THE WIZARD [vkook]

24: haunting scars

Jungkook went to Zuzu and climbed on top of her head, crossing his legs with a deep sigh. He folded his hands and sighed again, closing his eyes.

"why am i like this Zuzu...." Jungkook said softly, talking to her and her only. She always listened. Somehow talking to her was comforting and gave him relief of the strong urge to talk about something and get it off his chest. Even if she wasn't human.

"I can not talk to someone....Seokjin said I should trust someone, to trust Taehyung too since he is travelling with me and all but......It's difficult, seokjin found out. I never told him '' Jungkook kept going. "i-i don't want him to be afraid or hate me for what i did.... I-i'm not the cool and calm wizard he thinks i am....What if he starts to suspect me too?? Then what am i supposed to do....." Jungkook slumped his shoulders and closed his eyes again. "I'm just...So tired of everything, I need sleep. But...I can't, I don't want to see the memories again..... Taehyung is starting to notice my bad sleeping... Should i talk to him?"

Zuzu somehow seemed to respond this time and hummed. She probably didnt u understand him completely. The turtle's knowledge of language is pretty simple, like talking to a child.

"a-ah...You....I....I'll consider it '' Jungkook didn't expect her to respond. But it was nice to know she had been listening to him this whole time so he relaxed and let himself enjoy the wind of his home world.... Before he knew it, he dozed off....

'....'

'He was back, back in the village...More like camp. But not in his 'home' he was thrown on the ground near the pit. A place where they dumped their trash like bones from their feasts or broken materials that couldn't be used anymore. 

He was going to be pushed in there, he already knew it. 

"this filth caused this, HE KILLED THEM. We won't let you hurt any more of us. You steal our food, you steal our beds and water. You do not belong here. You never should have been allowed to grow up. And I was right... I told them we should have killed you when you were still young and dumb... They didn't believe me, now look at you" The woman spat, a clear disgusted look on her face mixed with the tears of grief. 

"demon child....Kill him, make him hurt and regret ever coming to us"

"p-please i didn't kn-" jungkook tried to talk back and defend himself but the men of the camp already got to him. The first hits landed, and they hit hard too. He was still young. His body was vulnerable, so they would already leave nasty bruises if he was to stay alive after this. 

"You can not kill a demon with fists. Use your blades men, make sure he can not even put his pieces together.  She said and turned around leaving the scene that was filled with cries and screams. A sound that made everyone in the village circle it. 

All just watching it happen. No one made even a slight movement to help.

Like always, everyone was against him.

"no...." Jungkook said softly, he had stopped to fight back. His clothes were mostly soaked with his own blood from the cuts. His body was bruised and weak.

He wanted it to end there, he wanted them to just push him in the pit and let him be. He would never come back again. He would leave them alone and hide.

But of course it didn't end there, it was only getting worse.

The people had begun to chant to them. Engaged by the same lady. Jungkook could hear them, and it scared him.

"kill it! kill it! kill it!"

One of the men chuckled and turned his knife around, turning Jungkook on his back. Without a second thought he slammed the knife down with force. Piercing through the boy's chest in an attempt to cut his heart.

But Jungkook was unpredictable and he reacted. Just as the knife sank through his ribs on its way to his heart the boy's eye glowed bright purple and the whole area around them got darker. The trees were cracking and the wind started to blow faster. Leaves rustling through the wind, people holding on to their stuff.

Jungkook kicked the man making him lose balance, the knife cut a deep mast cut into his chest from where it was in his skin to where he fell over. 

".....i....Hate....All of you..." Jungkook managed to say before everything took a turn. The people around him started to deform and explode. Pieces falling to the ground and blood creating a thick puddle of blood on the ground. Not a single soul around him was kept alive.

Only himself,

Once again he did something he never wanted to do. He doesn't know what happened, how he did this. All he knew is that they were right....He was a monster child. He was evil.... He wasn't the good boy he wanted to be.

So when everything sank in what he just did he didnt even attempt to get up or help himself. He just laid there on the bloody leaves, staring at the moon. Hoping to let it end here, he doesn't want to be this evil he appears to be.

Yet a small part in him was hoping to be saved and give him a second chance... But help would never come. '

Jungkook snapped awake and looked around him, noticing he was still sitting on Zuzu's head and flying. 

"Only Seokjin helped me" he muttered, finishing off the awful feeling he got from his nightmare. He doesn't like sleeping, almost every time a memory would find its way into his dreams and ruin his rest. He tried to sleep less and avoid dreams in general, but that causes him to daydream and slumber during the day. 

Not much of a solution.

He got to focus in order to safely make this plan work. He had to constantly be aware of what he was doing with his powers and not lose control ever again. He hasn't hurt anyone like that since then. Never again it was as bad as that day. That say ruined everything. 

He was left alone and damaged. No treatment for his wounds made them leave scars. 

With a sigh Jungkook rubbed his fingers over the fabric of his shirt. Feeling the deep scar of the knife that was supposed to kill him. 

"never again"

Jungkook muttered. And he was sure he never did that, but the words of seokjin went through his head.

The Azurian said they 'saw' Jungkook kill the prince. But that should not be possible, Jungkook wouldn't do such a thing... He doesn't remember even being there at that time...

But seokjin would be right, even if he did he wouldn't remember... Yet Jungkook was not going with that conclusion. He knows he would never hurt the other. There has to be something to find that would bring him closer to the answers.

But he began to fear....What if the answer to all this was....That he had been the killer all along....

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