In the first installment of “Opposites Attract”, My Melody and her friends travel to the human world to save Hello Kitty’s sister, Mimmy, from the evil spirit Dar-chan! While they’re there, they have to juggle human “high school” and keeping their true identities a secret.
It’s a series of friendship, betrayal and love. Tune in to see how My Melody handles the pressure of being a magical girl, while feelings for her biggest rival begin to grow….
Chapter One: The Horn in the Tree
My Melody was frolicking in the fields of Mariland with two of her closest friends, My Sweet Piano and Flat. They were waiting for the arrival of My Melody’s childhood best friend, Hello Kitty! She was coming from her homeland of Cherry Town with her twin sister, Mimmy.
“How long do we have to wait out here?” Flat whined.
“Be patient, Kitty is coming soon,” My Melody smiled.
“You said that hours ago!” Flat groaned.
My Melody just giggled as she continued stringing together a flower crown. My Sweet Piano “bah”-ed as she shook her head at Flat’s impatience.
Eventually, Hello Kitty and Mimmy came down in a pink hot air balloon from the sky. They waved excitedly at the group down below.
Once the basket landed, Hello Kitty immediately jumped out and tackled My Melody into the hug. The girls squealed as they spun around together.
Hello Kitty exclaimed, “I missed you!”
My Melody beamed in return, “I missed you too!”
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It took a while for the girls to calm down, but once they did, it was time for all the fun activities My Melody had planned for the day!
They ran along the vast flower fields of Mariland, made cookies and cupcakes, made a bunch of DIY paper crafts, they had a tea party in the forest with other guests from Mariland, and Hello Kitty showed My Melody a new song she learned on the piano while the bunny danced around.
By the time the sun was setting, the girls were tuckered out. My Melody sighed, the flower crown on her head was lopsided.
The white rabbit then looked around, sitting up, “Hey, Kitty, where’s Mimmy?”
“Huh?” The cat stood up. She looked around the room for her sister, “Hey, Mimmy? Where are you?”
No answer.
They looked around My Melody’s house for a little while before they really began to worry. The bunny asked, “When was the last time we saw her…?”
“Well, I remember that she was definitely with us at the tea party! She asked me to give her extra sugar cubes,” Hello Kitty replied with a nod,
“Then let’s start there!” My Melody ushered them out the door.
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The two frantically searched the area of the forest where their tea party had been, as well as the areas surrounding it. But to no avail.
Hello Kitty then pointed to the darker part of the forest, “What if we check there?”
My Melody hesitated, “Um, maybe not. It’s dangerous there. The only person who goes there is Kuromi-chan.”
“Well, then it’s all the more reason to check for Mimmy there!” Hello Kitty gasped. “What if she’s hurt?”
Reluctantly, My Melody agreed.
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They trudged through the muddy forest floor. My Melody was on high alert as Hello Kitty continued to scream for her sister. Every branch that hit her face made the bunny jump.
“What are you doing here?”
My Melody screeched before turning around to see what was touching her shoulder.
“Woah, chill out, it’s just me,” Kuromi rolled her eyes as she raised her hands to show that she meant no harm.
“Sorry…” My Melody whispered.
“Hi, Kuromi,” Hello Kitty waved.
“Hey. What are you guys doing in this part of the forest?” Kuromi raised a brow.
“Mimmy went missing, and we were worried that she would be here,” Hello Kitty replied with a small sigh.
“She was here,” Kuromi nodded.
Hello Kitty’s eyes widened, “Do you know where she went?!”
Kuromi shrugged, “Nah.”
The cat visibly deflated as the demon bunny pushed past the two of them. She checked the hole in the tree in front of them before pausing, her eyes narrowing.
She turned around to face them, “But I can help you look for her.”
“Would you?!” Hello Kitty perked up.
Kuromi nodded. My Melody engulfed the bunny into a hug, “Oh, you’re the best, Kuromi-chan!”
“Yeah, yeah,” she pushed My Melody off.
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The three girls were inspecting the dark forest, looking for any indication on where Mimmy could have gone.
All of a sudden, My Melody stumbled upon a horn–maybe a bugle?–tucked into a large tree. Its opening was definitely large enough to crawl inside of. Curiously, she looked inside, but it was pitch black.
“What are you doing?” Kuromi scoffed.
“Looking inside the horn,” My Melody replied from inside.
Kuromi’s face scrunched up, “Why? You’re not gonna find her inside there.”
The pink-hooded bunny popped her head right back out, “You never know!”
“I do know. It’s just a stupid horn,” Kuromi scoffed.
Hello Kitty then approached the rabbits, “Did you find her?”
“Nope! But I’m looking!” My Melody looked back inside,
“What is there to look at?” Hello Kitty tried making room for herself to look inside the dark hole, but her bunny friend then disappeared.
It was almost like she was sucked into this musical instrument.
Kuromi’s eyes widened, looking at Hello Kitty, “What did you do?!”
“I don’t know! I just pushed My Melody in a little bit, and then she suddenly vanished!” The cat replied frantically.
“Well, what are you doing just sitting there, then?! Go in after her!” The demon bunny began pushing Hello Kitty deeper into the horn.
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On the other side, My Melody had found herself spat out onto the pavement in front of a large building. The sign on the archway in front of her read: “Yumemigaoka Junior High School”. Her eyebrows furrowed before looking back down at her paws–
Badtz-Maru can’t stop thinking about what My Melody admitted to him about Kuromi. Especially the part where she was a homosexual. He hadn’t even realized that being one of “those people” while having been brought up religious was even an option!
Regardless, it has him realizing that the feelings he had been feeling for his best friend, Hana-Maru, hadn't exactly been all that platonic. And now he can’t get that seal out of his mind.
So, he talks about it to the only person he knows will understand him–My Melody.
Badtz-Maru thinks My Melody has a crush on him in high school. He confronts her about it. She tells him she doesn’t. He points out that she’s always staring at him. She ends up admitting, she doesn’t know why, that she’s not looking at him… but looking at Kuromi.
At this point it’s very known in their high school that Kuromi has a big crush on Badtz, so she’s always seen around him.
He is confused at first, because they’re both girls, and he grew up religious. But it clicks when she gives him a pained look.
im on fire tonight lmao (all written from the toilet)
Kuromelo but Kuromi only gets with My Melody because she wants the pink bunny for not being as nice as everybunny thinks she is. (She is tho.) But the demon bunny slowly falls in love with My Melody, but it’s too late because she found out what was going on.
And My Melody is too heartbroken to talk it over with Kuromi after she breaks up with the goth. She had finally opened up to the girl she had pining for after years, and even went against her religion for this dark girl. She had finally accepted that she was a lesbian, but was splashed with ice-cold water that she was never going to get her happily ever after.
And they grow old separately, My Melody alone because she doesn’t believe she deserves anyone and Kuromi married to Keiichii.
Note: When I speak of Kuromelo, it’s an AU I’ve created where they are all human/humanoid.
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Me: “just a thought”
My bsf: “Absolutely not.”
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As adults, people always ask why they’re rivals, but neither can bring themselves to explain what happened in high school. For Kuromi, it’s out of guilt; for My Melody, it’s pure embarrassment and hatred towards herself for believing it was real.
And I just KNOW My Mel looks at Badtz-Maru and Hana-Maru with pure envy because they got their gay happily ever after. Especially because they have the same grumpy/sunshine dynamic kuromelo had. AND because Badtz was able to find a love outside of Kuromi (he also used to date Kuro in high school), and My Mel still had not.
Imagine My Melody lived in a very rural area of Japan, so she grew up very religious. Since she’s a lesbian, she doesn’t even have a chance for her to be in a relationship with a guy and enjoy it.
So, she very frequently begs for forgiveness to a god she doesn’t even know exists because she fell in love with a girl (Kuromi).
And just imagine her crying in her mother's lap, because one stupid goth girl touched her heart, and she can’t seem to get over her or love anyone else. And her mom doesn’t even know what to do.
while i work on my kuromelo tt and fanfics (i could do that forever lwk), how would yall feel if i made a drastoria fanfic?? not necessarily a question to my current followers, but would anyone read it?
i have a few ideas, but idk if i should go thru with it and just continue with my yuri slop.
hi, before this chapter starts, i would like to warn everyone that it does contain mentions of SA. furthermore, this is my last installment of my fanfic and it will remained unfinished, as i am not going to be continuing it (check my pinned post).
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Mira had Romance lying down on the couch. When he woke up, he attempted to sit up, but she quickly pushed him back down.
“You need to stay there for 15 minutes,” she shoved some pillows under his feet.
His eyes tracked her as she went to grab a glass of water for him, “Since when did you become a nurse?”
“My family wanted me to go into the medical field for a time,” she sighed. He took that as a valid answer until she added, “Actually, not really, I just searched up what to do when a person faints.”
She handed him the glass of water and sat down next to him. He took a sip.
“Well, they did want me to go into a medical field, among other things, but I never really studied for any of it,” she clarified. “Sorry. Am I rambling? Talking is more of Zoey’s thing.”
“It’s no problem. I like hearing you talk,” he smiled.
Everyone else then got back to the penthouse. When the two saw Jinu walk through the door, their eyes widened. Romance immediately sat up, much to the dismay of Mira.
