A Remedy, A Melody

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Healers were rare. Powerful creatures born of an unknown origin, they are treasured and worshipped. The power of healing is not inherited, it is achieved. Only a person worthy of its power and responsibility can have such a power. Who chooses who is worthy? No one knows. But they do know, that being a healer is a humongous responsibility that cannot be taken for granted.

A healer is spotted at birth, a simple water lily mark on their body. When it is found that the child is a healer, they are sent to a special place where they are raised by other healers. This happened for thousands of years. Hundreds of healers existed when they were suddenly attacked. A maleficent group set out to destroy mankind decided to rebel. They destroyed many different superhero facilities and their last mission was to destroy every healer. The fight was extraordinary. Heroes all around the world united to protect their beloved healers and while they fought hard, they didn't succeed. The evil group was destroyed but not before all healers were killed.

The people believed that no healers survived but hoped that new children would be born with the mark. There was none. It seemed as though humans were no longer seen as worthy and they lost hope. But what they didn't know is that two healers survived. It was kept secret by the hero government. Only 2 high officials knew and they guarded the secret with their lives.

Eun-Ji was one of the two healers to survive. The man was 60 years old when the attack happened and he was lucky enough to have survived by hiding away with the other healer. Eun-Ji was a powerful healer and teacher. He had spent all his adult life training other healers and he knew that it was his duty to train the other. The other healer was a 13-year-old boy named Jungkook. The kind little boy radiated happiness and joy. Eun-Ji knew that Jungkook was special, for his mark was different.

Eun-Ji had only seen a mark like his years ago. His old mentor, the strongest healer ever known had a mark similar to his. Every healer has a black and white simple drawing of a water lily when Jungkook's mark has a koi fish surrounding and protecting the water lily.

For ten years, Jungkook and Eun-Ji stayed hidden. Eun-Ji not only trained Jungkook to be a powerful healer, but he trained him in every healer art. In the art of medicine of any kind. The young man grew up to be kind and knowledgeable with strong morals. Jungkook was now 23 years-old and Eun-Ji knew that his time was coming. Jungkook would need to join a normal civilization and find his place in the world. But not only did he need to play his role as a healer but he had an even bigger responsibility that only Jungkook could accomplish: to prove that humanity is worthy of being gifted with healers once more.

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Jungkook couldn't believe this. After training for 10 years to be the only healer left on Earth, he still couldn't believe it. To see the person who raised him, care for him, love him die was heartbreaking. Jungkook knew that this day would come and he had prepared for this, but it was still hard to process.

Jungkook let himself have a week of grieving where he just processed everything and let himself cry and deal with his emotions. But after that week, he knew he needed to move.

He cleaned up the whole house. The place he had called home for the last ten years. He went to his backyard where there were various different plants to be used for healing. He organized all the plants in different jars with their labels. Then he organized all the healing books into an organized, magically protected bag that can only be opened by a healer. He organized the whole house and burned everything he didn't need. He put all his bags in the car Eun-Ji bought last month. There were two bags full of jars with plants and ingredients. Then one bag full of healing and plant books. Finally, two bags full of clothes. In Jungkook's backpack, he put all the things he needed at hand: a huge notebook full of notes about healing that Jungkook deems important, an envelope full of pictures of him and Eun-Ji growing up and finally, a phone that he got last month.

After everything was clean and ready, Jungkook drove away. It was hard to leave his safe haven, the place he had learned to love and treasure. But this needed to be done. This was the start of Jungkook's life. So there he was, on his way to Seoul, to become the owner of a flower shop named Nénuphar.

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Jungkook looked around him. The shop was decent, it was very dusty and very dirty. Pots and shelved were laying around without any sort of organization. And this combined with all of Jungkook's stuff, it was safe to say that the shop was a mess.

Let's get working, Jungkook thought cheerfully. First, he moved all of his stuff upstairs to the second floor of the shop where he would be living. He organized all his clothes in his closet and started decorating his room.

(Eun-Ji came to the city a bunch of times this last month to deliver boxes full of necessities like a laundry machine, cooking stuff, sheets for his bed, etc... )

After finishing everything in his living space, Jungkook looked around and smiled. It took hours but he was proud of his hard work. He quickly went into his backpack where he packed a sandwich and took a lunch break before moving to the store.

Jungkook moved all the shelves and pots to a place he wanted and started cleaning and dusting everything. After everything was spotless, he put dirt in the pots and started planting flowers and other plants that could be used for medicinal reasons.

It took a month for everything to be ready. Jungkook created everything. He created the sign for the store, painted the walls, created small pots to decorate the place and built a counter. After a month of taking care of the plants, many already grew and Jungkook was ready to finally open the store. This last month he barely went out of the store and used the money that Eun-Ji saved for him. Eun-Ji had been given all of the money from the healer facility so technically Jungkook didn't even need to work, but he felt bad using the money. He felt as though he should earn the money himself.

Finally, I'm ready to open.

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Hello babes, and welcome to A Remedy, A Melody!

I'm so excited to work on this project! I've been planning for this story for a few months now and I'm looking forward to writing a longer story with a plot that isn't just about the romance that will occur. 

I will update every Sunday and I'm extremely dedicated to not missing an update day. 

Thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to read this chapter and I hope you have an amazing week!

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