Slowly Jisung was pulled out of his deep slumber, not because someone was noisy or because he was uncomfortable, no, his inner clock just decided to slowly wake him. Everything around the young warlock still seemed a little distant to him but the first thing he felt was the comforting weight on his chest. The weight didn't bother Jisung at all, it kind of grounded him and made the young male feel safe and protected. It was a nice feeling.

The next thing Jisung noticed in his half asleep state was the warmth and the little movement under his arms as well as the feeling of someone's soft hair on his throat. This impressions were soon followed by a familiar scent. Even though Jisung was a warlock and no creature with a very good nose he was still sensitive to certain scents, like the one that currently lingered in his nose. It was a fresh, vivid kind of scent and made Jisung automatically feel at home.

Slowly the young warlock peeled his eyes open to take in his surroundings. He was met with an unfamiliar room but very familiar people. Jisung couldn't stop the little smile that made itself onto his lips when he noticed the hazelnut brown hair and cat ears more or less in front of his face.

It was a little bit of a surprise for the young male, that he was still laying in the same position he remembered falling asleep in. His arms were still securely wrapped around Minho's shoulders and he could literally feel the older's chest rise and fall calmly, meaning he was still asleep. Even though Jisung couldn't see the older's face he though the cat hybrid was adorable.

Jisung couldn't help but place a short kiss on Minho's hair when he tried to get a better look at Felix and Changbin by stretching his neck a bit. The cat hybrid with the orange hair also seemed to be in a deep slumber with his arms wrapped around the vampire, who laid on top of him. Jisung noticed the fluffy blanket that was wrapped around Felix and Changbin, making him question if someone had come in here to tuck it around the two.

"Stop moving so much", the young warlock heard Minho mumble sleepily. Normally Jisung would have been startled but right now he suppressed the urge to coo at the older fro being cute. It quickly morphed into internally dying because of the cat hybrid's cuteness since the older's semi-somnolent state made him nuzzled his head further into the young warlock's chest.

"Sorry for waking you", the warlock mumbled trying his best to let his voice not crack or get too high. Minho only hummed as a response and Jisung prayed to all known gods that the older didn't notice his quick heartbeat because he knew he would get teased for it.

The older cat hybrid seemingly didn't notice since Jisung felt how his breath got even and calm again. He couldn't help but free one hand, so he could play with Minho's hazelnut brown hair. The strains were so soft Jisung ended up casually running his hand through the older's hair, occasionally brushing past the other's cat ears.

Jisung didn't really register that Minho started to purr until he clearly felt the light vibration of the other's torso but that didn't stop the fond smile on his lips to get bigger.

The situation stayed in his current position for a while, not wanting to wake the others. Minho, Felix and Changbin continue to sleep while Jisung internally gushed over his cute boyfriend. Sadly the four couldn't stay in this safe bubble forever and that became very clear when the door of the room was opened by none other than Kim Seungmin who panted lightly like he had ran here.

"Seungmin?", Jisung said in both surprise and confusion when he saw his best friend in the doorway. How did Seungmin get here?

Maybe Jisung was also a little too loud because Minho stirred at the sudden noise and so did Felix. "Han Jisung you are the biggest idiot I came across in my seventeen years of living", the redhead exclaimed, fully entering the room to walk over to his four friends on the couch, so he could flick the forehead of the still clueless warlock. The redhead obviously didn't care about the others sleeping.

"Ouch! Seungmin, what was that for?", Jisung complained while rubbing his forehead. He looked up to the redhead, who now stood beside him with an unreadable expression. The other seemingly didn't plan on answering his question.

Jisung wanted to open his mouth again to ask the redhead what was going on but then his attention was shifted back to Minho when he felt how the weight on his chest disappeared since the older had decided to sit up.

"What's going on now?", Felix mumbled tiredly while he was still leaning onto his older brother. "Will be explained when the four of you got up", the redhead said and suddenly the usual bite he had in his voice was gone, making especially Jisung worried since he noticed the difference in an instant. What was going on with the redhead? What had happened?

