The idols sat in the lounge room, waiting for Minho to come back. Meanwhile, the girls continued to cry.
‘But we’re not snsd without 9!!’ yelled Hyoyeon as she slapped Eunhyuk’s chest in frustration.
‘Ouch! Babe, don’t hit so hard. I know you’re upset but it doesn’t give you an excuse,’ Eunhyuk cried.
‘Nnn… but Yuri is one of the only people I have a couple name with… I don’t have many!’ Hyoyeon cried.
‘Yuri unnie has couple names with everyone!’ cried Seohyun.
Hearing this, snsd burst into fresh tears.
The idols spent most of the night talking about Yoonyulsic, remembering the good memories.

In the end, everyone retired to their rooms to get some rest, but Minho still hadn’t come back. Taemin was the last one to go to bed, he waited for an hour after the last person went to bed, but it didn’t seem like Minho would be coming home soon so he went to bed, hoping for the best outcome.

The next day~

When Taemin went downstairs, he was glad to find Minho sitting quietly at the kitchen bench eating breakfast. His eyes were red from all the crying and he looked helpless. This made Taemin want to cry, his hyung, who had always been there for him, was defenceless, and he couldn’t help him.
‘Hyung…’ Taemin’s voice cracked as he went over to where Minho was and hugged him.
Minho only gave him a small smile before going back to staring into space.

The atmosphere was solemn when everyone else came down one-by-one. Most, had red eyes and looked tired from not sleeping. Barely any of them could eat and could only sit and wait for the gong. The waiting was excruciating, dreading the moment when they had to face Yuri and tell her that they were leaving her, and anticipating when they would get Yoona and Sica back.

The long awaited gong finally sounded and everyone waited for the voice to speak.
‘The path is marked for you, it will lead you into a clearing, idols, please make your way there now.’
Upon hearing this, everyone hurried out the door and along the path, into the forest. It was quite a long walk, most of the girls, and even some guys were exhausted by the time they reached the clearing.

The clearing was large, on the other side of where the idols were standing, there was a small paddock, surrounded by the fence all the way around, then it was divided into three parts, longways. There was a small door at the fence at the 3 parts, leading to Sica, Yuri and Yoona, all were tired to a chair in one part each. On each door, there was a lock, and on the table in front of the paddock, there was two keys. On either side of the small paddock, there was automatic bows that shot arrows on command, it was loaded.

The gong sounded, and the voice said, ‘You may choose which two girls you want to take back, use the keys to unlock the doors to their area. If anyone tries to jump over the fence and take the third member back, the bows will be activated and the arrows will begin to shoot at them relentlessly, that is all.’
For a while, everyone was unsure of what to do. Most were regretting the decision that they had made the night before. It was impossible.

‘Jjong, hurry up and get Yoonyul out of here!’ Sica shouted, breaking the silence.
‘Can’t you call me oppa just once? And no, we’re not leaving here without you,’ Jonghyun said.
‘Fine, Jjong Oppa, will you please save Yoonyul? I’ll be okay, promise,’ Sica cried.
‘No! babo, you’re not staying here,’ Jonghyun cried.
Giving up on Jonghyun, Sica decided to bribe Taeyeon.
‘Unnie! You have to look after our younger sisters as the leader and the oldest!’ she cried.
‘But then what about you?’
‘I’ll be fine! I’m the second oldest remember?’
‘But you’re still my younger sister…’
‘Please? Yuri’s already passed out here! And Yoona is feeling unwell!’
‘Bwoh?! Yuri’s passed out?’ everyone cried.
‘ Choi Yuri! Wake up now! Please?’ begged Minho.
‘Bwoh?! Choi? What the hell? She’s a Kwon! And when she gets married, she’ll be a Hwang! After my last name!’ Tiffany yelled.
‘No! She’ll be a Im!’ Yoona yelled from where she was tied to a chair.
‘Anniyo! A Jung!’ Sica cried.
‘It’s Kim Yuri!’ Hyoyeon joined in.
‘It is Choi Yuri, but to me, not Minho!’ Sooyoung yelled.
Before the six could start fighting about Yuri’s last name, she woke up, ‘Huh? Why is Minho and unnies fighting?’ she asked.
‘Hmm? Nothing, yeobo. Are you okay now?’ Minho changed from bickering with his sister-in-laws furiously to a soft sweet voice.
‘Ehh?? I only fainted from the dark room, I’m okay. Can you guys unlock Sica unnie and Yoona now?’ Yuri asked.
‘No, you need to come home… you’re sick, and I miss you,’ Minho said.

