Nowadays the Kim brothers spend a lot of time together since they all were locked up in their own home. It brought them to the point where they would naturally just meet in one of their rooms, training together or doing something else or just talk and joke with each other for hours. Today was a little bit different though because while they were gathered in Seungmin's room Wonpil got a call from Dowoon. At first it was nothing unusual but then the vampire frantically and loudly told the older demon that Changbin and Jisung just ditched town to investigate one of Jisung's vision all on their own instead of traveling to Transylvania like planed.

Of course Seungmin being his attentive and curious self had listened to the conversation of his oldest brother and Dowoon, which caused the redhead to almost freak out and now he tried to think of a way to help his two friends or at least keep them from getting hurt. The thing they did was dangerous, especially in a time where the supernaturals were more or less exposed to the human eye.

"Seungmin please stop pacing. It's making everyone here nervous", Byungho spoke up, watching how his younger half brother walked his room up and down like he was possessed. He was obviously worried about Seungmin and the redhead appreciated that but he needed to make sure Changbin and Jisung were safe.

"Byungho, let him be. He won't stop. Not until he got an good idea or solution", Wonpil, who was seated in an armchair near the window commented. Seungmin barely noticed his oldest brother's comment but he knew that Wonpil was the one, who understood him the best.

"Why does he even have to think about an idea or solution?", Samuel asked innocently from his place on Seungmin's bed. His eyes followed Seungmin worriedly but he didn't know how to help his brother, so he had stayed silent.

"Because Changbin and Jisung probably brought themselves somehow into trouble", Wonpil answered with a sigh. "Scratch that "probably". I know they are in trouble, they are just that stupid", Seungmin retorted, ruffling his red hair harshly. Jisung had a tendency to run into trouble and Changbin was probably following along one of the warlock's plans. This could just end in a disaster.

Byungho stood up from his place on the foot of the redhead's bed, walked over to his still pacing brother and made him halt by standing in his way as well as pulling his hands out of his red hair. Seungmin's head snapped up to Byungho when the older took his wrists, making him let go of his red hair.

"Listen Seungmin, they probably know what they are doing. Unlike you, I don't think they are stupid and reckless. They can take care of themselves. There is no need for you to always protect them", the brunette said in a calm voice while looking at the redhead. Seungmin avoided the dark eyes of his older brother, not wanting to be calmed down by their warmth. He wanted to find a solution and be there for his friends but he couldn't.

"I hate being powerless. I hate being not useful to my friends", the young redhead mumbled. "Hey there. You can't be everywhere all the time. Besides, believe in them a little like Byungho", Woosu commented, getting up from his place behind Samuel to lay his hand on his slightly younger brother. He had a big smile on his face, trying to cheer up the redhead. Seungmin released a breath. Sometimes he truly didn't know what to do without his brothers.

"Alright, I will have a little bit of faith in my two idiots", the redhead said with a sigh. "Since when are they your idiots", Samuel asked in a teasing way with a smug grin on his face. The siren looked at Seungmin like he had just discovered the other's biggest secret. Seungmin had to bite back a very sarcastic remark.

"They are my idiots since I met them. Doesn't matter if they have a relationship or not", the redhead defended himself, getting his wrists out of Byungho's grip, so he could cross his arms over his chest.

"I never said anything about relationships or anything like that", the siren mused. Seungmin felt a blush rise up his cheeks. He opened his mouth and wanted to defend himself from the implication of the siren but he couldn't think of anything. He slowly shut his mouth again letting Byungho, Woosu and Wonpil laugh.

"S-stop laughing. You all knew he was hinting at that! You would also have answered like me", the redhead defended himself, pushing himself away from Byungho and Woosu. "B-besides, I would never in a thousand years begin a relationship with Jisung!", he added looking away from his brothers. "Oh? And what about Changbin?", Wonpil asked and if Seungmin hadn't looked like a tomato before he did now. He also didn't answer for a moment for a reason he didn't know himself.

"He didn't deny it!", Samuel yelled into the round. "I didn't answer at all!", the younger demon yelled back, feeling how his face got even warmer.

"You still didn't deny it! You have a crush on Changbin!", the youngest Kim brother retorted loudly.

"Stop dreaming will you, you little brat", Seungmin said, walking over to Samuel, who immediately rolled away from the redhead.

"I will never because it's obvious", the siren continued to tease. Seungmin just grabbed the pillow of his bed, throwing it at Samuel. The siren dodged by rolling over once more, almost causing him to drop to the ground.

"You can't hide the truth forever", Samuel said with a wide grin on his face. If Seungmin's face could get any redder it probably would but the redhead decided he would mask this by throwing another pillow at Samuel and then trying to silence the other. Of course Samuel wouldn't just let his older brother do that, so he dodged the pillow and ran away from Seungmin. This resulted in a chase between the two youngest Kim brothers while the three older ones couldn't help but laugh.

This continued for a while until everyone was breathless either because of being chased, laughing too hard or running after your annoying younger sibling.

