Jisung didn't know what to do as the four guards started to approach him yet he quickly dodged them, to crawl into a ball and roll himself into a space between two guards then from his knees he stood up using his hands as a support and started running away while they were still chasing him.

He turned to the left corner, then turned to the right corner but upon meeting other guards in this hall he went back to the previous hall and went to the left corner, there were doors that led to the kitchen where he went through the chiefs and jumped on a wheel table and skated his way out to the dining room.

He jumped from the wheel table that hit against the dining table and looked at both sides seeing guards surrounding him again, he stepped back watching them getting closer with sparrows.

He thought of an idea looking at the weapon then up at the chandelier where he immediately snatched one and threw it directly to the source of light making it impossible to see after the chandelier was broken down on the floor into million pieces and spread fire everywhere.

Everyone panicked in the room while Jisung smiled and ran away having his moment of victory.

He recognized the first floor so well, he stopped for the second to analyze the way, he thought of a room that no one would find him thereand finally came to a decision to go to the sword training room.

It was dark as he entered, his back was still against the door hearing footsteps going here and there assuming that the guards were unable to find him which left a sigh of relief on his chest.

Now he needs to go back to Minho.

Jisung went far from the dungeon floor and he needs to go back there in the same way he came here.

Which is going to be a pain in the ass.

But he wasn't alone in this room.

“well well well...look what we got here, an intruder” Jisung quickly dodged the crystal ball thrown at him from the shadows, he squint his eyes to see who he's dealing with just for a tall figure to approach him, the few candle lights around were enough for him to be able to see through darkness.

Jisung didn't believe who he was seeing.

Jisung:“yeonbam?”

Yeonbam knitted his eyebrows trying to know why the intruder knows his name, he doesn't look like he's from here based on his wings and different eye colors but that face was very familiar to him too.

Yeonbam:“wait...fragile-sung? You are alive?”

He laughed, unable to contain his laughter that echoes across the room. but as funny as it sounds to him yet he still wonders why his step brother came back to the kingdom.

While Jisung on the other hand couldn't believe his eyes because his step brother that was standing in front of him wasn't human at all since he has fangs and red eyes.

Jisung:“I see that evil of a mother take your humanity away from you, such a thing to pity about”

The disappointment in his tone irritated Yeonbam and caused him to throw a punch directly at Jisung's face but he successfully dodged it again where his hand went through the door creating a holl.

Yeonbam:“YOU DON'T GET TO JUDGE ME!!! YOU AREN'T 100% HUMAN AS WELL”

Jisung just sighed feeling even disappointed that his brother didn't change from the last time he saw them.

Both of his older twin brothers were picking up and bullying him for being a demi-fae now look at what fate brought them... They are just like him, "monsters" like they used to call him.

Jisung:“so sad that you haven't changed Yeonbam, but one thing for sure is that I didn't abandon the slightest of my humanity in me”

And he was just stating that in a fact sentence.

Cause the other to be more angrier than before.

Yeonbam:“YOU KNOW NOTHING OF WHAT I'VE BEEN THROUGH OR WHAT I HAD TO DEAL WITH TO BECOME LIKE THIS”

He pulled his hand from the door and threw punches at Jisung but it wasn't reaching him because the fairy got so many reflexes that cause to avoid troubles whenever it came to him.

To avoid the closest kick from his brother, Jisung did two back flips where he landed on his feet not confident to strike attacks.

The room is very small where he can't use his wings to fly around.

Another thing he didn't expect is when another two hands grabbed him from behind and held him captive.

Jisung:“what the- HEY LET ME GO”

The demi-fae used his elbow to hit the other person that turned out to be his other brother, Junbam.

Junbam:“ugh!! He's not as fragile as I remember him”

Both surrounded jisung to fight him when it was so unfair to have two against one.

Jisung:“yes I'm not...just like you guys went through some shit in these seventeen years doesn't mean I didn't as well! YOU DON'T KNOW HOW LIVING IN A FOREST WITH BEING INDEPENDENT FEELS LIKE!! I HAD TO BUILD MY OWN SHELTER AFTER EIGHT YEARS WITHOUT A HOME!!”

