Hey guys, this is Hyunbin with another chapter of NBFTY... I gotta say, I can't believe that there are so many readers for this fanfic. Well, maybe it won't be as much as the older fanfics, I mean like, I'm new... Well, anyways, thankyou for reading my fanfics and please keep reading them.
Well, without further ado, chapter 11 of No Better Father Than You...
Disclaimer : I don't own Exo, nor anyone in it. The only person I own in this Fanfiction is Averna. She isn't even real, but she's still mine.
Kris's leg was quite wounded, but he didn't care. He'd rather die himself than see his son like this. He thought he could protect him to the very end, but he was wrong. He couldn't protect him from something like this. He looked up, and stared at Averna, as a bright white light was shimmering in her hands, and only in few seconds, it would have left that hand, and the two men would lose their souls. How much he wished Tao weren't here. He wished that at least Tao would be safe.
Kris shut his eyes close, waiting for the ball of energy to strike, yet, it never landed. What was going on? Kris opened his eyes, and was complete shocked. He looked around, to see that he was now no where near Averna or her energy ball, infact, he was on the other side of the field. He looked down, to see that Tao was also with him. When he looked up, that was what surprised him. He widened his eyes at the man in front of him. It was Kai. He was there along with him. He had saved the two.
"Well Kris, still think I'm predictable?" Kai said. Kris had to admit, he had never seen that coming. He never thought that Kai would have saved them. Kai had used his powers to teleport them away from Averna. Kris widened his eyes and smiled. He was happy. Kris looked at his son, and put two fingers on his neck, trying to find his pulse. It was there. Kris was now more than happy. Tao was alive. Kris pulled his son into a hug, even though he was unconscious, Kris was still happy to see that he was alive. He loved his son. Kris then was also quite surprised, seeing his son was actually able to survive that attack. Seeing Tao alive, meant that he had survived the fireball. Tao was a strong man. Kris was proud of him.
But that moment didn't last for much long. Averna spun around to see that Kris was still there. She sighed to see Kris was alive, but by the time she saw him hugging Tao, that was when she felt devastated.
"Kris, I'm so sorry, but you have listen to me. Please Kris, I'm begging you, come with me, now!". Kris looked at Averna, and shook his head. He won't listen to that witch for even a second anymore.
"KRIS! COME WITH ME THIS INSTANT!"
"If you want Kris, you're gonna have to get through me". Kris widened his eyes. He couldn't believe who's talking. It was Kai. He was actually fighting for him. When was the last time that happened? Probably decades ago. Kai stepped forward, and stood in front of Kris and Tao. Averna looked at Kai. Her eyes had now become pure dark bloody red. She wasn't gonna take no for an answer, and she will destroy anyone who stands in her way.
"I'll take you down, wolf"
"The you'll have to defeat us first". This time, it was the rest of the wolf pack. The five wolves stood beside Kai, guarding Kris and Tao. Kris was completely surprised. He was now starting to believe that everything he was seeing is all a dream, but it wasn't.
"Not to mention, us". Last, came the dragon clan. They stood side by side with the wolf clan. Kai looked behind, to see Kris completely shocked. He never thought this day would actually come. Kris looked up, to see that Kai was staring at him. Kai let out one word, and that one word was probably something which Kris never imagined Kai to say.
"Truce?"
Kris was overly shocked, he thought he may faint. Was this really happening? Or was it all really just a dream? If it were, Kris would never want to wake up. He looked into Kai's eyes, and said to him...
"Tr..t..Truce..."
With that one word, the feud between the Dragon Clan and the Werewolf pack had ended. Peace was there to replace that feud. Kai turned around, to see Averna was still there, trying to think of a spell to use against them. The longer she thought, the worse she felt. There was no spell against them. She should have thought this through. Her intentions were only to get Kris back. She was able to fight against the Dragons, but now that the two clans had reunited, she didn't have the power to fight all of them.
Averna clenched her fists, as her knuckles had changed colors from pink to a white-ish color. She gritted her teeth as she eyed every single person there.
"Next time..." Averna whispered. She let out a dark black light from her hands, and from that black light, came a purplish grey mist, which had covered her entire body. It was only in a matter of seconds, the mist disappeared, and as it did, so did she. Averna had vanished, into thin air. Kris looked straight at the exact place where his stepmother was just standing, before she had disappeared. Everyone there had shared the same thought in their minds...
"Where did she go?"
~oOOo~
Darkness filled the room. The light of a flickering candle, was the only spot of light in there. She walked towards that light, and watched the fire dance around on the candle.
Averna had been hiding in this small dark room in the sewers for the past month. It wasn't as amazing as her old castle back on EXO, but she didn't really care about it right now.
Averna had a brilliant plan. She had thought about it for the past years. But now, her plan was ruined. Her plan to get Kris back, to retrieve all the strength that she had needed, the strength for eternal power, was now gone. And it was all because of that human boy, Tao. Because of that mortal, her entire plan was destroyed. She hated him with her life.
