[FanFic] Fairytale Mess [Chapter 6]
Title: A Tower's story
Pairing: Yoosu
Author: BloodyRose
Rating: PG-13
Length: 12 chapters
Genre: romance, drama, comedy, angst, happy ending, magic, fantasy, fluff, yaoi
A/N: Sorry for taking so long, but I went to the sea a week ago with my friends and got bitten by a jellyfish, I had been in the hospital for a while and then I had to catch up with my summer term lectures and homework and all... anyway, hope you like it
Junsu opened his eyes and looked around, he was in an old, medieval place again, but this time something wasn't right, he tried to move his head and looked around, but it was as if he was mesmerized to the bed he was lying on, he could move the rest of his body freely, but his head was too heavy to move.
Junsu frowned and reached with his hands to feel around, his face was the same, although it was wet, tears were still trailing down his face, he had been crying when he was zapped away and he was still crying now.
His head was the same, but for one change, that is. His hair wasn't the same, it wasn't short anymore. It was long, really long. It was so long that it actually felt heavy
Junsu frowned, he knew this fairytale, he knew which one it was, but it didn't mean he was feeling any better. As he lied in the bed, looking at the old, stony, ceiling above his head, junsu couldn't help the tears trailing down his face. He felt so stupid right now, he was crying, he was scared and confused, but he didn't know why, he had no idea why he was so sad and scared.
Didn't he really know? Junsu sniffed, he reached a trembling hand and wiped away his tears. The sight in front of him, the almost dead yoochun on the ground, the black figure standing above him and waiting, it was so real, so frightening. Junsu was so scared that he was going to lose yoochun; he was going to be left alone.
It was because he didn't want to be stuck here forever, yoochun told himself, over and over again. It was only because of that. It didn't have anything special to it, it didn't have anything to do to the fact that his heart was racing whenever he thought of the other man, no, it was just normal.
It took junsu a while before he finally managed to get out of the bed; he searched for a nearby mirror and looked, the unbelievingly long, black braid looked ridiculously strange on him.
Junsu looked around the tower room he was in, there were no doors but for the bathroom's door, but he didn't expect any. There was one big window though, junsu walked to it and looked down. The tower was a far cry higher than any tree around it, and the area looked really scary and abandoned, the woods looked haunted and there was no one nearby, no one to hear his screams and yells.
With a sinking heart junsu knew he was trapped in this tower until yoochun finds him, if he ever found him, how would he know to look here for him? Who says he even made it from the last fairytale?
Junsu felt the pain rip through him as he remembered the last fairytale once again.
Wanting to take his mind off things junsu looked around the tower room, nothing much to do, there was one huge book, the black book, the book responsible for all this mess.
Glad to finally find the book, junsu rushed to it at once, holding it and opening it, flipping through the pages. The index was different now, it included a few titles, more than the last time, it began with Cinderella, and then it was The Princess and The Pea, then it was The sleeping beauty, and finally it was The beauty and The Beast.
The book's pages were more filled now; four out of ten fairytales were done, it was almost half the book. Then there was another fairytale which just began. Junsu spoke the title out loud:' Rapunzel' and the book began writing the words by itself on the blank, yellowish papers, junsu read
Once upon a time, there lived a fair lady and her loving husband near an evil wizard. The couple wanted a baby more than anything; they spent their lives praying for one. Finally, ten years after, the lady finally became pregnant with a child, and happiness filled the small hut they lived in, much to the old, evil wizard's displeasure.
The wizard, hating people's happiness and keen on destroying it, decided he would be better to destroy his neighbor's happiness and so he charmed his garden, knowing the lady's love for sweet apples, and in his garden the wizard grew the best, sweetest and reddest apples in the entire kingdom.
The lady, seeing the apples from her hut's window every day sighed once again. She craved more than anything to eat one of those apples; she craved those apples so much that she grew depressed rather soon and refused to eat anything else but the apples…
The husband, seeing how sad his beloved wife became decided and sneaked into the wizard's garden at night, intending to harvest one apple and bring it to his wife to eat it.
The wizard, pleased that the man fell for his evil plan waited passionately until the lady ate the apple and then paid his neighbors a visit, he threatened to banish them both for stealing his apples and for their crimes, he decided, that he would take their first born child to amend for their crime.
The couple's happiness became misery and depression, they wanted a baby all their lives but now it was to be taken away from then and there was nothing they could do, they did trespass onto the wizard's garden and steal his apple. So, time passed and the couple only grew sadder and sadder, no more laughs were heard from the hut, much to the wizard's pleasure
As the lady gave birth the wizard appeared into their hut and took away the baby boy, he didn't even allow the couple to set eyes on the boy, knowing it will only add to their misery this way. He took the boy to his place and began raising him; he will raise him and teach him how to use magic so he shall grow to be his servant.
