Ripple: BTS AU Story ✓

Chapter 22

Hello! I am back with another chapter. I hope you like it. Also, has anyone recognized the order of how they wake up yet?

Hoseok winces a little as light starts to hit him in the face. He reaches his hand to block the light and only then starts to realize where he is. He is sprawled out on a picnic blanket. There are loads of green grass all over and birds can be heard in the background. Hoseok blinks, confused as to where he is. He sits up and combs his hand through his hair. Hoseok surveys his surroundings, hoping that it could help to discover where he is. He sits in front of a large tree that provides a considerable amount of shade. There are white fluffy clouds traveling through the sky. Hoseok seems to be sitting in an open field with no form of civilization. He's surrounded by grass and trees and pure nature. Wind blows and ruffles his hair. He takes in a deep breath and can't help but feel relaxed. He has no idea where he is, but he's comfortable here. He doesn't seem to be in any danger here. He might as well just stay for a bit. It doesn't seem like there is anyone here to bother him either. No one would miss him. He lets his body fall back onto the blanket. He stares at the clear blue sky and his eye catches on the wispy clouds. The wind pushes the clouds away and they change shapes a lot. Hoseok continues to stare at the clouds. He thinks back to when he was younger and used to do just this. Stare at the clouds for hours on end. He used to go to the park with his mom. They would lay out on the grass and point at the sky. They would call out what they would think the cloud is shaped as. He hasn't done that for years, yet he finds the want to do it again. He tilts his head so that he can get a clear view of the clouds. He stares at one of the clouds and watches as the wisps move around. He waits until the cloud stills before calling out what it looks like. "BTS symbol..." Hoseok mutters. His mouth moves before his mind has time to process what he said. He doesn't recognize the words that fall from his lips, but he had to have seen it before to have called it out like that.

Hoseok shakes his head and looks back towards the sky. The same cloud is morphing and changing into another shape. It doesn't change a lot and looks fairly similar to the first shape. The only difference being the positioning. "ARMY..." Hoseok mutters, staring at the cloud for only a second. He has no idea how he is able to identify it so fast. He's never heard of ARMY before, yet it felt right to dub the cloud that name. He doesn't dwell on it for long as the wind blows the cloud away.

Hoseok stares at the sky as another cloud floats into his vision. "Dogs," Hoseok says with a small smile, "Yeontan, Rap Mon..." He slowly sits up, his eyes still trained onto the clouds. There was no reason for him to have named the cloud dogs. There was no way he could've come up with names for them that quickly either. He frowns as he tries to come up for some plausible reason. His mind can't seem to formulate anything. He shakes his head as he can't bring up anything. He bites his lip before staring at the cloud, but it seems to have moved away while he was busy thinking.

The cloud now has a new shape that seems to be moving along with the wind. It's a figure that seems to be doing a complicated dance of sorts. He looks at it with awe and slowly gets to his feet. He tries to copy the dance, but finds it easier than he expected. He follows along with the choreo as if he's practiced it over a dozen times. He slowly stops moving and stares at the cloud. If he didn't know any better, he would say the figure looks like him. Hoseok shakes his head, trying to get that crazy thought out of his head. Suddenly, a tune rings throughout his head. He closes his eyes and the song plays in his mind. He can't picture anything else and the melody goes away quickly. Hoseok sighs before sitting back onto the blanket. He struggles to remember the tune, but can't seem to recall it. His brow furrows and he looks back to the sky. It seems that every time he looks at the sky something interesting happens. Something new would pop into his mind.

Hoseok looks at a new cloud that appears to be a ball of some sort on a stick. "ARMY bomb," Hoseok states with conviction. The longer he looks at it, the clearer of the picture in his head becomes. It looks like a bunch of people waving these stick things in the air. They light up a variety of different colors and Hoseok can feel tears build up in his eyes. He has no idea why, but the image...the memory...brings him to tears. Happy tears. Proud tears. He closes his eyes and tries to push the emotions away. As he does, the image fades from his mind. It was a blurry image, but it filled Hoseok with questions. "There has to be more..." Hoseok mutters.