Venatus

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When Jimin opened his eyes, he was met with dark colored clothes. But before he could respond to the unknown presence, he remembered about moving to Yoongi's room last night. Slowly, he moved his head to check if the elder was still asleep. 

Once, satisfied by knowing that the elder was still asleep, Jimin decided to inch a little closer to elder and rest his head on his chest. He put his arm around the elder's waist a moved slightly to get comfortable.

"What are you doing?" Jimin gasped, freezing in place after hearing the elder's sleep laced voice. 

"Um...cuddling you?" the younger responded though it sounded more like a question than an answer. He tilted his head up a bit to look at Yoongi's half opened eyes.

Yoongi frowned and hummed in a judgmental manner. Jimin felt his heart sting a little bit from the reaction. He let out a soft sigh, and loosened his hand around the elder to move away. But before he could turn around, Yoongi's securely placed left arm around the younger and his right hand under Jimin's head.

"Who said you could move, huh?" Yoongi demanded, raising his eyebrows. He tightened his grip around the younger when he tried to wriggle away. 

Jimin tried to squirmed in the elder's grip trying to get away just to tease him. 

"Jimin" Yoongi in a warning tone. Yoongi looked at him then, his black eyes drilling into his. Jimin couldn't help but think - he'd never seen such dark eyes with so much light in them. As he continued to look into those eyes, Jimin found himself submitting. He stopped trying to get away and let Yoongi pull him closer until their were no space. Yoongi had to call Jimin's name once again for the younger to get out the daze he had fallen in.

Jimin scrunched up his face in an adorable manner before sticking out his tongue and going back the position they were in. The two stayed quiet. Jimin listening to Yoongi's heartbeat as the elder raked his hands through the younger's. But there moment of peace didn't la-

"Ew! Ew! Ew" Hoseok mumbled, covering his eyes, "My eyes! My eyes! My pretty eyes!"

Yoongi rolled his eyes, not bothering to move from the position he was in. 

"Wait, what are you two doing?" Hoseok asked peeking through the gaps between his finger, "Are you two having a cuddle session? And you didn't invite me?"

Yoongi kept on muttering curses under his breath as Hoseok complained about not being invited. Jimin stayed in his place, giggling quietly as he listened to the two chaotically have a conversation. 

After some minutes, Jimin carefully removed Yoongi's arms from around him and moved away. The silver head and the brunet were still bickering among themselves. 

"Okay, okay, okay stop" Jimin spoke between his laughs, "Hoseok why did you come here?"

Hearing the question, Hoseok gasped, remembering the reason he had came. 

"A week is over" The brunet noted, "We should be getting Stage two today"

All the laughter and cheerfulness left the room, the moment Hoseok uttered those words. The three collected in the main room, watching as Hoseok downloaded the files sent to them. But surprisingly nothing was shown even after all of it was complete. 

"What?" Hoseok quickly search through the files, only to find more detailed version of the map, few health kits and units. There was nothing important. No, message saying that they unlocked Level two.

"This doesn't make any sense" 

"Are we out of the Games?" Jimin asked, checking the files for himself to make sure Hoseok didn't miss out anything. 

"Maybe we should go and check it out" Yoongi offered, already walking towards the door. 

The other's nodded, closing the machines and taking their cards. They jogged their way to the elevator. The whole way to the platform and then to the station was filled with impatient tapping of feet and drumming of fingers.

But they were surprised to see on the platform wearing an equally confused and impatient look. But without any interactions, the two teams entered the team. It was evident that another team had recently left the room, since the atmospheres inside was warm and the machines were still making soft whirring sound. 

The strategists from both the teams, Hoseok and Namjoon hurried to their stations to check for updates. But once again they were met with nothing. 

"Did we miss something?" Hoseok asked, looking back at his teammate. 

"I swear if I again have to complete a challenge that wasn't mine" Taehyung grumbled. 

But it caught the attention of team GlassWater.

"What did you say?" Jimin asked.

Taehyung looked at them confused but answered nonetheless, "It happened in the last Stage. Apparently we completed the stage meant for your team. Then we had to go back and complete the the one meant for us"

"Our team?" Hoseok asked, an idea conjuring his head as he quickly switched up his table. He transferred the files they had received earlier. They were given three different types, showing the same region. 

'It's a puzzle' He realized. He beckoned Yoongi to his side to help him. He quickly whispered what he was thinking to the silver head. Yoongi had an impressed look on his face as he started to figure out which made they needed by layering up different combinations of the maps.

Meanwhile, Jimin remembered the explosion that took place when they first encountered the Draxnix. 

"Well of course" Jimin stated turning to Yoongi, "Remember the explosion in that forest where we fought those...winged beast?"

"Yeah, so, we had to do double work" Taehyung finished shrugging his shoulders, "You mean, your team didn't know that?"

Jimin shook his head, "Nah, our own challenges are enough"

Everyone apart from Jungkook and Taehyung  snorted hearing the comment. Jungkook rolled his eyes while Taehyung huffed, crossing his arms across his chest and puffing his cheeks. Namjoon raised his hands up in a defensive manner when Taehyung glared at him.

"Don't look at me. I told you not to go there" 

"I figured it out" Hoseok announced, looking up from his table; interrupting Taehyung who had opened his mouth to reply to Namjoon. 

"We don't get level two. We have to find level two"

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