Ignis 1/?
Title: Ignis /Chapter 1 - "Confusion"
Author: kaybee38
Rating: PG
Pairings: Minho/Onew, Taemin/Sulli, JongKey, broken!Minho/Yuri
Genre: fantasy, sci-fi, character death
Disclaimer: SHinee is owned by SM Entertainment only
Summary: Teneo are humans that live among us that have a genetic mutation that gives them the ability to live on indefinitely. They each have unique abilities and they don't physically age past 25. They all lead double lives since their "gifts" are a secret, some not even realizing that there are others like them. But someone has found a way to kill them. Jonghyun, with the help of a covert society has been secretly trying to warn and protect as many of his kind as he can before it's too late. Onew, Minho, Taemin and Sulli all end up joining forces with him to try to track down the killer before they can strike again. The bonds that grow between them along with their powers might be enough to save them, but the killer is closer to them than they realize.
A/N: This is the behemoth that I've been working on for months. It combines my love of anime, mangas, fantasy and sci-fi. It's heavily influenced by Highlander, Heroes, Full Metal Alchemist, X-Men and Parable of the Sower. This story is dedicated to stjoan4eva and her girl kinnosuikazura (thank you for your help and for harassing me till I posted this) and all of you SHinee fans who've ever wished they had special powers.
Prologue
Chapter 1- "Confusion"
Present day
“Joon step on it!”
“What the hell do you think I’m doing?”
Joon floored the ambulance through another red light.
“His pulse is dropping New.”
Jonghyun administered more oxygen to the tall young man in front of him.
“Hers is too.”
Onew held the girl’s wrist and looked at his watch. He could still smell the strong odor of smoke on her clothes. When he looked down, he realized the girl was wearing an ID bracelet of some sort on her other wrist. It looked familiar, but he couldn’t place it. As he continued to hold the oxygen mask over her face with his right hand, he reached for the bracelet with his left.
On the back was an inscription he didn’t recognize and the name Sulli.
Joon continued weaving his way through the city streets as he called dispatch.
“Dispatch this is Bus 456 on route to County General. We have one male early 20s and one female late teens that are suffering from asphyxiation due to smoke inhalation...”
“Sulli!”
Onew shouted over Joon into the girl’s face, “Sulli can you hear me?!”
After checking her pulse again he released her wrist and searched for something in the kit behind her. Jonghyun looked up from his work on the young man to glance at the girl.
“Both are displaying signs of ineffective repsiration due to poor tidal volume and 3rd degree burns on their right forearms.." continued Joon into the radio in his right hand, gripping the steering wheel with his left.
Jonghyun reached over with his free hand and touched the girl’s forehead.
“Jjong what the hell are you doing? She doesn’t have a fever, she has smoke inhalation! And where the hell is my saline?”
Jonghyun quietly handed Onew a bottle of clear fluid and went back to administering salve onto the young man’s badly burned arm. Curiousity got the better of him then.
“How did you know her name?”
“She’s got an ID bracelet.”
Onew lifted her right arm slightly for Jonghyun to see and then began pouring saline over the burn on her arm. Jonghyun’s eyes widened in recognition, and then narrowed to slits as he took a closer look at her arm.
“What are the chances....?”
“What?”
Onew said following Jonghyun’s gaze.
“Look!”
Jonghyun raised his patient’s right arm and Onew leaned over him and squinted. The young man’s burn marks, depth, blisters and pattern were exactly the same as the girl’s. The burn was even on the same arm, in exactly the same place.
“Ok. Now that’s creepy.””
Onew was looking back and forth between the two wounds.
“Maybe they touched a hot door or shielded themselves from something at the same time?” Jonghyun thought out loud.
“Who knows? Whatever happened, they’re both gonna have nasty scars”.
Onew snapped back into work mode, but as he lowered the girl’s arm, suddenly she jerked and winced in pain.
“Sulli! Sulli can you hear me?”
Sulli’s eyes stung badly as they teared, and she could only moan and cough through the oxygen mask. Her motion sickness was numbed by the horrible pain she felt in her right arm, and she winced again as she tried to move it. Onew quickly took her uninjured hand in his latex-gloved one.
“Sulli if you can hear me squeeze my hand”.
Sulli took a moment to try to decipher the command, then she squeezed her left hand gently around Onew’s.
“Good girl. You’re going to be alright Sulli, we’re taking you to the hospital ok?”
At the same moment, neither Jonghyun nor Onew saw the young man’s left hand squeeze into a fist.
Both their heads turned in his direction though when he coughed and let out a low whimper.
