cantuscorvi · 1 year ago
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— MUSE AESTHETICS: HORROR EDITION.
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bold whatever applies | italics what sometimes applies [ both if it's perfect for your muse ] | strike through what doesn't apply & tag people. repost; don’t reblog!
CLASSIC.
black and white. powder puffs. red lipstick. winged eyeliner. white kitten heels. black lace lingerie. icy blue eyes. rain. abandoned cars. skeletons. acid. poison. voyeurism. switchblades. strangling. overcoats. looking over your shoulder. trans-atlantic accents. private detectives. dinner parties. haunted mansions. cobwebs. perfect blonde curls. kitchen knives. shock. cellars. dust. ghosts. dark alleys. empty streets. horn-rimmed glasses. radiation. zombies. serial murder. suspicion. the city. witches. the devil. cannibalism. conspiracies. amulets. abject terror. the American South. the American Northeast. England. analog cameras.
CRYPTID & URBAN LEGEND.
aliens. blinding light. dark woods. driving at night. claw marks. bite marks. men in black. memory loss. dismembered bodies. sewers. flashlights. cell phones. video cameras. cars with tinted windows. unlabeled cassette tapes. bugs. big cities. urban crimes. clowns. something rustling outside your window. glowing light. unsolved mysteries. suburbia. mirrors. the american pacific northwest. the american midwest. hiking. backpacking.
GOTHIC.
gaslights. corsets. ballrooms. candlelight. mist. starless nights. full moons. cobbled streets. horse-drawn carriages. mysterious strangers. bogs. moors. forests. mountains. castles. velvet. silver. brass. gold. jewels. domino masks. the opera. dangerous romances. tragic romances. violins. roses. lilies. empty graves. crosses. cemeteries. snow. ice. the gallows. crows. milk-white skin. ambiguous illness. fangs. pointed nails. something howling in the night. capes. gloves. top hats. straight razors. lightning. pipe organs. underground caverns. bats. mice. rats. ravens. cats. pearls. attics. talismans. axes. wood. isolation in a room full of people. vampires. werewolves. ghosts. coffins. western europe. eastern europe. bones. churches. catacombs. mausoleums. books. stitches.
PARANORMAL.
malevolent spirits. seances. spells. missing bodies. hidden graves. white noise. static. flickering lights. rings of salt. demons. poltergeists. dark histories. old buildings. cold air. wells. urban exploration. a dog barking at unseen things. iconoclasm. black ooze. old photographs. dark bodies of water. crucifixes. priests. possession. exorcisms. dolls.
SLASHER.
bloodbaths. massacres. wanton nudity. newspapers. leather jackets. letterman jackets. converse sneakers. obscured faces. social unrest. bonfires. lakes. babysitters. high school. lockers. dead leaves in the fall. jack-o’-lanterns. passing shadows. outdated television sets. nightmares. psychiatrists. hospitals. unstoppable forces. gunfire. police. landline telephones. improvised weapons. halloween. secrets. revelations. cut wires. character masks. scrunchies. wild curls. jeering children. parties. fire. swearing. revulsion. california. the american midwest. ambulances.
THRILLER.
daylight. fluorescent lighting. morgues. unwavering eye contact. tension. lit rooms. empty rooms. killer in plain sight. a dog digging in the newly-planted flower bed. steely gazes. paperwork. anagrams. codes. convicted killers. missing persons. law enforcement. federal agents. small towns. paranoia. subdued terror. dimly-lit parking lots. a noise in the distance.
stolen from @vonerde tagging @nezumivc103221 @distopea @tximidity @royaletiquette @sosordid @mauerfrau @lunarscaled @heincus @nvrcmplt
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lagataprrr · 1 month ago
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is it possible to get a short blurb of Satoru and plus size girl friend and how they go costume shopping, and he sees reader staring at a ghost face mask
hehehe
OH! I LOVE THIS
I hope this satisfied your ask <3 currently still working on chapter five of the series and its taken me longer bc kind of stuck on a scene lol
Ghost face Mask
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"What about this one?" You ask, and Satoru looks up from the rack of costumes he was looking through to look at you. He raises a brow at the costume in your hand of what seemed to be a sexy witch, it was a long dark purple sleeveless dress, that had a slit that probably stopped high enough on your thighs. It brought purple gloves and a black witches hat and a garner belt for the exposed thigh???
Satoru's mind began playing a scene of you coming out of his room dressed in it, how sexy you'd look prancing around in it while wearing your hot platform boots. He could see himself dragging a hand up the slit of the dress, caressing your calves and up your thick thighs. In fact it would be so easy to slip his hand between your thighs and touch your pu-
"Baby?" Satoru is snapped out of his daydream at your voice. Clearly knowing the look on his face as you let out a laugh, putting the costume back on the rack and walking elsewhere.
"Wait," Satoru pouted, grabbing it and stuffing it into the basket he was carrying for you. "I like this one too."
"Toru, I only need one costume. You've said yes to four of them, we're gonna have to choose one."
"We can get all of them."
"Halloween is only one night."
"It can be halloween every night if you just wear these for me." He says, arm wrapping around your waist, as he presses a smooch on your cheek. You giggle and softly push him off from his antics.
"Let's find you a costume." You say as you pulled his hand, finding the men's costume area. Eyes scanning through the many options, as you found a couple of possible ones. "What about this one?"
"You want me to be your sexy doctor, hmm?"
You grin, stepping over to him as you leaned into him dramatically. "Oh yes, doctor. Somethings terribly wrong with me."
His hand comes to your waist again, dramatically dipping you back and lifting one of your legs up making you squeal. "Of course, my sexy patient, I as your doctor will do a thorough full body check up," He says, momentarily letting go of the basket on his other hand to grip the thigh of the leg he'd raise. "Starting with the most vital place." Unabashedly patting your inner thigh, so fucking close to your cunt.
"Satoru!" You gasp, laughing loudly, probably catching the attention of a few onlookers but paying them no mind. He leans down and kisses you a couple of times before letting you stand normal again, still attached to your lips. You're giggling into the kisses, never a dull day with your boyfriend. He picks up the basket again and takes the costume from your hands and puts it in it. "So that one?"
"We can keep looking, you already have a sexy nurse one picked out so I can match it. Now let's find one about a wizard or warlock or something so I can match that sexy witch costume." You shake your head and glance around the racks, though your eyes caught a white mask that was hanged up near a corner of a display. Walking over and pulling it off the mass of masks from the wall and suddenly it was you who were having lewd thoughts about this costume.
A ghost face mask. And suddenly you're remembering all the hot tiktoks you'd seen on your for you page, about girls having a fun time with their boyfriends while wearing the mask. And fuck, you could definitely see Satoru in this.
He'd be standing on the doorway to your bedroom, mask on, his full on toned chest on display, delicious rippling abs and toned V on his hips leading down to a pair of black pants and boots covering his lower half. And then it was an image of you being fucked by him, ghostface mask still on, you're on your stomach, his full weight on you as he had both your hands behind your back. Cock dragging in and out of your pulsating cunt. The skin of your ass and thighs rippling at his hard thrusts, the contionous sound of skin slapping against skin.
All the while you're staring at the mask, Satoru caught on to the look on your face. Blown out pupils, completely out of it in your little head and he has the biggest smirk on his face. He takes quiet steps towards you and stands directly behind you, a hand slowly gripping your hip to pull you back into him. This makes you look back at him, now out of your little daydream.
"We're definitely getting that."
You clear your throat, a nervous laugh stumbling out of your lips. "What? Why?"
"I've seen your TikTok for you page while you've showered." And your jaw drops, he smirks at you, hands grabbing the mask out of your hands as he walks away to look at other costumes. "Come on baby, the faster we find other costumes the faster we can get home so I can put on the mask."
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Credits to @super-marvel-dc for the gojo divider!!! the Ghostface pic I found online and added a purplish filter on it for the purposes of this blurb
I've added this to the Blame it on the Club's Playlist| Series Masterlist, under Blurbs :))))))
Tag List:
@bankaixx
@shiftinghoe
@uniquecutie-puffs
@thewomans-stuff
@plathsotherib
@lanaismotherrrrrrr
@fangirllookingforlife
@tluvr777
@sunehry
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idv-ask-the-showman · 1 year ago
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“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and ghouls, Welcome one and all to tonight show~ I am your friendly neighbour Showman, Phineas. oh, just what a truly haunting pleasure it is to see all your spirited faces gathered here tonight!! I stand before you to celebrate, announce, and embrace the arrival of the spine-tingling month of October!!”
“And we all knows what that means~ the air is crisp, the leaves are falling, and the pumpkin spice is flowing. It's that time of year when the mischievous spirits come out to play and Halloween lurks just around the cobweb-covered corner. Yes, honey, it's time to release your inner witch, wizard, vampire, or even a gloriously goofy ghost!”
“In this magical month of October, the world transforms into a whimsical wonderland of frightful delights. It's the time when the veil between realms becomes as thin as spider silk, granting us a chance to embrace our wildest imaginations.”
“And we are here tonight to make sure that during this frightful and spooOOOOooky~ month, you would have the most fun you could have ever dream of!! Heheh~”
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//okay I made a small drawings ideas list for you all to use for fun during this month, is not long or a lot but is the best I could do tbh. You do not have to do them in order or as fast as possible, you can just pick what fit your fancy and have fun!!
{DRAW YOUR OCs}
Getting ready for Halloween
Carving a pumpkin
Going to a simple Halloween party
Going/giving trick or treating
Splash art for their costume (like in genshin)
Scary movies night
Playing a horror game
Waking up from a nightmare
Halloween masquerade ball
Dressing up as their favourite horror movie character
Let them sing their favourite children rhythm but in a more of a scary tone.
Dancing underneath the blood moon
Got cursed by a witch (your choice what the curse is)
Exploring a real hunted house
Day of the dead
Dress as their friend/family member
Doing one of those 3am scary challenges (Bloody Mary, ouija)
Be a menace to society and watch or already set the Christmas decorations and movies mid October >:3
Visit a graveyard, why not?
Doing a devilish ritual to summon an ancient evil deity… with the besties!!
Getting drunk in a party
Hiding a DEAD BODY.
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{OCs Asks}
1. If your OC had to choose between being a vampire, werewolf, or witch,etc. which one would they pick and why?
2. What would be your OC's favorite Halloween candy or treat? Would they have any unusual cravings?
3. Does your OC have any unique Halloween traditions or rituals that they follow each year?
4. If your OC hosted a Halloween party, what would be the theme and how would they decorate the venue?
5. What is your OC's opinion on scary movies? Do they love them or avoid them at all costs?
6. If your OC were to go trick-or-treating, who would they go with?
7. Has your OC ever encountered a real ghost, monster, or other supernatural entity during Halloween? What happened?
8. Describe a memorable Halloween adventure or misadventure that your OC has had in the past.
9. Is your OC the type to play pranks on Halloween night, or do they prefer a more peaceful approach to the holiday?
10. How would your OC react if Halloween forever been cancelled?
11. Does your OC believe in the existence of creatures like witches, vampires, or werewolves? Why or why not?
12. How does your OC feel about carving pumpkins? Do they enjoy the process or do they find it messy and tedious?
13. If your OC were to create a spell for a Halloween potion, what kind of magical effects would it have?
14. Has your OC ever attended a Halloween masquerade ball? If so, what kind of costume did they wear and how did they feel about the event?
15. What kind of supernatural abilities or powers does your OC possess, and how do they utilize them during the Halloween season?
16. How was your OC first Halloween like? And if they didn’t celebrate it in the past as a kid, tell us why?
17. Dose your OC like the month of October?
18. What type of person your OC is during Halloween?
19. How likely that your OC would befriend Jack Skellington?
20. Would your OC be the type to older a pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks just because is October even tho they may not like it?
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mint-yooxgi · 2 years ago
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{6} - Hotel California - Yandere!Demonic Entities!Ateez X Reader
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Yandere AU & Demon AU - Based off of This ask and Hotel California by Eagles
Genre: Mature, Horror, Angst, Slight Humor
Pairing: Ateez X Reader 
Words: 7,790
Warnings: Violence, some slut shaming (again, not done by any of the guys). This is a Yandere story, it will contain themes such as stalking, violence, obsession, possessive natures, and just general overall creepiness and swearing. You have been warned.
A/n: Happy Halloween!!!! Like I said, this part is a little bit shorter than the rest, but I feel like it set up what I have planned for the next chapter nicely. I really hope you all enjoy this part as I had a lot of fun writing it, and I think a lot of you will like what happens in it hehehe anyways, as always, feedback is greatly appreciated. Enjoy~
Main Story - Part Two - Part Three - Part Four - Part Five - Mini Masterlist
“Do we really have to go?” Wooyoung whines, a pout tugging at his lips.
“Believe me, I want to go about as much as you do right now,” Yunho exhales a long breath through his nose.
“Shouldn’t one of us stay back at least?” San voices, brow quirked ever so slightly as he looks around at his brothers. Of course, he’s hoping that he’ll be able to be the one to keep you company once more as his brothers deal with whatever they have to at this council meeting.
“For the last time: it’s unavoidable.” Hongjoong sighs. “We should just focus on why the council has been summoned for now.”
“Yeah, and how quickly we can get back here.” Jongho mumbles, arms crossed in front of his chest.
“Well, from past events we know it’ll take at least an hour and a half,” Seonghwa grimaces, adjusting the collar of his jacket.
“The sooner we can get this over with, the sooner we can get back here.” Mingi says, placing his hat onto his head. He doesn’t like this anymore than his brothers do, and if they could stay home with you, they would.
“Agreed.” Yeosang huffs, smoothing out the front of his coat.
Currently, all eight of them stand in the middle of the foyer, putting the last final touches on their outfits for the evening. Since the council hasn’t been summoned in quite some time, they have to wear their ‘official’ all black looks, complete with their hats. Each of their clothes may vary in style, but collectively, they all complement one another, truly looking like the leaders of the realm that they are always meant to be.
A moment of silence passes by.
“I should probably go tell her that we’re leaving.” Jongho says, already taking a step towards your room where you’ve been cooped up all day leading up to this evening.
A hand on his shoulder prevents him from moving more than one step forwards.
“I’ll go tell her,” Mingi practically shoves Jongho behind him as he goes to step passed him.
“Like hell you are,” Yeosang glares at the taller male as he moves to step in front of him to block his path.
“If anyone is telling her we’re leaving, it’ll be me.” Seonghwa nearly rolls his eyes as he moves to shove the younger two out of his way to begin walking towards the hallway that will lead to your room.
Only, Hongjoong’s hand flying out in front of him suddenly halts him in his tracks.
“Will you all calm down.” His eyes narrow. “Listen.”
Sure enough, when they focus back on their surroundings they can hear the familiar sound of your footsteps drawing near. You seem to be walking at a leisurely pace, only causing them each to hold their breaths as you approach them.
“Oh my-” as soon as you round the corner to see them all standing there, you freeze in your tracks. Your breath immediately catches, words dying in your throat as you blink a few times at them almost in shock. Then, you snort out a mild laugh as you grip the book you have held in your arms more firmly. “You guys are really doing wonders to fight against those cult allegations.”
Wooyoung snorts out a laugh with you, grins tugging onto Mingi’s, San’s, and Yunho’s faces while the others straighten slightly in their spots. Each begins to feel that telltale sense of pride within their chests at the way you’re continuously looking at them.
You can’t help it, the way your eyes trail over each one of them individually. You’ve never seen them dressed up like this before, not even for that one dinner you had with all of them all those weeks ago. In fact, their outfits remind you of a certain fictional character whom you haven’t thought about in quite some time. One who is very dear to you. Still, you cannot deny that they all look good.
At the feeling of your gaze roaming over the expanse of their bodies, each male has to suppress the pleased growl that wants to escape their throats. Their minds are battling with one another currently, arguing amongst themselves about who held your gaze the longest, and who you looked the most enraptured by while taking them all in.
San is convinced it’s him, while Seonghwa strongly disagrees. Wooyoung obviously knows it’s him, yet Jongho would beg to differ. Yunho had straightened considerably, smoothing out the front of his jacket as your eyes trailed over him the longest (at least in his mind), while Mingi would swear it was him who held your gaze over the others. Yeosang, on the outside, still looks calm and collected, while internally he’s battling it out with Hongjoong over who caused your lips to twitch upwards even if just the slightest.
You clear your throat, breaking them out of whatever trance they seem to be in.
“So,” you shift slightly on your feet, holding your book more firmly as you pass it between your hands, “you guys are leaving soon?”
At least one thing they can all agree on: they hate how you sound so hopeful. Why do you have to look so excited to be left alone, and to be away from them for any period of time, quirked brow and all? Can’t you at least be a little upset?
Hongjoong nods, naturally pushing his jacket back as he shoves his hands into his pockets. At the way he feels you trail your eyes over his figure as he does so, he has to suppress his own from shifting black in content. “Are you sure you’re going to be okay by yourself for that long?”
One final hand extended to you to get them to stay. Really, you need only say the word and they would blow off the entire council for you. Besides, you are all that truly matters to them at the moment.
You meet his gaze, the corner of your lips tugging upwards, “more than okay.”
Again, why do you have to sound so happy about it? Wooyoung, San, and Mingi all pout, and even Jongho’s lips tug downwards in a frown. Yeosang and Seonghwa cross their arms, while Yunho and Hongjoong just sigh.
“What are you going to do?” Wooyoung voices the thought on all of their minds, genuine curiosity held in his tone.
“Wouldn’t you like to know, demon boy?” You quirk a brow, a devious smirk tugging at your lips.
At this, they all turn to look at Wooyoung. This is the first time you’ve referred to one of them, almost affectionately, by any type of specific nickname around the others, and to say the others are jealous would be a severe understatement. Wooyoung, on the other hand, is absolutely revelling in the fact that you called him demon boy once more, his lips quirking upwards smugly in the corners. It’s like your own little secret.
“I think we’d all like to know,” Jongho mumbles, his pout becoming more prominent on his features.
Of course you’d just have to be thinking about that damn void right now. It’s not like they desperately want to know what you’re actually thinking about, or what you actually think about them, especially in these outfits. You seemed impressed, but with you, they can never be so sure. Besides, it would mean more to them hearing it from your own mouth, or rather, thoughts in this case.
Luckily, or rather, unluckily for them, your next words seem to answer their original question.
“Well, if you must know,” you huff, rolling your eyes somewhat. “I was going to read, but now I think I have a hot date with an old friend of mine.”
“A date?” Seonghwa can barely suppress the growl on his lips, echoed lowly by both San and Mingi. Even Wooyoung’s mood immediately plummets, the high from the nickname you called him mere seconds before crashing into the ground.
“Yeah,” you grin, somewhat amusedly. 
“Who?” Before you can continue, San’s voice, low and ominous, rings out through the foyer, his eyes swirling with that all too familiar blackness. “How?”
“You really think I can go anywhere, let alone meet up with someone else right now?” Your eyes widen in mild amusement as a huff escapes your lips. “No, it’s just that your outfits reminded me of a certain favourite fictional reaper of mine.” You shrug. “Just made me realize I haven’t watched Goblin in a while.”
“Reaper?” This time, Hongjoong doesn’t suppress when his eyes flash black.
“Relax,” you roll your eyes, crossing your arms over your chest as your book is held firm in your one hand, tucked against your torso. “Didn’t pin you guys for getting jealous over a fictional character.” You hum, mildly amused, “then again…"
“We’re not jealous.” Yeosang grumbles, eyes narrowing ever so slightly.
“Denial.” You snort out a laugh. Then, more to yourself, you mutter, “hate to imagine what you’d be like if you ever found out about my favourite character from Jujutsu Kaisen.”
Immediately, Mingi’s nose is scrunching in disgust. “Please tell me you don’t like that stupid, blindfold wearing asshole.”
“Fuck, no,” you snort, mildly amused that he knows exactly what you’re talking about for the moment. “He’s way too arrogant for me.” Then, you tilt your head side to side as if contemplating something, humming all the while, “then again, he’s probably worse.”
“Who?” San’s voice is low, a slight growl to his inquiry.
You sigh, almost dreamily, a wistful smile on your face, “Sukuna.”
“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.” Wooyoung swears, clearly exasperated.
“Really, I’m surprised you even had to ask considering one of the three plushies I brought back with me was him printed on a small pillow.” You shrug, stating the obvious as your arms drop back to your sides.
“It must have slipped our minds.” Seonghwa hisses out through clenched teeth.
“Well, clearly we’re getting rid of that when we get back.” Yunho states, shooting you a pointed look.
“Excuse you,” your eyebrows raise considerably in disbelief, “Sukuna is a guest.”
“Not in this household.” San retorts, and you notice how a majority of them cross their arms in front of their chests.
“Not to you,” you match his sass, meeting his gaze with a pointed look of your own. “Just because you don’t like him, doesn’t mean I don’t like him.”
“That’s the issue,” Jongho grumbles. 
