.

A distant clock tower caught the young woman's attention. Glancing back once more she hurried along to the top of the tower. She knew this would be her last night, but she knew she had to warn officers at Scotland Yard that the so called "New Jack the Ripper" was no in fact human.

Once the young woman got to the top of the tower she swiftly barred the door and ripped the skirt of her dress. Placing her index finger on the large gash across her stomach she began to write her final words.

The young woman froze when she heard banging on the other side of the door. In fear she hide the torn cloth of her dress in a wooden chest and stood atop the small barrier that prevented visitors from falling off the clock tower.

"I... I'm sorry" She whispered as she jumped down, not giving the man known as Jack the pleasure of ripping her to pieces like his previous victims.

The doors flung open as soon as the woman fell to tragic death. A man wearing a lab coat and odd spectacles sighed as he turned to his younger companion holding a revolver.

"Hyung... I think she died..." The young policeman known as Jungkook said to his companion named Jin.

Jin sighed and adjusted his glasses, "We couldn't save her either. How much does that make? We need to stop him before he takes anymore innocent lives and awakens those that we locked up!"

Jungkook nodded his head, "What can we do? He merged with the soul of the original Jack the Ripper and is out trying to awaken all those monsters!"

A man wearing a large trench coat appeared behind the two and said, "It'll be a while until he attacks again. He has killed over 50 women, which is enough to awaken another monster. After he does so he needs to go into hiding until he can replenish himself. For now let's try to cover this up."

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{200 Years Later}

A young woman named Hayeon glanced up at the starlit sky while her friend from Japan named Yukino was busy texting her on-again-off-again good-for-nothing boyfriend. Seemingly annoyed, Hayeon asked, "Why are you still with him? Didn't you leave Japan with your half cousin Sakura because of him? Mel and Eunsoo aren't going to like it when they hear you two are still talking to each other. You're seriously an idiot you know!"

Yukino sighed as she placed her phone in her purse, "I know... it's just I've been through so much with him. I literally planned out our lives; I can't just forget about him just like that!"