"there."

the eight boys stopped walking as hendery pointed at a manhole cover on the floor, in the middle of the road.

"there?" jisung raised a brow.

"it's an entry. renjun can pass there. it's very narrow." hendery informed, reading the map he had in his hands.

"are you trying to send him to his death right now?" jaemin asked quite harshly.

"renjun is fully capable of staying alive." yangyang told. "more than any of us, i think."

"anyway." jaemin shrugged yangyang's remark. "how is he going to get in when the manhole is in the middle of the road with dozens of people around?"

"something called diversion." xiaojun informed. "i'm in charge of that."

"great." jaemin rolled his eyes, turning towards his smaller boyfriend.

renjun looked up at jaemin smiling shyly.

"do you want to go there?" jaemin asked, cupping the boy's cheeks.

"i want to save donghyuck. i'd do anything for that." renjun nodded.

"okay." ares' son bent to kiss renjun's lips fully. "be careful princess, alright?"

"you're talking as if i couldn't defend myself..." renjun rolled his eyes playfully.

"he doesn't want you hurt." jeno intervened. "and i don't want you hurt either. so, we want you to be careful."

"i will be, don't worry." renjun smiled again.

"come here."

jeno wrapped his arms around renjun's petite frame, engulfing the boy in a tight embrace.

jaemin soon joined the hug, jeno opening his arm to include his other boyfriend in the hug too.

"i love you, boys." jeno declared, dropping a peck on both boys' lips.

"i love you too." renjun replied, tightening the hug.

"take care of yourself, okay? we'll try to be the quickest possible to help you." jaemin added.

"of course."

they parted from the hug, turning their heads to look at hendery, xiaojun and yangyang who all had their eyes widened at the sudden intimate moment.

chenle and jisung weren't paying much attention.

"i'm ready." renjun informed, making the three boys wake up from their trance.

"yeah." hendedry coughed. "so... xiaojun will make a diversion while jaemin, jeno and i lift the manhole cover. then, you slide inside, and finally, xiaojun will seal it once you'll be in. everything okay?"

renjun nodded professionally as jeno and jaemin didn't like the idea of locking their boyfriend under the ground. but he seemed to know what he did.

"let's go then. xiao, your time to shine." hendery ruffled xiaojun's hair.

"three... two... one... boom..." he said, snapping his fingers as the top of a building caught fire making the whole street face the building while screaming – and pulling their phones out to film.

"go, go, go!" hendery informed as him, jeno and jaemin lifted the manhole cover.

renjun slid inside the hold, not forgetting to peck his two boyfriend's lips before disappearing inside.

once he was in, they put the cover back in place, and xiaojun sealed it with his forging powers – the perks of being hephaestus' son.

once that was done, jisung used his own powers to create a giant wave which made the fire die down under the surprised eyes of the parisians. none of them really cared about this since no one would know they were the demigods that were responsible of this.

"perfect, now, let's find where yangyang will get in." hendery declared as they walked away.

Ω

"you still want to keep your secret to yourself?"

donghyuck lifted his head, meeting eyes with a girl who was standing in front of his prison.

"i told you everything i knew already." he sighed.

"you told us nothing." the girl told, flipping her hair behind her shoulder.

"that's because i know nothing." donghyuck replied.

"liar!" the girl yelled, slamming her hands on the bars of the prison, her many rings hitting the cold metal in a deafening noise.

"listen, i discovered who i actually was one month ago. i didn't have time to learn about everything i could do and what made me so special." donghyuck rolled his eyes.

"shut up."

donghyuck did as he was told, having understood that he shouldn't enrage a demi titan if he didn't want to die on the spot.

the girl that was standing in front of him was looking at him from head to toe, checking every detail of his body.

"stand up." she barked, making donghyuck obey her.

once the beautiful boy was up, the girl continued her staring, asking for donghyuck to turn around a few times, as if he was a barbie doll on a display.

"he's right, you're undeniably beautiful." she declared, looking back at the boy in the eye. "gorgeous looks, gorgeous curves, gorgeous face, and surely gorgeous body."

donghyuck's heart got flattered by all those compliments coming from a beautiful girl. but he kept in mind that she was the enemy, and that eh shouldn't let himself being influenced by her sweet words.

"no wonder he wants to have you in bed..." she continued.

"what?!" donghyuck choked on the very little amount of saliva he had in his mouth.

"hyojin wants to see how you're doing under him. i hope you're prepared, because he's into very kinky stuff." she explained as she pulled out a set of keys of her pocket.

"i-i..." donghyuck stuttered, not really knowing what to say. "h-he wants what...?"

"sex." the girl clarified, opening the door before grabbing donghyuck's wrist.

"i can't do that!" donghyuck replied immediately.

"not dressed like that for sure." she informed. "i'll take you to our dressing to have you dressed more... properly to have a good time with hyojin." she added, looking at donghyuck's dirty oversized shirt and shorts.

"b-but- "

"no buts." she cut him. "believes you happy, hyojin may be a demi titan, he fucks people like a god."

donghyuck silently followed her, his body trembling in fear a bit more with each step he took. he wasn't ready for something like that, he couldn't even imagine what this could mean.

he just wanted to be with mark, and have him taking care of his fragile self.

but he had no choice but to obey like a good boy at the moment...

