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The fog was thick, muffling sound and sight. When it parted, Jimin could see the street rising ahead of him, slick and wet with rain, he could only hear the crunch of his own footsteps as he walked through the narrow streets of the city.
"Kim Taehyung! Where did you go, you bastard?" Jimin raised his voice in a shout. "Where could he have gone? That idiot. We have to stick together on a job for a reason."
Looking up and down the street, he decided to go back to where he came from in search of better light. He looked upwards, to where the street narrowed into a passage that gave way into the dark waters of the Han river in the distance.
"Kim Taehyung!" Jimin tried again. This time a voice answered him, "Over here. Follow the torch light."
Jimin walked towards the sound of Taehyung's voice. It seemed to be coming from an alleyway between two buildings, a faint gleam visible within the shadows. "Did you not hear me before? What if something had happened and -"
"I did hear you." Taehyung said as he walked out of the alleyway and into the streetlight. He had the hood of his jacket up, but Jimin's eyes were drawn to the dark stains across his clothes and the blood smeared across his hands.
Jimin tensed, "You're bleeding. What happened?"
"It's not mine, but you need to see this."
Jimin glanced past him and into the shadows. Next to the dumpster in the far corner was a crumpled figure- only a shadow in the darkness, but when Jimin looked closely enough he could make out the figure of a pale hand and a few wisps of hair.
"A person?" Jimin asked. "Dead?"
"A child really, no more than 10."
At that, Jimin cursed out loud and looked up at his friend. "Do you think a demon did this?"
"The faint smell of sulphur and the claw marks are proof of that."
Jimin cursed out again and brought out his phone.
"Hello? Namjoon-hyung, the situation is worse than we expected.."
•~•
"The demon got away?" Seokjin asks as he and Jungkook walk into the Kim household. Seokjin walks straight to the free armchair next to the big windows and plops down, as Jungkook takes off his big boots and places them neatly in the shoe rack, unlike Jin who just left his shoes there, he picks those up too and keeps them in the rack.
"It did," Jimin answers, drinking warm tea from a cup that warms his palms and greets Jungkook with a peck as he sits sideways on Jimin's lap. Jimin runs his hands through Jungkook's hair and watches his ears twitch as Jungkook nuzzles into him.
"Did you guys find anything useful?" Namjoon asks as he walks into the room with a cup of steaming tea.
"We did," Seokjin states as he tries to reach for the cup of tea that Namjoon hands him with a fond smile and sits down on the empty couch.
"Wait, where did you get the information from again?" Hoseok asks as he walks into the room.
“Alright, so what happened was-
Inside, smoke from dry-ice permeated the room making it hard to see the floor. Hundreds of different alcohol bottles lined the wall behind the bar. It was fairly crowded, the night was alive with music, laughter and talking. Coloured lights glimmered over the dance floor, turning it into a multicolour tandem of blues, reds and acid greens.
Mayhem was a pub that was one train ride away from the Kim household. It was a hub for all kinds of creatures to meet at, Jungkook's nose scrunches at the overwhelming scent of the many alcohols and human scents mingling in the bar together. His ears twitch at the music and all the sounds inside the pub, he wants to leave as soon as he enters the place.
Seokjin and him stride straight towards the bar and see a familiar face. Jin sighs in relief as he sits down in an empty seat while greeting his friend, "Haneul!" Who had his back turned towards them because he was preparing a customer's drink.
A tall man with many piercings turned towards them. His long sleeved dress shirt covered most of his tattoos, but because of it being folded up currently some were peeking through.
"Seokjin! What can I get for you? Is it the usual?" Haneul asks inquisitively as he eyes Jungkook taking a seat next to him and hands the drink to the customer next to Seokjin.
"Unfortunately we can't drink today, but we are looking for some information," Seokjin says as he folds his hands on the counter and slightly leans towards him.
"Ah, you mean about the missing children?"
"Yes, Jimin and Taehyung found a 10 year old, bloodied."
"Ah shit, that's brutal," Haneul sighs as he looks back at Seokjin while leaning forward towards him too and adds, "I've been hearing some rumors, I’m not sure how accurate it is, but people have been saying that there have been experiments being done on children."
"What kind of experiments?" Jungkooks asks, form tensing slightly.
"I’m not sure but I'll try and find someone that can explain it in detail to you." Hanuel says as he places two cans of coke in front of both of them, "But in the meantime, here." He adds.
Jungkook takes a sip of his coke as he looks around his surroundings, he sees a group of college students sitting at a booth. One of them was bright red as her friends laughed at her, a soft smile broke out on his face at the scene.
