Author's POV

"Tell you plans but by using my name, are we?" Taehyung emerged from behind the marble pillars.

"Your Majesty, what are you doing here?" The messenger was quite shocked and worried that his plan may be starting to go downhill.

"I should be asking you. What are you doing here in my palace?" Taehyung emphasised his words to make sure that the messenger knew who the boss was.

"I was just leaving, and then I found Miss Y/N here."

"Oh, how much I love a good lie. I'll tell you what you're doing. You came to my palace to take Y/N with you so that your king could use her to take me off my throne. Am I right?" The Dark Lord's statement had the messenger in panic mode.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Hand over the girl peasant," the king demanded.

The messenger smirked and brought Y/N closer to him as he caged his arm around her neck to restrict her movements. "I hate to break it down to you, your Majesty, but this girl is leaving with me today, or she's not seeing the next sunrise."

With that, the messenger closed his eyes and then opened them to reveal his blue and green orbs. The immortals of Garzooka are more like werewolves, and so their traits and powers also reflect werewolf auras. He opened his mouth to reveal a jaw full of sharp teeth, and his nails started to grow longer and longer and turn black.

Taehyung clenched his teeth and gritted his words out. "This is your last chance; let her go or things will not be good for you."

The messenger brought his clawed hand near Y/N's neck when he saw the king stepping forward. "Stay where you are, Taehyung, or she'll lose her worthless life."

"Calling me by my name now? Where's the respect gone?" Taehyung knew that no matter what happens today, he'll be the one affected one way or another if things don't go as he wants. V drew out his sword in defence.

If he left the messenger to take Y/N to Trevor, he'd feast on her powers to become more powerful and try to take over the Dark World. If the messenger kills Y/N today, all his preparations for revenge will go in vain. He'll never be able to find out what happened that day. His number one priority was,

To save and protect her...

Taehyung confidently took the next five steps towards the messenger with his head up high when the messenger started digging his nails into Y/N's neck. A stream of blood trailed down her smooth, milky skin as she hissed and closed her eyes at the sharp pain.

"Surrender yourself, Taehyung, by throwing away your sword and kneeling down, or this girl dies."

"I can throw my sword away, but I never kneel down to anyone. Not even if I have to save a life. See?" Taehyung threw his sword down on the ground and looked at the messenger.

Y/N's POV

I knew it. That jerk doesn't care about me, so why would he risk his honour and respect by kneeling down to save my life? The claws of the messenger were drilling into my skin; it felt as if it were a never-ending misery.

Y/N looked at Taehyung, with her vision getting blurrier and blurrier because of the blood loss. Taehyung looked at her in the eyes as he smirked and winked at her before walking backwards into a golden portal.

She snapped out of the fatigue when she saw what was going on. The portal Taehyung walked into glowed for a while before it closed up into a speck of nothingness. 'The golden portal, I've seen that somewhere... Jimin!' As soon as I became aware of my surroundings, someone harshly pushed the messenger from the back, causing him to separate from me.

I turned around dizzily to look behind me. It was Taehyung. He had teleported from where he was to behind us so that he could move the messenger away from me. So that he could save me... But how can he teleport? Isn't that what Jimin does?

"Thinking about me, princess?" Jimin's voice approached me from the back.

It looks like BTS didn't actually leave after the ball. They were still here. Well, in a matter, that's good. At least this flirt saved me.

Author's POV

With the messenger pushed away from Y/N, his eyes fell onto Taehyung's sword, which he had left behind. He ran towards the sword with all his might and picked it up in his hand.

"Hand over the girl right now," he said as he pointed the sword at the king and the injured girl.

"Not so fast, you punk." SUGA emerged from the side with his hands covered in black and grey flames, which melted the sword into a glittery silver liquid.

"It looks like luck is not on your side. Jin Hyung, why don't we show him how much trouble he is in?" The leader said this as he walked up with the Lord of Beauty.

Namjoon, being the Lord of Destruction that he is, crouched down and punched the floor, causing an earthquake-like violent shake to occur. The shake was strong enough to knock off the balance of the messenger, and Y/N, however, caught the injured girl, helping her stabilise.

As the messenger was knocked to the ground, Seokjin pushed his hands in an upward motion as pink and black smoke circled around him and the messenger. Soon, the once shaking ground cracked, and a bunched of flower vines with thorns emerged and wrapped around the messenger.

As Namjoon and Seokjin turn around to walk over to Taehyung, the messenger frees himself from the tangled thorns and vines of Jin and grabs onto Y/N again. He brings his claws up to her again and tightens his grip.

"I am going out of this palace with Y/N with me, and there's nothing you can do."