"You totally have a crush on Changbin", Samuel states breathlessly while laying with his back on the bed. Still, being convinced he was right, making Seungmin roll his eyes in annoyance.

"I don't do crushes", Seungmin panted. "Well I will see if you have a crush on him as soon as I see him near you", the young siren said, having a little grin on his face. He was referring to his siren ability, which Seungmin knew about ever since reading some stuff about sirens after Samuel's arrival.

"Oh, shut it, you stupid siren", the redhead huffed. Internally he hoped dearly Samuel wouldn't to be able to see anything regarding this topic. He just knew that Samuel wouldn't shut up about it in any way.

"Be nice to each other", Byungho said with a almost teasing smile on his face. "Yes, mum", Seungmin said with irony in his voice. Byungho was the unofficial mum of their shared friend group, Seungmin realized after calling the older male "mum" ironically.

"Goodness, some day we will die because of laughing", Woosu joked but everyone more or less agreed to that statement. They did have a lot of fun teasing and joking with each other.

The light atmosphere stayed in the room until Wonpil's phone rang, again. The oldest Kim brother looked at the little device while the eyes of his four brothers where focused on him. "It's Sungjin-hyung", Wonpil said and took the call, putting it on speaker because he already knew his brothers would be listening to every word anyway.

"Wonpil, I know you aren't allowed to leave your house put I need your help", Sungjin immediately said. "Why and with what?", the demon asked, glancing at his brothers to see their reactions. "Dowoon told you about Changbin and Jisung?", the werewolf wanted to clarify. This of course made Seungmin sit up and shuffle a little closer to his older, demonic brother.

"Yes, he did", Wonpil confirmed, frowning a little. Seungmin on the other hand felt anxiety fill his chest despite his head telling him that Sungjin would sadder and more worried if something had happened to Changbin and Jisung. Especially Changbin, who the werewolf saw as a sort of little brother.

"To make this short: Jisung had a terrible vision and it turned out to be true and the two got wrapped up in a pretty difficult situation but they are now safe at the NCT headquarter but the thing is that thanks to those two NCT was able to catch a human, to be more specific someone they call hunter", Sungjin explained, which caused all the Kim brother to react very differently.

Samuel was confused since he had no clue what a hunter was, Byungho had a mild idea of it, Woosu gasped loudly since he was taught what a hunter was by his mother Athea and Seungmin just looked shocked like Wonpil because they too knew what a hunter could cause from reading about them in the books of the mansion's library when they were little.

"Are you sure?", Wonpil carefully asked. "Of course he is sure!", another voice could be heard over the phone and it was obviously Jae. "We need you Wonpil. This hunter won't give out important information but we know you can make her spill out every little thing she knows", that was obviously Dowoon, who said that. "Get your brother to help you escape prison for a couple of hours. We really do need you here with us!", you could also hear Younghyun say. Seungmin didn't need to hear more. He could help his friends when he figure this hunter out.

"Already on it. He will met you at the NCT headquarter in half an hour", Seungmin said into the phone, reaching past Wonpil and ending the call while receiving questioning looks from his brothers.

"What? I got tons of ways to leave the mansion unnoticed", the redhead announced, shrugging slightly. He had thought about it a lot because of Wonpil's tower curse, which had been lifted not so long ago.

"Seungmin you are slowly becoming my favorite brother", Woosu said with a goofy grin, directed at the young redhead. "You are so mean, hyung", Samuel whined and clung onto the arm of the warlock with the white hair. "Yeah yeah. I know", Woosu answered, patting his youngest brother's head. If Seungmin was honest Woosu and Samuel had developed an adorable sibling relationship ever since Samuel and Rana had joined the Kim family but he needed to get a plan in motion.

"Stop having an adorable sibling relationship. We need to get work done. My most efficient way of getting out of the mansion includes all of our powers, so chop chop", Seungmin said, starting to get his brothers to do what was necessary to get Wonpil to the center of Yellow Wood, unnoticed by even the devil himself.

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"So, you will not talk? You will just continue to sit here, refusing to make things easier for the both of us?", a rather young male with black hair and black eyes said, staring at the woman in front of him, who was strapped to a chair with an empty expression on her face.

The two were separated by a table, nothing more. The room was empty besides two chairs and a table. There was no visible window and the only light came from the lamp directly above the table. Even someone who never saw a thriller, would call this an investigation room.

"I know you want to talk. After all you did it before you were brought here", the young male said using an more alluring voice. It sounded like a melody, sung in a special way, which made you almost vulnerable but the woman frantically shook her head, refusing to give into the temptation of telling the pretty young man in front of her everything she knew.

"I won't talk to a men-eating siren!", the woman yelled with her eyes closed. The young male stayed calm even though you could see a certain irritation cross his beautiful facial features. "You just did", he answered in a steady tone, making the woman close her mouth in an instant.

"Listen. We don't want to hurt you, your family or your friends we just want to protect our people, to avoid a war and thousands of deaths and not repeat history. You can help us with that", the young man tried to reason with the woman still using this alluring, calm voice that seemed to wrap you up in a warm blanket.