Ω

jeno tapped his foot on the ground as he looked at the very front of the queue they were standing in.

it looked like they would need to wait something like another hour before being able to enter the catacombs.

he seriously couldn't understand how come so many people wanted to visit an underground cemetery. this had absolutely no interest for him.

behind him, xiaojun and chenle were exchanging in chinese, forbidding the others to understand what they were talking about. well, hendery could have understood, but he was having a conversation with jaemin, so he couldn't listen to chenle and xaojun's conversation.

jisung was on his own, looking around at the landscape as well as the many tourists who were exasperated by the length of the queue.

"so, you and renjun finally made up?" hendery spoke, catching jeno's attention.

"what does that even mean?" jaemin raised a brow. he was obviously still hostile to hendery.

"you two have been bickering since forever in the camp. i was surprised to see you kissing him on the lips a while ago." hendery explained.

"got a problem with the fact he's my boyfriend?" jaemin barked aggressively, almost jumping on herndery if it wasn't for jeno's arm which had slid around his waist and was holding him in place.

hendery smirked, knowing how short-tempered ares' sons could be, and how he loved to tease them.

"no, it's cool..." hendery shrugged. "i just imagined renjun to be attracted towards someone like jeno more than youself."

jaemin growled, his fists clenching in anger.

"hey, babe, calm down." jeno whispered in the crook of jaemin's neck, making the boy calm down instantly.

hendery looked at the two boys' interaction, smiling at it.

"i'm kidding jaemin." he told.

"i hope you are." jaemin snapped.

"calm down..." jeno back-hugged jaemin, allowing ares' son to lean back on jeno's chest.

"at least you found someone to tame you." hendery shrugged. "yuta's temper seemed worse than ever the past days."

"that's because sicheng is always hanging out with taeil and playing hard to get. but yuta will eventually win his heart." jaemin explained.

"how long this fucking queue will last...?" jisung groaned, pulling on his own hair.

"i think we have..." xiaojun said, looking at a panel that read 'le temps d'attente à partir de ce panneau est de 45 minutes'.

"45 minutes left from that sign." chenle completed, reading the french sign with ease.

"great." jisung replied sarcastically. "just great..."

"yeah, at least your boyfriend is out there with you. think about ours, who are possibly fighting with 11 demi titans right now." jeno declared, speaking for himself, jaemin, hendery and xiaojun.

"we're not boyfriends yet!" chenle flushed beet red.

"you're not?" xiaojun questioned surprised.

"yet?!" jisung asked quite perplexed by the sudden information.

"yeah." chenle shrugged. "maybe soon."

needless to say, jisung's mind was too focused on chenle's previous statement to notice that the queue before entering inside the catacombs lasted way more than 45 minutes.

Ω

"donghyuck, i'm here to- what the hell are you wearing?"

donghyuck gulped, looking at mark – his prince in shining armour – who had a perplexed look on at the sight of donghyuck in such clothes.

"apparently hyojin wants to... have sex with me... and i wasn't dressed properly for his taste before that."

mark blinked a few times, donghyuck words getting lost inside his head as he admired the beauty of donghyuck in such revealing clothes.

he was wearing a long-sleeved and cropped transparent shirt and a pair of very tight and short leather shorts that highlighted perfectly his curves. a large black chocker was wrapped around his neck, and there was even a loop, making mark guess that a leash could get attached to the collar. donghyuck had also a pair of fishnets on as well as black combat boots. it seemed like he had been made up for the occasion as two perfect thick lines of eye-liner were decorating his eyes, and his pouty lips were glowing with lip-gloss.

mark was going crazy seeing the younger looking so sexy.

"o-oh- WHAT?!" he yelled, realising what donghyuck had just said. "you had sex with him?!"

"no." donghyuck told. "and i'd like not to, so if you could take me out of this hell hole, this would be really much appreciated."

"y-yeah, of course." mark coughed, trying to divert his eyes from the boy's body. he was kind of relieved to know donghyuck hadn't seen hyojin yet. he didn't want anyone to see his donghyuck looking so beautiful. he didn't want the man of his life to be stolen.

mark pulled out the keys from his pocket and unlocked the cell.

"where did you find those keys?" donghyuck asked, walking out.

"i may or may not have stolen them from jaeyoung." mark smiled sheepishly. "i didn't forget to make him black-out before, though."

donghyuck rolled his eyes before sliding his hand in mark's.

"where are we going?"

"out of these dark tunnels that's for sure." mark informed. "be quiet though, because as soon as they will realise you're not here anymore, they'll go after us."

"i trust you." donghyuck declared before pecking mark's lips, surprising the demigod. "save me."

"of course, baby..." mark replied, wrapping his arms around donghyuck's waist as he approached their faces to make their mouths collide in an intense kiss.

however, their lips didn't touch as donghyuck placed his index finger on mark's mouth.

"you'll get a kiss as a reward when i'll be safe outside." donghyuck smirked.

"better get there quickly then." mark told as he pulled donghyuck by the wrist across the labyrinth-like corridors of the catacombs.

"do you even know where we are going?" donghyuck asked after they had run around for a while.

"there's an exit over there. it brings to a park i think." mark explained. "it's not far, i promise."

the two boys continued running, trying to be the most silent possible not to get busted.

but it seemed like they weren't as quiet as they would have liked to be...

just as mark started smiling because he knew the exit wasn't far, someone stopped them, his menacing voice scaring both him and donghyuck to death as they froze.

"move and you're dead."