Horizon (traitor) //ateez ff

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ATEEZ roars with so much joy after escaping the captive of Captain EDEN. They were all smiling and dancing over the background music Sannie personally sings while having time-by-time breaks due to their aching bodies.

"We finally escaped from that filthy dungeon!" Wooyoung stretches his arms and legs like a cat before plopping his body at the wooden surface of the ship. 

Coming all together, they joined Wooyoung in laying their backs and watching the distant sky. They couldn't help but watch the canvas of the sky embracing the orange-red tint.

It was too beautiful to miss out.

"To be frankly enough, I truly felt like we are going to rot in that cave working for hours and feeder by the laughter of pirates that clown us..." Wooyoung puffs out an exhale after being truthful towards the crew.

"I shamefully agree with you at some point."

The crew shifted their sights at Hongjoong, who never removed his sight on the saturated sky.

"But we need to try and dream higher than getting bullied by the crew of EDEN."

His lips were slowly forming a smile, glancing at every member of the crew with a small wiggle.

"And we succeeded, aren't we?"

The resistance of their lips and mouth from bursting out a laugh went unsuccessful by the banter of their captain.

They surely did escape with so much glory and joy.

But one wasn't feeling much satisfied by the escape. Not that he wanted to stay, but who Hongjoong wanted to join.

"Why did you ask out captor in joining our journey."

Seonghwa finally dared to speak it out. Even if that might bring the emotions of the others down, they need to talk about serious stuff.

"EDEN is an enemy, not a friend. You might say that the best way to defeat your enemy is to make them your friend but—"

"He can't escape the cave."

...what?

"Have you guys noticed that EDENary didn't chase us when they have a better, greater number of people? That's because their souls are tied on the cave."

Seonghwa crumples his face with confusion. He leans upward before using his elbow as support.

"That doesn't make any sense, Hongjoong! Why have the nerve to ask them out when you know they can't?!"

Jooyoung tries to rub inside the conversation to stop the two from continuing this quarrel, but Seonghwa doesn't stop.

"I just want them to feel the same excitement they had before possessing the duty of being a guardian—"

"Then don't you think they might treat that as an insult?"

Ticked.

"Why would they treat that as an insult?"

Hongjoong finally rises from his position and faced Seonghwa with a straight face. Not showed physically, but the annoyance of the leader was obvious at this stance.

Seeing Hongjoong angry for the first time towards his crew member, the hearts of the crew thumped too fast and loudly this time.

"I don't know, maybe because you know something about them and asked them like you're rubbing that issue on their faces?"

"You heard it loud and clear that I never asked EDEN with that specific tone of sarcasm and fullness!"

"But your emphatic demeanor doesn't need to go beyond who and what kind of guardian of whatsoever galaxy!"