He looks away from the group and finds a pair of bright red eyes staring back at him and stiffens. He hasn't seen a vampire in a very long time, the only vampire he knows is his Yoongi-hyung. After the recent war, most supernatural creatures had fled Seoul. Right now, Seoul is the safest place for a human. But it seems like most of the creatures are starting to migrate back slowly.
Jungkook takes more sips of his coke. With a bored expression, his attention going to the couple sitting beside him, their hushed voices getting sharper as one of them seems to bring something up. He listens in, looking at the countless bottles of alcohol in front of him as they argue.
"There's no way that is possible. No way, right?" The woman next to him says, leaning in closer to her partner, eyes wide. "That's gotta be bullshit!"
"It's not! I swear, the last message from that guy said that the kids are being used as subjects for those experiments!"
"And you're telling me this now!"
Jungkook raises his eyebrows as the couple bicker, getting so fired up to the point that Haneul has to seperate them to try and calm them down. The man waves a paper around frantically and Jungkook can't quite see what's on it, only red scribbling from what he can catch.
He and Seokjin get up as the argument starts to escalate. "Woah, woah. Calm down." Jin says as he walks in between the couple and grabs the paper and hands it to Jungkook.
"Dude! Give that back, what the fuck?!" The man shouts as he tries to reach for the paper.
"Deokgo!" The women gasps as she recognises who the man holding the piece of paper is and pulls him towards herself. "Do you not recognise them!" She whisper yells at him as she bows at Jin and Jungkook.
"What? Aera! They took-"
"Deokgo! They are part of the Seterin, you idiot!"
The seterin are a group of 7 individuals, who fought together in a war against demons. It had been a few years since portals that acted as a gateway for demons and other gnarly creatures to pass into earth, had been destroyed. The Seterin are well respected by anyone who knows what actually happened all those years ago, and know that if there is something to do with demons and supernatural crises, they are the ones who are most reliable.
"The wha- OH." Deokgo looks back at them with wide eyes and looks back at Aera.
"So, who are you?" Seokjin asked as he towers over the couple, who were sitting straight as a pole in front of them as Jungkook fiddled with the paper in his hands.
"I'm Deokgo, and she is Aera. We're informants, sir. We've been looking into the disappearances of kids from the ages of 6-12."
"And how much information have you collected?" Jungkook speaks up as he sets the paper in the middle of the table.
"We have been speculating that the kids have been getting kidnapped, The kidnappers have been good at covering their tracks though. But we did find this near one of the bodies… one of their only mishaps.." he trails off as he pulls out something wrapped in a white cloth, a sharp weapon.
"A dagger? " Seokjin asks in a confused voice as he takes the dagger to have a closer look. He hands it off to Jungkook as he sits back against the booth. The dagger had a long thin blade. It's handle was made of wood but was wrapped in leather for better grip. It's leather was worn, it's definitely seen better days.
"Wait, a human gripped dagger? Does that mean-" Jungkook asks as he places it on the table after wrapping it in the cloth again.
"Yes, this means that it couldn’t be a demon in that case, it can't be another supernatural creature either," Jin sighed as he ran his hands down his face, suddenly looking extremely exhausted.
"It's probably humans who did this."
“Humans? But before that you also mentioned experiments, do you know what kind of experiments?" Jungkook asks, confused.
“Well, from what that letter your holding says, and what the informant said, it seems to be that they are injecting demon blood into kids.” The guy says in a hushed whisper.
“What will they gain from injecting demon blood into kids? Aren’t they just killing these kids?” Jin asks, frowning and looks at Jungkook to see a similar expression.
"Hyung, I think they might have a lot to gain from that." Jungkook says in a quiet voice, as he pulls Seokjin closer to himself.
"What do you mean?" Seokjin whispers.
"I really hope it isn't this, but I think it might have something to do with warlocks.." Jungkook sighs out, grip tightening on his coke can.
"Wait, warlocks?" Seokjin asks, extremely confused.
"Yeah, during the war, I was assigned to handle some ancient supernatural scrolls, one of them stated that there were experiments done to create a creature called a ‘warlock’ . Basically a half demon being, and it was said that they are the one who opened up all the portals. They possess magical traits, and can cause devastation if created again. I didn’t think it was true because the history we’ve been told always just says that they appeared out of nowhere due to overuse of magic." Jungkook explained.
"So, what you're saying is that these kidnappers are doing these experiments because they think what these scrolls stated were true? And they want to open up the portals to hell again?" Seokjin hears the alarm in his own voice.
"But where are these humans getting the demon blood from?" Jin speaks up louder, "Do you guys have any information on that?" He looks at the duo sitting in front of them.
"We couldn't find any information on that, I'm sorry sir." Deokgo says, as he shakes his head.
"I see. Did you find anything else?"
"No sir." Deokgo said.
Seokjin stands up as Jungkook takes the last sip of his coke and also stands up, "If you find anything else, let us know." Seokjin states, leaving a card in front of the other two.
