Cured

Ch. 44

I sat in the center of the rose maze with Suga, a collection of keys sitting in front of me. Suga, exhausted already from our sneaking around all night, using his ability and depleting his energy, was passed out on the grass by the fountain. I, however, was starting down at the keys.

I had Xiumin's silver bracelet with the ice blue gems, Luhan's pink Opal pendant on a silver necklace, Tao's Dragon Agate pendant on a silver chain, Suho's gold brooch with a water sapphire surrounded by white diamonds, along with Sehun's silver ring with a bright yellow diamond, Kyungsoo's silver bracelet with three sister emeralds, and Kris' gold ring with a bright, blood red ruby. The sun was about to rise, and everyone was heading to bed. Suga and I planned on taking the other keys while everyone slept, since the ones we needed the guy's wore. We couldn't get them when they were awake, so this was our only chance.

I had told Tao that I was going to stay up for a bit, looking through books on the library for offensive spells that I could use in the fight, and he bought it, telling me not to stay up too late. Suga had told Namjoon that he was going to stay here to help Luhan with Ravi and the others, who were sleeping downstairs in the living room, which wasn't necessarily a lie, so he thought nothing of it.

I watched the lights in the mansion shut off downstairs, and waited until the sun had come up completely before deciding it was time. I quickly picked up the keys, placing them in a purse I had placed over my shoulder, crossing to my waist on the other side, then turned to Suga, seeing that he had covered his eyes with his arm, blocking the morning sunlight.

"Suga, it's time to go. They've been asleep for about an hour." I said, tapping his shoulder. Nothing. "Suga. Come on." Still no response. With a sigh, I sat beside him and moved his arm from over his eyes. "Min Yoongi. Get up, please, we have to get the last five."

At his full name, he sat up, eyes still closed. "Okay, I'm up."

Shaking my head, I got to my feet, then pulled him up. "Are you ready? Did you get enough rest?"

"Yeah, as long as we don't take too long." He replied, stretching. "Is it always this bright during the day?" He asked after a few seconds.

"Yes, now come on. Let's start off easy with Chanyeol since he'll sleep through anything. He has a black metal ring with an orange center." I said, making my way from the maze, Suga following me closely so as not to get lost.

"Okay, stay close this time. I don't need you floating away while I'm trying to keep us both invisible, okay?" Suga said once we were inside the back door.

"Okay." I replied, hoping I had enough control to stay on the ground after the last few hours of "practice."

With that, Suga took my hand, leading me down the hall, slowing as we came to the living room. Ravi was asleep in one of the chairs, Leo and Hyuk passed out on the couch along with Ken. N was on the floor in front of the couch, using one of the blankets Natasha had brought down for them.

"What are you two doing sneaking around like that?" I heard a voice ask, and I found myself staring across the room to the other chair where Hongbin was sitting.

"Please don't tell anyone." Suga said, not bothered by the fact that Hongbin could see us even though Suga was using his ability. "We need to get something in order to defeat Daehyun, but we had to wait for everyone to go to sleep."

Hongbin just nodded, and settled back into the reclined chair, pulling the blanket up to his chin as he went back to bed. Suga led me upstairs without a word, and I stopped him when we made it to the top. "We are invisible, right?" I asked.

"Yeah." Suga replied.

"So how could he see us?" I wondered.

"That's his ability. He can see through all magic, well almost all. The only magic he can't see through is Caroline's, but only because she's the one who turned him, so she can take control of him." Suga explained, then looked down the hall for Chanyeol's room, seeing it to the left. "You ready?"