Defy The Earth

Chapter 8

There was a calm that settled in on between them. From the playful banter, to the occasional serious and deep moments to the silent and comfortable moments – they became closer. Chanyeol had to go to school that Monday and Xiumin drove all the kids to school with his van. Chanyeol didn't feel different from all of them, now. They were fighting for one cause. They lived together. And Baekhyun had told him to be vocal about his feelings towards the others, so Chanyeol told Sehun, Kai and Kyungsoo, how he felt estranged, was slightly bullied and felt like he couldn't relate to them.

Kai blinked, "Dude, you should have told us earlier. We had no intention to make you feel that way."

Kyungsoo nodded, "These two try their best to be heart-throbs, but I think you know that they're just idiots."

Kai pouted, "Your idiots."

Kyungsoo did not reply. Instead he talked to Xiumin about how school was killing him with those extra assignments.

Sehun leaned forward, "Chanyeol, you should hang out with us more. We're the Mayhem Group after all."

Chanyeol gave him a teeth smile, "After all."

And that was all that needed to be said. People didn't make fun of him when he stepped in with Kyungsoo, Kai and Sehun. He had a lot of fun at school that day. He played childish games with Kyungsoo and Kai in his boring Maths class, hung out with Sehun in P.E. and taught him English, did a cover with Kyungsoo in Music and ate with all of them in Lunch. All four of them became immediately inseparable.

"We finally found our lost member!" Kai exclaimed, as they walked out of school. And Chanyeol, Sehun and D.O. whooped, signing some sort of deal between them.

Xiumin noticed their cheery smiles, and eyed them knowingly, "Had fun kids?"

They all piled in the van and started recounting everything that happened that day, one by one and Xiumin listened intently, with a smile on his face.

The same stories were also repeated in the cafeteria, when all twelve of them were sitting. And as Chanyeol looked at Baekhyun, who was till bandaged, he noticed him smiling widely. That brightened up his day.

"Level Three: Basic Weaponry," Baekhyun said, opening the giant door, revealing a large storehouse of weapons ranging from knives, words, bows, crossbows, guns, swords and weird things that he didn't recognize, "In this, we're going to learn how to use all the weapons."

Chanyeol paused, "But I have a sword," He said, remembering his Sword that he had named 'Ignis.'

Baekhyun nodded, "That's right, But, just in case, you should know how to handle all the weapons, besides a sword is a short-range weapon. You should know how to use long-distance ones too."

Chanyeol nodded, stepping in the room, noticing all sorts of dummies and targets and dart-boards. He turned back to see Baekhyun, "Which weapon do you use?"

Baekhyun smirked, "I use daggers. Double-daggers. They're my preferred weapons. But I'm good with long-distance weapons too – guns, bows, cross-bows. I like swords too, but cavalry ones or short ones. But I confidently say that I have used every weapon here."

Chanyeol's eyes widened. There were way too many weapons here. There were heaps of daggers and swords just lying there, "You're joking."

Baekhyun clicked his tongue, "Nuh-uh. I'm not," He strode forward, his hand brushing against one such pile of swords, "You know how you got your sword? From the Earth?"

Chanyeol nodded.

"I got most of these weapons in that way. All of those silver ones," He pointed at two heaps of silver weapons – guns, crossbows, bullets, and swords, "I got them all."