My Rival's Paradise
The Hunt
"Hwoarang! Stop!" Julia yelled loudly as she tried to grab a hold of Hwoarang's shoulder. She missed and tripped and found herself staring at Hwoarang's head glaring back at her.
Julia sighed as she stood up to dust herself off. "Great, now we're gonna lose them," she muttered.
"Well, you could have warned me first!" Hwoarang snapped back, obviously embarrassed as he gazed up at Julia.
"Warned you? You, being the impatient idiot you are, wouldn't have listened anyway," Julia tossed her head and looked off in her left direction.
"Just get me out of here, will ya?"
Julia extended her arm out and with some difficulty, managed to pull Hwoarang so he was able to push himself out of the large hole.
Hwoarang smiled at Julia, it almost looked real and it wasn't his usual smirk. "Thanks. I owe ya one."
"Um, er..." Julia stammered but turned around with a quick whirl of her head. "Let's just go."
They ventured off and walked off for a while, and then stopped short at the sight of large gray broken rocks, piled onto each other and scattered all over the place.
The sky had suddenly turned gray and the pretty flowers and trees suddenly seemed to look as gloomy as the sky.
"What the hell," Hwoarang muttered, scooting closer to Julia. Julia did not notice but continued to stare off. Hwoarang took a glance at Julia and noticed that her eyes have seemed to turned so dark it was almost black.
"Whoa, what happened to your eyes?!" Hwoarang exclaimed. He raised an eyebrow when she didn't answer.
"Julia, your eyes," he stated.
Still no answer.
It seemed as if she couldn't hear him and Hwoarang sensed something was very wrong.
Julia started to walk slowly towards the boulders. And then that was when Hwoarang realized that these were not only just rocks and boulders, they belonged to a building.
He stepped behind Julia, looking at the ruins, but also found it difficult to see what was ahead from the fog gathering up.
"Julia, why are acting so weird?" Hwoarang tried to break the silence but was not successful.
She continued to walk straight until she stopped in front of a large spear. She stood in front of the spear for a minute before she picked it up and turned to Hwoarang. "Let's go."
"H-huh?" Hwoarang was now very baffled at the sight of Julia. "Jeez, what are you? Some kind of Amazon Queen?" he mocked.
Julia said nothing but the smile that broke out across her face; Hwoarang was not able to see.
"Jin! I'm so tired!" Xiaoyu exclaimed as they continued to venture across the middle of nowhere. The clear blue sky had now turned gray and the atmosphere was no longer so welcoming.
"Just keep walking. We'll find somewhere to hide," Jin answered.
Xiaoyu sighed and continued walking. They have been walking for hours, occasionally resting but whenever Jin heard a snap or something, he grabbed Xiaoyu's hand and rushed off.
Jin had instructed Xiaoyu to talk low in case anyone would hear. Unfortunately Jin does not have very good hearing and every time she tried to whisper something, he would ask, "What?" three or more times.
After around half an hour of more power walking, even Jin had to admit that he was dead tired.
"We should rest now," he said, stopping in front of a large cave.
"In there?" Xiaoyu took one look at the black narrow opening into the cave.
"Where else could we camp out?" Jin replied, taking Xiaoyu's hand and dragging her towards the mouth of the cave.
She tried to pull away as they came closer to the cave but Jin was too strong.
"There's no light, Jin," Xiaoyu whispered.
"We won't go far," he reassured her as he felt her hand grip tighter.
They walked down the cave and stopped at about thirty feet inside, barely able to see the opening but it remained visible.
"Okay, right her would be good," Jin sat down, still holding Xiaoyu's hand.
"I can barely see anything," Xiaoyu muttered. "Don't leave or anything." She sat down and scooted so close to Jin that she was practically squishing up against him.
"Er, don't worry," Jin was grateful that the cave was so dark. Xiaoyu would not be able to see him blush.
"Can we get back to our original camp tomorrow?"
"Mmhm," Jin slowly lay on the ground.
Xiaoyu no longer felt the warmth of Jin's body against her and started to panic. Well, who wouldn't in a cave so dark you can't even see what's around?
"Jin?!"
Jin, a little annoyed that she kept making so much noise, pulled her down next to him. "Don't make so much noise."
Xiaoyu felt Jin wrap his arms around her and relaxed. "This has been one heck of a day."
"Mmm, tell me about it."
The two of them fell asleep, embraced in each other's arms, unaware of the danger creeping up to them.
"Julia!!! I'm tired!" Hwoarang whined. "We've been walking for hours. I bet you don't even know where you're going."
Instead of usually turning around to snap at him, she did not answer but continued to walk as if she was in a daze.
"We haven't rested. They couldn't have gone that far," Hwoarang tried again.
Julia had never turned around to look at him. It seemed as if she knew what she was doing, and this Hwoarang found even more unusual that she was so calm about this compared to her hotheaded self.
"I found them," she muttered as she stopped in front of the mouth of a small cave.
"Oh no! No freakin' way! We're not going in there!" Hwoarang said as he automatically noticed the black entrance.
"How pathetic," Julia walked off into the cave. Hwoarang had almost no choice but to follow.
"The only reason why I'm coming with you is to make sure you don't get yourself into any kind of crap," Hwoarang attempted to make Julia blush.
"Worry more about yourself," was Julia's cold answer.
"What?"
Julia all of a sudden took off running, her feet pounding onto the cold ground.
"Hey! What are you doing?! Come back!"
Julia gave a loud shrill scream, spear raised up, ready to throw. Hwoarang, still able to see a little bit of Julia's figure, jumped and tackled her to the ground. "Are you crazy?! What are you doing?!"
"Get off of me! They will escape!"
"Who?!"
"They must die!"
"I'm not getting off you until you explain everything!"
"I will gouge your eyes out if you do not let go of me!"
"H-huh?!" Hwoarang was shocked at Julia's fury as she fought from underneath him.
Julia used her spear and jammed the end of the wooden part at Hwoarang's side, not hard enough to pierce him, but enough to knock him off of her.
"Julia!"
She ran off further. Hwoarang, clutching his side, ran with great difficulty but was determined to not let her go.
"Jin! I hear something!" Xiaoyu woke up with a snap. She shook Jin very hard and he woke up with a groan.
"W-what?"
"Something's coming at us!"
The both of them stood up and did the only thing they could think of first. They ran off further into the cave, foolishly but unable to think of anything else.
As they ran, they could hear pounding footsteps running behind them. A loud shrill scream echoed across the cave walls.
"Ahhh!!!" Xiaoyu tripped on a rock. She felt her knees scrape against the cold floor, but scrambled to pick herself up. "Oww!!" she cried from the pain.
"Come on!" Jin grabbed Xiaoyu's arm and yanked her up, taking hold of her hand and running at full speed.
They found themselves closing in on the end of the cave. "What do we do now?" Xiaoyu whispered as they found themselves backed up against the wall.
"We fight."
The figure closed up on them, and stood about ten feet away from them. They could not see anything except a pair of two red eyes glaring back at them.
But the figure was not alone. The second shadow had joined next to the first.
The figure with the eyes glowing red raised the spear in the their hand and threw it.
And the spear flew towards the Jin and Xiaoyu.
"No!!!" Xiaoyu wailed as Jin fell to the ground.
A/N: Yay! Well, I finally updated. Hope you guy enjoyed this chapter. It took me a long time to update because 1. I didn't have the time.. 2. I needed some time to think of some ideas.. But anyways, what will happen in the next chapter? And what happened to Jin? What is up with Julia's new change? Is she even sane anymore? The tensions and fear start to rise up as changes begin to take course. Find out on the next chapter!