With an earth-shattering roar, lightning cleaved through the sky and bit viciously into a towering tree. The massive conifer burst into vibrant flames, the only light in the wind-lashed forest. 

Torrents of rain poured onto it, causing gouts of steam to fill the air. The other trees mewled in the furious wind as if they mourned the loss of their fellow.

A squall at sea rises in a crumb of time, from calm to wild in the breath of a moment.

Storm was taking an enormous shape of destruction.

Between such an intense atmosphere, an old warehouse was having a completely different hurricane inside.

When the governor discovers the bodies of his own security guards and found his secretary smiling at him with the scariest grin, the man understood it was all planned. He couldn't notice anything fishy till now in all the pressure and it became the biggest mistake of his life.

"Choi! Open the door right now, it's my order!" The old man shouted freaking out pretty bad.

But his assistant keep his creepy smile and pointed his index behind him.

Governor was trembling already, he craned his neck a little bit and slowly turned around with cold sweat rolling down his forehead.

His weak eyes fell first upon the fingure of his ex enemy, lee jong suk who stood straight with annoying smirk then to his left stood his two beloved sons in each other's embrace watching their father with cold stare. On the right was his dead son's best friend along with his two lovers boring holes into the old man's soul.

All their faces were either creepy or scary in this situation. They doesn't have any good intentions that was the confirmation jin-ho conveyed from their angry mad expression.

Jin-ho's train of thought got wrecked by a steady footsteps coming behind the lee who stood in middle.

The aged male had to squint his eyes to catch sight of the approaching person's silhouette. When the face of new arrivals gets clear, jin ho's heart stopped for a moment or two. 

A cold wave embalmed him as the hairs rose on the back of his neck and his mouth ran dry. A feeling of dread crept up from the pit of his stomach when his dead son stood in front of him with a devilish smile on his face.

"It's nice to see you again, dear father." Taehyung rasped in his deep vocals. 

But for jin ho his son's voice feels like a bucket of cold water being dumped on him as he started backing away.

The man understood everything that happened till now. It wasn't any bad luck or coincidence but his son's revenge game.

He was desperately trying to unlock the door while his assistant stood amazed watching his boss behaving like a nutjob.

"Choi! You fucking unloyal piece of shit! Open this fucking door before I kill you!" The man screamed but his voice dripped fear instead of dominance how it used to.

His secretary stood silent watching him struggle with the digital locks of an old warehouse. Namjoon was clever enough to pull mr.choi, his Father's old personal assistant to their side. It made things lot easier for them to know the old man's schedules and meeting also important dealers and other stuffs. 

The same heavy footsteps began strolling closer to the struggling old man stopping right behind him.

"Are you leaving dad? But we haven't even started yet." Taehyung whined like he used to in his childhood when he badly wanted to play hide and seek with his dad but unfortunately his father was never intrested in playing such a childish games with tiny child neither had a time to provide for taehyung.

"Appa, I wanna play with you. Please." 

An old memories flashed running like a reel of film inside jin ho's mind when his little son used to beg to play with him as he wasn't allowed to have friends or go outside of the tall walls of kim mansion. 

He slumped down the door sitting on the floor. He was the worse father. He broke his own child when he should have protected him from the cruel world outside instead he pushed his son into the darkest pit of hell. 

But realisation and guilt was far from the name kim jin ho. His thoughts corrupted again by his greed.

"T-taehyung, my son. I-i know I'm the worse father but please let me go. You can have everything I won't ever get in your way but let me leave." The old man begged but it all went deaf ears to all the presence in the room.

Getting no response from taehyung, jin ho started begging his other sons only to receive snarls from them.

"How can you fall so low, father? I even feel ashamed to call you my father. What kind of father wants to kill their own son for the greed of power and money. You wanted to kill taehyung even after knowing he was carrying? So disgusting!" Seokjin spat with a venomous tone.

"I can't believe you even killed mom when she tried to protect us from a monster like you! You're the worse father!" Namjoon shouted failing to control his piled-up anger throughout the years.

"Shut up you ungrateful bastards! I know what kind of filthy relations you two have between! I should be the one to feel ashamed creating all of you useless brats!" 

"And lee, you really live up to your title of a street dog! Licking on the shoes of anyone who throws you more biscuits." 

Jong suk doesn't feel even offended as he mouthed thank you.

"Enough of the chat. Tables have completely turned, my dear father. There's no escape now." Taehyung stopped chatting of others and walked to his father only feet away from the crouching figure.

