Shanelle can't sleep and been looking at the clock for many times already. "Why is Mosnter Chi not home still? It can't be that after meeting the painting owner, his memories returned, did his revenge and left?" She suddey frowned. "But that was so mean! He should tell me first before leaving, right? Why is he suddenly leaving without saying a word to me? Then leaving me worrying." Worrying? She thought. "Wait, am I worrying about Monster Chi? What kind of joke is that. Besides, he can just fly over eaves and walks on walls, right? Nobody can do anything to him."
She nods at the thought.
Inside the elevator, Chihoon's body was slowly weaknening. He lays his back on the wall while hugging himself. His lips is also getting pale.
Shanelle suddenly sits up from lying down the sofa when she thought of something. "It can't be. Don't tell me Monster Chi got tricked? This is what I'm afraid of. He is so gullible. How can he trust the words of a cheater easily? This cheater is pretty awful. He's even cheating an 800-year-olf person! This can't be. He might be in danger," she said and hurriedly took her jacket and went outside the house.
She feels her heartbeat while walking. "Why is Monster Chi's heart beats so weird? He's not really in danger, right?"
The road was earie quiet and there were no cars nor people walking around the area. She knew the address where Chihoon will meet him because she tracked the last signal of his phone. She looks at the building infront of her. "This looks like a lifeless building. Why will they meet here?" She tried to dial his number. "Not in service? Is he inside an elevator?"
She felt her chest again. Monster Chi isn't trapped at the elevator, right? She thought.
She made her way down the building towatds the forbidden door with its yellow and black warning signs.
Cautiosly, she pushed open the door and eneteted the building. Everything was dead quiet inside, and there was a strange chill in the air. Eventhough the light was dim, Shanelle sensed that she was on a huge building that was empty.
Grotesque shapes huddled on the floor---the workmen's equipment but nothing was moving in the chaos and rubble of the new construction.
"Hello?" She called fearfully but trying to be calm as much as possible.
But no one answered.
Where could Monster Chi be? She thought. She could see no other door. Also the stairs connecting the floors hadn't been built yet.
"Monster Chi? Are you here?" She asked in a voice husky with fear.
Carefully feeling her way, she stepped around the building towards the other direction. "Monster Chi?" Her tremulous call was greeted with silence. "Prince Chihoom?!"
The building echoed but only from the sound of her own voice. Until she found an elevator. "Am I really at the right place? C'mon Shanelle you can already be a secret agent," she grinned at the thought not minding her fears. She pushes the button of the elevator but nothing happened. She pushed it again but still nothing happened. "Moster Chi? Monster Chi are you there?! Speak if you're there!" She said knocking at the door of the elevator. "It's so gloomy in here already!" She is looking around.
"I'm here," she heard Chihoon's weak voice.
Shanelle's eyes widen and tries to peek inside the elevator from the small hole of the ground.
"Monster Chi!" She knocked at the door. "Are you okay there? What happened to you?"
"I-it's so cold," Chihoon answered while hugging his cold, shaky body.
"W-wait I'll call the police!" She looks for her phone from her pocket but then she stops. "I can't call the police. He's a monster. Wait for me here! I'll save you!" She said then runs to the nearest rooms of the building to look for something she can use to save Chihoon.
She saw a cabinet, she opened it and saw an ax. She gets it and runs to the elevator again. She tried to lift up the steel doorm from the ground. She used her full strength to lift it up, but she can't. "Ouch," she said when her bandage was loosened.
But still she did it again. She used her remaining strength to lift the door. She lifted it up but only a few inches from the ground. Enough to feel the cold air coming from the elevator. She used the ax to steady it. " Wooh, it's so cold in there. It's like a freezer," she said rubbing her arms.
She peeked at the hole from the ground and saw Chihoon's cold and shaky body inside. "Monster Chi who did you offend huh? Why are they doing this to you?"
She rests her back on the wall because of tiredness. "I don't have the strength anymore Monster Chi. You're strong, right? Can't you lift this up by yourself?"
She didn't hear any answer. She looks at the door again and peeks at him. "Don't tell me your superpowers can't protect you in cold atmosphere?" She saw him nods. "Then what shall we do?" She said worriedly. "H-hang in there. I will think of something."
She stands up and looks at the place again. "Fire. I need to make a fire," she said. She tried to open every door dhe can see but all of those are locked. She is panicking, when suddenly she saw some logs at the corner of the room. She hurriedly gets those and puts it in a pail. She also found a match and old newspapers. She brought those also to the elevator where Chihoon was trapped.
She hurriedly made a fire thanks to her girl scout skills. "Prince Chihoon don't sleep, okay?" She said while fanning the fire and waiting for it to heat. "Let's wait for the fire to heat."
