Captivated by Immortality

07: Nightmare

"This image here is a painting of a battle that happened 500 years ago between the Yaoguai and Moguai." Ms. Lee explained as she watched us observe the picture before us.

I turned to look at Taehyung once again. His hands were clenched into fists. It was like he was spaced out, in his own little, isolated world. His eyes were burning with a rage of fire. However, if you looked closely in his raging eyes you could see pain and sadness.

"Ms. Lee, how did you find this painting. If I remember correctly it's the same one as the one on the wall of the cave we found." Haerin interrupted my thoughts. I pivoted to face Ms. Lee, waiting for he to answer.

"Well," She replied in an excited, breathily mumble, "when I got the results back from the sword and the shield you found, I researched more about the crest on the artifacts." Taehyung's ears perked up, releasing his long glare off the computer, now listening to Ms. Lee.

"When I found out about the symbol, it told me about the Yaoguai and Moguai. Now, I'm not saying all that stuff is true, but if it is this painting is real. Anyways, I searched up Yaoguai and Moguai and this image popped up." She continued.

"Ah, Okay." Haerin nodded understandably.

"Does that mean we can go back to Seoul tomorrow?" Minhyuk questioned, having a big, shiny grin, making it look like he was in tremendous pain.

"I don't know, I still have to examine the other artifacts that you found. If we get to go back to Seoul tomorrow depends on how long it'll take," Ms. Lee got back to inspected the objects, "You can return to your rooms, I don't need anything else."

We started to leave, I caught Taehyung starring coldly at the image on the screen again, "Taehyung let's go." I took hold of his sleeve and started to drag him to the exit.

"Miran," He whispered in a suffering tone, "do you think we'll find my friends? When we were battling the Moguai, they took me and imprisoned me into that lonely, cold place. I don't know what happened to them, they were still fighting when the Moguai captured me."

I stood silent, thinking hard, "I really don't know if we'll find your friends, but we can at least try." I reassured him. I let go of his sleeve as we reached the door.

-

The night was still cold and foggy, it wasn't raining too hard anymore, just sprinkling. All that was heard was our shoes lightly tapping on the concrete. If you listened closely you could hear the cars racing on the pavement, the small crickets chirping, and the whistling of the wind chimes.

I took small strides and entered my car, looking back at Taehyung who was entering the other car, he seemed astonished at the machine; he got in cautiously, acting like if he didn't the thing would eat him alive. Minhyuk seemed to enjoy the scene as you could hear him cackling at the man.

-

We reached the hotel, I walked towards the entrance, daydreaming of the soft, cozy bed that I would soon plop onto. I thought about what Taehyung said, "Do you think we'll find my friends?"

As real and true as it sounded, I still had the urge to think that all this is fake...

Taehyung

The battle

The celestial beings

Everything had to be fake—Everything was fake.

My legs were sore from all the walking and my ribs and spine still ached from the harsh impact of the stone-cold ground of the cave when we flew backwards.

-

As soon as I opened the door to my room, I scrambled to the big bed that was calling my name. I kicked my shoes off in a hassle just so I could get comfortable in the bed that's as soft as clouds.

I laid back and swung the covers over me. I sunk my head into the soft, cozy pillow. I inhaled the calming scent of clean sheets, as I drifted deeper and deeper into my slumber...

There was blood everywhere, I tried to escape but there was no where to go, it was a bloodbath. There were cries of pain and screams that were calling out for help. I knelt down in fear, my breath hitches, I didn't know what was happening. I slightly crawled behind a  large boulder, covering my ears to muffle the sound of agony, of torment. When I started to calm down I saw a glistening shimmer next to me. I reached for it, my hands shaky, once I grasped it and had it in my hold, I studied it. It looked oddly familiar. I examined it more and found a shocking sight...it had the same emblem we found; the wings and vine. I chocked on my saliva, my eyes were about to pop out of my head. It was the same sword we found, the exact same. I peeked out from behind the large rock and found a shield—the shield. I clambered from behind the rock, terror striking me at seeing the horrendous sight; there were bodies everywhere, some with wings, some without. I heard loud grunts in the distance, someone was being heaved away. They were struggling, putting force into their escape, but if didn't help, they were dragged towards a big cliff...the same cliff as before, with the cave hidden in it.

I caught a glimpse of the one being hauled away, begging for help but no one seemed to notice.

The person was familiar...

Taehyung

I was about to rush towards him to help...

I woke up

Gasping for air, I couldn't quite grasp, soon I did. What just happened?

I took deep breaths, I was in a daze. I don't know what happened, it was horrifying, haunting. I was cold but hot, my body coated in sweat, but I was shivering, replaying the dream over and over again.

"Taehyung!" I screeched, recollecting that he was in the dream.

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Hello again, I've been updating a lot lately. I think it's a problem, I can't stop. I might not post a lot, I'm going to be busy again. It's weird that I'm busy all the time, because I have no life and I'm lazy. Anyways, How are you guys? I hope you're enjoying the story, it seems boring to me, but hopefully you guys like it. If you remember in the first chapter she woke up because she's been having the same nightmare, the dream was the one she's been having, but more stuff happened, that's why she was scared. What do you thinks going to happen? I'm going to leave you in suspense because I'm evil hahaha. Did you guys see the Golden disc awards? All those precious groups are going to make me explode, with their performances and how freaking adorable they all are. I hope you guys have a wonderful day/night 💜

-Blank_Taelien 💕