"Not fully human?" He asks with confused eyes.
"Taehyun please you know we can't tell anyone!" Soona begged.
"It's fine. He's not fully human!" He says dismissing her pleas.
"How do you know?!" She shouted.
"Give me your watch." He speaks extending his hand to her.
"My watch? why?!" She says placing her hand over it.
"I'll prove it to you now." He says.
She slowly took it off and handed it to him; Taehyun takes the watch and flips it around to see the small compartment Soona didn't notice before.
"Did they tell you about this?" He says sliding it to reveal a sharp needle point.
"No, what is that..." She says, looking confused toward the sharp metal.
"This, this is a tool for us to test if someone's us." He says looking at the sharp point.
"How?! it's just a needle!"
"This needle reveals the true blood of angels; if the blood is white, it's not a human." He says looking toward Beomgyu.
"Don't tell me your thinking of using that." Soona says, warning him.
"It's the only way to prove to you in your thick skull." He says walking near Beomgyu.
"No don't!" Soona steps in front of him.
"Just move it'll take a second." He says trying to walk past her.
"Just do what you have to do." Beomgyu says behind Soona.
"Beomgyu-"
"It's only a second, i'm fine." He says; she steps aside but watches with stern eyes.
TW AHEAD
Taehyun takes the needle and grabs Beomgyu's wrist, he slides it across the skin. Their eyes watch as they waited for the color to appear.
The blood trickled its way down the arm and to the ground; it was white.
"I told you." Taehyun says, throwing her watch back to her; she grabs it.
"It's- it's white?!" She says in shock.
"Try your own." Taehyun suggested.
Soona looks down at her wrist, contemplating; she makes the rash decision to see for herself.
She slowly glides the needlepoint across; the blood slides down her arms as well, turning white.
"Now, do you see, He's one of us. Not fully but he is." He says.
"You mean to say he's half?" She says, looking at Beomgyu, who was looking as if he had a mid-life crisis; he was trying to comprehend what was going on.
"Yes, someone in his family had to be well- was an angel."
Soona thinks back to the time he remembered about his grandmother and the watch.
'How did I not notice?' She thinks to herself.
"We shouldn't worry too much; I told you this is why your mission can't be done."
"But he's-"
"What mission?" Beomgyu asked.
"We can't tell you but just know since you're basically one of us you can't do it." Taehyun says.
"Then, what do I do?" Soona says lost.
"Report it to the officials. They will know. You're already in deep because of your initials on him." He says noticing the wrist.
"That, why did this happen?" Beomgyu asked looking at his wrist.
"That's not my job to tell you why; all I can say is, Soona, please report before it's too late in your mission." Taehyun says with seriousness. She could tell he wasn't lying.
"I have to tell Yena."
"No, no one else can know about it; that will put you in more trouble, please just so as I said."
"As for Beomgyu, We have to make
he forgets for now. It's too dangerous." He says looking toward Beomgyu.
"That's for emergencies!" She rejected his idea.
"This will become an emergency if you don't do it, I'm warning you if you don't, I will." He says reaching toward his jacket pocket.
"Okay, okay! Just give me a minute." She closes her eyes, she didn't want to have to do this to him, but she felt Taehyun wasn't lying that it would be a big deal.
"Do what?" Beomgyu looks between us both; Taehyun grabs the small bottle from his jacket and hands it to Soona.
"Make your choice." He backs away slowly.
"What's that?" Beomgyu asked.
"Just close your eyes." Soona says with a shaky breathe.
Beomgyu hesitates, but he felt the tension in the air become thicker; he closes his eyes slowly.
"Don't inject it, just pour it in his mouth." Taehyun says, motioning toward Beomgyu.
She nodded her head and walked closer to Beomgyu, "Ah, I cant! Just drink it." She shoves the small jar into his hand.
"I'll do it." He takes a deep breathe and brings the jar to his lips.
He opens his mouth and slowly pours the jar contents inside, he swallows the cool liquid, and his knees began to feel weak.
He suddenly collapses toward the ground, but Taehyun catches him before his head hits the hard ground.
"I don't have anymore serum left, it's up to you now keep this a secret."
"Do I need to inform the officials now?"
