Take Me to the Sky✔️

Chapter - 80

"I love you, Yoongi." I will be back.

"I love you too, Jungkook." I will wait for you.

Shana's appointed day arrived earlier than everyone expected, although it was not a surprise.

A week earlier they had received a message from Haneul saying that Lee had left a message for them on one of the shadow-infected edges. Lee wanted to end this tug of war once and for all, and what better way to do it than to start a war. He had stipulated the day and time, which matched Shana's prediction. No one had ever heard from her again, so they didn't know whether to take Lee's guidelines as a coincidence or as something they had already planned. In the end, that was not the important thing. They knew that once inside the tree, every dark fairy was their enemy, and the only way to get rid of them was to remove them from the map.

They knew that Lee's objective was to get to the heart of the tree, as it was the most important point, so the security of the place was increased by posting extra guardians and covering the area with different protections. The plan was to attack the infected points with speed and precision, as they were the doors that the dark fairies would use to enter. The tree itself was huge and imposing, but inside it was even bigger and more twisted. The infected areas comprised large areas, large enough for ten people to cover their extent and still not be found. On the one hand, it was dangerous to face so many dark fairies at once, but on the other hand, it saved them from dying unnecessarily.

Dark fairies had that ability to get into your head and make you see things that didn't really exist, and they were able to control your body. However, this applied to those people whose gems had previously been exposed to its power. Therefore, the only weapons the dark fairies would use against them would be their own bodies and their voice, which they could modulate to mimic whatever voice they desired. Because of this, the most sensible strategy was to communicate through the gems to prevent the fairies from using their voices against them and distracting them in combat.

"Isn't it strange that the time Lee chose was precisely the one that Shana gave us?" Jungkook asked out loud.

All had been divided into various groups, the size of which varied depending on the area assigned to them. Although the battle would take place inside the tree, it was easier for each group to enter through a different root, a door. Jungkook, along with five other people, including Hana, had already entered the tree and were finalizing the details before it was time to fight. They were in a kind of clearing under the shade of the trees. The interior of the tree was strikingly similar to any existing place on the planet. The fauna and flora were different, of course, but the layout was so similar that Jungkook had the feeling that he was still outside the tree. Ahead of them, a good few yards away, you could see the infected zone that had been assigned to them.

"I thought so too," said Hana next to him, her hair tied up in a bun and a serious expression, "but Haneul told me that the first time Lee attacked the tree, he had done it at that time. Fifteen minutes after everyone started their duties, the perfect time to have them all separated and carry out his attack without complications. Although they measure time differently here, the time indicated is the equivalent of the beginning of the day for fairies."

Jungkook nodded as he looked around. The others were sitting not far from them, some going over the plan of attack while others were trying to relax their nerves.

"Why are you so obsessed with this tree? He already destroyed it once, and Haneul said he was never interested in being a part of it."

"I am not really sure." The woman replied with a shrug. "Some say that the money tree I had set my sights on did not turn out to be as fruitful as I thought; Others say that the rebirth of the tree had enraged him, that he had taken it as a provocation; many claims that the new power of the tree was more attractive to him than money. At the end of the day, his main goal had always been to stand out, to defeat others by showing his power, whether with money or any other method."

"Personally, I think he is a very bad loser. He refuses to accept that something he despised is now more powerful than he ever imagined. I think all the theories are true. Someone like him cannot afford to fit into just one category. He wants to have it all, but he will keep nothing." Jungkook assured.

"We'll make sure that happens," Hana said with a smile that soon faded when she saw movement in the distance. "It's time guys, to your posts."

This story belongs to @nometoloko on AO3. I'm just her translator.

*Battle Music*