“Hyung,” he breathed out.
“Hey,” Jinu gave the boy a light smile.
Rumi immediately went to sit down on an empty space on the couch, “Okay, we’re home now. Explain.”
The dark-haired man sighed, “Alright.”
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When Jinu sacrificed himself, his soul found his way into Rumi’s sword. It was a mostly white void surrounding him, except for how he could see Rumi above him. He felt like he was seeing the heavens above.
Ever since that day, he had been watching the woman through the metal between them. He wished he could reach out and hold her one last time. He didn’t know what was worse–still being able to see her every day, but never able to touch her; or have just gone back to his personal hell without her.
But, eventually, he wasn’t just confined to her sword. He was in whatever reflective surface she looked into. The mirror, a window, a puddle. He could be everywhere. Everywhere except truly with her.
He felt sweet relief when his soul was able to move out of the weapon. It was very blissful when he hovered next to her. But he still couldn’t feel her. His hand passed right through her every time.
He watched her write a song about him. He watched her cry. His heart shattered into pieces. He wanted nothing more than to wipe her tears away.
He should’ve kissed her sooner. Held her longer.
But he didn’t.
Suddenly, that night came. The night he had been silently praying for for so long. He had been on his knees, spilling his heart out to gods he didn’t even think would listen to him. He had prayed to the Honmoon, apologized for every wrongdoing he had ever done, repented for every sin. He needed her to know he was there.
And so he was. For the first time, she saw this version of him.
He still couldn’t feel him. His heart twisted when his fingers went right through her face once more. But she saw him.
When he looked at her, this time he knew she was really looking right back at him.
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“I’m just glad you’re safe,” Jinu concluded with a sigh. “If something happened to you, and I just had to stand there, helplessly watching… I would have been devastated.”
Rumi offered him a comforting smile, “It’s okay. I’m happy I get to see you again.”
“That still doesn’t explain what’s going on with the Honmoon,” Mira then piped up.
“I thought we agreed that it was because we weren’t able to turn it golden?” Rumi raised an eyebrow.
Jinu suddenly shook his head, “I don’t think it’s that. When you girls turned it rainbow, it felt stable to me. At least at first. But more recently, it’s been growing more and more…” He trailed off, “I don’t know.”
“Unstable?” Zoey offered.
“Well, obviously. But there’s a word I’m looking for that I can’t quite place…” He shook his head. “Whatever.”
Baby then huffed, “As much as I’d love to stay and chat, it’s getting late. We need to get back home.”
“What’s got your panties in a twist?” Mira scoffed.
“Could ask you the same question,” the boy shot back.
“Calm down,” Mystery sighed, a hand going to the younger man’s chest. “But Baby’s right. We want to get home safely. And make sure Romance is alright.”
However, Mira was quick to offer, “You guys could stay here.” Everyone gave her a confused look, she shrunk a bit, “I mean, just to make sure Romance doesn’t faint again on the way home or something, I dunno…”
“It’s alright,” the man with the light bangs shook his head. Romance gave him a disappointed look.
The three boys got up, Romance with the aid of the other two. They said their goodbyes and promised to catch up more with Jinu the day after.
If only they had stayed…
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Romance laid in bed silently. He had long closed his eyes. He listened to the subtle breeze in the trees outside. His heartbeat was steady, his breathing even. He was teetering on the edge of falling asleep.
But then the air changed.
A shift. A chill entered the room. A small creak from the window.
He opened his eyes, but it was too late. Her hand covered his as she whispered, “Not a word, Baekho.”
And he listened.
Now, a tiger can very easily overpower a fox. They are an apex predator afterall. And, compared to them, foxes are just so much smaller and more vulnerable. But not this fox. And not this tiger.
This tiger was physically stronger than this fox. But not mentally. She didn’t have to do much to keep him down. Not after years of conditioning.
More stripes grew into his back. Her tail intertwined with his. And it hurt.
His ears went flat against his head. But he didn’t dare push her off.
She had been careful and opportunistic. She had her window of opportunity when the lions went to bed. She took what she wanted.
She hadn’t bothered to circle him. She hadn’t bothered to engage in courtship behavior. But she did keep him locked with her for hours. Her tail only kept getting tighter around him the longer this went on.
Once she had taken what she pleased, she slipped right back out. Leaving him in the den with more stripes on his back than before. With a tail more broken and used than before.
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“Baekho…~” She used to whisper his name so sweetly….
hey y’all, i know i said i would be getting back into writing the fanfic… but tbh i dont have the motivation to write it anymore. i had so many ideas and i was rlly into it dont get me wrong, but things happened in my life—not great things—and they remind me of kpdh funnily enough. so, for my own sake, i wont be continuing my “APEX” fanfic. maybe in the future ill pick it back up again, but its a low chance. the chapters will still be up, and heres the bullet points i had for this fanfic:
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Her hair is actually black, like the rest of her family’s, but she dyed it pink at a very young age with the help of her older brother. Her older brother is actually the most supportive of her out of their family, even though they still don’t talk much now. (However, when they do finally talk again, Mira asks him to walk her down the aisle on her wedding day.) Dyeing her hair pink was her first act of rebellion, and she continued to dye it different colors throughout her adolescence. She settled on the same bright pink color, mentioned prior, as an adult.
Jinu:
He was actually good at singing, his old singing voice being his normal VA. But Gwi-ma took that voice away and gave him a new voice (singing VA) to lure in souls. Gwi-ma also manipulated him into thinking he could never earn anything to give his family a good life, so Gwi-ma could turn him into a demon.
Romance:
His ex is a gumiho.
After Mystery finds out where he lives, it isn’t long before his ex does too. When she does, she makes sure there’s no one else around and SA’s him. Even though he isn’t Baek-ho anymore (physically), she knows that it’s still him deep down. After the fact, she does attempt to kill him once more, but is unable to as Mystery and Baby come back home.
[Based off of the song ‘Silver Spoon’.] As Mira and Romance get closer, he starts going around to their penthouse more and hanging out with the girls and Bobby. Gwi-ma has already been whispering in his ear to kill Huntr/x, but obviously he won’t listen. However, resentment begins to build (partially because of Gwi-ma) as he spends more time with them. He sees how amazing their life is. Yes, he is aware of their sad pasts, but they were able to grow and achieve this loving family dynamic. Which he still hasn’t gotten yet, despite everything he and his friends have been through. Gwi-ma sees this jealousy and takes advantage of it, corrupting Romance’s mind more and more.
The last time Romance is fully in control of his body is when he pushes Mira out of the way of an oncoming car. They had been arguing after he spent another dinner with her, the girls, and Bobby, and for whatever reason he finally snapped (Gwi-ma is currently pulling the strings). The argument continued as Mira was walking him home, but as she crossed the street, there was a car that wouldn’t stop. Romance saw this car, Gwi-ma would have gladly let the collision happen, but–just for a moment–Romance took control of his own body and actions and pushed Mira out of the way, taking the hit for her. He ends up in the hospital and when he wakes up, it’s not him anymore, it’s Gwi-ma.
Romance: “You said you would love every version of me, no matter what.”
Mira: “But you’re not ‘you’. You’re not my Romance. So… [slowly raising her weapon]
…Gwi-ma…”
“Where is Baek-ho…?”
Romance is trapped in his own mind, because Gwi-ma is in control. He is constantly plagued with his own nightmares. They feel very real, since it’s happening in his mind–which is where he is.
Chapter 1:
The first scene in the penthouse is right before they go to the sauna at the end of the movie (probably a few days–max–after the Idol Awards). At the same time, Romance is releasing his first solo song.
After the sauna, the girls run into some of their fans.
When they’re back home, Rumi is alone in her room and breaks down, missing Jinu. She believes that he’s gone for good.
The next day, the girls finally find out about Romance’s song, “GGUM”.
They try their best to ignore it, but it seems to top their song on the charts, making him #1. Mira in particular is suspicious about this, thinking he might still be working for Gwi-ma.
They decide to ignore it and just go out for the day. However, they end up meeting Romance and Baby at the convenience store.
Romance is left star-struck on the way back, and decides he needs to write a song for Mira, since he is absolutely head over heels for her.
Back in the girls’ penthouse, the girls are eating as Rumi is distant. She doesn’t know how to go on without Jinu.
We flash to Abby and Jelly in the demon world.
We then have a flashback of Baek-ho, Min-woo, Min-ki, and Zeyn. Baek-ho and Zeyn are arguing.
Romance is asking Baby which snippet of his songs would be the best to release as a song dedicated to Mira.
At the end of the chapter, Mystery is shown to be looking for Romance.
Chapter 2:
We open up to days later, Rumi is moping around in her bed in the morning. Quietly wishing to be able to hold Jinu just one more. Confess to him, like how she was supposed to if he was alive.
When she finally leaves the room, the girls are already in the living room, watching Romance have an interview with someone about his latest song.
Mira and Rumi have an argument over how to feel about Romance. Mira also feels betrayed that Rumi agreed to a collaboration with Romance, since they were still supposed to be on a three-month hiatus.
When Rumi goes back to her room, she finally cries. Not just about the argument, but about the pent-up guilt and remorse from losing Jinu.
