An Epic Quest to Find True Love Part 2
Title: An Epic Quest to Find True Love
Pairing: MinKyu
Minor Pairings: YeWook, EunHae, ninja! HanChul, even more ninja! KangTeuk
Part: 2
Rating: PG
Genre: romance, humor
Disclaimer: I wish I owned them
Warnings: nothing for now
Summary: Sungmin is banished from the land of Aegyo until he has found his one true love. He instead encounters a cowboy-esque stablehand, a Pokemon trainer, and aspiring campfire singers among others. And this is just the beginning.
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The first time Sungmin felt his journey might actually be interesting occurred several days after Sungmin and his reluctant sidekick (“Your master tactician,” Kyuhyun had insisted. “Sidekick,” muttered Sungmin) entered the forest.
“I thought you said you got this!” Kyuhyun said accusingly. He spun around in a circle, looking at trees, trees, Sungmin, and more trees. “Now we’re more lost than Waldo and Carmen Sandiego’s love child! You idiot!”
“It’s hyung to you, and I’ll have you know, I was on the right path!” snapped Sungmin, his frayed patience wearing thin. He glared around at the clearing they were currently situated in. “It’s not my fault you got scared by the singing chipmunk and ran off the right path!”
Kyuhyun opened his mouth to retort. Out of nowhere, a ball of fur flew through the air and attached itself to the boy’s face. Kyuhyun let out a muffled gasp of surprised and stumbled back, nearly landing on his rear end.
“Hyung!” wheezed Kyuhyun, tugging desperately at the thing on his face. “Help!”
Luckily, Sungmin was a champion at the art of tug-a-war. Bracing himself, he yanked the fur ball off Kyuhyun’s face. The thing flew across the clearing and hit a tree. Due to the force of the pull, Kyuhyun also fell forward trapping Sungmin between his arms. Sungmin closed his eyes and winced as his back hit the ground. When he opened them, he found himself staring into Kyuhyun’s wide, shocked eyes.
“You might want to get off me now,” said Sungmin crossly.
Kyuhyun snapped out of his trance and scrambled to his feet, pulling Sungmin up. “Hyung! Thank you! I mean, are you okay? Sorry,” stammered the usually composed boy.
Sungmin waved off Kyuhyun’s apologies. He found Kyuhyun’s cowboy hat which had fallen off during the struggle and gave it back to the flustered male. “Here.”
Kyuhyun’s quiet ‘thanks’ was drowned out by a loud shout of “JUNSU!!”
The pair turned to face the direction in which the voice came from. Sure enough, a figure crashed through the bushes and unceremoniously performed a perfect face plant.
“I give it a 10 for the landing,” Kyuhyun snickered.
The figure quickly righted itself. It was a male that looked about Sungmin’s age. Dressed in simple form fitting jeans and a wife beater, the most interesting part of his outfit was the single black glove he wore. His brown bangs fell above his eyes and Sungmin was absolutely not jealous of the stranger’s wicked jaw line. Nope, he wasn’t.
“Have you seen Junsu?” asked the stranger, eyes tearing up.
“Depends. Do you have food?” Kyuhyun retaliated.
“Who’s Junsu?” asked Sungmin curiously.
“He’s my…” The stranger trailed off as he noticed the fur ball Sungmin had ripped off Kyuhun’s face earlier. His eyes widened in recognition. “Junsu!” he cried, dumping his backpack on the floor and rushing over. He scooped the thing up into his arms.
Upon closer inspection, Sungmin now saw that the fur ball was actually a round-ish monkey with an annoyed expression on its face. It clearly did not enjoy being hugged by the stranger and got the point across with a swift punch to the boy’s face.
“So Junsu is his twin brother?” asked Kyuhyun, poking fun at the other boy’s rather monkey-like features. Sungmin smirked; Kyuhyun’s wit was growing on him.
“Junsu return!” said the boy holding out a red and white ball. The monkey disappeared in the stream of red light. The boy turned to Sungmin, flashing him a wide smile that showed his gums. “Hello, my name is Eunhyuk!”
“Are you sure that’s your name?” asked Kyuhyun from where he was rifling through Eunhyuk’s abandoned backpack. He held up a small, white cloth. “The name on your underwear says Hyukjae. Identity crisis much?”
Eunhyuk-who-might-be-Hyukjae turned an interesting shade of puce and snatched the backpack back from the evil stable boy. As he shoved his underwear back in, Sungmin heard snatches of “darn it Mom” and “so that’s where it went”.
