Musen 11 ✔

Chapter Four:

Thud.

Yoongi's eyes slowly fluttered open. He grunted lowly and looked to the digital clock that stood on the glass table. Another thud. Who the hell was making so much noise at four fifteen AM?

He groggily rose and grabbed a flashlight from beneath the table. He pointed at all the bodies sprawled on the floor one by one. It'd been seven days.

Seven days of living with Dong-in and four days of physical combat. They hadn't all gotten very far but they could at least protect themselves a little. The only ones that had gone as far as using a gun were Yoongi, Namjoon and Sonya. But even then, they hardly ever were allowed to shoot due to scarcity of bullets. They practiced mostly using guns and daggers and sometimes they were allowed on daily runs for supplies with Dong-in. The others still had shaking hands but Dong-in said they'd learn.

Speaking of Dong-in, he was lying on the floor as well. There was only one bedroom in the bunker and it was offered to Sonya because, well, she was a girl and would need her privacy. But she declined and claimed she felt safer sleeping with all of them so nobody really took the bedroom, preferring to huddle close to each other in the living room.

Another thud.

But if Dong-in was here and so were the Kim brothers, Namjoon, Minho, Hoseok, Cha Won, Jimin and Jungkook, then who exactly was making that noise?

Yoongi's eyes widened as he scrambled on his feet and proceeded to shake everyone roughly. He had to slap his hand over Namjoon's mouth so the taller boy wouldn't make any noise. Dong-in was up in a second, looking around him and prepared to shoot whatever it was. Military instincts or whatever.

They all groaned and began asking why Yoongi had woken them.

"Shh! Listen," Yoongi pointed at the stairwell door.

On cue, another thud resounded.

"Who the fuck is that?" Jungkook grumbled, not yet fully awake and rubbing at his eyes.

"I think you mean what," Dong-in cocked his gun, "It sounds like it's coming down the stairs,"

Their eyes widened.

"You think it's a . . ."

"Host, yeah," Dong-in completed Sonya's trail of thought.

"How the hell did it get in here?" Namjoon whisper yelled, they'd all already began scrambling to their feet.

"Your guess is as good as mine. But we can't shoot it, it'll make too much noise. There are probably more up there," Yoongi spoke thoughtfully.

Dong-in lowered his gun. "What do we do?"

Yoongi thought for a moment. "We need to find a way to kill it without firing and sneak upstairs to close the door. No doubt it's open and that's how it got in here,"

"But to do that-" Jimin spoke.

"We have to be in close range," Yoongi confirmed.

They all looked at him like he had two heads. He sighed and told them it was the only way. With the flashlight in hand, he slowly tiptoed to the kitchen to grab a knife. They all followed his lead, including Dong-in who still had his shotgun clutched in his hand for safety reasons.

The thudding was slowly becoming louder and closer as the Host neared the stairs. Yoongi gave Namjoon, Sonya, Minho, Seokjin and Cha Won a kitchen knife while he ordered the rest to go find places to hide. Dong-in stood by his side.

Yoongi slowly crept to the back of the stairwell door and motioned for Minho to follow him. He then whispered for the rest of them to get in positions and for Dong-in to turn on the room light. The Hosts had no eyes so that was severely to their advantage, however the creatures heightened sense of smell and hearing was not.

He nodded to Minho to ask if he was ready and the taller boy gave him a thumbs up, still gripping the knife like his life depended on it. Which. . .

Yoongi took a deep breath, gave a long nod to the others and slowly let his flashlight fall unto the wooden floor. Their eyes widened as they heard the thuds become more frantic and a little closer now. He reached for the knob and pulled it open and in a matter of seconds the Host had come stumbling in taking them a by surprise a little.

The little gnashing of teeth and the pungent odour the thing emanates had them going back a couple centimeters with crunched noses. They'd all agreed to stay quiet, hearts on edge as the thing sniffed all around it. However, as they stumbled back a little, Minho slipped on the fallen flashlight and emitted a shrill scream as he made contact with the floor.

They gasped.

The Host's head snapped towards the source of the sound and in a matter of minutes, he was on top of Minho struggling to bite him. The taller boy's knife had skidded a considerable distance away from him.

"Minho!" Sonya and Cha Won exclaimed.

In a matter of seconds, more thuds were coming from the stairwell giving Namjoon reason to think at least two or three more were headed their way with all the ruckus they were making. Minho rolled back and forth, struggling to keep the Host off his body but the infected creature was very strong.

Yoongi snapped out of his daze and lodged the knife at the back of the creatures head, disgusting black blood with an awful odour spraying him right on his face. He removed the knife and stabbed again in the same spot since the first one hadn't done much damage and only seemed to weaken the Host.

It was the third time that had it rolling off of Minho.

"You okay?" Yoongi asked as he offered a bloody hand.

Quite shaken, Minho gripped Yoongi's hand and hoisted himself up, rubbing on his arm, "Yeah, it just scratched me,"

Before they could say anything else, two more Hosts barged into the bunker, snarling and snapping their black teeth at everything. One pounced on Yoongi and the other on Dong-in.

Namjoon and Seokjin were quick to stab it from behind while Yoongi did from under and Sonya slit the throat of the one on top of Dong-in, the older man resorting to punching it when they had collided. Cha Won repeatedly stabbed it in the back, whispering a war cry with teary eyes.

Finally, all three Hosts were dead and they could have a sigh of relief. They were all coated in blood and breathing heavily. Sonya was checking Dong-in for wounds, Cha Won was checking Minho and Seokjin and Namjoon kept babying Yoongi.

The ones who were ordered to hide ran into the living room and they all gathered in one big, bloody hug, most of them with tears in their eyes. Taehyung held his brother Seokjin with an ever tightening grip.

Once they'd gotten the after shock out of their system, Dong-in was the first one to speak.

"We have to get out of here," he said. "It's not safe anymore,"

And they couldn't agreed more.

Time to begin the journey to Building 63.

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hi ! x KJ.