"Damn it. Damn it. Damn it!", a man with chocolate brown hair cursed at the big screen in front of him, which showed a lot of red dots on the map of Yellow Wood. Those dots became bigger by second and it didn't seem like that was a good sign.

The male turned around sharply and grabbed his jacket, which was hung over the back of a chair next to the man before he began running out of the room. He put his pointer and middle finger on his right temple and internally said: "Everybody get out on the field now. We got a code red and I mean blood red."

The man could hear some faint curses in his head but also voices that told him they will be on the field as fast as they can or that they were outside already. The rest he ignored for the sake of getting out on the field himself as quickly as possible.

You see this man with the chocolate brown hair was a guardian, who could use telepathy and read minds while he also possessed strong magical abilities. His name was Kim Taehyung but most of the time he was called J.Seph and some only knew him by his Codename "Ace" since he rarely got out of the little control-room he was previously in. He was someone, who worked behind the curtain and not on the field but today called for drastic measures.

"Please tell me you were joking about the code red", another male voice could be heard in empty corridor, J.Seph had been running down. The voice belong to Kim Matthew, a rather tall male with a strong build and blond hair that almost seemed white. He was another guardian known as BM or under his code name "King".

Just like J.Seph he possessed strong magical powers along with the ability to erase memories instead of telepathy and reading minds. But erasing others' memories always caused Matthew to get headaches, which got more terrible the more he used his power.

"Why would I joke about a Code red?", J.Seph snapped a little at his fellow guardian, who was now a little bit behind him but Matthew didn't seem to be bothered by that. "Right. Stupid question. Are the girls already out there?", the taller male asked when he caught up to his group member.

"Yes, they are", J.Seph answered shortly while he continued to run towards the exit of the building closely followed by Matthew. "Alright with our two jokers out there we should be able to handle even a code red", the taller male said enthusiastically, which made J.Seph almost snap again because he couldn't understand why the taller was seemingly not worried at all that they were on the verge of exposition to the human world but he didn't.

He heard a voice in his head, which almost made him freeze on the spot. "Enjoy your last bit of freedom", the voice said. It wasn't a male nor female voice. It was something dark, intimidating, wicked and it sounded warped.

Matthew came to a halt beside his group member. His wide eyes showed that he wasn't the only one, who had heard this voice in his head.

"We need to stop whoever wants to bring down the barrier because if we don't we might loose everything we treasure", the guardian with the chocolate brown hair stated and stepped out of the building with an scary amount of determination while Matthew quickly followed him.

The two male froze on their spot once more when they saw a sort of magical glitter rain down from the sky like snowflakes. J.Seph stared up the sky seeing the barrier crumble bit by bit.

They were too late, there was no more barrier to protect.

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"When will the firework start? I want to see the pretty lights", Jeongin whined while looking up to the night sky. He wanted to see the pretty lights exploding in the sky and not wait until exactly midnight for it.

"Well, maybe they called it off because a certain kitsune wouldn't stop whining", Seungmin teased the blond a bit. Jeongin send him a little glare before he fixed his gaze onto the night sky once more. Time passed by so slowly if you waited for something.

"Why are you stressing so much about the firework? It's not midnight yet. We still got ten minutes to kill", Chan implied. Jeongin took his gaze off the sky to look to the wolf hybrid, who leaned onto Byungho. For a short moment Jeongin felt jealous. He wanted to cuddle someone now.

"Ten minutes are long when you got no one to cuddle", the blond responded and pouted. Jeongin could feel Hyunjin's offended gaze on him after he said that because twenty minutes ago the kitsune more or less dodge his affection and cuddles by suggesting a little place switch, which resulted in Hyunjin sitting next to Changbin, who the siren could cuddle with being dodged.

Back then the last thing Jeongin had wanted was being pampered by his cousin but now he was bored and a little tired, which made the pure idea of cuddling with someone under a fluffy blanket sound very tempting.

"Felix looks like he could need someone to cuddle", Byungho suggested with a mild amusement in his voice and looked at the ginger for a brief second, who sat next to him. Jeongin's gaze focused itself on Felix, who sat between Byungho and Minho and therefore between two couples.

