Trigger warning;
You're all going to kill me :)
It started off subtly.
Students, making sure to stick to their groups of four or eight, reported to the guards that they kept seeing shadows moving across the walls and on the floor underneath their feet; skidding about like snakes. All of these said shadows showing eyes but no other feature, cocking their head to the side before disappearing from their view.
That wasn't what told them the fight was starting, though, the thing that explained that for them was when creatures materialized inside of the academy, bigger than what they were before and even more horrifying.
The first scream was heard on the first floor in the west wing, fighting breaking out soon after as more and more kept appearing.
This time, all of these creatures had that inky black on them, it didn't matter what element it was, and they were more ferocious, going after with the intention to kill and not stopping until they've done it. Until they saw a corpse on the ground.
It was clear that they moved like shadows, as they moved in and out of vision, appearing and disappearing easily. Though, they could see now these things could turn into the shadows, going in the ground, and appear out of nowhere to attack.
NamJoon was the one who realized the sun, at the moment, was at it's highest and strongest, which made it a hundred times easier for the shadows to move. Which meant who ever was controlling these things knew that too.
They all ran outside, desperate for the room to run and fight, allowing their abilities to go into their full potential.
"Destroy parts of the academy if you need to, but goddamn it protect yourselves!" Akida had announced, the message moving across the academy and reaching every elementals ears.
Jungkook smirked as he eyed one of the creatures, "Don't mind if I do," he had muttered, using his whisp to wrap around the earth soldiers makeshift throat, his eyes showed their oceanic blue as he avoided the sword it was thrashing around.
Hoseok finished the job by clapping his hands together and causing a line of fire to go through the creature, and the floor of the academy, which caused it to break apart. Siliya separated the pieces and Taehyung crushed them while reverting them back into the earth they came from.
They smiled at each other, proud of themselves at the fact they actually did that. Though those smiles evaporated from their faces as they heard screams coming from different parts of the academy and outside, this pushing their feet to move before their minds could truly process the fact they were running outside.
And boy were they surprised by what they saw.
Riko was hovering above a hoard of wind soldiers, a sick smirk on his face. These wind creatures were like storm clouds, black ink dripping off of them as they whirred in place, and if there was an expression on their morphed faces it wouldn't be a pretty one.
At this point, almost everyone was outside, including the marshalles, Malchin, and Akida. All of their eyes wide and all of them stuck in place.
Though that wasn't the part that shocked them, it was the fact all the frost soldiers stopped attacking others as they walked over to someone and stopped in front of them, they didn't attack, just stayed unmoving. The closest ones to this person going down in a bowing position.
Everything was still, silent, frozen in place.
Hayoon closed her eyes as she inhaled a deep breath, they had all stopped in front of her, bowed in front of her.
Taehyung had to resist the urge to scream 'I KNEW IT!' as he watched near his other friends.
"You've gotten soft, Hayoon, you know she doesn't like that." Riko stated with a smirk and crossed arms, staring into the female who was now glaring at him with tears pricking her slowly morphing eyes as she clenched her fists.
Everyone was silent, unaware of what to say, everything was just still, too still. None of the other creatures were attacking, no one was speaking.
Songhee walked slowly to Hayoon, away from her friends, "H-hayoon?" she didn't want to be right, she hated the fact her suspicions were for good reason and weren't just her mind clouding her with doubts.
Hayoon was one of the bad guys.
Hayoon looked over at Songhee, a pitiful expression painted on her face as he eyes watered, "I'm sorry, Songhee." her voice was soft, sad, though right after she said them she ran off into the woods, Riko following behind her, and as they ran their soldiers attacked, everything going back into the chaos they've become acquainted with.
Songhee ran after her, despite the others telling her to let her go, she couldn't. She wanted answers! Was their love a lie? Was everything they did just to manipulate Songhee into letting her in? Into trusting her?
But, when she ran into the woods, she saw no sign of Hayoon, no sign of Riko, no sign of the girl she opened her heart too.
The girl she trusted to hold her heart and not break it.
Though, Hayoon was gone, and so was the happiness Songhee felt when she was with her.
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Fighting for their lives was something the students were all becoming extremely familiar with, to the point, most of them weren't even surprised anymore as they used their abilities to the fullest.
Though their lack of surprise to the situation didn't mean they weren't afraid.
Fighting these things didn't get any easier, despite the encounters they've had with them. Despite how much they've seen them.
And seeing the ones you love die in front of you, even the thought of that happening, caused fear within anybody.
Yoongi's muscles ached as his eyes went back to brown, the frost creature he and SeokJin had just destroyed melting into the ground at Yoongi's command, the fighting had broke out and it wasn't any easier than the other times.
A scream a bit farther away from Yoongi caught his attention, his gaze turning to the source.
Never in a million years did he expect to have come from Hoseok, two swords going through his lovers body, one a fire soldiers, and the other an earth soldiers coated in that inky poison, both going straight through him as Hoseok stared at the sky and fell to the ground as they were pulled out.
"HOSEOK!" Yoongi's scream was powerful enough to break both soldiers without trouble, his legs moving for him as he ran to his shadow soulmate, who was on the ground shaking as he tried to hold his bleeding wounds; others around him paralyzed in their places.
Yoongi took Hoseok in his arms, holding his lover as tears ran down his cheeks, "Hoseok, Seok, baby, talk to me," Yoongi pleaded, running his hand through Hoseok's hair as he tried to apply more pressure to the wounds. He didn't care about the fire and frost rumor, didn't care for the fact everyone could see him, a frost elemental who wielded pure ice, holding Hoseok, a fire elemental who wielded normal fire.
Hoseok's breath was labored, blood already pooling in his mouth, his eyes making contact with Yoongi's, "Y-yoongi-" he tried, only to wince from the pain.
Yoongi quickly shook his head, tears running down his face at a rapid pace as he tried to blink them away, "N-no don't talk, don't talk, you're going to be okay, I-"
Hoseok grabbed Yoongi's hand with his own bloody ones, using the energy he had left to hold his lovers hands, to interlock their fingers, for what he knew would probably be the last time, "Y-you..you'll be o-okay...I-i love y..you-" Yoongi sobbed out from Hoseok's words, holding Hoseok's hands tightly as Hoseok tried to smile for him, even in the state he was in.
"Stop! Stop it! P-please!" he screamed over and over, crying even harder when he felt Hoseok's hands go limp in his own and felt his soulmate take his last breath in his arms.
Yoongi screamed out in pain as he held Hoseok's dead body in his arms, begging and begging for something, anyone, to bring him back; for this all to be one awful nightmare. For Hoseok to wake up and look at him, to hug him and see him smile.
Spikes of ice were forming around Yoongi as he held his dead lover, preventing any of those soldiers from going near him, the temperature dropping around the entire academy, and field everyone else was fighting on, all from Yoongi's pain of losing Hoseok.
All from the pain of holding his dead shadow soulmate.
DOUBLE UPDATE