"AHHH!"

the people that were peacefully having a drink inside the bar all yelled at the view of mark shooting someone, and even more when they realised that some strange monster was approaching them.

"fuck!" jeno swore as he jumped to his feet, his whip in hand.

renjun, jisung and jaemin did the same, approached the creature while attacking it.

donghyuck plunged on the ground where chenle had fallen, pulling the boy under the table to have him protected.

"chenle? chenle!" donghyuck asked, shaking the boy. "can you hear me?"

donghyuck looked at the arrow that had penetrated chenle's shoulder, his brows furrowing when he saw there was no blood.

"ahh..." chenle winced, his eyes opening slowly.

"chenle, look at me!" donghyuck said quickly. "are you feeling alright?"

chenle lifted his eyes, meeting donghyuck's chocolate orbs under his commands.

however, the boy didn't answer donghyuck's question.

instead, he stayed mesmerized by the deepness of the tanned male's beautiful eyes.

"chenle?" donghyuck shook the boy.

"i love you..." hermes' son replied simply, making donghyuck furrow his brows.

"huh?"

a quick glance at the end of the arrow that chenle had received made him understand exactly what was happening.

this was a pink arrow, meaning that chenle had fallen in love with the first person he had seen, and that for two hours. and that person was donghyuck.

"oh my god..." the beautiful male sighed.

"the tan of your skin reminds me of a sandy beach during golden hour... it's magnificent..." chenle spoke dreamily, his hand tracing the contour of donghyuck's jaw.

"chenle, it's going to hurt a bit, but i'm sorry." donghyuck warned.

"you could never hurt me, beauty- ahh!" he winced as donghyuck pulled the arrow out of his flesh.

donghyuck lifted chenle's shirt in a swift motion, looking at the injury that was disappearing magically, as if chenle had never been hit.

"how's chenle?"

donghyuck lifted his head to see renjun crouching to look at what was happening under the table.

"he's good." donghyuck replied.

"good, come out then. we need to leave." renjun told, helping donghyuck up.

as soon as he was back on his feet, donghyuck looked around the bar.

"you killed all of them?" he asked.

"he flew out, mark is chasing him and he told us to watch over you." jaemin replied quickly.

donghyuck nodded, bitting his bottm lip as he worried for mark who was alone fighting against a griffin outside.

thankfully, mark appeared at the entrance of the bar after a few seconds, making his scythe disappear.

"you managed to kill them all?" renjun asked.

"there was only one." mark replied, wiping his forehead.

"only one?!" donghyuck repeated quite surprised.

"yeah, i'm the only one for your heart..." chenle said, leaning on donghyuck's side.

jisung's brows furrowed as he stared at chenle.

"huh... what's happening there?" he asked.

"he was hit with a love arrow." donghyuck replied. "he'll be in love with me for two hours."

"two hours is too short, how about forever...?" chenle giggled.

mark rolled his eyes at chenle's cheesy words.

"great now." he muttered.

"let me remind you it's your fault if he's like this." jeno added.

"i was defending myself!" mark argued.

"you could have used your scythe. you shoot arrows like an ass." renjun told.

"look, there was a weapon there, and i took this opportunity to try harming the griffin." mark tried explaining, making renjun roll his eyes.

"at least you used a love arrow. i don't know what we would have done if chenle had been seriously hurt." jisung barged into the discussion.

"i'm not hurt, i'm the happiest boy alive being with my love forever..." chenle said while clinging on donghyuck's arm.

jaemin coughed, catching the attention of everyone.

"look, i think we should go somewhere else." he said, looking around. "if there was one griffin here, it means that others are probably roaming around."

"he's right, let's go." renjun nodded.

the boys walked out of the bar, hiding in the crowd of people as they approached the road.

"chenle, we need a car." jaemin spoke, turning around to look at hermes' son.

he was horrified to see the boy doing heart eyes to donghyuck who was trying to avoid his awkward stare at all costs.

"chenle!" jaemin yelled, catching his attention.

"can't you see i'm admiring a masterpiece?!" he asked, rather angered. "i don't care about what you're asking me. i only care about donghyuck."

mark rolled his eyes, pulling chenle by his collar and pushing him towards a car park next to them. "open it."

"excuse me?!" chenle yelled. "who do you think you are?!"

"chenle, shut up, you're drawing attention on us." mark said through gritted teeth.

"don't try bossing me around like that." chenle continued, pulling his dagger out and pointing it towards mark. "or we might need to fight."

renjun's eyes widened as he saw a woman next to them gasping at the sight of chenle pulling a knife out.

"okay, mission abort." he declared, pulling chenle's hand.

"we can't go to the airport without a car!" jeno told, following the group of boys that started walking through the busy streets.

"we need to leave the united states." renjun said.

"but the airport is at the other end of the city, we won't reach it by foot." jaemin added.

"good thing the port is not too far, then." jisung smirked, seeing the sea at the end of the street.

renjun turned around, looking at jisung in the eye.

"could you do that for me?" he asked with a pleading look.

