• 𝐀 𝐔 𝐓 𝐇 𝐎 𝐑 ' 𝐒  𝐏. 𝐎. 𝐕 •

"They may be hinting a possible war and we don't want that," King Adonis worriedly said. "We don't want history to repeat itself."

It was déjà vu.

The three younger people in the room paled when they heard what the king had said. What they feared the most was coming true.

"But why? Why do they suddenly want to raise a war?" Joohyun asked with knitted brows.

"It is actually better if we have Junmyeon explain it to you, since he personally faced that bastard." Peter said with a hint of anger in his voice.

Not a few seconds later, they were greeted by a limping Junmyeon wearing a weak smile on his face.

"Oh gosh, Junmyeon are you okay?" Seulgi inched closer towards the latter and helped him walk.

"I'm fine, thanks Seul."

"Junmyeon, can you please explain to them what happened." Queen Iris smiled sympathetically towards the injured boy who gave a nod in return.

"I was just strolling around the dark forest a few days ago for my daily patrol when out of nowhere, a pair of arms grabbed me and the next thing I knew, I was already facing him with a battered body." Junmyeon recalled with grief in his voice, shivers running down his spine when he remembered facing the ruler of the Dark Realm himself.

"He said something about wanting to reclaim Enchancia once again because somehow he found a way to reunite with his children and," Junmyeon paused. "He said he would use his daughters' powers to help him defeat us."

"And actually the thing that worries me the most is," Junmyeon glanced at the closed doors. "I-I think I saw his d-daughters outside."

No way. Yeonjun thought.

"Seulgi, who exactly are the girls that you brought here." Peter raised his brows at Seulgi, referring to the girls they escorted outside a while ago.

"Actually sire, that was the reason why we came to see you," Seulgi said. "Joohyun and Yeonjun rescued them when they were escaping from the Dark Realm."

Collective gasps were then heard in the room.

"Peter," Athena called out." Could it be that we are in the presence of his children?"

"But we didn't even know he had children of his own after that happend, and how is it that we never heard of it?" Queen Helena wondered.

"Actually your majesty, the girls aren't actually from here, they ended up here the same way your daughters did." Joohyun informed.

"Are you saying, that his children are from the otherworld?"

"Yes, your majesty." Joohyun confirmed Queen Theia's assumptions.

"Is it possible that he went to the otherworld before?" King Atlas asked.

"We cannot be so sure." Peter said.

Meanwhile, while Seulgi was listening to the whole conversation, she can't help but worry, they weren't even sure with their assumptions. But luckily she remembered that they recently befriended a once loyal servant of the Dark Realm. So it did cross her mind to ask him questions instead.

"Can we bring Sungjae here?" The monolidded woman suddenly blurt out.

The royalties looked at her with a hesitant expression. "Seulgi, we really can't trust him just yet."

"But your majesty, he's the only one out of all of us who knows the Dark Realm well." Seulgi retorted.

Yes, they only met the guy a few weeks ago so that really doesen't deem him to be trustworthy just yet, he was siding with the opponent for years after all. But he was the answer to all the questions they could ever ask.

"With all due respect, your majesty, he's the closest we could ever get to confirming our questions regarding the Dark Realm."

It took a few seconds of silence before Seulgi got a reply.

"Okay, bring him in."

Yeonjun and Junmyeon were the ones who nodded and went outside to fetch the aforementioned male. After a few minutes they finally went back in with a confused Sungjae.

"Sorry it took a while, it was hard to part him with Sooyou-"

"I was just talking about something with the girls." Sungjae cut him off, before secretly elbowing Yeonjun's ribs causing the younger male to shrink and groan in pain.

"With Sooyoung noona you mean." Yeonjun muttered under his breath while still in pain.

"Anyways, Sungjae if you don't mind we would like to ask you some questions." Peter started. "Questions regarding the Dark Realm."

For a second, Sungjae was shocked and looked bothered, but he later regained his composture before saying, "If this means you'll trust me more, then I'll be more that glad to answer you." Sungjae gave them a small tight lipped smile.

The elders felt slightly guilty when they heard what the boy said but continued to ask him anyway.

"First, by any chance did your master visit the otherworld by any chance?" Athena asked.

Sungjae chewed on his lips. "He did."

"Why? Why did he?"

"Well, after a year of the princesses' dissapearance, it crossed his mind that maybe you transported your children there so he decided to go there in hopes of finding them."

"But, my father once mentioned that it seems he got distracted by this mortal in the otherworld," Sungjae paused. "If the term is correct, my master fell in love and even had a child with that woman."

When Sungjae said that, they concluded that they didn't even have to ask about the children anymore since he already mentioned it.

"And if I'm not mistaken, he had multiple children with different women, that time it was his way of coping with. . ." Sungjae glanced at a certain queen. "What happened years ago."

Peter suddenly looked at his wife in worry which confused the younger ones.

What was Sungjae talking about? Why was he looking at the queen of the north when he said that?

Those were some of the questions going on in their heads.

"But from what I know, my master eventually left his children in the otherworld and went back here without the presence of the princesses." Sungjae finished.

"When that happened, what was your age back then?"

"I was still young, about a few months old when the war happened, so maybe a year or two older when he crossed the portal."

The pieces were connecting slowly, the girls outside looked like they were younger but was most likely around Sungjae's age.

"On second thought, Seulgi? Can you bring the girls inside? Let's not beat around the bush and waste time." Peter firmly said.

Seulgi nodded before letting Jeongyeon, Nayeon and Tzuyu inside the humongous room.

"Girls, these are our majesties, King Peter, King Adonis, King Atlas King Oscar, Queen Athena, Queen Iris, Queen Theia, and Queen Helena." Seulgi introduced.

The three newcomers were clueless on how they were supposed to act, they nudged each other before awkwardly bowing down and muttered, "It's a pleasure to meet you, your majesties."

Seulgi, Joohyun, Yeonjun, and Junmyeon almost snorted if it weren't for the self control they exercised.

Seulgi cleared her throat, "Um, guys if you don't mind, they will ask you questions about how you were kidnapped a few days ago."

Jeongyeon, Nayeon, and Tzuyu suddenly shuffled in discomfort when their unnie mentioned the incident that involved them. If they were being honest, they wouldn't deny that they were a tidbit traumatized because of what happened, but they nodded anyways.

"Do you have any memories of the incident?"

The girls took small breaths before they started to explain the whole story.

Not missing the part that they may or may not be from this world.

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I'm very sorry for the late updates, school is nearing to an end so it's extra stressful.

Also a lot of things happened to my personal life, so this caused me to focus less on my stories but things are going better :)

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