The boy jumped down from the chair and ran around the table while he quickly grabbed the girl's wrist.

"Hey! Where are we going?" she exclaimed, tumbling after his grip on her arm.

He just laughed at her and dragged her into the living room. He pushed her down on one side of the couch and sat next to her, reaching out for her hands instead. She blushed at the light touch and looked shyly down at the fabric on the couch.

The boy looked at her with twinkling eyes while he gently and gently held her hands.

"Let's ask each other some questions in turn so we can get to know each other better," he said with a smile, giving her an eager hug.

Iris looked up at him. "O-okay."

The boy's eyes disappeared into the smile, and he raised his legs up to him on the sofa.

"I'm starting, hmm ... Do you have any siblings?" he asked.

"No I'm an only child. Do you have any?"

He looked predominantly at her, "Yes, I have an older brother, but I don't see him anymore."

She nodded quietly while she kept her eyes down. Wait .. He doesn't see him anymore? Her thoughts started circulating about the new info, should she inquire into it, or would it be breaking a boundary?

"How old are you?" she looked up at him, interrupted in her own thoughts.

His gaze told everything. He was curious and wanted to know everything about her. He already felt that she meant everything to him. She was the only one he had after he lost him. The only person who meant anything; his best friend. But now there was no hope of seeing him again, it would never go away. He would hate him for the monster he had become.

The boy's eyes had quickly been covered with a layer of glistening liquid. Tears.

"Are you okay?" Iris asked gently, placing a hand around his one arm.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. His heart felt heavy. A feeling he had forced himself to forget since day one. The day he was bitten.

"Yeah, I'm okay," he said, slowly raising his gaze to her compassionate eyes.

A faint gasp escaped her mouth and her eyes doubled in size."Y-your eyes! They-they are purple!" she exclaimed with both shock and fascination.

His wolf whimpered when he heard her voice. It was a strange mixture of all sorts of emotions that made the wolf jerk in him.

Without Iris noticing, she leaned closer to him so she could better see his purple eyes. It was not a light purple, but neither was it too dark. It was perfect, reminding her of a deeply infinite universe that was just waiting to be explored. The full shining moon that lay over both eyes was soothing and almost put her in a trance. His eyes were filled with a lot of emotions that she could hardly describe as they seemed deep to reach as if he had hidden them far away.

"So beautiful.."

Her nose touched his and it made her snatch out of the trance and retreat again. A heat flowed up to her cheeks and she began to look down at the couch again.

His warm hand reached out for her cheek and looked up again, "Do you like them?"

"Yes," she said almost like a whisper.

A smile began to play on the boy's lips and he felt his wolf get tense.

"You're the first one to think so," he laughed.

"R-really?" she stammered.

"Mhmm."

"Wow ... I don't understand that," she said completely speechless.

He just looked at her with a smile. Almost as if he was waiting for something. So handsome..

She cleared her throat and shyly looked away again, "And uhm ... By the way, I'm 18 .."

"Cute."

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"Hyung come out of there and do something about your little crush! He will not stop crying!!" Hwanwoong shouted from the other side of the old, locked wooden door.

The green luminous raised an eyebrow in confusion toward Ravn, whose cheeks slowly turned pink. The green glowing smirked.

"I-I-", Youngjo began.

"Calm down now, I know you have something for Xion," the other interrupted.

The elder began to smile embarrassed as he looked down at the floor and slowly got up from his chair. The green luminous giggle over the elder's sudden insecure self. Youngjo quickly unlocked the door and met an annoyed younger, standing on the other side. Hwanwoong looked into the library and made eye contact with the green glowing. The smallest gave the green glowing a killer look and afterward turned around towards their leader. Youngjo looked expectantly at the younger one.

"What are you waiting for, go find the love of your life!" Hwanwoong scolded, pushing Youngjo off down the hallway.

The eldest waited no longer and turned down the stairs and one floor down towards all the rooms. His hands shook weakly and he cursed mentally over it. What am I so nervous about? It's just Dongju?! But his wolf was about to have a panic attack. Everything that was about Dongju, it was nervous about. And Youngjo knew very well why.

"What a mess ..." he said to himself as he approached the maknae's room.

Too quickly he found himself standing in front of the room and had no idea what he was going to say or do. He took a deep breath before knocking on the door.

"You can do it Ravn," he whispered to himself.

No one answered and he quietly opened the door. He looked around the dark room for the maknae. All the curtains were drawn and no light was on. It was completely dark. Small sobs and dripping tears captured the elder's sense of hearing from the younger boy's bed. Gently he stepped closer and saw with his improved eyesight, the younger one curled up with his arms around himself, in the middle of his bed. Tears streamed down his face, and small muffled sobs and whimpers came out of his mouth.

The elder's heart sank to the ground. It stuck deep to see the youngest like this.

"Dongju," Youngjo said quietly as he placed one hand on his shoulder.

"No, not Dongju," he replied.

The eldest sank when it dawned on him that he was not talking to Dongju, but instead his wolf. "Xion .." he said instead.

"Go away."

"I understand, but I just want to help you .." Youngjo said with tears in his own eyes because of the heavy feeling.

Xion rose in a jerk up towards the elder with brightly lit pink eyes, which cut into the elder.

"Nothing will help me! My ... -my other half has just rejected me for a hunter!" he growled.

The words cut into Youngjo. Hearing his soulmate say he thought another person was his other half hurt. And Youngjo's wolf started howling.

He withdrew slowly meanwhile, small whimpering sounds escaped deep from his throat without him being able to control it himself. He clasped a hand to his heart and shrunk his shoulders.

"O-okay," he squeezed out.