"Yes, I am desperate for hugs and affection because I am sitting between two couples, who are very cute while being cuddled up together but nobody noticed this until now", Felix joked with a little bit of a humorous but bitter undertone.

"Being mateless must be hard", Minho teased his younger brother while provokingly laying his head on Jisung's shoulder. Felix just send him a little glare while the rest of the group couldn't help but chuckled.

Jeongin smiled a little bit to himself. Cuddling with Felix sounded like a very nice idea. Without warning anyone the kitsune crawled over the middle of their little sitting circle to get to the ginger, so he could wrap his arms around the young cat hybrid.

Felix showed a bright smile and also wrapped his arms around Jeongin letting the kitsune's heart do a little jump. Before anyone could start teasing them, they settled on a more comfortable position, which meant that Jeongin's back rested onto Felix's chest while he ginger had his arms put around the younger's middle and his head on the kitsune's shoulder.

Suddenly something glittery began to fall down from the sky like snowflakes. Jeongin looked up the sky getting a bit of the glitter into his face. It wasn't snow for sure because it disappeared the second it touched Jeongin's skin. The kitsune frowned a bit feeling the extreme amount of magic in those tiny glitter pearls.

"What is this?", Hyunjin asked while stretching out his hand to catch a little bit of the glitter in his hand. Jeongin looked over to his cousin seeing that the glitter disappeared quickly on his palm just like snow but without leaving a trace.

"Maybe the glitter is part of the firework?", Minho suggested. It could be a possibility since the firework was something created by magic. In the corner of his eye Jeongin saw Chan's digging in his jacket's pocket for his phone. The older found it quickly, turning the display on to check the time.

"If this is part of the firework are five minutes early", Chan said, stuffing his phone back into the pocket of his jacket. Jeongin looked up to the sky again, scanning over it with his eyes. He could faintly see that the glitter was coming from some sort of cracks in the sky, which became less visible with each passing second.

"It looks like something is breaking apart in the sky", Jeongin heard Seungmin mumble. He internally agreed with the redhead. It was indeed looking like something was breaking in the sky. Was this really part of the firework?

Suddenly Changbin jumped up, letting the dark grey blanket he was previously cuddled up in with Hyunjin drop from his shoulders. The attention of the whole group was on him in a matter of seconds. Even in the darkness Jeongin could see the flash of fear in the vampire's eyes.

"We need to get home, now", the black-haired vampire urged and pulled Hyunjin up by his arm because he was the closest to him. "Why?", Jisung asked confused while detaching himself from Minho, standing up too.

"Because this magical glitter that his currently raining down from the sky probably belongs to the barrier protecting our world from the human eye, which means it's currently breaking down. It won't be long until the humans can see us", the vampire prince quickly explained a little panicked, which made everybody jump up in instant.

Jeongin could feel his heart rate picking up in fear while he felt himself slowly going into panic mode. When the barrier was breaking down he needed to get home as fast as possible. His aunt was home alone and probably sick with worry.

"Alright. Don't panic. We need to stay calm and go somewhere the fastest way possible without completely splitting up. It's safer that way", Chan spoke up and tried to keep everyone's panic at bay. Jeongin looked over to the wolf hybrid. Chan had a calm posture and seemed to keep a cool head even in a situation like this. Byungho stepped next to Chan and took the wolf hybrid's hand and intertwined their fingers.

"Listen everyone. We will calmly grab our stuff and walk away from here in case some humans can already see us. We won't use magic or any supernatural ability, alright?", the oldest of the group added in a soft, reassuring and calming tone.

Jeongin willed himself to take a breath and calm himself down. He wouldn't do anyone a favor by panicking and losing his head. Besides if it came down to an encounter with humans Jeongin was the one, who could handle it the best with his illusions and tricks.

Everyone seemed to have calm downed a bit thanks to Chan and Byungho. Felix and Minho hid their cat ears and tail just in case humans could already see them and then everybody began packed their stuff like they decided to head home early for some reason.

Jeongin helped Hyunjin fold the fluffy blankets and put them onto a little pile while the rest of the group collected the pillows and dusted off the blanket they all sat on. The glitter stopped falling from the sky at some point and nobody could really say if it was a good or bad thing.