Averna kept playing that memory in her mind, the memory of him getting Kris away from her hypnosis spell, but as she got deeper into her memories, she then started to wonder. How did he do that? How was he able to escape the first fireball to save Kris? She then kept thinking, how did he even get to Kris? And WHEN did he get to Kris. She kept playing back that memory in her head, over and over again. She didn't remember seeing him even REACH Kris. How did he do it? Does he also have powers? But that was technically impossible. Were humans ever given special powers? She had never seen humans with such an ability. Now she was starting to think, was he even human?
~oOOo~
Tao woke up, to find himself back at home, on the bed, surrounded by all his belongings. "It was all a dream?" He thought to himself. All that excitement, that adventure, finding out that his father was a prince of dragons from another planet called EXO, seeing actual battles between wolves and dragons, was all just a dream?
Tao tried to sit up, but when he did, he felt a very painful sting in his chest, as if it were burnt, Tao couldn't help but let out a small "Ow". All of a sudden, came a knock on the door. The door opened, revealing a tall man in front of his door.
"Dad!". Tao tried to sit up, but he still felt that sting in his chest. Tao felt so weak, he felt as though he was about to fall. Kris quickly ran towards him, and caught him. He helped his son sit up, and sat next to him, so that Tao was able to lean on him. Kris looked at his son.
"How are you feeling?"
"Oh my god... I ache everywhere! And I also had the most wicked yet awesome dream ever. You were a prince of dragons, and your evil step mother was trying to take you back. Then there were also these people I didn't know, which happened to be werewolves and there were also something called human dragons there. It was an awesome dream, until the end, that is. In the end, I died and..."
"How's you're son?". Tao saw another man walk into the room. It was one of the man he saw from his dream, the man he remembered as Chanyeol. He was there, and it only meant one thing. "I wasn't dreaming, was I?"
"No, Tao. You weren't". Tao was getting that feeling again, where he feels like everything in the world was spinning around, like everything was a dream, but it wasn't. Tao looked down, trying to remember every single thing that had happened. It was all still there, every single detail and memory, including a memory of himself dying.
"If it were all real, how am I alive?"
"A friend saved you". Tao cocked an eyebrow at Kris. "Who?"
"You wanna come out of your room and see?". Tao nodded. Chanyeol walked towards the father and son, and together with Kris, they helped Tao stand up, and walked out the door. With his hand on his chest, Tao was able to stand outside his room, that is, with Kris and Chanyeol there as his pillars. Tao looked around, to see that there were 9 men in there with them. This was probably one of the first time ever he had seen this many people in their apartment. Sure, Tao's friends sometimes came over, but usually, only about 4 to 5 guys. Kris rarely threw parties at their own apartment, because he knew it would be very crowded.
Tao looked around at the 9 men. He knew part of them. 3 of them, he remembered clearly was part of the dragon clan, aka Suho, Chen, and Xiumin. When he looked at the other 6, he tried to recall their faces. By the time his memory cleared up, he then remembered. Tao widened his eyes, as he saw each and every one of them.
"We...we...were...wolves?". Tao started to feel shivers up his spine. Kris held his hand, and felt that his son now had goosebumps. Well, who wouldn't? Tao looked at each of them, and saw a face he wouldn't forget. That face belonged to the one and only, Kai. Pictures and memories had quickly raced into Tao's mind. He remembered it very well, the horror of seeing his father being stabbed by a bright blue crystal dagger by that man. And for some reason, that memory kept replaying in Tao's mind.
"Dad, why are werewolves in our apartment?"
"Tao, I know what you're thinking, but it's not like that anymore". Tao cocked one of his eyebrows at his father. What was he talking about?
"What do you mean?"
"Tao, the wolves saved us"
All of a sudden, pictures of Tao himself on the ground, with Kris limping towards him, followed by Averna trying to kill them was seen in Tao's mind. He then saw Kai saving the two, and all the wolves and dragons standing side by side. He saw everything, it was as if he were there. Tao started to get a headache from everything he had just seen and experienced. He walked towards the sofa, and took a seat.
Kris sat next to his son, and put a hand on his shoulder. Tao looked at his father with his tired eyes, and leaned on him. Lay suddenly sat next to Tao, and with his power, suddenly started to creat a bright green light in his hands, as he laid his hand on Tao's hand and began to heal him. Tao looked at Lay, and felt that his healing powers were working, he could feel the pain start to flow away.
"Thank you..." Tao whispered, as Lay nodded back at him as an answer. Tao rested his head back on Kris's shoulder. Kris looked at his son. He felt so sorry for him, to the fact that a mortal boy like him had to go through all that pain. He brushed the edges of Tao's hair, thinking of what to say to his son.
