Chapter 19
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"I still don't see any signs they followed our trail." Ems said.
"The rain and wind are not that strong. We'll go back and try to look for them." Johhny said.
"Okay. Be careful!" Doyoung said while he is hugging Mark whose chilling from the cold.
Johnny, Ems and Lucas went out to look for Jaehyun and Ann.
"Hyung.. Hyung.." Mark keeps calling for his Hyungs.
"Is he sick?" Taeyong asked Doyoung.
"He has fever and chilling right now. What should we do?" Doyoung asks while still hugging Mark.
"We'll just let the storm passed then we'll see what we can do." Taeyong said, but deep inside his feeling helpless with their situation.
Haechan, Jaemin and Jeno just stayed seated close to each other to keep each other warm.
In the other cave...
Jaehyun seems to be asleep from where he is seated.
Ann is checking her injured foot. She notice bruises on it reason why it hurts everytime she tried to put pressure on it, but she feels relieve that the pain is not coming from the bones.
She just remain seated from her own corner.
A few moments passed, then all of sudden Jaehyun fell sideways from where he was leaning on.
Ann immediately goes to him to check his condition.
"Jaehyun! Wake up!" She said while patting his cheeks.
She then felt that his temperature is so hot. She tries to wake him up again, but he only moves his lips a little but did not even open his eyes.
What am I going to do now? She thought.
She stands up and checked the outside.
It seems that she already forgot the pain in her bruises as she went out quickly and tries to call for help. But no one is answering her.
She went inside again and checked on Jaehyun who is still unconscious. She pulled him up to let him lean on one side of the cave.
"I'll be back. Just wait for me. I'll look for the others." She said hoping he could hear her.
She then left the cave and went back to where they went down earlier.
It is too stiff and slippery but Ann continues to climb up. She needs to let others know where is their location.
She successfully climbed up the hill after almost like forever. She then tried to pass through the branches and twigs of the fallen trees that blocked their way earlier.
She can feel few scratches on her arms but she just ignored the pain. When she successfully overcome that obstacle she continue to climp up to where she thinks the others are.
On the way up. She noticed a familiar herbal plant. She knew it will help to lower fever. She immediately picks up the leaves of the plant and put it inside her pocket.
She is in the process of collecting more leaves from another plant when Johnny and the other two saw her.
"Ann!! Where have you been? What happened?" Ems said while walking towards her.
"Oh good thing you guys are here." She said.
"Where's Jaehyun?" Johnny asked.
"He is actually sick. Let's go, follow me." Ann lead the way to where Jaehyun is.
On the way to the cave Ann explained what happened to the two of them, on why they failed to follow their track.
Only Johnny and Ann entered the cave since it will be too crowded.
Ann comes out first followed by Johnny who is carrying Jaehyun on his back.
They are already on their way up, back to where the others are when Ems noticed that there is blood on Ann's foot.
"Ann, you're bleeding!" She exclaimed.
Everyone got a little startled. Ann checked her foot.
"Oh. Don't worry. It isn't too deep. It's just a scratch." Ann said after checking it.
"It doesn't look like a scratch." Lucas said.
"I'll carry you." He added then he sitted in front of her, instructing her to hop on his back.
Ann did not protests anymore, because in reality it really hurts especially when Ems mentioned it, it feels like her injury was reminded that it exists.
Lucas piggyback her until they reach the cave where the others are staying.
Taeyong whose waiting for them at the entrance comes running upon seeing them.
"What happened to them? Let's get inside, come on." He said worriedly. Most especially to Jaehyun who appears to be unconcious.
Once they get inside Johnny lay Jaehyun beside Mark who is now leaning his head on Doyoung's lap.
"Is he sick?" Johnny asked then he touch Mark's forehead to check his temperature.
"Yes. What about Jaehyun?" Doyoung said while touching Jaehyun's face.
"He's sick too." Johnny said.
"I have here some herbal plants. It will help to lower down their fever. But we need fire to heat these leaves. Ann said feeling helpless all the dry twigs they gathered earlier are now all soaked in water.
"Well, we still have some dry twigs and wood here." Haechan said while pulling out some dry woods from a plastic bag.
They all looked surprised.
"I just realize we'll need to keep these dry, so I put it in a plastic bag. Why?" He said smiling and feeling a little proud on what he did.
Taeyong hugged him and took the bag from his hand.
"We'll just need to make a fire. I think I can take care of that." Taeyong said.
He looked for stones inside the cave and just like a cave man from the ancient history he scratches the two stones to create ambers that should light up the dried twigs.
But it was not that easy.
It has been more than an hour now, but still no fire coming out.
Johnny and Taeyong are now both working on it. They are also feeling a little pressure since it is already getting dark now.
The night is about to fall.
They continue doing their best to create fire. When suddenly a flicker shows up and then there's smoke.
Taeyong and Johnny both blows on the smoke and then suddenly a small fire lights up.
They both carefully but quickly put more light weight dry twigs before putting the bigger ones.
The fire completely light up the cave.
Everyone just smiled.
Then Ann quickly goes near the fire to quickly run both sides of the leaves to the fire. She then pressed the leaves a little to lessen the heat before handing some to Doyoung.
"Be quick. Put it in their chests." She said.
Then she also put some on Jaehyun's and Mark's forehead.
"This should help to lower down their fever." Ann said, then she remained seated beside Jaehyun.
Now that there's fire in the cave to keep them warm and light up the night everyone feels a little less worried.
They all sat near the fire.
That's when Jaemin notice the blood on Ann's foot.
" Noona..." He said while looking at the blood on Ann's foot..
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