The duo walk out of the bar, with grave expressions on their faces. "What kind of humans would do this, hyung?" Jungkook asks in a quiet voice.
"Humans who think it smart to meddle in demon business, ones that usually end up as bloody bones and guts inside some pentagram."
"But that information is really far fetched-" Jimin says frowning.
"You think the person was lying to us?" Jungkook asks as he steals Jimin's cup and takes a sip.
"That's because there's no way that it could be possible, you are saying you actually believe that all those kids that have gone missing the past month have been because of ‘experiments’?" Jimin huffs out, "Guys you can't actually be considering it-" he frowns looking around at the others.
"Hyung, we've seen enough stuff to not just brush things like supposed experiments off and the guy had a letter-" Jungkook says but gets cut off by Jimin.
"What did the letter say?" Jimin asked. Jungkook pulls the letter out of his coat pocket and hands it to him.
At the west of Sincheon, one of the abandoned warehouses.
They meet at the warehouse abandoned by the Lee group.
A group of 13 people gather.
experiments on children kidnapped from the streets.
One member left on the 25th of September.
Currently 12 members.
They meet at 11pm most days.
"So we have a location and the kind of threat that is waiting for us," Jimin says as he starts to get up, "Humans are easy enough to handle, even the troublesome ones." He adds.
"Wait, we can't be sure that it’s only humans and we can't all go in bursting into their hideout." Seokjin states, as he stands up too.
"I think all the fighters in our group should go, obviously." Namjoon speaks up.
"I'll call Yoongi-hyung." Hoseok states as he pulls his phone out, already calling his number. "Hello? Hyung-" Hoseok's voice fades out as he walks out of the room.
•~•
Night had fallen over Seoul by the time the group arrived at the warehouse district of Sincheon. They get out of their car, parking a few blocks away from the district and decide to walk the rest of the way through the scattered buildings. The group had arrived a few hours prior to when the kidnappers were said to meet and had walked the distance to the far end of the district, where the abandoned warehouses were.
During the night, the warehouse district looked bleak, the air cold around them as they walked towards all the seemingly abandoned buildings. Due to the lack of streetlights in this part of the district, it was hard to see much around them, but their eyes adjusted to the darkness and the illumination from the moon helped a little. They used their flashlights to look for the warehouses belonging to the Lee group and found the ones rather quickly.
They found a couple of them next to each other, "Guys I think it's this one." Taehyung who was walking a few steps ahead said, pointing the flashlight to the fairly new padlock keeping the building locked. The building had a huge '2' painted on it with white paint.
The group decided to take cover in the warehouse in front of warehouse 2. Jimin tried to rattle the door to the warehouse, but a rusted padlock held it closed. He raised his foot and kicked the door with all his might and watched as the handle holding the padlock to the door ripped free from the door and dangled from the other one, and the padlock hit the ground with a clink. He walked inside the building followed by Taehyung who smirked as he followed Jimin, no matter how many times he's seen it happen, it's always entertaining. Jungkook whistles as he and the others follow the two into the building.
Hoseok leaves his things next to the group who have settled next to the far right corner of the building, with Jungkook ripping the edge of the newspapers plastered to the big windows to keep watch of the building before them, and goes to scout for spots useful for long ranged weapons.
Hoseok finds a good spot on the roof of warehouse 3 that was on the right side, with a good view to the inside of the other building. He also broke into warehouse 2 through an open window on the second floor deciding to scout it real quick, he heard rustling behind him and tensed, grabbing a hold of the dagger tucked into his long boots. As he heard footsteps walk closer to him, he spun on his heels and held it to the person's throat. "Taehyung!" Hoseok yells in a whisper, as he lowers his weapon.
"Hyung," Taehyung says in a teasing tone, "You know better than to go scouting enemy territory all alone." He walks ahead of him looking for places to hide in case things get bad.
"I almost killed you," Hoseok huffs as he follows Taehyung.
"But you didn't." Taehyung smirks, looking back at him.
"I should have."
"So, you and Taehyung, I've never asked but-"
"You wanna know why we are so compatible?" Jimin chuckles as he settles down next to Jungkook who was leaning against a wall with his knees bent and his arms resting on the, he rests his head on his muscular shoulder.
"I was curious. Jin always prefers to send you both together on a mission." Jungkook states and shrugs, which in turn disturbs Jimin. Jungkook places a soft kiss on his hair as an apology.
"That he does. Taehyung and I grew up together." Jimin smiles softly. "You know about the hunter bloodlines right? And how I'm part of the Park family?" Jungkook hums affirmatively and nods his head.
"Taehyung is part of the Kim family." Jungkook sits up straight," The Kim family?" He asks incredulously.
