Women and children were all locked up in a building with sleeping bags in rows. Some women would do the cooking and cleaning for the men that kidnapped them. Some women were used for sexual pleasures. The older women always convince the men to take them inside of the younger women, but one night their convincing didn't work. One man wanted one younger woman. They were protesting, but the men treated the life of the children, so the girl had no choice. The man pulled the girl into his bedroom. He threw her on the bed. She crawled backwards as he started walking to her. He grabbed her by the ankle and pulled her towards him. She struggled as he started kissing her on the neck.

"No, let go," she said, struggling to push him away since he held her hands above her head. Suddenly, she saw the man's head fall off his body and blood splashed on her face. She screamed in horror, she pushed the man away. She looked around, not seeing who killed him. She heard a commotion outside. She ran outside to see the barbarian men dying one by an invisible force that they can't see. The women and children were running around to escape the invisible force, but the invisible force wasn't even targeting them. She ran towards her mother and siblings.

"Mother! What is going on?" She asked her mother in their native language as she picked up one of her small siblings, following her mother to the building where everybody was hiding in.

"I don't know. All of a sudden, they started dying one by one with their head cut off by an invisible force," her mother answered as they hurled together. The last person tried to shut the door, but a barbarian man pushed through the door, knocking the woman on the ground. She crawled backwards towards the group. The man made his way towards the group with his sword, before he could get any closer, he was stabbed by the invisible force. The little children screamed in horror, crying as their mothers tried to calm them down. The women watched as the invisible force became visible. There were eight predators in front of them. The children were hiding behind their mothers and older siblings. The predators put away their weapons, looking at them.

"Wa vum's rirs aeui(we won't hurt you)," one of them said. The women were confused, not understanding. The girl that was saved from being raped stepped out towards them.

"Emery, get back here!" Her mother whisper-shouted at her.

"I don't think they want to hurt us," she replied as she stood a meter away from the predators.

"I'm sorry we don't understand you, but thanks for saving us," she said to them. The same one, who she thinks is the leader, pressed some buttons on the armor on his arm. A blue screen popped out.

"Wa ora rara su koqa aeui omd soda aeui bocd su aeuir ruka(We are here to save you and take you back to your home)," the same one said into his arm and the translations came on the blue screen. The other women and Emery read it.

"Oh, thank you. I'm sorry but our home was destroyed, so we don't have a home to go back to," Emery replied and she turned to her mother, "What do we do mom?"

"We can stay here and make it our home," her mother said to her and the predators.

"Ik sros'k sra coka, va verr rakuqa sra daod budeak(If that's the case, we will remove the dead bodies)," the leader eplied.

"Are you guys leaving after?" Emery asked.

"Emery," her mother said firmly, but she ignored her and waited for the predator to respond.

"Nu, va verr ba ksoaeems su vrusacs aeui siaek kruk rork ok aeuir soirdk ur ku (No, we will be staying to protect you guys from harm as your guards or so.)" the leader answered.

"What are you guys?" Emery's your little brother, Leo asked. Since he saw his older sister not scared of them, he was not scared anymore.

"Look what you did, you got your brother asking questions now," their mother said, "One of these days, you'll get yourself killed." Emery just smiled at her.

Wa ora vros sraae corr vradosurk. Wa rims vauvra sros rork omd rims vraaek (we are what they call predators. We hunt people that harm and hunt preys.)," the leader replied to Leo's question. Emery was about to ask another question, but her mother stopped her.

"No more questions, let them do their jobs," their mother said firmly. Emery signed in disappointment, she wanted to know more about them. The predators left after that to clean up the dead bodies, while the women cleaned the houses and blood.

~Timeskip~

It's been a month since the predators lived with them. Everyone got used to them and weren't afraid of them. Emery became friends with them along with her friends. She is always with the leader. He would teach her how to use some weapons, which her mother didn't like one bit, but she ignored her like always. She started to get a little bet of feelings for him, which she ignores since they are two different species. She was in the kitchen, making a dessert. She was looking for plates to put the dessert on. Not to her surprise, they were on the top cabinet. She signed and stood on her tippy toe, trying to reach them. As she was reaching for it, a hand reached over and grabbed the plates. Emery turned around to see the leader behind her. He handed the plates to her. She took them and smiled at him.

"Thank you," she said.

"Yui'ra varcuka (You're welcome)," the leader replied and stepped aside. Emery set the plates on the table. She cut up the dessert and placed them on the plates. She grabbed a piece and gave it to the leader.

