Chapter 82~THIRD-PERSON POV~A cloudy Thursday of late October.

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Today's the day. This is it.

At noon, Chi-yun's now dressed up with a silver blazer and vest under her long-sleeved, white shirt, silver pants and white high heeled, ankle-length boots. Her transparent cape is hidden under her blazer; she carries her silver purse with her. She walked in the room where the Commander Park Beong-su was standing in front of the U-shaped table, sat by the men from the special forces. Si-jin and Dae-young were sitting in the right side of the table. One chair, however, was left between the two. Si-jin smiled at her.

"Just in time."

Chi-yun smiled, approached to and sat in the chair. She looked side to side, but suddenly found Ki-bum sitting on the corner of the table. They glimpsed and smiled each other.

"All right. Let's start. You will be the VIP Blue House guards for a special meeting at Seoul Hotel. From our unit, the three teams will join as a backup. You will go to the seventeenth floor and to guard the perimeter. The Alpha Team will be in charge during the rehearsal. Captain Yoo will be in charge during the rehearsal." Beong-su notified.

Si-jin nodded and sighed deeply.

"You can do it. Make impossible possible." Chi-yun whispered.

Si-jin smiled and nodded.

"You know what to do, so let's get to work." Beong-su commanded.

"Ne, algaesumnida." All of them replied in unison.

They then all left to do the job, but Chi-yun was called by Beong-su.

"Ne?" She asked.

"I should have believed you, but because of my stubbornness, I thought that you and Si-jin disobeyed me. But then, I realized how much of risk-takers you are, especially Si-jin and Mo-yeon. I apologize for being like that." Beong-su admitted.

Chi-yun smiled.

"You don't have to. You realized how much of risk-takers we were. Some were afraid to do because they think it's not going to work out. I know what's going to work out and what's not. If it doesn't work...make it work. I have to keep fighting like a warrior every day. You know who I am." Chi-yun spoke to him.

"You're a brave and strong woman. Always stay like that." He encouraged.

Chi-yun bowed down before him as a thank you.

"I think there's someone else who need to talk to you." He spoke.

Chi-yun turned around and it was Dae-young behind her. She wondered why.

"Dae-young...what brings you here?" She asked.

"I brought this for you." He spoke as he showed a pair of black, leather gloves.

She stared at them, but hated the color black. However, she cannot refuse what he was about to give it to her.

"What's it for?" She flatly asked.

"These gloves will help you." He spoke and slipped the gloves into both of her hands.

"There. It will prevent anyone know that you have powers. Conceal. Don't feel. Don't let any enemy know." Dae-young spoke.

Chi-yun nodded with an emotionless look, but inside, she felt uncomfortable of wearing the color of the gloves. She hoped she would handle it but knew she won't hold it longer. She deeply sighed.

About fifteen minutes later, they were on a mission starting with a rehearsal in the parking garage with the other special forces. Some were outside guarding. It was in case if there were any problems in the meeting between North and South Korea. Now, they were about to take a five-minute break. Si-jin and Chi-yun were standing together, while Dae-young is having his own world...collapsed.

"This is for all team members. Rest for five minutes until the rehearsal car arrives." Si-jin commanded them by pager.

"Over and out." A man replied.

The men walked out from the black cars and left the trio. Si-jin and Chi-yun saw a craving Dae-young munching a Snicker bar. He ate one a while ago, but another one?

"Is he eating a second one?" Chi-yun asked Si-jin at Dae-young.

Si-jin looked confused at him. He and Chi-yun approached Dae-young.

"Are you eating that all by yourself?" He asked Dae-young.

"It's too little for two."

"Did you just buy one?" Si-jin's face was plastered with confusion.

"I bought two and ate them all. I'm craving sugar. I think I have depression." Dae-young admitted.

Si-jin rolled his eyes, Chi-yun just shook her head.

"Aish, how can you get depressed so suddenly?" She sighed.

"I broke up with Myung-joo."

Uh-oh...Dae-young spoiled it at Chi-yun and won't realize it.

Chi-yun and Si-jin simultaneously looked at him with shock. Oh dear, she's going to get mad, however.

"Mwo?" Si-jin was speechless.

"Who broke up with who? Don't lie!" Chi-yun only wanted the truth.

