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"If you're going to untie the ribbons so aggressively, they'll end up getting torn." Seungkwan nudged Dino.

"Oh really?" Dino sarcastically smiled, "Then ask your boyfriend, why he tied the wrong ribbons onto the wrong boxes."

"Stop it guys." Mingyu rolled his eyes, "If you're going to fight then let us do this alone."

"Hyung why aren't we using our spells to prepare all this?" Hoshi asked Seungcheol.

"Because preparing everything with my own hands will add more love to it." Seungcheol chuckled, "The process is as important as the outcome."

"I swear I'm going to collapse." Joshua irked as he got drowned into loads of flowers that accidentally fell onto him.

"Chill hyung, flowers don't hurt." Minghao, the culprit, laughed.

"Sure." Joshua mumbled as he threw all the flowers onto Minghao, "Now you chill."

"Y'all, calm the fuck down." Seungcheol stood up, "I was going to do it all alone, it was a better idea because you guys aren't helping at all."

The hall of their newly built mansion where all of them were living together was indeed a mess. There were a wide range of decor items that were scattered here and there. It was hard to figure out the actual position of any of the objects.

"I think velvet clothes would suit better than these silk ones." Jun remarked, "They'll go well with the pastel vibes."

"As you say." Mingyu snapped his fingers to which the silk clothes changed into the pastel ones.

"Great." Vernon clapped, "Anyways, hyungs, we wanted to talk to you about something."

"Yeah go on." Hoshi nodded as everyone focused on Vernon while doing their work.

"It's been a while that we got to talk to out families." Vernon hesitantly stated, "Our phones stopped working as soon as we got to know about the truth of this place. It has been two months now."

"They might be worried about us." Seungkwan added, "I mean it's not the first time. There have a been a lot of times when we couldn't talk to them because of our research."

"But this time we couldn't inform them." Dino mumbled, "Can you do something?"

"We'll consider that." Seungcheol paused, "See, we can allow your phones to connect to the mortal world but it will possibly create a gateway for our enemies too, no matter how much we try to keep it confidential."

"I think we should get to this straight." Joshua turned serious, "Do you all want to stay in touch with us even after you go back?"

"Of course!" The mortals stated the obvious.

"No it's not that easy." Mingyu intervened, "When you go back, you can't tell them about us. If you're planning to do so, we'll have no choice but to make you forget everything."

"We can't let humans enter the Coast. You're an exception." Hoshi added, "Apart from you, we'll have to kill anyone and everyone who tries to step into our land. We're bound to do so because until the forest gets another set of elves again, no one can test their caliber. You might remember how much hardships you had to deal with while crossing the forest."

"And in this case, we won't allow anyone to invade our land, whether they're dangerous or not." Seungcheol declared, "Killing them would be the only option and I'm sure you don't want it. In short, the humans out there should stay oblivious of our existence. You can also choose to stay here forever."

"We can but we can't abandon our families like that." Minghao stated, "We won't tell them about you."

"Sure?"

"Yes." Jun nodded, "We promise that we'll work hard to create a story about this land so that no one would dare to step into this place."

"But how will we see you after going back?" Dino asked.

"Don't worry about that." Mingyu chuckled, "You've the rings right? You can recall us through it and then you'll teleport."

"But you will have to make sure that no one would see you when you do this." Hoshi stated, "Or else everything would go wrong."

It was when Seokmin rushed in and joined them, "Hyung will be here in 10 minutes."

"Okay." Seungcheol nodded as he snapped his fingers to which all the decorations of the hall disappeared. It was back to normal.

"Hyung what did you do-?!" Seungkwan stood up.

"Did you forget the plan?" Vernon nudged him.

Seungkwan thought for a while, "Oh right."

"Okay everyone, pull out your inner actors." Seungcheol encouraged, "We got this."

Soon enough, Jeonghan, Wonwoo and Woozi came into the hall while the other five vampires and the mortals turned dead serious and occupied scattered seats within the hall.

"What's wrong with them?" Jeonghan muttered as he looked at Woozi and Wonwoo who just shrugged.

