Fortunately, there are no more encountering rogue wolves after that. Eden and the higher ups have been updated by the incident and they already had a team going on to investigate it.

It's been a week after the incident, Yunho mostly stays in the house only going out when they pleads with him to, mostly Mingi doing the pleads as he wants to buy clothes for his mate as he can see how few Yunho's clothes are. Yunho had declined saying that he does actually have money as his parents had inherited every penny to him, it's just that he is reluctant to use them as it is the only few things that his parents had left for him.

Mingi had pouted for almost 4 hours and by the 5th, Yunho gave up and let his mate take him out for clothes shopping, using Mingi's money as he wanted to buy it for Yunho. Hongjoong and Seonghwa had gone out with them as a bodyguard. They had fun choosing a lot of clothes for Yunho and by the time they are home, Yunho's clothes can fit almost 3 doors of Mingi's large 6 doors closet.

It's the day for Yunho's first lesson and he is very anxious. He never liked fighting but by how the others had told him, he has to learn how to fight so he can defend himself. He bounced his legs while sitting on the couch in the living room waiting for Yeosang and Seonghwa while Mingi was already seated beside him on the couch. Eden had asked for Yeosang, Seonghwa and Mingi to accompany Yunho's first lesson as Yeosang's power can help if something happen to any of the trainers or Yunho, Yeosang can just put them in his dimensional world while Seonghwa can put a stop to whatever might harm Yunho with his power and Mingi is there for emotional support.

Thankfully, Yunho's first lesson went without a hitch. He even got praised by Eden on how quickly he learned all the defensive moves. Yunho had been going to lessons since then with members taking turns to accompany him.

It's already 2 months, and Yunho is surprised himself on how well he can fight and defend himself in that short period of time. He also had been going to lessons for werewolves where he will fight in his wolf form. There are times where he had come home with bruises and scratches that make Mingi and Seonghwa panic but Yunho assured them that he can heal them when he have his energy back that night.

After the 3rd month, Eden suddenly comes to their house and calls all of them to the living room. Eden clears his throat once everyone is in the living room and starts speaking. "Alright, after we have seen how a fast learner Yunho is these past 3 months, it is time for him to confront real enemies. We-"

"WHAT?'

"NO!"

"I don't think that's a good idea.." says Hongjoong as Seonghwa and Mingi shouted at Eden.

"Are you fucking kidding me? It's a NO Eden! How could you make Yunho go fight the real enemies by himself??" says Mingi as he holds Yunho like a child while Yunho just stands there gawking at Eden.

Eden sighs.

"I never said he is going alone. You guys cut me off. Hear me out until I finish talking will you? Brats!" Eden huff.

Seonghwa and Mingi sheepishly scratch their neck while Yunho exhales a relieved breath. He really doesn't think he can go fight real enemies all by himself, he might turn into his cowardice self and run instead.

"We have a mission for you 8, it looks like there are vampires that have gone rampage killing people in this small village in Gwangju. So we need you 8 to warn them but if they don't want to compromise then kill them. They are a group of 12 but I think it will be no problem for you boys to handle them. You boys will depart tomorrow afternoon so make sure to have everything you need by tomorrow morning."

12..? It can't be them right..?

The others had nodded their heads and Eden had made his way out of their house but Yunho is staring at the floor, biting his lips. Mingi had seen how distracted Yunho is once Eden says 'Gwangju' so he went to his mate and thread his fingers onto Yunho's hair softly bringing him back from wherever he is at the moment.

Baby? Are you alright? says Mingi with their link.

Yunho tilts his head up and gives Mingi a small smile, I'm fine. Nervous I guess.. This is my first mission ever.. What if I mess it up and bring troubles for you guys..?

You won't baby, but I have to warn you that there will always be trouble. We are famous for 'the group that brings trouble every time' but also 'the group that manage to clear their mission cleanly'. Don't worry though, we will always have ways to make sure the mission is cleared.

I don't know if I should be relieved or worried..

I promise to protect you didn't I? You'll be fine. says Mingi as he chuckles.

