"WANNA GO OUTSIDE FOR  a while?" Minhyuk asked as he looked at Sunggyu who was drying his hair with a small towel. Sunggyu looked at his brother and replied, "Sure, let's go."

      These two were now shockingly roommates. Minhyuk used to be roommates with Suho while Sunggyu was with Jiyong. But since both of their roommates are gone, the two were forced to share a room together. But it's not like Sunggyu and Minhyuk don't like each other, it's just weird since Sunggyu used to bully Minhyuk before and the two were practically enemies. Who would have thought they'd end up being brothers and roommates in the future.

     "Damn those two are still going on with it! It's frustrating!" Minhyuk shouted as they arrived at the balcony. Next to their room was Suho and Lay's room, and like how Minhyuk said, the two were still doing it, making Sunggyu and Minhyuk hear every fucking thing.

      "Just let them be, they've been separated for seven months anyway," Sunggyu stated, shocking Minhyuk.

      "No fucking way. You're not mad about it at all?! What did you do to our leader you alien?!" Minhyuk jokingly says as he looks at his leader with disbelief. Sunggyu rolled his eyes and said, "We've been in pain for such a long time, and being with their loved ones is a good thing so they could forget. That's what I meant about letting them be."

     "But how about the ones who are alone? What do we do to forget?" Minhyuk honestly asked.

     Sunggyu takes a deep breath and looks at the scenery, "Being with my brothers...already makes me forget about the pain. That's all that I need for now."

      Minhyuk leans towards the balustrade and looks at the scenery too, "Don't you ever wonder who we'll end up being together with? Like, are we even going to be given a chance to find that one person?"

     Sunggyu chuckles on his brother's sudden question, "And why did you suddenly think about that?"

     "I don't know, maybe because I'm jealous?" Minhyuk suddenly says, making Sunggyu laugh.

      "You're fucking jealous? Seriously?"

      "Look, Hyunseung and Junhyung are what we call the determined couple. They're the ones who will do anything so they could be able to love each other. Jackson and Mark are the passionate couple. They're the type of couple that when you look at them you'd feel like falling in love is such a beautiful thing. Then Jihoon and Taeil are the low-key couple. They obviously love each other and everyone knows about it except them, and somehow it's cute. Then there's Suho and Lay who are the..."

     "Awkward couple." Sunggyu suddenly says, then he looked at Minhyuk and continued, "They're the couple who needed the comfort. And in the perfect time and the perfect place, they used each other and ended up falling in love without knowing each other personally."

     "Exactly! You're getting it now!" Minhyuk says excitedly.

     "So what are you trying to tell me then?" Sunggyu asked.

     Minhyuk sighs and says, "What I'm trying to say is that looking at our brothers all dedicating their lives not only for themselves but for someone else too is just...awesome."

     Sunggyu chuckles and says, "You don't need a partner to feel awesome Minhyuk."

     "Oh come on, lighten up. No man's an island you know."

      "And where the hell did you hear about that?"

      Minhyuk doesn't answer and just shrugs his shoulder.

       "Then what about you? If you had someone you're with, what type of couple would you be with your partner?" Sunggyu asked, looking back at the scenery.

      "I don't know about that but what I know is that I'd be the type of guy who would always try my best to make my partner happy." Minhyuk answers, just thinking about it made him smile.

      "Well you're doing a pretty good job making your best friend Hyunseung happy so I guess you'd make a better job on your partner." Sunggyu honestly says, making Minhyuk smile widely.

     "How about you? What type of partner would you be?" Minhyuk finally asks.

     Sunggyu doesn't say anything for a couple of seconds before answering, "I'd probably be the possessive and the aggressive type. If something's mine, I'd make sure that person, and everyone around us, knows he's fucking mine."

     "What a scary boyfriend you would be." Someone suddenly says. The two demons quickly turned around and saw Woohyun and Sungjae holding cups of coffees.

     "Couldn't sleep?" Sungjae asked as he and Woohyun gave Minhyuk and Sunggyu their coffee.

      "Thanks. And yeah, Suho and Lay are a little too loud." Minhyuk stated as he took a sip of the coffee.

      The Angels stood beside the Demons, and then Woohyun looked at the two and said, "A little too loud? Then why not visit our room and listen to what we were going through a couple of minutes ago. Junhyung and Hyunseung were both screaming their lungs out. And our room literally smells like lust! Hyunseung's just oozing this dark, sexy, aura and it's driving us crazy!"

     The rest quickly laughed at Woohyun's exaggerated explanation.

     "So what were you guys talking about earlier? It sounded interesting." Sungjae asked. Then Sunggyu answered before Minhyuk could explain it himself, "Nothing really, Minhyuk's just feeling a little lonely."

     "Why? Too tired doing it by yourself?" Sungjae joked, making the three laugh.

     "Thank you leader, you perfectly explained to them my needs." Minhyuk says as he glared at Sunggyu.

     Sunggyu puts his arms around his brother and said, "Oh come on, lighten up, no man's an island you know."

     Minhyuk quickly pushed Sunggyu's hand away; who continued to laugh because of Minhyuk's reaction.

