Friend From Hell ✓

†BONUS PT. 3†

The week had passed in the blink of an eye. Yunhee didn't think that was possible, but it could be due to how much fun she was having.

Just like the Frost Province, the Ateez team gathered at the port to see her off and send their well wishes. Yunhee saw when San confidently snaked an arm around Wooyoung's shoulder and the younger melted into the touch.

He must have listened to her advice after all.

Yunhee blew the two a kiss, and watched with an amused face as San deliberately snatched the kiss and ripped it in two, giving a half to Wooyoung while keeping the other half for himself. The ordeal made her laugh as she sent them one final wave, before they left the port completely.

"You seemed to be getting along well with the two leaders so far," she heard the mage comment from behind, "Are you sure they're not being nice for being nice's sake?" "As someone who had trust issues almost all her life until I met you, Jungkook and Hellboy," she explained without turning around, "I can tell when someone is being true to themselves or just doing it to have a good name for themselves. Lord Kim and Duke Choi were both genuine because they wanted to."

She could sense the older nodding his head in agreement even though she couldn't see him.

The journey from the Halazian Dynasty to the ParadoXXX Kingdom was rather speedy in her opinion. The time it had took for her to reach the two kingdoms, it took half that amount to arrive at their new destination.

Yunhee's lips parted in wonder as the sky transitioned from day to night, the light baby blue darkening to an almost navy-like black decorated by stars like white paint splattered onto a canvas.

The night zephyrs were fairly cool, not as cool as the Frost Province, but refreshing enough to caress her face, having her close her eyes with a light shudder. She snapped them open again, filled with adrenaline once again as she ran towards the main mast, climbing up the rungs as per usual.

This time, instead of heading towards the crow's nest, she stopped halfway and grabbed onto the rigging close to the sails, pushing off from the main and hooked her fingers onto the ratlines. For a few moments, she felt like she was dangling from a cliff as she took in the landscape in front of her.

She hadn't noticed it before, but the size of the moon had her eyes almost competing with it. It was that big, she had never seen anything like it, even though its lifht was rather faint. It hovered behind the silhouette of what appears to be a rather large mansion located in a lone area. The longer she stared at it, the more extreme the burning sensation piercing into her eyeballs had gotten until she blinked.

"That, is fucking humongous," Hoseok's voice wavered from ubderneath the rigging. She could agree with him, the thing could probably crush an entire kingdom if it had crashed upon their world's surface. She saw when a port was pulling up, brightly lit with lanterns adorning the posts as they signalled to where one of the docks were.

Yunhee clambored down and ran towards the bow, trying to make out the silhouettes standing in the shadows. One of the figures ran onto the deck with such speed, all she did was blink and the cloaked figure was suddenly standing in front of her, catching her by surprise as they peered through the shadows surrounding their face due to the hood covering it. "Good Euphoria-" she placed a hand at the pulsing point at her neck to ensure she was still alive and her heart was still pumping blood to the rest of her body, thus speaking again, "You could have given me heart palpitations!"

The figure shook their shoulders with something akin to a laugh, then pale hands rose to take off the hood, revealing King Jungwon himself with a smug smirk of enjoyment at her state, before pulling out a bunch of necklaces, all with the same red ruby charm in the middle out of his cloak. "Here, wear this," he tossed her one. Despite the scare she was given, she caught the thing easily and put it on without a second thought.