“The fact that I enjoy a fictional character?” Your eyebrow quirks once more in disbelief. “He’s not even real. He’s literally lines on a page.” You voice, incredulously, tone slightly more high pitched than usual. “Would you rather me going back to thinking about the idols I enjoy?”
“No!” Immediately, Mingi, San, and Wooyoung all respond, taking a small step towards you as the others scowl right along with them.
Then again, they’d never know if that is exactly what you do considering your void is still up. A fact which only makes growls build in their chests once more. There’s always an option to attack your mental void all at once, but they would rather not put you through that type of mental strain. They care about you too much. Plus, they promised they would never hurt you.
“Too late,” a devious smirk stretches across your features as you begin to chuckle, your free hand coming up to cover your mouth in the next second.
However, what you fail to notice is the way Yunho’s jaw twitches. Even more so than the other seven around him who all seem to be clenching theirs in response.
“You’re really testing our patience, Love,” Hongjoong is tense, his fists clenched at his sides as he meets your gaze.
“Oh, am I?” You smile innocently, dropping your one hand back to your side. Then, just as innocently, you say, “aren’t you going to be late?”
That seems to pull them back to reality and the task at hand, scowls on all of their faces.
“This isn’t over.” Seonghwa states, crossing his arms in front of his chest.
“Isn’t it?” You grin, a teasing quirk to your brow as you chuckle. “It’s so easy to rile you guys up.”
“Then why do you test us so?” Mingi asks, whole body tense as he locks gazes with you.
“Why?” You hum, briefly glancing at all of them once more. “I wouldn’t tease you if I didn’t feel comfortable around you.”
Immediately, they all go silent, your words settling over them as pure and utter surprise courses through their veins. Seonghwa, Hongjoong and Yunho all blink in shock, lips parting ever so slightly. San, Wooyoung, and Jongho all cannot suppress the pleased growls that escape them. Even Yeosang and Mingi have the gall to look somewhat smug for the moment before a bright smile is stretching across Mingi’s lips.
“Anyways…” you clear your throat, your admission finally sinking in for your own self as well. Then, seemingly against your better judgment, you continue, “good luck with the council, or whatever.” You turn around so they cannot see the way you avert your gaze so bashfully as the next words fall from your mouth, nothing but a mere whisper on your lips. “You, uh, all look really handsome.”
The sound of your first footstep is synonymous with the resounding growls of content that echo around the room as you begin to walk back towards the hallway that you’ve just come from. You can feel each of their gazes on your form, and you’re willing to bet that their eyes have flashed black as well. Only, there seems to be one gaze that is piercing your figure much more intensely than the rest.
“Captain.” Jongho attempts to grab Hongjoong’s attention, his brow furrowing as he gets no response from the elder. “Captain?”
Your brow quirks slightly as you turn to shoot them one last look from over your shoulder just as you reach the open archway of the hall. Lips quirking at the corners, you lock gazes with Hongjoong who seems to be the only one still staring at you so intently for the moment. You raise your free hand, wiggling your fingers in a final wave before disappearing around the corner.
“Captain?” It’s only when Seonghwa places a hand onto Hongjoong’s shoulder does the younger of the two finally snap out of his daze.
“Right.” He exhales a long breath through his nose. “Let’s go.”
Without another word, all eight of them are transporting themselves deep within the reaches of their domain near where the council will be taking place. None can deny the way their chests swirl with pride as your last admission lingers in the air between them, each standing a little taller as they land in their own throne room.
“That went better than expected.” Yunho is the first to break the silence between all of them. “Sort of.”
“I still would prefer her not teasing us like that.” San grumbles, crossing his arms across his chest.
“Believe me, I think we’d all prefer her not doing that.” Yeosang sits on the steps leading up to their thrones, leaning forwards to rest his elbows on his knees. The rest of the council will just have to wait for now. After all, it will only start once they arrive.
“But hey,” Jongho chimes in, a lightness to his voice, “at least we know she’s starting to trust us. Especially with everything she’s implied and said tonight.”
“But Sukuna of all characters?” Mingi grumbles, taking a seat beside Yeosang on the steps as he rubs over his face with his hands.
“Isn’t he just essentially us, but fictional?” Hongjoong turns to look at Mingi for confirmation.
“He’s less powerful, though,” Wooyoung adds as Mingi nods, “and less attractive.”
“He’s still known as the ‘King of Curses’,” San mumbles.
“Yeah, and we’re the fucking Kings of the Realm,” Seonghwa spits, arms crossed in front of his chest as his eyes flash. “If she can like him, then she can like us.”
“We are the real thing, after all,” Yunho hums. “Minus the tattoos and extra limbs.”
Yeosang’s eyes narrow at the male standing before him, “how do you know what he looks like? You haven’t even seen a single episode of the anime, or read one page of the manga.”
Yunho quirks a brow, his lips twitching upwards expectantly at his brothers.
Seonghwa inhales sharply as realization crosses his features, “you’ve been able to get passed her void.”
Yunho smirks, noticing how he seems to have their full attention on him now.
“How?” Wooyoung takes a step forwards, eagerness on his features along with Jongho, San, Mingi, and Seonghwa. “When?”
“I can’t do it all of the time, but since the crowning when she opened her mind up to me again briefly, I was able to latch on to that opening and worm my way in.” Yunho explains, noticing how some of them tense at the recollection of that moment in verbiage only.
“You always were the best out of all of us when it came to that sort of stuff, anyways,” Hongjoong nods, impressed, despite that familiar jealous pit burning beneath the surface of his skin right now.
“We all have our own skills that we play to our advantage,” Yunho’s eyes flash as he meets Hongjoong’s gaze. “I simply acted when the opportunity presented itself.”
“What else was she thinking?” Jongho’s gaze is a little too eager as he looks at Yunho.
“I don’t think you want to know.” Yunho shakes his head.
“I think we do.” Seonghwa quirks a brow, noticing how both Yeosang and Wooyoung seem to be on the exact same page as him, even if Yeosang is trying to hide how eager he is at the moment.
“Well,” Yunho sighs, smoothing his hands down the front of his jacket, “I caught glimpses of another idol she apparently likes, only this time she was picturing him as Sukuna.”
“Who?” Both San and Hongjoong snarl at the same time, Mingi and Wooyoung growling right along with them.
“I didn’t recognize him right away, but I could have sworn his name started with a ‘Jae’,” Yunho frowns, attempting to recall the memory in more detail.
“Like, the letter, or…?” Wooyoung quirks a brow.
“No, the first part of his name was ‘Jae’,” Yunho replies.
Immediately, both Jongho and Yeosang tense as the mental image of what you had been thinking about, or rather, whom, flashes in all of their minds, curtesy of Yunho.
“Jaehyun.” Yeosang spits out the name like it’s venom on his tongue, eyes flashing black beneath the rim of his hat.
“I thought she said he broke her heart without cause or care?” Jongho growls, immediately echoed by the seven demons surrounding him.
“Maybe it’s not the same one,” Wooyoung suggests, fingers twitching as his soul calls for blood to be shed right alongside Hongjoong’s very own.
“Oh, I believe it is.” Yeosang scowls.
“How could an idol break her heart?” Mingi frowns slightly, attempting to wrap his head around this situation. “Why would she still think of him, then?”
“Maybe she wasn’t being serious when she told you?” San suggests, holding onto that final hope before his own sanity snaps for the evening. He’s already ticked off about the council gathering enough, the last thing he needs is to not be able to make a rational decision when they need him to.
“Maybe.” Jongho grumbles, taking a seat on the stairs beside Mingi in the next moment.
“This doesn’t change the fact that she’s still thinking about other people.” Hongjoong states, voice firm as his fingers dig into the skin of his crossed arms. “Other men, no less.”
“I don’t know what else we can do apart from brainwashing her to make her like us faster,” Seonghwa mumbles, shaking his head in the next second as several pairs of eyes turn to glare at him.
“We’ve already agreed that that would be something we would never do.” Hongjoong’s voice is low, threatening. “Especially not to her.”
“I know,” Seonghwa exhales an exasperated breath. “It’s just difficult-“
“You think we don’t know that?” Yeosang shouts, standing back onto his feet instantly, eyes flashing once more. “It’s difficult for all of us, Seonghwa, not just you.”
“Maybe if you shared with us what you talked about last week, we’d all be a little bit more understanding,” Wooyoung grumbles, frown prominent on his features as he looks towards the eldest.
“That is not my memory to share, brother.” Seonghwa narrows his eyes back at the younger, noticing how they all seem to back off for the moment in understanding.
Then, a moment later, both Yunho and Jongho are letting out two very exasperated sighs of their own.
“Can we not focus on how she just complimented us before we left?” Yunho’s voice rumbles out, rubbing a hand against the back of his neck.
“Or even how she reacted when she first saw us tonight?” Jongho takes off his hat, running his fingers through his hair in the next moment.
“How long has it been since she’s looked at all of us with something other than caution, or malcontent in her eyes?” Hongjoong asks the question on all of their minds.
A moment of silence passes over them as they let his words sink in.
“Too long.” Yeosang’s voice nearly catches in his throat, overcome by the conflicting emotions swirling within himself at the events that have just taken place mere minutes before.
“We’ve all been making considerable progress with her just in this past month alone,” Mingi breathes. “Just imagine where we’ll be in another few weeks.”
“Believe me, I always do.” Yunho sighs.
“Maybe we should wear these more often.” Jongho jokes, motioning over the front of his outfit with the hand that’s still holding onto his hat as he stands.
“If it means her calling me handsome again, I’ll wear anything she wants.” San voices, a soft smile painting his features as he blinks a few times dreamily, recalling how your eyes roamed over his figure barely ten minutes earlier.
“Her comment was directed at me.” Wooyoung states, matter of factly, as his eyes narrow at San.
“In your fucking dreams, demon boy.” Seonghwa huffs, rolling his eyes as Wooyoung snarls at him in response.
“Every damn night, handsy,” Wooyoung retorts, taking a threatening step towards the eldest as his eyes flash black.
“Knock it off,” Hongjoong snaps, frown prominent on his features as he looks to each one of them. “All of you.”
Yunho sighs, “let’s just get through this stupid council meeting, and get back to our girl, yeah?”
Murmurs of agreement course throughout the room from all of them as Mingi stands back onto his feet. Begrudgingly, they all walk towards the main doors of the throne room in order to enter the grand hall where this council will be taking place. Everyone else should be there already, simply waiting for them to arrive. Besides, the sooner they can get this over with, the better. At least they can all agree on that.
They’re just lucky that the throne room is sound proof. Besides, no one would dare to eavesdrop on their Kings.
In an instant, the doors to the throne room are swinging open on silent hinges, the murmurs within the grand room coming to a halt as the eight kings make their appearance. Immediately, all those who have been summoned bow, taking a knee as the leaders appear before them. Only when Hongjoong flicks his wrist in an upwards motion do the other demons in the room stand back to their feet.
“Is there a reason you summoned us here tonight?” Hongjoong’s eyes narrow at the demons all standing around the room.
“Yes, Your Majesty,” one of the demons standing off to his right, Jax, begins.
“Then what is it?” Seonghwa’s scowl is prominent, annoyed that they couldn’t be told what this council was about in the letter they received summoning them here tonight.
“There have been issues recently between the major clans.” Jax responds.
“Issues?” Wooyoung quirks a brow.
“And you couldn’t figure it out yourselves?” Jongho huffs, unamused.
“There have been many attempts to settle the land disputes and power imbalances, but nothing has come to fruition.” Miyeon crosses her arms in front of her chest, clearly as annoyed as they are right now, if not more. “Not that you would care.”
In a flash, Hongjoong has her by the throat, her feet dangling in the air as she struggles in his grip. His eyes are pitch black and violent, snarl on his features as he blocks her airway.
Just like old times, huh, boys? Her voice resounding through all of their heads has disgust pulling onto their features.
“Watch your tone.” Hongjoong growls, tightening his grip on her neck.
Out of all of them, Hongjoong is the one who tolerates any sort of disrespect towards any of them the least. All of them know not to get in his way when he gets like this, but that doesn’t mean they won’t step in from time to time.
“We apologize for her stepping out of line,” Miyeon’s older sister, Mina steps forward, bowing lowly along with the rest of their clan who has decided to show up to this council tonight. “Please, hear us out.”
“Fine.” Carelessly, Hongjoong tosses Miyeon onto the floor at her clan’s feet. “Hurry up, we don’t have all night.”
No sentiment for old lovers? Miyeon heaves a breath as air returns to her lungs, looking up to meet Hongjoong’s gaze. You really have gone cold.
Watch your mind before we break it. Yunho harshly replies, eight sets of eyes glaring at the demon still on the ground at their feet.
The resentment is clear in her gaze as she looks back up at them, but also a hint of hurt lingers there. Wiping her cheek with the back of her hand, she stands back to her feet, too proud to apologize, even to them.
Fixating his gaze on Mina, Hongjoong motions for her to continue.
“The factions you previously divided up are beginning to attack one another for territory in the deeper parts of the realm. Many of the lower ranks are seeking power in any and every way they can, starting with the attempted annihilation of the better known clans.” Mina explains.
“How long has this been going on?” Mingi steps forward slightly.
“Two months.” Jax states.
“Two months?” San is this close to losing his temper, and he’s barely been in the room for more than five minutes. “No one thought to contact us earlier?”
“You seemed preoccupied.” Miyeon spits, arms crossed over her chest.
“It’s been over twenty years, Miyeon,” her father, Otis, whispers quite harshly to her as he steps forward to place a hand onto her shoulder. “Let it go.”
Instantly, she shrugs his hand off, standing a little straighter. Her eyes begin to blaze with an untamed fire only five of them have ever truly seen before.
Yeosang sighs, turning to meet Mina’s gaze, “what do you want us to do about it?”
“Killing them all would be nice, considering you usually don’t have any issues with that.” Miyeon huffs out a response instead, a roll to her eyes.
“Would you like to be the starting example?” Seonghwa tilts his head mockingly, eyes wide and wild as he stares her down.
At this, she stiffens, lowering her gaze from the intensity of his own.
Mina shoots her sister a look out of the corner of her eyes. “We would like your permission to protect ourselves without consequence against those that oppose us in our own domain.”
The eight of them all share a brief glance between one another before Hongjoong lets out a long sigh. “Do what you have to do.”
Many of the demons begin to grin around the room. Awful, malicious smirks that paint their features in shadows.
“However,” Yunho adds, drawing all of their attention back to the eight of them at the head of the room, “we will try any that you capture and bring before us if that is what you so wish. We have to make examples out of them somehow.”
“Yes, Your Majesty,” choruses around the room.
“Is that all?” San quirks a brow, slightly hopeful that they can cut this council summoning short.
“No, Your Majesty,” Jax replies, suddenly cautious at the way he sees San’s expression fall back into an annoyed scowl. “There are quite a few other things as well.”
It takes them a full hour and a half to deal with each small individual complaint some of the other clans have, each one grating on their last nerve. Some of them are ridiculous, petty arguments that could be settled without their help, but unfortunately it seems some of their subjects cannot think for themselves. Others are there clearly to attempt to impress them, a fact which only makes them dislike them even more. Though, a few of them they can all agree upon that, yes, they did have to attend to that particular matter.
Still, all cannot wait to get back home to you.
Finally, after what feels like forever, they reach the end of the concerns from the surrounding demons. Some of them linger after the council concludes, talking amongst themselves or wanting to chat with their leaders about little things here and there. Of course, they have to keep appearances, so before they know it, Mingi, San, Wooyoung, and Yunho are all being dragged off by different clans to catch them up on whatever endeavours have transpired since the last time they talked to them.
Hongjoong and Seonghwa circle the room, making sure they’ve gotten all the information they can out of the demons who have requested something from them. Of course, their biggest concern is the potential threat to them. Any threat against them is a threat against you, and the last thing they want is for you to be caught in the crossfire in any way, shape, or form.
Jongho and Yeosang both stand off to the side for now, conversing amongst themselves until Jongho is being called over by the two eldest to help settle a small dispute between one of the major clans he rules over that has just seemingly arisen.
Letting out a sigh, Yeosang crosses his arms. A furrow creases his brow as he begins to think about what you may or may not be currently doing back at home. Oh, so badly does he just want to leave. To go ahead of his brothers and see you once more this evening. 
Perhaps it’s too much of a wishful thought on his part, but Yeosang cannot help but to imagine sneaking away while his brothers wrap up here in order to spend some quality time with you before they get back. He could watch an episode of Goblin with you, if that’s what you were doing. Really, it doesn’t matter to him, just as long as he gets to spend time with you. It’s not like he wants to check out this reaper you claim to like, or anything.
“Who is she?” Miyeon’s stern voice from behind him manages to pull him out of his own thoughts, turning around to face her in an instant.
“Excuse me?” Yeosang quirks a brow, slightly amused by her audacity.
“The new whore you all seem to be obsessed with.” She spits, and instantly, Yeosang has her pinned to the wall, cracks appearing from how harshly he’s slammed her into it.
“Watch your fucking mouth.” His eyes are black, a snarl on his lips.
“I knew it,” she huffs out a breath, shaking her head as Mingi is the first to appear beside Yeosang, followed shortly by San and Wooyoung a little ways away.
Carefully, Mingi places a hand on his brother’s shoulder, his own anger from overhearing Miyeon’s words hardly being restrained as he attempts to pull Yeosang off of her.
You’re just giving her what she wants. Mingi’s voice resounds in Yeosang’s head.
I don’t care. Yeosang growls out threateningly as he feels Miyeon begin to struggle beneath his hold, only causing him to harshly push her further into the wall. If she thinks she can say these things about My Dearest, then she has another thing coming.
Most of the other demons around the room vanish in an instant, not wanting to incur the wrath that they are sure is about to be brought down upon Miyeon. However, those few that remain, mainly from her own clan, can only watch on in shock, frozen in fear, and much too terrified to interfere.
“Is the sex that good that you would rather bed a human than me?” Her question is directed at all of them, but really only four in particular. At the way she sees Hongjoong appear beside Yeosang, one of his signature blades clutched dangerously in his hand, she knows she’s struck something.
“I never bedded you,” Yeosang spits, venom laced in every word. “Nor have I ever wanted to.”
Mingi manages to pull Yeosang off of her finally, taking a few steps back as Seonghwa comes to stand beside Hongjoong, his own hand placed on the younger’s shoulder.
“Miyeon, I think we’ve overstayed our welcome-“
“This is bullshit!” She shouts, cutting off her sister instantly. “Since when do Kings submit to dirt?”
The knife is embedded within her left shoulder before anyone can react, Hongjoong’s chest heaving with every breath he takes. Black eyes full of malice meet Miyeon’s own, and she finds no sympathy in any of the other’s gazes, not even those she was closest to.
Clutching the handle of the dagger, Miyeon rips it out of her shoulder, blood trickling out of her wound.
“There was a time when you would have done anything for me.” She voices, somewhat disappointedly. “Now, it’s all for some pathetic human? What a joke.”
“Miyeon.” Her father warns.
“That’s where you’re wrong,” Hongjoong tilts his head, nothing but a sinister grin pulling at his lips as he looks at her with mock sympathy. “I never cared for you in the first place.”
Miyeon screams in rage, throwing the dagger directly at Hongjoong who catches it with ease, tutting all the while as he shakes his head.
Instantly, his eyes flash, and the blade is protruding from her opposite shoulder.
Almost pleadingly, she turns to look at San, then Wooyoung, and then Mingi, until she spares a glance at the other four, “are you really going to let him treat me like this? Did I mean nothing to you?”
“Twenty years ago I might have felt a little bad about this,” Wooyoung shrugs, leaning against one of the pillars at the side of the room. Already, he’s barely holding onto his fury, about two seconds away from skinning Miyeon alive for what she’s already said about you.
“You mean nothing to us.” Mingi states, looking down upon her with a blank gaze.
“You are nothing.” San’s eyes swirl with that all too familiar blackness, arms crossed as he attempts to keep his whole body from shaking in rage.
Miyeon’s expression drops only momentarily before a vicious scowl tugs at her features.
“You’ll grow tired of that whore soon enough.” She spits, clutching at the dagger embedded in her opposite shoulder, the blade too deep this time to simply rip out. “From the looks of things, she’s playing hard to get. Must be agony not being able to wet your dicks when you want to.”
Immediately, Seonghwa has her by the throat against the wall, more cracks appearing as he slams her back into the same spot Yeosang had just been holding her against. His eyes flash black as he growls threateningly, teeth bared in a snarl. “One more word form you and I’ll snap your fucking neck.”
“Seonghwa.” It’s Jongho that manages to pull the eldest off of her this time, practically holding him back as the youngest puts a leash on his own anger.
Then, her father is taking a cautious step forward, looking sternly towards his daughter, yet too scared to properly intervene. “Miyeon, that’s enough.”
“Get her out of our sights.” Hongjoong spits, beginning to turn his back to her, not wanting to deal with this situation any longer.
