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Paths

Taehyung's mask fitted perfectly onto his face, but even with the mask on, it couldn't hide his god-like structured face. His few light blue streaks were being blown against the wind as he rode through the deserts. It was full white, the horse tack attached wasn't ordinary, it light in colour and it glistened against the sun, adding more beauty to the horse.

Celeste , meanwhile , was focusing on her own horse, she wore a black scarf which covered half of her face too. It was a plain, short scarf that wrapped around her neck and face.

What she didn't notice was that her eyes outlined luminescence green for a few seconds....

The team of five raced across the plain sandy deserts with their horses, the sound of horses galloping was one of Celeste's favourite. Ever since young, she loved horses, seeing them, dreaming of riding on them, training them-everything.
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"OVER THERE" It was one of Calseloux's guard voice. She knew.

"Dammit" Taehyung cursed as his eyes outlined blue.

It was a whole army behind them and they had no protection. They were on the bare field, the sandy plain desert. Wonderful. Just wonderful.

Teleportation? They couldn't. Before they knew it, they were already in the forbidden forest. It was the forest that forbid spells, sure, they benefit because if five, zero or Calseloux was following them from behind. They could use no magic.

But there was a downside for them too. Arrows could be heard shooting and dodging them was a huge hassle.

"We split" Taehyung turned to his friends. The army behind was huge, would scarification be made? no, they couldn't lose.

Within a blink, all five, well four of them went in different directions. Taehyung nodded to Hoseok as a sign for him to follow his sister before they parted ways. He trusted hoseok to protect her, didnt know why. It just felt safer. Somehow.

Hoseok turned back and face forward again, he was almost out of the forbidden forest.

"Shit" He immediately rode his horse to chase after her, boy, her horse was darn fast.

In the direction they were going at, there would be a cliff, they would need to swiftly turn right and continue. However, the moment they were out of the forest, a sudden blast of magic passed hoseok and hit celeste's horse.

He didn't know what kind of magic it was, but it caused her horse to gallop at an even faster speed, it was obvious it wasnt going to turn right, it was going to go straight down the cliff.

"HOLD YOUR HORSES" Hoseok shouted, literally, hold your horses. He tried to make the magic disappear but it was strong, it didn't disappeared. It had to be from either of the Vlyins.

"WELL IM TRYING" Celeste screamed back.

"TRY HARDER"

"CAN YOU STOP TALKING AND HELP ME OUT"

"IM TRYING"

"TRY HARDER" She used his own words against him..

Hoseok had to cast a speed spell and fasten the speed of the horse. Soon enough, his horse galloping beside hers, sure, he could go in front of the horse but it would abruptly stop and jolt up, causing Celeste to fall off and break maybe all her bones. He was down to only one choice.

"GIVE ME YOUR HAND" He shouted against the wind.

"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?" Celeste feared because if she let go of one of the reins, she could easily fall off and the army would trample onto her. (since the horse is travelling at a very fast speed, the impact is strong enough to swing off the horse violently)

"TRUST ME"

>>flashback
"Just jump!"

"I will die" Celeste cried.

Both of them have been chasing a mischievous cat as it took celeste's bracelet. They chased for a while till they ended up on wooden boxes.
The cat jumped off and so did Hoseok.

But celeste was scared, she had always been scared of height since young. The wooden boxes were cluttered and some were stacked on top of each other. To mini celeste, 4 wooden boxes of height was scary enough.

The cat sat down and looked at Celeste with its big green eyes, its mouth biting on her bracelet.

"Oh no , don't show me that innocent face" She fired at the cat, still balancing herself on the edge of the box.

"Jump?"

"No!"

"Ill catch you"

"No you wont"

"Oh my god, wait" Hoseok jumped onto the wooden box and managed to climb nearer to her. But there was still a gap in between them.

"trust me" Hoseok extended his hand out to her.

Celeste could fall into the gap and get injured or she could trust her best friend and maybe...just maybe be injury-free.

"Okay fine, just this once" She immediately grabbed his hand and leaped over.

Sure enough, they were both standing on the wooden box safely and with hoseok's help, they reached the ground, injury-free indeed.

"See? What did i told you, you're safe"
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"TRUST ME" Hoseok shouted with one hand controlling his horse and extending to Celeste.

This wasn't mere wooden boxes that she could get a minor injury from, she shut her eyes and loosen one of her hands from the reins.

But once she slightly loosen it, she could feel herself almost falling off. Immediately she opened her eyes and grabbed tightly back onto the reins.

"Please" Hoseok's eyes showed plead. She looked back down at his hand, he wore a black hand guard that had a few scratches on it.

She swallowed as she reached one arm and held his hand tightly. It wasn't as tightly as her life was depending on it, it was true, her life was indeed depending on it. She could die from the fall at the cliff.

"Let go" Hoseok referred to her other hand still holding onto the rein.

"You know i would never let you fall" He said reassuringly.

"Just this once" She release her grip on the rein.