part seventy seven
EXO COMEBACK EUREUREONG
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[hg] spirited away. team chen.
(Anonymous) 2013-08-05 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)Re: [hg] spirited away. team chen.
(Anonymous) 2013-08-05 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)1575 words
Re: [hg] spirited away. team chen.
(Anonymous) 2013-08-05 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)Re: [hg] spirited away. team chen.
(Anonymous) 2013-08-05 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)a piece of paper.
a little annoyed, he sits up and squints at the windows. there's a figure squirming in the air, surrounded by white moths that appear to be attacking it. yixing recognises those blue-green scales.
kris.
he jumps up from his futon then, stumbling and tripping twice over the other workers' unkept bedding before finally reaching the large windows. wu fan's covered in tiny wounds where the moths had attacked him, and yixing can see tinges of blood dripping from them.
"kris!" yixing screams, as loudly as he can. the dragon stills, then turns its head towards yixing and flies straight towards him.
yixing barely manages to get out of the way. he lands on his butt, watches as kris crashes into the sleeping room. there's a buzzing in the air as the moths - no, paper - try to follow after kris, so yixing kicks the window shut.
the few bits of paper that do make it through are torn. they shudder, then lie still.
"kris," yixing whispers, then gets up to his feet to go to the dragon's side. his wounds aren't deep, but they are plenty and bleeding rather badly. yixing tries to wipe as much blood as he can using blankets and bedding, but kris is simply too long. he makes it half down kris's body when kris roars and turns onto his feet.
"no, you can't. you're hurt," yixing has him in an armlock by his middle but kris trashes and he's flung back into bedding. he watches as kris opens the window with one clawed foot, and stumbles out onto the roof.
yixing sticks his head out of the window and sees kris flying upwards to baekhyun's office.
he pulls on his work clothes and decides to head up too.
*
it's chaos in the bathhouse. everyone's busy, running around with an armful of food or fresh towels even though it's only a little past noon. the bathhouse only opens after sundown, but today seems to be an exception.
"there's a guest in the big tub!" a frog tells him. "he's a real high roller! you should go to him and get some gold!" he brandishes a handful of gold and shows it off to yixing, but yixing isn't interested.
"i need to get up to baekhyun's office," he tells him, but is frowned at instead.
"if he wakes up and sees us like this we'll all be dead," the frog hisses, then turns on his heel and walks away.
yixing continues climbing the stairs.
*
he's stopped by the guest just as he squeezes trough a dense crowd on the fourth floor. the guest looks familiar, but yixing can't recall where he's seen him before.
"ah," the guest's face softens when he sees yixing. he slides his great body over and stills in front of him. "it's you." his voice sounds like that of a familiar, annoying frog.
yixing bows low, since he is a respected guest, worthy of waking and throwing the entire bathhouse into chaos at noon.
"come with me," the guest says. he holds out a hand. it's filled with gold nuggets, but yixing shakes his head.
"i'm really sorry," he bows again. "but there is somewhere i have to be. please enjoy your stay."
*
baekhyun's office is on the top floor. yixing thinks that calling it an office is a colossal understatement, since the place was bigger than all of the worker's quarters combined. to stroll it through the front door would be asking for a certain death, so yixing takes the lift up to a floor below baekhyun's, and climbs to the roof from an open window.
he tries very hard not to look down.
*
yixing falls on his butt onto soft, carpeted floor. he has no time to wince or rub at his tender ass. baekhyun's voice can be heard.
panicking, he runs towards one of the many gaudy doors in the room, the one furthest away from the origin of baekhyun's voice, and closes it behind him.
he's in some kind of pillow land.
"papa?" there is a voice between the pillows. yixing jumps, not expecting someone else in the room with him. he looks around, but can't find the speaker anywhere.
"taotao?" baekhyun's voice is much, much closer.
in his panic yixing jumps headfirst into a pile of pillows.
the door opens with a creak.
