Obsidian Shade (黒曜石シェード): Novella Prequel

8 - Welcome to Sonyeondan

February 5, 2021

Sonyeondan

Eviana's Diary

I feel someone shaking me awake and a male voice shouting at me, "Miss, Miss, are you okay? Are you alive?"

"Of course she's alive, you moron," another voice growls. This one too sounds very familiar.

I can feel the cool wand still in my grasp as the gentle, yet affirmative shaking continues. I groan and blink open my eyes. The first thing that I notice is the crystal blue sky overhead. The second is the cool, crisp and refreshing air that feels like the beginning of Spring time. Then a face appears, hovering over my own.

Eventually, my vision clears enough and I find myself looking up at a familiar face. In shock, my eyes fly open wide and I throw myself backward with a girly gasp. The wand flies from my hand and lays in the grass and dirt to the side of me.

"Whoa! Whoa! Easy! Are you okay, miss?" the concerned voice of Min Soojin says, throwing his hands up.

I can feel an aching in my back and also the roughness of a pole or tree trunk propping me up. Suga, wearing a visible and genuine concerned expression, is sitting on his knees back toward where I was lying on bright green grass. One quick glance upward, tells me that I am up against the trunk of a tree.

"Where the hell are we?" Kim Maknae's slightly annoyed and panicked voice demands.

I look to my side and I can see Astro pulling at his purple hair.

"THIS cannot be happening!! We have a concert and so many fans to perform for!" the leader of the K-Pop group frets.

I snap my eyes around the clearing and spot Jung Taehyung and Jeon Seok-guk standing chatting together. Jaydrian is here too, standing starstruck and staring at his bias (favorite) of the group, Jeon Seok-guk, with wide eyes.

What is going on?! Is this real?

I carefully get up to my feet and brush myself off. "Yeah, I'm okay...Suga."

They all look at me as I stand up, brushing myself off. I can see expressions full of shock, disbelief and curiosity.

"You-you know who we are?" Suga questions.

"You act like you guys aren't the biggest pop boy band in the world right now?!" I hear Jaydrian exclaim with a chuckle.

I snap my head up and see him still staring at his bias and JT, but he's put his hands on his hips and he's looking like this is all surreal and dreamlike.

"He's got a point, Soojinie," Astro remarks, coming over to his fellow boyband member and slapping him on the shoulder.

JT turns from Kookie and states, "We're the biggest thing in K-Pop, breaking records and...swooning the fans in the process." He blows an air kiss from his mouth. "They don't call me International Pretty Boy for nothing."

Suga scoffs at him. "International Pain in the Ass."

I giggle at the little argument. "It's okay, JT, I know who you are. May I say, you're prettier in person."

JT holds his head up higher. "Thank you."

"Oh, now-now, don't give him anything to play off of now," Suga grumbles. "He eats those kinds of remarks up and won't shut up about his beauty."

"Speaking of--" JT says, suddenly spinning around in place in a panic. His eyes are wide open and his lips are parted with a worried 'o.' "Where is my mirror? Where's Hansamu?" He stumbles around in a circle, desperately looking around.

"Hansamu?" Jaydrian questions, looking at Kookie.

"It's his mirror," Kookie explains to him, pinching the bridge of his nose.

"He named his mirror?"

"Yes." Kookie heaves a sigh. "Hyung JT is strange..."

"What are you saying over there, Maknae?" Suga grumbles.

"Nothing about you, Hyung Suga," Kookie says, giving his band mate a cheesy smile and finger heart aegyo.

"I hope so."

Forgetting about the wand on the ground, I slowly walk away from the tree trunk that I'd backed into out of shock and find myself looking at a vast, lush green meadow. The sky overhead is clear blue and the sun shines brightly. To my left, just beyond the edge of the meadow, there is a colossal mountain range that sticks up, it's peak tickling the blue of the sky and snow covering the upper half of each tip. To my right, is a body of water that stretches out toward the horizon.

This place looks familiar, but I don't register where we are.

It isn't until a shrill caw that shocks everyone echoes from the sky over our head. We all look up, shielding our eyes and spot magnificent winged creatures soaring through the atmosphere.

"Dragons?!" Kookie gasps, pointing up at one of the winged beasts. It is a purple colored dragon with black outlining his wings and belly. He demonstrates his fire-breathing skills, shooting a half-inch stream of flames from his mouth. Thankfully, he doesn't seem to take any notice of us below. "Whoa! Cool! It's like a fairy tale!"

"Kookie, dragons are usually evil--" Astro begins to exclaim, before he is cut off as another winged beast dives down at them and barely misses the leader of J'TASK with white, angelic-like feathers.

Astro, freaked out by the low-flying beast and not knowing its intentions, races for the cover of branches, where I am standing. It's the edge of the forest that runs around the mountain side of the meadow.

"Griffin!" Kookie shouts out, smiling and clapping with joyous entertainment.

My heart skips a beat. Dragons, griffins, body of water, meadow, woods and mountains... it couldn't be?!

A sparkling, white unicorn dashes across the far side of the meadow and out of sight in the blink of an eye. But it is long enough for them each to see the magical, mythical creature from many fairy tales.

I whirl around and look behind me, sticking out of the treetops of the forest edge behind me, I can see the colossal and smoking staple monument that all but confirms my thoughts. Coming out of the top of the smoke cloud are various winged beasts, including dragons and griffins.

I leisurely turn back to them. The boys are all looking in my direction.

"Sonyeondan?" I whisper as a breeze carries faint crystalline sparkles with it.

"Sonyeondan?" they echo me, perplexed.

"Doesn't that mean 'bulletproof' or something like that?" Jaydrian inquires.

I nod at him and then clasp my hands together before me and shuffle my feet in the lush grass. "It does...and I know this place."

"How so?" the boys all question in unison.

"Because this place, well, it's a fictional, fairy tale world that I wrote about in my newest novel story. Sonyeondan, a place full of magic, mermaids, unicorns, dragons, fantasy and...some very, very, very bad people..." I trail off and look down at my shuffling feet, a huge blush of embarrassment and guilt filling me.

"Bad people?" Jaydrian and Astro echo me with concern present in their voice tone.

"Hold up one international minute!" JT blurts out, looking around him. Snapping my head up at his sudden outburst, I see that his face is slowly overcome with a concerned horror. His eyes gradually lock on mine as he exclaims, "Where's Jimin?"