They stayed for two days, catching up on sleep and eating properly after almost a week of not doing so.
On Hoseok's body were multiple lines, they didn't look like cuts, just scars that almost blended in with his skin. Dion told them it was because he's been fighting internally with the Phoenix, since the balance is not awake Hoseok himself has to fight against the creature inside of him to keep the Phoenix from killing the witches trying to help them.
Hence, causing the lines to appear all over his body.
Dion has been sleeping in Fera's room for the time being, which was no surprise to the others, though it did make them gag a little when they saw the, not so subtle, hickey's. Which both of them had.
Fera's been wearing more turtle necks than usual.
While Dion didn't care.
The new Chancellor had made an announcement the day after the dome was built, telling the students everything that was going on and everything they knew as of now. She made sure to tell them not to go past the dome or their would be fatal consequences if that witch returned and they didn't have the form of protection.
After she did, everything went back to the new normal they've gotten used too.
They had formed a plan for when they went back to Caroban, since they had to go back.
Despite how much they wanted to stay in Initia.
When they went back Soyeon would have to create a coven of her own, of course it wouldn't compare to Jiwoo's, but it would be something they're not expecting. Young witches have power older witches don't, sure, the older ones have experience and have had time to perfect their craft, but younger witches have fresh power, power that could come close to theirs if trained properly.
Dion wouldn't be apart of the coven because his power is too strong of an imbalance, since when witches join a coven the others can rely on their power if needed; they can help each other much easier than if they were fighting side by side and not as a unit.
Dion would help in the fight, and he'd also help train the witches and warlocks Soyeon decides to recruit in this fight.
Which they all knew wouldn't be pretty.
On top of having a coven that Soyeon will lead, they will have the support of an army of elementals from Malchin, who had stopped by the Academy while they were making the plan. Though they knew they still needed two things if they even wanted a chance to beat Jiwoo.
One; they needed to find out how to kill her permanently.
Immortal witches can't just be burned or stabbed to death, since it was hard to get close to them and there is a chance they'd survive. They have been around for an extremely long time after all.
Second; they needed to wake up the OneeOnia.
Which would require killing Yoongi and bringing him back to life the natural way, there was no way around that.
This scared the others since they'd have to kill Yoongi on purpose.
Yoongi acted like it didn't bother him when it was mentioned, but Hoseok, Songhee, and Jungkook could see right past that act of his.
They knew he was scared.
The OneeOnia was an unpredictable creature, and there is a chance that they could kill Yoongi and do everything right to bring him back, but the Onee wouldn't show.
They just all hoped she'd use her vessel and not leave it to die.
"Why are you calling us here? Didn't we already make the plan when we get back to Caroban?" SeokJin inquired when he noticed Fera, Dion, NamJoon, Jimin, Yoongi, Jungkook, Songhee, Hayoon, Donghan, Jeongyeon, Soyeon, and Lolie in the combatant room they had already formed the plan in before.
Plus, Dion made it clear not to bring Taehyung or Hoseok.
"You're not going to like what i'm going to tell you or have you do," when he said this, he looked at SeokJin, Jungkook, Jimin, and Yoongi, which caused the four to stir as they urged him to continue, "before we go back to Caroban tonight, I need you to put Taehyung and Hoseok to sleep."
All of their eyes automatically widened, all of them talking at once and not allowing Dion to get a word in as they all began freaking out.
"HEY!" Fera screamed over them, fire emitting near the ceiling, which made them all shut up quickly, "listen and stop freaking out."
"If Fera is our fire momma, is Dion our warlock dada since they're together?" Jungkook suddenly inquired, trying to joke around to calm the nerves in his body.
The rest looked at him disgusted, especially Dion, "never say that again," Soyeon advised, looking away and fake gagging for a second, which caused them all to laugh.
"Anyways," Dion began, a chuckle escaping his lips when Fera interlocked their fingers, "we're going to be around witches and warlocks for the next couple weeks, Hoseok is already fighting the Phoenix when he's around Soyeon, me, and Lolie, imagine when he's around a coven of witches. Him internally fighting the Phoenix is extremely dangerous and could lead to his death, so, the best thing we can do is put him to sleep while we get the coven ready. Once we wake up the Onee, he'll wake up by himself because the Phoenix will sense the fact the Onee is awake. Then, and only then, can we speak to the creatures inside of both of them to try and tell them we're on their side."
"What do you mean by talk to them?" Yoongi inquired, his heart hammering in his chest. He knew it was going to hurt him to put Hoseok, his shadow soulmate, to sleep, even if it was for a short amount of time and for his health.
Soyeon responded to his question, "When the Phoenix and OneeOnia are both awake in their vessels, we have the ability to speak to them by the vessels letting them have control. Though we can only do it when both of them are awake in their vessels and bonded together; after that you guys won't have to fight them inside yourself. The Phoenix and Onee in you both are traumatized by what witches did to them 1000 years ago, they want revenge, and rightfully so." she explained, the rest nodding since they understood her and got what she meant.
After all this time, not much surprised them anymore.
"I understand why we have to put Hoseok to sleep," SeokJin began, looking at Dion with eyes that screamed sadness and confusion, "but why Tae?"