"This vile game was started by you a long time ago... But I'll be the one to put an end to it tonight." 

Jin-ho felt goosebumps rising when his eyes met with his son's void charcoal black ones.

"You love playing games with other's lives right? Let's play today with yours. If you survived then I'll let you leave... But if you didn't then I'll make sure that you beg me to give you the death, I promise you father." Taehyung whispers the last sentence bending a little to stare closely at the shaky pupils of his father.

"The game is simple and familiar. The one you used to deny playing with me will be the game your life depends upon now. Hide and seek." 

"There's only one rule... Don't get caught." Red-haired lips slowly stretched in a corner as the door unlocking sound captured jin ho's attention. 

"Run daddy run! Keep running and running and running... And don't look behind because I'll be there, chasing you." Taehyung grinned wide letting his demons take over as he watch his old man stumbling on his feet and running into the woods in the downpour. 

The only source of light in the dark dense woods is when thunder strikes throughout the ebony sky. 

The sea was merely a few kilometers away from the mountains and the loud voice of big waves crashing to the shore was bone-chilling.

This shows, The mother nature has the power to reborn and destroy as well.

Old man kept tumbling on the uneven land of the mountain between the thick tall trees dancing in the rhythm of harsh winds.

Jin-ho looked behind taking a breath of relief as he was soaked from the rain. It was so hard to even see two feet further because of the storm. The raindrops were big enough to leave a painful burn on the skin even after a second.

The atmosphere was getting so cold that your blood could run cold. It was freezing to the point you can't feel your muscles moving.

The adrenaline rush of survival ran low after only 20 minutes of running. Jin-ho kept glancing at his shoulder but taehyung was nowhere in sight.

The man seize a long breath of relief but it was short-lived when he heard a metal scraping on the rough surface closely behind. 

"Run & run, do not look back~

Hide & hide, do not sneak past,

The tree or the deer,

Or the big man you fear~

He'll see you & catch you

& Tear you apart,

So just run & run and get a good head start."

Between the thunder and lightning, taehyung's voice echoed through the dark forest making his father shiver alone from the poem's words.

He began running but this time he felt a bit of trouble in breathing. He knew he won't be able to escape at this pace.

This went on for nearly an hour, sometimes taehyung got so close but he let his father run apart before chasing him down again.

It was all a fun game for the young man. He was taking his time playing with his dad who was breathing so heavily and they were still in the woods. Storm Hasn't shown any mercy.

Jin-ho couldn't keep up when his breathing raged from asthma. He couldn't breathe properly and collapsed on the muddy floor of the forest.

His face turned red as he kept scratching his throat trying to regulate his breathing which was now impossible without the pump. 

Taehyung's shadow hovered above the dying man's writhing figure crawling on the dirt floor. It gave different satisfaction to taehyung's dark soul. His demons feel well sated with the agony of the person who broke taehyung to the core of no fixing.

Some people wait for karma and some become karma.

Jin-ho was repaying for his sins and taehyung won't let his misery end so easily.

The young man pulls out the pump from his pocket keeping it near his old man's heaving mouth. 

"Always remember this father... Greed may do your bidding but death serves no man. And I won't let you die so easily when you deserve to die every single second until your body gives up." 

"I'll return all the pain and suffering you have ever put me through ...all in cash with an interest. I'll make sure you beg for the death." 

Taehyung utters emphasizing each word like a vow taken on the altar. 

He let the old man suck a breather from a pump and when jin ho was done, taehyung pulled up his left leg and dragged him along on the mud tracks making his father beg and scream for mercy from the scratches of rocks and roots of the forest path.

The thunder bolted in the sky, taehyung looked like a devil with his red wet curls shining in the dark and his eyes reflecting pure evil. His father was almost on the verge of passing out when they returned to the warehouse.

Everyone watched the male's state and doesn't feel an ounce of pity for him. Jin-ho doesn't deserve pity.

Namjoon stepped forward handing a black tiny suitcase to his little brother while taehyung wore black rubber gloves.

The old man was still conscious enough to see everything occurring around him.

The suitcase carries his death sentence as his son opened it and took out a weapon of mass destruction.

A glass syringe and a glass bottle of unknown liquid. 

Jin-ho began making a gurgling sound as his body was too exhausted to even move. His death was filled in that tiny mirror bottle which taehyung was filling in the syringe.

"Don't be afraid father, it'll just feel like an ant bite but I can't assure you how much pain it'll bring after I inject it inside your body." The smirk on red head's lips said it all, it wasn't a normal injection.

