Hey! Just wanted to check up and make sure you are okay since you haven’t posted about your life in a while! Best wishes 😘
Hi!! Thank you for checking up on me 😮💨 !! It’s been a rough past month for me personally and emotionally, but that aside I made it halfway through nursing school! Nearly got all A’s in what a lot of people deemed as the hardest semester too 😩 I’ll still take the fact that I don’t need to repeat lol. Halfway there though! I’ll be done in August!
Hey! not sure if you still update on here or not but curious to see how you're doing. hope all is well and you're doing good. can't wait for the next lustrous chapter!
Hi! I’ve been MIA from here but i do intend on finishing up lustrous,, I just started nursing school so ive been focusing on school and work currently. Thanks for checking up on me and im sorry for the long wait 🤧❤️
Hellooo a little update on my life right now. School started up again and this semester is really important for me because I need to ace micro biol as well as study for my hesi exam that i will soon set up an appointment date. For those who dont know, its an application assessment for me to apply for the nursing program, which I will do so if I get a good score ajdksla. (I’m planning to apply this semester for spring) I will try my best to write for Lustrous but I can’t promise it;; if not, I will hopefully be back by end of October.
I know my updating is not the best, probably the worst lol. So just please understand! I have taken into account the asks to be added to Lustrous’ taglist! I’d like to reply to them when I do update to keep track! So don’t worry if I don’t respond to them for a while!
I did score high scores!! Higher than I expected and I will be applying for summer semester of the nursing program next month.
Despite that I’ve just continued to be on hiatus due to writer’s block ;;; sincerest apologies, I didn’t have a lot of inspiration or motivation to write but I’m slowly but surely finding the inspiration to write again and Lustrous will come back to finish, I assure you <3
Thank you for your continued patience, much much love and stay safe and healthy <3
Hellooo a little update on my life right now. School started up again and this semester is really important for me because I need to ace micro biol as well as study for my hesi exam that i will soon set up an appointment date. For those who dont know, its an application assessment for me to apply for the nursing program, which I will do so if I get a good score ajdksla. (I’m planning to apply this semester for spring) I will try my best to write for Lustrous but I can’t promise it;; if not, I will hopefully be back by end of October.
I know my updating is not the best, probably the worst lol. So just please understand! I have taken into account the asks to be added to Lustrous’ taglist! I’d like to reply to them when I do update to keep track! So don’t worry if I don’t respond to them for a while!
Hii!! I’m doing well, at least as well as I can drowning in school work. I appreciate you checking up on me 🥰 I realized I said I’d come back end of October, but I pushed my exam back to December ‘cause Micro biology is killing me.
Hi 😊 i just wanted to come by and say that am a little sad Lustrous is coming to an end, it was one of the firsts BTS fisc i ever read. I've been following the stoy for a long time now, i think before a log hiatus u had years back (prob 2018?) Am not an army anymore, but i still come here form time to time and check on u. Thank u so much for writing this story, for coming back each time. Even if u don't get many asks, remember u are loved and appreciated. -🥝 (sorry for any mistakes)
The way I nearly cried over this— I really did have a long hiatus and lots of them 😔 and if I were to be really honest, even I’m not as much of an army as I was before. I don’t follow the boys as much as I did but I come back because I love writing and I fell in love with writing the characters, I really wanted to finish even if it took me this long. And honestly thank you for always coming back to check on me, I’m so flattered and honored, especially being one of your first fics 🥺.
Thank you, thank you for this! It touched my heart and put a smile on my face 💕 it really means the world to me.
(A/n): Cue more anticlimactic action <3 If you didn’t know, I’m going on a hiatus after this update to focus on this semester because it’s important to me, so hang tight! Much love for all the support and love as always <3
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“I was getting a little bored you know? Especially when you just refused to be killed!”
The voice you’ve only ever heard in your dreams and memories, chilling and patronizing. It holds your attention captive, almost like a sweet lullaby.
Long ivory hair falling in waves, bright and healthy, a contrast to the dull darkness of her eyes. Irises like black holes, and yet they captivate any who look her straight in the eye. An enrapturing smile, and yet her expression seemed to look both angelic and condescending at the same time.