"By all gods, Seungmin you are too fast for me", you could suddenly hear Doyoung say. The male with the violet hair had just entered the room also panting a little. "I'm sorry I had to get here fast after I told Taeyong everything we got out of that huntress", the redhead answered in a rather monotone voice. Jisung blinked at the redhead. What was Seungmin talking about?

"Can somebody fill us in on what happened?", Jisung asked, while he felt a certain fear crawling at the inside of his rib cage. Had they missed something imports while they were asleep? How much time had even passed?

Minho seemed to have noticed that JIsung was nervous since the cat hybrid just let himself fall backwards again grounding Jisung both physically and mentally. The warlock would never be able to thank Minho enough for little actions like that, which helped him more than he could express in words.

"Let's just get up and meet Taeyong-hyung as well as the Day6 group in a meeting room, shall we?", Doyoung tried to lift the atmosphere, which had become a little heavy. This question or better a certain word let Changbin sit up in an instant. Jisung knew the other wanted to see the members of Day6 even if he got scolded.

"Jae and the others are here?", the vampire asked rather frantically. "Yes they are. Jae and Younghyun checked on you shortly after their arrival here. They were glad all of you seemed fine", Doyoung answered calmly. So Jisung was right with the suggested that someone entered their room while they were asleep.

"Let us not make the others wait too long", Doyoung added with a soft smile on his lips. He gestured to the door of the room.

Jisung as well as Changbin and the Lee brothers agreed to that and finally got from their position on the couch to follow Doyoung, who was leading the way. Seungmin walked silently beside Jisung and the blue-haired male could tell that something was on the redhead's mind. In all honesty the warlock had pictured his reunion with his best friend a little bit different than this but he couldn't change it now.

At some point of their walk through the NCT headquarter had Minho casually intertwined his fingers with Jisung's which made the young warlock feel a little bit better even though a certain amount of anxiety stayed in his chest. It scared him that he didn't know what was going on but he would find out soon enough.

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When the group entered a little meeting room, Changbin was pulled to the side and more or less crushed by a hug from Sungjin. "Don't you dare to ever run off on your own again", the werewolf said which probably should have been scolding but his voice sounded too relieved and soft. Changbin was just glad he could be hugged by Sungjin again.

"I'm sorry, hyung", Changbin mumbled into the fabric of Sungjin's red sweater. "Sungjin I think he needs to breath", the vampire prince heard Younghyun say. The werewolf released the vampire prince from his hold, so Changbin could finally see his five hyungs and if he was honest with himself he had never been happier to see them.

"Can I just say that your parents were very close to just burn the three of us on a stake?", Dowoon said gesturing to Jae, Younghyun and himself. There was no bite or accusation in the voice of Day6's youngest, just a little bit of humor but Changbin still felt guilty. His parents probably screamed at them for not having an eye on him.

"I'm sorry for causing you trouble", the vampire mumbled, looking to the ground. "We both are", Changbin suddenly heard Jisung say beside him, which made him rise his gaze to look at the young warlock. "Apology accepted. We are just glad you two are okay. So is Changkyun by the way", Jae said ruffling the already messy hair from the both of them.

"But nobody can deny that you played an important role in yesterday's events", Taeyong spoke up from his place at the large, round table, that was placed in the room's middle. The attention of everyone now laid on the red-haired guardian, who gestured everyone to take a seat at the table.

Changbin sat down between Jisung and Jae, feeling rather safe by their sides while watching Taeyong stand up and perform a little spell, which let the middle of the table become light blue. It created a sort of little platform, which soon became a little forest with a few houses in the middle.

The vampire recognized this as the territory of the sky clan, lead by Lee brothers' parents. Just thinking about the parents of his two cat-like friends let his let his mind flashback to the memory of Felix's mother being buried under a burning tree, her words and the sudden appearance of the hunter dressed in black with the red crystal around his neck. It also let Changbin painfully remember that he hadn't really told anybody of this encounter, not Felix, not Doyoung.

