Taehyung's words during training have never left Jeongguk's mind since that day. It has plagued his every understanding to what truly happened in that moment because, in all honesty, it made absolutely no sense to him.

He's not going crazy either, he knows what he heard!

Jimin spoke in the language they're speaking in now, the one he sucked right out of Jeongguk when he used yellow! Jeongguk's so confident that he did because he's not that fluent in any other language besides this one. Jeongguk was never good when it came to learning other languages! He even passed his French class with a solid D- and that's because his professor took pity on him.

Besides, Jimin didn't even have a language to speak with. His people communicated with sounds just like the animals around them. Or.... Maybe they did, and he just hasn't mentioned that crucial information to them?

Jimin does tend to hide more than he leads on, and that all goes back to his trust to them. He's still on edge, and even though he has told Jungkook and Taehyung a lot more than expected, there's still somethings he clearly holds to himself - either for protection or doubt from others.

Now this just so happens to be new information to everyone, and since then, Jimin has not left his dorm.

Taehyung has tried a couple of times dragging him out that night when the accident occurred to get dinner with the Alpha unit, but Jimin put up a fight whenever he did. So, they just left food for him by his door and left him alone. Now, it's a new day, and Jimin has to go training soon, but again, he has not left his room - not even for breakfast.

Dr. Jung Hoseok has not touched up on this topic because he didn't see anything bizarre happening. He's on Jeongguk's side on this and has left the scientist to handle the situation.

Meanwhile, Jeongguk has unable to stop pondering over it, and a whole 24 hours has passed since then. He went back to the lab to review over the surveillance footages and replayed the video of their fight over and over again, probably even lost sleep because of it. After a couple of glimpses, Jungkook began to notice how insane it truly was with how unhinged they both were in attacking each other. There was no restraint or signs of mercy, only malice and..... Power.

They never backed down or went easy, especially Jimin considering he's obviously much stronger.

But.... Jeongguk never.... Stopped.

The video didn't capture what was spoken between them, as in the audio, but it did show how shocked Jimin was when Jeongguk responded.

And it further frustrated Jeongguk because he wasn't able to hear anything.

Jungkook knows he spoke to him like how he usually does, and he knows that Jimin also spoke to him in that tongue as well.

Jungkook just knows it!

It's impossible to speak a language one doesn't even know or have knowledge on!

But then..... Why was Jimin so shocked?

The thought circulated like fierce ball of flames in Jungkook's head before giving up. He got up and stormed to the direction towards the dorms for the Alpha unit. Everyone is at the dining center at the moment having lunch, including Taehyung, before they could start their training. Usually, Taehyung spends those moments eating with Jeongguk, but because the scientists is going through a whole manic episode because of this situation, he obeyed Jeongguk's wishes to be left alone and went with his team instead. Jeongguk should be there now with his boyfriend and spending some quality time together, but this situation has messed him up.

He needs to find Jimin.

Jeongguk knows that Jimin prefers eating alone in his dorm, so that's exactly where Jungkook is going to.

With every step heading to that direction, Jeongguk felt himself growing a little anxious, and insane, but the determination was much greater than the 'what ifs'. He needs to know why everyone was shocked. He needed to know what Taehyung meant by speaking his tongue?! Through the fight or vocally?

Nothing is making sense, and only Jimin has the answer to all of his questions.

He is the answer to everything.

That's why he's so precious, he's their jewel.

Jewel.

The assumptions and conclusions were blazing in Jeongguk's head before he stood in front of Jimin's door, ready to knock. However, it seemed as though Jimin sensed his presence before Jeongguk could even announce himself because the door suddenly slid open, revealing him standing there facing Jeongguk's.

Jimin doesn't like to wear clothes, perhaps only around his lower region to cover his nudity, but clothes are something he finds restriction in, and he hates it. That's why he's standing there only in his boxers, head slightly tilted to the side, perhaps confused since Jungkook never comes here, especially without Taehyung.

Jungkook didn't waste a second.

"We need to talk."

