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It was a normal day; the sun was shining. You could hear people on the market scream and talk. King Arthur was sitting in his office doing some paper work.
“Finally done!” Arthur yelled out loud from relief once he finished all the papers. He looked next to him, where someone was sitting, staring at the papers. Arthur chuckled and shakes the person a bit “Dann?” Dann blinked a few times before he looked over at Arthur “Yes?”. “Are you okay? Is it too much for you??” Arthur asked in a worried tone. “I am fine, don’t worry Arthur. Just still processing things I guess…” Arthur let’s out a sigh and hugged him “I told you multiple times, it’s not your fault. We’ve forgiven you. If I really hated you, would I’ve let my hair turn blue so you won’t feel alone? No, but here I am now.” Dann smiled and nodded “You are right but that won’t fix the fact I’ve been gone for a few months.” Arthur pouts “I know… but you are here now and that’s what counts. The black crown really took a lot of energy from you… you needed it.” Dann sighs “Guess you’re right…” Arthur laughed “I’m always right.” He crossed his arms. Dann stood up “No you’re not.” Arthur stood up quickly and makes Dann sit again “Careful!” Dann chuckled “Arthur it’s been 3 weeks since I woke up, I am doing just fine.” Arthur shakes his head “No, because I saw your legs shaking. Dann the walking will come with time.” Dann sighs “Arthur… I can walk just fine it’s just a bit unstable right now.” Arthur took a deep breath and looked at the ground “You’re right… I just want you to stay safe… I had to worry about you for 6 full months… 6 months Dann!”. “I know, I know… Isn’t the first time I wasn’t fully conscious.” Arthur nodded, he wanted to say something but he suddenly heard someone say his name. he turned his head to the door.
“Hongjoong!” Arthur said excited and stood up. “Wait… HONGJOONG??! What are you doing here? Is that the cromer??” he points at the hourglass in Hongjoong’s hand. Hongjoong nodded and said in an upset tone “I need all of yours help… it’s urgent…” Dann stood up quickly “What’s the matter…?” Hongjoong walked over and puts the cromer down. “Yeosang is missing… and we can’t find him.” Dann looked shocked while losing his balance. “Oh… how did that happen…?” Arthur looked at Dann “Careful…” Hongjoong smiled a bit “We don’t know… but we are really worried.”
After he said that a voice behind him suddenly said “So am I.” Arthur looked and smiled “Ivan! you’re here! What’s the matter??” Ivan walked in fully, having a hood over his head “Besides my hair looking weird the black crown is gone, I can feel it.” Arthur looked shocked and looked at Dann “Did you know about this?” Dann slowly nodded and said “I’ve known for some time now… but I didn’t want to worry you all…” Hongjoong looked over at them “Wait what now?! The black crown is gone???” Ivan looked at Hongjoong nodded “Yes, but considering the reason it got created, it shouldn’t cause much harm at first. We can help find Yeosang.” He smiled calmly. The smile freaked Hongjoong and made him back up “What happened to you??!” Ivan took the hood off his head and questioned “Is it really that bad?” Hongjoong was amazed when he saw Ivan’s hair, which was in a very light pink shade and wavy. “No no no! I was surprised by the smile. I don’t think I’ve seen you smile like that before.” Ivan chuckled “That’s fine, that was everyone their first reaction.” Hongjoong nodded “So you guys will help us find him? Great! I’ll be right back, but first I need all of your clothing sizes.” Arthur laughed a bit “For what?” Hongjoong shakes his head “Never mind, be right back.” With that Hongjoong turned around the cromer and disappeared. Dann looked confused “Where did he go?” Arthur shrugged and looked at Ivan “Your hair looks amazing!” Ivan looked at Arthur “Thank you… Chiwoo decided on the color.” Arthur smiled “He made a good choice.”
Hongjoong returned and help a big bag and a small bag. “Okay, let’s first find the others. Ivan, do you know where Chiwoo is?” Ivan nodded “I do, if I remember correctly; He is comforting Jahan.” Hongjoong nodded “Let’s go.” The king of snow looked at him and gave a calm nod in response. Arthur looked at them “I will come also.” Dann chuckled “Arthur, they will come back don’t worry about it.” The younger king sighed as he looked at the older king in front of him “I know, don’t ruin the fun Dann.” Hongjoong laughed “Also Dann, glad to see you are awake since the last time we saw each other. Or at least when I saw you.” Dann looked away slowly and stayed quiet. Ivan shakes his head quickly “Don’t mention that…” Hongjoong looked at Ivan and nodded calmly. “Okay, I promise I won’t. I can’t promise the same for the others.” Dann sighed “It’s fine, let’s go to Chiwoo and Jahan.” The ATEEZ leader looked at Dann “We will, but where are the other 2? Mujin and Louis.” Arthur thought about it “Mujin is at his kingdom while if I am correct Louis is taking a walk outside right now.” Ivan nodded “I’ll teleport us to Mujin first. That’s easier in my eyes.” Hongjoong nodded “Sounds good!”