“Hey there!”
Jonghyun leaned over him.
“Hey, can you hear me?”
“Sulli, open your eyes sweetheart.” Onew coaxed.
"C’mon, you can do it.”
Sulli’s eyes burned terribly, and her salty tears seemed to make it even worse.
“Hey. Can you open your eyes for me?” Jonghyun said as he slid to the young man’s left side between the gurneys with his back to Onew.
He then repeated his earlier action and placed his right palm on the boys forehead.
Onew was too busy focusing on Sulli to notice the perceptible warm glow emanating from Jonghyun’s hand for a fraction of a second. Jonghyun’s eyebrows furrowed as he frowned.
Something was off.
The instant Johnghyun’s touch left the young man’s body, his large eyes flew open and he looked around the ambulance confused trying to get his bearings.
“Hello handsome. Can you hear me?”
Jonghyun was now grinning at the groggy, nodding young man, all traces of his earlier scowl removed from his facade. Onew rolled his eyes at his partner’s attempt to flirt with a nearly unconscious patient, but when he glanced over he realized his partner was absolutely right. The young man had looks that Onew only hoped to possess: strong dark features, height, long eyelashes, and the biggest most beautiful pair of eyes he’d ever seen.
For a second, Onew’s breath hitched as the young mans’ dark brown orbs locked with his before snaping back in Jonghyun’s direction.
“You were in a fire, you inhaled a lot of smoke, and you have a pretty bad burn to your right arm.” Jonghyun explained.
“Don’t..” The man tried to lift his right arm and winced in pain. “...try to move.”
Jonghyun shook his head. Almost as if the pain triggered his memories, the young mans’ head whipped to his left to Sulli who now had her teary eyes open and was looking right back at him. Although the young man appeared very calm, Onew saw fear in his eyes, as a lone tear escaped one of them and ran past his temple into his hair.
“Hey. Hey. It’s ok. You’re gonna be alright.” Jonghyun cooed.
“You’re in an ambulance and we’re on the way to the hospital ok?”
Although the young man’s eyes were still focused on Sulii, the young man nodded showing that he understood. Sulli whimpered and squeezed Onew’s hand again, bringing him back to the task at hand.
“I’m gonna start a drip.” he said and Jonghyun handed him an IV bag of clear fluid.
“Ok you’re gonna feel a prick in your left hand Sulli”.
Hearing those words Onew saw the young man on the other gurney whip his head away from the girl squeezing his eyes shut as he turned his head to face the wall.
“Whoah. Somebody doesn’t like needles.”
The moment Onew turned his attention back to Sulli, Jonghyun placed his right hand millimeters over the young man’s burn and closed his eyes. But there was no warm glow this time.
His eyes shot open noticing that the young man’s burnt skin was slowly, almost imperceptibly beginning to heal on its own. He glanced over at Onew to see if he had noticed what was happening but he was too busy taping the IV to Sulli’s hand. As he turned back to his patient Jonghyun paused when he noticed a small trickle of blood that was now pouring down the young man’s left hand across his middle finger and onto the floor.
Jonghyun wondered why he hadn’t noticed the bleeding sooner as he swabbed at the young man’s hand with gauze. He squinted, searching for a wound, Jonghyun let out a quiet gasp when he found one. A tiny needle mark was visible on a vein on the man’s left hand.
It was in the exact same location that Onew had just inserted the IV into Sulli’s left hand.
Jonghyun looked up to find the young man staring right back at him wide-eyed, like a deer caught in an oncoming car’s headlights. But before Jonghyun could say anything, the ambulance swerved to a stop and the doors were flung open as a young doctor stood there quickly surveying the situation. Onew noticed that there was only one doctor outside the ER to greet them tonight when usually there were at least three or four.
“Hey Mir, where is everybody?”
Onew was already strapping Sulli onto the gurney and stabilizing her head.
“Tour bus accident, we’ve got a full house tonight.”
The ER doctor quickly decided that the semi-conscious girl was priority.
“You get the chart and hold the bag, and you..” pointing to Jonghyun “..help me get her out.”
Jonghyun turned back to his patient, and gave him a once over. In that instant he could see that the burn was healing, and the small trail of blood was also starting to dry up. Jonghyun’s eyebrows furrowed before he broke into a wide grin as he hopped out of the ambulance.
“We’ll be right back to get you ok?”
The young man turned in Onew’s direction, staring at him, but saying nothing.
“Stay right here and rest ok handsome?”
Jonghyun hopped out first.