"Hmm, the family with more rules than bonds. The Parks and Kims were neighbors. There was also the fact that our parents were friends. We didn't have many households close to each other back in Busan, only acres of land stretching out before we could find another house. We used to train together in Taehyung’s house because we had the same teacher, and we used to study together in my house.
"We've always been a team and have always had each other's backs. Be it sneaking out of the house to meet up with boyfriends, or in battle. We played together, fought together and basically were all the family the other had, because our parents usually left us with our respective housekeepers to take care of us, they hardly found the time for each other, nevermind their children."
"That's horrible, I'm sorry."
"It's all good, Taehyung is one of the best things to happen to me, including you of course." Jimin smirks as he leans close to Jungkook's face and who smiles and leans in to capture his mouth in a sweet kiss.
The group who were sitting in the right corner of the warehouse, discussing necessary strategies, quieted down as they heard a vehicle pull up outside. Jungkook got up and peaked through the gap he created. He counted 12 people getting off the van wearing dark clothes and cloaks that reached their knees. He watched as they dragged out two children, who were crying and struggling as they were pushed into the building. He tensed and clenched his fist as he felt anger bubbling in him, he felt someone place their hand on his shoulder and relaxed slightly.
"We'll save them." Jimin stated as he patted his lover's shoulder and moved to attach his swords' sheath to his back, and took his swords and placed them in their respective sheathes.
"They have two hostages, boys, who can't be older than 9." Jungkook states quietly. When the kidnappers close the two doors of the building, Jungkook gives them the affirmation to leave the building, he moves away from the window and follows them. The group splits into two smaller groups, Jimin and Taehyung will infiltrate the building from the ground floor, while Jungkook and Hoseok will take the second floor.
Jimin pulls Jungkook towards himself with his jacket and pecks him, "Don't you dare get hurt, I love you." He whispers against his lips and pulls him harder against him before letting him go. "I love you too, take care of yourself, my love."
"Stay safe guys." Hoseok says as he starts going towards warehouse 3, which provides them with a path to the roof of warehouse 3.
Jimin and Taehyung sneak towards the alleyway between warehouse 1 and warehouse 2, where Taehyung had left a window open for them to crawl into.
As they got in, they hid behind the pillar. They had a good view of what the kidnappers were doing. A man with a longer cloak than the others stepped towards the children sitting in the middle of the warehouse, with their kidnappers forming a semi circle around them. The children sat close to each other taking comfort from each other's presence, but they started crying louder as the person- who seems to be the leader of this group came closer to them, and took off his cloak's hood.
"Aww don't cry, it'll hurt only for a little bit." he said in a saccharine voice.
"Please let us g-" one kid spoke up with a trembling voice but got cut off as the man struck him across his face. "Shut the fuck up! You only speak when I allow you too." He yelled at the kids who nodded their heads while crying harder.
"Bring me the syringes!" He speaks loudly, and reaches his hand out.
One of his people brings a suitcase to the man and kneels down next to him, pulls out a syringe and hands it to him.
The syringe had a liquid so dark it almost resembled obsidian. Jimin felt sick as he once again remembered what they were going to inject into those poor kids.
"You kids are going to be the reason for salvation on this planet! Be proud about being part of this!" The man said maniacally. "This liquid here," he points at the syringe, "it can make you one of the strongest thing on this planet, yo-"
Jimin and Taehyung were so absorbed in what was happening before them that they didn't realize that there were only 11 people forming the semi-circle. Taehyung heard a rustle behind him, and tried to warn Jimin, but before he could, the person yelled and charged towards them with a dagger aiming at Taehyung's chest.
Taehyung had grabbed Jimin and pulled him towards himself and dogged, but he ended up crashing into the middle of the room with Jimin on top of him. They quickly got up and stood with their backs to each other while drawing out their weapons. Jimin and Taehyung cursed loudly as they got quickly surrounded by the people.
"What the fuck!?" The man shouts startled as he turns around. The people formed a semi-circle pulling out weapons that ranged from swords to daggers to guns.
"Gentleman!" The man said in a cloyingly sweet voice, as he raised his hand signaling his people to put their weapons down. "You finally decided to join us!" He says in a mocking tone.
"What? You knew we were here?" Jimin asks shocked and frowns at Taehyung who shares his expression.
"Well, of course I did. All the Lee group's warehouses are wired!" The leader laughs loudly, like he thinks they are children who made a stupid mistake.
"Why are you doing this to those poor children?" Jimin speaks up as he takes a step towards the man. All of the man's people hold up their weapons threateningly, they realize with their hearts dropping that some of them have guns.