There’s a flashback to a call between Rumi and Romance. He proposed a collaboration for a song, she asks why she should agree. He says it’s because they both want something from the demon world. He says that if she helps him get Abby and Mystery back from there, he’ll help her somehow resurrect Jinu.
The next day, Romance is at the penthouse to work on the song. Mira still refuses to work with them.
At one point, she begins to warm up to Romance, telling them some lyrics to add.
We get a flashback to how Jinu found the other Saja Boys.
After about a day or two, they’re in the recording studio. Mira ends up surprising them by agreeing to also be in the song. However, she was actually in the studio to record a single of her own–“Bubblegum Bitch”.
Chapter 3:
Both songs are released at similar times, “Bubblegum Bitch” just hours to a day after, and are competing for the top spot.
They were a bit hurt that Mira released a song without their knowledge, not because they don’t support her but because they thought there wouldn’t be any more secrets between them.
Soon, there is a live performance of “Touch” and Romance spots his ex in the audience. For the rest of the day he’s on edge, trying to convince himself that it was just a coincidence.
When he and Baby are on their way home, they feel like someone is following them. But it turned out to be just a dog.
Once they get inside the house, there’s someone sitting on their couch. And that person turns out to be Mystery.
We get a flashback to how Baek-ho met Min-ki and Min-woo.
Back with the girls, there’s tension between them all. Rumi is emotional because of Jinu still–of course–and Mira is upset that they didn’t even care that she released a song. Zoey just hates getting caught in the crossfire, thinking about her parents.
We get a flashback of her parents always fighting when she was a child.
Back with the boys we hear about what happened during the fight at the Idol Awards.
Chapter 4:
Rumi releases her own song, now that she has the courage to. It’s “In Another World”. Her idea originally was to duet with Romance for “Free”, but the idea was scrapped when she realized she couldn’t bear to hear anyone else sing his part.
The next day, Zoey brings the other two girls in to talk. So, they do. They all reconcile and hug it out.
The girls go to call Romance to see if there’s any luck with Abby, Mystery, or Jinu, but they’re already at their front door.
Romance and Baby reveal Mystery is with them, Zoey gets all flustered, and they sit down to talk about everything.
Romance still refuses to open up about hearing Gwi-ma’s voice in his head, worried it will ruin everyone, specifically Mira’s, view of him.
All three boys are drawn to Rumi, not in a romantic way, but as if they could feel a presence surrounding her.
When Mira and Romance are somewhat alone, she asks him if “Sugar” was really about her. He says it is and there’s an awkward silence between them for a moment before Mira goes back to her rough self.
Zoey’s trying to get as close to Mystery as she can.
Romance head starts pounding as he almost faints just as there is a disruption in the Honmoon.
Rumi and Zoey go to investigate, Mira decides to stay back with Romance, while Mystery and Baby go with the other two girls–hoping that it’s Abby.
When Rumi and Zoey conjure their weapons, suddenly she sees Jinu in the reflection of her sword. She thinks she’s just seeing things, but Baby tells her that Jinu is standing right behind her.
It turns out that the demon isn’t Abby at all, and it’s just the usual lower-class demon they have to send back–which Zoey quickly does as Rumi is shaken up.
When Rumi retracts her sword, Jinu disappears. So, she refuses to retract it now.
He promises to explain once they get back to the penthouse as he attempts to touch her face, but his hand passes right through.
Chapter 5:
At the penthouse, Jinu explains what has been going on. How he’s been watching Rumi from her sword–which is where his soul currently resides–making sure she doesn’t get hurt. He was sad that she couldn’t see him, but he was content with the fact she was safe.
He says he’s been starting to feel a disturbance in the Honmoon as well. Like it’s getting weaker. The girls don’t understand why, since they sealed it, and there are no demons actively trying to destroy it. (Romance is unknowingly breaking the Honmoon, since Gwi-ma is in his head.)
Mystery, Baby, and Romance all go home. When they’re all asleep, someone breaks into the house. Romance is awakened by that person–who turns out to be his ex–and is SA’d by her.
We get flashbacks to similar instances and all her abuse that happened before he was a demon.
Once it’s over and she leaves, Romance sits there, empty and not knowing what to do until morning comes.
Chapter 6:
The two boys find him in his room, unclothed and all marked up. They help him get dressed, comforting him, even though he won’t talk.
After some time, he finally speaks up about it and they conclude they can’t stay here anymore. So, they go back to the girls’ penthouse.
They ask to stay for the time being, and, of course, they agree.
A few days pass and Mira is getting closer and closer to Romance. She still refuses to admit she likes him, but everyone else can see the feelings develop.
She refuses to let him out of her sight, since the day he almost fainted and because of what happened in his home.
With Baby, he watches how everyone is paired up. Rumi has Jinu again, Zoey and Mystery are getting all buddy-buddy, and Mira is being protective of Romance.
We learn that he’s jealous of all of their relationships and how he misses how things were before the girls.
We get a flashback to how the original band was formed and Baby’s trauma.
With Romance and Mira, they both open up about their trauma. By the end of it, they’re leaning in and he asks if he can kiss her. Her response is a kiss.
Chapter 7:
There is another timeskip. Rumi loves that she has Jinu, but hates that she still can’t touch him and that fact he’s still technically dead. Mystery writes a song for Zoey, while Romance and Mira are now dating.
We also get a flashback of Mystery’s trauma as he’s writing the song.
Romance and Mira meet an “orphaned” little girl (in reality it was his ex’s daughter that she had just left for dead) and they immediately take her back to the penthouse.
Everyone begins raising the little girl, calling her their shared daughter.
Most of this chapter is just cute moments and them still trying to figure out how to get Abby back from the demon world and resurrect Jinu.
One of the moments between Mira and Romance: “I will fall in love with every version of you. Whether you are a romanticized idol that everyone adores, that broken singer that nobody bothered to notice, a broken boy, or a ‘monster’ that is out to kill me. I will welcome death with open arms as long as it’s you. I love you. No matter which side of you it is. I will continue to love you, even if you can’t remember what we once were. Even if you say you’ve become someone I ‘don’t know’. Even if you love someone else. I will simply love you from afar. I will love you for the rest of my days. Even if I know it won’t be for long. I hope to love you even after death in the afterlife.”
However, Gwi-ma is slowly taking more and more control over Romance and it leads to a big fight between them happening on a date.
Gwi-ma makes Romance call Mira by his ex’s name and she runs off across the street. A car comes in and, for a moment, Romance takes control of his body and ends up taking the hit for her.
Their argument had, once again, disrupted the Honmoon. But, this time, Abby and Jelly were the ones who ended up slipping through.
Chapter 8:
Abby and Jelly are struggling to figure out where the rest of the Saja Boys are, until they pass the entrance of the building where Huntr/x lives.
They’re all rushing out–the boys, the girls, and their new little girl–because Mira just told them what happened to Romance, just as Abby is walking past.
Jelly notices them and tries to get Abby’s attention, but he’s too busy moping about. The others don’t notice the two either, frantically piling into the car.
When they get to the hospital, Mira is practically sobbing next to Romance’s unconscious body and holding his hand.
She manages to compose herself long enough to explain what happened. They all stay with him for a while, before the group needs to go–since visiting hours are over and only one person can stay. Obviously, that person is Mira. (Their little girl wants to stay too, for her “Papa”, but she isn’t allowed to.)
When they all get home, they’re surprised to see Abby and Jelly just sitting on the couch of the penthouse. Bobby comes in from the kitchen to say that he found them in front of the penthouse looking for the other Saja Boys and let them in, since he knew they were trying to find Abby.
When he asks where Romance is, they have to break the news to him.
Abby is devastated and wants to see him immediately, but they tell him he can’t–since visiting hours are over.
Baby is silently getting jealous, but feels guilty for feeling this, since Romance is literally suffering in the hospital at that very moment.
They all spend dinner talking, finally telling the truth about everything to Bobby, and explaining everything that’s happened since then.
After dinner, Baby’s in his room talking to Mystery and Zoey. He reveals that he’s been in love with Abby since they met, but knew he would never like him back. For one, because he will only be seen as Mystery’s little brother, and because he likes–
–Romance. Abby’s in his room, talking to Jinu and Rumi about Romance. He explains that he’s liked him for a long time (since they had told him he and Mira were together), tried distracting himself with Jinu (which, ultimately, didn’t work), but still loves him.
We get a flashback to Abby’s trauma and how he met Romance.
Afterwards, we flash to the demon world where Gwi-ma has sent another band up to the surface (because of the combined frustration of Baby and Abby, and the weak state of Romance and Mira), PINKVERSE (their manager is Romance’s ex).
Chapter 9:
When Abby visits Romance in the hospital the next day, with everyone else, they see on the TV that a new girl group–PINKVERSE–has made their debut.
Immediately, they all have a bad feeling about this group. Since the last time a new K-Pop group came out of nowhere, they had been demons working for Gwi-ma.
Everyone, except Mira and Abby, decide to talk about it outside, since they don’t want to agitate Romance in this coma-like state.
While they conclude that it could just be a false alarm, they should still keep an eye on them, since demons could appear at any time. And if demons do appear, then that’s when they’ll finally start digging deeper into this.