He looked up with trembling lips at the youngest's angry pink eyes. And a tear rolled. Youngjo's wolf, Ravn, turned on his heels and stormed out of the room with tears rolling down his cheeks. His sea-blue eyes shone menacingly through his layer of glistening liquid. It fisted deep inside his chest and he leaned forward and fell to the floor. His whole body was spasmed out in panic and grief. Every single cell in his body stressed to flee from him. Away from it all. He crawled hastily further down the hallway towards the stairs and jumped on wobbly legs down the stairs.

"Youngjo!"

The sea-blue-colored boy looked panicked over his shoulder and saw one of his pack members looking in his direction. He breathed in hefty half-breaths and threw himself panicking down the last steps. He just wanted to getaway!

His whole vision was obscured by the layer of fluid, and he tumbled again over his own legs. Quickly as a reflex, he took the fall off with his hands and ran on as if he had not fallen. All his surroundings fused together into a great mass. He was so close to the old big door when someone grabbed his arm and turned him around. Ravn, startled, raised his arm again and backed away.

"You will not just run away!" exclaimed Hwanwoong, who had stopped the stray wolf.

The harsh tone made the wolf tremble in even more panic. His breathing increased even more and his vision began to flicker before him. Step by step, he backed further back. His sea-blue eyes shone as brightly as ever, and his knees began to yield beneath him.

It quickly dawned on Hwanwoong how, the elder actually felt, "Hey, calm down now Ravn," he said in a soft and gentle voice.

But Ravn was already completely gone in the emotions and saw nothing in the room. His knees now gave way completely beneath him, and he fell to the floor with a bone-crushing sound that echoed throughout the room. All his bones cracked together and a dark brown fur grew out of his skin. A transformation into horror. Something werewolves only by violent panic strikes did. It was like a kind of defense mechanism that they had to be able to defend themselves.

The dark brown wolf with sea-blue shining eyes rose quickly from the floor and retreated further.

Hwanwoong had no idea what to do with the panic-stricken wolf who fled from him. He prayed to his own wolf that it would help me. "Lyndon, help me," he whispered.

Without any of them having discovered it, the whole scene would have had spectators. Seoho stood on the steps and looked with wide eyes at what was happening. He felt his wolf prick him that he should let it help. He hesitated a little, but then let it do so. In no time he transformed, and the wolf leaped forward toward the panicking wolf.

"Seoho ?!" Hwanwoong shouted when he saw the wolf sprinting past him.

This will not end well .. he thought.

Seoho jumped forward towards Raven and knocked him to the floor with his whole body. The sea-blue glowing shook his head and looked confused in the direction of the newcomer. Seoho growled at him and got up and walked menacingly with his neck hair raised against the other wolf. Ravn felt how that he was challenged and raised himself up quickly, baring his teeth at the younger one. He felt how his panic was slowly erased and replaced with a fit of strong anger. He was defiantly the herd leader, and he was not ready to lose that status.

The black wolf with the white paws bit hard on Ravn's one leg, and the dark brown wolf howled in pain. The black wolf's teeth sank deep into the flesh of the other, and blood splattered out for every twist Seoho made with his head. Ravn growled angrily and in pain, barking at the younger wolf.

"Seoho stop!!" Hwanwoong shouted as he ran towards the wolves.

A hand bumped against his chest and blocked the way for him.

"Let them be, never disturb a battle for the place as the pack leader," said the green glowing quietly.

The yellow glowing turned nervously towards the wolves again. Ravn bit out after the black wolf and grabbed around its snout and bit hard. Seoho immediately pulled his teeth out of the flesh of the other and tried to jerk out of the sea blue luminous's growling grip on his snout. But the dark brown held on. The black wolf began to make some howling and howling sounds in pain. He slowly felt himself stop fighting against the grip meanwhile, a thick blood-red mass flowed out between Ravn's chalk-white teeth from the freshly made wound.

When Seoho lay down under the pressure of pain, the dark brown wolf finally released him. He fell to the floor with a loud squealing sound. Hwanwoong was so close to running forward and grabbing him, but the green glowing held tightly around his arm.

Seoho's orange eyes brightly lit up in pain like a whole fireworks show. Ravn stepped menacingly forward with shining eyes that would be able to split one in two. He growled deeply and showed teeth with his whole body inflated, which just screamed leader. Seoho closed his eyes completely and lowered his head as low as possible.

The dark brown wolf turned around towards the other two wolf boys, who were standing and watching. They both bowed respectfully together and let their leader pass them further into the castle.

When Hwanwoong was sure that their leader was out of sight, he ran towards the black-coated wolf, who was lying in pain in the middle of the floor.

"Seoho!"

He knelt before him and gently placed a hand on top of his head. Two orange glowing eyes looked up at him. His fur all over his head was soaked in a blood-red layer.

"Aww Seoho-ah let me help you. Wait here," Hwanwoong said, getting up and looking at the taller black haired boy.

"Just help me get something cleansing," the Hwanwoong said to the black-haired boy, who immediately nodded and turned around to pick up the thing.

Hwanwoong turned around again towards the wounded wolf and lightly and elegantly lifted Seoho up in his arms, as if he weighed nothing. Hwanwoong's wolf made that possible. It was called Lyndon. A small and elegant sand-colored wolf, with white paws and white fur up along the underside of his neck. Even though he was small, he was strong.

Hwanwoong walked briskly toward Seoho's room, where the green glow stood clear with rags and cleansing liquid. Although his wound would heal quickly, it wouldn't hurt cleaning it. The youngest laid the wolf down on the bed and immediately took a damp cloth and began to wipe the blood away. As soon as he had wiped the worst away, he reached out for the bottle of the cleansing liquid.

"This is going to hurt a little, I'm sorry".

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