THIRD PERSON
Isiah was on his way to work when a hand covered his mouth and was taken in an empty alley. He tried escaping, but the guy holding him was really really strong.
"Dude, don't move around too much," Jungkook complained, one huffed away from killing him. If only he wasn't needed for Mr. Goblin's and their Leader's experiment.
Tears formed from his eyes, scared that he won't be able to return home to his wife and kids. I'm sorry, love... were his last thoughts before passing out.
He woke up inside a plain white room with weird medical equipments inside, there were jars containing human organs and other organs who he doesn't know what kind of animal they took it from.
There was an odd green creature in a lab gown and embedded to the right side of it were letters he could not understand, but from the looks of it, he is a scientist.
"Yoo have yo eyez ohpen... human."
He froze on the bed when he sees that he's got three eyes, it was barely seen earlier, but he sees them now. Where is he? He doesn't know, all he knows is that he is in danger.
"Do- don't come... near me!" he yelled, trying to escape from the chains keeping him in place.
"Noo, I have to come and eggzpiriment on yo, human!" Mr. Goblin went to him and stabbed his stomach open using his own sharp violet nails. Isiah screamed in pain, his eyes almost bulging out of its sucket watching him open him up like some stuffed toy.
It hurts, and he was unable to scream because of the pain. His eyes were blurry, but he tried so hard to keep his eyes open. I have to get back to my family... my wife, my kids... they're- they're waiting for me to come home...
He couldn't.
Mr. Goblin experimented using his body and not long before, he grew four legs- more like, four tentacles and his wrinkly arms turned soft and slimy tentacles, too, but his right hand's ring finger remained. And a ring mark was embedded into it.
It was barely seen, but Mr. Goblin noticed. He eyed his experiment who now had one closed eyelid, and back to the ring finger inside the tentacle. "Yo maz love yo fing-er, human! Amezing!"
Months later, Jungkook and Taehyung knocked inside his office and came in Jungkook's hand were a plastic with hair inside.
"What hairz iz that?" he asks curiously.
Jungkook raised the plastic and stared at it, "oh.. this is from Jiyong."
Mr. Goblin's eyes, his three eyes, widened at the mere mention of Jiyong's name. "Jiyong? Oh noo, we have to tellz Readel!" he panicked.
"Mr. Goblin, relax! This hair was taken carefully." It was Taehyung's turn to explain to him. He calmed down only to panic once more.
"Whyz Jiyong hairz here?!"
"Mr. Goblin, don't worry. His hair is not going to magically turn into Jiyong, okay?" Taehyung pat his shoulder, his eyes twinkled and nodded his big wobbling green head.
"The Leader said you should use Jiyong's hair for experimentation." Jungkook added, he jerked his head towards the human experiment. "Good work on him, Mr. Goblin."
Mr. Goblin's shining eyes shined brighter in all the compliments he received and it came from the two of the many people precious to him, too!
And a pat to his shoulder counts as a compliment, too.
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The Leader Haseul, Yves, and Mr. Goblin is inside the glass tube where Isiah was resting in. The other gang members were outside, watching them.
Mr. Goblin woke him up and when his eye opened, he immediately attacked Haseul and left her bleeding while the gang members rushed inside to tend her. Haseul shakes her head and pointed to the door where Isiah escaped with.
Yves, who just stood there doing nothing was forced to follow him when the other gang members glared at her for not taking a good care for their Leader.
It wasn't like Haseul mind, though. She knew something was bugging Yves and was too drowned in her own thoughts to be wary of her surroundings.
Yves found Isiah crying.
He keeps mumbling something, but she could not make up the words for it. He's just there... crying and even he, himself, don't have any idea why.
Yves came back to their hideout without Isiah's head, and the history goes on with her being voted out of the gang. They couldn't kill her, however, because the rules about killing a gang member, even if they left, is forbidden. Unless, of course, if they cause harm to the gang and its members.
Yves made Isiah drink a magic potion which made him forget about all the sufferings he had gone through from the hands of Mr. Goblin and the gang members. Completely forgetting about Haseul's real identity as the gang's Leader.
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"You have Jiyong's power, but how...?" Mina asks, mostly to herself. "You can't have abilities, especially that you're neither a Dimirtian and a Fae, or even a Devil!"
Yves was speechless. She didn't know anything about Isiah being a possible Death holdwr, but he is! And she can't believe it either. She knew about Isiah being a human experiment and was turned into a creature fitting in their society, but this is wild.
Did Mr. Goblin miraculously turned him into a power holder? This question occured in both of Mina and Yves' mind. Of course, they didn't know. It was only Haseul and Mr. Goblin who knew about it. The main reason why Isiah must be executed, Jiyong is gone and somehow the Death power found its way back to a creature who had the same DNA as him.
Mina brought her katana back to its saya and back out of the place. Shit, Jennie is in danger! I have to tell the Leader.