Back in the penthouse, we get some Bobby and Jelly bonding time. We finally get Jelly’s name for real, because Bobby is the one who ends up naming him.
Mira and Abby argue over who gets to stay with Romance for the night, but Mira ends up giving in–just this once–only because Abby hasn’t seen Romance in a while.
During the night, he finally wakes up, and everyone comes rushing to see him.
However, Mira’s the only one who sees that there’s something wrong with him. It doesn’t feel right.
PINKVERSE is only getting more and more popular, and, trying to combat this potential threat, the Saja Boys decide to release their “comeback” song.
Mira’s suspicions continue to grow as Romance seems to be distancing himself more and more from her. Becoming a bit more aggressive when he does interact with her.
When their song comes out, they have an interview. The usual questions are asked: why did they disband at first, where is Jinu, etc. But then they ask about a picture that had been taken recently between Romance and his ex.
He smiles and confirms that they’re together, leaving Mira confused and heartbroken as she watches from the TV. Even the Saja Boys were confused.
We get a flashback to Mira’s childhood.
Her hair is actually black, like the rest of her family’s, but she dyed it pink at a very young age with the help of her older brother. Her older brother is actually the most supportive of her out of their family, even though they still don’t talk much now. Dyeing her hair pink was her first act of rebellion, and she continued to dye it different colors throughout her adolescence. She settled on the same bright pink color, mentioned prior, as an adult.
Chapter 10:
After the interview, the Saja Boys question why Romance said he got back together with his ex and if he’s really cheating on Mira.
He lashes out on them, which takes a toll on specifically Mystery.
We get a flashback to his past being his family’s scapegoat.
We get moments between Zoey and Mystery and they finally make their relationship official.
Mira asks Romance what’s going on with him, why he would cheat on her, why he’s been acting differently, etc.
Obviously, he lashes out at her and claims to have never even loved her, she was just a distraction for his “true feelings” for his ex, and that he didn’t need her anymore now that he had his “true love” back.
Huntrix concludes that they need to start writing songs again, to combat PINKVERSE.
Mira’s heart doesn’t seem to be in the song, as she is going through another heartbreak. She hasn’t felt so alone in a long time.
The girls try to console her, but she lashes out, telling them that they don’t understand. They have their lovers, she feels like she just lost hers.
Rumi takes the most offense to this, since she practically watched her partner die right in front of her just weeks earlier and never once did she act like this. However, she keeps her mouth shut.
Eventually, they released their new song “Peach Soda”. It does just as well as they were hoping, but it doesn’t seem to knock out PINKVERSE entirely. They suspect it’s because of how much more demonic forces are at play.
Chapter 11:
Their daughter, Yeon-ah, can just feel the oozing tension with everyone.
Romance and his ex come by to Huntrix’s penthouse to pick up the boys and move them to the mansion that his ex is providing for them.
His ex recognizes the child, claiming that she was hers and Romance’s baby before he died. She had been taking care of her before she went missing one day, claiming that Huntrix stole her daughter from her, specifically Mira.
Of course, his ex goes public with this information and Huntrix is under fire for this.
Yeon-ah is taken from the girls and goes back to Romance and his ex, Inari.
The Saja Boys are taken to the mansion and end up living with PINKVERSE, which they are less than happy about.
There’s a lot of arguing in the house, the girls making moves on the boys.
The girls are working on writing their new song with Inari, and Romance sneaks out.
“He” and Mira agreed to meet in the park, near the street where he got hit by that car, and she asked him what had been going on.
They have a bit of civilized talk before it escalates into an argument. “Romance” begins to try and manipulate Mira, but it fails.
Romance: “You said you would love every version of me, no matter what.”
Mira: “But you’re not ‘you’. You’re not my Romance. So… [slowly raising her weapon]
…Gwi-ma…”
“Where is Baek-ho…?”
We flash to Romance being trapped in his own mind, because Gwi-ma is in control. He is constantly plagued with his own nightmares. They feel very real, since it’s happening in his mind–which is where he is.
Mira raises her weapon, much like how she did with Rumi in the movie, but she can’t bring herself to hurt him. She knows her sweet boy is in there somewhere, she just needs to figure out how to free him.
She spares him, running back to the penthouse. Romance/Gwi-ma doesn’t go after her, just smug and doesn’t see the point in killing her. He wants to break them down all together.
Mira tells the girls (and Jinu) when she gets back that Romance is being controlled and that they have to save him.
Chapter 12:
We finally get a look into Romance’s head, and it’s an absolute hellhole.
In his head he doesn’t look like himself, he looks like how he was when he was only a human. He sees the current of himself as demonic (which is only somewhat true) and just a monster.
He also hallucinates the other Saja Boys and they are just absolutely bashing him. It’s all of his insecurities being blasted in his head while Gwi-ma takes advantage of this, piloting his body.
Gwi-ma, through Romance’s body, tells the Saja Boys that he will kill the girls if they don’t cooperate. He leads them into thinking that they’re just going to be stealing souls again, but, in reality, he was lying and that Huntrix is going to die anyway. He just needed a way to get them on his side. He also gets into Baby’s head specifically that he’ll take Abby away again if he refuses to cooperate. He does a similar thing with Abby towards Romance, but, for some reason, Abby was more concerned about Baby.
“...And Min-woo?”
Inari also has a weird infatuation for Gwi-ma.
PINKVERSE is preparing for their performance where they will perform their song and release their newest song “Call Devil”. Their ultimate plan to kill Huntrix first, not just steal the souls of the crowd. It’s more of a trap, rather than them truly trying to steal souls–even though they would enjoy that.
Huntrix learns about the upcoming performance and begins crafting a song to hopefully combat them. However, their heart just isn’t as into it as before. Mira lost Romance, Mystery left Zoey, and–for whatever reason–Jinu hasn’t shown himself to Rumi again for a while.
They all decide to try to relax instead, just for tonight, before they truly try to pour their heart into attempting to defeat PINVERSE.
Chapter 13:
It’s the night of PINKVERSE’s performance, and Huntrix still doesn’t have a completed song. They’re panicking, but they attend anyway, since everyone is expecting them to support their hoobaes.
They open up their performance with their first release from earlier on, PINKVERSE 핑크버스 '냉면 (2024 PINKVERSE Remake Ver.)' Lyric Video.
During the song, they see the Saja Boys heading backstage, and Zoey can’t help herself but to follow Mystery–even though the girls try to stop her.
She pleads with him to not listen to Gwi-ma again, but he doesn’t have a choice. Gwi-ma threatened Zoey’s safety if he didn’t comply.
Zoey’s heartbroken as the second number for PINKVERSE begins.
They are performing “Call Devil”, putting images of them seducing each of the girls’ lovers into their heads (Romance is caught in a “love triangle” between one of the PINKVERSE girls and his ex). It’s all hallucinations for them to lose their minds and “ruin” their performance.
When they snap out of it, the audience turns on them. They’re basically seen as “psychotic” for their outbursts–even though they forgot about their “breakup” on stage from the Idol Awards because of hunter magic(?) that sort of provides a veil.
Which they don’t have this time. Their powers are weakening because of all of their currently wrecked mental states.
We then see Inari again, and she practically blacks out the entire stage, and sets them all in a dark void.
Gwi-ma had insisted on having a “fair fight” before killing them.
The boys, specifically Mystery, finally learn that the promise of keeping the girls alive was all just a lie.
The PINKVERSE girls and Huntrix begin to fight.
Chapter 14:
During the fight, a sharp fan gets thrown at one of the PINKVERSE girls that is pinning Zoey down, grazing the girl’s cheek, before it returns to its owner. Mystery.
The Huntrix girls are surprised, because the weapon that he summoned glowed the same way their weapons did.
However, there isn’t enough time for questions as their fight continues on the stage. Abby and Baby don’t know what to do, as they’re standing with Inari and “Romance”.
Romance/Gwi-ma then tells Inari to threaten to hurt Baby, since he’s Mystery’s brother.
Of course, Baby complies, since Abby’s life is still at stake.
When Mystery sees what’s happening to Baby, he’s torn on what to do. As he’s about to go to Baby, a flash of light appears and it’s a chain knife from Abby being flung at Inari, wounding her.
As she bleeds out, her true form is revealed. She’s a gumiho. And she’s been feeding off of Romance specifically, weakening him so Gwi-ma could take over his body.
Abby takes Baby away from Inari, but the former is then grabbed by the wounded Inari. Of course, she still has some fight left in her–a lot, actually.
In Romance’s head, he’s practically watching the torture of all of his friends–and girlfriend–happening. We can see him fighting Gwi-ma inside of his head, trying to take back control.
When Baby sees Abby being threatened, his own weapon appears in his hand. He quickly goes to slashing her face, letting Abby escape.
Abby has to pry Baby off–even though the smaller man wants to stab her–seeing as she was already lying on the ground seemingly completely ruined, pool of blood under her face. He said they should be helping the others instead.
So, they do. But they lose sight of Mira, who had taken a slight breather when Abby had taken over fighting for her.
When Rumi seems to get cornered by the girl she was fighting, someone appears out of her sword. But he wasn’t glowing, he fully materialized.
