Yeona woke with a start, and noticed she was in the hospital. She rubbed her eyes, and noticed that her hand was still holding Seungtae’s, and she smiled. Gently, Yeona eased her hand out of his and looked at her phone.

She had to go to school, and had training later in the afternoon. She hoped she didn’t have to see Q. 'I don’t think I’m ready for that.' Yeona thought. Yeona quickly scribbled a note to Seungtae for him to see when he woke up: I need to head home. I’ll try to come see you later with Daewi. -Yeona

She got up and stretched, then put her phone in her pocket, then walked out the door.

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As Yeona stepped into her and Mori’s apartment, she called, “Mori? Where are you? Please don’t still be asleep.”

“I’m right here.” Mori said in a sleepy voice. “I just woke up.” He was eating some cereal for breakfast.

“At least you’re awake.” She sighed. She opened the freezer and grabbed frozen waffles and quickly toasted them, then sat next to her brother and started eating.

“Hey Yeona, I forgot to tell you. I was invited by some blondie guy to a tournament called ‘God of Highschool’. Did you get one?” Mori looked at her curiously.

“Yeah, I did. Congratulations, Mori.” Yeona said dully, eating her food.

“Congratulations to you too…..” Mori gave her the side-eye. “Is something wrong?”

“Well….the trainers I told you about from before...I had a fight with one of them, and Seungtae, he…..” Yeona trembled.

“Hey, hey….it’s okay.” Mori patted his twin sister’s head and smiled. “Tell me all about it.”

Yeona told Mori all about how she and Daewi were invited to the tournament, and she visited Seungtae for the first time in months and how he was much worse than she remembered.

Mori stayed silent to the end, and hugged Yeona once she finished. “I’m sorry that had to happen to you. I hope things get better. I have a feeling you want me to stay out of it, so I just want you to know that you can tell me anything, ok?”

“Yeah….” 'Mori may be a handful, but he’s there when it counts.' “Thank you.”

“Anytime.” They separated from the hug.

“Now I got to go to school for a few hours for exams, see you later!”

Mori waved, and Yeona went to school.

Timeskip cause I don’t really wanna write this part

“What should we do?” Mori asked, laying down, spread-eagled on the floor.

“We can play games till 4:45 if you’re free.” Yeona smiled, and took out the Switch Mori got her for her birthday. She handed a controller to Mori, then they started playing various games.

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Yeona glanced down at her phone. It was 4:45 pm. “I need to go for training now, see you later.”

“Okay!” Mori nodded, then went back to playing his game. Yeona went onto her bike and started biking to the building where she usually trained.

Once she got there, texts from two different people made her phone vibrate, Ilpyo Park and Taek Jegal.

[Ilpyo-Park is online]

IP: R u going to the tournament next week? I am.

[Yeona_Jin is online]

YJ: Yeah, too bad we’re not in the same area.

Maybe we’ll fight each other in nationals!

IP: Hope so! :D

YJ: See u later :)

And say hi to Seungyeon-nuna and Seungah-nuna for me

IP: Yeah! I will!

[Ilpyo-Park is offline]

Then, Yeona took a look at what Taek Jegal sent her.

[Taek*Jegal is online]

TJ: I’m going to the GoH tournament, r u?

YJ: Yes I am, congrats

TJ: u too, and make sure not to lose, k?

YJ: Right, u don’t lose either

TJ: I never lose

Anyways, have u learned to control ur charyeok yet?

I want to fight u when ur at full power

YJ: ….

U know I haven’t

And u better not tell my friends or my brother about it

TJ: ik, ik, but

To have a powerful charyeok like Hades, and not use it?

What a waste.

Especially when using some ugly ring to restrict it.

YJ: Shut up.

U don’t know what it’s like

TJ: Maybe I don’t

But ik when someone’s just afraid.

[Taek*Jegal is offline]

YJ: …..

[Yeona_Jin is offline]

Yeona glared at her phone, then, with a sigh, she turned it off, and put it in her pocket. Then she headed inside the building.

“Anyone here?” She called.

A voice called from a room to the left, “We’re in here, Yeona.”

Yeona smiled, and walked into the room.

“Hey guys. Sorry for not being able to come a lot. I’ve been busy.” Yeona apologized, a sheepish smile on her face.

“You don’t have to apologize. I heard what you’ve been doing.” Mujin Park shook Yeona’s hand. “Anyway, the focus of your training for today will be with Q for 2 hours, then 15 minutes with each of the rest of us. The Six had other things to do today, so they couldn’t come.”

Yeona’s training usually ended up consisting of working closely with one person for a few hours, then 10-15 minutes with the others. The person she focused with varied from day to day.

“Um….since I was just going to have my focus training with O next time, can I just train with him instead of Q?” Yeona asked.

“I guess….but why? You’re usually so excited to train with Q.” Mujin looked confused.

Yeona avoided looking at Q, who gulped, and took a puff from his cigarette.

“I…….when he invited Daewi, he insulted me by saying that I hated all my friends and everyone close to me, and he told him that I said that I couldn’t trust anyone with my secrets.” Yeona looked down.