You don’t recognize the room you’re in, you were never allowed in the same room as Eris after your innate magic never manifested and you were deemed a mutant. If your mother was called for an audience with the head, she would always leave you outside her living quarters. If there were important assemblies or such, you were never allowed into the grand hall. You assumed you were blinked to the latter, daring to raise your head to eye the woman seated on the throne.
The manor never did scream dark-magic-is-practiced-here! It was more like a household worthy of angels or goddesses, if the latter existed. You held no doubt if anything and everything seemed to coexist in the human world now.
One would have expected her throne to be made of the bones of humans and animals that she sacrificed when a spell called for it, or the skulls of birds she devoured to reverse the expiration of her aging body. It was, however, an elegant throne, carved mahogany gilded with ivory just as beautiful as her silvery tresses. Seated atop a platform, the witch sat with one pale leg crossed over the other. She held herself with dignity and poise, her chin raised and eyes set downwards in a mocking way. Eris dressed herself like a queen, silky robes with a long train that lay in folds at her bare feet.
She regarded you with a hardened look, pressing her chin into her knuckles as you picked yourself up and stood. Dusting your uniform skirt off, you perk and regard the man standing at her side with nostalgia. Hickory hair, messy and falling over his eyes. His jaw tightened at your gaze, although his own seemed to focus just above your head. You wondered why. Was he suddenly feeling guilty for betraying his lover, your mother, and now having to face you and kill you soon? Maybe he was just ignoring your existence.
“It’s been quite a long time (F/n), tell me, how’s your mother doing?” Eris bemuses.
You scoff at that.
“Amazing, no thanks to you,” You spit back before shrugging, “I guess you’re getting a little old, your senile is showing, head witch.”
Dark eyes narrowed at your response.
“I see you’ve developed a rather sour mannerism, I don’t quite remember Minerva being that bratty. Was it that mutt who taught you that?”
“I’d like to call it the hard truth, old lady,” You continue, watching as she bristles at the name.
“Killing you is going to be so worthwhile,” She grits, eyes burning with annoyance, “I’ll make your annoying voice screech pitifully when I torture you just a little bit.”
The elder barely twitches and you sense the murderous intent only briefly as thorns emerge in tumultuous waves from the floor. You quickly flash your hand to create a glowing cube around your form to protect yourself from the crystals.
“Humor me a little, why don’t you (F/n)? It’s been years since your family’s seen you! Why not greet them instead of being so rude?” You hear Eris say as you degenerate the shield.
You waver momentarily when you find yourself surrounded by your old coven members; grown up faces of children you had once knew to bully you when you still lived in the manor, familiar elders who had looked at you and your mother with pity and disgust didn’t seem to age as much. They all held that familiar glare of contempt at your existence, some holding staves in their hands to control the conjuring of their spells.
Did you even have enough magic stored in your amulet to take on this many witches and warlocks? You can’t even remember the last time you siphoned from Jungkook or the others. For some reason, the former only ever allowed you to siphon from him. You weren’t sure why, but you often grew worried that it was draining for him to constantly be sucked of magical energy every so often. (Yoongi only ever laughed when you expressed your worry and reassured you he had plenty of magic left.)
Left and right, you raise crystalline shields, a purple hue emitting a dark aura, as you protect yourself from attacks from the others. You can barely get much of a hit when facing multiple threats from all around you. As you dodge and counter magical spells and skills, you catch the infuriating smirk on Eris’ expression.
She’s laughing at your predicament. She knows you’re bound to run out of magical source, and you can barely manage to siphon any from the other witches when they make an effort to keep their distance. There’s a greater number of them and only one of you, multiple attacks left you vulnerable if you tried to focus too hard on getting into someone’s close quarters and siphon their magic.
You’d have to thank Jungkook later, if you survived, for giving it to you hard. The weight of the magical projectiles, on the translucent layer of protection covering your body, didn’t seem to hurt no better than the wolf’s punches.
Pivoting on your heels, you nimbly dodge a thorn shot from the right of you, however another zipping by from behind nicks you on your side. Your uniform tears from the cut, blood seeping from the superficial wound on your torso.
