like a Firefly || kookmin

chapter 1 (firefly)

The cold breeze nibbled on his skin ...
The poor boy found himself engulfed in coldness .. There wasn't even a single cover to protect him in this cruelly freezing night ...
Jimin was fine, though...!
He had somehow managed to survive the last two nights in the cave... ! so he could survive this night as well .
Actually he had seen this coming , he had expected even worse things to happen to him when he decided to leave the royal palace and finally do something to prevent his father from the evil things he had intended to do.
He could definitely deal with this piercing freezing cold weather somehow..
Well,
He had to .
It was stupid, but Jimin wanted this...!
Always ...
He didn't want that princely life that was imposed on him for a time that seemed like an eternity...
But he was only eighteen... so he had decided that he didn't want that life anymore ..
A life that made his father into this monster Jimin couldn't even recognize anymore.
He couldn't and didn't want that ...!
Not for one minute longer... !
So here he was.. all alone with nothing he could refer to as his belongings ...
Nothing but a simple ,non_fancy Hanbok he was currently wearing and some money he could fill his stomach with .
He had to do a good job keeping himself hidden as the soldiers of his father's were already everywhere...
Looking desperately for their escapee prince .
He could imagine the face of his father's so clearly right now... all hurt and shocked!
Jimin had always been that submissive child who had never disobeyed or disagreed with anything his father used to say ,but now .. for the first time in his entire life, he was disregarding his father's words , not wanting to fulfill his sinister desires ,
not wanting to hurt his family, his dear precious taehyung who was his only friend in this empty ,lonely, meaningless such of a world in which he was forced to live.
There was no way in the world Jimin would agree with hurting them ,let alone participating in this horrible setting alongside his father , intending to hurt the king and his beloved son. The crown prince_ his Taehyungie.!
There was no way he could ever agree to hurt anyone for the sake of himself being the next king ... he couldn't care less about that shit .
How could he even want that when all he had ever wanted ever since he was a little boy was being an ordinary person living a life he wanted , not a life he hadn't even had the authority to choose what to wear for the day.!
He chose to flee then...
For him to give his father another duty : searching for his runaway son instead of planning on how to kill the king and the crown prince!
Jimin knew his father - the great Park Boem Soek - the right hand of the king - he wouldn't do this without Jimin... Cause in that case, he wouldn't have a crown prince ... he needed Jimin, and that's why he chose to leave .
If it was the price of the life of his Taehyungie, then he would gladly do this .
Even if it meant that he would never goanna see him again .
If this decision would spare Taehyung's life ... then why not? It was worth it .
Suddenly, a wave of a freezing cold breeze broke into the cave , killing the small fire Jimin had inflamed to protect him from the cold and any probable animal..it was now dark and cold .
Perfect...!
Just what he fucking needed .!
God was he scared... .
He had never been scared of anything in his life , well maybe that was because he had never actually had the chance to truly put himself in risky situations just to try ..he wasn't allowed to ..
"you are blue-blooded, you have to be careful with your actions "..that's the shit he would hear if he had done something considered as childish..but he was a child after all ,wasn't he?
Jimin was shaking .
He couldn't continue thinking with the piercing coldness proceeding to hit on his skin .
He didn't know what to do , not wanting to go outside the cave to collect some more sticks to make a new fire , not daring to leave this safe haven...
But...was it safe ?
As Jimin was struggling , he heard something!
He froze ...
It was some growling audible ...
A non-human like growling ...!
Jimin didn't have the chance to try to imagine what it could be cause when he finally dared to look up ,he saw the most frightening scene of his entire life !
There stood a huge animal Jimin assumed to be a wolf .!
He couldn't move an inch , even if he wanted to...
he just couldn't. !
There was no way to run ...
His brain stopped functioning...
He started to panic , shaking vigorously, his head dizzy ...
The animal kept getting closer and closer...
The last thing he saw was a silhouette , a shape of a human ...
Then...
There was black ...!