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Yoongi’s POV:

I arrived in time to hear Joan whimper in pain and slump forwards, the back of her shirt stained with blood. I looked up and the man readied his gun again, determined to take out at least Joan, and white hot fury clouded my mind. I raised my hand and fire exploded; within seconds the man was burnt to a crisp.

I spun around and saw Jin gaping at his girlfriend as she glared at him, her face trembling in pain. I pulled her into my arms and her face contorted because of the sudden movement. “I want to yell at you for coming in the way and taking the bullets,” I whispered in her ear. “But if you didn’t do that, Jin would be dead, so thank you.”

She glared at me. “Think I didn’t know that, you dimwit?” she groaned, her voice hoarse. I applied pressure on her wound and handed her to Jin who silently held her close.

“I have to round up the others. Forget about the other kid, if he can’t protect himself, then screw him.”

Jin stood up, his dark eyes wet. “Kill them.”

On a normal day, I would have joked as to whether he meant our friends or the government, but it wasn’t a normal day. I nodded, turned and jogged away quickly.

***

I ran my left hand through my hair and growled in fury. Some of the guests sent me looks of alarm and edged away from me but I didn’t care.

Sure, I found Jimin, but I was yet to find an invisible Sarah, Taehyung, Hoseok and Jungkook, who surprisingly and in the span of three seconds, had managed to disappear. Jimin squeezed my fingers and I tried to pretend I wasn’t clutching his hand like my life depended on it.

I was not going to show weakness when my friends needed me the most. “Hobi, Jungkook,” Jimin pointed. I swallowed my saliva and beheaded one of the idiots standing in front of them with guns aimed at their hearts. Jimin gracefully reached up and touched the man’s forehead and the gun-holding-idiot collapsed immediately. I stared at my friend with new-found respect.

“How’d you do that?”

“After Jungkook found out he can control groceries, I thought that the rule of having just one power might have more loopholes than we knew,” he shrugged, making Jungkook’s minor wounds disappear. “I wanted to see if I could take away someone’s ability to heal since healing happens to be my area of expertise. You know, if I could heal, could I also un-heal? I took a risk and tried it on the man. He just succumbed to the cold he had as a four year old kid.”

I shook my head in amazement. “That’s brilliant.”

Jimin looked somewhere far away as he spoke, his eyes unfocused. “Let’s just find them.”

***

My heart was pounding as I ran.

There were approximately ten armed enemies behind us and the only reason we managed to make it that far, was because of Taehyung (who we found sleeping on a chair next to the buffet) and his control over mist.

“Duck!” he shrieked and I panted as I bent as low as possible. The bullets whizzed over my head and thudded into the wall. I couldn’t believe they were shooting with innocent civilians in the same room. And that the moronic people were dismissing the injured ones as some kind of Halloween costume trick.

My hand tightened on Jimin’s small one and he stopped abruptly.

“What?” I wheezed at him.

He quietly pointed around us and I cursed loudly. We were in the centre of the hall and were surrounded on three sides. The only free side was the one we came from, but that was only until the ones who were after us caught up. Jin and Joan looked at us as we just stood next to them. He wasn’t carrying her, but she was pale and breathing heavily.

“How many bullets were there?” I asked finally.

Her eyes widened slightly and her nostrils flared. “Three.”

“Sarah?” Jin asked, his voice low.

I shook my head. “I don’t know.”

Within seconds, we were surrounded and there was a sudden deathly silence. The sounds of claps echoed behind us and I turned to see the man who I assumed was the one in charge, advancing towards us slowly. He raised his hands in mock salute. “Behold the Ingenium.” There were collective shudders and whispers as the people gasped and took several steps back.

I stared at the grey-flecked hair man, my lip curling. I stretched my fingers and reached for one of the knives that Joan had given me not two hours ago, but Jimin pushed my hand back with a warning glance.

“These,” the man said, “were the delightful aliens that were responsible for the death of twenty-seven innocent men. That girl over there, her knife hilt left several beautiful prints on one of the men she had murdered a year back. Robert Roy. Did you know he had two children? Twins. New-born. They are growing up on the streets now, without a father.”

He paused and stared at Joan with contempt. “Look at you. You feel no remorse, do you?”

Joan stuck out her tongue and I closed my eyes.

When I looked up again, the man had come closer. “You don’t feel remorse, do you?” he repeated.

“Do you?” She asked finally.

He gave a booming laugh. “For what, silly girl? I have done nothing wrong.”

“You were responsible for killing at least a hundred and fifty innocent children.”

“Ingenium, you mean.”

“All the same.”

There was a short silence in which Joan sagged further and Jin held her waist tighter. “I feel nothing,” the man hissed.

“Then neither do I.”

I tilted my head at the man. “Let us go, or this will get ugly.”

“Yeah, fat cha-”

“You!” I whipped around at stared at a girl who was pointing a shaking finger at Joan. “I know you! You- you killed my father!”

Joan didn’t say anything. I heard her sigh as her eyes fluttered. Without warning, the girl grabbed a gun from one of the officials and shot it, aimed for Joan’s chest.

I screamed as the bullet streaked forwards, being less than half a kilogram of metal but responsible for the death of at least half a million people.

It slammed into something invisible, just before Joan’s chest and I heaved a sigh of relief. Joan was okay. It didn’t touch her, just something invis-

Wait. Something invisible?

The next minute, Sarah stumbled into view, her body limp and oozing blood from the bullet wound in her heart.

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IM RICH AGAIN OMG AAAH
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ISN'T HE BEAUTIFUL OMFG
HIS TEETH ARE SO ADORABLE AHH