Once a Leader, Always a Leader
FanFiction: Sweet Home (Netflix)
Chapter 4 - ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
He raised his hands and observed them for a second and then laid them back on his thighs without a word.
"How do you feel?" Ji-Su asked and slowly stood up from the mattress. Eun-Hyuk looked at her in thought and simply said: "Still the same."
"Monster-same or human-same?" Eun-Yu added and watched him curiously. He looked at her and rose to his feet.
"Since my eyesight didn't get worse again, I'd say monster-same," he said and looked around, scratching the back of his head.
"We should make some food plan... and a plan in general. How to stay safe–" he said, not giving his change much attention but got interrupted by his sister.
"You destroy monsters by touch, right? So... if you stay sane, you are keeping us safe, no?"
He gave her a long look and gave out a quiet 'hm'.
"What? Am I wrong? And what do you do exactly to them? You said you're gonna tell me later."
"Uhm... Do you remember the first monster we encountered?" Eun-Hyuk asked.
"The lady monster with that nasty tounge?" Hye-In said.
"Yeah... she ate people, right? I... eat other monsters," he added quietly.
"You eat monsters? That's great! You're basically superior to them? With that scream and all," Eun-Yu said in excitement, sensing some sort of hope for them.
"Maybe... but I shouldn't eat them so much. It changes me."
"How?" Ji-Su wondered.
"I... I am not sure yet. But then again, that's the only way I know how to properly get rid off them and keep you safe," he said in a low voice.
"Maybe it's like a power boost? No? That would come in handy," Eun-Yu said.
"Even if... even if it was like that... what if it comes with a cost? I don't want to lose my sanity," Eun-Hyuk admitted. Ji-Su stood up and approached him, touching his shoulder gently.
"I bet that if you stay with us... you can stay the way you are, huh? Like Cha Hyun-Su... he was also able to come back."
Eun-Hyuk looked her in the eyes without a smile but nodded, appreciating what she said.
"That's another thing... I need to find him. But I am not sure how."
"Let's do that together then. We have the van-" Eun-Yu said but stopped when she noticed her brother staring at her, "What?" she cried out angrily.
"He could be anywhere...," Hye-In said.
"Honestly, I don't know what's the best decision to make... we could be looking for him for a long time... can we really live in a small van?" Eun-Hyuk asked and looked at the children who have been silently sitting on the mattress and then looked down at his hands. I need to find out if I can control my turns. Why am I suddenly like this again?
Ji-Su noticed how Eun-Hyuk watched his hands curiously and asked: "Are you in control of the changes happening to you?"
He looked up at her and stayed silent for a bit before saying: "I... need to figure that out."
"Alright, so... let's have breakfast, pack and then figure out if you have it under control, alright?" Ji-Su said.
Everyone agreed with Ji-Su's suggestion, mainly because everyone was getting pretty hungry already. All of them also properly washed themselves since they haven't had the opportunity for a while and probably won't get one for the time being.
After all that, they got all their bags and supplies into the van, as well as the children and the dog.
"So... what now?" Hye-In asked, glancing at Eun-Hyuk who warily looked around.
"I think we aren't alone," he said quietly and his gaze stopped at the opposite house, "we should-"
Eun-Hyuk didn't finish his sentence because a very thin looking but quite tall monster jumped from behind the building and was now standing in front of them.
"Fuck!" Eun-Yu cursed and quickly jumped into the van, "Eun-Hyuk, get rid of him!"
However, he didn't know what was wrong, but he couldn't draw his claws out, let alone find the strength for his monster-scream.
"I... I think... we gotta just bounce. Get in! Quickly!" he commanded and ran to the van and sat down into the driver's seat, Ji-Su sitting down next to him. Eun-Hyuk quickly started the engine and stepped on the gas, driving away from the monster.
"So, you don't know how it works, then?" Ji-Su asked with an alarmed voice.
"Well," Eun-Hyuk said but a loud thud on the van's roof made him look up, "shit."
Something looking like a hand clawed its way through the roof and was now hanging in between Eun-Hyuk and Ji-Su, trying to reach at least something.
"You've got a weapon?" Eun-Hyuk asked and tried to shake off the monster by driving from side to side of the road.
"I... a knife in my backpack," she said and quickly opened her red backpack, looking for it. The monster's hand was jiggling around and came close to grabbing Eun-Hyuk's head.
Eun-Hyuk's first instinct was to bite into the palm agressively which made the monster give out a distorted cry. Ji-Su stared at it in disbelief, noticing that Eun-Hyuk's teeth didn't resemble anything a human would have in his mouth.
Eun-Hyuk quickly glanced at Ji-Su and then back at the road and tried to encourage her with a :"Cmmhn."
Ji-Su shook away the stupor an stabbed the monsters wrist, trying to cut through it, however the knife got stuck in the arm and didn't move at all.
"I can't cut it off!" Ji-Su cried out. Eun-Hyuk quickly grabbed her hand and put them onto the steering wheel and then got a tight grasp on that monster's arm. He felt that his jaws and teeth have changed and hoped that he could rely on them for now, biting deep into the monster's arm, ripping it off with ease. The arm fell down with an unpleasant squishy noice. Eun-Hyuk then grabbed the steering wheel and made an unexpected turn, shaking off the monster off the car.
