The Love of Blood and Magic

Twenty three

Jeno and Haechan walked down the corridor, each with a small bag of stuff, they were going to meet winwin, jungwoo, mark, and lucas outside the school before leaving to go rescue jaemin. They got outside and walked by the gate of the school, to find jaehyun and taeyong there with the others. 

"Good you two are here," taeyong said and nodded to jaehyun to speak.

"Good luck trying to get jaemin back, i send good luck and hope with you," jaehyun said nodding to them, then jaehyun and taeyong turned around and walked back up to the school. 

They stood there in an awkward silence for a few seconds before jungwoo quietly said "well.... should we get going?"

"sure woo, haechan said "unless we were planning to stand here awkwardly not doing anything." 

"Shut up," jungwoo responded blushing red.

They started walking down a well traveled path quietly talking among themselves.

"How are we going to get to hell? we can't just open up a portal, can we?" lucas asked looking at jeno.

"well, i mean we probably could, unless we wanted to get cursed for all eternity," jeno shrugged.

"Wait why? aren't you a creature of the dark though?" winwin asked

"Yeah, but only demons can open up portals because hell is where they spawn," jeno answered trying to remember stuff from when he had been researching stuff in the library to try to help them with their journey to rescue jaemin.     

Later that day, they found a small clearing in the forest, it looked good for settling down for the night, and that was good because the sun was going down and the group needed a spot to sleep. 

"Should we stay here for the night?"mark asked.

"Yeah, we probably should if we want to have strength for tomorrow. lets start setting up," jeno said looking around the small clearing. 

"I can hear water running near by," winwin spoke listening intently to the sounds around them. He left to get water for the group and disappeared for some time because he kept getting distracted by everything around him.

"Whos gonna set up the fire?" haechan asked.

"You can do it," mark suggested from where he was standing by lucas, earning himself a glare from the small faerie. 

"Bitch," haechan grumbled and walked away to find wood that was suitable for firewood. 

"You could help with the fire y'know," Jungwoo said smally over by a tree trying to get all six sleeping spaces set up at once. 

jeno noticed the chaos and decided to just assign everyone jobs, otherwise there would be fights breaking out.

"Mark, go help haechan with the fire, lucas help jungwoo with the beds, and im going hunting," jeno ordered.

"Haechan doesn't need help with the fire, he can handle it on his own," mark grumbled looking over at jeno then farther past jeno to where haechan was stacking sticks in a pile for fire fuel. 

"Just go help him, we need more sticks than that for the fire," jeno said trying to make it clear that if they all wanted to survive this journey, they would all have to work together without constantly fighting one another. 

Mark walked over to haechan and wordlessly started gathering larger logs for the fire. Jungwoo was talking to lucas who was bright red and replying to jungwoos questions with "yes" or "no" or "sometimes/maybe". then jeno left to hunt.

Jeno returned an hour later with winwin and a large deer carcass. Winwin had found some edible berries and mushrooms and along with the deer carcass they were set to probably have enough food for a couple of days. They got back to the camp to find a fire lit and the sleeping spaces all set up. Jeno put the deer on a spit and they took turns spinning it over the fire. Jeno caught mark staring at haechan a couple of times and when mark saw him glared at him and gave him a look to not say anything about it. Then they went to bed. 

The first thing jeno heard the next morning was arguing. It sounded like mark and haechan, and jeno wondered if those two would ever come to terms on the same thing. It sounded like they were arguing about how to divide the rest of the deer among them (they had smoked it the night before and let it dry). 

"just throw it into one pack and someone could share a pack with someone!" haechan said angrily.

"Yeah, but how would all the stuff fit in the packs!" mark growled.

"Shove it the stuff in the bag and squish it in there," haechan argued back.

"Can you guys not argue for once," lucas mumbled sleepily from across the clearing.

"Well tell haechan that we need to divide the meat up evenly between us," mark said.

"Umm..." lucas said looking between the two.

"Just divide it up," jeno said suddenly from his sleeping space, surprising them, they hadn't known he was listening in. Mark through haechan a smug look and haechan walked away to pack up his stuff but not before flipping mark off.

Then they woke the rest of the group up, packed up, and left.

~well, that chapter decided to make itself incredible hard to write, and it deleted half way through so i had to rewrite it. I would have had it up sooner if it hadn't deleted, anyways i hoped you enjoyed! Hopefully i'll get the next chapter up soon!~