Time passed again, the couple grew so depressed and restless in their need to get their child back that they attempted to sneak to the wizard's house to get their son back. The wizard, annoyed by the action, didn't hesitate to torture them
Time passed and the wizard was growing annoyed more and more with his future servant, the boy was very pretty that he attracted a lot of attention and as years passed the wizard noticed others were showing interest in the boy since he was a young child
Deciding it was too dangerous to keep the boy around him he took him to a very high tower in an abandoned forest and locked him in there
The wizard left the boy there to study magic and live alone, no one knew where he was and to the outside world he didn't exist, his parents believed their son dead and everyone forgot about him a while later, his parents were driven to madness with the news were forgotten by everyone as well. The wizard's happiness was too big to contain, he grew more and more powerful with every soul he tortured and every happiness he ruined.
Years after years passed, the boy grew in the tower alone; he was very fair and had his mother's beauty, and his father's loving-heart. He knew no one but the wizard, who kept coming to visit him on a daily basis, the only way in and out of the tower was the big window way up, the only way to reach the window was to say the magical words to which the young boy will…
Junsu couldn't read much more as he heard someone yelling from somewhere bellow
'Boy, let down your hair, so that I may climb your black stair'
Junsu sighed; he didn't need to keep on reading the last couple of lines to know the rest of the story, he already knew it.
Junsu hid the book under the bed and made sure to wipe away the remaining tears in his eyes as walked to the window. Looking down junsu couldn't even make out who was it standing down at the bottom of the tower, he just knew what to do. Junsu grabbed his braided hair and dropped it out of the window. He watched it roll down to the bottom of the high tower and cringed with pain as he felt someone pulling on his hair harshly and climbing up
A short while later junsu stood face to face with a man, he didn't look much older than him, maybe a year or two, but junsu knew that he was much, much older in reality. Junsu blinked at the man and remembered something odd, the man, the wizard, looked oddly familiar even in junsu couldn't really remember where he last saw him.
'Why are you looking at me like this? You ungrateful child'
Junsu swallowed but didn't answer; just now did junsu realize that he was standing face to face with an evil wizard, a wizard who could easily kill him or torture him or worse, he was defenseless and so it would be wiser to keep shut and do whatever he was told to, he didn't fancy dying in this tower.
'Did you study the spells I told you to?'
Junsu swallowed but nodded his head slowly; unsure it was wise to say no
'Very well then, kill this bird!' the wizard hissed, pointing at a white pigeon which was now resting on the edge of the window
Junsu shivered now, he didn't want to hurt the bird. He didn't know how to hurt the bird. He was scarred
'DO IT!!' the wizard roared at him
Junsu shivered and looked down, not knowing what to do next
'YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING, UNGRATEFUL, WORSELESS SLAVE, YOU SHALL BE PUNISHED FOR THIS!!' the wizard roared and hissed something under his breath, an excruciating pain shut through junsu's body and he fell to the ground shivering and yelling soundlessly as he twisted around and writhed under the pain
'I SHALL BE BACK TOMORROW, YOU BETTER BE PREPARED!'
The wizard pulled on junsu's braid and dropped it down the window and climbed down on it. As the wizard did so, junsu was left alone on the ground shivering, crying hurting and half conscious.
When junsu finally managed to gather himself and get up it was a few hours later, it was already dark and he didn't know what else to do, he just sat down near the window, looking outside and praying to be saved, praying that yoochun shall find him soon.
Hugging his knees closer to his chest in a protective way and nesting his head on his knees junsu allowed himself to be lolled into relaxation by the sight of the stars in the night sky. Without meaning to junsu found himself singing an old song, a song which his mother used to sing to him whenever she tried to make him sleep as a baby, he sang and prayed he would see his mother again somehow, someday, soon.
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Yoochun urged his horse faster and faster, he didn't dare look behind him, he didn't dare check if the knights were closing up at him. He wasn't going to get captured, that's for sure. He had had it with all this junk. This prince act and all this shit, this royal duty and all the ladies around him wherever he looked, it was driving him insane. He didn't wish to get married, he didn't wish to rule a kingdom and damn it he didn't even wish to touch a woman! For the first time in his life yoochun was refusing sex and ladies, he just didn't want all this, he didn't feel up to it.
