Vin, JJ, and Jose were still arguing with the pilot when their attention was taken by some sounds, Her loud painful gasps and the harsh kicking sounds. They turned their head in their direction and got stunned by what they witnessed in front of their eyes. Sam was kicking Tiara's tiny palm to make her lose her grip and fall down.
Vin didn't think anything else, He was confused, angry, and sad that his friend was doing something like this to someone who saved their lives, who was their light in this dark time. He went near Sam and pushed him away on the passenger seat away from Tiara and then Vin grabbed his t-shirt tightly out of anger while Jose came near him and punched him with all his strength making him hiss in pain.
JJ was too stunned by the incident in front of him that he couldn't think straight but then his eye fell on Tiara's grip which was shaky now. She was losing her all strength and giving in to her death. He came to his senses and moved quickly to grab her hand which was slipping away. JJ held tightly onto her both palms before pulling her body up.
He snaked his arms around her body below her armpit and pulled her up entirely. Fortunately, He lost his balance and he fell back on his back along with her who fell upon him still inside his arms. Vin saw it and closed the helicopter's gate before turning back to Sam with dark eyes. "Why were you doing it!?" He asked Sam in rage with his mother language. "One zombie bite in her foot." Sam told him and pointed to the foot which was bitten.
JJ heard their conversation while she was panting heavily, her head was near his neck on his chest while she was facing in another direction which wasn't allowing anyone to look at her face. He could feel her all over his body as she was still upon him not moving even a little. He tried to move her away to stand up after listening to their conversation and Sam's reason for kicking her. "One minute… please." She stopped him from pushing her away in a defeated voice and he obeyed without thinking twice.
Vin heard her and looked at her feeling sorry for her. "We will talk about it but not now." Vin warned Sam before he do something else who was still looking at Tiara with warry. "Can someone tell me why was he kicking her like that!?" Jose asked in a loud voice, frustrated as he didn't understand what Sam told Vin in Korean. "Zombie bite her foot." Vin answered Jose to calm him down and then Jose looked at Tiara's feet to search for any bite marks while she was calming down smelling JJ's scent and hearing his heartbeats which weren't beating normally but she didn't care about how fast his heart was beating at that moment as hers was beating faster than his due to the incident that took place with her.
He found a bite mark on her boots which seemed deep. He started to move closer to her to look at the bite closely but she moved and got up from JJ letting the cold air hit his chest where her warm head and body were. "There's no bite." Tiara said while standing up straight. "I see that!!" Sam accused her of lying in a loud voice daring her to say the lie again which made everyone look at her confusingly struggling to choose who to trust while JJ stood up and sat beside Sam. Jose and Vin were still standing near Sam.
"I am saying the truth. Look!" She said and started to untie her boot's laces to reveal her foot to them. She pulled off the boots out of her foot and pulled at her leg straight to show him her foot correctly. Others looked at her foot which was perfectly fine, with no scratch, no bite, and no blood, Vin, JJ, and Jose were relieved after seeing it but Sam was still looking at her with questions and wary which didn't go unnoticeable by her. "I was saved because my boots were thick." Tiara explained to him how the zombie couldn't bite her feet.
He didn't say anything, not even a single sigh or any sign of relief or guilt was on his face. Tiara sighed after looking at the blankness on his face and looked outside the window of the helicopter to calm her senses down while Jose took a seat beside her and Vin sat beside Sam. She was looking outside peacefully when something clicked on her mind and she stood up to open the little window to talk to the pilot.
"Why didn't you want me to get inside!? How can you do it? Weren't you here to take all of us out of here?" She screamed at the pilot out of rage and frustration and he sighed before answering her. "We come to get Velvet Brothers and TR-X out of here. Why would we risk our lives for a nobody like you?" He answered her without even looking at her once.
Her whole world shrank breaking it into little broken pieces, the reality hit her making her see what she was and how this world works, it wasn't the fairytale she once thought it was, the world wasn't somewhere she came for a calm walk, it was the truth of this world that only the people with recognition, money, popularity, and power owns this world, this world only gave those the power who were lucky or worked hard to get where they were. The bubble she created around her popped and she fell on the spikes of this ugly world, The spikes she wasn't aware of the presence before at all. 'Humanity has turned out ugly.' She thought and controlled herself to say anything.
