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As a word wizard, you'd think it would be easy for them. Just read the words and magic somehow happens. It's in their blood!
But Seokjin can go against them. Oh fuck yeah he can. The boy couldn't even speak normal Korean properly without stuttering or going too fast. Before it was funny, now it's just plain embarrassing. Of course, with his slip-ups, he managed to create great original dad jokes, but there's only so much humor can do to cover his loose tongue up.
How the hell does he speak English?
No, no not important. He knows some English.
It's Latin, Greek and.. worst of all... Wizaecht that's the problem. The roots of Seokjin's whole damn ability. Speaking.
It's crazy how all Word Wizards usually sounded so free and beautiful when speaking, their words not bunched up like the clothes on Seokjin's chair. Or Seokjin's tongue itself.
Of course, don't get him wrong! Seokjin has gotten many compliments about his tongue but just not in the sense of speaking if you know what he means...
But even that one half-blood kid can do it! He's 100% a Word wizard and they're 50% a Word wizard, %50 Hand. How is that bitch able to do more than him? That doesn't add up! At all.
So now the teacher is trying to twist his tongue for him and literally. No seriously, the big guy's holding a thin baton, shoving it in Seokjin's mouth and moving it so he would know how to move it to say specific words. All Jin wants to say is, "Get away from me whore" but he's too busy trying to pronounce 'Castyntdoel' (C-ay-el-s-tuh-ntudyoo-el) properly.
Because last time he tried to use that to possess an Earthian doll, he accidentally made the doll drown themself.
"It's a special 'a', sounds like 'ay-l' and you need to transition that to a normal 's' and then a 't' where you roll your tongue back to produce a sharp sound"
Jin did not catch a single word of that. Tired of the continuous explanation, Seokjin bit the baton hard enough for it to break, and spit the broken part out of his mouth. Growling, the boy ran up to bite the teacher's hand that was gripping the baton hard. The teacher ran, clearly freaked out.
Once Jin was positive that the teacher left (probably to tell The Witch about his 'freaky' ways once more), he skipped out giggling to himself.
" Santasto " he yelled, making the student next to him start giggling loudly, not being able to control themselves.
Wizarding with words may suck, but that laughing spell is the only good thing about it.
So he confidently strode towards the forest holding elves and faeries because they absolutely hate him.
But they can't do anything because he didn't do anything bad (just too loud, too reckless, and too caring, the third one not at all being an elfish or fae characteristic)
"Nyx, you there? Nyx, I know you're there" Wasn't the best idea screeching 'Nyx' in a forest full of werewolves, vampires (though they live in covens it's a possibility), beasts, warlocks, elves, faeries, goblins, and way more supernatural scary creatures. But Jin's done dumber.
So really, why was he surprised when a loud roar ripped through the forest. It sounded like a hellhound, nothing like his favourite faerie. Yep, this was fine. Alright. Great. It's okay!
A loud rumbling noise filled the endless forest, trees shaking, animals hiding. Even the elves looked shaken and scared. The elves. Mostly jolly, deceiving creatures, never scared. No, no this was not fine.
So as the rumbling sound and large loud steps came closer and closer, Jin screeched louder than the hellhound could ever, and ran away. "Fuck fuck fuck fuck" He yelled, tripping over his feet. Spraining his ankle, he stayed on the ground trying to hide as the hell hounds footsteps grew faster and faster and louder.
Suddenly all the noise stopped as Jin scrunched his eyes up. Slowly opening his eyes, drool dropped onto his clothes and he looked up to see a huge-ass beast, scowling at him, fire surrounding it even though it wasn't exactly hot at all.
Shivering, Jin remembered that he put an apple in his pocket in case the professor made him stay in till' 8PM just trying to pronounce one spell correctly.
He pulled it out and shakily offered it to the hellhound. The hellhound took one glance at it and looked straight into Jin's eyes for an alarming amount of time. It clearly wasn’t in the mood to eat shit.
Ah fuck it.
Pulling back his arm, Seokjin threw it as hard as he could into the hellhound's bulging yellow right eye and ran for it.
Or uh, tried to.
Forgetting his sprained ankle, the boy fell right back down pathetically as the hellhound growled and was about to pounce onto him until someone yelled. "Down boy"
Almost crying, Jin peeked from behind his hands where he covered his face. There was a boy seated right in the fire, sitting there as if it wasn't a motherfucking hellhound. You can't tame a hellhound or ride them, everyone knows that! Must be an illusion wizard, a very strong one if Jin could even feel the drool.
But surprisingly (and fortunately) the hellhound listened and sat back down, trying not to growl out protests.
Jumping off the back of the absolute monster was a boy wearing sweatpants, a black t-shirt. His black hair was a mess though it looked really soft and he was doe-eyed, light brown eyes narrowing down at Jin as if inspecting him.
Seokjin would have been impressed if it weren't for the fact that this bitch was Jeon Jeongguk.
Oh yes, infamous flirt, international playboy, ingenious student, and impressive athlete. The boy was an awful brat and would make Seokjin see ghosts everywhere last year. It was awful, every second Jin would screech and everyone would be so damn confused. He even saw ghosts in his dreams and he has a feeling that that was Jeongguk’s fault too.
