Chapter Thirty Five
The Mysterious Play [Discontinued]
The wind was blowing, softly caressing her cheek. The sound of waves embracing the beach and birds singing in the air filled her ears. She opened her eyes. She was lying on a warm bed of sand and the sun was blurring her vision.
“Am I dead again?” she whispered to herself,
Slowly she felt the pain and the exhaustion. Nope, she was not dead yet. As she tried to sit up straight, she looked around her. She was on an island. What happened? Last think she remembered was that they were on their way to the east. Then suddenly they got into a strange storm and they had to fight. The boys were protecting her and… The boys…
“Guys!” Jieun panicked as she remembered. She looked around her again, searching for them. They were all here, lying next to her unconscious, drenched in water. The girl quickly got on her feet even if she couldn’t really walk straight and kneeled next to Baekhyun who was the closest to her. “Baekhyun… Baekhyun wake up!”
The boy frowned, his head hurt and Jieun’s shaking didn’t help, “Jieun not so loud,” he whined,
“Baekhyun please wake up… We… We made it! We’re on the island!” she said out of breath,
“The island?” he slowly opened his eyes to scan the place, remembering what happened too, “R… Right… We made it… We did… We… Jieun your plan worked!”
Jieun smiled happily. Her plan worked! She managed to save everyone. For once, she felt strong, useful. And the most important was that Kai did it.
“Kai!” she beamed as she turned around to find the boy, “Kai! You’re the best!” she stood up, “Kai!” she called again,
“Jieun stop yelling please…” Chanyeol groaned as he massaged the bridge of his nose,
“Kai?” the girl kept calling. She looked around again and again. Something was wrong. Everyone was here. Everyone, except Kai. He wasn’t lying there next to them. “Kai is not here…” she felt her heart burst out of her chest,
“What?” Chanyeol and Baekhyun asked,
“W…Where is he?” she asked with a trembling voice, “Where is Kai?”
Panic and fear her, as the warrior was nowhere to be seen. Why isn’t he here with everyone? Why is he the only one missing? Her heart started to race dangerously to the thought that he might be in the bottom of the sea, unable to escape.
“Please no…” she fell onto her knees, her hands on , ready to sob,
“Hey, hey Jieun. Calm down,” Baekhyun put his hand on her shoulder, “Don’t jump into conclusion so fast okay? Maybe he is somewhere else on the island. You know it was the first time he used his power that way so he might have been teleported farther than us. We’re going to look for him okay? Don’t worry he’ll be find. He is an EXO warrior after all,” the boy smiled to her reassuringly,
Jieun listened to him and nodded quietly.
“Let wake up the others and we’ll take a look around the place okay?” he smiled again and stood up, helping her in the process.
The three of them started to wake the other members one by one until Lay stopped near Suho, “We should let him rest… He is in bad shape,” he said worriedly,
Jieun came closer to the leader who was lying on his back, so pale that she thought he could become transparent. “Suho…” she whispered, taking the other’s hand in hers.
The older boy smiled and softly said, “I’m fine Jieun. I just need some rest,” he gently squeezed her hand, if not weakly, too tired to open his eyes,
“Lay, Jieun. You guys stay next to Suho to make sure he gets better. The boys and I are going to look for Kai and a place to spend the night okay?” Kris said,
“I want to come with you,” Jieun stood up,
“Jieun, we don’t know what’s out there. It’s too dangerous. You’re not safe,” Tao said,
“Kai is missing because of me. I’m the one who forced him to use his power even if he never teleported to a place he doesn’t know. It’s my fault. I have to find him,”
“But…” Tao started but Kris put his hand in front of the youngest,
“It’s okay Tao. You know her, she won’t change her mind,”
“Thank you Kris,” she smiled,
“But I have some conditions,” the king said, “You stay close to us ALL THE TIME. Don’t try to go anywhere without telling us. Don’t go faster than us. Don’t panic. And if something happens, please don’t get involved. You might get hurt again,” he said severely but his voice softened at his last request, as if he was begging her to stay safe,
Jieun opened , ready to protest, but eventually she shut it and nodded obediently, “Fine…”
Kris smiled and ruffled her hair, then he turned to the healer, “Lay, please take care of my brother,”
“I will,” the boy nodded,
“Take this,” Kris handed him a sword, “Just in case,”
Lay carefully took it, “I hope I won’t have to use it,”
“I hope so too,” Jieun said,
“Okay. We’ll separate into two groups. Chanyeol, Tao, you guys go east, Jieun, Baekhyun and I will go west. We meet right here before sunset. Understood?”
“Okay,”
They separated into groups as commanded by Kris and started their spotting mission on the island. As they walked deeper into the jungle, Jieun couldn’t stop thinking about Kai, wondering if he still alive, if he is okay.
“Will we find him?” she finally asked after being silent the whole time,
Baekhyun looked at her and took her hand, “Don’t worry. We’ll find him,” he smiled,
Jieun’s heart felt a little relieved at the boy’s reassuring moves. But it wasn’t enough to make her worries disappear.
She looked at the sky. The sun was already turning orange. They didn’t have much time left. But they had to find Kai. They had to make sure he was safe. And she was determined to turn the island upside down to find him.
“We’re going to find you Kai.”
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