"She dumped me. I can't tell you the reason why." Dae-young admitted.

Chi-yun shook her head as if she could not believe it.

"Why would you guys do that to me? Why didn't you tell me before that mess you made? I should've just helped you." She expressed; her tone slowly turned to anger.

Now she made Dae-young angry; he refused to tell her why.

"For God's sake, didn't I tell you that I suddenly had depression and couldn't talk to someone?"

"That's no excuse for that, Seo Dae-young! Being depressed doesn't mean you can't speak up for help!"

She sighed to calm her anger down a little. She placed her hands on her hips. She was certain, however, that she's still mad at Dae-young and Myung-joo's break up.

"Since when did it happen?" She asked.

"Three days ago." Dae-young flatly replied.

Chi-yun still could not believe that it happened three days ago. And none of them spoke to her a single word about the break up.

"Three days had just passed, and you didn't tell me before. What is wrong with you?" Chi-yun expressed with anger.

Dae-young was sick and tired of hearing her wanting to know the reason why.

"We didn't mean for each other, that's it! What else you wanted to know?"

Chi-yun felt like she's done. She doesn't know how to start and took a deep sigh.

"Well...if it's your own decision to live happily all by yourself, fair enough. But under only one condition...don't talk to me. Don't you even think...that I'm going to talk to her neither." She firmly spoke.

Dae-young felt his world collapsing. He shouldn't spoil it to Chi-yun, but it was too late. Si-jin looked unhappy of seeing Chi-yun's anger at Dae-young.

"Guess she cut the cords." Si-jin thought.

Chi-yun nearly walked away, but suddenly, they heard footsteps behind them. They turned and saw a man in a black coat, pants and shoes. A black cap he wears on his head. He looked cold, angry and determined; he was supposed to be absent from this mission. He strutted towards the trio, surprising them except Chi-yun. Chi-yun knew that he was about to do something wrong to them. She strutted past Dae-young and Si-jin and aimed her silver gun at him.

He immediately raised his hands up as a surrender.

"Who is this man? Why is he here?" Chi-yun firmly asked.

"It's Senior Lieutenant Ahn Jung-joon. Chi-yun, put your gun down." Si-jin spoke.

Chi-yun slowly lowered her gun down.

"I couldn't trust my side. I came a long way to see a friend. Send me...back to North Korea." Jung-joon spoke.

Chi-yun slowly began to realize that Jung-joon was not a nemesis of Si-jin.

"Do you want to go to north instead of seeking shelter?" Dae-young asked him.

"That's like betraying your own country. If you can't trust your side, they're going to kill you." Chi-yun advised.

Suddenly, a gunshot rang out and Jung-joon got shot. The trio didn't expect that to happen. Chi-yun felt her heart drumming like crazy; her nerves were shaking. She felt the need to help Jung-joon, but she and the other two saw a van coming towards them. Chi-yun ran away from the van as fast as she could and hid between cars for cover. Besides, however, she was scared to come out. Si-jin and Dae-young began shooting at the masked gunmen in the van, while an injured Jung-joon fell on the ground.

Dae-young hid behind the cars; Si-jin rolled over on the hood of the car and hid. Chi-yun stood frozen that she won't be able to move. Not even a muscle. Tears formed in her silver eyes. She couldn't even see if Jung-joon was taken away by the gunman. She heard gunshots ringing out again to stop the van and covered her ears. She didn't know what to do or to handle this chaos.

"Reporting from Zone 17! A firefight has been engaged! We need backup!" She heard Si-jin shouting.

"The target seems to be Senior Lieutenant Ahn Jung-joon, sir!" Dae-young shouted back.

She realized that Jung-joon was the target of the gunmen. But she couldn't break away from hiding in the cars. What was blocking her?

"I shouldn't be running away. Waeyo?" She muttered to herself.

She looked down at her hand under the black fabric. Then she looked at the other one. She wondered what is the cause of her running away from gunshots. She expected to act it out, but it didn't seem to materialize.

Flashbacks came into her mind when the time after the earthquake.

"And to the critical patients that cannot be treated at the scene, black. The same color as the deceased." Mo-yeon's voice echoed.

Chi-yun realized that she despised the meaning of black.

"I can't mix myself with that evil color. That's why I ran away instead of fighting back. Why Dae-young wanted me to wear this?" Chi-yun spoke to herself.

