The rest of November and nearly the whole December were filled with tests and exams, which wasn't really pleasant in anyone's opinion but everybody managed it somehow and the winter holidays weren't far, so everybody tried to channel their last bit of energy to make it through this school hell.

The last exam was in the last week of school before the winter holidays on a Wednesday. It was snowing and Miroh High was more or less absolutely quiet because everybody concentrated on their last exam of the year. Or better it was quiet until a certain warlock stumbled out of his classroom.

"I survived", Jisung cheered when the door of his classroom closed behind him were they had their sociology exam. "Congratulations, idiot", Seungmin congratulated him with a little bit of irony to mock his best friend. The redhead leaned on the opposite wall because he had handed in his exam sheet and left the classroom long before the warlock did. The slightly older blue-haired male glared at the redhead.

"Nobody is an evil genius like you", Jisung shot back while Seungmin stuck his tongue out playfully. It was frustrating to see Seungmin nail every exam without studying so much. Jisung on the other hand didn't want to know how long the had studied in total. The number would depress him.

"He is not wrong. Seungmin, you are quite the evil genius, especially when it come to tricks and pranks", Hyunjin spoke up, who leaned on the wall next to the door. The siren finished not so long after Seungmin and it wouldn't surprise Jisung when the black-haired male had a perfect score on his sociology exam. He had that on a lot of his tests and exams, even in math were he had struggled before but Chan seemed to be a very good tutor.

"See Hyunjin agrees with me", Jisung said and held out his hand for Hyunjin to High-five, which the siren didn't turn down. "Well at least I'm a genius", Seungmin smirked, not letting his two friends tease him.

The door of the classroom was opened again revealing Felix and Jeongin. "I died" Felix said and let himself fall dramatically into Jeongin's arms. The youngest of the group was a little too surprised and was barely able to catch the cat hybrid. Still he was composed enough to drag the cat hybrid away from the door, so the next one who opened it wouldn't smack it into Felix's face.

"Were you that bad?", Jisung asked the ginger. The cat hybrid raised his head to look at the warlock. "Well I didn't do good so yeah", he answered and slumped into Jeongin once more who let out a quiet cry of dismay. "Hyung, you are heavy", he complained. "Ya! You are so mean", Felix responded while the the rest laughed. He stood up smoothly and let go of Jeongin, so he could pretend to be mad at the youngest.

The bell rang, indicating for the exam to end for everybody. This asked for a little celebration and since everyone was here already Jisung had a very simple idea to have some fun.

"Race to the cafeteria", the warlock yelled and bolted towards the cafeteria. "Unfair!", Seungmin called after him and broke into a run with Hyunjin, Jeongin and Felix not far behind him.

The five ran to the cafeteria while occasionally laughing like little children. The world felt okay at this moment and to be frank the last few weeks were more or less peaceful. For example Jisung's uncle had rarely been at home over the last few weeks, giving the young warlock some space to breath but it had a reason because Changbin kept his word and brought Valentin King behind bars for drinking the blood from an underaged warlock forcefully. Of course Jisung's uncle somehow heard of that, which probably led to his constant leaving the flat.

Also after Jisung's "false" vision part, nothing new happened in that section. It just seemed to have stopped. Of course he had finally managed to talk to Mr. Lee, or better Minhyuk, properly about his visions without saying anything that could harm someone, which was why he kept the vision the had about Seungmin a secret, even from the redhead himself.

Even though Minhyuk was an experienced warlock and potions and spells teacher couldn't really explain why Jisung's visions were so strange and not even accurate at one point. It made no sense to anybody but Minhyuk suggested that maybe Jisung just needed to get used to have visions and learn more about them, so Jisung promised himself to look into the already collected knowledge about visions as soon as his exams were over.

To get to Seungmin, his family was as complicated as always but it helped him that he could talk to Jisung about it, which was why the warlock now knew a lot about the Kim family but he still had the feeling that Seungmin left out some parts.

