"I hate sports", Seungmin complained between his sit-ups while also slightly panting. Hyunjin, who kept the redhead's feet down giggled at that. Everyone knew Seungmin wasn't a fan of physical exercise, mainly because he could use magic for literally everything but it was still somewhat funny to see the younger complain about it.

"Stop laughing at me. I never liked sweating and unnecessary movements. Ask Jisung if you don't believe it", the redhead said, which made siren giggle again. "Maybe I was laughing at something else", the black-haired male responded with a smile on his beautiful facial features. Seungmin just snorted.

A sharp whistle told them they could stop their action and take a short break. Seungmin just stayed on the ground slightly and looking at the high ceiling of the gym. Why did they have sport again? They already had it yesterday. Now, it was Friday, the last day of school before the winter holidays and they were tortured again with physical exercise some people called healthy. Normally they didn't even have sports on Friday but now they would stay three hours in this damn gym.

Excited yells were heard that could only belong to a bunch of shapeshifter, who had fun at running around in circles. Seungmin turned his head to the side to look if he was correct and he was but among those excited shapeshifter were four of his friends. Felix, Minho, Changbin and Chan, who currently was a very pretty normal sized grey wolf. They seemed to have fun while exercising or chasing each other around.

Why they had sports with the class of the hyung line of their group? Nobody knew but nobody asked either. Besides Seungmin had fun at counting how many times Jisung got a little distracted because he was looking at Minho. His current count was thirty-three.  

Yes, Seungmin was aware of Jisung's little crush. Not because the warlock told him, no, the redhead just wasn't blind. Jisung wasn't as good at hiding stuff as he thought. 

"Alright. Listen up everybody", Wonho called to get everybody's attention. Seungmin sat up and looked to the sports teacher, who was accompanied by two of his colleagues. Chae Hyungwon, the rather quiet transformation teacher stood on Wonho's right side and Lee Minhyuk Seungmin's spells and potion teacher stood on the other one.

Seungmin didn't really ask himself why those two were also here. He just figured that Wonho maybe needed the back-up because he had to handle two classes at once.

The whole attention of the gym hall was now on the muscular werewolf. "I know some of you wonder why the schedule for today was changed. Well, we have guests for the following two lessons, who will teach you some useful combat skills. Please welcome Park Junhee, Lee Donghun and Kim Sehyoon better known as Wow of the group A.C.E", Wonho announced.

After this three handsome males entered the gym and some students loudly gasped. This really were three members of one of the strongest combat groups in the supernatural world. They were literal aces in their field and known for an ridiculous amount of strength for a five member group.

Seungmin noticed that some of the students behind him giggled but his focus laid on the three A.C.E members. Park Junhee was the leader of A.C.E and a powerful dryad. It was said that no one could manipulate the force of nature better than him but he was also a very talented healer. The vine tattoo, which was trailing up his arms were very prominent, which was a sign for the incredible amount of power he held.

Lee Donghun, the male with the reddish brown hair on Junhee's right, was a harpy. Untransformed he looked rather harmless but once he had shifted there was no one quicker in the air than him. Even for a harpy he had a lot power in his wings but you also didn't want to take a punch from him.

Kim Sehyoon, better known as Wow, was the warlock with the white hair to Junhee's left. Seungmin probably knew the most about him because he was one of the strongest magical creatures in the supernatural world. He hadn't been recognized for a long time because of the many incredible one of a kind magical creatures such as Lee Taeyong, Nakamoto Yuta, Kim Youngjo or the tree barrier mages of GOT7 but in the end he had proven himself to think outside of the box. He was known for a quick fighting style, which combined spells for combat and spells, which enhanced speed or strength. Some even called him unpredictable due his quick thinking in battle and the amount of spell combinations he could use. If Seungmin could train with him for even an hour he would be blessed.

"Thanks for the little introduction, Wonho", Junhee thanked the gym teacher politely, which the werewolf responded to with a little smile. Junhee then turned his attention to the students, who became absolutely silent the minute he faced them.

"The majority of you may already know plenty of stuff about us. Maybe because of our lovable Maknae or maybe because you were interested in learning some combat techniques", he said which caused some to laugh.

