//------------------------------// // Chapter 13 // Story: Bangtan Colts: A History No a Saga // by Creativa-Artly01 //------------------------------// Meanwhile on their day off of practice, JHope, Jin, RM, and Suga chill and watch movies in the pillow fort Jin and RM constructed.  “Still scared to go outside, to go home?” Suga inquires of his hyung.  “Yeah,” responds Jin. “I don’t want to get hurt, don’t want you guys getting hurt, don’t want my family-mom, dad, brother, sister in law, little Butter getting hurt.” The pale unicorn stallion begins to cry. “I just don’t want them after us anymore, after me anymore. We should’ve stopped early on in our search. If we had, none of this would’ve ever happened. We’d all be safe, carefree colts again. We’re all trapped in a hell I created, and for that, I’m so so sorry.”  “Don’t be sorry,” responds RM, “we’re family. No matter what, we have your back.” RM pulls Jin close to him with his own magic. They then all go back to watching the movie in peace while Hobi runs off to get popcorn from the kitchen. A few minutes later, he returns with one popcorn and four beers encircled by his magic to carry it. He soon plops it down in front of his friends and they begin to snack on it together. They end up watching three movies before all passing out in a brother pile in the pillow fort.  Three hours later, the sun rises awaking all the boys. V and Jimin climb out of their bed back at the dorm and Kookie does the same. The pillow fort gang soon follows suit at the studio. Suga heads straight to his own studio to work on some new songs while RM stays with Jin. Hobi heads off to work on learning the new choreography so he can teach it to the rest later.  “You good, last night I could tell Yoongi’s question kinda rattled you?” Inquires their concerned leader.  “Yeah, it did rattle me not gonna lie,” responds Jin, still in tears. “I just want to be able to go home, to see my family, but I can’t, not without risking their lives and my own.”  “Who is after you and your father anyways if you don’t mind me asking?” Inquires RM.  “Jopok,” responds Jin. “The Jopok.”  “So the mafia, I’m guessing it has to do with your dad witnessing his friend’s murder then, huh?” “Yeah, and our diving into it,” responds Jin. “We never should’ve dived into it. We should’ve just let the murders go unsolved.” He bows his head into his hooves, he’s in full blown tears now, “we should’ve just let the murders go unsolved…” RM and Jin wrap up their talk because RM clearly sees that his hyung needs time alone to destress and calm down before practice. RM teleports elsewhere in the building with his magic. Meanwhile, the maknaes are just arriving to Big Hit. Once there, V teleports the three of them inside to the practice room. Once inside, V seems a bit dazed. RM pops in front of them. He looks at V with concern.  “V, you’re dazed,” says RM one eyebrow raised. “What happened last night that got you like this?”  Jimin pipes up and answers for V against V’s wishes. “He got drunk and sick while out with his Wooga hyungs.” RM scolds V.  “Tae, you know you don’t handle beer well, what’s up?” Says the beige unicorn sternly and quite bluntly. He leads V into a separate room where they can talk more in private. “V, what’s up? Why did you get drunk?”  “Because my hyungs said they’d…”  “They’d what, V?” Responds RM. “You can tell me. There’s nothing I can do that will hurt them.”  “Promise?” Responds V.  “Promise,” responds RM, “now tell me. What’d they say?”  “My hyungs said they’d all…nope, I can’t do it,” says V shaking his head.  “Okay, Fine, fair enough, I’ll stop pushing,” responds RM. “Now let’s get down to dance practice, deal? The rest are waiting. Well, except for Jin, he’s taking a sick day. If you don’t feel up to it after last night, you can too. I don’t mind. I’ll let the boys know, you know that.”  “I honestly don’t feel up to it,” says V finally coming clean. He then teleports off to the bathroom to puke. RM teleports to the dance practice rooms to notify everypony else.  “What took you so long?” Says Hobi.  “V isn’t feeling well and neither is Jin, I was just checking in on them,” responds RM, “but I’m here now.”   “Okay, we’ll I hope they get better soon, we all do,” responds Hobi. He then motions for everypony to get in formation which they do. Jimin looks around confused while he groans to himself. “V told me he was fine, Taehyungie told me he was fine. Well, tbf dancing is a different monster than singing when you’re sick so I get it. He doesn’t want to puke over everypony.” Jimin shakes the thoughts loose and refocuses his concentration as soon as he hears Hobi call his name. They then jump right back into practice. They practice for hours.  Meanwhile locked away in his studio bathroom, V waits for Jimin and the rest to finish. He’s been puking every few minutes or so. “I never should’ve drunk all that beer on a bet,” groans V, “so so stupid.”  A few minutes later, Jimin comes flying through the door followed by RM who grabs the eager Pegasus’s tail with his magic. “Just a minute there, Speedy,” says RM as he plops the Pegasus onto the floor with a thud.  “But I wanna see my Taehyungie,” whines Jimin.  “First tell me, did he tell you what happened when he came home sick last night?”  “He said he lost a bet to Peakboy, their normal antics he said,” responds Jimin, “but I knew it was more than their normal antics. V doesn’t touch beer, not normally. Eventually, he told me it was due to a bet and honestly, I don’t doubt that at all.”  “Well, thanks for telling me, Jiminy, now go see Taehyung. I won’t keep you any longer.” Hearing this Jimin flies through the studio door and embraces Taehyung in a hug.  “You told them, didn’t you?” Says V scolding his best friend.  “Literally just RM,” responds Jimin, “I promise.”  “Okay,” responds V. “Okay.” He teleports to the bathroom and pukes once more.  Three days later, V finally feels back to his old self and jumps headfirst back into practice including extra hours to catch up on all the choreography practice he missed while he was sick.  As for Jin, he continues to put up walls when it comes to everypony that’s not RM. He becomes more reclusive. He quits doing concerts, tours. He becomes a ghost. RM can’t help but worry. A few days later, Jin disappears without a word and without a trace. Worried, RM and the boys head out in search of their friend, their brother.  “Jin! Jin! Jin!” Hollers RM through the woods outside of the studio. “Where are you, hyung?”  “Jin! Hyung!” Holler the rest in unison. “Where are you?” The unicorns light up their horns as it begins to get dark out. “Jin! Jin, where are you?”  Meanwhile in the Jopok headquarters, the slate Gray stallion and another pull a bag off of Jin and his father’s heads with their magic.  “What, what do you want with us?” Says Jin.  “Let my boy go,” demands Jin’s father, “he only deep dived into the disappearances because I asked him to. He’s not at fault, I am.” Jin’s father begins to cry. “You murdered my friend, I just wanted answers and my boy was just so ready and rearing to help that I let him.” Jin’s father is in full blown tears at this point. “Please just kill me and let my son go.”  “No,” a voice booms through the room as a large black unicorn stallion enters the room. “Both of you have to pay for what you’ve seen, witnessed, heard.” With that, he comes forward and around the chairs where the two stallions are sat. He pulls out a knife with his magic and puts it to Jin’s father’s throat. He then brings it back and away from the terrified stallion.  Meanwhile, the boys continue to search through the woods for their friend to no avail. Dejected, they return to the studio and report the disappearance to Bang PD and the others. “What do you mean Jin is missing? Like missing missing?” Inquires Bang.  “Yes,” responds RM. “And even I have no idea where he’s gone.” RM’s eyes begin to fill with tears, “no pony here knows where he’s gone. He just up and disappeared.”  “Did he get in trouble with anyone big?” Inquires Bang.  “Can I talk to you about that in private?” RM shoots back.  “Of course, let’s go to my office,” responds Bang understandingly. RM follows Bang to his office and there they continue to talk.  “What happened? Who did Jin get in hot water with to the point he’s now missing?” Inquires Bang.  “He, he ticked off the Jopok,” responds RM with a stutter. “I’m starting to think that’s why he disappeared.”  “Yeah, that sounds like it would track,” responds Bang. “But we’ll do whatever we can to find him, I promise.”  “Okay,” responds RM. He lets out a sigh. “Here’s hoping we can find him in time.” He opens the door with his magic and walks out. Even without Jin, practice still has to go on much to their dismay.