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Chapter 7: The Island

Taehyun stepped on the bridge and ran to the island. With his every step the bridge was getting longer, vanishing from behind.

Reaching the island and finding Kai in about one and a half hours has started to look imposible in his mind. He had been running approximately for ten minutes and he still couldn't see something else than the ocean.

Another ten minutes, and now he was at the island, the bridge disappearing behind him. He waited a moment to catch his breath, looking around.

The island was small, touring around it would take less than coming to it. Right in front of Taehyun there was a castle, the prison. Like the nymph had said there were no guards in here, but if he didn't move fast there would be in an hour. He pushed the gates of the castle, going inside.

The castle didn't had any windows, everywhere was pitch black. Taehyun had to use his night vision to get around, he had to make his black starry eye reappear.

He went into the first room he found and started looking around trying to find a map, some keys anything that would be able to help him.

This room was an office room, looking like it belonged to the head of this jail. There were any kinds of things, Taehyun had never seen some of them before.

He opened one of the drawers and was faced with files of "criminals" that they held in here. He picked the one that was at the top. It belonged to a girl who was ace. There were any kind of information about her. Who her perents were, her boyfried, her friends, when she came here. But two things scared Taehyun, sending shivers to his bones.

They were statues of the person, alive or dead, and the tortues she had went through. It specified that the girl was dead. She didn't even spent one month in the prison.

Taehyun's heart was now trying to get out of his chest. He searched throught other files, every one of them specified as dead, in their first or second month of jail. His heart started to beat faster. If it continued like this he would faint before he could find Kai.

After a long search he finally found his file but there was a little problem. The information part about him on the paper was ripped. That send an uncomfortable relief through his body. The kind of feeling when you are faced with something unknown, something that you could not understand.

The only good thing about these files, there was a thing written for everyone: they didn't need to keep them locked, the prisoners were always too week to move around.

Taehyun got out of the room without losing any more time. He started to search the places where he assumed they were keeping them. To his luck it wasn't what he wanted. He, by mistake, actually found some kind of torture chamber.

There were some dead bodies and blood was spread everywhere. There was a chair in the middle of the room. On the left wall there were gadgets, also covered with blood.

Taehyun being not able look any longer got out of the room. He went to a different floor which only had empty cells. He climbed another, only to left with a scarier scene than that room.

There were dead bodies, in every cell.
One of them catched his attention. It was the same girl he saw in the first file. Her clothes were ripped and she had bruises on her ankles and wrists.

He understood what had happened but couldn't dare to imagine. He now felt more anxious about Kai's condition.

He walked to the circular room at the end of the corridor. This room was not a cell. It had glass for its ceiling. There were pillows on the ground, clearly not belonging the place. He could see someone was laying on the pile of pillows.

"Kai!" he recognized the boy, he didn't change a little. He ran next to him, putting Kai's head on his lap.

He checked for his pulse, it was really weak but it was still there. His clothes were the same as the day he was taken. His hair was greasy, meaning he didn't get to shower even once. He had lost weight to the point which was dangerous. The penguin had bruises all around his body.

"Kai, can you hear me? It's me your squirrel." Taehyun was silently crying as he hold the fragile boy in his arms, petting his hair.

Kai as a respond to this grabbed Taehyun's shirt to tell him that he could hear him. He tried to speak only to cut of by Tae.

"Shhhh. It's okay. We are getting out of here." He was going to reach to the potion that the spirit nymph had given him until a weak tired voice screamed at him, startling him and making him turn around.

"GET YOUR HANDS OFF HIM!!!" Taehyun was holding Kai close to his chest as he checked the guy. He couldn't see the guy's face but he could see that the guy was nearly in the same condition as Kai. What scared him is that the guy had several thorns coming out of his shoulders.

Suddenly the guy's thorns retreated back and he stepped into the moonlight with a shocked face.

Taehyun; watching this couldn't believe what he was seeing, nor the words that came out of his own mouth.

"Beomgyu?"