Que Sera Sera 10 continued
They’ve been walking for approximately 25 minutes when they first see the tree.
At first glance it looks like any regular old tree with thick moss covered roots and small pink flowers growing on it. However, there appears to be tiny, flying clouds of glitters floating around it. Yesung is mesmerized by the sight of it while Kyuhyun keeps a tight grip on his slave’s arm, suspicious of what might happen.
Fortunately Yesung does not try to approach the tree and instead just stands there swaying back and forth.
“Aww! They’re singing!” he coos.
Kyuhyun raises an eyebrow, “Singing glitter dust?”
When one of them flies close enough for them to inspect properly, Kyuhyun lets out a choked laugh in disbelief.
“Are those…fairies?”
Yesung squeals excitedly.
Of course fucking fairies existed…
They watch the spectacle go on for a few more minutes. Kyuhyun steps forward a little and sure enough he can hear the singing as well.
“Look look!” Yesung grabs Kyuhyun’s hand and points toward one of the glittering speck.
“That green one is so adorable”
Kyuhyun just nods. Sure he could make out the colors of the fairies but there was no way he could tell whether they were cute or not.
A couple of them start buzzing around quickly, and like wild fire, the glitters all started scattering in all different directions.
“What-“ a thunderous thump comes colliding into the tree, smashing into it with enough force to knock the large tree over completely. The quake of the impact, shakes Kyuhyun and Yesung off their feet, sending them onto their backsides.
Yesung crab crawls over to Kyuhyun.
The beast seems disgruntle now that all the fairies are gone and it’s not long before it looks straight ahead and sets it large scarlet eyes on the two humans. It’s teal scales shimmer under the sunlight, while its massive body creates a might shadow that darkens the once well-lit area that the fairies had been in.
Kyuhyun nudges Yesung with his foot.
“Uh, Yesung…”
“Y-yes Kyuhyun” he whispers back, not taking his eyes off the creature.
“Run!” it’s the only warning Kyuhyun gives before he scrambles off of the ground and in the opposite direction. When he looks back his heart calms a little when he notices that Yesung is close behind him; unfortunately, so is the creature.
It thumps and shakes the ground beneath them, crashing through trees and possibly creating dents in the earth. Yesung lets out a pathetic screech when he feels the heavy puff of the animal’s hot breath against his body. He immediately picks up speed, dashing in front of Kyuhyun.
Kyuhyun cuts across around a wide unfamiliar tree just in time as the creature’s jaws reach out to snap at him.
Yesung skids to a halt, stopping mere inches at the edge of a cliff. He cautiously peeks over to see a steep landscape of grass and various rocks and to the bottom is a very angry looking river. He gulps and begins to step back, franctically looking for another way to run.
‘Maybe we can go around th…’
Someone crashes into his back, throwing off his balance. Yesung barely manages to reach back and grab onto Kyuhyun as he stumbles forward. He is hoping the other boy has enough strength to keep them upright when the loud bellow of the creature cuts through the forest.
“Oh fuck…” Kyuhyun yells as he suddenly propels forward, sending both himself and Yesung over the edge. They tumble down the mountainside, Kyuhyun cussing every time he bumps into a rock while Yesung tries to grab onto anything to keep himself from rolling any further.
They both scream bloody murder when they finally reach the bottom and slide clumsily into the cold water of the river.
Kyuhyun instantly scoops up Yesung, holding the slave tight to him so that they do not get pulled a part. They don’t even bother fighting the strong current, allowing the river to pull them along, their bodies tired and it takes all their effort to stay afloat.
By the time the waterfall approaches, Kyuhyun kisses Yesung’s wet forehead, clenching his eyes shut.
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They splash into a deep pool of water below the waterfall. Kyuhyun groans thankful to be alive but annoyed that they had had to go through all.
“If we ever make it out of this, I’m never leaving my room again” he sighs, relaxing a little in the water. There is land just opposite them, all it would take is a couple seconds of swimming and they’d be back on land but Kyuhyun eyed the distance warily, content to simply float over there if he had too.
Yesung presses his face into Kyuhyun’s neck mumbling incoherently.
Kyuhyun twists his head a little so he can kiss the side of Yesung’s face. There must seriously be something wrong with him.
He seemed to have a thing for falling for servant girls?
His father still had a lot to explain about this curse he had placed on Kyuhyun. Why would that even have been necessary?
And why a curse of lust? If his father did not like his obsession with Emma, then why would he curse Kyuhyun to lust after her?
And now with Yesung…Kyuhyun smiles affectionately as he studies the girl in his arms. She had bruises darkening her face and he strokes a finger over them carefully. When he got back to the village, he was sending out a scout party to hunt those bastards down and bring back their heads.
There is an unexpected ripple of water that occurs directly in front of them.
Kyuhyun stiffens.
‘What now?’ he thinks hastily, his eyes never leaves the specific spot.
The water ripples against, this time from a spot outside the corner of his eye.
Whatever it was seems to get bolder and eventually Kyuhyun catches a glimpse of it as it glides majestically under the water.
