Book 2 : BTS 👀, Skz🥰, Ateez✨

Bloodthirst 1.2: Interesting

"Have you already participated in this...event?" I frown.

"It's my fourth participation." She sighs "Last year I was...well it doesn't matter, does it?" She smiles "There are about fifteen candidates. The first round will eliminate half of them. There are three rounds, always different from year to year." She looks at her perfectly manicured nails.

"Attention."

I look up to see a guy standing in front of the seven males from the Dahlia group. He begins greeting and introducing each group and each diamond must step forward and great the Dahlia group. Each greeting is fancier than the other and if they could lick their feet they would. That is my impression.

"Last, The Strays." The man says, "Elina Wilson step forward."

I grimace. I do not have any idea about what I am going to do once I step forward. I will not do a ten-minute speech like the dolphin-I mean Maria. I stand in the center with sweaty hands and do a curtsy.

"I greet the leader of the Dahlia group." I bow my head deeply.

"How old are you?"

It is the first time they speak since the beginning. According to what Sejeong said, his name was...Kim Seokjin or something alike.

"I'm 22 years old." I answer him raising my head to look at him.

Again, I am entranced. And I feel my ability trying to reach out. I look away taking a sharp breath in. I was always in control of myself, of my ability. So why now? Why does it go crazy now? I hear steps getting closer as I try to focus on myself and not on the sounds around me. Which is a big mistake. Someone raises my chin and kisses me. I am startled, but the man grips my waist and glues me close to him. After a minute of resistance, trying to breathe, he finally pulls away. I am breathing heavily and I lean my head against his chest. It is that one that Sejeong warned me about: Park Jimin.

"You should listen when someone talks to you angel, otherwise things like this could happen again." He whispers in my ear before lifting me up. I cannot even answer as he pushed my head into his neck, cradling me. "There will be a 20-minute break for now, you can go ahead and join your fellow groups." He announces out and loud.

"I can take care of her." Sejeong speaks up and her voice is closer.

There is a tense silence, and I can feel it. The darkness boiling inside of him seeping out, the bloodthirst coming to life. And right away my ability acts out. Instinctively I grab his neck, the only place where is skin is revealed and he looks at me. Lava pupils stare into my soul and it responds to it. He takes a big inhale as the lightening red softens and he turns towards the stage. There is a silence as the six men stare at us. An undecipherable expression on their face.

"Take her." The man finally speaks up.

Sejeong does not take a long time to react. She blinks repeatedly at him and then approaches. She manages to life Elina without a hitch, but Jimin does not let her go right away. Until I blink and look away, repressing my ability with all the mental strength I had left. It takes me a good 25 seconds and Jimin finally release me and walks away.

"What was that?" IN asks.

I am sat in the Strays private room.

"They are probably perfect match for each other. Elina must be their Quencher." Lee Know speaks up as I stare at him.

"A what?" I mumble.

"A Quencher. That is the main reason Kim Namjoon started this whole competition anyway. To find their Quencher. The Pink eyed person who would be able to release them from their bloodthirst." He looks at Bang Chan. "The first ever in this case."