"Mum, do we really need to go?", Yedam whined when he saw his mother pack another box of the Bang's families belonging into the back of the family car. "I am sorry, Yedam. I know leaving your friends behind like that isn't easy for you but it will be safer at the pack's house than here", Mrs. Bang explained.
"Mum is right, Yedam", Chan agreed with his mother while coming out of the front door of their family's home with another box. He had heard their little talk from the inside of the house.
The young male with the black hair sighed, seemingly feeling a little bit betrayed by his older brother because he apparently had thought Chan would have his back in this matter because leaving Yellow Wood meant for him being farer away from Byungho, his destined mate.
What Yedam didn't know was that Chan was indeed very emotionally conflicted about leaving Yellow Wood for the obvious reasons being his mate and his dear friends but his head won over his heart this time even though his wolf side was almost screaming for his mate at this point.
The fall of the barrier had been three days ago and a lot of families already moved away from Yellow Wood, especially the ones who had animal traits like most hybrids or couldn't hide what they were like demi-dragons, elves and alas. Chan had already discussed the topic of moving away from Yellow Wood for a better safety in the group chat with his friends yesterday.
It was a disaster in all honesty because Jisung and Changbin were moving to Transylvania in two days, Felix and Minho had already left for the sky clan territory yesterday. The Lee brothers moving to their parent's clan had been the reason they discussed the issue in the group chat in the first place since it was far away. Hyunjin, Jeongin, Byungho and Seungmin had said they would stay in Yellow Wood as far as they knew.
Minho and Jisung were the ones, who had barely wrote anything into the group chat and if you believed Felix and Changbin those two had been sitting depressed in some corner while the topic was being discussed. Jeongin had been the one, who had tried to cheer everyone up with the fact that they could still communicate with each other over Skype no matter how far away they were from each other. It worked but only partly because nothing could really lift the mood in that matter.
Chan let a little sigh escape his lips when he had gone back into the house to get the box from his room. He would dearly miss his friends, who would always tease each other or joke around, which would make him smile and he would especially miss Byungho. Damn the gods, he already missed the other's adorable laugh, beautiful smile, kissable lips.
The wolf hybrid shook his head before his mind went completely south and focused on the task at hand, which was getting the last box of his belongings into the family's car but he couldn't keep his mind from wandering back to Byungho. The older male wouldn't even be able to say goodbye to him personally because he was stuck at home.
Chan didn't blame Byungho's parents for keeping their son somewhere safe, which in the older's case was his family's home. He would probably do the same if he was a parent, which was also the reason he didn't give his mother a hard time unlike Yedam.
The wolf hybrid was just saddened by the thought that he couldn't hug Byungho goodbye, since he didn't know when he would see the other again.
Once more a sigh escaped Chan's lips when he entered his bedroom, which looked unnaturally tidy since his most important belongs, which were usually scattered around the place were packed into two boxes. One of the boxes was still in the room, placed on the ground at the foot of the wolf hybrid's bed, just waiting to be picked up.
While walking over to the box, Chan looked around his room once more. He wouldn't get to see it anytime soon, so he could at least memorize some details like the little dark blue star, which hung by the window as long as Chan could remember or the black ink scratches on his desk.
The wolf hybrid picked up the box and let his eyes wander around his room once more. He would surely miss it too. It held a lot of memories after all.
He shook his head, keeping himself from falling deeper into the memories playing themselves in his mind. Without further distractions the wolf hybrid left the room, closing the door behind him. He shouldn't get sentimental now or he would get ideas that he would surely regret later on.
In a rather fast pace Chan walked down the stairs. "I won't leave forever, therefore I should stop stressing about this", the wolf hybrid thought to himself. Of course he knew that the current situation of the supernatural world was bad but since the fall of the barrier there hasn't been one incident where humans were violent to a supernatural creature, which meant that maybe mankind didn't even notice a change. So maybe supernatural creatures and humans could just live beside each other peacefully this time.
