Guardian

Chap. 68

Kris was pacing back and forth in her room. He just got back from visiting her parents' that was now in China. He did some sort of charms on both of them to forget about their daughter for a while and purposely made them having loads of work, to prevent them thinking about her. It's for a good cause. As much as he hate to admit it, the sense of responsibility kept coming back to him like the time when he was still an Angel. Well, he is an angel...but fallen one. He shake his head sideways to shake that thought away.

'That would be impossible' 

He thought, because there has never been an angel that had been kicked out from the Kingdom can regain his pure powers back, more to the Fallen Ones. Fallen ones will have no powers once they fall to Earth, but used it as their advantage to lure the humans in doing the seven deadly sins. His house suddenly rumbled and shake and suddenly ____ appeared in front of him, before collapsing on the floor. Kris rushed to her side.

When she lift her head to see him, Kris saw her eyes were red and puffy; knowing that she had been crying. "Kris..." her voice was hoarse and Kris pulled her into his arms, and she cried again. Kris leaned his cheek on her temple, all of her recent memories flood his own. Like a projector, it showed when Hara was talking to her, the sudden appearance of Tao and--

"Luhan??" said Kris under his breathe. Never he thought he would see him again after hundred of years. Then it clicked him. Tao had another accomplice beside him and it cleared to him that Tao was the one using him all along. But then his vision came Key, stood in front of ____, shielding her with his body and took the dagger right on his heart. Her sobs grew quieter and Kris took a peak from the side, just enough to see her eyes had already closed tight.

He picked her up gently from the floor and walked to her bed, but he stopped midway. His vision showed Key had passed away as soon as she got away from the place. He didn't get the vision clearly on how she escaped from them. Without putting her on her bed, Kris teleported himself in his private room miles underground that only he knows. He knew this room would come in handy when the time was right and now he's gonna use it. He laid her on the bed, covered her body with the fluffy blanket before grasped her hands again, to see what her memories kept.

It pained him again, to see her crying and wailing with Key in her arms. But the light that suddenly came out from nowhere knocked his vision away and behind her, emerged Jonghyun with his surprise face when he saw her wings. Jonghyun hugged her and cried; making something inside of Kris wailing in pain. In years of years befriend with Jonghyun, he only remembered the time he killed Clara and Jonghyun had shed tears for the girl. But now, seeing him crying again, with ____ beside, for the first time in his time being the Fallen Prince, a single tear had sneakily came out from his eyes without him realizing it.

His friend had shed tears; her only friend had died saving her, this two things had seemed like growing on him ever since he was banished. In the last memories she kept, Jonghyun told her to stay and learn to hone her powers. Kris didn't believe that Jonghyun was actually putting his trust on him to teach her controlling her powers, whereby he was the one who killed the girl whom Jonghyun protected. He was quite shocked with what he saw and promised to himself he would be the one teach and protect her whilst she was here.

Now, she needed rest and keep her head up.

*****

"Where's Jonghyun hyung? I didn't see him all morning," asked Taemin who was wondering where could Jonghyun be at this hour. Usually they would gather their plans on how to capture Tao but now he didn't see him anywhere. Minho was sitting on the couch, thinking about ____ and her well-being. He secretly hoped Kris taking good care of her instead of using her and hurt her. He would never forgive Kris if he had done such things. Ever.

"Hyung!"

 Minho's head snapped to see where Jonghyun was, but his eyes rounded when he saw Key in Jonghyun's arm, except that he wasn't alive. Taemin quickly went to help him and laid Key on the floor. The blood that covered his body had dried off and the bruises was still visible. Minho fell to his knees, digesting what he saw now.

"No no, we can still save him!" whimpered Taemin beside Jonghyun. His eyes too never leave his lifeless body on the floor but when he saw Jonghyun, he saw the latter just shake his head sideways, slowly. Jonghyun's eyes looked very upset when he see Key, then to Minho. Minho was burying his face in Key's soaked-blooded shirt and clenched his fist tightly.

"Minho, ____...she has her wings," Jonghyun slowly started and sat beside Minho. He didn't spoke a word, but Jonghyun continued, "She- the light that burst out from her hands had sucked itself in his wounds. But I think she wanted him to come back. I let her stay--"

"Why'd you do that!? Why didn't you take her with you!?"

"Woah hyung! Calm down!"

Minho thrashing wildly trying to grab Jonghyun by the collar but Taemin was fast to see it and hold him away. With Minho's height, it looked impossible to hold him down, but Taemin had his way to control him. Jonghyun stepped backwards. Minho was in vulnerable state and it was easy for him to feel so much anger, especially when it came to ___.

"Minho, listen to me. I know now she might be useful for us. Not just for us, but for Kris as well," said Jonghyun calmly. 

"Huh?"

"What're you talking about, hyung?"

"You saw it for yourself, Kris came here to warn us. Seems like to me he's not that evil at all. Someone came and pulled his strings, doing all sorts of things that wasn't him. If it wasn't for ____, Kris would've never had done that. Why?" Said Jonghyun again, pouring all the sense inside of them both. He too, slowly connect the dots on why Kris came. 

"In the meantime, we should prepare ourselves while Kris will teach ___  on how to use her powers and honed them" Said Jonghyun before went to the kitchen to get some water. Taemin finally let Minho go and turned around, eyes widened.

"Hyung..."

Minho hummed in response and turn around, eyes also widened in surprise. Key was no longer there in the living room with them. It somehow looked like he had vanished into thin air. Jonghyun came back and he too, froze in his place. The three of them look at each other in silence, but Jonghyun was hoping that Key was somewhere....alive.