"Your Highness?"

"Shhh"

Choi han gasped.

He could see the Crown Prince desperately trying not to make any sound, as he got up of bed and walked over to Choi han.

Alberu looked awful, his hair was messy and he was wearing pyjamas under the royal hammer.

Choi han said nothing, but Alberu noticed Choi han's silence and began to feel embarrassed, so he tried to show a fake smile, for avoid any Choi han's question.

"Your Highness what happened to you?"

'Shit'

His plan failed.

Alberu's face frowned as he thought about what had happened in his office.

"I- I couldn't finish my job because of the children..."

Alberu sighed hardly and looked at Choi han, who was smiling softly at him.

It was rare for the Crown Prince to show so much emotion and the black night found it amusing.

'Even you...'

Alberu was really tired after having babysitting his Dongsaeng all the day, so he couldn't accept Choi han pity too.

He didn't want the black night to look at him like that, so he turned his head and started staring at his own office.

Needless to say, that was a disaster too.

There were sheets everywhere and ink stains on the walls, he could even see some apple pie on the ceiling.

'Where he got those apple pies from... '

Alberu couldn't stop thinking about it.

That little dragon always had an apple pie when he needed.

But no one knew where they came from, and why no one asked him about it?

Even Cale simply accepted the little dragon's cakes, without complaining.

Alberu really wanted to ask, but then he remembered that Raon was a dragon after all...

'It would be a foolish question for someone like me...'

"Your Highness?"

"What?"

Choi han gasped at the rough tone used by Alberu, but then he looked closer at the Prince, who kept frowning and shooking his head.

Alberu seemed very focused, But Choi han couldn't imagine that Alberu was busy thinking how to ask a child about apple pie...the black night's face showed concern.

'Is he sick?'

Choi han approached Albeu, but something stopped him.

He began to hear someone sobs.

So Instead of going to Alberu he went to the bed, and his eyes froze.

Cale was shaking very hard and his eyes filled with tears.

Alberu noticed too and panicked.

"Hyung nim?!"

"Cale?!"

'Is he having a nightmare?'

Choi han and Alberu felt restless in front of their friend, who seemed in pain.

"Human?"

In that moment they come back to reality and saw the empty eyes of the little dragon, who hugged Cale.

Raon's paws were shaking and his face turned into a mess.

"I am a mighty dragon..."

Sob

Raon began to lose tears that fell on his unconscious HUMAN. See Cale crying in the middle of the night was too much for the small child. Instead Choi had already taken him in his hands, for calm him down.

He knew that when Raon was nervous, Cale always tried to calm him down by stroking his little head.

But it wasn't working.

"My Human is crying, why is he feeling pain?I will kill all the bastard who dare..."

The dragon began to gather huge amounts of mana around the room.

Alberu and Choi han could only feel anxious...would Raon destroy the castle if Cale hadn't woke up?

'My poor life'

Alberu was frowning even more now.

Although he wasn't worried about the aura emanating by the dragon, he was shivered by the child's words.

'It seems that my Dongsaeng taught strange words to the children... '

Alberu looked over Cale, who kept crying and having heavy sighs as he clutched the blanket. So He reached Cale and began to patted his head.

The Crown Prince couldn't stand his Dongsaeng feeling so much pain, he had enough of seeing him suffer, so he puts his forehead on his small 'brother' and whisper in supplication.

"Please open your eyes..."

***

'So dark...'

Cale couldn't open his eyes and his ears felt numb.

He couldn't even smell anything and he felt as if he was suffocating.

'Where am I?'

He tried desperately to move in order to try to breathe again, but a light approached him...followed by another and then another...

Thousand lights approached Cale and began to surround him.

His heart was beating wildly now, and all his sense had come back.

'So warm'

Cale wasn't afraid anymore...

Those light gave him an unfamiliar feeling, which intrigued the little redhead, but then he started to frown.

"Umh?"

The little lights began to get brighter and brighter, until it blinded the little Cale, who unconsciously closed his eyes.

Only when he managed to open his eyes again, he did realise that something was wrong...There were many faceless people surrounding him.

Cale gasped and started to tremble as he watched these things move towards him.

"Go away!"

"Kim Rook soo"

This time Cale swallowed and turned his head.

The faceless person was talking to him.

This man had a tie and black hair as well as his cloths, so all the Redhead could thing about was to his people(in Korea).

Cale had sparkling eyes while he started smiling at the faceless man.

'He said my name, he said my name!"

"Did you came to save m-?"

Cale couldn't finish his sentence, the man in a tie fell into his small and trembling arms, which made the child fall back too.

"Ei hang on"

"Eh?"

Cale could see blood in his hands, but it wasn't his blood...

So the redhead moved his eyes to the mysterious man, who didn't make any sound, and instead was cold and his heart was beating slowly.