"Here try it, it's really good," She said with a smile. The leader took it and ate it. Emery was waiting for his thoughts.

"So, what do you think?"

"Is'k suud. Wros ek es? (It's good. What is it?),"

"It's Soan papdi," She replied as she ate one herself, "Can you help me carry the plates?"

"Yak, vru ora va seqems es su? (Yes, who are we giving it to?" The leader asked as he picked up some of the plates.

"We are giving it to the elders," Emery answered, "follow me." They made their way out of the kitchen. They gave a plate to the elders.

Nighttime

Everyone was sleeping, except the leader. He made his way inside the room where Emery was sleeping. He couched down next to her face. He always does this every night, when he turns back to his human self.

"I think I'm in love with you," he said, caressing her cheeks. He smiled when she leaned into his touch. She opened her eyes closed slowly, looking at him. He froze. She smiled at him, before closing her eyes again going back to sleep. He signed, before letting go of her and leaving the room. If he stayed a little longer, he would have heard her say I love you too.

Next Day

Ateez were freaking out since they didn't turn back in the morning. They were happy they were humans again, but how would the women react? They stayed in the room they were staying in. Emery was talking to her friends about what she saw last night.

"I don't know I saw a handsome man caressing my cheeks with a smile and telling me he loves me in front of  my bed last night," She explained, "Do you think it was the leader?"

"I think you were dreaming since there are no men here and the predators are not humans," Norex, one of her friends replied.

"You may be right, but it felt too real to be a dream," Emery said in a sad tone, " Anyways, I wonder why they aren't coming out of their room. Did something happen to them?" She looked towards the building with a worried expression.

"I don't know, they are usually the first one up and moving about," Dre said back.

"I will go check on them," Emery said as she stood up and made her way to the building. She stood in front of the door and knocked.

"Um, leader, are you guys okay in there?" She asked worriedly. The boys looked at each in panic inside the room.

"What should we do?" One whispered.

"I think it's time to let them know," the leader said.

"Yes, we are fine," the leader replied to Emery. Emery was shocked to hear a human voice and language. She heard the door knob turning and the door opening to reveal a handsome man, the same one she saw in her room last night. She looked at him with widened eyes.

"It's you, the one I saw last night," She said. Looks like she remembers.

"Yes,"

"Where is the leader and the predators?" She asked looking behind him to find the predators.

"About that,"

"Did you do something to them?" Emery asked angrily, glaring at him.

"No, we will explain," the leader said, stepping outside with the others as Emery stepped back. The girls that were watching from afar were shocked to see men coming out of the room instead of the predators.

"Explain," Emery said. The leader signed.

"We are the predators," he said. Emery looked at him confused,

"What do you mean?"

"Well, a witch turned us into predators since we were bad men. We turned back to our true self in the middle of the night. We can only fully turn back to being human when we understand the meaning of life and love," the leader explained. Emery took everything in.

"So, I'm guessing that's what happened since you are back to being human," she replied. The leader nodded. Emery was happy that the predators turned out to be humans.

"What are your names?" She asked them.

"I'm Seonghwa, that's Hongjoong, Yunho, Yeosang, San, Mingi, Wooyoung, and Jongh," Seonghwa introduced.

"Emery, what's going on?" Her mother asked her, coming to them with everyone else. She looked at her and everyone.

"They are the predators, who apparently were humans turned monsters," she explained to everyone, "a witch turned them into those creatures until they find the meaning of life and love, they would be those creatures." Everyone nodded in understanding.

"So, these handsome men were the ones that saved us," a lady said as she called her daughter. While every mother started showing their eldest daughters to the boys in turns of marriage and having a handsome husband. The boys didn't know what to do, but Emery and her friends took each of the boys' hands and took them away from there.

"Sorry, we need to borrow them for a well," Emery said, before her and her friends ran away from the boys to the lake a couple of miles away from the village.

"Sorry, about them," Emery said to Seonghwa.

"It's fine," he said smiling at her, making her blush a little, "um, you didn't happen to hear what I said last night?"

"I did," She said nervously, "Did you hear my reply?"

"No," Seonghwa replied, nervously. She smiled at him.

"I love you too," she whispered, which he heard, but wanted to tease her a little.

"What was that? I didn't quite catch it," he teased.

"I love you too," she said a little louder.

"I still can't hear you," he teased again, making her hit him in the chest, making him laugh as she pouted. He brought her into a hug.

"I'm sorry, please forgive me," he said. She returned the hug and smiled into his chest. All the couples were in their own little world.