Once Eunhyuk-who-might-be-Hyukjae returned to a normal shade, Sungmin offered his hand politely. “My name is Sungmin. That’s Kyuhyun. What are you exactly?”
Eunhyuk-who-might-be-Hyukjae pumped Sungmin’s arm enthusiastically. “My name is Lee Eunhyuk! My goal is to be the greatest Pokemon trainer there ever was! Junsu’s my Mankey,” he added as an afterthought.
“I wanna be the very best that no one ever was,” sang a disembodied voice accompanied by a jazzy violin solo.
“What’s that?” asked Eunhyuk-who-might-be-Hyukjae-but-wants-to-be-called-Eunhyuk, eyes darting around nervously. “Did you guys hear that?”
Kyuhyun smirked mischievously. “I didn’t hear anything,” he denied, all innocence and unicorns. “Did you hyung?”
Sungmin mirrored Kyuhyun’s expression. “I didn’t hear anything either. Perhaps you’re imagining things,” he told Eunhyuk.
“Probably,” Eunhyuk agreed reluctantly as the sound of violins faded.
“Boo,” Kyuhyun whispered in Eunhyuk’s ear.
“EEEEEEEKK!” screamed Eunhyuk. With the dexterity of a monkey, he scaled a tree and hid in the leaves.
Sungmin snickered. Looks like this journey might actually be interesting after all.
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The first time Sungmin wanted to try something different came soon after meeting Eunhyuk.
They were now a trio (Kyuhyun was less than pleased when Eunhyuk insisted on joining them. “He’s useless,” Kyuhyun had protested. “You’re useless too,” Sungmin pointed out. “At least I don’t look like a monkey,” retorted Kyuhyun. “I think it’s cute,” Sungmin mused. Kyuhyun stormed away at this point) and still lost…er, taking the scenic route in the forest. The last of the food Eunhyuk had in his backpack had been devoured two days ago and a cacophony of growling stomachs filled the air.
“Look, my stomach can growl the alphabet song!” said Eunhyuk delightedly. He proceeded to give them a demonstration.
“Ha,” scoffed Sungmin. “I can do Bonamana.”
“Are you two crazy?” Kyuhyun nearly screamed. “We’re starving here and you two are having musical competitions?!” He pointed at Eunhyuk. “How can you be so happy in this situation?! It’s unnatural! And everyone can stomach-growl the alphabet; it’s not impressive! And you!” he cried, pointing to Junsu who was clinging to Eunhyuk’s head. “You’re a monkey (“Mankey,” Eunhyuk muttered)! Go fetch us a banana or something! And you!” Kyuhyun turned to Sungmin and paused. “That song has a nice beat.”
Eunhyuk pouted. “You scold us and that’s all you have to say to Sungmin? Why does he get special treatment?”
Kyuhyun scowled at the skinny boy. “That’s Sungmin hyung to you,” he snapped. “Show respect to your elders.”
“It’s not like you treat me with any respect,” muttered Eunhyuk. “Only Sungmin hyung.”
“Excuse me?”
The trio turned to face the owner of the soft voice. It was a tall guy that seemed to be a couple years older than Sungmin. He had platinum blonde hair and a confused expression on his face. The most interesting thing, however, was the raccoon perched on top of the guy’s head.
“Do you know where we are?” asked the blonde stranger. Sungmin noted that his voice had the trace of some accent.
“No. We’ve been lost for the past several days,” Kyuhyun bit out, glaring at Eunhyuk as though it was his fault.
“Hey, why are you looking at me like that?” protested Eunhyuk. “It’s not my fault.”
“Can we come with you until we find our way again?” The stranger looked hopefully at them.
“Whatever,” said Sungmin dismissively. “It doesn’t matter to me what you do.”
“Don’t be so cold!” protested Eunhyuk. He turned and gave the stranger a gummy smile. “Of course you can come with us. The more the merrier!”
“You’ll take responsibility for them then,” said Kyuhyun snidely. “I don’t want to be saddled with another mouth to feed when we can’t even feed ourselves.”
The stranger smiled happily. “Thank you so much. My name is Hangeng. This is my first time in this country.”
“I’m Kangin, Aegyo’s number one handsome guy!” shouted the raccoon.
The trio stared. “It talks,” said Eunhyuk dazedly.
“But it’s a raccoon,” added Sungmin, frowning.
“And it’s not handsome,” Kyuhyun piped up.
“Watch it brat,” snapped the raccoon. “I’m handsomer and buffer than you, twit.”
“Not a bit of him's scraggly or scrawny. That's right! And every last inch of him's covered with hair!”
Hangeng and Kangin jumped at the sudden music. “What was that?” asked Kangin, eyes darting around nervously.
