Soyeon sat criss-cross as the others stared at her, some with narrowed eyes, others with kind smiles.

The amount that were staring at her with narrowed eyes out weighed the ones who were looking at her kindly.

"I promise, I just want to help you guys," she assured for what felt like the hundredth time, she could sense the suspicion radiating off of them and just wanted to make sure they knew she was on their side.

Jimin raised an eyebrow, crossing his arms over his chest, "Why would you do that when your mother just turned us down?"

Soyeon sighed, staring right back at Jimin with a raised eyebrow yet, at the same time, with an expression that remained neutral, "Because I'm not my mother, I understand the consequences of Jiwoo genociding elemental kind and I want to make sure that doesn't happen. I'll do a fucking truth spell on myself to prove it, I want to help, I want to protect my people from that psycho."

NamJoon and Hayoon shook their heads at almost the same time, though NamJoon was the one who spoke.

"That won't be necessary, we believe you, it's just trust and everything." he told, glaring at his boyfriend to calm the hell down.

Jimin did so, but he and Donghan threw Soyeon one more glare before looking away.

Hayoon rubbed her eyes, since she hadn't slept and it was still night fall, "How do you plan to help us?"

Soyeon smiled, taking off her bag and settling down on the grass, she was equally as exhausted as Hayoon, "maybe I could explain in the morning, when everyones up and we can properly understand each other."

Hayoon gave her a thumbs up before falling back onto the ground.

Sleep enveloping her like an invisible blanket.

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"I have a friend, he's older than me, but I know when he hears your guys' point he'll help us. He's powerful, but the only problem is he lives in the city," Soyeon explained the following morning, when everyone was awake and munching on some food that was grown by Jeongyeon or they'd packed.

Taehyung furrowed his eyebrows, his back against Jungkook's chest, "Why would that be a problem?"

"Our hair," Donghan responded, throwing himself back on the ground and groaning dramatically.

Soyeon chuckled before nodding and gesturing towards him, "Witches or warlocks can't have red, orange, blue, white, brown, or silver hair, it isn't possible. We can either have solid black or variations of pink, purple, and blonde." she explained, moving her hands and occasionally running them through her hair as she spoke, "so i'd have to cast a spell to change your hair colors, it's the only way we'd get into the city unnoticed and without raising suspicion."

"Do the colors mean something?" Hayoon asked, staring at the female in front of her intently.

Soyeon nodded, "Yes, pink is for blood magik, purple is for spiritual, blonde is for light, and black is for black magik," her hand grabbed a piece of her hair, "but the practice of black magik is forbidden."

Yoongi furrowed his eyebrows, "I can see why it would be, but what pushed it to be forbidden?"

"Jiwoo," she responded simply, scowling, "she's plagued witch kind, and when the council members saw what she did with her use of black magik over 500 years ago, they forbad the use of it. Our hair colors only signify what we would be good at biologically, it's not like you guys where we are born using it."

"So if you tried, it'd come to you naturally?" Jeongyeon inquired, just trying to make sense of everything.

Soyeon nodded once more, "Yup."

"Jiwoo is immortal right?" Namjoon raised an eyebrow when he saw Soyeon sigh before she nodded.

"How hard is it to kill an immortal witch, and are you immortal since Somin is, how old are you?" he asked, waiting patiently for her reply.

Soyeon pursed her lips before responding, "No, i'm not immortal since my father isn't, i'll just age slowly and live a bit longer than most, I'm 17. And to answer your first question, it's very difficult."

This caused them all to stir where ever they were sitting or laying down, their nerves suddenly building up in their brains to cause the emotions called doubt and anxiety.

"Okay," Ilsung stood up, his hands on his hips, "let's hurry up and get our hair changed before we all end up vomiting from fear, yeah?" the rest nodded, clearly agreeing with him.

Soyeon worked diligently, pulling out multiple herbs from her bag. She even had a wooden bowl. She crushed pink roses in it, mixing it with herbs the others couldn't name, before muttering a spell which caused her eyes to turn black and a black mist to surround the bowl.

She looked between them when it was done, wondering what to give to whom based off of looks and initial personality. The first bowl she created was for pink, which meant blood magik, she made Jimin, Songhee, and Donghan's hair pink, the colors extremely different yet they suited them well.

"I love it," NamJoon commented, pulling the now pink haired Jimin closer to him.

Jimin smirked, wrapping his arms around Joon's neck, "You better."

She cleaned the bowl using water Songhee wielded before creating the next one, purple. This one she gave to NamJoon, Ilsung, and Taehyung, since they seemed like the spiritual type to her.

Even though Ilsung and NamJoon preached they were atheist.

She didn't care.

Next she did blonde, which meant light. She bestowed this color on Hoseok, SeokJin, and Jeongyeon, since they suited the personality type and looked like they could pull it off. She smiled when she finished, complimenting the three on how good they looked in blonde.

