Apocalypse | Min Yong-guk

𝟬𝟮. this is the hunt

CHAPTER TWO
we're caught in a very bad dream

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     𝐖hen Dabin was twelve, she fell off a tree and broke her arm and nose that it bled so much her hands were stained with red by the time her parents rushed her to the hospital. Then she turned fourteen and had her menstruation, but that was practically normal. Then she was seventeen and had her ankle broken for the second time after a soccer competition she couldn't walk for weeks.

    Pain was not strange in her life. Or blood. None of it ever bothered her. But death was one thing that she realized she hated the most. Because Dabin watched her mother die in that hospital bed. She saw the way life slowly faded from her eyes and felt her body turn cold as if she had never been warm.

     Dabin was afraid of death. She never understood why God always takes the most precious people.  I guess that's why she stopped believing in God because it was one thing after another, and no matter how much she poured into her prayers━they never seemed to be heard and they remained just words that she spoke in the air.

     She was minding her own business when a stewardess came stumbling into their carriage with a woman on her back. The lady was obviously struggling and everybody became alarmed when they noticed them. A girl was attached to her back, looking like she was biting the latter's neck. Dabin only came to that conclusion when she noticed the blood on her.

     Then the stewardess fell on the floor. They all rose from their seats, leaning over to see what was going on. They muttered words of apprehension and confusion to each other. Dabin slowly stood from her seat, briefly exchanging a glance with her cousin who suddenly looked alarmed. Even Yong-guk had finally looked up from staring at the window.

     Then the girl who was on the stewardess lifted her head and snarled at them. They jumped back from their seats, seeing the blood on her cheeks and staining her teeth with red. This time, Dabin was out of her seat. She never tore her gaze off the strange girl. Because her eyes were milky white, and the blood on her wasn't making any of them feel at ease.

     She suddenly launched toward the nearest person. Unfortunately, it was one of the baseball players. Unlike most of them, Yong-guk jumped over his seat and rushed toward his friend, accidentally bumping into Dabin who moved away to her cousin. He threw his cap on the floor and went to save his co-player from the girl.

     Jin-hee latched on her wrist when she saw the stewardess twitch from the floor. Then she began to move like her bones were breaking, and she was snarling like an animal with drool all over her mouth mixing with her blood. Dabin touched her cousin's hand on her wrist, never taking her eyes off the commotion.

    "Dabin." Jin-hee trembled with fear. Her eyes were wide. "Dabin!"

     The girl gulped as she snapped out of it. She quickly grabbed her cousin and urged her to stand up as the chaos consumed the train carriage. Despite the sudden fear that shot through her, Dabin put on a composed face. Then she said: "Stand up. Stand up, Jin-hee!"

    "Where are we going?" Jin-hee cried out.

     "I don't know!" Dabin exclaimed. They kept bumping into each other as everybody ran in every direction possible, trying their best to get away from the ladies who suddenly had a taste for human flesh. She cursed under her breath. "We have to get out of here."

     There was too much going on Dabin could barely function. Jin-hee held onto her arm like a koala, too afraid to be swept away by the panicking crowd in the narrow space of the aisles. Most of the baseball team had been pushed in the back while the other civilians ran out through the other door leading to another carriage.