somewhere in a land far far away...

yknow what? fuck it. i would start off with the cliché fairytale intro but there's honestly no point because this story, although in the fantasy genre, is nothing like the disney movies.

but you haven't seen that yet, so let me start from the beginning.

kim taehyung.

the boy who was, in reality, never really meant to be born.

his entire existence is looked down upon.

why?

in the world of angels, the 692nd law from the book of regulations produced millions of years ago states this: "angels shall not breed past their own kind. two angels with different paths shall not ever cross."

now, you're probably thinking what the hell (no pun intended) does that mean?

well, in angel society, each winged person has a job.

this job is given to them from the moment they're born.

here on simple earth, our races would be black, white, asian etc. however, in heaven things are a little different.

these "jobs" i mentioned are races in a sense.

and, unfortunately for taehyung and his parents, no angels were supposed to have romantic or sexual relationships with angels of a different type.

it seems odd and it is but that's just the way their world worked. it's the way it'd worked for millions upon millions of years.

this law didn't exactly work in taehyung's favour, though, since his parents met one day and grew infatuated by eachother.

an angel of love and an angel of intelligence.

so, here taehyung was, the only "mixed-race" angel in exsistence right now.

i say "right now" since there had been others like him before, although not many.

people like him only popped up around every 100,000 years or so since previous monarchs were harsh with rules and no one dared to break them.

the last queen who had only passed a few months prior to when we begin our tale, was a lot more generous than others and decided that she wouldn't cast out the young parents or their baby.

instead she would give them another chance to walk among the angels.

now, here we are.

taehyung was sitting at his desk in class, frantically writing down his notes as his tongue peeked out of the corner of his lips.

taehyung aced every exam.

i guess it was one of the unfair advantages of being born with intellegence.

nevertheless, that wasn't the only thing that caused him to be so exeptionally bright in his studies.

taehyung was a try-hard.

not that it's wrong to want to succeed in your schooling.

it's that taehyung tried too hard.

he practically killed himself trying to make his image look perfect.

he was already bullied and picked on by the supposed angels in his classes and given funny looks while walking down the street.

he didn't need to have a bad reputation to add on to the list of reasons why he's an outcast to his society.

he was a very rigid personality.

a total goody-two-shoes who had never broken a rule in his life no matter how insignificant.

he was already the "son of criminals" so he didn't want to be seen as simply just a criminal and so he decided to just never do anything even remotely incriminating.

even if he was treated unfairly by them, he still had pride in his people and didn't want people to have any more of a reason to hate him.

he just wanted to be normal.

now, taehyung's soulmate and best friend named jimin was... well, different to say the least.

they weren't complete polar opposites but jimin was way more carefree than taehyung, that's for sure.

he was an angel of kindness and pretty much everyone he met instantly fell for his sweet voice and charming nature.

he was an angel both figuratively and literally.

that doesn't mean he didn't like to cause a little trouble, though.

jimin respected rules as much as the next angel but he also loved to have fun.

he didn't break rules per se.

he just "slightly bended them", as he liked to tell people.

jimin was the only person who taehyung could trust other than his parents and the king.

jimin always tried to convince taehyung to do actually entertaining shit with him but taehyung declined about 75% of the time.

he just wanted to blend in.

a squeaky clean record.

to be liked by people.

that's all he wanted although it seemed impossible at this rate.

but that's enough about taehyung for now.

his story continues another time.

there are other important people who need introducing.

a different type of people.

billions of miles away, in a different realm that they called the underworld, was where the demon species spent their days.

today, however, we'll focus on only one.

jeon jeongguk.

jeongguk was the opposite of taehyung but also exactly the same.

confusing, huh?

let me explain.

aside from the obvious difference of him being a demon, there were other things that made taehyung and jeongguk together a complete oxymoron.

taehyung followed every rule religiously and by the book.

jeongguk, however, didn't even believe in rules.

not because he was really deep and believed that rules were just a psychological construct that builds up in people from a young age because of upbringing and government.

no, not at all.

he wasn't a very deep thinker.

the reason he didn't believe in rules is just because he enjoyed breaking them.

he hated rules because they told him he couldn't do something and when other demons told him he couldn't do something he'd break their bones.

the only reason he hadn't been executed, jailed or banished was because of their leader, kim namjoon.

namjoon was a demon who's authority was never to be questioned under any circumstance.

he insisted that jeongguk was special and that he didn't want to get rid of him.

jeongguk thought about just banishing himself a few times but he decided that if he did that there'd be no one to wreak havoc on and that wouldn't be a life worth living.

aside from that, what he did have in common with the angel kim taehyung was that he too wasn't like his people.

jeongguk's father was a demon of lust before he died of "unknown causes" aka gang affiliation that cost him his life. his mother, however, was a demon of wrath.

that made jeongguk, like taehyung, the mixed wierdo of his society.

now, even though demon society was chaotic and the complete opposite of angel society, there were still laws.

despite what you'd assume, demons couldn't just run around doing whatever the fuck they wanted all the time.

jeongguk didn't give two fucks about all that though.

with the protection of master namjoon who, for some reason, hadn't killed him yet and the help of his rich and noble best friend, hoseok, he could pretty much get away with anything.

that didn't stop people from picking on him for being different, though.

no matter how many people he pressed flush against death and no matter how many curses and evil words he threw at them, they still never stopped.

he pretended like it didn't bother him but even demons have hearts.

it hurt.

but jeongguk didn't show pain.

he didn't show weakness.

it just wasn't in his nature.

jeongguk didn't cry, jeongguk didn't back down and jeongguk didn't allow people to walk all over him.

taehyung was meek and shy but not gguk. that was another difference between the two of them.

jeongguk would fight for what he knew was right even if his definition of "right" was 90% of the time, infact, wrong.

although, taehyung just stayed silent.

he didn't say a word to anyone who wasn't his parents, teachers, jimin or the king.

he was too afraid.

afraid to be judged.

he felt like he was all alone in this world because no matter how many times his family and soulmate claimed that they understood, he knew for a fact that they didn't.

no one in his entire realm understood him.

if only he knew that there was someone just like him just beyond a certain door.

well, he didn't know but someone else did.

and, soon, so would he.

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•1384 words
•not edited or proof-read
•heyaaaa
•first chapter = complete
•sorry it was a lil delayed
•school SUCKS, btw. just putting it out there
•also, my mixed-race ass relates to taehyung and jeongguk tbh
•i was on a bus with my mum (who is white) and some old racist white guy looked at me funny and then spat at us
•racists can die now plz, it's about time luvs
•aside from that, i have a feeling gguk is about to be my favourite character
•among us videos made me discover Corpse Husband (horror youtuber & does some music too) and now i'm stanning way too hard, help ZFHZFH
•stay safe! ♡
•i love youuu allll <333

peace out xoxo,

nixy.