(A DOLL’S WISH)
“You are my creation and my very puppet. Your existence only lies from being my eyes and ears of her. Watch close and remember everything, for you are my tool dress as a doll and her daughter. Remember that, Winona.”
Thinking deep as Kyle’s words echoes unto her mind over and over again for the past weeks. She stares at the bright full moon outside the chamber of the crown princess, as her eyes-only mark with nothingness, despite her ability to smile, giggle, and laugh. A half living being, yet could not be considered as one, yet the turn knob of the close door who holds the key of the imprisoned cell of one of the seven.
“Death, rebirth, or reincarnation. Just how cruel and gifted does this world bring?”
Asking the s
(DOLL’S LULLABY) “LA, LA, LA, LA, LA, LA, LA.” She started to sing, humming her favorite lullaby that always marks with the tone of eeriness and dread. Somewhat fulfilling the ambiance of the quiet night under the shade of the bright full moon from outside the chamber of the Crown Princess. Winona stares at its beautiful glow as her mind wonders, pin along and over and over again to the words that made her wish for a thing. “No matter what, I will be by your side, my daughter.” Knowing that her days are counting as it is just a matter of time before everything will explode right in front of her. Her master, creator, and very father will end her existence and the life that she is just started living. To the fact and reality that the Princess knew her identit
(LIFE) “WILL YOU SING WITH ME?” She asks while giggling, looking at her face in the mirror with a smile that can be genuine and disturbing, yet with eyes that do not reflect any sign of emotion or spark. Disappointed, but more like a desire is growing inside of her. Impatient, as she could hardly wait for the day and moment of the said promise, she buries her distress as she eminence her words. “Anything and everyone in this world had a purpose as we just need to find and fulfill it with our utmost best. Good or bad you belong to this world, as I know that no one is born with a pure heart, nor a dark one. You can be as you wanted to be, Winona.” Sacrifice everything, as she already took the deal and will about to suffer the cause of it shortly and time,
(EPITOME OF LIFE AND DEATH) “IN between life and death, just how much do we understand such concept? Isn’t it just a figurative word that explains the existence of heaven and hell, or perhaps? A reason created by us to justify our existence in this world. Either or neither both, where should we stand in this game of hide and seek?” Suddenly asking and peculiarly wondering with the words that somehow are ringing with the unexplainable eeriness and dread she could not pinpoint what. She looks at Kyle’s face who is starring somewhat blankly out from the vast starry sky of the night, where the bright full moon is his way and their only source of light into the field of flowers they love so much and planted together then. He then smiles weakly as he looks at her with the regret and disappointment inside his heart where he does not want her to know, yet she s
(HOLDER OF FLAME) “DEEP, DEEP, DEEP, I AM IN-DEPTH.” Humming an unfamiliar melody that is neither dread nor a pleasant one, but falls in the middle of those two words with the harmony like no other, yet perhaps cursing, or more like praising someone. She looks at the pile of books in front of her and the markings, symbols, and sketches that she drew and made on top of the table. Wherein she giggles drawing a Cheshire smile at the end, as she whispers. “Perfect, just perfect. Just how entertaining this world is bringing me?” With her eyes that somehow glow into its distinct mix of purple and red color. Like an undeniably perfect, yet contradicting fault of the night and day that comes into one. Her hair sways into a curly lock that resembles the fiery flame of her ability and her features that closely
(THE MONSTER INSIDE) “I MIGHT HAVE CREATED A DEVIL IN DISGUISE.” Whispering the same words, she said the night that she witnesses the horror and the face of the devil that took the most important person in her life away. By which in this time and the worst of all is the one that she is serving, where she cannot do anything, but act accordingly as his servant. She remembers the young lady’s words, like the smile of the little royal, yet the most powerful holder rings back unto her mind. “Read this one, follow every instruction that is written. Consult the water holder for a thing and perform it wisely and cautiously, as you need to find and open His gate. Take your best price to offer as He will love a soul in exchange for a wish to be granted. Be smart, think twice, as you only have one chance. Emie.”
