EXOPlanet

Chapter Three

*Yue's POV*

I woke up startled. I looked around me and saw the tall trees and the figures of the twelve men sleeping. A relieved sigh escaped me. *It was just a dream.* I ran a hand over my sweaty face. *It was just a dream.*

The dream began to play itself over in my mind, a way I discovered long ago would eventually take away any fear. It felt so real, the dream, that for a split second I wondered if this was a dream.*No, it can't be.* The morning had gone almost exactly how any other morning would go, except that my mom made me pancakes on a day that wasn't special, those things were the same ones that attacked me just the other night, and the voice.

Thinking of it sent shivers up my spine. That deep, gravely, ancient voice terrified me. *It was like it knew what I was feeling when I was awake.* Calm, normal, then terror and confusion.

I sighed and looked up at the sky, which slowly brightened with the approaching dawn. The man closest to me, short with an angular face, one who had saved me that strange night, twitched in his sleep, like he knew that the sun, or whatever they called it, was rising.

*Light.* I thought, remembering that he was the one who shot that beam of light,*His power is light.*

The sun came into the sky, and the man opened his eyes. I closed mine, afraid that he would catch me looking at him. "Hey. Chanyeol. Chanyeol, wake up."

"What?" A low, sleepy voice asked, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong, its just time to wake up." The other replied.

"Hey, just because you wake up at the crack of dawn, doesn't mean that I have to too Prince Baekhyun."

"I know, I just wanted to know something."

"Well, what is it?"

There was a short pause before Baekhyun responded. "What do you think it will be like? All of us, traveling together in each others' kingdoms."

"I don't know. It probably won't be too bad in the K Kingdoms, but the M..."

"A savage battlefield." Baekhyun finished bitterly.

"Yeah, a battlefield." One of them stood up and sighed. "What do you think she's dreaming of?"

"I don't have the slightest idea." The other stood up. "Come on, lets find something for us to eat."

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I hadn't realized I fell asleep again until someone shook my shoulder gently. "Princess Yue, Princess. Its time to get up." I opened my eyes to see the man with bronze skin kneeling above me. He kneeled there until he was sure I was awake.

I stood up and looked around. Some of the men were eating around the dead fire while the others were standing in a circle around a giant rock that had not been there the night before. The man walked me over to the group that was eating and handed me something on a stick "Here, eat this."

I looked from the stick to the man. "What is it?"

"Squirrel." He replied. "Prince Baekhyun and Prince Chanyeol got them." He walked away towards the conversing group at the rock, leaving me with the three sitting down.