"Woah, keep your distance dude. These people are crazy and they won't hesitate to kill ya’ll." he laughs out and shrugs. "And why am I doing this? Maybe because I like watching them writhe in pain as the blood of Azael flows through them, making them his children. The ones who fail to accept his blood have no right to live anyways, maybe that's why they scratch their own eyes out and kill themselves."
The duo had all the blood drained from their faces and were pale as cotton. "Azael- as in the devil element of water?" Jimin spoke quietly. Afraid that if he speaks any louder he will throw up.
"Yes, You know of our god! I presume you would be open to joining o-"
"Fuck no!" Taehyung says in a wobbly voice.
"I'm sorry what? Did I just hea-"
"You heard that right you fucking monster!" Taehyung yells as he raises his hand.
Arrows start flying above their head and towards the people standing in front of them, landing in the legs of four people, the ones who held guns, scream as they fall to the ground. Others around them charge towards the duo and some towards the two children.
Jimin yells, "Jungkook! Get down here!" As he charges towards the group and uses his two swords to slash two people's chests, not deep enough to kill them, but deep enough that they can't move because of the magic infused in it, it paralyzes them. Taehyung watches Jimin's back as the person who found them hiding behind the pillar charges towards them again, and slashes his sword across her left side, the female falls to the ground screaming and writhing in pain.
Jungkook hops off the second floor railing in his panther form and startles some members of the group. He has beautiful matte black fur that allows him to blend into the darkness easily, and has the most beautiful shade of honey brown eyes, one shade lighter than the ones he owns as a human.
The humans yell as they charge towards him, but Jungkook was able to knock two of them off their feet with his paws, he bites down onto one of their thighs and presses his clawed hands into the other's dominant hand. The one whose hand is being stepped on reaches for a dagger to try and stab Jungkook in the back, when an arrow plunges itself deep into his shoulder courtesy of Hoseok. He howls in pain as Jungkook digs deeper into their bodies before he let's them go, and stands in front of the kids adopting a protective stance.
He makes a saw-like sound as he tries to get the only other standing person to back off. He catches Taehyung charging towards the leader with his sword pointed and sees him plunge his sword into the leaders shoulder and the man cries out in pain before raising his fist and punching Taehyung in the face, Taehyung becomes dazed enough to drop his sword and stumbles back. The man chuckles before he raises his fist to sucker punch him again, but Jimin runs towards the man and kicks him in the chest, hard, making him stumble and fall onto his back. He hits the man on the head hard enough to leave him with a concussion to last for weeks.
Jimin moves away from the man as the person who was near Jungkook charges towards them with a sword, Jimin holds off the man using his swords in a crossed position, he can't help but take on a defensive stance because his opponent is stronger than he is at the moment.
Taehyung regains his footing and goes to punch the leader in the face, "You motherfucker! How could you do that to so many innocent children?!" He gets angrier and punches the man harder. Jimin manages to knock his opponent on his ass after mustering all his strength and looks back at Taehyung and goes wide-eyed as he watches a person with an arrow in his thigh sit up and pick up a dagger.
"TAEHYUNG!" Jimin yells as he watches the dagger being thrown toward Taehyung, aiming for his chest. He takes off running towards Taehyung, but he knows he won't make it.
The sharp sound of an arrow being released cuts through the silence as it hits the dagger mid-air and knocks it off mid air. Another arrow flies behind Jimin, he looks back and sees it plunge into the attacker behind him. He has enough experience with archery to know that it plunges itself in the man's heart, he watches as the person flops onto the ground bleeding, with more blood spewing from his mouth.
He looks back up at Hoseok who walks into the light and away from the darkness and bows his head in gratitude, as he walks towards Taehyung who has knocked the leader out and is sitting down on the floor clutching his right hand.
"You okay?" Jimin asks as he flops down next to him. Taehyung nods his head in affirmation and holds his hand up,"I think I broke this.." he chuckles softly.
"With you going ham on that guy, it’s no wonder." Jimin laughs as he looks towards Jungkook who is still pacing in front of the children, looking straight at Jimin, who opens his arms inviting him to come to him. Jungkook walks behind the children and uses his muzzle to push and support the children to stand-up, and make them walk to Jimin.
The kids run to Jimin, assuming his open arms are for them, and Jimin laughs loudly as they hold him as tight as their tiny bodies would allow and smiles apologetically towards Jungkook who makes a chuffing sound, his tail moving slowly to show that he is amused and settles down in front of them.
"I'll ask you once more, Where did you get the blood from?" Jimin punches the man tied to the chair. "I don't know! I don't know!" The henchmen cries out as Jimin goes to punch him again. "I only know that a pentagram worked once, but we couldn't contain the demon, so it's roaming the streets and killing off humans!" Jimin walks away from the guy and slides down onto the floor taking the water-bottle Taehyung offers him.