With that Ivan teleported himself and the other three in the room to Mujin’s kingdom; landing in front of the palace.
Ivan got nervous and looked at his feet, a bit messing with his fingers. Hongjoong noticed and grabbed his hands making Ivan flinch and pull his hands away. That shocked Hongjoong a bit. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you. I just wanted to comfort you.” He spoke softly toward Ivan. Ivan shrugged “Not needed, I’m just fine.” He sounded a bit cold. He stood up fully straight and formal as always and walked into the palace as the guards moved away with a scared expression. Seeing those expression made him lower his shoulders a bit. Dann watched with a worried expression “Poor Ivan…” Arthur nodded in agreement “Yeah poor snowflake.” Hongjoong looked confused for a moment “His hair is pink… not white anymore…” Arthur looked over “I know! I’ve called him that ever since we were little.” Dann sighed “Let’s just head in.” Hongjoong went inside and smiled “Let’s go then!”
They all walk in and quickly caught up with Ivan. Ivan stood in front of the door of Mujin’s office. Arthur chuckled a bit because Ivan was simply staring at it. He stepped forward and knocked on the door calmly “Mujin?? You in here? It’s me Arthur!” The door quickly opened and it showed Mujin with a big smile on his face. “Arthur! Why are-.” He paused once he noticed Hongjoong. “Hey Hongjoong! What is your reason of visiting?” Hongjoong sighed “I need some help… for sure now I heard some news from Ivan. I need you and the others to come with me to my dimension.” Mujin looked at Hongjoong. “No sorry. I am not coming, it’s not that I don’t care but I don’t want to leave a certain someone alone.” Hongjoong looked confused and tilts his head to the side a bit “Heh?” Arthur laughed “Oh you don’t know do you. Mujin got married some time ago. Like maybe a week or 2 ago.” Mujin nodded calmly “Indeed; not to Sakura though. She got murdered 4 months ago. The one behind the murder is still unknown.” Hongjoong looked shocked “What…” Mujin nodded and sighed “The person who did it was to quick to notice who it is.” Hongjoong hugged him “I’m sorry to hear that.” Mujin nodded “It’s fine. I never loved her but still she didn’t deserve it.” The shorter male nodded in agreement “So who is the lucky person you got with instead?” Mujin blushed a bit before he opened his door more, showing a male sitting on the desk playing with a small jar of ink. Hongjoong smiled seeing that “So that’s them? They look sweet but I really need your help Mujin.” The male on the desk noticed Hongjoong and stood up “Who are you? Mujinie who’s this?” Mujin took a deep breath before saying “Hongjoong meet Hiro… Hiro meet Hongjoong. He’s a friend of mine.” Hiro looks at Mujin and walked to him. He hugged him and held him close “How do you know he is trustworthy? He wants to take you to another dimension!” Hongjoong watched “I won’t hurt him and I’m not forcing him. If he doesn’t want to come, he doesn’t have to.” Mujin thought about it for a bit and looked at at Dann for a moment “I will come along… but only if Hiro is allowed to join.” Hiro looked shocked “What?! Mujin! You can’t do this to me! I don’t know that guy!” The cherry blossom king chuckled “But you know Arthur and Dann, right? They will be joining as well. Also didn’t you get along well with Chiwoo? He probably is also coming. You won’t be alone sweetie.” He moved some of the light brown hair out of Hiro’s face “And if you are worried about the other thing… It will be fine I promise.” Ivan watched “Can we hurry? I don’t like it here. I feel like someone is staring at us. Mostly Dann.” Dann looked confused at Ivan “What? Why would someone stare at me?” Arthur wrapped his arms around Dann and pouts “No one is hurting my Danny!” Dann stood there and said “No one is hurting me blueberry. The only person that will hurt me is me myself.” “DANN NO!” Mujin yelled out of reflex. He tried to get out of Hiro his grip but failed. Hiro had a small smile on his face as he hid his face in the others neck. It made mujin blush and embarrassed. Hongjoong smiled “He can come with us.” Arthur smiled “Great! Now let’s go!” Ivan looked at Arthur seriously “Calm down, there is no haste.” Hongjoong looked “there actually is, as I don’t know how you guys will react to everything and how long it will take to get used to everything.” Dann thought about that and gave a nod in agreement “Hongjoong is right.” Mujin nodded “Let’s go then.” He grabbed Hiro’s hand and gave a big smile.