Suddenly Jeongin could hear loud, obnoxious laughing. In the corner of his eyes he could see Felix and Jisung jump in fright but also Hyunjin visible flinch. The noise was pretty loud, which made Jeongin wonder why he hadn't heard it earlier.

The noise came a bit closer and in the end Jeongin could see a group of young men, who walked past the little hill the group was currently standing on. Jeongin immediately picked up on the scent of alcohol along with an unfamiliar one. No creature he knew had this kind of scent, which left the possibility of the group being humans.

"Are those humans?", Felix whispered anxiously next to Minho while picking up a pillow and folded blanket to carry them while he cautiously watched the group of probably drunk young men, who were walking around the hill on the park's path with fear glimmering in his eyes. He pulled the hood of his jacket a little more over his head to make sure his cat ears were well hidden. Jeongin felt sorry for the cat hybrid but he couldn't say he was less scared.

"As long as they don't notice us we are fine", Seungmin tried to reassure the other in a low voice, so only those around him could hear it. The redhead seemed to have jinxed the situation because one of the laughing young men noticed the group of friends on top of the hill right after Seungmin said that. He stopped walking which also caused his four buddies to do the same.

"Hey, you. What are you doing up there? Celebrating something?", the young men slurred. He was definitely drunk maybe even wasted and barely able to walk on his own. Jeongin gulped. They definitely saw them.

Jeongin looked at Chan and Byungho, noticing that they looked just as lost as the rest of the group. For all they knew those guys could be humans but they could also be supernatural creature non of them ever saw or knew the scent of but Jeongin was pretty sure they were humans. Meaning they shouldn't make a mistake.

Jeongin took a quiet breath and let a little facade build itself around him. He had to handle this. The kitsune glanced at his cousin for a short moment, who was lightly shivering with eyes wide with fear. Yeah, Jeongin was the only one, who could handle this without attracting too much attention.

The kitsune turned to the group of young man, walking down the hill a little bit, so he was the one standing between them and his friends. He showed a cute smile like he always did and let it do it's magic.

"Oh no. Just a little star gazing but we will be gone in a minute", the kitsune answered the young man's answer and he sounded absolutely normal. There was no tint of anxiety or fear in his voice but he could feel his heart thumping nervously in his chest.

"Star gazing? Sounds boring", one of the other young men said, stumbling a bit closer to the hill. He probably wasn't sober either but he didn't slur as much as the first one. "Oh it's not. For us at least", the blond responded. He casually folded his hands behind his back. He did a little shooing motion with his right hand, which should tell the others to just go but it was dark and therefore only a few members could see it but the kitsune prayed to all known gods that the Lee brothers would get the message.

"We should go. Jeongin is distracting them", Felix whispered behind Jeongin, letting the kitsune feel a certain amount to relief washing through his body. The gods should bless Felix for understanding the little signal Jeongin had given the group.

The kitsune continued to talk to the group of young men while always staying away from them a few feet. He made use of his charms as a kitsune to keep them focused on him and not his friends, who quietly walked down the hill and brought some distance between them and the strangers.

When the kitsune was sure his friends were far enough away he decided he should cut the conversation short and followed them. He wanted to just go home and stop talking to those drunk young men.

"It was really nice talking with you but I need to go now. My aunt is probably worried because I am not home yet", the blond said with an apologetic smile on his features. He hoped the guys would let him go.

"What? Already? Come on hang out with us a little longer. Your aunt can wait", the guy, who had introduced himself as Jeremy at some point, suggested. "Yeah. I mean you haven't even told us your name yet", another one of the young men added.

"No can do if I want to keep going out late", the kitsune chuckled lightly. Internally Jeongin beefed them to just let him go. He wanted to just run after his friends.

"Alright but I totally want your name and number, cutie", the one who seemingly was the most drunk slightly slurred. Now even Jeongin didn't know what to do but he kept up the facade he had build for this conversation by smiling lightly.

"Jeongin come now or your aunt will kill us", the kitsune could suddenly hear Felix yell. "Damn it. See you guys around", Jeongin immediately used that to say goodbye to the group and run towards Felix's voice as fast as he could.

The cat hybrid stood not that far away with the rest of their group of friends behind him. Jeongin suppressed the urge to teleport himself towards them and kept running until he had caught up.

