execution witness
Title: execution witness
Rate: Nc-15
Genre: Angst, suspense, violence, action
Pairing(s): OT5 Friendship
Length: two-shot
Summary: After witnessing a murder in the forest, a group of five friends try to stay alive and warn the police. But things turn bad as they run further in to the forest instead of out.
Warning: character dead. (not one of the members)
Disclaimer: I do not own DBSK but I do own four original characters in this fic.
The sun was shining through the top of the forest trees as JaeJoong looked up at the sky. He used his hand to shield his eyes from the sun. “Jae, hurry up!” he looked down to see that his four friends were walking ahead. “yeah yeah” he muttered before jogging to keep up with them.
It was weekend. The weather was nice, not cold not too hot. A cool breeze swept over the landscape as the sun heated their skin. It was perfect. The five friends had the idea to walk through the forest , something they had promised each other to do when school was over for the weekend and if the weather would be nice.
They had been walking for a good two hours now, JaeJoong saw as he checked his wrist watch.
“It’s really quiet here” YooChun said as he looked around at the trees. “I know, it’s perfect right? Away from all that noise” JaeJoong smiled.
“Oh yes it’s perfect!” ChangMin said sarcastically. “How far until we get back and get to eat? I’m hungry.” One of the minor points from this forest trip was that ChangMin hadn’t eaten before they went. And he was whining for food at the moment.
JaeJoong looked at YunHo who was walking up front accompanied by JunSu who was singing to himself. Despite that JunSu seemed to be cheerful…well…he always acted like that so it wasn’t a surprise to him. But JaeJoong did notice that YunHo was acting strange. He kept looking at the little book in his hands before looking at the colored signs next to the pathway.
JaeJoong didn’t answer ChangMin’s question but walked towards YunHo. “Is everything okay?” he asked quietly because he didn’t want the others to notice YunHo’s discomfort. “No…” he finally answered softly as they came to a path going three separate ways. “I think we’re lost…”
“WE’RE LOST?!” JaeJoong and YunHo jumped as YooChun stood behind them, clearly having been listening to their conversation. Of course, ChangMin heard this bad news too as he stomped his way towards the others. “We’re lost?!” he shouted, his stomach growling angrily as he told it to shut it.
“I’m sorry guys!” YunHo apologized and took a step back when he saw ChangMin’s glare. “Great, just great.” He said, throwing his hands In the air out of frustration. “I thought you knew this forest?” JaeJoong asked as he looked at YunHo. “i-I thought I did… I mean , I’ve been here as a kid a couple of times!”
The three young men stared at YunHo in disbelieve. But before ChangMin could attack YunHo for being stupid they were interrupted by JunSu who was looking pale. His dark brown eyes were wide in mixed fear and curiosity as he shushed the others to be quiet. “What’s up with you?” YooChun spoke out loud and JunSu flailed his arms up and down, indicating to them to be quiet.
He motioned the others to the trees , away from the path. Being curious as to what JunSu was doing, they followed his footsteps and soon they were hidden behind the trees and bushes. “What is it, Su?” YooChun asked as he followed the younger man’s pointed finger.
He gasped as he saw the scene playing in front of him. “What? What is it? I can’t see!” He heard ChangMin whine and YunHo made room for the youngest so he could see too.
“No please… I’ll explain, I’ll explain everything, please!” a man was digging the dirt with a shovel, a gun was pointed at the back of his head. The five friends were too far away but they could all hear the fear in the man’s voice and that he was probably crying. “You knew better than to betray us, Seung Hun” one of the men said as he kneeled down at the edge of the grave the man had already digged, looking at him with a sadistic smile on eye level.
“I - I’m sorry… I didn’t mean… but…those kids, please.” The man named Seung Hun kept mumbling apologies yet the man didn’t care. “That’s deep enough” the man with the gun said as he motioned for Seung Hun to turn around. “Hyun Ki, please … you know me, I didn’t meant too , please!” The man with the gun looked revolted at the man standing in his own digged grave. “I knew you… until you betrayed us Seung Hun” Hyun Ki spat. The spit landed on the terrified man’s shirt but he didn’t care.
