Interlude

CHEN'S WORRIES

***Chen***

Have you ever experienced where you were in the middle of a dangerous situation but comedic things just kept happening, so a few things became comedic instead?

Yeah. That was the situation I was in.

The day after my brother and half of his group members, plus Artemis, left for China everything just became hectic and well… it was fun watching it unfold.

At first everyone was silent and nervous, and the dreadful atmosphere was engulfing the suite we were placed, or rather locked in.

The remaining people, who were me, Leo, Tim, Kai, Seth, Coby and Dean, were held inside a very spacious suite in the same hotel we were brought to. It seemed to be one of the hotels Fa Xiao Min owned in Busan. There were guards, who were part of the Shuan Lin Syndicate, on every exit and everybody was getting restless.

And when it finally consumed most of us…

"AARGH! That's it! I can't take it anymore!" Coby exclaimed and rose from his seat.

Lei once told me that Coby had ADHD which meant he couldn't be still for a very long time. To cope with his excess energy he causes trouble with Blake and/or practices musical instruments.

"If we can't surf the internet, at least let us do something!" he yelled.

"Coby-hyung is right!" agreed Seth. "I'm bored!"

Coby, Seth and a reluctant Kai faced one of the guards.

"You need to let us do something. Can't we at least practice our choreography?" Seth asked.

"No." answered the guard.

"Play some video games?" Coby asked as well.

"No."

"Is that the only thing you can actually say?" Kai asked.

"No."

"Then…"

A few tantrums, yells, glares from Dean and threats later, Kai and Seth were led to a practice room (with guards) to practice dancing (they were the dance line), Tim and Coby were practicing their raps (the two were part of the rap line) and raided the fridge a few times as well, Leo and Dean were practicing their songs (they were part of the vocal line) and lastly me… I was just reading a book at the nook of a room, watching everything.

I was worried about my brother and the rest of our friends. They were heading to an unknown tomb which was believed to be Emperor Yue's and I was worried that Lei might discover something he shouldn't. But if he couldn't help but find out about it then it must be his fate and we couldn't really do anything about it.

As for the people left with me, I don't think I had to worry about them.

A few days later, I have already read a total of five books and have reread about two of them. The boys were also getting bored and had started some sort of strike against the guards.

"CHICKEN!" Kai yelled. The guy just loved chicken.

"BEER!" Seth yelled as well.

"Seth! You're not even old enough to drink yet!" spat Leo.

"Oh right. Then cola!"

I joined Dean who was only watching them.

"They're very energetic." I commented.

"You get used to it."

Suddenly, the windows to our suite broke and a few men descended from above. They started shooting at the people who were guarding us. Leo and I immediately secured everyone in one corner and Tim fought whoever came close.

A familiar face suddenly came to us and boy was I relieved to see him.

"Niccolo!" I shouted.

"Chenny Chen Chen!" he yelled back.

Niccolo Hunter was a seventeen year old kid who happened to be Artemis' younger half-brother. He had dirty blonde hair, grey eyes and a slightly tanned skin.

"Lucas is leading another team and just raided the floors below."

"How did you find us?" Leo asked.

Oh yeah, they already met Niccolo before.

"Tracker." he showed us his phone with a tracking app on it. Seven dots were shown on the screen. "Sis said she installed some sort of tracker in you."

I started tapping my body but I didn't find anything unusual.

"Don't bother. Anyway, we used that to save you guys. Lucas will need a team to search for them in China as well. After we finish here. Sis told us we have to save you guys first."

And that was how we got out of Busan.

Talk about worries.