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~ Author's POV ~

But suddenly a loud voice pierced through the silent canopies.

" AYO HOES , LEAVING WITHOUT MEETING ME? "

Jungkook along with the soldiers and Jin, snapped their heads back to the direction of the voice only to find you sitting on Jin's Royal horse a little 200 metres away with a cunning smug adorning on your face.

' Dang ! My saviour! Yoon shijin!!!'Jungkook thought, smiling, when he found your eyes already looking at his. You smiled back and sassily wink at him, as if saying 'don't worry I'm here'. Something in his chest fluttered again. What?

" waah, What's that lady? Dayum! She's hot." Chick Jimin tapped his claws on jungkook's head making him frown and over his shoulder. " Pfft, Utter any kind of bullshit again and I'd throw you in the water. I'm not even kidding."

" Oouu, you being possesiv-"" Park Jimin! "" Yes! Highness! " And he shuts up.

Jin's eyebrows wrinkled as he looks closely at you. " WOA WOA, NICE HORSE GENERAL! " You shout again whilst patting at the horse's neck, holding his leash tightly.

His eyes widened at your next action. You slightly bend towards the right from atop of the horse's back to peek into the pockets of its royal clothing. You smirk catching a glimpse of a shimmering thing, it's tittle but Jin's reaction tells it all how precious it is.

You wave it in the air. Jin stepped forward " WOMAN, I DON'T CARE WHOEVER YOU ARE, BUT IT'S BETTER IF YOU BACK OFF. WE'RE NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN UNDERSTAND, EVEN THOUGH ANYONE WHO ENCOUNTERS THE IMMORTALS IS UNFORTUNATELY KILLED BUT I'D LET YOU GO IF YOU RETURN BACK THE HORSE. IT'S IMPORTANT." He shouted back with the same blank expressions.

You sneakily avert your gaze back to jungkook, talking to him with your eyes in the hope that he might get your message.

Yes, you've basically diverted everyone's attention on you so jungkook could freaking think of something but his dumbass is just witnessing everything like a mindless idiot. Not to forget he calls himself a god, and a demon, and prince too. So useless.

But thankfully you see him clicking his tongue on his cheek before curving his defined lips up." OOPS! I'M TERRIFIED. BUT DAMN! I LIKE THIS WHITE HORSE QUITE A LOT, SO I'M TAKING IT HOME." You spoke sassily shrugged your shoulders off.

" LADY I'M WARNING YOU FOR THE LAST TIME. BACK OFF." The crease on Jin's forehead along with his clenching jaw and veins that protrude out from his neck, you know you're pushing his limits with your attitude.

But instead you laughed. Then slightly turn the horse to the very right of yours.

" ONE " You count.

" Hyung! Hold my shoulder tight."

" TWO "

" THREE !! "

Jungkook yanked his hands from the soldiers grip and they yelled reaching for him again but in another fraction of seconds he teleported in front of you.

Jin's mouth hung ajar in utter shock and disbelief after he registered what happened. He cursed under his breath and yelled aloud. " CATCH THE PRINCE!! " Without wasting a second, he dashed to your direction along with the soldiers, screaming and calling.

On the other hand, jungkook hurriedly put his foot on the foot rest of the horse in order to climb up it's back and sit behind you but he stopped, frowning his brows in confusion when you scoot back leaving the first space for him.

Reading his facial expressions, you clarified " Sit at the front, quickly! Sitting at the back might be dangerous." You fastly let it out, pulling him up by his collar.

" Huh?" He confusedly mumbled not understanding whatever you meant and just shrugged it off, taking the lead of the horse in his hand. He pulls it back before raising it up and hitting the leather on the horse's neck. The horse raised his front feet up in the air as an impact and you as a reflex, grasp jungkook's tiny waist tightly, he swore he felt a literal shiver run down his body and he squirmed a bit on his place.

" YOUNG PRINCE!! STOP RIGHT THERE!"

Jungkook laughed a bit before pulling the lead even more, riding the magical horse at an incredible speed. " Hold onto me Shijin. " He said and your terrified self didn't waste a second to not only just holding the prince's slim waist but fucking bury yourself in his muscular back. Your hands tightened around his waist and body pressed exactly on his broad back, you can feel his body heat on your skin and his perfume till the back of your nose.

" Damn! We almost died!" You exclaimed with your eyes widening in horror when you both were about to crash onto a huge tree, if it was not him taking a sharp turn.

" PRINCE!! IT'S THE LAST WARNING!" Jin screamed atop of his lungs, his eyes turning red and fury took over him due the very stupid stunt put up by the almighty highness who knows nothing but to be stubborn and always finds an easy option to solve his problems and that is, run. He finds you more at fault for helping an ass like him. Veins pop out on sides of his forehead. Nonetheless he chased for some distance, shouting and warning then, numerous times.

" THAT'S IT" Jin said and ran in longer strides than usual, picking up a decent pace. After a few steps , pushing the ground with left leg, he limped up in the air with a long jump, landing on his right leg, his body got pushed up in the air and spinned around effortlessly. His hand reached for his sword in the belt.

