the lights went out.. again. leaving the boys with only their senses of touch, smell, and hear to be the only ones possible for them to enable.

a voice lingers ahead, owned by someone they're quite surprised to hear. "how the fuck are we supposed to do that?!" taehyun curses a little bit loudly for everyone to hear, casually letting everyone know that he's now on the sofa conscious.

hyunbin can't help but laugh. "way to make an appearance hyung."

"are you alright now?" yongguk asks tentatively, him still maintaining his position so that he wouldn't step on any strings.

"never the better. still in the couch, chillin'. they treated me drugs, for god's sake. the thing's sting." taehyun mutters.

"you heard what the lady said, right? find sanggyun-hyung's phone. great, a little treasure hunt will do." donghan sighs. he felt like he's having an audiocall with his hyungs, as he couldn't even see anything in front of him because of the room being unquestionably pitch black. "just don't know how are we able to find them when there's no clues at all."

all of the sudden, they are all bombarded by bunch of background music, ringtones played simultaneously by the six phones that are scattered all over the house. "what in the world..?" yongguk scowls, not pleased by the loud noises that are coming from everywhere.

"are these phone calls?" kenta asks.

"no, it's our alarm going off." taehyun embroiders, immediately remembering what they had planned earlier before shit started happening. "practice, remember? i told you all to get an alarm for 2.45am in the morning so we could have another practice in the dance studio." he self-consciously grins to himself. "good thing you all followed my orders."

"so what's the plan now?" yongguk asks.

"the plan now is don't move an inch before we got a plan." kenta instructs. his head shifted to wherever he felt taehyun's voice is coming from. "what's the plan?"

"find your phones. don't touch the strings. be quiet." taehyun's voice is clear and unprecedented. he could sense the other boys nodding along with him as he told them what to do.

kenta stares at the thin line in front of him that subconsciously glimmers in the dark. "you could see the strings by—"

"fuck." yongguk curses under his breath, loud enough to catch everyone's attention.

"yongguk, are you alright?" taehyun immediately arches his back, his instincts to protect his younger brothers started kicking in.

it took a short pause for yongguk to answer. "yes, i'm alright. my legs' straining after being at the same position for so long."

"then we should get moving fast." kenta reminds. "as i was saying, the strings are quite shiny, so you could see the thin lines if you look closely. don't move too fast, just be careful." he breathes. "we don't know what these strings do, but i'm pretty sure they're dangerous. just try not avoid them."

"do you think it's better to tell our alarm ringtone so we would know which is ours and which is sanggyun?" hyunbin gives a suggestion.

"mine is 나야나." yongguk answers ever-so-suddenly.

"oh little girl." donghan answers as he immediately took his phone that was previously placed on the table and turns the alarm off.

knowing that donghan had that song for his alarm earlier before, taehyun nods to assure the boy's statement. "red velvet's rookie."

"taeyang's eyes nose lips." states hyunbin.

they were awaiting for kenta's answer, but there seems to be no word from the guy. "kenta?" taehyun asks again.

"oh yeah!" the japanese boy slips back to reality. "taemin-sunbaenim's sayonara hitori, japanese version."

yongguk sneers. "why would we care what version it is?"

"who knows? there could be someone else using the korean version."

"can we go now? i see strings." hyunbin voices out. his legs were already killing him.

taehyun nods. "alright, good luck everyone. say something if there's anything important." and by that, the mission starts.