Maybe that was far fetched but Chan really wanted supernatural creatures and humans to just coexist, to bury the hatchet along with the fear from centuries ago and just be like friendly neighbors. Some may say that it was just a dreamer's wish but Chan believed it could be reality if both sides showed acceptance and kindness towards the other.
While still thinking about this, Chan stepped out of the house. Even though his mind was elsewhere he was immediately knocked back into reality, when his nose picked up a very familiar scent. He almost dropped the box he was carrying when he saw Byungho standing in the front yard.
The older had his head turned towards Mrs. Bang since he was talking to her but Chan heard nothing besides his very loud heartbeat, who only got louder when Byungho turned his head towards him. His dark orbs as warm as always paired with one of his adorable smiles.
"Byungho", the older's name left the wolf hybrid's lips without him really realizing it. It caused Byungho's smile to widen a little bit.
"Hey Channie" he greeted the male with the silver hair by using the other's nickname. Chan set the box aside immediately and walked over to the older in a fast but not rushed pace. Without caring that Mrs. Bang along with Yedam were watching them Chan cupped Byungho's cheeks between his hands and kissed him without thinking much about it.
Almost automatically Byungho put his hands on his boyfriend's waist while responding to the kiss, which maybe made Yedam squeal quietly but even if he did neither Chan nor Byungho noticed it.
Their kiss didn't last long but it represented Chan and Byungho's relationship pretty well. They were good friends, who had a crush on each other for a long time and then turned to lovers, who cherished the other like no one else.
After pulling away from the kiss Chan wrapped his arms around the older's neck and just hugged him close without saying anything. Byungho understood that little untold message better than anyone, which was why his smile lessened a bit.
"I will miss you too", Byungho mumbled, letting his head rest on the other's shoulder while putting both arms around the wolf hybrid properly, so no space was left between them.
By the might of all gods Chan didn't want to ever let go of Byungho. Not as a lover, not as a friend and not as his mate. He didn't question why the older was even here. It was just a wonderful coincidence that he showed up here even though he wasn't allowed to leave his home in the current situation. He just wanted to freeze this moment and stay in it forever but he knew himself that it wasn't possible. Not now at least.
Chan slightly pulled away from the hug and Byungho didn't stop him. There was this mutual understanding that they had to let go of each other at some point.
"We will see each other again. Hopefully soon", Chan said to Byungho and partly to himself while he was looking into the older's dark eyes with the golden shimmer. The brown-haired male showed a little but warm smile which was a silent agreement. A little peck on the lips followed and then they fully pulled away from each other.
Mrs. Bang and Yedam had packed all the boxes into the car and locked the front door of the house in the meantime. They were just waiting for Chan to finish saying goodbye to Byungho. Chan saw his mother smile apologetically when his eyes met her. She probably felt a little bad to separate her eldest son from his mate.
"Come and visit us at the moon pack territory when you are able to, Byungho", Chan's mother said when Chan walked to the car. "I will", the brown-haired male with a little smile which was mirrored by Mrs. Bang.
The three wolf hybrid's bid their goodbyes to Byungho and then drove off. It was a simple goodbye, see you again soon but was it really?
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Byungho waved a little after the car of the Bang family before he walked back were he came from and that was the forest not far away from the Bang's house. This was especially strange because the Kim mansion was located in the opposite direction but the brown-haired male needed a place were he wasn't spotted that easily.
You see Byungho still wasn't allowed to leave the mansion but he went to Chan before he drove off to say goodbye, which meant he sneaked out of the mansion to do so. Did he get help by one of his brothers? No, he left without telling anyone. Not even Eve knew he was outside. But he just had to say goodbye to Chan.
While walking into the forest in a fast pace Byungho checked his surroundings multiple times because a part of him was afraid that someone could see how he got into the forest the first time and how he will get out of it.
He halted by a tree, leaning onto it a little while he checked his surroundings once more. No one seemed to be in sight. Byungho let out a sigh into the cold January air and shrugged off his coat, revealing a white top, which didn't cover the male's back.
Suddenly a little spell seemed to wear off. Something black and feathery blinked on Byungho's back. Shortly after that the spell had completely fallen, showing Byungho's gigantic pitch black wings to the world.
