\\ NIGHT\\ Fantasy AU \ ATEEZ Fanfic

// Chapter 33 \\

I opened my eyes from the blackness to a room with endless walls that reached into the sky. My head spun around at the sight. The walls were black, reaching up into a white fog that clouded high above and the floor I was on was a clean marble white. I looked around to the assortment of grey gears that either protruded from the floor or levitated in the sky, turning slowly. That's when I heard the sound of a clock ticking along with the rotation of gears, but it shuttered to a stop all of a sudden. They seemed to turn back in an odd manner before ticking forward again to only come to a stop once more— as if it was stuck.

I turned around to look at the center of the room where a large square-like black tower stood. Unlike the walls of the room, it didn't reach into the sky nearly as far. Grey clicking gears and shriveled vines hugged to its side, leading up to the pointed top where a white faced clock sat. The hand of the clock shuttered as it tried to move to the next minute. It only would for a second before being forced back to the previous minute, causing the odd clicking noise that echoed throughout the chamber.

Then, there was a roaring sound from behind me. No, that roar was louder than that. It was more desperate— a call for help— a scream— multiple screams. I whipped by head around to find the dull grays, whites, and blacks vanish as dull green grass to its place under the eternal dawn sky. I faced a scene I'd seen before: Wooyoung standing at the tree line. Except he was already running towards me, my name slowly leaving his lips with no sound.

Suddenly, the figure that was Wooyoung running towards me changed all of a sudden in a flickering motion. It was now San that ran towards me. His messy hair sagged into his face with a desperate and fearful look in his peculiar dark blue eyes. He was desperately running towards me, gritting his teeth as he did so but he moved in slow motion.

A woman's velvet and musical voice shuttered as it echoed:

Open your eyes.

My eyes flew open immediately as my body almost did the same before I was held down by something pinning me to the ground. That's when I felt a shot of pain seer through me, but it wasn't as bad as what I'd felt before.

"Don't move," I heard Yeosang's voice speak urgently as I felt some force applied to my arms and legs.

I breathed as I felt the searing pain that had torn through me widdle away to nothingness. I took in my surroundings then. I could already tell by the cold chills going down my spine and from the colors that were in my vision that we were still down in the prison chambers. I looked above me to find Yeosang and Yunho's faces peering down at me.

"She's fully healed," I heard a feminine voice speak before I saw her towering over me— a healer.

"Thank you," I heard Seonghwa's now calm voice speak, even though I can't see him, "Now, she can move."

Yunho let go of me almost immediately while Yeosang hesitated a little before doing the same. I pulled myself into a sitting position to be met with Seonghwa and San who sat on either side of my thighs. Seonghwa only gazed at me calmly as San gave me a genuinely relieved smile. I gazed to San with my mouth agape before someone spoke.