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"Are you NUTS?"

Beomgyu flinched before hugging himself as a way to protect against Taehyun's fury. "I-I'm sorry-"

"You know what happened to Yeonjun when he suggested the same thing!" Taehyun snapped, his temper shooting off at Beomgyu's suggestion. How in the world would they be able to run away? The security at the facility was too much! They'd be dead within a second. "He tried to run away, but they still killed him as quickly as an insect!"

As soon as Yeonjun's name was brought up once again, something in Beomgyu fired up and set him ablaze. "Well, maybe I'd like to die while trying instead of staying trapped and getting killed for doing nothing!" He snapped back, fury making him push Taehyun.

Taehyun stumbled back. Suddenly, his pride and his own anger took the best of him and made him throw himself at Beomgyu, yanking his hair and pulling the 18-year old down onto the floor.

Beomgyu threw a punch at Taehyun's jaw, but the younger was able to dodge the strike by grabbing a firm hold of the older's wrist. 

As the fight broke out, tears welled up in Kai's eyes, he hugged the half-awake Soobin that lay between his arms as he desperately begged them to stop, but they just wouldn't listen to him, their fury and the level of their dispute was too great to be stopped. 

Beomgyu curled his fingers around Taehyun's arms. His eyes began to blaze with fury, turning the soft brown into a coloration of yellow, orange, and amber as he ordered the fire of his wrath to burn the younger's skin to nothing but mere ashes. 

At the feeling of the heat and fire scorching his skin, Taehyun let out a scream of pain. He tried to move and get away from Beomgyu, but the older had a firm grip on him, giving him no chance of salvation.

"Beomgyu, stop!" Kai choked out. His cheeks were already soaking with tears and snd his nose was becoming runny. But Beomgyu wasn't able to hear him, he was blinded by the rage that Taehyun had ignited so foolishly. The 18-year old had become a wild and blazing fire, there was no way of stopping him now.

Taehyun's body jerked wildly, he let out a painful screech when Beomgyu increased the scorching heat that spat out from his hands.

"BEOMGYU, STOP! YOU'RE GONNA KILL HIM!" Kai then screamed with desperation at seeing the skin on Taehyun's arm begin to melt and flake off.

Suddenly, Soobin pulled away from Kai, his weak legs seemingly growing strong as he stood up. He was still dazed by the vomiting fit he just had and he stumbled to the side when his head decided to spin around, but even though he was still pretty frail, Soobin managed to grab Taehyun's waist and hurl him away from Beomgyu and his unforgiving flames.

"Let me go! Let me go!" Taehyun kicked the air, even though tears were now running down his cheeks due to the third-degree burn on his arm, the 17-year old still had enough adrenaline and bottled up anger to want to beat up Beomgyu properly.

Beomgyu was fighting his way away from Kai too when the youngest had grabbed his arms and pulled him back. He screeched and moved his body from side to side wildly, but Kai had a firm grip on him.

After a few minutes, the two fighters began to calm down; the deadly silence and uncertainty had been now replaced by sobs, whines, and whimpers.

Beomgyu looked up, his vision blurring due to the hot tears in his eyes when he saw what had become of Taehyun's arm; his fair skin was blackened and streams of blood, as well as carbonated skin, fell to the ground as easily as leaves during the days of autumn. And if you looked closely. . . You might even spot the white that belonged to Taehyun's bones.