Cursed - Enhypen FF

Flood

TW : knife and blood, please do not read said part if you're sensitive!
I'll put stars like this ******** to show where the TW part begins and stops!
It's not long but I still wanted to warn.
Also, this chapter will be shorter than usual, but the next one will be uploaded tomorrow as compensation ✨
Love you all💕

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Jay, who had explored the royal castle for two decades, had no idea where they were headed.

Sunoo was guiding him through the underground storage area. Apparently, he had visited a strange place accessible from the castle during his dream and wanted to see if it was there for real.
The Prince had asked Jay to go with him, as he was the official explorer of the group.

"Are you sure it's in our castle?" asked Jay. "In my dream, we weren't in this place at all."
"I'm telling you, it was here" said Sunoo.

Jay followed the younger, still thinking about his dream. A beautiful dream in which Jungwon and him were having a picnic under a magical willow tree.
He sighed, hoping that one day he'd be able to organize such a meal for Jungwon.

They walked around more, and Jay started loosing his patience. As he was about to complain to Sunoo, the latter finally noticed what he was looking for.

"Wait, why is there a hairdresser in the storage room?" asked Jay, frowning.
"See!" said Sunoo. "I'm not that kind of crazy after all!"

Jay side smiled.

"But you're still crazy" he replied.
"Yes, but the good kind" laughed Sunoo. "Help me?"

The two Princes approached the beautiful wooden piece of furniture. Sunoo wanted to move it apparently.
As soon as Jay put his hands on the hairdresser however, he felt something was off. Before he could say anything, they had moved it and thus revealed a hidden passageway.

"Oh there we gooo" sang Sunoo, pretty excited.

Jay followed the boy in the newly discovered tunnel in silence. He shook his head, chasing away the bad feeling he had just had. It was probably nothing after all.

As the two boys engaged even deeper in the passageway, they didn't notice that the entrance they had just passed through had disappeared behind them.

"And what was at the end of this tunnel?" asked Jay.
"You'll see it pretty soon" said Sunoo. "In fact..."

Jay's eyes hurt a bit as the light grew stronger. They were at the end of the tunnel and the view shocked Jay.

They were now in a gigantic room. Jay looked around, trying to define if the Throne room could fit five or six times in here.
The floor was covered in an expensive looking red carpet and the walls all around the room were covered with satin lavender curtains.

However, that wasn't the most intriguing thing in the room.
In the center stood a magnificent fountain.

Jay had never seen such a beautiful thing before.

It seemed that it had been carved in the purest white marble. The biggest pool was circular and filled with water, just like the three smaller pools.
Water flowed from the smallest and highest pool to the next, creating a charming sound.

Jay had been so mesmerized by the fountain that he had forgotten he was with Sunoo, until he saw the latter sitting on the fountain.

Jay wanted to ask him what he was doing there, but no sound came out of his mouth, as if his voice had simply been whipped out.
Terror took Jay's heart, and the bad feeling he had experienced before came back even stronger.
Something was wrong and he had to stop Sunoo.

The Prince tried to run towards his friend, but his body refused to move.

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Jay stood there, motionless and silent, simply able to watch Sunoo as the later took a knife out of his pocket.

Jay's eyes widened. He didn't know what Sunoo was about to do, but the fact the he was being held back by invisible strings meant that he had to stop.
All of this was wrong.

But it was too late.

Even though he was looking from afar, Jay saw Sunoo holding the knife in front of his palm.
He saw the blade slicing the delicate and pale skin of Sunoo's hand.
He saw the Prince raising his severed palm over the pool and press his hand.

Jay saw the blood dripping into the fountain.

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Instantly, the fountain flooded over the round marble pool.
Crimson water invaded every corner of the room, and enveloped the two Princes in its warm embrace.