Dead Winter Academy (Jikook)
Ep 5
The Chapel at Dead Winter Academy hadn't been used for years.
The stained glass windows were cracked, the pews dusty with untouched hymns. But it wasn't the silence that unsettled park Jimin as he stepped inside----
It was the way the shadows moved.
He held the page that Jungkook has given him---
The same symbol carved behind his dresser, drawn in jagged, in-stained lines.
"Look beneath the altar."
"That's where it all started."
The altar cracked as he pushed it aside.
Jimin forced it open with his keys, hands shaking.
It led to a stone staircase, steep and narrow, spiralling downwards into coldness.
There were cobwebs in the air, bones of insects caught in the stone, and something faintly humming, like whispers that didn't belong to any living voice.
Symbols scratched on the wall.
Shrouded in a black cloth.
As Jimin reached for it, a voice spoke from behind.
？？？
I told you not to dig.
Light flashing across Jungkook's face.
Park Jimin
Then why did you leave me the map?
Jungkook stepped forward slowly.
Jeon Jungkook
Because you were already in it.
Jeon Jungkook
Better to show you what's real than let you get lost in the wrong things.
Park Jimin
And what's real?
Jungkook stared at the mirror.
Jeon Jungkook
It remembers.
Upstairs the Chapel foyer, yoongi, Namjoon and Jackson stood in a quiet triangle.
Jackson Wang
He told him everything.
Jackson muttered. Arms crossed.
Kim Namjoon
Not everything.
Yoongi ran his hand over the cracked stained glass.
Min Yoongi
Just enough to scare him.
Jackson Wang
You're still trying to WAKE people?
Min Yoongi
it's going to start again.
Taehyung slammed his tray down at lunch, glaring at the far end of the cafeteria where Jungkook sat with his usual crew.
Kim Taehyung
He's dragging Jimin into something.
He muttered to Jin and Hoseok.
Kim Taehyung
I can feel it.
Kim Seokjin
You're just jealous.
Jimin sat beside them, unusually quiet.
Park Jimin
You guys ever heard of a secret basement under the Chapel?
Three faces looked in sync.
Jung Hoseok
You went down there?
Kim Seokjin
Only students who go looking for it, find it.
Kim Seokjin
And the ones who do...
Back beneath the Chapel, Jimin stared at the mirror.
Park Jimin
What's behind it?
Jeon Jungkook
The price we paid to survive it.
Without warning the mirror cracked---
Another split forming across the surface.
A voice hissed in the silence.
Jungkook pulled Jimin back just as the black mist poured from the cracks---
Icy and cold, full of whispers.
Park Jimin
He's trapped in there.
Jeon Jungkook
Not trapped.
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