Venatus

-18-

As the two walked down stairs, he passed Jeon Jungkook who was going upstairs.

"That's weird" The guy commented.

"Hmm? What's weird?" Hoseok asked, as he eye Jungkook. He was almost too sure that the other player glanced their way.

"FireCrystals...that team never comes out of their chamber unless it's for the games" 

Hearing that Hoseok couldn't help but turn back again. But this time, Jungkook was gone. Hoseok frowned at that, wondering how did the player get out of their vision so fast. But he shrugged it off.

Inside the chambers, the two players finally felt relaxed enough. Jimin got up and sat straight. 

"Hyung" Jimin called out. The other male was still laying on the couch with his eyes closed. He hummed to let the younger know that he was paying attention.

"Don't you think that something is really weird about this whole challenge?" Jimin asked.

"Not just the game Jimin. Everything is weird and unusual" Yoongi answered.

"What do you mean?"

"The room arrangement has been changed at the very last moment. And if I'm not wrong, then all the original provinces should be on the same floor" 

This intrigued Jimin as he moved closer to Yoongi. 

"What do you mean?"

Yoongi one of his eyes and looked at Jimin. After staring for a while, he got up and walked to his room. He stopped right at his door and turned around.

"If I get in this room once. I'm not coming out" Yoongi spoke out and walked in.

Jimin jumped off the sofa and followed Yoongi into his room. He watched as Yoongi fished out a book from his bag and placed it on the table. 

"Since, I'm from the Royal family and we are the one who funds these Games-" Yoongi pulled out a blueprint from the book,"-We are given an outline about all the things that are about to be done for the Games. Not the challenges of course but the expenditure. And if they are making any changes to the building, the new blueprint is sent to us"

Jimin sat on the bed, observing the blueprint. It was hard to understand, what was what since it nothing but white lines over blue paper. Yoongi pointed towards one of the chambers. Jimin recognized it to be their, seeing the their symbol over it. Then Yoongi dragged his finger to the chamber right in front of theirs on the blueprint. 

"The chamber right in front of ours was supposed to be FireCrystals" Yoongi stared, turning the blueprint on the other side, "But it's not. Now, the room belongs to someone else and FireCrystals has been moved here"

He pointed to another chamber which had the symbol of some other province. 

"More changes has been made to the floors, but we didn't receive any message about it. Now this can only be possible if the changes are made at the very last moment, right before the Choosing ceremony. In that case, the blueprint and the overall expenditure for the changes and be sent to the Royal family after the Games"

Jimin frowned, absorbing all the information, "But why?"

"The architect is up to something" Yoongi muttered, folding the blueprint, "I'm not sure what"

Downstairs, Hoseok was trying his best to console the guy, Bon-Hwa who was crying hysterically. He was gasping desperately for breaths. His face and eyes were red from crying. His body was shaking. 

Hoseok sighed, rubbing his back and crouched down to his level.

"I don't want to go back to them" Bon-Hwa cried.

"I understand" Hoseok muttered, "But you can't give in like this in front of them. They would only hurt you futher"

"Then can kill anyone for the sake of winning" Bon-Hwa replied, his eyes were wide in fear.

"Look, Bon-Hwa. Look at me" The other shakily looked up at Hoseok with glazed eyes. 

"You don't have to worry. You are the team's strategist. They can't hurt you" Hoseok said.

"But-but"

Hoseok shushed him gently, "They can't. You, yourself said that there is no else to substitute you so they can't ever risk losing you. If the strategist is gone, the whole team gets eliminated"

Bon-Hwa nodded, wiping the tears off his face. Hoseok helped him wash his face and get a hold of himself. Then, the two walked upstairs and right before they parted ways Bon-Hwa spoke up again.

"Thank you for help me" Hoseok smiled, muttering a it's okay. But Bon-Hwa's expression turned serious.

"Keep a watch out"

Hoseok nodded, understanding what Bon-Hwa was trying to say before he walked back to his chamber. He frowned seeing that no one was present in the main room like he had expected to.

Jimin stopped talking and looked back, "Hoseok hyung?"

The said person answered back letting his presence be known. Yoongi put his back in his place before the two walked out of the room. Jimin raised his eyebrows seeing that Hoseok was empty handed.

"What did you get?' Jimin asked. 

"I didn't anything" Hoseok answered, "But I found something"

"And that is?"

"Well remember that I said, I received something during the Game?"

The other two player nodded as Hoseok walked to the center table. He clicked the button and a hologram hovered over the table.

"We received an Almanac" Hoseok said, switching across options until he found what he got, "And so I went to check if there is a way to transfer all the data from the holo-table to this one here"

Jimin gasped to see that the list of the creature that they had encountered till now along with more that lurked around every corner of the map. However, the pictures of all the creature apart from the two didn't show. Only the names and a few characteristics were visibly.

"The first one that you met is known as the SilentCreeper" Hoseok clicked on the picture and it zoomed in. Along the side of the creature showed the list of its characteristics.

"And the one you met this game is called the Draxnix" Hoseok said, changing to the next image, "This is inhabitant to dark and moist regions. And there is weakness is sunlight. Which you guys have found out already"

"Now, the part which is supposed to help us in that, we have the outlines of the other creature and along with few characteristics. Now, I can use this information and get an idea about all the places that you should avoid if not imperative"

"Good" Yoongi commented, though his voice sounded anything but amused.

"Then lets get started for the next Games"

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Why do you think Hoseok didn't tell his teammates about Bon-Hwa?

Who do you think Bon-Hwa is scared of? 

And why do you  think the last minute changes were made?

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