Chapter 1

Kim Jongin focused his eyes on the brightly lit table at the end of the hall. Right before he could allow the mist of darkness to bring him there, he felt a solid gush of wind pushing him down to the ground. He quickly opened his eyes in shock and put his arms out to lessen the impact to the ground. He felt the red flag in his hand being tugged out forcefully. He looked up just in time to see the flag being pulled towards a small telekinetic player in a blue shirt. Before he can teleport over to knock some lesson into that smaller kid, a taller blue shirt player came over and with a lazy swirl of his fingers, a mini tornado whirled around the flag, ripping it to pieces. Jongin stared at the tiny torn bits in anguish while Oh Sehun gave an evil chuckle. With another wave of his finger, he sent those tiny bits out of the window, where it fell 3 floors down. Sehun smiled at the shorter kid beside him and ruffled his hair. “Thanks, Johnny! No doubt are you one of the elite of Year Eighteen.”

Johnny beamed and said, “It’s nothing, Sehun hyung!”

“Oh Sehun, this is not over. I shall personally make sure that the blue team’s flag gets flushed down the toilet,” snarled Jongin.

Sehun merely tilted his head and, with his arms around Johnny’s shoulder, turn towards the brightly lit table at the end of the hall. Before Jongin could react, a tiger burst through the door beside the table and promptly place a tattered blue flag on the table. Blue fireworks burst out across the ceilings, indicating that the blue team has won the game this time. Cheers erupted all over the third floor of the Activity Hub of Yongsang Feirer Academy. Players clad in red and blue shirts started to walk into the main hall. A blur streak of red can be seen rushing towards Jongin and Jongin found himself on the ground again, the second time within fifteen seconds.

“What the hell, Jongin?! I gave you our flag, like, two ticks ago and where is it now?!” screamed Taemin, a time controller. While Taemin is unable to stop or rewind time, he is able to control the speed time passes. Jongin shove at Taemin back and yelled back, “Sehun and Johnny are here! Sehun shoved me to the ground and Johnny grabbed the flag away and our flag got tornado-ed to pieces and thrown out of the window!”

“Did I ask for a bloody report? Urgh. Never pick me for your team ever again, Captain Jongin!” Taemin stormed away.

Jongin stood up groaning. What’s wrong with Taemin? Jongin was elected captain for today’s games and best friends pick each other, don’t they? He looked at the smiling Sehun grouchily and offered his hand. “Congratulations, Captain Blue.”

“Thank you, Captain Red. Your team fought well.”

“Well, apparently not well enough.”

The tiger that brought victory to the blue team padded over, with its tongue lolling, resembling a big grin. As it approaches Sehun, the tiger quickly transformed into a young man. “We won, Sehun hyung! We won! Your strategy worked perfectly!”

Sehun grinned back. “Of course. Told you it would. Good job, Taeyong. You did great! A silent predator is not as uncontrollable as a dragon, huh?” Sehun winked at Taeyong, referring to the time when Taeyong, the shape shifter, took the shape of a dragon and burned down half the horse stables. Luckily, the horses were out for their exercises and only the stable and lots of fresh hay was damaged.

Just another day in Yongsang Feirer Academy.

***

Sehun stepped out of the school building and scanned the sea of student over their heads. He spotted Huang Zi Tao just a few meters away. Sehun pushed his way among the other students, muttering apologies all the way, and swung an arm over Tao’s shoulders, shocking the older one. Sehun guffawed while Tao, realising who it was, rolled his eyes and gave him a shove.

“Quit it. I’m exhausted enough already. While you enjoyed your refreshing shower after Games, that’s when I start my training.”

“What is it this time?” asked Sehun.

Tao gave a theatrical sigh but before he can continue, a small figure beside him piped up, “He had to navigate through time to write a report on the Games without anyone realising. Got a shock of his life when Taeyong came running around the corner in tiger form.”

Sehun brightened, “Kyungsoo hyung! I didn’t see you there!” Do Kyungsoo glowered, “I’m not that tiny!”

Sehun rearranged his face immediately, “No no, I don’t mean that. There are just too many people around here.” Which is true; the amount of student moving out of campus via its only gate is scary. It is a miracle that stampedes has never occurred before, just rough shoves every now and then. Wishing to take Kyungsoo’s mind off, Sehun quickly continues, “What did you do during the Games then, hyung?”

