Seonghwa didn’t stopped on running at all, as his eyes was shining as blue as the azure sky, he used his own powers to sense the creature that’s trying to chase after them and he lets out a gasp when he realized that it’s no other than one of the blackened ones, the huge, bulky male that they used to know as Julius, one of the bouncers of the town’s bar.

“Guys! Run faster! It’s Julius!” Seonghwa alerted them which made them run faster just like he told them to.

“Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. The last thing that I want in my entire life is to die on that fucker’s hands!” Hongjoong exclaims as he lets his short legs move faster, making him run next to Yunho that was leading them to a safer place.

“He isn’t stopping.” Jongho said as listened to the footsteps, “Hyung! I have an idea!”

“What is it, Jongho?” Yunho asks as he kept on listening to the lake’s sounds.

“I’ll distract him. Please proceed without me.”

Yunho immediately looked at the youngest male which stopped running as a bunch of energy spheres have appeared beside him, smiling sadly towards their direction.

“No, you don’t!” Yunho screams, attempting to stop yet the way that Hongjoong clings to his shoulder while he continued on running makes him unable to.

“I’ll catch up with all of you later, hyung.” Jongho grinned as he raised his hand to show a thumbs-up.

“Jongho, don’t you fucking dare! I’ve already lost Mingi! I can’t lose you too!” Yunho screeched.

Seonghwa glanced at the youngest male as he stopped for a while, “I’m staying with you then.”

“Oh no, you don’t. If you die here, how can you assure that Yeosang-hyung’s going to be safe? San is already in danger by facing that alchemist and if you get yourself killed here, are you sure that Wooyoung is going to succeed on saving Yeosang-hyung?” The way that Jongho talks seems like he knows a lot that he would like to share to his friends yet he kept it all to himself.

“What?”

“Go, Seonghwa-hyung. Someone needs to check upon Hongjoong-hyung and Yunho-hyung. Don’t trust anyone too much, Seonghwa-hyung.” Jongho said before making a force field on their side, unable to make anyone get through it “I’ll handle this, Seonghwa-hyung. Please go.”

“Jongho!” Yunho was already banging on the force field after being able to struggle free from Hongjoong’s grasp.

“Yunho-hyung.” The youngest smiled in such a melancholic way, “You may be the most suspicious among us but you can really show such a despairful expression.”

“Jongho, come here and let’s escape! Together!” Yunho exclaims as he kept on banging the force field made from light.

“Or maybe I’m analyzing too much? You looked like you’re in pain, hyung. Is losing someone important from you the reason why?” Jongho shook his head before placing his hand on the same place where Yunho is placing his own, “Go, Yunho-hyung. They need you there, be there for all of them. I’ll do my best to catch up, okay?”

“Jongho, you better not get yourself killed in here.” Hongjoong firmly stated as he held Seonghwa and Yunho’s shoulders.

“Aye-aye, captain!” Jongho saluted at their leader as he chuckles, “I wouldn’t even consider dying in the sewers.”

“See you later.”

Jongho nodded, “See you later, hyungs.”

Hongjoong gave him one final look before dragging both of the males away as they escape from one of the strongest blackened one in the town. Hongjoong wouldn’t even flee if it isn't a powerful one, he would stay with Jongho to assure that he’ll be safe. But Julius is way too powerful even for them with gifted abilities, they've fought with him lots of time and a bunch of survivors died on his hands.

They tried burning him but his body was too durable, it was hard to cut him and the way that he can crush their heads by simply clenching his hand. That male’s bad news and they’ve left Jongho to face him, he wanted to run back and help him but Jongho looks so determined on being the decoy that he couldn't say no.

It's like he has resigned on surviving. Letting fate do its job instead of straying away from it and fighting for his own life. Hongjoong wondered why and he would definitely ask Jongho about it when he catches up to them.

Jongho heard the footsteps have halted and he turned to the other direction to face the huge blackened one with a confident smile on his face as he looked at the weapon that Julius has on his hand.

“A double steel ball bola, huh?” Jongho asks as he looked at the weapon, “That looks neat.”

