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Geon-woo grabbed her hand, Woo-jin not far on their heels as they rushed further into the station. Men started swarming them from every angle, every available entrance was blocked by a rush of men, cladded in black gear with metal bats ringing off rails followed by their hoots and hollers, wretched in their ears.
They were trapped.
“This is insane!” Woo-jin swore to the two. The three were back-to-back, close together as they were surrounded, entrapped and most likely probably royally fcked.
“Be careful” Nari said and for a brief fleeting second she felt a hand brush hers. She swallowed thickly, grabbing the metal pole she turned it over and over in her hands, her knuckles whitening while both Geon-woo and Woo-jin raised their fists. The yells of the men grew with their excitement.
”Please don’t die” Nari told them and then they lunged.
Nari was quick to slam her pole into one of the men approaching her. He gasped, keeling over and his bat dropped to the floor. She supressed a wince at the rattle that rang through her teeth. Grunts and groans filled her ears, but she couldn’t pay it any mind. They needed to get out of here and preferably soon.
She swung again only this time her pole crashed into a bat. Her ears rang and her arms shook as she stumbled. The man rushed forward but Nari ducked and the bat merely scraped a few hairs on the top of her head. She swiped at his feet, catching him off balance as heย landed onto his companion and fell to the ground with a thud and a grumble.
She staggered to her feet quickly, her pole landing a few feet away. She picked up his discarded bat and swung again.
“You people are crazy!” she shrieked as someone landed a solid kick to her gut. Nari gasped in pain, her feet stumbling but she rightened herself against the wall and slammed her bat into his skull. He fell to the floor in a heap, passed out and limp. She hoped she hadn’t killed him.
“You bitch” a man spat, seeing his friend on the floor out cold.
“You should know not to land a hand on a woman” she said breathlessly, her hair tumbling out of her braid as beads of sweat rolled down her cheek. “much less one with a bat”
The man let out a roar of rage, lurching towards her, she pressed her back to the wall and sent him careening backwards when her foot met his chest. Someone grabbed her from behind, twisting her wrist she cried out and the bat slipped from her grasp. She writhed, a sharp cry leaving her lips as he twisted it further. Geon-woo’s head whipped to the side, sensing her distress.
”Nari!” he called before a fist connected with his cheek. His head whipped in the other direction before something solid and hard connected with his stomach. Geon-woo released a groan of pain as he tried to straighten himself.
Nari squirmed in the man’s grasp, twisting and turning as slews flew past her lips just as violently. She tried to pull her hand away, but his grip was firm and burning.
“So much for that” the man laughed obnoxiously in her ear and the familiar anger coursed in her veins. They would not humiliate her. Nari slammed her head back, hard, into his nose. The man yelled out, clutching his nose with tears brimming in his eyes.
“I don’t need a bat” she said and then she punched him clean across the face.
She shook out her hand before pained grunts tore her attention from the man to Geon-woo who was surrounded by a bunch of them. One was curled around his waist, holding him against the pillar while others threw punches. He stomached every blow, hands lifted to shield himself.
Nari picked up a bat, sprinting towards them, she drove the metal into one of the men’s spine. He unfolded with a cry.
“Can you just leave us!” she yelled as she swung blindly. “Get a better job you idiots” she gritted out, not caring who she hit and where.
Geon-woo had heard her, finally sensing less strenuous attacks, he glanced up to see a bunch of men writhing on the floor while Nari assaulted any man in her vicinity. With a new found determination, he held back a hiss of pain and punched the man closest to him before locking his arms around the man at his waist and throwing him harshly against the pillar.
” We need to get out of here” Nari said as she punched one of them in the face. “Geon-woo” she called louder at the man at her side as she held back off a man who was grappling the bat from her hands.
Geon-woo who had been staring at her, eyes wide with a plethora of emotions swirling within them, couldn’t seem to look at anything beside the ravenette before him. An attraction he never felt before crashed into him hard. She was stunning, even so with her hair dishevelled, sticking in places so unruly, sweat mixed with red on her cheeks and he had severely underestimated just how strong she was as she knocked out another fully grown adult double her size.
“SNAP OUT OF IT LOVERBOY!”
They heard Woo-jin’s shout and Geon-woo blinked harshly, grounding himself as he slammed himself into one of the men who started approaching Nari from behind.
Nari suddenly felt overwhelmed. The men kept coming at them, every turn she took there was another one there waiting. Each time one fell two more rose.
Nari gasped, her head jerking back when she felt a harsh yet sudden pull of her hair.
“Fck” she cursed as he pulled, her hands dropped the bat she held to claw at his grasp. He dragged her kicking and screaming body until her back slammed into a pillar.
”Nari!” she heard their voices yell. Geon-woo looked panicked while Woo-jin looked furious.
His hands left her hair and before she could allow herself a moment of relief, hands wove around her throat and squeezed. Any breath that was in her lungs vanished and desperation filled her veins. Her lips parted, choked sounds escaping her as she clawed, hit and kicked to get him off her. She hit his shoulder, pawed at his arms and kicked at his shins. She couldn’t breathe.
Her vision started blurring. Goen-woo and Woo-jin’s figures swayed with each second. They seemed to almost glide through the swarm, men tumbling to the ground but she could only vaguely make them out through hazy vision. Her lips were turning a ghastly blue, his name inches from her tongue when suddenly she was dropped to the ground, painful coughs racking her as air tried to force its way back down her throat.
“Shit Nari”
Nari’s vision swam but gentle hands cupped her face and eased her back to her feet.
” What are you doing here?”
That was undeniably Hyeon-ju’s voice. The woman held her close, her baton hanging in her hand while the other held her taser.
“You know me” Nari croaked out, her voice scratching but a small smirk fitted across her face. ” I can’t stay out of a fight”
“You’re going to get yourself killed one day Nari” Hyeon-ju grumbled as the two stood back-to-back, Nari feeling some of her strength returning despite the gentle sway in her stance or the dizzy feeling in her head.
”Not if you go first” she replied and the two swung together.
Nari and Hyeon-ju worked effortlessly together, almost as well as Woo-jin and Geon-woo who fought their way towards them.
Nari swerved as a fist flew past her face before Hyeon-ju’s baton came from nowhere and crashed into his skull.
”Nice” Nari said and Hyeon-ju chuckled before a weight slammed into her.
They both crashed to the floor, Hyeon-ju’s baton slipping from her as the man straddled her waist but before he could land a hand on her, he was suddenly flung off.
Nari stood before her, baton in hand and a furious look in her eye. Hyeon-ju wouldn’t say it out loud but the Nari before her did not look like her Nari. Blood was smeared across her face, neck bruised and purple and yellow blemishes blossomed on her face. But she still shot Hyeon-ju a small smile, thrusted her hand out for her to take and Hyeon-ju knew, that this part of Nari had remained dormant for far too long. She had underestimated just how vicious her friend could be when it came to the people she loved.
”Even” Nari said and Hyeon-ju nodded wordlessly, still shaken up.
When the last man fell, an unlucky victim of Hyeon-ju’s taser, Woo-jin and Geon-woo stumbled towards them.
Nari wrapped her arm around Geon-woo’s waist, Hyeon-ju aiding Woo-jin as the four of them limped up the stairs, the cold fresh air welcoming them against their hot and flushed, sore and battered bodies.
Nari couldn’t wait until they were far away from this place. But it didn’t stop the sickening feeling that Jun-min’s threats shouldn’t have been taken so lightly.ย
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