pirate king (88): FINAL ➵ ateez
➳ PAIRING: reader x kim hongjoong (ateez) or jung wooyoung (ateez)
➳ GENRE: fantasy+pirate au; romance; mystery; adventure; action
➳ SYNOPSIS: the end of this journey.
Perhaps, somewhere deep in you, you’ve always known that it would have to come to an end.
Death isn’t a concept known only to humans. From the second the breath of life passes through any living being, it fights, flees and struggles to stay alive. The reason a a shoal of fish scatter before a shark, why birds take to the sky to escape stray cats fighting for their own sustenance, death is the one language every creature understands.
Survival instinct. The basest, most primal drive shared by every living being on this earth. Stay alive.
That’s what you’re fighting as you walk towards the black dagger pointed directly at you, the wind screaming in your ears, power surging through your fingertips even as you feel your body crumbling apart under the onslaught you’re putting it through. Slowly chipping at you, sand falling through your fingertips, the end draws closer and closer no matter how much you’ve tried to fight it - inevitable.
Two responses, fight or flight.
You can no longer run from this anymore.
“Finally, we meet again, sea goddess.”
An odd feeling stirs in you, strangely serene even as the storm swirls around you, lightning flashing and thunder raging. Right, you remember now, your memories slowly surfacing the more your body deteriorates. The sea, the storm, the sky. You could never ben human to begin with. This is who you are.
Hot tears burn your eyes, sting against the cracking skin of your cheeks, but you bite your lip and stand strong, back straight and eyes fixed firmly on the man in front of you. The blade in his hand trembles at the sight of you, and somewhere in the depths of your memory, you realise why Hongjoong’s gaze had drawn you from the very beginning upon your first meeting.
The same fierce gaze. The burning glare. Both father and son had the same eyes.