"Alright Jeongin is here. Go", Minho said as soon as the youngest of the group was close enough, so everybody could start running. Felix was running beside the kitsune, making sure he was okay, which he was beside the fact that he still had the feeling his heart was in his throat because of the nervousness he previously felt.

Jeongin could lie perfectly but that didn't mean he couldn't feel his true emotions while telling someone his lies confidently. He was scared throughout the whole conversation with the group of young men because by conversing with them for a few minutes with only being some feet away from them made it clear to the kitsune that they were in fact humans.

"You did great, Jeongin", Chan praised the youngest when he let himself fall back along with Byungho, so they were the ones at the end of the group, meaning they could make sure nobody got lost.

Minho was leading everybody to Felix's and his house since it was the closest to the Young Wing Park. Jeongin couldn't remember feeling this happy to see the Lee's house.

When the arrived at the Lee's house all of them were breathing heavily. Minho opened the front door rather quickly and let everyone pile into the house before closing and locking the door. Nobody said a thing they just stood in the hallway trying to calm down their breathing and comprehend what had happened not even an hour ago.

"What are we going to do now?", Jisung asked out loud in a small voice getting the attention from everyone. "We will figure it out. For now we stay here and call our parents to tell them we are fine", Chan answered once again in the calm reassuring tone that made everyone ease up a bit.

The wolf hybrid would make a wonderful group leader, Jeongin was sure of that.

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Everyone took off their coats and shoes, so they could move it the living room. They took out all of their phones, seeing that almost everyone already had several missed calls along with some messages, which all showed the concerns of their guardians or parents.

Jisung had several missed calls from Minhyuk and Changkyun, who he had exchanged phones numbers with not so long ago and also some messages that asked where he was and if he was okay. The warlock with the blue hair had never gotten a message like that since he never had an guardian, who cared about his whereabouts or well-being.

He wrote the older males both a message saying where he was, that he was fine and with Changbin since the vampire prince himself already talked to someone on the phone, which could easily be Changkyun judging by the way the vampire with the black hair talked.

Seungmin was probably the one who got no call or message from his parents but that didn't mean he got no calls or messages at all. Wonpil had called him several times and so had Eve, Woosu, Rana and Samuel. It warmed his heart a little that his brothers along with Rana and Eve were so worried about him.

The redhead had called back his older brother while Byungho, who had also received several calls from his worried mother, half brothers and Rana, called back Eve.

Everyone, who they called back was overly relived to hear that nothing happened to them and that they were fine.

"Someone will probably come here to get Jisung and me", Changbin said after finishing a very long call. He had been the last one to hang up. "My mother will probably come to get Jeongin and me too", Hyunjin, who sat on the couch stated while he opened his arms in the direction of the vampire prince. Changbin casually walked over to the siren, straddling him and then wrapping his arms around his shoulders. Hyunjin showed a little smile before he intertwined his fingers and let his hands rest on the vampire's back.

Normally Changbin would have been teased about it because this wasn't fitting the dark persona he tried to maintain at least at school but today was very different. After all something had terrible happened and they weren't really sure of the consequences this could bring, at least not yet. So seeking reassurance and comfort in another's embrace seemed almost natural.

"I guess more or less everyone of you will get an little escort home", Felix mumbled while he continued to play with Minho's left hand to distract himself. The two Lee brothers sat beside each other on the ground with Jisung, sitting in front of Minho.

"What about the two of you? Will you just stay here on your own?", Jeongin asked looking to the two Lee brothers. "Our mom is on her way here while our dad tries to keep their clan calm and under control but the clan territory is pretty far away, so we don't know when she will actually arrive", Minho answered.

"Will she bring you to the clan territory?", Jisung, who leaned onto Minho's chest questioned while looking up to the older. "I don't know yet. Maybe she will just stay with us here", Minho responded while slightly patting the warlock's stomach with his right hand, which had been laying on the blue-haired male's abdomen. He knew it was unlikely that his mother would stay here with Felix and him since it was a lot easier for her to just take her two sons to the territory of her clan because then she could easily take care of both.

"Everything will be fine. You will see", Byungho said reassuring after a silence had fallen over the group that had clearly given away the anxious atmosphere in the room.

Maybe he was right but he could also be totally wrong.