“What are they doing?” JunSu asked softly as all of them stayed quiet, daring not to move. They didn’t answer him for they weren’t sure themselves and JaeJoong wondered how the men hadn’t noticed them before. Maybe it was because the man that was being held hostage was making too much noise, begging the others to stop that they hadn’t heard them.
“Hyung” YooChun whispered to JaeJoong who was crouched down at the front. “You have your cellphone with you?” he asked. JaeJoong nodded, not taking his eyes from the scene. “Film it… we need evidence” he nodded a second time and got out his cellphone. He slide the screen and smiled as the picture of his cat, JiJi was displayed. Pressing the record button, he moved a bit to the right to get a better angle.
YunHo had taken out his cellphone as well. He figured that if JaeJoong’s somehow got destroyed they would have back up evidence. He too pressed record at the moment the man was taking off his clothes.
“Take them off” Hyun Ki ordered, grabbing his hand gun over with his other gloved hand. “What?” Seung Hun said as his lips trembled from the tears. “Your clothes, take them off, NOW!” Slowly, the man unbuttoned his shirt. He let it drop on the ground and a man with dark sunglasses on picked it up. The jeans followed and soon the man was standing in his boxers. “You call that everything?” Hyun Ki smiled as he cocked his head to the side.
Seung Hun looked down at his boxers before he stifled a sob and also took off the boxers. He covered his private parts with his hands as the men laughed. The laughing came at the perfect timing for at the same time, JunSu sneezed. They all hold their breath as the men became silent but continued their task, not knowing they were being filmed.
“Any last words?” the man with the gun said and the man in the dirt shivered. Not from the cold but from the fear. He must have realized that he couldn’t get out of this one and seemed to except his fate by dropping on his knees. That, or he had lost his balance due to fear. “Please…please spare me!” he begged but the men ignored him. “Turn around” Hyun Ki ordered as he shook his gun a little in a circling motion. Seung Hun did, slowly and trembling. His sight was blurred from the tears in his eyes and as he turned he did the last stupid thing he could think of to get away.
He jumped up while quickly grabbing the shovel that was still in the digged grave. He attacked the man with the sunglasses who was standing nearest as he hit the man’s leg with the shovel . The man cried in pain as he dropped on one knee and the five friends in hiding were biting their lips and winced too as if they could feel the man’s pain. The commotion caused the other one to panic too as he shouted curse words but when a loud BANG echoed through the silent forest he stopped.
Seung Hun swayed his upper body from his kneeled down position. The life left his eyes as the man exhaled his last breath and dropped down in the dirt.
JunSu could not help himself, he let out a terrified loud shriek as he jumped up. The men near the body all looked straight at him in shock. But the shock of a boy suddenly jumping out of the bushes didn’t last long as the five of them saw how the man with the gun was motioning the man that wasn’t hit with the shovel to come with him as they both ran to the place the friends were in hiding. The man with the sunglasses stayed behind as it was his job to fill the grave with dirt again. They couldn’t risk the possibility of anyone finding the body a little off the pathway.
“RUN!” ChangMin shouted as he got up and ran opposite from the two armed men. The others followed but JunSu was still frozen in fear. YooChun grabbed his arm and dragged him with him just in time as Hyun Ki fired his gun. The bullet hit the tree where JunSu had been standing a second ago and that caused JunSu to snap out of it.
They ran as fast as they could, going off the pathway as they passed the trees. A branch cut YunHo’s cheek as he ran but didn’t have time to feel the wound when another gun shot was heard. Having no time to scream, they ran as fast as their feet could allow them to go.