"consider it done." jisung smiled before disappearing in the crowd of people.

the boys around looked at renjun confusedly.

"what the hell is he doing?" mark asked.

"he's finding us a boat. we'll join him at the end of the street." renjun explained as he continued walking.

"let me go!" chenle whined. "i want to walk with my love!"

renjun rolled his eyes, letting chenle's hand go and ignoring him as he jumped into donghyuck's arms.

"my love!" he exclaimed. "i missed you so much..."

"chenle, stop hugging me like that." donghyuck whined, trying to push chenle off him.

"i can't, i love you too much for that." chenle replied with a beaming smile.

mark watch the scene unfold with his jaw clenched.

he was mad at the sight of chenle hugging his donghyuck and telling him sweet words like nothing.

he wanted the one to be in his shoes.

"chenle, i can't breathe!" donghyuck continued whining.

"i can't either, you're too breath-taking, my- ah!" chenle exclaimed as he was harshly pulled backwards.

"can you leave him alone for two seconds?" mark groaned, holding chenle's collar.

"why would i?"

"because he's not yours." mark spoke, pushing chenle away in annoyance.

"are you pretending he could be yours? because i'm ready to fight. a man-to-man fight. to death. donghyuck is worth the best." chenle explained as he was about to pull his dagger out again.

"guys, when are we? in the medieval age?" jeno asked as he rolled his eyes.

before mark or chenle could answer, a loud horning sound was heard, making renjun smile brightly.

"he made it." he said.

"what?" jaemin asked.

"let's go, we need to get to the port!"

as renjun started to run, the other boys followed him at the same pace – donghyuck needing to take chenle's hand in his to have him following them.

they were soon on the dock, just above the water.

they all looked around, searching for jisung on a boat.

"don't tell me..." jaemin let out.

"he's crazy..." renjun added with his eyes fixed on a huge yacht in the middle of the water on which jisung was standing on, waving his arms at them.

"and how does he expect us to get on the boat from there?" mark asked curiously, not intending to swim all the way to the boat.

"i'm not worried about that." renjun snickered.

with that said, jisung whistled loudly, the water in front of them agitating slightly.

in a few seconds, six majestic creatures appeared in the water, looking at the six boys on the deck.

"are those dolphins?!" donghyuck exclaimed.

"yes, and we have to ride them." renjun said quickly, jumping in the water and getting on top of one of the sea creatures.

"chenle, let's go." donghyuck said, jumping in the water.

"of course, my love, i'd love to have a dolphin-ride date with you. this is so romantic." chenle added, following donghyuck.

as chenle, donghyuck and renjun got on their dolphins, mark, jeno and jaemin stayed on the deck, not moving an inch.

"do you seriously expect me to go in the water?" jaemin asked with a brow raised.

"come on, we need to go." renjun said while rolling his eyes.

"i'm not comfortable in water." jeno told quickly.

"it's the same as taking a bath!" renjun sighed.

"but there are no weird creatures in you bath, while you never know what could be in the sea." mark retorted.

"god, you're hades' son! i'm sure you have seen the most monstruous creatures. the sea creatures are nothing compared to the things of your world." renjun continued.

"still- "

"mark, please, come in the water. we need to leave... it's for my safety..."

mark looked at donghyuck in the eye, his breath getting caught up in his throat as he admired his beauty.

god, he was so jealous of chenle who was currently clinging onto him.

he would like so much to be in chenle's spot, having his arms around donghyuck to whisper sweet words in his ear.

he had fallen for donghyuck... he was sure of this.

"b-but..." mark bit his lower lip.

"jisung is protecting all of us. come with me, mark." donghyuck continued speaking, his honey-voice lulling mark, as if he was a siren, lulling its prey towards death.

mark eventually gave in, jumping on top of a dolphin.

"now, you two move your asses, i don't intend on staying in the water for long!" mark warned, pointing at jeno and jaemin.

after a few seconds of arguments and a curse-word pronounced from renjun, the two boys were also on their dolphins, and in no time, the sea creatures brought them to the yacht that jisung had stolen.

"welcome on board, mates." jisung said as the six other boys stepped on the boat.

"god, i hate the sea." mark muttered, shaking his body in an attempt to dry himself.

"woah, i'll need to take you on other dolphin-riding dates! it was so cool!" chenle exclaimed, hugging donghyuck's arm as jisung kept the information that chenle loved dolphin rides in a corner of his mind.

"serisouly, jisung?" renjun asked. "when i asked you to steal a boat, i imagined a small boat. not a five-star yacht!"

"this, my mate, is the white rose, a beautiful luxury yacht of 65 metres long and 12 metres wide." jisung commented. "and we have it all for ourselves."

"very glad to know that, fishtail." jaemin snorted. "but can i know where our commandant will bring us with this super mega cool floating luxury hotel?"

jisung chuckled, clicking his fingers and making the boat gain in speed – and also making the passengers stumble and almost fall. "fishtail has never been to europe, so that's where we are going!"