     "No need to feel bad Minhyuk. For someone like you I'm pretty sure you've done it a lot of times now so your D probably wouldn't be that lonely being alone anyways." Sungjae says, making Sunggyu laugh even harder and Minhyuk blush like crazy.

     "No way." Woohyun says, getting the picture.

     Seconds later Sungjae understood it too.

     "You're a virgin?!" the two asked in unison.

     "Why are you suddenly interested in my sex life?!" Minhyuk shouted, still red because of embarrassment.

     "That's so weird! Why are you working out so much then?! Guys trying to build up their muscles mostly has one goal, and that's to be able to some," Sungjae suddenly says.

     Minhyuk quickly shakes his head and defended himself, "That's fucking disgusting, not all guys are like that. And besides, I'm the prince of glutton for Pete's sake. I have an eating disorder before if I don't exercise I'd be fucking fat right now, even worse, I'd be having cholesterol and diabetes."

     "Well, that makes sense now." Sungjae says, staring intensely at Minhyuk's body, making Minhyuk cover himself since he felt like he was naked and Sungjae was staring at him for too long.

      "What gives man?!" Minhyuk shouts, making Sungjae blink and realize he was staring too long. Woohyun butts in and says, "Don't mind him, he just has a thing for guys with nice bodies."

      "Woohyun you idiot!" Sungjae shouted angrily, making Woohyun and Sunggyu laugh and Minhyuk blush again.

      "Don't think weirdly about it okay? Woohyun's just an idiot," Sungjae quickly says, but Minhyuk was already thinking weirdly about it so he looked away and nodded.

      Sungjae sighs and says, "Nice work Woohyun, you just made things awkward between us."

      "Then isn't that a good thing? You two might end up like Suho and Lay," Sunggyu says.

      "Definitely not!" both shouted in unison, making Woohyun and Sunggyu laugh again.

      "So how long do you think those guys would be doing it? Till morning?" Woohyun asked, now changing the topic.

     "Hopefully not. I'm fucking tired and I want to sleep in peace," Sunggyu answered and the rest agreed. Then he turned around. But the moment that he did, he quickly dropped the cup he was holding when he saw someone standing in the darkness. A figure whose eyes were all covered in black.

     "Jiyong!" Sunggyu quickly shouts, making everyone's eyes widen.

     "Where?!" Minhyuk asked, but Sunggyu doesn't answer and starts running towards Jiyong who was slowly walking away.

     Sunggyu ran faster and was about to grab Jiyong's arm but he couldn't touch him. It was like he was made out of smoke.

     "Sunggyu..." Sunggyu heard Jiyong say before it could completely disappear. The three arrived at where Sunggyu was. Sunggyu doesn't say anything but drops on his knees, his eyes wide from shock.

     "H-He called out for me...it was the first time...t-that Jiyong...called out my name," Sunggyu says, now shaking and trying his best not to burst out his tears.

     Minhyuk kneels and quickly hugs his brother, "It's okay, I'm here...it's okay."

     Woohyun and Sungjae looked at the two with sad expressions, then the lights turned on, revealing Taeil and Jihoon.

     "What's going on?" Jihoon asked as he looked at the four.

     "We heard the noise and quickly ran here," Taeil added.

     Minhyuk looked at his brother and said, "Sunggyu saw Jiyong again."

     "What?" Taeil asked in shock.

     Sunggyu lifted his head and looked at the two, "Call everyone..."

     Taeil and Jihoon looked at Sunggyu confusingly. Then Sunggyu suddenly clenched his fist and shouted, "I said call everyone now!"

*****

     Everyone was in the meeting room. It was midnight, but no one cared since Sunggyu just saw something that would surely help them with their mission.

     "So you saw him." Junhyung pointed out.

      Sunggyu nodded and answered him, "Yeah, and not like before, his eyes were all black, and it felt like he was real. And he called out my name. That never happened before."

     "When was the last time you saw Jiyong's spirit?" Park Dong Min – who the brother also woke up – asked.

      "About two weeks ago," Sunggyu answered.

      "And the Jiyong you saw two weeks ago was different because?" Dongmin asked further.

      "His eyes were normal, and he was cold and unreal. The one I saw today felt hot when I tried to touch it." Sunggyu explained. Dongmin starts thinking for a few seconds, then he sighs heavily and finally says, "What you saw wasn't Jiyong."

      When Sunggyu heard of Dongmin's conclusion, he suddenly slams the table and says, "It was him. I saw him and I-"

      "You saw his image, you didn't see HIM. Black eyes? He felt real? You saw a ghoul molded into Jiyong's image, not Jiyong himself." Dongmin explained, shocking everyone.

      When Sunggyu finally calmed down, Dongmin continued, "I didn't want to say this, but I think Jiyong's spirit is getting farther and farther away from us. If we don't do anything his spirit will be far gone and we can never resurrect him."

     "What?!" the Demons asked in unison.

     "T-Then...what should we do? We need to do something!" Hyunseung quickly asked.

     "The best thing we have now is to look for him through the mirror. Us finding him will make his spirit stop roaming. This will give us ample  time so he wouldn't completely fall to the abyss." Dongmin explained.