"It's the best to do; please send them the video sent to your watch, then delete it; it's best no one ever sees it besides us.." He informed Soona .
"I'll do it now." Soona slides her watch open and clicks the file from Taehyun; she sends the video to the officials without a title. She wasn't sure what she'd say anyways.
"It's done. Let's clean this place and get him back to camp." Soona watches as Taehyun removed his barrier, and Soona grabs Beomgyu's arm while Taehyun was on the other side.
"If anyone ask he just passed out." Taehyun says as we walked along the path back toward camp.
Soona felt her heart sank seeing Beomgyu's state, she didn't want to use the serum, but she did it for the fear things would turn haywire.
"Don't worry, he'll wake up later. He's fine." Taehyun reassured the worried Soona.
"Oh? what happened?" Yena asks, seeing us walking toward the tent; she must have woken up to get a drink of water.
"He passed out that's all." Taehyun answers quickly.
"I see; he's alright now?" She says looking at Soona.
"Yeah." She says looking around nervously.
"We shouldn't wake Yeonjun up; put him in your tent, for now; he'll remember passing out but not anything before." Taehyun suggested.
"Our tent? What about yours?" Soona says.
"Yena's awake already; there's no room in mine." He says pointing.
"I'm not going back to bed; go ahead, put him inside." Yena smiles.
"Okay then, help me." Soona says to Taehyun.
They unzipped the tent and slowly entered inside with Beomgyu.
"Just lay him here." Taehyun helped Soona lay him down; he threw the cover over him.
"Hey! don't do that!" Soona scolded him and took the cover off his face.
"He's cold."
"I think you're the one who's cold here." Soona shook her head.
"I'll be going back, remember what I said." Taehyun leaves.
"I'm sorry." Soona says looking at Beomgyu.
The watch suddenly beeps, and Soona quickly opens the message.
From the Officials
We have seen your video; this was unknown to us when giving you your mission. We are deeply sorry for the inconvenience. However, this person is not a complete immortal being. The mission can continue as planned until we make an official order for you. Please carry on.
'Just continue the mission?' Soona thinks confused to herself.
"Soona, do you want coffee?" Yena asks peeking inside.
"Yeah i'll come out." Soona exited the tent leaving Beomgyu to sleep.
The sun began slowly rising, Yena was sitting next to Soona both drinking their coffee's
"Did you add honey to this?" Soona asks looking at the coffee.
"Yes, you can tell?" She says shocked.
"I think you added too much." She says, smacking her lips tasting it.
"I prefer sweet things sorry." She laughed.
"Hey guys, where's Beomgyu?" Yeonjun asks looking around.
"Oh, he's-" Yena was going to answer until a groggy Beomgyu emerges from the tent; everyone's eyes widened, seeing Beomgyu coming out with half his shirt off his shoulder. His hair was like a bird's-nest making Soona slightly chuckle.
"Why were you in Soona's tent?" Yeonjun asks, looking toward Yena and Soona.
"Oh that!-"
"I slept there." Beomgyu says walking over and fixing his hair.
"What he means is-"
"I spent the night there." He says fixing his shirt this time and sitting down.
Yena's mouth falls open, and Yeonjun looks shocked.
"Uh! Soona!" Yeonjun pointed toward Soona.
"No, no, no! He hit his head earlier he's confused." Soona panicked.
"No, I clearly remember coming here to sleep and waking up." He says scratching his head.
"No, no, Beomgyu, you came earlier to see Taehyun and me, but you passed out. We brought you here two hours ago."Â He looks confused at Soona.
"I don't remember.." He says rubbing his eyes.
"Why were you with Taehyun?" Yeonjun looks confused.
"That, I went for a walk but he saw me." She lies.
"I see." Yeonjun says feeling skeptical.
"Taehyun? I don't remember anything really. I only remember waking up in this tent.." Beomgyu says.
"Don't think too hard it's fine." Yena pats his head.
"I'll go get put my glass away." Soona stands and leaves the awkwardness.
Yeonjun follows behind her after a few seconds, "I'll go get water my throat hurts."