“Why did you stayed behind, young man? You could've run for your life,” The blackened one that used to be Julius have asked, wondering why someone would stayed behind when all of his victims have died from running away from him.

“I’m here to be a decoy and lure you away from them. Simple as that,” Jongho stated, “Also, I’m acquainted with Monsieur.”

“Preposterous, human!” Julius lets out a laugh, “Monsieur would never associate with a mortal.”

“Are you sure about that? What about the mortal that is working for him?” Jongho asks, tilting his head a bit “He seems to trust mortals more than any of you though.”

“Impossible! Monsieur gave us this task with his trust!” Julius said as he glared at the mortal in front of him.

“Then why did Monsieur executed the pharmacy lady that hurt your village’s Eve without any remorse at all?” The way that the blackened one widened his eyes in surprise made Jongho smirk, “You’re probably wondering why I knew that, right? It’s simple. I’m a friend of the mortal that is working for Monsieur. The mortal that is the traitor among my circle of friends.”

“Mortal, how did you knew that Monsieur killed my Martha?”

“So she was called Martha now? Her name was Emily though.” Jongho mused before looking at the bulky blackened one in front of him, “Hey! If that woman’s called Martha by your kind, may I know your name?”

“Don’t ask a question when I’m asking one, mortal!”

“At the very least, tell me your name before I answer yours.” Jongho tilted his head in confusion as strange markings in black appeared on his arms.

“Why do you even want to know my name?! You’re going to die anyway!”

Jongho smiles as his eyes shines brighter, “Because I need a name to pray over. A strayed soul that I’ll be praying over so you can move on. You’re beyond the salvation that I provide so I have no other choice but to get rid of you, mister.”

“How cocky of you,” the blackened one said as he swung his weapon towards Jongho’s direction that jumped away to avoid the attack, “Well, my name’s Jeongha and it’s fortunate of me to get a sturdy vessel like this. Your magic wouldn’t be able to affect me at all so you have to use your brute strength against me. And a short mortal like you doesn’t have a chance with my vessel!”

“It’s true that my energy spheres doesn’t stand chance but as you can see, I have some tasty informations about your kind.”

The blackened one gasped when Jongho suddenly lunges forward as a lance appeared on his dominant hand and slashed through the blackened one’s skin, causing it to bleed out. It made Jeongha screeched in pain when he felt the intense burn from the scar.

“What have you done?!”

Jongho took a few steps backward as he kept his attention towards the blackened one, “Your vessel might be sturdy on the outside but I just have to get close to you and stab you so I can destroy you from the inside.”

“Do you even think that I’ll let you?!” Jeongha screamed as he ran towards the brunette, “You better run.”

“Catch me if you can.” Jongho replies before releasing a lot of energy sphere upwards as he creates a hole before flying upwards.

As he reached the main ground, he immediately ran as he can see how the gigantic male that is chasing him leapt. Jongho knew that this is such a bad idea but he needs to distract this one and get them away from his friends, he knew that he should just hide and find a way to regroup with his hyungs but he can’t just let someone like this exist any longer. He needs to kill him.

“Hyungs, I'll do my best.” the youngest male muttered as he ran faster

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“So it was an act, huh?” the lunatic muttered as he lets out a hysterical laugh, “My, my! You got me there!”

“Do I look that possessive of my Yeosang for you to believe such a thing?” San lets out such a sickeningly sweet smile as his eyes turned into hazel brown ones, notifying that he isn’t using any of his demonic powers as the horns and claws disappeared, “I’m quite flattered with that, sire. As you can see, Yeosang is mine. But I am not that greedy, I know that he’s aware of my sin yet he still accepts me.”

“You’ve got a screw loose in your head, boy.”

San scoffed, “Takes one to know one.”

“I am not insane!” the lunatic gritted his teeth as he clasped his hands.

“Yeah, sure. You’re not, let’s pretend that you have convinced with that.” the blond deadpans before steadying his posture as he prepares himself from any kind of attacks.

“I am not insane! All of you are the deranged ones! Sacrificing your lives for that cursed one!” he exclaims.

“Can you shut the fuck up? I better not waste time seeing your old and ugly face! I'd rather look at my Yeosang’s ethereal one.” the blond says dreamily as he grins.

