Seventeen as the 12 Dancing Princes (Seventeen Seoksoo story)

Chapter 22 - Risks

A/N: It's Jun Day! Happiest birthday to this amazing human being uwu ^^ I made a pretty cool fanart of him which I'd share gladly, but honestly I don't want my Wattpad acc to be in any connection with my art ig, so I'm just wishing him a very happy birthday <3 Anyway, I decided to post today too for Jun Day and also because I felt like it. So let's continue!

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Duke Rowan was entering the king's bedroom with his tray of tea. Desmond closed the door after the duke and turned back towards the hallway... then he spotted someone.

It was one of the princes. He was wearing white and pink dance clothes and was walking down the hallway unbothered.

'Hey, you!' Desmond shouted and started running in the direction of Seokmin. The boy gasped and rushed in the opposite direction with the bulky man following him. He took a sharp turn and ran down a flight of stairs towards the basement. Desmond followed him without a doubt, not even crossing his mind that this might be a trap.

Seokmin reached the bottom of the staircase and rushed to the left. As Desmond arrived after him, from behind a wall Jisoo quickly put out his right leg, making the man trip over it and lose his balance.

As he was about to fall face first on the floor, Jun was quick to push one of those wheeled table thingys in his direction. The man fell right onto it and his weight shoved the whole object in the opposite direction, through a door to one of the storage rooms. Seungcheol quickly shut the door behind him and Jihoon locked it up.

'Success!' shouted Jihoon. They all high-fived each other while Desmond's shouts and knocks on the door were heard from the other room.

Jisoo was about to kiss Seokmin's cheek but it seemed like the other had the same intention and the two ended up pecking each other's lips. Seokmin let out a squealing sound and they both pulled away blushing.

'You two are disgustingly cute' said Seungcheol. Jihoon just sighed dreamily while looking at the two.

'Okay, I hate to be that guy, but what's next?' butted in Jun.

'We'll go to Dad, you guys watch out for the other guards on the hallways' said Seokmin confidently.

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At the same time in the garden three pairs of smol eyes were peeking out from one of the bushes.

'You can't do that, Channie!' said Seungkwan. Chan was holding something in his hand.

'I should've given it to Seokie hyung!' he said.

'He told us to wait here till he comes back!' Hansol put a hand on Chan's shoulder.

'I can't just sit here! It might be too late!' said Chan. He took a deep breath and started running in the direction of the castle.

'Channie, no!' gasped Seungkwan and Hansol. They looked at each other as they saw their youngest brother nearing the main entrance. Luckily the guards outside weren't there anymore, but still, who knows what's going on inside?

They searched the garden with their eyes. Unfortunately the others were far away from them, but Seungkwan could see Soonyoung's shoulder which signed for them that the two pairs of twins are behind a wall.

'Let's go there' whispered Seungkwan. Hansol nodded and the two walked up to the wall while ducking down. Soonyoung was with his back towards them, but Minghao spotted the two.

'Kwannie! Solie! What are you doing? Where's Channie?' he gasped. Soonyoung turned around wide-eyed hearing that and Wonwoo also stopped teaching Mingyu how to hold the croquet bat correctly.

(A/N: I can't help but imagine tall Wonu and tiny Mingyu and it's just too cute)

'He ran inside! He wanted to give something to Seokmin hyung!'

'We couldn't stop him!' said Hansol teary eyed. 'Are they gonna kill Channie?'

'No one's gonna kill anyone' stated Wonwoo, pulling the two towards them to hide them too and wiping away Hansol's tears.

'Then what's the worst that can happen?' wondered Soonyoung.

'Way to not scare the kids, Soons' groaned Wonwoo as he saw Mingyu and Minghao going pale too. 'Okay, guys, no one's going to die. Listen, the worst that can happen is that they'll be thrown into prison. But we know our brothers and they are smarter than that. And if it still happens, then we are still here to help, okay?' he finished his ted-talk and hugged Seungkwan and Hansol.

'Wow, I don't remember the last time you said such a long sentence' mocked Soonyoung. Wonwoo rolled his eyes.

'Asshole.'

'Bad word' gasped Soonyoung, covering Mingyu's and Minghao's eyes, the two giggling at that.

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Meanwhile down in the basement Desmond was pushing the wooden door with all his strength. He did a Naruto run (lmao okay not exactly but I laughed so hard imagining that) and with full force he managed to kick down the door and get out. He quickly started running upstairs while cursing at the princes under his breath.

'That's bad' said a small voice from the floor. It was Felix who was standing next to Binnie. They decided to supervise Desmond, and it was a good idea seeing this.

'Gotta go, I'll warn them' said the parrot as he emerged from the ground. As he was about to fly outside, suddenly something pushed him over and he fell onto the ground.

It was Rowan's monkey, Brutus, who jumped at the parrot from the ceiling where he was hanging before.

'Hey! What do you think you are doing?!' screeched Felix as he was being pushed on the ground. Brutus grinned and plucked one of Felix's green feathers. Felix screeched again.

'Oh, did it hurt?' mocked Brutus as he was about to grab his other feather too.

'No, not the purple one! It's the coolest!' gasped Felix. Brutus was obviously not listening and was about to pluck his feather when he suddenly stopped as a loud click was heard. Then the monkey jumped up in pain and ran away, while screaming 'My tail! My tail!'

As Felix looked after him, he could see that a mouse trap pinched the monkey's tail. The parrot stood up in disbelief and looked at the kitten that sat down next to him.

'Thank you... Tiger' he said gratefully. Binnie swayed his tail hearing the name.

'You know, I don't hate you as much as I thought' he said. Felix thought about that.

'I don't hate you either. It's just... you're a cat.'

'And you're a bird' added Binnie. 'But you are not that bad. And you are here helping us.'

'You aren't that bad either. But I won't stop bothering you.'

'At least we agree on something.'