"These gloves will help you. Conceal. Don't feel. Don't let any enemy know that you have powers." Dae-young's voice echoed in her mind.

"Well, now they will know." Chi-yun softly uttered.

She felt the urge to take it off, so she fervently took them off. Also, however, she took her silver blazer off, revealing her transparent cape from her dress. She snapped her fingers once and immediately turned into invisible. She stood up and ran towards the van trying to escape. Si-jin and Dae-young were still hiding for cover.

"Where's Chi-yun?" Si-jin called.

"I don't know! I guess she turned invisible! She took the gloves off and that might be dangerous!" Dae-young called back.

"She won't give up that easy, but I'll get her if anything happens to her!" Si-jin interjected.

Suddenly, they heard click-clacking on the ground but nowhere to be seen. It was Chi-yun, all right.

In the van, Jung-joon was in the van with his masked enemies not letting him move out. He was pressuring his bloody wound on his chest. Suddenly, a gunshot rang out, causing the back window of the van to shatter. Then, they heard thumping on the roof. The leader who was driving, looked out of the window to check who's up there. But it was nowhere to be seen which made him confused. You better know who's up there.

Suddenly, the invisible Chi-yun snapped her fingers twice and came back from invisibility. She was kneeling on the van's roof; her hands grabbing on the luggage racks. Si-jin saw her so he rushed towards her if something will go wrong at her.

Chi-yun knew that the van is under control by her powers. By grabbing the racks of the roof, she violently turned it from side to side, causing the enemies having a chaos. Si-jin kept running towards the van, but a white car nearly blocked him. He doesn't care by sliding off on the van's hood. He kept running, trying to catch up with her.

"Chi-yun, hang in there! I'm coming!" Si-jin yelled and Chi-yun heard it from distance.

She turned around to look at Si-jin, still chasing at the van.

"It's okay, Si-jin! You can stop them!" She yelled back.

Suddenly, she turned the van to another direction. Si-jin saw it happening and he ran through the cars to find a shortcut to stop the van. He stopped in the middle of the pathway, aiming the gun at the van.

"Do you have ammo left?" A man asked in Si-jin's pager.

He checked the rack of his gun. Only one bullet left.

"I have one left in the chamber. I will halt the vehicle." He spoke.

10 meters left. The van kept approaching.

There's 5 meters and closing in. This is it.

"Now!" Si-jin interjected.

Si-jin shot the fire extinguisher; smoke plumed out, blocking the van. Unfortunately, the van drove through the smoke, and a gunman stick out from the window, aiming the rifle at Si-jin. Chi-yun took another violent turn at the van, but heard a gunshot behind her. She turned around to look and a great shock impacted her. Si-jin just got shot multiple times and fell down on the floor, bloodied.

"Si-jin, andwae!" Chi-yun shouted.

But the pressure's getting tighter when Chi-yun is on the van's roof and a wall is right in front of it. Chi-yun took the final, sharp turn, jumped off and ended up rolling on the ground. The van ended up crashing at another white car. Si-jin loses his consciousness just as Dae-young and other men comes running towards him.

Chi-yun cried in pain and exhaustion at the same time. Worse is that she hurt her leg because of the high jump. She came to a stop just as a white van honks and appears to drive over her. Dae-young and others grimaced but they can see her breathing. Miraculously, the van managed to stop in time before hitting Chi-yun, who lies right next to the wheels.

In the van, Woo-geun was shocked that he nearly killed Chi-yun. Ki-bum, who was sitting next to him, was scared to death then got mad at him.

"Shit!" Woo-geun exclaimed.

"Babo, you nearly killed her!" Ki-bum interjected.

"Woo-geun, back up. Chi-yun is laying right to the wheels." Dae-young called from his pager.

"I'll back up right now." He felt the urge of backing up but just before that, Ki-bum quickly got out from the car.

The car backed up about two to three feet away from her. Ki-bum rushed towards and knelt before her. She looked unconscious; he cupped both of her cheeks.

"Chi-yun, gwenchanaeyo?" He asked her.

She slowly opened her eyes but couldn't speak up. What was happening to her? As we look to Chi-yun's perspective, her eyesight was blurry; she couldn't hear anything but her rapid heartbeat.

