ATEEZ is a group of hunters that use their idol status to get where they need, but also hide so they can fight San is a witch that helps them, but hidden among them is someone different, someone not like the rest, a King, but not a king they expecte...
AN/ this is a spooky chapter, and if you have issues at any point I understand if you skip, stay safe
Mingi
I trip and fall, hitting my knee, likely bruising it but Yunho runs to me. I look at him nervously and laugh, only to look behind him and see the horrifying monster behind him. It's easily a foot taller than us or more, has the head of a stag, with glowing yellow eyes.
Yunho looks behind him and he gets smacked down by this creature, like a kid versus an ant. I go to him, holding him close, and hear San cast a spell to put a barrier between us and this monster. Wooyoung comes up and helps me grab Yunho.
"Run!" San yells at us and we take off, running where he pointed to. I look back and he starts running with us, the Wendigo chasing us. I am about to give up when I look back, seeing that it's vanished.
We slow down, and set Yunho down so San can heal him, resting for a moment. My knee is also healed so we won't get slowed down. I stand up and follow the others as we hear the others getting closer.
"Where do you think it went?" Wooyoung asks. San shrugs, and we are all thinking the same thing. When we get to where we were hearing the boys we don't see them, but what we do see is a lot of broken trees.
"What the hell?" I ask, and we hear another of the Wendigo's screams further off in the distance.
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HongJoong
After the boys set off to the camp we started hearing strange things, but we also hear screams of a man., we all go to investigate. It seems to be coming from a cave, when we get there we find the missing man and woman. Hiding our faces before we get too close we help them down from the hooks they were hung on.
"How long have you two been here?" Hwa asks as I untie their hands.
"Not too sure, it's hard to tell here." the man says, looking at his girlfriend. He is somewhere in his early thirties, and has reddish hair. The girlfriend is a pretty woman in her mid twenties with medium length brown hair.
"Either way we need to get you guys and the rest of us back to camp. We haven't heard that thing lately, but I don't want it to find us in it's home." Hwa says and he's right. Last thing we need is to have it find us in it's home after we take it's food source away.
Jongho and I have the man and woman on our backs as we head out of the cave, heading back towards the camp. While we are heading back we hear the silence again, which makes us move faster. We can hear something in the distance and San yelling something.
"We need to get to them quickly." Yeosang says, and that's when we start to hear sounds all around us. Yelling that sounds like the other members.
"Hyung!" from something that sounds like a distorted version of San's voice.
"Yeosangie!" another distorted voice yells from another direction. We realize that we have stopped and start running again, hoping it's the right direction.
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Wooyoung
We made it to a small clearing and can feel as the silence falls around us, hearing footsteps run in the forest past us. We stay silent, not knowing who or what it was.
"Maybe we should head back to camp? That's probably where the others will go." I point out, and San seems to think it's a good idea.
We start heading back to the camp, following San so we can stay quiet as we move. While walking we hear the sounds of something following, but San tells us to just keep moving.
"How much further?" Mingi asks and San stops him, and makes us all hide, keeping us quiet. Everything around us is silent again, which doesn't bode well for us.
We stay quiet and move slowly towards the campsite, but we hear distorted voices all around us. Voices that sound like HongJoong, SeongHwa, Yeosang, and Jongho. Though the voices sound as though someone with a sore throat trying to mimic them, voice cracking at times too.
"This way, we're over here!" one of them calls.
"No, over here!" another calls, but San keeps moving in the same direction, ignoring the voices. We stay close to him, but I fall behind a bit, and as I go to catch up I can hear something stomping behind us.
I run to San and look behind, seeing the bright glowing eyes, as soon as San sees my face he turns. He puts a shield up between us and the Wendigo, allowing us to get a bit further away, but it breaks through.
As it breaks through the Wendigo lunges at us. I close my eyes, waiting for an impact that never happens. When I open my eyes I see a dark mass in front of me in the shape of a woman. It's looking at me with glowing eyes, the Wendigo's claws through her chest.
She morphs, turning to face the monster behind her, pulling it's claws out of her, and changing shape. She slowly morphs into a much larger and darker version of a Wendigo. Her form now towering over it, San and Yunho pull on me, turning to run.
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While running away we can hear screeches and wails that chill us to the bone. In what seems like only a few seconds we burst through a line of trees and see the camp, along with our other members.
We can still hear what sounds like wet thuds from behind us, causing all of us to huddle together. It feels like an eternity before we hear the sounds stop. No screeching, no wailing, no wet thumps, just silence. Then as if nothing happened we can hear the wildlife and breeze through the trees.
We see a small light from the area, and realize it's fire. Before we can even comprehend what to do with this information it goes out.
"Is it over?" I hear Mingi ask, and I turn to San, he wraps an arm around me and sighs.
"We should wait until morning, then we can check." HongJoong hyung says and we all agree, sitting together. The man and woman stay with us, and we keep guard as they sleep.