"xiao tao? taotao?" baekhyun coos. "oh my dear little baby beefling." baekhyun's voice is dangerously close, and yixing curls into himself, hoping that trying to make himself smaller would make baekhyun not notice him.
"are you sleeping, my baby?"
there is a whine and a grumble from the baby in question. it sounds like he's right next to yixing.
"oh then papa won't disturb you, my precious little baby boy," with a loud, obnoxious kiss, baekhyun is gone.
"you owe me one for this," the baby next to him says. "play with me."
"i can't," yixing replies, staring at his hands. "there's someone i have to look for." he crawls out of the mound of pillows, but the baby - taotao? xiao tao? dear little baby beefling? - has a firm grip on his ankle.
"let me go," yixing hisses. he tries to wrench free but the baby's grip is really tight and strong for a baby. "i said, let me go."
"you have to play with me first," the baby is persistent. "or i'll break your leg." yixing isn't convinced. he rolls to his back and finally comes face to face with the baby.
he doesn't look like a baby at all. he's tall, much taller than yixing it seems, and extremely fit.
"you're not a baby," yixing points out. "you're tall. grown-up looking. you have eyebags."
"i was born with them," tao hisses. "how dare you." the grip on his ankle is a lot tighter.
"let me go," yixing repeats, a lot louder, not caring if baekhyun could hear. "there's someone i have to see! let me go!"
"no! play with me first!"
yixing sits up and shoves his bloodied hand into tao's face. "look, blood! my friend is injured and i have to help! i have no time to play games with you!"
tao screams.
*
yixing stumbles out of the room and finds kris on his side by a huge chute. there's three ugly-looking heads and a bird with baekhyun's face trying to shove him in.
"shoo, shoo!" he says, kicking one away. the other two scatter. the bird nips at yixing's hair, but he flaps it away.
kris has his eyes closed. yixing thinks it's a bad sign, so he dips into the pockets of his pants and finds the herbal cake that the river god had given him.
"kris," he says, forcing the dragon's mouth open. "i need you to eat this. it's medicine from the river god." kris trashes, and yixing remembers how horrible it tasted. "i know it tastes like shit but please just eat it for your sake."
kris stills.
that's when there's a crash and tao appears.
"play with me now!" he yells. "or else i'll cry and papa will have your head."
yixing panics a little. kris is still in his arms. "shh, just give me a moment," he says, trying to shake kris awake. "please, i'll play with you in five minutes."
"you don't have five minutes," tao says. "i'll give you five seconds."
yixing groans and buries his face in kris's fur.
"what's with all this racket," the voice that sounds a little similar to baekhyun's that yixing straightens himself and grips kris tightly. a piece of paper flutters next to him, then with a zing transforms into a wizard that looks almost identical to baekhyun, if not for the purple hair and the lazy, catlike smile.
"papa?" tao says, tilting his head to the side.
the wizard chuckles. "oh dear, you can't tell me apart from own father? well then," with a wave of his finger tao is transformed into a tiny mouse. "this will give you more freedom."
then he waves his finger twice more, and the baekhyun-faced bird transforms into a tiny, baby pigeon. the three ugly heads are turned into tao.
the wizard turns back to yixing. "this shall be our little secret," he raises a finger to his lips. there's a mischievous twinkle in his eyes. "i'll rip your mouth out if you tell anyone," he says with a smile.
yixing shudders. "who are you?"
the wizard bounds in on him. "i'm baekhyun's twin brother, chen. thank to you i got a good look at this dump," his eyes flit to kris. "now hand over the dragon."
"no, go away," yixing clutches kris tighter.
"he stole a seal from me, that stupid lackey," chen hisses. "my brother's only taught him how to steal."
"kris wouldn't. he's so kind."
chen laughs. "all dragons are kind. kind and stupid. eager to learn magic and easy to be swayed."
the baby that was once the three ugly heads starts stomping around then, and kris shudders to life. he raises his tail, and slices the magical paper into half.
"oh dear," chen says. "i was careless. well, then."
he disappears.