"SUA!" A voice called out. Sua turned around and folded her black umbrella. She nodded at the familiar face she saw in front of her. "Hey, Siyeon." Siyeon wore a black dress much like Sua's and had a white mask on. She lifted it off and Sua could see that her expression looked like she was frightened and anxious. "Oh, um, it didn't work. The girl was adamant that she kept the crystal ball." Siyeon ran her nimble fingers in her hair and bit her lip anxiously. "Sua, What am I meant to do? Mom will kill me. I'm not even joking. I thought the place we kept the ball was secluded and away from human contact. " Sua shook her head. "This isn't the 1500s anymore. Humans are literally everywhere. The girl refused to reason with me, so I just let her feel what the ball does to humans who possess it." Siyeon chewed her nail. "I- What did you do? We all know what happens to humans when they have the ball! We need to take it away from her, and fast. Who knows what'll happen if she has it for too long?" Sua grabbed her umbrella and her black mask, and Siyeon took her white one, as to not be recognised. Their other friend, Handong, was curious as well, so she followed them. They all glitched, almost like a fancy filter, and disappeared.
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Gahyeon, Minji and Yubin arrived at the hospital, all wearing sombre black clothing. Yoohyeon was lying in a hospital bed, hardly breathing. The rush of happiness Gahyeon had felt in the morning was gone, and replaced with a overlying feeling of grief. But when she saw Yoohyeon there, scarcely alive, albeit alive nonetheless, she felt a sense of relief. Yoohyeon didn't die. She was about to die, but the fall didn't kill her. Just as Gahyeon's face relaxed, a piercing single tone resounded through the whole hospital room. Almost immediately, Yoohyeon's mother started wailing. Gahyeon's lower lip trembled seeing Yoohyeon's mom in obviously so much pain. Minji buried her head in Yubin's chest, sobbing, while all Yubin could do was pat her head tenderly. Minji sniffed. "I-I loved her! I loved Yoohyeon! We never h-had a chance to be together. She- she left!" Minji howled. Gahyeon let a small warm tear slip out of her eye and trickle down her face. Gahyeon excused herself from the catastrophic scene and ran to the bathroom. She locked herself in a stall and picked up the glass ball gingerly. She wondered, what if it was the ball to blame? It couldn't have been suicide. Gahyeon remembered the scream she heard before Yoohyeon was on the ground. She didn't think much of it at the time, but then she realised. "What if the scream was Yoohyeon's?" There could be no doubt. If she screamed like that, there was no way she could've wanted to die. Right?
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Gahyeon brought the ball above her head with her arm, ready to smash it right then and there. The ball seemed like it was talking to her, swirling all the colours of the rainbow. The ball was somehow connected to everything- the weird thoughts Gahyeon had, the death of Yoohyeon, everything. She was just about to smash it on the floor, when a white flash temporarily blurred her vision. When she could see clearly again, she looked up, shocked. There was a person- no, three people- in the cubicle with her, and she was squished against the wall of the stall. The same person who had threatened her the previous night was there, along with two other people she had never seen before. The girl with the black umbrella looked serious, and the other girls looked curious and anxious. The girl Gahyeon had seen before spoke first. "My name is Sua. Yes, I'm back. We still need the crystal ball. Remember what happened to you last night." Gahyeon thought back to that terrible flash of pain behind her eyes. "It'll happen again if you don't give us the ball now, multiplied by tenfold." Sua had her fingers ready to snap and pain Gahyeon again. Gahyeon desperately wanted to give the ball back to Sua. Somehow she couldn't. It was like the ball was willing her to keep it, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't hand it over. "Give." Sua demanded. "Anyway, why are you in the hospital? And wearing those clothes?" The girl on the left of Sua, wearing a grey cape, whispered something in Sua's ear and her eyes widened. "You did what?!" Sua turned to Gahyeon. "We'll continue later. It appears that something has come up." And with that, they all evaporated.
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"Handong!" Sua cried. "Why did you kill her friend?" Handong sat at the opposite edge of where Sua was sitting. Handong shrugged. "Gahyeon -is that her name?- would kill her anyway. Better to kill her then and there, rather than scarring Gahyeon and her friend mentally." Sua actually agreed with that one and sighed. Handong rubbed her arm shyly. "She also saw the crystal ball, and knew where it was. So she was dangerous. But I think I got a bit carried away." Handong thought how scary Gahyeon's friend would have thought she was. She winced just thinking about it. She had never killed someone so directly before. Not in the 1000 years she had been alive. But somehow, she had killed a girl's best friend, in the most emotionless, unfeeling way.
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Siyeon sat in her bed, rubbing her eyes apprehensively. What mom would do when she found out the crystal ball got into the hands of a human, she was fearful to know. After all, the ball would turn Gahyeon into a merciless, cold killer. A murderer. Many lives would be taken, and it would be all Siyeon's fault. Siyeon's fault for not being responsible enough and keeping the crystal ball in a place no one would know, like Antarctica, or the Sahara desert. Siyeon's fault. Siyeon's fault. Siyeon's fault. Siyeon's. Fault...
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Gahyeon sat in the hospital room and tried to drown out the wails and cries echoing in the well-lit hospital room. She needed to focus. What was that ball, and why did it attract a group of literal monsters. Gahyeon winced when she thought about what pain they were probably going to afflict on Gahyeon. She looked at Yoohyeon's blueish pale face, caked with brownish blood and her hair knotted and dirty, and couldn't stop looking at her lifeless body, Gahyeon stared with a emotionless expression, the corners of her mouth twitching. Gahyeon shook her head violently. "Gahyeon. Gahyeon. Gahyeon. Get it into your head. You're not a monster." The glass ball almost seemed like it was burning through her bag. Gahyeons mouth went slack. "And what if I am?" She thought.
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I write way too much rip anyway this is very all around the place Chapter, showing the different emotions the characters are feeling. Also we get introduced to Sua, Siyeon and Handong ;) We also learn Yoohyeon wasn't dead after all :)
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scream (dreamcatcher)
Horror"I will always be a part of you, Gahyeon. Nothing will change that. I have been a part of you ever since you took the ball from the room. Now kill her." I might change the previous chapters to make the story more cohesive to read, so bear with me 😅...