Jimin looks between his eyes and moves aside wordlessly. Jungkook gives him a small nod before stepping inside just as the door closed behind him. Jimin didn't decorate his room, not like the other beings in this facility who didn't waste time in pouring their dorm with things based on their personality. Jimin's a simple person, this place is just a temporary home, not something that'll last as a home.

Not the cage of these four walls.

Jimin knows eventually he won't stay here for long, so not like he cares about making this place feel homey.

Jeongguk paces a little, trying to think of what to say to Jimin right now - who's just standing there with arms crossed, eying Jungkook and the way he's fidgeting his hands and fingers while they move over his hair and arms - the anxiety not letting him be still.

But suddenly, Jeongguk turns to him, his gaze firm once coming to a conclusion, "Everyone is surprised about what happened during our fight. Taehyung mentioned something about me speaking your tongue. What does he mean by that? You did speak in this language, right?"

Jimin blinks at him, appearing as though now he's trying to find the proper words to say back to Jeongguk's question. He stepped closer, looking between Jeongguk's eyes with his own unsure gaze, right before whispering, "You spoke my language that my people spoke. When I spoke to you, I spoke in that tongue."

Jungkook's eye twitched.

No, that can't be right.

That can't be possible - It can't.

It makes no sense!

"How is that possible?!" Jeongguk keens back, the desperation clear in his eyes, "You didn't even inform us of an ancient language! Why did you even speak to me with it in the first place?"

Jimin can feel Jungkook's frustration in his body - the way his heart is racing and his pulses accelerating every passing second, and he raises a hand, placing it on Jeongguk's shoulder, "Calm."

"No! Don't you dare tell me to be fucking calm! I need answers!"

Jimin's eyes trinkled in blue, his face firm, "I said calm."

Every single cell in Jungkook's body abruptly flowed slower, unlike the speed of adrenaline he was feeling not too long ago. It's as though he was washed with a cold pill that immediately made everything calm in his body, including his heartbeat.

It all happened in seconds, he didn't even realize how distressed his body was until now.

What?

"Stressed, blue can relax any body of water, including the actual body," Jimin informs him, easing himself back, "I spoke with you in my tongue because I noticed your skills. As we fought, you.... You were using a lot of forms and movements as my people did. After I used my full strength, you were never hurt. So... I had a thought, and I tested it."

"And what was that?"

Jimin is silent for a moment, frowning to himself, right before saying, "That you are-"

A blaring siren abruptly echoes facility, including the red siren in Jimin's room. The bombarding sound forced Jimin to cover his ears, hissing his fangs under his breath as he looks around with eyes coating in multiple colors, "What has happened?"

Jeongguk has already grabbed Jimin's suit and swung it to him, "Breach in the facility, Alpha Unit is needed, sometimes it's a drill just for safety precautions. I'll guide you on where to go," And he learns to Jimin's face, teeth gritted, "This conversation isn't over yet, now put on the stupid suit."

Jimin slowly gulps and quickly puts on the suit. Once he was dressed, the two quickly rushed out of the dorm and down the hallway, just as Jeongguk got his earpiece activated, connecting to Taehyung.

"Tae, status. Where is the practice drill located-"

"EVACUATE WITH JEWEL NOW!"

Jeongguk stopped in his steps, froze actually, with eyes widen and his heart subtly dropping to his stomach as he hears the other side of the line, that's followed by gun shots and hollers.

"Taehyung.... What is going on?!"

"Poachers entered facility, advanced weapons, the cuffs too!" Taehyung grunts from the other line, breathing heavily, just as Jungkook forced himself to keep moving and guided Jimin towards the staircase, "Taking and killing all units. Beta and Echo unit fast defeat, taken or killed. Alpha and Gamma unit fight. Delta unit evacuating humans."

Poachers...

It was only a matter of time before they found this facility.

Poachers are an underground organization, who work with the black market, to take in extraterrestrial beings and either sell them as slaves or use them for entertainment, or for whatever means other people want them for. The military has shut down various operations and locations as to where those Poachers are located, but they always managed to survive like damn cockroaches.

This is why the Alpha and Beta team do the trainings that they do, in order to defend themselves against an attack from them.

Who knew that it'd happen so soon.

