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Prologue
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2021-10-08 08:45:23"You need to run faster, Xiomara! Run as fast as you can, and don't look back. Don't you ever stop running!"
Sweats profusely rolled down to my face. I halted with heavy breathes when I heard her yell those words behind my back.
"You can't die on me!" I screamed in pure madness as I faced her.
Every fiber of my nerves was writhing in agony and shivers traveled through my spine when my eyes darted to her with begging. How can she think of sacrificing herself for me?!
I was gritting my teeth while giving her a pleading stare. "You can't do this to me! You can't!"
"Xiomara... go. Save yourself, please." her trembling hands weakly shoved me away.
"W-we can still call for help and aid you," I muttered with a trembling voice.
Her shaking hands touched my face. "I am far from s-saving. We both know that. G-go while there's still time to hide."
I shook my head, opposing what she wants. "W-why do people always sacrifices their lives for me?!" I shouted angrily at her.
"B-because you are the only person who can put an end to all of this."
"W-why me?" my voice cracked. "Why does it have to be me?! Why do I need to suffer like this? W-why can't I just die?!"
She smiled at me and that kind of smile scares me more than running away from those people whose hunting us.
"You can't die. You're our only hope. It's you who can save humanity... the world."
"How can I save lives if the world is changing me?" Quivering, I replied and let myself cry harder in her arms.
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Between Life and Death: The Bad Blood Chapter 01
Have you ever wondered what is good about rain? For my entire existence, the zeal feeling weeing rain makes me feel good that doesn't change a thing.Well, the fresh droplets of rain create a sense of calmness that soothes my body and gives me satisfying chills. Indeed magical.My lips weep down in a bold curve as I reminisce my teacher asking me one time why the rain makes me happy?And there's this me, answering with a pleased smile saying; rain produces a sound akin to white noise. The brain gets a tonic signal from white noise that decreases this need for sensory input, thus calming me down. Similarly, the bright sun tends to keep us stimulated.However, for today's weather, it's just gloomy. Poorly lit but not enough to rain, I guess. Yet still melancholy to my eyes."For how long will you stay there standing, Xiomara?"
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2021-10-08Between Life and Death: The Bad Blood Chapter 02
I don't know what to do. I can't even think rationally about this matter. My head was full of confusion. A lot of questions were ruining my mind. Nevertheless, I can't get an answer to any of my queries 'cause who the fuck will give me the key for the overflowing elicit information I want?I don't even know if these walls were protecting me otherwise blocking my way to escape.My head was aching from all these occurrences that caught me off guard. It was hard to stay dumb after everything that happened earlier.Yet, I'm alone and held responsible for my survival. However, I don't know where to start. I felt like a speck of dust on the floor, waiting for the wind to take me from its paradise. If only I could be sweep away from this hole.I got up. My tears dried up in my cheeks that I didn't notice. I chewed my bottom lip, eyes were wandering around these walls, finding somethi
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2021-10-08Between Life and Death: The Bad Blood Chapter 03
"What you witness is just a tip of an iceberg." Everything went into a noose. My breathing became a rope, knotted firmly, making my chest yanked downward and upward motion in a turbulent course.I blink momentarily before glancing at him. His face is waiting for me to speak up. But how? I can't even utter a single word because I'm fucking busy calming myself!My valor wasn't enough to face the danger ahead of us. Especially in this battle, I don't know how to defeat. Is there even a way how?Moreover, I sense like I wanted to throw up and smack my head multiple times. Everything I saw is making me insane in a hardcore way."How did you survive?"What the hell?! So, he's fucking speculating that I should be a frigid cadaver right now?"I don't even know how the hell this world ends up like this." I hissed and gritted my teeth as I looked away.
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2021-10-08Between Life and Death: The Bad Blood Chapter 04
3 hours later...Military BaseManeuver Base of ExcellenceTo crown it all, it comes as no wonder that their military base was massive. I was flabbergasted at how modern everything was. My eyes were greatly filled with stupefaction as I kept company with them inside.O-okay? Their military headquarters are hubs of activity, with facilities for housing, operations, cooking and dining, hygiene, equipment maintenance and storage, and even medical care and treatment. These expansive military camps can surely support populations of people.Too bad, half of humanity was undead, I supposed. I grimaced at that thought."Do you have enough food for these people?" I jolted a bit when his eyes squinted and darted at me.Damn it.My tongue protrudes and unconsciously lick my lower lip, and then blink. Not once but twice. My palms glistened with sweats too.
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2021-10-20Between Life and Death: The Bad Blood Chapter 05
"I'm coming with you." I declared, showing tenacious zeal in my eyes."Silly, stubborn woman. And what can you do when everything muck up, huh? Trot and redeem your ass out and leave others behind?!" My eyes arraigned at him.This rough-hewn!"I'm coming with you and I don't accept fucking no!""Wow. You're ordering me now, huh? Who the fuck are you to decide?""Damn it, you jerk! I need to go with you to save my mom!" His eyes doubted me like he's validating the entire circumstances and my bidding."Your mom might be dead."That's it. Everything came dubious and I found myself in front of him as my knuckles hushed up in his damn face! It almost rip him off the ground. That was an arduous punch."Fuck you! Fuck you! She's not fucking dead!" He captured my hands and I winced when he tucked my arms behind my back.
