Jisung grew more anxious and worried the closer they got to the sky clan territory. The warlock couldn't see any kind of smoke yet but there was this gut feeling that told him something was about to happen any second.

Changbin wasn't doing any better as Jisung noted since he could more or less feel how tense the vampire prince was because the was still clinging onto him.

The street they were driving on got smaller and smaller but also more broken at some parts. Changbin had to slowdown because of the bad conditions it was in, which didn't help the teenagers with their current state of anxiety and immense worry for their friends.

The street ended with a little parking lot surrounded by trees, where three cars stood. Now Jisung regretted even more that he hadn't been able to say goodbye to Felix and Minho personally, when they left Yellow Wood because if he had done that he would know how their parents' car looked. This information could have been useful now.

The blue-haired male got off the motorcycle pretty fast after Changbin had let it come to a halt. He immediately untied Minho's blue hoodie, which had been wrapped around his waist for the whole ride here and already mumbled the searching spell.

While Jisung was mumbling the hoodie began to glow light blue and started floating in front of the warlock. In the meantime Changbin had parked the motorcycle properly and turned off the engine while watching his friend work. He was surprised how clam Jisung had become while mumbling the searching spell but it didn't last.

When the warlock was finished with the spell and the hoodie began to float away on its own he seemed scared again. Scared for his friends' safety even though neither Jisung nor Changbin had seen smoke or anything that would suggest there was a fire nearby. Maybe they arrived early enough?

"How fast does this thing float?", Changbin asked after joining Jisung's side. Both of them started walking after the blue hoodie after, which was floating into the forest. "I don't really know. I never tested the speed of this kind of spell", Jisung admitted while nervously playing with the sleeves of his coat.

"Let's find out then", Changbin said and jogged in front of the warlock, so he could climb onto the vampire's back. Jisung found no argument against using Changbin's supernatural speed to their advantage, if the spell reacted to it. With a little bit of a hesitation Jisung climbed onto Changbin's back. He was a little bit worried about his weight but then he remembered that vampires had supernatural strength just like werwolves.

"Ready?", Changbin asked without letting the floating hoodie out of his eyes. "Yeah", Jisung said, wrapping his arms around the other's neck because for the gods' sake he didn't want to fall down when Changbin ran around the forest with his incredible speed.

Rather slowly for a vampire did Changbin run towards the floating hoodie, testing if it reacted when Jisung was closer. The hoodie suddenly surged forward when Changbin was beside it. "It does work", Changbin stated and he began to chase the hoodie with his full supernatural speed.

Jisung was clinging onto the vampire in hopes of not falling down but suddenly the warlock felt a wave of magic energy wash over the forest, which automatically made him yell: "Changbin, stop"

The vampire immediately stopped running, coming to a stop rather abruptly. At the almost same time the hoodie dropped to the ground like it had never been floating but that was the least concern Jisung had at the moment. He jumped off Changbin's back and looked around while his friend was obviously confused.

There was still some magic lingering in the air but it was already fading. "There was a kind of magic wave that washed over the whole forest", Jisung told Changbin, who had already opened his mouth to ask what was going on but now closed it again because his question was more or less answered.

But an idea dawned to the vampire, which he didn't like. "Could that magic wave cause a fire?", Changbin asked, looking at Jisung. The warlock frowned a little, so Changbin took this as the clue to explain what he meant. "It's winter but there probably will be fire but with the snow and everything there is nothing that could burn properly, so maybe the fire was caused by magic", the vampire explained.

Jisung looked even more confused. "Which magical creature would randomly start a fire, which endangers a lot of creatures? Wait, what if...", the warlock trailed off. In his head there was a little theory forming but it sounded surreal to him. If Minho's capture by humans was round the same time as the fire, which was maybe caused by a magical creature, did that mean the humans were forcing a creature with magical abilities to do there biding or maybe they even cooperated? But wait that would mean there was an imprisoned magical creature or a traitor.