     Taeil quickly stood up and said, "Then there's no time to waste," he looked at Jihoon and continued, "Let's go,"

     "You can rest for now and do it tomorrow," Dongmin says, but Taeil shakes his head in disagreement, "No, my brother needs me now. And I'm not failing him again."

      Dongmin takes a deep breath and finally nods his head in understanding, "Then go to the holy mirror. It will be ready for you to use it."

      Taeil bowed and left the room, and then Jihoon followed behind him.

      "But why would a ghoul do that? Why would he pretend to be like Jiyong?" Suho asked once the two were gone.

     "The King of Hell is surely the mastermind behind it. Maybe it's a decoy for us to think Jiyong is still within our reach." Dongmin explained.

     "But he was inside the holy home, no mere ghoul can enter the holy home," Mark stated and the Arcs quickly agreed.

     "He's right, the first time we got here, it was already hard in our part, what more for a mere ghoul," Jackson explained.

      "It could mean anything, but what I do know is that the King of Hell is now stepping up his game, especially when all of you are together now. He knows you guys are more powerful than before and you even have the keys of hell. It might sound impossible but I think he's scared of the six of you," Dongmin stated.

      "Is he stupid? We only have six keys; Jiyong has the last piece. We can't actually open the gate so why is he suddenly scared to the point that he'll be doing all these stupid stunts?" Sunggyu asked, now angry just by thinking about the King.

      "He's doing this so you wouldn't have the chance to resurrect Jiyong. Because if you do, not only will you acquire the ability to open the gates, but you have also resurrected the most powerful Demon in hell," Dongmin stated, finally making everyone understand.

      "So it's all down to resurrecting Jiyong. Our main mission now is to resurrect him, and for us to do so, we need to understand the dreams, and what better way for us to do just that is to actually sleep, don't you guys think?" Minhyuk suggested.

     "You have a point there," Suho added.

     "Then let's go back to our rooms and sleep. We'll talk about this matter again tomorrow," Dongmin stated as he stood up. The rest stood up as well and bowed in front of the guardian before leaving the room. Then one by one the Demons and the Arcs went back to their respective rooms.

      "Sunggyu let's go," Minhyuk called out as he looked at Sunggyu who was still standing blankly in the middle of the room.

      Minhyuk touched his shoulder, making him flinch. Then he looked back at Minhyuk and said, "Sorry."

      "Hey, it's okay. I know what you're feeling, I know that you were relieved to see Jiyong again but then you realized it actually wasn't. We all want to see Jiyong again, and we eventually will if you keep your shit together. You're our leader remember? We need you more than anything." Minhyuk honestly tells him.

      Sunggyu sighed and doesn't look at his brother, "I know...I'm just a little worried that we'll never really get to see him anymore."

THE NEXT MORNING

"I didn't dream about him." Hyunseung suddenly revealed. Suho quickly raised his hand and added, "Me too. The dreams suddenly stopped."

     Dongmin looked at Minhyuk who also answered with a sad expression, "I didn't dream about him either."

      The guardian sighed heavily and massaged his temple, "I knew it. We wasted so much time that we ended up with this. How about Taeil, where is he?"

      "He's still at the Holy mirror with Jihoon. He said he wasn't going to leave, not unless he sees even a little hint of Jiyong's existence," Junhyung says since he saw the two just this morning.

      "They didn't sleep?" Dongmin asked, surprised to hear about it.

      "Taeil didn't want to stop, while Jihoon didn't want to leave Taeil alone, so both of them didn't sleep." Woohyun explained. Dongmin sighed again and stated, "Call them here, and tell them breakfast is ready."

     Woohyun stood up and said, "Got it," then he went to where the two were.

     "But did he find anything?" the guardian asked as he looked at the Arc's leader.

     Junhyung shakes his head and said, "I don't know yet, but with the looks on their faces earlier...he was obviously unsuccessful."

      Everyone in the dining room was quiet. They were all tired. Maybe not physically, but they were exhausted mentally, especially when they all forced their brains to dream about Jiyong again, but nothing came, which made it even more painful. To top it all off, everyone had classes today too.

      "What are we supposed to do now?" Hyunseung asked, his hope of resurrecting Jiyong slowly fading. But instead of Dongmin answering his question, someone enters the dining room with Woohyun, Taeil, and Jihoon.

      "For now we need to halt our plans for Jiyong," Kharon stated as everyone looked at him with shock.

      "Kharon, what are you doing here this early?" Sunggyu asked as he looked at their guardian confusingly.

      "I found something that might just change the whole game. I want you all to go to HAU immediately," Kharon instructs.

      Sunggyu quickly stood up and asked, "What's going on?"

      "It might not look like it but I saw ghouls in human forms earlier when I was heading to HAU. I attacked them and found out they were actually escorting someone," Kharon revealed, shocking everyone.

      "Escorting someone?" Sunggyu asked in disbelief.

      Everyone braced themselves and waited for what Kharon had to say, "S ranked Demons arrived, and I don't know whether they were sent by the King himself, or if they were sent by your own Fathers."

      "S ranked Demons?!"

- END -