Lake

@Ω O Taehyung It's hard to believe that someone so kind and selfless exists, and that Jimin is blessed enough to cross paths with him, though their encounter is anything but normal. It isn't that no one had tried to approach Jimin in all the years he's been a part of Viribus. It's just that he has been so closed off, high walls of isolation erected around his damaged heart, that he couldn't let anyone in. Anyways, none persisted more than a few half-hearted attempts, and so he hasn't one to call a friend in his pathetic life.

He nods at the other's helpful suggestion, a whimper escaping the back of his throat as he moves, with the aid of the taller male, to lie down supine. He releases a breath of relief and realizes that the stings from the wounds has alleviated greatly, so much so that what is left of them are merely a nagging itch.

"Ji... min." His tongue peeks out from between his lips and run along the parched flesh. He stares at the other male, a questioning look in his eyes, which he hoped would be understood. Strangely, Jimin has a feeling he does, even if they've met each other less than a few meager hours. "You're... nice." He offers a compliment, feeling weirdly shy though he reasons there's no need to be so. Fortunately, Jimin thinks he has lost too much blood to actually blush, for there isn't a trace of warmth in his cheeks. Or maybe, he couldn't feel it from the numbness.

@Ω O Taehyung Jmin in a sharp breath when the winding arm around his body loosens and he was slowly placed onto a wooden chair. It is uncomfortable to say the least, his elbow angled in a way that makes his arm go numb and hard to breathe when the pressured ribcage suffocates him instead. But Jimin isn't going to complain. He has never did, and never will. Specifically, he never has anyone to complain to. No one to see that he isn't drowning in pain, exhaustion or agony.

His consciousness threatens to leave him, mercilessly chased away by the growing pain from all sides of his injured body. The air that enters and exits his lungs become shallower with each passing second. The stranger lowers himself and Jimin could only see his face, the range of his vision restricted by his stiff neck that refuses to bend. Fortunately, he is able to understand the other enough to discern his intention; that the puppy is safe.

An inaudible thanks frees itself from his blood-caked lips, yet it doesn't reach the kind wolf, for he has disappeared towards somewhere else in the hut, out of Jimin's scarlet sight. A sense of familiar helplessness assault his weak being at the other's absence, a feeling he had long abandoned but not forgotten in the locked chapters of his life. As if, death has returned for him once more and this time, it doesn't intend to miss his broken soul-

His eyes widen, albeit slightly, when the taller male appears and patches him up as neatly as he could with dried leaves dampened in a thick, weird-smelling liquid. Strange, as soon as he sees him, a foreign sense of secure soothes his jittery nerves and calms his tensed mind. A warm hand slides unto his forehead and despite the protest of his worn-out limbs, the habitual alertness of his fighter character spurs him to catch it, yet the last of energy desert him when he manages to curl his smaller hand atop the other's.

Jimin searches the other male's gaze, reading the honesty and sincerity swimming in those chocolate brown orbs. "Thank... you." He rasps weakly. He knows it amounts to nothing, a word of gratitude, for it is worthless compared to materialistic gifts or favorable deed in exchange. But that is all he could offer in his present condition, for now.

@Ω O Taehyung Jimin finally allows his weakened physique to surrender to all the pain and hurt at the other's determined words. Another selfless person, the second he has met in his nineteen years of life. The first is his saviour that rescued him from dying at the edge of Viribus' territory. With the familiar sense of kindness he manages to perceive from both wolves, Jimin doesn't protest when the other attempts to carry him as well and obediently secures his arm around the other's waist as they hobble towards a foreign direction.

Jimin tries to stay conscious, he really did. But the shock of blood loss from his chest, the sinful scarlet that flows freely from the deep wound, tests his limit. Not to mention, the pain of the dislocated shoulder does not permit him to relax entirely even with another person supporting most of their combined weights.

At the sight of a little wooden hut, faint aromas of soothing herbs tickling and comforting his strained nerves, Jimin bites on his tongue harshly, forcing the pain to keep him awake enough until they enter the small, cozy residence. "Please... check... puppy...." He hacks out a series of coughs, swollen lumps of blood exiting his mouth. "See if he's.... hurt." Jimin breathes heavily, but musters enough strength to elbow the other into obeying his plea.

@Ω O Taehyung Alarms blare in his semi-conscious mind when an unfamiliar silhouette stumbled into his blurry field of flickering vision and an inaudible growl trembled through his bloodily exposed chest as a feeble act of warning dangers off. However, it seems as if it lacks the power he usually holds, for the stranger merely steps closer without a hint of fear. Turning away, he tries to hide the puppy in his arms, concentrating the remains of his stamina into his clenched fist, which he is ready to swing if need arises.

Squinting his eyes, he could barely make out the other's lips moving, as if he were trying to communicate but the buzzing in his ears doesn't help at all, cloaking the string of connected words into isolated words; 'help' and 'good'.

