Seal of Dark Fate

Imprinted Secrets

RIGHT AFTER THE classes ended, the siblings went straight home to find their house empty which was pretty much a normal thing around those times. Their father, who is a renowned lawyer, usually gets home after eight. While their mother, who is a university professor, always gets home after six and seeing as she still have to run some errands for Jungkook's high school admission, they expected her to be home later than usual with the boy.

Already changed into more comfortable clothes, Haeyoon went up to her brother's room to ask for help on her English assignment. Although Yoongi was quite for known for his lethargic ways, the boy is still a 'smexy' or smart-and-sexy brained as he would like to put it. "Yoongi?" she called when she saw the boy lounging on his bed while fiddling with his phone.

"Yeah?" he looked up from his bed, hair messy and eyes sleepy.

She flopped down beside him on his bed with books on hand. "Can you help me with English, please?" The boy chuckled at his sister's cuteness before shifting into a sitting position and opening one of her books.

After a few minutes of studying the questions, he turned at Haeyoon with furrowed eyebrows, "Okay, I know I'm smart and all but I'm not that kick-ass when it comes to English compared to Namjoon so...I think we'll be needing a little help from Mr. Webster." He smiled sheepishly at the girl, making her giggle.

"Alright, I get it," she said laughingly as she got up from the bed. "I think there's a dictionary in dad's study." She headed downstairs and opened the dark wooden door next to the stairwell. It was never locked since it also functions as the family's mini library. The girl walked up to the book shelf and scanned for the dictionary which she found almost immediately. She was about to leave the room when something shiny on their father's study table caught her eyes. She turned and saw piles of folder neatly stacked on the mahogany table but what got her curious was the black book partly hidden by some flyers. Peering closer, she saw that the shiny thing she saw were actually tiny different colored gems glinting under the sunlight from the glass window. The gems were attached to the corner of the book and when she shoved the flyers aside, she realized that the whole surface of the five-inch thick book was adorned with jewels to perfection. The book was strange and obviously very old but still in a good condition. Her mouth parted in awe when her eyes landed to the embossed emblem on the middle of the book, surrounded by the seemingly precious stones. It was shaped like an 'L' with other swirly intricate designs twirling around it and the girl wasn't so sure how to explain it but she knows that it was really beautiful and it was definitely made out of pure gold. It was like a crest that one usually see in some old fairytale books, like a crest that represents a family, group or kingdom.

"Wow..." was all she managed to say before her hands, as if having a mind of their own, carefully flipped the cover of the old book open. The first page, which shows a map, was already yellowish on the edges and running a finger over it, the girl knew that it wasn't just a normal piece of paper. The second and third pages also had a map drawn across it with words and labels that Haeyoon was not familiar with but one word caught her attention. "Lucere," she breathed as she remembered the word being mentioned by her parents last night. Flipping through the pages, she realized that she can understand the words written on the next pages and when she saw something written about The Guardians and more about Lucere, she rushed upstairs to her brother.

"Yoongi, check this out," she uttered breathlessly as she cautiously placed the heavy book on the bed before sitting down beside the brown-haired boy. "I saw this on dad's study table and I guess this could answer our questions."

"No shit," he said incredulously before turning his full attention towards the old book. They sat there in total silence as they read the book together. They can't bring themselves to believe on what was being revealed to them. "Is this book for real? Sorcerers? Kingdom of Lucere? Fuck this shit..." Yoongi grumbled in disbelief but still continued reading while Haeyoon silently tried to absorb the bizarre information. However, they were interrupted when they heard their mother's voice from downstairs. Another string of profanities left the boy's mouth as they were both frozen staring at each other, the black book between them. "I'll distract mom while you return the book," Yoongi said in panic as they both shot up from the bed and darted downstairs.