Eleven (1/1)

Kibum sobbed as he hovered his hand over his mouth. He felt his heart breaking. Tears welled in his eyes as he looked down at his lover, squished and locked in a cage. Every part of him just wanted to fly down and save him, however, he knew that Jonghyun would want him to stay away.“Minho…I have to find Minho,” Kibum whimpered to himself as he wiped his eyes trying to stay calm. He tossed the vines he had collected off his shoulder, letting them fall the ground far beneath him. “Just be strong, Jjongie,” he said before spinning around taking off into the treetops, only when he was about to break through the canopy, he was suddenly swallowed by a net. Thick ropes enclosing around him and before he knew it, he was falling backwards, following the vines to the ground countless feet below him. Unable to stop or save himself, sparling out of control, he didn’t even have time to release a scream, until he came to a sudden halt, hanging upside down, swinging in the trees just a short from the ground. He whimpered in pain as his wings were tangled in the vines, half his body was out of the net, while the other half was stuck. Only one of his wings was caught, but it was caught badly, entangled in the net twisting it painfully as he hung upside-down. He tried flapping his wings, hoping it would become loose, however, it only made waves of pain spread through his body.“Kibum? Oh my god, Kibum!”Kibum moved his head the best he could seeing two pairs of wings coming towards him fast, one jet black and one pure white. “Onew hyung! Minho! Get me out of here!”“Shit, are you okay? Is anything broken?” Onew asked as he pulled out his knife.“No,” Kibum replied as he tried flapping once more, whimpering as once more pain flooded through his system. He hadn’t broken his wings like Minho did when he was caught in a net, but it felt just as bad.Onew started cutting the ropes, focusing on Kibum’s tangled wing first, while Minho kept guard “where is Jonghyun?”Tears once more returned to Kibum’s eyes as he released a sob “h-he w-was captured…I-I was coming to find you…w-when I got caught.”“Shit!” Minho cursed “this isn’t good.” “You think?” Onew snapped, hitting Minho in the wing slightly for his stupidity. He didn’t notice a feather being knocked out as he did so. He started making way on Kibum’s net, trying to get his wing out first while Minho pouted for being lectured. “Go cut the rope in the canopy,” Onew ordered.Minho nodded flying into the canopy just as Onew let out a scream. “Hyung?”He looked down in horror seeing his hyung flying backwards through the air. His back hitting a tree trunk hard before he fell to the floor. His body unmoving and wings laying unnatural and a net wrapped around his upper half “hyung!”“Onew hyung! Hyung!” Kibum cried out struggling in his net once more. “Minho! Hurry up and cut me down!”Minho nodded, biting his lip as he flew up into the canopy. He needed to cut Kibum down quick, so he could get to Onew. He looked hurt. He looked really hurt.He found the end of the rope, seeing it attached to the automatic device that shot out a net when activated. He pulled out his knife preparing to cut the rope when he saw the insignia on the golden metal; a large beast with large teeth and a mane. The exact same insignia that remained in his room. The one he looked at every single day of his life. Memorizing every outline, every engraving on the metal. The one that took his mate away. The hunter that took Taemin away.His eyes cast down seeing Kibum struggling, calling out for Onew to wake up. He didn’t know what to do. Should he help Kibum? Or should he go find the truck that held Taemin in a cage? Maybe. Somehow, Taemin was still there. He closed his eyes as he slipped the knife back into its holster; he had to find Taemin. “I’m sorry, Kibum.”  “Two takedowns! Whoo! Doing good today!”Kibum looked towards the tree line as he heard voices. Tears began pouring around the side of his face as he swung upside down. He knew what was coming.He watched in horror as two hunters came out from the tree line. He tried fluttering his wings again to get loose, to see if Onew’s cutting had helped, but it hadn’t; he was still tangled.“Take a look at that beauty,” the human smiled as he walked up to Kibum. He reached out cupping the Na’vi’s face "that, I think, is a winner.”“Don’t touch me. L-Let me go,” Kibum whimpered “p-please.”The human instantly retracted his hand in shock “oh, he speaks the common tongue. That’s rare,” the human said to the other who looked surprised. “Tell me, Na’vi, what is your name?”“K-Kibum,” Kibum said hoping that if he answered he would be let go. He looked around trying to see where Minho was. Surely if Minho was cutting the ropes, he would have been let down by now.“Kibum, cute,” the human smirked.“He even understands common tongue. I think the prince will be pleased with this one,” the other human said before wandering off towards Onew who was still unmoving.“Is he dead?” The human near Kibum asked.The other hunter knelt down moving the ropes a little to see Onew’s face.Kibum held his breath hoping, praying Onew was still alive.“Unconscious. His wings look damaged. Possibly broken when he hit the tree,” the human sighed as he looked down at the Na’vi’s wing. “I mean, he could be fine, it might just be the angle-”“Leave him. I don’t have time to waste with broken or damaged wings. Besides, I’m sure this one…” the human smirked reaching up tapping Kibum on the cheek “…is the Na’vi he will pick.”“Oh, wanna put a bet on it?” The other human smirked as he stood up leaving Onew where he laid.“Sure, ten gold if he gets picked.”“Bets on, I think he’s going to pick that brown one we caught yesterday,” the other hunter said.“Let me go! Please!” Kibum said as the two humans returned their attention to Kibum.The hunter pulled out a sharp object showing it to the Na’vi “now, now, calm down. Since we have to get you down and out of that net, I have a feeling you’re not going to go easy, and I can’t risk you flying away after that bet. Ten gold isn’t cheap, you know? I’m going to give you a little drug to make you sleep, okay?”“Screw you! Let me go!” Kibum snapped flapping his wings once more. “Minho! Minho, where are you? Get them away from me!”“Feisty, if he doesn’t get picked, I might just take him for myself. I bet he would be entertaining to keep,” the hunter smirked before stabbing the needle into Kibum’s neck.Kibum whimpered as he felt a sharp pain in his neck. He stopped flapping feeling himself becoming dizzy as he swayed slightly in the air. He didn’t feel right. Something wasn’t normal. He felt tired. Really tired all of a sudden. He looked at the human as tears began to flow once more. He was really going to be captured. He was really going to be taken away. At least, he would be with Jonghyun again.“Aw, look at that baby, such a beautiful bird,” the hunter said as Kibum fell asleep.“Pretty. Now help me cut him down. This was the last trap we needed to check for today,” the other said as he began cutting the ropes to untangle the Na’vi. As he did, he looked down at the pile of feathers that had been ripped out due to the natives struggling. Most of the feathers were just small puffy white feathers that didn’t matter if they were ripped out, but one impartially caught his eye; a black feather. He leant down picking up the feather running the thick strands on his finger, feeling the smooth feathers. It was definitely Na’vi; only it was black. Obviously, it didn’t belong to this Na'vi or the white on of the floor. Chances were, it didn’t come from the brown one he caught earlier too. Its feathers had been brown, but not brown enough to contain pure jet-black feathers. He had only seen this once before. A long time ago when he had captured another Na’vi, one he had actually sold to the prince many years ago. A black feather had been attached to a vine on his waist amongst with other small trinkets.“What’s that?” His partner asked.“A black feather,” the hunter said as he slid it into the side of his belt. He would interrogate this Na’vi where this feather came from later.