The boys all stood in a line, having the most relaxed and unbothered looks on their faces as ever. "Ok, go then," Taehyung said with his hands in his pocket. "Do whatever you want with her. We don't actually care now." The other boys nodded at his statement and put their hands in their pockets too.

"You really don't care? It looks like I'll just dig my claws deeper into her wound and- , Wait, wasn't she bleeding just now?" The messenger looked at the boys and said, "She really does have powers."

The girl then spoke up, "Actually, I don't know about her, but I do." The messenger turned his head towards the girl, only to see that the girl he had captured was actually Hoseok, Lord of the Shape-Shifters himself.

"Where's the girl?" Irritation overtook the messenger as his werewolf form started to overtake him more and more.

"The girl is over here," Jungkook said as he moved over to show Y/N standing behind him this whole time. "And now, it's time for me to finally teach you a proper lesson," the Lord of Power said as his eyes turned purple.

The werewolf showed Jungkook his sharp teeth in an attempt to scare him, but the younger man was way scarier than he was. He slapped the werewolf in the face, which caused him to come back to his original form. Jungkook pushed the messenger's shoulders down, causing him to fall, and bent a thick metal band around his wrists to prevent him from getting more violent.

Y/N's POV

Everything was happening so fast. Everyone was using their powers to stop the messenger from taking me away. Why though? Why?

"Now it's my turn to finish this once and for all. Yoongi Hyung, would you please reform my sword?" The Dark Lord said this as he stood near the silver liquid of his sword. Yoongi came forth and put his right hand out on top of the metal liquid. His hands were covered in grey and black smoke with ice around them; he had somehow frozen the silver liquid and turned it back into a sword.

Taehyung picked the sword up and looked at me before averting his gaze towards the messenger. "Look at who's kneeling down now, huh? What should I cut first? The tongue that called my name, or the hands that were about to ruin me? You can decide for yourself."

"Please don't do this to me." The messenger looked at Taehyung with tears in his eyes as he rubbed his hands together, asking for mercy and forgiveness from the Dark Lord. "King Trevor told me to get Y/N so that he could ruin you. Please let me go. I only did what I was told."

It's not his fault. He's a servant; he has to do what his boss says without asking any questions. That's what he was supposed to do; otherwise, the Bazooka king would have killed him anyway.

"Taehyung, please let him go. It's not his fault." I knew I had to do something to save him. Despite him putting my life in danger, I know it wasn't his fault. "Just let him go."

He turned his head towards me and started his selfish talk. "This is your problem, humans. You can't see anyone dying, despite how much they have done to you. Do you even realise that his claw could have ripped your life out? But no. Goddess Y/N here has to save a life. Wowwww"

He placed his sword on the messenger's throat as he looked at me again. "See what it looks like when a life is slowly seeping out with the blood."

I ran towards the crazy man and said, "Taehyung no!" but it was too late. He swung his sword over his head and brought it back down, slashing the messenger's neck. The messenger's blood splattered on my face as I watched his body drop dead into the floor.

I looked at the dead man on the floor as his blood pool spread further and further across the marble floor.

"What have you guys done? .. He said that he was told to do it; then why didn't you listen to him? Why didn't you let him go?" Too heartbroken to handle the situation on my own, I started mumbling random questions to the boys.

"Who cares if he was told to do it or if he did it himself? A threat is a threat." This cocky shit has to talk, doesn't he?

"You all are monsters! You care about nothing but yourselves. You don't know what it feels like to just be there and watch a life drain out. You all are monsters! That's what you are." Unable to control myself, I let my anger take over.

"Well, thanks for pointing that out. Yes, we are monsters, and I'll let you know that this is Hell, the Dark World, and we are the rulers here. We're not rainbows and cotton candy. We are actual monsters who won't think twice before killing someone. So if you didn't already know, we are devils and demons who don't give a shit about anyone except ourselves." Taehyung vented his anger at me before walking off.

Jin came forward and put his hand on my shoulder. "Don't worry about his words, Y/N; he's just like that at times. I looked back at the messenger; his eyes were still open. I walked over, ran my hand over his face, and closed his lids.

"He might have had a family too."

Author's POV

"Come on, Y/N, let's get your wound treated. Lilith will be called back to the palace to take care of you." Namjoon said as he gently held Y/N by the shoulders, taking her to the white room.

"No, it's ok. Don't call Lilith. Let her rest; she was with me the whole day. Let's give her a break." Y/N said as she walked across the ballroom with Namjoon. "Ouch!" The vine of thorns that Jin created with his powers scratched her arm.

"Oh no. Y/N, are you ok?" Jungkook ran up to her in concern. She felt the pain of the thorn wound tingle from her arm to her head. She looked up at Jungkook in confusion.

"Who are you?.."

💜Published  28/10/23💜