Seungmin again noticed the students behind him whispering but now he knew why because shortly after he heard the whispering a male with brown hair walked by him. It was Kang Yuchan, the youngest member of A.C.E, who was in the same class with Byungho, Chan, Minho and Changbin.

Seungmin knew him because he belonged to a rather rare species called Ala, which was said to be the closest thing to a demon. Even though Seungmin thought that was a little exaggeration. Alas couldn't enter hell, make deals or use dark magic without consequences and they didn't have a devil's tail. They only had a pair of small horns on the top of their head and could control the weather, which was a powerful ability if it was used right but that was it. A part of Seungmin always wished he would have been born as an Ala instead of an actual demon.

The redhead must have looked sad, while watching how Yuchan proudly walked up to his hyungs with a smile. He didn't even hear their further introductions because he just thought how much easier his life would have been if he wasn't a damn demon.

Suddenly Seungmin felt an arm on his shoulders. He looked to the side and was faced with a smiling Hyunjin, who seemingly had noticed Seungmin was feeling a little sad and wanted to cheer the younger up.

"Don't be sad, Seungminnie", the siren whispered. "Smile", he added and poked the redhead's cheek with the pointer finger of his free hand. He had a bright and a little goofy smile on his lips while his eyes shone a little in the light of the gym hall.

It was like an automatic reaction, which Seungmin barely noticed but a tiny smile made its way on the redhead's lips, which let Hyunjin only smile even wider. "Better. You look cuter when you smile", the siren stated, which earned him a little hit in the ribs from Seungmin's elbow.

"Hyung stop flirting with Seungmin. We need to get in our groups", Jeongin suddenly said from behind the two, which startled both of them. Hyunjin more than Seungmin. "Then stop scary people, you little brat", Hyunjin huffed, stood up and started chasing Jeongin, who started running away when Hyunjin made an attempt to stand up.

Seungmin just looked after them in amusement. He had great friends. They still hung out with him and were there for him when he needed them even though he never properly explained what happened two days ago. He was just glad they never asked either.

"Dude if you keep staring at Hyunjin he will notice", Seungmin heard Jisung say beside him with an amused undertone. Seungmin got scared a little bit but quickly hid the reaction because he would never admit that.

"Well, at least I didn't stare at him thirty-three times in one hour", the redhead sassed back and looked up to his best friend, who turned slightly red. "I don't know what you are talking about", he said defensively and crossed his arms. Seungmin only laughed at that. Jisung knew damn well what he was talking about. 

"In which group are we by the way? I didn't pay attention when they announced it", the redhead said after he stopped laughing. "Why would I tell you, you meanie?", the blue-haired male questioned and slightly glared at Seungmin but the redhead knew that it was more of a playful glare.

"Because I am your best friend since middle school", Seungmin answered and grinned. "I hate you", Jisung stated, clearly not meaning it. "No, you love me like a brother", the redhead responded and stretched his hand out, so the warlock could pull him up, which he did.

"You are lucky you are right", Jisung huffed. Seungmin only smiled cheekily at that. "We will train with Wow and Minhyuk, meaning you can show off again with your excellent fighting spells you never got to use before", the blue-haired warlock said and started to walk towards their assigned group. Seungmin followed him already feeling excited because he got to train with Wow but he didn't let it show and instead cleared his throat.

"I taught you some of the combat skills I picked up on didn't I?", the redhead rhetorically asked, looking at his best friend. Seungmin had come across a book with some combat spells once and self taught himself the basics, so he had a good foundation if they ever learned something similar in school but the main motivation was teaching them to Jisung, so the warlock could learn to defend himself.

"Alright point taken you did teach me but you can still show of because we both know, who is better at stuff like that", Jisung responded. Seungmin wanted to say something against that but he was interrupted by someone putting their arms around Jisung and him.

"Didn't you forget me?", Jeongin said and he didn't sound very happy. "Well, I thought Hyunjin would get you", Seungmin responded, grinning at bit at the blond kitsune. Jeongin snorted, let go of them and walked between them.

"You underestimate me", the blond stated with a huff. "We would never", Seungmin and Jisung mockingly answered in union.