Surprisingly, Yunho has been quiet this whole time, but all of them know that there is a storm raging behind those dark eyes of his as he stands the furthest away from the scene out of the eight of them.
However, before either her father or her sister can reach her, Miyeon manages to get out some final words. Unfortunately for her, they are her very own death sentence.
“That’s right, run back to the little human slut,” she huffs out a laugh. “What was her name, anyways? Oh, right,” a malicious grin stretches across her lips as she watches Hongjoong freeze with his back turned to her as she says your name with nothing but pure venom on her tongue. “I wonder what you’ll all do when she’s dead.”
Before anyone else has a chance to react, Hongjoong has Miyeon by the jaw against the wall. A resounding crack echoes throughout the room, but this time, it’s not from the wall.
“Get My Love’s sacred name out of your filthy mouth.” Hongjoong leans in to whisper lowly in Miyeon’s ear as tears begin to line her eyes, his own as black as night and calling for blood. “If I ever hear you say her name again, I will carve your tongue out of your mouth after I make you taste the contents of your innards from ripping them out of you in the most painful ways I know how.”
Her breath catches, the first of her tears falling from her eyes as his words sink in. He never called her that before. He never threatened anyone who threatened her, so why you? What makes you so special?
Miyeon’s jaw throbs, the broken bone cracked in multiple places as Hongjoong squeezes his hand harder against her.
“What’s the matter, Mimi?” He hums in mock concern, practically hissing her old nickname they gave her back at her, making her whimper as his eyes hold that crazed look in them that she knows all too well. “Cat got your tongue?”
She looks around once more, noticing the other seven look at her just as darkly, eyes calling for her blood to be spilt - for her soul to be torn apart until there’s nothing left but a wisp of a memory in her family’s minds.
White hot fury courses through her veins as she continues being held against the cracked wall by Hongjoong. A jealous fire worse than Hongjoong’s own burns within her, absolutely despising your very existence. Tears fall freely down her face as she blinks, her mind running wild with plans to absolutely destroy you for taking them away from her.
Only, they were never hers to begin with.
At one particular thought, Yunho’s eyes flash and a scream is tearing from Miyeon’s throat as she slumps in Hongjoong’s grip. He releases his hold on her, letting her fall limply to the floor as he steps away from her in disgust.
Of course she would pass out. Yunho only made her feel like thousands of tiny needles were stabbing her mind. Not quite enough to break her, but enough to serve as a warning if she ever were to act on those thoughts and come after you.
Wiping his hands on the front of his coat, Hongjoong turns to face Otis, a look of severe discontent shining in his pure black eyes.
“If we ever see her here again, we will not be so kind.” Hongjoong snaps, the others falling in line beside him as their own eyes flash black. “Now, get out of our sights.”
As soon as the words are out of his mouth, all of the demons, save for Mina and Otis leave the room. It only takes two seconds for them to grab Miyeon’s body, and to be transporting themselves away from the grand hall, but neither father nor sister will forget the burning gazes of all eight of their leaders boring holes into them as they did so.
Once the room clears, San turns and punches a hole right through the wall beside him, the entire building shaking from the intensity of his fist. “Fuck.”
“You really know how to pick ‘em.” Wooyoung rounds on San instantly.
“Don’t you dare pin this on me, you wanted her as much as I did twenty years ago, too.” San snaps back at the younger male.
“She only used us to try and get to Yeosang, anyways.” Mingi sighs, taking off his hat as he crouches to the ground. “He was the only one she truly wanted.”
“Yeah, until Yunho started training her mentally,” Jongho rolls his eyes, arms crossed in front of his chest. “Then it was like a game to her of how many of us she could try and trap.”
“Don’t remind me,” Yunho sighs, taking his own hat off to run his fingers through his hair. They all know he regrets it the most out of all of them.
Seven heads turn to look at Hongjoong who is currently zoning out and staring intently at the cracked wall, chest heaving with every breath he takes.
“Captain, are you okay?” Yeosang voices the question on all of their minds.
A full minute passes by, and they still get no response.
“Captain?” Jongho attempts to catch Hongjoong’s attention, but the fire he sees burning behind the elder’s gaze has him backing down for the moment.
“Hongjoong.” It’s Seonghwa who manages to pull the younger back to reality by placing a hand onto his shoulder, fingers digging into the material of his jacket.
“I should have killed her.” Hongjoong hisses, eyes flashing black once more. “I should have made an example of her right where she stood when I had the chance.”
“But you did.” Mingi is the first to assure him. “We’ve now warned her clan of the consequences, and we have every right to skin her alive the next time we see her. And if she so much as thinks about harming our love…”
Mingi lets his words trail off, resounding growls of agreement rumbling through the air between all of them.
“Believe me, we all wanted to skin her alive for what she said about our love just now.” Wooyoung snarls, along with both San and Seonghwa.
“It’s my fault for allowing her to bait me.” Yeosang’s jaw clenches as he looks towards the cracked wall once more. “If I didn’t react-“
“You did what you felt was best,” Seonghwa states, voice somewhat reassuring as he drops his hand from Hongjoong’s shoulder finally. “If she cornered me like that I would have torn her head clean off.”
“We all know you wanted to, anyways,” Mingi snorts, rolling his eyes.
“You wouldn’t have complained.” Seonghwa crosses his arms in front of his chest as Mingi raises his hands palms upwards, shrugging in agreement.
“How did she even know about our love’s name, anyways?” San’s inquiry has a growl rising on all of their lips at the memory of mere minutes ago.
“It’s easier to invade someone’s mind without them knowing during times of extreme emotion or distress, especially when they are experiencing uncontrollable anger, pain, or fear.” Yunho states, eyes blankly staring ahead of him. “I fear I trained her too well. It could have been any one of us she gathered that information from.”
“It’s been twenty fucking years,” San voices, exasperatedly. “You think she’d give it a rest by now, and recognize that we’ve moved on.”
“That’s the problem, though, isn’t it?” Jongho blinks, his expression unamused. “You’ve forgotten about her, but she clearly hasn’t let go of you.”
“You were right not to get involved back then,” Mingi sighs, directing his comment at the youngest.
“I warned you guys,” Jongho huffs out a breath as he shrugs, essentially telling them all ‘I told you so’.
“Yeah, yeah,” Wooyoung rolls his eyes. “The past has passed. We’re not going to change it now.”
“If she so much as even tries anything that she had been thinking in the end,” Hongjoong finally speaks once more, voice low and ominous, like the calm of an approaching storm, “I will destroy her.”
Seven growls of agreement resonate throughout the room, their eyes all flashing black once more.
“There’s no way that she can get into our own personal domain, especially not when we’re there.” Seonghwa reasons, though there’s a hint of worry in his tone. 
You’re now in constant danger due to Miyeon, and if her family cannot control her, then the eight of them will have to act, and fast. No one comes after you without them knowing about it. No one touches you, or will bring you any harm. At least, not while they are around. They will always protect you, whether you realize it or not.
“Our wards are far too intricate for the likes of her,” Yeosang agrees, silently reassuring the eldest with just a glance.
“It’s not like we can’t protect her.” Yunho adds, the other seven humming along with him.
“If we take our beloved anywhere outside of our domain, we’ll just have to be extra careful now.” Wooyoung voices the thoughts on all of their minds.
“Agreed.” Mingi, San, Yunho, and Jongho all say at once, the other three nodding along with them.
“Well, I don’t know about you guys, but I’d rather not return to our beloved ready to tear into someone’s throat.” San smiles tightly, noticing how Wooyoung, Hongjoong, Seonghwa, and Yunho all flick their brows upwards in agreement.
“Why don’t we pay those little demons stirring up trouble a visit?” Yeosang voices, almost nonchalantly.
“Two birds with one stone,” Mingi shrugs, standing back to his full height and straightening out his jacket.
“As much as I want to be getting back home to our girl, considering how long we’ve already been gone, I think this would be best for all of us.” Yunho nods in agreement, placing his hat back onto his head.
“I could relieve some stress,” Jongho hums, brushing off the arms of his jacket.
“Good.” Seonghwa takes in a deep breath before turning to Hongjoong. “Captain?”
They all look to their leader, awaiting his final orders.
Hongjoong grins, a malicious tug to his lips as his eyes darken, “let’s go spill some blood.”
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berrymoos · 2 years ago
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no, because the older kids all being little on halloween and dressing up in a group costume is soooo cute o(*≧▽≦)ツ
eddie as the cowardly lion, steve as the tin man, nancy as dorothy, jonathan as the scarecrow, and robin as the wicked witch of the west with mama joyce and mama karen taking dozens of polaroids of them:)
they go apple bobbing and a non scary hay ride instead of trick or treating and watch a bunch of movies at the end of the day (it’s really just a distraction so the party can go trick or treating but shhh)
karen makes treats for everyone and get little toys that match their costumes!!
when the party comes back they have a huge sleep pile in the wheeler basement with candy wrappers and stuffies all around them and it’s happily ever after with no bad monsters:)))
(i’m reading the wizard of oz in drama so that’s where the costumes came from🤭)
SCRSMAS SO LOUD WAAAAA this is so so cute (´ω`。)ෆ i feel like robin suggested they do matching costumes but jon brought up the idea of them going as wizard of oz characters ... okok but to add one tiny detail ... the costumes were NOT store bought, but were made specifically for them 🥹 by who? I DON'T KNOW, that's up to interpretation ★~(◠ω◕✿) IMAGINE THIS TOO: chrissy going w them as glinda the good witch 👀👀 she's part of the older kids group now idc idc!!
cannot stop imagining eddie growling & roaring at people bc he's a lion & that's the only thing he's choosing to focus on, but robin pulls up behind him in her wicked witch costume & scares the living daylights out of him 💀 “that's why you're a cowlerdy lion!” & for the rest of the night those two are in an unofficial contest of who's more cowardly. they asked the mamas to keep count, only to find out, at the end of their contest, it's a tie! (that's code for "mamas lost count after 5 because both of them are really jumpy")
karen took a photo of steve directly after bobbing for apples; that is not an apple in his mouth, it's actually a pear. who put it in the pool? nobody knows, but the pear was very good & steve got to keep it bc he thought it was the funniest thing ever, so it's a win – literally he couldn't stop giggling everytime he was reminded
THE HAYRIDE IS WHERE THE PICTURES REALLY START SHINING (*´ω`*) karen & joyce go haywire (heheh ... haywire ;-]) taking photos of the pretty autumn leaves falling through the air, the carved pumpkins set out by the farmers, nancy picking at the hay & giving it to jonny bc “ ‘carecrows need hay”, jonny taking all the hay & placing it on his lap ... so so many pictures (and so, so much hay 😟 was in jonny's hair n everything)
OHHH my gosh the little toys (o´Д`)=♡♡ karen makes cinnamon-apple donuts & serves them with some ice cream & apple cider on the side while joyce presents them with matching toys hhhdjsidiwi ,,, the kiddos glomp them in a hug instantly (maaaybe ... this instance is when chrissy starts warming up to karen ... MAYBE). they put on scooby-doo for a marathon until the party comes home ,,, oh my gosh when they walk in to find the kiddos eating donuts – karen's FAMOUS apple-cinnomon donuts – & cider, theyre like “>:0 YOU GUYS BETTER SAVE US SOME!” & RACE to change into pjs so they can join the fun with their stash of candy (*^^*)//
(and if they end up having a collective sugar rush & crash in the basement, wrappers scattered every which way, cinnamon in their hair & chocolate in the corners of their mouths, sprawled out over each other ... well, it's the halloween season; let them go ham <33)
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magma-queen · 2 years ago
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Omg I had this one done and forgot to post, here’s day 18! This was also a request from @brainyxbat! Enjoy!
Day 18: Chase
“Babe! It’s Halloween, and do ye know that that means?”
“It means that it’s that time of the year where you stuff your face with as much candy as you can.. and once you get sick, I’m the one who has to clean up the mess because I’m married to an overgrown 12 year old.” Maxie teases.
Archie turned red. “Ouch. Harsh, Max. Hehe, well.. that’s partially correct… *blush* But that’s not what I’m talking about.” He smirks at his husband. “I mean scary stories~”
“Oh god.. *shiver* You know that I can’t handle those very well..”
“Awwww c’mon, love! I won’t tell ye anything too horrifying. I promise.”
After looking at that pout on his face for 3 seconds, Maxie gave in. Because he’s weak.
“F-Fine..”
Once it was late, Archie brought his husband to their couch and laid down. Then he dimmed the lights.
“I can barely see anything. What the hell are you doing?”
Archie cackles. “Setting the mood~ It’s Halloween, babe. Lemme have a little fun~”
“If someone or something comes over here and jump scares me, I’m going to kick your ass into next week.”
“Ohhhh don’t be like that~” He jumps next to him to cuddle. “Mmm~ yer warm~”
“So are you~ Now, what’s this terrifying story you’re dying to tell me about?”
Archie smiles and holds him closer. “Ye sure yer gonna be able to handle it?”
“I’ll be fine. I’m not a scaredy-cat.” He snuggles up to him chest. “Just tell me.”
“Alright, but don’t say I didn’t warn ye~” He made sure he was holding onto Maxie close.
“Mmm~”
“Okay… I’ve heard this story from a buddy of mine. It was a dark, pitch black night.. a man was walking home that night, and there were no other people around. When suddenly, he felt like he was being watched from a distance.”
He felt Maxie cling to him.
“Pffff- getting scared yet?”
Maxie flicked his nose with his finger. “Shut up.”
“Hey-!” He smirked, but continued. “Anyway.. the man couldn’t get this feeling away. He constantly turned around, but no one was there. Soon, he was close to home, but then.. he saw a shady figure creeping up to him. In that instant, he bolted. As he ran.. the giant figure was chasing him down.”
The redhead hugged him.
“He eventually ran himself into a dead end. He was cowering in the corner as the figure got closer.. and closer to him. Once it got to him, it started to eat him. It gnawed at his belly, and scratched at him with its horrible claws..”
*whimper*
“The screams for help couldn’t be reached, because no one could hear him. Once the creature was finished, it picked him up.. and dragged him away to finish its meal. That man.. was never heard from again.”
He shivers. “Jesus Christ, Archie.. who on earth told you this story?”
“Wasn’t Matt, but another friend of mine.” He smirks, holding onto Maxie. “Yer not scared, are ye, sweetheart?”
“N-N-No!”
“Ye should be.” He snickers. “This monster thrives off of its victim’s screams. That, and it was extra hungry..”
Maxie felt his husband’s grip on him tighten. “What are you-“
“Hmm.. but this monster doesn’t just go after anyone.. do you know who are its favorite victims?”
“Archie, you’re starting to worry me.. N-No.. I don’t..”
The shark-like grin appears. “Why, the extra-ticklish, of course!” He growls before attacking the redhead’s sides with his fingers. Since it was dark, he didn’t see it coming.
“AAH! N-NO-! Nohohohohoho yohuhuhuhu ahahahahahass!! Ahahahahahahahah- N-Nahahaht fahahahahair!! stahahahp!! Bahahahahahahahstard!!”
“Hehehe! I’m sure ye guessed by now, it’s the monster that everyone’s afraid of.. the dreaded tickle monster!”
“Hahahahahahahaihihihihi’m gohohohohonna kihihihihihihill yohuhuhuhuhu!!! St-Stohohohohop tihihihihickling mehehehehe!!!”
Archie growls again and flips him over while raising his sweater up. He starts gently gnawing at his husband’s belly and sides while his hands came up to tickle his ribs.
“AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! STAHAHAHAHAP!! THAT TICKLES!” He squeals, trying his best to wiggle away. “AHAHAHAHRCHIHIHIE!!!”
“But the tickle monster isn’t satisfied yet~” He chuckles, brushing his beard on his belly. “He needs more of those sweet giggles!”
“ST-STOHOHOHOP!! STOHOHOHAHAHAHAHAHAH- *snort* IHIHIHIHIHI CAHAHAHAN’T TAKE IHIHIHIHIHIHIHIHIT!!”
After a few more minutes, Archie let Maxie go. He fell to the floor, exhausted, and chest heaving.
“Youhuhuhu… hehehee.. better start ruhuhunning.. you’re dehehead..”
Archie just kept that smug look on his face, until Maxie stood up. Once he did, the sailor bolted in the other direction.
“Get back here!! You are so going to get it!!” He yelled.
“Bwahahahahahah! I’m sorry babe! D-Dohohohohohon’t chahahahse mehehehe! Gehehehet ahahahway!” He hasn’t even been touched, and he’s already giggling his head off. He knew what was to come.
Maxie had Archie cornered in the bedroom. “You have nowhere to run.”
“B-Bahahahabe, can’t we talk about this??”
“Mmm~ let me think about it… NO. In fact, I’ve got my own story to tell YOU. It’s about the man that kept pressing his husband’s buttons.. until he SNAPPED.”
He was inching closer, fingers wiggling.
“Maxie, honey.. I’m sorry! Really!”
“And you expect me to believe that? Hmph. Terrible liar.”
“Wait- W-WAIT!!”
~~~
“BWAHAHAHAHAH!!! AHAHAHAH!! *snort* MAHAHAHAXIHIHIHIEE!! HAHAHAH- NAHAHAHAHAT FAHAHAHAHAIR!! PLEASE!! BWHAHAHAHAH- NOHOHOHOT THAHAHAHAHAHAT!!!”
His ribs were being viciously attacked by vengeful fingers. This goes on for the next few minutes, and for the rest of the night, Archie has to make it up to his husband by giving him a back rub.
Totally worth it.
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#FightOn! (05) | OT7 Halloween edition!
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Summary: The University of Southern California is a prestigious school - only the best or the richest can attend. That means there will be a lot of spoiled brats. Two groups start colliding and the entire college shift alongside them. What will happen when sparks starts to flow between them? Drama will certainly be there.
Pairing: BTS with -eventually- female characters
Genre: Fluff, Angst, Smut (in the future), College!au, Interactive!au, Halloween!au
Word Count: 20k UNEDITED
A/N: First things first thank you so much to everyone who patiently waited and sent me nice messages. You guys helped my not so confident ass going hehe :’) also, thank you Ali and Lily for being and unconditional support, even if this piece is a mess. You guys make me feel embraced and secure! Like I said, it’s not perfect and it’s more like a comedy based on the sad life of emo Jungkook  or something than a proper halloween/suspense story, but I tried and had fun in the process! That’s what counts to me. I hope you all like it and also, I’ll be waiting for asks and conspiracy theories on the discord chat hehehe Happy -first part of- Halloween, fam! Love you all very very much. 🖤🎃
P/S: It was hard to insert so many people into one chapter but! to the one’s that didn’t show that much, don’t worry, part 2 coming out soon and you will definitely show more there hehehe and I can assure you guys part two will be even more chaotic. 
The Characters • Day 3 • Day 4 • Day 5
1
USC’s haunting night, which came to an end with a shocking reveal, began with nothing more than an exciting buzz that hovered in the air.
The students were now filling up the campus streets with contagious laughter and thrill. A few lamp poles were shining through this dark afternoon in the fall of 2019, orange pumpkins adorning the entrances of the old buildings, three leaves and skeletons that happened to be hanged around were dancing in the howling wind. It was Halloween night, it was time to trick and be tricked, it was time to pretend to be someone you were not while dancing the night away… you could tell by the way all houses were being left in the dark, that every student residing here waited anxiously for this chance of playing pretend.
A built up silhouette wrapped up in a tight red suit, walked in a fast pace towards the Fluor Tower, nobody to be seen down the gloomy streets since the party was located in the opposite direction. The unforgiving wind made walking a little worse for the boy, his breathing against the mask he was wearing began to feel heavier and warmer but there was no way he would take it off now. His friends needed to see him in full costume, he kept thinking. The boy beneath the mask was Jungkook Jeon. His friends, known to most of the university as the Y Group, were all gathered at Deo and Hyori’s dorm room, waiting for him.
Hyori was the one suggesting the disguise Jungkook was now wearing. A week before this, the boy was still indecisive about what to wear and in one rainy afternoon, while they all ate a cheesy pizza and the rain tumbled endlessly against the window, she suggested him to dress like Spiderman with an obvious glance sent through the other end of the table.
Once he was almost reaching the girls building, he started hearing euphoric chattering close by. Hoseok’s laughter impossible to mistake by somebody else’s.
“I can’t believe he actually did it!” Jungkook heard Hoseok say and immediately the idea of hiding behind a tree and pulling a prank on his friends crossed his mind. That was exactly what he did “That guy is crazy to say at least!” laughter filled the chilly air.
“I never doubted he wasn’t” Hyori added sharply.
“Where’s Jungkook though? Didn’t he say he was like- 5 minutes from here?” The boy’s attention was now fully focused on Deo “I’m going to die if we stay here any longer waiting” the sound of her shoe tapping nervously onto the floor didn’t go unnoticed by the hidden spidey.
“Want my jacket?” Jimin offered “He did say he was a few minutes away? Maybe he met someone?”