When the king announced to him this morning that he's expected to be married to his bride by the end of the day yoochun had had it, he didn't even bare to look at the man, he was handsome and somehow familiar, but he wasn't going to do it! He was so close to dying damn it, he was dying. He was shot! It was a miracle he was alive right now and he didn't wish to repeat the experiment any time soon. He wanted to find his nerd and get out of here
His nerd…
Since when was it his nerd?
Yoochun frowned as he urged the horse faster and faster toward the boundaries, toward the thick forest ahead of him.
Yoochun ran and ran, ignoring the yells and calls from behind him begging him to stop and come back, begging him to surrender and not to do anything insane.
It's just a damn forest, yoochun thought as he urged his horse into the forest. He didn't want to go back, that was all he cared about.
Going deeper and deeper into the forest yoochun noticed that the high trees were blocking the sun. The knights had turned back; they didn't enter the forest, yet.
Yoochun looked around; the place looked ugly, ancient, disgusting and almost haunted. He didn't fancy spending time in this forest, but if it was the only place where the knights will leave him alone then he shall stay here and find a way to look for his nerd, he must finish whichever fairytale this was and move on, he wanted to be back to his world right now, to the collage and to his broken family and to his lair friends, he wanted to be back to normal life. His near dying experiment made him see a lot of things in a new prospective.
Yoochun gasped as the horse rose onto his back feet, it must be something on the ground which scared him. the horse had jumped up and he fell off its back.
As yoochun's back made contact with the hard ground he watched the horse rush away, the horse seemed scared of the forest as well; he turned around and rushed out of the forest and back to where the knights were.
If the knights knew his horse had abandoned him then they will rush after him, he won't be able to run away from them, he would be an easy target. No matter how much they were scared of the forest, he was still deep enough into it; they won't need much time to reach him.
Yoochun stood up and began to run; he went deeper and deeper into the forest. As he ran yoochun's leg began throbbing, he had twisted his ankle while running. Still, he didn't stop, limping his way he went into the forest.
Hours must have passed, it was dark. Yoochun reached the middle of the forest or something, there was a tinny opening between the trees, in the middle of this opening there was the highest tower yoochun had ever seen. It was ten meters high at least and it had no doors, no stairway, nothing.
Yoochun stood there, panting, tired and hurt and watched the strange tower. Who would build a tower like this in the middle of the forest? A tower with no doors, why was it here?
The tower, yoochun noticed, wasn't abandoned like the forest was. High up in the tower and through the only window yoochun could see light, someone was in there.
If he could reach into the tower he would be hidden form the knights for sure.
Hiding in one bush yoochun decided that tomorrow he shall investigate this strange tower, he shall find a way in.
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Yoochun woke up on the sound of someone approaching him. Scared to be found he hid in the bush and watched as someone walked to the tower. It was a man, but he couldn't see his face as he was giving him his back. The man stood in front of the tower and yelled out something, yoochun listened carefully and heard it the second time the man yelled it
'Boy, let down your hair, so that I may climb your black stair'
At once a long, back braided, rope dropped from the window to the bottom of the tower and the man climbed it up.
Yoochun smirked; this was his way in for sure.
Yoochun waited, it took almost an hour before the man climbed down and rushed away, whoever this man was yoochun didn't like him. He sent out a bad vibe, a really bad vibe.
Yoochun waited for a while, almost an hour, he wanted to make sure that the creepy man wasn't coming back, and then he got out of the bush, his leg was killing him as he limped to the tower, but he ignored it.
Standing in front of the tower he yelled out:' boy, let down your hair, so that I may climb your black stair'
Yoochun waited for a minute and watched as the black, braided rope dropped toward him. Yoochun grabbed a hold of it and blinked, it wasn't a rope, it was a hair, a human hair!
Frowning, yoochun climbed up slowly, making sure not to use his hurt ankle as he climbed the hair to the window.
Finally, when he reached the window and got in, yoochun looked around, there was one man on the floor, a man with the longest hair yoochun had even saw, it was his hair he climbed up, the man was shivering and looked injured, he looked in pain as he writhed at the ground, his back to him
'Are you alright?' yoochun spoke gently, walking toward the man with hesitation, he didn't know if the man was dangerous
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Yoochun, this was yoochun's voice. Junsu was sure of it.
Turning around, eyes wide open, junsu looked at the man in front of him, it was yoochun!
'You're alive' he blurted out before he could think, he blinked and looked at yoochun again, willing his mind to believe that the man was fine and in front of him. Junsu tried to get onto his feet, it was a hard thing to do but with yoochun's help he managed to sit on the bed
'What happened to you?' yoochun whispered, the boy in front of him looked tortured
'The wizard… he tortured me because… I…I…won't kill the pigeon…evil wizard…'
'Do you need anything?'