"Stop picking on the Maknae", they suddenly heard Byungho yell, which made them slightly jump and turn their head towards the older male, who walked towards them followed by a male with lilac-grayish hair and pointy ears, which indicated that he was an elf.

Elves weren't really magical creatures, even though they could summon weapons made of light and use an ancient form of written magic called runes. They were considered to be creatures with natural abilities like dryads and sirens but mainly they were healers.

"We weren't picking on him", Jisung whined, trying to defend himself and Seungmin. "I know what I saw, Jisung", Byungho responded, not believing the warlock. Seungmin huffed, knowing that Byungho was just a bit too blinded to see that Jeongin wasn't as innocent as he thought.

"Who is your friend, hyung?", Jeongin chimed in, looking absolutely innocent while focusing on the elf beside Byungho. Seungmin also directed his gaze onto the male beside his older brother and recognize him as Lee Hyunjun, one of Byungho's classmates, who he sometimes studied with for subjects he didn't share with Chan.

"Oh that's Lee Hyunjun. He is my classmate", Byungho introduced the elf to Jisung and Jeongin. Hyunjin smiled politely. "Nice to meet you", Hyunjun greeted them. He seemed sympathetic and very nice, which was probably one of the reasons why Byungho and he were friends. They had a similar personality.

Seungmin noticed the symbol on Hyunjun's right wrist. It was the symbol of IZ, the group one of his classmates was part of. What was his name again? Lee Junyoung? Yeah, it was Lee Junyoung. The werewolf, who raced with Felix and Jeno yesterday.

"The five of you should hurry up and get over here", the five heard Minhyuk call for them, so they cut their little conversation short and hurried to their group. Seungmin's mind immediately switched to the lesson when he saw Minhyuk stand beside Wow. He hoped dearly that Wow would at some point show off his unique magical skills, so Seungmin could try to copy him or just overall learn from watching him.

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"Again", Donghun said to Chan, who had tried to perform a special combat technique on the male with the brown reddish hair, which had previously been shown. The rest of the group trained the move with partners while being supervised by Wonho. Chan had also previously trained the move with Minho but now it was his turn to show if he had already mastered it by performing it on Donghun.

It was hard going through with the move while being paired with Donghun, because firstly he knew the move probably better than anyone in this hall and he was a harpy, meaning Chan was a little bit scared of the gigantic claws, that were now Donghun's feet. Couldn't he turn back into his human-form for this move?

"Come on, Chan. I know you can do it", Donghun reassured Chan, because he became a little bit worried when Chan hesitated so long. The grey wolf nodded as answer since he couldn't talk in his wolf from unlike the werwolves. He jumped back a little so he had enough room to perform the move again. He slightly ducked and made himself ready to dash forward while his eyes never left Donghun.

Chan waited a little bit, then he dashed forward, targeting Donghun's right side but it was a feint. He was actually targeting the harpy's left side. When he was close enough Chan jumped to the side, dodging Donghun's "hit" and touched the harpy's left side with his nose, which served as a replacement for a bite, which could do a lot of damage.

Donghun grinned. "Now that was great", the harpy praised. "You would have probably got me in a real fight", he added. Chan would have smiled brightly if he was in his human form but he still seemed very happy as a wolf with his wagging tail and sparkling dark eyes.

"Alright everybody. Listen up", Minhyuk called. Everybody stopped their previous action and turned their attention towards the warlock. "Sadly the two hours are already over. Let's thank Junhee, Donghun and Wow with an applause for training with us", he announced and of course the three members of A.C.E got a pretty loud applause paired with some little howls from the shapeshifters who couldn't clap.

After that everybody was wished each other a nice Christmas and New year and Wonho allowed everybody to change back into their normal cloths and go home after that.

"It's funny seeing you as a wolf, Chan", Minho commented when he, Felix, Changbin and Chan walked towards the changing rooms. Chan turned his head towards the cat hybrid, thinking that he probably thought it was funny because he wasn't able to talk like a human.

"Well I didn't think that cat hybrids also had glowing cat eyes that only showed themselves when they were fighting", Changbin chimed in. Felix only grinned. "It's cool, right?", he questioned proudly. Changbin nodded, which made Felix's grin become a little wider.