He had glowed when he first exited the sword, just like usual, but, after a sword of his own formed in his hand, all the glow transferred into the weapon instead.
Rumi is in awe as her lover protects her.
But then they hear Mira’s screams, and it’s her trying to fight off Inari.
Inari’s face is all mauled, thanks to Baby.
Just as Inari is trying to steal Mira’s soul, a glowing pink arrow goes right through her head.
It was Romance. He looked drained, but he had gotten his body conscious enough to protect his lover, and kill the monster trying to take her life.
Since Inari is now dead, her magic wears off and they’re back in front of the audience.
PINKVERSE also seems to be removed from the spell of Inari.
They spare the girls and tell them to take Inari’s body away and go somewhere safer, since they still haven’t fully defeated Gwi-ma.
The audience is confused, wanting at least a song to play.
Obviously, the girls start singing the song that they had begun writing previously, to try and finally seal the Honmoon for good.
Thankfully, it did as the boys joined in. The Honmoon turned golden and Gwi-ma had been successfully removed from Romance’s body.
Afterwards, he faints from exhaustion.
Chapter 15:
They get Yeon-ah back, who finally calls them all her parents.
Everything is explained:
Jinu was able to live again through the “power of love”–okay, not really. Of course, he would have had the choice to become human after the Honmoon turned golden, but he materialized before that–despite only being a ghost previously. That is because of Rumi’s constant wishing and prayers that the gods decided to grant her what he wanted as she was on the brink of death (all beaten by one of the PINKVERSE girls).
Romance became the host for Gwi-ma because of how emotionally unstable he was.
The Saja Boys and Jelly were able to turn human again because after Gwi-ma essentially lost all of his power and died, all of those humans he had manipulated and turned into demons had the choice to either live again or ascend to their proper afterlife. Those whose souls had been taken had their life restored or also went to the afterlife.
However, they all still retain their demon powers because I said so (really, it’s because they helped seal the Honmoon, so they were allowed to keep all of their good demon traits). The Saja Boys have golden markings and Jelly has more blue-ish ones now.
Once everything begins to settle, Bobby offers to become the Saja Boys’ manager.
Jinu says it’s okay and he can do it instead. Romance argues that he can do it instead and that the boys need their leader, and that it isn’t him. The two bicker for a bit.
Jelly then steps up and says that it’s okay. The boys need both of them, and that they’re not complete without all five.
It is then revealed that Jelly was also once a K-Pop idol, much like Bobby himself and that he can at least learn to be a good manager for them under Bobby.
However, even more is revealed that Bobby and Jelly had been idols around the same time and had actually been a couple up until Jelly’s “death”.
He had been murdered, taken down to the demon world because of his contact with Gwi-ma. (He had never taken a deal, just had been in contact because Gwi-ma was bribing him with being able to happily transform him into a girl or anything that would have made his relationship with Bobby socially acceptable.)
He had actually been killed by a homophobic “fan”.
This was also one of the reasons why Bobby had quit being a K-Pop idol and became a manager. The other reasons were because he wasn’t treated properly by his own manager or his label. Also because Jelly’s manager could have totally prevented his death if he hadn’t been homophobic himself and given Jelly more protection from others.
Bobby had actually been harboring feelings for Jelly, but was too guilty to admit them. He felt like he was betraying his “old love”, but it didn’t even matter in the end because they ended up being the same person.
This chapter is mostly just tying up loose ends and making sure everything in the plot makes sense.
Chapter 16:
Pure fluff.
We get to see everyone getting married, having families (having kids, adopting pets), and continuing on as a co-ed K-Pop group.
They still do release songs as separate groups, and even as solo idols, but they get more joy in being all together.
Both Bobby and Jelly are their managers.
They also post covers together for fun.
Derpy was supposed to be the ring bearer, but Sussie had stolen the rings and was the one that gave it to them instead.
When Romance and Mira are getting married, her older brother is the one walking her down the aisle.
For once in public, Mystery had his hair fully combed back. He wanted to be able to properly see Zoey walking down the aisle.
Abby and Baby had to have a very private ceremony, since being gay still isn’t super accepted or even recognized by the Korean government, but they didn’t mind as they liked the privacy. Their relationship tends to be fetishized by fans.
Rumi and Jinu finally release “Free” as it had been intended. A duet.
At the very end, we can see that the story isn’t quite finished. We finally get to see Celine, who Rumi has refused to get back into contact with, and she’s with a familiar face.
She had seen Rumi’s dad when the Honmoon had first broken during the Idol Awards, but she forbade him to see his daughter, claiming that the girl didn’t ever want to see him.
Since then, he’s been watching over her from afar–thinking he’s respecting her boundaries.
But the two adults are now-having a conversation about how Rumi’s dad overheard her expressing the hope that her father was granted life again so that she could finally meet him. He’s (obviously) upset that Celine’s been lying to him.
The fanfic ends.
i may explain other plans i had for this fanfic series in the future. questions are welcome in the comments
sry guys, i lost motivation to write for a little while, but now that the school year is over im ready to jump back into writing. ill post the next chapter soon <3
“Min… how did you get free…?” Baekho whispered as he looked at the light purple-haired man in disbelief.
“I didn’t,” Mystery sighed. “I never went back down there.”
“Hyung…?” Baby’s eyes widened as he stepped into the run-down house. He slowly approached the tallest man with watery eyes.
They couldn’t quite tell if he was looking back at them, with his bangs covering his eyes and all. He spoke quietly, “Hey.”
The light-haired man opened his arms and Min-woo threw himself into them. The younger boy began to cry uncontrollably as he clung onto Mystery for dear life. Mystery rubbed the back of Baby’s head, hushing him softly.
“It’s okay, Woo,” he whispered.
“Hyung…” Baby let out small cries.
Even with how touching the moment was, Romance was confused, “Wait. What do you mean you never went back down there?”
“I teleported away,” Mystery sighed.
– 💭 –
Zoey went to banish him away with her blade, but before it could graze his neck, he let himself be consumed by purple smoke and disappeared. He had been unaware of his younger brother looking at him in fear as he was being dragged away by their hot pink-haired friend.
When Mystery’s body reappeared, it was in the middle of a deserted park. Everything was still dark. He looked to the tower, consumed by a bright magenta fire. He shifted back to his human form, pushing his hair back to properly see.
He looked around, glancing at his surroundings. He knew this place. It’s where his life became so much brighter.
Slowly, he went down to sit on the familiar bench, feeling the wood under his fingers. He closed his eyes, reminiscing on old memories. When he opened them, he saw a holographic, rainbow sky.
The Honmoon.
It had been restored. He couldn’t help the small smile that crossed his face. He looked up at the pretty colors above him. He was mesmerized.
He walked aimlessly for days.
He had checked all of their old spots, but never found them. He had tried to get into their previous rented out place, but obviously it had been sold. He didn’t know to who, since it was a rinky dink old place that no one would want, but he accepted it.
He had rented out a place himself. A temporary home until he could figure out where his friends went. He paid for wifi and a few electronics in his attempt to find them all. He wouldn’t even waste time or money on food unless he was desperate.
Eventually his efforts paid off. He saw that Baekho was beginning to step into the spotlight again–figures–and each time he would try to get his attention.
All of his attempts had failed, until one night, when the pink-haired man had performed with Huntrix. When Romance went backstage, Mystery left the audience to go to the back exit, hoping to follow them home.
He slipped into his canine form. He sat and waited.
His ears twitched when he heard another door around the corner creak open. It was both Baekho and Min-woo.
He almost sighed in relief that his baby brother was also okay. He quietly padded behind them, trailing them and making sure to keep a track on their scent. He couldn’t afford to lose them this time.
When they stopped to look at him, he didn’t pause his movements. He walked straight past them, in an effort to not seem suspicious. He led himself to one of the doors that vaguely smelled like them and shifted back onto two feet.
Taking a bobby-pin from his own hair, Min-ki picked the cheap lock and let himself inside.
– 🍒 –
“The song is ready for you to release, I’ll share the file with you now!” Bobby chirped over the phone.
“Okay, thanks, Bobby. I’ll check my account right now,” Rumi replied. “Alright, bye.”
“Bye! Call or text if you need anything else!” He quickly said, she could hear his smile even behind the screen.
“I will,” she sighed as she hung up the call.
Rumi got the notification that a file had been sent to her phone. Immediately she clicked on it and took a quick listen. Once it had ended, she titled it and hit the “Launch” button without another second of hesitation.
With a sigh, she set her phone down on the nightstand and laid down in her bed. She tucked her sword next to her before pulling the covers over herself.
– 🍒 –
As Rumi began to rise in the morning, she stretched her arms and yawned. Cracking her back, she slipped her feet into her slippers and shuffled outside to make some coffee.
She stood at the coffee machine, a little awkward, as Mira had been in the kitchen making breakfast before her. The eldest murmured, “What’re you making?”
“Just some eggs and bacon,” the pink-haired girl replied. “An American ‘delicacy’ as Zoey puts it.”
Rumi nodded.
They went quiet again.
“Hey, uh, I just wanted to say…” The purple-haired woman cleared her throat, “I thought your song was really good. Nice job on your new solo career.”
