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Monster hunters

A plot bunny that got WAY to out of control while I was in the shower. (Sorry for the weird formatting I’m on mobile)

• The sports science boys are monster hunters

• One day they’re summoned to a nearby town for a job by the nobility there, a prince named Tul Medthanan

• They’re job is to rescue lord Pete who has been kidnapped by a monster living somewhere on the mountain

• They of course accept and agree to send Can, their most well rounded fighter who has both excellent physical skill and enough physic ability to defend from and attack anything magical

• Can leaves with a gaudy ring as a tracking token. A gift from Pete’s dickish fiancé Trump that none of them really like but hey love is blind

• They all leave to see Can off at the gate when they’re stopped by a blacksmith

• He’s short and rough but he introduces himself as Ae, lord Pete’s childhood friend

• (A flimsy lie that even the oblivious Can sees through. The adoration and sick worry in Ae’s voice are too obvious for anyone to miss and Can hangs around enough couples to know what Love looks like)

• He presents a small necklace. It’s beautifully elegant and well made, clearly his own work and asks that if when they find Pete they’ll give it to him.

• Kengkla is their most powerful psychic (who is a better person in this AU) and can instantly see this will be a much better token than that flashy thing Trump gave them

• Can takes it, promises to pass it along, and sets off

• After a while he comes across a decent sized home nestled away so well without Ae’s token he never would’ve found it

• He doesn’t find a monster but he does find two young men

• One is kind and beautiful and Can recognizes Pete from the portraits he’d seen

• The other sends shivers down his spine.

• He’s handsome and carries himself with authority and aloofness that both irritates Can and sets off all sorts of bells he decides to ignore

• They both seem healthy and not at all like hostages

• He presents the necklace and states he’s here to free lord Pete and kill the monster

• Pete instantly says there’s no monster here

• Can is confused but agrees to come inside Where Pete introduces Tin, who acts like Can isn’t even there and basically irritates the hell out of Can

• Pete explains there’s no monsters and neither he nor Tin are captives

• Can makes the jump that Trump is an arranged marriage

• Pete agrees and says he’s there voluntarily

• By then it’s dark and Pete offers Can a place to stay for the night

• Can is worried that the monster will come back but Pete assured him it’s fine

• Early the next morning he wakes up to Tin shuffling around the kitchen making breakfast and they end up cooking together in the most comfortable silence Can as ever felt

• He didn’t know he could feel this calm around anyone

• Can ends up staying for days and spending more and more time with Tin

• Tin, who Can discovers is kind and gentle and so very soft under that layer of ice

• One day after about a week Can asks why Tin is there

• Tin tell him a story

• A story of a prince who was born with powers no one around him understood or tried to understand

• The prince was sent away under the guise of furthering his education but really he was meant to die alone in the mountains

• But the prince survived and did in fact learn

• He learned how to control his powers and made a small life for himself

• One day he decided to sneak back into his old home where he discovered his childhood friend was in an abusive arranged engagement to a ambitious noble

• The prince was furious and took his friend away using his powers

• His brother, who now lead their town and who had originally arranged for the young prince to die, put out word that a monster had taken his friend to try and get bounty hunters to come kill the prince and return his friend to be used as a political pawn

• Many tried and all failed until a young monster hunter found the prince and his friend because he’d trusted his friend’s real lover instead of the nobility

• Can stares in awe after the story is done

• He sees Tim’s vulnerable and scared face as he glances from Can to the floor waiting

• Tin is the supposed monster Can had been sent to kill

• Can knows what he was hired to do but now

• He grabs his sword and watches Tin’s (beautiful, beautiful, how could anyone hurt him?) face crumple and turn away not even defending himself from the blow he was expecting

• Can instead turns and hurls his sword out the open window

• He turns around and Tin is staring at him in shock

• Can drops to his knees in front of Tin and cups his face in his hands

• “I’ll fight them all for you. Anyone who ever hurt you, I’ll fight them,” he says

• Tin’s tears finally fall and Can starts to panic but Tin assures him he’s happy

• Can doesn’t need to fight anyone as long as Can believes him that’s enough