"Jisung, look", said Changbin, disturbing the warlock's train of thoughts. The vampire pointed at something above the blue-haired male, so Jisung turned around and looked a little upwards, only to see smoke, which was rising up into the sky.

"Damn it", the warlock cursed, he ran to Minho's hoodie and picked it up, performing the searching spell once more. "Find the clan camp and help the other cat hybrids to escape from the fire. We need to stop my visions from becoming true", the warlock said and there was this confident aura again. Jisung seemed to switch it on and off but it won Changbin over anyway.

"Please be careful when you meet a human", Changbin said before speeding off towards the fire. Jisung turned to the floating hoodie and began to chase it as fast as he could just like Changbin had done beforehand.

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Felix just ran and ran. He was so afraid that his parents were caught in the fire it made him forget everything else. He didn't realize that Minho wasn't behind him, that his lungs were burning because of exhaustion and the smoke that became thicker and thicker the closer he got to the actual fire.

"Mom, Dad", Felix cried out and coughed because of the thick smoke which began to surround him like a suffocating, grey blanket. He tried to concentrate on his hearing sense but the only thing he could decipher from the cracking of the fire was the sound of small animals running away.

"Hyung we need to-", he looked over his shoulder and stopped mid sentence when he realized his older brother wasn't behind him. He wanted to scream for the older but he just ended up in a coughing fit which made him stop running in an instant. The smoke seemed to claw and burn in his lungs while making his vision blurry and teary.

He had been a fool for running towards the fire instead of bringing a good distance between it and himself. His instincts had told him to run away but his mind had overpowered them by simply letting the young boy picture his parents caught between the flames. Now he wasn't even at the burning buildings but already coughed his lungs out while inhaling just more of the smoke.

"Mom, Dad, hyung", Felix croaked out rather desperately before he fell back into his coughing fit. Why had he been so stupid? He should have thought before he started to run; he should have checked if Minho was behind him before reaching the fire.

The young cat hybrid dropped onto his knees, desperately trying to stop his coughing by subconsciously putting his hands on his burning throat. He squinted his eyes trying to stop the tears, that were already running down his cheeks. Was that it? Would he die from smoke poisoning, simply because he didn't think his plan through, because he let his emotions get the better of him?

Suddenly Felix's ears picked up on a faint sound, barely audible between the still a little distant but loud cracking of the fire. It sounded like very fast footsteps on the snowy ground. He tried looking around but the thick, grey smoke was covering everything and the ginger didn't think he would be able to scream. Still, he let out a desperate, barely audible "Help".

The person must somehow heard him because the next thing he knew he was looking into the black eyes of Changbin. Felix couldn't say anything before the vampire simply picked up the cat hybrid like he weighed nothing and ran away from the smoke and fire in his supernatural speed.

Felix was close to just blacking out but his mind refused to let him. He had brought this onto himself so he should at least stay conscious to maybe help someone.

Changbin brought the cat hybrid as far away from the fire as possible. He slowed down when they had a safe distance between the fire and themselves. "By all the gods, Felix. What were you doing there?", the vampire asked beyond worried when he slowly put the cat hybrid down. The ginger only shook his head when Changbin carefully put him down and leaned him against a tree.

"Help the others", Felix croaked pointing at the place were the houses must be on fire, judging by the huge smoke cloud that was rising up to the sky above it. Changbin looked into the direction and gave the ginger a little nod. "I will, so stay put and stay out of sight", he said and speeded off again.

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Jisung's shaky and heavy breath was clearly visible in the cold air but he didn't care. He had to find Minho before the humans got to him and if that meant running like a maniac until his legs gave out then so be it. The hoodie was still floating a few feet in front of him, guiding him to Minho's current location.

Suddenly a strange feeling in his chest made Jisung stop running. He was breathing heavily and since there was a kind of pain in his chest he automatically clenched his hand over it. The blue hoodie was floating in the air not far away from Jisung like it was waiting for him.