"I may get hurt in any part of the body and I can handle it. God knows I won't give up that easy. What you have to worry the most about me...is coming back alive." Her own voice echoed her mind, while her blurry eyesight slowly came back to normal.

She looked at Ki-bum's worried face clearly and heard him asking her.

"Chi-yun, gwenchanaeyo? Are you hurt? Answer me!" Ki-bum is desperate to know if Chi-yun's okay.

Chi-yun finally regained her senses by realizing that she nearly got hit by a car. Not only that, Si-jin got shot for a while also.

"Si-jin got shot! Si-jin got shot! Somebody get an ambulance! PALLI!" She shouted breathlessly.

Ki-bum was scared to death of seeing her like right now. Her body began to tremble as if she was scared to death. Ki-bum was on the verge to tear up, so he clutched her in his arms. He never wanted to see her die in his own arms. He felt her arms wrapping around him. They broke apart and she sat up.

"Can you get up?" He asked.

"Hopefully I can." She replied.

She slowly stood up by using her hands and knees. But her leg was unfortunately hurt so she nearly stumbled. They grabbed each other's arms to hold on.

"You got hurt, huh?" He sadly muttered.

"I hurt my leg, yeah, but that was before. I'll tell you later all about it." Chi-yun spoke.

"Araseo." Ki-bum nodded.

"Chi-yun, mianhabnida. I didn't know you were lying there." Woo-geun apologized from the bottom of his heart.

"You don't have to. I already know it was just an accident. Take me to the hospital." Chi-yun spoke.

Woo-geun nodded.

Ki-bum helped Chi-yun to climb in the car. They suddenly heard the sirens wailing in from distance.

At Haesung Hospital, Min-ji rushed towards Mo-yeon, who was standing on the desk, writing.

"The ambulance is coming." She notified Mo-yeon.

"Gaja." Mo-yeon finished writing and they rushed together to get the patient.

The medical team rushed to the ambulance, which just arrived in front of the hospital. Chi-yun's two kids went with them. The two kids were just watching of what happened. An unconscious Jung-joon was carried in a stretcher by the paramedic.

"He was given two liters of saline. His blood pressure is 80 over 50. He has multiple gunshot wounds." The paramedic informed Sang-hyun.

"Gunshot wounds?" Sang-hyun was surprised and looked at the North Korean soldier.

"We'll get into surgery right after we take the X-rays. We need to..." Sang-hyun and others wheeled the stretcher but Mo-yeon got it.

"Sang-hyun, I'll take this patient. You'll take the one that's coming." Mo-yeon spoke.

Sang-hyun and others went to get another patient.

"Is there another one, too?" Chi-hoon asked.

He saw that familiar face of the patient that gave him chills.

"Aigoo."

Khalil and Fatima gasped in shock.

It was an unconscious Si-jin, bloodied in his white shirt. No one could believe this.

"How Mo-yeon is going to react to this?" Chi-hoon nearly cried of desperation.

Khalil, however, seemed more desperate. His body was trembling. Fatima knew what's going on with him.

"I sense it. You're going to scream, right?" Fatima asked.

"Cover your ears." Khalil hyperventilated.

Chi-hoon looked very worried of seeing Khalil acting like that.

"Khalil, is something wrong with you?"

"Just cover your ears, I'm about to explode!" Khalil hyperventilated

Everyone covered their ears.

Inside the hospital, Mo-yeon just entered, rushing with the injured patient. But all of a sudden...

"MO-YEOOOOON!"

Khalil's scream echoed from the distance, causing Mo-yeon to turn around. Her heart began to beat faster like a drumroll. 

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Will Chi-yun handle the pain? How Mo-yeon will react at the bloodied Si-jin? Will Jung-joon and Si-jin meet again? Will Chi-yun and Ki-bum cut ties from Dae-young and Myung-joo because of the breakup? Stay tuned to find out.

Korean to English:

Ne, algaesumnida means "Yes, sir".

Ne means "yes/yeah/yep".

Waeyo means "why".

Andwae means "no".

Babo means "you fool/stupid".

Gwenchanaeyo means "are you all right/ok?"

Palli means "hurry up".

Araseo means "ok".

Mianhabnida means "sorry".

Gaja means "let's go".

Aigoo means "oh, my goodness/gosh".


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