Yoongi POV- (the previous night)

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"Yeah, the barrier will work, but only until the 13th..."

"Yes. And SEVEN of the villagers must perform this. SEVEN is compulsory."

But I'm not sure if there are much strong willed people here...", I said, hesitating.

I knew whom he meant, but I wasn't sure if they were mentally stable...

"Trust them. That's what is important to succeed this ritual."

"I don't know, if I can trust them to do it well. They're all very..."

"No matter what. They're all part of this village, and this village brings people, and people don't decide to live here. Bangtan village. It's FATE."

"Now how do we get those robes? The liquid is blocking the path..."

Suddenly, I heard a scream and I turned to the sound, shocked.

Yeona?!!

I'm dead.

She's gonna be MAD at me.

No. I'm not gonna let her. I'll let her know who's the king, who's the boss.

"Yoongi, she's been spying you.", Mina said.

I kept a serious face and asked, "So you've been spying, like Mina said?"

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Author POV-

The seven villagers and Yeona walked towards the Graveyard, most of them shivering in fear.

"Jungkookie, please carry my dead body and perform my funeral as a younger brother... I'm surely gonna die in there...", Seokjin muttered, clinging onto Jungkook's arms.

"Oh god, don't be so idiotic! Why are you gonna die? Ghosts are planning to have you for lunch or what?"

"Don't scare me!!", Seokjin exclaimed, glaring at Jungkook, while the latter rolled his eyeballs.

"Stop being silly! They're not there to kill you! They themselves are crying because they're dead. Don't offend them or blame them for every disaster!"

"But-"

"Shut up, hyung! If you're scared, just hold onto me. Don't grumble or blabber some random nonsense about dying. We're not gonna jump into the Graveyard to bury ourselves. We're going to the Magic Shop."

Yes, the villagers headed to the Magic Shop, to bring the sacred robes of BTS, to perform the ritual. It was rumoured that BTS lived in Magic Shop, which was an underground palace, almost half of the size of the village!

Stretching from the headstone, to the Graveyard, its area was clearly a luxury. The Magic shop was rich in every aspect.

It really had magic. Even if millions of people entered, it'd still be large enough for billions more to fit.

Long ago, the people used to land in the Magic Shop after their death, as free roaming spirits. But, they declared that they had no rights to even sight the great abode and built a wall separating the Magic Shop from the Graveyard.

When Taehyung and Namjoon gave up with the fact that treasure existed under the headstone, they never knew. Treasure did exist. In the form of Magic Shop. Heaven.

That day, Taehyung went to the left side path, but didn't observe a corner route, which led to the Magic Shop, but just walked straight, which joined Namjoon's route, after a few minutes. It was just a trick he never noticed.

"Do you think Magic Shop is there? I mean, all we saw was spirits... Right?", Taehyung muttered to Namjoon.

"Don't know. Secrets keep unveiling, so I think that everything happening here might not be much surprising or unexpected...", Namjoon shrugged. "Probably, there's some false door, or hidden tunnel or something..."

Hoseok and Jimin close to them, peered at them, curiously. "What are these guys planning?", Hoseok asked, doubtfully.

"I don't know, but surely something suspicious...", Jimin said. "Probably to break some more stuff."

"That's Namjoon's work.", Hoseok said, with a grin.

Jimin laughed and they both followed Yoongi's and Yeona's lead, who walked together in the front, discussing about everything but the broken headstone.

"Oh really? I love Iced Americano. It's the reason I survive.", Yoongi exclaimed, dramatically.

Yeona giggled and asked amusedly, "You get Iced Americano here?"

"Why not? Just because it's a village, that doesn't mean it's JUST a village. It's THE Bangtan village. People are brought to live here, no one comes to just visit and go. If you come here, you live here. You can't just leave heaven. It's impossible. And, we get everything. From the trending fashion to the tastiest food, from all over the world, we get everything here."

"Whoa really?! I've never experienced it..."