Guild began to eat away the vampire's consciousness. His fingers buried themselves into the fabric of his pants while thousands of negative thoughts brought his mind far away from the meeting room. He couldn't hear Taeyong talk, he had the feeling of barely seeing the red-haired guardian properly.

"Just tell them what you saw, Changbin! It isn't that hard damn it. They will understand that you haven't said it right away", the vampire prince tried to reason with himself in his now messy mind but it was no use, thousands of other thoughts shouted at him how everyone would have expected him to say it as fast as possible. How they would yell at him that he should have known how to handle a situation like that since he had been prepared for this kind of stuff. After all he was a prince! The heir to the vampire throne! He will have to face situations like that in his future as king! He was supposed to keep a cool head, to act calm, mature and not emotional, irrational! He should have been able to safe the Lee brothers' mother!

The vampire prince only snapped out of his thoughts when he registered a warm hand on his shoulder and a voice, which seemed to sing to him. Slowly Changbin ripped himself out of this dark spiral of thoughts, slowly taking notice of his rapid breathing and burning eyes as well as his wet cheeks and blurry vision.

"Just breath Changbin. There is nothing to be afraid of, alright?", the black-haired male heard Jae say beside him. Surprisingly the other vampire's voice hadn't been the one that had sung to Changbin but it did calm him down a little more. The vampire prince closed his eyes, concentrated on his breath and Jae's voice which seemed to guide him in this darkness.

When he felt calm and strong enough Changbin open his eyes again and was met with a lot of worried gazes. "I-I am fine now", he brought out even though his voice cracked and he stuttered. The vampire wiped his tears away with the sleeves of his black sweater while trying to mentally collect himself.

"Changbin if you don't feel comfortable talking about yesterday's events you are allowed to just leave the room", Taeyong said, sounding concerned. He looked at the vampire with sympathy in his dark blue eyes but Changbin didn't want this. After all he needed to tell them about Mrs. Lee and the hunter.

"No, it's fine. I-", the vampire started with an rather emotional voice but then stopped. He took a deep breath, mentally locking away any feeling that would affect him now. It took him a moment but he managed it, letting his mind switch to a more logical mindset.

"I have something to address. It's about something I saw or better witnessed", Changbin continued in a much calmer, objective tone to the surprise of everyone in the room. A little nod from Taeyong gave the vampire prince the permission to continue.

"After I saved Felix from the fire I ran back to it, trying to locate more people, who have been caught in the flames but I couldn't find anybody except a certain female cat hybrid, who I believe was Felix's and Minho's mother. She was buried under a burning tree and in pain but still strong enough to consider me a threat, which made it hard for me to help her instantly but I managed to gain her trust by saying Felix's name. Still I didn't manage to save her because a hunter came along. She told me to take Felix and run away because the hunters already got her whole clan and mate and she didn't want them to take her son too. I then followed her command and ran away", Changbin explained situation, feeling how keeping his emotions down got harder but he managed.

"Thank you for telling us, Changbin", Taeyong thanked the young prince warmly and with an reassuring smile but it didn't make the short male feel better because he could almost feel the Lee brothers' shock and sadness even though he didn't even glance at them. It was like he could feel the negative emotions slowly pressing him into his chair.

"This-", Taeyong wanted to continue but the door of the little meeting room flew open revealing a male with black hair, high cheekbones and black eyes who was dressed in all black. "The royal palace of the vampires is under attack!", the male yelled with wide eyes, breathing heavily.

"What!?", Jae exclaimed in union with Younghyun and Changbin. They looked shocked at the unknown male. Changbin could feel his anxiety skyrocketing, letting him clench the sides of his chair. This couldn't be happening. How could the hunters make a whole cat hybrid clan disappear and not a day after that attack one of the best guarded places in the supernatural world?

