We gather around Bam as he breathes heavily. "Bam! Is your condition getting worse!?" Khun asks in a panic manner, "what happened crocodile!?"

"I... I don't know." Rak answers honestly. "he collapsed out of nowhere. I think it's better to postpone the test. I know we're in a hurry but..." Akraptor suggests.

Bam sits up straight at his suggestion, saying weakly, "no. I'm fine. I'm in for the match. I can do this." he sounds more like he's reassuring himself at this point.

"Bam..."

We end up taking the test anyways, due to Bam being so persistent. Who can deny that cute face of his anyways?

I receive word that Bam is going after a Xiaxia lookalike. The fisherman of the team.

It should be me battling her! Not Bam, damn it!

Oh well, I'll stick to the scout.

He was easy to defeat. Spray water at his face, get him angry, make Him charge at you, pull out a small knife, it goes through his stomach, he falls over in pain, step on his head over and over until he stops squirming and you're done.

~~~***~~~

Once again, we gather around an unconscious Bam. He sleeps peacefully on his bed.

"geez, my cute pupil always seems to be sleeping when I come to see him." a deep voice says through the door.

We turn around and spot a tall man leaning against the open door frame. "by the way, I somehow think there are some new faces amongst you guys."

"what happened huh?"

Okay not gonna lie, he seems sketchy but also cool at the same time.

"j-jinsung Ha?" Khuns eyes goes wide as the man called jinsung Ha steps closer to him. "what brings someone like you here?"

"you must be that son of Khun... You resemble your father so much. Viole told me you are a great friend of his."

Khun looks at him nervously. "that's..."

"you must be that girl he talk about so fondly. Considering you're the only mature looking woman here." he stares at me coldly and I didn't fail to hold his gaze. "Daeyang? Interesting. He never mentioned that to me."

He turns his attention back at Khun. "don't get so nervous. I changed a lot. I no longer kill the members of the ten families whenever I see them."

Khun still keeps cautious around him though. This man can literally kill us all in a wave of a hand.

"so, he ended up collapsing like this..."

"may I have a word with you guys?"

~~~ ***~~~

Recap, Jinsung Ha told us that we aren't allowed to face Hoaqin. Bam insisted on defeating him, he still denied saying if we don't wanna diddly die than diddly don't do it.

Now, we're just lounging around in our room.

Everyone is looking gloomy and down. Including me. I'm usually in charge of the 'making people happy when they're down' type of teammate, but this just... God!

But even in this foul mood, Khun took the initiative to wrap his arm around my waist. "shit!" Rak jumps up from the bed. "where are you going crocodile?" Khun asks tauntingly. "I'm going to beat that candy turtle!"

"don't be stupid." Khun comments. "as much as I hate to say it, yeah. That's a stupid idea. He's a man who is famous for killing the members of the ten great families."

"I'm still not sure if he can kill anyone from the shadow family, but I don't want to find out."

"so what are you saying? We should give up on chasing the train!?" he angrily shouts. "we'll, we can't fight him anyways." Khun blandly argued.

Rak is clearly annoyed at his attitude. We do have friends on board, but we can't risk killing ourselves either. "so you want us to run away??"

"of course not."

Rak seems surprised. "we can't beat him, but there are other ways to get past him."

Khun is the living definition of those cringy 'emotional' memes and quotes you find on i**tagram.

