Ha Jun's pov:
My phone lits up with a call, it was on silent so it doesn't ring. Right now, I'm in a family meeting, with all the others too, Do Yun, Joon Wo, Dae Hyun, I seul, Chin Hua and Ji ho, and our sisters and parents, so I cut the phone and set it down on the table.
"What were the results of abducting the woman, Ha Jun? Why did you let her free anyway? Wasn't she the Russian assassin?" my mother asks me before and after taking sip of her wine. Her curls are detangled and her face is flushed, she just woke up and we are here on a meeting.
"She wasn't one; our men got the wrong information. We studied her every move, her background and all, there were no records of her in any Russian thing, no name in any school, not even in college. We didn't get any traces of her there, except three months ago from today; she was there for some doctor's event, where she was invited, for two days. We even looked up for the event, it was a genuine one" I explain her with the data. I feel like she is some head of a company or so and I'm an employee explaining my next plans towards the company by a presentation.
"Hmm, I see, but it still doesn't explain how your men could lie" Do Yun's mother says this time.
"We're working on that thing; if we know where we're at fault we will soon find the Russians" Chin hua says, adjusting his glasses.
My phone lits up again, it is the third time after I had declined the call. I ignore it once again like the earlier three times.
"And you say she completed her doctor's degree in Seoul?" Mom asks me, with a stern voice and a stern glare. I say nothing but nod my head.
"And Ji Ho was her classmate for a semester?" she asks again, and I nod this time too.
"Can I know who told you that she was an assassin?" she asks me and I summon our spy, he comes in the office bows towards us and stands straight with his eyes on his shoes.
"What's your name, young man?" she asks him while revolving around him, watching him from every side. He stays quiet, with fear flowing from his eyes. Even I don't know why he is crying.
"If he couldn't get something the right way" she stops in front of him and looks at me "Then there is no use of him being alive" she says and within a second she pulls out a knife from her thigh holster and slits his throat, blood splashes everywhere, before anyone could process anything, the man drops down on the floor, fighting for life and then loses the air in his lungs.
"You think the one who couldn't even protect himself would have been giving you the right information all along? Such a shame" she clicks her tongue and sits back on her seat. My phone rings again, before I could decline the call, Do Yun picks it up and puts it on speaker.
"Hello?" he asks. The caller on the other side was silent, only the creepy sound of metal, as if someone dragged the metal bar along uneven floor and taps the metal on the floor and a feminine voice in a low tone could be heard along the voice of the metal.
"H – Hello" she says and we recognize the owner with just one word. Joon Wo grabs the phone from Do Yun's hand and everyone stare at him as if he just got possessed by a spirit.
"Hello, Hazel, is everything all right?" He starts to panic, pacing in round circles because there is no reply from the other side, and at this point, I find myself sweating, and Do Yun's face turns pale. This time, I take the phone from Joon Wo's hand and try to connect with her.
A sob breaks down on the other side, with sniffling, it's Hazel, again.
"Hazel, please tell me what is going on, it's killing us" I say, my voice turns shaky when I say it all out in words. Nothing other than a scream was to be heard from the other side. It wasn't Hazel, so we weren't much worried, but it was Chin Hua and Dae Hyun's turn to get worried, it was Prescilla to scream. The latter hurries his way towards us and the former sits on the ground, alarm spreads all over their faces.
"Pl – Please, help us. They – they took us be – because you did –" and the line ends.
"Fuck" I curse and dial the same number. But it says that the phone is now switched off.
I sprint to my desk and open my laptop, and start tracing the necklaces, hoping they would have had it with them. And luckily enough, they were, I track the location and ready my men and the vehicles to go behind them.
Don't worry, Angel, we will find you no matter what.
Dae Hyun's pov:
My heart races with the speed of light as each second passes through. When I'm going to find her, I swear I will keep her with me, protect her with my life and never let her go. Hazel said that someone took them because we did, so it means it were our enemy who took them, and they probably found out that we had captured them, and they somehow came to know that they have become our weak spots.
"Can you drive faster" Chin Hua asks Ha Jun, the one who is driving. And Chin Hua is on the passenger seat, while I'm in the backseat, in the middle, and to my sides, it is Do Yun and Joon Wo. Whereas, I Seul and Ji Ho are behind us, on their bikes, with three other cars behind us, following us, with men and guns in them.
