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"FUCK!"

MuYoung's snarl echoed as he stared at Ignatio in horrified rage, Cho-Yi lunging for his mate. "Ah ah ah~ I'm playing right now." The redheaded deceiver warned, wagging a finger and sending the TAL backwards as if he'd been hit. "It really was pathetic, how easily you all fell for the 'lost kid' schtick." He stretched, snapping his fingers and grinning as Ignatio cried out in pain, more blood squeezing out as the knives sunk deeper.

"Stop it!" Noah screeched, lunging for the kid. "Who the FUCK are you anyway?!"

He was repelled in the same way as his caretaker, Jin and Nabi braced together to catch him as the kid tossed his knife like a toy and caught it. "Hmm? Me? Hue hue, I would give you my name but then that might give you an advantage. And God knows you already have too many of those." He placed the blade to his own throat, looking psychotic as his eyes swept the group.

"Right...Rat. Rabbit?"

Maru gritted his teeth as Noah was helped up by the others, jolting as he attempted to summon his weapons to no avail. "Well, this is where we take over. You're going too slowly." The kid smiled in a catty way. "Of course for me, I'm a person who gets bored easily. So I'll be playing with the useless one for the time being."

"IGNATIO!" MuYoung made to slug him in the face, and got an inch from him before getting blown back into Maru and ChoYi, almost knocking them over. "FUCKING LITTLE SHIT!" He snarled as Ignatio's struggling grew weaker. "He's not useless! You're just a cheating sack of shit!" ChoYi made to kick at the kid again but went spinning turbulently and hit the ground instead.

"Oh? No no no, he's definitely the useless one. We've been watching you all for a while." JuJu smirked. "Someone who won't even kill mosquitoes when they bite him, who couldn't even kill you when his own life depended on it? He's exactly the most useless kind of person."

Ignatio sobbed as he hung helplessly, his entire left side drenched in his own life fluid as his eyes flickered between green and orange.

"But you're strong aren't you?" JuJu pointed his knife at Mu Young. "So why haven't you tried to make him be more like you? Aren't you twins?" The kid paused with a thoughtful look on his face, then grinned with a sinister expression as he pointed his blade back at his victim. "Well, I've helped with that a bit, haven't I?"

Cold shock hit the group as they realized what he meant, MuYoung's arm trembling in fury as he gripped it.

"It's identical down to even your wrist." The kid informed him, eyes glowing. "Hmm, how to put it? Even covering it up won't save you from my Ability. I can see every cut and mark you've ever received on that body of yours. Let's make you two match down to the core, why don't we?"

'An Ability like Butcherboy? Shit...And we still can't get our weapons or Yongma...'
 Noah's jaw was clenched, eyes a bit watery at seeing the prolonged suffering of his father's mate. "...Let him go."

"...Hmm. No." The kid's smile turned several stronger shades of crazy. "I'm having fun."

The phrase hit Jin hard, and the next thing they knew he'd hit whatever barrier was protecting the kid, tearing at it with his bare fingers with a dark look in his eyes. "JIN!" Lotte yelped, bracing himself against Henry as the barrier began to emit an ominously strong wind.

"Baby King get back! We have to stick together!" Noah called, gritting his teeth as he stared hatefully at the kid, even as BiGak's crazed grin appeared to play in Jin and Yun's shared memory. "We can't do anything for them if you go flying off the fucking handle!" MuYoung got back on his feet with Maru's help, and tried to get back up to the barrier. A sudden noise, and Ignatio weakly raised his head, the pink-eyed twin freezing cold at the sight of tears on Ho's face and green eyes like sunlit leaves slowly losing their brightness.

'Lang.'


Something painful hit him in the chest, MuYoung doubling over. "Mu!" Maru called, holding his mate upright as MuYoung staggered. It hurt. It hurt it hurt it hurt it hurt it hurt it hurt it hurt it hurt- He clenched his jaw as the pain grew and grew, his heart and head feeling ready to explode open. Everything hurt. His heart, his arm, his head.

'Lang! Let's play with Yong today!'


"Mu!"

'Lang! Let's make dolls today!'


"Oi Leatherboy!"

'Lang! Let's play by the river together!'


"Hyung!"

'Lang! Let's live together forever!'


"HEY! Get yourself together!" Noah grabbed his arm, his gloved arm that always, always, always bothered him. "Pull it together, you goddamned leather fetishist!! Your brother needs you, now go and save Ho!" The Rabbit snarled, looking so fierce.

His brother. 

Ho.

JuJu yelped as something hit the barrier, MuYoung's fist having punched through with a deep pink glow just a bit darker than Noah's aura. The circles in his eyes had narrowed into cat-like slits, burning brightly as the kid shrank back with a confused smile. The barrier shattered with the sound of glass, and Ho limply fell from the air into his brother's arm, MuYoung holding the other up to point at the kid.

"Don't you fucking touch him."


