THE DARKEST HOPE

Chapter 45 Run For Your Life

Chapter 45

Run For Your Life

Everybody was looking at Suga and Taehyung with an equal amount of startle and horror. What they volunteered for ensured their demise. There was no way out for them if they went inside the tunnels with every vampire in sight following their trails.

"I don't want you to do it!" Jungkook stepped forward and forcefully grabbed Tae's shoulder so he could turn and look him in the eyes. There was rage and accusation in Jungkook's gaze. How could you make such a decision without me? "I don't want any of us to follow this stupid plan!"

"Can't you see that this is our only chance?" Tae insisted.

"Then I will go in the sewers, I am faster..."

"Let's not argue anymore. We don't have time for that. I will do it." Tae said.

"But I must protect you..."

"You've protected me enough, Jungkookie..." Taehyung pulled Jungkook's stiffened form towards him and gently stroke his hair. "I want to do this..."

Jimin turned his gaze away he couldn't bear to look at the small intimacy. He turned towards Suga instead, his lips pressed in a thin pale line, the painful squeeze in his chest almost stopping his breathing. His only family, his companion and friend minutes away from one horrible death.

"There has to be another way..." Jimin said, his voice hoarse with emotion.

"I don't see another way." Suga said darkly. His hands were already reaching for the explosives. "We have to do something or every human in this town will be either eaten or infected before morning comes." He was stuffing the explosives inside a large backpack with fast, sharp movements. His ears were buzzing and everything around him felt like was moving in a slow motion. He should have been scared but he wasn't. What he felt was just some cold, unreal numbness of the brain that stopped him from feeling anything.

"The plan is good as long as it comes to destroying some vampires but I have one even better idea..." Taehyung, voice interrupted everyone's dark thoughts.

"What...?" Jin stared in his direction.

"Give me the map of the sewers." Tae grabbed the ragged scroll and unwound it quickly. The others approached.

"You see, here..." Tae's finger was pointing at some lines down the scheme. "My proposal is this. Instead of driving the vampires into some dead end tunnel we should just lure them towards the center of the city."

"Now what kind of idea is that?" Ho-seok grunted in disbelief. "We want them out of the city, not in the middle of it..."

"You don't get it, friend..." Tae winked in his direction. "We will lead the monsters inside the rich district. And there we have real soldiers, good weapons, explosives, whatever your heart desires. The vampires will be dealt with in no time. How's that sound?"

"The last time we reached the rich district underground, there was a heavy military security down there, all the entrances from the sewers were sealed, they wouldn't even let us go out of there, just refused us passing and that was it..." Jin said.

"They might have refused you but what if it was me asking them for entrance. After all I am the only heir of the famous Kim family. Maybe that will change the odds in our favor?"

"Do you think that we should let the rich boy do that?" Ho-seok raised his eyebrows with doubt. "To me he seems as green as a plum in spring. He won't last five minutes down into the sewers."