Wild

☽ 5 ☾

Jimin gave a pressed smile and obliged with the handshake. Jungkook's was far too strong that he had expected and he hoped the other didn't find it funny to break his bones. The kitten in Jimin's arm jumped, meowed at him before sprinting away. Jimin sighed, looking at it go and then went to sit back down. Jungkook and Yoongi exchanged a few words. Jimin didn't play much attention to it, until he heard his name.

"Do you know when they will be back?" Jimin heard Yoongi ask.

"Well, they are supposed to come back by this week, but you know how it can be" Jungkook replied, "He has one of the stones, you say?"

Jimin knew Jungkook was referring to the pendant he was wearing. He wasn't sure what's so special about it. As far Jimin knew, it wasn't even a special stone. 

"Jimin." He heard his name being called by Yoongi. 

When he turned around, he saw Jungkook has already left. It was just him and Yoongi. 

"Get up." Yoongi said before starting to walk away. 

Jimin got up to his feet, dusting the dirt off him and then jogged after Yoongi. Again the other didn't say a single thing about where they were headed. Jimin tried asking him a few times and Yoongi ignored him all the time. It was more like Yoongi didn't even like the fact that someone was near him. 

"I'll let you meet with the members of Namjoon's pack." Yoongi uttered. 

"First of all, why is a lion in a pack not a pride?" Jimin asked. 

Yoongi gave him a glance that said he was appreciative of the questions being asked to him. Jimin pressed his lips together, and waited for an answer. Even if the other wasn't going to give it to him. 

"All the people or animals here are taught and trained together. Once everything is complete, we can choose to stick to other people of our kind or say with the group that we trained with. Yes, Namjoon could've choosen his pride over this pack. That would have made him the next pride Lion. But he chose the pack." Yoongi answered. 

Jimin hummed in acknowledgement, "Can I ask one more question?"

"If you have a death wish."

Jimin lowered the hand he had raised, and gave a offended look. But he kept quiet. Even though he had more questions he wanted to ask. He decided he would ask someone else later on. Someone who won't kill him. 

"Where is he?" Jimin heard Yoongi asked. The white-haired man was frowing at cabin. From where they stood, Jimin guessed it was empty and wondered why that annoyed Yoongi. 

They continued walking towards the forest behind the cabin. After walking for a while, they reached a huge den. Jimin gulped seeing the left of bones, sprawled around in front of the entrance. 

Fear grew over him like a fire. Each step made him flinch. The den was huge. Even if Jimin tried jumping, he won't be able to touch the roof. There were cracks in the roof from where sunlight fell in. It lit the cave just enough. 

"What are you doing?" Yoongi asked. 

At first Jimin thought it was meant for him. But Yoongi wasn't even looking at him when he asked the question. Instead he was scowling at something in the shadows. Jimin walked a bit to his side. His eyes widen he realized what was in the shadow. 

A full grown bear.

The bear turned around facing them. And Jimin hadn't been so scared, he would have believed that the bear was looking at him with a sheepish gaze. Jimin knew that bears aren't as malicious and dangerous as the movie show them to be. But still a bear is almost twice the size of a human. And their huge claw don't help at all. 

"Did you steal berries again?" Yoongi asked, walking towards the bear. 

The bear let out few sounds of protest, turning around to hide whatever it was. Yoongi gave the bear an unamused expression before reaching over its body and picking up what it was hiding. Which happened to be lot of raspberries. Yoongi shook his head, letting the berries fall to the group and walked away. 

"Alright, turn back to your human form."Yoongi said. 

"Why are you like this?" The bear asked. 

Even though, Jimin as already been here for a couple hours. He still couldn't wrap his head around talking animals. Even if they were spirit animals. More than half of the things didn't make sense to him. But as of now, he wasn't even in the position to ask questions to clear his mind. 

The bear huffed before turning back to a human. The man was almost the same height as Jimin. A few inches taller, maybe. His hair was red, falling messily over his eyes. He was wearing a plain white sleevless shirt and blue joggers.

And out of all the people Jimin had met so far, he happened to look the least intimidating. The man smiled widely at him.

"Hello! I'm Jung Hoseok!" He beamed, holding his hand out.

Jimin smiled back, and took the handshake, "Park Jimin"

"I haven't seen him here before" Hoseok said, turning towards Yoongi, "New?"

Yoongi nodded tiredly at him. He motioned Hoseok to come over to him. Jimin couldn't help but notice that everyone behaved to catiously around Yoongi. Jungkook was carefuly with his tone while talking to Yoongi and Hoseok is maintaining a safe distance. 

While the two talked among themselves, Jimin explored the cave. There were lots of berries, grasses, roots and fish bones scattered around.  

"Is Jin back yet?" Jimin heard Hoseok ask. 

That was a new name and Jimin guessed he must a part of Namjoon's pack as well. 

"You're... asking me?" Yoongi asked in return, "You do remember I hardly ever stay here for long enough to catch up on everything"

Jimin heard sigh in return and agree. He wondered why Yoongi didn't stay with the rest people. And if he didn't. Where did he stay?

"Let's go and check" Hoseok proposed. 

Jimin turned around to see Yoongi looking at him with an exsperated look. He didn't say anything and started walking towards the mouth of the cave. Jimin took it as a cue to tag after him. Hoseok said he would join them later. 

"Yoongi" Jimin called. 

Yoongi hummed tiredly in return. And Jimin couldn't help but start to feel guilty. Even though it was Namjoon was asked Yoongi to look after him. He still couldn't help but feel bad. Yoongi clearly felt bothered by other's presence. Not even the people he know for who-knows-how-long. And Jimin was just a stranger. 

But at the same time, Jimin could help but be intrigued as Yoongi's peculiar behavior. It wasn't that Yoongi was the kind of person who didn't like other people. It was more like people didn't like being around him. 

There a lot to know about this place. So far everything seemed like a mystery to Jimin. And he decided, as long as he has to stay here. He could try to find out as much as he could.