the genie «yoonmin»

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"Ok, so just one more day and we will be in Clucia." Namjoon followed the map with the tip of his finger and Jin sighed content that this torture would end soon, he wished he could just swim in the ocean already.

"However, there is one problem..." The slender man in front of them grinned and eyed all of the people on their camels. "Me!"

Everybody sighed defeated. All they they needed to do so that they could reach Clucia was pass the damn portal in the middle of the dessert but of course there will be a sand spirit to guard it. Because as you know nothing is as easy as it looks.

"And why can't you let us pass Mr..." Yoongi started but he realized halfway that he didn't know the man's name.

"Minhyuk." The spirit cheekily grinned again. He looked like a mischievous spirit to be honest.

"Then, Minhyuk-ssi~" Hoseok whined, trying to appeal cuter than usual. "Can't you let us pass, pwetty pwease?" He pouted his lip, already tasting his success.

"Hm..." Minhyuk pretended to think hard. "No." He said with a straight face.

"Meanie!" Hoseok whined again and clung onto Changkyun's back. They were all now off their camels.

The spirit smiled bitterly. "You either pass my trial or you drown in my sands." Hoseok swore that despite the angelic face the spirit had, it was actually closer to the devil.

"No need to chitchat... Just get straight to your point. What did he say?" Yoongi asked, annoyance present in his voice and impatience in his actions.

"So you know? And there goes the fun!" Minhyuk pouted and Hoseok had to hold himself back from chuckling because the sand spirit looked incredibly cute at that moment.

"Stop kidding around!" Namjoon exclaimed, his voice stern. "Just say what we need to do."

"Hm..." Minhyuk pretended to think again. "Some desert orchid would really suit my collection right now..." He said out loud but pretended as if he was still thinking about it. However, his 'secret' looks at the group, and especially Hoseok, hinted them that this was what he wanted.

"Really!?" Jin sighed exasperatedly. "Nah-ah!" He sassed as he sat on a big stone near Minhyuk. "You can go! Me and the spirit will talk but I ain't moving a muscle!"

"Excuse you!?" Jungkook looked in disbelief at his hyung.

"You heard me. Now go! Shoo, shoo!" And after a few glares from the others, they separated in different ways, searching for the said rare color while Jin just relaxed at the stone.

"Why'd you stay?" Minhyuk looked sceptically at Jin.

"Because I'm tired and I don't trust you. End of the topic." Jin just laid back in the stone, knowing his tail will appear pretty soon without Namjoon giving him the usual potion in exactly twenty minutes.

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"Is this it?" Jungkook asked holding an ordinary plant.

"For the tenth time already, Jeon Jungkook, the answer is no!" Jimin huffed as he passed yet another plant.

"Well, sorry for not understanding from mold!" Jungkook exclaimed and plopped down on the sand, Taehyung soon joining him by falling on his stomach. "Ugh, Tae! That hurt!" He whined but let the genie be nevertheless.

"Stop lazing about! We have no time, idiots!" Yoongi exclaimed as he eyed suspiciously some random leaves in the oasis they currently were.

"I found it!" Namjoon suddenly exclaimed as he held a pretty flower with pretty brownish petals which resembled the sand itself.

Everybody happily gathered around Namjoon and then started speed walking towards their previous destination and where Jin was. However, upon arriving they were met by a horrific sight.

Jin was half on the sand, half on the stone with his blue fish tail out and panting hard. Minhyuk was levitating calmly by the side on a cloud of sand and there was another tall and stern looking guy in front of the siren. His index finger was pointing at Jin and he was talking but the group couldn't hear well from where they were so they slowly started closing them.

Two people felt their hearts skip a beat upon realizing who it was - Yoongi and Changkyun. Yoongi felt like going to the taller man and hitting him square in the jaw while Changkyun felt simply used, betrayed and vulnerable. He shouldn't have called him, really.

"Without you it will be easier to bring his darker side out easier." Jooheon grinned as his finger aimed more precisely at Jin's chest.

"Jooheon, don't do something you will regret." Jin said between his teeth. Only now did the others notice that his tail had a round piercing through it in one of the fins at the end and was slightly bleeding.

"No, do it." Minhyuk contradicted. "It may be fun. It may not be lonely!" He grinned and his cloud started moving from left to right in excitement.

"Jooheon!" Changkyun suddenly exclaimed from his place still unable to find strength and close the siren and the man in front of it.

Jooheon looked sadly at Changkyun and smiled sadly as if he didn't want it as well. "I have no other choice." He muttered. "Do you know the ingredients for his potion?" Jooheon suddenly asked feeling the pressure and the insicureness in him awaken.

"No..." Changkyun's voice felt muffled, distant as if he had no strength to even talk. His chest ached from all the pain his heart was going through and his brain didn't seem to operate properly.

"Smeraldo petals..." The thing Namjoon already had. "Dragon claw... Doesn't seem impossible to get now, does it?" Jooheon laughed bitterly as Midnight squeaked. "And finally... A genie's wish." That's why people called the potion impossible to be brued. The last ingredient was almost impossible to get. "But how about I help you a bit?" Jooheon smiled maniacally. "You have two genies... At least one will do the work."

His voice came out lower than intended and before anyone had the chance to react and even Namjoon to scream 'Jin!' a wave of air pressure was already piercing Jin's abdomen. Thankfully, Jooheon was at least bad at shooting... At least that.

Namjoon's screams of despair filled the air. The others looked in terror at the sight in front of them. Jin bleeding, Namjoon crying, Minhyuk not knowing whether it was appropriate to laugh or to just look sad and Jooheon who once again disappeared into thin air as if he was never there in the first place...

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