Before she knew it she had gone to the interview and received the job. From then on her life had been pretty simple. Everyday she followed the same routine: waking up at six , showering at seven , eating a healthy nutritious breakfast at eight and by nine she would have been ready to start her pretend life.
South Korea Seoul 2028
" Okay well done it's a wrap " screamed the director as all the staff in unison began packing the expensive equipment away. Today's shoot had been longer than usual, with several complications. Hyunwoo's clothes ripped ( he probably just ripped it himself) and Areum's extensions fell off and daehyun was being sulky again. At times like this Elaine couldn't but chuckle at the her friends, they were not all the same age but after being for three years the group had become close. For once in a long time she felt she had a proper family again.
"Elaine watch out " screamed a petrified Hyunwoo as she felt her vision blurred. she suddenly felt a painful stinging in her lower abdomen and once she looked down she saw. Blood . gushing out like a fountain staining the floor and her white dress. She desperately pressed the wound with her hands yet it's kept spilling and soon all she could see was a crimson red. In the background she heard muffled screams , alongside a angry female shouting. Elaine raised her hands up , her pale skin had been fully covered by her own blood, yet whilst she stared at her tainted hands the pain became more numb. Soon the pain had ceased to exist but she felt the blood draining from her body and with each passing Milli second she felt her head become more foggy and her vision blurred. Till at last she felt soemones hand holding as she collapsed to the ground.
" your awake , are you okay? , are you alright? " asked a desperate voice who kept repeating their concern . Elaine slowly wrenched her eyes open, they felt like glue stuck together. After what felt like years she finally opened up to be confronted with a dazzling light. so blinding that Elaine had to cover her eyes with her hands in order to even see anything. She turned her head slowly to her left at the owner of the concern voice who hasn't stopped talking. It had belong to daehyun the 16 year-old boy she had meet during the interview. " Calm down I'm not dead " she reassured him but deep inside she knew it was the fruitless. Ever since she had meet him four years ago he had stayed exactly the same , he was the type of person who cry at thought of someone else getting hurt. A caring fool. His attitude always made Elaine wonder how on earth had such a benevolent child ever enter such a business of decit and lies. " the weird crazy lady just entered randomly don't worry she at headquarters now " he reaffirmed her. Elaine had completely forgotten about her perpetrator, in fact she had just now comprehended that she had gotten stabbed. " why she there not at the police " Elaine questioned. There no reason for the company to keep the crazy lady after all she could easily harm someone else. " well it's because of her motive " daehyun answered suspiciously, fiddling with his skinny hands . He had never been great at lying to her, Elaine could always sense what's something was wrong. " what was her motive ?" she asked making sure to empathize each word. the tanned boy would always end up telling Elaine everything after she raised her voice. " Well she was for revenge. you know for the stuff we , she claimed her brother had been a fan of us , you specifically yet miserably at a fight " he replied his voice faltering every so often. " Is that true, well at least it's sorted now " Elaine said with a heavy sigh.
Ruthless retaliations like these were expected after all their job was to convince people to join the fight against vampires which was essentially manipulating people to get sacrificed. Most participants who even tried to get in , die within weeks. Elaine knew that when she had started , everyone knew the precautions but not once had some taken their anger (rightfully so ) out like this. "what's going to happen to her , you know the lady she seemed to be the same age as you noona" daehyun asked but Elaine couldn't help but smile. He was the only one who referred to her as 'Noona' , the company had taken a more western approach to way it was run hence why formalities were quite disregard. Everyone treated everyone with respect and unless you were close. And as for the stabber , Elaine knew that daehyun had already known the answer to the question. It was always the same , whenever anyone had ever voiced against the group then they would either be threatened , murdered and or tortured till they got the message. Elaine had stopped attempting to care for anyone after her sister's death, she had saw hundreds of videos online accusing her sister and the other victims to have been paid actors. like when their bodies had ravaged and demolished was supposedly 'cgi' . Yet when situation like this occured she couldn't help but fell pity for the unfortunate souls who rightfully so had gotten angry at them . After his question had gotten ignored , daehyun sighed as he got up slowly and stumbled over to the door. He had probably been stressed about her condition so much that the emotional pain had a physical toll on his body and before he left, he said ' The company was us to meet at conference room within two hours. since they Included you when you are still injured , I don't think they going to give us good news " And with that Elaine got up and ready to dress. Thankfully the knife had not been able to pierce through any major organs and the anaesthetics had upgraded since last time she used them
By the time she finished checking out and reached the meeting she had already ran late. once she arrived she had meetings with her group, group b on one side of the table and a bunch of unknown frightening people on the opposite side. she took her place next to daehyun , pretending not to mind the harsh glares she received from the strangers opposite her, she turned forward and looked at the board. Sung-hoon stood in front his faced evidently filled with concern, something is clearly wrong Elaine thought as he cleared his throat with a grunt.
" idols and hunters I've gathered you here to introduce a plan that the government has issued. As you may know recently there had become a craze in which people offer with consent to essentially become feedstock for vampires " he spoke his voice laced with a bit of discomfort. " Really why would anyone want to be around those horrid monsters " Areum asked , if there was someone who hated vampires as much as Elaine did it would be her. Areum loathed the bunch so much she refused to even call them vampires, referring to any derogatory terms instead. monsters had been her favourite term. after she spoke a unison of scoffs came from the other side. The idols and hunters never got along , people Elaine thought that hunters were foolish people who flirted with death whilst hunters thought the idols were stuck up, privileged rats who just avoid any struggling. They were archenemies. " Umm well some say that a vampire bite induces immense pleasure on the victim and that could be enjoyable" he spoke the awkwardness increasing. "What's those people stupid kinks could to do with us" Elaine asked finally . she just wanted to know exactly what was needed of her.
"well of course the government wishes both groups work in collaboration to fight this issue "
"WHATTTTT"