Byungho grimaced when he felt the weight of his wings on his back. He hated them because they showed that he was neither a demon nor an angel, they were the proof of his father's successful rebellion against the gods, as the devil himself claimed. These black wings were something that reminded Byungho of the things his mother gave up for him.
Today he had put them to use after a long time because even though he hated his wings, he liked, no, he loved Chan more. He had used them to get to the wolf hybrid quickly and efficiently, so he could say goodbye, without being noticed by anyone because while flying Byungho could make himself invisible and he didn't need to use magic for that.
Byungho lightly stretched his arms and wings, preparing himself for his next flight. He picked up his coat and looked up to the leafless branches of the trees. There was enough space for him to fly through, so he activated his invisibility and took himself to the skies with one strong swing of his wings.
Even though Byungho checked his surroundings carefully he still missed one attentive pair of eyes, which thought they had witnessed the transformation from a normal human into a winged beast.
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"Father, you won't believe what I just saw", a rather tall girl with black hair and eyes said after entering her home. Her tone wasn't excited or scared, it was more of a saying-the-facts kind of tone.
The girl's father, who sat at the little table in the open space living-dining-kitchen-room looked up from his newspaper to look at his daughter. "I can't say if I believe it or not if you don't give me further information, Lilian", he answered while he watched the girl speed walking to the bookshelves, which were pushed back on the wall on the opposite side of him.
Lilian took one specific old book out of the shelf and walked over to her father while already flipping through the pages in search of one specific chapter. "I saw a seemingly normal guy who turned into a class ten winged beast. Probably an angel", the girl told her father.
The man immediately put down his newspaper and walked over to his daughter, who now found the page she was searching for and put the book down onto the table. The page was filled with sketches of different angels, some of them came close to the paintings you saw in churches and some seemed more like horrific, winged beast than a human in white cloths and with wings. Beside the sketches were bits of informations written in an very old, dead languages but Lilian and her father could read it perfectly.
"Tell me about this angel", the father wanted to know everything about the creature his daughter saw. "He must have been a male judging by his looks, around 1.75 meters tall, broad shoulders, dark brown hair, pretty face. Like they wrote in the book the first word that came into my mind after noticing him was beautiful, he definitely has access to magic since he hide his wings perfectly but they weren't white or golden like the ones of a normal angel", Lilian trailed off a bit after the last statement. "Which color did they have then?", her father asked. He had turned his gaze away from the book and to his daughter, who seemed hesitant.
"They were pitch black", she said and met her father's gaze. The man hummed and turned away from her, so he could walk back to the bookshelf taking out another old book and going back to the table.
"How do you feel about your discovery, Lilian?", the man asked when he put down the book beside the other one. One hand laid on the cover of it making it impossible to read it's title.
The girl looked at opened page with the sketches of the angels on it. "I'm sorry I didn't believe in the family tradition and that I just ran off angered early today. I feel like destiny showed me, that I was wrong to not believe in the existence of supernatural beings with this strange male angel", Lilian said and took the violet stone, which was dangling around her neck into her hand. "I apologize for not believing in our family's history and for questioning my mother's legacy", the girl added with sincerity in her voice.
Her father looked at her with a proud glimmer in his eyes and took his hand of the book he had laid down on the table. The title that was written in the old, dead language could be translated to "mixed blooded creatures" and Lilian seemed a little surprised when she read it.
"I think", her father started and opened the book on a specific page, "that your black-winged angel is actually an offspring of an angel and a demon", he continued and pointed at a page with theories about angel-demon offsprings. There wasn't much written there but one theory stood out to Lilian.
Said theory made the suggestion that an angel-demon mix was neither welcomed in heaven nor in hell, so he walked around on earth with his black wings and both sets of powers, Light and Darkness.
"Father, we must begin to take action now. I thought the video of this news page that was released not long ago was fake and a joke but now I see that those creatures walk among us again and they still are too powerful for their own good", Lilian stated after she had read every bit of information on the page. Her father nodded in agreement.
"It's time to call some old friends and to bring all hunters of the supernaturals back to their old glory", he said.