He could feel it.

Cale's heart almost stopped, so he tried to call the man over and over again, but there was still no answer.

Cale even tried to ask the people around him for help, but no one was listening to him; The faceless humans kept looking at Cale without doing anything.

"Why don't you do any- he- need help...please!"

Cale also begged the humanoid forms to help him, but nothing.

So he decided to try to stop the wound , that kept losing blood from the man in the tie by himself.

"Stop!"

Cale's eyes began to fill with tears and his hands were shaking, while his clothes were filled with black blood...but he was still trying to save the man in a tie.

The redhead continued to sob, while he felt that the man's body was getting colder and colder.

"Ei pleas- please don't leave me..."

Cale voice started to cut off.

He didn't have any energy left, and when he noticed that the man had no longer pulsations, his vision began to blur.

He hadn't been able to save him.

Cale's eyes were trembling and he couldn't see anything anymore, because of the blood and tears that didn't want to stop.

"Kim Rook Soo"

This time he heard his name again and thought it was the man with the tie, but when he finally managed to open his eyes, the sight of what he saw made him throw up.

All the people, who had ignored him , were lying on the ground and covered in blood. Meanwhile some of them were being devoured by a gigantic monster.

Cale's face turned pale as he watched the monster, who kept chewing the faceless Human in his mouth. His whole body was shaking and he kept chattering his teeth and closing his hears with his hands, it felt as if his eardrums would truly burst.

Cale instantly felt as if he could not breathe again.

'Go home...I need to survive'

That was the first reasonable thought that crossed the mind of the ten-years-old boy.

Cale was afraid but he had to run away if he wanted to live, so he tried to get up but his legs wouldn't allow it...he felt heavy and his head started spinning.

'Please move on...stupid legs'

Cale swear enterily, then looked at the monster who was in front of him now.

The last thing he saw was the monster's mouth open.

He had been devoured.

***

Cale opened his eyes.

"Human!"

"Cale!"

"Cale nim!"

Cale's eyes were trembling and his brows were slightly furrowed, but he kept gripping on Alberu's clothes with desperation.

Alberu, Choi han and Raon felt restless, they realised that Cale wasn't looking at them, it was as if he was still dreaming; the redhead's face showed only pain and fear.

"I...want to go home!"

Sob

Cale's sobbing was clearly heard by them.

They stared to Cale with anxious looks, until the redhead reached Alberu's clothes and once again they saw the desperate emotion on his face.

Alberu was shocked and started to frown... seeing his Dongsaeng in that state made him want to destroy the world.

He could almost hear how Raon felt now.

"Cale..."

"Don't leave me!"

The Crown Prince's eyes became empty as he watched the little redhead's eyes, which were filled with terror and that wouldn't stop crying.

He unconsciously hugged his little 'brother' Even more, but Cale didn't seem to be feeling better.

Infact he threw up.

"Cale nim!"

"Human!"

Cale's face was too pale now, and it looked like he was going to pass out.

But the fact that he kept crying, without making any sound, made everyone feel ashamed.

Alberu started to frown even more.

Forget that he would have fainted, at this rate they would have lost him forever!

So Alberu slapped Cale's cheeks and looked him straight in his eyes.

Cale gasped at Alberu's rough movements, but calmed down after his words.

"I will let you live your slacker life Cale..."

"Eh?"

Choi han and Raon's eyes became curious as they looked at the Crown Prince's back.

Instead Cale shook his head and started to frown.

He began to look around and noticed that he was back in that room, there were no monster or faceless men, the only thing he could see was the Crown Prince, that was standing in front of him with a serious face, but his eyes showed the opposite.

Alberu's eyes were looking at him with a soft and sad gaze.

"Just don't give up my Dongsaeng!"

Cale gasped at the words of that person, who seemed so worried for him, but he didn't know what to feel.

"I will never abandon you, you are my little brother after all!"

Alberu ignored the confusion in Cale's eyes and began to put his small head against his chest, then slightly patted it.

Unlike the faceless man, Cale could hear Alberu's heartbeat.

'So warm'

Cale find this very peaceful and comforting, also his heart was beating so fast and was welling up with different emotions that his eyes were stinging.

He realised that this person was alive.

"Human you are my most precious thing, you had showed me how to be free"

"Cale nim we are your family!"

Cale's face landed deeper and deeper into Alberu's chest.

He was crying, but he didn't want the others to know, so he dipped his head clung to Alberu's pyjamas, that was soaked in his tears.

'I am relieved'

'I am not alone'

Alberu sighed and lay down on the bed, with Cale still in his arms.

"Let's sleep together Dongsaeng..."

~~~

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Have a sleep tight as our small Young Master💗

(Just imagine to be in Alberu's arms...)