Shanelle continued to fan the fire. Her hands are already tired and feeling weak while doing it. Her eyes are falling to sleep too, but she's fighting it just to save Chihoon.
"Monster Chi, I'm telling you don't trust your internet friends so much," she said yawning but still fanning. "You don't even know if it's a human or a dog who is sitting infront of the computer. Also, you should always carry hot packs wherever you go. You even know you can't stand cold."
Chihoon can hear Shanelle's words clearly. He is now sweating because of the heat coming from the fire she made. The heat already won against the cold temperature that's why his strength is slowly returning.
"Do you even know what a hot pack is?" He heard Shanelle's voice again. "It is something that will immediately heat up as long as you stick in on yourself." He heard her chuckle. "But thinking about how look using the hot packs all over your body..." She laughs again. "Really ridiculous."
Chihoon lifted the edge of the door and pushed it upward. Shanelle looked shock that's why she immediaty stands up. Chihoon went out with sweat all over his body. "Woah, a monster is really a monster. You did recover so fast," she said grinning.
Because of weakness, Chihoon suddenly hugs Shanelle. "W-wait...Ch-chihoon..." She helps him get up and walks with him outside the place.
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"Hatching!" Shanelle rubs her nose with tissue again. It's been two hours since she started having colds which she thought was because of what happened last night. She was exposed to so much cold and so much heat.
Chihoon also woke up because he heard Shanelle's continous sneezing. He stands up and knocks on her door.
"Don't thank me. I already regret saving you," he heard her say from inside the room.
"Let's talk," he said in a calm voice. He opens the door and went inside.
Shanelle looks at him seriously. "What will we talk about? I don't even want to know anything about you. Getting tricked is your problem. I will be thankful if you will find another place to stay for good."
It's not that she's forcing him to leave. It's just she doesn't want to be involved in his problems anymore. She's been stressed with many things nowadays and she doesn't want these abnormal things happening to her.
Chihoon didn't answer. He just lets her talk everything she wanted to say. "And then you told me you'll protect me? Protect my foot. I am the one protecting you. Is that really a guy's attitude? To promise but then forgets about it after promising it? Psh," she said annoyingly. "And then I am sick now. My hand was cut, I have colds. And I can't even go to w---"
Chihoon didn't let him finish. He grabs her neck and kissed her. As wht he did before, he bits his tongue and lets his blood drips in her mouth letting her swallow it. This is his way of healing her. And for compensating her for saving him.
Shanelle's eyes widen at the realization of him kissing her. What the heck is happening? And what did I just swallow? She thought and forfully pushed him away. "Y-you!" She tried to slap him but he catches her hand. "Let me go! How dare you!" She said pulling her hand from him.
Chihoon took her wounded hand and takesnoff the bandage. The wound was gone. No sign of getting cut anymore. Shanelle looks at it. Her eyes widen again. "W-what..." She touches her right hand which is wounded and she didn't see any wound their anymore. "W-what happened?"
"I will protect you," Chihoon answered.
"I was asking, what happened here?" She showed him her already cured hand. She noticed something wet on her lips. She dips her finger on it and looks at it. She saw blood.
"People's wounds take time to heal. If they'll found out that your wound healed easily, they might suspect you. You also know what happened yesterday. Under those circumstances, theres's no way I have given you any bloo--"
"Stop." Shanelle took a deep breath. "Let's list all your special abilities. First, you are the fastest living organism on the planet. Secony, you ate the only being on Earth aside from birds, bats, mosquitoes, flies and airplanes that can fly. Wait, does that count as flying? You can't even fly high."
"It's not really flying. It's through the lungs filtering out the hydrogen in the air. Then fill up all the cells in the body and jumps to heights. Besides, it's not that I can't jump high. You're just too heavy."
Shanelle frowned at what he said. "Psh. Ok. Ok. Just like hydrogen balloons which is being bought at the supermarket. And may I remind you, this young lady's fitness is very controlled no excess weights, or whatsoever." Shanelle said that made Chihoon shrugged his shoulders. "Alright! Third, your blood is a miracle blood that can heal or cure illnesses. So, after the car accident, not only did I not die, I even recovered completely. Why didn't you tell me that?"
"I tried to tell you. Whenever I open my mouth to explan, you're like a rabbit who runs with your ears sealed."
"T-then you should grab my hand and shouts that at my face! Isn't it that you're find of watching dramas? Then you should imitate the male lead there where the man keeps on saying 'Listem to me. Listen to me' then the girl is saying 'I don't want to hear it, I don't want to hear it'. Then they will be like a repeating machine, cycling the same dialogue. Just like us. We are like being in a drama. But from looking at the actual events, this is actually one of the horror films. Psh."