It took 22 seconds for Onew, Jonghyun and the doctor to get Sulli out of the ambulance and shut the ambulance doors behind them.
It only took 10 seconds for the tall young man to do the same.
“Hey!”
Joon yelled as the tall young man passed the driver’s side of the ambulance.
“You’re going the wrong way buddy.”
Joon dropped the report he was filling out, hopped out of the cab and walked up behind him.
The young man’s back was to him as he stopped and grimaced.
He had forgotten about the ambulance driver.
He turned around slowly and Joon approached him carefully, just in case he was in shock, mentally unstable or had a head wound they hadn’t noticed yet.
“Come on. Let’s get you inside.”
Joon gently put his hand on the young man’s back guiding him towards the ER doors. The young man appeared to comply but then stopped suddenly and turned to look right into Joon’s eyes.
“What are you-”
“You’ve never seen me before..” the tall young man interrupted.
His voice calm and deep, his face expressionless.
“...and I am going to walk away now. You will not follow me.”
Joon’s expression changed to one of confusion and his eyes widened and stopped blinking.
“Okay”.
The young man broke into a lopsided run, which became steadier and stronger the more distance he put between himself and the hospital. When he got back to his neighborhood, he checked his pockets for his wallet, slowed to a walk and crossed the street to a small diner.
“Hey Minho, you okay?”
The waitress looked worried as she noticed the soot on the young man’s face, and the burnt edges of the hem of his pants as she poured him a cup of coffee as he sat down. He smiled at her, pretending nothing was wrong using the sleeve of his shirt to wipe his face as he sat down and greeted her.
“Hey Jess. Sure, just doing some work at the shop that’s all”.
Her face brightened upon hearing his calm deep voice.
“The usual then?”
Minho nodded and she walked off to put in his order. Pulling up his sleeve, he rested his elbow on the table and looked at his arm. He felt a strange sensation behind him, but when he turned around the booth behind him was empty and the little bell attached to the diner’s door was tinkling softly as it closed. Minho stared at the door for a moment as he picked up his coffee mug with his left hand and stared at his forearm again before taking a sip of coffee.
His arm was completely healed; all traces of the nasty burns erased as if they'd never existed.
A/N: So what you think guys? Are you willing to take the ride with me? I promise twists, turns, fights and maybe even a little smut. *shifty eyes*
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Prologue
Chapter 2
Author: kaybee38
Rating: PG
Pairings: Minho/Onew, Taemin/Sulli, JongKey, broken!Minho/Yuri
Genre: fantasy, sci-fi, character death
Disclaimer: SHinee is owned by SM Entertainment only
Summary: Teneo are humans that live among us that have a genetic mutation that gives them the ability to live on indefinitely. They each have unique abilities and they don't physically age past 25. They all lead double lives since their "gifts" are a secret, some not even realizing that there are others like them. But someone has found a way to kill them. Jonghyun, with the help of a covert society has been secretly trying to warn and protect as many of his kind as he can before it's too late. Onew, Minho, Taemin and Sulli all end up joining forces with him to try to track down the killer before they can strike again. The bonds that grow between them along with their powers might be enough to save them, but the killer is closer to them than they realize.
A/N: This is the behemoth that I've been working on for months. It combines my love of anime, mangas, fantasy and sci-fi. It's heavily influenced by Highlander, Heroes, Full Metal Alchemist, X-Men and Parable of the Sower. This story is dedicated to stjoan4eva and her girl kinnosuikazura (thank you for your help and for harassing me till I posted this) and all of you SHinee fans who've ever wished they had special powers.
Prologue
Chapter 1- "Confusion"
Present day
“Joon step on it!”
“What the hell do you think I’m doing?”
Joon floored the ambulance through another red light.
“His pulse is dropping New.”
Jonghyun administered more oxygen to the tall young man in front of him.
“Hers is too.”
Onew held the girl’s wrist and looked at his watch. He could still smell the strong odor of smoke on her clothes. When he looked down, he realized the girl was wearing an ID bracelet of some sort on her other wrist. It looked familiar, but he couldn’t place it. As he continued to hold the oxygen mask over her face with his right hand, he reached for the bracelet with his left.
On the back was an inscription he didn’t recognize and the name Sulli.
Joon continued weaving his way through the city streets as he called dispatch.
“Dispatch this is Bus 456 on route to County General. We have one male early 20s and one female late teens that are suffering from asphyxiation due to smoke inhalation...”
“Sulli!”
Onew shouted over Joon into the girl’s face, “Sulli can you hear me?!”