“I’m still going to be a part of the group, you know,” Mira said. “This was a one-time thing.”
Her friend shrugged, “Even if it wasn’t, I think it’s totally fine. I… released my own song too last night. I thought it was about time to branch out anyway.”
“Really?” The redhead looked at her.
“The team is only as good as its members. We work well together, but we also need to be strong by ourselves,” Rumi explained. “By growing our individual strengths, we can also level up as a team. I just wished you would have told us about your plans.”
Mira nodded, “Yeah.. I’m sorry about that. I’ll let you guys know about it in the future, if I do write any more solo songs.”
“Cool,” the former smiled softly, her friend returned it.
There was silence between them once more, but it was much more comfortable this time.
“For the record… I’m not into Romance. It may seem like I hang around him a lot, but it’s just because he’s comfortable. He tells me about Jinu too,” Rumi clarified.
“Ah. Okay. I’m sorry for assuming,” Mira nodded. “I’m also sorry for all the things I said about Jinu, I didn’t mean them.”
“And I’m sorry for lashing out,” the violet-haired girl sighed. They smiled and hugged it out, “So, we’re cool now?”
“Yeah, cool,” the girl with the pigtails replied.
– 🍬🍒🌶️ –
“With the song released and our live performances, the Honmoon should be reacting. I’m going to call Romance to see if there are any updates,” Rumi said.
“Works for me!” Zoey piped up as Mira nodded.
But as Rumi dialed the man’s number, there was a knock on the door. Mira stood up, “I can get it.”
When she opened the door, it was Romance who was about to answer Rumi’s call, “Hey, guys! We got some news!”
Both he and Baby walked into the penthouse living room and Mira tried closing the door, causing someone to bump into it. Surprised, she swung the door back open and was stunned when she saw Mystery staring right back at her. Well, she assumed he was. It was hard to tell.
“Good news! Mystery is back!” Romance announced, gesturing to the blank-faced man at the door.
The light-haired man stepped into the penthouse and instinctively seated himself next to Zoey on the couch. She was just buzzing with excitement as she puffed her cheeks and balled her hands up into fists on her lap.
As the men explained what had happened, Romance kept hearing a nagging voice in his ear. He tried to ignore it, but it just kept getting louder.
“ɪ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ʏᴏᴜ ʜᴇᴀʀ ᴍᴇ…~”
The pink- haired man attempted to distract himself by staring at Mira. Obviously, she side-eyed him for looking at her, but it was better than listening to hell incarnate in his ear.
❝ ＳＴＯＰ ＩＧＮＯＲＩＮＧ ＭＥ . ❞
He continued to space out, hearing those little whispers in his head.
“ʜᴇʏ…”
“ʜᴇʏ, ᴀʀᴇɴ’ᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ʟɪꜱᴛᴇɴɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴍᴇ…?”
“Hey!”
Romance, jolted, finally noticing that everyone was looking at him, “Uh, hi?”
“We were asking you what you wanted to eat for lunch. We’re still kind of full for breakfast, so…” Mira explained.
“Oh,” he blinked. He attempted to get away from everyone’s stares, “Um, I’m fine with anything. Ask Mystery, he must be hungry after everything.”
Zoey immediately looked at the man next to her, “So, what do you want? Do you want us to order something, cook something– I can cook! I’m really good at it! Whatever you want, I can make it!”
“McDonald’s,” Mystery said simply.
– 🌶️🍑 –
“You know, I would have thought that you were the McDonald’s fanatic,” Mira attempted to make conversation with Romance as she bit into her burger.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” He raised an eyebrow.
“Y’know… the hair,” she traced an ‘M’ shape on her own forehead.
He blinked, processing her words before his eyes widened, “My bangs are not built like the McDonald’s logo!”
Mira shrugged, “Well, anyway…”
Everyone around them was engaging in their own conversations, with Zoey notably trying to get as close as possible to Mystery–who made no attempts to push her off. His face, or lack thereof, made it hard to tell what he was feeling. But it seemed like he was enjoying himself. Maybe…?
“Anyway…?” Romance urged her to go on.
She froze up for a second–Wait, why was she freezing up? She cleared her throat, “Uh, I was wondering…. Was that song really about me?”
“What song?” His pink eyebrows furrowed, cocking his head to the side.
She suddenly felt embarrassed for asking but pushed on in her usual tone, “‘Sugar’.”
“Well, duh,” he nodded with a smile. “I’m pretty sure everyone knows that.”
The boys felt a shift in the atmosphere of the room. All three of them looked at Rumi. She looked back at them, “What?”
Romance shook his head, “...Nothing, it’s just–”
Suddenly there was a ringing in his ears, a pounding in his head. He heard Gwi-Ma’s voice in his ear so loudly, so clearly, he almost believed that the overlord was truly right there with him.
“𝙊𝙉𝙀 𝘿𝘼𝙔 𝙔𝙊𝙐’𝙇𝙇 𝙐𝙉𝘿𝙀𝙍𝙎𝙏𝘼𝙉𝘿…”
And he blacked out.
As his head fell to the table, Mira’s eyes widened as she tried shaking him awake. Everyone else’s worry for him was short-lived when the Honmoon glowed red–a sign that a demon had escaped.
“What? I thought we sealed it!” Zoey gasped.
“I knew it. It’s not golden. We haven’t trapped them out for good yet,” Rumi got up.
Baby stood up, “We should check it out, it could be Abby.”
“You seem determined,” Mystery said simply as he took a sip of his tea. “But you’re right. Let’s pray it is him.” He calmly got up from the table as well before turning his head to Huntrix, “You girls joining?”
“Y-yeah…” Zoey swallowed as she looked up at the man.
Rumi nodded as well, before she looked at Mira. The redhead shook her head, “I’ll stay here with Romance.”
– 🍭🍒🍬🥭 –
Baby and Mystery walked behind the two women. The light purple-haired man sighed, “You know I’m not dumb. I know you. I know that you–”
“Jeez, it’s just some low-class demons,” Zoey groaned as she summoned her shin-kai and Rumi her sword.
The turquoise-haired boy visibly slumped in disappointment at the news.
The brunette didn’t take long to slash the demons’ necks to make them disappear, but Rumi almost dropped her weapon when she saw the reflection in the glowing metal.
Jinu was behind her.
Her mind was playing tricks on her. At least, that’s what she had assumed until she heard Baby utter, “Jinu…?”
The purple-haired woman whipped around and found herself face to face with the man she had been longing to see for nights on end. It took everything in her to not cry.
But she raised her Haechi blade to his neck, steeling her expression, “How do I know it’s really you?”
He raised his hands with a calm look in his eyes, “You know it’s me, Choo-mi.”
Rumi found her cheeks wet before she even realized she had been crying. Choo… mi?
“Choo-choo,” he whispered cheekily, making the hand gesture of pulling a train horn.
“You…” Her voice shook as tears kept falling.
Instinctively, he went to wipe them away, but his hand passed right through. His face scrunched up in pain, “I’ll explain when we get somewhere safer.”
As she nodded, she retracted her sword. But his body then faded.
Panicked, she hurriedly conjured the blade up again. Thankfully, he “materialized” again. He nodded, “Forgot to mention it would be best to keep the weapon out.”
YES IT DIDNT TAKE ME THREE MILLION YEARS TO POST THIS!! i do know that the chapter isnt my best work, im going thru another rough patch it my life (wow who could have guessed), but i had some down time this week with spring break to make a chapter for yall. hope yall enjoyed <3
He had rented out a place himself. A temporary home until he could figure out where his friends went. He paid for wifi and a few electronics in his attempt to find them all. He wouldn’t even waste time or money on food unless he was desperate.
Eventually his efforts paid off. He saw that Baekho was beginning to step into the spotlight again–figures–and each time he...
blurb for the next chapter thats 67 words <3 (pls dont kill me)
Romance groaned softly. He shifted in bed, his neck aching. He patted his sheets, trying to find his ringing phone. He accidentally pushed a bottle off his bed, causing it to shatter. He paid no mind to it, he could clean that up in the morning.
He finally plucked his phone up from where it was sandwiched in the folds of the covers. His voice was thick with sleep, “…Hello?”
“Hey.”
It was Mira’s voice.
That caused Romance to immediately sober up and sit upright against his headboard, “Hi.” Fuck, he already greeted her. He stumbled over his words, “Why- er.. What did you need?”
“I just wanted to know how the songwriting was going. You told the girls you were going to finish the song by tomorrow, so you all could practice it,” she recounted flatly.
“Right, right,” he looked around for his notebook. As he lifted his blankets to check for it, he added, “Must’ve dozed off, I guess.”
She gave an unamused hum, “Rumi gave me your number, by the way.”
Why did that question not even cross his mind? He kicked himself in his head for being so giddy about getting a call from his crush that he didn’t even question how she was even able to call him in the first place.
“Makes sense,” Romance cleared his throat as he finally retrieved his songwriting journal.
He flipped to the right page and saw that pretty much all of the song was done. Obviously not a surprise, since he was there when he wrote it. But it still stunned the wasted boy that he was able to finish writing the song in less than 24 hours–even with the extra help.
