Chapter Text
Characters
Taehyung – Retrograde
Jimin – Retrograde
Jungkook – Tengu
Yoongi – Mizuchi
Namjoon – Nekomata
Seokjin – Jyanome
Hoseok – (Half Nekomata/Half Jyanome)
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December 30. The day Taehyung was born.
His mother held him tightly like as if he was the most fragile thing in the world. His father looked as happy and his older brother, older by 2 years stared at the three, not knowing what was going on.
“Daddy!”, he called as he raised his hands so that his father could pick him up, “Why is mommy crying?”
The father picked him up and pointed at the new born. “Mommy is crying because she is happy”, he said.
“But why?”, he asked.
“Because you have a baby brother now, Jimin”, the father said placing a kiss on the son’s cheek as his mom looked at him.
“Look Jiminnie. This is your younger brother, Taehyung”
Jimin looked at Taehyung for a while. The baby was sound asleep.
“Will he take my toys away like Hoseok does?”, Jimin pouted.
His parents laughed at the question.
Just then, the clear night sky was filled with dark grey clouds and the roar of thunders began. The lightning lighting up the city very dramatically.
The mom looked at her husband with fear in her eyes.
“H—Honey”, she said as tears rolled down her beautiful eyes, “it—it’s happening again!”
“Don’t worry, love. I will not let this happen the second time! I will not let them mark my son again!”
The father put Jimin down and made him stay behind.
As the lightning stroked one more time, the room became dark and the wife reached her hands for her husbands.
“Honey—“
The power came back when the lightening stroke once more and this time, they saw a tall man, dressed in black expensive suit, standing in front of their room.
The man only looked at the now crying Taehyung.
His mom held him close and his father walked in front of the man blocking his view of the baby.
The man looked up, irritated at the lack of respect and when their eyes met, Taehyung’s father froze. He could not move or speak.
The man walked towards the other three, his eyes never leaving the baby.
“Please…please…” the mother broke in tears.
The man did not seem to care at all. He raised his hand to touch the baby but the mother moved him away.
Another lightning struck as the man became impatient with the lack of respect being shown at him.
“Stop”, he said, in his calm voice. Jimin and his mom could not move after that. They had been frozen just like their father.
The man placed his finger on top of Taehyung’s forehead as blue lines started running through his body and finally clashed together to form a mark on baby Taehyung’s collar.
When it was done, the man moved away as the baby cried in pain. The freezing spell stopped when he snapped his finger.
The father immediately turned around to check on his small family. The mother crying in fear and Jimin looking shocked and surprised.
“That child is going to be my bride”, the man said. His voice still sounding calm but this time with a hint of authority. “He will grow up with my mark and when he turns 20, I will come for him.”
The mother cried hard. This wasn’t the first time she had heard this.
“Wh—who the hell are you?!!”, the father shouted.
He turned around, clicking his tongue in annoyance.
“I am the God of Sky. The Tengu”, he said. “My name is Jeon Jungkook.”
And with another lightning striking in the sky, the man vanished in thin air.
“Our Taehyung turned out to be a Retrograde too”, the wife cried. “He turned out to be just like Jimin.”
****
October 13, 2 years ago was when little Jimin was born. The parents were so happy to welcome their first born. His father had gone out to buy flowers and balloons for his wife and son when the incident had taken place.
Jimin’s mom was singing a lullaby for the baby when an unusual man had barged in the room, kicking the door open, making the mom and the baby both flinch in surprise.
“He is the one, isn’t he?”, the man had asked in a scary voice.
“What?”
“He is a Retrograde right?!”
“What are you talking about!”
“Bitch! Just tell me if he is a Retrograde or not?!”, the man had shouted but he could tell that the baby was the rare kind.
“I don’t know”, she cried as the man walked towards her. She feared that her son was in great danger.
“Freeze”, the man had said looking directly in her eyes. She froze.
When he got near the baby, he had placed his index finger on the baby’s forehead with white lines coming out of it and disappearing at the back of the neck.
“20 years from now, I will come back for you.”
The man had said when the mark had been placed.
Right after he had disappeared, the head Doctor had come in the room with some other nurses looking very worried. They had felt the immense energy coming from the room earlier but on the way, they were also frozen.
