A House Made of Cards {Ateez au}

Chapter 5 - The Attack

From where he stands, Seonghwa can see Yunho on the roof, watching. Their plan was simple, Yunho would wait for Hongjoong and Mingi and alert him when he saw them. Then they would start their distraction, leaving time for Wooyoung and Jongho to complete their real mission.

Seonghwa feels his wrist vibrate, smirking as he looks down and sees the message.

"I see them, they're alone. Proceed with the plan."

The boy's eyes turn a vibrant green as energy of the same color begins to float around his fingers. Vines begin to break through the concrete, finding and targeting humans as they walk by.

Seonghwa turned the street into a blood bath.

Vines were stabbing as many as they could. Seonghwa could hear screaming and crying. Pained screams and scared yells of parents who couldn't find their children.

And he loved it.

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Mingi was the first one to notice the screaming. He noticed the random splashes of blood afterward.

"Joong," he said hurriedly. The older boy was already looking back at him, wide-eyed.

"We should probably handle that," Hongjoong said, getting his phone from his bag to contact Eden and the rest of his team.

Mingi wasted no time running into the crowd and throwing up shields around as many people as he could. Dozens of people were already dead, but he tried as hard as he could to protect the ones that were still alive.

Keeping that many shields up was tiring, especially when a certain witch was constantly attacking his shields with more vines.

From behind him, he heard a girl yell for him to watch out. He turned around just in time to dodge a glowing blue scythe.

Seriously, what was this guy's problem?

Mingi was exhausted, creating shield after shield in an attempt to protect those around him and himself from Yunho, who had hidden within the crowd.

He was barely able to block a strike to his neck.

He found that Yunho was very close to him in skill and speed.

Mingi created a shield the size of a baseball and sent it speeding towards Yunho's head. The ball hit its target with an audible thwack.

Yunho is knocked to the ground, hissing in pain. He then swings his scythe at Minhi, sinking it into his leg.

Mingi appreciated the feeling as much as he did the first time.

Not at all, for those of you who don't understand sarcasm.

The pain coming from his calf caused his shields to glitch, allowing some vines to come in. Screaming erupted around Mingi.

The scythe was about to drop down onto his head when a familiar silver wire wrapped around it and launched it into the air.

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Yunho turned and glared at Hongjoong. Hongjoong backed up slightly, not realizing Seonghwa was right behind him.

The second his back made contact, he turned and sent a group of wires toward the taller.

Hongjoong was grateful to be surrounded by so many technologically advanced buildings with lots of wires.

The older boy used his vines to wrap around the wires, causing them to crack with a quiet hiss, electricity crackling around them, burning the vines.

Hongjoong briefly wondered if it hurt Seonghwa in any way.