You weren’t one for stamina, even if Seokjin sometimes made you run laps in the forest, but constantly having to run and dodge was wearing down your legs. You were starting to feel winded and you can sense your stone depleting rapidly.
Perspiration creates a sheen on your forehead, a bead rolling down your temple.
Survive? Was it possible to survive this alone? Would Jungkook come? The pack? Would they be able to find you?
You blew a cherry.
That was pathetic, to rely on them so much.
If you didn’t survive, you’d never hear what Jungkook wanted to tell you. You’d never be able to see him, or the boys.
The thought makes your heart clench as you dissipate in a flurry of stygian vapor. Reappearing, you make a grab for a witch’s arm from behind, your fingers barely manage to siphon a sliver of magic as you move to dodge another attack. In your state of distraction, the blast of condensed magical energy singes the lateral side of your bicep, burning away at the sleeve of your uniform.
Your chest twists painfully at the thought of no longer being able to wake up to Jungkook, in his large wolf form, curled protectively and warmly around your body. You would no longer sit at the chaos that was breakfast, lunch, and dinner with the pack. You would no longer be able to laugh alongside the three youngest and Hyejin at school. No goofy jokes with Jimin and Taehyung, and Jungkook breathing down their back for whatever reason. No lying on the grassy terrain of the backyard, limbs spread out like a starfish, with Jungkook in same position, after another one of Seokjin’s training sessions. No sitting out on the roof tiles when you go searching for the hybrid wolf, watching the stars alongside him.
Maybe you should’ve confessed sooner, instead of being scared by the idea that Jungkook was fated to someone that wasn’t you. The weight over your chest was becoming unbearable, you wanted to see him one more time and tell him again how he makes you feel safe and at home and how much you like even if he wouldn’t feel the same.
You couldn’t possibly survive this, right?
Were you going to have to resort to killing? They were your kind... but were they your family? Were they there to protect you and pick you back up like Yahiko and the pack? Were they worth sparing when they’ve turned your mother into a puppet? Were they worth letting roam free when they’ve put Yahiko and the boys in danger for being associated with you?
You glanced at Eris, smug as she watches you tire yourself. That meant becoming the people you hated, the same people who loathed you back. You wanted to be better than that, despite the growing rage and contempt building within your chest at your clashing thoughts.
Summoning the last bit of magic from your amulet, the glow of the stone resting on your chest flickering with the last bit of its life before growing dull and cold, multiple needle-like spears formed around you. You willed them in different directions, catching the coven members by their appendages. They weren’t fatally wounded, but you still winced at the thought of possibly killing someone still.
Eris seemed to notice the falter in attacks and defense, barely able to keep on your feet with the remaining coven members.
She snapped her fingers, a curved dagger materializing in her hand. Glossed lips curved deviously as she glanced at the blade.
“I guess I have to get my hands dirty after all, hm Colhen?” Eris sighs dramatically as she rises from her seat, not waiting for a response. Her feet tap on the marble as she steps down from the platform, walking gracefully towards you as you take a blow to your side. Compact, dark energy smashes into you, burning your skin and leaving a darkening, almost black imprint, as you’re thrown off your feet from the impact. You hit your shoulder hard on the marble, wincing at the white hot pain that shoots from the bone.
“I’m getting a little impatient, (F/n), every time I try to kill you… you just can’t seem to fucking die you know? A little annoying don’t you think?” She says, piquing your attention, smirking at the haziness in your weary eyes, barely able to glance up at her, “I meant to torture you, but there’s no fun when I don’t get the satisfaction of seeing that mutt fill with absolute terror and sorrow at your slow death. I’m also an impatient woman after all.”
Brandishing the dagger, she mocks an examination of its metal surface before glancing at you pitifully, “I meant to plant an assassin in the school to kill you with this blade, but I guess I’ll have the honor of killing you myself.”
This is it. You were done for. Was everything all for nothing after all?
Stepping close to your fallen form, the blade glimmers under the light of the chandelier as she raises her arm. You take one last breath, swallowing hard as she brings the edge downward and your eyes squeeze shut in preparation for your impending doom.
You had magic left, there was no protecting what was coming. This really was the end, huh?