After that she did black for black magik, these colors going to Yoongi, Jungkook, and Hayoon. She made sure to tell them that people may look at them weird, but to ignore it since those were looks all black haired witches or warlocks got since people were naturally intimidated by them and didn't know if they illegally practiced black magik or not.

Once she was done, she packed everything up and smiled, "Remember they only last for 24 hours, i'll do a touch up spell if I notice your roots coming in, capiche?" she asked, all of them nodding with small, or large, smiles.

They honestly liked the colors and how they looked on them.

Before they knew it they were on their way into the city, with Soyeon getting Jeongyeon's horse since she knew the way to go better than they did, the female earth elemental now sharing Sterling with SeokJin. Since Jin wouldn't let anyone else ride Sterling alone, Fera trusted him to ride her baby so he wasn't going to let anything happen to him.

The city was beautiful, it was full of vibrant colors and some pleasant, and odd, smells wafted in the air. Soyeon smiled when they entered it, as if she hadn't been there in awhile. They followed her to a huge building, which she explained was an apartment complex and where her friend lived.

She created a space for the horses, since they couldn't wield in Caroban because they didn't want to get caught. After she finished that, they went up to the thing she explained was an elevator, since the others had never seen something like it before.

Aesthete was different from Caroban even though they were so close to each other and Caroban was a technical part of Aesthete.

Soyeon punched in a code to a specfic floor, the silver doors opening to reveal a loft, which was nicely decorated with mainly whites, reds, black colors, and modern furniture.

"DION!" she yelled into the loft, beckoning for them to follow her inside, they were all looking around like children who just entered a candy store for the first time.

They saw a tall guy with black hair walk into the area they were in, his features were sharp and eyes doe like yet had a feline vibe to them at the same time, he screamed when he saw everyone else with Soyeon. His hand on his heart.

"Who the fuck are these people, Soyeon?" Dion asked, staring at her with wide eyes and a creepy smile, it looked like he was trying to remain calm.

It kind of reminded them of Fera.

Soyeon rolled her eyes, walking up to him and standing on her tippy-toes to fix his expression and make him look at her, "They need our help, Dion, so please let them explain themselves before you jump to conclusions." she pleaded, a firm expression set on her face as she made intense eye contact with him.

Dion inhaled a deep breath, it seemed he and Soyeon had an almost brother and sister type of relationship.

He looked at them, his eyes narrowed as he stared at them individually, he even walked up to them after Soyeon let him go, his eyes morphing to black before they went back to their chocolate brown.

"Sit down, elementals," he chided, looking over at Soyeon after the words were said with a condescending expression, "you really think changing their hair color would do anything?"

"It actually did a lot, asshole," she stuck her tongue out at him, gesturing for all of them to take a seat on the large couches in Dion's loft, "no one else noticed."

"Or they didn't say anything," Dion countered, man spreading in his white pants as he looked at all of them, "c'mon, explain to me why you're in Caroban, better yet, how you even got here."

So, they explained to him what they explained to Somin. Telling him about Jiwoo and her plans to kill all elemental kind. While Soyeon chipped in by telling him Jiwoo would probably go after witches next. They also told him what she's already helped do to Academy Initia and how they got to Caroban.

Dion stood when they were done, biting his lip as he shook his head softly, "Taking down Jiwoo isn't easy, Soyeon," he began, his gaze moving to the others, "she has a literal immortal coven with her, so if you think it's just her you'd have to take down. You're very, very, wrong."

"What's a coven?" Taehyung asked.

"A group of witches or warlocks who work together," Soyeon answered simply, her gaze going back to Dion after she did, "what? You want to be like my mother and do nothing?"

"That's not what I said," he put his hand up, as a sign for Soyeon to calm her tits, "but taking her down isn't a one two three process, she's immortal, Soyeon, and so is her coven. You are suggesting to go after the most powerful coven in Caroban, suggesting to kill them. It's impossible, even if you made a coven of your own."

Soyeon huffed, crossing her arms, because damn he had a point.

Hoseok stood up, a slightly annoyed expression resting on his face, "What if you had the Phoenix and OneeOnia on your side?"

Dion looked over at Hoseok, scoffing at the suggestion, "When you find the vessels, tell them to give me a call, because it's difficult to find the vessels and get the people to activate-"

"What if it's already activated, what if the OneeOnia and Phoenix already bonded?" Hayoon intervened, standing along with Hoseok, Yoongi grabbing his boyfriends hand as he stood by him.

Dion raised an eyebrow, turning to face them completely, "The Phoenix and OneeOnia vessels are extremely difficult to find, I don't think you understand-"

"I don't think you understand the fact the OneeOnia and Phoenix vessels are standing right in front of you," Yoongi interrupted him, raising an eyebrow as he watched Dion's eyes widen and his jaw fall open.

That sure as hell changed things.

a/n

Dion
(Dee-On)

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