The smile twitched, and the kid lunged like a snake for Ho's back - 

Only for MuYoung to block it with his own arm, the blade squelching as it sunk through muscle. "Attack me all you want...but don't lay a fucking hand on Ho." MuYoung uttered, as the sky above them was wrenched open by skeletal hands. The 'sky' then turned a sickening mix of green and purple, like toxic waste.

"Ho! Lang!" Chau Yong shrieked as he laid eyes on his children, before his gaze settled on the kid. "...YOU-!"

JuJu actually blanched, dropping the knife and backing up. "Yipe!"

"I remember you. You...You killed..." Chau Yong's visage grew terrifying as Ghost lowered him and the Laon clan into the warped area, Mir and the Lost Trio hopping in across Ghost's arm. "You...You did this to my...Shall I bury you then?" Both eyes were black, and his hair resembled pink and green flames.

JuJu stared back at him, before putting up his arms. "Nope." He uttered. "Bye." The next second, he along with the warped space disappeared, MuYoung and Ho falling to the ground with the darker twin's arm secured around the other. Maru and ChoYi were immediately at their respective mate's side, Chau Yong landing next to Hiljo as Mir grabbed both Jenna and Haje to keep them under Ghost's protection.

"Oppa!" ChoYi yelled as Usagi appeared, jumping on his master in relief as Kitten, Shade, and Shadow began to collective freak out and cling to their masters.

Noah skidded to a halt by the two, Ho blinking weakly as his arm was handled gently. While the knives had vanished, the damage had been done, and Noah gritted his teeth as he healed Ho's wounds. To his shock, the pain was nigh unbearable, as if the wounds had been laced with Leon's venom or something akin to it, and he toppled over with a shriek, his arm steaming like Ho's which was now covered in a disturbing mirror of MuYoung's arm.

"Oi!" Cho-Yi grabbed onto his charge, holding Noah and Ho tightly in his arms as Maru yanked his tie off and used it to wrap his mate's limb. Nabi was by Noah's side instantly, fretting silently as she examined him.

Noah was shivering in pain as he clutched his own limb, looking dazed. "B-B-Breathe, Oppa, b-b-breathe." She directed as calmly as she could, looking over Ho's arm as well. No more bleeding, but...He was even more identical, just like the kid had said. Nabi looked over at Chau Yong with a watery stare. "I-I can t-t-try to heal it..."

He didn't respond for a moment, brushing MuYoung's hair from his face and rubbing Ho's cheek with his other hand. "Don't, Dongsaeng. You would only injure yourself as well."

"B-B-But-" Nabi could barely manage the stutter, her hands rolling uselessly as tears started to squeeze out of her closed eyes. Seeing Noah and Ho and MuYoung all in pain and being unable to do anything...It didn't feel right. She didn't feel right. There had to be something, anything...

Jin gave her a tight hug, Jenna disengaging from her brother and Mir to join in and cuddle the poor girl.

"OI!"

The shout heralded SaeHa and the others appearing, the alleyway filling as the other TALs and Chachaoongs moved in to protect the group at large. GamunBe and the girls crowded Noah as Usagi tried to lick the steam away, SaeHa going to wrap MuYoung and Ho's injuries as best he could. "What in tarnation happened?! It was like ya just up and disappeared!"

"We met Ji-U's associate. A child, it looks like." Yong told them with a bitter tone.

Ara covered her mouth as she looked at Ha Na Rin in horror. "Not...that boy? Sweet JuJu?" GaRam and GaBe whimpered, thinking of the boy who'd eaten persimmons and cried at being near Yun. It had been a ruse? Gasun frowned deeply as Yangban squeezed his fan with an agitated look.

"DAMMIT!" Hiljo snarled, hair bristled. "We got so lax, this happened!"

A sudden glimmer above them prompted the group to look up, and a deep pink haze swirled about before a dark pink and black mask formed, floating down to rest on Mu Young's lap. It was the face of a feline, eyes shut in the famous squint cats were known for, elegantly curling whiskers on both sides in the sunny shade of Maru's eyes.

As it touched his clothing, it changed, and MuYoung's attire became leather pants with belts crisscrossing over the front and back, a sleeveless black top with a collar around his neck, and finger-less gloves that ran all the way up to his shoulders, belt-like bracelets around his wrists. Funny enough, the boots he had were a lot like Hiljo's, paw shaped around the toes, and a long cape-like train fell away from the belts around MuYoung's legs.

"...Mu...Mu's...the Cat TAL?" Maru stared incredulously, Kitten popping up to cuddle him as Shadow bumped his horned head to MuYoung's side, panicking as he tried to rouse his master.

MuYoung's eyes fluttered.

"Hhh..." Ho wheezed, reaching for his brother. "...He...Hhheeee..."

Chau Yong draped his arm over the other twin. "Shhh, it's okay. You're both okay." MuYoung's eyes fluttered again, and opened slowly to the sight of his brother crying.

