CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

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by COPKOOK

by COPKOOK

Yoongi, Jungkook, Taehyung and Jimin sat at the shore while Woozi splashed about in the water, barking excitedly at a school of fish.

Taehyung looked across at Jimin, who was staring blankly out at the lake. He hesitantly reached out and poked him. Jimin looked at him, smiling slightly.

"Why are you so..." Taehyung waved a hand over his face. "Blank?"

"I was just thinking..." Jimin said with a sigh, looking back out at the water. He then frowned, looking at Taehyung again. He couldn't decide what he wanted to look at. "Why did those guys kill you? What did you do to deserve that?"

"They didn't mean to kill me." Taehyung said, defending his killers. "They did that almost every week, that week they just accidentally held me down for too long."

"Yeah, but they shouldn't have done that in the first place." Taehyung shrugged.

"I'd gotten used to it... My body's out there." Taehyung pointed out at the lake. "They dumped it and ran."

"So you never got a funeral? Your body wasn't buried?" Taehyung shook his head. "What about your family? Weren't they worried?"

"Nah, I spoke to them after. They were dead before me."

"Oh..." Taehyung grinned.

"I got my revenge though. There are a few more bodies at the bottom of that lake with mine." Jimin gulped, deciding then to make sure he never got on Taehyung's bad side.

"Ah, Woozi, put that down!" Yoongi exclaimed, jumping up and running out into the water. Woozi looked up, dropping the pixie that had made the mistake of flying too close to him. It fell into the water, too stunned to try and save itself. Yoongi reached into the water and scooped the pixie out, holding it in his palm.

He then dropped it back in the water when he realised it was Hoseok.

Hoseok floated across the surface of the water for a few moments before he recovered. He then swam to the shore, his wings drooping behind him as he stood up.

"Thanks a lot." He muttered to Yoongi on his way past. "I hope you choke on a heart."

"Woozi, I think there's a tasty pixie over here!" Yoongi called out, and Hoseok got the message. He shut up and kept walking.

There was silence minus Woozi's splashing for a few moments before the sound of giggling grew closer. Yoongi looked up and saw two elves walking with their arms around each other's shoulders, laughing uncontrollably.

"What're you two doing?" Yoongi asked Xiumin and Chen, frowning. The pair shrugged, looked at each other and burst out laughing again. "How high are you?"

"Nonono, Yoongi, you got it wrong." Xiumin said.

"It's 'hi, how are you'." The pair burst out laughing again.

Yoongi just stared at the two with an unamused expression. Jimin and Jungkook were both frowning at the high elves in confusion while Taehyung was acting as if this was nothing new. Which it wasn't.

Xiumin and Chen were quite often getting high, and they had even started attempting to make their own drugs and distribute them throughout the forest. There was a secret dealer, though, and he was the king of drugs. No one knew who he really was, but he went by the alias of Lay the Unicorn.

"Leave my presence." Yoongi said eventually. "You're a bad influence on my child."

Woozi had stopped his playing to stare at the two high elves.

"Hi baby Yoongi!" Xiumin called out, waving at Woozi. Woozi slowly waved back and then looked at Yoongi. He had a 'what do I do?' look on his face. Yoongi gestured for him to come over and Woozi ran into his arms, staring up at the elves.

"Go have your high somewhere else." Yoongi said, playing with Woozi's wet hair.

"Okay... We'll go harass someone else." Chen dragged Xiumin off, tugging at his arm.

"I hope you have a bad trip!"

Jongin walked though the town, reading the newspaper he'd bought. He frowned as he read the front page, which was talking about the numerous disappearances that had occurred during the month and the graves that had been dug up.

Jongin looked up, his frown deepening as he chucked the newspaper in the bin.

"Gumiho."