The two brothers stay still laughing at what he said which causes jisung to let out some tears from the corner of his eyes not believing how heartless his brothers can be.

He didn't care how humiliated he would get more as he would stay near these monsters so he rushed towards Yeonbam to attack him, landing a punch on his face throwing him across the room and when junbam tried to approach him from behind he ducked and swung his legs against his brother's feet to drop him down the floor.

He took the chance of them being on the floor an opportunity to escape but before he could go across the doors, a chain of metal was wrapped around his body that was grabbed by Yeonbam.

Jisung tried to escape them but he found difficulties to break it down.

Then he realized what type of situation he's in and turned to look at the twins with much more hateres.

He watch his brothers laugh again.

Junbam:“even if you live independently in that forest you're still the fragile-sung we know”

Jisung:“THIS IS CHEATING!! YOU CAN'T TIED ME UP IN A CHAIN THAT IS ABLE TO TAKE MY POWERS!!”

Yeonbam:“like we care if we cheated or not, you're defeated”

.

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Last night events kept repeating in his mind, when he thought he would never see jisung ever again, the same person appears in front of his eyes saying he came here just to save him.

It broke Minho to know that he failed to protect what was most important to him and now, Jisung is fighting alone to bring him out, to save him like he claimed he would do.

Minho:“sung...he came for me...”

He underestimated their bond when the fairies used to tell him about how important it is to share a soulmate bond with a Faerie since they are known to be the most loyal living beings.

He felt his heart get heavy knowing that jisung would be here any time again since it seems like the demi-fae wasn't showing any sighs of giving up.

He heard the cell door getting unlocked then got opened revealing the witch holding another cuffs on her hands.

Trix:“still not wanting to cooperate?”

She approaches the vampire to free him from his current chains and cuff his hands in front of him after, Minho finds it annoying that he can't escape during this period of time because he's aware he won't succeed in getting out of this infinite maze called castle.

And the last thing he wants to hear is a voice other than his soulmate's.

Minho:“can't you leave me alone? It hasn't been 24 hours yet for you to show up again”

Trix ignored what he said and brought him up to walk him out from his cell and both kept walking with him in front while she was behind him pushing from the back, every tap she made against his bare skin caused him to get disgusted.

Trix:“i know but the queen needs your presence at the arena hall...she has something to show you”

Minho wasn't feeling good about that, why does the queen suddenly want from him in the first place?

It was oddly suspicious.

When both of them arrived at the arena Hall, he was left in the center when trix connected a chain between his cuffs and the ground's metal hoop that made him unable to step more than five feet from where he was standing. He looked up for his gaze to meet the queen's intense stare that could shudder at anyone but not Minho. She was early just like Trix said and was sitting in the top front seats looking at him from above like some sort of a VIP show that includes him fighting against lions.

Queen:“you're here, Minho”

The vampire looked at her with disgust Not able to read what was on her mind. what behind that disgusting smile she's wearing in the corner of her lips, he was unable to read or predict her next move.

He moved his hands making a chain sound steeping 5 steps but not anywhere further, his eyes filled with rage and you could hear his teeth cracking from a distance.

Minho:“what's going on? Why am I here?”

He demands with a powerful voice that echoes across the arena walls, gaurds fear to watch how Minho's inhuman true form starts to appear in his deadly red eyes and sharp shining fangs which is something to take into consideration that the vampire was anything but human.

Even if he accepted humans, even if he doesn't drink their blood, even if he tried to act like one of them... But in the end sevil was right all along. Being around humans only made him weak and he only regained betrayal from it.

Valeria and the orphan kids were innocent living beings, they were kind enough to let him into their world despite being a monster who sucked blood, but through that journey he failed to learn that he would never end up like them. He would never end up human.

Because he was a vampire, a night creature with supernatural speed that needs blood to stay alive. Minho couldn't handle staying in that fake world, to believe he can be someone he's not.

Yet he feels the opposite with jisung.

The demi-fae was the main reason why Minho accepted himself as he is. Even if he rejected to drink jisung's blood so many times but his soulmate was generous enough, determined enough to make him at least consume mythical creatures blood which was enough for Minho to be able to find a way to live other than drinking human blood.

Enough to stop him from killing humans for his own food.

Queen:“you are here for a quick show, I'm sure it will entertain you as much as it does to me”

The queen words brought him from his thoughts as his right eye switched into the doors that got open, from the darkness he could see something is coming and from afar he could hear wheels squeak it way out from the shadows revealing a human cage that trapped someone in there.

Jisung:“YOU COWARDS!! CHEATERS!!”

Upon hearing and seeing his soulmate, his facade cracks showing every sign of giving up anything for the person his heart yarn the most.

When jisung's cage became closer to him, he could see his perfect body curves wrapped around a metallic heavy chain especially below his wings.

Minho:“sung...”

He called gaining jisung's attention who turned around and dashed at the edge corner of the cage, his head peaked out from the metal bars to look at his soulmate not far away from him and cuffed like him.

Jisung:“min..”

When he called him, all Minho wanted to do was cry, he saw his soulmate in a fragile and defeated state. He wants to break free from his own chains and sucks that evil queen's blood until her eyes socket gets dry.

He wanted to hold jisung between his arms and feel his warm body against his cold one, he wanted to hold his hand and enjoy the eternal youth out of their immortal lives, Minho wanted to live in a very specific forest calm life with his one and only jisung.

He wanted to do all of that but he couldn't.

Minho:“JISUNG!! NO!! WHAT IS HE DOING IN THERE?!”

It was meant to be entertaining and the queen is enjoying this broken ridiculous drama between her son and his lover or whatever.

She was able to break minho's facade since jisung was his weakness but upon seeing her mistake of a son, his eyes filled with a raging desire to destroy weren't pleasing and she thought of a way to bring that last hope from him.

Queen:“relax vampire, he's okay...he has been fighting his step brothers for twenty minutes and yet he was never able to defeat them...isn't he a weakling?”

She triggered him, reminds him of his own place just like the old times. Jisung used to be scared of everything even bugs and he would clinge to her expensive dress with his Faerie diseases skin and upon remembering that her body shuddered not being able to comprehend the disgusting memory of her disgusting mistake of a son.

But something she didn't know in these past seventeen years she abounded him in, was only for a way for Jisung to become stronger and braver than he ever was when he was a kid.

Jisung:“F**K YOU OLD HAG!! MY SO CALLED BROTHERS CHEATED ON THAT BATTLE...IT'S NOT FAIR COMING FROM YOU MOTHER”

But her plan of triggering him seems to be harder than she thought.

Minho:“step brothers? mother?”

He was confused hearing from jisung calling the evil queen his mother and having brothers as well... He knows this isn't the right time to feel betrayed that jisung hid such important things from him but he couldn't help it that he brought him to the same person that kicked him out from the first place.

His facial expressions satisfied the queen causing to wear a cocky smirk feeling powerful as ever.

Queen:“you're clueless aren't you? Think more with that head of yours and get into conclusions”

Jisung spit in front of his mom showing disrespect then he ignored her irritated expression that she hung in her face and made his way toward Minho, peeking his head out from the bars again to apologize.

Jisung:“minho...I'm sorry I failed you and broke our promise”

Minho just shook his head and stepped closer but the chain attached to the ground prevents him from going any further, any closer to his soulmate.

They were so close to feeling each other's sorrow and the big regret he could see upon jisung's face is huge and if he didn't own that strong personality, he would've been broken by now.

Minho:“no stop this...I should apologize...It's my fault not yours sung, I couldn't protect you not the forest”

On the other hand, Minho felt like breaking every time he witnessed that state jisung is in, the vampire was never mentally strong as he always was betrayed and used, always getting tossed around like a toy, always losing the people around him.

Is jisung going to do the same? Would he get bored of him? Would he abandon him? Or worse... Will jisung die?

Jisung:“look at me moonset, it's okay... Everyone makes mistakes and I'm happy I'm able to see you again”

Minho looked up at him with a sad smile, jisung was smiling back with eyes felt with love and care that Minho think he doesn't deserve after all the things he caused for his soulmate to suffer because of him. from behind him he could see two guys, they were the same vampires that helped trix capture him.