Joshua gestured him to look at Seungcheol. When Jeonghan's eyes landed on him, he noticed that Seungcheol was standing by the window, looking out of it. His expressions were way too serious than the others.

Jeonghan asked Joshua through his eyes about what happened to which the younger made some hopeless expressions.

Jeonghan inhaled a deep breath as he approached Seungcheol and tapped his shoulders, "Cheol?"

"Don't come near me." Seungcheol yanked his arm away.

"Why? What happened?" Jeonghan muttered lowly.

"I said don't talk to me." Seungcheol turned his back towards the younger.

"Can we possibly talk alone?" Jeonghan tried to look at his face.

"Hyung why did you do this?" Hoshi rolled his eyes, "It's ridiculous."

"But what did I do?" Jeonghan got a bit annoyed, "Will someone bother to say something?!"

"Look at that box." Mingyu pointed at a small, red box kept at the table.

Jeonghan walked towards it and opened it. It was empty but to his surprise, the look of the hall began to change. The pillars got occupied by beautiful curtains, the cloud like fog was all over the ground and the amount of flowers weren't even countable.

When he turned around, Seungcheol was sitting on his knees with a small box in his hands which contained two rings, "Marry me, Jeonghan."

"Wha-" Jeonghan was surprised, "So you all were-"

"Acting." Seungkwan grinned, "Yes."

Jeonghan smacked Seungcheol's shoulders gently, "My heart almost stopped." He chuckled afterwards, "I love you."

"Love you too!" Seungcheol stood up as both of them exchanged the rings.

"CONGRATULATIONS!" The other vampires and the humans rejoyed.

"Finally, everything is falling into place." Wonwoo clapped.

"Wait." Woozi left the hall only to return with his guitar. He showed everyone the keyring, "They gifted me this." He referred to the mortals, "And in return asked me to make a song for them."

"Oh yes, I remember." Minghao nodded.

"Guess what?" Woozi grinned widely, "I made one! Hoshi and Seokmin will sing along with me."

"Really?!" The humans jumped in excitement.

"At first I wanted all of us to sing it but it was a surprise." Woozi explained, "So I kept it limited. But next time we'll make songs together, I promise."

"I'm super happy today." Jeonghan confessed, "All the best!"

"I wanted to sing too!" Seungkwan whined followed by Dino, "Me too!"

"He said it was a surprise, calm down you both." Vernon repeated.

Woozi began to play his guitar as Hoshi and Seokmin's vocals harmonized with him.

The moment we shine together
Becomes the courage of countless tomorrows
Even if another rainy day comes
l'Il be first in line for you
I'll sing along to you, the same melody (Oh)
I cry and laugh along with you
This night when I give you all my love
Be beautiful
Because you're my headliner, my headliner
Be beautiful
Because you're my headliner, my headliner
You're my headliner

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A/n : So finally, we finished this book successfully! This was a great journey with all of you and I'm genuinely very thankful to all my readers for making me happy with your reviews, I'm grateful to you.

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This was my first Seventeen fanfic and honestly I liked the response it got. So now, I've a few more things to say.

So, Of course, I've two new books, ARRANGED and FOUND YOU which are already updated on my profile, do check them out, hurry up!!

And as I've already said, I've a solid plot for the SEQUEL of blood rivalry which is called BLACK BLOOD. Here's a short synopsis :-

<<"Choi Sana is back and Scarlet Coast is in danger again. The emergence of cross breed demons by her are a great threat to the Coast.

And now the vampires have to save their land once again. The alarms of responsibility have rung again and the vampires have to fight, their beloved humans. How will they save the land as well as the souls they used to cherish?"

Over that, the family of the humans is determined to find their loved ones and has stepped into the Coast. But the vampires sure love their humans but not all of humanity. They won't let any other mortal survive at the Coast no matter what.>>

If you guys want it, I'll schedule Black Blood before any other new book. And if you're interested to read the sequel, keep Blood Rivalry in your library, I'll update the announcement as a chapter!

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