Ji-Su watched Eun-Hyuk's focused eyes and his face which was now covered in the monster's goo-ish blood.
"What about the arm?" she asked weakly.
Eun-Hyuk's eyes landed on the monster's arm and picked it up with his right hand.
"Throw it out?" he suggested and handed it to Ji-Su who then opened the car door and with a fast movement, threw out the arm.
"So... do you know now how to change?" Ji-Su asked after a while and looked Eun-Hyuk.
"As you can see," he said, showing her his teeth which still were very inhuman, "not really, no. It's still somehow instinctual... and that sucks."
Ji-Su didn't answer and the silence was kept until Eun-Yu violently opened the blackened window that separated them and the back of the van.
"I want to see what is happening over here, jesus fucking christ. That was a monster, right?" she said and looked at Eun-Hyuk, noticing the slowly-drying goo on his face.
"Yeah, it was a monster," Ji-Su calmly answered and looked back at her.
"We should find a gas station and get some gas," Eun-Hyuk said as his eyes landed on the blinking gas symbol in front of him.
"You should probably clean off first, you look disgusting," Eun-Yu answered, relying on her attitude to cover how frightful she just felt from the whole situation.
"Yeah, that, too," he said and gave her a quick glance before returning his gaze to the road. "I have a bad feeling, though..."
"What feeling?" Ji-Su asked alarmed.
"I... I can't really explain it but I think we aren't that far from other monsters. Like a lot of them," Eun-Hyuk replied.
"So, turn the fucking van around!" Eun-Yu said angrily.
"That's no good, either. The monster that attacked us just before brought attention to us as well. What I am saying is that we'll just have to drive through somehow. We are basically surrounded."
"You better get that abysmal scream back, young man," Hye-In commented from the back as she nervously patted her dog. Meanwhile, Su-Yeong and Yeong-Su were clutching onto each other, sensing the gloomy atmosphere in the van. Eun-Hyuk did not answer, though, and only kept on driving.
It didn't take long for them to see multiple monsters ahead of them. A few of them seemed a bit agitated and tried to attack each other. Eun-Hyuk stopped the car and looked at Ji-Su.
"Take over the driving, I'll get their attention so you can pass them, alright?" Eun-Hyuk said, undoing his seatbelt. Eun-Yu quickly grabbed his shoulder and dug her nails into it which made her brother turn his around.
"Are you CRAZY? You aren't going anywhere!" she said loudly.
"Shh, Eun-Yu," he tried to get her hand off his shoulder but she would not let go of his t-shirt, "I will be fine," he added.
"You said that the last time!"
"And I am here, aren't I?" he said and opened the door a bit.
"If you leave, I'll really hate you then!" she exclaimed, not having enough time to think of a proper argument. She only received the smile he always gave her. The smile that meant that whatever she said to him, he did not take it personally and only saw the message in between the lines. He jumped out of the van and began jogging to the monsters.
"Are you fucking kidding me?!" Eun-Yu cried out, feeling her eyes tear up. Ji-Su climbed over to the driver's seat and watched Eun-Hyuk who already won the monsters' attention.
"Jesus, this doesn't look good," Ji-Su said under her breath, staring at Eun-Hyuk who now stood in front of the approaching monster and didn't seem to be turning into one to save himself. It didn't take long before one short but very bulky monster jumped Eun-Hyuk, pinning him underneath him. The other monsters seemed to copy the first one and tried to get to Eun-Hyuk as well.
Eun-Yu couldn't hold in her whimpers anymore and let the tears flow down her cheeks heavily. "It's so many of them," Eun-Yu whispered.
"We better get the hell out of here," Ji-Su said quietly, remembering that Eun-Hyuk said that the monsters are also behind them and stepped on the gas, driving fast pass the hoard of monsters, climbing on each other just to get to Eun-Hyuk. Hye-In watched the bloodcurdling scene they have been passing.
"Why are they so into getting him, though?" Hye-In asked in a weak voice as they finally passed the monsters. "Isn't that weird?"
"Who the fuck cares?!" Eun-Yu yelled at her and sat down next to Yeong-Su who started crying, too.
"I guess it is weird, yeah..." Ji-Su commented, not able to take her eyes off the road in front of her, feeling stunned from what had just happened. What would I give to hear that haunting shriek, again, Ji-Su thought.
In a few minutes, they have reached something that resembled a gas station and decided to stop there. "Eun-Hyuk said to get gas... would somebody come with me if they have any canisters left?" Ji-Su asked in a faint tone, looking back at the gang.
"I'll go with you," Eun-Yu said shortly and opened the back door, jumping out of the van. Ji-Su followed her outside as well. The gas station was pretty wrecked, but it seemed that inside the shop, there were still some supplies.
"We should get everything we can get our hands on," Ji-Su said. Eun-Yu started marching towards the shattered door but Ji-Su's hand stopped her. "Wait," she whispered, "let's be careful, monsters can be in there."
"I don't care," Eun-Yu shook off her hand and walked right into the store.
"Jesus," Ji-Su rolled her eyes and wrapped her fingers around the knife handle and went inside, too.
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