"Hey Jin" Jeongguk winked, smirking. He gave a hand down for Jin to grab onto but once the older boy did, he fell right back down due to his sprained ankle.
"It's Hyung to you, dickhead.''Jin sat criss-cross applesauce, glaring up at Jeongguk, who was staring back down at him, eyes glinting with amusement.
"I wouldn't be fucking surprised if that thing was one of your stupid tricks again" The hellhound growled once more, getting up to attack Seokjin, who was pathetically cowering behind his hands once more, screaming.
"Coal!" Jeongguk warned, wagging a finger at the huge dog. Whimpering, the hellhound sat back down, fire dimming.
Looking back at Jin, he cracked his neck, getting ready to get back onto the hellhound and said, "Don't you dare call him a 'thing' again, he's real and I can always make him chase you again"
Gasping, extremely offended (as he should be), Jin narrowed his eyes and hissed. "You wouldn't.”
Smirking again, god of course he was, Jeongguk stared Jin straight in the eyes. "Maybe I wouldn't. Wouldn't want such a pretty thing running around wasting his energy when he could be using it for something else instead" And a wink.
A motherfucking wink.
Face red from anger, Jin screamed at Jeongguk as he took off on his stupid dog. Laying there, huffing in frustration, Jin was still glaring at the place where Jeongguk took off on his hellhound. Oh, how he'd love to use that one spell to make Jeongguk drown himself.
So he started yelling again and again, because why the fuck not haha. Not like he almost died by a damn dog, oh no of course not!
"I will fucking sue you Nyx, come out here right now!"
And finally, the majestic, high pitched voice came. “I’m a faerie and you’re too dumb to understand law. Don’t start going on about suing me now.”
Ah, Nyx.
The faerie was about the height of Jin’s kneecap (He can’t be sure right now since he’s still on the ground) and had the prettiest, glittering purple wings outlined black.
Her hair was midnight blue with specks of white, curled at the ends. She had one emerald green eye on the right and one pitch black eye.
As in fully pitch black.
Pissed off at the man on the ground, (Jin didn’t do anything wrong, this isn’t fair) Nyx stared down at Seokjin, not bothering to help him up or offer fae dust everywhere to heal his ankle.
“If you learned your spells correctly, we wouldn’t be having this problem.” Nyx scowled, thin lips pressed together in a straight line.
Jin wanted to retaliate but she was completely right, and it bothered him to a great extent. “Nyx you’d totally heal it up for me though right?”
Not hesitating for a second, Nyx was quick to decline. “Unless you steal that wand I’ve been begging for for weeks, I am not doing anything”
Crossing her arms, Nyx sat on the grass stubbornly as Jin glared down at her. Nyx glared right back.
As they glared at each other, the injured boy finally gave in. Elves and goblins might team up and try to carry him away to their little tree stump to experiment on him since those little creatures always had an interest in wizards and wizardry.
Jin is not going to risk it, Nyx is his best bet right now.
“Fine” He let in. Nyx grinned triumphantly “I’ll heal you after I get the wand in my hand” Nyx may be sly, very sly, and deceiving, but sometimes Jin suspects that she’s very incable when it comes to logic and common sense.
“I can’t fucking move so please enlighten me, how the fuck will I get a goddamn wand?”
At this, Nyx smirks, pushing her soft hair behind her: “I’m not as stupid as you think, Jinnie, how could you ask that as if I am?” she pouted mockingly, tone childish with a pinch of mischief. When she stopped pouting, she smirked once more.
“I’m going to control your legs”...What?
As if sensing his confusion, which wouldn’t be hard since Seokjin looked extremely confused, Nyx started explaining.
“Of course, I need your content as per rules of most harder magic. And I’ll be able to see through your eyes and basically live as your body, I’ll just be able to control only your legs if you consent to it”
Jin knew he should say no immediately, then Nyx wouldn’t push it and leave (even if Jin protests and yells ‘Nyx Nyx come back!’) so he doesn’t understand why he asks, “Will it feel weird or uncomfortably different”
Enlightened by Jin’s interest, Nyx smiles charmingly. “No of course not! You would just feel your legs moving out of your control temporarily!”
Humming, Jin considered it. The creatures living here were deceiving and the boy’s ankle wouldn’t heal by itself in a day since he injured it even more by trying to run a second time.
Might as well.
Nodding, Jin reaches out his hand and Nyx claps excitedly, eyes gleaming with delight.
Pressing down on Jin's hand with her own, Nyx closed her right eye, her left black orb staring at Jin’s crooked fingers and her smaller ones.
Seokjin knew when she was using her magic since her left eye turned normal, symmetrical to her right.
When her eye turned black again, Nyx settled down and opened her other eye.
Smiling, she closed her eyes again and Jin got up and ran through the forest to the dorms before he even got the chance to process it. When he got in, the first person he saw was Jeongguk.
The boy was flirting with a girl and she was blushing hard. Fucking international playboy.
Before the girl could respond with something equally flirtatious (or try to, Jeongguk had the ability to leave people absolutely speechless with his flirting, sometimes not in a good way) Jeongguk saw Jin.