"Stop hurting", Jisung internally said more or less to his chest. Suddenly Jisung could faintly hear a female voice saying something and the pain in his chest was gone in an instant. The warlock found it strange but he was way more focused on the female voice. He ended the searching spell nonverbally and slowly walked to the hoodie to pick it up silently.

As quiet as he could, Jisung sneaked towards the place were he thought he had heard the female voice. It didn't take him long to see a rather tall female with black hair put up in a pony tail through the leafless branches of the trees.

"I got a young, male, class three, catlike creature. Probably inexperienced and not fully grown", Jisung could hear the woman say into a little technical device in her ear. The warlock had a bad feeling about this, so he mumbled a little spell that would make him lighter in hopes of him being quieter like that.

Jisung sneaked further towards the woman, seemingly successfully since she didn't even look into his direction once. Finally Jisung could also see the creature the woman was talking about earlier. It was a young, male cat hybrid with hazelnut brown hair who laid in the snow seemingly unconscious.

"Minho...", Jisung involuntary whispered. He couldn't help but stare at Minho's unmoving form, which just laid there in the cold snow to the woman's feet. This sight alone let a certain power flood Jisung's system, he didn't know he had.

All of the warlock's hidden anger seemed to be channelled into magic power which directed itself onto the woman. It made her trip over nothing and fall onto the cold ground. That was the moment her dark eyes locked with Jisung's sky blue ones. She wanted to touch her ear piece to get help but the warlock held her hands down with his magic.

They didn't break eye contact because for Jisung it would mean loosing the control over her hands but why the woman didn't look away was a mystery to the warlock. Jisung tried to remember a spell that wouldn't let her move or at least restricted it but slowly the fear from before was coming back into his mind and that didn't make things easier.

"You can't hold me here forever, young warlock", the woman said in a calm almost cold tone, it made Jisung almost shiver. The young male didn't answer, no, he internally questioned himself if this woman really was just a ordinary human because he clearly had his doubts now.

Jisung tried to think back to his lesson with Wow of A.C.E in hopes of remembering a spell that would be helpful and he did. Wow had showed them three spells, a direct attack spell, which was really strong but would knock your opponent off their feet, a little barrier spell to protect themselves and a restriction spell to keep your opponent from moving without hurting them.

The blue-haired male repeated the restriction spell in his head before mumbling it out loud, hoping that he didn't screw up. He obviously didn't because blue, glowing vines came out of the snow on the ground beside the woman and began to travel up the her arms and legs, successfully keeping her from moving much.

Finally Jisung could break eye contact with her and turn his attention to Minho, who was still laying on the ground not moving at all. Panic and fear washed over Jisung letting his channeled anger towards the woman disappear completely.

"Minho?", the warlock said the older's name with a shaky voice while kneeling next to him and gently pushing his shoulder. No reaction. Jisung slowly began to completely panic. Why was Minho unconscious? What did that woman do to him? Is he even breathing?

Jisung checked the older's breathing by holding his pointer finger under the cat hybrid's nose. Maybe it wasn't an efficient or professional method but at least Jisung could feel that Minho was in fact breathing steadily.

The warlock pushed all the thoughts of fear and panic away and focused on the fact that Minho was breathing. He was alive. Without thinking any further Jisung slipped one of Minho's arms over his shoulders, so he could somehow carry the older.

The realization that Minho was heavier and taller than Jisung came pretty fast when the blue-haired male stood up but the warlock was smart enough to use the "feather weigh" spell he had used before on the cat hybrid to make him lighter.

Jisung looked at the woman once more. She just watched him carry Minho away without saying anything or even trying to fight against her restrictions. It crept the young warlock out but he couldn't do anything about her anyway, so he just walked away as fast as possible while carrying Minho.

He had no clue in which direction he had to go but he would figure it out when he had brought Minho far enough away from the creepy female human. At least he hoped he would.