"Um... Tao, I know it's a lot to take in, and I know you had had a very long day, yesterday, but please believe me when I tell you that the wolves..."
"I...I believe you" Tao muttered. Kris widened his eyes. He was actually expecting Tao to hesitate for a moment. Kris was glad that Tao had believed him so quickly, but 'that' quickly? He knew his son quite well, and sometimes it would take him quite some time to believe something like that without any thorough proof. What had just happened?
All of a sudden, the man with rainbow hair had stepped up. Tao remembered from the night before, that it was the man which had morphed into a werewolf in front of him, and tried to capture him. It was Sehun.
Sehun had walked towards Tao and Kris, but by the time he got there, he didn't look at the father and son. Instead, he looked at a man behind them, it was the man which looked like he was still a teenager or so. He remembered he was also there with Sehun and Kai last night. It was Luhan.
"Luhan, did you just do what I thought you were doing?" Sehun spoke. All eyes were now on Luhan. Luhan smiled at each person in the room, trying to set off an innocent look. "What do you mean, dongsaeng?"
"Hyung, you know what I mean. Did you just show Tao everything?". Luhan smiled at his little brother, and nodded. Luhan looked at everyone's facial expression. He could tell that the wolves knew what Sehun and Luhan were talking about, but the dragons and Tao didn't.
Luhan nodded."Ne, I used my powers to show Tao my memories of last night, so he could see what had happened"
"What are you guys even talking about?" Chanyeol blurted. "Luhan, I thought you had the power of telekinesis. How can you show Tao something like that?"
"Well, to start off, I found out that I don't have the power of telekinesis, I have telepathy. There's a big difference"
"And what's that?"
"Telekinesis is only the power to control objects with your mind. Telepathy on the other hand is something different. It's very rare mind power, which allows us to do stuff like read and manipulate minds, give people illusions, and lots of that stuff". Tao looked at Luhan, all of a sudden, a thought went straight into his head"
"You mean like Dr. Xavier from X-Men?". Luhan looked at Tao, and smiled. "Actually, yes, just like him. Only I'm not bald, nor do I need a wheelchair to walk". Tao now understood, but some of the other dragons didn't. One of them, which Tao remembered as Xiumin, stepped up, and said to Luhan...
"But I remembered, back when we were kids, I used to hang out with you, Lu-ge... If I remember correctly, you used to move things around with your mind. Isn't that suppose to be telekinesis instead of telepathy?"
"Well, telekinesis is one of the many powers I can use through telepathy. I thought I only had telekinesis back then, and only used that as my power. I soon found out that I had more than what I thought"
"How does that even work?"
"Telepathy can be manipulated into telekinesis. Just put it at that. I'm not in the mood of retelling the entire history of telepathy and what so ever..."
Tao looked down. He saw everything that had happened while he was unconscious. He saw, heard, and even felt everything that had happened there. It was as if he actually was there. He saw all the courage Kai had put in himself to save Kris and himself right at the last moment. If he had slipped, or made a minor mistake, Kai would have also died. He must have known that would be one of the consequences, but he saved the anyways. And other than that, he also saw the happiness in Kris's face when he finally got his old friend back. Tao was now starting to wish he hadn't passed out. He wished he were also there.
As Tao got lost in his own mind, he hadn't realise that every single person in that room was staring at him. Once he did, it he felt a bit uneasy. What was going on? Did he miss something? Kris looked at his son, and asked him...
"Tao, let me ask you something. When I was hypnotised yesterday, you were the one to save me. Of course, you were able to do it, cause you are technically Averna's step-grandson, which makes you her family as well, but what I wanted to ask you is, how did you get to me?". Tao cocked an eyebrow at his father.
"Umm... I ran towards you?"
"No, you didn't" Kai blurted. Tao was now confused. What did he mean by, 'he didn't'?
"What are you talking about? Dad, I ran towards you, and pulled you away from Averna"
"Actually, according to everyone else's memories, you somewhat teleported or something". In a quick flash, Tao saw images of himself running towards Kris, yet suddenly, where one second he was still running, the next thing you know, Tao saw himself hugging Kris on the ground. Tao then realised that Luhan had just showed him another piece of his memories again.
After seeing that, Tao had to admit, it did look like teleportation, but according to Tao's memories, he remembered himself running towards Kris, and Averna throwing a fireball at him. Then he remembered everything stopped, and...
Wait...
Everything stopped, literally. Kris stopped walking, Averna's fireball ball had stopped, literally EVERYTHING had stopped at that moment. Why was that? All of a sudden, Suho blurted out a sentence. "That actually looks like time control". All eyes were now on Suho. Where on earth did he get that from?
"Why do say that?"
"I somewhat peeked into Tao's eyes, seeing through his thoughts. Mianhae Tao". Tao nodded, as he looked down and thought for a while. Time control? That actually made quite sense to what had happened, but what didn't make sense was how it was possible. He was a human, and even he knew that. How was he able to do such a thing?