Jimin doesn't recognize what is it in the stranger's eyes and body language that had coaxed him; maybe it is the gentle ripple in his warm brown orbs or the way he did not take his injured self as an advantage to attack. Anyways, it is successful, and Jimin instantly lowers his ground, enough that he slumps onto the other's taller frame as support, fingers twisting into the other's fabric like a lifeline.

"Save... him." Not me.

@Ω O Taehyung Jimin hugged the whimpering bundle closer to his chest and growled at the preying eyes of the despicable rogues surrounding them tightly, the only escape demanding Jimin to fight and kill his way out. Kill, a term he isn't a stranger to, not when he's one of the best hunter and protector in his pack. He killed to feed and to protect. He had no mercy for the weak preys nor the vicious threats. Are his hands bloody? Yes, so much that the metallic smell of blood couldn't be entirely rid of.

In the end, Jimin snapped first. Jagged canines tore into flesh, chagrined limbs left in the wake of deadly flames, claws sank and dragged across vulnerable areas, and bodies crippled when the last of energy were drained from it.

Eyeing the four corpses littering the grassy ground, Jimin swallowed the clump of blood that attempted to climb up his throat. One of his shoulders was dislocated and fresh wounds lied over and next to old, scarred ones. Three uneven lines ran across his chest, an evidence of a successful attack on the enemies' part. His chest rose and fall haphazardly from his faint, ragged breaths. But, none of it matters compared to the safe puppy curled up in his arms.

With each slow, injured step, Jimin left the brutal crimson ground and headed for his pack's territory, the puppy's wellbeing the utmost priority. Even his own was second to it.

@☆O Jaeun Gongchan looked at him and chuckled a bit and covered the other in a blanket and hummed softly "Stay until your better pup" he said to him softly and hummed a bit as he blew off the candle lightly as he left the room and went into his own chambers with his mate for the night and fell asleep with him with a smile on his face. He was happy that he was able to help someone out today and hopefully have a new ally and friend in the young pup.

@☆O Jaeun The alpha nodded at the other and hummed softly and let out a soft smile at the other chuckling a bit he smiled at him "Good boy you need to learn a bit more" he said to the beta and hummed softly when he saw the other curl around "be glad your scar is small dear" he said to him and blinked "Ah this one on my chest..it's a long story but we have time" he said as he told the other about a hunter who was going to hurt his mate and how he ran in front of him and was hurt badly, but then his lover saved him from bleeding out.

@☆O Jaeun The alpha looked at him afterwards and nodded once more at him humming a bit and ruffled his hair gently "Good boy" he said as his tail flicked to side a bit and looked at him "Even still your young and hunters can try to get us rouges as well" he said to him "Even myself have scars from then " he said taking ing his shirt to show a scar on his chest is was long and jagged running from his right shoulder to his waistline. "It's safer in packs that is what makes you stronger more strenght comes with more wolves by your side" he said to him

@☆O Jaeun The alpha sighed again "you may have pasted puphood " he said and sighed "Your still young pup" he said to the other and watched as the healers leave "Your staying here for the night" he said to him and ran his hand through his hair "Don;t you think you would have someone with you even alphas have grops to hunt" he said to the other

@☆O Jaeun The alpha listened to the other and petted his hair and looked at him listening to the pack he was from "Ah your quiet far away arn't you" he said worried "Your just a pup you should not be alone" he said to him "Was this your first time alone from the pack?" he asked him "It's always safer in a group I hope your leader taught you that" he said to him and held his hand to distract him from the wound "it's okay it will be over soon

@☆O Jaeun The young alpha looked at the beta and nodded walking back and went to get the healers one who was his mate and sat down "Your not from my pack what pack do you belong to?" he asked him as he watched as the healers take care of the other's wounds "I am the leader of the Vibirus pack" he said to him gently giving him some water to drink

@☆O Jaeun The alpha looked at the beta and nodded when the other said his name before made sure the other was on his back before running off into the woods to get away from the open grounds "What were you doing there all alone little one" he asked him as he ran as fast as he could "my name is Chanshik but you can call me Gongchan " he said to the other and hummed softly "you are going to be okay little one" he said to him once more as he saw his pack and went inside taking him to his bedroom laying him on the bed

@☆O Jaeun Tilting his head up a bit hearing a shot from a rifle and sniffled around growling a bit before following the howl to an injured wolf pup well to him anyway before sniffling him quietly "Who are you pup?" he asked the male his cheek a bit as he nudged the other quietly laying down motioning the other ro climb on his back and growled a bit when he heard the hunter and stood in front of the pup and looked at the other "We will head back to my kingdom little one and we can treat you there" he said to the other before gently the other's hind leg to clean it.

@☆O Jaeun The young alpha troated to the lake in his wolf form as he went to fish for some food to eat and sniffled around stepping into the water and looked at the fishes before growling and bite into the water grabbing a giant fish and hummed softly at himself and smiled at him