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Chapter 16 - Panthers

At 7 PM

In secret rooms of the tree house

After three hours of hard work, everyone was hungry. Everyone's stomachs were growling but the three rooms were clean as new so they could sleep soundly. Except for Taehyung and Jungkook, everyone was in one room. Jimin and Hoseok were lying on the bed dead tired and others were sitting on the floor looking up to the sealing while thinking about food. 

Taehyung entered the room and said, "Guys I will go upstairs and bring something to eat for us."

"Aren't you tired?", Jimin asked out of curiosity but his curiosity was satisfied without an answer when dead-tired Jungkook came into the frame from behind. He walked inside as a dead person and plopped on the bed between Jimin and Hoseok forcing both of them to make space for him. "Go Go you don't need to tell", Jimin stated and shooked his head in disbelief. Taehyung smiled innocently and went upstairs. 

The construction of the underground chamber was so simple. Stairs to go up in the corner of the third room. The rooms were not too small but not too large either. There was one common bathroom and two toilets on the side of the bathroom. Everything was in the opposite direction of the stairs. Parallel to the bathroom there are three rooms enough for four people to stay comfortably. Each room had one king-size bed with two beds cushioned on it covered with white sheets and four pillows. There was one broom for three rooms. The tree house had a good water connection for everyday use water. Jungkook had to keep the stock of drinking water on his own. As soon as Taehyng left all of them heard a scream.

"Taehyung!", Jungkook exclaimed as he jolted up instantly. Before anyone could stand up and follow him he ran upstairs as fast as he could. "Was he acting about being tired", Jimin stated as he ran toward the stairs while panting. Everyone nodded as they were thinking about the same thing. 

"Tae what's wrong", Jungkook asked worriedly as soon as his head popped out of the flooring. He saw the terrified face of Taehyung and without any delay, he turned around to see two panthers holding two larger dead deer in their mouth and looking at terrified Taehyung worriedly. As soon as Jungkook came in frame they dropped the deer down and bowed at him with respect making Jungkook tilt his head. But for now, he ignored them as others came and stood in front of him. 

Jungkook took advantage of the situation and bent down to hug Taehyung and released his calming pheromones. Namjoon shoved Jin behind him so did Jimin shoved Hoseok behind him, Jimin, and Yoongi stood in front of those panthers in a defensive posture. Panthers looked at all of them sadly as their happy ears went down. 

After lots of staring at each other from both sides, Hoseok broke the silence. "Jimin you know these panthers?", Hoseok asked them out of the blue. Taehyung was calm down too so Jungkook stood up while giving support to Taehyung too. "Me?", Jimin asked him while pointing at himself. "Yes?", Hoseok replied. "And what made you think that?", Jimin asked while raising his one eyebrow and folding his hands. "They are saying it out loud while repeating their names. They are begging you to remember them", Hoseok stated while leaving everyone dumbfounded. 

"What?!", Jungkook and Jimin exclaimed simultaneously. Hoseok walked forward and bent down as he stood in front of two pathers. "One is male", he stated while pointing at one pather who had a bigger figure "And another one is female", he said while pointing at a smaller one. "Mae Jun-woo and Rin Nara", Hoseok stated hesitantly not knowing if he stated the names correctly or not. Both panthers nodded their head in approval. Jimin tilted his head in confusion as he was thinking about something.

 

"Oh! You guys were training for the Royal Army back then?", He exclaimed out of the blue and both panthers nodded their heads frantically. "So you two are the remaining subjects?", Jimin asked and they got a nod as a reply. With that nod, everyone's shoulders relaxed as they signed heavily. 

"I was shocked after seeing both of them with bloody mouths", Taehyung commented innocently as he was trying to say he was not shocked after seeing Panther. "Taehyung you scary cat!", Jin exclaimed as his knees felt weak and he plopped down on the floor again. "Taehyung you dumbass! We didn't even have the energy to run like this and standing on guard is too much!", Jimin exclaimed as he passed out due to stress. Yoongi watched him and sat down on the floor too followed by Namjoon, Jungkook, and Hoseok. Taehyung was not that tired so he went forward grabbed the deer and kept them in the kitchen sink. He cleaned the bloody floor too and after that, he came and sat beside Jungkook. 

"But I can't understand why you can't shift back?", Hoseok asked both panthers. They looked at each other first before giving their answers. "So you are saying after the fire incident you couldn't shift back?", Hoseok exclaimed. "That's so sad", He continued. 

"But I can't understand why you are the only one who can talk with them?", Jungkook asked out of curiosity. "I don't know", Hoseok replied. "Why you guys don't come back to your original selfs. At least try to do that or you want me to command you to comeback to your original form", Hoseok said while looking at two panthers. No one knows what happened after that but their eyes went blurry due to white light and when they were able to see again they saw two naked bodies. All of them, screamed and shut their eyes tightly. 

"I will get some clothes!", Taehyung said and went into Jungkook's room. He got his pajamas for a girl and Jungkook's for a guy. He gave them clothes and closed his eyes again. Hoseok was there sitting dumbfounded as he couldn't able to believe whatever happened just now.