“For someone who twisted their ankle, you’re in a rush” Jeongguk muttered, running to catch up.
Go faster Nyx, don’t you dare stop.
Nyx stopped.
“Haha yeah haha, anyways move I’m trying to get somewhere” Jeongguk sighed as if this physically hurted him. “You know Jin, I truly was hoping for some bonding time. Maybe hanging out.. Maybe a date”
To Jin’s dismay, Nyx made no move to get him to leave. He tried moving his legs himself but that was a lost cause.
“Y-You’re asking me on a date? Jeongguk, come on dude” Jin pleaded, still trying his best to drag his legs himself.
But Nyx always wanted him to go on a stupid date and get a stupid boyfriend of course. Something about, “you’re so pathetic, you’re single too!”
“Of course, such a hot boy like you shouldn’t be single and I’d be more than happy to change that!” Jeongguk stated, a subtle smile on his face as he swept his hair away from his eyes.
Jin started panicking and looked around, trying to find some other cute guy that could be Jeongguk’s prey.
Though he’s pretty sure he won’t find anyone better than himself. Can’t blame Jeongguk.
“Look kid, I truly don’t blame you for your little uh.. crush on me? But I really need to go”
Jeongguk pursed his lips, “Ah, you do? Go right on darling, I’m not stopping you” He had a knowing glint in his eyes that scared Jin to death.
“A-ah yeah just um give me a second” Jin started trying to claw his way through the air, as Jeongguk raised a brow at him. “Baby, you clearly have legs, gorgeous ones too, maybe use those?”
As if he fucking could.
Jeongguk laughed at Jin’s irritated expression. “Ah, Nyx is truly desperate to get rid of you isn’t she? This is perfect revenge,” he muttered, Jin catching it.
“You know Nyxie?” He yelped, blinking rapidly in confusion and shock. “Yep, pretty little one, charming really. Good with her mouth, in more ways than one.”
Jin widened his eyes comically and Nyx started making him run away as if she was embarrassed and shy. It wasn’t odd for wizards and faeries to hook up as faeries could retract their wings and grow big enough to… you know…
“Nyx, I love you, I really do but seriously. Fuck you” Jin whispered after realizing that, not only can she see the things he sees, but also hear them. Hopefully she can’t read his mind too or she’d know the 28 ways Jin wants to torture and murder Jeongguk.
Jin (or Nyx) was running into the library to witness Kim Namjoon pouring coffee on Kim Taehyung. And as much as the dimpled boy apologized, Jin could see that he completely meant to do that.
And by the looks of it, Taehyung could see that too.
Now, Seokjin didn’t know much about Namjoon (though he did know lots about Taehyung, quite popular that boy was) but he knew Namjoon was a kind little dork, and didn't speak much unless necessary.
But he was a bit mean when he wanted to be.
Taehyung glared at the tall, his proper, pristine white shirt covered in the brown liquid, But it did smell like french vanilla so kudos to Namjoon for having good taste.
Taehyung turned to look at Jin, who was still running like the world was ending, and looked almost defeated by the world.
But Jin zoomed right past them both, which was maybe one of the few good things Nyx has done for him, and charged towards the library's staff room.
Though everyone there raised a brow at him, nobody said a word..
As he swung the door open, he looked around to the unfamiliar sight. But Jin didn't have much time to take in the surroundings as Nyx made him charge towards a wall.
Now standing in front of the wall, Nyx made him kick it a little to signal him to do something.But Seokjin stood right in front of that damn door, staring at it.
So he was forced to high-kick it in a perfect formation. Damn Nyx...
When he kicked the wall, Jin felt the block being kicked by his foot lower. Oh god, don't tell him there's some cheesy fucking secret layer shit in here, this is not what Seokjin signed up for.
But he can't say he's surprised because for fuck's sake, this was a wizarding school, full of magic and surprises.
As the block was pushed inside the wall, the other blocks across it were also pushed down. You would not expect the wall to be a damn piano. He walked into the bright-ass white room and saw the table with the wand.
And a certain Jung Hoseok sitting right on the table holding it.
Nyx got Seokjin to run and try to kick Hoseok away from the wand but Hoseok saw Jin right before he could attack.
Tumbling away from the table, avoiding the deadly kick because fuck, Nyx could kick .
“Why are you here?” Jin asked, way too composed and ‘small talk’y for someone who’s trying to kick Hoseok like a maniac.
“Same reason as you, hyung” Hoseok responded, also very composed and ‘small talk’y for someone who’s being kicked by a maniac.
“I truly don’t have a reason or know why I’m here but I really need the wand” Jin demanded. Hoseok shook his head and Nyx (or Jin technically) jumped and kicked the wand out of Hoseok’s hand.
The wand went flying out as Seokjin rushed to pick it up and then ran out of the room as a stunned Hoseok stood there watching him leave.
Rushing through the halls, Nyx seemed to have no patience to get her hands on the wand. Well until they came across a huge crowd in front of the forest.
Jin desperately wanted to see what the fuss was about and apparently, so did Nyx as he stopped right in front of it.
Two dead bodies with a paper on each of them. Both papers had the same words written.
‘Send them’