At that moment, She knew she has to do something big in her life. The girl who was lazy and wasn't determined to do anything in her life was willing to do work to gain popularity and money but mostly, respect to have what people call power. She didn't reply to the pilot and slammed the small window close before taking her seat again. She will give him a better answer which won't be a slap to his cheek but to his soul.
"Don't mind him. He is probably scared after seeing those zombies." Jose tried to comfort her and she gave him a little smile. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes to ignore it but she doesn't want to forget it ever determined to do what she thought. She opened her eyes and her eyes fell on Sam who was still looking at her warningly and sitting uncomfortably, scared of her a little. She made an ugly face after looking at his behavior even when she made it clear that they didn't bite her. She was about to say something but.
"Where you... find that 2nd gun?" He asked her about the second gun she had in her grip a few minutes ago. "I found I inside one of the drawers in CCTV room. I took it because I was worried about out escape from there." Tiara explained to him and they nodded at her response understanding what she meant but her eyes drifted to Sam again who was sitting there with the same expression as before.
"Ugh, okay!" She said rolling her eyes, opened the chain of her bag, and pulled a tape out of it. "Take this and tie my hands and put it on my mouth too. So, I can't bite any of you IF I turned out to be a zombie." She irritatedly said while handing the tape to Jose. He looked at her in confusion but then he followed her gazes which lead him to Sam who was still seating uncomfortably and staring at her with the same blankness. He understand why she was asking him to do it while JJ and Vin were glaring at Sam which he was ignoring successfully.
"Are you sure?" Jose asked her. "Yes, Just don't disturb me, and let me sleep afterward." She answered him. He nodded worryingly and she shoved her hands in front of him to tie them together. He looked into her eyes deeply before tying the tape around her both wrists and then he leaned toward her to tape her mouth as well as she asked.
"It will hurt when you pull it off." Jose said being close to her face still holding the tape in his hand. "It hurts more." She replied to him referring to Sam's behavior in a soft low defeated voice locking her eyes to his. "You don't have to do it." He said in a low soft voice while his gaze moved to her lips which were just a few inches away from his, His lips twitched when his gaze reached her lips. "I want to." She replied to him shortly, well aware of where he was looking at but she wasn't someone who will take the first step or someone who is horny like crazy to just kiss him just because he looked at her lips with such lust in his eyes.
He pulled himself a little away from her and closed his eyes to let the frustration out of his mind and then he opened them again and nodded. He brought the tape close to her lips and softly planted the tape on her lips. He bent a little more toward her face to cut the tape with his teeth, He stopped for a few seconds near her lips making her heartbeats go crazy just with his hot breaths which were hitting her smooth cheeks. He brought his teeth to the tape and dig his teeth into it while his nose was touching her earlobe and jawline sending her goosebumps. She looked at his mouth which was busy cutting the rest of the tape and gulped down, Vin and JJ were noticing everything but they couldn't bring themselves to say anything.
Jose pulled himself back as soon as he cut the tape and looked at her with concern while buckling the seatbelt around her waist. He patted her head and she glared at him because she didn't like the way he was treating her like a child. He fixed his belt as well and sat straight in his seat ignoring her stares.
She started to move a little to find a comfortable position to rest and take a nap and after a while, she was comfortable enough in her seat to take a nap properly. The ride was quiet, no one said anything, didn't give each other a single gaze, or didn't even move a little. Vin was looking at Tiara from time to time to make sure she was comfortable because her hands were tied and she wasn't able to tell anyone because there was a tape on her mouth as well.
"We are about to reach." The pilot's assistant open the small window and informed them when they were near their destination. "We should untie her." Jose suggested and JJ and Vin were about to agree with him but Sam cut them. "But she will turn to zombie." Sam said in his English. "Dude, She didn't turn into a zombie till now. It has been around 4 hours already! Stop being delusional." Jose burst out on him for being cautious of her while she even tied herself to prove herself. "I agree with him." JJ agreed with Jose. "She is okay." Vin added and nodded his in approval to untie her.
