Chapter 23: Betrayal

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"So then he really is dead!" Cried out Seokmin.

"It's ok Seokmin." Soonyoung tries to comfort him.

"The last time I saw them was when was joined Pledis again, but I still contacted them." Seokmin says.

The three stand there silently listening to the river flow.

They stand there until the sun sets. Once it sets they decide to head back.

"So what are we going to do?" Seungkwan asks.

"Wait for Seungcheol to-" Soonyoung starts but Seungkwan cuts him off.

"No I mean what are we going to do." He says emphasizing the we.

"What do you mean?" Asks Seokmin.

"I mean we can't just sit around waiting to attack or let them come to us. We have to bring the fight to them." Seungkwan says as they approach the house.

"Wait quiet." Soonyoung suddenly says.

"What?" The other two ask.

"Do you hear that?" He asks.

They all stay silent for a while.

"I don't hear anything?" Seokmin asks confused.

"Exactly," Soonyoung says looking around. "Somethings wrong it's too quiet."

They quickly walk towards the house and step inside. It's quiet, too quiet. They silently walk down the hallway to the living room but are stopped by a gun clicking behind them.

"Don't take another step." Says the voice.

Their eyes widen as they recognize the voice, two other figures appear in front of them but its to dark to tell who they are.

"Put your hands up slowly." Says one of the people in front of them.

The three glance at each other with wide eyes but slowly put up their hands.

"Walk." Commands the other one in front of them.

The three don't do anything just stand still.

"Walk." Grits the guy again.

The three carefully start walking forward. One of them turns around and walks to the door opening it.

"And don't even think about using your powers." says the guy behind them as he attaches something to each of their wrists.

Soonyoung right away recognizes it as a specially made power dampener their ancestors made for when powers got into the wrong hands. His parents used it quite a few times on him since he was horrible at controlling them, and it was originally his sister that was supposed to have them.

As known it's the oldest that get the powers but back in the 19th century it started changing slightly, but a majority of the people who got their powers were still the oldest.

The three walk out the door one of the guys in front and the other two behind them. They keep their hands up as they follow the guys back into the fields into tall grass and back into corn fields.

No one says anything until they are brought to where everyone else was.

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Sunset

"Why aren't they back yet?" Jeonghan asks worried.

"They probably decided to watch the sunset." Wonwoo says, reading a book.

Chan and Samuel sat at the corner of the room looking through an old photo book that they found. Minghao on the other hand was just talking with Jun who was showing him this book he found around the house.

"I say now is a great time to discuss what happens next." Seungcheol says walking in.

"No." Jeonghan disagrees. "The other three have to be here."

"We have to decide our plan now. I say we give them what we want." Seungcheol argues.

"No way in hell. Do you know what they can do with that? Everything, they could destroy the world!" Jeonghan argues.

"It's our best bet." Seungcheol argues.

"Guys don't fight I'm sure we can come up with a better and safer solution." Samuel cuts in.

The others come in at that time and see all the commotion.

"What's going on?" asks Mingyu.

"We can't give them what they want!" Jeonghan yells at Seungcheol.

"Well maybe we have to!" Seungcheol yells back.

"You want to give what Seokmin values the most, away?" Jeonghan asks.

"We don't have much of a choice, do we?" Seungcheol retorts.

"We aren't giving it up." Jeonghan states.

"Then I should have done this a while ago." Seungcheol says.

Before Jeonghan can ask what he means Seungcheol pulls out a gun and points it at him. The ones who were sitting stand up as soon as they see the gun.

"Seungcheol?" Jisoo calls.

"We should have done this sooner." Is all Seungcheol says.

Mingyu looks at him and then looks over to Wonwoo and pulls out a gun as well, pointing it at him. The others soon follow, Jun and Minghao at each other, Chan and Samuel at each other, Wonwoo at Mingyu, Jisoo and Hansol at whoever, and Jihoon at Jeonghan.

"Drop your guns." Seungcheol says looking at Wonwoo, Minghao, and Samuel.

"What are you doing?" Asks Jeonghan.

Seungcheol doesn't answer him "Drop your weapons."

Jeonghan glances at each and everyone one of them, noticing something in their eyes. He then looks back at Seungcheol who still holds his gun at him.

"Pledis put you up to this, didn't they?" Jeonghan asks.

No one answers.

"Answer me god dammit!" Jeonghan yells.

No one answers but Jeonghan can easily tell he's correct. He looks back at the others and sighs.

"Put your weapons down." He tells them.

Minghao and Samuel are about to complain but he shushes then with a glare. They all throw down their weapons and lift their hands up in surrender.

Hansol and Jisoo approach each one and put the cuffs on their wrists.

"You found them I see." Jeonghan notes.

"Shut it." Seungcheol says.

Everyone stays silent as Jisoo and Hansol finish putting the cuffs on the four.

"Let's go." Seungcheol says motioning to the door where Jihoon was holding it open. "And don't even think of running."

Jeonghan looks him straight in the eyes  before following Mingyu and Jun out, the other three following behind.

"You three stay here and wait for the other three to get back, it's time we listened to Pledis. You know where to go." Seungcheol directs them.

"You got it." Jihoon nods.

And with that the others leave, leaving Jisoo, Hansol, and Jihoon to wait for the three that went to the river.

Posted September 18, 2018

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