Bound To You | vsoo

Chapter Twenty-Two

"LISA!" I called out.

The woman laughed as I glare at her. 

Energy crackled inside me. I felt incase in a tornado of heat, but the swirling power didn't seem to impress her. 

She put her palms about a foot apart. A ball of fire formed in the space between her hands.

"Irene! Don't!"

The shout came from above. 

A man dropped from the sky, landing beside the woman. I remember him. It was the dragon woman's brother from my first encounter. It was her sister that gave me her powers.

I shot fire blast at them and they avoided all of it. This made me more angry. Irene positioned herself to shot back but was stopped by the man.

"I said stop! Don't give her any blast. She'll just absorb it." He glared at me. "Her power is different from us."

"And what should I do, Jackson?" Irene scoffed. "Do a cat fight with her?"

"For fuck's sake! Irene!" Jackson roared and exhaled loudly, controlling his temper. "Let's just do what we did earlier and suck the remaining flame soul."

"No, I don't want to. That's too boring!" She flips her hair. "I want to play with her first then fucking suck the remaining flame soul of your beloved sister, Nayeon."

The remaining flame soul? That one that I gave to Jimin? This woman has the other half?

"Irene, please. We-"

"Nayeon? Was that her name? Your sister? Why did you kill her?" I glare at Jackson. My energy was still boiling inside of me.

Irene looked at me and smiled so evilly. "Why, you ask?"

She walk towards me. "Irene!" Jackson called her but she just continued going near. 

She went near my ear. Unafraid of our fire colliding. She went in for a whisper. I can feel I'm absorbing her fire but she didn't care.

"They killed her because I need her flame soul." I frowned at her answer.

She faced me. "You see, I was on the verge of dying. And they picked that goody-two shoes, Nayeon's flame soul to put into mine."

I looked at Jackson. His expression was blank. No remorse. His own sister? And for what? To fucking save this bitch!?

I gaped at her. This woman is psychotic. All of them! They obviously didn't value life. 

I was so mad, I tightened the grip to the point of cutting her circulation while sucking Nayeon's flame soul inside her. 

I need to get it, for Jimin's sake. 

This Irene bitch doesn't deserve to fucking live, anyway.

My energy grew bigger and bigger. As I was focused on sucking the life out of Irene, I didn't notice Jackson was already near me. 

He forcefully kicked my side, and I was instantly blasted in the air, releasing Irene who was now unconscious.

"Jisoo!" yelled a voice behind me. It was Namjoon. He was okay! I couldn't believe how relieved I felt. He helped me stood up.

I stared at Jackson. He was fuming in anger. His fire song sounded weird but I couldn't see his aura.

I heard someone yelling from the woods. It was Lisa. Running towards us. When she reached right in front, she faced Jackson. 

Her hand holding a wand were aimed, there was water sprouting in it. She released it towards Jackson and Irene. 

They were dripping wet. They were sputtered, Jackson was choking. They were both on the ground, as if defeated.

I guess Lisa was very pissed.

Namjoon punched the ground, the ground shook under their feet and split open. But before Namjoon completely closed to split ground back, Jackson turned back into a dragon and soared up.

He was forced to retreat. Alone. Leaving Irene buried in the ground.

As he floated higher and higher. The less chances we got. But the farther away he got to me, the better I felt. 

Jackson's presence was evil. 

That dragon- he felt dark and sinister. 

He is too clear and transparent to be seen that he had no such thing as a conscience and just lived at his own pleasure.

***

As we jumped down from Lisa's magic tree branch that serves as our ride to the compound. Namjoon took the lead and I hurriedly followed behind him. 

We entered a wide hallway and headed toward a set of dark wood doors at the end.

My heart hammered. Are they really safe? Does Mom and Dad reached here away from harm?

Namjoon opened the door. I saw at least five small cabins. We entered the middle house and I instantly saw my parents in the corner of the room. 

They both got up, their gazes showing relief.

I saw everyone inside. Jennie, Yoongi, Chaeyoung, Jungkook, Jin, Mrs. Kim and Taehyung.

Relief rushed through me, I stumbled down and the tears I'd managed to keeps flowing instantly. 

Taehyung run towards me. He kneeled down and cupped my face. His fingers caught my tears, and his gaze was filled with more than just relief. I saw love and longing. I cried harder.

He kissed me, not the gentle kind but a passionate one that stole my breath away. We parted and smiled at each other.

I looked at everyone. Namjoon and Lisa was already talking with the rest near a large sitting area. I figured they're talking about the incident that happened earlier.

Taehyung and I face my parents and his.

"Kim Taehyung, ma'am, sir. And this is my mother Kim Minyeon."

Taehyung stuck out his hand, which my mother took. "Kim Aera, and this is my husband, Kim Chung-ha." She smiled and shake hands with Taehyung's mother, too.

Dad shook hands with Taehyung. I could see that my father was sizing him up. My Dad was the strong, silent type. Taehyung must have met his approval. "Nice to meet you."

"You, too sir."

I smiled at what I was witnessing. This makes my heart leaped in happiness. I took a deep breath and made a small sniff, I'm tearing up again.

"Come on," Mrs. Kim said. "You must be exhausted."

She led us to a cozy sitting area. I sat down. Taehyung sat partially at the armrest and put his arm over my shoulder while I was leaning against him.

I knew my parents are probably wondering what was going on with me and Taehyung. So I told my parents everything that had happened ever since I set foot in Jeju. 

Even to the part, that just happened recently. How Jackson got away. He was a bigger problem. One that needed to be solved or we'll all pay the price- with our lives. 

Then, suddenly I remembered about how I obtained the other flame soul. I instantly stood up.

"Jimin!" I yelled. "Where is Jimin?!"

They all heard me and turned around.

"He's in the basement room," Chae answered.

"I got it," I stated, excitement was all over the tone of my voice. 

Chae then run towards me. Grabs both of my hand, her eyes gleaming over me. "You mean-"

I nodded a couple of time, smiling at her brightly. "I got the other flame soul."