Cascading Empire

Chapter 39

              May walked out the elevator while happily grinning at the two people who were beside her. Although they refused to talk, May respected their decision and just continued to have little talks with them. Just seeing them smile and nod their heads to the question was enough to make her happy and grin from ear to ear. The group from a couple years ago was finally going to be complete once again. May continued walking with them alongside her, while she hummed quietly to a familiar tune. 

               Turning the corner, she immediately froze in step as she saw two corpses on the ground, face down while their back was decorated with blood. She immediately ran ahead, panic filling her system as she swore she felt her heart drop the instant she saw the two bodies in the middle of a hidden part in the building. May dropped to her knees, hands desperately attempting to turn the bodies around feeling the instant wave of relief knowing that it was neither Callex or Eric. As soon as she dropped the bodies to the ground, a loud shout rang through the hallways and guns went off. Her eyes widened as she rushed up, not able to take a step outside of the spot she was in because of all the guns in the hallway shooting someone that caught their attention. 

               "Ahn! Ahn! Keith!" May began shouting, her voice drowned out by the loud gunshots as she felt her heart beat uncontrollably loud. "AHN! KEITH!" She continued to shout, her hands resting on the wall as the guns stopped after a few seconds of shooting. Fearing the worst, she stood still in spot, her hair covering the frame of her face as she kept her face down, eyes widen and staring at the dark pool of dried blood below her feet from the cold corpse. 

               A feeling or grief washed over her as her heart stopped from the immense silence of the room. With shaky hands, May took in quick breaths, her vision blurrying from the tears forming at the rim of her eyes. "Ahn.. Keith.. are you guys okay..?" She asked again, trying to just get an answer amidst the silence. A weak sob escaped her lips as her knees trembled, her hand supporting her on the wall while her breathes gradually turned shorter and shorter, eyes unfocused. After a while, a short cry echoed through the other room as May's eyes widened and immediately she ran out, not seeing a bloody corpse like she expected. However, she did see blood. 

               She immediately rushed to where the blood stain was and turned left, seeing Keith and Ahn also hidden away in the crevices near the window. Keith's brows were furrowed while he gripped his bleeding rib along with his bleeding calf. Ahn placed her bloody hands on his cheek, staring up at May as if asking for help and May stared, not knowing what to do in a moment of panic. Taking a few deep breathe as the realization of the nonexistent death hit her, she finally calmed herself down with the memory of her previous training. Searching in her pocket of her sweatpants, she shakily took out a lighter and tweezers. She bit the edge of her over sized shirt before ripping off a piece, and moving closer while dropping to her knees besides him. 

               "It's going to hurt a bit okay? Feel free to bite this.." She ripped off another big piece of clothing, before rolling it up and picking out a threat from the ripped thread and tying it into a tight roll. He grabbed it and bit on it tightly, sweat dropping down his thicker brows and his drooped eyes. May took the tweezers she found from an open hospital room and inhaled before reaching the tweezers down. He let out a loud grunt as Ahn, who was right beside him, wrapped her arms around his head and hushed him gently, which turned out to be more of puffs of air, but May was too focused to notice. 

                 Taking out the bullet in one swift moment, she sighed in relief, dropping the bullet from his calf to the ground. He watched the entire process and saw May light the lighter, before taking it near his calf. It began to dry up the blood slowly while May made sure it didn't burn him. May threw it besides her before taking the other ripped cloth and began to gently wrap it around his calf. Not minding the amount of clothes she was ripping, she ripped the shirt up to her hip before moving to his chest. Making sure that the cloth was clean, she gently cleaned the wound, then wrapped it. 

                 May exhaled and dropped her hands to the ground as she began to weep, "I'm sorry.." She covered her face with her head lowered as eventually, a warm hand was placed on her head. He didn't say anything but watch her continue to cry, unable to even move. She cried her heart out until she was finally better, hiccuping here and there, but better. "Let's get going.." May sniffed and he smiled before May grabbed his arm, helping him up while Ahn smiled besides them. 

                  Callex aimlessly walked the halls, turning a corner before bumping into someone. Not expecting this, he immediately threw a fist and so did the person. The fit impacted each other, before they drew away their hands, hissing in pain. They both clearly did not expect the other person walking the other side of the hall to be so strong. Both of them appeared from the corner and immediately, their eyes widened. "It's.. You?!" May and Callex shouted and immediately they smiled. Callex's smile dropped immediately when he saw May's red eyes. "Have you been crying?" He asked, stepping closer as May shook her head. "No, I saw Satan." 

                  He rolled his eyes from sarcasm but saw Keith and Ahn. "Who're they?" May presented them, "This is Ahn and this is Keith. Keith was injured, so I.. kinda just.. yeah. They don't want to talk, so um.. yeah," May said. Ahn lowered her head, looking guilty while Keith opened his mouth with a strangled sound, but closed his mouth while looking at her back, pleadingly. Callex took a step closer, noticing their strange actions before pointing to them, "I don't think they don't want to talk," He said, before he stepped in front of Keith, "Can you guys open your mouth?" 

                   "After a moment of hesitation, they did as told as May's eyes widened and her heart dropped once again.   

                    "As I thought. Their tongues have been cut."