Jungkook walks into the room and asks, "He still didn't give us anything about the blood?"
"Nope. I'm starting to think that he knows nothing either. But there is still that one demon loose in the city." Jimin states as he takes another sip of his water, breathing heavily.
"So we can't get anything useful till the leader guy wakes up? Thanks to a certain someone." Jungkook sighs and looks straight at Taehyung, teasingly glaring at him.
Taehyung frowns and says, "Look I'm sorry okay? I got overwhe-"
"I know, I know! I'm kidding." Jungkook chuckles as he raises his hands. Taehyung frowns harder and turns to look at Jimin as Jungkook leaves the room, Jimin looks back at him and laughs loudly.
"That brat loses more of his manners everytime I speak to him, I swear!" Taehyung grumbles, but leans into Jimin as he runs his hand through Taehyungs hair and pats it down.
"Jimin! Tae-hyung! The leader is awake!" Jungkook yells from the other room.
Jimin gets up and helps Taehyung stand up too and they walk out and see the leader blinking his eyes open and looking around him.
"Rise and shine!" Jungkook says with a fake smile as the man raises his head to look straight at him.
"Well well well. Look who finally decided to wake up." Taehyung says mockingly as he strides away from the leader and towards Hoseok who was leaning against a wall.
"What the fuck?! Let me go right no-" he gets cut off as Jungkook punches him hard, he hears the sick cracking of bones breaking, and feels it break under his knuckles. He watches satisfied as blood gushes out of his nose while the man howls in pain, trashing in his chair.
"You will speak when spoken to." Jungkook states as he walks away from the guy. "Don't worry, you'll get plenty of opportunities to speak." He adds sweetly.
"So, where did you get the blood from?" Jimin asks, striding towards the man, flexing his fingers as he looks up at him threateningly.
"I don't know-" Jimin raises his fist, "No! No! I'm sorry! It was given to us!"
"Given to you by who?" Jimin asks, beginning to pace in front of the man, with his arms crossed across his chest.
"We don't know the name! It was sent to us by an owl, we don't have any information on who did it! They also sent us all the information we have on warlock experiments!" The man yells out, his voice wobbling.
"Did anyone surv-"
"Hyung!" Jimin says sharply, as he turns to look at Hoseok who is still leaning against the wall with his arms crossed.
"What? It needs to be asked!" Hoseok shrugs. "Did you succeed?" He looks back at the man.
The man shakes his head, "None of the children seemed compatible with the blood, we even increased the dosage, but all of them didn't last more than a few days.." the bloodied man says meekly. Jimin feels sick, and he breathes out heavily.
"What about the demon, you let loose? Do you have a way to track that?" Jimin asks as he pauses his pacing.
"One of my men, the male one with blond hair in that corner," He raises his head, tilting it to the left of the room, where some of the Henchmen were tied up. "He has a stone. A tracking stone, it is infused with the demon's blood. We got it done before the demon escaped incase- well in case it actually escaped, by the owls advice." He sighs out, cringing in pain as he shifts on the chair.
"Huh? You had some use after all." Jimin sneers at him.
Jungkook walks to the henchman and crouches next to the man - a boy really. And pulls out the locket around his neck. The stone was a dull gray color, but had a dull, eerie glow to it.
"So it will glow brighter when the demon is closer?" Jungkook questions as he holds the pendant in his palm.
"Yeah." The man coughs out. Jimin and Jungkook move to where Hoseok and Taehyung are leaning against the wall.
"I think you guys should go to the Kim household, take the children with you. Taehyung, You need to get Namjoon-hyung to look at your hand. Jungkook and I will go hunt down that demon and come back there." Jimin says dialing 112. He moves away from the group as he talks to the police telling them that there has been a gang fight.
The group were a few blocks away from the Kim household, when the stone in Jungkook's palm glowed really bright. Hoseok, who was driving the car, was startled at the sudden brightness.
"You can drop us off here hyung." Jimin says. He gets out of the vehicle with Jungkook following him, "Stay safe guys." Taehyung tells them just as the car takes off.
It was close to dawn, the cold air cutting through their clothes as they walked into the alleyways of buildings. "Hyung? Don't you think it's weird?"
"What is weird?" Jimin asks, confused.
"That the demon is so close to the Kim house.." Jungkook starts, but stops himself as the stone glows blindingly bright.
They both quieten down as they look around at their surroundings. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, the alleyway was dark as they were surrounded by buildings in all directions and the sun was barely out.
Jungkook listens closely to any sounds around them, his ears twitching on his head. Suddenly he hears a loud shrieking noise and watches as a window above their heads shattered.
Jimin points the torch overhead and they watch in horror as claw-like hands reach out through the gaping hole, they realize with shock that the scaled claws are holding a kid whose feet are spasming as the claw digs into the tiny body. The claw yanked the kid through the window and flew out of the window in a blur of black mass.