“You hear that too?” asked Eunhyuk excitedly. He had gotten used to hearing random bursts of songs over the last few days, but both Sungmin and Kyuhyun denied hearing it. He was ecstatic to find that he wasn’t alone in his hallucinations.
“Look,” said Kyuhyun impatiently. “Random songs that seem to suspiciously fit the current situation don’t matter. What matters is we get a move on so we can find our way out of this cursed forest and not starve to death.”
“How do you know the songs fit the situation?” Eunhyuk asked curiously. Then it hit him. “You can hear it too!” His eyes welled up with tears. “You lied to me! I thought we were friends!” he wailed.
“Yeah, and we’re part of a wildly popular idol group that’s the largest in the world,” muttered Kyuhyun sarcastically.
After several more hours of wandering, the newly enlarged group found themselves more lost than ever.
“I can’t walk anymore,” gasped Eunhyuk, clutching his stomach in pain.
“I agree with Mojo Jojo,” said Kyuhyun reluctantly. “We’re too hungry to continue.”
Sungmin glanced at the dark sky. “We should stop. It’s already dark.”
The group picked a clearing and set up camp. Eunhyuk made a nice blazing fire with his Chimchar Minho. They then huddled around the fire, the growling from their stomachs getting louder by the second.
“Hungryyyy,” whined the familiar disembodied voice. “I am so hungry, I have no food here, all on my own!”
“Shut it Henry,” growled Sungmin. “You’re not making things any better.”
“You named The Ghost Voice?” asked Kyuhyun incredulously.
“No,” said Sungmin irritably. “That’s his name.”
“So this Henry is an actual person,” said Kyuhyun slowly, the gears in his not unimpressive brain turning. “Henry is an actual person that follows you around and sings about the situation you’re in.”
“Right,” said Sungmin tiredly.
“Why?” demanded Kyuhyun.
“Look,” Kangin butted in. “As fascinating as I find your conversation not, we need to eat. So why aren’t any of you lazy bums going out there and getting food? I’m hungry! I want to eat!”
The normally cheerful Eunhyuk glared at the raccoon. “I don’t see you trying to get us food either! If you keep being annoying, I’ll roast you!”
Kangin scoffed. “You can’t roast me! I’m stronger than you and you’re skinnier than an anchovy!”
“Anchovy,” mused Kyuhyun. “That’s a food one…I mean, good one.”
“I have Beijing fried rice,” Hangeng interjected before Eunhyuk can retort. All heads whipped around to stare at the blonde man.
“You had food all this time and you let us starve?!” screeched Sungmin suddenly. All heads whipped around to stare at the black hair man.
“I think he snapped,” whispered Eunhyuk fearfully. He hid behind Kyuhyun. “Do something Kyuhyun.”
“What?” asked Hangeng, his face the perfect picture of confusion. “I don’t understand what you’re saying, Sungmin.” He offered Sungmin a bowl. “Want fried rice?”
“Yes please!” cried Kangin, launching himself at the bowl of food. Unfortunately, the raccoon jumped with a bit too much power.
The humans could only watch in horror as Kangin made contact with the bowl, sending all the contents into the fire. Within seconds, the delicious fried rice was nothing but a pile of ash.
“Please tell me you have more,” begged Eunhyuk turning to Hangeng. Hangeng sadly shook his head.
The tension in the air was so thick, you could cut it with a knife. Four pairs of angry eyes turned to Kangin who was muttering about clumsy humans.
“What?” snapped Kangin when he noticed he was the center of attention.
“What? You just ruined all our food and all you have to say is what?” sneered Kyuhyun. He turned to Eunhyuk. “Are you thinking what I’m thinking, Eunhyuk?”
Eunhyuk grinned in an almost feral manner. “I think I am, Kyuhyun!”
“You guys can think?” Kangin snubbed. He was ignored.
“Hangeng?”
“My Beijing fried rice,” the foreigner said mournfully.
“You guys?” asked Kangin a bit worriedly.
“Sungmin?”
Sungmin cocked his head to the side and smiled sweetly. “You know, I’ve always wanted to try something different.”
“Try what?” squeaked Kangin as the four humans slowly advanced on him. The animalistic look in their eyes was unnerving to say the least. He backed up slowly. “I’m sure we can talk about this like civilized people.”
Eunhyuk let out a battle cry and everyone pounced on the scared raccoon.
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A/N: I loved Pokemon until the end of season 5. Then they butchered it. If you're wondering, the songs being sung are the Pokemon theme song, Gaston, and a reworded version of Lonely.