“This way!” JaeJoong shouted for his friends to follow and they ran to the left. How long they were running, they didn’t know. The adrenaline was pumped through their systems making them not slow down. ChangMin ran up front thanks to his long legs but JunSu was falling behind. “Hyungs!” he called, he couldn’t run anymore. He breathed heavily and they all stopped.
“We need to take a breath” YooChun said as he wrapped an arm around JunSu. “I agree, I think we lost them” JaeJoong nodded as he looked around. He didn’t see or hear any signs of the shooters. They sat down on the ground, JunSu held his head in between his legs as he breathed in and out deeply. “You okay, Su?” YooChun asked concerned as he sat down next to him. “Yes. I’m fine” he answered as he smiled at his friend. “What just happened?”
“I don’t know, but I do know we have to get out of here as soon as possible. “ YunHo spoke as he kept looking around, his eyes looking for any suspicious movement. “JaeJoong Hyung , you still got your phone?” YooChun asked and the eldest showed him his phone. He heard YooChun sigh in relief.
“There is one problem” YunHo said as he looked at them. “Only one?” ChangMin said sarcastically and JaeJoong hit his arm. “Okay we have multiple problems, but as long we don’t meet those three men we are safe. No the problem we are now having is that we ran further in to the forest” He looked around at the trees and so did the others.
“How do you know?” JaeJoong asked. “Because the trees are thicker here and notice how the sunlight is barely coming through the tops?” they noticed and sighed before ChangMin got an idea. “Use your cellphone! Call for help!” He knew there was a possibility that they didn’t had any connection here but it was word the shot.
JaeJoong got out his cellphone and as he slide the screen , he noticed he was still recording. He pressed the off button before calling. “Damn it! No signal!” he cursed and wanted to throw his phone away but kept himself together as he was carrying important evidence. He placed it in his jacket pocket.
They stayed for another five minutes before they got up and left.
***
“You got them boss?” the man in the sunglasses asked as he saw the two walk back towards him. “No I didn’t Dae Suk! Did you get rid of the body?” The man took off his sunglasses as wiped the sweat from his forehead. “Yes boss” he answered as he patted the ground with the shovel. “Good” Hyun Ki said as he looked at the place where once the body of Seung Hun had been. It was a pity he had to go. He was a good shooter , but betrayal was not an option in this organization.
“We need to capture those kids before they get out of the forest. I saw them running deeper in so it would be a few hours before they find civilization, we have to make sure they don’t” He had seen one of the guys had his cellphone in his hand as they ran away and Hyun Ki knew they had been recording. “Shit!” The leader cursed again as he punched a nearby tree. This was not part of the plan! It was supposed to go quick and smoothly without anyone noticing. Why did those guys show up ? They had to die, it was the only option.
“We split up” Dae Suk looked at his boss before nodding his head. “Dae Suk you go left Sang Min you go right” they nodded their heads, reloaded their guns before spreading out.
***
ChangMin’s growling stomach was the only sound that filled the silence as they walked , not knowing where they were going. None of them had ever paid attention in boy scout since they all thought they would never need to use the techniques , living in the city and all that. Now they were surely regretting it for the longer they walked, the darker it got.
“My mum is going to kill me if I’m not home for dinner” JunSu said, breaking the silence. “You’ll be killed by those men too if you keep walking behind” YooChun said back as he motioned the younger to walk next to him.
JaeJoong looked at his watch, it was 8 pm and getting dark soon. He looked around but there was still no sign of anything familiar. His dark eyes looked at the trees as he yawned. He was beginning to get tired but he couldn’t show it to the others, he was the oldest after all. A sudden movement to his left caught his attention as he froze. The others walked further and JaeJoong saw a man’s arm from behind the tree, a gun pointed at his friends as they were oblivious of being under shot.
“DUCK!” JaeJoong yelled and out of instinct all of them dropped on the ground as they heard the sound of a gun shot a second later. JaeJoong heard the man curse had saw from his laying position that he was reloading his gun. “Run now!” it was their only chance. They ran away and JaeJoong looked behind him to see them man coming after them. The gun was raised up again as he told his friends to jump right. They did and the bullet hit the tree they were behind. They didn’t wait though but kept running.
