Chapter 2
Wooyoung blinks awake, finding that he is staring up at the blurry image of a slanted stone roof. He groans and attempts to sit up, but he is rapidly halted in place. Luckily, his hearing is working once more and he is able to hear a jangle of chains ringing. His vision instantly clarifies completely, his heart pounds inside of his chest and he snaps his head to one side and sees that his wrist is cuffed to a bar.
What the heck?
His vision continues to clarify and he gives the chain cuff a quick yank with as much strength as he can muster, grunting with the effort.
After a minute of nothing happening in terms of getting free from the chain, he sits up as best as he can and shouts out, "WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS? WHERE AM I? WHO ARE YOU? WHAT DO YOU WANT?"
Wooyoung's ears don't pick up anything. He decides to ultimately look around the room, seeing that he is in a small dome-shaped area. There is a single archway that is just big enough for a person to walk out of, where bright sunlight is shimmering in, illuminating the prisoner-style interior.
Shadows dance along the dim, dark stone walls that line the room.
Where am I, Rapunzel's tower?
Wooyoung leans back, the chains clanking together. He unleashes a heavy sigh and drapes his other hand over his face. How will the guys handle my absence? His eyes catch sight of a white sleeve and he realizes that he's dressed in a very loose long-sleeved white dress shirt.
"Ahhhh, the Slumbering Prince is awake," a gruff voice chuckles.
Wooyoung's arm flies away from his head and to the bed and his head snaps to the side. He looks toward the sunlight entrance and sees a tall figure standing there. The person is dressed in a black hooded cloak and has a blood red amulet around their neck, which pulses along to the beat of his racing heart.
Wooyoung licks his dry lips and looks at the figure, slowly narrowing his eyes. "If you're not Choi San, I want nothing to do with you. I already know you're not Atiny. Atiny wouldn't hurt me like this."
The figure chuckles. "No, no, you're right. I suppose I can't be that brave Choi Yeonjun either..."
Wooyoung blinks, startled by the name. "Yeonjun-ssi?"
The figure reaches up and removes the hood from their head. "Yeonjun, I am not. San, I am not. An Atiny, I am most certainly not."
Wooyoung gasps in horror. He finds himself looking at a tall, slender, pale green-skinned female with dark horns on her head. She has a narrow face and a prominent chin and she is darkly beautiful and icily elegant. And she looks very familiar.
"Maleficent?" Wooyoung questions.
"In the flesh and blood," Maleficent sneers, gesturing pridefully to herself. "I don't like prince charmings dropping in unexpectedly."
Wooyoung shakes his head. "I'm...I'm not..."
Maleficent waves her hand and barks, "SILENCE!"
Wooyoung bites his lip.
"I know all about who you are, Jung Wooyoung of ATEEZ. I also know that your brave little friend from some K-Pop group known as TXT was trying to warn you." The wicked mistress of all evil snickers to herself.
"Tomorrow By Together!" Wooyoung scolds. "They don't like being called TXT!"
"I SAID SILENCE!!" Maleficent roars.
Wooyoung narrows his eyes, but keeps his mouth shut once more. It's no use pissing off a wicked villainess like Maleficent.
Maleficent continues, snarkily, "I took care of him. Choi Yeonjun. He is locked up in my dungeon, chained to the wall...and you, well, you reside up here, chained helplessly to the bed. There will be no 'Wooyoung! Wooyoung! Let down your hair! Or the heroic rescue of Prince Yeonjun coming to save the fair maiden prince. Oh, no, no."
"He'll break free! I've watched Disney movies! I know!" Wooyoung bravely shoots.
"Wrong!" Maleficent spits. "I don't think you understand what is going on here!?" She paces forward and stands at the side of the bed, hovering coldly in place and glaring down at Wooyoung.
"What do you mean?"
Maleficent smirks at him. "When you took a bite of that apple, you became the subject of such a movie. My movie. And I won't fail a second time at destroying a happy ending. I guess I should tell you that the apple was laced with potion. A potion that will become murderous in a few hours. 24 to be exact."
Wooyoung swallows the growing worry growing inside of him.
"So, unless Choi Yeonjun can break the chains, escape the dungeon, defeat me, find you in the highest part of this tower, so wonderfully loaned to me by the dear Mother Gothel, break the chain holding you prisoner to the bed AND sweep you off your feet with a magical true love's kiss within 24 hours, I'm sad to say you are doomed, young Jung Wooyoung. And I, Maleficent will finally claim MY happy ending!"
Wooyoung's mouth drops open.
Maleficent throws her head back to cackle like a Disney villain. "You should have listened to him and not bitten the apple."
Bạn đang đọc truyện trên: AzTruyen.Top