The lunatic lets out a frustrated scream before a bunch of spiky metal appeared from the ground and towards San’s direction, “Die, demon!”

“Ha! You’re just salty because you couldn’t exorcise me when I’m not using any of my powers.”

San ran around as he kept on dodging the attacks from the alchemist as it kept on making a bunch of spiky metals appear, the blond kept on leaping and avoiding every single one of them despite a few scrapping his skin. But the adrenaline and the fact that he’s enjoying on making his enemy mad is getting the best out of him to even feel pain.

“Why can't you just die?!” The lunatic screeched as he lets out an another bunch, “Can’t you just—”

“Looks like you’ve reached your limit, mister.”

“You fucker!” The lunatic kneels to the ground as he coughed out blood.

San giggled, “Knew it. Despite knowing a lot about the supernatural, you’re still mortal. Doing too much would take a toll on your pitiful body.”

“How did you know that?”

“I was observing. Ever since you’ve attacked us on the hospital and when you’ve said that you have cancelled our abilities, I knew that something is fishy about it. Let’s just say that even Yunho and Seonghwa, someone that is capable of cancelling every single magic abilities in the entire town, couldn’t even so such a thing yet someone like you can is quite mysterious. And when Wooyoung said that you’ve created a huge catalyst, I knew that your attacks are probably low-ranged.”

“You’re quite good,” the lunatic mutters, “But how can you even defeat me without using your powers? Just a second of you unleashing your demon selves can make me exorcise you.”

“Well.. surprise, motherfucker.”

San smirked as he kicked the man which flew a meter away from him, gasping for air because of the impact before looking at the blond in disbelief. He fixed his posture as if he’s about to fight using his own fists as the lunatic struggled to stand up.

“You know a thing about alchemist and magic users? Most of them sucks at brawling and how unfortunate of you because that’s one of my best stance, mister.” San stated before he clenched his fists, “I just want to tell that I’ve learned taekwondo since I was a child. I was trained to protect myself with my bare hands too unlike most of my kind. I do not depend on my power that much.”

“Your existence irks me. I'll kill you..” the man muttered but when he was about to clasp his hands, San held his left wrist and twisted his arm until the heard a crack and the pained cry from him, “My arm!”

“Dislocated it. And next is your hand with the catalyst one.”

“You monster!” the man lets out a wail when his hand was snapped in an awkward angle while San was cackling.

“You’re so pathetic! I’m just about to begin so prepare yourself!” San beamed.

“G-Get away from me!” the lunatic screamed as he took a step backward.

“Oh. Are you scared?” San asks as his expression shows amusement before raising both of his fists, “You should be.”

Meanwhile, Wooyoung and San Yeosang kept on running yet the fact that their pretend fight with San seems to injure them too much that they couldn’t run as fast as they could because of the intense pain.

“We should find Hongjoong-hyung!” Wooyoung said as Yeosang was the one leading them.

Yeosang nods, “At the bridge, right?”

“Yes!”

Yeosang bit his lip as one of his cut stings, “I hope that we can arrive there as soon as possible so that Yunho-hyung can heal us a bit. It’s probably painful for you too, right?”

Yet no one responded to his question.

“Wooyoung?”

Yeosang stopped running yet he doesn’t enough courage to turn his head because he knew that he wouldn’t like what’s behind him. He knew that he should run for his own life and find Hongjoong but Wooyoung hasn’t responded at all.

He isn't the only one in danger.

Wooyoung is in danger too.

“Who are you? W-Where’s Wooyoung?” Yeosang muttered as he stayed still.

“Finally, we’ve meet again.”

“What?”

“It’s me, Yeosang. The one that needs you to be my vessel.”

Before Yeosang was able to turn towards his direction, the brunette’s body fell to the ground and all that he can hear was a familiar cry from the person that he wants to protect with his miserable life. Maybe Monsieur would be kind enough to spare Wooyoung, right?

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hello! so here’s an another filler chap bc i couldn’t write properly and i know that it sucks but please forgive me for that qwq also who cried on ateez’s live yesterday bc i definitely did. these boys are so precious ;; don’t forget to vote for ‘em on MAMA2019!

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