"Mum! Someone's crying over there!" The 6 year-old Yunho exclaimed anxiously as he pointed at a certain direction.
Yunho's Mum, Lily, instantly pulled Yunho towards the direction where Yunho had pointed.
In front of the two, is another boy around Yunho's age, lying on the ground with bruises littering every part on his body, he was sobbing silently, as if he had given up on struggling. On the other side, stands a man with a belt in hand, panting harshly as he shot a furious glare towards the two unwelcomed trespasser.
"What the fuck are you doing in my yard?" The man shouted, he seemed out of his mind, drunk, to be precise.
Lily frowned and scanned the boy on the ground, she didn't say a word and took out her phone from her bag and called the police.
Once the phone call ended, Lily picked the boy up from the ground and passed the boy to Yunho, "Take care of him for me will ya." And shot him a wink.
Yunho nodded happily and sees his mum off, who is now walking towards the drunk man.
He looked down at the fragile figure in his arms, "You're so pretty." He softly says as he gently removed his hair from his face, wanting to take a closer look.
The boy flinched, but relaxed more in his embrace. He opened his eyes to meet Yunho's, and gave him a soft smile. It was then, Yunho felt something he'd never experienced before.
~.~.~.~.
The trial was unsuccessful, the man managed to escape from his sentence by giving excuses like 'educating' and 'drunk'.
The boy was sent back to him.
And things got worse.
~.~.~.~.
It was like something hit him. Yunho gasped as he cleared his mind. He finally remembered.
The boy that he wanted to protect, the boy in his dreams, the boy he saw. It was non-other then Song Mingi.
Why the hell did he forget? He was the only thing in his mind these past years. How could he forget such important thing.
Yeosang placed his palm at Yunho's shoulder, knowing what was running in the human's mind, and all he could do was give him support.
In front of them, laid many, many devils and angels. If time was given for them to count, it would definitely surpass hundreds.
Blood was everywhere, yellow coloured, red coloured, blue coloured blood splattered everywhere.
The once beautiful park, was now horrendous. Corpses, heads, bodies, wings, arms, legs... were all over.
Yunho turned around and puked, he was a doctor, yes but never had he saw such a sight.
Not far away from them, was two black figure, tumbling and tripping all over as they struggled to stand straight.
By taking a closer look, Yunho could confirm that one of them is Mingi, and his heart wrenched.
Mingi was too not in a good condition. His wings were torn, his horns were broken, his eyes were dripping blood and.. Yunho couldn't look anymore. Mingi is his boyfriend, which makes it harder for him to see him in that state.
Yeosang gently says, "That devil we saw that day, he was in a cult. He recruited devils just to cause havoc in the human realm. And of course, it's our job to stop them, along with devils like Mingi and San."
"San?!" Yunho widen his eyes. Yeosang nodded, "He's also a devil, even older than Mingi."
"Mingi had gone back to hell to discuss this matter with Satan, and of course, I went back to Heaven to god." Yeosang continued.
"This is a matter of death, and so Mingi didn't want to involve you. He didn't want you to see him like this, heck, he wasn't even sure if he would get out of this alive. He wanted to protect you, because if the devils see you with him, you'll be hurt, which is why he distant himself from you."
Yeosang sucked in a harsh breath and nudged his head towards Mingi and the other devil, "That devil over there, is the head of the cult. And Mingi's fighting him, if he wins, then it'll all be over. But if he loses, then it's game over for us."
"I figured you'll have to see this yourself, considering the fact that you might need a closure, but if you don't want to, I'll respect your choice." Yeosang ended and looked at Yunho, waiting for an answer.
Yunho nodded, "I'll stay," he stopped for a while, "But could you bring me closer to them?"
Yeosang shook his head, "No, this is the safest distance for you."
Yunho slumped his shoulders and nodded, "Okay."
"I'll head over to help Mingi now. But if he ever mentioned, don't tell him I brought you here." Yeosang ended and sent him a wink, and then took off towards the war.
Yunho could feel beads of sweats running down his forehead, his heart beating at an immense speed as he eyes the field, Yeosang and Mingi was definitely exhausted and hurt. He didn't even noticed the bruises and blood on Yeosang until now. His condition's no where better than Mingi.
Mingi pants harshly and tripped on himself and fell to the ground, he could feel his energy draining and close to zero. He couldn't fly now that his wings were torn, which placed him at a disadvantage spot. The enemy was also tired, but his figure was much bigger than Mingi, each blow landed on him was like nothing. On the other side, Mingi and Yeosang are having huge trouble trying to fight the big guy.
As Mingi struggled to get up, more devils jumped onto him and bit his arms and legs, as if wanting to tear it off, Mingi growled out in pain and quickly shoved them away. Satan ordered not to kill unless necessary, but it's making it so much harder for him.
He wanted to just tear off their heads and send them back to hell but he couldn't. He furrowed his brows as he turned to look at San, who was also trying his best to control the devils. San had his claws out completely, tearing the wings off of those who disobey him. And it clearly shows that none of them wanted to comply, seeing that infront of San, laid a tremendous amount of black wings, and devils thrashing around on the floor, probably in pain.
"Hey hey, don't lose your focus." The devil teased, and took big strides towards Mingi.
Mingi growled as a sign of warning but the devil only giggled and ignored it.
"That won't scare me at all, you know." He laughed and grabbed Mingi by the neck, "I heard that you're mute, no wonder you're so quiet."
Mingi struggled in his hold, kicking his legs around, trying to get free.
"I wonder if you're really mute." The devil giggled, shining his claws in front of Mingi and placing them in front of his neck.
Yunho watched in horror as the devil slowly slices Mingi's neck, blood pooling out of his neck almost instantly, he could feel the anger in him rising. He was angry, angry at himself for not being able to do anything.
Mingi gurgled, the familiar awful feeling once again bringing back the painful memories. He could feel himself slowly losing consciousness, he eyed his surrounding, seeing Yeosang struggling with 4 devils himself, San fighting a herd and his other devil friends dead on the battlefield.
When suddenly, something flashed before his eyes. Yunho.
He widen his eyes anxiously, why is he here? How did he get here?
Is he crying? Why is he crying?
No, Yunho, don't cry. I'm not dead, see?
Mingi tried to wave his arms at Yunho, but he couldn't, his arms felt too heavy.
Don't worry, I'm fine, can you see me smiling? I love you, Yun-ah, I'm sorry we have to meet again this way.
I'll be back I promise, please don't cry, okay?
And with his last breath, Mingi smiled.
Little did he know, Yunho heard everything. From when he was alive to when he died, every last word.
