Time was always something uncontrollable and so was fate but Chan never thought that those two things could be so cruel. Just one minute ago the young wolf hybrid had been laying around in the room he shared with his younger brother Yedam and his mother in one of the pack houses. It had been a normal afternoon for him but it changed quicker than he could snap his fingers. 

His mother had bursted into the room yelling at him to get his brother and then run into the forest as far away from the pack houses as possible. The panic and urgency in her voice had made the young male shift into his wolf form out of reflex. Like his mother had wanted Chan dashed out of the room in search for his younger brother.

As far as Chan knew Yedam was with some boys, who were part of the moon pack and around the same age as his younger brother. Yedam had said they wanted to train some tricks before he had left the room, meaning he just needed to find where they were training right now. Chan had soon realized why his mother had been panicking when he saw the fight that had erupted outside of the pack house. Shifted werewolves and wolf hybrids were fighting against what Chan could only guess to be humans with weapons.

After the young wolf hybrid had ran out of the pack house he was in the middle of the chaos. He just ran through it, while dodging everything that seemed dangerous, no matter if it was just a pointy object or a real weapon. He hated that he couldn't call out to his brother in his wolf form and that he was alone in this chaos of metallic weapons, claws and teeth but his first priority right now was finding his brother. Everything else was not important right now.

The fighting noises filled his ears. The howls and growls of shifted werewolves and wolf hybrids followed by the screams and angry yells of humans. The noises of clinking weapons, the scratching of claws, the baring of teeth were everywhere along with the scent faint scent of blood.

Fate and time were cruel things, Chan fully realized when a gigantic, shifted werewolf crashed down in front of him, making him stop running at once. The werewolf just laid there blocking Chan's way and for a moment Chan thought they would get up again and continue to fight but nothing like that happened. They just laid there being completely still, not even attempting to get up again. The grey fur of the werwolf was tinted in red and slowly Chan could smell the heavy and warm scent of fresh blood. The werewolf didn't move at all but the scent of blood and death was slowly surrounding them.

The young wolf hybrid had the feeling he couldn't move, couldn't hear. The fighting noises faded into the background and he just looked at the unmoving body of the werewolf in front of him while his nose was filled with the scent of blood and death. It made his stomach cramp, making him feel sick.

Chan was ripped out of this state and his thoughts when a human jumped over the dead werewolf with his weapon pointed at him. Without hesitation the human dashed forward, aiming the pointy end of his spear at Chan's head. The young wolf hybrid dodged the attack in the last second and started to run again like he was chased by the devil himself.

"Yedam, by all the gods where are you", Chan thought to himself in a panic. He needed to find his brother as soon as possible and get him out of her as long as he could. Suddenly he heard a loud and very familiar yelp over the fighting noises. Chan immediately recognized the yelp as his brother's and ran towards it, avoiding every fight he came across.

He jumped over a brush, which had blocked his way and was met with another fighting scene but this time Chan wouldn't just dodge it because a female human was towering over his little brother's black wolf form, ready to end the younger's life with the spear in their hand.

Chan dashed forward, remembering the lesson he had with Donghun. He ducked slightly and then dashed forward targeting the human's hand they held the weapon in. Without hesitation Chan bit down onto the human's hand without letting go, earning a high pitched scream and a dropped spear.

"Stupid wolf", the female human cursed and tried to get Chan off her. The wolf hybrid didn't budge until he left the cold metal of the spear under his hind paw and kicked it as far away as possible. The woman ripped her hand away from the wolf hybrid and took some steps backwards to get ready to defend herself but Chan didn't care. He just dashed past her, quickly grabbing his brother by his neck fur and carried or better dragged him away as fast as possible.

"Don't be dead. Don't be dead. Please don't be dead", Chan chanted in his head while he continued to quickly drag his brother, who wasn't moving one bit, away from the female human. He used bushes and trees to not gain any attention from the humans, in hopes of just escaping the scene without further incident. Suddenly the wolf hybrid heard a shot fall nearby, making him stop abruptly and almost drop Yedam.

His ears twitched and tried to locate where the noise had come from but there was only the noise of the fights near the pack houses. Chan carefully looked around, trying to find a human with a gun or something similar but their was no one here, so he carried on dragging Yedam into the forest, far away from the fight until another shot fell and something hit his shoulder.

Chan fell to the side automatically dropping Yedam when a little pained howl escaped him. He breathed heavily when he looked around again, trying to figure out where the hell this shot came from until his eyes fell onto his bleeding shoulder. Blood was tinting his grey fur red but Chan couldn't feel any kind of pain. Probably because of the adrenaline pumping through his veins.

"I'm going to die here", the young male thought to himself.