She stopped abruptly when she sees Jennie up in the sky, in her usual disguise. She falls from the clouds and mumbled something to Mina that left her body trembling in fear.
"Haseul has my DNA, too, Mina. What'll all of you do now?"
When Mina recovered, Jennie was already gone. That bitch, I thought she was on our side! She planned this for sure!
Once Mina informed the others about this, Haseul was oddly calm, even if she is in the brink of death. The others were panicking, too. But they all waited for what their leader has to say.
"Leader?" Umji asks.
Haseul just nodded at them, a small smile on her lips.
"There's nothing to worry about, chances are; I won't die so easily because it will still be hard for Isiah to use his Death power, or- " Haseul pulled Jennie, who was already sitting by the corner, next to her- "... Jennie and I will find a way to kill Isiah."
Her smile dropped as she sighs out, once she's taken enough air inside her lungs, her eyes were sharp as she stared at her members one by one. "You all need to execute Yves."
The gang members all nodded before disappearing to their sight. They gave Jennie some nasty stares, though.
Jennie turns her head to Haseul who wore a worried look.
"Can't kill her?" she asks.
"Hmm... yeah, unfortunately. She was once a precious member, but she must be executed having disobeyed our rules."
"And it wasn't a problem before?" Jennie asks once more, just wanted to clear some things.
"Isiah wasn't a threat, then, and there's no rules about punishing those who disobey me. The members made it a huge deal, though." Haseul pulls out something from her pocket. "Can you sense where Isiah is?"
"Yeah." Jennie nods her head. "What's that, though?"
"Oh, this?" Haseul stared at the rusted chains. "Mr. Goblin's invention."
"He made it rusty?"
Haseul chuckled, shaking her head, "no, it is meant to stop a power wielder from using their abilities. It works on anyone, even on devils. It is hard to break, too."
"Mr. Goblin is surely a genius, huh?" Jennie mumbled, eyeing the chains Haseul's hand gripped tightly.
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"Isiah seems to part ways with the others, Haseul," Jennie informed. Jennie is not sure, but the hair on her nape always stood whenever she feels Jiyong's presence and it was the same when she first sees Isiah.
"But... I wonder why do you need to chain him when I could just kill him?"
"No, we can't kill him," Haseul denied. "He is an important creation of Mr. Goblin, and destroying Isiah is like disrespecting his creator."
Jennie just nods her head and lead the way. And I was thinking of killing her, too. If Isiah really has Jiyong's abilities and even DNA, it's possible that he'd be able to see glimpses of Jiyong's memory, with that... I'll be able to know what else my own Death power could do. The fate seems to be always on your side, Haseul.
It wasn't just fate, though.
Haseul had the same intentions like Jennie— she wants to know more about Jennie's Death power, too. She can just ask Mr. Goblin to make Jiyong's abilities recognize his DNA in Isiah, instantly.
She doesn't want the other gang members to know, though, because they're going to try and kill him, either way.
Jennie found Isiah crying.
She was a little surprised, but she tried not to make her presence known, seeing as he's getting his memories back slowly.
"Why weren't you trying to kill me? It's what you came here for, right?"
Jennie was surprised when Isiah turned to look into her eyes, shivers went up her spine when she saw Jiyong inside the orb of his eye.
She replaced her surprised look with a poker face and maneuvered towards him, "do you know that you have a very dangerous power?"
"I don't know, and even if I do, I would just kill myself already before I hurt anyone." Isiah stood up, brushing the tears that left from his only eye.
Jennie's eyes flared in anger, her hand immediately found its way into his neck, gripping it a little too tight, "you're not allowed to kill this body. You can't just kill Jiyong's DNA."
Isiah is scared, but it wasn't the way Jennie's eye turned red, it was because of that name. Jiyong? That Jiyong, huh?
He's heard that name before, he knew he was the scariest leader of the Dimirtians and is the most powerful power holder to have ever been known.
Haseul pulled Jennie away from Isiah, once Isiah sees her, something flashed from his mind. He kneeled to the ground, his hands gripping his head.
What is this?! What's that girl doing in my head? It hurts, it hurts, it hurts... Please, make it stop!
Jennie and Haseul froze when a black fog started surrounding the two of them, Jennie realizing what was about to happen immediately grabbed the chains from Haseul and locked both of Isiah's tentacle arms.
He was about to kill us, this guy... he's dangerous. Even more dangerous than Jiyong, because Jiyong can control his powers and can limit his usage of it.
As soon as the fogs around them cleared out, Jennie knocked Isiah out and carried him onto her shoulder. "Let's go, Haseul. Let's bring him to Mr. Goblin."
"Uh, oh... yes, yes!" Haseul was taken back to reality.
Haseul was so sure Isiah did it intentionally. And he made Haseul see the future that almost became their present, he made her see what's going to happen to her, including Jennie. Isiah... did he remember her?