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"Ming... Ming! Wake up!" A voice called, shaking the boy's shoulders. Minghao only grumbled, shifting around and refusing to wake up. However he soon jolted awake when a stinging pain suddenly arose from his shoulder. He winced as he threw himself up, rubbing his shoulder as he groggily tried to wake himself up. He blinked his eyes a couple of times, the blurry room he was in soon becoming clear as day.

The room was old and dusty, paint peeling off the walls and the flowers creaking constantly. There were smashed boards here and there, and a broken ceiling that was just barely hanging onto life. "Wha.... what happened? Where am I?" Minghao mumbles, rubbing his head in confusion.

"I should be the one asking that question." He turned his head to see Junhui giving him a look, his arms crossed in crossed in frustration. Minghao opened his mouth to explain but the shadow manipulator started speaking before he could. "This is where you've been this whole time? I was searching for you all day yesterday since you never came back after returning those guy's stuff."

"Oh..." Minghao trailed off, trying to remember what he meant. And then it hit the boy like a phoenix digging it's claws into his back. "Oh. Yeah about that... I did return they're stuff but I got... caught up with other stuff. Yeah, that's exactly what happened." He attempted to lie, giving the boy an awkward smile

Junhui rolled his eyes standing up and holding out his hand to him. "You're extremely lucky that those bastards haven't come by here yet. Who knows what would have happened if they caught you here alone." Minghao could only laugh, knowing damn well that he already had to deal with the worst of them just a day before. But Junhui didn't need to know that, it wasn't important.

"Wait... stranger. Where did stranger go?" Minghao questioned, looking around the area in a panic. He tried to walk around the area, but he felt a pain begin to ache in his legs. He pulled up a pants sleeve only to notice an ugly, bleeding bruise that ran down it. He winced, suddenly remembering the only reason he was in this room was because he feel through the floor with the stranger.

"Who?" Junhui asked, confused on what was going on. "Whoever you're looking for you should try again later... that's a pretty bad wound on your leg." He stated, grabbing Minghao hand and attempting to leave with him. Yet the leper snatched his hand away from him, a frown on his face as he turned around.

"No... that stranger was with me when I fell through... he must be hurt too. We can't leave him here!" Minghao protested, not just against Junhui but against his own body. He shouldn't be searching for a person he didn't know... it was probably for the best that the two parted ways right now while he still could. Yet he just had this feeling that if he left the stranger here now, he'd regret it later.

"Wait— you fell through what now? I leave you alone for one day and you're falling through things and making friends with strangers?" Jun commented. "This is crazy Minghao, what have you been doing this entire time, for real. Clearly you weren't only just returning some jewelry to those jerks."

"Oh shut up!" Minghao yelled, getting slightly annoyed with Junhui's attitude. He felt his body warm up, emitting a slight glow in the somewhat dark room the two were in at the moment. "Just... just help me find this guy okay? I... I owe him. Not anything bad but he just helped me with something. And now I'm going to help him." Oh how much of a hypocrite he sounded right now.

Junhui was taken back by this sudden glow that he was giving off, he was at a lost for words. For a couple of seconds he continuously tried to speak, wanting to point out the obvious of the odd glow he was giving off. "I don't know either. It keeps happening... the glowing stuff. I-I don't why but I just started going this yesterday."

"Nice to know you two are having a little chitchat." A voice sprung up, catching both of the boys off guard. The two got on edge, preparing themselves for the worst to come. Junhui began conjuring up the shadows, twisting and turning them as if they were just a thread on a spinning wheel. Unfortunately for Minghao that light he was giving off died down and the warmth of his body returned to its normal temperature.

In stepped the stranger, pushing a box along the floor as it rumbled in his grasp. The boy was covered in dust and scars, his hair ruffled up in a huge mess as blood trickling down from his lip. Minghao immediately ease, yet his eyes continued to dart from the box to the stranger. "Are you okay...? How did you end all the way over there when we fell in the same spot?"

"You can thank your friend over there." The stranger stated, sitting atop the box he had pushed into the room. He pointed to the object he sat on as he spoke. "Your friend seems to think it's real nice to send some man eating beast after me even though all I did was breathe in his direction." The stranger explained.

Minghao shot a quick glare towards Junhui, clearly not having any of his excuses anymore. Apart of that boy's powers was to create almost anything out of the shadows he possessed. He had figured out a way to make these canine-like hunting beast made completely of darkness. He had full command over them, and the beast followed his ever order. "What? He's a stranger! I didn't know who he was! How am I supposed to trust that he hadn't done something to harm you!?"

"Luckily, I stopped that thing before it killed me. Now you can figure out who I am and if I did any thing to hurt your friend." The stranger said, a smile appearing on his face though his eyes practically screamed mischief. Junhui opened his mouth to protest but ultimately deciding against it.

The stranger sat up with a smirk as he crossed his arms. "So without further ado, I guess a introduction is needed? Especially for your sunlight powered friend over there." He pointed towards Minghao before continuing on with his introduction. "The name is Choi Seungcheol. If I had any friends they'd call me Cheol. I'm from the Terra and I'm here on a mission. Nice to meet one of you."