"We got a call from a royal guard named Park Chanyeol. He said the palace is being ambushed by hunters but that's all he was able to say before the signal was gone", the black-haired male explained frantically. "Sicheng-hyung already checked the name. It's unlikely for it to be a set-up", he added.

Changbin almost jumped up from his place when he heard the name "Park Chanyeol". He knew the gigantic male vampire personally and was aware of the guard's excellent abilities. If he was unable to handle the situation with his team and was therefore calling for help then the palace was probably run over.

"We need to go there now", Dowoon voiced exactly what Changbin was thinking. "Xiaojun, call everyone to the teleportation room except the Dreamies and YangYang. They need to contact K.A.R.D and Got7 but send Jeno and Jaemin in here", Taeyong immediately said, in a collected and calm but still professional voice. Xiaojun nodded and hurried off in a supernatural speed, that was only common for vampires.

"You are allowed to join us if you like", the guardian said to Jae as well as Sungjin while walking towards the door, waiting there until Doyoung was by his side. "Of course we will come along", Younghyun huffed joining the guardian's side pretty quickly. Sungjin and Dowoon followed suit. Changbin wanted to automatically follow them but Jae made the young prince sit down again by pushing him down.

"Don't even think about it, Changbin", the blond vampire said. "But hyung, it's-", the black-haired vampire wanted to argue, looking at the older vampire with an almost desperate glimmer in his eyes but he was cut off by Jae saying quietly: "There is a possibility the hunters are after your parents, so the stupidest thing we could do is bringing you along. Stay here and stay safe."

The vampire prince couldn't argue with that especially not when Jae had this serious and stern look in his eyes. "Alright", Changbin hushed, feeling like a scolded child but his heart was beating fast with anxiety. The blond vampire patted his shoulder before joining his three group members.

"Hyung, no", Changbin heard Seungmin complain rather loudly, which got his attention. His gaze fell immediately onto the upset redhead and Wonpil, who had stood up from his place on the table and seemingly planed on joining his four friends and Taeyong but his younger brother held onto his arm. Seungmin looked almost scared even though he tried to hide it.

"If they go, I have to go with them. We are a group after all", Wonpil said, having a reassuring smile on his lips to try to comfort Seungmin. "Trust me. I can handle it and I promise I will be back soon, so tell Byungho, Woosu and Samuel that they need to hold on a little while longer", he added. Seungmin still didn't seem convinced but he slowly let go of his older brother's arm, allowing him to join his friends' side.

"Just stay here until Jeno and Jaemin come to get you", Taeyong said to the five teenagers before he left the room with Doyoung and the five members of Day6. After the door closed there was a suffocating silence between the five friends. It made Changbin's chest feel heavy and breathing harder.

"This feels like the end of the world", Felix sobbed after a while, breaking the silence and gaining everyone's attention. Tears were falling down from the ginger's eyes and if Minho hadn't immediately wrapped his younger brother up in a hug, Changbin would have done it in a heartbeat.

Felix clung onto his brother while burying his face in the older's shoulder, trying to not fully break down again. Jisung joined the comfort hug without a special expression on his face but Changbin could tell the young warlock had a lot of worries and fears himself and just hid them.

Seungmin only sat on his chair, looking at his lap, not moving a single muscle. Changbin felt emotionally dead and overwhelmed at the same time but he still stood up to walk over to the redhead. The vampire wordlessly tapped Seungmin on the shoulder, gaining his attention. The demon looked at the young prince with an unreadable expression but Changbin knew this exact face from himself, when he forcefully pushed every emotion down.

Without any words Changbin wrapped his arms around the redhead and Seungmin didn't fight that one bit. He even leaned a little into the older but shorter male while keeping his mouth sealed. The vampire laid his head on top of the redhead's while looking out of the big windows of the meeting room.

Maybe the end of the world wasn't that far fetched but it terrified Changbin to know that the hunters were able to attack the vampires' palace like it was an unprotected camp.

"Mother, Father, hyungs, everyone, please be safe", Changbin internally prayed for the well-being of everyone involved in this new fight while holding Seungmin in his arms.