"Are you wondering what this is?" The male asked showing the syringe and pressing the bottom letting the tiny fountain of liquid splurt in the air.

"Don't bother yourself. Let me describe it. This carries a very slow venom and It's just the first dose. I'll give you more every day. I paid so much to get my hands on it." Younger described with an amusing sparkle radiating through his eyes. A soft smile never left his lips as he signaled Mr. Choi and lee to hold down his father.

The syringe was placed upon the vein on the underside of the elbow. Taehyung gently let the sharp needle Peirce inside while pressing the end of the glass syringe.

"Once it is inside your body, the poison will slowly attack your blood cells. Your body will be paralyzed in an hour then after two more doses, it will start to attack all your major organs like the heart, lungs, kidneys, stomach, liver, and brain. You will feel your insides rotting and your organs failing." 

Jin-ho gagged bile coming from the depth of his stomach. His son keeps smiling the brightest and it made his stomach churn in dread.

He really underestimated his son. He was the king pawn on the chess board but he forgot that the king isn't the most powerful pawn. Never underestimate the power of the queen pawn on the chessboard. It can turn the tables very easily. 

Taehyung is a queen pawn and he won even after being on the same side as his father. Chess is a dark game indeed.

The governor's body started to fall loosely on the ground and it doesn't take long before he went paralyzed unable to move anything apart from his eyes. 

"The mission accomplished." Taehyung announced as mr.choi called two guards of taehyung's team and lifted the unconscious old man's body to take it in the van behind the warehouse. 

They can't stay there any longer. 

"Wow Kim, I am impressed with your planning skills. You really are a sadist freak." Jong suk talked with a big smile but taehyung didn't grin back.

"Yeah indeed." Redhead whisper before aiming the hidden gun in the direction of lee who stood dumbfounded by the sudden act.

"W-what are you doing kim? We are on the same side..." 

"Do you think I'm a fool? that day the bullets inside the gun were real. If I wasn't wearing a bulletproof jacket I would have been dead for real, wouldn't I?" The ebony-eyed male bared the betrayer's soul just by a single glance.

Jong suk's blood ran cold. 

"I knew you were never really interested in my father's political position, you always had eyes for the throne of the underworld." Taehyung scoffed thinking how lee was being smart and had an audacity to play games with the coach.

"Listen here, lee jong suk. The throne is Rightfully mine. I rule that darkness, my blood is as black as ink and once you betray me...I'll make sure to drink yours thin." 

A loud bam noise echoed through the empty warehouse followed by a crash of grey clouds and lee fell forward face first on the floor. 

"once a snake always a snake and This family no longer accepts betrayers." 

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•••

One week later...

The chaos were still up. A week passed by after taehyung finished his biggest enemies. One is still alive but as good as dead. 

The position of his father was cancelled on the same night he got paralyzed. The police found Lee's dead body in the warehouse. With mr.choi's justification They concluded that the two had a fight with each other and jin ho end up shooting only heir of lee, in the end, jin ho flee away after attempting a murder. 

The whole scenario was of course fixed by the group and taehyung. They played so well with evidences and made it look like an enemy fighting for a political position.

His father is still in their hold but the world doesn't need to know. 

After the removal of jin ho from the Governor's position, namjoon applied as the youngest candidate for his father's empty position. The government and public weren't ready but his excellency in business and involvement in political things made a great opportunity for the man to be selected. He wasn't like his father that was at least known from the charity works of his company. 

In a week, namjoon won the elections and become the youngest governor, a replacement for his father's position now holding five powerful provinces of Korea in his hands.

Meanwhile, seokjin officially take over the business heritage of Kim's. Mr. Choi was with jin ho and kept informing about his condition. Taehyung comes only to give a dose and watch his father struggle and beg for to kill him already.

Taehyung handed his throne to yoongi till he gives birth. But hobi ended up giving a great idea so now yoongi owns the throne in the underworld's eyes but taehyung still controls everything. He became a shadow in the underworld hiding behind yoongi just so he can make an official come back into the outside world for his child's normal future.

It was safe that way. 

Jimin and jungkook were always with him. And they can't wait to meet the baby. Taehyung as promised told everything to his lover and jungkook was relieved to know everything is over. 

The wicked game was ended now. Bloodshed was over and their baby will be the new rise of their fresh life.

Tbc...

This was the last chapter of the book. Next will be an epilogue. 

Ask openly if there's any confusion.