The Shadow's Oracle// A BTS Fanfiction

Chapter 24

The table was unusually talkative for a Saturday morning. Normally, the group would still be asleep or silently eating. It was usually too early to exude that much energy. Especially considering the late nights they spent hunting.

It had been two weeks since the incident at the art museum, and the aftermath truly rattled the town into a panic. Though, from what the countless articles reported, no one knew exactly what happened that day; each story seemed to vary in some way, shape, or form. Whether or not that was a good thing was up for debate, but in response a new curfew was enforced. It didn't seem to have much need though since most of the people were too scared from the unknown event to venture out of their homes. Luckily, that meant the number of killings and disappearances drastically decreased within a week. All the fear and panic for once seemed to be in their favor. For the first time in a long time, they were able to take a night off and talk things through with one another.

But the fear the people had would eventually fade and they had no idea what to do when it did.

"My question is, why did they wait so long to enforce a fucking curfew?" Jungkook stabbed at his food, shoving it into his mouth as if it had personally attacked him. He hadn't been getting much sleep since the whole museum incident. Every time he seemed to finally close his eyes, the image of Kaitlyn's face crying and begging him to spare her would wake him right back up. He wondered if this was how she felt every night when she closed her eyes.

"Ignorance truly is bliss." Yoongi spun a spoon around in his coffee cup, letting his eyes fixate on the swirling liquid.

"We could never be that lucky," Lexi mumbled softly, picking at the few scraps of food that remained on her plate. She felt uneasy, ever since the museum and wraith attack. Though the previous night was a break, she couldn't refrain from using her magic to try and find her bastard-of-a-grandfather. The group continued to converse as her mind was in a haze of questions.

With every question that came to mind it felt like the room was getting smaller. She was rattled with these questions often, and each time panic would set in. She didn't know how to fix the mess that seemed to follow her. That foul man killed countless people for fun and summoned a creature to hunt down and kill her; a creature that wouldn't stop until it succeeded. He successfully separated them and had them chase after two separate creatures without even being there. She could only imagine the chaos that would ensue if he were there.

Lexi let her eyes wander around the room, looking at the group that sat in front of her. She couldn't imagine what he would do to the few people she really did care about, especially during the times when she couldn't be around.

Could he see them now? What was his next move? The more she thought about it, the harder it was to breathe properly.

"Lexi?" She jumped to her feet feeling a hand on her shoulder and quickly moved back, the chair she was once sitting on now laid on the floor. Her eyes frantically searched in panic but she only met with Kaitlyn's eyes, "What's going on, Lex?"

Lexi swallowed the lump in her throat and felt her hands shake slightly, "I need to go do something."

Her eyes flickered around the room, locking with every face in the room before quickly storming out. She couldn't sit around that table any longer knowing what she knew. She knew more about what was going on than they could even fathom.

She needed answers and the only place she could think to go was her first home, or what remained of it. She trudged through the forest, taking sharp twists and turns. The snow had finally melted and the beginning of spring took its place. The trees were still barren, but the sun was shining and the grass had turned a beautiful green.