Soona walks over toward the small building, she opens the doors, and walks inside. No one was around. They were likely sleeping still or already have come for their coffee or something to fulfill their throats.
She empties the rest of the brown liquid down the drain; she didn't realize Yeonjun is entering the building. She was just standing and staring at the liquid as it slowly went down.
The sudden sound of the heavy door closing made her jump, and the glass fell out of her hands, crashing to the concrete floor but luckily not breaking.
"That was close.." She pickles the glass up and meets her eyes with Yeonjun standing there.
"I didn't know you came in." She turned away and placed the glass on the counter with the rest that needed to be cleaned.
"Sorry, My throat hurts so I came to get water." He says, reaching across her and grabbing the small cup.
"I see." She sighed; she slides her foot around in boredom.
"We're leaving later today right?" He asked beside Soona.
"Yeah that's right shortly after the race."
"Oh, that's right, the race today; who are you going to be with?"
"I think it's random numbers, but if we can choose, maybe I'll go with Soobin."
"Soobin? who's that?"
"A friend of Taehyun but he's nice."
"I see. I'll be going with Beomgyu."
'Please fall and kiss each other' Soona thinks to herself and starts to chuckle.
"What's so funny?" He asks.
"N-Nothing!" She says embarrassed.
"Do you like this Soobin guy?" Yeonjun asks making Soona choke on her water.
"L-Like Soobin? I- I don't know him enough." She says coughing in between.
"Sorry, I just thought." He says laughing.
"What about you? who do you like?" She says raising her eyebrow.
"That, I'll invite you to the wedding one day until then. Sorry, can't say." He says teasing.
"Ahhh! Just tell me a hint!" She smacks his arm.
"A hint, okay! This person is my friend."
"You have many friends; how can I get anyone from that?" She says shocked.
"You didn't say the hint had to be obvious sorry." He says.
"Ah whatever, I'll figure it out." She says crossing her arms.
'It better be Beomgyu.' She thinks to herself glaring.
"Woah, why're you cutting me with your eyes?" He says, putting a hand on his chest.
"No reason." She says walking away.
"Soona~ Dont you want to be my partner for the race?~" Yena says, grabbing my arm.
"Go with Kai, you're bad at balance." Soona says.
"Yah! Fine." She says pouting.
"Attention, class, after breakfast, we will commence the race; numbers will decide the teams of two people each."
"Teacher, can we please please chose our partners?" Yena asked.
"Sorry, it's the rules, everyone you have 20 minutes to eat." She says walking away.
"If my partner is Taehyun, I'm going to die." Soona says eating her biscuit.
"Let's pray it's not mine either." Yena says, agreeing.
"I'll trip him on purpose if he's mine." Beomgyu says smirking.
"Me too, he's not safe with us." Yeonjun laughed.
"Yeah, don't laugh while eating. You just sprayed me," Beomgyu says, wiping his face.
"Sorry." Yeonjun says.
"Soona's got a admirer." Yena says, looking toward Soobin at the opposite table.
"He's my friend." Soona says scoffing.
"What if he's conspiring with Taehyun to kidnap you?" Beomgyu says.
"Oh come on." Soona starts laughing.
"He's got a point." Yeonjun agreed.
"you guys are worrying me."
"Okay class, please open your numbers and find your partner!"
Yena slowly opens her number, "Number 4 who is 4?"
"I'm four!" Kai says behind her.
"Yay!" They do a celebration dance.
"What's your number?" Yeonjun asked Beomgyu.
"10."
"Really, oh? I'm 10 too." Yeonjun smiles brightly.
"Soobin, please tell me you're number 12."
"I'm number 5." He says sadly.
"No who's 12?!" Soona says scared.
"I'm twelve~" Taehyun sang behind her. She turned around slowly. She felt it was a horror movie at that moment.
"Not you." Soona fake cried to herself.
"It's okay just endure it." Taehyun pats her shoulder and Soona makes a disgusted face.
"Don't touch me." She says scowling at him.
"Goodluck." Soobin says and walks away to go find his partner.
"Did you tie it correctly?" Soona asked Taehyun, who was tying the rope to their legs.
"I'm sure I did." He says trusting himself.
"We need to walk on beat, like 1 2 3 got it?" Soona says.
