Monsta X Oneshots

Blind (ShowKi)

1946

They flow together, easy and fluid as the waves themselves. They glide over and under each other, dancing to the song of bluewhales.
He is captivated by her eyes, as if they're the sea he swims in: hazel that's green in the sunlit waters they are twirling in.
She opens her mouth to join the whales' harmony, and the voice that spills forth makes him deaf to all other cadences.
He dips lower, towards her, who is floating beneath him so enticingly.
He lets his hands grace her slim, smooth waist, but warning bells seem to be sounding at the back of his brain, which has been lulled by her intoxicating song. He knows better, but so does she...
And the ocean knows they do.
They are too late to sense her disrupted waters. Just like that, a tide roars and rips her out of his hands and for once he gasps and sucks in water and cannot breathe.
The very same ocean that is his ally now swallows him into the abyss.
We knew better.

***

2016

Minhyuk lets forth another dolphin like squeal, but Kihyun's forgotten what they're supposed to be laughing at. They all have, the five of them splayed out on the blanket on the sand. Light of the crescent moon shines down on them and their drunk laughter echoes in the empty beach.
Jooheon is too stoned to banter anymore and is wilting against Minhyuk even though he jostles him excitedly for no reason each time he laughs. Hyungwon is out alongside Changkyun, snoring and spread eagled, one long leg trailing onto the sand. Hoseok giggles in time to Minhyuk's blabbering, absently stroking Hyungwon's hair. Kihyun feels he's getting stoned too as the drunken banter fades in his ears and his vision blurs. He shakes his head; the dappled sea look soooo pretty and he wants to keep looking. Maybe a walk will clear his mind.
"I'm goin' to..." he forgets what he's saying and it takes him three tries to get to his feet.
"Aye, Ki-Ki, where ya goin'?" Hoseok slurs, slightly more alert. Kihyun staggers as his head spins.
"W..wor a falk--mean for a..walk," Kihyun giggles at his own slur. He waves or hopes he did. "I'll be back 'n a whi'e.."
"Hm.." Hoseok keels over, words dying in his mouth.
Kihyun walks unsteadily, giggling brokenly whenever he staggers. He wants to look at the beautiful moon spattered sea and he'll look at all of it.
So he scrambes up the cliffs jutting out over the sea, falling and scraping himself one too many times. But the bruises wake him up to keep going till he's right at the top--
He catches a glimpse of milky waves and gray foam before he topples.
He cries out, flailing as wind buffets and tears his eyes all the way open so he can see the water rapidly coming up to face him and suddenly he's sober and panicking until the waves, deceieving and concrete against him, slam and knock him into inky blackness.

***

Hungry.
Hyunwoo ignores the monotonous moan of the pirhana who resolutely swims around him. He rests his head in his hands, elbows on thighs, and sighs as thick black mist oozes around him. He feels drowsy, even as he perches on the hard rock right on the sea bed.
Want food. Others find food.
The pirhana laments wistfully.
"Then go find them," Hyunwoo mutters irritably. The fish is tempted.
Food. Food is like the sea prince, sea prince would not want mortal to be eaten.
Hyunwoo frowns, looking up. There is only blackness around him, but his night vision lets him see the pirhana's visicious teeth.
"Another body?" He askes wearily, too worn out to regret anymore. The pirhana is agitated.
Want eat. Mortal no die...others eat. Can't eat mortal. Mortal is like Her servants. Still others eat.
Hyunwoo immediately shoots upward, away from his post. Someone has drowned...he lets his mingle in the ocean, sensing, sensing...
There.
Near the shore, but dangerously deep...he can feel the life of the human...
...and attack of predators.
Hyunwoo abandons post, zipping like a torpedo through the dark waters.
No one touches the human!
His command thunders through the waves and he feels the scavengers scatter.
In no time he draws near to the place where the human is, and he can sense his life force so clearly; it's been so long since such a presence is within his reach.
The waters are dark even as he hovers over the mortal whose life force wans. With his night vision, he makes out a small, petite figure with brown hair clouding in the water. He sees scrapes on the otherwise unblemished skin, some fresh from the scavengers' attacks. And his breathing is slowing. Hyunwoo dips forward and forces an air bubble around him.