But I love him still.

~~~***~~~

"teacher." we walk in his direction. "what is it Viole? I told you to get some rest."

"I'm very sorry. But I have to go."

Jinsung ha crunches on his lollipop and pulls it out of his mouth. "you mean, you're insisting on going to the hell train, even if you'll have to fight me."

He steps closer at us, "please tell me you're joking, Viole." he sounds like a homophobic dad that just had a son came up and tell him that he's in fact, gay. "Actually, we're not." I stare at him nervously.

"he's coming this way Mr. Khun..." I catch Bam's nervous glance at Khun. "just stick to the plan."

"one..."

"two..."

"three!"

We turn around and ran. To be honest, there is no hope in being able to get to the spaceship like this.

Just as I thought of that sentence, Jinsung Ha decided it was best for him to run in front of us.

"did you really think you could easily run away from me?"

"well, yes but technically no." I answer. He seems unimpressed by my answer.

Khun sends crocodile Rak to him. He isn't good for stalling even a few minutes.

Khun steps up next after Bam got flung up by him. Gotta say, the Saint blood shirt I got for him really suits Khun.

"let's find out if I can the kill one of the shadow family members." he says after tossing Khun to the wall. "could have been a little tiny bit more gentle with my boyfriend over there." he didn't answer me but he calmly walks over.

"what is your position? I'm guessing wave controller?"

I shook my finger no, "fisherman." he charges at me. He is so fucking fast??? I didn't know he already was behind me. "this is easier then I thought."

He is suddenly pushed by a strong watery force to the side. He only staggered a bit, but regained his stability back. "do you want a warm, or cold bath?" I play with the two water balls in my hand. One of them is skin burning hot and one is frostbite hypothermia cold.

I'm not trying to kill him. Just sayin'

"how about, neither?" he appear behind me unsuspectingly. A shoe meets my neck and I land on Khun.

"hey."

"hey." he greets back.

Khun rubs his head a little, and plays with his bangs. "hoo- how can a man so old be that strong?"

I laugh at Khun's expression. He's just purely stressed out it seems.

We run towards the ship as soon as the Jinsung Ha dude fly off. "hey, the train is almost here." Boro announces. "sorry! We haven't taken off yet!"

Boro says what in a surprised tone. "thanks to a teacher that adores his pupil so much! I'll get there as fast as I can!" he hangs up on Boro.

~~~***~~~

"alright, I promise I'll pay you back." Khun says, ominously. We get nearer and nearer at the train.

"how do we get off...?" I nervously ask, knowing damn well what's going to happen. "we jump off!" he grabs a hold of my hand and jumps off the edge.

We land safely on the stairs and face the kid with white hair. "what? Who's that kid?" Khun asks.

Boro gives us a warning shout. The kid in front of us is the slayer nominee guy.

We continue having this stare down in silence. It's intense let me tell you.

But God damn Rak has to ruin that by saying, "that's turtle is Hoaqin?! Damn it! You said he's strong! But what's that?! Squashed rice cake looking guy who wouldn't be enough to feed the fly!?"

The white haired kid looks annoyed at Rak and retorted back. I see Boro running up the stairs towards us. "Boro, I'll never let you get on the train!!" he swings his sword but Bam blocks it.

Rak becomes an idiot and floats over to them with Khun's lighthouse. A hooded man attacks him and he smashes into the ground. "that stupid crocodile!" Khun mutters.

The stranger lands on our side of the stairs. "that loud crocodile won't be coming inside the train now, I guess." he tells us why are we wasting our time and that Bam's powers aren't enough to beat them especially with Hoaqin awake.

Sachi Faker holds on to Khun's shoulder. "hold on Khun family. It's our job to get him back to his senses."

~~~***~~~

We hear Bam's groan behind us. We instantly turn our attention to him. "Bam!"

He stumbles but regains his balance. I see the blood trickling down his face. "Bam!" Khun leaps up onto his lighthouse. Yura Ha blocks his way. "you're going to face me Mr. Khun." she says.

"Yura Ha.."

Khun can't save Bam now. It's up to me than.

"Hold on Bam!" a watery platform forms in between the two flights of stairs. A risky thing to do, but it's better then having Bam dead.

I jump on it like Khun did with his lighthouse but this time no one stops me from coming across.

I manage to block the incoming attack from him, right after it disappears and reappears again. "(y/n)..."

"who are you?" he asks, bewildered. Not everyone can block the sword easily. Or that's what I've been seeing for the past two minutes.

"none of your business." I pull out a sword of my own from my armed inventory. "you're right. After all, you're going to die here!" he lounges at me with his steel blade.

My sword goes in to block, but his sword appears on my side, different place from where I went in to block.

I hold back a groan. The cut was enough to make my arm bleed.

"yo what the fuck." I scream at him. He ignores me as Bam continues to attack him.

I saved his life earlier, Right?

"Blue turtle! Behind you!"

My head instantly snaps at Khun. Yura Ha is behind him with a long sharp knife in hand.

He can't block it!

"Khun!" it's only for an instance, but the shinsu that leaves my hand wasn't water. It's hot to the touch and I can see the tips of my fingers lighting up in flames.

And suddenly everything stops.

I fell to my knees and also inside of the train. It's dark. There is a shady man in front of us. He is so shady, it seems that he knows who we are. Or at least some of us. "nice to see you kids. Welcome to the hell train." it greeted.

~~~***~~~

LOL I'm going to call the weird pedophile dude 'it' because why not.

Anyways, school started and now I'm busy. It only been the first day and I got like 6 projects to make.

It's a part of being in 9th grade I guess (?)