Chapter 48: Chapter 48
CHAPTER FORTY SIX
At the end of Seokjin running, he was captured in the hands of the guards Namjoon sent. The other Duke—soon to be the ruler glared at him while Seokjin gave him a cold shoulder.
The eldest Duke was now kneeling in front of Namjoon with his arms held behind by the guards. He couldn't even fight back no matter how strong he is. At least, he chose not to. He is strong but not as strong as Namjoon especially when he was already exhausted while escaping with Ha Na awhile ago.
"Tell me," Namjoon took a step forward, eyes shot a piercing look at Seokjin, trying to dominate him as the strongest between the two of them. "Where is Ha Na and Jimin?!"
The sound of skin colliding echoed throughout the forest as Seokjin received a slap from him. The elder looked up and sent the younger a cold gaze.
"What happened back there?" Seokjin hissed as he bit his cheeks inside to prevent from bursting out. What happened to Taehyung? Hoseok? Jimin? How come everything is so quick? How did he find me here?
"Taehyung?" Namjoon chuckled evilly with a smirk as he bent down to meet Seokjin's eye level. "He died."
Seokjin's eyes widened in horror. Namjoon continued. "How? By the wolves he, himself, raised."
a/n: ya'll remember when taehyung used wolves to 'test' elisse?
Seokjin gave an audible gasped as he stared at Namjoon in shock. Yes, Taehyung raised wolves for himself and to protect the ones he loves. Just then, how could the wolves betray Taehyung like that? He raised and protected them inside the palace. How could such nonsense happen?
"Taehyung ordered to kill their fellow wolves from outside the palace, could that even be forgotten and forgiven? The thought of it outraged the wolves in them." Namjoon cockily smiled at him. "And Hoseok? No need to worry, I took care of him."
Namjoon's word felt a stung of guilt in Seokjin's heart as he continued grumbling. "He's weak."
Knowing Seokjin, he would be the most guilty whenever Hoseok is being discriminated for being the weakest Duke—is it because of his sin? The sin that could never be forgiven by Hoseok, himself?
Seokjin gritted his teeth in anger, eyes glared intensely at Namjoon's eyes but softened up, reminding himself that Namjoon is his brother even if they didn't share a drop of blood.
Both of them had been through a lot together with the others. So at least, he deserves an explanation. Seokjin didn't want to believe that Namjoon really betrayed his brother, whom he supposedly pledged his life to.
"Did you really betray him?" Seokjin asked softly, looking down and closing his eyes tightly. His wrist were locked with a hand cuff and knees on the ground full of small rocks with guards behind, holding him firmly on his shoulders, to stop him from running.
Namjoon didn't respond to Seokjin's question. "What did you do, Namjoon? He is your brother! He is your king!"
And with this, Namjoon laughed bitterly like a maniac, eyes locked with the eldest. "King? Brother? He was!"
Namjoon spat with sourness in his voice. "Did he even treat me like that a thousand years ago? That time when he turned me into a monster?"
Jin flinched at the sudden question of the younger. He exactly knows what happened to Namjoon—all of them knows when and how they were turned. "You were the one who asked him to turn you into one!"
"Really?" Namjoon chuckled with a click on his tongue. "As far as I remember, he was the one who killed my entire family while I was laying there—lifeless."
In anger, Seokjin bursts out. "He did that because your parents were too much, Namjoon!"
"I didn't want him to kill my parents!" Namjoon cried out. He was missing his real family so much. "I wanted him to save me. Not kill them!"
"He was young back then! He didn't know how to control himself!" Seokjin yelled, clearly defending the youngest of the group.
"Why are you defending him, hyung?!" Namjoon hissed, almost in tears and in pain because the elder is defending Taehyung.
His eyes turned into a shade mixed with yellow and red, and Seokjin noticed that Namjoon is angry and in pain. "I was thinking of saving you out of the dukes and become my right hand."
Seokjin snorted, not amused before laughing bitterly. "You think I would serve someone who betrayed his best friend? We don't even know when and who will you betray next."
Namjoon at this time was fuming mad, giving him no choice but to send his own hyung to the dungeon. The guards obeyed and immediately went back to the palace with Namjoon going to the throne room, sitting on the throne chair where Taehyung used to sit.
His veins could clearly be seen, feeling his blood circulating his entire body and heart arising its pump. He sighed and closed his eyes, rubbing his temple. He started to recall the memories where his whole world was torn apart from thousands years ago.
[FLASHBACK]
"Please save me!" The man who is around 20 years old cried out—on his knees, begging the man who looked the same age as him.
Taehyung's eye narrowed as he looked at the man, gripping his legs as if there's no tomorrow.
The young vampire bent down, eyes looking at the red bloodshot of the human. "What's wrong?"
"M-My father, m-mother. They will kill me." Namjoon cried out, begging for his life.
"Come back here!" A drunkard man yelled at his child who is outside the house with Taehyung just watching him being dragged back inside the house.
Namjoon was crying and struggling. He was weak from the looks of it. From Taehyung's perspective, the young boy must be suffering from a lung problem. The young man is weak, thin as a bamboo, sunken eyes and fragile, and was suffering lung cancer, dying without proper treatment.
Taehyung was debating whether to save the young man or not. He seemed to be abused by his parents. And without any minute, he could feel someone's scent getting stronger, the smell of a blood was filling his entire nasal cavity and it struggled Taehyung to bits since he still can't control himself. He was young vampire.
He speeds inside the house, opening the door—whom the father forgot to locked. As soon as he opened the door, it revealed the young man on the floor, lying there barely conscious with blood spilling from his head.
A gasp left Taehyung's mouth as he ran towards the young man, who was breathing heavily already. The young man was already breathing heavily and at the same time, losing too much blood.
"What are you doing inside my house?!" The father growled at Taehyung. His eyes fixed at the old man's hand who was holding a shattered bottle. His eyes widened and glared.
"What did you do to your own child?!" Taehyung hissed eyes turning into a shade of red, and the mother arrive who seemed high.
Wow, a drunkard father and a high mother. What kind of life did this young man live? Taehyung rolled his eyes.
"What are you doing here?!" The mother scorned at Taehyung.
"That should be the wrong question now, right?" Taehyung spat bitterly, crossing his arms over his chest.
"P-Please save me." Taehyung heard a whimper coming from the young man laying, barely lifeless.
Taehyung unintentionally rolled his eyes at the back of his head as he sniffed the delicious blood just below him but he tried to control himself—flickering his eyes back to the parents.
"Woman! What did you do to your own child?!" The father abruptly blamed the mother beside him as he collided the shattered bottle into the woman's chest making Taehyung gasped.
"M-Mom!" The young man with blood all over his head area whimpered as tears fell down the side of his eyes.
The blood spurted out of the woman's chest like a waterfall making Taehyung's mind go crazy and heart pumping so wildly. His breath hitched as soon as the scent of the blood entered his nose and with that, everything went bloodshed.
Namjoon, who was lying there just watched Taehyung biting and killing his entire family brutally, and that made him despised Taehyung with all his eyes.
"M-Mom." Namjoon whimpered once again and was faced with Taehyung's eyes—bloodshot.
[END OF FLASHBACK]
That's when Namjoon was turned into a creature he never believed in before, until he has witnessed it in front of his eyes. And he became Taehyung's right hand ever since then, with the thought of getting revenge the entire years.
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Written by Hannah (daddiehoseok)