"Can you guys speak normally?! I'm jealous! I'm jealous enough when Seonghwa hyung and Hongjoong hyung can communicate together but I'm very jealous now that you and the puppy can too! I want to speak with Wooyoung like you guys too!! No fair!!!!!" San huff as he saw the silent exchange between Mingi and Yunho a while ago.

"Well, who told you to have a mate that is not a hybrid or have telekinetic power? It's your loss." says Mingi, smirking and Yunho slaps Mingi's shoulder lightly. "Hey, don't say that. It's not like they can choose who their mates are and what power they have." says Yunho, pouting a little and yelping when San suddenly hugs him.

"This is why I love you puppy! Everyone here just loves to bully me!" says San making Yunho giggles.

"And yet you bully the puppy" Yeosang deadpan from the couch and Jongho burst out laughing next to him.

San pouts and teleports straight on Wooyoung laps who is seated on one of the couches. "Babe! Look at them bullying me!" San whines as he buries his head in the crook of Wooyoung's neck.

"You're the one that starts it first Sani ah" says Wooyoung chuckling as he hugs San but San huff and pout before getting up from Wooyoung's laps. "Hmph! I'm going to get my stuff ready."

says San before he disappears.

Yunho blinks from where he is standing next to Mingi before he looks over to Wooyoung. "Wooyoung hyung? Is Sani hyung alright?" says Yunho as he frowns a bit, worried seeing San sulking like that. Wooyoung waved him off before getting off from the couch, "Nah, he's being a drama queen that's all. I bet he will be his giddy giddy self if I go to him right now." says Wooyoung before he makes his way to find his sulking mate.

Hongjoong then claps his hands making everyone in the room look over to him. "Alright, get your things ready and get some rest. We have a mission to do tomorrow." says Hongjoong and everyone nods their head before going to their room.

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Mingi silently looks over to his mate as they walk through the forest in the small village in Gwangju. They had arrived an hour ago and Mingi can't help sensing his mate's distress through their link. Mingi thought it was his own distress at first but finding that he doesn't have anything to worry about or any memory at the place, he realized it was Yunho's.

Maybe it's related to the link and as his mate for his wolf's part. I did learn that werewolves could sense their mate's feelings through their link. But why though? Yunho won't tell me yet and I don't want to push him. thought Mingi as they roam around the forest near to the village to find any clues about the rampage vampires.

Yunho had been very quiet since they set their foot in the small village but no one questioned it thinking that Yunho is only nervous for his first assignment aside for Mingi who knew something is up with his hybrid. Hongjoong and Seonghwa had exchange looks and words with Seonghwa's power as they see how Yunho seems to know this forest by how easily he dodge every tree roots along the way.

Do you think this is where Yunho lived Hwa ya?

I don't know, probably. He's a clumsy hybrid and we all know it but see how easily he dodge those roots. Even Woyoung is having trouble with it.

He never talked about his life with his parents, do you think something bad happened here? Our poor puppy. Now I think it's kind of a bad idea letting him come with us if something did happen before.

Yunho didn't object though and he really wants to please the higher ups so let's just watch over him for now. I don't want my pup to relish his trauma or bad memories of this place either but we don't have a choice right now.

Yeah, watch over him will you? You can get to him faster with your power.

Always baby.

Everyone stops abruptly when Yunho suddenly crouches down beside a tree and seems to be listening to something so they did the same.

"Oh come on! You will never find the hybrid here you know? Do you really think that he will still live here when we killed his parents and burned their house down? Are you stupid?"

"Well excuse me for trying okay? No one knew where he had gone to and since we burned his damned house, everything about him burned together. Whose idea was it to burn the damn house in the first place?!"

"Hey don't put the blame on me! I didn't know that we needed the hybrid after a few years alright?! We were only supposed to kill his parents because they are the traitor of their own breed! We were also supposed to kill the damned hybrid at the time but no one thought to look in the house before telling me to burn it and see if he was there with his parents or not!"