Before they could say anything else, Taecyeon butted in and said, ‘we already agreed on Sica and Yoona, don’t bother fighting. It was a lucky dip from a hat, you can’t change it now. Toughen up, Choi.’
Minho was just about to punch Taecyeon when Nichkhun did it for him, causing Taecyeon to fall on the floor and cry out in agony, ‘don’t be so inconsiderate and selfish, Taec!’ he yelled.
‘But it’s the truth…’ Taecyeon muttered as he stood up.
‘See? You did lucky dip, it was fair and square, so please take Sica unnie and Yoona away from here,’ Yuri begged.
‘But-,’ Minho tried to argue but he was cut off by Yuri, ‘Do it Choi Minho! Or else I won’t become Choi Yuri!’
‘Bwoh? I thought you were passed out?’
‘How could I rest with all of yelling? Of course i heard it. Now do it, or otherwise, you’re not going to get ANY from me, arasso?’ she threatened.
‘So you’re saying that you will come back?’
‘Of course babo! Unless you’re thinking of leaving me here after everyone gets Sica and Yoona back!’
‘No! I wasn’t… but I don’t want to leave you here…’
‘Minho… I know you can do this, that’s why I’m asking you to. I’ll be okay, I promise. And when we get back to Seoul, I want my own apartment, just for me and you, now hurry,’ Yuri said, using all her aegyo on him, which worked, even though they were far away from each other.

Minho nodded, ‘Hyungs, go get Sica noona and Yoona noona back. We’ll definitely get Yuri back tomorrow, no matter what,’ he said sadly.
‘Are you sure?’ Jonghyun asked.
‘Yeah, now go before I change my mind.’
‘Thank you, Minho, thank you,’ Jonghyun said as he walked past the younger man and reached for the keys that would free his love.
‘Kim Jonghyun! What the hell do you think you’re doing?!’ screeched Sica when she realised what was happening.
‘I’m sorry, we’ll come back for her, I promise you, and Minho,’ Jjong said as he began to unlock the door.
Taecyeon followed suit, and soon, the two men had untied their girlfriends. Unfortunately, they would not go quietly, ‘No! Look! Yuri’s sick! She needs to go home and back to Minho!’ Sica argued.
‘Taecyeon, you cannot leave my sister here, I will never talk to you again!’ Yoona threatened.
Unable to coax them to walk away, the boys carried them, bridal-style and walked down the paddock, toward where everyone else was waiting.

Minho couldn’t take his eyes off Yuri, and they both smiled at each other sadly, unsure of what would happen in the future, whether Minho would really get another chance to save Yuri, or if she’d be held captive forever. Unable to handle it anymore, Minho ran as fast as he could and jumped over the fence. Before anyone noticed, he was already next to Yuri, untying the ropes that bound her to the chair.
‘Minho! What the hell do you think you’re doing?’ Onew yelled.
‘Quickly! Before the arrows start shooting!!’ Sooyoung and Key cheered.
‘Oh gosh… please let them be safe!’ Siwon mumbled.
‘Go Minho! Go Minho! Go Minho!’ Hangkyung and Donghae cheered.
Out of nowhere, the three idiots, Ryeowook, Taemin and Chansung, produced another poster, this time it read, ‘Minho Jjang!’
‘Where the hell did you get that?’ Amber asked.
‘We made it, we had a feeling Minho hyung would do something reckless,’ Chansung answered before he went back to cheering for Minho.

‘Oppa, what are you doing? You could get hurt!’ Yuri cried.
‘But what if I didn’t get another opportunity to save you? I have to, I can’t live without you. Choi Yuri, saranghae,’ Minho whispered.
‘I’m not Choi Yuri!’
‘Not yet anyway… for now, your my Kwon Yuri then. Kwon Yuri, saranghae.’
‘Saranghae, Minho Oppa.’
‘Then when I say run, will you run?’ Minho asked.
‘Neh~’ Yuri said as the rope dropped off her, finally untied.
‘Run!’ Minho yelled.
The two ran as fast as they could, Minho would’ve been out of there by now but he was running behind Yuri, he wasn’t going to leave her behind. The bows were activated and began to shoot arrows, Minho saw this out the corner of his eyes and tackled Yuri gently to the ground, lying on top of her and covering the arrows from hitting her. One of the arrows were coming straight at him, he closed his eyes and held Yuri closer to him, not wanting to let her go for a second time.

(a/n): keke, ^^ was this as good as everyone was hoping for? only a few more chapters to go until the end. Then maybe a sequel?

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