[Sehun]

Wake up, Oh Sehun.

At the voice, I awoke, thinking that someone had called me. Yet there was no one in my room.

"Strange." I croaked, immediately sighing after I felt how dry my throat was. "Damn, I better get some water."

Pushing apart the translucent curtains, the brilliant shade of navy-blue filled my sight and I groggily realised that night had descended.

Ugh, how long had I actually dozed for...

I headed down to the living room, my face indifferent at the sight that greeted me — everyone had their eyes glued to the television screen; almost everyone.

"Kyungsoo-hyung, why are you washing the dishes? Isn't it Baekhyun and Chanyeol-hyung's turn?" I reached over his head to grab a cup on the drying rack above him.

All I heard was a chuckle.

"Left your share of food on the table."

I nodded, but my actions proved otherwise as I emerged from the fridge with my cup full of red liquid. "Later hyung, I need a dose of this first."

Bringing the cup to the silent living room, I squeezed myself between Luhan-hyung and Yixing-hyung.

"So what happened while I was out?" I piped up, ignoring the glares of Xiumin-hyung and Suho-hyung. Apparently, I had interrupted their programme. Geez, so uptight.

"Nothing much." Yixing-hyung replied, his eyes still fixated on the screen. A cooking programme was on, and the images of raw steak being grilled occasionally appeared on the screen as the host prepared it. No wonder everyone is transfixed.

"If it's nothing much, why do Zitao-hyung look so pale, as if someone kicked his ?"

At the word of '', Kai cracked up. He threw his hands into the air, slapping them down hard on his thighs.

“Sehun my friend, you took a nap at the wrong time. You should have totally witnessed what happened just now. And to think I thought you would be awaken by the commotions made.” Kai was laughing so hard to the point of tears flowing out from his eyes.

“Yeah yeah, so could you cut to the chase and just tell me what happened?" My eyes fell onto a lifeless martial artist, sitting next to a rather perturbed Kris-hyung, his expression blank and it certainly looked like he got his kicked. Badly, at that. "He look like as though Kris-hyung had left him for good.”

The latter shot a glare at me, apparently displeased with my accusation, though the former barely batted an eyelid. Boy, Zitao-hyung must be extremely whipped.

“You know of Sera’s martial arts training today right? Apparently these three idiotic hyungs taught her well, and Zitao had trained her in combat. Thus, our all-so-smart-Sera had learnt well, leading to her utterly flipping the tables on Zitao-hyung." He then dropped to a whisper.

"She found his core, and shattered the barrier."

I smirked, and Kai grinned. "Remind me to never cross her path, don’t wanna get my kicked too.” Kai raised his hand, fingers having formed a peace sign, earning glares from the three same-aged friends and Zitao-hyung.

“Aish! We should have been more prepared for her power. We were too careless this time. Tch!” Chanyeol-hyung complained, his hands tousling his hair in frustration. I couldn't help but to laugh at them. As usual, Zitao-hyung searched for comfort in Kris-hyung; with the latter pointedly scooting away from the younger boy.

“Oh yeah, where's my sister? She should be bragging about her victory.”

“She went off to Jieun’s house for dinner.” Yixing-hyung commented, his hands in Suho-hyung's as the latter absentmindedly patted them. "I texted her awhile ago, to remind her to get back here before ten-thirty."

“Meh, alright. She could have told me though.”

"How could she? You slept through the afternoon, sleepyhead." Xiumin-hyung snickered, his eyes still transfixed on the now-completed grilled steak that appeared on the screen. Simultaneously, every vampire in the living room gulped, bringing a soft chuckle to Kyungsoo-hyung who just stepped in with a large plate of fruits in his hands.

"Sehun, you better finish the cup in your hands and start on your dinner."

"Alright, alright." I grumbled, as I brought the cup to my lips and sipped the blood it held.

Mm? Something's weird with this blood.

The blood tasted rough on my tongue and it flowed down my throat with a rather stale taste while the aftertaste was horrendously bitter. My heart clenched as though it lacked of oxygen (not that I need it) and my stomach churned as if the food that I had ingested didn't digest properly. And that shouldn't be happening for I hadn't had my dinner yet.

"Is something wrong... Sehun ah?" Kyungsoo-hyung's face appeared in front of me but the image in my eyes soon blurred as my head started to pound, increasingly increasing the thumps' intensity.

The small boy's face gradually sharpened and returned to that of normal and I thought that the pounding in my head would stop.

But it didn't.

"Sehun? What's wrong with you? Your eye colour has changed, and y-your fangs." Luhan-hyung cried out. "It can't be the blood because you never had trouble controlling your urges!"

By then, I've commanded the unanimous attention of the other boys. Concerned and worried faces swam into my peripheral vision, and even the pale-as-death Zitao-hyung came to me.

Just then, a surge of adrenaline washed over me, resulting my hand's grip on the cup to tighten.

"Sehun! Sehun!" I heard my best friend yell, but I couldn't control myself. The cup eventually shattered into an uncountable amount of tiny ceramic fragments. The pieces cut my hand but of course, the minor cuts healed within seconds.

"Sehun, what's wrong with you?" I felt Suho-hyung's presence beside me, a hand on my arm. "Don't scare me, please. You look absolutely terrifying."

I swallowed, uncertainty overwhelming every inch of my body. "I-I have no idea, hyung. I just feel weird."

"Sehun..."

"It's like, a feeling I've felt before; a feeling that I–" Something dawned on me.

"It's the same feeling." I heard myself, my words coming out of my mouth in barely a whisper, a breath of absolute horror. "It's the same feeling as that night."

"Oppa."

Sera.

"Oppa!"

My baby sister!

"!" The prince inside of me emerged as I shot up, fury filling my insides. "Kai! Take me to Jieun's house now!"

He saluted me and in a blink of my eyes, I found myself in a completely different setting.

"Are you sure this is where Jieun lives, Kai?"

He shot me an apologetic look. "Sorry Sehun, Sera wouldn't tell me where Jieun lives so I only teleported her here and she forbade me from following her. So..."

I sighed, frustrated by my sister's actions. I swear, sometimes she's just too smart for her own good.  

"Sehun, I think I should tell you this… I smell the scent of the person."

Kai gave me a grim look and I knew he wasn't joking. Even though my sense of smell will never be on par with my friend's, I inhaled deeply and indeed, the scent of the mysterious person lingered in the air.

"I smell Sera, too." He growled, apparently unhappy as his canines elongated slightly. "Something unfortunate has happened."

I followed after him as he sniffed and embarked on a trail that would lead us to Sera.

Along the way, dented railings, cracked brick walls lined our path. My heartbeat accelerated with every step I took and immense rage and fear washed over me when Kai suddenly stopped, his shoulders hiked up, his finger pointing to something on the cement ground I wish I would never see in my life.

A small pool of blood.

"It's Sera's." He whispered, fury and fear hiding in his almost-silent words. "I can smell it from here."

I stooped down, index reaching towards the redness when I suddenly paused in my track.

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