JUNGKOOK'S POV

Lazily resting my chin on my left palm, playing with the food on my plate, poking it here and there, I was sitting on the chair lost in my own deep trance.

“Jungkook?”

I heard someone's voice calling my name but the trance was swallowing me inside deeper and deeper. I didn't want to respond, not now at least.

“Kookie!!!” This time I felt someone shaking my unresponsive figure vigorously. As I came out of my trance unwillingly and looked at my side only to see a concerned gaze of my mother eyeing me up and down.

“Baby are you okay? Why aren't you eating? Here, eat this…” Luna asked with her worried yet loving voice and filled my bowl with more rice and putting some more meat on my plate.

“Why are you turning so pale!?” She cupped my face and caressed my cheeks with her thumbs.

“I-I-I'm okay mother, I really am!” I smiled assuringly at her before eating some rice from the bowl as she smiled and sighed before getting back to her food.

“Our kookie is growing up, he needs a mate to take care of him, isn't that so?” Namjoon hyung said and took a sip of the juice as Luna and the others hummed nodding in response.

"Ofcourse our kookie needs some extra workout!" Jin hyung wiggled his eyebrows and I choked.

"Here Kookie, have some water you're young, your age is of choking on something else." Hoseok hyung teased pouring me a glass of water.

I looked here and there, like what the fuck are they talking about between elders like this.

"Our kookie is so strong after all, his mate is gonna experience so many things." Hwasa noona said and Namjoon hyung turned his head towards her in the speed of light making everyone laugh heartedly.

"Just like me right!" She chuckled in embarrassment while Namjoon hyung nodded in satisfaction.

"Pretty sure our hyung's mate is going to be as beautiful as a nymph from heaven." Yeonjun joined the conversation.

“Ofcourse Yeonjun! I wonder how the future queen would look like.” Jimin said taking a bite of the food.

"For sure going to as handsome as my brother!" Tzuyu chimed clapping her hands in excitement.

"Nymph, my son's mate is gonna look like a goddess." Luna said pinching my nose.

“Indeed, she's no less than a goddess, a pure work of ethereal beauty…!”

I thought in my mind as a sad smile plastered on my face and the scene of that day flashed in my mind.

The first time I looked into her eyes, it felt like she had a lot to say, but she couldn't due to some reason, and that made me want her more desperately.

I really don't know what's up with her but I wouldn't step back to help her. I also want to feel loved by my mate, feel her embrace, her warmth, her scent. I'm also getting weaker day by day and nothing's helping it.

It's like a coconut that's rotting inside but if you see the kernel outside, you can't say whether its copra inside is rotten or not. That's what happening with me, I'm not letting anyone know what's going inside me, I can't, not at least now when I myself don't know things properly.

And suddenly the sound of something falling down caught my attention as I looked in the direction and saw Alpha.

“Are you okay Alpha?” I asked looking at him, my eyebrows frowned.

“Y-Yeah, it's just the spoon--” Alpha answered while bending down for the spoon and in the mid of the sentence he stopped as we all heard a loud thud, he fell unconscious down from the chair.

“FATHER!!!” I yelled before hurriedly standing up from my chair and running towards him, Luna and the others were no different.

“Father! Open your eyes father!” I picked him up from the floor, placing his head onto my lap, trying to wake him up.

“Honey, wake up, open your eyes!” Luna started crying in worry as I extended my arm wiping her tears.

“What's wrong with him? Wake up Alpha!!!” Jimin hyung yelled anxiously.

“Calm down guys! Please don't cry and yell, let me call for Mr. Chou.” Jin hyung tried to calm down the tension.

“Hurry hyung! I can't let anything happen to my father at any cost.” I said to him and he nodded in response, “Yes prince! Nothing will happen to our Alpha.” With that, he left for the Gamma.

I and Jimin made Alpha stand up, placing his both hands on our shoulders and walking towards Alpha's room, followed by Luna and the others.

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AUTHOR'S POV

The atmosphere was tense and the air was thick with tension. Jungkook was pacing here and there biting his lips, hands folded onto his chest. His mind filled up with so many questions and worry written all over his face. He was scared for his father.

Jimin was no different. He was also standing in front of the door impatiently waiting for Mr. Chou to come out of the room.

The situation had never been worse for Jungkook and Jimin. They both seemed to be in a fix in their current situations, neither could break out of it nor resolve it.

And there was standing Queen Martha, head lowered down, not daring to look up and fidgeting with her fingers.

Luna was inside and only three of them were there. Others were told to be informed as soon as something comes up so they were waiting in the living room.

For once Jungkook's eyes catch a glance of Martha. She looked nervous and scared, also kinda abnormally fidgeting with her fingers. But Jungkook thought that she's maybe worried about Alpha so he just brushed the thought away as the door of Alpha's room opened revealing Mr. Chou.

