Welcome To The Nightmare (Book 2)

Chapter 67: The Last Supper

Six months went by in a blink of an eye. And people all over the world had paid the price for accepting the Empire. As Yeri had stated before, nothing came free in this world.

They showed their true nature. A dystopia covered in the illusion of an utopia. As the people starting to demand more, the empire bare its fangs on them. Disobedience met with a swift death. The people of the world became the empire's slaves, working to their bones as the empire reaped the benefit of their hard works.

A new race risen from the belly of the empire; calling themselves The Sentinels. They were the people of the countries that submitted themselves to the empire during the start of the invasion. Genetically modified to be better, faster, and smarter than normal human being. And now, the world is divided into two; Sentinels and Pariah, the normal human being.

Sentinels started to invade the Pariah's nations, ruling them with an iron fist. The world once again plunged into the war. And this time, instead of conquering lands, Sentinels starting a genocide against the human faction.

"Told you." Yeri told them.

"Hated it when you're right, kid." Minzy shook his head.

"What are we going to do now?"

"How many death for now?" Nana asked Alice.

"As to date, almost 700 million people were killed." Alice replied.

"Damn... And that is in four month since the start of the genocide. They sure work fast." Siyeon sighed.

"We've been fighting them nonstop since the start of it. But we made no different." Yoona cupped her face with her hands.

"Their other techs are not a problem anymore. But that Shadowbreaker ammunition...."

At this point, they managed to interrogate one of the Shadowbreaker in on of their mission. He 'kindly' gave away their secrets on the edge they been having against the Shadow operatives. The answer? Shadowbreaker ammunition.

They have been analyzing the ammunition, but it was a tech beyond their understandings. Even Minzy, who was considered as a tech genius could not figure out the science behind it.

"Our only bane..." Park Bom sighed.

"Handong is here!" Seohyun barged in the room, announcing to them. They all went out to receive her. Handong, Yoongi, Jessica, and Yoohyeon went to China to spearhead the resistance against the Sentinels.

"Dongie!" Siyeon hugged her tight.

"Hey there, Wolfie. How's things going?"

"The usual. Empire fucking things up. How's China?" She asked Handong. All of them looked down in despair.

"We lost.... The Sentinels were too superior in every way there is. Not to mention Blackpink leading their forces." Yoongi sighed.

"Did you got exposed?"

"No. Thanks to this new ability, it changed my fighting style entirely. Also thanks to this nanotech mask." Yoongi grinned.

"Good job everyone. We'll get them next time. Let's get inside. It's been a while since we have a full house." Calintz patted on his shoulder.

Calintz did not pull any punches in preparing the dinner. He brought out beyond his A-game with the Thai- themed cuisine.

"Tom Yum, Pad Thai, green curry! Even garlic shrimp fried rice! What's the occasion?" Yoohyeon looked at the spread, wiping her lips in hunger.

"Nothing. Just because. Sit down and we'll start digging in!" Calintz invited them all. They all ate like they have not eaten for days. At the end of the dinner, every plate and bowl was licked clean.

"That sure hit the spot!" Irene smiled in content, dragging her smoke.

"Yeah... Thanks, dear. Really proud to have a husband that can cook." Nana squeezed his hand.

"Nah, don't mention it."

"Say, Cal. Do you have a room for one more? Is your offer still stand?" Sunny asked him.

"What offer?" Calintz frowned.

"You know, the one that you offered back in UK more than 20 years ago." Calintz then realized what she was asking. Suddenly, the alarm of his AR went off. He looked at it with a grieving face and sighed.

"Sorry, Soonkyu. I don't think that would be possible anymore...." He gave a painful smile at Sunny and called all of them to follow him.

His action weirded everyone out, not to mention he brought them to the garden. He walked towards the graves and turned around.

"You asked me what the occasion. I lied. And that was the first and the last lie I'll tell to all of you." He caressed each of the tombstone.

"Honey, what are you talking about? You are scaring all of us." Jurina gave a nervous laugh.

"Since I was brought back from the dead, I always thought the reason why. I thought it would be because the world still need me. Until I lost them; my children. I was resurrected so that I would have a chance and spend some times with them. And I did. I had fulfilled my dream, it is time for me to come home...." Calintz smiled at them, tears rolling down his cheeks.

"Calintz, what are you trying to do?! Stop it. We can work it out!" Sunny ran towards him but bounced back, as if he was protected by some kind of barrier. The rest of them called his name, trying to stop him from doing whatever he was trying to do.

Calintz closed his eyes and recite some sort of incantations. His body started to glow faintly, he levitated in the air.

"Take care, my love. I'll be waiting for you on the other side." With his last smile, he fell to the ground laying still. The invisible barrier disappeared, they all rushed at him. Jurina cradled his head in her lap, checking his vital. Her eyes went wide, and she broke into tears, wailing loudly.

Calintz is gone.

"WHAT DID YOU DO?! WE STILL NEED YOU! YOU KIDS STILL NEED YOU! I STILL NEED YOU! WHAT DID YOU DO?!" Jurina screamed in agony, hugging him with all her strength.

All of them broke into tears. Who would have thought he was feeding them his last meal?

CL took a knee, the ground wet from her tears. With her, all of them followed suit. A tradition started by him; an act to pay the respect to their fallen.

But suddenly the ground shook. Panic engulfed them, as they trying to figure out what actually happened. Six hands emerged from the graves in front of them and slowly they crawled out.

"Fuck!" One of the women cursed as she patted the dirt from her body. On top of the gravesite, six women stood, eyes and hairs glowing brightly in the dark of the night.