Ivan teleported everyone back to Arthur’s castle. When he arrived he sat down on the floor. “Now that’s done, Chiwoo is in Jahan's room while Louis is I bet in his own". Hongjoong nodded and gave the clothes he had to Arthur “here you decide this over all eight of you.” Arthur held it “But…” before he could continue Hongjoong had already left the room.
Arthur sighed and looked at the bags he got handed. He opened one of them and checked the things inside it. “These are some weird clothes…” he held up a shirt. Ivan took it and checked it “It looks weird indeed, but I bet its normal where he comes from.” Hiro held onto Mujin and looked at them and asked “So we are going to wear that??” Arthur started to take everything out and make outfits the best he could. But noticed the outfits were in plastic bags and sorted already. He only had to decide who wears what. “Okay um Dann, you wear this one!” He hands Dann the bag. Dann held the bag and checked what was inside of it “should I put it on now?” Ivan looked at it “it might be too big so let me change the size.” He stood up and walked over to Dann. He changed the size and smiled at him “there you go.” Dann walked out the room with the clothes.
For the next 30 minutes Arthur sorted the clothes to someone. And the ones already in the room went to put them on. Hongjoong got back with Chiwoo on his back while Jahan and Louis walked next to him “And did you manage to sort it out?” Arthur held up 3 plastic bags “I did! I have the ones for Louis, Jahan and Chiwoo here! The others are already changing into their clothes. Ivan used some magic to make sure everyone would fit the clothes. Including these.” Louis walked over and chuckled “So we are actually going huh? I’m surprised.” Arthur chuckled a bit and hands a bag to Louis “Go put it on.” He walked to Jahan calmly and handed him his, he looked at the youngest king on Hongjoong’s back and got worried “Is he okay…?” Jahan took his bag and answered “He’s feeling guilty for something that was outside his control… I told him a million times it’s okay but he’s like: But she got killed because they wanted revenge towards you because I got hurt in your kingdom. It confused me but it’s not his fault.” Hongjoong sighed a bit and took Chiwoo off his back and puts him on his legs “Chiwoo it’s okay. You heard Jahan…” he wipes some tears away on Chiwoo’s face. Chiwoo looked at Jahan and then Hongjoong “Okay then… I should focus on more important things… like…” he calmed down from his crying session and took the bag of clothes from Arthur “This, we need to find Yeosang.” He quickly headed out the room and went to his own.
Jahan smiled a bit and nodded “I should also get changed quickly.” He walks out calmly. Arthur grabbed the one he assigned to himself and walked out “Be right back, I hope.” He said as last
It took a whole hour for everyone to get ready, Hongjoong had to help everyone out at least twice. Once everyone was ready Hongjoong complimented on how everyone looked. Besides most of the clothes being mostly stage clothes he grabbed from the storage; Arthur did a great job in sorting them out. Chiwoo looked at Hiro and laughed a bit “Your outfit gives me the vibes of a vampire!” Hiro looked confused “Vibes???” Chiwoo gave a quick nod “Yes! You know the feelings of??” Mujin laughed a bit “But he isn’t…” Hongjoong laughed a bit “It’s fine, It’s an outfit of Seonghwa.” Hiro looked at it confused “Who is Seonghwa?” Mujin smiled “A really nice guy.” Hongjoong nodded calmly “He is indeed, Mujin you are wearing an outfit of San. Dann, you are wearing something of Mingi. Jahan, you are wearing something of Jongho. Arthur, you are wearing an outfit of Yunho. Ivan, you are wearing an outfit of Wooyoung. Louis, you are wearing something of mine. Chiwoo… You are wearing something of…. Yeosang…” he let’s out a small sigh saying the last part. Chiwoo smiled a bit “It looks different but I like it” Hongjoong smiled “I am glad.” He grabbed the cromer he had put down on Arthur’s desk and said “So everyone ready?” Everyone either nodded or said something to show they were ready. Hongjoong made sure everyone stood ready and was ready to take them to the place he called home.
“Keep an eye on him.” A still unknown someone with a stern voice said to someone that was sitting on the floor in front of him “What?” The other person said. This person had a way softer voice. “You heard me, follow the youngest and make sure he won’t do anything stupid.” “But Kai…” the soft voice spoke in a nervous tone. “You heard me! Now go! Without him you are the youngest here! You’ll fit in perfectly and maybe then you can get redeemed for what you did!” The person with the softer voice let’s out a small sigh before getting up slowly and following the group of 9 to the universe where ATEEZ lives.
“Well done, I knew one day you will listen to me and show me some respect.”