🎐팔: Chapter 8🎐
The day after Chuseok, Busan Kingdom
The palace was decorated beautifully with lanterns and flowers. The morning was peaceful. The Emperor had sat on the throne, in the throne room, and the noblemen stood in rows, in front of him.
Just as the Emporer was going to speak, the royal messenger barges into the room, which annoyed the Emperor, because the messenger wasn't disciplined. The Emperor noticed that the messenger looked really worried and was panting too much, so he ordered him to speak whatever he had to say quickly, because the matter seemed serious, as the Messenger never used to break the discipline.
The messenger started speaking, "Jonha (Your Majesty), a new disease has an outburst, people are dying and are being reborn as a weird creature, and the people bitten by them are also turning like them. They have red eyes and their veins are popping out too much. They look like humans but it looks like they are out of control. The number of infected people is increasing rapidly. Please quickly take measures."
Everyone in the room gasped and whispers of the noblemen could be heard. There was worry on the Emperor's face, but he didn't react much, but instead asked, "Is that really true?" The messenger said, "Yes".
The Emperor tried to think about this situation quietly, and when he had got an idea about what to do, he ordered the palace guards to close the doors to the palace and to not let anyone in and ordered the noblemen to go to their families and stay at a safer place and asked some of the guards to go with the messenger to the training centre to deliver the news, and also to bring back the Princesses safely. He also asked one of the guards to deliver the news to their neighbouring kingdom's Emperor, who was none other than Kim Namjoon, his friend.
After the announcements were made, Crown Prince Jin had barged into the throne room, and asked, "What is all of this?! What the hell is happening?" The Emporer looked at the Noblemen and asked them to be on their ways to their families, and then turned towards Jin. Jin said, "Why is the palace being closed?" The Emporer told all that is happening at which Jin got really worried about his sisters. He wanted to leave the palace and protect them, but the Emporer warned him that he shouldn't leave the palace, as he might get into danger. Jin couldn't do anything, because he didn't want to make the Emperor angry, as he knew the consequences.
Meanwhile, at the Training Center,
It was evening time, and it was getting dark. You summed up your courage, after having a battle with the thoughts, and dragged Jinmi to Jungkook's room, and knocked on the door.
Both of you were waiting for a response from inside, but no sound could be heard. You waited for a few minutes and then got closer to the door, and as you were about to press your ear onto the door, you heard some footsteps. As you were about to turn back, along with Jinmi, to see who was there, you hear the person saying, "Are you done stalking me or you wanted to go to Jimin's room, but lost your way?"
It was Jungkook, with Hoseok. Jungkook glared at you once you looked at him, and gestured Hoseok to go to his room. You looked at Jinmi who was stared back at you in an apologetic way, and ran away to her room, after mouthing a "sorry". You awkwardly bit your lip and sighed angrily, and looked down at the ground. You could feel Jungkook's presence come near you, his feet were visible in front of you.
You didn't know what his expression was until he lifted your chin with his finger, and made you stare into his eyes. It was hard to know what he was feeling, there were so many emotions built up inside him, at the moment.
In a cold tone, he spoke, "You didn't answer my question. So, what did you come here for?" You gulped and felt a huge lump in your throat. Your heart started racing, your face was too close to his. He kept on staring into your eyes. You slowly replied in a whisper, "I-I-I came here to apolog..." and suddenly the bells of the training centre started to ring, indicating an emergency meeting.
Jungkook checked his surroundings and then looked back at you and gave a glare, after saying, "I will check up on you later." and went towards Hoseok's room. You breathed a sigh of relief and went back to Jinmi, to have a little conversation with her, about leaving me alone with Jungkook, on our way to the meeting room.
You folded your arms, while Jinmi rubbed her neck in embarrassment, as you kept staring at her angrily, in the meeting room. She told you that she left because Jungkook gestured her to leave, but you knew that she was lying, so you decided to punish her later, as you both had reached the meeting room. Everyone in the room was talking with each other, and most of them were about why did they call a meeting so late in the evening, and that it has to be an emergency because this never happened before, all the meetings were conducted in morning or afternoon, and the same with the batch that was before us, which Crown Prince Taehyung was a part of.
After waiting a minute or two, the master entered the hall, and he didn't seem to be in a good condition and looked a bit weak. He was sweating heavily, and there were bloodstains on his right hand, and also his eyes were bloodshot red.
Everyone started whispering when he had entered the room, but the whispers got loud because of the sight in front of them. The master didn't waste any time and went to the centre of the small stage, and started saying, "Students, a plague has raised, and people are dying heavily, and then being reborn as weird human-like creatures, which bite you and you also turn like that creature in 24 hours, and I have been bitten by the messenger who delivered the message, who was bitten on the way here, as well as the other guards with him were bitten too. We have taken care of him, but you all have to leave this place and collect the three magical flowers, and use them to cure this plague. Princes and noblemen and the right-hand men, please stick stay in groups with Princesses and Noble ladies who were taught about these flowers. Take huge bags with you and be safe. I will be leaving now because I don't want to cause harm to you all, you all should leave by tomorrow morning, after preparing a lot. Goodbye students and I hope at least one of you finds the cure and saves us all."
After saying all that, the master bows and gets out of the room, before others could say anything. Many of the students gasped, some weren't even ready to believe all of that shit, because it sounded unbelievable, and some of them even started to cry they eyes out.
You looked at your unnie and she stared back at you, you both had a sad gaze, knowing that your family members and the people of your Kingdom, as well as others' Kingdom, might not be safe. You both had to find a way to get to the flowers quickly, and you needed a strong companion with you, and that's when you got the idea of taking Jimin with you. While looking at Jinmi, you said, "Unnie, let's take Jimin along with us, Yoongi would join us too, maybe?" Jinmi replied with a lower tone, "Yeah, but let's take Jungkook with us too, he is also a strong person and a good fighter." You angrily said, "Not him!" Jinmi scrunched her face and said, "We have to, it's a matter of life, and you are thinking about your stupid thing?"
Yout thought about it for a minute and concluded that you should set aside your embarrassment and think about how to get the flower. You told your unnie that you agree, and started looking around the room, trying to find Jimin. Once you found him sitting in the second row, you grabbed Jinmi's wrist and dragged her towards him, ignoring the cryings, whispers and anger of the other students. You stood in front of Jimin, he looked a bit worried. Yoongi was also there with him. You grabbed his wrist while saying, "We should pack our stuff, cause you are coming with us, and yeah, throw away your enmity with Jungkook because it's a matter of death or life." And before he could even reply to you, you dragged both Jimin and Jinmi with you and Yoongi followed you guys. Jimin knew that when you are serious, you get aggressive, and he didn't mind it.
You now stood in front of Jungkook, who didn't seem to have any emotion on his face, just sitting there lost in his thoughts. You waved your hand in front of him, and as Jungkook looked at you and was about to speak, you said, "Forget about what all had happened, all of us should go together to find the magical-", and before you could complete the sentence, Jungkook interrupted, "What will I get out of it?" You said, "I will remove your scar and others won't hate you," and after saying that, you shrugged. Jungkook looked confused, and asked, "How will you even remove my scar?" You replied, "I have my ways, don't worry." Jungkook didn't say anything and stood up from his seat.....
(A/N: sorry for slow updates, I am busy ;-; And yeah, did you like the plot twist?)
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