"I will never help a creature, who was born to lure women and men to the bottom of the sea", the woman hissed. "Those days ended shortly after the ancient war started, miss. No creature kills humans for food nowadays", the male still tried to stay calm, keep his voice steady and his posture upright. He didn't want to get angry, seem vulnerable or snap at the woman. It wouldn't benefit him.

"Yeah, sure. That's why there are still reports of boats crashing into cliffs without reason, people drowning because they tried to follow a beautiful voice they heard and children found brutally slaughtered at a beach!", the woman snapped. Her eyes staring the male in front of her down.

"That is not the doing of a group of sirens or any supernatural creature living in the sea", the siren with the black hair said, gritting his teeth, not using his alluring voice anymore, instead there was a sharp undertone but it was still too quiet to be noticed by the female hunter.

"Then who does things like that?!" the woman yelled at the black-haired male. The young siren couldn't take it anymore. He clenched his hands into fists trying to not let certain memories get the better of him but in the end his anger got the upper hand.

"Humans like you! They slaughtered thousands of creatures just because they were different! Your kind even kills their own for the stupidest reasons!", the siren snapped, slamming his hands onto the table while standing up. The chair, the male had been sitting on clattered to the ground.

"Humans never know when to stop. They carelessly destroy every living being around them with their killing for no reason! They slaughter families, packs, groups, whole organizations, courts and even villages! We are not the monsters, you are!", the young male screamed, his voice having a sharp tone which somehow even hurt the woman's ears to a certain extent.

The door of the room flung open, revealing Taeyong and a tall male with dark hair. Taeyong was pretty fast with grabbing the siren's arm and dragging him out of the investigation room while the tall male with the dark hair closed and locked the door behind them.

Taeyong didn't let go of the young siren after they were in the corridor, no he let his grip on the other's arm only loosen while looking at the younger male with sympathy. "I'm sorry, Mark. I shouldn't have let you do this", the guardian apologized. "No", Mark objected and freed himself from Taeyong's hold, taking two steps away from the two older males, showing them his back. The two older males shared a worried glance before focusing back onto the siren.

"Mark, you don't need to act tough in front of us. We know that you are the most sensitive to this kind of topic because of what happened to your parents", the tallest out of the three said, looking at the siren with concern shimmering in his dark brown eyes. Mark didn't answer, he just crossed his arms over his chest trying to stay composed with lightly trembling shoulders.

The tall male wanted to say something again but Taeyong just laid a hand on his arm, getting his attention. "Don't try to force him, Johnny. Just get Donghyuk and Taeil", the guardian said in a soft, calm voice. Johnny let out a sigh but then nodded and turned around to walk to the staircase to get Donghyuk and Taeil.

Taeyong's attention directed itself back onto Mark, who stood not far from him lightly trembling. Like it was a natural thing to do, the guardian walked up to his younger group member and hugged him from behind.

"Don't worry, Mark. We will get her to talk and then we can save the creatures, who are in danger. We won't let history repeat itself. May it be a war from centuries ago or a terrible massacre twelves years ago", the guardian reassured the young siren. Mark began to quietly sob while his trembling got worse but he still tried to keep himself together.

"It's okay", Taeyong mumbled and that was the point where Mark broke down completely. The siren turned around almost automatically and buried his face in his hyung's neck while tears streamed down his face uncontrollably. The guardian just held the younger until he heard hurried footsteps coming closer from behind him.

"Mark", you could already heard Donghyuk's worried voice call for the siren. The warlock with the purple hair appeared right beside Taeyong not long after that, accompanied by Taeil and Johnny.

After seeing the siren's state, Taeil glared at the door of the investigation room, probably plotting murder, which was unlike him but in the end his attention purely laid on the crying Mark, who was still held by Taeyong while Donghyuck patted his back, looking beyond worried. Usually Donghyuck was very giddy, smiley and almost annoyingly clingy but right now the empathy in the warlock's eyes almost reflected Mark's pain.

Taeil carefully walked up his leader and the two younger males and put his right hand onto the top of Mark's head, letting his hand glow in a calming shade of light blue while using his healing powers. The siren slowly calmed down, his sobbing got less and his tears stopped flowing. When Taeil took his hand off the younger male's head he was fast asleep, slumping against Taeyong. The red-haired male had been prepared for this and steadily held the siren up right.

"I will bring him to his room and stay with him", Taeil said to his leader, not looking at him since his gaze was still focused on Mark. Taeyong nodded and slowly let Taeil take the now sleeping siren. Even though Taeil was smaller than Mark, the guardian still managed to carry the siren with a certain ease. Donghyuck followed the two like a lost puppy while Johnny and Taeyong stayed back.

"Any ideas on how to get this woman to talk?", Taeyong asked with a sigh, looking up to Johnny. "Only one and let's just say it's not a very good one", the taller answered. "We don't have much of a choice, do we?", the red-haired male stated, letting his gaze focus on the door of the interrogation room.