"Maybe you're a phsycic" Luhan said. Tao looked up and thought for a while. Phsycic? That would be cool. He had an old friend in junior high who was a phsycic too. Back then, his friend was able to see the future. The thought of Tao being a phsycic actually excited him. Was he really able to control time? The man named Baekhyun looked into Tao's eyes. He put a hand on his shoulders, and pulled him up, while Lay let go of Tao's hand.
"Only one way to find out". Baekhyun looked at Kai, and asked him for something, though Tao couldn't hear what he had asked for. Kai took out something which Tao thought was a piece of paper, but he then found out it was more than that. It was a picture of Tao and Kris together at a concert a few months ago. Tao widened his eyes, as he saw that picture in their hands.
"Where did you get that?"
"I'll tell you later. For now, watch as what I'm am about to do...". Baekhyun held the picture in his hand, while he whispered something into Sehun's ear. Sehun looked at Baekhyun and nodded, while running towards the kitchen. Tao was now getting curious. What was he doing?
Sehun came running back from the kitchen, with something in his hand. He handed that item to Baekhyun, and it was then, Baekhyun had revealed it to be a lighter. Baekhyun opened the top, and flicked it on. He held it under the photograph. Tao watched the small flame flicker and dance under his photo. He now knew what Baekhyun was doing.
Tao stepped up, towards him, but Luhan had used his telepathy to keep Tao from getting any closer. Tao couldn't move. He looked at Luhan in front of him...
"Luhan, let me go"
"Kai told me I shouldn't"
"Please..."
"I'm sorry". Tao looked at Baekhyun. "Don't you dare..."
"You can stop me, Tao, you know you can"
"Please don't..."
"I'll give you 5 seconds, starting now"
"Baekhyun, please I'm begging you"
"4..."
"Hyung, I'm not ready yet"
"3..."
"Baekhyun, please, I can't do this"
"2..."
"Please!"
"1..." That small flame had touched the piece of paper, burning it into bits. Tao felt as though a piece of his soul had gone missing. It was just a picture, but to him, it was a precious memory. Grey ashes had fallen onto the ground. What did this man just do? Luhan finally let Tao go, and Tao fell to his knees as he stared at the grey ashes which had used to be a beautiful memory with his father.
"I TOLD YOU I WASN'T READY!"
"You actually are, you just need something to encourage you"
"I know something that'll encourage him" Kai blurted. All eyes went from Tao and Baekhyun, to Kai. Kai took out a pocket knife he had had, and walked towards Kris.
"Kai, if you do what I think you'll be doing, I swear, I'll kill you..."
"Your choice...". With the knife in his hand, Kai had positioned it right above Kris's abdomen. Kris looked at Kai, and for a second, started to get goosebumps. He wasn't scared, of course not. He couldn't die of a simple pocket knife, he would heal in a matter of minutes. But the thought of Kai doing this, right after what happened yesterday, just felt a bit scary. He knew Kai's intentions were to awaken Tao's ability, but this seemed a bit too much, to him.
Tao widened his eyes, as he saw what Kai was doing. "What on earth do you take me for?"
"I know you can stop me, so just do it. I'll give you till the count of 3"
"Kai, please..."
"1..."
"Kai, don't do this, please..."
"2..."
"KAI!"
"3..." Kai's hand moved quickly towards stabbing Kris. Tao widened his eyes, and in his mind, his thoughts went screaming one word...
"Stop..."
Cliffhanger! Gahahahaha! Sorry, but I had to end it somewhere, and this seemed perfect.
And I also wanted to say that, I had a lot of trouble writing this, thinking of who should do what, and everything. Originally, I was gonna make Luhan the one to threaten Tao, but then again, I thought Luhan was too kind and gentle, so I changed it into Baekhyun.
Plus, I also don't know whether Luhan's power is either Telekinesis, or Telepathy. They're both different, and there are many who say it's telepathy, and many who say it's telekinesis. But I think that it's Telepathy, because the most blogs and websites and even books I've researched say that it's telepathy, but you can say it's telekinesis.
And also, I have to tell you, that Kai is not evil, he's doing this for Tao anyways, and you also have to say that Kai is sometimes very mischievous and all. I mean like, you guys remember what he got Chanyeol for his birthday last year, right? So what I'm trying to say, is Kai isn't evil In this Fanfic. He's very kind.
Can I tell you that this is the longest chapter I have ever written? Wow to me :p
And please forgive me when I say I might take some time with the next chapter, because I'm now focusing a bit more on my studies, and may not have much time for writing. Mianhae...
Well, I guess that's all from me today. Hope you liked this chapter, and I'll try to write the next one as soon as possible. Please leave me a review on what you think of this chapter, kay?
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HyunBin