(THE BOOK) “CREATED not to mock the God HIMSELF, but His way into fulfilling His desire. With the sins and the very originals that are trapped and locked unto their cells into this world. Just how can you blame someone who only wanted to revive the only being who made Him be?” Educating, yet more like telling the old told tale of the worlds into the seemingly innocent daughter of the royal crowns. Reina who never got interested in anyone and isolated herself into the four corners of her palace chamber is having the time of her life acting as the storyteller towards the young princess everyone adores and calls. “Am I right, Princess Winona?” Looking at her in neither fascination nor wonder, but more likely a teacher with the shard of ‘his’ who knows more than anyone in this world. Sh
(THE FINAL DECK) “JUST LIKE WHAT YOU SAW, EVERYTHING SHOULD BE PLACED TO WHERE THEY ARE, EMIE.” Surprise for the start, yet drilling into the facts and the horror that their world is circling into. Emie’s face lighten as she needed to expect what is unexpected in this very case and book, most especially when the prominent holder enters the void. “Well then, shall we continue the introduction of the ‘Tarot Cards’?” Bowing in courtesy as she is facing the royals of their world where the other one is the holder of flame and the most powerful one of all. She got a glimpse of the card that the little princess is holding. To the image of a castle where lightning struck and the aftermath is dr
(SIGNS) “WITHthe card in your hand and the person destined to keep it and lost it in the last loop. We would like you to meet someone, Emie.” With the ticking of the clock that starts to get louder and louder with each passing moment, yet just a façade in the void where time never existed as dimensions and worlds are the only eminent ones. Everything turns back into the place where she is original, with the throne room where HE is sitting along with the mistress of time, the prominent holder of flame, and the once doll. She holds the deck of cards close into her hands as the image and number of the beginning are at the very top. Just then, HE snaps HIS finger as a pentagram is drawn unto the floor and the distinct scarlet light illuminated, as a door is presented. With the symbols and marking that drawn into the world
(BUTTERFLIES)“THE butterflies have been sent. Everyone should have received it by now, right, Chie?”HE asks in a bit of a threatening tone. Sitting perfectly to his throne and tapping the helm of his chair with his right pointer finger. With a drawn sinister smile and the Mistress of Time standing beside him, the meeting place are all set and perfectly placed with the chairs that resembles the chess board.“Just as you wish for it.”The Mistress smile that is equally threatening and hiding something that she prefers to keep like a souvenir. With the grand clock ticking and finally to its very last seconds. A bit of a change from the past are corrected. Now presenting it in the way that is better than before and too perfect to be told to be a fault.Then.“Here I thought that you wouldn’t came.”“Tsk! I’ve been thinking about it and I realize that I couldn’t miss this for the world and books.”An echoing footstep sounded. With the smile and the sinister one that they both knew and re
(BOOKS)“STOP!”The protest and utter denial of Alliah for the truth that is presented right in front of her. The words and the said facts shake her entire world and currently put her into the deepest darkest corner that she has ever been in her entire life. “No, it can’t be. I am not her. I am me. I am!”She screams in frustration, and wide eyes, and expresses the kind of fear that is a mix of horror and surprise. All for the reality and the truth that she doesn’t want to believe, she thinks that she didn’t deserve it, and all along is an utter lie. “Open your eyes and face the truth. You are not who you think you are, Alliah.”“No, no, no. It can’t be.”Tears fall inconsolably from her eyes. Her body trembles with fear, and the knocking words and reality that she couldn’t escape from somewhat pulled her deeper into that demise. She wanted to escape, she wanted to run away and think that this is all nothing, but a nightmare.“That’s right! This is all but a nightmare, everything of
(ROSES)“YOU do not need to say anything anymore Pauleen. I understand and know my sin from the past that ruined our relationship. I should have accepted the fact that he chooses you, so, for this life and this final loop. I promise to stay by your side.”“Jade!”Overwhelmed with joy and relief that Pauleen felt. She hugs her sister tight, after reminiscing and the very first loop where their relationship breaks and crumbles into ruins. Didn’t go through any bumps and cracks, nor Jade felt the excruciating pain of remembering the past loops. Christopher is true to his words when everything on the side of the sisters is done and in peace. Or is it?”“I see that you came with Gen.”“I guess, from now on things will change between us?”“A bit, for right now we are a family and to think about it, I am your aunt.”A little teasing, and giggling about the present and the future that they will be facing. A light atmosphere that Pauleen couldn’t help but be more than glad of receiving. Now th