"Wait what do you mean one of you—" Junhui started, but Minghao refuses to let him finish. The last thing he needed was Junhui starting a fight between the stranger, finally now known as Seungcheol. He didn't feel like dealing with his somewhat sharp remarks and quick come backs.

"Nice to meet you, Seungcheol. I'm Minghao and this is my close friend, Junhui. Please elaborate on what you mean by mission." He stated, beginning as polite as he possible could with him.

Though Seungcheol only snorted, a snarky smirk appearing on his face. "So now you wanna be friendly, huh? Well I suppose you should know... seeing as you're probably involved with what I'm here for anyways."

"Just explain what you mean, man! You're getting boring." Junhui exclaimed. Minghao shot a glare towards the shadow user, nudging him a bit for him to stop. He's already done enough with this guy, the most they could do was sit down and listen to what he had to say.

Seungcheol nodded as he began recalling the mission he was on. "I've been sent to this place due to a prophecy I received in my hometown in the Terra District. Due to this prophecy, I'm currently traveling through all four districts to find twelve members of it and complete it. I wouldn't be here right now if it didn't seem important."

"A prophecy?" Junhui questioned, unsure of whether he should trust this guy or not. "What kind? You said it's important right? What's in it?" If he had to be honest, Minghao was also curious about the prophecy itself. Since it was so big that this native Terraean had to leave his own district to fulfill it, he wanted curiosity to kill the cat right now.

Seungcheol thought about it for a second, trying to find the right words to put into his next statement. "There's this group of people that people in the Terra District call the Divine, they're a group of unusually powered people with magic out of the norm. The prophecy I was told about said they lived in each of the four districts in the Orenda continent but I just don't know where they all are."

"Unusually powered people, right?" Minghao questioned and Seungcheol nodded his head. "You've already got one. Junhui here, as you can tell, can control the shadows! That's definitely different from everyone else here in the Aero District, who all can manipulate the winds to their will." He explained.

"Yeah that's right, and I guess you can count Ming in it too..." Junhui added, glancing over towards his friend. "Originally I would have never believed that he'd be in a prophecy, but now it seems like he's got powers that he developed late. But they aren't normal powers like everyone else. So Ming and me are in this prophecy together..." he seemed satisfied with this answer he came up with before skeptically looking at Seungcheol. "But what about you?"

"Me? Oh that's easy. Clearly I'm the leader because I was given this prophecy." He explained. The two rolled their eyes at him, not liking the amount of confidence that he was aggressively giving off. Though Seungcheol gave them an apologetic smile before speaking,"Sorry I thought I'd be funny. I have the power to control magma, isn't that cool? Seems like a Pyroian power, but here I am! A Terraean with a fire power!"

"So you do have a point to exist in this prophecy." Junhui commented. Minghao had to resist punching his friend in the stomach, but it was hard. He had to grab his hand and force it away from Junhui in a desperate attempt to save his friend from a pummeling. "But that's besides the point now. There's three out of thirteen currently at the moment. So only ten more are needed to be found... but why are so many of us unusually superpowered begin gathered together?"

Seungcheol bit his lip. "The gypsy said... the divine had to take down the Tyrant King. Not just overthrow him... but kill him." Minghao and Junhui we're both left in shock, words unable to escape their mouths as they processed this new information. Them? Kill the Tyrant King? That's impossible! Nobody has ever seen the king, nobody has ever even heard his voice. How the hell were they going to kill him?

"Crazy, I know. Every single odd that you could possibly think of is stacked against us." Seungcheol continued, a somewhat defeated look on his face. "Trust me, when I first heard that the Divine had to kill the Tyrant King, I thought there was no way that we'd succeed."

"Well we won't know unless we try right?" Minghao inquired, trying to give off a more optimistic view on the situation. It was practically impossible to find and kill the Tyrant King. There was zero information on him, no one knows where we lived and no one knows what powers he holds. His appearance? Kept a secret. His voice? Not a single recording. It would be tough to even find his last location.

"But think about it. I was leper literally 24 hours ago." Minghao began, an awkward smile on his face. "Now I have powers. Jun uses shadows in his day to day life, you have control over magma! We are literally a living example of making the impossible possible! So... maybe it's not so impossible to defeat the Tyrant King."

Junhui only smiled at Minghao while Seungcheol nodded in agreement. "You're not wrong, kid. I guess we should just keep that mentality while trying find the other members of the Divine and also trying to find out more about the Tyrant King. The more we know about him, the better our odds are on defeating him."

"I'll help you with the other member the divine." Minghao offered, a smile on his face. "There's this one guy in the district that's really weird... he doesn't have natural air magic like everyone else in this district and he has a reputation for it. Though it's not a very good one."

"Oh I know who you're talking about!" Junhui exclaimed, his eyes widening as his cover his mouth. Seungcheol seemed lost, looking at both boys in confusion as he tried to get an answer of them. "You're talking about that boy with that killed all those birds when we were little... poison dude... ugh what was his name... it wasn't something Kwan right?"

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