Dion licked his lip, leaning against the table, something he did whenever he got serious, "Taehyung had Jiwoo's essence in him, we just need to put him to sleep to cleanse his blood like Somin said. He most likely won't have to be asleep as long at Hoseok."
Seokjin and Jungkook nodded, both feeling a sense of sadness at the fact their boyfriend had to go through this.
While Jimin was downright devastated, he asked Dion, "Will it affect me? Since we're sun souls."
Dion shook his head, standing up straight and crossing his arms over his chest, "I'll make sure it doesn't."
When everything went silent, more like everyone, Dion began explaining how they were going to do it, "I already have the liquid ready, I made it last night because I knew we were leaving tonight-" Soyeon brought it out while Dion was taking, also taking out two syringes to fill with the liquid, all of them shuddering when they saw the needle, "they can't know what you're doing."
"Why?"
"Hoseok can't because the Phoenix will fight against it, he's going to be getting a higher dosage which is mainly aimed towards the Phoenix. Yoongi," he looked at the younger, who had a distressed look on his face, "it needs to go in his neck and you need to push all of it in, not just some, if you don't the Phoenix will take over his body and it won't be pretty."
"I would be fine though, wouldn't the Onee put him to sleep?" Yoongi inquired, Dion nodding.
"I just want to avoid that," Dion explained shortly, Yoongi nodding as Soyeon handed him the syringe with the weird looking tan liquid, "with Tae-" his gaze moved to Jimin, "I want Jimin to do it, not because I don't trust you guys-" he looked at SeokJin and Jungkook briefly, "but because Jimin is his sun soul it won't be as... painful emotionally. For you, preferably his shoulder blade where the scar is, he doesn't get as much as Hoseok but make sure to do it all. Once you guys do it, we'll leave to my home in the woods, where they will stay-"
"AND I WILL WATCH THEM WITH MY SOUP!" Lolie proclaimed with a smile that made her eyes shut, the others looking at Dion with worry.
Dion laughed, "She may be cooky, but she's protective and won't let anything happen to them, you have my word on that." he assured them, which had them sighing out of relief.
Fera clapped, grabbing all their attention, "Go do it now, in a room preferably, find us when it's done; we'll be here."
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Yoongi walked to Hoseok's dorm room with a heavy heart, his eyes already watering as he came closer and closer to said area.
He honestly didn't want to do this to Hoseok, but he knew it would be better for him instead of him constantly fighting with himself everyday.
He knocked on the door, the syringe in his jacket pocket, that was thankfully deep enough to hold it, as he took a deep breath; placing a small smile on his face to hide his true emotions.
Hoseok opened the door, smiling like he always was, "Hi, baby, where were you?" he inquired as he let Yoongi in, the elder humming.
He tried to act as normal as possible, which wasn't difficult for him since he was good at pretending.
"With Songhee, she was talking to me about Hayoon," he responded, Hoseok making a 'yikes' expression before walking over to his boyfriend.
"Was it bad?"
Yoongi laughed, wrapping his arms around Hoseok's neck as Hoseok wrapped his arms around Yoongi's waist, "Not as bad as I expected."
Hoseok hummed, pressing his lips against Yoongi's as he held him close. They always kissed whenever they saw each other, since they could do anything else.
As they kissed, Yoongi reached into his pocket, opening his eyes as he stuck the needle in Hoseok's neck just as Dion directed.
Hoseok pulled away abruptly, staring at Yoongi with wide eyes, Yoongi pushed all the liquid into his neck before dropping the syringe and holding the writhing Hoseok close to his chest. The younger staring at him, not able to speak, but even if he was, not knowing what to say.
His eyes morphed into the Phoenix version, but it quickly morphed back to normal since the liquid was kicking in.
"I'm so so sorry, baby," Yoongi whispered as Hoseok's eyes finally shut on him and he went limp in his arms, his breathing slowing down, the liquid acting as quick as Dion predicted.
Yoongi let his tears fall, this all reminding him of when he held Hoseok in his arms while the younger was dying.
Though, this time Hoseok was breathing and he was just asleep.
For who knows how long.
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"Minnie, do you think I should bring this with me back to Caroban?" Taehyung inquired as Jimin walked into the room, the guilt written in his expression completely missed by Taehyung.
Jimin tried to smile, but couldn't as he walked over to the earth elemental.
Taehyung looked over at Jimin when he didn't respond, "Minnie, are you okay?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.
Jimin shook his head as he hugged Taehyung close to him, Tae holding him tight and asking what's wrong, or what happened to make his sun soul feel this way. He was worried and it was obvious by his actions and words.
"I'm sorry, Tae," Jimin whispered into his ear before sticking the needle in his back, Tae screaming at the action and trying to let go, but Jimin held him in place as pushed the tan liquid inside of his best friend.
When it was gone he took the syringe out and crouched down on the floor with Taehyung, more like fell with him, the younger not speaking as the liquid took it's affect on him.
"I'm so sorry," Jimin cried, holding Taehyung close, "I love you," he told him, Taehyung's eyes finally closing and his breathing slowing down as he went limp, just like Hoseok.
Both the Phoenix and the corrupted earth elemental now asleep.
a/n
Yeah so I came out with a new book?
Teehee