ChangMin got an idea… a really stupid idea. “Hyung, was he alone?” JaeJoong nodded as they ran, he hadn’t seen the other two men. “I got an idea, distract him!” and he ran away from the group. “ChangMin wait!” JaeJoong shouted causing the others to look back just in time to see ChangMin’s retreating back. “What is he doing?” JunSu asked. “I don’t kn…wait… he isn’t going to… oh shit we have to help him!” He finally got what ChangMin had meant with *distract him* What was the youngest thinking? Playing with his life like that. “I swear If he gets himself killed, I’ll kill him!” JaeJoong said and stopped running.
ChangMin tiptoed back to the shooter, using the trees and bushes as cover as he tried to be a still as possible. A little ahead he saw the man with the sunglasses and he was aiming his gun everywhere, sometimes pointing at ChangMin but it seemed that the man hadn’t seen him .
“HEY LOSER!” that was JaeJoong, ChangMin recognized his voice everywhere. The eldest held his hands up in the air, holding his cellphone in his left hand. The sudden appearance of JaeJoong caught the man’s attention as he pointed his gun at him. But he didn’t fire. “You want this?” JaeJoong shouted as he waved his cellphone. “I have filmed the scene a few hours ago and I’m sure you know that” ChangMin saw how the man was biting his lip in concentration. “If I give this to you , you let us go home!” The man walked closer and ChangMin took his chance.
He picked up a thick branch and moved closer to the man with the gun. “I was ordered to kill you” he heard the man say and if it wasn’t for ChangMin popping up from behind the man, JaeJoong would have run again. Instead, he tried for an arrogant look to distract the man. “Bullshit! If you destroy the phone it’s all over. Do you really think that the police would believe a couple of school kids?”
*WHACK!*
ChangMin hit the man’s head with the thick branch and the impact caused the sunglasses to fall off his face and fall to the ground. The man shouted in pain as he also dropped his gun and held his hands on the back of his head. ChangMin panicked, he was supposed to faint with one blow! He whacked the man again. This time the man did faint as his boy dropped to the ground.
ChangMin whacked the branch on the man’s back . “That” another whack “Is “ another “for” another “Shooting at my friends!” he wanted to slam the branch done again but was stopped by JaeJoong’s hand around his wrist. “Don’t” he pleaded with him as his eyes were teary eyed. The thought of this stupid unorganized plan to go wrong was still playing in his mind and ChangMin stopped at the sight of the eldest tears.
Next thing he knew, he was being hugged so tightly that ChangMin gasped for air. He was let go and wasn’t prepared for a punch on his shoulder. “That’s for making me worry!” he shouted and ChangMin grinned. “Let’s go back to the others” he answered and together they walked away from the body but not before ChangMin had picked up the man’s gun.
***
“Do you know how to shoot one of those?” JunSu asked as kept glancing at the gun ChangMin was holding. “No I don’t but…it shouldn’t be too hard right?” but YunHo told him otherwise. “It is hard to shoot…. At least if you have a heart and ChangMin I know your stomach is bigger than your heart”
“Hey I’m not fat!” ChangMin shouted puffing his cheeks.
“It’s a matter of speaking, idiot. Anyways, you are not a heartless person so pulling the trigger is going to be difficult.” They all looked at YunHo. “How do you… know that?” YooChun was the one to voice everyone’s thoughts.
“My parent’s house got robbed once during the night, my father told me to get the gun and shoot if I had the chance…. I could never do it and the robber attacked me with a knife.” He sighed as he looked at the dropped mouths from his friends. “When was that? I didn’t know!” JunSu shrieked as he hugged YunHo’s waist. YunHo smiled. “It was before I knew you guys but… I was that kid who was limping during his first day at school.”
