s.c.s. ☆ j.jh ☆ ayakashi series | ✔

jaehyun [twenty-five]

The eight of you stepped through the door to leave Lenticular Café, all of your friends' supernatural attributes disappearing as they did so. You gave Taeyong a final pat on the head of good luck as your groups prepared to separate and depart, and he rubbed his head against your shoulder for just a moment in return.

"All of our routes are between forty-five minutes to an hour round-trip, we'll meet back here afterwards to discuss," Sicheng reminded everyone, and you reviewed the map of your own route on your phone. You'd be passing through Pleasant Peach Drive, and Jisung briefly came to your thoughts. You'd still yet to visit him since your conversation with Mark, and felt a slight twinge of guilt.

With the other four seeing you off, your group took off on your own route.

"That's got to be a headache of a group," Johnny shook his head. "Taeyong and Yuta, and Sicheng and Renjun."

"Taeyong and Yuta might be okay," you replied hopefully, toying with a talisman between your fingers.

"I just hope Sicheng doesn't end up shot and/or Renjun doesn't end up drowned."

"Give Sicheng some credit, he would probably just drown him a little bit. Give him a swirly or something."

Jeno snorted at this from Johnny's other side, and you darted your eyes over to Sungchan to see if he had found it amusing as well. His eyes were set dead ahead, brow slightly furrowed with focus.

You narrowed your eyes up at him, "I'm going to make you laugh one of these days."

"Was that supposed to be funny?"

Johnny snickered while Jeno full on howled at Sungchan's deadpan insult, and you were just left with your mouth gaping like a fish as you weren't sure whether to be offended or vindicated that he had actually said something to you.

"You laughed at it too, Lee Jeno!" You instead decided to snap at the Tengu.

"I exhaled loudly through my nose," he corrected you, still chuckling. "Not a laugh."

You'd just started sticking your tongue out at him when you suddenly retracted it, gasping instead. There were Wraiths nearby. A lot of them. And they were powerful. The three Ayakashi with you had noticed it as well, and before you could say anything, Jeno was suddenly pitched through the window of the empty building you were next to. There was a sharp, clear cascading sound of the window shattering around him.

"Fuck!" Johnny shouted out, reeling back from where Jeno had previously been right next to him.

"What the hell?" Jeno grumbled as he found his footing, pulling out a couple large pieces of glass that were in his arm.

You threw a talisman at the door to unlock it, and rushed into the building with him, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm—"

He was cut off by a scream from outside, and your attention was yanked to Johnny, who was on his knees with a hand over his forehead, eyes screwed shut in pain as he yelled out in anguish. You ran back out to his side, eyes widening in horror when you saw blood dripping through his fingertips.

"Johnny, what happened?"

"His third eye was wounded," Sungchan announced, stance cautious but strong as he surveyed the scene around you. He was in his battle form now, donning an orange yukata and wielding two dual broadswords.

With a flap of wings, Jeno had joined you three back on the sidewalk as you tried to comfort Johnny, "Are they fucking invisible or something?"

"Yes."