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2021-10-20Between Life and Death: The Bad Blood Chapter 06
We took a massive wary stride to locate the surviving troopers that are still breathing. I was prudent to the surroundings, feeling every pitch for the upcoming threat ahead of us.We deadlock in our track when we listened to the loud yell, withering while begging for remedy. I pursued the outcries from where it came from and I got dumbfounded by the various quantity of the undead sprinting toward the woman.I reared away from what I saw. Damn. I never comprehend this panorama. I couldn't even gulp the existence of what I vouched."R-run, Belle. Run!" I screamed, horrified by the ferocious phenomenon."W-what are you doing, Xiomara?" She shouted in reciprocal, motley with outrage and alarm."The woman was already infected. We can't save her! Now scamper quickly and lie low in a safer place. Don't you ever dare to quit and look back whatever happens.""Are you
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2021-10-20Between Life and Death: The Bad Blood Chapter 07
Chapter 07Horrendous atmosphere howled roughly at us. The disconcerting feeling grovel and erupted my system. The atrociousness in my eyes was shuddering and tangible.I give attention to assorted coughs that came from Lieutenant. He's severely puffing 'cause of the collision that steers him to an indiscreet harsh tumbled.I bet, he's whipped by the collapse that snagged him unprepared. Too bad, he needs to endure that a bit further. We don't have to hold up otherwise we will be at risk. We must keep moving and get out of here right away.I proceeded to trudge at his smudge. When I got there, I settled my hand over his face and fondled it passively."X-Xiomara..." His muffled voice was impaired in stamina."Get up." My voice was supreme sovereignty in ordering him."I-I can't." His voice was creaked in anguish, annex by his tardy orbs."I think I crushed my bones. Just go and leave me here. I don't wanna
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2021-10-21Between Life and Death: The Bad Blood Chapter 08
I've been here for two consecutive days and it's quite comical how they trained these fragile ones, chiseling them into a novice warrior. Pity."I saw you fight that night." He perched next to me.Forthwith, he became troublesome into an indigent person, huh? Well, I'm not the type of woman who is likely to kiss and tell. His queries subsist in peeving him since the last time we communicated and I'm not here to apprise him."Those strengths that you possessed and the dexterity with rapid momentum were startling. How did you do that?""Who are you to merit my answers?""There's something in you that made you unique from us. Now tell me, who are you or rather what are you?" His eyes clasps skepticism when he consulted me."Would you like to leap into your conclusions or perhaps, would you fairly stick to my rejoinder?"He got lulle
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Between Life and Death: The Bad Blood Chapter 41
She weakly pushed me away but I gripped her waist tighter, afraid that if I would let go, I won't see her ever again. And I'm deeply terrified at that thought.However, with all her strength, I was shoved away forcefully by her in the end. Now, there was a boundary in our post. Having this few distances away from her makes my eyes sting with tears. A painful tug in my heart gives me a wave of agony. Everything she does was plain torture for me.Yet, the look in her eyes made me shiver. The distress and suffering I felt thrived huger without cease."Stop being weak in front of me!" she scolded in a firm voice. "I told you to be brave and face everything onward without being vulnerable!""Mom... how can I act tough if I'm breaking inside?! How can I face everything bravely if the reason I'm breathing was in front of me... wishing me to run and leave her alone, dying because of me! Mom, how can you be so heartless?!" my voice broke at the same time, my heart shattered bits by bits.I'm
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My mother didn't say anything the whole drive. She was quiet and it bothered me so much that my head throbbed in turmoil and confusion. My mother's words hounded me as I also keep the track of traces to find more clues about her statement, hoping to seek an answer to her confusing message with hidden meaning underneath.My brows furrowed while thinking. Not until my mother lightly tapped my head."I know what's running inside your little mind," she chuckled. "Don't pay any attention to it. It will just make your head ache in pondering."Her chuckle gives me a sense of forbidding. It was like a Deja Vu when she locked me up inside my room when everything started and she was gone in a snap. What she did back then left a deep scar in my heart and now, it's slowly bleeding because of what she had said.Feeling cold over, my palms sweated a lot. A dreadful emotion blows me up with a bang that almost makes me wanna jump at her and question her about it. Nevertheless, I halted myself from be
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"M-mom..." I whispered and gritted my teeth to stop myself from tearing up. This sudden reunion made my heart tremble in anticipation and at the same time, it scares me about what will happen next."Xiomara..." she uttered my name with longing in her eyes.My hands clenched tightly as I scrutinized her figure. I saw some scars, old and new on her body that made my eyes dim in rage. Her pale lips were quivering and my nails sunken in my palm even deeper upon seeing her situation.I can tell with a single glance that she suffered a lot in their hands. A burst of anger almost suffocated me yet I inhaled deeply and suppress it. This isn't the right time to take action against them because I know for a fact that we can't win against their powerful force.All we need is time to wait. For now, tolerating their existence might be the last card of patience I have for them."She's our hostage now. If you don't come with us, then see how I'll deal with you." The man with a dominating presence sp
