Horizon | ATEEZ - Omegaverse

Chapter Eight

The next morning, Hongjoong wakes up bright and early to take a shower before heading to sparring practice. After his shower, he dresses himself and makes his way to the sparring room, his hair still wet.

Hongjoong tries to shake his hair out a bit and Jongho scoffs from behind him, "Dude, what the fuck?" He pushes him from behind, "You got water all over me. Ugh, gross..." Jongho curses and pushes past him to go into the room, brushing his arms off. The water from Hongjoong's hair stays on him, making him smell slightly like ginger and it makes a disgusted look appear on his face.

"Not today, Jongho," Hongjoong says when he walks past him, looking at him as he goes in. He shakes his head angrily and walks in right behind Jongho. He can't be doing this today. Not with the Park's watching over this practice.

Daesung has all the alphas line up next to their sparring partner, so that means Hongjoong and Jongho are beside each other — trying very hard to keep their comments about one another to themselves. Beside Daesung, stands Park Gyungho and his two sons Dohyon and Seonghwa.

Jongho feels a deep aching in his lower stomach at the sight of Seonghwa, finding him immensely attractive at this moment. The Park's omega. Jongho whips his head away, back to Hongjoong and focuses his attention on him instead. This has to go away soon, he really needs to talk to his mother about this.

"This is Park Gyungho and his two sons, as I'm sure you all know. I invited them to see how promising you young alphas are," Daesung states, and all of the alphas nod and bow in respect toward the Park family.

"It's an honor to view your all's sparring practice this morning. Let's see how our most powerful pack is coming along, shall we?" Gyungho says, motioning his hand toward the first pair he sees.

Hongjoong and Jongho, of course.

Daesung gives the two boys a knowing look before they walked to the middle of the room. Their eyes are incredibly intense as they look at one another, each going to one side so they'll be equal distance apart when they shift. Hongjoong takes a deep breath before they both shift into their wolves, their robes pooling on the floor below them.

"Spar," Daesung says. Their cue to begin.

The two large wolves lunge at each other immediately after hearing the phrase, already at each other's throats as usual, but they keep it clean. They don't spar as dirty as they normally do... yet.

Hongjoong wrestles Jongho to the ground after a bit, but Jongho quickly turns the tables once again. Just like always, they're neck and neck. Jongho gets angrier and angrier as he realizes it's going to turn into another tie. Jongho knows he's in the midst of his rut and his mother had given him suppressants for it, but the aggressiveness is still coming through strong/ His eyes narrow. He needs to show everyone how powerful he can really be.

Jongho uses all of his force and grabs Hongjoong by his neck with his teeth. Hongjoong's eyes widen as he realizes what Jongho is about to do. It's against the rules. He's not quick enough and isn't sure how to counter this attack within the rules, so Jongho flings Hongjoong across the room. Hongjoong feels the impact as his body hits the floor of the room and he's overcome by his own rage and charges back to Jongho quickly.