(WORDS) “JK?” Taken aback by what she just saw, she is trying to make sense of it at the moment. Winona gasped and deep as she cancels the spell took that particular photo, along with the Obscura, and head her way out to ask him about what she just knew. But then. “Could it be?” She asks once more assessing the whole ordeal as she slows down her walking pace thinking about it all once more. Convincing herself that it couldn’t be, for she knows JK long enough to not raise any suspicion about him. Especially among them, it is evident that he is competing for attention and recognition from the Maiden. “Something is not right.” Her hunch is bothering her. Thinking if she will approach him and asks about it directly, or investigate further. By which she never did before, not at all and especially among them Elites. “I think that you should, Winona.” Surprise as she almost jumps back from the sudden interaction. She calms and immediate
(DARK INTEREST) “BORN without a soul. Created by the materials of ceramic and glass. A lifeless doll at first, that is gifted by life from the person that she once calls her father. The beautiful doll that was gifted to a princess, who ends up wishing to be her daughter.” Reading a book that is just like any other peculiar ones that she owns. Emie is taking notes of the past and life of one of them. “North, east, south, and west.” She whispers, writing the four directions on the right upper part of the paper. Along with the twenty-two symbols of alchemy particularly the three primes. “Mercury, salt, and sulfur.” As she draws the three symbols along with the three points that create a triangle. By which in the middle is the face of the beautiful ceramic doll, that was. “Winona” She felt her presence and heard her footsteps coming closer to her chamber. Closing the book, then she is reading and put it back on one of the shelves, hiding it withi
(HIDDEN DESIRES) “MAKE me proud my dear daughter.” A command rather than a motivation. He combs the hair of the doll with a porcelain white skin that is made out of glass. Eyes are a bit resembles the starry night sky, but with a blank expression from the outside, while hiding the devil inside. “Do whatever it takes, be my eyes and ears around her.” He instructed, talking in front of his perfect piece that smiles and links as an agreement. “Remember that a child must protect their parents.” Hearing the soft giggle. That laugh from a child that should not exist yet, the order was defied and here she is. More than the perfect human chimera, but an object that is gifted with a soul. “You are my perfect creation. The perfection that no one of them can fathom. A drop of blood from her, a piece of my DNA, and a shared existence and soul from Kyle. You are born. With your soul that is you and only for yourself. I
(TRUST AND DOUBTS) “FATE AND HONOR.” Emie whispers, reading the lines and the character of one of the ten commandments. “The fourth and fifth commandments and respectively.” She utters, emerging in her thoughts. As she couldn’t take her eyes off the page of the book and the words that were educating her about the things that she is having questions and doubts about. “Exactly.” A confirmation and permission that made her stop for a while and look back to her commanding officer, her 2nd master, and her Mistress that govern the time. “Can I ask you one more question, Mistress?” Thinking for a while where in reality is just her teasing her servant for a bit. She smiles with her usual sinister one. As she answers, yet in the tone of a taunting one. “Didn’t I already grant you the permission to know a thing and two about the commandment? Yet, here you are asking for more. Aren’t you a bit greedy, Emie?” She taunts her, as Emie knows th
(THE ONE SHE CALLED OUT) “YO! EMIE!” Greeting her like they are just friends and with no hierarchy and respectful words that he should address her. Emie shoves it off as he is the use of how playful, naughty, but cunning he is. Different from what his character is written in the book, but then in a deeper sense is his façade. She looks at him and said. “You are finally here, Carlos.” Addressing him back by his name with a tone of dismay that is indirectly telling him that he shouldn’t act like they are equal for he is below her. “Tsk!” Carlos smirks then laughs in his carefree state, as he jumps and legs cross sitting on the table in front of Emie. Their General and the direct superior of their commander. “I am just playing with you for a second. You see I am just joking.” Passing everything like a play where he is thinking and doing everything in that state. He giggles and acts gullible, wherea
(COMMANDEMENT OF FAITH AND HONOR) “MY FATHER.” Still thinking and now in deep thoughts from the dream that she just had. Winona’s mind is in a current state of dilemma from the dream that wasn’t any other. With everything that is not a coincidence, she knew that it has something to do with the past. “I need to know everything.” As she whispers to herself. Convince by the fact that it is not just a simple case and not even a bit. Knowing that it has something to do with her current life and her past wherein she is an orphan and was only adopted by her known father. “That doll and the one who created that doll.” Patching the facts that she currently has. Thinking about the person behind the shadow she fails to see through her dreams. She could only think of one person that could help her see everything and clearly. “I need to tell her everything.” Now thinking of relaying the current pieces of evidence
(GATE OF TIME) ALL her doubts suddenly disappeared, as she is now more than just convinced that the person right in front of her is not an enemy, but an ally. Someone that she can trust even with a heartbeat, as she can start apologizing for what she had said and done a while ago. “Shall we?’ Asking her with her still wide eyes and surprised look upon laying her eyes on the key that he just presented her. The key that she couldn’t be wrong of knowing what. The key that is dangling in front of her with the intricate symbol and marking of the three known times that only someone powerful, but not evil can only have. She opens her mouth as she wanted to ask him a few questions, but. “You do not need to know, how, when, where ad especially why I am holding this key.” Expectedly he reads her mind and caught her off guard as he never did let her ask. “All you need to do is to trust the key itself, as it is fine by me if you do n
(THE HATTER’S THE FATHER) “KYLE.” She utters. The name that in that moment and instant she wanted to curse, yet she couldn’t. Instead, she felt betrayed, and fooled and now is broken. “No. It couldn’t be.” As she tries to convince herself and away from the scene of the past that she is seeing right in front of her. The fact that she is trying to make sense of, yet. “Wouldn’t you believe?” Carlos interrupted, along with her thoughts as his taunting voice echoed in her ears. “One thing can make another. Everything that you are seeing right now is all the facts and things that happened in the past. Winona.” Sending a shiver down her spine. She clutches her hands into a tight fist, as her body somewhat freezes. Lock in a chain and in that place, where she is being forced to witness everything, without any word to say. “DO YOU WANT TO PLAY?” The eerie play that started. With the sinister smile that is drawn onto his face, his name is
(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