Jeongguk quickly types on his tablet to access the surveillance cameras, just as him and Jewel rush down the staircase. There he sees in the front entrance of the facility filled with people dressed in black heavy gear, obtaining guns and gadgets specifically formed to attack extraterrestrial beings, and defend against their attacks. Various comrades of the Beta team are down, or being dragged away with nets or forcefields, others killed on the spot with their advanced weapons.

Jimin watches the screen with wide eyes, just as Taehyung came into one of the frames and was fighting against one of the poachers who was in the midst of taking Seonghwa - but he suddenly got electrocuted by a baton from another poacher, forcing him out of his armor and to his knees.

Their weapons got enhanced.

An electrical baton was never strong enough to put Taehyung down.

Jungkook's hands trembled as he saw the scene, his anxiety bursting in his body. There's many things Jeongguk wanted to do in this very moment, but he knows he by far extremely useless. He can't do anything. Not against them.

But they do have an agenda, and they must stick through it, just as they have discussed so before when this topic came into the table.

Jimin is their priority. Under any circumstances, whatever it may be, they must ensure his safety.

Just as they promised to each other.

Taehyung is buying time for them.

Jeongguk gulps the knock in his throat and he turns to Jimin, putting the tablet away, "We must go-"

"No," Jimin growls back, his eyes blazing in red, just like his hair, "Taehyung... They hurt Taehyung -"

"He did it for you! You're the most valuable person here Jewel! If something happens to you, it's all for nothing! You're our only understanding about everything on Earth and we need you!" Jungkook snaps back, the tears burning his eyes as it repeats over and over in his head the scene with Taehyung, trying so hard to be strong, "Tae is strong, he can handle it. I trust him. We'll come back for him, but as for now, your safety is what mat-"

A bellowing sound of a gun abruptly pierced through the air, so loud and echoing around these cemented walls. A sound that traveled so close to Jungkook's ear, yet the bullet never made contact to his skin because of Jimin's silver hand freezing the bullet mid-air with an animalistic growl coming from deep within his chest.

A choked breath escaped Jungkook's lips as he sees the bullet only a few inches away from his face, but his shock didn't last long enough before more footsteps echoed the staircase, followed by barks of orders.

Jewel's heaves smoke from his lips, looking at Jeongguk with a brutal sneer, "Pack never leaves one behind. Not you, not Taehyung. Strong together, as promised. I'm not leaving Taehyung!"

And Jimin suddenly placed his firing hands on the rail and screams angrily, forcing a pit of fire to escape his lips as it travels all the way down the flights of stairs, along with the scorching heat from his hands tracing the rails like a fierce virus, spreading it down the body of the staircase to reach every single cell to burn.

Screams of horror and pain echoed the walls, leaving Jeongguk to shake uncontrollably as his eyes reflect the flames glowing on the stairs below. Jimin slowly turns around, his eyes a fierce and raging red of flames, right before slamming a fist against the wall to blast a hole - revealing the outside of the island.

The island going through a complete invasion.

Jimin grabbed Jeongguk by the shoulders before forcing both of them out the hole together.

Until Jimin lets Jungkook go, letting him fall on his own.

Jeongguk screams as he falls, but was caught by the trees below gently, to which they softly place him down on the ground. His hand rests against the tree that caught him to stabilize his shakily legs, focused only on Jimin jumping from tree, trying to find the location as to where the fight is based.

Pack never leaves one behind.

Strong together.

Jeongguk closes his eyes as he ponders over those words, right before pushing himself to run to where Taehyung is located - not noticing the trail of flowers that blossomed the tree trunk from where his hand was once touching.

Jimin rounded the facility with great speed and desperation, just as he came across the front entrance while he was in the air. In seconds, he found focus on Taehyung - who was being dragged away by the collar of his suit unconsciously with those horrid cuffs on his wrists.

A blood rippling rage rattled every nerve in Jimin's body, grinding his teeth together before he catapults himself using the building and uses a fist of fire to slam down against the ground, forcing a wave of heat to force everyone back.