“Jungkook is more anti social than I am, I doubt he stopped by with someone-” Hyori started but was quickly interrupted.
“HEY! No I’m not!” he let out by impulse making the group snap their heads towards the direction of the sound. Hoseok’s hands fled to grab Deo’s arm who was near him, his eyes almost popping out. Both girls unable to form a sound, too caught up in the moment.
“Fuck-” Jungkook cursed under his breath once he realized what he did.
“Aaaaish!” Jimin said out loud; adrenaline running through his veins, although he would never admit he got a little scared for a second there.
“Are you serious dude??” Deo said once she saw someone coming from behind a tree, ready to throw some hands at whoever it was. She was dressed like Cher Horowitz from Clueless, the movie, one that Jungkook himself had seen countless times once he was younger. He remember turning on the tv on Sunday afternoons and seeing the actress face over and over again. Deo did a great job, he thought.
“It’s spider man now” he started walking towards his friends, arms coming to the front of him to mimic the superhero spider web shooting action “How do I look?”
“Ya, this guy will never change” Hoseok laughed it out “I was really scared, you- you dumbass” he finished making the younger laugh. Hoseok wasn’t far behind, and the character he had chosen a month before, was on everyone’s opinion, the perfect choice for him. Ace Ventura was spirited and loud in every way Hoseok could be. His clothes were probably arranged by his sister, she loved to dress up her younger brother and Hoseok didn’t mind at all, and his hair… Wow, his hair!
“Imagine if it went like I had planned it to” Jungkook chuckled and reached back to tug into his mask and pull it off. His heavy huff louder now, hair completely messy.
“I could punch you in the face I swear to God!” Deo started but the corners of her mouth were already pulling up.
“Can we go now? After this I feel like somebody else will be lurking in the dark-”
“Eyyyy- It’s halloween but we’re not in a horror movie” Jimin glanced at Hyori feeling creeped out. Of course Jimin wouldn’t waste the opportunity to look cool and laid back this Halloween, and Deo excelled herself making his hair look like Johnny Depp’s in Cry Baby. Hyori on the other hand, decided her costume by fumbling through her whole closet. I’ll go with the easiest but still remarkably costume, she said, and that’s how Ashley Spinelli turned out to be her choice.
“She has a point. Everybody will try to scare us tonight and I’m not ready”
“Let’s just go!” Jimin said pulling Deo and Hyori’s arm at the same time and Jungkook couldn’t help but laugh at how much of scaredy-cats his friends were.
“Wait!!!” Hyori heard Hoseok saying loudly right behind her, and once she turned around to smile at him, vision a little blocked by her mustard beanie, she couldn’t help the goosebumps that went through her body. Something feels eerie, maybe it’s just the fact that we are alone in a dark street, she thought. And shrugging off that feeling, she marched alongside her friends to the party she put most effort so far.
2
Doing his best to keep his posture straight while sitting in bed, Yoongi was feeling rather sleepy having Carolina toy with his hair, the girl trying her best to style it just like Naruto’s. He had been feeling a little lazy the past few weeks but he knew there was zero to no chance of him escaping halloween night, specially because his friends digged the fact they could just dress like some weirdos and pull pranks all night long. If he said he wasn’t going, for sure they would do something stupid and hey, he wasn’t one for refusing free liquor either.
“Why is your hair so damn straight?!” he heard Carolina complain for the thousand time. He said nothing, just kept his eyes closed and opened a cheeky smile. A month before his group started talking about this night - mostly the girl and Taehyung who were already fantasizing about what to wear. Namjoon and Jin quickly followed the lead making jokes on who was similar to what character and what not. Once they inquired him on who would he be for this night he just said the first thing that came to his mind. First because it was an easy costume since it was basically one piece of clothing and also because he wasn’t creative enough to remember anything else, as far as he knew Naruto was the only other guy he would like to be if he had to choose.
“Are you still doing his hair?” Jin came into Carolina’s bedroom with an indignant tone and before she could even answer he was already adding more to his little playful rant “Ya, you need to help me out with the makeup! Namjoon made it look like I had a hole instead of an eye-”
“I’m sorry if I’m no make up artist!!!” they all heard Namjoon say out loud; Yoongi could perfectly picture him sat down on the couch too entertained with his cellphone to even glance up while responding Jin’s comment about his poor artistic abilities.
“Ya” Jin turned around to look at Namjoon; voice deep but in a playful tone “You don’t need to be a makeup artist to know this looks terrible”
“Take those baby wipes over there” Carolina pointed a little package over her desk “And go clean that mess! I’ll do your makeup once I finish Yoongs” she continued spraying hairspray non stop while combing the hair of a now intoxicated boy, who kept coughing like he was really dying.
“I told you not to open your mouth!!” she said more laughing than scolding Yoongi.
“Im- Argh- Impossible!” the taste on his mouth was horrible and for a second he panicked over dying the most ridiculous death. It didn’t help the fact that Jin passed by laughing hysterically only to cough the same way he did once he got closer to the dangerous cloud of spray hovering over Yoongi’s head.
“You should be given permission of the state to use something as toxic as this” Jin said getting out quickly making Carolina laugh and shush him with her famous ‘Go away’. He directed himself to their bathroom to try and remove the damage Namjoon had made on his eye. Jin usually liked a lot what he saw on the mirror, and today wasn’t any different. His hair was combed with gel, he had a nice suit on and personally he thought he did a nice job on gluing Thing - family addams member, or hand, into his suit right shoulder. Gomez Addams was who he chose to be tonight, a classy and fun character, very appropriate for him as Namjoon had pointed out.
“Tcharamm! Howl arrived!”
“Woaah Taehyung, nice job!”
“You like it??”
“What’s going on with that cape?”
“Leave his cape alone, Yoongi, he did good”
“Thank you!”
Jin let out a chuckle, his friends were always nagging one another, not that he wouldn’t do the same with them but normally he would play the mom figure and try do ease the situations.
He looked at himself in the mirror one more time after throwing the used baby wipe in the trash and pushing the bathroom door he made his way to the living room.
“Lady Joker I hope you’re ready for me cause I’m all clean and I’m impatient as well” heads turned to Jin, Taehyung’s previous pout face becoming an excited one now after seeing him.
“Woah!!! Jin! You look just like him!!!”
“You mean handsome?” Jin stated the obvious with his hands on his hips.
“Yes…?” Taehyung replied with a weird confused face making them laugh.
“Lady Joker here is ready, so is everyone else now…” Carolina spared a glance to everyone in the room “… I think. It’s just you now, c’mon” she started pushing Jin back to the bathroom.
“That’s cause he has the easiest character of all” Jin went backwards while Carolina still pushed him; his finger pointed out to Namjoon.
“Being Milo Thatcher requires great effort, like having a brain for example” Namjoon concluded.
“I hope that’s not you calling me dumb” Jin answered back, the sound of it a little muffled since Carolina was closing the bathroom door to avoid any bickering.
“Yeap. He was” Yoongi said quietly; he was sat on the arm of the couch Namjoon was in, his arms crossed and his hair was fully up.
“So! Do you guys think I look good with long hair??” Taehyung said after a minute of entire silence making both boys look at him while he wiggled his head to make his fake hair flow.
After the bathroom door was closed, Jin sat on the faucet while Carolina opened every drawer looking after her black eye shadow and that’s when she heard Jin say “He was calling me dumb wasn’t he? He’ll see. Just- Wow the disrespect” and the way he said it was more than enough for the girl to crack a laughter right on his face.
3
Differently from the chilly outside, the party at Tau Kappa Epsilon was burning hot. The frat committee had pulled a great amount of money and effort this year and everyone that had been to the Halloween party last year could say so the minute they set foot on the entrance. For starters, this year for you to get inside you needed to know the password, which was strategically leaked on the USC gossip blog a week before this.
“Did you find it yet?” Holly asked; she had her arms crossed, the wind too harsh and although she was wearing a red hoodie and a pair of yellow trousers because she was dressed as Winnie the Pooh she couldn’t help but feel cold since she and her group were still outside.
“God, why in all days today had to be this windy?!” Tori said with frustration, tightening her grip on the coat she was wearing “If I hadn’t brought this coat I would be hard as ice right now, I’m telling you” she chuckled, her chin trembling a little since she was feeling cold, the coat doing nothing for her uncovered legs. She had decided with Deo they would go as iconic characters from the 90’s, and of course she chose Vivian Ward from Pretty Woman.  
“Ok I think I got it!”
“You did??” Holly that was a little distracted looking around exclaimed in surprise and quickly scooched up towards Silvia who had been glued on her phone scrolling through USC gossip page to find the code.
“Yeah, I think I did! Look-” Silvia showed them the phone; she was dressed as Simon of Alvin and the chipmunks, her glasses sliding on her nose bridge non-stop while she looked down too focused.
“Nice job, Silvy!”
“Now I only need to wait for Esme and Tessa… I’m sure they are almost here, I mean I called them half an hour ago and they were already on their way” Silvia said looking at her phone again, checking if she had any unread messages.
“I’m sure we can go inside and they meet us there? We could send them a text with the-”
“HEY GIRLS!!” the three of them heard and their attention flew to the newcomers.
“Nina!” Holly exclaimed excited.
“You look amazing guys! Oh my God, I’m so excited for tonight!” Nina said making Cecilia laugh besides her; Nina was dressed as Poison Ivy, her new red hair contrasting greatly with her green outfit. She had some ivy plants complementing her costume and it looked absolutely stunning.
“That’s actually right, she came all the way here talking about it” Cecilia joked; she had chosen to dress up like a sexy racer this year, keeping it simple but hot.
“And you look a bomb as well!” Tori said, giving both girls a quick hug. “Now chop chop girls! Otherwise we’ll get all ruined in this bad wind”
“I’ll send Tessa and Esme a text with the code then- Let’s get going, I’m kind of freezing as well and regretting being a chipmunk without proper pants” Silvia said making them laugh.
The decoration this year was incredibly well done, full of big killer statues, things hanged and detailed paintings on the wall, most probably TKE (Tau Kappa Epsilon) had once again contacted the art students to help with that. Hoseok had already jumped out of his feet ten times at least, too scared of the large Pennywise face he had come across a few times and the many spider webs hanging above everyone’s heads.
“I thought it was you!” Amber laughed when she came besides Hoseok and he jumped in fear… Again. “How are you doing Mister…?”
“Ace Ventura! And ooof- Amber!” He gasped first because he had been scared and now because she was looking really good.
“Hey! You came! Are you alright love? You seem a little startled.” Amber was so happy to see the boy that she talked way too fast making him stare at her with endearing eyes “It’s been a while.”
“Of course! I wouldn’t miss this party for the world! But that Pennywise…” he said pointing at the wall painting, a frown crossing his face “Not cool at all.” he chuckled while turning to her again, his glance lowering a bit now to see her costume more attentively. Amber was wearing a playboy bunny costume, a dress like version of it.
“It’s ok, it’s just a painting. Besides if it wasn’t just a painting, I’d always protect you. Well… I would try.” she giggled making him follow “And tonight will be so much fun, I haven’t really celebrated Halloween in years!”
“I see you already have a drink so now just enjoy the night!” Hoseok said cheekly.
“I do!” she stated quickly looking down, where she had a drink in hands “You should grab one soon too.”
“Jimin went to grab some drinks for us. I’m waiting for mine.” he winked “But what are you most afraid of then? If not Pennywise”
“Probably just… Uh… Spirits” she said finally with a tiny shivering “The unknown too. Maybe just being alone. My fears are very strange.”
“Oh spirits are a no for me too! I try not to believe they exist but I have a fertile imagination!” he said with a panicked face and Amber made a quick note on how cute he could be.
“You look really good by the way… Like I know you aren’t in a sexy outfit, but you look happy and just… You know… You just look great.”
“Thanks Amber! I tried hard to find the clothes to match the movie! But you look great too…“ he offered his heart smile, his eyes genuinely matching his soft expressions.
While Hoseok kept talking to Amber, his friends were close by still waiting for Jimin to come back with something to drink. They had arrived for a while now, but since the place wasn’t that crowded yet, Jungkook managed to find a spot for Deo to sit a little. The girl had been complaining about her shoes choice for some time now but he himself felt like sitting, so that’s what he did. He sat and kept fumbling with his phone while Deo rambled with him (things that he was certainly not listening) and Hyori kept scanning the place after Jimin.
“I hope this party doesn’t suck.” Deo commented a little bored while looking the ambience.
“What do you mean?”
“There’s no one here. My feet already hurt. Jungkook took the only seat available and is staring at his phone with a grin on his dumb face.”
“We got here super early, relax! And just take the damn shoes off, you’re going to in a couple of hours so might as well do it now.” Hyori grinned at her “Is Jack coming?”
“I think so? I didn’t talk to him today yet but he should be here. We bought his costume like- last week so…” Deo wondered; she was answering Hyori but her head was turned at Jungkook’s direction, trying to pry on what he was doing.
“The love birds that text all day didn’t talk today?”
“He texted me this morning but we were dealing with the outfits so I… kinda forgot to text him back? He’s probably just making one of his ‘imma take longer to answer’ games” Deo looked back at her again to roll her eyes.
“Don’t sweat it, he’ll be around.” the older girl patted her shoulder with a warm smile to wrap that convo up.
“So… you’re just gonna ignore the fact that JK is laughing at his phone?”
“We teased him enough about him wanting to be spiderman…” Hyori bit down a smile, exchanging her glance to the boy in question, still entertained and completely absented of what was going on around him.
“True…” Deo concluded but then turned around to do exactly the opposite with what she had just agreed with “Hey dork.” she called and poked him, making him lift his head towards them “Yeah you. What are you doing?”
“Texting.” he said simply.
“Who?” Hyori questioned.
“Have you ever heard of neighbor number?”
“No…?”
“You have one?!” Deo asked the boy while coming closer and feeling a lot more excited.
“Everyone has one.” he rolled his eyes.
“What is that?!”
“It’s the person whose phone number is either the before or after yours. Like, your’s 55 and their’s 56.” Jungkook explained to Hyori but he locked his phone trying to hide his previous conversation.
“Oh… and that’s cool because?”
“Because!!!” Deo exclaimed turning around to look at Hyori.
“It’s just like meeting someone online guys.”
“Oh don’t be an old lady. You’re a recess punk tonight!” Deo retorted making Hyori do a funny face as a response while trying to pry at Jungkook’s phone as well.
“You’re not looking at my texts.” he said defensively while hiding the phone against his chest once more.
“Oh c'mon JK.”
“No.”
“I’m not keeping your phone in my bag then. Good luck spidey.” Deo teased.
“Fine!”
A while ago Jimin had departed quickly from his friends to go fetch something to drink, but on his way he stopped by with many people. He got used to being popular in some way, he didn’t mind the attention at all… What he did mind was the constant people who tried to fake being friends with him just to get “famous”. He was now walking furiously towards the bar, the last conversation with some random guy he thought that was being genuinely nice to him stuck on his head. A small bump followed, his mind too distracted to actually pay attention at his surroundings and the frown that was before on his face quickly disappeared.
“Wow Jean! Sick costume!” he said once the girl in question turned around surprised to see the one that bumped on her was actually a familiar face.
“Really Jimin? Thank you” Jean was dressed as Mikasa from Attack on Titan, an anime Jimin had seen and liked a lot. “I think you look handsome in your costume” she finished with a cute smile while blushing a little.
“I tried my best to look like Cry Baby but Johnny Depp will always win.” he showed his cute laughter while saying it and Jean quickly retorted.
“Don’t say things like that. I think you just being yourself is handsome and a win for everyone including you” as soon as she said it and he was about to smile at her again thankful, the bartender came by and Jimin was quick to tell him his orders. He looked back to see if Jean wanted something but he noticed she was already served. The guy that was attending him, poured a glass of whiskey to Jimin and went to fetch some beers. While he went inside to fetch it Jimin turned again to Jean.
"You came with friends?”
“I did! I’m meeting Holly here!”
“Oh~ she’s Deo’s friend! I didn’t know you two knew each other! Small world huh?” he winked and raised his glass to take a sip of it making Jean laugh.
“Yes, we do. We talk time to time whenever I have time. She is really nice.” she said and Jimin hummed in agreement.
"So, who or what scares you most?”
“What scares me most is bugs especially cockroaches… oh yeah also rats. What about you? Are you scared of anyone or something?”
“I’m trying to keep a brave face tonight so I can’t tell you!” he cutely joked putting his finger to his lips and doing a slight ‘shush’ motion “But it was nice seeing you Jean~ I have to bring these drinks to the sober ones before they fall asleep” he said while pointing with his head towards the beer bottles the bartender had just brought.
“Have fun at the party. Don’t be reckless or get yourself in trouble!” she said loudly when Jimin started walking away with all those drinks in hands, trying to make way, only to turn back again and smile foolish at her and then winking again.
On his way towards his group he spotted Hoseok a little closer than the rest and he moved fast to get the help of the older boy. Jimin was hardly managing to hold all those bottles plus his cup.
“So do I! I overthink way too much.” he heard Amber say enthusiastically to Hoseok and for a moment he felt really sorry to be barging into the conversation.
“Hey guys! Sorry! Help me-” he said quickly and Hoseok took two bottles off his hands. “Oof! I thought I was going to let everything fall” he laughed at his own moment of clumsiness.
“It’s alright! I’ll help you take this to them” Hoseok trailed off and then looked at Amber once again, she still had a smile on her face, their talk before being way too cheerful for her to lose it. “It was really good seeing you!”
“It was good seeing you too. I hope we can hang out again soon, I’ve missed seeing you.”
“Keep that beautiful smile on your face Amber~ I’ll see you around tonight yeah?”
“I will! Thank you! You enjoy it too, and keep safe, ok? Don’t drink too much and drink plenty of water. I’ll see you later on in the party. I’ll probably stay until pretty late.”
“Can’t promise I won’t drink much but I’ll try to stay away from the zombies! Be safe sweetheart~” and there he went, him and Jimin towards their group of friends.
4
“Where’s Yoongi?” Carolina questioned while looking over Jin’s shoulders; her voice louder than expected as the raging song played in the party.
“I don’t know?” Jin looked around too trying to spot Yoongi’s hair among all those costumes “He left quite a while ago… And I doubt he will be able to bring us all something to drink”
The five of them had arrived and the party was already hectic. Yoongi had offered to go to the bar fetch something to drink since he was in the need of something to keep him relaxed and more loose in the middle of all those people. The rest of them stayed in a corner next to the entrance, the less crowded space they could find, but now a lot of time had passed and Carolina was starting to feel anxious.
“Ok, you guys stay here and I’ll go help him out”
“You’re going alone in this sea of people??” Taehyung asked her, whom was already ready to walk away.
“I’ll be fine Tae, just stay here with Nam and Jin. If anything happens I have my phone with me and I can call you. Yoongi is the one without his”
“We’ll wait here. Namjoon won’t be leaving anyways since he’s socializing for what it feels like an hour now” Jin joked looking at the other boy talking enthusiastically to some people from his book club. Carolina spared a glance and smiled at him, and then in a blink of an eye she was already being engulfed by the many costumed students.
She tried her best to make space and go towards the bar, where she was hoping to find Yoongi, but the task was getting complicated. It didn’t help that people were already tipsy and some really drunk. Carolina was starting to feel a little claustrophobic and way too pissed at the people who were pushing and also pulling her. When she was about to shout at some random guy that was trying to make her dance with him, she felt her arm being pulled and her head snapped quickly thinking she had finally reached Yoongi, but no. Someone in an all black costume and a weird baby face mask was pulling her out of there.
At first she offered no resistance, glad she was going to get out of that tumultuous crowd. But after a few seconds of the mysterious person pulling her towards what it seemed like the bathroom area, she pulled back her arm making the person look back.
“Who are you?!” She questioned seeing that the person went for her arm again but she was quick to flinch it’s grasp. “This is not funny!” still, no reaction. She analysed the person standing in front of her; someone taller than her, definitely a male but not a short one. “Ben?” she tried “Dude this is getting creepier.” the man did nothing but to offer his hand to her gently. And although Carolina was feeling a little creeped out she was also starting to get curious about who the costumed guy in front of her might be. So she took his hand, and he took her to the bathroom area.
“Ben if this is you I swear-“ she started but the man she thought was Ben just opened the bathroom door and pushed her inside, locking the door quickly. He himself never entering the space with her.
Carolina bumped hard against something “FUCKING ASSHOLE!!” she exclaimed mad.
“I said the same but he didn’t opened the door… Until now that is” Yoongi’s voice now filling her ears and she turned back in a snap. Turns out the thing she went against was Yoongi and not a wall like she was expecting.
“Yoongs? What are you doing here?”
“I myself don’t know…” he answered returning the hug she gave him.
“Ok! I think I have a plan!” someone said making both of them get out of their transe.
“Oh yeah, Carol this is Sarah. She was already here when I got… here” Yoongi explained simply.