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Byungho was pacing the common room up and down like a tiger in a small cage. He really couldn't deny that he was related to Seungmin but right now he was a lot more concerned about the bad feeling he had gotten only seconds before Jisung had screamed out "Chan-hyung is in danger" and then dashed out of the trainings hall. The feeling grew stronger and stronger with every passing second and there was no way this was a good sign.

Suddenly the brunette could feel a dull pain in his shoulder. He stopped his pacing when he felt a dull stinging getting a bit stronger. Subconsciously he put his hand on the spot where the stinging was, pressing down just a little bit to see if it was his own pain. It wasn't. The stinging didn't get worse when he pressed down like it would if it was Byungho's own pain. It just kept on stinging just a tiny bit.

The only more or less logical explanation for this was that Chan was hurt and Byungho could feel a small proportion of the wolf hybrid's pain. It was unusual though. According to what Chan, Minho and Felix had told their friends on New Year the bond between mates must be very strong for both partners to feel each other's pain. In the normal case, with a normal bond only the werewolf or hybrid were able to feel their partner's pain.

"Hyung!", Byungho was ripped out of his thoughts by Seungmin's shout. The brunette turned around to look at his younger brother, who looked at him with concern in his dark eyes. "What's wrong?", the redhead asked and only now did Byungho noticed that he didn't only have Seungmin's attention. Almost everyone seemed to be worried about him but Byungho only focused on the one person he knew he couldn't lie to right now. Seungmin.

"I need to get to Chan", the brunette spoke out what he was thinking. It was loud enough for everyone in the room to hear but Byungho was primarily looking at Seungmin, whose eyes shimmered with sympathy.

"You can't do that", Jungwoo spoke up. Byungho looked over to the merman, who was getting up from his place on one of the room's sofas where he had sat beside Yukhei. He was walking over to the two Kim brothers, looking neither angry nor irritated with the brunette's suggestion but there was something in the merman's eyes that told Byungho that his friend from kindergarten would surely stop him from getting to Chan.

"Taeyong-hyung told us to stay put. Have a little faith in the groups, who are trying to help the moon pack", the merman added, looking at Byungho with empathy in his eyes. The brunette sighed and let his gaze slowly drift back to Seungmin.

The redhead still looked concerned and behind that Byungho could see the younger's fear. Still, the younger also had an understanding glimmer in his eyes. At least one person in the room would not try to stop him if he did what he had planed.

The brunette turned back to Jungwoo this time looking directly into the shining black orbs of the merman. He felt almost bad to get the merman into a bit of trouble but he had to help Chan, he had to help his boyfriend and if it was the last thing he did.

"I'm sorry, Jungwoo", Byungho apologized before teleporting out of the room into the corridor. He could hear the protest from not only Jungwoo but also his friends and the other NCT members, who were in the room but for now Byungho didn't care about that. He needed to get to Chan as fast as possible.

The brunette teleported himself multiple time until he was outside of the NCT headquarter. He hated how he could only teleport on short distance since portal spells were a lot more difficult to master but he was lucky enough to have a different set of abilities he could use for fast, long distance travel.

Byungho breathed out mentally preparing himself for his next step. His breath was visible in the cold air and maybe he should have grabbed a coat before literally running away from his friends but for now he didn't worry about that.

Slowly a spell seemed to fall around the brunette revealing Byungho's pitch black wings. The male released a breath again when he felt his wings weigh on his back, reminding him that his shirt now had two perfectly cut rips he would need to cover later on.

With his invisibility activated Byungho swung himself into the air. His black wings carried him high up into the sky without anyone noticing him. He flew over the many house roofs of his home town, trying to figure out where he needed to go to get to the moon pack territory.

He really didn't think this through. Suddenly he felt a sting in his right arm, which made him lowly hiss in pain. Byungho looked at his arm, checking if something hit him or if he was just imagining things. His arm was fine, no cut, no scratch, nothing but the dull stinging remained.

The brunette realized that he pain in his arm was very similar to the one in his shoulder, meaning Chan got probably hurt again. This slowly filled the young male's system with panic. "I need to get to him now", Byungho thought to himself, flying to his boyfriend's house as fast as possible to orientate himself.

After all the brunette knew the direction the Bang Family drove off to and more or less the way to the moon pack territory from Chan's descriptions, so it was a start. He kept up his fast flying pace and followed the street he could see under him even though he knew this wouldn't lead him to Chan.

Byungho felt his chest tighten at the thought of losing the wolf hybrid. It just couldn't happen. He would lose his best friend, the person beside his brothers and mother he trusted the most, his boyfriend, his significant other.

Suddenly the black winged angel felt a kind of pull towards a certain direction. He couldn't really  describe it, his subconscious just decided to follow it. Byungho felt like he was calmed by this pull, which made him believe it was the bond between Chan and him even though it was objectively unlikely.

"Hold on for a bit longer Channie", Byungho thought to himself and he hoped that somehow Chan could hear it.