“Oh, you look so pathetic Kim, so hideous, so miserable-…” Another brutal punch to the face was what Jungkook received. He ended up biting his tongue in the process while he coughed blood out but it did put an abrupt halt to his words from crawling under Inferno’s skin.

“GUK~ TAEHYUNG STOP IT YOU ARE HURTING HIM” yelped Jimin watching his restrained husband covered in bruises and groan to the sudden pain that left his split cheek to ooze more blood.

“HOW DARE YOU TALK BACK LIKE THIS TO ME, YOU PATHETIC CREATURE” Inferno’s growl rattled the dark hallways of the dungeons while he yanked on the handful of the raven head’s hair in his grasp.

“Appa, please-… leave my Appa alone” Jihyun wailed with whimpers and pleads to slip past his lips as he watched the once beloved man now twisted into an inhumane beast.

“Hyung you are hurting my Appa” The innocent pleads were heart wrenching yet Inferno was too blind to recognize those people who once were his own. His family.

“HYUNG?” Inferno shoved Jungkook back into the chair on which he was restrained as his gaze snapped towards the little boy with puffed eyes staring at the guy with eyes as if set on fire. The false lenses looked much more real as if fires raged inside them.

Inferno walked towards the little kid while his blazing orbs glared past his innocent soul.

“What has happened to you Hyung? Y-you weren’t like this?” Jihyun choked on his own sobs while he peered at the guy forth with heartbroken eyes.

“You were my hyu-…”

Inferno leaped forth and grabbed the little boy by his jaw tightening his grip on his fragile jaw and making both Jimin and Jungkook yell out to him. While Inferno remained unfazed, his eyes were solely focused on the little boy restrained on the chair like the rest while he bore holes through his soul with that brutal glare of his.

“I am your nothing” He spoke through gritted teeth.

“TAEHYUNG LET GO OF MY CHILD, DON’T HURT HIM, HE’S JUST A KID.” Screamed Jimin while he struggled between the ropes hugging his body in their embrace.

“FUCKER LEAVE HIM OUT OF THIS, I WILL KILL YOU IF YOU HURT MY KID, GET YOUR SICKENING HANDS OFF OF HIM.” Screamed Jungkook bending his body like an untamed beast inside a cage. The chair dragged itself along as Jungkook withered in between the ropes nearly making them snap off of his existence.

The two guys struggled to break free from the restraints seeing their little child in the claw of the devil.

“You are my hyung-…”

“I AM YOUR NOTHING, YOU HEAR ME” Yelled Inferno in Jihyun’s face making the little kid jolt in his place with his heart beating frantically against his chest.

“I WILL NEVER ASSOCIATE MYSELF WITH SOMEONE CONNECTED TO HER”

“Taehyung, stop it please, leave Jihyun out of this, I beg you” cried Jimin watching his innocent child shake witnessing such brutality.

Yet Inferno was too deaf to hear anything else, he solely focused his attention on the little child as his grip on his jaw tightened making the little boy squint his eyes and whimper at the rising pain.

“I will never, you hear me, you all are hideous, twisted, pathetic creatures… her puppets, and she… She-… Deceiver, Liar, Betrayer” Inferno was breathing heavily to how the anger inside him boiled rocketing sky high.

“Angel did nothing wrong Hyung”

“Nothing wrong? SHE DECIEVED ME, SHE LIED TO ME, SHE KILLED ME” Inferno screamed to the top of his lung making everyone in between the four cold walls to quieten down instantly.

“SHE BETRAYED ME, YOU HEAR ME! SHE IS MY CULPRIT”

“Taehyung, she is not Venom anymore, the one you or we knew left us two years ago. You are running on the wrong roads, please stop hurting yourself and your people.” Jimin pleaded making Inferno let go of the small kid as he took his attention to a much familiar face.

“My people? People like You? Jimin, if you really were my brother, you should be standing here with me, by my side, not on the opposite!”

“Taehyung, try to understand, there are no sides, we are not enemies to have sides we are a family, you are going to regret this all after-…”

“REGRET!!! I HAVE BEEN REGRETING SINCE THE DAY I FOUND THIS SO-CALLED FAMILY OF MINE~” Spat Inferno with a snort as he looked down upon the three figures restrained.

“You know what! I just wish none of you were a part of my past”

“Taehyung, be careful of what you say-…”
Instantly Jimin was grabbed by the neck with a hand curling around his throat that made him wheeze to the tightening feeling and halt from speaking further.

“JIMIN!!! YOU FUCKER LET GO OF HIM” Jungkook dragged the chair as he tried to reach to his husband and save him from the contagious grasp of the devil.

“Taehyung is dead, I.AM. INFERNO, look at me carefully~” Wheezed Inferno through gritted teeth watching the man peer back to him with utter hurt glistening in the mirrors of his eyes.

“I am the one created by her; can’t you see? I am what she made of me!” Inferno shoved Jimin back into the chair he was restrained to and walked towards the walls of the room that held old worn out and broken tiles stretched across the room. Peering to his blurry reflection in them, Inferno remained still as the standing waters.

