Doppelgänger✔️

Cessation

A/N: I apologize ahead of time.

Taehyung had been bracing himself for what felt like forever.

The moment the demon revealed its true face, his entire body seemed to have locked, and all of his expectations of the worst piqued. He expected pain and horror. He expected to feel every rip and tear, every crack and pop of the demon entering his body.

But he felt nothing. Heard nothing.

Only silence and darkness.

It was only once he felt the cool chill of the outside air touching his skin that he knew something happened.

"Hmmm......one...two...three...four...."

"So many choices......who shall I take first....."

The deep voice speaks apart from Taehyung but within him at the same time and he gasps at the foreign feeling. He opens his eyes slowly and glances around.

He feels his gaze being steered below and the weight of the demon's wings forces him to blink frantically. It's a millisecond before he realizes that he is hovering over the roof of the diner. His lowered gaze travels from his barely bandaged feet to his slick covered hands, stained black as tar and dripping. He stifles a gag at the site before looking up to notice his group standing below, all eyes in his direction.

"The old...or the young....decisions.....decisions..."

Taehyung was officially aware at that moment. Whatever the demon had done, there was very little Taehyung could do beyond watch from the seat nestled within himself. The seat guarded and fastened by the demon now.

"What...what are you..." Taehyung struggled to say. He inhales heavily, perplexed at the control he had over that function, but his ability to vocalize wasn't as simple.

"Just relax.....You don't have to worry about anything......anymore..."

Taehyung flinches at the tone of the demon's voice in his ear. He tries to turn towards the sound but can only look on over the parking lot. From one familiar face to the next, the demon steered his eyes with intention. A swell of hunger and agony rolls in his belly.

It then becomes clear.

"No....No...You..promised..." Taehyung cries out weakly. He tenses and struggles to gain control of his limbs, even the wings that kept him suspended in the air.

"You...You said you wouldn't hurt...anyone.." he sobs dryly, his appearance from the outside remaining passive and silent. The demons chuckle echoes in the hollow space they now shared before responding.

"I'm a liar, remember?"

The swell of agony and hunger intensifies and a growl creeps up from Taehyung's throat. He exhales sharply to stifle the inhuman sound.

Taehyung was a fool to have ever believed a word the demon said. To have ever believed that it would hold up its end of their deal. It was going to do the exact opposite of what it told him it would do.

Take life.

"What are you....what are you going to do..to them..." he struggles to ask, knowing his voice only reached the limits of his mind. His lips remain still, as did his expression change as a tiny sneer lifts at the corner of his mouth.