After checking her pulse again he released her wrist and searched for something in the kit behind her. Jonghyun looked up from his work on the young man to glance at the girl.
“Both are displaying signs of ineffective repsiration due to poor tidal volume and 3rd degree burns on their right forearms.." continued Joon into the radio in his right hand, gripping the steering wheel with his left.
Jonghyun reached over with his free hand and touched the girl’s forehead.
“Jjong what the hell are you doing? She doesn’t have a fever, she has smoke inhalation! And where the hell is my saline?”
Jonghyun quietly handed Onew a bottle of clear fluid and went back to administering salve onto the young man’s badly burned arm. Curiousity got the better of him then.
“How did you know her name?”
“She’s got an ID bracelet.”
Onew lifted her right arm slightly for Jonghyun to see and then began pouring saline over the burn on her arm. Jonghyun’s eyes widened in recognition, and then narrowed to slits as he took a closer look at her arm.
“What are the chances....?”
“What?”
Onew said following Jonghyun’s gaze.
“Look!”
Jonghyun raised his patient’s right arm and Onew leaned over him and squinted. The young man’s burn marks, depth, blisters and pattern were exactly the same as the girl’s. The burn was even on the same arm, in exactly the same place.
“Ok. Now that’s creepy.””
Onew was looking back and forth between the two wounds.
“Maybe they touched a hot door or shielded themselves from something at the same time?” Jonghyun thought out loud.
“Who knows? Whatever happened, they’re both gonna have nasty scars”.
Onew snapped back into work mode, but as he lowered the girl’s arm, suddenly she jerked and winced in pain.
“Sulli! Sulli can you hear me?”
Sulli’s eyes stung badly as they teared, and she could only moan and cough through the oxygen mask. Her motion sickness was numbed by the horrible pain she felt in her right arm, and she winced again as she tried to move it. Onew quickly took her uninjured hand in his latex-gloved one.
“Sulli if you can hear me squeeze my hand”.
Sulli took a moment to try to decipher the command, then she squeezed her left hand gently around Onew’s.
“Good girl. You’re going to be alright Sulli, we’re taking you to the hospital ok?”
At the same moment, neither Jonghyun nor Onew saw the young man’s left hand squeeze into a fist.
Both their heads turned in his direction though when he coughed and let out a low whimper.
“Hey there!”
Jonghyun leaned over him.
“Hey, can you hear me?”
“Sulli, open your eyes sweetheart.” Onew coaxed.
"C’mon, you can do it.”
Sulli’s eyes burned terribly, and her salty tears seemed to make it even worse.
“Hey. Can you open your eyes for me?” Jonghyun said as he slid to the young man’s left side between the gurneys with his back to Onew.
He then repeated his earlier action and placed his right palm on the boys forehead.
Onew was too busy focusing on Sulli to notice the perceptible warm glow emanating from Jonghyun’s hand for a fraction of a second. Jonghyun’s eyebrows furrowed as he frowned.
Something was off.
The instant Johnghyun’s touch left the young man’s body, his large eyes flew open and he looked around the ambulance confused trying to get his bearings.
“Hello handsome. Can you hear me?”
Jonghyun was now grinning at the groggy, nodding young man, all traces of his earlier scowl removed from his facade. Onew rolled his eyes at his partner’s attempt to flirt with a nearly unconscious patient, but when he glanced over he realized his partner was absolutely right. The young man had looks that Onew only hoped to possess: strong dark features, height, long eyelashes, and the biggest most beautiful pair of eyes he’d ever seen.
For a second, Onew’s breath hitched as the young mans’ dark brown orbs locked with his before snaping back in Jonghyun’s direction.
“You were in a fire, you inhaled a lot of smoke, and you have a pretty bad burn to your right arm.” Jonghyun explained.
“Don’t..” The man tried to lift his right arm and winced in pain. “...try to move.”
Jonghyun shook his head. Almost as if the pain triggered his memories, the young mans’ head whipped to his left to Sulli who now had her teary eyes open and was looking right back at him. Although the young man appeared very calm, Onew saw fear in his eyes, as a lone tear escaped one of them and ran past his temple into his hair.
“Hey. Hey. It’s ok. You’re gonna be alright.” Jonghyun cooed.
“You’re in an ambulance and we’re on the way to the hospital ok?”
Although the young man’s eyes were still focused on Sulii, the young man nodded showing that he understood. Sulli whimpered and squeezed Onew’s hand again, bringing him back to the task at hand.
“I’m gonna start a drip.” he said and Jonghyun handed him an IV bag of clear fluid.