Despite the incident with Wonpil and Lilith being from around two mouths ago, the older redhead was still locked up in the mansion more or less but Seungmin found an effective way to let the rest of Day6 sneak into the mansion without anyone noticing. The redhead had told Jisung how he was now nearly used to be greeted by Dowoon when he entered his older brother's room because the vampire was there nearly all the time and caught Wonpil up on anything Uni related but according to Seungmin the vampire just wanted to be with his oldest brother, which was why Seungmin wouldn't hesitate to call Dowoon Wonpil's boyfriend but they weren't officially dating yet, which was a miracle in the young demon's opinion.

Seungmin also told Jisung that he hadn't seen his mother Lilith ever since December started. She seemed to be busy with other things but Seungmin had no clue what those things could be. Still the absence of his mother didn't stop Seungmin from plotting something to break the tower curse Lilith casted over Wonpil and take a kind of revenge for his brother. Jisung helped Seungmin research on the tower curse a few times but they weren't able to come up with a way to break it just yet.

The redhead had also another thing his personal mission. This one included a certain vampire because over the last one and a half month Seungmin tried to immigrate Changbin into Jisung and Seungmin's group of friends. Was it working? Yes. Was it hard to free the vampire prince from his followers sometimes? Yes, but it wasn't that big of an issue up until now. Mainly because Jeongin just needed to send one glare Ryan's way and he would back away instantly with the rest of his vampire friends. This made Seungmin thank Jeongin the first time he did it, which had confused Jisung and the kitsune but neither hadn't questioned it.

Jisung liked Changbin if he was honest. The vampire was surprisingly nice despite his cold aura and often expressionless face. He wasn't the loudest person but Jisung had the feeling that the other was just hiding behind a quiet and cold persona, which he probably needed to have the other vampires under control. Somehow Jisung was a bit puzzled why Changbin even hung out with the other vampires when he clearly found them annoying.

To sum the last one and a half month up: Changbin became more or less a part of it because they often studied together in their free periods or after school. The vampire was pretty good in every suspect even spells and potions, which was a huge surprise.

Even if some of the group of friends had a strange feeling about Changbin being with them at first, it disappeared after Seungmin brought him to a study session for the third time in a row. Why you may ask? Well it was simple, Ryan had been annoying on that day that Changbin couldn't keep up his blank expression and distant behavior when they started to study, meaning the group saw a more or less laid back and friendly Changbin, who it was easy to have a conversation with. Jisung would describe this point as the "turning point" because from there on Changbin was a lot more open to the group of friends.

Seeing Changbin open up a little towards the group triggered something in Jisung. Valentin King was already behind bars at that point and the warlock knew it was Changbin and Seungmin's doing, even when they said nothing about it. Therefore on a Friday evening at Felix's and Minho's house when the group finished studying, Jisung brought up the courage to just tell his friends including Changbin, because Jisung referred to the older vampire as a friend at that point what happened with the bite but he somehow felt the need to not mention the role of his uncle in this mess or that Seungmin and Changbin got Valentin King behind bars. After Jisung was finished talking his friends nearly killed him with one giant but suffocating group hug. Not that he had minded it.

Over the past months Jisung also noticed himself not only liking Changbin a lot as a friend but also wanting to be close to Minho. He liked the older cat hybrid's company a lot despite the other teasing him on a daily base. The older also kept his little promise about Jisung wearing his cloths. Every time Jisung would be at the Lee's house Minho would drag him up to his room and make him wear at least one of his hoodies. He claimed that Jisung looked cute in his cloths and therefore made the other wear them. Of course Jisung had to blush at this.

Felix and Hyunjin also started to tease Jisung about having a crush on Minho, which the warlock denied every time with a blush on his cheeks. He didn't know really know if he had a crush on Minho himself but for the time being he just wanted to spend time with the other.

"First one!", Felix cheered when he entered the cafeteria closely followed by Jisung, who was panting heavily while the ginger didn't even seem remotely out of breath. "Th-this is unfair", the blue-haired warlock panted. Felix looked at him in confusion. "I didn't have a head start like you. I won fair and square", the cat hybrid declared proudly.

Jeongin, Seungmin and Hyunjin came running into the cafeteria and nearly crashed into Jisung and Felix. "Ha! Third", Jeongin cheered with one of his bright smiles everybody got so used to seeing.