"I'm fucking trying" Ha Jun says. "Plus, this traffic will not let us reach any more faster" he adds in a low voice.
Chin Hua takes the laptop from Do Yun and does something and the signal shows green. He's probably hacked the lights, and without any stop, we get where our girls were held hostages. Chin Hua points a finger to us and keeps the finger on his lips, saying us to be silent and careful. We walk slowly inside, it's an abandoned construction site, it was supposed to be a casino, we were working on it, but stopped due to a reason I don't really remember.
"Please, please no, please" A female sobs; we go in the direction and see nothing. I Seul steps on something and the voice stops. I pull out my phone and point its torch towards the thing he steps on. It's a voice player. Ji Ho picks it up and turns it on and a scream rings through our ears, it was Prescilla's. There was a note on the ground. I seul picks it up and reads it loudly.
"You thought I would keep them here after they called you? I took them to a place you belong, that is hell, and these poor women are going there instead. Such a shame, we could have played with them for a while like you did and made them your weakness. You guys used to have such a bad taste in everything, but I wonder how you stumbled upon these beauties, they're worth everything. Dearly, Gallo."
My blood boils with the each word I Seul read not a minute ago. Gallo, it might be Amadore Gallo, and none else, it has to be, it should be. And when I will find him, I swear I'm going to cut him in pieces and feed it to fishes in the river. I Seul crumbles the paper and throws it on the ground, and the paper falls beside two familiar lockets. The ones in the necklaces we gave them. They are the actual trackers. I pick them up and we all rush outside after few footsteps were heard. Bullet firing starts as soon as we spot out cars. Whoever is shooting on us is behind our car. I look down, near the car and see two pair of legs, with stocking and long heels, and one pair of feet wearing snickers and the remaining one pair wearing heeled biker boots, all are women.
One tatted hand, like mine, goes to the tires with a knife in it and cuts slits on both the tires and they walk somewhere away and sit in a car and drive away. But not before I could see the people in it, it was those four. Prescilla and her three friends.
"It was a fucking trap. How could we fall for this shit?" Ha Jun shouts.
"Fuck" I curse when three blasts, one after another were heard, seems like they bombed our men's cars.
Hazel's pov:
He drinks wine while my heart fills with guilt. We killed people who did nothing to us, once again. Just like we were meant to be, from the beginning, I should have stayed home that day than to come out of the country and get trapped in this shit.
"I like it when you girls take things on your own but under my order. It makes me feel the power I hold in my hand" he shows his hand and folds it into a fist.
Gunshots fire around us, and we all drop to the ground for a little coverage and to get ready for what is incoming. We don't wear bullet proof anything, because he says we shouldn't. He isn't a leader but wants to be one when he cannot even think of anyone apart from himself.
"Did you bitches call you lover boys to come rescue you?" he pulls my hair from behind and a screams leaves my mouth. He pushes my head down and my forehead meets the glass table.
"Fuck" I whisper and close my eyes right when I feel something pouring down from my forehead to my eyebrow. I use my finger to confirm what it is, and it is, like I thought it would have been, blood.
He gets a hold of my hair again, but this time, I pull out my knife and cut my hair as much as I can with a swing of my hand. My hair is all gone, or is half gone, but it doesn't matter.
There are two doors in this room, one which opens in the hallway and the other which opens underground, it is a secret door, which only us four and the Satan behind me knows. If we walk in the first door, the death awaits us, and if we walk in the second one, the Satan would kill us for not killing them. Both ways, it is us who will die. I motion everyone to stay at the place when they start to break the door from outside, Amadore starts walking to the second door.
"I will bring help" he says and vanishes right when the door opens and a dart hits my arm.
I see them, all seven of them, and the one tallest among them all, points his gun at me, but someone becomes a barrier between me and him, someone with light brown, long and curly hair.
"No" I say.
"Yes" she says.
Ha Jun grabs the gun from Joon wo and points it at us, I order the other two girls to stay at place, and they're here to get back at me, because they know who I am.
"You were such a liar. We believed you" he says and loads the gun.
"Don't, please" I beg.
"Your words don't matter to any of us anymore now. You are a treacherous person. We believed you, and you turned out to be….." he stops, the gun lowers an inch, but he holds it straight again aiming at us.
"Don't shoot her, please, you can kill me, not her" I beg again after removing the dart from my arm. It stung like a bitch, I must say. My head starts to feel heavy and everything spins.
