Chapter 12

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Hoseok showed Chorong around the kingdom while keeping himself unseen by palace guards. Jungkook, on the other hand, was not really much of an outside person especially when he's in his rabbit form next to Chorong and Hoseok.

Night already came and he decided to show her something beautiful. Hoseok slowly took Chorong's hand, "Chorong?" "Hm?" "I wanna show you something" he said as she brought her to the docks.

"Get on" he said motioning to the boat and Chorong did as told, Jungkook hopped on the boat with her. Her hair was braided so it isn't as long as it was before. Hoseok got on the boat with her and began rowing. Once they were far enough, Chorong asked "what did you want to show me?".

Hoseok smirked and held her shoulders then made her face the other way. Lanterns flew in the air, the lit up brightly like stars. All the lanterns flew around them that the scenery looked so beautiful. Chorong was at awe but Hoseok was at awe with how she looked.

Jungkook was not really enjoying much of the scenery since he was too busy watching someone else to notice something so obvious. Hoseok's hand reached Chorong's chin as he made her face him and their faces grew closer and closer until they kissed.

Jungkook looked away from the two 'love birds' and looked around at the lanterns, being a bunny was not that enjoyable.

They pulled apart and they looked into each other's eyes. Chorong smiled a bit and Hoseok did the same. When he was about to say something, they heard two voices shout "It's prince Hoseok!" "after him!".

Hoseok rowed the boat again to the opposite side of the island where no one would find them. The boat stopped on land and all of them ,even the bunny, got off the boat. Hoseok helped Chorong off the boat but she tripped a bit making Hoseok catch her by the waist.

They both smiled and she said "sorry, I'm a bit clumsy". She got back on her feet then someone grabbed Hoseok and put a knife around his neck. "Hoseok!" Chorong shouted. "Now, what did I tell you about not leaving the tower!" said the person who had grabbed Hoseok.

"Mother?" Chorong said. "Oh Rapunzel-" the mother began "Don't you Rapunzel me mother, or should I even call you that?" Chorong was beginning to burst. Mother Gothel's face darkened as she hit Hoseok's head with a rock and he fell to the ground unconscious.

"Hoseok!-" "don't go near him, look at what he's done to you, you are not my Rapunzel" said Mother Gothel trying to guilt trip Chorong. "I'm sure you know very well that my name is not Rapunzel" Chorong glared at Mother Gothel. "We'll talk about this back at the tower" Gothel grabbed Chorong's wrist and dragged her all the way back to the tower.

Jungkook was left with an unconscious Hoseok, "what am I supposed to do now?" Jungkook wondered. He turned back into a human and tried waking Hoseok up. When Jungkook heard shouting "find prince Hoseok! The king is demanding it!". Jungkook turned back into a bunny and sat by Hoseok's arm still trying to wake him up.

"Come on Come on Come on" Jungkook kept shaking Hoseok with his tiny paws but it was useless, the guards had already seen Hoseok. "There he is!" the guards took him and Jungkook did his best to follow them.

The guards threw Hoseok in a cell then he finally woke up, Jungkook hopped through the bars and said "Hoseok!". Hoseok looked around "where am I? Who am I? Where's Chorong?" Jungkook waved his tiny arms.

Hoseok looked at Jungkook "oh look a bunny, hey little guy-" Jungkook slapped the hand away and began to speak. "Hoseok" he said, Hoseok raised his eyebrows "Jungkook? Why are you here?". Jungkook shook his head, "no time to explain, go save Chorong! She's back at her tower! You need to escape".

"How? It will take too long!" Hoseok said, Jungkook smirked "not when I'm your friend". He snapped his fingers and they appeared at the the bottom of the tower. Hoseok immediately yelled "Chorong! Chorong!" but there was no response, he then remembered what her mother calls her. "Rapunzel let down your hair!" he shouted and her hair came out the window then down to him.

He began climbing her hair until he reached the top. "Chorong!" he excitedly looked around then when he saw her tied up, he got stabbed in the back. "Hoseok!" Chorong shouted through the cloth tied around her mouth.

Gothel took the knife out of him, Chorong was able to get the cloth out of mouth and said "Mother! Let me go!". "No, look watch let's watch him die together" Gothel smirked "let me heal him!" Chorong yelled. "No" Gothel strictly said. "If you let me heal him, I will never leave the tower ever again, I will love you like a good daughter would, just let me heal him" she begged.

Gothel let Chorong go and she ran to Hoseok, "don't do this Chorong" he said but Chorong tried to ignore him. Hoseok didn't want her to heal him so he grabbed the knife of Gothel that was on the ground and cut her hair. "Hoseok!" she gasped and Gothel yelled "What did you do?!" she then suddenly turned into dust.

Chorong cried and cried as she watched her hair ,the one thing that could've saved Hoseok, turn brown and powerless. She let her tears fall on him but her hair was not needed, her tears were enough. His wound got smaller and smaller until it was gone, his eyes slowly opened and he said "you look pretty with short hair".

Chorong smiled and hugged him, he pulled her closer for a kiss. Chorong opened her eyes and found herself with Jungkook ,again.

"Seriously?! I just witnessed Hoseok die then live right in front of my eyes and you won't let me stay with him even after the kiss?!" Chorong complained with some remains of the tears still on her cheeks.

Jungkook sighed "Moonbin! Where are you!? Come make Chorong be quiet for me!". Moonbin came out of his room and dragged Chorong back to her room. "So how was your day noona?" Moonbin lazily asked. "Moonbin, we were out for an entire day, were you just sleeping all that time?" Chorong asked.

Moonbin shook his head "no, I woke up for breakfast then slept then woke up for lunch and slept then well, I'm sure hyung is busy making dinner so I woke up for dinner. Never mind me, how was the rapunzel thing?". Chorong groaned and told him the entire story, after that, she fell face-flat on her bed.

"Noona, every story has an ending and there's nothing we can do about it" Moonbin said, Chorong sighed then they heard a banging on a door.

Jungkook came in the room and whispered "you two be quiet, don't make any sound and stay in this room, follow my orders". He closed the door and locked both of them inside. Moonbin and Chorong's eyes widened as they put their ears against the door.

They heard a female voice "are you sure you have not seen any maiden not from any story?" her voice was strict and sounded powerful. "No your majesty, I have not seen any" answered Jungkook's voice. "Search the rooms" said the female voice then they heard someone snap their fingers.

Doors began being slammed open and the door slamming got louder and closer. Moonbin and Chorong's hearts began to pound louder and louder. Until their door opened, a large man was holding the door and shouted "All the rooms are empty!".

The queen and Jungkook calmly walked to the room of Chorong and saw no one there. The queen bowed to Jungkook "my apologies mr. rabbit for interrupting you". Jungkook nodded "apology accepted Queen Irene". The queen exited his house and once she was far enough, he ran back to Chorong's room and whispered "guys, coast is clear now".

Moonbin came out under Chorong's bed and Chorong went out of her closet, "who was that? The queen?" Chorong asked. "Why do we have to hide from her? Did we do something wrong?" Moonbin asked. Jungkook sighed "yes that was the queen, you need to hide from her because I said so, she might not like what we're doing".

"What do you mean by what we're doing?" Chorong asked. "I don't think she likes the idea of you replacing all the maidens in every story" said Jungkook.

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