“What the fuck do you think you’re doing?!” She demands suddenly.
You don’t realize that you’re still breathing and alive as you open your eyes to Colhen knelt before you, arms stretched out at his sides to protect you. He gazes down at you fondly, relieved that he managed to protect you for just a while longer.
This was the man who your mother had fallen in love with, and the man who walked all over those feelings once it had been announced of your mutation. He held your mother and your existence with distaste. So why was he protecting you now?
“You… but I thought you hated me?” You gaped up at him.
He chuckles softly, “My own daughter? Never.”
There’s a certain warmth that sparks behind those eyes, the same eyes that only ever held disgust when directed at you. His eyes reflect repentance and adoration, regret and absolute love, both emotions that were foreign to you. Colhen never looked at you or your mother in such a way, so why? Why now?
“I made the mistake of hiding behind my own fear of being shunned and facing the reality of my actions... but I never stopped thinking about the beautiful little girl out there that I wish I could’ve protected,” His laugh makes your heart warm, “Allow me to be a proper father just a while longer.”
Eris is bristling behind him, fury burning in her eyes as she clenches her teeth at her husband’s actions.
“You betray me like this Colhen?! For a mutant?!” Eris sneers in disbelief, “Fine. If you dare disobey me like this, see to it that your efforts are in vain.”
Your father’s lips are moving but you can’t hear it, his mouth moving to form the words of a final apology and expression of his love for you. They all fall on deaf ears when you cry out as he looks up only in time to see the large thorn that appears from above, impaling him through his gaping mouth. The spear pierces the back of his throat and lodges into the ground with a thunderous crack of the marble. Smaller spears pierce him through his left eye, one at his hip, another straight through his chest cavity, blood pouring from the wounds as his hands hang limp at his sides.
“How could you!?”
Eris snorts, almost flabbergasted, “How could I? He was dumb to even protect trash like you.”
Long nails, sharp like talons, grip you by the throat, forcing you onto your feet on weak and unstable knees. Your hands fly to her wrists in attempt to siphon from her, but she anticipates this and uses two fingers to rip the necklace from around your neck. She smirks as she lets the amulet fall to your feet before forcing her heel down onto the stone, smashing it.
“A pitiful attempt,” she sneers, “This is the reason why I hate failures like you, you’re no better than thieves trying to use someone else’s magic, you’re weak and useless. There is no place you belong in this world for as long as I live as the head of the Blackwells.”
“Let’s finally put an end to this little charade of cat and mouse, yes?”
The doors to the hall are forced open just she forces the blade into your middle. Jungkook’s eyes wide and flashing gold and aqua in a fit of fury.
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((If I for whatever reason did not see your request to be added to the taglist, please lmk and I’ll make note for when I come back, or I’ll just add you so I don’t forget again lol))
++Omg also @crymesome-rice I forgot to tag you on the last update adjaljkgdl, but here you are, sorry about that!
cuz omg i love ur story Lustrous!!! The characters are freaking awesome and the cliffhangers are crazy good that i cant even be mad at it ekjrhr cant wait to read more :D
Yes ofc!! Thank you so much for the love 🥺🥺 it means a lot!! Much much love coming right back at ya! 💖💖
If it means anything. I finished writing an update, need to go through and add some tidbits ‘cause the action is a little rushed; also need to proofread hella 🤪
If I’m not too swamped in the next few days, I’ll update hopefully!!
I was blasting BTS songs at my work yesterday,,, and it made me want to write for Lustrous LMAO but as soon as I got home I fed my bunnies and then knocked out after watching anime jeezus.
Hellooo a little update on my life right now. School started up again and this semester is really important for me because I need to ace micro biol as well as study for my hesi exam that i will soon set up an appointment date. For those who dont know, its an application assessment for me to apply for the nursing program, which I will do so if I get a good score ajdksla. (I’m planning to apply this semester for spring) I will try my best to write for Lustrous but I can’t promise it;; if not, I will hopefully be back by end of October.
I know my updating is not the best, probably the worst lol. So just please understand! I have taken into account the asks to be added to Lustrous’ taglist! I’d like to reply to them when I do update to keep track! So don’t worry if I don’t respond to them for a while!
