Mermaid Tale (Bts ff)

Chapter 31

I was running tiredly with both of mine and Yoongi's bags weighing me down. I was sprinting as far away as the sea as I could. Castle guards had somehow managed to get onto the surface, they didn't know how to walk and it would be a few moments until they would learn how to run. So i was safe and could easily get away. It wasn't long before I arrived back at my house, out of breath and tired. My lungs desperately sucking up air. I put the bags down, locking the door behind me just in case and Chief coming down the hallway to my greeting. He seemed happy to see me back but I fell to the floor, my hands covering my face and I felt all my emotions that were building up release. My tears becoming reckless and my bottom lip trembling with grief. My back was against the door and I felt Chief beside me, his nose snuggling into my arms trying to make me look at him. 

I wrapped my arms around Chief, allowing him to sit in my lap as his warm, floofy body gives me some kind of comfort. I feel him licking my tears of my face, making me chuckle through my overwhelmed state and I soon am able to compose myself. Even when I stop crying, Chief still stays close to me and I owed him an answer. "Everything went wrong" I whisper, feeling guilty and irritated. Irritated at my parents for their actions. Irritated at myself.

-Min Kingdom-

Yoongi was put in the dungeon, rudely and inhumane. Putting your own son in the dungeon, it was insanity. The cells were scruffy, murky water and overall in bad condition. The boy swam towards the iron bar door and started testing it's strength by pounding on it with his fists. He even tried kicking it only to realize he had a tail and not legs any more. Yoongi sat down on the ground, staring at his tail. It didn't feel right. It didn't belong. The boy's breathing quickened and his breath hitched. He pulled at his hair roughly, frustrated and over all betrayed by his parents. He had a urge never to see them again. He didn't see them as parents. He would much rather pretend his parents were in Daegu. He would much rather just have Ji-uen as his family, he didn't need anyone else. 

Yoongi tried to calm himself by taking deep breath but they came off as desperation. Even breathing underwater made him panic. He felt like he was drowning, even though he wasn't. Everything was collapsing and the only thing that made him snap out of his panic attack was a voice from the opposite jail. He lifted his head from where his gaze was placed on the floor and swam up to the bars of his cell cautiously. It was dark and hard to see, but a figure emerged from the dark and was behind her own set of bars. It was hard to recognized at first but when he recalled his memory he had realized who it was. 

She was in bad shape. Her hair was messy and didn't even identify as her natural colour. Her tail was tired and littered with sand. Her eyes were red and restless. Even her hands were bleeding from cuts that could only be from when she tried to escape. The girl's lips were chapped and she looked oddly pale. None the less, she grabbed the bars with a shaky grip, her knuckles turning white with how tight she was holding the bars. Yoongi couldn't believe who and what he was seeing. How did she even end up here? How much were his parents doing while he was gone? He fell back from the shock and state of the mermaid. His parents were monsters, if only Ji-uen knew about this. 

"Yoongi~" She took a gulp of air before continuing, resting her head against the cold metal and closing her eyes "Why are you here?" She reopened her eyes, staring directly at him in a blank expression. "I came back" Yoongi cautiously spoke, regaining himself and going closer to the bars. "And they threw you in here?!" The girl rose her voice, in almost anger and disbelief. "Where's Ji-uen?! Did they hurt her?! Please tell me she's okay" The mermaid desperately pleaded as Yoongi nodded quickly, reassuring the mermaid.

"Coral.....How did you end up here?"