IX LAMIA

CH. IV

JIHYO POV

I opened my eyes and was immediately greeted by Sana and Dahyun's faces looking at me worriedly.

'SHE'S AWAKE!!!" they both screamed in unison as they got me up and hugged me tightly.

"Your hug will literally kill her.. twice" commented Jeongyeon standing by the window

"sorry!!" they both said as they broke their hug from me

"we were so worried jihyo!!" said Sana.

"we thought you died!!" said Dahyun

"well we're all technically dead already" i said with a smile

My comment was followed by faint laughter. I looked around and noticed Chaeyoung and Tzuyu were absent

"Where is Chaeyoung and Tzuyu?" I asked

"Don't worry. They're both still alive. Thanks to you" said Nayeon

"What happened to you Jihyo?" asked Momo. "What did you do?"

"Yeah. You suddenly lost control and attacked Tzuyu. But then Tzuyu ended up inflicting pain on you and we had to listen to you yell in an absolute antagonizing minutes until you passed out. We thought she killed you but before I attacked her she explained that you were still alive but just temporarily dead" Jeongyeon said

"We asked her what you did but she wouldn't tell us and just left. Chaeyoung passed out once you did whatever you did. Once she woke up, she just broke down into tears. She continued to do that even as she left the house. We haven't see both of them since last night." Dahyun said "So what did you do?"

"I performed an E.T." I answered

"Like the alien?" asked Momo

"You're the only alien here Momo" said Jeongyeon with a teasing grin. Momo glared at her afterwards which made Jeongyeon laugh.

"No not like the alien Momo. E.T. stands for Emotion Transfer"

"Emotion Transfer?!" Jeongyeon said "I've only ever heard about that in ancient vampire literature! It was considered a myth! Something... that has never been done!"

"How does it go exactly?" Nayeon asked

"I basically picked an emotion from Chaeyoung that I would transfer to myself. So that she would lose that certain emotion for that time-being and I would have to carry the burden, pain, the intensity of that emotion. I would feel it rather than her. Of course, her knowledge of the news that triggered that emotion won't necessarily vanish from her memories because there are other emotions in play. Anger was the most violent and dangerous emotion she could feel for that moment, so I took that away... leaving her with just the emotion of sadness. That's why you saw her break down in tears instantly after she woke up"

"Why did you do it?" asked Nayeon

"Because unlike Chaeyoung and unlike all of you, my gift is emotions. Even if I will feel the same feeling or emotion, it will not last. I will suffer from it for a while, but unlike all of you, that emotion will stay with you. I will only be able to destroy that specific emotion that was triggered by a specific occurence if I manifest it. So that's why you saw me attack Tzuyu. In that moment I was completely overruled by the emotion of anger towards her and with just the thought of wanting to make her feel pain. That's why Tzuyu had to put me down. This was only my second time of ever doing it and so I still have a lot to learn about this ability."

"How did Tzuyu know about this?" Jeongyeon asked

"Luna" I replied. "She knew about this and she knew I had it in me. The first time I ever did it was when Tzuyu just joined us. She had this strong hatred towards humans and this emotion couldn't stop herself from getting sudden violent urges to become extremely mad and kill all humans that she saw. Of course that hatred was just part of who she was because she was born into the Covina Malum. Her mind was corrupted and 'built' to hate humans. All of you already knew about her urge to kill humans and her choice of diet so that didn't really help in accepting her into the group. So Luna suggested E.T."