"At least the hybrid lives. Who knew he would be the key to end this bullshit truce between vampires and werewolves. We need to corrupt him. That's the only way for us vampires to win and we will know about werewolves from him and don't need to find a wolf to experiment on."

"Come on. I'm sure if we kill more people, the hybrid will come here and investigate or something. It's his hometown anyway."

"What if he didn't? Then what should we do? He might be at the other side of the world right now for all we know."

"Then we'll just kill all of these humans. They are not worth it anyway and would die in 20 or 30 years later anyway. We just help them to die a bit earlier."

Seonghwa ya, alert the others. We'll attack in 5 seconds on your count.

Got it.

Boys, we'll attack them in 5 seconds on my count.

Ready,

5

4

3

2

1

Go!

San grabs Wooyoung before teleporting in the middle of the group and Wooyoung is quick to make an earthquake and big hole that half of them fell into with a yelp of surprise.

Hongjoong had manipulated every branch and grass near the rampage vampires into a trap and sharp metals that had made the vampires slow down as the metal would cut them if they ran too fast through it.

The vampires that had enough reflexes start to charge towards ATEEZ.

Yeosang easily slips 3 of them into his dimensional world while Jongho had gone into using his enhanced power to the fullest that none of the vampires can see him as he's too fast and end up with a few kicks and punches without being able to retaliate.

Seonghwa had put a barrier around Yunho as he fought off a few vampires that had come towards him so the vampires can't really touch the hybrid without being electrocuted by Seonghwa's barrier while he fought off a few vampires alongside Hongjoong.

Mingi had burned every vampire that came close to him and one of the vampires had a similar power as him so they are currently burning each other but Mingi is winning as his fire is made of phoenix making the other vampire struggle to get close to him.

"What the fuck! Why are you attacking us! We're the same species! We should be friends instead!"

"I wouldn't want to be friends like you! You killed those innocent humans! What did they ever do to you guys?! None! You sick bastards!" yell Hongjoong as he once again manipulated everything around the vampires to hurt them.

"Ah.. You guys are one of those 'holy' vampires who help humans huh? Disgusting! Now we're really gonna kill all of you! You guys are outnumbered anyway!!"

"Excuse me? Outnumbered? Have you looked around you? Who's the one that writhing in pain all over the place right now? Oh I know! You guys are!" says San smirking as he plays with the vampires using his shadows, the forest is getting dark thus San's power is getting stronger making him invincible at the moment.

Wooyoung had found out there is a river near them so he willed his power and called out the water from the river and not long after, a few of the vampires were drowned in the ball of water that Wooyoung had made.

"Aro! What do we do? We can't really touch them! I tried getting into their heads but none of them works!" says Caius as he tries once again to breach Yunho's mind to manipulate him into thinking of another reality but with how Seonghwa had put barriers around Yunho and others, Caius fails to enter.

Aro grunts as he sees his army are losing, his power is not on the physical side too, he can only read their memories once he touches them but they have to stay still for him to do so. "Well try harder! I'm trying to read them for their weaknesses!" says Aro as he dismisses Caius.

"Demetri! Get me one of them so I can find out what their weaknesses are!" shouts Aro as he maneuvered himself out of the fighting rings.

"They have somewhat of a barrier around them Aro! I can't paralyze them at all! Maybe attack the one that makes these barriers first?!" shouts Demetri as he dodge a flying metal leaf towards him.

"I found him! That one with the icy blue eyes! Get him!" Alec shouts as he sees how Seonghwa easily lifts and choke one of his members without touching him.

"Argh!" Seonghwa grunted as Demetri and Alec pushed him while he was concentrating, choking the other vampire with his telekinetic. Caius then quickly manipulates Seonghwa's reality thus Seonghwa was left there thinking he is in the right reality while Demetri seems to be aiming at Mingi.

After Seonghwa was attacked, all of the barriers disappeared thus they can get closer to the others now.

"Heidi! Where are Marcus, Felix and Corin?!" says Afton while trying to free himself from where he is stuck with his shadow seems to knot itself in a tree root.

