Element's POV.

Voices.
Darkness.
I tried to wake up but I couldn't.
It was all dark and the darkness was filled with whispers, screams and sorrow.
I wanted out.
I tried to get up and run but then I realized.
I was dead.
Is this hell? Cuz it certainly ain't heaven.

Welcome to the Whang's ancestry locket.

One of the voices overrode the others that subsided into a faintly audible murmur.

Who...?

I am Yuki. Your soul has been trapped into this locket by Sun-Hi Whang.

How do I get out?

Oh, that.
I've been trying for thirty-five years.
You can't. Not unless the current owner of the locket summons you and you manage to break free from her control.
But if you break free from her control when she doesn't want you to be free you'll get cursed.

Woah, that's a lot.
How exactly do you break free from her control?

Say for example, you were to forever leave Sun-Hi. You would automatically be put in a... Trance?
In short, you would be stuck in a nightmare, facing all of your fears and most painful memories.
The five who attempted it failed. They went crazy before it ended.
But if you succeed, the user of the locket is cursed but you as well. The one you love the most won't be able to see you unless he/she is on the verge of death.

If I had a body I'd probably gulp now.

What... Curse would Sun-Hi get?

No one ever succeeded.
No one knows.

Then her presence left.
Leaving me to my sorrow.
I had to be summoned...
But how?
Until she summoned me I was trapped.
And what was this curse?
Well whatever it was, it couldn't be that bad.
Right?

***

While in the darkness I got to do some thinking.
If I were free, what would I do?
I'd only be a ghost roaming the Earth.

Forever alone.
And the one I loved the most wouldn't be able to see me...
Pete...
He wouldn't even be able to see me, was breaking free even worth it then?
Yes.
So long as I knew that he was safe and sound it was definitely worth it.
I could protect him, be his guardian angel.

I had to break free.
For Pete.
But how?
Sun-Hi needed to summon me.
So I needed to let her know that I was here.
How do I do that?

Yuki!

I tried to call her but no answer.
Ugh!
Maybe if I listen to the voices I might hear something useful?

Dead is the body,
Except few seen by nobody.
I can hold a grudge,
And won't stop chasing you till you no longer budge.

What am I?

A voice echoed throughout the darkness.
Then everything around me shook and the voices started to chant loudly in... Korean? Japanese? No idea, maybe both?

"Channyeol Young, I summon thee".

And a blinding light cracked through the darkness as a purple sparkle of light disappeared out into it.

He has been summoned.

I heard one of the voices say but I was to busy running towards the light no matter the pain it caused me.
I had to get out.
Help Peter, he needed me and I him.
But just as I reached the light it vanished.
I failed.
Peter...
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry...