HYDRARGYRUM IN VENIS FLUIT CHAPTER 14
Title: Hydrargyrum in venis fluit CHAPTER 13
Author: I, mjaku : D
Beta: None at the moment
Genre: Scifi, Romance, Angst, Fluff, Smut
Pairing:JongMin or Jonghyun X Taemin, Onkey, Michkhun...
Rating: PG-15
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters, just the plot. Damn.
Warnings: Violence, bloodshed, CHARACTER DEATH
Summary for the whole story:
When the global warming starts to destroy worlds surface, the
scientists start to create a new human super race, which would manage
to survive in the new world. They realise that all the metals would
have the immunity to the new deceases and the new human race is
born: Metal flowing alongside their blood, increasing their
strenght, speed, intelligence and giving them the most peculiar
powers of all.
Summary of the chapter:
Taemin and Jonghyun finally discover the truth behind Heechul, but Taemin soon realises, that everything isn't what it loooks like...
Extra A/N:
I suggest you guys go and read the previous chapters again, this continues immediately from the part the previous chapter left off....And due to my long update time.....well.....
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Taemin could feel it clearly. It pinched his skin time to time and made the hair in his neck stand. The energy was floating in the air with a presence so intense that Taemin had to stop on several occasions to rest for a while. The brunet was getting more and more tired with every step he took towards the source of all the energy, and sweat was flowing down his forehead with big droplets.
This wasn’t just any kind of energy hanging in the cold late autumn air, it was pure murderous intent, masked to the form of energy. Taemin was panting heavily and his legs seemed to be fighting against every step he ran forward but at the moment he couldn’t care less about whether it hurt or not.
The intense precense got steadily stronger and stronger and finally the power was so stifling that Taemin had to grit his teeth while he ran forward. And after a while as he made his way forward, he started to feel how the energy in the air changed constantly; it came to rest in Taemin’s skin as strong waves and after a while the feeling would subside and almost immediately morph to crushing pressure, which seemed to make even the grass bend over.
And he could feel something else too aside from the murderous intent.
Jonghyun was there.
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When they had exited the school building after Jonghyun voiced out his challenge, the energy had been constantly leaking out of Heechul, like he would have been too lazy to care whether the sharp pinpricks of murderous intent touched Jonghyun or not. The younger male had been inspecting the Super Junior member before him for a good while, and his brows had scrunched up in concentration. Why did the energy radiating from Heechul feel so….familiar in a way?
Heechl was standing several yards away from Jonghyun, his posture relaxed, but the energy waves escaping his body were affecting him too: the urge to attack Jonghyun like a ravage beast was tugging at his every nerve end constantly, making his smile twitch.
They had just stood there for several minutes, but even if it looked like they weren’t doing anything at all, there was a constant probing and prodding going on. Heechul let his energy circle and surround Jonghyun like a pack of wolves, while Jonghyun’s energy was like sharp needles on Heechul’s skin. They were completely motionless, but it was clear that only the smallest of moves could tip the whole situation off balance. Jonghyun inspected Heechul’s face carefully as he suddenly started to walk forward, and scoffed mockingly as every muscle visible tensed in Heechul’s body, and his smile started to twitch slightly more erratically.
“I want you to tell me something.” Jonghyun said with strong and unwavering voice, and Heechul’s eyes narrowed threateningly. Jonghyun didn’t wait for an answer before he continued.
“What is Super Junior’s business in our school? What do you actually want?” Jonghyun asked with mellow voice and Heechul lifted his other eyebrow.
“What? Are you still so uninformed that you don’t know?” The male let out a short laugh and turned his eyes back to Jonghyun. “ We were given a task to destroy all the potential dangers to the future society here in korea, and look if some talents could be….breeded to suit our tastes.” Jonghyun narrowed his eyes at the last words and stood a bit straighter.
“So you actually think that you can breed Taemin to ‘suit your tastes?’” Jonghyun growled lowly in his throat and Heechul smirked.
“Oh yes. I think every person on this land is pretty easily cultivated with the right fertilization, don’t you think?” Heechul let out a little laugh as he noticed the stony expression on Jonghyun’s face. Then he started to walk forward, while taking something out of his pocket.
“Allthough, we cannot use the fertilization properly if there are certain….weeds growing alongside the plant. They must be disposed, right Jonghyun?” Heechul lifted his eyes to Jonghyun, a cruel smile painting his lips as he dropped something to the ground from his hand. Jonghyun took a proper fighting position and scanned the male before him cautiously. Something was very wrong and Jonghyun felt the stress rising in him as he realized what it was.
Heechul’s energy wasn’t there anymore. It was as if it had left the older male completely.
Then Jonghyun realized the situation he was in and drew his sword, eyes wide in horror.
“Impossible…!”
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Taemin froze on his steps as he felt the energy shift strongly and something in him seemed to shift too and it made his breathing get stuck in his throat. The brunet clutched his chest and tried to get a hold of his shivering limbs.
“What the heck is thi….”
Taemin’s eyes snapped forward when an animalistic screech came from somewhere and the other energy he had been feeling previously momentarily disappeared. Before the brunet even realized it, his legs started to take him forward, but this time, his pace stayed slow. Every step seemed to echo in his head as he tried to distinguish the feeling suppressing his strength. His eyes stayed fixated in the nearby corner of the huge school building and he gulped. Twice. Thrice.
Then he walked around the corner and his eyes widened and horror struck him like a knife.
Jonghyun was bleeding heavily.
And Heechul stood there with a smirk on his face and something glimmering on his hand. The brunet felt his knees go weak under him and he fell to the ground.
Now he knew. Now he knew why he was the next Hankyung in Leeteuk’s mind. Now he knew why the strange sensations attacked him when he was with Heechul. Now he knew what made Heechul the strongest in Super Junior.
He was a Mana of Mercury. And the only one who can oppose somebody with Mercury as their metal is somebody who also has the liquid silver running in their veins.
Taemin felt sick as he watched how Jonghyun staggered on his feet, holding his bleeding bicep. Heechul was playing with the small ball of Mercury on his fingers and grinned viciously at Jonghyun.
“Do you get it now, Mana of silver? We are going to take Taemin away from you and there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop it. In a year’s time he won’t even look in your way. How does it feel? The feeling to be completely hopeless in front of a god?!” Heechul spat the last words and with a flicker of his wrist he send the ball of Mercury flying, and when it landed on the soft grass, it exploded.
Taemin stared as a giant shark made from liquid silver glimmered momentarily on the green mat, before diving to the grass, leaving only the dorsal fin on the surface. The brunet opened his mouth to shout a warning to his lover, but was silenced when Jonghyun leaped forward, easily avoiding the blood thirsty shark under his feet and approached Heechul head-on. Heechul stared impassively as Jonghyun was only a couple of meters away from him.
“You’re no fucking god! You’re just so WEAK that you don’t even understand it!!” Jonghyun yelled with full force and his brows scrunched up together as his words didn’t take any effect on the older male.
“Oh? I wonder about that, especially when I have one significant figure by my side…” Heechul all but purred and Jonghyun’s eyes narrowed in bewilderment, his attack momentarily forgotten as he tried to process Heechul’s words.
“What do you…”
“Your little loverboy is quite a catch, if you get what I mean.” Heechul grinned and nodded to somewhere behind Jonghyun’s back, and then it dawned on the male. He spun around to see Taemin completely frozen on the ground, and the giant shark that had been previously aimed at Jonghyun, was now heading straight towards the immobile brunet on the ground.
“Shit…!” The male cursed and without a backward glance started to make his way towards the brunet, his sword ready to strike the beast down. His nerves shattered completely as he stared to Taemin’s impassive face and the urge to protect stirred even more in his chest as he leaped forward to give the final strike to the shark.
“NO! JONGHYUN, GET AWAY!” Taemin suddenly yelled with full force, his eyes fixated somewhere behind the older male and Jonghyun’s eyebrows scrunched up together. What…
Then, without any warnings, the shark changed its direction and pierced Jonghyun’s chest like a sword. As Jonghyun froze on his steps and started to sway a little bit, he could see the pure horror and shock on Taemin’s beautiful features, and when he turned his head slightly to the left, he could see Heechul there, smirking victoriously as he motioned the Mercury to come to him. Jonghyun gringed as the situation hit him and coughed a bit as the blood started to flow from his lungs. Of course, Heechul had just lured him to turn his back to the shark by using Taemin as a bait…very clever.
Jonghyun’s vision started to falter and he cast a long look to Heechul and smirked slightly before collapsing on the ground.
He heard the scream
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Taemin felt like he could hear the grass growing under his knees. He felt like he could hear his own heartbeat slow down step by step and finally stop with a one final THUM.
He looked how Jonghyun collapsed before him, a slight smile on his lips, and as if his brain wouldn’t have wanted it to happen, everything went with agonizingly slow pace. The sound of Jonghyun’s knees colliding with the grassmat sounded hollow, empty, like Taemin’s very soul and the brunet could just stare in horror at his lover, who was now on his knees just a couple of meters away from him, staring emptily past Taemin.
Then the feeling came rushing back in a form of a scream.
The brunet screamed in horror, fury, disbelief and grief. He screamed until he couldn’t get any sound out of his throat and the only sound that managed to escape his chapped lips was a strangled sob as he started to crawl towards his dying lover. He didn’t care about the blood covering his clothes as he lifted Jonghyun’s upper torso to his arms and started to cry silently. Tear drops fell to Jonghyun’s smooth cheekbones, making it look like they would be Jonghyun’s tears as Taemin wailed, waiting for the crushing feeling in his chest to go somewhere. However, as Taemin held his lover closer to his chest and tried to seek comfort from the soft body in his arms, the feeling became even worse. Like a noose it etched itself tighter and tighter around Taemin’s soul, making his sobs almost hysterical
Jonghyun was dead.
Jonghyun died because of him.
It was Taemin’s fault!
“Now now, little one, collect yourself, we still have a lot to do here…”
Taemin’s eyes widened as he heard the voice coming towards him. The noose got a bit tighter again as the brunet lifted his tearstained face to look at Heechul who had stopped just beside him, looking at Jonghyun’s impassive face expressionlessly.
“I never thought he would go down this easily….” The older male wondered to himself silently, still inspecting the dead body in Taemin’s arms.
Tighter again….
“I know you must be very sad about losing him right now, but it will go away. In Super Junior you’ll have so much to think about that you won’t even miss him.”
Tighter again….
“We can burn him with the school and you can take some of the ashes with you.”
By now Taemin was trembling with the unknown feeling tightening in his chest as he listened at the cruel words coming out of Heechul’s mouth. His hands trembled as he put Jonghyun’s lifeless corpse on the ground and tried to stop the hyperventilating. He had to do something!
“Oh, and maybe it would be better if we just got rid of him now.” with that Heechul lurched forward and with one swift kick he send Jonghyun’s body flying across the air and landing with a soft thump about ten yards away from them.
SNAP.
Heechul smirked at his handiwork. Maybe if he acted nonchalant about the whole ordeal, it wouldn’t leave so big marks on Taemin. And when the brunet would join Super Junior, he really would get new values for his life. Lovelife be damned and if the brunet wanted one, Heechul would be always there, no problem at all!
Heechul froze in his steps as something changed very significantly in the air behind him. As he stood there his eyes fell to the ground under his feet and he swallowed heavily.
The grass died just before his eyes. Wave after wave went through the soft grass, killing it in its wake, leaving only murky brown, dead leaves behind. Heechul felt how the wave affected him too, making his blood run cold, but he kept his face passive as he turned around to look at the source of the energy.
Taemin was still standing in exactly the same position as before. However, his brown hair had fallen over his eyes, making it impossible to see his expression. Heechul scrunched his brows together as he tried to understand where all the energy was coming from. The older male let his eyes wander around the area and he bit his lip as he realized the situation he was in. His eyes immediately snapped back to the younger boy only couple of yards away from him.
Taemin was rotting the grass around him with his urge to kill something.
Heechul took a tentative step backwards as he looked how Taemin finally lifted his face so, that his eyes were directed to Heechul.
The older male gasped as the force of Taemin’s gaze hit him. The usually brown and warm orbs were now colored silver, as if they would have been made of liquid metal.
“Hatred…”
Heechul felt how his hackles rose immediately when he heard the raspy, slightly…metallic tone out of Taemin’s lips. The older male tensed his muscles as Taemin started to take slow steps forward.
“I hate you…”
One slow step forward.
“I hate you….”
Second even slower step forward
“This hatred is eating me alive.”
The younger male froze couple of meters away from Heechul.
I hate you so much for taking Jonghyun from me. I hate you so much for looking at him. I hate you so much for touching him. I hate you so much for ever messing with my life. “ Taemin lifted his flaming eyes to Heechul’s, and the older male felt how the little amount of fear escalated in his chest to a mass of pure horror.
“I HATE YOU.” With the last words the dead pieces of grass around Taemin’s feet disappeared completely under a thick mass of silvery substance, and Heechul watched the inevitable happen in front of his eyes, his feet rooted to the dead ground underneath.
“Shit…”
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Onew and Key ran along the corridors, their eyes darting everywhere, checking for possible dangers. They had seen the corpses of Super Junior on one deserted corridor, but they didn’t actually have the time to feel relieved as their minds were focused on finding the biggest danger before anything else. Key had returned to normal, but was now sporting a huge headache. Onew had noticed this as Key was gritting his teeth together so hard, that the veins on his neck were standing up.
“We can take a br…”
“Fuck you.”
Onew sighed heavily at the answer he got. He really couldn’t understand the mood swings Key had sometimes. Now the younger male kept running beside him, his mouth clenched shut and his pace steady, but the eyes narrowed from pain told Onew everything he needed to know.
“Stop.” Onew said after a while, and Key turned to look at him, before slowing his pace a little bit, expression angry.
“We have no time for breaks, Onew. Taemin is out there and so is that crazy monster. We have to help him out of the school befor…”
“You’re going to collapse if we continue with this pace! We have searched almost the whole school, and I don’t even think he would stay here if he knew that Taemin is trying to get out!” Onew growled angrily and Key opened his mouth to answer, but somebody beat him to it.
“I sure wonder who you would be looking for.”
Both of the males spun around and their eyes widened as they saw Leeteuk standing right there, only a couple of meters away from them. Key hissed and took a step forward, but Onew stopped him immediately, looking cautiously at the tall figure beside the big windows. The leader of Super Junior was completely calm and serene, watching quietly out of the huge windows. Onew pushed Key behind him and glared at Leeteuk.
“Where is Taemin? What have you done to him?” The older male said with wavering voice as his anger was deflating every passing second he looked at the man before him. Leeteuk turned to look at the two males before smiling so kindly that it made Onew step backwards.
“Why would I have done anything to little Taemin? Come look, he’s right there.” Leeteuk said before stepping aside, giving Onew and Key straight view to the huge field. Key gasped in horror and ignored Onew’s attempt to stop him and ran closer to the window to see what exactly was happening. Onew came to stand beside him, and his eyes widened in horror as he also saw what was happening.
Taemin was standing in the middle of a ring made of liquid silver, his posture completely relaxed, but the thing that drew Onew and Key’s attention wasn’t the boy, but the thing that was steadily forming behind him. A massive figure was steadily growing out of the mercury under Taemin’s feet and Key gasped as he realized what the figure was.
The dragon opened its mouth, letting the mercury drip down to the dead grass under it. Its head stood high above five meters, and the huge wings casted ominous shadows on the ground all around Taemin. The light glistened on the surface of its scales, and when the monster opened its pitch black eyes, the temperature seemed to drop significantly.
Onew stared in horror at the dragon. If the whole size of the creature wasn’t horrifying, then the pure hatred oozing out of its every centimeter sure was. The male gripped the window sill so hard that his hands grew completely white. Key was in almost identical state while Leeteuk just smiled to the display right under his nose. Everything was going exactly like he had planned.
“ Is that Jonghyun lying over there?” Key suddenly whispered and Onew turned his gaze towards the direction where Key was pointing, his eyes growing wide when he noticed the small lump lying a little further from Taemin. The male felt how his metal unconsciously reached out to see whether Jonghyun was okay, and when the whole situation hit him, his legs almost gave out.
“Oh my god…..” The male whispered under his breath and casted his eyes to Taemin who was still standing impassively under the huge dragon. However, Onew had been with Taemin for so long time that he immediately recognized the underlying feelings and the pieces fell to their respective places immediately. The male let out a strangled sob and fell onto his knees. Key didn’t exactly have time to realize Onew’s outburst as something started to happen on the field under his nose.
The dragon bristled and without any warnings, it leaped forward aiming at Heechul, who was standing there, completely motionless. Then, as Key already thought that the dragon had pierced the Super Junior member to its deadly sharp claws, the whole monster blew up, shattering to millions and millions of small little mercury droplets. This time, Heechul started to move. Like water itself, he snaked himself from between the small droplets, his eyes fixated on the younger male who was now devoid of any protection.
Heechul ran straight forward, digging something from his pocket, which happened to be a terribly sharp knife. Key felt his panic level rise with every step Heechul took closer to the small brunet. Finally, when the distance between them was only couple of meters, Key accidentally saw Taemin’s eyes.
The warmth and kindness which were always present in Taemin’s eyes had disappeared completely under the sheen of hatred and resentment. The beautiful shade of mahogany had been replaced with the cold metallic color which only reinforced the hostile glare Taemin was now giving the approaching male. Heechul was only a meter away from the small male, when something hit him.
The impact made Heechul stagger away a few steps before he collapsed on the ground, and as Key watched, the Super Junior member’s mouth opened and even though the sound couldn’t be heard, it was quite obvious that Heechul was in a lot of pain. Key’s eyes darted back to Taemin who was still standing there completely motionless, and for Key’s horror, a wide smile had found its way to Taemin’s lips.
“Onew, we need to do something!” Key said with a strangled voice, but got no response. Onew was still on his knees on the floor, and Key was starting to get angry with his friend.
“ONEW!”
“HEECHUL KILLED JONGHYUN!” Onew yelled and lifted his tearstained face to look at Key, who fell silent immediately. Onew’s words dawned slowly to Key, and his brows furrowed. However, he didn’t get to say anything as Onew wiped the tears to his sleeve and spoke with a defeated voice.
“Let Taemin kill that monster. Let him do whatever he wants, because who are we to judge him? The love of his life was killed before his eyes, so….” Before Onew got to finish his sentence, Key had jumped forward and a fist collided with the side of Onew’s face. The older male turned to look at Key who was now glaring at him murderously.
“If you’d watched more carefully, you might have noticed that Taemin NEVER looks at people like that! He NEVER hates somebody to the point of killing everything living around himself!” Key stepped forward and pulled Onew to his feet roughly. “Taemin would never change life to another life. He wouldn’t seek revenge, because that’s his nature. That’s not Taemin we see right now.” Key stared right back to Onew’s eyes, and slowly everything Key said dawned on the older male and he casted his eyes downwards.
“Well what are we supposed to do? Jonghyun is dead, and we can’t bring him back to life, no matter what we do…” Onew said quietly and Key looked at him for a while before turning around to look at the huge dragon.
“I have no idea, but we need to get Taemin back to his senses.”
As the two males were speaking, Leeteuk had disappeared from his place beside the window.
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Heechul scraped at the ground under him helplessly as the monster kept the torturous waves of pain constantly egging at his every nerve end. The male looked how droplet by droplet of mercury slowly escaped his fingertips, swarming towards the dragon, like ants towards a sugarcube.
Heechul let a smirk drop to his lips as he felt his life drain away from him with every droplet of the grey metal. He didn’t even have the energy to lift his eyes to look at his killer, the one he thought he could win oh so easily.
He smelled the ground under his nose one last time, before the darkness devoured him, and from the distance, he could’ve sworn that he heard somebody call him.
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It was dark.
It was dark and his wrists hurt like hell.
Taemin tried to open his eyes, but realized the attempt completely futile when the darkness around him swallowed everything in sight.
“I told you that I would take something important away from you if you’d rely on my power again, you stupid child….”
Taemin froze as he recognized the cold voice immediately. Then the realization hit him, making him swallow all the questions he had been about to ask.
“It doesn’t matter anymore…”
“It doesn’t matter if I take your whole being from yourself and use it for my own needs?” The booming voice sounded slightly perturbed, as if it wouldn’t have expected Taemin to surrender so easily. The brunet let a bitter smile drop to his lips before laying himself back on the cold ground under him.
“Jonghyun is not there, so what’s the point? You can do whatever you want. See if I care…” Taemin muttered under his breath before closing his eyes again.
“Well look who’s cynical?”
Taemin’s eyes flew open and he sat up, his brown orbs darting in the darkness wildly. The brunet could feel how the dragon grew tense, an d a growl ripped the darkness.
“What are you doing here? I thought you had finally left this place…” The dragon said with angry voice, and a scoff sounded from somewhere.
“Yeah, right. I think it’s you who is supposed to leave this place.” With this, the darkness started to melt away, and Taemin covered his eyes when the blackness was replaced with dazzling white. After a while the brunet stole a careful peek from under his eyelid but winced as the light seemed to shoot daggers through his eye.
“Sorry, I kind of had to force you out of that place. The shackles you had set for yourself wouldn’t have gotten off other way.”
Finally Taemin managed to open his eyes enough to actually see a figure sitting a couple of meters away from him. The brunet felt his eyes widen as he took in the features of the lanky man before him. Dark hair fell on his forehead, highlighting the shape of his eyes and making his high cheekbones even more prominent. The dark eyes were looking at Taemin curiously and the thin mouth was curved to a slight smile. It took Taemin a while to actually get his thoughts together and when he was about to open his mouth, a loud groan sounded from somewhere and both males turned to look at a figure laying a couple of yards away from them.
“He won’t stand for a while, so I might as well explain some things to you, Taemin-ah.” The tall male said with a quiet voice, and Taemin realized that the weird wibe in the male’s speaking was from the small accent he had. The brunet started to fiddle with his shirt when the silence continued, and just when he was about to say something, the male started to speak.
“I’d like to hear what happened after you arrived to the field.” the tone the man spoke was soothing, and Taemin realized how distressed he must have been before when the tone seemed to calm him down considerably. Without even lifting his gaze to the male before him, the brunet started to speak with a monotone voice.
“I felt it already before I arrived at the field. I knew that Jonghyun was fighting Heechul, and….I just needed to make sure that he was okay.” The brunet seemed to gain some courage as he continued to speak. “they were there. Both of them. It took me a moment to actually realize what was going on, but the next second…Heechul attacked towards me with that weird mercury shark…I couldn’t move, I was so panicked and…” Taemin’s throat constricted as he remembered how Jonghyun had ran towards him, the expression of horror on his face when he realized that Taemin was the target, and the relief when the shark didn’t attack Taemin, but him instead. The brunet clutched the fabric of his shirt so hard that his knuckles turned white.
“He…sacrificed himself…for me. It was my fault that he died. I was selfish on that moment. I just looked at Heechul, and I felt how the….sadness just transformed to pure anger, and when Heechul….when Heechul said all those things, touched Jonghyun like that, made my heart bleed even more than before….” Taemin stared at the male before him, who now had a knowing expression on his face. The brunet lifted his hand to cover his face.
“I felt weak. Defeated. I couldn’t bring myself to care about anything else anymore. I just wanted…something to make me feel better. I wanted to see someone else bleed for Jonghyun’s death. I just wanted to vent all the sadness somewhere…” Taemin’s brows furrowed as all the memories came back to him, resembling a videotape. The brunet swallowed loudly before continuing. “I knew what would happen is I’d agree to the dragon’s request. I knew I would lose everything by seeking revenge, but I still agreed. I agreed to give away my independence for the strength the dragon had to offer me….I didn’t even think about the fact that I was actually going exactly as Leeteuk had predicted…I just wanted…” Taemin stopped and stared before him impassively, tears falling from his eyes.
“I gave away everything to gain nothing…. killed Heechul and I…I practically acted as Leeteuk’s puppet. He was right…I was just a chess piece on his gameboard. …” The brunet stared before him, his eyes wide with horror, and the male sitting in front of him said nothing. However, after a while he rose up and turned to look at Taemin.
“Do you know what was the place you were in before? Or this place we’re now?” The male asked with a quiet voice and Taemin gulped before answering with a wavering voice.
“I…heard the big dragon talking in the dark place and…my ankles and wrists felt heavy, like they would’ve been attached to something.” the brunet said carefully and the male helped him up from the white ground.
“That was the dark side of Mercury. This place we’re in now is the impersonation of Mercury’s soul. All the Mercury bearers are more closely linked to each others than the other Manas, because there are so few of us. That’s why through this….’dimension’ we can communicate to each other, and if necessary….”the male turned to look at the figure laying a short distance away. “…we can even help the lost to find their way again.” Taemin looked how the male started to walk towards the shivering lump, and suddenly something hit Taemin’s mind like a meteor.
“What about Seun?! Is he here?! He has to be if this place is the soul of Mercury!” Taemin was almost bubbling with hope by this point, but was shocked to see the sad expression on the tall male’s face.
“Unfortunately, Seun isn’t here any longer.” Taemin furrowed his brows as he heard these words and walked forward so that he was standing before the male.
“Why? Isn’t he supposed to be here?! If this is the core of everything, how com…
“The moment you chose to seek strength by violence and anger, you gave up the essence, which you call Seun. Seun is dead, and his corpse is now part of the dark dragon, to which you had shackled yourself before.” the male said with monotone voice, but Taemin could clearly distinguish the angry lines around his eyes. The brunet lowered his gaze and he felt like the remainders of his world would have come crashing down.
“…No way….”
There was a booming silence between the two males, before the taller male walked past Taemin and stopped beside the small lump on the ground. Taemin watched impassively as the tall male let his hand fall on top of the breathing figure’s head, and with this fleeting touch, the lump shivered violently and et out a strangled cough out of his lungs. Taemin looked at the figure, his eyes widening when he recognized the face he had been sure he wouldn’t see anymore.
“….Heechul….!” The brunet breathed out, but his words weren’t paid any attention, as the tall male and Heechul locked eyes, and Taemin stared in wonder at the horrified expression on Heechul’s face. The tall male was staring at Heechul impassively and the silence screamed between them like a caged animal.
Taemin’s eyes widened and his mouth opened in pure shock at the name, which rolled out of Heechul’s mouth on the next minute.
“Hangeng….!”
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A/N: Uhhhh....hi? Remember me? The one who updated.....over four months ago? The one who promised to get the chapter done by several occasions? The one who had the huge writer's block? the one who said that there are going to be STILL some shit left from this fic?
Hi guys<3 LoL So please don't come after me because I actually killed Jonghyun....and Seun.....and almost Heechul...and all the rest of Super junior minus Teukie.....This chapter is kind of heavy, sorry if you were completely bored, but i had to explain everything now in this chapter before we can move on....And just to mention, this chapter had 11 pages in Microsoft Word, meaning 5441 words in total....And all this took me four and half months *facepalm*
Comments are appreciated and don't worry, this fic is almost over :"DDD
AND SPOTS TO sung_gi and arya201 <3<3<3
Author: I, mjaku : D
Beta: None at the moment
Genre: Scifi, Romance, Angst, Fluff, Smut
Pairing:JongMin or Jonghyun X Taemin, Onkey, Michkhun...
Rating: PG-15
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters, just the plot. Damn.
Warnings: Violence, bloodshed, CHARACTER DEATH
Summary for the whole story:
When the global warming starts to destroy worlds surface, the
scientists start to create a new human super race, which would manage
to survive in the new world. They realise that all the metals would
have the immunity to the new deceases and the new human race is
born: Metal flowing alongside their blood, increasing their
strenght, speed, intelligence and giving them the most peculiar
powers of all.
Summary of the chapter:
Taemin and Jonghyun finally discover the truth behind Heechul, but Taemin soon realises, that everything isn't what it loooks like...
Extra A/N:
I suggest you guys go and read the previous chapters again, this continues immediately from the part the previous chapter left off....And due to my long update time.....well.....
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Taemin could feel it clearly. It pinched his skin time to time and made the hair in his neck stand. The energy was floating in the air with a presence so intense that Taemin had to stop on several occasions to rest for a while. The brunet was getting more and more tired with every step he took towards the source of all the energy, and sweat was flowing down his forehead with big droplets.
This wasn’t just any kind of energy hanging in the cold late autumn air, it was pure murderous intent, masked to the form of energy. Taemin was panting heavily and his legs seemed to be fighting against every step he ran forward but at the moment he couldn’t care less about whether it hurt or not.
The intense precense got steadily stronger and stronger and finally the power was so stifling that Taemin had to grit his teeth while he ran forward. And after a while as he made his way forward, he started to feel how the energy in the air changed constantly; it came to rest in Taemin’s skin as strong waves and after a while the feeling would subside and almost immediately morph to crushing pressure, which seemed to make even the grass bend over.
And he could feel something else too aside from the murderous intent.
Jonghyun was there.
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When they had exited the school building after Jonghyun voiced out his challenge, the energy had been constantly leaking out of Heechul, like he would have been too lazy to care whether the sharp pinpricks of murderous intent touched Jonghyun or not. The younger male had been inspecting the Super Junior member before him for a good while, and his brows had scrunched up in concentration. Why did the energy radiating from Heechul feel so….familiar in a way?
Heechl was standing several yards away from Jonghyun, his posture relaxed, but the energy waves escaping his body were affecting him too: the urge to attack Jonghyun like a ravage beast was tugging at his every nerve end constantly, making his smile twitch.
They had just stood there for several minutes, but even if it looked like they weren’t doing anything at all, there was a constant probing and prodding going on. Heechul let his energy circle and surround Jonghyun like a pack of wolves, while Jonghyun’s energy was like sharp needles on Heechul’s skin. They were completely motionless, but it was clear that only the smallest of moves could tip the whole situation off balance. Jonghyun inspected Heechul’s face carefully as he suddenly started to walk forward, and scoffed mockingly as every muscle visible tensed in Heechul’s body, and his smile started to twitch slightly more erratically.
“I want you to tell me something.” Jonghyun said with strong and unwavering voice, and Heechul’s eyes narrowed threateningly. Jonghyun didn’t wait for an answer before he continued.
“What is Super Junior’s business in our school? What do you actually want?” Jonghyun asked with mellow voice and Heechul lifted his other eyebrow.
“What? Are you still so uninformed that you don’t know?” The male let out a short laugh and turned his eyes back to Jonghyun. “ We were given a task to destroy all the potential dangers to the future society here in korea, and look if some talents could be….breeded to suit our tastes.” Jonghyun narrowed his eyes at the last words and stood a bit straighter.
“So you actually think that you can breed Taemin to ‘suit your tastes?’” Jonghyun growled lowly in his throat and Heechul smirked.
“Oh yes. I think every person on this land is pretty easily cultivated with the right fertilization, don’t you think?” Heechul let out a little laugh as he noticed the stony expression on Jonghyun’s face. Then he started to walk forward, while taking something out of his pocket.
“Allthough, we cannot use the fertilization properly if there are certain….weeds growing alongside the plant. They must be disposed, right Jonghyun?” Heechul lifted his eyes to Jonghyun, a cruel smile painting his lips as he dropped something to the ground from his hand. Jonghyun took a proper fighting position and scanned the male before him cautiously. Something was very wrong and Jonghyun felt the stress rising in him as he realized what it was.
Heechul’s energy wasn’t there anymore. It was as if it had left the older male completely.
Then Jonghyun realized the situation he was in and drew his sword, eyes wide in horror.
“Impossible…!”
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Taemin froze on his steps as he felt the energy shift strongly and something in him seemed to shift too and it made his breathing get stuck in his throat. The brunet clutched his chest and tried to get a hold of his shivering limbs.
“What the heck is thi….”
Taemin’s eyes snapped forward when an animalistic screech came from somewhere and the other energy he had been feeling previously momentarily disappeared. Before the brunet even realized it, his legs started to take him forward, but this time, his pace stayed slow. Every step seemed to echo in his head as he tried to distinguish the feeling suppressing his strength. His eyes stayed fixated in the nearby corner of the huge school building and he gulped. Twice. Thrice.
Then he walked around the corner and his eyes widened and horror struck him like a knife.
Jonghyun was bleeding heavily.
And Heechul stood there with a smirk on his face and something glimmering on his hand. The brunet felt his knees go weak under him and he fell to the ground.
Now he knew. Now he knew why he was the next Hankyung in Leeteuk’s mind. Now he knew why the strange sensations attacked him when he was with Heechul. Now he knew what made Heechul the strongest in Super Junior.
He was a Mana of Mercury. And the only one who can oppose somebody with Mercury as their metal is somebody who also has the liquid silver running in their veins.
Taemin felt sick as he watched how Jonghyun staggered on his feet, holding his bleeding bicep. Heechul was playing with the small ball of Mercury on his fingers and grinned viciously at Jonghyun.
“Do you get it now, Mana of silver? We are going to take Taemin away from you and there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop it. In a year’s time he won’t even look in your way. How does it feel? The feeling to be completely hopeless in front of a god?!” Heechul spat the last words and with a flicker of his wrist he send the ball of Mercury flying, and when it landed on the soft grass, it exploded.
Taemin stared as a giant shark made from liquid silver glimmered momentarily on the green mat, before diving to the grass, leaving only the dorsal fin on the surface. The brunet opened his mouth to shout a warning to his lover, but was silenced when Jonghyun leaped forward, easily avoiding the blood thirsty shark under his feet and approached Heechul head-on. Heechul stared impassively as Jonghyun was only a couple of meters away from him.
“You’re no fucking god! You’re just so WEAK that you don’t even understand it!!” Jonghyun yelled with full force and his brows scrunched up together as his words didn’t take any effect on the older male.
“Oh? I wonder about that, especially when I have one significant figure by my side…” Heechul all but purred and Jonghyun’s eyes narrowed in bewilderment, his attack momentarily forgotten as he tried to process Heechul’s words.
“What do you…”
“Your little loverboy is quite a catch, if you get what I mean.” Heechul grinned and nodded to somewhere behind Jonghyun’s back, and then it dawned on the male. He spun around to see Taemin completely frozen on the ground, and the giant shark that had been previously aimed at Jonghyun, was now heading straight towards the immobile brunet on the ground.
“Shit…!” The male cursed and without a backward glance started to make his way towards the brunet, his sword ready to strike the beast down. His nerves shattered completely as he stared to Taemin’s impassive face and the urge to protect stirred even more in his chest as he leaped forward to give the final strike to the shark.
“NO! JONGHYUN, GET AWAY!” Taemin suddenly yelled with full force, his eyes fixated somewhere behind the older male and Jonghyun’s eyebrows scrunched up together. What…
Then, without any warnings, the shark changed its direction and pierced Jonghyun’s chest like a sword. As Jonghyun froze on his steps and started to sway a little bit, he could see the pure horror and shock on Taemin’s beautiful features, and when he turned his head slightly to the left, he could see Heechul there, smirking victoriously as he motioned the Mercury to come to him. Jonghyun gringed as the situation hit him and coughed a bit as the blood started to flow from his lungs. Of course, Heechul had just lured him to turn his back to the shark by using Taemin as a bait…very clever.
Jonghyun’s vision started to falter and he cast a long look to Heechul and smirked slightly before collapsing on the ground.
He heard the scream
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Taemin felt like he could hear the grass growing under his knees. He felt like he could hear his own heartbeat slow down step by step and finally stop with a one final THUM.
He looked how Jonghyun collapsed before him, a slight smile on his lips, and as if his brain wouldn’t have wanted it to happen, everything went with agonizingly slow pace. The sound of Jonghyun’s knees colliding with the grassmat sounded hollow, empty, like Taemin’s very soul and the brunet could just stare in horror at his lover, who was now on his knees just a couple of meters away from him, staring emptily past Taemin.
Then the feeling came rushing back in a form of a scream.
The brunet screamed in horror, fury, disbelief and grief. He screamed until he couldn’t get any sound out of his throat and the only sound that managed to escape his chapped lips was a strangled sob as he started to crawl towards his dying lover. He didn’t care about the blood covering his clothes as he lifted Jonghyun’s upper torso to his arms and started to cry silently. Tear drops fell to Jonghyun’s smooth cheekbones, making it look like they would be Jonghyun’s tears as Taemin wailed, waiting for the crushing feeling in his chest to go somewhere. However, as Taemin held his lover closer to his chest and tried to seek comfort from the soft body in his arms, the feeling became even worse. Like a noose it etched itself tighter and tighter around Taemin’s soul, making his sobs almost hysterical
Jonghyun was dead.
Jonghyun died because of him.
It was Taemin’s fault!
“Now now, little one, collect yourself, we still have a lot to do here…”
Taemin’s eyes widened as he heard the voice coming towards him. The noose got a bit tighter again as the brunet lifted his tearstained face to look at Heechul who had stopped just beside him, looking at Jonghyun’s impassive face expressionlessly.
“I never thought he would go down this easily….” The older male wondered to himself silently, still inspecting the dead body in Taemin’s arms.
Tighter again….
“I know you must be very sad about losing him right now, but it will go away. In Super Junior you’ll have so much to think about that you won’t even miss him.”
Tighter again….
“We can burn him with the school and you can take some of the ashes with you.”
By now Taemin was trembling with the unknown feeling tightening in his chest as he listened at the cruel words coming out of Heechul’s mouth. His hands trembled as he put Jonghyun’s lifeless corpse on the ground and tried to stop the hyperventilating. He had to do something!
“Oh, and maybe it would be better if we just got rid of him now.” with that Heechul lurched forward and with one swift kick he send Jonghyun’s body flying across the air and landing with a soft thump about ten yards away from them.
SNAP.
Heechul smirked at his handiwork. Maybe if he acted nonchalant about the whole ordeal, it wouldn’t leave so big marks on Taemin. And when the brunet would join Super Junior, he really would get new values for his life. Lovelife be damned and if the brunet wanted one, Heechul would be always there, no problem at all!
Heechul froze in his steps as something changed very significantly in the air behind him. As he stood there his eyes fell to the ground under his feet and he swallowed heavily.
The grass died just before his eyes. Wave after wave went through the soft grass, killing it in its wake, leaving only murky brown, dead leaves behind. Heechul felt how the wave affected him too, making his blood run cold, but he kept his face passive as he turned around to look at the source of the energy.
Taemin was still standing in exactly the same position as before. However, his brown hair had fallen over his eyes, making it impossible to see his expression. Heechul scrunched his brows together as he tried to understand where all the energy was coming from. The older male let his eyes wander around the area and he bit his lip as he realized the situation he was in. His eyes immediately snapped back to the younger boy only couple of yards away from him.
Taemin was rotting the grass around him with his urge to kill something.
Heechul took a tentative step backwards as he looked how Taemin finally lifted his face so, that his eyes were directed to Heechul.
The older male gasped as the force of Taemin’s gaze hit him. The usually brown and warm orbs were now colored silver, as if they would have been made of liquid metal.
“Hatred…”
Heechul felt how his hackles rose immediately when he heard the raspy, slightly…metallic tone out of Taemin’s lips. The older male tensed his muscles as Taemin started to take slow steps forward.
“I hate you…”
One slow step forward.
“I hate you….”
Second even slower step forward
“This hatred is eating me alive.”
The younger male froze couple of meters away from Heechul.
I hate you so much for taking Jonghyun from me. I hate you so much for looking at him. I hate you so much for touching him. I hate you so much for ever messing with my life. “ Taemin lifted his flaming eyes to Heechul’s, and the older male felt how the little amount of fear escalated in his chest to a mass of pure horror.
“I HATE YOU.” With the last words the dead pieces of grass around Taemin’s feet disappeared completely under a thick mass of silvery substance, and Heechul watched the inevitable happen in front of his eyes, his feet rooted to the dead ground underneath.
“Shit…”
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Onew and Key ran along the corridors, their eyes darting everywhere, checking for possible dangers. They had seen the corpses of Super Junior on one deserted corridor, but they didn’t actually have the time to feel relieved as their minds were focused on finding the biggest danger before anything else. Key had returned to normal, but was now sporting a huge headache. Onew had noticed this as Key was gritting his teeth together so hard, that the veins on his neck were standing up.
“We can take a br…”
“Fuck you.”
Onew sighed heavily at the answer he got. He really couldn’t understand the mood swings Key had sometimes. Now the younger male kept running beside him, his mouth clenched shut and his pace steady, but the eyes narrowed from pain told Onew everything he needed to know.
“Stop.” Onew said after a while, and Key turned to look at him, before slowing his pace a little bit, expression angry.
“We have no time for breaks, Onew. Taemin is out there and so is that crazy monster. We have to help him out of the school befor…”
“You’re going to collapse if we continue with this pace! We have searched almost the whole school, and I don’t even think he would stay here if he knew that Taemin is trying to get out!” Onew growled angrily and Key opened his mouth to answer, but somebody beat him to it.
“I sure wonder who you would be looking for.”
Both of the males spun around and their eyes widened as they saw Leeteuk standing right there, only a couple of meters away from them. Key hissed and took a step forward, but Onew stopped him immediately, looking cautiously at the tall figure beside the big windows. The leader of Super Junior was completely calm and serene, watching quietly out of the huge windows. Onew pushed Key behind him and glared at Leeteuk.
“Where is Taemin? What have you done to him?” The older male said with wavering voice as his anger was deflating every passing second he looked at the man before him. Leeteuk turned to look at the two males before smiling so kindly that it made Onew step backwards.
“Why would I have done anything to little Taemin? Come look, he’s right there.” Leeteuk said before stepping aside, giving Onew and Key straight view to the huge field. Key gasped in horror and ignored Onew’s attempt to stop him and ran closer to the window to see what exactly was happening. Onew came to stand beside him, and his eyes widened in horror as he also saw what was happening.
Taemin was standing in the middle of a ring made of liquid silver, his posture completely relaxed, but the thing that drew Onew and Key’s attention wasn’t the boy, but the thing that was steadily forming behind him. A massive figure was steadily growing out of the mercury under Taemin’s feet and Key gasped as he realized what the figure was.
The dragon opened its mouth, letting the mercury drip down to the dead grass under it. Its head stood high above five meters, and the huge wings casted ominous shadows on the ground all around Taemin. The light glistened on the surface of its scales, and when the monster opened its pitch black eyes, the temperature seemed to drop significantly.
Onew stared in horror at the dragon. If the whole size of the creature wasn’t horrifying, then the pure hatred oozing out of its every centimeter sure was. The male gripped the window sill so hard that his hands grew completely white. Key was in almost identical state while Leeteuk just smiled to the display right under his nose. Everything was going exactly like he had planned.
“ Is that Jonghyun lying over there?” Key suddenly whispered and Onew turned his gaze towards the direction where Key was pointing, his eyes growing wide when he noticed the small lump lying a little further from Taemin. The male felt how his metal unconsciously reached out to see whether Jonghyun was okay, and when the whole situation hit him, his legs almost gave out.
“Oh my god…..” The male whispered under his breath and casted his eyes to Taemin who was still standing impassively under the huge dragon. However, Onew had been with Taemin for so long time that he immediately recognized the underlying feelings and the pieces fell to their respective places immediately. The male let out a strangled sob and fell onto his knees. Key didn’t exactly have time to realize Onew’s outburst as something started to happen on the field under his nose.
The dragon bristled and without any warnings, it leaped forward aiming at Heechul, who was standing there, completely motionless. Then, as Key already thought that the dragon had pierced the Super Junior member to its deadly sharp claws, the whole monster blew up, shattering to millions and millions of small little mercury droplets. This time, Heechul started to move. Like water itself, he snaked himself from between the small droplets, his eyes fixated on the younger male who was now devoid of any protection.
Heechul ran straight forward, digging something from his pocket, which happened to be a terribly sharp knife. Key felt his panic level rise with every step Heechul took closer to the small brunet. Finally, when the distance between them was only couple of meters, Key accidentally saw Taemin’s eyes.
The warmth and kindness which were always present in Taemin’s eyes had disappeared completely under the sheen of hatred and resentment. The beautiful shade of mahogany had been replaced with the cold metallic color which only reinforced the hostile glare Taemin was now giving the approaching male. Heechul was only a meter away from the small male, when something hit him.
The impact made Heechul stagger away a few steps before he collapsed on the ground, and as Key watched, the Super Junior member’s mouth opened and even though the sound couldn’t be heard, it was quite obvious that Heechul was in a lot of pain. Key’s eyes darted back to Taemin who was still standing there completely motionless, and for Key’s horror, a wide smile had found its way to Taemin’s lips.
“Onew, we need to do something!” Key said with a strangled voice, but got no response. Onew was still on his knees on the floor, and Key was starting to get angry with his friend.
“ONEW!”
“HEECHUL KILLED JONGHYUN!” Onew yelled and lifted his tearstained face to look at Key, who fell silent immediately. Onew’s words dawned slowly to Key, and his brows furrowed. However, he didn’t get to say anything as Onew wiped the tears to his sleeve and spoke with a defeated voice.
“Let Taemin kill that monster. Let him do whatever he wants, because who are we to judge him? The love of his life was killed before his eyes, so….” Before Onew got to finish his sentence, Key had jumped forward and a fist collided with the side of Onew’s face. The older male turned to look at Key who was now glaring at him murderously.
“If you’d watched more carefully, you might have noticed that Taemin NEVER looks at people like that! He NEVER hates somebody to the point of killing everything living around himself!” Key stepped forward and pulled Onew to his feet roughly. “Taemin would never change life to another life. He wouldn’t seek revenge, because that’s his nature. That’s not Taemin we see right now.” Key stared right back to Onew’s eyes, and slowly everything Key said dawned on the older male and he casted his eyes downwards.
“Well what are we supposed to do? Jonghyun is dead, and we can’t bring him back to life, no matter what we do…” Onew said quietly and Key looked at him for a while before turning around to look at the huge dragon.
“I have no idea, but we need to get Taemin back to his senses.”
As the two males were speaking, Leeteuk had disappeared from his place beside the window.
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Heechul scraped at the ground under him helplessly as the monster kept the torturous waves of pain constantly egging at his every nerve end. The male looked how droplet by droplet of mercury slowly escaped his fingertips, swarming towards the dragon, like ants towards a sugarcube.
Heechul let a smirk drop to his lips as he felt his life drain away from him with every droplet of the grey metal. He didn’t even have the energy to lift his eyes to look at his killer, the one he thought he could win oh so easily.
He smelled the ground under his nose one last time, before the darkness devoured him, and from the distance, he could’ve sworn that he heard somebody call him.
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It was dark.
It was dark and his wrists hurt like hell.
Taemin tried to open his eyes, but realized the attempt completely futile when the darkness around him swallowed everything in sight.
“I told you that I would take something important away from you if you’d rely on my power again, you stupid child….”
Taemin froze as he recognized the cold voice immediately. Then the realization hit him, making him swallow all the questions he had been about to ask.
“It doesn’t matter anymore…”
“It doesn’t matter if I take your whole being from yourself and use it for my own needs?” The booming voice sounded slightly perturbed, as if it wouldn’t have expected Taemin to surrender so easily. The brunet let a bitter smile drop to his lips before laying himself back on the cold ground under him.
“Jonghyun is not there, so what’s the point? You can do whatever you want. See if I care…” Taemin muttered under his breath before closing his eyes again.
“Well look who’s cynical?”
Taemin’s eyes flew open and he sat up, his brown orbs darting in the darkness wildly. The brunet could feel how the dragon grew tense, an d a growl ripped the darkness.
“What are you doing here? I thought you had finally left this place…” The dragon said with angry voice, and a scoff sounded from somewhere.
“Yeah, right. I think it’s you who is supposed to leave this place.” With this, the darkness started to melt away, and Taemin covered his eyes when the blackness was replaced with dazzling white. After a while the brunet stole a careful peek from under his eyelid but winced as the light seemed to shoot daggers through his eye.
“Sorry, I kind of had to force you out of that place. The shackles you had set for yourself wouldn’t have gotten off other way.”
Finally Taemin managed to open his eyes enough to actually see a figure sitting a couple of meters away from him. The brunet felt his eyes widen as he took in the features of the lanky man before him. Dark hair fell on his forehead, highlighting the shape of his eyes and making his high cheekbones even more prominent. The dark eyes were looking at Taemin curiously and the thin mouth was curved to a slight smile. It took Taemin a while to actually get his thoughts together and when he was about to open his mouth, a loud groan sounded from somewhere and both males turned to look at a figure laying a couple of yards away from them.
“He won’t stand for a while, so I might as well explain some things to you, Taemin-ah.” The tall male said with a quiet voice, and Taemin realized that the weird wibe in the male’s speaking was from the small accent he had. The brunet started to fiddle with his shirt when the silence continued, and just when he was about to say something, the male started to speak.
“I’d like to hear what happened after you arrived to the field.” the tone the man spoke was soothing, and Taemin realized how distressed he must have been before when the tone seemed to calm him down considerably. Without even lifting his gaze to the male before him, the brunet started to speak with a monotone voice.
“I felt it already before I arrived at the field. I knew that Jonghyun was fighting Heechul, and….I just needed to make sure that he was okay.” The brunet seemed to gain some courage as he continued to speak. “they were there. Both of them. It took me a moment to actually realize what was going on, but the next second…Heechul attacked towards me with that weird mercury shark…I couldn’t move, I was so panicked and…” Taemin’s throat constricted as he remembered how Jonghyun had ran towards him, the expression of horror on his face when he realized that Taemin was the target, and the relief when the shark didn’t attack Taemin, but him instead. The brunet clutched the fabric of his shirt so hard that his knuckles turned white.
“He…sacrificed himself…for me. It was my fault that he died. I was selfish on that moment. I just looked at Heechul, and I felt how the….sadness just transformed to pure anger, and when Heechul….when Heechul said all those things, touched Jonghyun like that, made my heart bleed even more than before….” Taemin stared at the male before him, who now had a knowing expression on his face. The brunet lifted his hand to cover his face.
“I felt weak. Defeated. I couldn’t bring myself to care about anything else anymore. I just wanted…something to make me feel better. I wanted to see someone else bleed for Jonghyun’s death. I just wanted to vent all the sadness somewhere…” Taemin’s brows furrowed as all the memories came back to him, resembling a videotape. The brunet swallowed loudly before continuing. “I knew what would happen is I’d agree to the dragon’s request. I knew I would lose everything by seeking revenge, but I still agreed. I agreed to give away my independence for the strength the dragon had to offer me….I didn’t even think about the fact that I was actually going exactly as Leeteuk had predicted…I just wanted…” Taemin stopped and stared before him impassively, tears falling from his eyes.
“I gave away everything to gain nothing…. killed Heechul and I…I practically acted as Leeteuk’s puppet. He was right…I was just a chess piece on his gameboard. …” The brunet stared before him, his eyes wide with horror, and the male sitting in front of him said nothing. However, after a while he rose up and turned to look at Taemin.
“Do you know what was the place you were in before? Or this place we’re now?” The male asked with a quiet voice and Taemin gulped before answering with a wavering voice.
“I…heard the big dragon talking in the dark place and…my ankles and wrists felt heavy, like they would’ve been attached to something.” the brunet said carefully and the male helped him up from the white ground.
“That was the dark side of Mercury. This place we’re in now is the impersonation of Mercury’s soul. All the Mercury bearers are more closely linked to each others than the other Manas, because there are so few of us. That’s why through this….’dimension’ we can communicate to each other, and if necessary….”the male turned to look at the figure laying a short distance away. “…we can even help the lost to find their way again.” Taemin looked how the male started to walk towards the shivering lump, and suddenly something hit Taemin’s mind like a meteor.
“What about Seun?! Is he here?! He has to be if this place is the soul of Mercury!” Taemin was almost bubbling with hope by this point, but was shocked to see the sad expression on the tall male’s face.
“Unfortunately, Seun isn’t here any longer.” Taemin furrowed his brows as he heard these words and walked forward so that he was standing before the male.
“Why? Isn’t he supposed to be here?! If this is the core of everything, how com…
“The moment you chose to seek strength by violence and anger, you gave up the essence, which you call Seun. Seun is dead, and his corpse is now part of the dark dragon, to which you had shackled yourself before.” the male said with monotone voice, but Taemin could clearly distinguish the angry lines around his eyes. The brunet lowered his gaze and he felt like the remainders of his world would have come crashing down.
“…No way….”
There was a booming silence between the two males, before the taller male walked past Taemin and stopped beside the small lump on the ground. Taemin watched impassively as the tall male let his hand fall on top of the breathing figure’s head, and with this fleeting touch, the lump shivered violently and et out a strangled cough out of his lungs. Taemin looked at the figure, his eyes widening when he recognized the face he had been sure he wouldn’t see anymore.
“….Heechul….!” The brunet breathed out, but his words weren’t paid any attention, as the tall male and Heechul locked eyes, and Taemin stared in wonder at the horrified expression on Heechul’s face. The tall male was staring at Heechul impassively and the silence screamed between them like a caged animal.
Taemin’s eyes widened and his mouth opened in pure shock at the name, which rolled out of Heechul’s mouth on the next minute.
“Hangeng….!”
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A/N: Uhhhh....hi? Remember me? The one who updated.....over four months ago? The one who promised to get the chapter done by several occasions? The one who had the huge writer's block? the one who said that there are going to be STILL some shit left from this fic?
Hi guys<3 LoL So please don't come after me because I actually killed Jonghyun....and Seun.....and almost Heechul...and all the rest of Super junior minus Teukie.....This chapter is kind of heavy, sorry if you were completely bored, but i had to explain everything now in this chapter before we can move on....And just to mention, this chapter had 11 pages in Microsoft Word, meaning 5441 words in total....And all this took me four and half months *facepalm*
Comments are appreciated and don't worry, this fic is almost over :"DDD
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