Chapter 23

The symphony of explosions soars the skies in beautiful wings of music, just screaming through the air, with no planning on stopping. The beautiful melody of the subject X's being released and another building going down to the ground, just as it deserves. Namjoon and Daehwi are holding the shield for the X immortals as they guide them to the tunnels without having any officer hitting them. Underground is Hoseok and his little cupid, Beomgyu, as they direct them where to go. Meanwhile Yoongi is to the other side of the open space with his little werewolf, Seoho, to make sure everything is in order and to calm down the people going insane with Seokjin and Seungmin. Meanwhile Jimin and Yohan are the tail, making sure everyone is making it through in one piece without anyone being left behind. Jungkook and Sunwoo are convincing the guards on evacuating, meanwhile...... This is where things get a little too out of hand.

Taehyung throws himself against a corner of a wall, hiding himself in his own darkness. His skin burning, sizzling under the sudden overwhelming pressure on his chest. Multiple hideous growls escapes through his gritted teeth as he places a harsh hand on his chest, trying hard to keep his calm and not go insane and kill every single last X or mortal left in this building; No matter who they. That hunger only urges and claws against his better judgement, eyes gleaming in a heavy pitch blackness of darkness, fighting to turn gold in order to lose complete control of his mind.

Of himself.

A familiar red haired little demon suddenly jumps in front of him from the floor above, eyes going back to normal from their pitch black darkness; observing Taehyung's golden skin glowing in drench of sweat with shallow breathes oozing out of his chapped parted lips, his body shaking feverishly.

Pain, he's in so much pain.

"He did something else to you," Hongjoong growls, "You can't let it win Taehyung. Let me help-"

"NO!" Taehyung snarls with a demonic growls, a sudden force escaping his body that sent the boy back a few steps, eyes glaring heavily, "Get out, leave me to this mess. Tell them I will catch up-"

The boy is once back to his face and grabs the collar of his black jumpsuit and throws him to the ground, getting on him with hands covered in a sickly black fog, "This will be a temporary aid. Don't let the angels catch you like this, their instinct will be to kill you," And the boy slams his hands down to Taehyung's chest, right on his mark, causing a strained scream to escape his lips in return.

Taehyung slaps a hand against his mouth as the boy pours all of his darkness onto him, filling him with more and more control and awareness than how he ever felt before, letting it overpower this aching trance the fallen angel is dragged in. Hongjoong's eyes suddenly grows heavier and heavier, his breathes coming out in shallow pants, only growing weaker. Taehyung instantly notices this and yanks the kid off him, slamming him to the ground beside him. The boy coughs heavily, gasping for breath while Taehyung rushes to make sure if he's okay. Yeah, maybe Taehyung doesn't like the kid, let alone tolerate him, but he saved him for now.... Risked his own life for him by doing this.

And that does not go unappreciated.

"I-I'm okay, I'm okay," The boy heaves, letting Taehyung help him to his feet, swaying slightly but uses the older as a support to his weak body. The fallen angel looks around for anyone of assistance but in this section they're in, there isn't anyone.

A loud explosion erupts from the floor above, causing a few pieces of the ceiling too fall around the two. Without hesitate, Taehyung hauls Hongjoong to his back and runs through the building in his quick speed.

Windows, he needs to find windows!

This building is different from the rest; Windows are scarce due to the many times an X has tried to escape. So they had to go to the upper floor, where their cages weren't near by. They avoided as many bomb hazard areas or falling ceilings or walls as much as possible.

But Taehyung was growing much more frustrated with every passing second, seeing nothing but darkness.

"To your right," Hongjoong heaves, reading the fallen angel's mind and Taehyung instantly rushes in that direction, but suddenly drops to the ground, screeching in pain.

Jungkook.

H-He's hurt.

"Sunwoo, help Jungkook," Hongjoong mumbles faintly, knowing his angelic friend hears him no matter how far apart they are.

They are connected, just like how Jungkook and Taehyung are.

Taehyung wheezes as flashes of a man repeatedly stabbing his body fills his mind, coughing out blood as Jungkook's aggressive gurgles fills his ears, but that suddenly stops.

The little angel.

He got there on time.

Taehyung groans painfully to his aching body as he lays on the ground, the building only raging angrily underneath his grasp as it continues to shake. Just as he was about to tell the kid to get out on his own, he feels that pulse again, fueling him with energy as he slowly pushes himself off the ground, angrily holding onto the body on his back.

"Stop giving me energy!" Taehyung hisses as he continues down the long dark hallway, seeing a suddenly window in a distance, "You could die!"

The boy didn't say anything, only holds tightly onto Taehyung as they finally come across a window to the end of the hallway. It's large enough for a body to go through, luckily for them, and Taehyung instantly decayed it and just about ready to jump through. However the second he was about to do that the boy's weight is suddenly off his back.

Taehyung's heart accelerated hysterically to the faint strangling wheezes as he turns his head, seeing Hongjoong being dragged back by a collar on his neck and a chain attached to it.

Trailing all the way to him..... That... Thing.

It's here.

He should've know he would come.

No.

"Hongjoong!" Taehyung screeches as he scrambles towards him, body now falling into a state of utter panic as the man like monster holds the boy up by the neck, choking him painfully as it stares at him with gold eyes.

A familiar gleam of golden eyes.

"You failed me. Now it's time to force you back to where you belong," The creature's deep voice says angrily, weakening Taehyung with every stride he takes until he's on his knees, practically crawling towards them.

