Stay Gold

A Warlock's Move, Jin's heavy heart

3rd person's pov

Highly irate at the fact that he had failed once again, Taemin tore apart several of his spell books. He seethed horribly, fuming at the fact that she has gotten away so many times. There was only one thing he could do, which was take her head on. None of his golems had done enough to slow her down, if anything, they only further fueled her determination to get her brother back. "This is how you want play.. Then this is what you'll get." Taemin muttered to himself, he grabbed his staff and headed out of his house without so much as a word to Damian. Speaking of the young man, he had heard everything and began to wriggle around in his seat. He had to get himself untied, although that wasn't going to be as easy as it was the first time around. He didn't have as much strength nor were his muscles ready to be exerted as he was simply just exhausted from all the fighting he was doing with Taemin. "Come on... Just a little more. I have to get out of here and somehow find Elizabeth before he does. He'll kill her the first chance he gets." Damian continued trying to angle his hand so that he could free one wrist, when he finally felt the rope, he let out a breath of relief. He took in a deep breath, feeling his palm heat up and used his fire magic in order to burn the rope. Finally freeing his hands, Damian quickly reached down to undo the rope that bounded his feet. A wave of relief hit Damian as he freed himself from the chair, he stood up but nearly fell over as the feeling in his legs had barely been there. He had been sitting too long, so with each step he took, it felt like pins and needles. Damian pushed through the weird sensation, using whatever strength he had and headed for the door. But not before grabbing his weapon, which Taemin had hung on the wall. "I'm not gonna just let you kill my sister, Taemin. I'm going to stop you before you can. That's a promise. I just hope Elizabeth will be able to hold him off." Damian made his way over to the table, grabbing a small potion bottle. Taemin had brewed a healing potion some time ago, but hadn't used it. Without hesitation, Damian opened the small bottle and drank half of the liquid. He took a breath, wiped his mouth and placed the top back on the bottle before placing it in his pocket. Feeling much stronger and a lot healthier, he headed over to the crystal ball Taemin used. It was like the ball knew what he was going to ask because it showed him exactly where Elizabeth was, he was shocked to see the seven young men traveling with her. "These must be the seven young men that Elizabeth has befriended. They all seem strong... I just hope they can hold off Taemin until I can get there. Don't worry, Liz. I'm coming." Damian walked away from the ball, opened the front door and headed out, hoping to reach Elizabeth's whereabouts before Taemin did.

Meanwhile...

Elizabeth had kept her distance ahead of the group, her silence was only further worrying Jimin and Hoseok. Yoongi thought that giving her space was the only thing needed, he could see that this was all starting to get to her. Jin, on the other hand, wasn't exactly worried about Elizabeth about the given moment. His mood had slightly soured, before the group had left the last town they were in, Jin found intel on the mage who had taken his sister. What he found out wasn't exactly good news, the mage had supposedly disappeared shortly after heading into their town. It was the last time he was seen, the townsmen who he had talked to directed Jin to the man who last saw the mage. "I remember that mage...he was something else. Had a very pretty young woman on his arm that most people thought was his girl, but from my eyes, I could tell she wasn't too keen on him. I sensed that she was no ordinary woman, there's no way that beautiful women would go with him unless he had her under his control. You mind telling me why you're asking about this guy?" The townsmen asked, Jin had picked up on the irish accent of the man sitting in front of him. "That mage.. Kidnapped my little sister five months ago. I've been looking for her ever since. That mage you saw... Did he look anything like this?" Jin handed the man a folded piece of paper, this paper had a sketch of the mage that took his sister. He had drawn it after the showdown between him and the mage, he was recovering from his injuries and had drawn it to remember the face. Next to it was a drawing of his sister, he wanted to people to recognize the young girl. The man looked at the sketch and took a swig of his drink, "Yeah, that's him. And that's the girl he was with. I haven't seen them since they first initially arrived here in town." Jin knew that he was going to have figure out how to track this mage, but he had no other clues to go on. He looked over at Namjoon, who was having a conversation with Jungkook and Taehyung. A thought crossed his mind, maybe Namjoon was the key to helping him find his sister.