Thirty-three
The princes, princesses and queens all glanced at each other as they sat on the dinner table. Confusion was evident on their small, pale faces. Changbin, who was also sitting with them, felt his face in shock before screaming, "I'm alive!".
Everyone turned to him, sharing his shock for a second then engulfing him into a hug. Admittedly, sometimes Changbin was too extra for the royal family's liking but a year of his absence made them all miss it dearly.
Hyuna looked around to see the palace staff cleaning at the ground and making sure not a speck of dust remained. Instantly, she grasped the situation and stealthily left the room. She tortured the rest of the royal family for a year. They'd obviously want their revenge.
But at the time, no one seemed to care about the small princess that escaped. Changbin was alive. And they were no longer in pain.
"Wait but..." Hana started. "Don't take this in the wrong way but why are you alive? And why are we here? We were in those cold jail cells just moments ago."
Everyone pulled away from the hug.
"I don't know... Where's Hyuna?" Changbin asked, making everyone look at the chair she was supposed to be in.
"That rotten scumbag escaped," Jisung rolled his eyes.
"She knows what's coming for her," Eunbyul continued.
Hyunjin and Suzy both glanced around the room in confusion again. What had happened?
That's when Sungjin came sprinting into the room.
He looked around until he spotted Hyunjin.
"I cannot believe it. This is crazy!" He squealed.
"Sungjin? I thought King Naymoor banished you," the Fifth Prince muttered in awe.
"That's what's crazy. In my whole lifetime I've never seen this happen... No one has been able to master it in years but yet... Here we are."
"What are you on about?" Suzy was the one to speak now.
"We just went back in time," Sungjin explained. "We went back to a year ago. You know, when the Third Queen was turned into a speck of dust."
"Wait what? Really? So, my father is still alive?" Hyunjin grinned. He didn't even wait for an answer, he was already racing out of the dining hall and corridors to find his room.
When he burst through the doors, he found JB sitting beside his father's bed, cleaning his face.
Hyunjin paused when he saw the Main Servant standing before him, a sly smile across his face.
"Took you a year," JB uttered. "But now I can proudly say you're truly a King."
JB had given his life to King Naymoor to save Jinyoung and Hyunjin. The King's Main Servant was well aware that Changbin had already saved Hyunjin but King Naymoor often twisted things. Two life's on Hyunjin's own meant he had a higher chance of survival. And Jinyoung was punished for being a witch while Hyunjin's suffering was basically just him taking all of the royal family's pain. In other words, he was punished for them. Lesson five: Put Everyone Else's Needs Before Your Own.
The Fifth Prince couldn't wait any longer, he pulled JB into a hug.
"I didn't do any of this. I was waiting on the jail cell floor to die. I'm not a King. Just a cowardly Prince."
"The point is you took the others' burdens and put it on yourself. You saved them and such selflessness makes the best Kings. I didn't help you the other time because I knew you had more to offer."
"And you didn't help my father? You didn't stand up for him."
"If I stood up for him. I wouldn't have been able to help him, now would I? I'd be locked up in the cell beside you. And I wasn't allowed out of the palace so I had to order Jinyoung to do it. Technically I did help... At least I helped more than you."
Hyunjin rolled his eyes.
"Whatever, JB... But is he okay now? Is he healing?"
JB nodded.
"He has moved his hands a bit and sometimes he would mumble complete gibberish but it's something."
"Do you think he will wake up soon?"
"Of course. He has to."
Silence filled the room for a moment before Hyunjin asked the question he had wanted to ask ever since Sungjin said they went back in time.
"Who did this? Who made us go back in time?" He questioned. "All the witches in Wonderland were robbed off their powers."
"Then the answer is simple. Whoever did it wasn't in or from Wonderland."
"Wait... So you think it was Jackson?"
JB smiled.
"Maybe he wasn't the one who did it but I know he was involved."
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