(VIENNA BLOOD)“I have the hunch, but I didn’t expect to see you here, Honey.”“So, do I, Gen.”Their bland, but casual greeting. They’re not so usual encounters, but both know who they are in this world and what role they are playing. Honey recognizes Gen and not in the way that always starts with a fight. Gen immediately knew that it already came to Honey’s ears that her little game of guarding and spying over JK had ended. “Then I guess you being here and without any ominous aura and a façade like one, means that JK already knew about you and everything that you have done since the very beginning.”“Well, I am not his guide in the first place, nor he is one of the original holders in this book and world. I am only attracted to him because he had the essence of my birth father. Besides, it is my task to be spied and pretend that I am loyal to him with my utter disgusting desire. But right now that almost everything is set, I came here to ask for that thing, Honey.”“I see.”Couldn’
(CHALK NIGHTMARE)“DEATH, DIE, THE DEAD.”An eerie song is echoing all around the place and under the bright full moon. The melody of the song will bring chills down anyone’s spine. Making all the gentle animals around hide in fear, while the owl coos and the ravens are screaming. In that not-so-dead night, Gennivier is singing the song while marking the points and the necessary corners in the middle of the biggest pentagram and where they are about to open the gate and fulfill the end most perfectly. “Are you done, Gen?”“Please. I know that you miss me and all, but just wait for a moment for I am almost done, my dear sister, Pauleen.”She still addresses the original holder of God Aries, of this world and book in the same way as she used to do. Looking at her with those envious eyes, and an untrusting heart that she is still working on correcting. The reality will always stay the same, for even though she is one of the directions that HE is a bit proud to be HIS puppet. She still h
(A SMALL LIGHT)“TSK! Do not make me laugh, Bianca.”“Tsk!”Still he is being stubborn, protecting and not accepting anything from what he just saw even though it was the damn real thing and his inner consciousness is screaming at him to believe. Bianca couldn’t help but be in dismay. Angered and wanted to curse Aaron deeper and worse to the core. But she is still thinking of the civil way to do things. Calming her nerves and composing herself. Looks back at him and tries again for the third time.“Just what is it that you do not want to understand Aaron? You who is one of the holders that should and will always protect the Shrine Maiden shouldn’t be stubborn like this. No matter how hard you try to convince yourself because you are blinded by love. The Alliah that you know is only the half, the yang of her whole who also had its own dark past, while the yin had the biggest tragedy that was used and played by the Supreme One and becomes, Beatrice.”“Beatrice? Damn! Now it is Beatrice?
(A DUEL IN THE MIST OF INSANITY)SILENCE is eminent, that even the wind is somehow frightened in some way to blow its presence. The night is too quiet and not a single insect an be seen or to be heard. Everyone seems hiding for something, with everything is like in a mid of chaos. In that small garden in the residence of the Gomez, footsteps suddenly echo. It’s sound that is menacing and screaming a dark warning that no one even the smallest living thing will dare to see, face and make a sound in front of it.Arthur looks back, drawing a confident and a bit of a mocking smile and welcomes his guess.“So, you decided to come and face me after all, Kyle.”“And I can see that you are waiting for my arrival, Arthur.”The challenge that they both know that they wanted and at the same time not. The unnecessary but necessary thing to do, and a contradiction that they both know that is stupid, yet it is the only way to prove their strengths and wits to one another.“You do know that there is
(LABYRINTHAL CORRIDOR)“THE destruction for this loop and this sixth is about to begin.”Words that she didn’t want to hear. The fact that she needed to face and swallow up and whole for it is the reality and the written plot that was the plan all along and from the very beginning that they wouldn’t, couldn’t, and will never escape from. “Everything is settled on your parts, am I right, JK, Kyle?”“Tsk! It’s long been done.”“Everything is set on my part.”The confirmation and the exchange of assurance and confidence that JK and Kyle expresses. Amuses, no, giving the hell lot of confidence towards Him. But without knowing what had happened in between the loop of six, the secrets and the deals that took place are one hell of an exciting roller coaster ride that Kyle made and secretly had. All for his benefit and nothing more but for him. “Kyle.”“Just like what I have said, it’s long been done. I did my part perfectly according to our deal. I set everything up without any flaws and r
(THE QUEEN SHALL BE SAVED)“BE prepared, for what you are about to see will shatter you to pieces, Aaron.”Damn, that was cruel and dark. Deeper and more menacing than Aaron had experienced and had known so far. He holds his breath for a few seconds, then coughs multiple times while covering his mouth and somehow chocking about something that Bianca knew that it is all due to what he had seen so far. “Had enough? Did you understand what I am trying to say and make you, Aaron?’“Enough? Are those for real?”The in denial that is screaming inside his mind and for who he is in totality. More than being stubborn about the truth and the facts that were just presented to him, Aaron still believes that the Alliah that he met back then is not the one Bianca just showed her. “I didn’t expect that you will be this foolish because of love big brother Aaron. You above all people that I know who had the greatest sense of justice and smart enough to know what is right from wrong.”“Then, you didn