"Okay okay, if we win you have to share the prize." He says.
"Okay fine." She sighs, she really didn't want to do this.
"One, two and three!" The teacher yelled out, everyone began struggling to move.
Soona and Kai were stumbling along the path; Beomgyu with Yeonjun was chaotic due to Beomgyu being dragged by Yeonjun's force.
Meanwhile, Soona and Taehyun were marching as if they're in the army.
"How are they beating us and they the each other?!" Yeonjun says shocked.
"Soona! Don't leave me behind!" Yena yelled out.
"My legs hurt already." Kai whined.
"Beomgyu stand up." Yeonjun helped Beomgyu stand up; he was having problems following along.
"We're almost there." Taehyun says, looking at the finish line; not far behind was Soobin and another classmate.
"Soobin, doesn't try to beat us; you'll kiss the ground!" Taehyun yelled out.
"I'll make sure we both kiss it!" Soobin says.
"They did it." Yeonjun says out of breathe seeing them both pass the finish line.
"How?!" Yena says in shock stopping in her tracks.
"That's impossible." Beomgyu laughed out.
"The winners are Soona and Taehyun!" The teacher announced.
"Good job, here's the prize as promised." The teacher handed the gift card.
"How can I share this?" Soona asked.
"Treat me to dinner sometime i'll call it even." He says, making Yeonjun look in disgust, and Beomgyu rolls his eyes at how sly he was.
"Soona! treat us three too!" Yena comes running toward her.
"Okay i'll treat you all!" She throws her hands up in defeat.
"Congrats again to the winners, class. we'll be leaving in two hours, so please gather your tents and items!"
"Is everything inside?" Yena asked looking at the tent bag.
"Yes, you can close it." Yena zips the tent bag closed and grabs it slinging it to her shoulder.
"Do you guys need help?" Yena asks, seeing Yeonjun struggling.
"It won't bend." He says, trying to bend the metal piece to unlock it.
"Let me try." Beomgyu says moving his hand away and grabbing it.
"It really won't move!" He says.
"Yah yah let me do it." Soona flicks it with ease and their mouths fall a-gap.
"How?!" They both say in unison.
"You're just weak." She laughed and held her tongue out.
"I'll sit with Kai today, you'll be fine right?" Yena asked Soona.
"I'll be fine, don't worry. Go to your love." She teased Yena making her blush beat red.
"N-No!" She runs off toward Kai's seat.
"Is this seat Taken?" Taehyun asked standing in front of the empty seat.
"No." She says looking out the window.
Taehyun sits down quietly beside her, and Yeonjun passed them glaring. He didn't understand why Taehyun was acting sweet toward Yena now. He didn't like it he didn't trust such a guy.
Beomgyu passed behind Yeonjun also glaring; he, the same as Yeonjun, didn't understand the reasons.
He felt Taehyun was up to something sinister; he wouldn't allow anything to happen.
On the other hand, Yena was cautious of Taehyun, but she didn't worry about the guys. She knew Taehyun was one of them.
"Did you get a message back?" Taehyun asks beside her; she turned her head toward him and showed him the message on her watch.
"I see, they're deciding how to handle this situation the best. Just continue. We won't worry about him for now.." He says.
"Will you stop trying to ruin my mission now?" She asks.
"I'm sorry, I won't do it anymore."
"I'll accept it, but if you try again, I won't hesitate to fight you." She says with no emotion.
"I always wanted to duel with you; anytime you want, just let me know." He winked.
"It'll be your last." He laughed at her broad statement.
"Sure we'll see."
"You have a scratch there." Beomgyu pointed toward Yeonjun's finger.
"Oh? I didn't notice." Yeonjun looked down toward the scratch.
"Wait I have a bandaid." Beomgyu searches through his backpack to find one.
"you don't have to; it's small." Yeonjun says.
"No, let me." Beomgyu unwrapped the bandaid and placed it on his finger.
"Thank you." He says smiling to himself.
Yeonjun looked at Beomgyu's face and examined it for a few seconds before Beomgyu's locked eyes with him.
"Oh, you have something right here." Yeonjun makes up a lie and acts like he brushes something off his cheek.
