CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
*i hope this ch apter will explain the mate bond with Ha Na, Jimin, Taehyung and Hanisha.
WOLF TERRITORY
Jimin was walking around the territory, and stopped when a familiar scent invaded his nose. There was something in the scent that's so known for him a long time hence it was combined with two scents. The scent of someone he cherished, Ha Na, and the scent of his best friend, Taehyung.
"Why is that Ha Na and Taehyung's scent here?" Jimin muttered under his breath, walking forward the direction of Jungkook's room. He wasn't sure about the scent since it is combined together, and the smell is so faint. However, it confuses him when the two scents are covered with another scent.
He is a Duke with a strong ability to smell but not as great as Jun that can even identify, and confirm a blood scent. Although he can do it, it's just that his ability isn't a hundred percent sure.
"Hey." A voice startled Jimin with its hand gripping his shoulders making him jumped away.
"You scared me!" He yelped, clutching his chest that has its organ inside palpating out of frighten.
"You sound like you've been caught stealing something." The voice of a man chuckled. Jimin fully turned around, facing the man who has his hair covering his left eyes, and a small visible scar on his left cheeks.
"Who are you?" Jimin asked, raising an eyebrow, and attempting to gather some smell from him but it was as if the man doesn't have any scent at all.
"Can I talk to you young lad?" A smile that seemed familiar to Jimin appeared on the stranger, sending shivers and chills down to his spine.
"Sure." He nodded, and watched as the stranger walked away from him. He followed the man all the way out of the territory— just a few meters away.
The man turned around, and faced Jimin making him step back. His lips parted as he started to do his sessions of talking because he has a lot of confusing and explaining to do.
"Have you ever wondered?"
"What wonder?" Jimin stood there awkwardly, rubbing the nape of his neck. He doesn't have any idea why he even followed this man.
"About your destiny." The stranger trailed off making Jimin bewildered, and taken aback. "Your tragic destiny with Ha Na and Taehyung."
"My destiny?" His eyebrows arched upward.
"After all these years, she's alive." The stranger said making Jimin looked puzzled.
The Duke doesn't have any idea what the man was talking about. "Who? Who is alive?"
The man didn't answer him but kept on blabberring as if possessed, and that scared Jimin a little bit even though he's one of the strongest.
"You confused yourself as Ha Na's mate when she really belongs to Taehyung."
Jimin quickly denied. "But she is my soulmate, and—"
"She isn't." The man responded, cutting the Duke off with a blunt tone in his voice.
"What Namjoon hyung said was true. Ha Na and Taehyung really does belongs to each other because they have been destined from the very start. Though he was mistaken about the 'the two of them met first' part." he paused with an evident frown plastered on his face, emphasizing the last words, and followed by a quote gesture in the air.
"The only lie he told there was you killing one of them when Namjoon hyung was the one who really killed Taehyung." Jimin looked astonished. He does remember that conversation with the others, but how did the man know about that?
"You do not belong in this tragic love story, Jimin. Ha Na and Taehyung's relationship is the one that is only tragic with those people who wanted to ruin the two of them."
The stranger sighed heavily. "You belong to Hanisha."
"Hanisha?" Jimin choked out, eyes widened in astonishment. How did he know about Hanisha?
"Ha Na is Hanisha." The Duke stated a fact with a stern in his voice, and earning a disapproval from the stranger.
"They are complete different persons. They may look-alike but Ha Na isn't Hanisha." Said the stranger with a sighed. "You belong to Hanisha, and Taehyung belongs to Ha Na."
Jimin's brow furrowed, demented by everything and brain still analysing what the man conveyed. "That's wrong..."
"Ha Na is Hanisha's reincarnation. They are just one person." He argued.
(a/n: Ha Na means one in korean)
The man with scarred cheeks shook his head. "You confused yourself as Ha Na's soulmate because you thought that she is Hanisha's reincarnation even though their scents are different."
Jimin's heart dropped to his stomach, letting those words be heard in his ears. It's true, Ha Na's scent is completely different from Hanisha though they have the same facial features.
"I'm gonna tell you something. " The old man formed oddly familiar cracked smile. "Taehyung didn't steal Hanisha from you because of love or any sort of bond. He stole her because of jealousy, and because of him breaking her destiny with you, he was punished by having this tragic love story with his soulmate."
He pointed at Jimin. "And you, young man, Hanisha really belongs to you."
It took a full minute for Jimin to process those words while the man just waited for his reaction.
"So...what y-you are saying is—" Jimin stuttered, flickered his eyes to search for the man's brown eyes. "Ha Na isn't a reincarnation of Hanisha, and that she belongs to Taehyung...and then Hanisha who died, is my real soulmate?"
"Yes." The man replied with seriousness in his voice. "And she didn't die, Jimin-ah."
"What?" He blurted out, taken back. Who didn't die?
"She is just nearby here." He smiled reassuringly causing Jimin to be baffled by everything. The information he got was too much. "But you have to stop her before something will happen."
The man frowned, earning an objection from Jimin who was shaking his head. “I'm completely confused—Wait, she's alive and what?"
The stranger sighed. "She is alive, and soon she'll bare a consequence just like Taehyung did. One should not fool destiny or else they'll suffer consequences."
"Consequences?" He snapped his head, giving the attention towards the man. "Who is fooling destiny? Hanisha? What did she do?"
"You should be the one to know that." The stranger chuckled. "But I can tell you that she's messing with everyone's life. And all I can do to help is to tell you the way to break the curse."
"W-What is it?" Jimin shuddered, eyes glossy.
"One of them should realize who is who, and the mate should sacrifice as well." Jimin raised his eyebrows, and jaw hanging low when he noticed that the man was slowly disappearing from his sight.
"One is real, and one is just an illusion." Was the last words the man said before completely vanishing.
FALLEN
Written by Hannah (daddiehoseok)