“Didn’t we tell you the song was almost done?” He spoke up again.
Mira’s whole body locked up. He was right, Zoey and he had said that the song just needed a few finishing touches that they would add tomorrow morning, if need be. She was even physically there when they completed their songwriting! There was no reason for the pink-haired girl to be calling him at this hour.
“Uh, Mira…?” He was concerned by the silence on her end of the line.
“What?” She snapped out of her own head. She then fumbled with her words before just completely hanging up on him entirely.
Romance was disappointed by her sudden goodbye, his shoulders slumping. He put his phone down and stared at the broken glass on the floor. He blinked.
How much would it really hurt if he just…–
No.
Now was not the time for these harmful thoughts.
He needed to finish up the verse he would be singing in the song. It still didn’t satisfy him all that much. And he needed to distract himself again. But hopefully in a healthier way this time.
– 🍬🍒 –
Zoey and Rumi were in the recording studio the next morning, waiting for Romance to arrive. It was pretty early, only about 6AM, but they wanted to get the song out as soon as possible. Or Rumi and Romance did, at least.
Awkwardly stumbling in, Romance panted softly, “Sorry I’m late. I’m a little out of it today and had some trouble finding the right place.”
“No, it’s okay. You’re just in time. Our manager, Bobby, just finished setting up the booths for us,” Rumi shook her head. “And if my directions were hard to follow, you just could have told me.”
“Nah, didn’t want to trouble you guys,” he brushed himself off.
Bobby then popped into the room with them and Zoey piped up, “Oh! Hi, Bobby! Bobby, this is Romance; Romance, this is Bobby.”
The pink-haired boy smiled, “Hello, seonsaengnim.”
“No, no! ‘Bobby’ is fine!” he replied. “I’m a big fan of your work. ‘Soda Pop’ was amazing, but ‘GGUM’ and ‘Sugar’ really showed that you’re amazing as a soloist too. And not a one-hit wonder!”
Romance rubbed the back of his neck, “Really, s- er.. Bobby. You know, your voice sounds awfully familiar. Have we spoken before?”
“Us? No, I don’t think so,” the older man replied.
“Huh, weird,” his peach-colored brows furrowed.
Rumi then spoke up again, “So, are we ready to start recording the song?”
“You’re eager to start, Rumi,” Zoey pointed out. “Don’t you guys want to practice the song together first before getting into the booth?”
“Not without me you guys aren’t.”
Mira. Again.
As expected, Romance spun around to look at the rose-haired girl, “Wow, surprising me twice in only twelve hours.”
Gosh, he was supposed to be his band’s charmer. Why was he such a bumbling idiot around her?!
She blinked, “What?”
“Like.. the call last night?” He laughed awkwardly.
“What call?” Mira cocked her head to the side, hair swaying with the movement.
He swallowed before shaking his head. His voice went quiet, “Nevermind..”
“So, what lyrics could I sing?” The tall girl turned to her friends.
Zoey excitedly pulled out her annotations of the lyrics, “You could sing the first verse with me, the second version of the chorus–again with me–and the last version of the chorus with both me and Romance.” She handed the notes to Mira with the new scribbles of the pink-haired girl’s name all over, “Study up and then get into the booth with us!”
– 🍬🍒🌶️🍑 –
“Girls–oh, and Romance–you all sound amazing!” Bobby exclaimed as he was listening to all of the recordings that they had been doing for the past few hours.
“Thanks, Bobby,” the girls said in unison, while the boy nodded sheepishly.
“You all go eat, I’ll have our fastest editor get the song all ready as soon as possible, so you guys can release it,” their manager assured them before shooing them off.
“Convenience store?” Zoey asked hopefully.
“Sounds good,” Rumi replied, looking at the other two pink-haired individuals.
Romance shrugged, but Mira shook her head, “I actually want to be in the studio to help with the song. Since I, y’know, kinda threw a fit about it at first. I’ll catch up with you guys later, though.”
Zoey whined, “Do you have to? We didn’t mind that you couldn’t help us with the song at first!”
The second-eldest girl sighed, “I know, but still. I’ve been trying to learn how to mix songs, so this will be a learning experience for me.”
The youngest wanted to protest more, but the purple-haired girl stopped her, “Okay, you have fun. We’ll bring you back some food.”
“Thanks,” Mira nodded as she entered the studio again, Romance gave an awkward wave.
When he turned back to the other two girls, they were looking at him with amused expressions, “What…?”
“You like Mira!” The girl with the buns squealed.
His eyebrows furrowed, “Well, yeah. That was never a secret.”
“So, what? It’s still exciting!” Zoey groaned. “You need to come with us! We’ll give you tips on how to win her heart, and you can tell us all about yourself, and–”
“It’s okay, I really need to check up on Baby–” Romance tried to cut her off.
“He’s a big boy, he can take care of himself,” Rumi rolled her eyes. “You need to tell me all you know about Jinu.”
He tried to protest, but the girls dragged him off.
– 🍬🍒🍑 –
“So, like, what’s your name?” Zoey asked as they walked through the aisles of the closest convenience store.
Romance raised an eyebrow, “Romance…?”
“She meant your real name,” Rumi huffed. “Like… Minjun, Seojun, Jiho…” she listed off some popular names.
“Oh,” he blinked. “It’s Baekho.”
“Cool! That means ‘white tiger’, right?” Zoey gasped.
He nodded, “Mm. I would still prefer it if you both just kept calling me ‘Romance’. I don’t really want my real name getting out to the public yet.”
“So, you wanna be mysterious, huh? Respect,” Zoey nodded.
“Zo, your American is showing,” Rumi said sarcastically.
Romance bumped into another man with a black hat. When he looked back, to mumble an apology, the man was already gone.
His eyebrows furrowed, but he continued walking with the girls. He murmured under his breath, “Weird..”
“Huh?” Zoey looked up at him.
“Nothing,” he shook his head as they made their way through the store.
They soon hear Mira’s voice singing on the overhead speakers of the store. It was a bit muffled, but all three of them knew exactly who it was.
Rumi then clicked her tongue, “Hey, isn’t your other song about lips?”
“It takes a long time to write songs! She probably had this in the drafts way before she heard my songs,” he waved it off. He felt his cheeks heating up at the growing hope that she really did write a song about him.
“Yeah, but it took us literally a day to write ‘Touch’,” Zoey countered.
“Well, Mira’s not really a songwriter,” Romance replied defensively. “I mean, this is a wonderful song, and I would never doubt her, but I don’t really think that she could write a song in a few days.”
Romance swallowed, “Okay, this is getting a little awkward….”
“We’ll just ask her later,” Rumi sighed. “And, besides, you promised to tell me more about Jinu.”
“What? I didn’t promise that–” Before he could finish his sentence, the violet-haired woman knocked him in the ribs. He groaned, “Well, Jinu-ssi was very private about his life. I wasn’t as close to him as Abby was, so I don’t have too much to say.”
“Did he ever mention me?” The girl with the braid asked hopefully, completely out of character for her.
“…Not that I know of?” He took a step back. “But it was obvious he liked you, if that’s what you’re trying to get at.”
Zoey gasped as she shook her unnie, “He liked you!”
Rumi felt herself smile for a moment, but that happiness began to melt away as she remembered that he was gone…
– 🍬🍒🌶️ –
Rumi and Zoey were silently sitting on the couch when Mira came home.
The redhead sighed, “I’m guessing you both heard the song?”
“How could we not? Everyone in the city was listening to it,” Rumi replied. “We’re proud of you, yeah, but you could have let us in.”
“You’re one to talk,” Mira huffed.
The youngest quickly butt in, “Guys, please don’t fight again, seriously. I’m tired of it.”
“I’m not trying to pick a fight,” the purple-haired woman glanced at Zoey, “and I know I wasn’t the best friend in the past, but I thought we were all over this ‘secret’ thing. I never thought you would pull a stunt like this, Mira. I’m just a little disappointed.”
“‘Disappointed’? Who are you? My mom?” She tensed up.
“You don’t mean that, Mi,” Rumi shook her head. “Why don’t you take some deep breaths and we can come back to this later?”
The tallest woman raised her brows, “Don’t therapy talk me right now!”
The eldest closed her eyes, “I’m just trying to help. I just don’t want to fight in front of Zoey again.”
“Thank you!” The brunette threw her hands up at someone finally listening to her.
Mira clenched her jaw, “Fine. Later.”
– 🍬🍒🌶️ –
But that later never came. Not really. With all the preparations for their live performance of “Touch” coming up, and all of their interviews about it, they never found that time to properly talk about it. It was okay, though, things weren’t as tense between them all anymore.
Bobby brought them all drinks into their dressing room, “Here you go, girls! I have to be quick, because I don’t want Romance’s drink to get cold either.”
“Thanks, Bobby!” Huntrix replied in unison.
The rose-colored hair boy was already in his place on stage. The girls’ manager came up to him and handed him an iced americano, “Here you go!”
“Oh. Thank you, s- Bobby. You didn’t have to do this,” Romance said awkwardly.
The older man shook his head and waved him off as he started heading backstage once more, “It was no problem!”