"But I saw!" Sam scoffed at them still standing on his words. "Shut up! She already explained that to us!" Jose screamed at him while JJ unbuckled his belt and took a large step directly to her who was still sleeping. "Ti…" He tried to call her name but couldn't. It felt weird to spell her name out of his mouth because he never called her name before. He looked around and then tapped her cheek with his fingers to wake her up.
She knitted her eyebrows and slowly opened her eyes. She was about to raise her hands to rub her eyes but then she realized her hands were tied then her eyes fell on JJ who was standing in front of her. She wiggled her eyebrow twice to ask him what was up but he didn't answer her and pulled the tape off her mouth slowly trying not to hurt her.
"What?" She asked him as soon as the tape was off of her mouth. "We are about to reach that's why we thought it's better to untie you. We don't want to tell the reason behind this to people there, do we?" Jose exclaimed and gave her a reassuring smile. "Okay, Untie my hands." She showed JJ her tied hands to allow him to pull the wrapped tape off from her wrists.
He pulled off the tape slowly still afraid to harm her by pulling it off as it was glued to her bare skin. The helicopter started to go down letting them know that they have reached their destination while he successfully took the tape off from her without getting any gasps of pain out of her mouth.
The helicopter landed on a helipad and some people wearing souldiers suit came to their helicopter and opened the gate for them to get out. Jose, Sam, and JJ got off the helicopter while Tiara and Vin wore their bags again before getting off after them. "You should wait and rest in the room prepared for you." An old man came out of the soldier's crowd and talked to them softly.
They nodded to his statement and some soldiers showed them the way to the large waiting room where they met the others who reached there before them. They gave them a smile and gestured to take a seat with them as well.
'Finally, Everything is over now.' Tiara took a breath of relief when she felt an earthquake but it fade away within a minute. "An earthquake?" Ian asked confusingly as it didn't feel like one because it was shorter and stronger. 'I don't think it was an earthquake. Maybe they blasted Aglos.' She was sure of it but didn't answer Ian and sat quietly on her seat enjoying her freedom which was about to come.
"I don't think that was an earthquake." Ezra exclaimed. "They blasted Aglos, I think." Jose told them about his theory. "Same, But does someone know where we are?" Ezra asked and looked around at everyone to find any answer. "We can be in Korea or China but looking at how that old man spoke to us in English tells me that we are in China." Tiara answered him with what she had noticed so far. "Why only China or Korea then?" Ian questioned her confusingly.
"Well, There are two reasons. First, Both countries are neighbors of Aglos, and second, those men were looking kinda Chinese kind of people which leaves Korea and China." Tiara shrugged while stating facts. Everyone nodded accepting her answer and observation.
Soon, Another old man came with a young man beside him. The old man was looking a well-reputed person with his clothes while the young man was wearing casual clothes. The old man gestured to the young one for something and the young one parted his lips to say something. "We have informed your countries about your arrival here and we will do preparations to send you to your respective countries. You can leave tomorrow until then you can rest." The younger one informed them putting a smile on their faces, it surely was a translator hired by them to communicate with them while the old one was the one who was in charge to handle everyone around.
"Where are we?" KR asked him and the young man smiled at him before answering him. "China's one of military headquarters." He answered him and Tiara wiggled her eyebrows at him proudly because she was right and he pressed his lips into thin line and rolled his eyes. "Okay, Thank you." KR bowed his head to the translator. "We will provide rooms to all of you but you will need to share with someone. I hope you don't mind." The translator said before they went out of the room. 'Dude, We were sharing a room all together for 2 days.' Tiara thought and rolled her eyes.
They stayed in the room and talked to each other to pass the time while Tiara scrolled through the reels but the gate of the room opened again and some soldiers with the translator came in. Tiara didn't pay attention to them as she thought that they were here to alert the rooms to them but They stood in front of Tiara glaring at her and then she looked up at them.
The sweet translator was looking like the dangerous guy now and the soldiers with him weren't seeming happy either. "Miss, We have been informed that you were bitten by the zombies out there. We are afraid that we can't send you back but kill you right here." He said darkly without any emotions while the soldiers beside him pulled their guns out from their side and pointed at her. She gasped losing the grip on her phone and the phone fell down on her lap. She instantly look at Sam's direction who wasn't seeming shocked like the others and was trying to avoid her gazes which made it obvious that he was the one who informed them about it.