Dancing with the Devil | Monsta X

Act I: Underwater

Glass everywhere. The smell of smoke filling my lungs. Blood soaking through the thickness of my clothing. Two unconscious people in the front seats. I open the door and start to crawl out of what can be my death. Using all of what might be my final strength to get out, my vision becomes blurry the more I move. Why? Why today..? Only a few minutes ago, my friends were walking me to the car to wish me well after a day of hanging out. Shownu. Wonho. Minhyuk. Kihyun. Jooheon. Changkyun. The sound of sirens get closer but more faint after finally getting out of the car, laying on my back as I try to gasp for air. Everything around me is going dark as the nearby sirens get more and more faint. If I knew this was the last time I was going to see them, I would've asked Changkyun to take my crown as king.

Beep... Beep... Beep... Beep...

I slowly open my eyes, trying to adjust to the dim lighting of god knows where I am. I start to look around, slowly realizing where I am.

"Guys! Hyungwon is awake!"

That voice.. Kihyun?

"Hyungwon!"

I look to my right to see all 6 of my friends, who are now surrounding my bed. I open my mouth as I weakly let out a few words. "I-Im not d-dead yet, am I-I..?"

Changkyun, who's standing directly in front of me, moves a few stray hairs from his face, his deep husky voice filling the room, "My tarot cards said in your life,you'll experience wealth and death but your final card isn't ready to take your life yet, Pride."

"I see.." I take another brief look around the room, "Where's my parents?"

There was nothing but silence that filled the room, no one wanted to speak up.

"Where are my parents?" I sit up, slowly getting ready to get out of my hospital bed.

"Hyungwon, please, just-" Shownu started speaking but I cut him off, irritated that no one is telling me about my parents.

"Get out my way, Wrath.." I pull an IV out of my arm, getting off the bed and shoving past Shownu.

"Hyungwon, please lay back down-"

I push Minhyuk out of the way as I walk out the room, seeing two police officers standing at the reception desk only a few doors away from my room. Hopefully they didn't hear us calling each other by our sins. They turn their heads in my direction after hearing my bare feet hit the ground, they tell me to stop moving as they walk over to me.

"Hello Mr.Chae. You shouldn't be up and walking, you're still recovering."

"Where are my parents? A-Are they okay?"

The other police offer sighs as he takes his hat off, "Mr.Chae, we hate to have you wake up to this, but... unfortunately your parents didn't make it. They died on scene. We are sorry for your loss..."

The both of them bow real quick before walking away, leaving me standing in the middle of the hallway by myself.

"..." I was at a loss for words. My parents. How. I back into a wall trying to process that the fact the only 2 people who loved me for I am had died and I survived. I slide down the wall, being caught by a chair I didn't even know that was there. A stream of tears start falling down my face as I lay my head against the wall. "I-Im so sorry.."

- A few weeks later -

I look out the balcony window while I sit in a chair not far from it, the wind blowing against the faint see through white curtains. The empty house I continue to live in, the sound of ticking clocks being the only noise to be heard around the house.