"What a tragedy. I am the last one", Hyunjin said dramatically and leaned on Seungmin. "Nah. Jisung is the last one because he cheated", the redhead retorted. Jisung wanted to say something to deny that after his panting had died down but he was interrupted by an oh so familiar, beautiful laugh.

"What are you five doing? Racing each other?", Minho asked with an amused smile on his lips from behind Jisung. Jisung turned around to see Byungho, Chan, Minho and Changbin standing in the entrance of the cafeteria. "Basically and I won", Felix answered with a bright smile. "Stop bragging already", Jisung huffed and lightly hit the cat hybrid's shoulder.

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The nine friends got their food and went to their usual table while having their usual light conversation. Seungmin loved the little talks they had on a daily base. Mainly because it was the perfect excuse to tease Jisung, make some sassy remarks to things Minho said or just laugh at something funny Felix did.

"I still don't get why Mr. Yoo glared at me throughout our whole literature test, like I would cheat", Minho complained when they reached their table and sat down. "Well maybe because you glared back", Byungho answered dryly, which caused the younger ones of their group to laugh.

"Did you feel threatened by Mr. Yoo or were you too scared to look away?", Seungmin remarked with a light smirk on his lips. Minho huffed and took a sip from his orange juice. "Neither is the case. I just found it annoying, so I returned the gesture", the cat hybrid with the hazelnut brown hair replied after setting his drink down. Seungmin just raised an eyebrow.

"Did you even finish your test when you glared at Mr. Yoo the whole time?", Felix asked while still lightly laughing. "Of course I did. What's that for a question?" Minho huffed, looking at his brother, who was sitting next to him.

"I even finished before Changbin, our ace in literature", the older cat hybrid added, looking at the vampire, who was sitting at the other end of the table with a smug grin. The short black-haired male narrowed his eyes at the older.

"Well, did you do the task on the other side?" he asked with an unbothered expression. Minho blinked in confusion. "What other side?", the cat hybrid wanted to know and now the whole table was laughing, well except for the confused cat hybrid.

"There was an additional task on the other side of the third sheet. Mr. Yoo always puts one there to see who of the students is observant enough to get that", Chan explained after the laughing had died down a little. "And nobody cared enough to tell me that?", Minho questioned with an slightly offended look on his face, which made everybody laugh again.

"And I call you my friends", Minho snorted and crossed his arms over his chest. This mocking, laughing and joking continued until Seungmin spotted Chantelle walking towards their table. He slightly elbowed Changbin, who sat beside him to get his attention. The black-haired vampire looked to the redhead, who slightly nodded his head in Chantelle's direction. Changbin's eyes fell onto the female noble vampire while his smile was already fading. This got the attention of the rest of the table, which resulted in them also spotting the female.

"Changbin we need to talk", she said with a kind of demanding undertone when she was near the table. Seungmin lightly frowned at her tone but said nothing yet. After all he knew Chantelle wasn't the politest person. She hung out with Ryan, no further explanation was needed.

"About what?", Changbin asked in a rather annoyed tone. Seungmin could tell that he was already done with Chantelle and her demanding undertone. Why couldn't the other vampires just leave Changbin alone? Was his position really that important to them?

"Something important came up, so we need to talk alone", Chantelle said and send a glare towards Seungmin, who had to refer from just casting a quick spell over her to make her shut up and leave.

In the corner of his eye Seungmin noticed that he wasn't the only one glaring at Chantelle. Minho looked pretty irritated too, which wasn't really a surprise thinking back to his history with the vampire gang. It had been a surprise that he never had said something against Changbin when Seungmin brought him along for the first time.

"Will you let us alone when I talk to you for a short moment?", Changbin asked. Chantelle nodded but Seungmin didn't like the way she tried to hide a small smile. Changbin exhaled annoyed.

"I will be back", he said to his friends and got up. Seungmin's eyes where glued on Changbin's back when he walked away with Chantelle. "Seungmin, don't", Jisung started but the redhead pretended like he didn't hear him and got up fast to follow Changbin and Chantelle, who just left the cafeteria. "No, Seungmin", Jisung yelled after him and immediately got up as well to follow the redhead.