Junsu blinked at him, was this man in front of him the right man? Was this the same jerk he knew? He couldn't believe so
Yoochun didn't wait for junsu to answer, he stood up, limped his way to the table nearby and grabbed a goblet filled with water, he handed it to junsu and whispered:' drink'
Junsu frowned; he noticed yoochun limp and was wanted to ask about it, he wanted to ask about a lot of things actually, he didn't even know where to start.
'You're alive… I thought you were dead' he finally spoke after long, silent, minutes
'I thought too as well' yoochun answered dryly ' the jerks shot me and I felt the bullet in my body, I felt myself dying… but then… then everything was alright, I was kissing you and we were alright, then we were zapped away, again' yoochun finished grumpily
'Do you know which fairytale is this?' junsu whispered, as yoochun shook his head junsu knelt on the ground, trying to ignore the pain in his limbs as he retrieved the book from under the bed and handed it to yoochun
Yoochun read the story quickly and frowned:' and what do we do now?' he looked up
'You must get me out of this tower and take me to your kingdom to finish the fairytale'
'But it is my kingdom, or at least it is outside the forest' yoochun frowned, trying to think.
Junsu sat on the bed beside yoochun, he didn't know what to do or say.
'And how do I get you out of here?'
'You bring up a rope or a ladder with you which I climb down. In the fairytale the evil wizard catches you and so we must be careful, he's really evil and won't hesitate to kill' junsu warned him
'I don't wish to be killed, again, trust me' yoochun answered dryly and shivered at the memory
Junsu nodded his head.
'So…' yoochun sighed and looked around
Junsu bit his lips, not knowing what to say or do
'We should do something, we can't just sit around like this' yoochun spoke, he turned slightly and looked at junsu
Junsu's cheeks blushed, the last time the talked it ended up with them kissing, and it wasn't a normal kiss, it was different. It counted.
Yoochun was eyeing junsu's face the whole time, the blush made him feel butterflies in his stomach, but the way junsu bit and tortured his poor, bottom, lip made him feel fie burning inside of him. He wanted to reach out and kiss this lip, claim it to himself.
A few more minutes passed in silence before junsu broke it, with a hesitate suggestion:' we… may…err…talk'
'Right' yoochun agreed, not really focusing on what he was agreeing to, he was busy watching junsu's abused and red bottom lip, it was so inviting
'Tell me something about yourself and I'll tell you one about myself… err…something like it' junsu went on
'Okay… who starts?' yoochun finally blinked and tore his eyes off the inviting lips enough to give junsu an answer
'You may begin' junsu whispered, the blush deepening on his cheeks
'Okay' frowned yoochun ' I…' he thought about it for a minute ' I hate home'
'Care to elaborate?' junsu asked
'Parents divorced. Mother is gone…Perfect father casting a huge shadow on me. Must be perfect in everything, nothing is ever enough…' yoochun shrugged
Junsu didn't say anything for a second, then he whispered:' I hated you'
Hated, he noticed the past term in his sentence and as if possible his heart began beating faster
'Care to elaborate?' yoochun threw his words back at him, a frown on his face
'You were a snob, you thought you could get everything with your money, you were with every girl, you and your rich friends always got everything easy and you never cared for anyone's feelings. I had to study hard to be accepted in this course while you got in so easily because your father is friends with Professor Lee, it wasn't fair. While I worked so hard to gather money to help my family you always spent too much money on nothings and… I hated you…' junsu finished with a shrug
'And now…?'
'Huh?' junsu blinked, not understanding
'You kept using the past term, which means something has changed now, so, do you hate me now?'
'I…' junsu bit his lower lip again, the poor, poor, lip, yoochun thought.
'It's not fair. It's your turn to tell me something' junsu crossed his hands and frowned
'Okay' yoochun almost chuckled ' I think I'm going insane'
'Care to elaborate?' junsu blinked
'I had a girlfriend, I was happy screwing around with girls, one night stands and all that. Now, I come here, get stuck in all this, and suddenly I feel pleasure in kissing a guy that I did when going all the way with a girl. It's driving me insane!'
'Which guy did you kiss?' junsu frowned, something was burning inside of him, he didn't know why
'Not fair, it's your turn to tell me something' yoochun smirked. He felt his heart beating faster and slower at the same time while watching the frown on junsu's face and hearing the edge in his tone, yoochun knew this tone very well. The boy didn't like the fact that he was kissing a guy, but what did this mean?
