[C] The Cosmos' Nonpareil || KookV BTS GOT7 (BL)

chapter 11 b

It was a mess which Jungkook didn't want to clean up. He sighed, then he sighed again at the ruins.

Holes along the pit flooded with water, Youngjae, Jackson, and Jinyoung are not back yet, Mark is playing giant Jenga out of stray concrete blocks— JayB too out of it to realise he can never win against a telekinetic user and his corpses moving in a haphazard manner as if they are drunk as well, Bambam and Yugyeom are rolling across the ceiling...

Then there are Jungkook's fellow agents.
Namjoon had just finished lining up ten of his self-made fireworks and set them off, Jimin stuffing one of them into his mouth, Mark and JayB abandoning their game to watch, Hoseok running around all of them, Seokjin is looming over a sleeping Yoongi— wait, what is he trying to do?

Jungkook's jaw drops as he sees Seokjin summoning ice energy and Jungkook shouts, "no, hyung!"

"No, you will not be able to turn him into an ice cube. Imagine if you did, if you defrost Yoongi hyung, will he be back to normal, or will he become a puddle of water?"

Seokjin looks to Taehyung beside him and he contemplates Taehyung's words as best as he could in a drunken state, then he gives up trying to understand, and said, "but I always wanted to try this."

"A puddle of unthinking water, hyung. And if Jimin drinks it...?"

Seokjin gasped, "Jimin drinks it?"

Taehyung nods gravely, "Yoongi hyung will never come back."

"No! That can't happen!"

"Indeed, now if you would come here," Taehyung turns Seokjin around and sits him on a beanbag who nodded when Taehyung told him to not go anywhere.

Taehyung turns around and makes eye contact with Jungkook, and he sighed. Jungkook gives him a resigned expression and Taehyung too takes a mop.

Why do the new recruits have alcohol tolerance as bad as theirs?

3 hours ago

The new recruits are overjoyed. The show put up for them later is actually existing agents showing them their abilities and there will be a friendly fight between the agents, just to show them different strategies and fighting styles.

Everyone also got who they wanted to be with as their roommate. Jackson with Jinyoung, Bambam with Yugyeom, JayB with Mark, and Youngjae gets a room on his own until further notice.

They were all relaxed in the pit, sprawling across bean bags with food on their plates, planning to enjoy the welcome party thrown for them.

JayB was getting food for Youngjae. They had hit it off when the boy showed him his collection of comic books and passed him some to read.

"Do sirens eat fish or is it cannibalism?" Jackson was asking Jinyoung.

Bambam and Yugyeom were competing who would make a taller tower out of marshmallows.

"How did you do that?" Youngjae was chatting with Mark, "why did all the corpses avoid you?"

"I set up a field around me so that they would feel uncomfortable and choose to avoid me. But if JayB wanted to, they probably could still approach."

"Guys, it's starting," Yugyeom points at the ceiling, taking the opportunity to knock down Bambam's tower when the manticore looked up at the small lights gathering into a miniature version of the milky way.

"Wow..." Mark gasped. It's beautiful.

Jinyoung admired it as well. It reminds him of the sea, when he looked up from the seabed during the day and sunlight filters into the seawater.

"Hey! Why did you hit my tower, you're not playing fair," Bambam complains.

"Shhhhh," JayB shushes the recruit as a group of water Fae and snow Fae as tall as a finger enter the pit, some carrying long barrels while others twirled around across the floor, giggling when a few of them tripped and then scampered away.

The Fae put the barrels on the ground and hoisted them upright, Mark helping out a group which struggled more than others with his telekinetic waves. The Fae chattered gratefully in response and then pulled at the string attached to the barrel.

Colourful sparks burst forth, forming the words:

WELCOME TO GALACTICA!

Jimin bounded in at that moment, blowing a flamethrower in the shape of a dragon to complete the show.

"Welcome, kids," Namjoon, Seokjin, Yoongi, Hoseok, Taehyung, and Jungkook entered as well.

"Aww for us? And I've never seen fireworks so closely before!" Youngjae exclaimed. This is way too cool.

"What's cooler is that Jin hyung and Jungkook are going to fight later," Jimin informed, already settling amongst the recruits with chocolate-dipped strawberries, Yoongi sitting near the circle with a book in hand.

"They are number 09 and 10, right?" JayB asked.

"Yep, 09 against 10, energy against snow, it's going to look good. If we're lucky, we might see Jin hyung's true form today. He's really beautiful," Jimin said.

Youngjae nods, "I saw it and it's no wonder his kind was hunted. Not that it's okay! I mean, Jinyoung, I..."

Youngjae regretted his slip when Jinyoung paled, then chased after the siren who stood up and left. Jackson was on his feet the same time as Youngjae and the shifter followed them both, telling the other recruits to continue and that he would talk to them.

"Ah... sirens were heavily hunted for their beauty and strength weren't they..." Bambam mumbled.

The others fall into silence, the mood tarnished by how some of them are more alone than others.

"What's going on?" Namjoon came over with some drinks and passed them around, the recruits and Jimin drinking the beverage to wash off the heavy mood. They realised too late that the burning sensation in their throats was not normal for a soda.

"I made this myself in the lab. It is so easy to brew alcohol and it's my hobby nowadays. This is 25% alcohol. Oh Taehyung, would you pass these drinks I made to the rest?"

Present time

Taehyung was tired after cleaning up the huge mess. He leaned against the table and eyed the last piece of pizza which looks like a good idea right now. Well, Taehyung sees, Taehyung eats.

He was munching on the slice when Jungkook came over and said, "thanks for helping out. We'd be done here after sending everyone back to their dormitory rooms...that smells good, can I have some?"

Why is Jungkook's face getting bigger? Taehyung wondered. Oh, because he had leaned in and took a bite from the other end while half the pizza was in Taehyung's mouth, their noses brushing.

Their noses...

Their noses what?

"Hrrrkk—" Taehyung wheezed and hacked, the pizza going down the wrong pipe and he blindly reached for where he last saw a cup and gulped down the contents in one mouthful.

"That's the..." cup which contains Namjoon's beer, Jungkook wanted to say, but the lights went out at that moment and he couldn't see Taehyung in the darkness.

- a/n -

Love this story so much ❤️ the current plan is to end the story around chapters 25-30 and I'm drafting chapter 23

Stay safe ❤️

- rsv (resha)