The Last Seven - a BTS AU Story

Chapter 5 - From Time and Beyond

On a dry plateau, quiet except for a few tumbling stones, sat a boy, his hair double-toned with grey and brown, ruffling in the sun. His handsome face might say that he was calm, but in reality he was very troubled. A battered card was resting in his arms. It said, 'Jung Hoseok, missing. Wanted for no submission.' Hoseok knew the content of that card ; he had read it a million times and grimaced everytime. In fact, Hoseok was from the future. He was the last true human living, for aliens have revived humans genetically and sold them as slaves. He had successfully evaded them, but was captured.

Desperately, Hoseok searched for a way to escape, when he found the time machine. It was on the terrace of the main lab, so Hoseok had to take a heroic jump from his cell window. Before the aliens arrived, Hoseok set the dials to the day of the apocalypse and pressed start. But he accidentally pressed self-destruct rather than stop, so it had him thrown out before blasting into a million pieces.

Hoseok sighed deeply as he looked at the landscape. He had remembered it as a place filled with scattered trees and shrubs, but now it was empty except for sand and stone. The sun began to gore the land with its heat, and sweat was starting to drop onto Hoseok’s eyes. He decided to look for someplace shadier and got up.

After a long walk, Hoseok arrived at a cliff by the coast. The weather was much calmer here, thanks to the sea. Hoseok neared the edge but stopped quickly. He saw another boy sitting on the edge of the coast. He looked as if he could be his own age, but Hoseok couldn’t tell, for the boy’s face was hidden as it faced the sea. He decided to hide behind the cliff and wait for the time to come to reveal himself, his mind formulating a plan. He watched the boy hold an eagle gently and walk back to the cliff, directly to Hoseok. He quickly hid himself behind the rock.