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Why is he throwing up?" Namjoon asks, eyes wide when he sees the boy empty his insides into a bucket.

Yoongi grins sheepishly. "I fed him too much on the market."

The brunette groans. "Yoongi! Jungkook's diet is way different! Mainly consists of seaweed! You can't just feed him everything! Of course he feels sick!"

"What? He looked happy." The ocaelia shrugs before going to the boy. "I'll put him in some water, it'll heal him."

"For fucks sake, does everyone around here just know what he is?"

"Shut up and help me."

Once Jungkook is healing in the water, Yoongi turns to the brunette mermaid who's looking out over the shore. Watching the younger mermaid closely.

"Why's there a block on his powers?"

"Don't ask me such questions." Namjoon says, eyes still focused on the mermaid boy.

"He doesn't know anything Namjoon, how do you think things will go when he finds out?"

"Why do you care?!" The merman snaps. "You don't understand how complicated things are. Especially down there."

"You don't understand what's going to happen!" Yoongi growls. "He never practiced control his powers, he doesn't know how to handle them. So how do you think he'll react when he finds out what a fucking lie his life has been?!"

"I know! I know!"

"When did it happen? The blessing?"

"At birth." Namjoon says, looking down at the water. "My mother was there, swore loyalty to the king and queen."

"She saved him, didn't she?"

"She said they truly considered killing him. She promised that she would make sure that Jungkook would never step in and take their place as king." Namjoon mutters, smiling sadly at his reflection. He has his mother's eyes. "If the people would find out, they'd turn on the king and queen and you know last time that happened..."

"Yes, Yimu Riara." Yoongi sighs. "They blocked her powers thanks to dark wizards, told her to prove she was a blessed child. When she couldn't break past the spell, the people demanded to have her executed."

Namjoon nods. "I won't ever let that happen to Jungkook."

"But secrets like these can't stay hidden forever." The cecaelia says.

"Jungkook likes it here, maybe we'll stay here."

Yoongi nods. "But even if you do, Jin isn't a white wizard nor a black wizard. He doesn't pick sides between good and bad, he just is."

"I know, I'm not asking him to. But you need to understand that my mother was willing to die for Jungkook, and I'm here to finish what she didn't get he chance to do."

The elder swallows thickly. Looking away and to the forest. "You're an idiot Kim Namjoon. You're going to get yourself killed."

"I might, but isn't there a more honourable cause than dying for the a god?"

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