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Chapter 7: Gossip

Feeling something sitting in your grasp, you opened your eyes to a small bunch of purple lilies. The once beautiful flowers you used to buy every month wilted within seconds right in front of your eyes. The vibrant purple petals and green stem were quick to soon disappear into ashes.

Opening your hand in astonishment, you flipped your hand around to see the flowers now nowhere to be seen.

An expression of confusion soon formed as you finally looked up from inspecting the palm of your hand. The first thing you were greeted to was fire. There was fire everywhere, your gaze lingered on skyscrapers, apartments, grocery stores...none where intact.

What's happening?

You automatically reached for the spot your trusty rifle always sat only to find it gone. You hastily turned around in search for the sash which usually secured your weapon gone along with it.

A male holding tightly onto his child then quickly caught your attention. You only saw it you didn't hear it. The only thing you could hear was an increasing high pitched sound that gradually began to become louder and louder as you continued to take in the situation.

The child which was being held by the man was crying with his index finger pointed towards a pair of tall gates.

Immediately recognising the dark green gates you frantically ran towards it, desperately grabbing onto the bars you began to shake it roughly in an attempt to get them open. Although it was no use, they wouldn't open.

Turning around to the now ruined city, you pushed through the panicked citizens. Walking in the opposite direction of all the bystanders, you were pulled back countless times by many. One even grasped onto your shoulders and began yelling something. However, it was rendered useless as you couldn't hear a word they where saying. Once realising you where unresponsive they left you.

Unaware of what was going on, your first instinct was to head to V.I.R.T.U.E headquarters.

The high pitched sound seemed to have finally stopped as a loud crash graced your ears. You immediately whipped your head in the direction of the sound and to your horror, you watched a fireball hitting the apartment complex next to you.

Being an operative, your first instinct was to grab whoever was near you and yell at them to duck. You hastily engulfed a male and female next to you and pulled them to the floor before retracting your arms and holding them on top of yourself to shield the falling derby of the building. You winced your eyes shut and~

"Shit!" Losing balance on the slim bench, the small flinch you had done in your sleep caused you to fall face first onto the floor.

"Geez (y/n) are you okay?" Hearing Taeyong's worried call, you sat up from the floor and blinked rapidly. You gave your eyes a few seconds to readjust to the dim lights of the training deck. Taking a look at your surroundings, you found the room to be intact and your rifle sitting on the floor next to you. It only took a few seconds to realise what you had just witnessed was a dream. It must have been the result of your lack of sleep and restless thoughts about the tattoo.