"Lang, he..." The green eyes were full of pain, relief, and joy. "Lang called me Ho."

A moment of quiet as it sunk in, before MuYoung's eyes widened and he rolled off Maru's lap grabbing Ho tightly. "That's right, that's right, you're Ho, you're my-" MuYoung hiccuped, grinning as he squeezed his brother amid everyone's looks of shock. "My brother, Ho. My Ho. I remember. I remember the river, and waiting for Yong and making dolls, I remember!" He sobbed, clutching his twin as they both cried. "I'm so sorry." MuYoung breathed, snorting out a sob as Ho nuzzled him.

"Finally remembered then? I guess our memories coming back triggered a bigger lock on yours. Oi, Flower-Ji*, this is fine ri-" Noah uttered, stare going flat as he turned to see Yong bawling into Hiljo's shoulder as the Tiger tried not to laugh at his mate's theatrics. 'I guess it is fine, huh?'

[Flower-Dad, and jesus Yong don't drown every- FUCK LOOK OUT!!!!]


Noah flinched at Kang Im's warning, just as JuJu suddenly warped into view behind Gasun, grabbing him around the waist with a grin as the group recoiled in shock. "Sorry, I almost forgot what I came for~" The child sunk a small paring knife-like blade that was tinted green into Gasun's neck, the monk's eyes rolling up instantly as he went limp and fell back over the child's shoulder. "Bye bye~!" JuJu crowed as Yangban lunged forward a moment too late, both the child and TAL disappearing in a black haze.

"MONKBOY!" Noah tried to get on his feet, but fell back against ChoYi, still weak from healing Ho.

Yangban and Sae Ha were now trembling in fury. "...Oi. Chau Yong." The doctor TAL's voice was tight and furious. "Where'd they go?"

"I can't find them. Joong has completely disappeared." The redheaded Elder replied quietly as he held Hiljo and Haje in his arms, Mir still bristled defensively.

Teora Hao's eyes were closed, Lun as well, but their expressions turned to grimaces before their eyelids parted. "We cannot Track him either. Whomever was shielding the thoughts of that boy is shielding Joong now as well." The ChongGak told them, ChoYi stamping his foot in frustration as Noah held onto GamunBe to stay steady.

"Shit...Monkboy..."

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"My lovely Mönch, it's time to wake up."

Gasun groaned, his neck and head throbbing as he sat up. He could immediately tell his hands were bound and that he was sitting on what felt like a bed, and Gasun cautiously raised his eyes to see his captor. Or rather, captors, as there were two people with him in the dark rather run-down looking room he was in.

The child was there, smirking as he spun a blade in his hand much like how Mano would use his fidget spinner, a man with broad shoulders under a purple stylish coat, mint green hair that fell in short waves around his face, serene calm purple eyes gazing at Gasun in a way that made him shift uncomfortably. "Were you really that panicked about the knife? You see, Dolch can be careful when he wants to be." The gentleman-looking fellow said, a thick accent accompanying a deep voice that made Gasun's body shake a bit. His skin was even darker than Mir's, and it contrasted greatly with his clothing and hair color.

The word was foreign, so foreign Gasun at first could only blink while JuJu sighed, tilting his head up as he stared at the two. "My my, Logan. Even a sophisticated man can behave like a dog, I guess? You're all but salivating over Joong." Gasun flinched back in surprise at the fingers that were suddenly on his face as well as the familiar voice of the enemy. "And do use that charm of yours, he looks downright uneasy." Ji-U was smirking as he entered the Joong's line of sight.

"...I'm assuming that I have found myself in a situation most unpleasant." Gasun quietly stated, watching as Logan happily played with his hair. "...Though I'm not quite sure what you aim for. Attacking the new TALs but you take one old TAL?"

The other male smirked, white teeth almost dazzling in between the dark lips. "No need to worry, my lovely Mönch. I have no plans to allow you any harm." He again touched Gasun's cheek with a tenderness in his eyes. "I do apologize for Dolch's roughness. I would have preferred doing it myself, but he can be so insistent on his way."

"...That language...I've never heard it before. But you're referring to the child."

Another toothy smirk. "Quite on point, my lovely Mönch. And as for myself." He placed a hand on his chest elegantly. "I am Logan. Runun Logan." He then leaned in, his face becoming sinister just as JuJu's had as his fingers snatched at and squeezed Gasun's chin tightly, the Joong hissing in surprise at the pain. "And you are going to obey my every command from now on, my pretty Bärchen."

Gasun stared in unease as Logan leered at him. '...I feel...I may be in a worse predicament than I first thought.'
It's colder today ;w; Freezing. It's cold, so cold, so cold, baby it's colllllld ouuuuutiiiiiiide~

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:iconxxdarkblue-magexx: for German translations and the use of her character Sarah, and to :iconmemebun: for letting me use her character Nabi~ Thank you both for all your hard work in helping out with AfterMask!

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