Seven Sins [JJK]✔️

12. One down

"So what do you want to get?" Yoongi whispers in your left ear.
You roll your eyes and take out your phone from your back pocket. You put it up to your ear and pretend to speak into it.

"I heard there's a really good stir fry place down the market street. Let's get four boxes."
You put your phone back into your pocket and hear Yoongi hum in agreement.

After walking a little while, you hear Yoongi again.
"So what's your story?" He asks.

You look in the direction of the voice and lift an eyebrow up. You pull up your phone to your ear again.
"What do you mean 'my story'? You've read my notebook. You know how we came...here."

A few seconds of silence later, you hear Yoongi speak again. "I know but... how was life like after you came here, to earth?"

You frown slightly. Your childhood wasn't the brightest, but you were glad that you grew up healthy and now... with a purpose.

"It's the same old sob story Yoongi. I was raised in a orphanage. And when I turned seventeen I decided to move out into a small apartment with government funding.... and well here I am. On an intergalactic alien adventure with a bunch of men I'm apparently childhood friends with."

Yoongi is silent again. You can't see him so you don't know how he's reacting to your passive outburst. After what seems like forever of holding your phone to your ear, Yoongi finally speaks.

"It's the same for you huh... I bet it's the same for most of us. Jungkook grew up well and I'm happy for him but I asked Joon too when you were asleep. Joon grew up in an orphanage like us too. I guess that's another thing we can all bond over." You can't see it, but you feel the sadness in his voice. He sounds so broken that it hurts your heart.

"I know it's not much but... you have us now. We have each other. Never forget that." You firmly say. You put your phone back into your pocket and as you do you feel his hand wrap around your shoulder.

"I'll be the best older brother you've ever had." He whispers in your ear. You jab the side of his stomach with your elbow.

"More like grandpa." You mock. He hisses in pain but soon laughs it off. Placing his arm back around your shoulders, the two of you continue walking down the market street.

You eventually reach the famous Korean Stir Fry market stall and ask for four boxes of noodles.
As you wait for the chef to prepare your order you hear Yoongis stomach violently rumble, which catches the attention of people passing by.

They all look to you as if you were the culprit causing you to blush until your face is the same shade as the peppers the chef is cutting up.

You hear a snicker and you immediately know it belongs to Yoongi.
"Make one of the boxes extra spicy please." You say in a cold tone. The chef eyes you and shrugs. You feel a light punch on your shoulder but ignore it.

The chef's taking way too long for your liking. Out of boredom, you stare at random things to distract yourself. You smile as you watch a mother and daughter walk hand in hand walk past you.
I wish I could've met my mother.

You sigh and look to the chef again, who's still cutting vegetables. This time, your stomach grumbles.
Before you can even get embarrassed, something behind him catches your eye.

In the alleyway behind the market stall, you get a glimpse of a hooded man running from...
What the heck?!
"Yoongi! Forget the food, follow me!" You harshly whisper. Without waiting for a response, you run towards the alley, leaving behind a confused and slightly pissed off chef.

You run to the edge of the alley and peek behind the corner to see a shadowy pitch black man-shaped thing corner a boy.
A saker?! What's it doing to an innocent civilian.
The Saker inches closer and closer to the boy who is now cowering at the dead end of the alley way.

You take a deep breath. You mentally prepare yourself for what you're about to do.
Call me stupid or brave or both. But an innocent can't die because of our existence.

Without wasting another second, you walk round the corner and to them.
"Stop right there." You say to the creature, trying to sound intrepid.

The Saker slowly turns around. It's face contorts to an ugly grin.
You take a look at the boy behind the creature and instantly feel a pang of pity for him.

You step closer to the two, but stop when you hear the boy cry out. "Stop! Run!" He urges you.
Little does he know...
Shaking your head, you step closer to the grinning thing.

The boys shakes his head, pleading you to run away. But something to your left makes his eyes almost pop out of their sockets. You turn your head to see what he got so surprised about. A man wavers between transparent and opaque before finally materialising.
Yoongi. Perfect timing.

"Im. Not. A. Good. Runner." He says as he wheezes from exhaustion. Rolling your eyes you avert our attention back to the creature.

"Luhan sent you right?" You ask it.

The thing nods despicably.

It moves away from the cowering boy and takes a step closer towards you and Yoongi.
You hear Yoongi softly gasp.
"Shit what do we do?!" He whispers down to you.

Your eyes scan the area, an idea finally pops into your head.
"Telekinesis. Flatten the thing with stuff around here."
You see Yoongi nod and aim his hands towards a plank of wood. The wood flings from its leaning position against the wall and almost squashes the Saker.

To your surprise, the cornered boy jumps up and yells "Stop!" To the two of you.
You and Yoongi stare at him.
Why is he.. defending it?

Out of the corner of your eye, you see the thing push the wood off and regain composure. You tug at Yoongis sleeve and point to it.
"Holy shit the thing is still alive?!"
Before you can scold him for stating the obvious, it runs towards you.

In a flash, you quickly levitate a trash can lid and throw it at the accelerating Shadow Crawler.
The lid flies towards it, then slices through its neck. The creatures head detaches and tumbleds onto the floor along with its scrambled body.

Black ooze spills out of the fresh wound, creating a puddle of dark liquid around it.
A few seconds later, the corpse turns to smoke and eventually, nothing is left on the ground.

Wide eyed, you turn to Yoongi, who's stares back at you with even wider eyes.
"I-... should I be disgusted or proud?" You ask him a small voice.

"Proud...definitely proud." He answers in an instant. You both look to the other boy, who stares at the now spotless area where the Shadow Creature was.

After blinking rapidly, the boy looks down the alley way then looks to the two of you. Within a second, he makes a run for it. Yoongi however, already sensed it. He chases after the boy and grabs him by the collar.

"You... have a lot of explaining to do."

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