Chan had to go to a different locker room than Felix, Changbin and Minho because he was a kind of shapeshifter unlike them.

After changing everybody of their friend group met up. Everybody was excited to talk about the things they just learned. Jeongin was probably the most excited because he had received training from Donghun and Wow because kitsunes were magical creatures but also had natural increased strength, agility and speed.

The friends walked out of the school, dressed in their winter coats and boots because it was lightly snowing again. It made Yellow Wood look like a winter wonderland if you didn't pay attention to the muddy snow on the streets created by the passing cars.

Jeongin couldn't stop talking about the great moves he had learned with Donghun and Wow. It was endearing to watch in Chan's opinion. The blond was jumping around excitedly along with Felix until he was hit on the head with a snowball thrown by non other than Kim Seungmin.

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"You just declared war", Jeongin said, when he narrowed his eyes at the redhead. "At least you stopped talking for a second", Seungmin smirked and formed the next snowball. Jeongin let his backpack slip off his shoulders and waited for Seungmin to throw the snowball he had in his hand.

Because of that the two of them didn't notice what was going on behind their back. Next thing they knew a lot of snow was dumped on their heads by Jisung and Felix.

"Ahh. I thought you were my friend", Seungmin said to Jisung, who was laughing. The redhead decided the snowball in his hand was better fitted for the warlock than Jeongin and threw it at him. Jisung shrieked, when the snowball hit his shoulder.

Jeongin had revenged himself in the meantime. He also had dumped a lot of snow on Felix's head. Felix shuddered and shook his head to get the snow of his beanie.

The rest of the group just watched the four. "How old are they? Five?", Changbin questioned before someone put a little bit of snow in the back of his jacket, making the vampire shriek when he felt it drip down his back.

The someone was Hyunjin, who now giggled earning him a glare from the vampire. "Alright. You didn't you wanted it any other way", Changbin said before using his supernatural speed to do the same action Hyunjin previously did to him. The siren let out a high pitched shriek, which made Chan and Minho cover the ears. 

But the point was reached were everybody dropped their school bags and started to throw snowballs at each other. Good thing they were close to a little park and not too close to the street.

At some point in this messy snowball fight Felix didn't really watch were he was going. He just threw a snowball at Seungmin, while running backwards, when he turned around again, so he wasn't running into a tree, he elegantly ran into a person instead, making himself and the person fall into the snow.

Luckily Felix caught himself with his hands, so he didn't fall onto the person full force. Well, the person he ran into was Jeongin, who now looked up at him with wide dark eyes while being pressed into the cold snow. Their faces weren't really far apart and neither of them made a move change that. They simply looked at each other like they didn't know what else to do.

Felix heart thumped against his ribcage like he just ran ten marathon, which he was sure it shouldn't do after the little sprint he did. Maybe something was wrong with him?

He snapped out of his little daze and finally realized that he had ran into Jeongin full force. "By all gods. I'm so sorry", he apologized with a pink tint on his cheeks, caused by the heat on them. He immediately got off Jeongin.

"I-I wasn't looking where I was going. Are you okay?", he asked with worry in his voice while he stood up and put his hand out for Jeongin to grab. The blond slowly blinked, then shook his head.

"I am fine. Don't worry", the kitsune said with a smile and grabbed Felix's hand so the ginger could pull him up. "Are you sure?", the cat hybrid asked again, not letting go of the blond's hand. Jeongin nodded with a smile patted some snow off himself.

"Everything okay with you two?", they heard Byungho ask in a louder voice, so they could hear him even though they had some distance between them. "We are fine, hyung", Jeongin answered, still smiling.

"Hey, Felix. We should get going. Mum just texted me and said she and dad are coming home for Christmas", Minho called. "Alright I am coming", the ginger responded and let go of Jeongin's hand so he could get his backpack.

The snowball fight was over with that and everybody bid their goodbye and parted ways. Felix's fast beating heart had calmed down pretty fast after Jeongin wasn't around him anymore. That was strange. Had Jeongin something to do with it? Felix wasn't really sure.