Chapter 2:

Hiding in the Throat of Death

Empire of Fear


Dust intensively settled, accompanied by an Early Death Notices were scattered everywhere. Ruined buildings stood as if abruptly shaken by a powerful devastating Earthquake, after a blowing to the storm of death that had ravaged the streets in to multi pieces. The flames of vengeance are ready to engulf, burning the sorrow of loved ones and searing enemies who inflicted years of anguish and heartache.

This scene was very noticeable by naked eye, without refuge to complicated equipment to observe it. 

Yoshena was looking around carefully, at a damaged school by pointless war Yoshena and Vettu went to a giant, metallic, main school's entrance, to get out from an unknown threat coming to them.

"It is a huge school, isn't it" Vettu said, "It looked like that one who used to richest families to send their children in, didn't it?"

"Yes. However, it looked, there wasn't any goods in" Yoshena replied, when he looked at Vettu's face.

Yoshena knew Vettu as well as Vettu knew him to, so he understood Vettu's thinks that he sadly blamed himself, because he was unofficially the leader of discovering group as replacement as the last official leader. When the official leader left him to find another livable place to live in.

"Vettu, undesirable mistakes are happened occasionally. So blaming isn't the solutions at all, but it is the only reason of regretting." Yoshena personified Vettu.

Then Vettu stopped immediately and looked at Yoshena carefully, as Yoshena did too, that unreasonable stopping made Yoshena wondered if there was a bad thing happened to him, to require him stopping as he was need too.

"What's wrong wi...." Yoshena was about asking Vettu.
"Yoshena, you are" Vettu interrupted Yoshena. Then he curiously looked at him as Yoshena did too, and continue. "Your head damaged so badly, isn't it?." He smirked , obviously, he was kidding. But Yoshena ignored him like they used.

When they were about to get outside from school, there was someone who was keeping an eye on to out side as he was hiding too. He looked familiar to Yoshena, so Vettu quietly got closer to not be noticed as Vettu's want.

"What are you looking at Takiiiii-haaara?" Vettu slowly whispered to Takihara's ear , terrifyingly, to make him frightened as he could.

Takihara instantly turned to him.

"Why are you so late, guys." When he said, he vengefully pushed his face away as far as he could. And continued "Your breath's smell is so fetid."

"Look" He nodded "Those hyenas look so hungry, and defeated by more savage than them." he sighted at the end his noticed.
"we should to turn around to dodge them?" An advice, he suggested to them, wishfully, to be followed by them.

"So, we'll do now." Vettu willingly accepted the Takihara's advice.

Without more a necessary lateness, they moved together on.

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As the hyenas, there many animals escaped from the International Zoo of Floare Salbatica city. The animals run away, after violence escalated due to the ongoing war in the Floare Salbatica city.

Animals could live eight month by eating death bodies, but when death bodies finished they turned in animal instinct to survival like if they turned to wild life again.

Yoshena and his friends knew about the Floare salbatica city's circumstance, but they accepted the defiance as a discovery group. They previously knew the risks as well, they docilely went together to watch their backs as groups as they planed, but the individually mistakes could happen too.

they could moved faster than their looks, obviously, they used their an advanced technological equipment that they were given like they had definitely been trained.

the equipment were like a pair of military shoes style with high technology and hip bag, which the shoes could manipulate the gravitation acceleration, and the hip bag could manipulate
The shoes could manipulate the Adhesion Coefficient of the shoes between the shoes and the touched surface of the shoes, like Magnetic attraction theory.
And the hip bag could manipulate the Muscle Strength Coefficient of each of thigh and leg user's muscle.

the difference between them is the last one could be very harmful for the user as muscle's laceration case or worst.

Takihara, Vettu and Yoshena were only using their shoes, not at the maximum degree as they previously warned, just to keep battery's power, usefully. 

"Be careful, make you in highest of caution." Vettu seriously declared as leader to his own followers, frighteningly, from if it was there any ferocious animals tracking them or on their way.

they could ran easily ran away from any dangerous animal nearby them, but they were afraid of the pursuer. They were really in the prohibitive place as the empire exclaimed before, so by their equipment and place they will actually be in danger as TRAITORS of the empire.

"We will leave sooner then I thought. They couldn't reach us as we keep going." Vettu was optimistic as always, when he said that.
"How many times did I tell you to not be optimistic at all?" Takihara nervously told to Vettu as he continue by. "Your optimistic always brings death at time you me..." Before he was about to end his speech, he heard a few hitting sounds. 

The hitting sound was made by Yoshena's body, that when he unknowingly fell down at higher speed by using the gravitation acceleration shoes, he had to roll to dodge the less amount of hitting as he could.

"it's broken." Yoshena said after he checked very well.

"Then we have to walk on feet." Takihara suggest.

They could barely arrive to an abandoned tourist sanatorium, continuously, by running for more than two hundred metres. But when they used their especial shoes they toke more than one thousand metres in few minutes without any effort.

"We...we..." Vettu's breath wasn't unsteady with sharp heartbeats. "We can run any more, so we have to hide here" he confessedly suggested about their needs.

"Haaaaaa....!" Takihara was seemingly surprised by Vettu's suggestion indeed. "You are really insane. Vettu look, we need to keep going to our refuge sooner." He was obviously concerned. 

But an electric warning sound interrupt them at their critical circumstance.

< beep.. beep.. beep >
Their watches slowly started both beeping and shaking , exceptionally, that one's on Yoshena's hand, from sight it looked broken, to warn them that worst's coming.

"They are looking for us by using thermal drone hunters, so now what about hidden plan..!" Vettu declared his only decision.

"How about that place?." Yoshena mentioned directly to tourist sanatorium by his index finger. "It looks like perfect place to hide." He smiled too.

They went in to sanatorium quietly, but when they reached to sanatorium's garden to get deeper in sanatorium, they noted some extraordinary steps by a real voracious animal.

"Those steps could be tiger or leopard's steps" Takihara warned his friends.

"Either tiger or leopard, can be deadly for us." Vettu replied. "So be careful both of you, those steps does not look good for us at all." Vettu  suggested, seriously, to beware as long they stayed.

So they avoided this garden speedily, just to not waste their time as they did before. But when they arrived the sanatorium's pool, they stopped to hide to continue their plan.

Chaos was around, obviously, they noted, like there was invaded by Hurricane which overran the pool side to bring this mess.
With some broken tables and folding chair, indeed , Takihara, Vettu and Yoshena stood by to take their seats.

"We have to use our special equipment for hiding as we've been learned." Vettu started to give them his instructions without any illustration.
"Until the drones leave, do not move from your hidden place" He looked to them and repeated, like if he was a real solider.

Takihara and Yoshena nodded their heads as a consented vettu's command, then they all separately went to their individual seats.

Vettu went in to storeroom without closing the door to monitor when he sat. Meanwhile, Takihara hid in the women's restroom, eager to act quickly. However, Yoshena didn't leave his excretory place at the edge of pool even by one step, he was checking out all his equipment and his near site.

Vettu and Takihara put their kneel close to their chests, and turned on their jackets to veil their temperature from located thermal drones, those jackets could keep the thermal to be noted by thermal determiner.

But, when Takihara and Vettu hid, Vettu noticed bad thing happened nearby them, that thing could badly harmful as long as they stayed. Also Takihara could noted deadly thing, he surely knew that thing was looked like sort of dead or alive snake.

Yoshena individually toke a deadly hiding not like them, he jumped in to pool to hide, not because he didn't find another place, but his equipment was broken. So he had to jump in.