Jimin took off running towards the demon as he cursed out loud and pulled both his swords out of their sheaths.
"Jimin-ah I’m gonna transform!" Jungkook yelled and Jimin heard the sick sound of bones breaking and rearranging. He hated when Jungkook had to transform that fast, it put heavy strain on his mind and body.
Transformation required concentration. If one transforms without preparing themselves, it can lead to heavy physical consequences. Some hybrids have been permanently disabled due to reckless transformation, some have also died.
"YOU IDIOT!" Jimin yelled as he charged towards the walkway that the demon had disappeared into. "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU THINKING?!"
Jimin heard a quiet apologetic meow in return, and turned just in time to see Jungkook blend into the darkness around them. He sighs as he sprints faster toward Hanbang bridge.
In the faint illumination of the moon, Jimin spotted a tiny figure laying limp at the riverbank, with a massive demon sprawled on top of him, pressing him down with the weight of its thick lizard-like tail, it's claws still cutting into his body.
Jimin felt nauseous as he realized that the demon didn't intend to kill the boy- yet, it was just playing with it’s food. Jimin sprinted faster and launched himself forward onto the demon, his sword slashing down across the demon's back.
The demon screeched it's inhumane scream and rolled off the little boy. Jimin realized that the demon was blind as the thing raised it’s head towards him, as if sensing him there. It had a gaping mouth in place of its eyes, with razor sharp teeth. It had another set of teeth at the bottom half of its ‘face’ with another set of razor sharp teeth. It's tail, also Jimin noticed, was lined with sharp lines of bone.
It charged towards Jimin, it's gaping mouths spewing thick slimy liquid that was slightly tinged red, it's talons slashing towards him. Jumping backwards Jimin threw one of his swords, aiming straight for the center of the demon's chest.
Jimin readies himself before he starts running and jumps straight towards the demon and tries to cut of one of its claw-like hands and succeeding in doing so before having to jump backwards because of it other claw coming at him.
He then quickly tries to slashes other limbs before it regenerates but only manages to cut off the other claw-like hand before the tail swishes and hits him causing him to crash into a building wall. Jungkook who had managed to climb onto the piers of the bridge, leaps off it and lands onto the demon’s back, trying to bite its head off but fails and is also tossed off of it.
Jungkook gets up and charges towards it again, swiping at one of the legs and manages to render it useless while Jimin gets up and sprints towards the demon, easily cutting off the other leg making the demon unable to fight back.
He wipes away the blood cooling on his chin but blood just keeps flowing out of the deep cut. He continues to slash at the demon's body, not giving it an opportunity to regenerate its limbs as Jungkook jumps onto it's back, chomping down on its head hard and dislocating it's cervical bone, before completely tearing it off to reveal it's shiny silver core.
The demon's life source. Jimin holds his weapon in front of him in a long stance, and sprints towards the demon while raising the sword above his head in a high stance and slashing at its core with all his might. The core cracks and breaks into a million tiny pieces. Jimin moves his blade away from the demon as inchor and black blood spews out of it, to prevent the viscous liquids from eating away at his blade. Jungkook jumps off the demon as its body disintegrates into a puddle of guts and flesh, finally banished back to whatever hellish world it came from.
Jimin stepped back towards Jungkook, who licked him across his left side of his face and neck, and made a disgusted protesting sound and tried to swat at Jungkook to make him stop.
Jimin rushed towards the little boy who was breathing shallowly, and was steadily bleeding out. Jimin tears off a part of his clothes to act as makeshift bandages, and performs whatever emergency first aid he knew on the boy. After he had done all he could to try and make sure the boy didn't die immediately, he took the boy in his arms, he turns towards Jungkook and ties the boy to Jungkook's back and adds, "Please make sure you aren't seen."
Jungkook nodded his head and seemed awfully human despite looking like a predator who could kill him in an instant, but knew he wouldn't because of the kind eyes staring back at him. Jungkook bows his head at Jimin and takes off in a sprint. Working his legs twice as hard, Jungkook was a blur as he sprinted through the empty streets of Seoul while managing to barely stay under the cover of the darkness provided by building alleyways.
Jimin reached the Kim household later than Jungkook, breathing heavily, he opened the door and walked in on Jungkook in his human form on the couch looking tired and fanning himself with his hand despite the fan running overhead.
"How's the kid?" Jimin asks, breathing heavily. He had sweat running down his back after the fight with the demon and running all the way back home.
"Namjoon-hyung took him into his office. He said the kid isn't in a critical condition anymore. He's just cleaning up and bandaging the kid now." Jungkook says sitting up.
"That's good." Jimin tiredly says and sprawls across the couch. "Really good."