“I’ll talk to him.” Mujin said, putting a hand on Yeona’s shoulder, and shooting a glare at Q, who shrunk in his seat. “For now, go train with O.”

Yeona nodded and walked with O to a training room.

O, a kindly dark-skinned, white haired man, smiled brightly at her. “So, I was thinking, since the God of Highschool tournament is starting soon, we should start trying to have you control your borrowed power, because in nationals, almost everyone will be using them.”

Yeona looked down at her hands, and then looked at her hand with the ring that restricted her power from appearing completely and the wristband that limited her power.

“I’m not sure I’m ready….” Yeona looked back up towards O. “What if I hurt someone again?”

“I’ll be right here to stop you. Just take off the ring, and keep the limiter on, okay?” O smiled. “Trust me.”

“Alright….” Yeona pulled off her ring, and placed it in her pocket. Almost instantaneously, an illusion of a black cloak surrounded her, and Yeona’s eyes glowed red.

Name Yeona Jin, Borrowed Power Hades the God of Death

Wordlessly, Yeona held her right arm to the side, and a scythe appeared in her hand.

“A scythe, huh. Shows how much you care for Q.” O smiled and summoned his own charyeok.

Name: Judge O, Borrowed Power: Changsik

“That has nothing to do with it.” Hades, her borrowed power, said using Yeona’s voice with a slight coldness to it. “Now let me kill you.”

“Wow, it always hurts whenever you say that with Yeona’s voice as well.” O said lightly.

From behind him, Changsik breathed fire at Yeona/Hades. Her shadow rose up and formed a shield with a smirk, deflecting most of the fire. The little fire that got through burned Yeona/Hades slightly, which made her wince, but she shook it off, and broke into a run towards O.

Once Yeona/Hades got close enough, she swung her scythe at O’s stomach. Changsik stopped it with a claw.

“You’re going to have to do better than that, Yeona.” O smiled serenely at her.

“I, Hades, already have!” O’s eyes widened as Yeona/Hades dropped her scythe, and using Changsik’s claws as leverage, jumped at O, then one hand pressed against his chest and started using the decay part of Yeona’s borrowed power. The fabric and some skin decayed away. While O was distracted by the decay, Yeona/Hades drove her elbow into O’s stomach. O flew into the wall and slumped down, coughing blood.

Changsik dove at Yeona/Hades. Her mouth curved into a pointy toothed smile, and she swung her scythe towards his head as Yeona/Hades chanted, “All things face death, so return to your master, overgrown lizard.” The scythe sliced off Changsik’s head, and Changsik disappeared.

Yeona/Hades walked slowly towards O, her scythe raised. O seemed to be passed out, but then he looked up at Yeona/Hades.

“Hey Yeona,” he croaked. “Are you in there? The only reason you probably haven’t taken back control yet is because of what happened with Q.”

Yeona/Hades’s red eyes widened as they flickered slightly, returning to their normal gray for a split second before turning red again. “Shut up…”

“He feels really bad, you know. Even before you told us about what happened, he did seem guilty about something. What you said just confirmed it. Come back, Yeona, let’s talk.” O smiled, clearly in pain.

“Shut up, both you and Yeona talk way too much.” Yeona/Hades yawned and kneeled in front of O, and picked up her scythe, and pointed it at O’s throat.

“I’m going to kill you slowly, while she watches.” Yeona/Hades gave an evil grin. Then, O grabbed Yeona/Hades’s wrist and forced the ring onto her finger with a great amount of effort.

Yeona/Hades winced in pain, and her eyes flickered really quickly between red and gray, before finally settling on gray, her black cloak disappearing, and the scythe disappearing as well.

Yeona, now fully herself, noticed what happened. “O! You’re hurt!” She looked down. “It was Hades, wasn’t it.” It was a statement, not a question.

O, unable to lie to her, sighed and nodded. “That doesn’t make it your fault though. It isn’t your fault you were given such a dangerous charyeok without a way to separate it from you.” He winced after he was finished speaking, and coughed. A little bit of blood trickled out of the corner of his mouth.

“I’ll try to get Hades to reverse the skin decay.” Yeona took a deep breath.

“Yeona, wait-” O said, but she had already taken off her ring.

Imagine calm, peace. No death. Only happiness. Her resolve strengthened, and Yeona said confidently, “Hades. Heal the decay.”

Occasionally, Yeona could issue commands to Hades that he had to obey otherwise he’d be hurt. This was one of those times.

Yeona’s shadow rose up, and a toothy smile and red eyes appeared on the head of her shadow.

“Sure. At your service, your majesty.” Hades said the last part teasingly, and went into a mock bow. Then, Yeona’s shadow moved over O’s body and his skin healed. O was no longer coughing blood, and was breathing easier. He looked at Yeona in amazement.

Then, in a swift movement, Yeona put the ring on her finger, then her shadow turned to normal.

O stood up, and stretched. “Good job controlling it.” He said, ruffling Yeona’s hair.

“Th-thanks.” Yeona smiled uneasily. “Are you sure you’re okay?”

“I’m fine.” O said brightly. “Now let’s clean up, shall we?”