The world is now still, dust coating the air with the thick scent of smoke. Everyone is motionless, including those still freed from the cuffs, knowing fairly well that these poachers have officially accomplished in pissing Jimin off. Some Poachers after a few seconds managed to regain consciousness and began to scan the area through the dust.

"Eyes and ears, find the source of the dust."

"I can't see anything -"

One poacher suddenly got sucked underground.

"Did anyone hear that? What was-"

Another one had their gun get disintegrated to dust, right before the blood in their body drained from every hole it could possibly come out from, leaving their corpse dry.

"EYES ON SOMEONE! WE MUST CLEAR THE- AH!"

Icicles brutally spiked through one of the bodies of invaders.

Another melted in fire to death.

Frozen in a never-ending frost.

One by one those poachers went down, just as the dust cleared with Jimin standing right in front of the Poacher who was holding Taehyung. His eyes are blazing in a ferocious whirl of manic colors, a crazed glare moving between the poacher's glass mask covering their eyes, and down to the hand holding Taehyung by the collar of his suit.

And the man suddenly screeches to the brutal burn he felt underneath his skin, right on his hand. A burn that boiled and boiled his blood as he screams, reaching to his brain and -

"JEWEL!"

Jimin blinks.

A second.

All it took was that one, fatal moment.

A single moment of him being unguarded for him to suddenly be tazed on the back. The electricity traveled all through his body, right to his brain in unforgiving zaps. Jimin tenses with the electricity blazing his eyes and he slowly turns his head around to see a poacher standing there with a baton, just as his wrists were suddenly snapped with the cuffs from another poacher that sneaked up on him.

The trees around the island began to shift and move hastily. The ocean splashed angrily against the shores and the animals began to snarl louder and louder in the forest, feeling the wrath of their protector as he suddenly got surrounded by the Poachers with guns pointed to him.

They feel everything he does.

They feel his wrath, desperation, sadness and hysteria.

Familiar.

This all seems too familiar...

Jimin was just about to let this whole island be swallowed by the ocean, or even be snapped in pieces for these people having the will to come against him.

Until suddenly, from the corner of his eyes, he sees a poacher dragged a familiar body to the ship by the shore.

And his eyes mellowed in seconds to the unconscious look on the man's face as he gets dragged by the arms with a bloody nose - no doubt from a punch that knocked him out.

The familiarity of his face stilled Jimin's emotions.

Jeongguk....

The trees stopped their movements and the oceans went still, just like Jimin's body as he watches Jeongguk, along with Taehyung, being dragged into the ship.

Away from him...

In this very moment, Jimin could've saved them.

He could've caused many things in order to get them back. To get them all back and be saved from this kidnapping. He could've disintegrated the cuffs, caused the volcano in this island to erupt, force a tsunami to wipe everyone out, or even kill everyone on the spot with a snap of his fingers.

Everyone here is nothing compared to him, they're too weak.

But.... He didn't.

No, instead Jimin let them snap the gun across his forehead, forcing him to his knees before dragging him to the ship as well. He watches silently as the remaining species from the Alpha unit remain still, and Yoongi from the Echo unit was ready to step forward and attack but he stops upon seeing Jimin's glare - stopping him.

They all stopped.

They all listened.

Only watching as those poachers took their kidnapped comrades, dragging them to the bottom deck and throwing Jimin in a cell with Jungkook and Taehyung. It was still for a few moments, very still. No movement or words were said in this space alone, perhaps because everyone they took here are unconscious. The language is something Jimin couldn't understand from the poachers, but he didn't bother focusing on them.

Jimin on the other hand, sat up and silently dragged Jeongguk and Taehyung's body to either side of him, and he lays back down on the dusty ground in between them. He closes his eyes to the warmth of their bodies, waiting to arrive to wherever it is they're going.

Now..... Jimin will have his answers.

Now he will see the world with his own eyes instead of being a prisoner.

While keeping his pack safe.

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A/N:

So..... Guess which book may be publish for a hardcopy?

Yessss, I'm choosing this book, Jewel, to create as a hardcopy! Yay! I truly believe it has a lot of potential to do well, and hopefully I get to publish it soon!

With that being said, I really need to focus in finishing it!

So, wish me luck!

I PURPLE YOU!