Kyungsoo glowered at Sehun one last time. “I had to tunnel underground to reach various checkpoints. Went to Namsan to get tonkatsu, snapped a picture of me in front of that family mart near Naebu Ringway and bought shaved ice at Myeongdong, in that order. Tonkatsu has to be piping hot and the shaved ice should not be melted when I return. Urgh. I basically had to get the earth to push me along.”

The trio navigated their way around the crowd and finally managed to get outside of the campus. While they straightened their uniforms and corrected their walking posture, Jongin strutted over, in immaculate uniform and perfect hair. Tao looked over scornfully, “It is unfair that you don’t have to scuffle with everyone else to get out.” Jongin smirked and held out his arms, “Two hands, two spots for teleportation. Seriously, Tao, why can’t you just stop time and get out before the crowd does?”

“Unlike you, I am concern over my friends’ safety. What if Kyungsoo and Sehun got pushed over and get trampled? They need my wushu mojo.”

Before anyone can blink, before Tao can scream or grab on to time, the ground below Tao opened up and swallowed him in.

“Trampled? Pfft.” Kyungsoo made sure that he walked over that patch of ground where Tao disappeared into.

Sehun and Jongin looked over at each other and laughed. Jongin hooked his arm around Kyungsoo and started walking away, with Sehun alongside. Before they can get too far, Kyungsoo glanced behind casually and the ground open up again, this time, pushing up from below to bring up a spluttering Tao. By the time Tao caught up, Sehun has flagged a taxi.

“SM Entertainment building please.”

***

“Wait, Ahjussi! Stop here. We will walk the rest of the way!”

A taxi stopped on the curb, on the street one block away from the SM Entertainment building. Four young men climbed out, the last not forgetting to collect the change before closing the door. Sehun lead them all into a bubble tea and snacks shop.

An ahjumma manning the cashier looked up when the door chimed and smiled widely, “Isn’t it our Sehunnie? Aigoo. Just finished school?” Sehun nodded happily. “One large chocolate bubble tea?” Sehun nodded again, this time with his fringe bouncing and eyes curving into crescents. A second later, he added, “And one taro flavoured one too, ahjumma! Thank you!” The ahjumma beamed at the young man and started preparing his order. Sehun sat down on a stool next to the counter and nodded his head to the music playing in the shop. Jongin and Kyungsoo went to the snacks display counter and ordered fried chicken bites and a potato hotdog. Tao entered the shop soon after. Seeing Jongin and Kyungsoo chatting over at the snacks counter, Tao went over and hung his chin on Kyungsoo’s shoulder. In less than a minute, he managed to bug Kyungsoo to buy him a tornado potato. Delighted, Tao sat on the stool beside Sehun and started fixing his hair from the reflection on the window beside him.

“Chocolate and taro bubble tea?” called the serving girl and the collection counter. Sehun quickly collected his order and went back to his seat. Tao, still fixing his hair, asked, “For Luhan?” Sehun nodded. Deciding that his hair is good enough, he turned his gaze over to Sehun, “Your obsession with him is getting unhealthy, Hunnie.”

Sehun snorted, “Says the person who whines at Kris hyung and Suho hyung at every chance you have. What are you, their love child?”

Tao gaped openly at Sehun, “What?! I’ll have you know that Taoris is slowly climbing up the ranks on search engines frequently searched keywords. And who doesn’t know that Suho hyung is my mum?”

Sehun smiled back, saccharine sweet, “Hwaiting, Taoris, you have a long way off to reach Hunhan. Wanna bet?”

Rolling his eyes, Tao said, “That’s why I said that your obsession with him is getting unhealthy. Oh! Or…” Tao dropped his voice and Sehun leaned in closer. “Are you guys really in love?”

“Yo, kids, let’s go.” Jongin came over, chewing on his chicken bite. Kyungsoo blew gently on his potato hotdog and took a bite, after handing Tao his tornado potato. Tao and Sehun stood up and followed the two older ones out of the shop and started walking towards SM Entertainment building.

“You know, Tao, we’re not in love, but Hunhan is real.” Sehun winked at Tao. “By the way, hyung, Kaisoo is higher up than Taoris.” Sehun emphasized on the word ‘hyung’ and nudged his chin towards the older two walking in front; where Jongin is blowing into Kyungsoo’s mouth to cool that too hot bite of the potato hotdog.

Author's note:

Hello! Thank you for reading up to here!

How is this? Please let me know what you think!

I'm sorry if this seems to be draggy but I want this to be somehow like their daily activity, with just that tad bit of difference where they actually have their MAMA powers.

Please comment on your thoughts! Thank you ^^