When her husband had come back to the dense atmosphere in the room, he had quickly asked what happened and the Doctor had explained it to him.
Jimin was a Retrograde, the rarest Madararui kind in the world. Retrograde were born if their parents were both Kakuen (humans evolved from apes). But it wasn’t just that. One of their ancestors should be a Madararui (also known as “Zooman”, Humans evolved from other animals other than apes) for them to have a Retrograde child.
The Doctors have told the parents that not many Retrogrades are born these days and when they are actually born, the Madararuis, who called themselves the “Gods” would come and claim them as their bride and mark them so that other Madararui would know that they were already taken.
This was what had happened when Jimin was born. And now, the same thing had happened to their second child who was also born as a Retrograde.
****
“Took you a while to get here”, Jungkook said. He was looking at the city from his penthouse which was situated at the 80th floor in one of the busiest city. He then turned around to look at the man before him. “I’m a bit surprised that you had already claimed that child, Yoongi”.
“How dare you put a spell on what’s mine!”, He was ready to kill Jungkook.
“I did not hurt him, Yoongi and you know that!”, Jungkook told him. “He just happened to be near his mom when I was claiming his brother.”
Yoongi still glared at the man.
“Please come join me for a drink. It’s nice seeing you after a long time”, Jungkook opened an expensive wine and gave his long lost friend a glass.
Yoongi didn’t say anything and just took the drink before making himself comfortable on Jungkook’s couch.
Yoongi was not really someone who talked much so it was only Jungkook doing the talking.
“So, when did you claim him?”, he asked the quiet man.
The man rolled his eyes, not wanting to talk about private things but he knew that if he didn’t, Jungkook will nag and get it out of him anyways.
“2 years ago” he said, sipping his drink.
“When I laid my eyes on him, I knew he was already taken but I didn’t know he would be yours”
Yoongi looked at him again, trying to bring his anger down.
Yoongi had been swimming very happily when his whole body was suddenly filled with fear. He knew that his bride was in danger. And as hard and as troublesome it was to leave his favourite place, that was the swimming pool, he had to go because it was the first time in 2 years he had felt like that after claiming Jimin. He didn’t want his Retrograde to be in any harm because if he died, Yoongi would have to go to another trouble of searching and he was not going to do that.
Yoongi was a Mizuchi. The God of Sea.
“I thought his Madararui would come and challenge me in the hospital but I should have known it was you when he didn’t show up.” Jungkook teased him. “Only you would show up this late, you lazy ass!”
“SHUT UP!”, Yoongi had enough of it. But Jungkook was right and he promised himself that he will change.
Jungkook just laughed.
“So, did you claim the new born?”, Yoongi finally asked. Jungkook nodded.
“I finally found my Retrograde and I am not letting anybody take him.”, Jungkook said as he poured another glass of wine. “My kind are getting extinct. I maybe the only one left so I need that boy!”
Yoongi nodded in agreement. His kind was also on the verge of extinction and he also needed someone to give birth to his children.
****
Namjoon and Seokjin were sitting across each other in their extravagant dining table, eating the variety of food that had been cooked and placed in front of them by their well-renowned chef.
“The boy turned out to be a Retrograde huh?”, Namjoon asked and Seokjin nodded.
They were friends with Jimin and Taehyung’s parents and the mom had called Seokjin earlier to tell him the good (not really good) news.
Seokjin sighed making Namjoon worry a bit.
“What is it, babe?”, Namjoon asked.
“He was claimed”, he replied and Namjoon choked on his food.
“WHAT?! It happened again?!”, he asked. “WHO CLAIMED HIM?!”
“….Jungkook…”, Seokjin said after a brief silence.
Namjoon leaned back on the chair when he heard the name. He looked at Seokjin intensely and when he noticed that his partner was just looking down at the food and playing with the spoon, he cleared his throat.
“Is—is something wron—“
“MOMMY!! DADDY!!”, their son ran towards Namjoon, stopping him from saying whatever he was about to say to Seokjin. The little boy had just woken up.
“Hey, my handsome Hobi!”, Namjoon said carrying the child in his arms. Seokjin looked at them lovingly and when Namjoon saw the love Seokjin had for both him and their son Hoseok, Namjoon thought it was a good thing he hadn’t asked whatever he was going to earlier.
Seokjin was his now. He was not Jungkook’s.