Once he was sure the man was gone, Romance handed the drink to Baby. The turquoise-haired boy happily accepted it, “Are we any closer to getting Hyung and Zey back?”
“Soon, Woo, soon,” Baekho shook off the pre-show jitters.
They headed backstage once more, so Romance could touch up his makeup. He was inside of his dressing room while Baby waited outside, sipping on the coffee.
Rumi soon popped in, “People are starting to come in– You don’t have a makeup artist?”
“Not in the budget,” the man answered as he was doing his eyeliner.
“We could’ve paid for it no problem,” the girl shook her head with a sigh. She came up to him and took the liner pen, “Let me help with that.”
“Oh. Thanks,” Romance said as she easily made small, even wings.
“I love doing eyeliner art on myself,” she explained lightly with a smile. “I was never able to do it with the girls until recently, separate dressing rooms and all.”
“Really? Why– oh, the marks. Right,” he sighed. “I get it.”
“You do?” Her eyebrows furrowed as she capped the liner and set it back onto his dressing table.
“Yeah, I–” He hesitated. “Nevermind. Some other time.”
“Guys, c’mon. Show’s starting,” a monotone voice said from the door. It was Mira. How long had she been standing there…?
When the girls came out onto stage, everyone screamed with excitement. The music started and everything was going smoothly, until Romance came out and he started singing his part. Yes, his choreographic timing was great, and he was hitting all of his notes–
Until he spotted a red-haired girl in the audience.
No, not pink-ish red like Mira’s. Dark red. Sinister. Stained. Bloody. It made the man freeze up. He couldn’t take his eyes off of her. He dropped his mic as fear began to consume him. His entire body locked up, when inside he was screaming at himself to pick up where he left off. But he couldn’t.
He took a step back. He blinked, but she was still there. Sitting there. Watching him. His throat closed up.
Huntrix had been around him the whole time, lightly shaking him, asking him what was wrong, trying to coax him into breathing properly. But nothing. It was like he didn’t even know they were there. It was like he was stuck in a dark pit, consisting of just him, that woman, and darkness.
Baby, backstage, had been squinting to try and see what his friend was looking at. When he caught sight of the family woman, he bolted onto stage. He pried the girls off of Romance, “We need to go.”
The younger boy ushered the frozen man out of the spotlight and into the dressing room.
“Inari,” Baekho managed to squeeze out of his throat.
Romance and Baby were silent for a while as they walked home.
“How did she even find me…?” The pink-haired male whispered to himself.
“She didn’t find you, you’re popular, aren’t you? She’s probably just attending the show like any other fan,” Baby reassured him.
“Maybe. But she’s not dumb. We still look the same as before,” Romance shook his head. “Just different hair colors.”
The younger one sighed, “Don’t worry about it too much. We’re demons now. She’s got nothing on us anymore.”
“I wouldn’t be so su…” Baekho paused his movements, stopping his friend too. “Wait.”
“What?” Min-woo whispered.
The man glanced around, “I feel like there’s someone watching us.”
The other’s teal eyebrows furrowed as he looked behind them. There was a light gray Sapsali trailing them, “It’s just a dog, Hyung.”
Sighing, Romance shook off his weird feelings, “My mind is a mess today. I need a drink.”
As they continued walking, Baby held his older friend’s arm, “Hyung, we talked about this.” He tried to pull Romance back to the house instead of the route to the convenience store, “Please, just sleep it off.”
Romance felt the dog’s fur on his calf as it passed him, when he stopped to tear his arm from the younger boy, “I’m an adult. I can drink when I want.”
“But that doesn’t mean you should!” Min-woo argued.
“Don’t pick fights with me, Woo,” Baeko shot back.
Even as he swallowed, the boy pressed on, “Please. Be a responsible adult for me just for this one night. Let me rest easy.”
Romance pinched the bridge of his nose, “Just this once. But never ask this of me again.”
When they got home, they found their door unlocked.
“Fucking wonderful,” the rose-haired boy muttered under his breath as he quickly pushed inside. A purple undertone glowed under his skin. His nails grew more claw-like as his now-yellow eyes scanned the area, “Stay outside, Woo.”
Baby begrudgingly complied.
The pink demon flicked on the lights as he heard a rustle. Instead of the woman he expected, it was…
Mystery.
– 💭 –
Little 7-year-old Baekho skipped around the park. His mom had dropped him off there and went to get a manipedi. He smiled as he noticed two other boys sitting on a bench. One was about his age, the other looked to be a few years younger with a lollipop in his mouth.
His hair bounced as he made his way over to the other boy, “Hi, I’m Baekho!”
One of the boys glanced around and pointed towards himself, as if he was unsure if this hyper boy was talking to him. When Baekho nodded, the kid mumbled, “My name is Min-ki, and this is my baby brother, Min-woo….”
“I’m not a baby!” The younger kid whined, taking the candy out of his mouth.
Baekho giggled, “Well, hi Min-ki and Min-woo! Let’s play together!”
– 🍬🍒🌶️ –
“I knew you were falling for this one too,” Mira murmured sarcastically as Huntrix got back to the penthouse.
“What?” Rumi looked at the redhead in confusion.
The other girl sighed, “I saw you and him earlier. In his dressing room. You guys looked close.”
“Well, we’re friends. But it wasn’t like that. I still like Ji–” She didn’t even have a chance to finish her sentence.
“Jinu is dead!” Mira hissed.
The purple-haired girl stood there in shock. She blinked, “Mi.. I- I know, but…– I–”
She shook her head and just walked away, heading to her room. Just when she was beginning to come out of her slump, she retreated back to her shell.
Zoey whispered, “Mira… that was mean, even for you. She knows he’s gone. But she can’t control her feelings.”
The defensive woman scoffed, “So, what? She shouldn’t have fallen for him anyway. If she didn’t entertain him in the first place, this wouldn’t have happened.”
“He understood her…–” The brunette tried to explain.
“Just shut up! Don’t fight Rumi’s battles for her,” the former spat out without realizing it.
Blinking back tears, Zoey stood there, dumbfounded.
– 💭 –
“She’s going to America with me!” Her father yelled.
“No, she is not!” Her mother screamed right back.
“She will have much better education and career options in America! I’m doing this for her future!” He argued.
“And how exactly is she going to get that ‘better’ education if she can’t even speak their language? She’s going to get bullied for being Asian! You’ve heard the stories!” She shot right back. “It’s safer for her here! We have family here!”
He scoffed, “She’s a big girl, she can take care of herself just fine!”
Four-year-old Zoey sat on the floor of her room, holding back her small sniffles. She listened to the Sunlight Sister’s old songs as she colored in the turtles of her ocean coloring book sadly. She didn’t want to leave Korea. She had friends here.
She then picked up some colored pencils and drew a girl with a teal one, and a boy with the purple one. She labelled the girl “mɘ” and the boy “minniɘ”. She titled the drawing on the margin of her page “FRiƎNDƧ ♡”.
OMG YES!!! I GOT THE CHAPTER FINISHED WELL BEFORE THE EVENING!!! ik last time i posted a chapter i said "i hope it wont take a month before i post the next part" and it ended up being... like four months lmao... haha.. im gonna try not to do that next time, but i dont think i can promise that after everything. please bear with me. im in the last quarter of my school year, which is when im the busiest, so we'll see if im even gonna be able to get a chapter out before summer starts :( i sure will try tho!! (for real this time). but HUZZAH everyone, we are officially 25% through the fanfic! the plot is just gonna get much crazier from here ;) sending lots of luvs <3
hey guys, so ive heard the a kpdh 2 movie has been approved and confirmed. pretty sure its true. so, i think i gotta stop being lazy and finish my fanfic before the second movie comes out. (prolly gonna be a while from now tbh)
genuinely hoping none of my ships get ruined 🤞🏼
um ya thats it guys, expect a chapter soon i swear im almost done w it
edit 2hrs later: im working on ch3 rn. i HOPE to have it out by tonight <3
heh… hey guys I’m not dead. i AM still working on my kpdh fanfic, i just have a lot of interests too. I’m working on my original novel, a vld fanfic, and I have so many other fanfic ideas. not to mention school too. so, bear with me, it might take a while for APEX to be updated
anyway, what I wanted to say was… FART BRUH WHY ARENT THERE ANY FANFICS OF JUNE ROUCLERE FROM NYSMNYD?? UGH IM SOBBING. I need that wuh luh wuh. i just watched the third movie and Arianna greenblatt is so freaking pretty… she’s technically around my age so it could happen chat (im kidding im not parasocial like that).
so im a hypersexual girlie right. i kinda need smut as an outlet for these thoughts. is it an addiction? debatable.
so, when i need my fill on yaoi on a day i feel like a dude (genderfluid if u didnt get the hint) who wants to be… flipped? i live vicariously thru suguboo getting railed by gojo.
yes ik this is a nonissue… but can we have more of JUST stsg smut on tumblr?? not stsg x yn. bc whos yn? not me thats for sure. i am not gonna be a third to those two, im leaving them be personally.
weird rant for someone who makes kdh fanfics. pls dont fame me for this. its js my opinion!
(if yall have links/recs thatd be greatly appreciated)
and dw guys, new chapter for apex will come out by the end of the yr trust 🥹
