Chapter 22 - The Truth

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A/N: Happy Pride Month lovelies!!! I hope y'all are fine, take care! Also thank you for the reads, votes and comments on this story, I really enjoy reading your thoughts :))

Wahhhh, btw Wattpad won't let me enter the 'My Works' page for like an hour, I was about to have a mental breakdown so I surfed YouTube instead and when I came back it finally let me in. I thought I was gonna have a heart attack bruh-

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'It wasn't her who kidnapped him' smirked Gothel evilly. 'It was me.'

For a few seconds silence engulfed the room after Gothel's statement. Seungcheol was staring at the witch blankly, his brain trying to progress what he just heard.

Key's son was kidnapped about 2 decades ago, that's when the war between the two kingdoms began.

The boy now must be around Seungcheol's age. He had no memories of his parents.

Gothel just announced that it was her who kidnapped the child.

Gothel had a fistful of Jeonghan's hair earlier.

Seungcheol widened his eyes, but before he could even react, his assumptions were confirmed by Key himself.

'You took away Jeonghan from me?!' he shouted at Gothel furiously.

It was true then.

Everyone thought Shawol Kingdom doesn't have a heir.

But it has.

The heir was Jeonghan. Their rival kingdom's crown prince.

'He would've been my son if you would've married me. He belongs to me' said the witch.

'It doesn't work like that! You bastard!!' shouted Key and raised his sword again, this time pointing it at Gothel. Taeyeon and all the guards did the same thing. As Key stepped closer, suddenly yellow light bursted out of Gothel's fingers and the king flew several meters backwards, landing on the floor of the ballroom hard. He groaned and gasped for air. To his luck his armor protected him but he still felt the falling.

Seungcheol quickly ran up to him to help him up while Taeyeon and the two kingdom's guards shielded them with their bodies, their swords still pointed at Gothel.

'I met your son' said Seungcheol quietly to Key. The king's eyes lit up with hope.

'Really? Where? Is he okay?'

Seungcheol was about to answer but Gothel spoke again.

'Isn't it cute how the tables have turned suddenly? Aren't you supposed to be fighting each other? It's been a long time since I saw you two on the same side, Queen Taeyeon' she grinned. Taeyeon glared at her and Seungkwan and Soonyoung stepped closer to the queen from both sides. Key went up to them with Seungcheol by his side.

'We made a mistake' said Key quietly, giving a side glance to Taeyeon. The queen didn't react to it, she was still staring at Gothel with her weapon pointed at her.

'Well, then-'

As Gothel was about to raise her hand to cast another spell, suddenly a loud voice yelled out, echoing in the huge ballroom.

'STOP IT!! Stop it right now!'

Seungcheol's eyes widened as he and everyone else turned towards the door. Jeonghan was standing there with the baby dragon and a bunny by his side. The other boy's blonde hair was cut short, it barely reached his chin and it was messy. He was wearing a suit that looked a bit disheveled and his cheeks were bright pink, probably from the excitement. To Seungcheol he still looked ethereal.

'J-Jeonghan... how... I-' stuttered Gothel, not understanding how did the boy escape the tower that was supposed to keep him inside forever.

'That's enough, Gothel! You kept me captured for my whole life in the castle only because you hated my father!' glared Jeonghan at the witch. 'But it's over now!'

'Oh, it's so not over! You really think you can fight me on your own?' laughed Gothel.

'Maybe not on my own, but with the help of a mighty dragon I can and I will' said Jeonghan, gesturing towards Dino. Gothel snorted.

'Dino, the mighty dragon. That's new.'

'I'm so scared' mocked Otto, the weasel, appearing from a vase where he was hiding all this time. 'Did you bring your bunny friend too? I'd have him as an appetizer' he added grinning. Jisoo suddenly jumped forward.

'Fire, Dino!!'

The baby dragon inhaled deeply and blew the biggest fire he ever did in his life at Otto. The weasel screeched as a second later the flames went out and he looked down on himself, seeing that his fur was burned all over his body.

'You!' pointed Gothel at Jeonghan, Jisoo and Dino. 'You will pay for this you little-'

Her hand was already raised and the familiar yellow light appeared, but then Seungkwan and Soonyoung unexpectedly grabbed one of the giant vases that were put by the walls of the ballroom as decoration and put it on the ground, rolling it in the witch's direction. Gothel lost her balance as the vase knocked her legs out from under herself and she fell on the ground while the spell aimed towards the ceiling and hit one of the huge chandeliers that had at least a hundred candles in it.

If that spell would've hit Jeonghan, he would be dead by now. The chandelier fell down with a loud crash and the fire from the candles already started spreading in the room. Gothel meanwhile managed to stand up and turned towards Jeonghan again. Seungcheol gasped.

'Go, Jeonghan, go!!' he shouted in the other's direction, even though he could barely see him as the flames became taller between them in a second. Jeonghan frowned and turned to Dino while picking Jisoo up from the ground.

'Quick! You know where!' he said and climbed on the dragon's back. Dino spread his wings and started flying through the hallway towards the garden. They could constantly hear Gothel's heels' clicking behind themselves.

They knew they don't have much time.

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A/N 2.0:
Jeonghan: *yelling at Gothel, having his scene*
Otto: *butting in from the vase*
Jisoo: *yelling*
Dino: *blows fire*
Everyone else in the ballroom:

0:Jeonghan: *yelling at Gothel, having his scene*Otto: *butting in from the vase*Jisoo: *yelling*Dino: *blows fire*Everyone else in the ballroom:

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