Between Life and Death: The Bad Blood Chapter 38
A light tap on my cheeks woke me up. I rubbed my eyes lightly after slowly opening them. What greeted my sight was Grande's figure standing in front of me with a serious face."What's with the face?""Belle was gone."I sat up straight after hearing that. My brows furrowed and pursed my lips."That's it?"She frowned. "What do you mean?"Peeling off the dust in my pants, I looked at her. "It was expected.""Wait, what? Can you tell me what does it means?""She's a traitor," Sovine interrupted. "From the start, she was sent to spy on the military grounds. I mean, the Royal clan dispatched every assassin to monitor everyone's move against them.""And you know it all along without giving us some hints?" Herofus gazed at me with disbelief in his eyes."I don't. I was informed by Sovine ahead of you. Remember the bus?"He nodded."She's the one who sabotages it.""But I'm with her almost every hour!""Even a second can create a huge surprise, much less for a skilled assassin like her."Her
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All of them were gaping at me, stunned by my statement full of conviction. Yet, when exhaustion took over my body, all I could hear was their calling before I lost consciousness and completely blackened out.Something happened that defies my common sense, well everything was. However, this one was quite huge to take because... my consciousness seeped through me and entered into the void. Chaos started to bound my mind and almost I can imagine the veins thumping in my forehead.I struggled to wake up but I couldn't. As if there was a force binding me not to do anything. As of the moment, my consciousness lay there waiting for something I couldn't put a finger on.After a while, it was still eerily quiet and I can't understand what this possibly mean. The questions in my mind were surging forward like a tide. Yet, none of it was answered to enlighten me.My feelings were stirred. Like the alternate rising and falling of the sea. It was thorough havoc.
Between Life and Death: The Bad Blood Chapter 36
I felt depressed and fell into profound thinking. I don't even know if my existence together with the strange power I hold was a blessing or a curse in disguise. It was as if everything was a tricky code that was hard to crack.My head hurts at that thought. All these things that happened in the world were caused by the Royal family of Eleanor was seemingly a bottomless chasm. That to think of a hundred ways to figure this out, nothing will fit to unravel the depths of the void.And if there's a rope of hope led down into the dark abyss that once pulled would rip up the whole truth, the threads of mystery will slowly crack. But if not solved, then I don't know what to think anymore.This discovery seemed out of the world."Xiomara?"I blinked and tidied my dazed eyes before looking at them. Clearing my throat, I softly murmured, "I don't know how to wield my mental strength."Sovine darted his eyes on me. "Try to concentrate and expand your
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To which extent the powerful attack can be, I'm uncertain of that. However, I sharpened my senses and continue striking at full force with the combination of power I have. Yet, I couldn't guarantee my stance of attacking if my stamina would deplete."Drive faster!" I shouted without ceasing from attacking.The car moves faster than the normal speed. It was sometimes swaying to avoid the obstacle hindering the way. However, halting, I checked the bullets and a soft curse broke out from my lips when I saw that there were only two bullets left.We aren't far yet from the chasing beasts but we're already at disadvantage up to this point. This situation was merely a pig ready to be slaughtered. Us, being hunted until we can no longer run was frustrating."There's a bunch of cars hampering our way!""This isn't good! They won't stop chasing us! What can we do now?""Are we gonna wait here and die?"Their kick-up commotion was unpleasant tha
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They ready all the equipment they've got. My eyes tidied across the upcoming beasts attacking the gate without halting. As my eyes cast downward, I saw the man riding on the beast's back, looking straight into my eyes.From afar, I could imagine the corner of his lips lifted into a mischievous smirk like he was floating in glee upon seeing the people in my side, struggling to keep up in this bloody fight he ignited.He was the wielder of the monster beast called Baku, the man whom we encountered the last time and ambushed us roughly. And this time, he was facing us- craving and waiting for his glory to win.Or so, he thought it was. I'm here and I would never make it happen!The crowd of undead clashing with the bullets turned over the place into chaos. It sounded dreadful yet the Baku stirred the havoc even more.It was humans between the undead and the beast named Baku.However, when the other people run out of bullets and the shooting cea
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For a moment, the silence took over my senses yet it was shattered when the noise of the undead thrived bigger each second passed by. It was alarming and threatening at the same time as if death was knocking on our door, though it seemed it was. Perhaps, the reality was cruel to even wish for this to end."Xiomara, the people who volunteered were now set inside the truck. We're ready to depart." Lieutenant William's voice rang in my ears that broke me out from mulling over my thoughts.I caught his eyes on me with a meaningful gaze when I looked at him."Grande and I will create a disturbance for your breakout. Use the back door for an escape route and make sure you'll get out of here and the others alive.""Xiomara..." there was an expressive meaning in his stares yet I shrugged those off. This wasn't the right time to ponder over that."Say what you want to say. Time is running and we can't afford to waste it any longer."He sighs deeply w
