Korean Mafia: Saving Shinee

Chapter 4

                             -Vernons POV-

It was the next morning. Wooyoung and Jooheon were already up. They were starting to wake everyone else in the room up. Tonight was a dreadful night. The night when we had to walk up in front of everyone and tell them of our three lost members. My three best friends who are now dead.  But before that, we need to go back to our place. We need to go home and collect ourselves. Because we have yet to speak of them, those who are missing. We have yet to say their names and make it official that they are gone. We have yet to accept the fact that we lost 3 of our family members. With heavy hearts, we set out of the Ateez house and headed home.

Once we finally arrived back, still not a word was said as we made our way into our dorms. I was all alone. I shared a room with two members, both of whom are gone. My heart was heavy as I sat alone in the dark room. After about 30 minutes, I heard whispers and voices outside my door;

" just go in!" 
"I don't wanna go first, what if I make him cry!?"
"you're the leader you go!"

Suddenly my door burst open with 9 people staring back at me with apologetic faces at my condition. Did I look that bad? I couldn't help but smile at my members, though gone but not forgotten dead members are. I still have 9 breathing brothers standing before me. And I'll protect them.

"How are you feeling?"

I just smiled.
"it's almost time to go, but before that, we're moving Dino to your room since he's by himself too. "

I looked past my members to see Dino. Standing with his head down, hiding behind everyone else; feeling the same as me. I walked up to him and gently grasped him by his shoulders and forcing him to look up at me. Noticing his still red and puffy eyes, I now understand why he kept his head down.  He didn't want to be the first one to cry. He didn't want to be seen as the weakest link. I took my thumb and wiped underneath dino's eyes.

"It's ok to cry. It's perfectly ok to cry when you lose people you love, ok?"

I felt the tears start to brim in my own eyes, those were the first words I had said since the incident. My voice was hoarse and barely audible 

He nodded his head tears flowing more aggressively now than what it was before,

"Now let's go get ready, I'll do the required talking. If any of you have your last goodbyes for our brothers be ready to say them."

_later that night_

At the secret meeting, held in a fancy cabin one of the members of Ikon owned.  EXO once again was in charge of the situation.

"before we begin. We would like to apologize, we didn't think anything of an incident happening. Especially not like it did, I and the rest of Exo take the sadness and loss of everyone one of our friends on our backs.  As we honor our lost loved ones tonight, please keep those who are still alive in your prayers."

No one clapped. It was like no one had the will, or the energy anymore. This was the biggest loss of the Korean mafia since the mafia wars between us and China. 

The first group to walk up onto the stage. The first group to announce who was gone.  The first group to accept their losses. 

Ikon.

There were 7 members of Ikon, and only 6 stood up there.

Bobby leaned towards the microphone, glancing up just once before he began to speak. "Tonight, me and the others are here to talk about a great loss to the world. My best friend, our happiness, and our faith. Hanbin. Most of you who aren't close to him, know him as B.I. Yesterday, after all the chaos had cleared up, seven, all seven of us were alive. We celebrated like boys do, with loud cheers. Talks of beer. Hanbins face was bright and gleaming. But that smile was ripped from his face and replaced by a pale, cold, and dead stare. In literal slow motion, I watched as my best friend fell to the ground face-first. Blood streamed out of his head as a police officer stood pointing his gun. Where Hanbin used to stand. I remember watching my heart fall out of my chest, simultaneously with Hanbins body.  I want everyone here to remember how much he made everyone laugh, and how he was friends with everybody. Please never forget our Hanbinnie."

And with Bobby, the rest of Ikon walked off the stage.

The next group up was EXO. I hadn't realized before,  but there weren't 12 members standing on the stage. There were three...Lay, Kai, and DO.

Kai took a small, deep breath before he started..."This isn't something I can speak about easily, so I ask all of you to bear with me.  Yesterday we lost 6 members. As the three remaining members, Lay and D.O., and I, promise to try and keep the spirit of what made EXO alive until it's our turn to leave the world. Chanyeol, was only 26 when his soul was sold to heaven.   No matter where in the world Chanyeol is he will always be a part of our hearts, along with the hexagon logo, that he created. He was the reason we formed this group. Chanyeol and Suho were together before the mafia, best friends.  Each member was brought here by someone else. Ironically suho being our leader, brought me, lay, and  Xiumin out of a really bad place. Although many don't consider a mafia gang a better place, than jail. People out there don't realize who we are, hell they don't understand what we are. They think we run around here killing each other, rather than rogue gangs who show up. Or mafias from other countries. Although we have our disagreements, I have never in my life since I've been here. Have regret being a part of it. And never until the day I die do I plan on leaving it. EXO and many other groups like Ikon have become my brothers since the moment my 10-year-old self stepped into this world.  So to my brothers; xiumin, Sehun, Baekhyun, Chanyeol, Suho, and Chen. You will not be forgotten. 

Yunho's POV-

If I'm being completely honest, I was not close to Exo at all. Out of our friend group, we were the newest ones, but we still weren't close with everyone. We still haven't met everyone. Thankfully one time I had the opportunity to talk with Sehun by myself. He has a very strong and scary aura, I can't imagine what it must be like to lose 6 people who are close to you. I can barely handle the pain of losing our three seventeen members and Minhyuk. That's just four people, none of whom are living with me. That I grew up with. That has saved my back in combat. Imagine losing someone, who you never thought you would lose. Someone who you thought would still be by your side till the day you died. Not until the day they died. They are gone now, nothing to do about it. It makes you feel so vulnerable and helpless. And it makes you feel guilty when everyone in your group is alive.