"I don't know! They disappeared along with one of these bastards earlier! says Heidi while trying to dodge Jongho's punch.

"Mele and Ben are down! That elemental vampire drowned them earlier! I don't know when they will wake up!" says Eleazar as he kicks Yunho in the stomach making the hybrid stumble to the back but he quickly steadied himself and kicked Eleazar in the back of his knee.

"What did you do to me!? Let go!" Mingi yells as he falls to the floor, no feelings in his limbs as Demetri paralyses him so Aro can read his mind. "No use dude, now be a good boy and let my leader read your mind or I will slice your skin slowly." says Demetri.

Aro comes in front of Mingi and puts his hand on each side of Mingi's head. When Aro starts reading someone's mind, they will feel pain as the memories are like being sucked out of their head making Mingi scream.

Yunho flinches as he can feel Mingi's pain and panic but also is getting angry as they touch his mate. His eyes are now in brighter purple hue as he shouts Mingi's name while he pushes Eleazar so hard and so fast that the latter fly out and stuck to a tree with the branch pierced into his heart. He speedwalk to where Mingi is and Demetri try to stop Yunho but Yunho is faster as he is in so much rage that he only thinks of death and pain towards Demetri and something happens.

Demetri cried out as he fell on his knees seemingly in pain while his body seemed to decay slowly, his skin breaking out into open wounds that seemed to rot and within seconds, there's nothing left of Demetri, only his clothes and bones.

Since Demetri is dead, Yunho, still in his rage and doesn't seem to calm down yet, didn't realize what he had done to Demetri, he only thinks of getting rid of Aro as well as he is the one that hurts Mingi. Yunho turns to Aro and does the same as what he did to Demetri, thinking of death and pain towards Aro and seconds later, Aro stops reading Mingi's mind as he cries out and is on his knees, but he manages to speak looking up to Yunho even though he's in pain.

"Y-you..? Y-you're the h-hybrid! O-only your f-father has t-that p-power!" stutters Aro. Yunho hiss at him, still raging, "Yes! I'm the hybrid! You guys killed my parents! You already killed them but no way I will let you kill or hurt my mate! Die!" and Aro decayed instantly, only his clothes and bones are left on the ground. Yunho breathes heavily as he turns around slowly looking at the other 7 that had stopped fighting and standing there watching their leader decay in front of them.

Yunho eyes only getting brighter as he looks over to each seven of the vampires that had killed his parents a few years ago. His memories as he saw his parents burn in the house but his mother won't let him get near, how he saw all 12 of them snickering at the back of his burning house making his rage increase more and he wants all of them to die.

And they did, all of them screaming in pain as their bodies decayed until there's nothing left, only clothes and bones. Yeosang had killed the other 3 while in his dimension world but he got to see what Yunho did to the other 7 and the other members don't quite know what to do in this situation.

Yunho is still breathing heavily, eyes bright purple and Mingi slowly reach him with their link first, kind of afraid to touch the hybrid for now.

Baby? Are you there? Yunho?

Yunho startled as he blinked a few times and the others can see his eyes turning into his normal purple hue rather than the bright purple before changing into soft brown. Yunho looks over to the clothes and bones scattered on the forest's floor and feels his hands start shaking as he looks over to his hands, turning it over a few times, his eyes wide and tears running down his face.

Mingi then slowly touched Yunho's shoulder but he flinched away shouting, "D-don't touch me! I don't want to h-hurt you too!" so Mingi retracted his hand but he gently spoke to his mate, "Baby? Calm down. They're dead and I'm not hurt.". Yunho shakes his head, not believing what he just did as he recollects everything that happened just now. "T-they're dead because I k-killed t-them.. I k-killed them..H-how? W-what's wrong with m-me..? I-"

Yunho didn't get to finish what he was about to say as his eyes rolled to the back of his head and went limp. Mingi grabs Yunho's waist as Yunho falls while he shouts his mate's name while the others start running towards them.

"Yunho!!"