“Umm… I would say nice to meet you but due to the circumstances I think-“
“I perfectly understand and share the feeling!” Sarah quickly interrupted the other girl “Also either we wait for him to open the door again and I don’t know put our foot in the middle of the breach or we stay stuck here”
“Doesn’t seem like a bad plan but I won’t volunteer my foot for the cause”
“Why the hell are we even here???” Carolina questioned “Is it the new trend locking people in the bathroom to socialise or something?” and as soon as she finished it a cell phone started ringing. They all exchanged glances.
“Don’t look at me, I didn’t even bring my phone” Yoongi said.
“Well it’s not mine!”
“I think…” Sarah trailed off while going towards the faucet, there was something behind it “Oh” and she retrieved a bag. The sound of the ringtone died and she looked at Yoongi and Carolina who were focused on the paper bag. Not even a second passed and the cell phone started to ring again.
“Oh just give me this” Carolina snatched the bag from Sarah’s hands and quickly opened it, a burner phone now visible and she picked it up. “Who’s this? What? Why would I be enjoying being locked inside a bathroom you weirdo??”
“Who is it?!” Sarah questioned and Carolina lifted a hand for her to wait.
“What game? What are you talking about?” Carolina questioned further “A paper?”
“What is this? This is a stupid prank” Yoongi rambled.
“What- Hey!!!” Carolina exclaimed taking the phone out of her ear and looking at it extremely angry “Asshole!!!”
“What happened?”
“This motherfucker said that the rules were on a paper inside this bathroom and then hanged up!”
“Are you serious now? I just wanted a drink” Yoongi sighed and started pacing around.
“What now?”
“Oh! I have my cellphone!!!” Carolina realised quickly reaching for her pocket of her nurse suit “I’ll call Jin and he can come here an- Fuck.”
“What?!” Sarah exclaimed again and Yoongi glanced at them.
“No reception” Carolina said blankly “I fucking hate this party.” she placed her phone inside her pocket once again and crouched down near the bathroom wall, her hand fast to pick up her pen kept inside the same pocket and started doodling on the wall. The neon light in the bathroom making her feel nauseous.
“I’ll start searching then!” Sarah sighed; the girl was dressed as comfortably as she could. Her costume being Violet Beauregard from Charlie and the chocolate fabric and she mentally thanked herself for choosing something so comfy.
“Are you seriously vandalising the bathroom?” Yoongi asked Carolina; he was leaned against the sink, his arms crossed.
“Yeah”
“I don’t think writing on the wall ‘Babyface sucks’ is going to solve the problem”
“Well I’m unsatisfied with Babyface service! He just pushed me and locked me inside the bathroom! Ugh- I bet it was that fucking asshole…” Carolina started doodling near the words she had just written.
“What asshole? Everyone for you is an asshole”
“Well- That’s a good point. But Jimin. I bet it was Jimin. He must be trying to pay me back ever since-“
“You mean Jimin Park?!” Sarah asked while fumbling through the cabinets that the bathroom had.
“Yeah he-“
“I FOUND IT!!!!” Sarah exclaimed excited and showing them the paper.
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“Umm… I guess we are a team?” Sarah looked at them expectantly “And I didn’t brought my phone so…”
“I was going to say no but then I saw the 6.000 cash prize so”
“2000 each Yoongi, not 6000!” Sarah corrected him.
“Still. Carolina?” he looked at the girl in question “I could really use the money to-“
“I know.” she said serious “So we better win this. And I guess I’m the only one with a phone which only unlocks with my fingerprint so I guess it’s fine to leave it behind…” she reluctantly put her phone inside the bag “Also Sarah, if we’re doing this-“
“Yeah?” the girl asked.
“Yoongi already knows me but um… I’m kind of extremely competitive so if I happen to loose my shit-“
“Oh it’s ok! Totally get it!”
“She will lose it. Just saying” Yoongi brushed it off.
“I will”
“OK PLAYERS HERE WE COME!” Sarah instantly became another person and both Yoongi and Carolina exchanged glances a little surprised “OPEN THE DOOR!”
5
“I can’t actually believe we got stuck in a tiny broom closet for 15 minutes just to find a damn paper!” Tori let out laughing; her breathing heavy.
“In my defense my moves were restricted to just being able to lift my arms up” Jason retorted, his face a little red from the lack of air in the confinement.
“That’s true! I was feeling trapped between you-“
“Guys shut up!” Jungkook finally said something; the paper with the rules still in his hands “We have to focus now, I ain’t losing this game”
“Jeez! Ok, ok! We’ll focus” Jason put his hands up in defeat.
“I could really use those speakers bro, I want this prize” Jungkook sighed trying to apologise.
Somehow in the middle of the party Jungkook realised he was left behind with Hyori, both of them clueless of where their friends had gone to. So he eased her mind by saying he was going to look after them quickly. Hyori at the time nodded and kept looking around without leaving their previous spot.
Jungkook went to the bar hopping to find Jimin there but his friend was nowhere to be found. He wandered off to the bathrooms but two of them were locked and the other one was empty. He tried to scream Deo and Hoseok names in hopes that one of them were inside but due to the loud music it was useless. Not shortly after a person passed by and seeing he was fumbling with the door lock, that same person approached him and asked what he was doing. “I’m looking for my friends” was what he simply answered so the mysterious being asked what were they dressed like and after a brief description of their costumes Jungkook was pointed towards a long and gloomy corridor. He didn’t hesitate on going and that’s how he ended up opening the dark broom closet and being pushed inside. To his surprise, Tori and Jason were already there, their breathing too heavy and Jungkook kept thinking he had interrupted something else, but his thoughts were quickly brushed away when a cell phone started ringing.
“To get those speakers you first need to win the prize, Kook, and to do that you’ll need to find those damn three hidden bags” Tori pointed out making him come back to the moment; her arms crossed over her chest.
“Things that scare me most…” Jason wondered.
“AH! The decorations!!!” Jungkook’s face lit up “They must be near the decorations!”
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Most of the teams were already out of their confinements by now. Some a little hazy and confused, some fully determined to win the prize. What student wouldn’t want to win 2.000 dollars in a night just by playing a Halloween game? It was easy money! And that was exactly what Aashna kept thinking.
When she left her dorm to go to the party that night she would have never expected to be going home again with that large amount of money, and there was nothing that she loved more than to play games, in fact she liked to think that she was good at them.
She got a little confused at first, when she lost herself from Sana and Cara, especially because she had left her phone back into the dorms and due to that she had no way to contact the girls. While she kept waiting for Sana to get ready hours ago, she used it so much that it discharged and it was totally useless to take it. But now, here she was, running around with two other girls she had never seen before trying to get to those bags before anyone else would.
“Guys look!” Nina pointed towards three dark things on the floor near a tree in the backyard of TKE. A few people transiting from one house to the other were passing by but none of them were paying attention to the girls.
“Are those the bags??” Esme asked a little behind from the other two. She was dressed like Theodore from Alvin and the chipmunks and although she was looking adorable her legs were freezing.
The backyard was the last place any rational person would want to go. It was windy today, and not the kind that feels like a nice summer breeze, it was the kind that made you feel the presence of a storm coming. The fact that the place wasn’t illuminated properly didn’t help either. Team 6 could barely see if those things on the floor were the bags they needed or not.
“I can’t believe we found them!” Aashna said coming closer and once she grabbed a loop of one of the bags a grotesque nun showed up behind the tree. Slowly it made it’s way towards the girls. “Holy-“ Aashna took a step back startled, the bag she had taken was now dropped onto the grassy floor.
“OH MY GOD!!!” Esme that had just being able to catch up with both of them sprinted back the moment she saw the dark presence, going back to where she had came. She didn’t even took a second glance.
The nun kept slowly walking forward. Aashna at the same time walked back. It’s yellow eyes focused on her and her breathing started to match her heart race. Her chest going up and down really fast.
“Push it, Khaleesi!!!” Nina shouted at her making her snap out of the transe. Both of them could hear a faint scream in the back but it was being blocked by their own heartbeats drumming on their ears. Adrenaline kicking in. Nina kept shouting ‘Khaleesi’ at Aashna, the fearful creature making her forget her teammate’s real name.
On the confusion of it, Aashna did in fact push back the nun, but the result wasn’t the expected. It didn’t move. Not even an inch.
“I GOT IT!! RUN!!!!” Nina passed by her with one bag on her back and two on her hands; her costume making it easier for her to sprint, contrary to Aashna’s.
The girl didn’t think twice. The moment the scary image before her started to lurk forward again, she stumbled two steps back and turned around to run. A hand grabbed her arm making her come to a halt. Aashna screamed and yanked her arm back. Free at last she ran towards Nina and Esme. Her mind not functioning properly. She could see her teammates shouting and making exaggerated moves for her to go to them but she could hear nothing. It was like a slow motion scene of her worst nightmare.
-
Hoseok thought he had been scared enough since he got to the party but now he was more than terrified. He was walking with Cole and Asa, two guys he had just met due to a bad joke and he couldn’t help being alert all the time. Cole was leading both him and Asa and they were looking for the so called bags inside the TKE frat house.
“I’m sure they hid it here, I mean- it’s just the perfect place, not a lot of people will come inside the house when there’s an actual party going on” he heard Cole’s voice more clearly now, the loud music sounded distant; the boy was still facing forward, leading them into a big hallway.
“Yeah but it said it was near what we fear most?” Asa pondered while looking attentive to a photo hanged on the wall “I don’t know about you guys but I’m not afraid of a frat house… As much gross as they can be” he frowned seeing one guy almost naked on that same photo.
The corridor they were now in was narrow so they lined up, Cole going in the front and Asa in the back. The wall on their left had some pictures of the boys of TKE while the wall on their right was mainly filled with big windows. That didn’t mean the place was lighten up, the whole house was dark. Things were visible due to the windows, the boys could see each other’s figures and what surrounded them because of the moonlight, but other than that there was no other form of light.
“Uoooh uoh what was that?!” Hoseok freaked out and fumbled back making Cole giggle.
“It’s just a glimpse of a light dude” Asa calmed him down while catching him and pulling him forward gently.
“I- I think I’m afraid of the dark” Hoseok admitted.
“It’s ok”
“And I’m afraid of being alone” Cole said sarcastically “So that’s why this is the perfect place to hide the bags because it’s both dark and has zero people in it. Genius ain’t I?” and he turned back to face the other two.
Hoseok’s face went pale. Asa’s blue eyes became big. Cole felt a puff of air into his neck and he tensed.
“For the first time in my life I just hope I’m ugly and that’s the reason you guys are doing those faces” he said; his body frozen and his mind in denial, he didn’t want to turn back.
“Boo” something grunted right behind him making his body tremble. Hoseok screamed and fell back into Asa who screamed as well and fumbled backwards, his eyes never leaving the amorphous creature upon them. His big hands clumsily trying to find support on the walls. Hoseok that fell on his butt quickly got up only to turn around just to stumble onto Asa once again.
Cole finally turned back and for a second he wished he didn’t. His voice stuck on his throat, eyes fixed on the sinister scarecrow right in front of him.
“G-Givee meee yourrr heeaaart” the creature grunted once more. Cole finally got a grip of himself and pushed the haunting scarecrow back, running right past him.
“ASA!! THE BAGS!” he screamt after stumbling on something and realising it was what they were looking for.
“FORGET THE BAAAAGS! AAAAH” Asa’s voice was trembling and between trying to help Hoseok who kept falling and running away from the creature who was going after the two he managed to scream back at Cole “FUCK YOU GO AWAY!!!”
“WOOOAHHH!!! WOAA”
“I got this, I got this” Cole kept mumbling to himself while scanning the place. He had very few options. The scarecrow had it’s back turned to him but the corridor was too narrow for him to pass by it without something happening. So he looked at the window right onto his left and let his body take the lead.
Cole’s hands were shaking a bit due to the heat of the moment. He fiddled with the window lock for a little but once he unlocked it a huge smile opened on his face.
“COLEEE?”
“I- Wait a sec! I got this!!!!” he answered while quickly glancing at his teammates and then back at the task in front of him. The window was a little rusty but he managed to open it fully so he threw both bags down. “GUYS! JUST RUN! MEET ME DOWN ON THE LAWN”
“COLE WHAT?!” Asa who was pushing continually the scarecrow back asked. Hoseok was glued to the wall screaming nonstop.
“JUST RUN AWAY! I’LL JUMP” Once he said this the scarecrow turned back. Cole was already sitting in the window. “GO! NOW!” he reassured his teammates again and Asa took the lead grabbing Hoseok by his shirt and running as fast as he could. The dreadful creature fastened it’s pace towards Cole. The boy smiled before jumping.
-
“Did we really need to choose the dark basement as our place to search?” Jin asked while he looked to the stairs that led to the dim place over Sana’s shoulders. His hands were gripping her arms and keeping her in place as a shield. “I feel like there’s definitely something there but it’s not the bags.” he laughed nervously.
“Yeah… I don’t feel like this is a good idea, Jeremy” Sana pondered, her eyes on the same spot Jin’s were.
“Fine then, you two stay here and I’ll go.”
“Great plan!” Jin offered him a quick thumbs up and his hands were back on Sana’s arm making the girl sigh but also let out a small giggle.
“It’s not a great plan” she said making Jeremy retrieve his foot of the first step to look back at her “If something happens to you, it’s only me and Jin”
“Not offended”
“Guys this is a Halloween game” Jeremy said laughing at their faces “The scariest shit that can happen is someone yelling at our ears and that’s it”
“Fine then, go” she brushed off. Jeremy rolled his eyes and turned front again, the darkened stairs making everything creepier. A second passed and he didn’t move. Another one and nothing. “So… Are you going or…?” Sana looked from him to the stairs again.
“I’m going! I’m going! It’s just- dark that’s all. I have no flashlight and I was trying to get my eyes used to it and-”
“You know there’s a light switch right there right?” Jin pointed to the wall next to them.
“Wha- Jin!!!!” Sana turned back giving him a soft slap “You could’ve told us that sooner!”
“Well sorry! I didn’t think he would go into the dark!”
While both of them kept quirreling Jeremy flicked the light switch in a flash tired of losing time, after all he had a game to win. But as soon as the lights were turned on two things came on focus, the bags near the third step and Freddy Krueger right at the bottom starting to climb up to get to them.
“Run-” Jeremy said lowly still paralysed watching the killer move himself “RUN!!!” that’s when Jin and Sana stopped arguing and looked back at him and what was going on. As soon as Freddy entered Jin’s vision, the boy screamt and started running backwards, looking every direction he could too afraid that more frightening creatures would appear. His loud voice echoing without coming to a stop.
Jeremy quickly pulled the bags towards him and turned around to run, passing one bag fast to Sana who was even faster to turn around and run towards the first floor as well but not before taking a box of washing powder left near the washing machine she passed by and throwing it back to hit the burnt face that tormented her so much.
-
Acute clinking sounds filled the air along with tree leaves dancing in the maddening wind. Jungkook and his team were sat on the porch of a neighbour house of TKE, the bags already retrieved and now alight right in front of each of them.
Tori kept trying to align her hair strands that kept swinging in front of her face while Jason kept fumbling with a walkie talkie he had just found on his own backpack. Inside each backpack they found a piece of paper with the same clue written on it, a little flashlight, a map of the campus, a walkie talkie and an almost realistic human finger with a tag on it that said one point for you player!
“This wind is making me stressed!” Tori let out with a sigh. Jason spared her a glance but kept pushing the buttons without really knowing what they did.
“That guy dressed as Chucky was pretty heavy” Jason mused “Don’t you think, bro?” he looked over Jungkook who was really quiet while reading over and over again the clue he found inside the backpack with furrowed eyebrows, deep in thoughts.
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“Don’t you think bro??” Jason tried again.
“Uh?”
“Lost much, Kook?” Tori laughed.
“What are we supposed to do with this information?” Jungkook asked frustrated to his team “Wet blue? What is that?? There’s no such color”
“I’m sure we still have time, man, don’t stress it” Jason tried to cheer him up “I’m sure we were the first ones finding the bags plus we each have one point finger” he laughed while holding his gifted finger up.
“Yeah” he sighed “You’re probably right” Jungkook swept his bangs back. By now he was sure his hair was a mess, but he didn’t care much.
“Umm..” Tori began, her eyes following the movement of something way ahead of them “Not trying to break the lovely moment but I guess we are second place”
“We what?” Jungkook lifted his eyes from the paper he wouldn’t stop reading to see where Tori’s eyes were focused at and to his despair Yoongi and Carolina, alongside some blonde girl, were walking in a fast pace towards somewhere. They all had a backpack and the blonde girl was explaining something to them in a enthusiastic way. Jungkook tried his best to overhear what they were talking about, shushing Jason when he tried to say something along the lines of ‘don’t worry bro, we still got this’.
“Are you sure that’s the place?” he heard Yoongi ask lazily “I ain’t walking all the way over there for nothing”
“It’s there Yoongs, just stop being a grandpa, do you want the two thousand or not?” Carolina joked and Jungkook instantly got up.
“HEY!” Jungkook shouted “YOONGI”
“Kook what are you doing?” Tori asked alarmed.
“You heard this?”
“I think it was someone calling your name” the blonde girl said to Yoongi while looking around.
“YOONGI!! HERE!” Jungkook stepped forward.
“Who’s there?” Jungkook saw Yoongi stop and squint his eyes in his direction, he knew the older guy had a bad vision. “Ya, who’s that?” Yoongi asked Carolina who had the same expression on her face.
“It’s spiderman” the blonde one said and Carolina immediately commented “Uh nice butt” since the boy was turned to the side trying to fetch his walkie talkie to talk to Yoongi, and as soon as he heard the comment he turned around and walked forward a little further.
“IT’S JUNGKOOK!! YOONGI, IT’S ME!”
“Nevermind” Carolina said again and crossed her arms “WHAT DO YOU WANT VIRGIN BOY?!”
“It’s Jungkook?”
“Yeah”
“BRO ARE YOU PLAYING THE GAME?” Jungkook shouted trying to ignore Carolina. A hard gust of wind hit them suddenly, the boy’s hands coming up to protect his eyes.
“YES WE ARE”
“DO- DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE PLACE IS?”
“WE DO VIRGIN BOY BUT WE AIN’T TELLING” he saw Carolina shut Yoongi’s mouth without need with one of her hands and answered for him while laughing. Jungkook knew this because although he was trying to ask Yoongi the answer, he lived with the guy and knew him well enough to know that he could be a snake sometimes. “GO FIND YOUR BRAIN QUICKLY BEFORE YOU RUN OUT OF TIME”
“YOU- YOU’RE A BITCH!” Jungkook grunted in frustration.
“AND MUCH MORE!” her laughter echoing in the silent street and she coldly turned around with the blonde girl, both of them walking away. Yoongi did the same but before he shouted an apology “SORRY JUNGKOOKIE, GOOD LUCK!”
“Well that sucks” Jason stated bluntly coming near Jungkook, Tori right behind him.
Jungkook kept staring at their figures slowly disappearing in the distance, and something inside of him started boiling. His body was starting to get cold and his brain was completely blank due to his frustration.
A static noise broke the tension and Jason got startled by his own walkie talkie, Tori came rushed towards him as well as Jungkook - who spared one last glance at the horizon, Yoongi long gone.
“Hello players, this is your game master” a modified voice came out of the piece of machinery Jason was holding.
“Thank God! We need a hint!” Tori exclaimed, her right hand coming to her chest in a sign of relief.
“Beware of who may be watching you…” the voice said and as quick as it came it went away. The three of them still looking at the walkie talkie in hopes to hear anything else but nothing. Nothing came. Just the howling wind that was serving as a background song for their night.
“It’s.. It’s that it?” Jungkook asked indignant.
“It sounded like that guy- What’s the name?” Jason asked Tori rather excited “The Scream dude! The voice was exactly the same”
“TKE is definitely excelling themselves this year”
6
Hours ago Silvia thought she was up for a hell of a good night with her friends, even if the weather wasn’t helping at all, and now here she was, chasing the correct number painted on a tree located on the McCarthy Quad park. At least that was what Hyori and Namjoon had concluded from the clue they had been given to and she didn’t dare to refute.
Silvia was running fast but Hyori was running faster and the wind was pushing them back, difficulting their bodies movements. She heard someone shout a little further and coming to a halt she turned to see Namjoon pointing towards a big sycamore tree.
“Hyori!!!” she looked back to shout at the girl that went ahead “Hyori!!! He found it!” Silvia’s hair was all over her face and for a moment she could hardly see one foot ahead.
Something cold touched her skin while she tried to tame her wild curls, and when she looked up startled she saw Hyori’s smile. Both girls ran towards Namjoon who currently fought a battle with the zipper of his backpack trying to put away the clue inside it.
“What are you doing?” Hyori questioned him chuckling once they approached the spot. The boy glanced at them with a furious expression.
“I broke the zipper of my bag”
“Let me see it” Silvia took the still light bag only to conclude he indeed had broken it. She started then to try and find a solution to his problem.
