Venatus

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Jimin had his eyes shut tight out of instincts. Each second left like it was being stretched to a thousand more. Waiting for the bullets to come in contact with his body. 

"Meet me on the other side yourself" Jimin opened his eyes in shock when he heard the familiar deep voice ringing right behind him. 

He saw a blue hued shield covering him from all the bullets. Then his focus shifted to the man holding up the shield. Yoongi's face was scrunched up, his focused ahead.

"Hold the shield" 

Jimin quickly took it from his hands even though he was still fazed. 

Yoongi pressed on the magazine release and slid in the new ones after the exhausted magazines fell down. He didn't have the time to aim his targets in between all the chaos, and started shooting anything that moved.

But his gun emptied in a matter of seconds, making him swear under his breath. He took a look around, estimating the number of attackers still left. And thankfully there weren't that many anymore. But still the number was too much for any of the other players. 

"Hoseok, how far?" Yoongi called out, wondering if the upgrade was complete yet.

"98 percent"

Yoongi bit his lips. He knew that they were safe behind the shield and that it would last long enough. But the anticipation was too much. 

"Done"

The moment Yoongi heard those words, a smirk crawled up on his lips. His eyes darkening with a dangerous gleam in them. He got down on his knees, touching his fingers against the rough tarmac of the road. His eyes changed its shade, glowing blue. His body shook from the power that surged through him, exciting every nerve. 

And then suddenly everything went quiet. The atmosphere felt damp, unusually moist and thick. It was suffocating. But only for the ones that Yoongi had his eyes one. He watched that the attackers fell on their knees one by one, chocking for breaths. 

He tilted his head, rising up. His eyes glowed brighter. 

Jimin frowned when he saw every single drop of water around them slither away in the direction of the chocking attackers. When he looked closer he noticed the ring of water around neck that was slowly thickening. 

And the water ring slowly turned solid, turning into ice. Shards projected from the ice rings, digging into their throat. Yoongi's smirk widen as he motioned his hands to squeeze on a imaginary objects. And with his hand movement, the lethal ice ring tightened around their neck.

They all writhed in agony, until the last ounce of life left their body.

After their body hit the ground, they turned to bright neon colored dust and disappeared. Yoongi's eyes slowly turned from glowing blue to their vicious black colour.

Jimin let the shield fall to the ground, panting hard. 

Taehyung and Jungkook walked to them as Jimin and Yoongi collected their remaining weapons. No words were spoken since there wasn't that much time for it. They exchanged firm handshakes and parted in their way. 

The two players from GlassWater got into Yoongi's car and the FireCrystal's member left  with their bikes. Hoseok had given the co-ordinate to the nearest places that they could stay. They quickly parked the car and went inside the building. 

"Can we get rooms for the night?" Yoongi asked at the reception.

The man on the other side of the desk nodded and searched for any free room in their hotel. After a couple minutes the receptionist spoke up again. 

"I'm sorry sir. But there no single bed rooms available as for now. There is however a room free. But it's a room for two. Will it work?"

Yoongi thought about it for a moment. But taken the facts that they didn't have much time left, Yoongi agreed. They were handed over the keys and taken to the respective room.

Jimin glanced at the room number 2210 before Yoongi opened the door and walked in. The younger immediately discarded his weapons and jumped up on the bed. He heard Yoongi chuckled before the elder placed down his guns and walk towards the bed beside Jimin's.

He laid down on his back before turning to face Jimin. And much to his pleasant surprise the younger was already looking at him with a goofy expression on his face. 

"Meet you on other side?" 
                           "Meet you on the other side"

Jimin gasped, shooting his eyes open. And on cue the lid was opened by Hoseok to let him out. And then as usual, Hoseok went to open Yoongi's machine. Jimin bit his lips when he saw the furious looks in Yoongi's eyes. 

And even though Jimin and Yoongi were of the same height, he felt so small under that gaze. Those dark eyes had  put metaphorical chains around his limbs, preventing him from moving. The younger glanced to his side, hoping to get some help from the brunet, only to find that Hoseok was long gone from there.

Jimin hesitantly looked back at Yoongi; gulping to wet his drying throat. 

But then suddenly, he found a pair of arms wrapped securely around his waist, face resting on the crook oh his neck. Jimin was seeing that Yoongi was hugging him, but he was till working on believing it.

Finally he broke out of the daze when Yoongi held on to him a little tighter.

" I asked you to do one thing" Yoongi muttered, "I asked you to stay safe"

Jimin relaxed his body, placing his hands around Yoongi's neck, "I'm sorry"

"I swear to god Jimin, if you try a stunt like that again, I'm going to beat the living shit out of you" 

Jimin chuckled hearing that threat, resting his chin on the elder's shoulder. They stayed quiet like, not feeling the need to say anything else.

"So this is what third-wheeling feels like" Hoseok commented, looking at them with a bored expression. 

Yoongi groans of complain was muffled by Jimin's shirt, who was laughing at that even though his cheeks were tinted pink. Hoseok rolled his eyes, looking away to hide his small smile when Yoongi squeezed his arms around Jimin one more time before letting go. 

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FireCrystals are at a debt. Or has Hoseok's debt been forgiven?

Happy that Jimin didn't die? Oh wait till the next chapters come. 

In this Game, you can never be too sure, too safe. 
Is everything real among what you see? Or is just an illusion that pretends to be?