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Unaware of Taehyung's perilous situation, Y/N paced back and forth, the weight of her childhood memories bearing down on her like a relentless storm. The echoes of her parents' murder reverberated through her mind, each step stirring the tempest within her soul. She tried her hardest to recall everything, one by one, in the hope of finding something important.

She remembers hiding in the corner of a palace room. Her and her father were playing hide and seek. It was Y/N's turn to hide and her father's to look for her. When looking for her, her father started talking aggressively to a man who walked into the room.

"I will tell them everything. How could you betray them? They thought of you as their family. How can you betray that love and trust they have in you?"

She couldn't see the face of the man since his back was turned to her; he was dressed in a black hood and didn't say a word. He then lifted a dagger from his side and pierced it through her father's chest. Her father fell limp as his hands fell beside him involuntarily; his feet could be seen losing their power as he came crashing to the ground. Blood soon started to pool around him, and her mother came running into the room when she heard him. Before her mother could use her powers to attack the man, he took the same dagger and attacked her mother in the stomach.

Her mother's eyes fell on Y/N, hiding in the corner, and she slightly shook her head, signalling her to stay put and quiet. Little Y/N had no choice but to sit and watch her parents lose their lives in front of her. Tears slipped from her eyes like a waterfall as loud cries threatened to escape her lips. She saw the man dragging her father by the hand. As he reached her father, she saw that there was a black mark on his wrist.

"That's it!" Y/N spoke as she recalled her painful past. "That mark."

The black mark on the killer's wrist was of a black skull that had black smokey things moving around it on his skin. That mark was what would take Y/N to the killer.

A sudden foul feeling started to loom in the Y/N gut. She'd seen that mark somewhere else, too. Where could she have seen it?

Y/N's eyes widened in realisation. "This cannot be. How? Why would he kill my parents? Why, out of everyone, would he have that mark? Gong Yoo. He has that mark. I saw it myself when we had a dance on the royal ball night. It's got to be him."

She couldn't stop thinking about the reasons why Gong Yoo would kill her parents or why every marked person could be him. It finally clicked with her. The day before her parents were killed, Gong Yoo came to see her father.

It turns out that her father had found out that he was planning something against the King and Queen, and her father said that he would expose his dirty deeds. Y/N started piecing the puzzles together.

"The King and Queen at that time were Taehyung's parents, and the dirty deeds that Appa would have been talking about were probably killing his parents. This means that Gong Yoo was the one to kill Taehyung's parents. It could be true because Appa was a Dark World citizen, so he could go to the King and Queen at anything to expose him, and so to keep his plan going, he killed Appa. He also had to kill Eomma because she saw him."

'I would have been dead too if he saw me...'

All the overthinking of her past life caused tremendous pain in her heart. It hurt her so much that soon she was surrounded by white and black lights around her.

Her true angelic form and her spirit dragon had finally come out. Her powers could only be unlocked if her heart had a lot of pain in it. They were the joined powers of her parents, who had been keeping her safe all along. When the shadow in the mirror jumped at her, her heart was what had saved her, and when she had broken heart syndrome, that was her powers getting stronger and wanting to come out. She had unlocked her true potential.

It was finally time for her to go confront Gong Yoo and demand answers.

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Walking towards Gong Yoo's room, Y/N kicked the door open. She was so angry that even her spirit dragon huffed aggressively. As she walked in, she saw Gong Yoo sitting comfortably.

"You! You killed my parents."

Gong Yoo let out a little laugh. "Me? I thought it was Jay B who killed your parents."

Y/N lifted up her sword and drew it to his neck. "I'm not talking about my godparents, you fool; I am talking about my real parents. The parent you killed in Enchanta. It seems like you killed them but forgot to look around to see a little girl sitting in the corner watching you."

She used her other hand to harshly lift his hand, which had a black mark on it. "If it weren't for this, I'd never know that it was you. Amazing thing that I almost trusted you. Anything you want to say about this?"

Gong Yoo shook his head, acting all innocent. "Yes, dear, about killing your parents," he said, secretly taking a thorn from his plant and scraping her neck. Y/N hissed in pain as the disturbing waves moved from her neck to her head.

"V killed them..."

The girl looked at him confusedly as Gong Yoo continued. "Yes, he's not a normal person. Y/N, V killed your parents. He was the one whose fangs bit into your parents, which ended up killing them." He started twisting the timestamps and using Y/N's weakness to his advantage.