“Ok so this is it” Hyori said looking around; the lantern she had in her right hand illuminating the red number painted on the tree. “And I’m guessing we’ll have to digg now” she pointed then her flashlight to the shovels pilled next to it.
“I’ll start then” Namjoon took one in his hands and started digging; he had no clue of what he was doing.
“Ok, let’s do this-” Silvia was going to put Namjoon’s backpack on the side but the other girl interrupted her with a gentle hand on her shoulder.
“Let’s take turns!” Hyori said with a gentle smile; her small voice a little louder now to be heard in such a terrible weather. “Me and Namjoon will digg while you come up with a solution to that” she chuckled.
“Got it!”
The boy wasn’t paying much attention now, his eyes strained onto the ground and he tried his best to not make a mess out of it. He could be clumsy at times - most of the times if he had to be honest, but he was trying his best to do the job properly and not disappoint both of his teammates. Hyori on the other hand got a little distracted once she saw another group of three a little further away from them. They seemed to be looking at a map. The only thing she could see was their flashlight pointed to the piece of paper and their silhouettes.
Hyori normally wasn’t that great at distinguishing people, she was bad with faces and all, but she would be damned if she didn’t recognize her own best friend even if she was from far away.
While her gaze was upon Deo and what her group might be, one of the tall silhouettes turned it’s head to the side, right at her direction. The flashlight wasn’t illuminating properly, but Hyori could see it was two boys that surrounded her friend.
“Are you going to digg too or…?” Namjoon asked huffing.
“Yeah… Just a sec…” she answered still too focused on Deo’s group. When her roommate illuminated the higher corner of a map she had in hands, the ray of light flashed Jack’s face and she could see his squinted eyes trying to look at her as well. “Jack!” Hyori said out loud but the howling wind muffled her voice.
The next thing she saw was Jack pointing towards his back and leading both Deo and the other tall guy further away from her. Is he really that competitive? Hyori thought. She held her glance at them for a few more seconds before Namjoon say something.  
“I- I think” he gasped “I think we have the wrong spot”
“It’s still shallow Namjoon” Silvia pointed out laughing.
“Oh? Yeah… Sorry. I think I’m not doing a very good job” he said with both hands resting on his shovel, admiring the work he had done so far.
-
“Jack I’m pretty sure is that way” Deo pointed towards her back but her eyes were still trailed on the map she was carrying around. Jack’s hands never leaving her shoulder, pushing her forward. The girl was a little out of focus since her worst fear (clowns or just pennywise) got to chase after her earlier, that resulted on her eye mascara being smudged a little under her eyes due to crying. 
“It’s not baby, look” he pointed with his own flashlight to a trail marked on the map. “We were here and we need to go this way”
“He’s right… I think” Taehyung admitted against his will. From the second he met Jack he hated the guy. He was the typical jock that made stupid jokes and spoke nothing more than about himself. The guy was cocky and basically the complete opposite of Taehyung. And to say it wasn’t being hard to control the facial expressions he felt the need to do every time Jack spoke was a complete lie.
“You can’t even read the GPS on your car and you’re asking me to trust you with a map?” she looked over her boyfriend.
“Hold on a second-”
“Sorry to interrupt the love quarrel but the guy is right” Taehyung interrupted; he was walking behind the couple and that made Deo stop on her tracks to look back at him, Jack being obliged to stop as well. “We passed by those trees back there” Taehyung said carefree while pointing back “and their numbers were 4, 7, 9… If we are assuming this is like a house address numbers thing, then our tree is on that way” he finished his thinking pointing frontwards.
“Thank God someone that backs me up” Jack said with a bright smile and going back to push Deo forward and gently once again.
“Fine then, let’s see” the girl rolled her eyes but offered no resistance at being guided.
Somewhere near, in the chilly park that was already filled with autumn leaves everywhere, you could hear the sound of a shovel insistently hitting the earth while a heated chattering followed. Team 3 was finding hard to reach to an agreement. Emma kept digging by herself, it had been fifteen minutes since they found their tree but Jennifer refused to touch a single nail on a shovel. V alongside Emma had picked a shovel to dig as well but seeing Jennifer did nothing she stopped her work and started arguing with her.
“We are a team Jennifer!” V was now almost yelling; the vein on her neck popping due to such frustration. “You gotta help as well!”
“I’ll help in the next one” Jennifer rolled her eyes and kept playing with her nails. Her expression not even alterated.
“That’s what you said when me and Emma were trying to catch the bags, yours included! And when we were trying to figure out this riddle”  
“Stop being a dramatic bitch” Jennifer retorted now looking at Victoria’s eyes. “I said I will help on the next task”
“Leave her be, Victoria” Emma said with a huff. “I can do it, it’s-” another puff of air leaving her mouth “It’s alright”
Victoria grunted in frustration, her eyes never leaving Jennifer stare. “Forget it” she ended up saying and then went back to help Emma. “How deep do you think we have to dig?” she asked throwing the dirt she had just digged to the side.
“To be honest-” Emma started and stopped to kick her shovel deep into the soil “I hope not much more”
“Well I think you two will have to dig a whole more and faster if you want to finish this game until tonight”
“Shut up!” V snapped at Jennifer “No one asked your opinion, oh my God”
Jennifer just laughed in amusement, scenes like this were a regular thing on the volley practices. Both girls were from the same team although it didn’t look like not even a little not even at all.
“Did you felt that?” Emma asked V, trying to ignore the profound want and need of hitting Jennifer with her own shovel. The girl was just being too much ever since they got trapped together.
“Felt what?”
“That” Emma said again hitting her shovel on something harder than what it felt when digging earth and hearing a clink noise in return.
“Shit- We found it” Victoria exclaimed and quickly let her shovel fall by her side to start brushing the dirt aside with her own hands.
7
“Told ya’” Jack said. They had just found the tree marked as 22, the bright red impossible not to spot from a certain distance. They had been walking for ten minutes non-stop trying to check every tree they found on the way, to make sure they weren’t missing theirs. And turned out Taehyung was right about the whole address thing.
“Told ya” Deo mocked “Just grab the freaking shovel jock. Let’s put those muscles up to good use” she cheekily put her tongue out making Jack blow a kiss with a cocky smile. Taehyung decided not to stand by watching the scene so with a roll of his eyes he grabbed the first shovel he could see and started digging.
-
Dylan was completely stretched on the dirty floor of McCarthy Quad, although he was feeling his clothes getting damped due to the temperature he was just too exhausted to get up.
“So what do we do now?” Lindsay questioned; in one hand she had the little paper with their new clue and the other was resting on her hip. “You guys have any idea of where this might lead us?”
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“I have no clue” Ali who was dressed in a renaissance garb sat down next to Dylan; the air she huffed and puffed visible in the air due to the temperature drop. She and Dylan digged until they found a metal box, inside it another finger with the same tag one point for you player! and the clue.
For a few seconds the only thing hearable was the sound of Lindsay wiggling the pearls she was wearing around her neck to complete her flapper costume and the tapping of her impatient foot.
“Ok” Dylan said while shuffling himself to a sitting position. “As soon as we figure the place, cause I’m really assuming that note leads us to another location, I have a plan for us to go faster”
“Please do tell” Ali turned her face gently to the side to see him.
“No, no, first we need to find what is up with that location”
“Isn’t this talking about books though?” Lindsay said, her eyes trailed on the little note and her mind paying no attention to her teammates.
“Books?”
“Let me see it” Dylan asked with an extended hand to her and she handed him the clue. “Umm… You guys know we are right in the middle of two libraries right?” he asked looking from one to another.
Ali immediately looked at Lindsay with huge eyes. “Oh my God we are!”
“So, what was your plan to get us there quickly?” Lindsay asked excited.
“Oh nevermind, the buildings are right here, we don’t need that old bike over there” Dylan shrugged off.
“Were you seriously thinking on riding that thing?” Lindsay laughed. The old bike leant on a bench near where they were was rusty and seemed to be missing some pieces.
“You probably failed calculus because we are three and there’s no way you could ride a bike taken other two people in it”
“I said I had a plan, not that I had a good one!” he said jokingly while getting up and cleaning his hands on the side of his trousers. A static sound interrupted the girls laughter.
“Hey players, if I were you I’d run…”
“Bro the Halloween game this year is getting hella’ artistic” Dylan commented.
“Yeah, tell me about it! That horrendous version of Slash was really artistic”
“I spy with my little eyes…”
Lindsay glanced around a little spooked out, she didn’t know if it was her head painting scenarios over what she had just heard the so called game master saying or if she could really feel someone watching them. “Guys let’s just get out of here”
-
The third challenge was indeed in the libraries that surrounded the park the players had gone to like Dylan suspected. As soon as the teams got to the entrance they could spot the door open and everyone knew that it wasn’t supposed to be open at night. Most of them in fact hesitated to enter the dark place… Hyori for example went over the little clue a few more minutes before coming to terms that she would have really to trespass the property.
Screeching noises could be heard the moment you passed through the door, the aged wooden floor not helping to keep the secrecy of someone being there. The only thing team 10 could see was what their flashlight was illuminating.
“Oh my God what is that?!” Jae whispered alarmed, her body frozed up near a huge shelf full of books.
“Is that another player or…”
“If you say it’s that weirdo dressed as Scream again, Cecilia, I swear to God” Tessa was crouched near them, her hands on her head. When the girls were searching for their bags they encountered Scream. He looked like a statue, one of the many that were decorating the party that night, and they would never think it was actually a real person. Tessa that was in the front got a tremendous jumpscare and ended up falling.
“It doesn’t seem him” Jae that was still looking at the lurking presence a little forward said after looking back at them. “It’s mask is different”
“That one is a…” Cecilia tried to figure out. “A phantom of the opera?”
“Oh then we are ok” Tessa got up and started walking towards the person. “Hey! Psssst”
“Tessa!” both girls whispered in a loud manner.
“Hey you! I’m sorry-“
The costumed guy, dressed as what it seemed like phantom of the opera, said nothing but pointed her towards a door.
“Guys” Tessa called looking back. “I think we have to go that way!”
“Really?” Jae approached her, looking from the clue she had pointed with a flashlight and then the door. “Between poets and suspense…” she looked to the sides of the door. There were a two shelves next to it, one that said poetry and the other said suspense/thriller.
“Yeah, definitely here” she concluded.
“Let’s go then… I guess” Cecilia went to open the door, and once her hand was on the doorknob it opened up without her doing anything. “Jesu-“
“For some people Naruto is indeed Jesus” Yoongi chuckled opening the door fully now and walking past Cecilia and the other girls from team 10.
“TESSA!” Carolina exclaimed once the girl entered her sight. “You’re here too?”
“Just got here!” she went for a hug. “What did you do there?” Tessa pointed the door that was now being closed by a girl dressed as Violet from the charlie and the chocolate fabric.
“Friends are friends, business is business, Tess! Sorry!” Carolina smiled apologetic. “And good luck!!” she wished truly.
“Fiiiine” Tessa sighed. “Happy Halloween!” she smiled to her friend. “Let’s go, girls” and she opened the door again, this time going through it with Cecilia and Jae right behind her.
“I didn’t know you could make friends” Yoongi pointed out in a tone of joke; his arms crossed.
“I befriended you, after that everything else is super duper easy” she sticked her tongue out.
Yoongi laughed and then took out the little card he had hidden inside his pocket. “Tchaa!” he sighed “Another one for you two, I’m tired of thinking”
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“That sounds like a fun place to go” Sarah chuckled nervously.
8
Cara, Jimin and Holly had just entered a dark room they had been pointed out inside the library. Jimin mustered the courage he didn’t have and put on a brave face to go first while Cara and Holly followed, both of them tightening the grip on his leather jacket. The room was pitch dark and before going in they saw a sign saying they needed to leave their backpacks behind.
“Just stay close” Jimin whispered without a need while going inside. Not a peep could be heard.
“This room is freezing!” Cara commented while getting even closer to Jimin. “And my outfit isn’t helping”
“It’s ok, girl, I got your back” Holly immediately crouched to grab part of Cara’s dress to help her walk more freely. Her chosen outfit for tonight was Feyre from A court of thorns and roses and although she was looking beautiful until now her dress was making everything seem harder for her, specially running. Before she could thank Holly, the door they had just walked through which was also the only remaining source of light for them was shut close with a loud bang. The three of them jumping with the loud noise and an uncomfortable silence followed.
Jimin’s eyes were trying to adjust to the somber room, he blinked and tried his best to focus on some spot and try to see at least some silhouettes but he failed.
“Hello players, I hope you are up to play a game because I have some questions for you” a grotesque laughter came right after, the voice deep and clearly altered.
“Who’s there??” Jimin asked and chuckled nervously after he did it. He brought Holly and Cara closer to him, his hands firmly placed on the small of their backs.
“Who directed the film Halloween from 1978?” the grotesque voice asked them.
“Eeey- That isn’t fair!” Jimin complained. “How are we even supposed to know that?!” 
“Oh God, I don’t really know that one!” Holly said anxious. Cara just kept holding for dear life onto Jimin. 
A loud error noise was able to be hear making the three of them jump in fear, no one expecting the loud noise so close and loud. 
“Which film has as its main characters, Morticia and Gomez?”
“Oh! Oh! That’s easy!” Holly exclaimed. “It’s The Addams Family!”
“Nice!”
“Thank God we have Holly” Cara said in relief. 
“WOUSH!! What was that?!” Jimin fumbled back taking the girls with him. 
“What?!” 
“There was something touching my feet!”
“What is the word Hallowe’en an abbreviation of?”
“All Hallow’s Eve!!” Jimin and Holly yelled at the same time. Cara unable to form coherent thoughts on her head, the dark room was freaking her out. 
On a blacked out room right next to group 9, three girls were kneeled on the ground together. As soon as group 6 entered the room they started getting uncomfortable with not being able to see things and also about the lack of sound. 
Esme started crouching down, her defense mechanism being turn herself into a little ball, and of course Nina followed. Aashna stood up for a little while, she kept feeling the other two getting closer to her legs, but once a loud bang echoed the room she dropped to her knees in a matter of seconds.
“What was Dr. Frankenstein first name?”
“Victor! It was Victor!!!” Nina yelled, she wasn’t afraid but she would admit the room was getting weirder and weirder. 
“Yes!!” Esme celebrated when a xylophone acute sound soared on the room, they knew the answer was right. 
“Name all the killers that embodied Ghostface from Scream.”
“Oh fuck! That one is hard” Nina said more to herself than anything. 
“You know it?” Esme asked turning to Aashna. 
“Uh… Roman Bridger is one of them…?” Aashna started not feeling very secure of her answer. “Loomis? Ugh I don’t know!!” 
“It’s ok-” 
A loud error sound echoed startling them, that probably meant the answer was wrong, they thought. 
-
“Who were the targets of Jack the Ripper?”
“Prostitutes!” Dylan said. “That’s for sure!”
“You sure?” Ali questioned him, but he didn’t need to answer because the xylophone sound was heard. 
“Thank God! I just want to leave here!!!!” Lindsay was feeling agitated on this room, it was too eerie. 
“It’s ok, Linds! I’m sure it will be over soon” Dylan said softly trying to pull her closer. They had just met but he knew she was having a hard time being scared. 
“For what is Ted Bundy known?”
“Killing over 35 women!” Ali and Dylan said at the same time. 
“It was 35 right?” he questioned.
“Yes, I’m sure!” 
Another xylophone sound was heard. 
“Please tell me this was the last!!” 
“It’s almost babeee” Ali tried to cheer her up, her hand coming to Lindsay’s squeezing it a bit. 
“It’s dare time players” the game master finally said freaking them out. 
9
After answering the last question, there was a loud bang again and Deo immediately held the closest thing she found as some sort of comfort. She knew this was just a game but she couldn’t help feeling scared being in the dark.
“Lights on”
The girl had her eyes closed shut. Jack opened his and rubbed them. When he looked back he saw his girlfriend holding tight Taehyung who was standing still like nothing was happening while scanning the room. That was enough to make Jack insanely mad. 
“WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!” he exclaimed loudly making Taehyung look at him confused and Deo just opened her eyes surprised. 
“I-I thought it was you!” the girl said after looking at Taehyung’s face and realizing it was not her boyfriend there. Taehyung immediately let out a tsk. 
“ME?! I look nothing like that guy!” Jack pointed at the other boy furious. “Why are you still holding him?!” he asked when his girlfriend did nothing to move away. His anger making him explode and stride quickly until he could reach her arm to pull her away. 
“Hey!” Taehyung exclaimed; his eyebrows furrowed. “You’re going to hurt her” 
“I was not! And how could I see?! It was pitch black!” Deo defended herself. 
“You were with me in the dark before. You should know damn well how I feel to the touch”
A snort sound coming from Taehyung was heard. “Now that’s just pathetic”
“What?! That doesn’t even make sense!”
“You know what?!” Jack exclaimed furious “I don’t want to talk about this shit anymore” he went towards the left wall; hands placed on his hips. An awkward moment of tension followed.
“Oook” Taehyung said breaking the silence. “What’s up with this thing?” he approached a locker standing in the middle of the room. 
“Are you seriously going to be like that? Whatever..” Deo said, Jack having his back to her. And then looking over the locker where Taehyung now was she asked “How many digits?”
“Four” 
“Are you fucking kidding me right now? Are you really pretend nothing happened??” Jack looked back at both at them but his frustration clearly directed at Deo. 
“Jack what the fuck! You said you didn’t want to talk about it, let’s not!” she answered, looking everywhere but him. 
“Not to be indelicate but- 2:31 minutes left according to that timer over there”
“Fuck off dude!!!” Jack yelled at him. 
“Yeah, same” he answered back. 
“Jack!” Deo reprehended him but he did nothing but to ignore her still pacing around the room. "Do you want me to just tell you the words on the walls?“ the girl asked Taehyung. 
“Could we maybe exchange? I’m not very good with this but I have big eyes so I can tell you the words!” Tae smiled cutely to her and she immediately walked over the locker. 
"Yup, sounds good to me." 
“I have big eyes so I can tell you the words” Jack mocked in a stupid tone. “Did I just disappeared is that it??”
"Fucking wish Pennywise was here” Deo said almost in a whisper way. Jack didn’t hear but Taehyung certainly did which made him chuckle loudly. 
“What is so funny, jackass?!”
“You’re the one named Jack not me” Tae scoffed; his eyes briefly on Jack before returning to the written walls again. 
“Guys the time!!!”
“Sorry!” Taehyung apologized and quickly read a few words before finding one with four digits. “Try rack” he said looking back at Deo.
“Oh shit!!”
“What?!” Taehyung asked nervous and Jack just stopped pacing to look at Deo expectant. 
“It’s right!”
“IT IS???!” Taehyung just couldn’t believe he found the word at his first attempt. A huge smile taking over his face. “My eyes worked!!!!”
“What does it has inside?” Jack asked without patience. 
Taking over a piece of paper from inside Deo said “A clue I think”
-
Aashna kept blinking trying to adjust her now recovered vision to the intense light. Nina and Esme seemed more recomposed than her since both of them were standing in the middle of the room inspecting a big and solitair red locker that also stood there. She observed that the walls were full of words and letters painted in red, her hand trailing slowly the gory word that gained her attention the most. Somber.
“I think we need to find the word that opens this” she heard Nina say but her eyes still on the marked walls.
“Yeah and we need to find it fast, look” Esme said and she turned around to see what the girl was talking about. Esme was pointing towards a timer placed on the top of the door they came in by. 2:40 it marked. And after blinking Aashna got to see one number less, the timer was decreasing.
“How are we supposed to know which word is it???” Aashna panicked.
“For starters I think it’s a four letter word since there’s only four spaces here” Nina pointed out going to the nearest wall to try and find something.
“I’ll insert every word I know then!”
“Try dark” Aashna said when she spotted the word right next to where her hand was leaning and then looked expectant at Esme to see the result.
Esme fumbled with the padlock a little and then looked back at Aashna “Nope, not that one”
“Lost!” Nina shouted from across the room.
2:03.
The clicking sound of Esme fumbling with the locker could be heard, nothing else. It was followed by a long sigh. “Still a no!”
“Bone?” Aashna asked.
1:40.
And when the answer was once again a no, Nina shouted again “Shot!”
“I’m starting to get really frustrated at this” Esme grunted. “No, still nothing” she sighed.
“Are we going to stay stuck here?”
“Just keep looking!”
“Ok, what about blue? It’s written there” Nina suggested. “There’s not even a clue or something?”
“I guess not…” Esme answered her while inserting the word on the padlock. “And it’s not blue either.
1:01.
“This sucks!!!”
“I don’t see anymore words here with four letters only” Aashna said while reading everything she could. “Are you sure it’s a four letter word??”
“Pretty sure!” Esme answered leaving the locker and going to check the walls herself. “There’s only four spaces there.”