…that’s a fucking long tail…
Is all he thinks as he shakes Yesung.
“We need to get…”
A wet sheen of dark hair pops up on the water’s surface.
“What?” Yesung finally looks up, stiffening when he notices what Kyuhyun is looking at.
“What is that?” the slave hisses through his teeth.
The thing seems to have heard the sound clearly enough and bobs its head out of the water. Yesung and Kyuhyun gape at the very human head that stares back at them. Deep blue-green eyes gaze at them suspiciously before widening with curiosity.
The female ducks back under the water and in an instant she is directly in front of Yesung. Kyuhyun pushes the slave behind him, facing the creature bravely.
The woman, well the girl since she doesn’t look older than 16, tilts her head to the side, her pale lips pulling into a small smile.
She ducks under briefly and comes back up, spraying water from her mouth onto Kyuhyun.
Yesung laughs at this, clearly amused at the creatures sense of humor.
She giggles silently in return, happy to have impressed Yesung. When she pulls her full upper-body out of the water, Kyuhyun is struck by the sight of her naked breasts. Yesung cringes a little, turning away his head for modesty’s sake. When he realizes Kyuhyun is still staring he slaps the back of the other boy’s head.
The woman finds this hilarious but her chuckles are once again silent. It’s as if she has no voice.
A tail flicks out of the water splashing Kyuhyun with water once more. The tail obviously belongs to her and Yesung finds himself fascinated by the color of it. The emerald color, scaly tail flaps about sprinkling water on the both of them. She suddenly grins, diving under as if to retrieve something.
Kyuhyun grabs Yesung ready to pull the other man to shore.
“Aww Kyu! She just wants to play”
“Everything in this damn place wants to play. I’d rather not have her use my head for a ball, let’s go before things get ugly”
When the young man pops up again, she tosses something at Yesung which smacks him in the forehead. However, the slave manages to catch it, holding out a small red gem for Kyuhyun to see.
“Thank you” he says kindly. Seeing the girl look so pleased with herself make Kyuhyun go soft on the inside. Yesung is right, she is quite adorable.
He touches her shoulder, ready to say goodbye while thanking her when she suddenly whips around, her eyes glowing white. Kyuhyun finds himself frozen in shock, the hand that he has on her shoulder begins to shake and soon a golden light flashes before his eyes, covering both him and Yesung.
They are blasted toward the riverbank, landing with wet thuds. It felt as if someone had been sticking needles into his skin. Kyuhyun sits up and grunts, hateful that the little bitch had turned on them. He swipes at his hair that seems to have gotten longer since their time in the forest. It’s wet and sticks to his face.
He stands slowly, his clothes heavy with water, his body shouting at him to stop moving.
He’s wearing a dress…?
Quickly, he glances at Yesung.
“HOLY! GODS!” His voice sounds different. But there’s no time to analyze that because on the ground, lying right near him is his own body. For a minute he thinks he’s dead, but then his body starts to move.
“God you are such a pussy sometimes” his body says, rubbing it’s eyes.
“Ye-Yesung?”
His body stretches, still not looking at him. “Yes Kyuhyun. God I think she knocked my lungs into my butt”
“YESUNG!”
The other boy finally looks up and the shock on his face, well Kyuhyun’s face, is evident as he pales and his jaw drops open.
“What the hell!?” Yesung rushes to his feet, but then winces and has to gingerly stand up.
Kyuhyun feels like crying as he watches his body. He looks horrible but that’s to be expected after the kind of day he had.
“What did she do?” Yesung panics, pulling at the shorter strands of hair on his head.
Kyuhyun looks down at himself, then back at Yesung, “Well, it, it appears we’ve switched bodies. I-I really don’t fucking know how this is possible but it’s happening and OH MY GOD gimme my body back you bitch!”
The prince picks up a rock and tosses it into the river, hoping to summon the woman. No one appears.
Kyuhyun screams in frustration.
“And what the hell is wrong with your dress! It keeps poking me…” he trails off reaching into the problem area, hoping to relieve himself of whatever of hurting his chest.
Uncomfortably, he reaches inside of what feels like a brassiere and is shocked when he pulls out two small bags of what appears to be dried peas?
“What…”
He drops the bags onto the ground, his chest suddenly feels lighter. He presses against it and instead of feeling the soft, plump bosom of the female body he had been transferred into he feels the flat chest of a young man. By the time he is pressing suspecting the worse, Yesung is begging him to…to something?
Kyuhyun cannot hear anything over the roaring sound in his ear.
Yesung’s body was male…
What?
….just…
What?
“Did she…?” he finally looks up at Yesung, catching the strings of apologies. Why was she apologizing?
“You’re a male?” he mumbles in disbelief.
Yesung’s endless rant of sentences continues but Kyuhyun is unable to focus and finally he snaps.
“Shut up! Just…” Yesung has already silenced himself, looking for all the world like a scolded child.