"Oh, thank you." Beomgyu says with flushed cheeks.
Yena was sitting across from them with Kai; she saw them and covered her mouth in awe.
"Is Soobin also one of us?" Soona asks.
"Soobin? Ah. No he's normal." Taehyun says.
"Oh I see."
"Why? Did you plan on falling in love with him?" Taehyun laughed.
"No no that's not it. Besides, that's unrealistic that's not allowed." She says looking out the window.
"You can love me though." He says out loud making Soona turn quickly and everyone went silent.
Yeonjun went to stand, but Beomgyu pushes him back down. "It's not worth it." He says.
"This guy who does the think he is?" Yena says shaking her head.
"No I won't do that." Soona rejects him flat out and he pouted.
"Then, are you hoping it's Beomgyu?"
Beomgyu was so shocked by his statement that he drops his bottled water; luckily, it wasn't open, and it rolls toward the front of the bus.
"What?! No!" Soona yelled. Taehyun began laughing so hard his eyes had tears.
"I'm just joking." He says and she scowled at him.
"That would be allowed if the mission fails if you're wondering." He added, and she puts her hand up to stop him from speaking anymore.
"I don't need anyone and don't want anyone." She crosses her arms.
The rest of the bus ride they rode in silence while chatter was happening around them.
"Do you need me to walk you home?" Taehyun asks.
"I live closer. I'll do it, thanks." Beomgyu says, grabbing Soona's arm and walking away with her. Taehyun was left there, smirking to himself.
"Are you okay?" Beomgyu asks, walking with Soona.
"I'm fine."
"He's really strange, don't hang around him too much."
"I don't plan to."
They both finally reached Soona's apartment building, "Well, I'll head home from here. See you back at school Monday." He says.
"See you, be safe going on!" She waved goodbye and entered the building.
She presses the elevator and boards it; she pressed number 5 to go to the fifth floor.
When the elevator opened, she froze, seeing Taehyun standing in front of her door in the hallway.
"What are you doing here?" She asks walking forward.
"I came to see you." He says with his back against the wall, and she walked toward her door.
"Go back home." She says, walking inside, she goes to close the door, but his foot interrupts it.
"What?" She asked sighing.
"I'm going to offer you it again." He says, taking out the glowing ball of light from his pocket.
"I said I don't want it.." She says pushing it away.
"It's a token gift as an apology, and you accepted it but not this." He says trying to convince her.
"I don't know what you put inside that." She eyes him.
"It's cultivation power." He says holding it out again.
"Why should I trust you?" She says facing him.
"You let me inside your house. Don't you trust me a little too much already?" He says looking around.
"You made your way inside."
"You allowed me to."
"Okay fine, either way, keep your cultivation whatever; I'll do my own." She says rejecting him.
He takes his phone out and snaps a photo of the apartment. He opens his Instagram and posted the photo to his feed.
TaehyunieAngel Guess who i'm visiting tonight~ We're gonna have so much fun together.
Yjunchoi Are you where I think you are?
gyugyubear Do you want to die?
Yenaayagirl Wait a minute...
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"What did you just do? Why take a photo?" She asks, trying to see his phone.
"No reason." He says closing it.
Soona opens her phone and see's the newsfeed photo he just posted. Her mouth falls open.
"You! they're going to kill you!" She yelled.
"Don't worry, It's just a joke." He says, shrugging his shoulders and sitting on the couch.
"Can I have some water while i'm waiting?" He asks.
"You can get out." She huffs.
Taehyun opens his messages to see two new ones.
Yjunchoi
Who do you think you are?
Gyugyubear
Do you want to die? I can arrange it.
"Your friends are arranging my death." He laughed out loud.
"You should really go before it gets bad." She pleaded.
Her phone suddenly vibrates and she checked her messages as well.
"Alright it was fun and all but you really should go okay." She pulls him by his arm up off the couch.
"I was just having fun and you're crashing the party." He says with a frown.
"Alright i'll go before I die. Let's meet next time." He says, walking out the door.
Soona looks to see the ball of light shining on the table; oh no, what should she do?
She quickly takes it and hides it in her closet just in case anyone comes to her apartment.