For the first time in a very long time, Taehyung is actually scared.

Not even for his life, but for the boy's.

Closer, he's so close.

Hongjoong chokes uncomfortably, hands tight on the man's wrist as he strained his neck back, seeing Taehyung reach out to him with black tears staining his cheeks. Taehyung could see the faint smile on his face as he raises a hand towards him, filled with black smoke.

No...

And he shoots it towards him.

Taehyung shrieks as he feels the massive heat of energy fill him up, forcing him to his feet despite the creature's abilities to force him back down. As much as Taehyung didn't want to take it, Hongjoong knew his fate and he would rather have Taehyung linger onto his strength a little longer so he can figure out what to do with his mind. The fallen angel tries taking more steps forward and then with a hurdling scream, he bolts to a run.

However he never reached him, no matter how much he tried.

The immortal creature suddenly claws a fogged hand into Hongjoong's body, right when the boy transferred all of his power to Taehyung's body and rips out a dark shadow. Making Hongjoong gasp and then choke all so suddenly.

His soul.

T-This thing took out his dark soul.

Oh no....

"No!" Taehyung screams, nearly doubling over when the creature with full force slams the shadow to the ground. The fallen angel screams to the deafening sounds of the ear piercing cries of the fallen angel, something that usually he hears when an fallen angel or demon nearby is condemned back into hell. Hongjoong's cries echoes painfully in his ears to the point he falls to his knees in pain, soon enough unable to hear him anymore.

H-He's gone.

He's gone for good.

Something inside Taehyung rips and burns into pieces as he fixes his eyes on Hongjoong's lifeless body on the ground, unmovable and....... Dead.

That thing took him away.

"I will come to collect you one day," The creature growls and turns around, "Better save those precious moments you have with your little friends; Those are the only things you'll be holding onto while being under my control."

And then it vanished from thin air, leaving Taehyung to choke in his own tears as his eyes never left Hongjoong's body.

Taehyung never even got to train him....

H-He just wanted to help....

That heavy weight of guilt fills his heart as he slowly gets to his feet, with the energy given to him by the boy, and walks towards the him. It took everything in him from not burning every atom in his path as he turns the boy's body over to see his lifeless face with eyes snapped shut.

And a soft smile on his lips.

He was smiling.

That makes that horrid clenching feeling much more worse than it already is. Taehyung reluctantly hugs the small body to his chest, crying pathetic against his small black jumpsuit. He wails pathetically for help but not even knowing who would come to help him.

No one would come.

Hongjoong is gone, and he won't come back.

It takes years upon years to be released from those fire pits of hell, going through torture and pain repeatedly without mercy. No one can leave so easily.

It took Taehyung thousands of years, being a mail boy most of the times but going back there until finally he was given some sort of freedom.

The building suddenly rattled aggressively this time, instantly jolting Taehyung to cover the boy's body protectively with his wheezes. There's no time to waste, he has to go. So with a clenched throat and black tears streaming down Taehyung's face, he carries Hongjoong's limp body in his arms and looks at the window before jumping outside. He moves swiftly past the hard edges until he meets the ground, dashing quickly to where he hears the familiar voices. He only moved faster and faster the longer he lets his gaze fall on Hongjoong's lifeless face.

Not realizing he has a whole fire aura circulating around him.

His skin didn't burn nor did his thought grow chaotic, he embraced it in utter anger and devastation as he finally arrives to the large ground of people. However when he arrives, Namjoon was giving his speech, so Taehyung only remains back with the trees, calming himself down with the fire aura gone.

Now it all weighs down to what just happened, and Taehyung by now feels numb.

Nothing but pain and numbness.

So with wobbling lips he drops to his knees, staring at the boy and carefully caresses his red hair away from his face.

He just wanted to help.

To l-learn and use h-his abilities to his full potential.

And Taehyung didn't even give them that.

"Hongjoong."

The familiar tone of that voice only weighs Taehyung's body heavier and he looks up, meeting the little vampire's eyes.

Taehyung screws his eyes shut, especially when a strangling cry escaped the boy's lips as he rushes toward his passed friend. All the attention suddenly adverts to them, and more of the kid's friends come forward. Taehyung only stares at him numbly, letting his hysterical friends surround him as he slowly lets him go, stepping farther and farther back with startled eyes.

This is too much.

C-can't breathe...

"Tae what happened!"

"WHAT HAPPENED TO MY FRIEND!!!"

"HOW IS HE DEAD!?!"

"WAKE UP!"

"TAEHYUNG! WHO DID THIS!"

"HE WAS FINE!"

"Did you kill him?"

That snapped Taehyung from his train of thought, letting his seething eyes glare at the little angel boy who said that. He wanted nothing more but to strangle him and drag him to the ground for daring assuming something like this.

But they're all staring at him, with those same accusing eyes.

D-Do they really think he did this?

"Tae-"

With a painful grunt, Taehyung turns around and surrounds himself in a dark cloud and teleported himself away from the scene.

Away from reality.

Entirely consuming himself in utter darkness before his eyes.

Where he feels safe.

As he held his knees to his chest, sobbing uncontrollably, never wanting to feel this type of pain ever again.

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A/N:
Ahhhhh so intense :(

Poor Tae, he's going through a lot and he doesn't even understand what's going on with himself!

Well aside from that, WHO HEARD BLACK SWAN *_* ahhhhhhh its so beautiful and such a masterpiece yassssss!

Hahah I PURPLE YOU!! <333

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