And the next heard was,

" Aaaagh! " You screeched in sheer pain when the sword, thrown by Jin, sliced a deep and diagonal cut on your back. Your mouth parted and breathing became difficult, simultaneously a single tear drop rolled down from your open eye. Your back still in the same arched position and the time slowed down for you. You grip loosened around jungkook and the very next second your body fell of the horse, motionless, with a thud.

" Aah " A faint whisper comes out of your mouth, you body remained limp and weak on the ground. You arched back a little up from the ground to relieve the extreme amount of stinging that burned your back.

You weakly titled your head, only to see Jungkook turn back for a second, looking at your paining eyesand suffering state. You held the eye contact for a good seconds before he looked away.

And then,

With a blank and unbothered expression in his eyes, he turned back around and pulled the leash, riding away and leaving you here to die, tears uncontrollably welled up in your eyes, not just your back, but your heart that you pricelessly gave to him, was also slit in two halves.

I saved him, he didn't.I cared for him, he didn't.

A hurt smile curved on your quivering lips and you faintly whispered " jungkook " before exhaling a deep breath and letting go of all your bodyweight and volunteerily closing your heavy eyes. The tiny droplets of salty tears of unbearable pain, internal and external both, still continued to stream down through your closed lids, trickling down your temples and then disappearing in your hair.

" Another poor lady is on the verge of loosing her life because of prince, I'm sorry. " Jin says looking at the lifeless figure of yours. He then looked up to find a clue of the said coward prince, but he's already disappeared.

" It's alright, run away now, but it won't take me very long to trace the Holozoic Catheenofur again, Young Prince." Jin says to himself accepting his defeat this once, and then he disappeared with his soldiers.

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The nights falls down, simultaneously and dark engulfed the forest again. Cold breeze made the trees swing along with them. Shijin body is still there, turning pale and colourless by each passing second. Her pink lips are taking a shade of the skin tone of her face.Then bone-freezing winds made everything worst.

Everything was dead-drop silent until the sound of hard pads tapping on the ground cut through it. Soon they, became more clearer and nearer.

Jungkook.

The horse brayed when the lead was pulled to stop him. Jungkook jumped off the horse and bent down to your figure. His eyes examined you, and he felt a painful sting in his heart. His breathing hastened. He quickly crouched down, about to lay a hand to check up on you. But it suddenly hit him like a truck, he left you here to die. Another family pang in his heart and his hands shivering.

Not able to understand the cause of the sudden unknown feelings in his heart. He apparently, was unable to figure out so he accepted it as guilt. That you saved him and he didn't.

" The fuck are you waiting for ?" Little Jimin yelled from above his head, pulling him back to his senses.

He checked your heartbeats, and he stiffened at his place when it didn't make a sound. He immediately started to shake you up. " Shijin! What are you doing!! Wake up already" He yelled not believing and for the first time, real tears welled up in his eyes and his face got drained out of colours. His vision turned blurry, nevertheless, he kept on shaking you vigorously by your shoulders, calling your name.

" Yoon shijin! You can't die!! Sh-shijin!!" He nearly screamed, his chest tightened and tears rolled down his face. " Wake up!! Please." His lips trembled and more tears fell.

Jimin hops off jungkook's shoulder and now was on your neck. Him being unserious made him calm and he quickly thought of an idea.

" Prince, why don't you try the fake memo?? You're a royal, you can do that, can't you?!"

Jungkook realised of his powers as a prince. He quickly wiped his tears with his sleeves and sniffed a long breath. Jimin moved down on the ground. Then jungkook puts his palm under your neck and gently pulled your corpse up. He takes in a deep breath, concentrating his mind and closed his eyes.

He pulled you further in a sitting position and leaned in to rest his forehead over yours. His hands now cupping the base of your head. He sensually rubbed his forehead in circular motions on yours weaving an illusion of life.

Yes, illusion. It is to wake up your subconscious self that actually doesn't exist. It's like you're 12% awake in the depth of your subconscious mind. Your state will be reversed to a few hours back, when you were on the verge of dying, wincing and crying in sheer pain.

Slowly, your lips part and a agonizingly slow and shaky breath leaves your mouth. You half open your eyelids only to meet the same brown orbs that you fell for. You felt like your cold heart warmed up all again with tiny sparks and happiness.

" Ju-ung-kook?" You whispered in the lowest voice. Slowly, your hand moves a bit upwards in an attempt to touch his wet cheeks.

Was he crying? For me?

But you stop it midway when you remember the look in his eyes back then. He looked at you confused. Before he could get anything, you whinced, as the wound on your back charged again when cold breeze hit it.

Jungkook bit his lips nervously, " I'm sorry " he said and before you could understand his apology, he limped forward and swiftly scoops you up closer to his chest making you scream harder as it did hurted more than it was hurting previously. You whither in pain, hot tears flood out from you eyes. You felt like dying again. Soon your body movements stopped and you blacked out again, unable to endure any more pain.

Jungkook hurriedly ran to the horse, with his heart pounding in his chest harder than ever as panic struck him like it never did.

He was so scared.

He touched the horse's head. The horse disappeared. When jungkook was about to teleport himself too, chick Jimin stamped on jungkook's feet.

" You impolite prince! Wait for your hyung !! "

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