chapter 4 : the voice that calls

The silence was deafening.

Jungkook’s hands hovered over the piano keys, his breath shallow. The others stood frozen, eyes darting around the strange, shifting space that had replaced their dressing room.

It was endless—vast yet contained, like the inside of a forgotten melody. The air shimmered with something unseen, something felt rather than heard.

Then, a sound.

A whisper.

Soft at first, like the distant hum of a song playing from another room.

Then, clearer.

"You have awakened it."

Jimin’s grip tightened around Jungkook’s shoulder. “Did you hear that?”

They all did.

The voice didn’t belong to anyone in the room, yet it curled around them like an unseen presence, pressing against their skin, slipping beneath their ribs.

Taehyung took a cautious step forward. “Who’s there?”

The air vibrated in response.

"The melody was never meant to be sung again."

Jungkook swallowed hard. “What… what are you talking about?”

The voice sighed. It was neither male nor female, neither young nor old. It simply was.

"Moonlit Echo is not just a song. It is a key. A door to something beyond your world."

A chill ran down Jin’s spine. “A door to what?”

The silence stretched, heavy with unspoken truths.

"To the sound before creation."

The words sent an ache through Jungkook’s chest, something deep and ancient stirring inside him.

Yoongi exhaled sharply, shaking his head. “This is insane. We’re in a stadium in Seoul. This isn’t possible.”

The voice chuckled—low, knowing.

"Music has always been more than sound. It carries echoes of things forgotten. And now, you have been heard."

The air around them pulsed. The world trembled.

Then—

The dressing room snapped back into place, solid and unchanged.

The piano sat before Jungkook, untouched. The fluorescent lights hummed overhead.

Everything was the same.

And yet, nothing was.

Jungkook met the others’ wide-eyed gazes. His voice was barely a whisper.

“What did we just do?”

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