"You get comfort when you're sad. You get food when you're hungry. You were hardly hungry, so you didn't get them. Whatever you wish, is yours.", Yoongi said, with a grin.

"What? Okay, then let me see...", Yeona smirked mischievously. "I want a beautiful ring. With BTS carved on it."

"You'll get it, soon.", Yoongi said, mirroring her smirk.

(Which way did he mean it? 😏😏)

Suddenly, Yeona tripped on something on the ground, and held onto Yoongi for balance. She looked down, to see a small purple box on the ground.

Yoongi picked it up, and pocketed it, silently. Yeona looked at him, in amusement.

"Your parcel has arrived.", Yoongi stated, simply.

"Wait, really?!! Aww let me see!", She exclaimed, as she jumped, clutching onto him, excitedly.

"Nope. I'll present it to you, in an even better way.", Yoongi said, while Yeona pouted.

"I wanna see it..."

Yoongi switched the torch on, which he clutched in his right hand and exclaimed, "Okay so, now we reached the entrance, let's go!"

It was the same entrance, behind the large statue, which led to the spirits. The same entrance, Yoongi and Yeona had entered.

The same entrance Taehyung and Namjoon exited.

Yoongi climbed down first, while the others followed his lead. Slowly, everyone got down, and Namjoon, who was at the last, almost fell down, tearing the rope.

Yoongi sighed. The rope ladder which lasted for plenty of years, now broke in the hands of the most favourite God of Destruction in the world.

In the 'legs' of, actually.

"Sorry...", Namjoon apologised, while Yoongi smiled. "It's okay. Anyways, I thought of buying a new one.", He lied, so that Namjoon wouldn't feel too bad.

"Okay so, let's go?", Yoongi exclaimed, while the others either gulped nervously, or giggled excitedly.

Or anticipated curiously about what's to happen.

Yoongi headed to the opposite route, which led them away from the spirits. His torch flashed against the U-bend on the right, and walked down a steep and narrow flight of stairs, which was parallel to the route to the spirits.

"How many more stairs?", Seokjin groaned, after a few minutes, while Jungkook muttered, mischievously, "My dear old man."

"Around... A hundred more.", Yoongi said, shrugging.

"What?!", All the villagers, exclaimed, shocked.

"Why did BTS choose for such an entrance?", Jimin asked, puzzled.

"When BTS were there, there were pretty much, 10 routes to the Magic Shop. But this route was an emergency exit route.", Yoongi explained.

"What happened to the other routes?", Jungkook asked, curiously.

"Around 7 of them were never discovered by the villagers, after a point of time. One was destroyed when the ARMY headstone leaked, even before we were born, and another was right under the headstone...", Yoongi said, and turned to Taehyung, flashing the torch upwards, so that Taehyung could see his face, and not blind his eyes with the light.

"And the route you and Namjoon used, was another one. The treasure you hunted for, was the Magic Shop."

Taehyung gasped in surprise. "Really? And how do you even know all these details?"

"My 'sources'.", Yoongi winked and continued climbing down the stairs.

Yeona giggled, while the others thought, curiously on what could be his 'sources'.

After reaching the end, at last, the villagers sighed in relief and exhaustion, their eyes landing on a place which hardly appeared to have built underground.

SKY.

FRESH WATER.

FRESH AIR.

CLOUDS.

PALACE.

BIRDS.

CUTE ANIMALS.

PLANTS.

TREES.

BUTTERFLIES.

AND A NEVER ENDING LIST OF AN ETHEREAL VIEW OF NATURE.

It hardly looked like a place someone would imagine, which beheld the narrow underground route. It looked like a piece of heaven...

Or heaven itself.

The villagers walked towards it, enchanted and enthralled by its beauty, their eyes widened.

The Magic Shop.

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Guys,

I'm SO SORRY! I really did plan on updating soon, but couldn't update bc I was working on my drafts of the other story (upcoming one) T_T

Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed reading this chapter, and is the story going well?

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