Nutcracker and the Seven Heartthrobs-3
Warnings: None
Summary: Spending Christmas Eve in the middle of a snowy forest wasn't exactly how I wanted to spend my day. I thought my night would consist of fuzzy reindeer blankets, hot chocolate with the large marshmallows and silly hallmark movies. Not flower kings, snowflake dancers or sugar plum fairies. How can I be the one to save the realms when I don't even know where I am? Or how my deceased mother is even connected? Let alone know how I feel about the seven boys who can't help but make my heart flutter.
To be honest, it was shocking that I hadn't caught frostbite. Even though I wasn't shivering or turning blue, it was still chilly, and the longer I chased after the nonexistent Taehyung who somehow disappeared into thin air, the more I contemplated the fact that this was real. That somehow I had gotten sucked into a world where mouse kings were real, and people could just appear at will. But what seemed to be my biggest priority was finding the end of the seemingly never-ending forest.
Thankfully, I had soon reached a frozen lake, a metal bridge connecting the white forest to...another forest, with no snow. I groaned in irritation, even though a change of scenery would be gladly appreciated, Id prefer not to jump from forests to forests. I approached the bridge, focused on the dreary looking trees, the orange sun shimmering between the fraying branches. Walking towards the entrance, I couldn't help but chuckle at the small attempt of a gate in front of me. A metal pole laid horizontally at ankle length, I gently kicked it, the pressure immediately spreading throughout my whole foot after the impact. I grunted in pain grabbing my foot and hopping around like an idiot, then falling back on my butt. How could something so minuscule be so freaking painful? I didn't even kick it that hard. Getting up from the snow and dusting myself off, babying my foot, my eyes diverted to a tall metal box-or not the box, but the person inside. The boy in the box looked young, around my age but definitely younger then Taehyung. He had bright red hair that was parted slightly to the left, snowflakes dangling off the end of the red strands. Pale skin with thin layers of frost covering his cheekbones.
"Are you, alive?" I spoke aloud, mostly to myself, poking his soft cheeks, giggling at how it retracted like a water balloon. My eyes then traveled down to his red uniform, small yellow garlands hanging from his chest, gold embroidery traveling down the shoulders and through the chest. He looked almost like, a nutcracker? Suddenly his eyes were popping open, deep, earthy brown irises glistening at me. I jumped back at the sudden action, placing a hand over my chest to calm my heartbeat. "Name and business please, miss." His tone had a youthful cheer to it, but also a strange politeness that made me raise an eyebrow? "Excuse me? If anything I should be asking you where I am." He tilted his head at me and strangely the only thing I could compare it with was a confused puppy. "You're in the fourth realm, excuse me." He took a step out of the box into the sunlight, the frost from his face melting, leaving nothing but perfectly clear skin. I forced my brain to stay focused as to not get distracted by the beautiful boy in front of me. "First off my names not excuse me, it's (Y/N) (L/N), and second off what do you mean realm?" His brown orbs widened and before I knew it he was on one knee in the snow, head facing the ground before looking up at me in awe. "Princess (Y/N), we thought you'd never come." He stood up immediately gently taking my hands into his somewhat cold ones. "Wait, princess? I'm sorry, but who are you?" He gasped slightly, pulling at his uniform as if to fix it before nodding his head eyes downcast. "Nutcracker soldier, Jungkook, at your service princess." I decided to play along with the strange procedures of the dream, hoping it would all make sense eventually. "Um....okay? Thank you, I guess? Anyways, do you think you could help me find Taehyung, he's stolen a bracelet of mine." Jungkook immediately flushed at my words, checks turning a similar shade as his hair. "That's Tae for you, always getting into trouble." He shook his head then turned his attention to me, smiling with his front teeth eyes scrunching into crescents. Cute. "Tae should be just within father gingers forest." He mumbled something under his breath next, which I couldn't decipher and instead of pressing him I decided to ignore it. As well as, not questioning who father ginger was, knowing I would probably meet him sooner or later. "You may want to stand back for this, princess." He motioned towards the bridge and that's when I took notice of the stupid small metal bar, hooked at ankle height. Jungkook seemed so focused on the tiny bar that I couldn't help but laugh at his cuteness. Especially when he started to stretch his arms and do his own mini warmup. "Is that real-" I started to chuckle only to be cut off as he accidentally tore it off with his bare hands. "Wha-how did you?" My mouth hung open in shock as I was left a stuttering mess. I wasn't that weak, was I? "I guess I'm not quite used to my gift, haven't used it in a while." He mumbled, an embarrassed smile on his features. Gift?
"We better get going to the kingdom. She'll be so excited to see you! Oh, and you'll get to meet Yoongi Hyung and Jhope-ssi." I furrowed my brows at him, "wait, wait! We need to get my bracelet back from Taehyung first!" Jungkook frowned at me shaking his head slightly. "But princess, if something happened to you on my watch I don't know what Id do." His puppy eyes didn't help the argument and I had to force myself to look away. "Well, aren't you a soldier." Jungkook smiled, puffing his chest out in pride. "If I'm a princess and you're a soldier then technically don't you have to do what I say?" I cocked an eyebrow, crossing my arms confidently knowing I had won the argument. "Only if its an order. Is it an order?" He asked stepping closer so he was just within arms reach. I smirked reaching for his hand and pulling him across the bridge, "yep, let's go soldier boy!"