'I… I never really cared about it before… but…I... I think I'm…er… I like kissing a guy and I don't know why… I don't know anything anymore…' junsu blushed
'A guy or this one guy…?' yoochun smirked
Junsu went crimson red now
Yoochun didn't wait anymore; he lent in and kissed junsu fully on the lips. Junsu didn't resist, he just kissed back.
In seconds, junsu was laying on his back, on the bed, yoochun on top of him, kissing him; junsu's hair however, was still dangling outside the window, forgotten.
The two men were so caught up in their own world, kissing and sucking and licking and nibbling, that they didn't notice the figure which climbed up the tower and into the window, looking so angry he could kill someone.
'YOU FILTHY WHORE…!'
Yoochun jumped backwards and junsu got up so quickly he felt dizzy. They both looked at the man standing by the window, eyeing them with rage
'The wizard' junsu whispered, frightened
'You…' yoochun frowned, why was the man familiar?
'The prince himself, huh' the evil wizard smirked ' I destroy his happiness, he destroys the king's happiness and the kind destroys the kingdom's happiness… oh what a joyful day, well not for the two of you, anyway!'
Junsu shivered with fear, his body still hurt from the last time he was tortured, he didn't fancy another go.
'You will not hurt any of us!' yoochun insisted, grabbing hold of his sword and positioning it, ready to attack and defend
'Foolish man' the wizard hissed and with a spell yoochun's sword melted down in his hands
'You shall die, little prince'
Yoochun didn't know what was going on, he was flying in the air, falling down the window. Everything was so fast. How did he end up falling down the window he didn't know, he was falling down quickly and he was going to die, again.
In the tower, he could heat junsu's screams, he could heat him being tortured and he couldn't take it, the yells, the agonized screams cut through his heart and he knew he couldn't die, he must save the boy. He had to!
Looking around yoochun saw the ground, it was getting closer. Yoochun was falling but he reached his hands and legs and held onto the stones of the tower, searching for cracks to hold, searching for anything. Finding a small crack in the stones yoochun held tightly to it, he was hanging in the air, half way to the ground, if he fell, he would break his neck and die. His fingernails were bleeding as they held so tightly on the stones; he had to do something, fast.
Yoochun remembered the tiny daggers in his belt, two of them; the servants had placed them there when they helped him get dressed. For his own protection, a secret weapon or something, they told him. Well, it was the best time to use them now
Taking out the daggers carefully with one hand while still holding for dear life with the other hand yoochun began using the daggers to climb up, yoochun stabbed the daggers into the cracks yoochun held onto the daggers and began climbing up slowly, back to the window, back to save his nerd.
His nerd,
It was his nerd, only he was allowed to torture him, and he wasn't going to torture him in this way!
Reaching the window and getting in, yoochun noticed the wizard with his back to him; he was torturing junsu who was on the floor. The long braid of hair was cut and thrown aside
Junsu was bleeding and shivering, he looked in such a pain that yoochun lost his mind
Acting without thinking, yoochun rushed to the wizard and with the two daggers in his hands he stabbed the man from behind, the two daggers sank into the man's back and he spit out blood, turning around, his eyes red with rage he looked at yoochun, he raised his hand trying to touch, trying to hurt him, but his time was too short
The wizard crumbled down to the ground and with one shiver he went still, for good.
Yoochun reached down to junsu, he held him in his hands tightly and looked at him, all pain in his twisted ankle forgotten, yoochun wiped some blood and sweat out of junsu's face gently. They looked at each other and they locked their eyes together, none blinked, none moved, they breathed in the same rhythm and slowly they felt something strange take over them, they leant in and their lips found each other in a lip lock
Lips and tongues intertwined together the kiss seemed to last forever, yoochun was holding tightly on the boy in his arms, it felt so nice, so right to be like this, in each other's arms. It felt so right that it scarred the hell out of yoochun, and junsu, but they didn't care, not right now
As they didn't notice the wizard sneaking up on them while they were kissing before they didn't notice the black shadow taking over the wizard's body and sucking it through the ground, making it disappear, they were too busy to notice.
They also missed as the same shadow came back for the book and wrapped itself around it, slowly the shadow sunk into the book just like water into a sponge, the book vanished as well, not sinking into the ground, but simply vanished…
Junsu kissed yoochun back, he allowed himself to relax in the man's arms. Slowly junsu felt everything go black again, the entire world vanished and before he or yoochun could say or do anything, they were zapped away, again, into another fairytale…