Horizon (traitor) //ateez ff

alive

After the revelation of secrets the infamous captain holds, Hongjoong's mind suddenly burst out so many thoughts and theories on how they can achieve the opens of Utopia.

It was like magic, to be honest.

A single book written personally using a pen, through a clear canvas that can give birth to bright writings of your darkest pasts and time, can actually confess your emotions even by the colorful words only.

Hongjoong felt it. No wonder why he is very stunned by what he just witnessed a while back.

"Hongjoong."

Seonghwa hits his elbow purposely on the other's, to finally get his attention.

"What happened? You were nowhere to be seen a while ago, then came back without a word."

Hongjoong replied with neither a nod nor a hum. He just stared with his mouth slightly open and his eyes seemingly looking at Seonghwa's orbs like it is a void to spare time with.

"Are you alright...?"

Their captain wasn't fazed with how they looked at him in worry, he was still lost.

But that labyrinth of nothingness inside Hongjoong's head wasn't actually empty.

"Utopia."

He finally spoke.

However, the reaction of the crew wasn't something that is worrisome towards Hongjoong, it was rather a sigh.

Yunho then let out his true intentions by the same tone of his voice.

"If you are going to speak about Utopia at least tell us the whole detail—"

"EDEN is a guardian that protects the treasures of Utopia."

Hearing that sentence made them all quiet in a snap.

Thinking about it is something fresh and somehow, doesn't really make sense.

Or does it?

"What made you say that?"

The puffy cheeks of Hongjoong were inhaled back as he lets in some air before giving the crew what they wanted to hear.

"Remember the time that I, together with Yeosang, thought that we were about to die because of the wrath of Leviathan, but there was nothing?"

They can remember that moment too much and to its every detail. Especially Yeosang who had his pupils shaking at the thought of it.

"He experienced that too."

!

"The time Wooyoung and Yunho was forced to eat worms... He also experienced that."

What?

"He was also bombed by a circus of clowns, just like Jooyoung, Jiseon, and Mingi."

Oh no...

"He also lost his wife and son through the execution of the royalties."

So that's why...

"And he also had dreams, no, nightmare to be exact, about dying or  about his family vanishing..."

...

In simple means, what the crew experienced was something EDEN also has suffered from...

The words and phrases he wrote down in his diary also turned out as a schedule of events or destiny of ATEEZ.

If these are the happenings of one of the guardians of the treasures, does that mean that they have to suffer from the pasts of the rest?

They are unsure, but this is something that they might come up with, and expect to see more if they encounter the other guardians.