“I’ll try words I know then” Nina said walking towards the big red locker. “We still have time right?” she looked over the timer to see 0:43 marked on it. “Shit. Ok, what about home?” she said more to herself than anything else fumbling with the lock.
“Ghost”
“That’s a five letter word” Esme chuckled making Aashna chuckle too.
0:27.
“Love isn’t the answer after all…” Nina sighed moving onto the wall on her right. “Let me see if there’s something here”
“And the only door here is locked” Esme said turning the knob of the door and stating it didn’t open. “So yeah, we are probably screwed”
“What happens when the timer reaches zero though?” Nina questioned.
“ZERO! That’s it!” Aashna said excited looking from the timer to Esme who was quick to run towards the center of the room and insert the word on the padlock.
0:09.
“Please, please” Aashna mumbled.
“IS IT?”
And with a heavy sigh Esme said “No”.
A loud and screeching sound of a siren echoed in the entire room making the girls press their hands to their ears to somehow muffle the noise. Nina even crouched on the floor and they got even more horrified when the door finally opened and a tall figure dressed like an intimidating and gory doctor entered with a catering trolly, three cups on top of it.
The siren stopped and the abrupt change made the girls head combust. “I guess it’s going to be trick instead of treat” the guttural voice echoed on the room once again and the girls knew right then they would have to drink from the cups.
“Choose your cup wisely players” a wicked laughter followed along with Aashna, Esme and Nina exchanging glances before picking up their glasses and gulping everything down.
-
On the room next door the timer was running fast but still no sign of the locker opening up.
“I still can’t believe Jungkook managed to open this thing” Jennifer kicked the locker lightly. Group 3 had previously met Group 2 on the entrance of the library, Jungkook, Tori and Jason were just leaving the place when the girls happened to be entering. They exchanged a few words since both V and Jennifer knew Jungkook and Jason from volley, and of course, Jungkook knew Jennifer from much more than volley but it was a brief meeting nonetheless.
“You don’t know if he actually did it” V retorted.
“Try the word host!” Emma said to Jennifer who rolled her eyes and fumbled grudgingly with the padlock.
“I’m guessing he did since he was walking away from here differently from us” Jennifer answered while doing the task she was in charged with.
1:04.
“And it’s not host”
“What about Hope?” V asked.
“I’m sure it’s not going to be a cutesy word, hello? We are in a halloween game!” Jennifer answered without moving to do what V had asked her.
“Girl I swear-”
“Just try it out, Jennifer” Emma let out a long sigh.
“Fine” with another roll of eyes she turned around to fumble once more with the padlock.
0:38.
V and Emma waited expectant. “Not Hope, as I clearly explained before, the answer is clearly nothing like a cute word.”
“Let me see then” Emma said walking slowly around the room again and reading carefully every word she could find.
“Dark?”
“We tried that one already, pay attention bitch” Jennifer chuckled acidly.
“Girl you better watch out your back starting from tomorrow I swear, if I see you on the street-”
“Four? Try four” Emma ignored the heated argument, by now she was more than used to it.
0:17.
“That would be such a stupid passcode” Jennifer said while inserting the word. “I will be so disappointed if that is actually- It isn’t! Thank God” she snorted.
“This bitch is dumb as hell.” V chuckled while nodding her head and turning around to check the walls once again. “She is actually thanking the lord for not being able to get out of here.”
“It’s what they say, aesthetics first” Emma let out almost in a whisper and it was totally unintended but V managed to hear and she cracked hard.
0:02.
“Oh great, the time is up and you two are laughing like best-” Jennifer was saying but the loud siren interrupted her. She instantly fell backwards, bumping into the locker and slowly sliding down with her hands pressed firmly against the sides of her head.
Emma did the same, trying to protect herself from the madding noise while V stayed up trying to open the door by twisting the knob furiously. Until the door opened and she stumbled backwards seeing the eerie doctor coming in with a trolley and the three cups.
10
Carolina could feel her heartbeat drumming in her ears due to such excitement and thrill. Yoongi was the one decoding the clue they managed to get from inside the locker placed in the challenge of the library and they quickly came to the nearest graveyard around USC. Arriving there none of the three could see a single soul walking or completing the next challenge and both Carolina and Yoongi weren’t very keen on risking when they didn’t know the outcome. So thinking fast the girl suggested the other two for them to hide near the graveyard and wait for the next team, that way they could see what were they up to or at least know what they should and should not do.
Sarah was bundled up on her tracksuit just looking out with her lince eyes towards the foggy graveyard. Yoongi was crouched down right next to her looking comfortably, his hands near his mouth for warmth. If there was a thing he really hated was the cold. Carolina on the other hand had no coat, she was wearing only a nurse dress, her arms and legs were so numb that she stopped paying some mind to the harsh and cold wind.
“You look like a lunatic with that makeup” Yoongi whispered to her chuckling softly. His breathing creating a considerable breath vapor every time he talked or chuckled.
“Even when you’re serious you look like you’re laughing wickedly” Sarah whispered too with a satisfacted smile making Carolina open one herself.
“Why so serious?!” she looked at them jokingly with one eyebrow up and a creepy smile.
“Ya” Yoongi pushed her and she stumbled back since she was crouching to stay hidden. “That was creepy as fuck” he finished making Sarah laugh again.
“I almost fell and got dirt and mud on my white nurse… thing. What is this called?”
“It’s just a dress” Sarah laughed even more.
“This way we are going to ruin our plan, everyone can hear us”
“We got here first???” they heard someone exclaim from a distance. The three of them silent now and vigilant.
“Bro what did I tell you??? We didn’t open that stupid locker but we still got here first than anyone else!!”
“Who are those?” Yoongi whispered, his eyes squinted but he couldn’t see anything.
“I think… Jason?” Sarah whispered back.
“Not surprised he didn’t open the locker then” Carolina chuckled lowly.
“What do we do now? There’s nothing here”
“And that’s virgin boy”  Carolina added.
“How do you even know?”
“Confirmed, it’s him” Sarah answered her.
“His voice is annoying”
“Shit there’s more people coming”
“Where?”
As soon as team 8 heard that, they looked towards the direction the girl that was with Jungkook was looking to. Sarah, the only one with falcon eye vision in that group was reporting what she saw. To what she could see, there was not only one other group approaching but two. The first one she described as being three girls and Carolina quickly recognized one of them being Esme, her new front door neighbour. The other group as Sarah described had two girls and a guy. She tried her best to explain who Silvia was, saying she worked on the library and everything but Yoongi and Carolina never really paid much attention to their surroundings. Now, the guy… That one as soon as he came to both friends vision they recognized as their clumsy friend. He approached Jungkook and while doing so he stumbled on a grave and if it weren’t for the spidey senses that Jungkook conveniently had Namjoon would probably be on the floor right now.
The so familiar static sound surprised team 8 that was focused on the other groups interacting. “Should I take someone else to serve as company to your friend, players?” They heard the voice say followed by a muffled scream that left them in shock.
Sarah chuckled nervously. “They- They are really taking this game seriously” she let out a few more spaced laughter, her eyes going from Yoongi to Carolina, hoping that one of them could ease her mind that the pained scream she heard was nothing but a dumb joke of halloween.
Yoongi pressed the button to respond on the walkie talkie and a little beep could be heard. “Is this another riddle or clue? Over” and as soon as he said it he could hear himself faintly, the message being emitted from Carolina’s and Sarah’s walkie talkies still kept inside their own backpacks.
“Why are we receiving the message as well?” Sarah asked.
Another muffled and pained grunt could be heard again and their attention fell over the walkie talkie on Yoongi’s hand “Tik Tok players… Your friend doesn’t have much time, that I can guarantee you” Carolina looked from the piece of machinery in Yoongi’s hand to his eyes “Mhhmmm” someone screamed uncomfortably and visibly gagged. “Tik tok” and the beep sound made them know the message had come to an end.
“What is happening?” Sarah asked visibly disturbed. Carolina didn’t answer but her eyes moved towards the graveyard again, Namjoon was there looking at a map together with his team and her heart tightened. Where is Taehyung and Jin? she thought to herself.
“Yoongi there’s something wrong”
“What do you mean?” both him and Sarah said at the same time, their expressions worried.
“There’s only Namjoon there.” Carolina pointed out. “Where’s the other two?”
“Which two? What are we talking about?”
“I’m sure this is all a prank Carolina” Yoongi tried to ease her mind. “It’s halloween after all”
“I’m telling you-”
“Too slow” there it was the static noise again. “Happy haunting, players”
A loud scream was heard, Yoongi’s head snapped towards the sound and Sarah gasped at the vision. A bunch of grotesque and gross zombies appeared on the graveyard, and if they didn’t know zombies didn’t exist they would definitely think they were just now meeting the creatures.
Tori was being dragged towards a tiny grove behind the graveyard, she screamed and struggled to get away but the fetid creature had a tight grip on her. Jungkook tried to help but two of them came towards him and he had no choice but to run and on it’s way of doing so he took one down that was trying to catch Aashna. He grabbed her arm and forced her to run with him, dodging the grunting beasts but there were many of it. Aashna eventually couldn’t keep up with his pace and was grabbed by the waist being dragged away from the boy.
“I FOUND ONE!” they heard Jason scream, his arm up trying to show Jungkook the finger they had been receiving with every clue so far. “IT’S THE POINTS RIGHT??”
“KEEP LOOKING FOR THEM!!” the boy answered dodging another zombie.
Esme and Nina were running together, they were trying to leave the graveyard when Nina spotted a piece of paper tied to a finger. She swiftly snatched the finger and looked back to check on Esme, they had what they needed, now they just had to run as fast as they could to the front gates, Aashna already had been taken, they couldn’t afford being catched as well.
“Nina run!!!” Esme’s voice could be heard louder now after a little scream. Nina looked back to see the girl being held by two of the ill looking beings. “GO NINA!”
“We have to help” Sarah whispered to her teammates, they were still hiding.
“No no no, let’s wait” Yoongi tried.
“Yoongi something is not right here, why would they take people?”
“And this game master person said our friend needed company and our friend seemed in pain. I don’t think this is a bad joke guys…” Sarah was trembling.
The boy sighed and then looked front, he could see Namjoon hiding with both girls of his team, just like he was. But something definitely felt wrong. “We need to evaluate this better”
“There’s nothing to evaluate Yoongi. We have zero ways of communication right now” Carolina looked at him with pleading eyes. “We don’t have our phones, we only have walkie talkies that don’t let us talk to others apart from this fucking psycho and that was not a sick prank.” she paused offegant. “I know how editing works and so do you. That didn’t sound like a sound effect he browsed online, that sounded like a real fucking person and it’s either Jin or Tae”
“I- I think she’s right… I didn’t come with friends tonight so he was probably talking to you two. And it’s pretty weird that one of your close friends it’s there but the other two aren’t-”
“We don’t even know if they are in the game! As far as we know they can perfectly be partying right now” Yoongi reasoned.
“And why the hell did he choose me and you instead of Jin and Tae? No offense but those two are walking gamers. Me and you are just grandpas that do nothing but complain” she pleaded tugging his arm. “This thing is looking like the fucking Saw movie, Yoongs”
“Carolina-” he was going to say but Namjoon’s voice was heard loud and clear making the three of them look again at the chaotic scenery at their front.
A group of zombies were trying to take Hyori away but Namjoon pushed two of them freeing the girl. She quickly ran to stay behind him and everything seemed ok until the got to the other girl that was with him. He grabbed Silvia’s hand to pull her towards him, but two built up gory zombies dragged her in a flash.
“Silvia!!!” he yelled. Another one was coming towards him and Hyori again, but he took her hand in his and they both sprinted towards the entrance of the graveyard.
“Fuck.” Carolina said and before she could think properly she was getting up. “Stay here and when I say so you two sprint out of here, understood?” she looked back at Yoongi and Sarah.
“Hell no. What are you doing now?”
“I- I can come as well” Sarah offered.
“I said stay put.” she glanced at them with warning eyes and sprinted towards Namjoon.
11
A lot of the dead creatures had been gone by now, there was only ten of them remaining and most were focused on trying to catch both Jungkook and Jason. The fogg was making everything feel creepier and Carolina couldn’t help the goosebumps and bad feeling she was having even if her skin was already burning hot from the sprint she suddenly took.
“Namjoon!!” She screamed over the top of her lungs and her friend came to a halt, he was almost near the gates to leave, Hyori right behind him.
“Carolina?”
“You have the clue right??” she asked still sprinting; she could see three creatures walking fast to approach Namjoon and the girl.
“Yes! Are you alone?? What are you doing here??” he asked in a hurry while looking to his sides to see if there were any threats near.
“I’m with Yoongi!” Carolina was almost reaching him “There’s something wrong-” right at that moment she felt something grabbing her arm and she yanked it back, running faster. “There’s something wrong!!! Namjoon run!! The walkie talkies- We can’t communicate”
Two grunting creatures appeared behind Namjoon and Hyori, the girl screamed and stumbled back. “Hyori run!” he said grabbing the grimy arm of one of them and pushing the other with all his might.
“I won’t leave you!!”
“Mother-” Carolina came fast pushing hard one of the creatures due to the speed she was in. “Go you two! Find Jin and Tae!!!”
“What’s going on Carolina???” he asked in panic.
“Try the walkie talkies, Nam, there’s something wrong!!”
They started to aglomerate near the three of them and Namjoon just nodded and ran, taking Hyori’s hand once again and disappearing into the fog.
“WATCH OUT!” Carolina heard Jungkook’s voice near, he came running and pushing a zombie that was hunting down after her but he tripped and fell, the clue he had just found falling from his grip. The girl saw the opportunity and took it. She quickly grabbed the finger tied up with a clue that Jungkook just lost and started running, the object entering swiftly her pocket.
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“HEY! CAROLINA” he yelled after her, still on his knees.
“I’M SORRY!” she shouted back but he was being left behind. “YOU AND JASON CAN MANAGE FINDING ONE MORE!! I’M SORRY”
“AAAAH” she heard his scream and turned back to see two morbid silhouettes dragging him by his arms. “GET OFF OF ME”
“Ah shit” she cursed under her breath and sprinted towards Jungkook.
-
Group 5 had roamed for a while now trying to figure out what the next place could be. Deo kept saying it could only be the graveyard and none of the boys said the contrary, even if Jack kept saying he was convinced it was some place else. 
“Do you think this is the right place?” Deo shrugged, eyes shifting from one boy to the other, their eyes clued to their maps. The graveyard seemed empty. 
“Yup, seems right to me.” Taehyung said, nonchalant.
“And what now?” She asked again, the apprehensiveness tone in her voice visible.
“Nice! Seems like we are the firsts so let’s not waste more time and look for the next clue.”
“This is huge… It’s going to take us forever specially with this fog.” Taehyung sighed, squinting his eyes to try and see over the deep white cloak pairing in the air. Before Deo could open her mouth to complain about how creepy the game had become Jack pulled her to him, grabbing her hand and running backwards. 
“Watch out! Zombie!!”
Taehyung ran right besides them, the wet grass making it slippery for them to keep balance. They heard a scream not so far away and Taehyung’s supersonic ability of recognizing every sound possible made him look attentively towards his right while still running. 
“JIMINAH!!” He yelled; his voice sounding deep and hoarse, the wind carrying it away. 
“TAEHYUNGIE!!!” he heard back but he had no sight on Jimin. More screams could be heard and in one second of distraction Taehyung bumped into one Zombie. He fell back harshly but quickly getting up. That’s when he saw the piece of paper tied onto a finger and he thought no more, he clumsily ran towards it and grabbed it. 
“TAEHYUNGIE! THE ZOMBIES! BE CAREFUL” he heard Jimin’s voice once again and he looked towards the direction of it. 
“JIMINAH! LET’S DO THIS!!!!” 
“Jack!!!!” Deo’s voice sounded close to him. “Get awaaaaay!!” 
Taehyung ran as fast as he could and when he got near the girl she was trying to set herself free from the disgusting creature holding her by her waist. The boy glanced over to see Jack dodging two of them and he wasted no time in pushing the zombie that fought Deo. The creature stumbled back and Taehyung pulled her with him towards the entrance once again. 
“JACK!” she kept screaming back. 
“I GOT THE CLUE!!! RUN FASTER BRO” Taehyung yelled in hope the other guy could hear it. 
“FUCK YOU!!”
-
The desert streets of USC campus that normally had a peacefulness to them were now feeling intimidating. The big and old buildings had a menacing look to them now. Silvia had her arms crossed tight over her chest, the trees making noises that were scaring her and her body was trembling from head to toe. Her Simon glasses were long gone, she lost them while trying to get away from those zombies, her backpack still secure on her back though.
On her hands she had only her walkie talkie that seemed useless since she tried over and over again to talk to someone but obtained no answer in return. She wasn’t liking the feeling of having to wander around USC at night and alone…
Suddenly a screeching sound. “It’s easier to hunt a prey if it is found alone” and a sinister laughter followed. Silvia looked around, the feeling of being watched creeping her out. She fastened her pace and tried again.
Beep. “Hyori? Namjoon? It’s me Silvia! Please Answer! Over” she kept looking around and walking as fast as she could trying her best to stay in the middle of the street where some lamp posts were still on. The leaves being swayed away by the wind.
“Silvia???” she heard Hyori’s voice and quickly brought the walkie talkie towards her mouth.
“YES!!! IT’S ME”
“Where are you right now?? Over” Hyori asked, her voice seemed hurried.
“I’m-” Silvia looked around. “Near Webb Tower! Over”
“Ok, listen to me very carefully” Hyori started, her voice difficult to be heard due to the noises the machinery kept doing. “Me and Namjoon think there’s something wrong. Be careful! We are currently on our way to the cinema department, the next clue sends us there. We’ll wait for you in the entrance ok? Over”
“What do you mean something is wrong? But ok, I’ll be there! Over”
“We’ll explain once you’re with us again.” Hyori said. “But please be careful. Keep talking to us from five to five. Over!”
“Ok! On my way. Over” Silvia answered before tightening her grip on the walkie talkie and running down the street.
12
Holly had been separated from her group quite a while ago. The last thing she remembers being Jimin trying to protect her and Cara from some scary zombies who were trying to catch them. It all felt like a fun game of catch until one of them dragged her away towards the grove and tied her up, her eyesight being compromised since they put a sack on her head. She felt like she was being taken somewhere since she could feel she was inside of a car, she could also feel there were other people inside it with her but she didn’t know who since she had a gag on her mouth keeping her from asking questions.
When the car came to a halt for the third time, she was dragged again, this time they removed the rope she had on her hands and then all she could hear was the sound of the tires burning in the asphalt. She waited for a few seconds and since nothing happened she slowly took off the sack that was still on her head. Holly felt a little scared while doing so, she was afraid of what she might see, but it turned out to be nothing more than an empty and dark street.
Now here she was running towards the cinematic department since she was able to contact Jimin and Cara with the walkie talkie that she kept inside her backpack, and although she was feeling a little dizzy due to the alcoholic beverages she was forced to gulp down on the library (her team didn’t manage to open the locker up) and Jimin kindly offered to go pick her up, she was feeling more alive than ever, a little spooked too, but that was halloween and nothing could stop her now.
“It has been quite a while since she said she was on her way” Jimin said pacing around with his hands in his hips; eyes trailed onto the horizon, hoping Holly would emerge there somehow.
Jimin and Cara had arrived on the cinematic building half an hour ago. A big sign glued on the wall saying for the next challenge they needed all three present, and ever since he saw Holly being taken he started worrying over the girl.
“I’m sure she’ll be here soon, Holly is a brave girl, she’s fine” Cara was sat on the steps of the front stair. The wind softly blowing on her face.
“Yeah but it’s dark and-”
“Are you actually afraid of the dark Jimin Park?” Cara chuckled trying to release the tension the boy was feeling somehow. She knew he was feeling guilty over the fact he let Holly unguarded somehow because a group of people passed by him and he got distracted. And Cara was still curious about why he did such a surprised face but that was a question for another time.
“No but she might be!”
“I think she isn’t” Cara offered a smile. “Once she arrives here we ask her about it and see who wins, what do you think?”
“Yeah sure” he answered but his eyes were still full of worries; his lips caught up by his teeth and his body never facing anything but the horizon.
-
Inside the cinematic department the air was hazy and there was also an unintelligible sound echoing the halls. Group 7 was wandering the halls, Cole once again in the lead since he was a frequent passenger of this department. The lights were out, the three boys were finding their way while following the bloody arrows painted on the floor with their flashlights and as Cole was starting to think it was leading them towards the basement or the archive room as the cinema students would call it.
He wasn’t wrong. He came to a halt right at the door of it, the whole way there Hoseok standing really close to Asa both of them a little spooked out.
“Is this it?” Asa asked. “I was expecting something scarier, I have to be honest”
“I can’t handle anything scarier than this”
“Well, I guess it is a little scarier” Cole pointed the flashlight towards a paper glued on the door. “Look” his flashlight now illuminating the big black letters. “One stays here and the other two go down… in the dark. Wow, what a fun activity!” he looked at his teammates with a sarcastic smile.
