The Beauty and the Beast (Seventeen Meanie story)

Chapter 23 - Who Is The Real Monster?

A/N: This is a long chapter but I hope it's worth it :)

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'That's right, beat his ass!!' yelled Soonyoung from the shelf, watching the chaos of the room as all his friends (aka basically the furniture of the castle) were fighting the villagers. The step-stool, basically their puppy, was running between the people's legs, occasionally knocking some of them over. The forks kept attacking and stinging the villagers, spoons were being used as sling-shots... Soonyoung was mesmerized by the creativity of that and he assumed it was Jeonghan leading the silverware and the plates into war. Speaking of, the teapot was currently standing on another shelf with his army of teacup kids in front of him.

'And all together now, three two one-' he yelled and they all poured hot tea down from the shelf, directly at the man standing under it, making him scream in pain from the hot liquid.

Soonyoung's eyes were looking for Jihoon as he realized that he hasn't seen his boyfriend for some time now. Then he suddenly heard a painful scream and he froze, looking for the source of it. He spotted Jihoon. The father duster was in a villager's grip who was plucking his feathers out.

Soonyoung's brain was clouded by anger and he jumped off the shelf, making his way over to the man between people's legs. He quickly lit his candles up and-

The villager yelled out loud and jumped away as Soonyoung's candle burned him where the sun doesn't shine, yeeting the feather duster up in the air and running away. Soonyoung gasped and rushed forward, blowing out his candle and successfully catching Jihoon in his arms right before he would've landed on the ground.

'Jihoonie, are you alright?!' he exclaimed. Jihoon frowned.

'Sure. Just a bit hurt... thank you, Soonie' he mumbled.

'Guys, look! They are leaving-' arrived suddenly Seungkwan, but then a huge shadow towered over them. Soonyoung shoved Jihoon behind himself, shielding him with his body as he and Seungkwan faced the villager who was holding an axe in his hand.

'Shit, I'm made of wood, don't-!' covered his eyes Seungkwan. Soonyoung gulped, having no idea how could they prevent their tragic death.

'Hey, you!' yelled suddenly an unfamiliar voice, and the next moment the villager's head was hit by a frying pan, making the man lose consciousness and drop on the ground like a stone. A boy was standing behind him, looking at the frying pan in his own hand in disbelief. Soonyoung spotted Chan, the teacup on the boy's shoulder.

'Oh my god, I just knocked someone out' said the boy in disbelief.

'Hell yeah, nice one, big guy!' exclaimed Chan. The boy stepped over the villager's unconscious body and he leaned closer to Soonyoung and Seungkwan.

'Are you guys okay?' he asked them in concern.

'You saved our lives' muttered Soonyoung still in shock. Seungkwan rushed forward and with his tiny arms he shook the boy's hand enthusiastically.

'Thank you kind Sir! I'm Seungkwan and that's Soonyoung, nice to meet you!'

'I'm Seokmin' chuckled the boy.

'He's Wonwoo's friend' added Chan, jumping off Seokmin's shoulder onto the ground.

'Wonwoo is back?!' exclaimed the candelabra and the mantel clock happily.

'Yes, he is!' said Chan excitedly. 'We still have a chance!' Then they all turned back towards the chaos in the room.

'So... what now?'

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Mingyu was breathing heavily but he did his best at dodging and jumping out of the way of Gyeongsu's attacks as the two of them were fighting each other for life and death on the rooftop. Even though obviously the beast was the stronger one physically, unfortunately his sadness because of Wonwoo didn't really help his life instincts and it was mostly Gyeongsu attacking him and him defending.