The thickest fogs makes Jimin stumble on a huge tree root. He fell down rolling on the hard ground. He is now three inches from the knife tree. The sharp blade almost stab his right shoulder. He was lucky to stop his body from rolling.
Without wasting time, Jimin get up and start running carefully to the screaming sound. Jimin and the Woman stops and stood in front of the huge shadow. It looks like black creature is the Harry Potter Movie called 'Dementor'. They are the guardians of Azkaban. They're shaped like humans covered in dark, hooded cloaks and their skin resembles that of a grey, rotting body. And that thing in front of him is three times more bigger than Dementor. It's HUGE ! It's HIDEOUS !
"W..What is that thing ?!" Jimin asked while staring at the horrible creature. He's in shock. His blood rushes to all his body as the creature look at him eyes to eyes.
"ventouse" The woman answered with scared tone. Jimin don't understand what is she saying as he never heard that word. It's not English or Germans but he know from the name, it resemble hideous creature. They were 50 meter from each other !
The ventouse still look at them not doing anything because he's doing something under his cloak.
Jimin's eyes become small as he trying to focus. He's searching for Hanna. His puffy eyes become smaller when he saw something blue color inside the ventouse cloak. Soon he realize that the blue color is Hanna's dress.
She's inside the ventouse's cloak !
"Was sollen wir machen ?" asked Jimin to the woman beside him.
(Translate: What should we do ?)
The woman also don't have idea as she never encounter with this creature before. She doesn't know what this ventouse capable of.
"Du hilfst mir, das Monster abzulenken" Jimin said to the woman, giving her instruction.
(Translate: you help me distract the monster)
He know it's dangerous for the woman because they didn't know the creature's ability but he cannot trust Hanna to anyone. If he's the one distract Ventouse, then the woman will have to get Hanna, He don't want that. For him, he will be the one to take care of Hanna. As he know, Hanna trusted him so much so he will do anything for her. He will sacrifice his life if he had too. He is into Hanna since the first day they meet. It's been so long now, his loyalty has become something else for Hanna.
As Jimin and the woman take further steps to the ventouse, a strong wind suddenly blow. They nearly flying !
The fogs around them also vanish. The wind comes from the ventouse's mouth. It just open his mouth and a strong wind almost blown them. Imagine what could happen if the ventouse raise it's hand ?!
They bend their legs and stick their legs to the ground so they will not blown up by the strong wind.
Both of them rush forward when the wind stop blowing. The woman jump high to the ventouse's head and start to scratching his rotted skin. The ventouse growls in pain. Luckily the creature's head is not hard and the woman's nails are sharp and uneven as she never cut her nails since she was born.
While the ventouse is distracted, Jimin took the opportunity to get into the cloak and pulls Hanna out from the windings. He didn't bring his knife or his sword so he had to tear them apart by hands.
As the last winding are teared. Jimin catch Hanna's thin and delicate body and hold her in bridal style. Hanna's face is so pale and her body became weak. She's unconscious.
As Jimin wants to step out from the cloak, but suddenly the ventouse throw the woman to the knife tree. She's bleeding as the sharp blade stabbed her slander arm. She's not giving up. She runs towards other direction and the ventouse follow her leaving Jimin and Hanna.
"gehen ! " The woman yell at Jimin without looking at him. She don't want the ventouse to realise their disappearance. While The ventouse chase his target, Jimin hold Hanna in bridal style and run towards other direction. He remember the woman's secret hideout so he decided to wait her there.
Jimin runs carefully when passing the knife tree and he speed up when he's on the normal road until he arrive at the woman's hideout. He entered the place and shut the door tightly before putting Hanna's down.
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Jimin look at Hanna's face. Her face become pale like there's no blood on her veins. Her skins were so cold. Jimin place his hand on Hanna's forehead and then Jimin check her pulse. The skins were cold as Ice and her pulse became weak. Jimin panic !
Jimin try to wake her up by calling her name and shake her body and cheeks but she didn't move a single muscle.
"Please Hanna, please wake up ! Hanna ! 제발! " Jimin start to yell at her with panic voice. Yet, Hanna still froze. Jimin check the whole corner of the place to find anything that can help.
He found a stack of books in one corner and look at them. There's names on the books but didn't know the owners. Jimin froze when he saw "Park Jimin" name on one of the book. He's confuse.
"Is...this Park Jimin.. me ?" he asked himself.
"So those books must belong to the people who entered this forest. My childhood friends that did not survive before, this must be their books ! " Jimin thought. He didn't have sad feeling but his expression become gloom as he didn't remember much what had happened in the past. He didn't remember their face or names. He only remember of what happened to them.
"No wonder the woman can talk and can understand what I'm saying. She's learning from this books. It's quite odd if she was raise here by her own and know how to communicate" Jimin talked to himself. Jimin put back the books and continue searching.
He then found a bucket of animal's fur. Most of them are from animals with thick fur. Jimin took out the fur and prepare a place for Hanna. He wants to make her warm. They can't make fire because it will attract other animals or creatures to them.
Jimin cover Hanna's body with the fur but he know the fur won't help much. So he decided to take off his cloth and lie down next to Hanna before put Hanna's cold hands to his Abs.
Her cold hands brings chills to his spine but he endure it.
Jimin hold Hanna's small and delicated body. They were hugging. Then they were sleeping with hugging each other to make sure they won't freeze to death.
It's the first time Jimin do this to Hanna. It's the first time he hold Hanna in his embrace. Although he wants to hold her before, back in the kingdom, but he's not qualified to touch a single hair of Hanna. They've been together and been friends for almost 18 years old but Jimin never get so close to Hanna like he's doing right now. There's something in his heart when he look at Hanna's pale face.
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