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Changbin followed Chantelle down the corridors to the more or less abandoned part of Miroh High. There were countless of storage rooms for the different special subjects of the school like spells and potions or transformation. Currently they were more or less empty due the big break.

The young vampire prince wasn't nervous or scared even though this situation seemed a bit fishy. He knew for a fact that nothing would happen to him in anyway even if you wouldn't really believe that when you saw the absolutely empty halls they just entered.

"Chantelle, where are we going?", Changbin asked with an emotionless voice. "Somewhere where nobody can hear us talk", Chantelle answered and walked towards one of the storage rooms. She opened the door without much difficulty and held it open for Changbin. Being used to this behavior he walked into the room first but he didn't suspect the door to fall close without Chantelle entering. Changbin turned around in surprise when he heard the sound of the door being locked. Did she just lock him in here? Did she really underestimate his strength that much?

"We know that you can kick the door open but we wanted nobody to enter unasked, you know", someone said. Changbin looked around and spotted Ryan coming out from behind one of the many shelves in this room. The brown-haired vampire seemed to have gotten his confidence from before the Jeongin incident back, that was what Changbin could tell by simply looking at how Ryan was walking towards him.

"You spend an awful lot of time with the redhead and his friends nowadays", Ryan said and absentmindedly let his fingers trail over the shelf on his right. Changbin crossed his arms over his chest but said nothing. He didn't feel the need to do so.

"Not talking to me? How rude. You know, we were puzzled why you became so attached to them so suddenly", Ryan continued to talk while tracing the cravings that decorated the shelves. Changbin slowly had enough of Ryan's pointless talking. He had never liked the other's behavior but now he was close to get Changbin to snap at him.

"Say what you want to say, Ryan", Changbin retorted with a voice that was so void of emotions it made someone shiver but still managed to sound annoyed. A smirk made its way onto Ryan's lips.

"You may know how Kim Seungmin is sometimes called spawn of satan because he sometimes makes trouble, right? Did you ever consider how true it may be to call him like that? I mean he has magic powers some warlocks can only dream about. He is considered to be a genius and a one of a kind because everybody thinks he is a warlock but it is not true. Not in the slightest", Ryan began talking with excitement in his voice. Changbin knew where this was going, which caused a slight crack in his cold facade. Did Ryan figure out Seungmin was a demon? Changbin knew for a fact that the redhead didn't want anyone to know that and made sure no one did, so how the hell would Ryan know?

Ryan noticed the light crack in Changbin's facade, which made his smirk only widen. "We researched a little bit on Kim Seungmin over the last weeks and I am sorry to break it to you but your new friend is an evil demon, a creature of pure darkness from no other place than hell", the brown-haired vampire revealed with a wide grin on his face. He looked like he had just won something, letting Changbin clench his teeth.

"But we didn't stop there with our research. All of Seungmin's friends got at least one dirty secret. For example Lee Felix and Lee Minho were th-", Ryan didn't come any further before Changbin walked up to him and punched him hard into the chest, which caused the other vampire to smash into the wall behind him while some things from the shelves fell down and broke into thousand pieces.

Ryan coughed hard and tried to get up but failed miserably, dropping back onto the ground. "So that was it what you did all the time you weren't swarming around me?", Changbin asked in a tone as cold as ice. It made Ryan remember who Changbin really was, the goddamn prince of all vampires.

"So you and your companions had enough free time to dig up dirt and secrets on my friends? And why exactly? Because you hoped I would just ditch them and come back to you and your little court just because of their past or because of what they are?", Changbin's voice boomed through the room. It would even make an werewolf alpha cower in fear.

Ryan pressed his back against the wall while Changbin walked over to him painfully slow. The fear the normally arrogant vampire with the brown hair felt was written all over his face. At this very moment he looked like he was fearing for his life while being unable to fight or run.

Changbin crouched down before Ryan when he was close enough to look the other into his eyes. The red tint in the vampire prince's eyes was glowing with such an intensity that Ryan questioned if Seungmin was the only demon in this school.

"I will give you an nice advice and-", Changbin was cut off by a scream from outside of the room. He whipped around his head. Wait, was that Jisung?