“Ok you’re gonna feel a prick in your left hand Sulli”.
Hearing those words Onew saw the young man on the other gurney whip his head away from the girl squeezing his eyes shut as he turned his head to face the wall.
“Whoah. Somebody doesn’t like needles.”
The moment Onew turned his attention back to Sulli, Jonghyun placed his right hand millimeters over the young man’s burn and closed his eyes. But there was no warm glow this time.
His eyes shot open noticing that the young man’s burnt skin was slowly, almost imperceptibly beginning to heal on its own. He glanced over at Onew to see if he had noticed what was happening but he was too busy taping the IV to Sulli’s hand. As he turned back to his patient Jonghyun paused when he noticed a small trickle of blood that was now pouring down the young man’s left hand across his middle finger and onto the floor.
Jonghyun wondered why he hadn’t noticed the bleeding sooner as he swabbed at the young man’s hand with gauze. He squinted, searching for a wound, Jonghyun let out a quiet gasp when he found one. A tiny needle mark was visible on a vein on the man’s left hand.
It was in the exact same location that Onew had just inserted the IV into Sulli’s left hand.
Jonghyun looked up to find the young man staring right back at him wide-eyed, like a deer caught in an oncoming car’s headlights. But before Jonghyun could say anything, the ambulance swerved to a stop and the doors were flung open as a young doctor stood there quickly surveying the situation. Onew noticed that there was only one doctor outside the ER to greet them tonight when usually there were at least three or four.
“Hey Mir, where is everybody?”
Onew was already strapping Sulli onto the gurney and stabilizing her head.
“Tour bus accident, we’ve got a full house tonight.”
The ER doctor quickly decided that the semi-conscious girl was priority.
“You get the chart and hold the bag, and you..” pointing to Jonghyun “..help me get her out.”
Jonghyun turned back to his patient, and gave him a once over. In that instant he could see that the burn was healing, and the small trail of blood was also starting to dry up. Jonghyun’s eyebrows furrowed before he broke into a wide grin as he hopped out of the ambulance.
“We’ll be right back to get you ok?”
The young man turned in Onew’s direction, staring at him, but saying nothing.
“Stay right here and rest ok handsome?”
Jonghyun hopped out first.
It took 22 seconds for Onew, Jonghyun and the doctor to get Sulli out of the ambulance and shut the ambulance doors behind them.
It only took 10 seconds for the tall young man to do the same.
“Hey!”
Joon yelled as the tall young man passed the driver’s side of the ambulance.
“You’re going the wrong way buddy.”
Joon dropped the report he was filling out, hopped out of the cab and walked up behind him.
The young man’s back was to him as he stopped and grimaced.
He had forgotten about the ambulance driver.
He turned around slowly and Joon approached him carefully, just in case he was in shock, mentally unstable or had a head wound they hadn’t noticed yet.
“Come on. Let’s get you inside.”
Joon gently put his hand on the young man’s back guiding him towards the ER doors. The young man appeared to comply but then stopped suddenly and turned to look right into Joon’s eyes.
“What are you-”
“You’ve never seen me before..” the tall young man interrupted.
His voice calm and deep, his face expressionless.
“...and I am going to walk away now. You will not follow me.”
Joon’s expression changed to one of confusion and his eyes widened and stopped blinking.
“Okay”.
The young man broke into a lopsided run, which became steadier and stronger the more distance he put between himself and the hospital. When he got back to his neighborhood, he checked his pockets for his wallet, slowed to a walk and crossed the street to a small diner.
“Hey Minho, you okay?”
The waitress looked worried as she noticed the soot on the young man’s face, and the burnt edges of the hem of his pants as she poured him a cup of coffee as he sat down. He smiled at her, pretending nothing was wrong using the sleeve of his shirt to wipe his face as he sat down and greeted her.
“Hey Jess. Sure, just doing some work at the shop that’s all”.
Her face brightened upon hearing his calm deep voice.
“The usual then?”
Minho nodded and she walked off to put in his order. Pulling up his sleeve, he rested his elbow on the table and looked at his arm. He felt a strange sensation behind him, but when he turned around the booth behind him was empty and the little bell attached to the diner’s door was tinkling softly as it closed. Minho stared at the door for a moment as he picked up his coffee mug with his left hand and stared at his forearm again before taking a sip of coffee.
His arm was completely healed; all traces of the nasty burns erased as if they'd never existed.
A/N: So what you think guys? Are you willing to take the ride with me? I promise twists, turns, fights and maybe even a little smut. *shifty eyes*
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Prologue
Chapter 2