"Want some coffee?" Jungkook asks, standing up and walking towards the kitchen. Jimin hums affirmatively and raises his hand to point his thumb up.
Jimin is almost asleep when he hears Namjoon and Seokjin walk back into the living room. He sits up when Jungkook walks into the room with his cup of coffee. He kisses Jungkook on the cheek as a quiet thank you, and takes a gulp of his hot coffee and hisses as it burns his tongue.
"Careful my love." Jungkook fusses over Jimin as he hands him a few tissue papers.
"How are you doing hyung?" Jimin asks as Namjoon sags into the couch.
"I'm good, just really tired." Namjoon sighs as he sinks lower, resting his head on the back of the couch. "You?"
"Same, can't wait for the night to be over and finally be able to sleep in my bed."
Yoongi and Hoseok walk in through the front door, followed by Taehyung, who has his hand wrapped in a crepe bandage.
"How's your hand doing Tae?" Namjoon asks as he looks up when the trio walk into the room.
"It doesn't hurt much now, hyung.. Thank you." Taehyung says sheepishly.
Jimin shoots up from his slouched position and walks speedily towards Taehyung who takes a few steps back at Jimin's threatening expression.
"What the fuck was that?" Jimin asks angrily as he pushes Taehyung's shoulder.
"Min, I'm sorry, I-"
"You better be fucking sorry, because whatever the fuck that was, was bullshit," Jimin points his finger in a general direction behind him, "I don't want a repeat of that ever again! You looked like a fucking amature, you fought like one and got hurt like one!"
"We take care of each other! But I can't do that for you if you don't take care of yourself first!" Jimin yells in Taehyung's face.
"I know, I'm sorry.." Taehyung says looking down at his feet, "It won't happen again."
"You promise right?" Jimin sticks his pinky out between them, "I promise." Taehyung interlocks their pinkies while smiling softly knowing that he's forgiven.
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A FEW WEEKS LATER.
Jimin wakes slowly to the chirping of birds and the slight chill of a rainy morning. He smiles sleepily when he feels Jungkook's arm wrapped around him and tries to cuddle back into his lover's warmth a little more, just a tiny bit more trying to keep the cold away.
Jimin admires the younger one even though he already knows the smallest of details on his face by heart as he’s done this many times before, it's his most treasured sight in the world and to be fair the world is really breathtaking.
Jimin lifts up a finger to trace over Jungkook's nose that now frames his grown face nicely, continues over to his lips and lastly cups his cheek when he sees Jungkook smile softly as he slowly opens his bleary eyes to meet his own.
"Good morning, my baby."
"G'morning…" Jungkook says with a slight pout as he pulls jimin in closer to try to go back to sleep.
"Wake up darling, we have to meet up with hyungs today." Jimin says lovingly.
"Mmm.. five more minutes… please?" The other replies once again through his pout and who is Jimin to resist his adorable lover, he kisses the younger's forehead and allows him to cuddle into his neck as he also wraps his arms around his partner.
Jungkook got out of the shower in his half naked glory and is drying his hair in front of their shared wardrobe when Jimin enters the room and he gapes because no matter how many times he's seen it His lover has an absolutely delectable body. He leans against the wall fanning himself when Jungkook turns around and smiles at him
"Hi baby, come here"
Jimin goes to him like a moth to a flame and wraps his arms around his waist and looks at him while resting his chin on his chest with a pout asking for kisses that Jungkook gladly gives him.
They kiss softly and were just enjoying each other's closeness, when Jungkook smells something burning he goes wide-eyed and yells,
"Hyung! The food!"
"Mmm what fo-?...... FUCK!!”
Jungkook can't help but laugh as he watches Jimin still frowning, he glares at his food, and if possible, it would have also caught fire. Jungkook chuckles again as he reaches across the table and intertwines their hands and lifts his lover's hand and gives it a small kiss.
"It's alright, baby" Jungkook tries his hardest to hold back his laughter, buf ends up bursting out laughing anyway.
Jimin lifts up the butter knife on, holding it threateningly towards Jungkook. "You do know that I'm talented at using a knife, right?" Jungkook laughs louder, drawing attention to them. "Sure love."
"So, whe-" Jungkook begins, but gets cut off by his phone ringing. He smiles apologetically at Jimin and answers the call.
"Hello? Yes hyung," Jungkook says as he takes a sip off his coffee. Jimin can hear the faint voice speaking really fast as he also takes a sip of his coffee.
"Wait, what? Hyung, slow down," Jungkook says frowning, and gets up, Jimin follows him and takes his hand as they speed walk out of the cafe and towards the Kim household.
"What do you mean?"
"The demon blood.." Yoongi says gravely, "We have a lead on where it's from."
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