Last Girl Alive | Bangtan

62: Sign From Above

[MIN. YOONGI. WTF.]

The morning sunshine had never felt so warm. It caressed your skin, washing over all the fear and tears and darkness away. It had felt like an eternal night down there. But now, here was the sunrise. And with it came the sound of birds and insects and the rustling of leaves.

You turn to see Taehyung fly back up for the seventh time carrying Jungkook. Landing upon the ground, he brushed his hair to the side, shuddering.

"Ughhh, I need a shower."

Namjoon cracks a twig sharply, molch crunching underneath his feet as he appears through the bushes. "I heard the sound of a water somewhere. Not far off. Maybe a stream or cottage or something. Can you check, hyung?"

Yoongi nods, moving past you to a nearby tree. He looks up through the branches at the sky. His skin is so pale it glistened like ice in the morning sun, making him seem like a vampire. Doing so, he looks up again, moving through the area to find a part where he can see the sky. The clouds appear to be pretty clear, although they were quite subject to change and he knew that. He squints his eyes as he stares up at he sky, ducking his head under a low branch as if to see something more clearly.

"What's up Yoongles?" you ask him, tiredly, rubbing your eyes. He doesn't even notice the use of his nickname as he's engrossed in what he's seeing. His eyes glued to the sky, he walks slowly, shielding his eyes from the sunlight.

As he treads to the side, he walks directly towards the huge gap in the ground that you'd all fallen through about two days ago. The hole to hell.

"Watch out!" Hoseok rushes forward, grabbing Yoongi before he slips and falls straight into the ground. Hoseok looks up at the sky quickly, confused and then back at Yoongi like he was insane. "You almost fell back in! What are you doing?"

He shakes Yoongi, trying to jolt him back to his senses but Yoongi is in his own world. His head up in the sky, face searching for something among the clouds...he looks quite lost. Jungkook sighs, wondering for the hundredth time during this entire story if Yoongi hadn't just lost his mind.

"Holy shit." Yoongi's voice croaks out, rusty from the morning. He steps to the side again, one foot at the edge of the hole. "Hyung!" Hoseok shouts, grabbing Yoongi's arm tightly. The latter slowly looks down from the sky to the all of you, looking paler than before if that was possible. With the bird perched on his shoulder, apparently fond of him now, and the white skin he looked like a male replica of Snow White.

"Yoongi..." Jin says slowly, reading Yoongi's expression. "What's wrong?"

Yoongi doesn't say anything. Instead he just points straight upwards. You all crowd around, carefully, as you don't want to tumble back into darkness when you've just welcomed light again. You all stand around the gap again, creating a déjà vu. As you look at the boys around and across from you, each of you positioned somehow evenly around the hole, you can't help feeling like this was some sort of ritual or cult.

They're all looking up. You follow their eyes, curious as to what has gone wrong now. He could be imagining things right? I mean...what could be scary about the morning sky? It had to be too much time down in th-

"FUCK." You hitch, beside yourself. You squeeze your eyes shut and then open them again disbelievingly. Panic hits you like an arrow.

You'd completely forgotten about it. You'd forgotten it's existence. But here it was, to threaten you just when you'd thought you'd cleared everything up.

"The hole in the sky." Namjoon says softly and mysteriously. The little gap in the clouds too evident and too often to be a natural coincidence peeks at you, almost cackling like a villain. You shudder, hating how the dense green clouds seemed to crowd around it, creating the perfect ring.