Chapter 3:

An Additional Peril

Empire of Fear


Dirt, moss, rubbish and more of disease-causing were got gather, neglectfully by passing the time, that was the pool's status, which Yoshena toke his luck with in the most contaminated pool to challenge his destiny or obviate entirely death. He depended on his own breath and lungs to preclude his early end, beside relied on his closet friends -place and life- as a needful help, eventually, he didn't know about both Takihara and Vettu circumstance as well as his too.

In case Takihara, he was panicky looking to some sort snake-like, carefully, without any flickering his eyes, and hiding from located thermal drones until it finished the scanning. So he never wanted to change his hidden place at all, as long as he quietly kept on his position in the last toilet seat.

But in case Vettu, he wasn't in safety place too, because he could note a lion with clearly famished stare ,obviously ,it was looking for to its next meal about 10 to 12 metres from Vettu's place. At variance the drones, animals could clearly smell and hear for far distance, so he was hopeful not to be found, either he or others by lion.

'Leave, Leave, Leave .... ' Vettu repeated in his mind, hopefully, to that lion to leave and forever.

The lion quickly shifted it's look, as if it heard something from that direction, or perhaps Vettu's prayer.

< whizzing.. whizzing... whizzing >

The thermal drone came to the sanatorium pool's place, far in the sky it was scanning  all nearby area by thermal sensor, to discover any humanity involvement in forbidden region. 

The drone was designed for detecting any living bodies by their temperature, although. It could detect the sort of that bodies as if human or animal. In that case Takihara and Vettu deferred transacting with animal's jeopardy, until the drones finished scanning the area.

The drone"s whizzing, even if the silence was prevailing all around. That whizzing sound made the lion stopped not from more than 3 seconds, as long as the lion was obviously vigilant, to continue it's searching to find another prey as long as it' stomach was exceedingly starving.
It became closer to Vettu at ever second Vettu waited, by smiles it could find Yoshena's belongings, but it was about to go to Vettu's hiding.

Vettu started to a inaudibly whisper. ' Go, go, go..... Why is the scanning taking so long.' He was afraid of the lion. 'No, no, no.... I have to escape now.' He was about to move his seat.

The whizzing sound was scaling to fade, slowly in wide sky, to be lastly vanish. Then the silence was only prevailing to make both Takihara and Vettu freely moved and took their next step, but the lion was so close to Vettu, so he was really in need to distract the lion to can changed his position from hiding to fighting.

With ever step that the lion took, Vettu was about to through up his breakfast. Then the lion suddenly stopped, it was focas indeed, the lion did it for reason and ....

< smashing >

A loudly smashing clearly came from the restroom, that sound was audible even to Vettu, with sound could be the reason of Vettu's survive, because that could attract the lion attention, as to be the perfect misguidance for the lion.

"Aaaaaaaaaaah !" Takihara panicky screamed.

Vettu was very surprised that there were something could scare Takihara, or there was another parlous animal too. As Vettu returned his look out the lion, he noted that the lion changed it's target place and style moving. However, that changing was a good for him, that changing was a really bad for Takihara's life.

Step by step, the lion carefully get closer to Takihara, with any previous acquaintance or a ambiguous hint, he would be a especial Feast for the most dangerous animal.

In other side, and after the drone left the sanatorium's pool as the closed area too.
Takihara grabbed his electric stick from his big to instantly attack the snake-like, as the time tip of electric stick arrived the snake-like. the snake-like changed in leather to frizzy white one, obviously, that change came after he stunned it, and noted that was just a dropped slough by snake.

"hahahaha.." Takihara laughed as he covered his face by his right hand, then smashed the inner bath room, toughly, and said. " I was very stupid, to thought that a slough is snake." He angrily reproached his coward.

He took some steps, but after he reach to main restroom's door, he heard something in back. Worried, confused and sweaty all whose feelings were Takihara's feeling as the second he slowly glanced over his back carefully, to find unwanted occurrence.

"Aaaaaaaaaaah !" Takihara panicky screamed, when he was absolutely frightened by snake's attack.

