“AH! !” shouted the man as a bar of soap hit him in the eye. He stumbled back in surprise and pain.

Onew slipped and slid his way towards the soggy wad on the flooded floor and the disintegrating paper. “You…,” his sad eyes slowly moved upwards and turned stony, “shall pay.” He stood up in one fluid motion and launched himself at the man. Despite bringing his bat down upon the enraged boy’s shoulder, the blow failed to deter Onew, and both males flew through the air to land with a splash back into the whirlpool tub.

The woman was too surprised to even move. That weak, scrawny little boy who was drowning in the tub a few minutes ago, being kicked around, and stumbling and falling across the floor, constantly moving like a jiggling block of tofu, was actually holding his own right now. It startled her so much that she didn’t even feel like moving a muscle, too in awe.

The guy surfaced after having his face punched into the water, and he gasped for air before grabbing onto Onew’s hair and tugging harshly. Onew fell towards the man, not wanting to go bald (his fans would have a heart attack!) and they both displaced even more water over the edge. Both surfaced again and wrestled until Onew was able to bash the side of the man’s head against the tiles. The head gave way a little underneath his hand and deformed to flatten against the tiles somewhat, but a trickle of blood dyed the water a light pink for a moment before the color dispersed.

Onew reached one arm over the rim of the tub and scooped up the disintegrating bits of paper. He roughly shoved them into the stranger’s mouth, shouting, “EAT IT YOU EVILDOER! EAT IT ALL!” And the man did chew and swallow the soapy paper putty with slight tears in his eyes at the disgusting taste and feeling as it went down his throat. “YEAH! THAT’S RIGHT! THIEF! YOU BETTER ENJOY THAT COUPON! BECAUSE I WON'T GET TO!”

Despite his more slender arms, the younger man took a hold of his enemy’s neck and lifted him up. The demon boy took note of the brown muddy stamp of the guy’s face leaving its signature on the tiled walls before half dropping and half tossing the man over the tub.

He breathed in deeply and let out his stress with his next breath. Onew finally cracked a small smile. “I feel better now.” Then, his face set into an indifferent, unreadable expression of carved stone. “Who are you? What do you want? How’d you get in here?”

The woman answered with an ‘I’m superior to you’ tone despite seeing her partner get beaten into a daze, “We are Soo Jeo and Jin Ri of the soil dwellers clan. We have come to kill you demons who have hurt our cousin’s human crew. You stupidly think your fortress cannot be cracked but we have the skills to burrow and be one with the soil and have emerged right under your noses.”

“Jin Ri! Do you have to tell him everything?” The man scolded as he touched his head and wiped the blood away before not too easily pushing himself up into an unbalanced standing position. He felt like he wanted to vomit.

“You have no right to talk right now.” Jin Ri rolled her eyes.

“Well, it’s not like you were lending me a hand!”

She knew that he was right but didn’t want to think about why her muscles just didn’t feel like moving to aid him. “Shut up Soo Jeo. You’re just too weak!” She slashed out at him with her knife in anger.

“Jin Ri! What are you doing?! You don’t have to freak out at me over it!” The man backed away in alarm, almost slipping a few times due to the soap water pond that blanketed the floor.

Her eyes grew wide with hysteria. “I don’t know! I can’t help it!”

“Idiots. Soo Jeo, just stay still and let the lady kill you.” Jinki suggested.

Soo Jeo stopped dodging and winced as the blade struck him many times even though he wasn’t going down it seemed. “How are you doing this?!”

“Oh my gosh!” The woman screeched as she couldn’t control her blind slashing. “He must be from that family! The control demon clan!”

“And you called me the weakest?” Jinki scoffed and turned away from them to exit the bathroom. “You’re wasting my time.”

‘Go away from this place and kill yourselves discreetly.’ They both heard the command in their minds and their eyes widened. This was HIM. This was the infamous son of the clan that could influence the whole demon world if they wanted to. At one point, that family had really been in control of the supernatural world but they grew bored with running it after only half a century and gave up their positions in a blink of an eye. Members of that family had various powers but all of them held some ability to influence the actions or minds of others. Almost everyone above the age of two centuries and some younger had heard stories of the heir to that clan. He was a ruthless youth and one to be feared. Merciless and enjoyed seeing suffering. For a while though, he dropped off the map and nobody heard much about him. To think that the dorky looking leader of SHINee was actually the demon boy who they had heard stories about from their parents.

As Onew walked down the hall, shaking out his sore limbs, he glanced to the side at his reflection and froze.

“OH MY GOD! I’M !”

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THEA's Corner <3

Props to icemochi for guessing right. Well, I didn't think it was too hard to figure out how Onew would win though. I was mulling over it for weeks. As long as he's fully conscious and thinking straight, he has one unbeatable power it seems. It makes it hard for me to think up stuff without just making his fight end in two seconds... Man...maybe I should make a chicken-making demon/enemy so that Onew doesn't automatically have the upper hand.

I'm on spring break! Yay! I've been so so so very busy nowaday with family matters and school. I should be very much asleep right (it being around 2am) now but I had the sudden urge to get this done. Lucky I could connect to my neighbor's (hehe...don't tell them...) wireless with my laptop or I wouldn't be able to post this right now. It was by sheer luck that I could steal wireless too because I haven't been able to steal any for months and suddenly when I couldn't fall asleep and decide to turn on my laptop, I find that I'm connected. Thank you neighbors!

Posted: 06 March 2011
Word count: 953