They all said an “aaah!” as they all remembered the boy limping through the school. It wasn’t until three years later that the five became friends. “That was you?” JaeJoong asked as he suddenly laughed. “I used to call you Limpy Boy when I was younger for I didn’t know your name”
He stopped laughing at the death glare YunHo gave him and cleared his throat . “Well, if it is to protect you guys, I can pull the trigger” ChangMin said defiantly and they all laughed.
It had become dark and but despite they couldn’t see very well any more, they decided not to use the flashlights on the cellphones incase the light would attract the three men. The five of them walked and walked, dragging their feet to who knows where. They climbed over a fallen log , lowered their bodies when the branches on the trees were hanging low and did kung fu attacks whenever one of the had walked in to a spider web.
***
Hyun Ki crouched down beside Dae Suk as he shook him awake. The man opened his eyes and groaned out loud at the pain on his back and head. “You idiot! Can’t you do anything on your own!” Hyun Ki shouted and Dae Suk flinched at the raised voice of his boss. “I’m sorry sir! They tricked me… I’m sorry it won’t happen again.”
“It better not” Hyun Ki said as he grabbed his walkie talkie. He spoke in it and ordered Sang Min to meet up with them. He gave the locations and they waited. “What happened?” Hyun Ki asked as Dae Suk sat upright. “Kid.. whacked my head with a branch I think…” he mumbled before he quickly checked his pockets. “Shit! They took my gun”
Hyun Ki rolled his eyes. Of course they had taken his gun. He would label the young men stupid if they hadn’t . Fifteen minutes passed before Sang Min stood beside the two others. “What happened?” he asked but before Dae Suk could explain Hyun Ki spoke first. “No time now, we have to go. You guys recognize this path?”
Both of them looked around before they nodded. It was close to their secret hide out place. “If those kids find that place we got them” Hyun Ki spoke and got up, leaving his men. Sang Min helped Dae Suk get up and followed his boss.
***
“What is that?” JunSu said as they passed a normal looking hill but it seemed that JunSu had seen something. They stopped walking as they all looked back at JunSu. “What is what , Su?” YooChun asked as he stood next to him. “I think…yes I’m sure!” he shouted, making everyone curious as to what he had seen.
JunSu stepped over a log as he walked to the hill. He pushed the branches aside together with the leaves and an wooden door was revealed. “How on earth did you see that?” JaeJoong asked as he too stepped over the log and walked to JunSu. “And you guys said video games were lame!” JunSu grinned proudly.
“That wasn’t your video game style but your luck” ChangMin said and JunSu dropped his grin, replacing it with a frown and pout. “Well then, since you are the one with the gun you go first” JunSu said as he stepped aside.
ChangMin rolled his eyes as he opened the door of the hut under the ground. A small tunnel leaded in and the youngest looked back at his friends. “It’s a shelter. “ he said as he stepped inside, back lowered not to hit his head. The others followed and as the wooden door closed and YooChun told JaeJoong to use his phone’s flashlight.
They walked further in to the make shift shelter until they reached the center. An oil lamp was standing on the ground in the corner and as they moved in to the seemingly room their mouths dropped. It looked like one of those war rooms in which they were planning their tactics. A table was placed in the middle of the room. Maps were rolled up everywhere on the ground and table. One map was rolled out and stones were used to keep the map open.
It was a blue print they saw as they all looked at the map. “It looks familiar somehow” YunHo said and the others nodded. It did look familiar. “Wait… isn’t it our school?” YooChun asked as he traced his finger over the blue print. The others also looked more closely and they all confirmed that it was their schools blue print. But why was it here?
“Guys…look at this…” YunHo said and the others withdrew their attention from the map towards YunHo who was pointing at a box. “Are those explosives?!” JunSu shrieked and YunHo nodded. “yes they are but why are they…”
“Well well well, look who we have here”
All five of them froze as they turned around, automatically raising their hands as they stared at the barrel of the guns.