With this head bowed, Kyuhyun takes a deep breath,
“Please…please Yesung. Please tell me that she turned you into a man as some sort of magical joke? Please tell me this…this is not really who you are? She made you into this right? I mean-“ he breaks off to laugh hysterically, “I mean she obviously wanted to prank us. Now here we are in each other’s bodies and you’re a guy. Jokes on us” he laughs further, studying Yesung’s reactions.
For a moment he can see the flicker of indecision on Yesung’s face, as if the other boy was trying to decide whether or not to tell the truth.
Finally he sighs sadly and Kyuhyun’s mood sinks to a boiling point.
“YOU’RE A FUCKING GUY!”
Kyuhyun charges forward, scuffing Yesung up by the collar of his shirt. It must look silly for a young man of Yesung’s height to be attacking someone tall like Kyuhyun.
Yesung tries to explain, his voice desperate as he tries to get Kyuhyun to understand.
The prince pushes him away.
The other man turns to the river, this time yelling at the top of his lungs, “Get out here you beast! I want my body back now! This isn’t funny!!”
“Kyuhyun, stop!” Yesung touches Kyuhyun’s shoulder but the shorter man is quick to move away, looking at Yesung in disgust.
Yesung narrows his eyes, tired of having to defend himself, “I didn’t tell you because I didn’t trust you at first. I wasn’t going to let my people or my family suffer for what I did. If-If you really liked me for who I am you wouldn’t care or you would at least listen to my reasons”
Kyuhyun foldsh is arms, his face set in stern disappointment. Yesung’s body is proving too emotional and Kyuhyun finds that the angrier he gets, the more he feels like he wants to cry.
‘Even if he’s not a girl, his body still thinks like one’ Kyuhyun thinks grudgingly as he tries to keep the tears at bay.
“Fine. Tell me you reasons” the prince whispers, moving a further away but close enough to hear.
After Yesung finishes his tale, Kyuhyun sits there quietly for some time. The mermaid doesn’t show up at any point and Kyuhyun realizes that they are wasting precious daylight. Now that they were at the dead center of the river, all they would have to do is keep going straight ahead until they saw the village.
Turning to face the trees, he begins to stride forward. The faster they get to Minzy, the faster they can get rid of this spell.
“Don’t talk to me” is all the warning he gives Yesung as they move through the forest.
“Or you’ll what?” Yesung answers back challengingly.
Kyuhyun whirls around, and if he had his sword it would be pointed at Yesung’s throat.
“Or I’ll have you hanged. And this time I’m not even joking”
For a moment Yesung seems taken aback by the threat before he smiles smugly,
“I’d like to see you hang me while I’m in your body”
Kyuhyun narrows his eyes. Now that he knew Yesung was really a boy, he could punch him without a care in the world; however, he would be punching himself as well.
Before they could exchange a few more words hoof beats rear up on them quickly.
Kyuhyun prepares for the worst, only to see a concerned looking Hyukjae glancing around worriedly.
When the knight spots them he whistles for the attention of his search party before riding toward them. After the knight dismounts, Kyuhyun rushes forward to hug Hyukjae, happy to see his old friend and protector.
Hyukjae awkwardly pats his back reassuringly. “It’s good to see you too Yesung”
Moving aside, Hyukjae rushes up to Yesung and bows, looking utterly torn as he takes in the prince’s injuries.
“My prince, we apologize for not arriving on time. You look most unwell. Come, Minzy is awaiting your arrival” he places a comforting palm against Yesung’s back leading the man toward the horse.
When Yesung is safely ontop of it, Hyukjae instructs Kyuhyun to ride with one of the knights.
The prince stamps his foot, hateful for this kind of treatment.
Yesung gives him a smug smile.
“Wow, Yesung you lost a lot of weight in only a few hours” Hyukjae comments as he helps Yesung climb the horse.
“Ah- Well Hyukjae. You might say I’m a new man, woman, man-woman?”
Confused by this, Eunhyuk doesn’t comment.
‘
TBC
Yes, Kyuhyun found out in the weirdest most unexpcted way ever. But thats just how I roll.
In the next chapter, Yesung wrecks havoc in Kyuhyun's body while Kyuhyun had to deal with Lovelace and Suzy as well as working as a slave.
Extract:
"Son, it is so good to see that you are in good health and strenght" the Overlord comes forward to give him a hug which Yesung awkwardly accepts.
The Overlord pulls back smiling, however it drops as he takes in Yesung's stance, "Kyuhyun why are you slouching like that? Did those bandits severe your princely posture"
Yesung tries to mimick the way Kyuhyun stands but he has never paid much attention to it and end up knocking his hip against a chair, sending it crashing to the ground. The Overlord and Yesung bend forward to pick it up at the same time. Yesung swings his head downward with too much force causing it to bump harshly against the Overlord's. Yesung grunts out a sort of crybaby 'ow' sound, rubbing at his sore forehead.
Kyuhyun watches in horror as Yesung practically makes a fool out of him. However before he could step in, someone grabs his bum, startling him.
"Hello my love" Kyuhyun grimances, leaning away from General Choi's face. Oh God, as if being a transformed into a slave wasn't bad enough. Now he had to put up with Choi!