My Red Glowing Eyes

The Heavenly Scales ♎︎

Beomgyu looks around, trying to take in the new environment. Stars are gleaming around him.

I'm in the galaxy?

   He wanders and wanders, but there's nowhere to go, infinite space full of beauty. With the ability to see through people's memories, helps Beomgyu see their past and fears.

So far, he can't shape shift with his illusion because he senses nothing. The loneliness and empty presence of magic and life. Is this what the zodiacs dealt with for centuries?

He shakes his head and uses his powers to travel further into the past. He reaches to a memory where Libra is walking in a cave, searching for something. They go deeper until she finds strange inscriptions on the wall. Getting a closer look, Beomgyu notices that it's a layout of the constellations. However, he sees thirteen instead of twelve.

That's odd, it's only been said that there's been twelve zodiacs.

The thirteenth one that he doesn't recognize is far away from the others. She looks just as surprised as well, fingers grazing over the wall. Her fingers halt and hover over Aquarius's, a fond smile spreading across her lips. The Libra in the past was serene and elegant unlike the present one he's fighting. He internally groans, hoping that both his and the zodiac's bodies are unconscious after using his powers.

   Water drips from the wall, coming from the water barer's constellation. She tries touching Arie's and pulls back as if she just touched fire. She shakes her hand, trying to ease the pain away.

"Aries is always burning with fire, that's for sure." She chuckles to herself.

   Curious, she touches the unknown constellation. Beomgyu cautiously watches from a good distance, unsure what's going to happen.

   Suddenly, a purple aura seeps out of the symbol, glowing. Libra steps back and feels the ground shake. Suddenly, there's a ruckus held outside, echoing throughout the cave.

   They rush out, and see a ginormous snake eating humans. She watches as Taurus comes into view, attacking with his mace. However, the scales are so thick, the creature isn't affected by his attacks.

   Eventually, all twelve zodiacs team up on the snake, but nothing seems to get through them. Suddenly, Libra gets swallowed up by the snake. Beomgyu knows that's the highlight of a nightmare for the zodiac, but he needs to know more. What ever happened to them in the past to disappear along with the kingdom of Audleye.

A unique magic circle of unspecified magic appears above the snake and it disappears. Libra is extracted from the process, her lover coming to her side. Someone appears and Beomgyu immediately recognizes the hooded figure, the same energy he felt coming across the enemy that put his friends in this mess.

"Who the hell are you?" Scorpio points at the cloaked figure. Everyone senses odd powers of the later, unsure who or what they are.

"I am Myung Haneul, a wizard." She states.

   Beomgyu quickly runs into someone's house checking anything that presents a time era. Once he finds a diary, the most recent date indicates the era where the zodiacs vanished along with the Audleye kingdom. He runs out and sees the hooded woman suddenly raise their hand into the sky. A ginormous magic circle appears, covering every expanse of this kingdom.

"I must admit, I should thank Libra for releasing me, but your punishment has come." Aries, Leo, and Virgo try to jump the supposed wizard. But they're too late. She casts a spell and everything becomes blank.

Myung Haneul!

   Beomgyu stirs awake, and is relieved to feel no gravitational force upon his sore body. Libra begins to wake up, immediately getting up. She readies her stance about to cast a spell, but Beomgyu is faster, grinning.

   Smoke surrounds the goblin, blinding Libra's sight. She sees a large shadow within the smoke and within the smoke appears a ginormous snake. She pales at the sight of the reptile that had almost consumed her.

  The snake snaps it's jaws at her and she scrambled, terrified cries leaving her. With so much fear taking over her senses, her heart couldn't take the sight, seizing up and having a seizure.

   A poof of smoke appears again, this time, Beomgyu back to his normal self. He assesses the unconscious body of the woman whose episode just past. He cautiously kneels down and checks for her pulse. Nothing.

   Just then, dark energy throws him back unkindly, groaning. He sits up and sees it dissipate into thin air and he sees the zodiac's chest breathing up and down.

   The goblin does a kick up and brushes his clothes, stretching. "I never want to deal with anyone with gravitational magic." He sighs, cracking his neck. "Best not to annoy Jungkook for a while..." He mutters, thinking of his shenanigans with the demon.

   A sudden scream is heard but Beomgyu isn't fazed by the slightest bit. He recognizes it due to living with the siren for a century, but he knows Taehyun's sonic screams shouldn't meet past the soundproof chambers. Pride along with worry swells in his chest; his lover using all his energy and the anxious thoughts flooding his mind.

Was he about to lose his life?

   He runs to the door and hears a click. Without thinking, he pushes the door opened and runs. The scream still echoes and he goes up to Aquarius's door. He ignores the dragon that exits Arie's door and the fact purple flames leak out of Sagittarius's door, Hueningkai paling at the sight of flames.

He enters the water barer's chamber and finds two unconscious bodies in the center of the chamber. He runs and the closer he gets, the clearer view he has on Taehyun's body. The sight of his lover makes his blood run, panic overcoming him.

"Tae!" He's on the floor by the siren's side, the latter out cold. There's so much whiplashes on his body and s large gnash where a small pool of blood accumulated beneath. There's errant tears on the latter's face and the sight pains him.

It was enough to watch his lover go through the toughest times of depression when he lost his family. Bearing more pain that must have felt like an eternity is certainly not one Beomgyu would forgive.

Sobbing, he gently thumbs the shorter's cheekbone, pressing their foreheads together. "You fought well, sweetheart." He softly whispers, tears streaming down his face.