“Taehyung? What an oddly familiar name” He tilted his head to a side staring at the fading reflection in the almost blind echo of the stones forth.

The reflection was nothing like the what the innocent boy once had.

All he could see was the ink stretched across his existence with those fiery orbs of his, Wait, he never used to have such, right? it looked as if his vessel was being swallowed by darkness and fire, slowly like a shrewd predator.

“I can’t believe he was so naïve, so blameless, so pathetic! Even after knowing the bitter truths and facing the demon eye to eye, the little angel still burnt in the black fires of her hell, just because he… truly loved her.”

His words slipped off his smooth lips with each having much frail existence to it. It was like he was crumbling from inside with every word that slipped past his lips. Jungkook and Jimin couldn’t help but to remain quite as they heard the other.

“He loved her so much that he became a toy for her, what I thought was love came out to be a mere lie…”

Inferno didn’t even know when he came from “Him” to “I” or was it Taehyung who spoke about his pain.

“A lie so beautiful that it looked so unreal! And now I see why”

“It was never real to begin with.”

Inferno reached his hand forth towards the fading reflection that peered back to him with its dying colors against the dirty slates. His fingers dragged over the stones grazing the silent cold with the warmth of his breathing self.

“I’m sorry” He mumbled to himself watching the reflection look so dead and wavered on the other side that his heart ached.

“I’m so sorry Taehyung, I couldn’t save you, I’m sorry for leaving you alone in the cold, I’m sorry for everything” He mumbled to himself not knowing when two thick streams of tears rolled down the canvas of his skin on his cheeks.

His head fell as his shoulders slumped down while silent tears broke off of his long lashes as he closed his eyes slowly feeling the intense pain cruise through the sliced open wounds of his heart.

There was pin drop silence as if the dungeons were empty or maybe it was the void in them that crawled out and spread around causing everything to hush down.

But it felt so heavy and empty at the same time for all of them.

Even if far from each other, all of them were still bound to each other with the strings of fate, they understood what the other felt because at the end of the day they were all aboard on the same boat, praying to safely reach the bay like the survivors of titanic.

But not everyone is lucky. There were so many puzzle’s pieces out of the place then how can the ripple in fate’s silent waters would die down.

They need to put each and every puzzle piece back in its place.

That’s how it works!

But it is not easy at all, with them all suffering through those dreading hours of that night in their mind, so fresh and vivid that it felt almost real every time the memories rushed back.

A brutal past that seemed to repeat itself.

Taehyung stayed motionless with quiet tears of pain escaping the brim of his eyes. He didn’t like to be seen as weak and vulnerable but he couldn’t help it at times. He failed to cover the broken mess of his soul.

“Unchain them” He announced making his men standing in the corner of the room looked confused to their boss.

“I said unchain them now”

The men hurried their steps towards the restrained ones and started to pull off the ropes and restrains from their existence.

Jungkook hurriedly stumbled his way towards Jihyun while Jimin did the same. Jungkook pulled both his husband and child in his embrace protectively.

“You okay?” He pulled Jimin closer pressing a firm kiss against his forehead while keeping Jihyun and Jimin, both pressed to his strong chest.

“Yeah” Mumbled Jimin in a frail voice as he relaxed in the embrace of the one, he always looked up to. He then looked forth to see Taehyung still in the same posture with his back to them. Jimin parted from the hug that Jungkook held him in and stepped forth towards Taehyung.

“Jimin-…”

“It’s Okay don’t worry” He assured his husband and looked back at the dark existence fuming in the fires of its own hell.

“Taehyung”

Jimin called out to the guy in a cautious yet worried tone.

“Taehyung, Let us help you, you are hurting”

No response.

“Taehyung-…” Jimin placed a hand on Taehyung’s shoulder with warmth and care only to pull it back as soon as he heard the figure speak again.

“Leave” His voice was low, deep filled with emptiness.

“Taehyung Please-…”

“Leave now before I change my mind” Inferno growled raising his head back up pushing the innocent Taehyung back into the darkness.
“Jimin come on” Jungkook grabbed Jimin’s hand and yanked him back keeping cautious eyes on Inferno’s back.

“Guk~ he’s hurting”

“We need to leave now” Jungkook pulled Jimin away from Taehyung.

“But-…”

“If we don’t, he will hurt us… bad, do you understand that?” Jungkook told his husband while keeping an arm secured around Jihyun who was too scared to look up again, he remained clutching onto his father keeping his eyes closed and face nuzzled in his neck.

Jimin looked towards Jungkook and Jihyun then back at Inferno and let a heavy sigh slip out of his mouth. He took Jihyun from Jungkook and cradled the little boy in his arms, while Jungkook secured an arm around his husband looking at everyone and everything with eyes deprived of trust and comfort.

The Jeons were escorted out of the KNIGHTS dungeons in the brightness of the day leaving the he-devil throw a tantrum in the darkness of the cold dungeons.

Alone and abandoned.

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