"My Lord, my Lord, wake up, my Lord", Kim Eun Joeng heard a few muffled voices as he stirred in his sleep, he slowly opened his eyes, taking a moment to prepare himself for anything unexpected or ready to fight off anything and anyone, he blinked his eyes but as soon as he opened his eyes he saw a worried Gamja in front of him.
"My Lord, are you okay?", Gamja asked as he saw Eun Joeng open his eyes.
Eun Joeng sat up and looked at Gamja with worried eyes, he took a deep breath and held Gamja's hand and was about to say something when he saw that the butler and won were also there standing quietly.
"How did I come back home?", Eun Joeng asked as he put their hands under the blanket and corrected his expressions.
"A few villagers saw you lying unconscious on the road and took you here". The butler answered.
"Village, how did they find me in the village, I was in", Eun Joeng wanted to say that he was in the forest but stopped since he was uncertain how he ended up in the forest.he looked at the people in the room and sighed.
"It's okay, i think it's because I was not feeling well, nothing to worry about", he said looking at the butler.
"Should I call a physician,Master?", the butler asked politely.
"No need, i am feeling much better now", Eun Joeng said as he sat up straight.
After sometime of making sure that Eun Joeng was okay, the butler and won came out of the room, leaving the two man alone in the room.
"My Lord, how did you fall unconscious on the road, are you feeling unwell, should I get a physician to come and take a look at you?", Gamja asked again.
"No, I am okay, I don't need a physician but i need to tell you something important". Eun Joeng said as he signed Gamja to come closer.
"Okay, what is it my Lord?" Gamja asked and came closer to Eun Joeng rubbing his cheek softly to assure him that he was safe.
"It's been a few days, i have been dreaming of a woman and two children, and in my dreams, I always hear your voices coming from that box, that has diamond in it, you are always calling for me, but when I try to open the box to help you, the woman and her two children always make me stay away from it, and when I was coming back home today, while walking, I was suddenly in the middle of a forest I saw the box again, and this time as well the woman attacked me and threw me far away from that box, and told me to stay away from it".
"My Lord, I think, you are still in shock because of the nightmare last night, you were not in the forest, you were found in the village". Gamja said in a soft voice to make sure Eun Joeng would not get upset.
"But i saw it, she threw me at a tree, some trees", Eun Joeng panicked a bit as he tried to explain.
"It's okay my Lord, calm down maybe you saw a nightmare, after you fell unconscious, it's okay, it happens sometimes there's no need to panic, it's okay", Gamja hugged him and rubbed his back slowly.
Eun Joeng hugged Gamja back, tightly, and crawled up to sit in his lap.
"Maybe it's like that, but i am very scared, so can i stay like this for a while", Eun Joeng asked snuggling himself in Gamja's chest.
After a while Eun Joeng finally fell asleep in Gamja's lap so he slowly placed him on the bed and lay down beside him.
"My lord, don't worry,i will never let something happen to you, i will protect you forever with all my soul and heart", Gamja thought before hugging Eun Joeng and fell asleep.
In the middle of the night, Eun Joeng jerked his shoulders, as he felt a pair of hands tightly holding down his hands together, the grip was so tight that the blood circulation in his hands stopped, making his hands go cold and numb, in the struggle to free his hands he opened his eyes to see what was holding him, as he opened his eyes, he saw a little boy was holding his hands together, the boy was same as that lady his whole body was burnt and blood was oozing from his gapping wounds.
Eun Joeng looked down and saw a little girl holding both his feet together, while she was looking up at him, the girl was same as the boy, Eun Joeng was still looking at her when he felt a breeze of cold air hit his face, confused and frightened, as he saw himself hanging by the air, he looked at the two children again and a tear fell from his eyes, even though the children looked terrifying it somehow wrenched Eun Joeng's heart in pain to look at the two little disfigured children, whe looked up and saw the woman floating in the air, slowly coming towards him, she stopped in front of his face and grabbed his clothes pulling him towards herself, Eun Joeng looked at her sorry state, trying to say something but before he could, a loud voice made its way to his ears.
"Throw It Away". She said pointing towards the box.
"Throw It Out Now". The woman screamed.
"No, no, no", Eun Joeng screamed, closing his eyes, wanting to wake up from the nightmare, he kept his eyes closed till he felt that his hands and legs were let loose, there was no one holding him in place anymore, the cold breeze had finally gone and everything seemed to go back to normal so Eun Joeng slowly opened his eyes.
But when he opened his eyes, his eyes got filled with horror, he wanted to scream but his voice got stuck in his throat, the scene in front of him was so terrifying that he wanted to close his eyes and never open them again, Eun Joeng was still in a state of shock, when, the woman slowly came towards him and sat in front of him, quietly wiping his tears, she said in a mournful voice.
"Look at him, you are the reason for this, you made him like this you are the reason for his destruction, if you were not there, nothing would have happened, so just throw that box, throw away that box as far as possible",
The woman said looking at the body in front of them, it was Gamja, he was lying on the floor with his.... h... his throat slit open, his head was lying in the woman's hand and the blood had covered his whole face, the blood coming out of him made the whole place red, red the colour of disaster, red the colour of death and mourning, the sign of devastation.
"Who are you, why are you doing this?".. Eun Joeng screamed at the top of his voice and suddenly..
Suddenly he woke up, it was another nightmare or maybe not , Eun Joeng slowly touched his cheek, and felt that his whole face was drenched with tears, terrified by the nightmare, he sheepishly turned around to see that Gamja was lying beside him, seeing his love sound asleep, he slowly touched his cheek with tears in his eyes and kissed his forehead.
"I will be back soon, love, wait for me", he said and got up from the bed quietly, after wearing his clothes, he took the box from the almirah and grabbed a lamp before walking out on tiptoes to make sure no one woke up.
Eun Joeng started walking towards the forest, accelerating his speed, he was almost running frantically while talking to himself.
"I am going to throw it away, I am going to get rid of this thing today, I will protect my Gamja, I will protect him".
He kept repeating these words as he paced towards the forest after sometime of walking he was finally at his destination, the pond in the middle of the forest, he grabbed the box and looked at it for the last time and said.
"I will not let you take him away from me, leave me alone", as he said this he threw the box in the pond.
He had just thrown the box in the pond when someone called him,
"My Lord, what are you doing here?", Gamja yelled from a distance running towards Eun Joeng.
Eun Joeng turned around to look at Gamja and then turned back to the pond, when he saw that the diamond was spinning in the air, it's colour had turned red and blood droplets were dripping from it, Eun Joeng got scared and took a step back, but at this time the diamond spun around in air for the last time and broke down into infinite shards and those shards pierced straight into Eun Joeng's body, his eyes, face, hands and arms started bleeding and he fell down as he looked at Gamja with tears in his eyes.
"I am sorry, love", he said before closing his eyes.