He barely dodged the snake's surprising attack and sit on ground, even he fudged, he didn't seemed okay by irregular heartbeat. He looked like as he was about to lose his conscious like if the snake could bite, because his feelings were unstable at all, at variance before, he was worried, confused and sweaty. But this time he was shameful, helpful, weakness and despairing, also seemed he was about run and scream or stay and vomit.

Takihara was in awful situation, this situation was named by madical terms. It called Ophidiophobia.

The snake crawled to aghast Takihara, he was siting as if he would wait for unknown help. But when the lion reached to front the main restroom's room, he knew that help, it never ever showed.

"Take cover.!!" Vettu exclaimed and through something to lion.

< Whirring.! >

Takihara gathered himself quickly, and went back to last toilet seat.

< Whirring..!! >

< Whirring...!!! >

A high electrical explosive blew up both the lion and snake, which that made snake grilled, and paralyzed the lion temporarily.

The explosion was ranged to Takihara place, but nothing really effected to him, because he was told to use the electric vacuum, which also could recharge any equipment  they had.

"Finally, we can leave to home, but after we finished the lion life." Vettu acclaimed.

So he gripped the stun stick, amplifying its lethal voltage, threatening the lion's life.

"How reckless, Vettu." Takihara said as emerged from the bathroom, smiling.  

Vettu retorted gawking. "I heard your scream. Was there something terrifying you?"

"No, I just dozed off. Where's Yoshina?"

Their searching gazes converged on the pool, where Yoshina's watch lay. Perplexed, Takihara couldn't fathom its presence. Vettu swiftly stripped valuables and plunged into the contaminated pool.

"Wait, Vettu!" Takihara shouted, too late.

Vettu dove deeper, navigating the murky waters, desperate to rescue Yoshina. With Herculean effort, he grasped Yoshina, pulling him upward. Exhausted, Vettu's strength waned, leaving them submerged.

"Takiharaaaa!" Vettu was anguished, when he yelled for Takihara helping.

As he finished his shout clearly, he felt someone grabbed him from his back long to the border of swimming pool, obviously, that one was Takihara. 

"One, two thr..." Takihara could pull Yoshena over, 

That caused more painful at his back as cause as he was incorrectly pulling position, to successfully Yoshena mission rescue. But when he decided to turn back to Vettu, Vettu was about next to him, just to save Yoshena's life as if he could.

Vettu started procedure to Emergency First Aid by checking Yoshena's spirited signs, and Yoshena's breath, neither sign or breath, Yoshena's life went to over sooner. So Vettu began to give Yoshena rescue breaths as the first step before he performed CPR as he was trained to do.

"C'mon, C'mon, Yoshenaaa..!" Vettu was hopelessly repeat CPR procedure for second time.

"He went in the pool, because his jacket was broken as all most his equipment" Takihara explained Yoshena's reason. "He always stupidly put himself on risk without care abo.." by noticing Yoshena's equipment, was left beside the pool.

"Stop" Vettu interrupt Takihara blaming. "You are not helpful." He reached the third repeat, that was the reason about His seriously angry as he seemed.

Vettu was looking at Takihara badly look, because Takihara wasn't worried about Yoshena as he was.

"Don't look at me like that was my fault, and you know Yoshena," Takihara said when his eyes on Yoshena and continued. "He always survive even if he will go to field of immunity, that because he wouldn't cross through danger without any plan." Takihara was a bad lair, he tried to come down Vettu's fury.

But...

< Coughing.. >

Yoshena was hardly coughing, when Vettu reached the forth repeat.

"See, I told you." Takihara was seriously very happy as vettu too.

"You are a goofy, Yoshena." Vettu grouchily said.

"What happened?" Yoshena looked to Vettu then to Takihara. "I'm sorry guys"

"Stop apologies now" Vettu stood up and helped out Yoshena to stand. "We must go. It's about sunset.

Yoshena grabbed that hand to stand up. And with Takihara, Vettu and Yoshena, they left that place as soon as they got in.


Empire of Fear