"Doesn't matter, kill her and then you, or kill you then her, result's the same, you all will face your death" he says.
"She's your sister –" my words cut of when I black out but I hear a gunshot before falling.
My head hurts when I wake up; I use my hand to feel my head as I felt something bound to it. A bandage is wrapped around my forehead. Just for a single cut? I wonder what they might do after looking at the other places I got hurt. I stand up but I feel dizzy so I sit back again. Shadows linger in front of my room, and I get ready to hit whoever it is by the lamp on the nightstand.
The door opens and I throw the lamp at the invader, I aimed it at the face but it lands at their feet. I assume I don't have much energy inside my body, both physically and mentally. The person chuckles and picks up the lamp, the same dark chuckle which I have always hated.
He walks towards me and the room darkens, it narrows with each step he takes towards me and there forms huge shadows across the room. The shadows grow eyes and they stare at me. Smirks pop below their eyes and they start to hiss.
"Hey, my dear daughter" he says. And a chill runs down my spine. Every hair on my body stands and I feel danger. My breath turns faster and my heart beat does too. The room doesn't stop narrowing.
"I heard you've been missing your mother quite a lot, so now's the time you finally reunite with her" he says and shows my own dagger to me. The metal glistens even in dark and the shadows start whispering things like I am going to die. He walks more closer towards me. He slits my skin on my forehead from where the table hit me, to down on my chest. Blood pools down from my body and my clothes soak in blood. He twists the knife on my chest and I shout in pain.
"I love torturing you" he says and then withdraws the dagger. But then in a second, his hand swings and I shout again when he stabs me to death.
"Wake up!" I hear a familiar female voice shouting at me. My eyes flutter open and I find myself in a room with a woman on my side. My vision is still fuzzy, so I wait for a few beats to recognize everything around me.
"Are you alright? You were having a nightmare, and you're burning up" the voice says and a hand touches my forehead, then my neck. I move my eyes towards the voice when my vision gets clear and see it's my mother. So it wasn't a nightmare, he really did kill me.
"You- You're dead" I mutter. She smiles at me, her brown locks dangle beside her face when she moves to get something from the nightstand. I stare at her; she looks just like me now. Or I must say, I look just like her at this age. We have the same dark brown eyes, the same wavy dark brown hair, heart shaped lips on heart shaped face. Even her height is similar to mine. It been almost ten years since she died, and I forgot how she was.
"Drink some water, honey" she says and passes me a glass of water. I look at her after taking it. She's wearing a pink floral dress, with red and white flowers all over the dress. It was her favorite dress, and she was wearing it when she died.
"You're dead, why am I with you? I'm dead, aren't I? He killed me, right?" I start asking her questions.
"Shh, drink It up" she replies and moves my hand up so that the glass reaches my lips. I drink the water; I don't really think it was water, because water is tasteless, whereas this was having a weird taste, both sweet and bitter.
"What the hell is this?" I ask and try to stand up, but my body doesn't let me, my body is tired. Do you feel tired even after dying?
"You're not dead, I won't tell you what phase you are in, but you should not let the wrong doers continue" she says.
"What do you mean?" I ask her and the room starts to narrow, again, what is it with the rooms narrowing all the time.
"I don't have much time, neither do you, please, save them, they need you" she says, tears well up in her eyes and the room starts to spin but we stay at the same place.
"What do you mean, I met you after so many years and now I cannot let you go away from me again. You promised to stay by my side" I say. Call me childish, but a promise is a promise. I grew up without her since I turned sixteen and since then I have been dying without her. Especially on my birthdays, she would make different types of dishes on my each birthday. For fourteen years in a row, since I turned two, she used to try new dishes and would actually cook them the best way possible, just for my birthdays. I really loved my birthdays, until that one day.
"That's right, but I'm always with you, you just have to recall my image in your mind and you will realize that I've always been with you. But now, they need you, more than I do. They need you to save them. You can reunite with me later, I'm right here, waiting for you. But remember that you have to take revenge on my behalf and also on behalf of your loved ones, alive or dead." She says and starts to fade away. I try to hold her but nothing comes in my hand.
"No! Mom! Please don't go again!" I sob but my cry goes unheard and everything blacks out.
I wake up to find him again, but this time I'm sure I can face him with confidence.