Swan Lake (ATEEZ JongSang story)

Chapter 3 - The Unicorn

A/N: This might be my favourite chapter so far, I hope you'll like it too :))

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Yeosang was totally minding his own business as always. It's not like it was his hobby to leave the door open for himself to overhear random people's conversations on the street, but if you live such a simple and kinda boring life as him, you wouldn't have many other fun sources either. So there he was, listening to this couple, Minho and Seungmin breaking up across the street.

'How dare you say that? After everything we've been through!' This was Seungmin's voice. Yeosang walked to the door while drying a plate with a wiping cloth and listened. Despite being shy, he was always open for gossips and news. Considering how small the village was, a breakup was quite a big news.

'How dare I say what?! You insensitive bastard! I thought you loved me!' shouted Minho angrily. Yeosang peeked over the doorframe, plate long forgotten.

'You cheated on me with Jisung, I should be the one to say that!' Seungmin was fuming with anger.

'It was a one time thing, I-' started Minho, but then many things happened at that exact moment.

First of all, Seungmin slapped Minho's cheek, which made many people, including Yeosang hiss. Which also indicated he wasn't the only one listening to the show.

Second, something heavy fell on the ground. It sounded like a wheelbarrow and considering that vegetables were rolling everywhere, Yeosang assumed that was what happened.

'Oh no, my potatoes!' He heard a shout, and suddenly Hwang Hyunjin, the farmer's son ran after the potatoes which were rolling down the steep street unstoppable.

And thirdly, a young boy rushed into the store, almost knocking Yeosang over.

'Oh my god!' shouted Yeosang out of surprise. 'What's happening outside?'

'You didn't see?' asked the boy, who he recognised as the Yang couple's son, Jeongin, who lived in the flat above the bakery. He grabbed a loaf of bread. Yeosang told him the price and Jeongin handed the coins over.

'I didn't see. I was too immersed in watching the 2min couple breaking up or divorcing or whatever they are doing. Are those two even married?' Yeosang chuckled. Jeongin laughed.

'Anyways, there is a real unicorn on the street! That's why everyone is so loud! It even knocked over Mr Hwang's wheelbarrow and everything!' explained Jeongin while waving his hands around, almost yeeting the bread away in his excitement.

'A unicorn? Did you hit your head?' Yeosang raised an eyebrow. 'Unicorns don't exist.'

'That's what I thought too, but I saw it with my two eyes! Everyone saw it! You should check it out!' Jeongin pulled Yeosang's hand, so he had no choice but to follow him.

'I swear, if you and your friends are pulling pranks again and you just glued something on a poor horse's head-'

'Oh come on, it's been a while since the last time when Soonyoung and I made that flamethrower so we could prank Seokmin and Seungkwan into thinking there's a real dragon living here!'

'Yeah and you almost burned down the village! Now that I think about it, I'm not interested in your unicorn' Yeosang freed himself out of Jeongin's grip and was about to turn around when he saw something red from the corner of his eyes. It took him a second to realize that the red thing was actually a horse. And not just any horse, this one had a horn. It was really a unicorn. Yeosang stood there amazed.

Just then one of the older villagers shot an arrow at the creature.

'No!' shouted Yeosang, but luckily the unicorn managed to run away. The villager looked at Yeosang angrily.

'Stupid boy! I could've caught it, do you know how much that thing could cost?! Go back to the bakery where you belong!'

Yeosang stared back equally as angrily. He wanted to save the unicorn from getting killed. And even if it was Jeongin's and his friends' stupid prank again, he didn't want any animal to be murdered in front of him.

Right in that moment the creature appeared on the other side of the street. Yeosang took a closer look at it. It had flaming red color and his deep brown eyes stared right back at Yeosang. He was fascinated by it.

Unfortunately at that second someone threw a rope around the unicorn's neck. The poor animal neighed and almost fell over. Yeosang gasped.

But it seems like a few villagers can't defeat a magical animal that you would think only exists in myths. The unicorn suddenly started gallopping and pulled out the rope of the man's hands. The man stumbled and stepped on one of Hyunjin's potatoes, which resulted in him falling over. The villagers all started laughing hysterically.

Meanwhile Yeosang followed the horse with his eyes. The animal gracefully gallopped across the bridge that separated the village from the forest, but the rope, which was still on its neck got stuck on a bush. Fortunately it managed to escape from the bush, but Yeosang was still worried it'll hurt itself, so he decided to go and follow it, no matter how stupid and dangerous that idea was.