“I’m not going down- No oh. Not a chance” Hoseok said, his eyes flickering with fear.
“Then you just have to go there” Cole pointed towards an open space full of small screens twitching and showing different perspectives of a long corridor. Asa kept looking from one to another, he himself wasn’t finding the decision an easy one to make.
“No way I’m staying over there alone! The place looks like a scenery of a horror movie”
“It’s either that or the dark”
“If you stay up you will have to lead us with the walkie talkie, that’s what the rules say… At least it’s a rather backlit place!” Asa presented him the options. “But if you’re scared of staying alone, you can always go down, you’ll be with one of us… but in the dark”
Hoseok’s eyes kept going from the glitching tv screens and the iron made door with the intimidating keep out sign on it.
“Hey guys!!” all of them looked back pointing their flashlights towards the newcomers. Hoseok letting out a few weird sounds, he was definitely the scaredy cat of the group.
“Wow!” Tessa chuckled; her hands serving as shield for her now blinding eyes. “Keep pointing that at me and I might actually become the moon”
“Sorry! We thought it was someone else” Asa clumsily apologised making the girls laugh.
“Ok so I think one of us has to stay outside guiding the other two since down there is basically pitch black and we can’t enter with our flashlights?” Cecilia said, she was reading the rules until now.
“Alone here??” Jae exclaimed. “Not a chance!”
“I’ll do it it’s ok, you guys go” Cecilia reassured them and moved towards the screens. Pressing the button speak of her walkie talkie she tested if it was working. “One, two, one two” beep.
“It’s working!” Tessa gave her a thumbs up.
“Ok, I’ll stay here! It’s ok, I’ll stay with her” Hoseok pointed towards Cecilia.
“Alright! Let’s move then” Cole replied and opened the heavy metal door with a screech.
-
Somewhere in the way team 7 and team 10 went separate ways, both Hoseok and Cecilia guiding their teams to opposite directions. The humid and pitch black corridors giving everyone the chills, and if that wasn’t scary enough the sound of water droplets falling into what seemed like buckets with water inside was the cherry on top of the cake.
Jae and Tessa were holding hands both of them completely blind in the dense and darkened place, they walked slowly, each with a walkie talkie in hands.
Beep. “Guys turn to your right” Cecilia voice was heard through the static noise. “Not now! Walk about four steps straight and then turn”
“Can you see something inside here with us???” Jae asked her; her voice quivering a little.
“I don’t think so. Over”
“Did we take four steps yet?” Tessa asked coming to a stop. Through the little screen upstairs, Cecilia could see them stopping, they were talking but she couldn’t hear them.
“I don’t think so… Did we?”
Beep. “Girls what are you doing? Turn right now” Cecilia ordered.
“Turn left or right? Over” Tessa asked completely lost. Not being able to see was messing with her sense of direction.
Beep. “Left! Over” and they immediately turned left but what came after was chaos.
Tessa screamed once she felt something going against her. And that something screamed even louder. Fearing something was happening Jae crouched on the floor, the only command her mind was able to give her body with the jumpscare.
“It’s us! Calm down, it’s ok!!” the girls heard a deep voice say making them even more scared. A continuous scream still echoing.
“US WHO???” Tessa shouted putting her hands close to her chest as a defense mechanism. “Don’t touch me!!” she let out in surprise when a hand brushed hers.
“It’s Jeremy! Jeremy from the volley team! And Jin!” the owner of the deep voice said trying to calm them down.
Beep. “Girls are you ok?” Cecilia asked worried. She saw the whole scene without a sound.
“YEAH AND JIN!!” Jin shouted; his hands kept wiggling, in his mind if he kept doing that no one would approach him and scare him. “WoOAh”
“Jin? Jin Kim?” Tessa asked, her hand coming to her heart to calm herself down.
“Who’s asking?” Jin answered turning abruptly to his side and then to the other. Eventually Jeremy had to place a hand on his shoulder to make him stop.
“It’s Tessa! From the cinema!”
“Tessa?”
“Who- What is happening?” Jae was still crouched down.
“Carolina’s friend! She was asking for you!!” Tessa answered Jin.
“She was?” Both Jin and Jeremy asked at the same time.
“When we were arriving here she and Yoongi were leaving and she asked me if I saw you! She looked very worried. She asked for Taehyung as well”
“I-I’ll try to catch up with her” Jin said. “Let’s go Jeremy, we already have the thing”
Beep. “Girls?” Cecilia asked again.
“We’re here!” Jae quickly answered. “Everything’s ok, we just bumped on Jeremy”
“Hey! And Jin!!!” Jin scolded.
Beep. “And Jin”
Beep. “You got it?” Sana’s voice was heard and that made Jeremy remember what he had come for.
“Tell her yes!”
Beep. “We got it! On our way. Over” Jeremy said.
Beep. “Let’s go then! We have a game to win people!!” Sana finished the message with a cute chuckle.
“Best of luck, girls” Jeremy said pulling Jin with him.
“The clue is on the floor!” Jin said quickly and winked and then laughed like a mad man over his own stupidity of winking if no one could actually see his face.
Beep. “Keep moving forward now! I see some things on the floor. Over” Cecilia told them and both of them quickly said their goodbyes to the boys and went on walking slowly and tugging at each other’s arms.
Jin and Jeremy kept walking forward this time, the latter on the front since Jin was a total basket case when it came to feeling scared.
“I think we’re almost out” Jeremy said lowly.
“Ya, how do you even know?!” Jin chuckled. “I can’t even see you!”
“I just know man”
“Back there I was so blind and afraid that it felt like I lost you for a second. I was screaming your name but I don’t even know if it was something decipherable”
Jeremy was about to answer, he turned back as if to face Jin to do so but the static noise of the walkie talkie interrupted him. “Boys! To your left now!” Sana said.
Beep. “Right now?”
Beep. “Yes, turn left Jer! Jin, place your hands into his shoulders, like a train that way I will guide him better and you will follow. Over”
“Ya how do I even know where he is…” Jin thought out loud; his hands coming forward to try and find Jeremy.
Beep. “A little forward!” Sana chuckled. “Up! Up! There you go!”
A few minutes had passed, the boys following Sana’s instructions until they reached the metal door once again. She was already there waiting for them but her voice sounded nothing like before.
“G-Guys we need to go” Sana said almost in tears. Jeremy quickly went towards her and gave her a side hug. Jin approaching her too but without knowing what to say or do.
“What happened?”
“The g-game master” she said pointing towards the screen room now completely empty, team 7 and 10 most probably long gone.
“What did he say?” Jeremy asked concerned. Jin’s face going from worried to confused in a small fraction of time.
“I-I” Sana tried but she was really struggling to say out loud what was bothering and disturbing her mind.
“Easy! Is ok” Jin gently rubbed her back. “Just tell us what is happening”
“The game master he- I think he is keeping someone captive” she blurted it out. Jeremy glanced over Jin who chuckled unsure about the whole situation.
“He probably has… It’s supposed to be a fun game after all” he told her gently. “We have a serial killer like Freddy chasing us and then we had the zombies… I mean, it’s scary but it’s the game-”
“No!” Sana interrupted him. “You guys are not understanding!!” she gasped and looked at them a little distressed. “He contacted me saying there was a traitor inside and I thought it was just another riddle but then- then I heard someone screaming for help!”
“Ya… That was just him trying to scary you” Jin shrugged and then looked at Jeremy who was lost in thoughts. “Right Jeremy?” Jin poked him.
“Yeah! Right”
“I’m telling you guys! It wasn’t for pretend, I swear!” Sana pleaded once again.
“Ok let’s do this” Jeremy paused; both Jin and Sana looking at him attentively. “Let’s go to wherever this next clue takes us and try to find other people? Let’s just finish this and see where this whole thing leads us, ok? It’s probably like Jin said, only a prank to scare you.” he finished. Sana wasn’t very convinced, she knew what she had heard, but she nodded and followed the two guys out of the cinematic department.
13
It took a good hour for Cole to find a way of getting out a room where someone trapped him, completely in the dark. Once he managed to break in the door he desperately yelled Asa’s name, his clothes were damped and he had to hold one of his arms (he injured it while trying to break the wooden door trapping him from the outside world). Asa who was almost losing hope, absolutely terrified, was quick to get up on his feet and yell back. It was a trick thing to try and find the other person in the dark, specially inside of what it felt like a cold and infinite labyrinth.
Asa pushed the metal door while offering some support to Cole that was visibly hurt and even the half light hurt their eyes when they passed through the way out.
“Hoseok??” Cole shouted. “Our walkie talkies jammed, man! Someone trapped us inside” they both walked towards the little screen room Hoseok was left in.
“Hobi?” Asa called.
The room was completely empty. No note, no walkie talkie, no backpack, no Hoseok.
“What the fuck?” Cole let out in a breathy way.
“He’s probably outside waiting for us dude, let’s just go there” Asa said and both turned around to get out.
“Oh! Asa!” Hyori’s voice shouted. Namjoon and Silvia right behind her as it seemed they had just arrived to complete the challenge.
“Hyo! Again!” Asa chuckled.
“Where’s Hobi?” she asked glancing over his shoulder.
“He’s probably outside!”
“What…?” Hyori asked weakly.
“What happened dude?” Namjoon pointed Cole’s arm with his chin.
“Me and Asa here were the one’s going down but we got trapped. I had to take a door down to get us out of there…” Cole answered. “Hoseok was supposed to be here but he’s probably outside”
“But there’s no one outside” Silvia stated confused.
“Where’s- Where’s Hobi?” Hyori was starting to panic. The way to the cinematic departement was spent by her and Namjoon talking about Carolina’s weird comments on the graveyard. They got genuinely spooked out and tried the walkie talkies, stating indeed there was something wrong with them. Now she was starting to think that wasn’t the only thing that was wrong.
The static noise that by now freaked everyone out interrupted Asa from saying whatever he was trying to say, his mouth opening and closing at Hyori’s question. “Tik tok players, find the last clue to save your buddy here- MHHnMPHHH HEL-” the beep cut the rest, but by the look on everyone’s faces, they knew it was help.
“Hobi-” Hyori gasped.
To be continued…
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so you’re an event coordinator
at least, an assistant event coordinator
your friend is the head coordinator and he was short one helper so he had you come down to help
basically, you and a few other people were coordinating this big party for a big company
known as none other than SM Ent.
you were hyped because it was 1) a halloween party and 2) you stanned a lot of SM idols
your friend, we’ll name him bob sungjin let you decorate the food table
only one other person was helping you with the table but you didn't know them that well
so it was really quiet
“try turning the bowl around. then people from across the room can see the better decorations in it.”
you thanked the person who you assumed was your partner before realizing
you partner is female
that voice came from a male
you looked up and practically jumped ten feet
“HoLy ShI--”
in front of you was someone you recognized quite well
you’re a fan of his and his members’ music after all
Kim Junmyeon stood in front of you, looking curiously at the decorations that covered the table
not to mention he was clad in a suit (Kingsman) with his hair slicked back, some stray strands hanging about his face
junmyeon in glasses tho
upon noticing your shock, Junmyeon smiled
“i couldn't recognize you. are you a new worker?”
you nodded, going back to decorating because you had no idea how to interact with an idol
your mind was straight up !!! but he looked tired enough so you stayed quiet
after a while of silence, you noticed he started walking away
wow you could breathe
you could hear your partner laughing to herself
probably bc she and the entire crew are pretty chill around SM idols since they work for them frequently
so you getting all flustered and awkward
is funny
mOviNg oN
okay so basically exo came early
smh their manager was misinformed abt the time
your friend was like
“oh okay, the more the merrier” and basically gave them jobs
they looked like they were used to his sudden demands bc they just complied
and wHoOp dE dO guess who was assigned to the food table
ya boy, junmyeon
and jongdae
anyway they were talking as they walked up to the table
you noticed from the corner of your eye
junmyeon sMiLeD at you
jongdae went over to help your partner and junmyeon went to help you
you noticed there was only like twenty min before everyone would start arriving so you worked faster
junmyeon was just following literally like :o because you were moving v fast yet everything still looked neat and presentable
aNyWaY after people started arriving you scoot scooted your way o u t
bUt your friend didn't let you leave since “it’s a party [Y/N], enjoy yourself”
“but--”
“we’re allowed to stay nOw gO hAvE fUn mY cHiLd”
so yeah
you glued yourself to the wall the entire night
because?? yeah no you weren't about to go party with idols
you were n o t ready for that
unbeknownst to you
a certain someone kept glancing over at you
heheh
after the party, the team was set to clean up too
so you did, walking around and picking up dropped balloons and streamers, etc.
while you were taking down a banner on some wobbly ladder, junmyeon walked over to your ladder and held it steady
you kind of just ignored him for the time being, too focused on taking down the banner without stabbing yourself with thumb tacks
but as you were climbing down, you smiled over at junmyeon
“thanks”
before walking away
junmyeon was just smiling to himself
he had been swarmed with fans, moreso lately, so it was refreshing to meet someone new who treated him like a regular person
yeah, your friend told him that you're a fan
after that, you were practically hired as a helper
you didn't mind, you didn't have much to do plus you got payed good money
that also meant that you saw idols quite often
eventually, they all became acquainted with you as they did with the other coordinators
especially junmyeon
you two talked casually at first
but then junmyeon asked for your number and boom instant daily talks
even if it was just ‘good night’
he found himself falling for you v fast
the way he asked you out was cute
he invited you over to the dorms while everyone was out for food or for schedules
you just agreed because it was your day off
plus hanging out with junmyeon made you happy
//v//
aNyWho
you two just watched movies for a while
you didn't even notice junmyeon getting closer and closer
until you literally felt his arm brushing against yours
your face went red but you didn't say anything
you even leaned into him subtly
while you kept your eyes on the movie, junmyeon kept glancing over at you
he was so n e r v o u s
eventually, the credits started rolling
and some cliche piano song accompanied with some good vocals started playing
junmyeon was a nervous wreck
but he was determined
he's been keeping in his feelings for several months now and you've even expressed some feelings for him
despite knowing that you may reciprocate his feelings, his heart still raced
so, he took in a deep breath and smiled at you once you looked at him
when you smiled back, he faltered a bit-- too amazed by your entire being
his complexion started to resemble that of a ripe apple
the red hues that painted themselves across his otherwise pale cheeks were painfully obvious
when he took hold of your hands, you noticed just how much he had been shaking
as he pulled you closer to him ever so gently, you could feel the thumping beat of his heart beat, it's song more addictive than any other you had heard before
he let out a nervous laugh, bowing his head slightly
you looked on expectantly, your own heart racing just as much as his was
junmyeon never failed to make you nervous, no matter what he was doing
“so, um…”
you were just smiling because of how adorably flustered he was
he couldn't even say what he had planned-- a lengthy bundle of sentences
he was distracted by your smile, which lead to him chuckling to himself as he buried his face in the crook of your neck
“you’re too cute, you know. it's impossible to focus.”
“what--”
he leaned back, tilting his head as he looked to you with an uneasy smile
“i really like you, [Y/N]. would you, perhaps, want to be my s/o?”
that took,,, 1.1k words to get to the actual point of this but okay
congrats, you're dating the parent of exo whoop whoop
you guys are that cute-weird type of couple
like, the best friend couple
he would be so gentlemanly and sweet with you
as in, his nicknames for you are the cheesiest things ever
if you like honey, he'll call you honey
if you like kiwis even, he'll call you kiwi
conversations sound p weird to other people hahah
but at the same time
you guys can be the strangest couple
you'll look at each other from across the room and start laughing
no explanation whatsoever
the boys get so confused
they will also come home to the two of you laying on the floor in the kitchen
flour and other ingredients everywhere
it's okay because you guys usually clean up after yourselves but
they never get any explanation for why you guys do are so extra
which is fine
you're literally his no. 1 supporter
and vice versa
you can literally be playing a videogame and he'll be cheering you on like mad
okay so
first ily
it happened like several months into the relationship
you both knew you loved each other but you didn't want to go too fast y’know
junmyeon’s an idol, and he has a super busy schedule, so he wants to make sure you're both in it for the long run before he says it
and you're willing to wait since he shows his love for you in other ways
like morning and good night texts
cuddles
cooking
etc.
when he first said it
he thought you were asleep
he had stayed over at your house on his day off because he missed you a lot
and you were on the verge of sleep when he suddenly turned over and brought you against his chest
“[Y/N]... you know, i’m falling in love with you. you're always there for me and--”
he pressed a fleeting kiss against your temple
“-- i appreciate you so much.”
you couldn't stop yourself from grinning, basically flipping him onto his back and koala hugging him
he was shocked because 1) you're awake and 2) you just fLiPpEd HiM
“i love and appreciate you too, jun, so much.”
after snapping out of his surprise
he just grinned ear to ear and cuddled with you for the rest of the night
*claps hands like hyuck at the end of his boy vid* now
your first kiss oo
i can imagine this happening relatively early on
like a couple of weeks into your relationship
it was nothing too heavy
just a simple and sweet kiss
bUt the mood was A+
basically, the boys invited you over to listen to a track they were unsure about
lucky you
and after you listened to it and gave them your opinion they literally just left
like
they didn't say anything
they just skrt skrted back to the practice room
only junmyeon stayed and you two ended up sitting on the couch they had in the recording room
junmyeon began fiddling with the equipment and eventually he had your favourite song playing
then, he leaned back and just hugged you
he had been really stressed that week and tbh all he wanted was to spend some time with you
you two kind of just sat in silence, listening to each other's heartbeats with your personal playlist playing in the background
he mumbled a little ‘i love you’ into your neck, completely content in the moment
ofc, you said it back
eventually, he leaned back and just looked at you
you raised a brow, not breaking the eye contact
without even realizing, he began to lean forward
you noticed before he did and came closer
you were the one who kissed him
the sight of your eyes fluttering closed was the last thing he saw before he let his close as well
like i said, it wasn't a long kiss
but it was really sweet and the both of you could feel your stress going away from just that
wow
i am getting v soft
okAy so
the two of you would end up adopting some sort of pet later on in your lives
something easy to take care of, since you both had quite demanding jobs
but it would be amazing for the two of you
o k a y
now the part that i've been dreading
fights
fights don't occur often and even when they do they're quite small
as in “i told you to clean your dishes but you didn't” etc.
but wow your first fight fight
basically, you hadn't heard much from junmyeon in a couple of weeks
he was on tour and when he wasn't on stage he was too tired to text or facetime
all you got were good morning and good night texts
which, at the time, you were okay with
that is
until a certain bundle of articles came out
‘EXO’s Junmyeon in a New Relationship?’
and within the article, the publisher talked about him and another idol; APink’s Chorong
your heart basically broke
he hadn't been talking to you much lately and with the photos provided by the article (allkpop smh)
you jumped to conclusions basically
you stopped replying to messages, didn't answer calls
you just felt empty, honestly
junmyeon, on the other hand
knew about the articles
they weren't at all true, but he guessed that you were acting the way you were because of them
he was a bit frustrated because you didn't trust him enough to know the articles were false
but truly, if he were in your shoes he'd probably feel the same
his frustration, however, was mostly because he couldn't go to you to explain
you weren't answering his messages so he had to wait until the tour was over to talk to you
which wasn't for another two weeks
by the time the two weeks were over, the two of you were miserable
you went through the day as you usually would, going to work, buying groceries, etc. but you felt dead tbh
junmyeon was the same
he wasn't used to the silence
even though he had his members and his fans to focus on
you were always in his thoughts
he was so worried that your relationship would end with the dumb article
so the moment exo landed he literally rushed to your house asap
you didn't bother checking who it was before opening the door
you were very quickly enveloped in a hug
“the articles, all of them, are fake. i would never cheat on you, [Y/N]. i'd be a fool to do so to someone i cherish with my entire being.”
him saying that, coupled with the feeling you had longed for-- being in his arms, was enough to bring you to tears
you had gotten quite insecure about the entire ordeal and him coming to your doorstep looking exhausted cleared your shrouded vision
slowly, you hugged him back.
wow
okay so not really a fight
just two weeks worth of silent treatment and tension
and tears--
but it was a serious moment in your relationship, and it made the two d you work on your overall trust
this totally didn't take me two days to do
jajsjsjsf anywhoodle
a relationship with junmyeon, overall, would be so nice
he cherishes you, and you would definitely feel that
so,
treat him well, and love him a lot
:)
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dunesand · 7 years ago
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christmas season is around the corner....but thanksgiving as well(however this holiday holds no meaning for me as i do not celebrate it and my country’s “thanksgiving” has passed..)
after all of the halloween adopts sell, i will some fun xmas themed adopts around the end of this month as well! or....do some of you want thanksgiving themed ones oh? for the xmas ones, i will do a fun surprise as well hehehe something like a mystery prize/box set sort of thing.
original adopts are also another thing that might come out again! what theme would you guys like to see for that? im always reading over your suggestions and i love all of it. ty all again for the support! 
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