Jisung's step brothers approached him.

Queen:“boys!! Rip off his wings”

Jisung:“WHAT?! YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!”

One of his brothers Yeonbam captured him in his arms while Junbam approached his wings. Jisung did his best to avoid that because he knows if he lost his wings then the high chance of living another 5 years without a death threat is going to decrease.

He opened his eyes to look at his soulmate and found him fighting those chains to get closer but it always prevented him from coming closer.

Minho:“NO NO NO NO NO!! i'll cooperate just don't rip them”

It was too late since one wing was already ripped off but jisung suddenly kicked Junbam away from him and sent him away causing him to hit his back against the bars then jisung hit Yeonbam with the back of his head to let him go and with that jisung send another kick on his stomach that hurts the other.

Despite being vampires but once they got inside the cage that it bars made with an anti-magic field, they lose every inch of their power and become powerless.

Jisung:“HEY!!! IF YOU ARE GOING TO RIP THEM OFF THEN DO IT GENTLY YOU PIECE OF SHIT”

He started kicking his brothers right in their faces, them unable to tan up because they don't have that much of defense abilities unlike jisung who trained his whole life in both magic and strength.... He never expected to use his leg muscles on someone like today.

Remy was right, every training is important and he used to ditch a lot of them.

The queen was in total shock that jisung was able to fight back even after being trapped in a cage built with metallic anti-magic bars, she fisted her hand and hit it against the chair handles.

Hating on her mistake of a son even more.

Queen:“I think we will get to remove those other wings for another day, TRIX!!”

The witch nodded her head then immediately ran toward the cage to step in approaching jisung who looked like an animal ready to attack.

The demi-fae was shirtless and Truxall was able to see the necklace hanging around his neck and she was curious what it was.

Trix:“what necklace did you get there?”

She touched it for three seconds before jisung pushed her with his left shoulder not using much power since she was a woman.

Jisung“KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OF ME!! IF YOU WANNA DO SOMETHING YOU CAN GAIN SOME SYMPATHY THEN WHY DON'T YOU STOP BEING IN THE WRONG SIDE FIRST”

his words hit like a dragger but trix made sure to not let affect her.

Trix:“why are you so worked over a rock? So boring”

Queen:“take him away trix...I can't handle seeing another disgusting play”

Trix sighed, she brought one of her magic books where she opened it and read a spell of making small little beetroot creatures, with her magic the book flew in front of her and with her free hands she was able to situate one creature in front of every cage wheel and order them to start pushing it for the cage to start moving going back to the shadows away from Minho's sight.

Minho:“sung...JISUNG!!”

Jisung:“DON'T WORRY MOONSET...I'LL COME TO SAVE YOU!! I NEVER GIVE UP ON YOU”

It was the last thing he heard from his soulmate before the doors were closed.

He felt pathetic knowing about jisung state and he only can blame it on the queen.

Minho:“you're a monster”

Queen:“Jisung troubled himself by teleporting himself here”

Minho:“you seem like you guessed that he is the Guardian”

The Guardian's powers were given to jisung by the forest spirit, he was the reason why the forest stayed unapproachable when no one dare to step his feet in until last summer when the fairies told him that his illness was getting worse and he can't handle protect every corner in the forest which created the rejecting areas that evil creatures can stay inside.

Queen:“of course, he's my son and I was the one who sent him to that forest”

As shocked as it sounds to find out about your soulmate's family being none other than the disgusting enemies that refuse to hand over that peace truce.

Minho is grateful that jisung wasn't like them.

Minho:“you can't call yourself his mother”

Queen:“well, I never considered that mistake as my own child, now will you cooperate?”

Minho:“only if you don't hurt him again”

Queen:“you got my words”

With that, the queen stood up to start walking away her as well leaving Minho under the burning sun, despite being a vampire but his immunity against it was powerful and he never understood why he had such ability.

No other vampire was like him.

But what bothers him wasn't the sun but the fact he is stilled here doing nothing and his soulmate might get his second wing ripped off again and he is afraid to face him next since he failed to protect him.

Again.

Minho(💭):«don't worry clover, I will never give up on you as well»