"Prince Jimin and Jungkook, please a minute!" Mr. Chou excused with the worried princes to a corner, leaving Martha aside.

"What happened? Please tell us each and every single thing!" Jimin asked, curiously and Jungkook looked at him deeply while praying the best in his head for his father's health.

"I'm sorry Prince but Alpha's body is not reacting to anything, his organ system, his nerves are normal, no sign of any disease. I--" His words were cut off by Jungkook, "Then why did he just faint?" He asked in confusion.

"Yes, check once again please." Jimin let out concerned.

"Prince, I think he was drugged somehow. His nervous system is calm like a person in sleep. Not like a disease but it's more like a hibernation." Mr. Chou paused looking down in disappointment.

"Alpha is not reacting to anything and I don't know when he'll wake up!" Mr. Chou bowed in respect before turning away to check alpha again leaving Jimin and Jungkook standing there looking at each other in distress,

"If he was drugged that means someone did this intentionally and is from the royal family." Jungkook said.

"Do not panic, he'll be healthy soon, and let's solve this internally, or else the culprit will get warned." Jimin placed his hand on Jungkook's shoulder.

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The armchair swung back and forth as there sat a worried and scared Jungkook, lazily sinking into the armchair, hands resting on either side of the chair. He let his head loll back and eyes pull to a close.

The room sank into a deafening silence. Only inhales, exhales of his deep breath, and sound of his heartbeat booming into the room.

He could feel the fear in his chest waiting to take over. But somehow he was holding all of it inside for the sake of his pack, as he is the future alpha.

But the thought of his father never left his mind. The scene of him falling down from the chair and his unconscious body laying on the bed haunting him. The broken face of Luna and Jimin flashing in front of eyes, the disappointment in the eyes of Mr. Chou making him burn in anger inside.

It sits there like an angry ball propelling him towards an anxiety he just doesn't want.

“How come he don't know what happened to father? He's a Gamma! He must have the cure! Then why?” Jungkook slammed his fist on the chair's hand in anger as a knock on the door heard right after it. He unwillingly stood up and opened the door only to see Mr. Jung standing in front of him.

“Sorry to disturb your peace prince but the authorities are calling you in the special room.” Mr. Jung said with a slight bow as Jungkook returned the respect nodding in agreement before walking off with him towards the special room.

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The guards opened the door as Jungkook and Mr. Jung stepped inside the special room. As soon as the authorities saw him they stood up and bowed, they all held deep respect and reverence towards him.

Jungkook slightly lowered his head before reaching to his chair and seating himself on it.

The atmosphere was tense. The air was filled with seriousness, as all of their faces were contoured in concern, pure concern for their pack.

All of his hyungs and his father's administrators were there, all of their faces wrinkled in worry. As soon as everyone settled on our respective seats, their beta in general spoke…

"Your Highness, As you know Alpha is not in his Best condition…" Mr. Kim paused, "The throne is empty for now…And the pack demands for protection. The pack needs an Alpha, the realm needs a king."

Everyone nodded in agreement while Jungkook sat there knowing what's coming ahead.

"So everyone present here has decided, that since our prince, the Future Alpha is still unmated." Mr. Jung said this time.

Jungkook's heart filled with immense hurt in a moment like on the edge of shattering. He himself was not in his best condition as his bones felt numb and he himself felt light-headed always. Y/N's face went through his mind as he sighed slightly to himself.

"And Alpha is sick so let's announce him as the former king but without coronation, till Alpha gets well. After that, we can go through the normal way it goes." Mr. Jung looked at Jungkook expectedly,

"Like prince will get crowned when he finds himself his mate." He added and everyone nodded in agreement.

"And as some of the former administrators are still underage." Mr. Kim looked towards the young boys sitting there, "Let Prince Jimin, Namjoon, Hoseok & Seokjin accompany him."

"But the rest of work we'll be doing it as the others like Prince Yeonjun and Princess Tzuyu are too young and still under training." Mr. Kim said looking towards the two underage gammas, Yeonjun and Tzuyu.

"The commands will be given by Prince Jungkook." He added.

"I'll do my best and hopefully Alpha Jeon will get well soon…" Jungkook was trained to be the future Alpha, he deserved that position as nature decided it itself, but suddenly it felt like it was hard as he wasn't fully ready.

“BlackRose is my biggest responsibility!”

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The desire for power can burn a person more than fire...

Anyways, responsibilities don't come after informing...

The time has come to prove himself the greatest of all...

There were numerous eyes on him...

The thing to be seen was that the tales of who's ability people had been listening for years...

Was he even capable or not?

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