Her memories had gone back to when she was looking for her godparents and before she found out about Taehyung's true identity. All she knew was that BTS were supernatural, and she was at the part where Taehyung had confessed his love for her on Earth.

He then continued his manipulation, saying that V killed her parents. Her memories had gone way back, and she also forgot about her angelic life truth as well. Y/N got furious, and she set off to attack V. She stands in front of V furiously while her white dragon turns into a ferocious beast as her dark powers take over her unknowingly.

In the moonlight of The Dark World, Y/N confronted Taehyung, her eyes burning with a mix of grief and rage. The twisted machinations of Gong Yoo had successfully led her to believe that he was responsible for the deaths of her parents.

"You killed them, V! You took everything from me!" Y/N shouted as her white persona started turning red.

Taehyung saw the thorn cut on her neck. He knew that she had forgotten everything, and he needed to help her recall before they could face Gong Yoo. Bewildered and grief-stricken, he held his hands up in a defensive gesture. "Y/N, I swear to you, I didn't do it. You know I wouldn't do such a thing to you."

Y/N, fueled by the false narrative planted by Gong Yoo, drew a small dagger from her belt, her hands trembling with a mixture of sorrow and fury. "Don't you dare pretend, V! I trusted you, and you betrayed me! You betrayed our love. You betrayed my trust and respect that I had for you."

Taehyung, desperate to make her understand, took a step forward. "Y/N, please. I never killed them. You have to believe me. Gong Yoo's behind all this. He's manipulating you so that we can't stand a chance against him. Please trust me."

But Y/N, consumed by grief and manipulated anger, lunged at Taehyung, the dagger poised to strike. Taehyung, with a mixture of agility and sorrow, managed to evade her attack. "Y/N, stop!"

As the struggle continued, Taehyung attempted to disarm Y/N without causing her harm. He knew that she was blinded by the lies, but he couldn't stand the thought of hurting her. "You're lying! He told me everything. Gong Yoo said you did it for your own motive. They didn't do anything to you; they weren't even supernatural beings, so why did you kill them? Wae?!" Y/N let out a painful cry that pinched Taehyung's heart.

"Y/N, he's manipulating you! Think about it. Why would I ever harm the people you love?" The atmosphere in the garden was tense, the clash of emotions echoing through the night.

Taehyung continued to defend himself without retaliating, hoping to break through the fog of manipulation surrounding Y/N. Finally, as Y/N hesitated for a moment, the truth started to flicker in her eyes.

"You're lying!" Y/N shouted as she raised her dagger again and stepped towards Taehyung, who dove under her attack and caged her from the back, trapping her in a bear hug as she struggled.

"Let go of me." Y/N struggled as her arms were pressed under Taehyung's arms.

"It's me, V, your V. It's me, Y/N." He brought his face close to her neck and whispered in her ears as he held her tightly. The side effects of the thorn subsided as memories started zapping back into her mind.

The weight of realisation pressed down on her, and she dropped the dagger. "I... I can't believe that I trusted him."

Taehyung, seeing a glimmer of relief, rested his head on her shoulder, closing the distance between them. "I thought I actually lost you for a second."

His words brought tears to her eyes as she took a deep breath and closed her eyes, feeling safe in his arms.

"We'll face the truth together, Y/N. I promise you."

She opened her eyes again, a question popping in her head as the itch to ask him grew. "Hey V? You asked me a question earlier. I want to ask you the same thing."

He lifted his head from her shoulder and rested his chin on it. "And what would that be?"

She turned her head slightly towards his face. "What am I to you?"

He smiled as he bit his lips a little. "Do you want the answer now?"

Y/N nodded her head as a rush of excitement filled her body, curious to know his answer.

"A loud, screeching parrot."

"A what?!" Y/N elbowed him in the stomach.

"Ok, you are my everything. Any doubts?"

"No doubts at all now." Y/N says sweetly as they interlink their fingers together and enjoy the peaceful silence around them.

Their silence said everything. They read each other's minds and hearts like words in a book. Their feelings for each other were quite evident and strong to miss as they let their warm embrace strengthen their feelings.

As they stood in the moonlight, the real enemy—Gong Yoo—laid in the shadows, watching the aftermath of the emotional turmoil he had sown. The battle for truth had just begun, and Taehyung and Y/N had started to pick up the pieces of trust that were shattered by deceit.

The story has only started now...

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