CHAPTER CDXXIII (THE OLD TOLD TALE) “ALICE. ALICE IN WONDERLAND.” More than just telling the title of the well-known children’s book. The book that crosses time in this very world and book. The tale that could jump back and forth towards this dimension that knows nothing about the reality that you are living with. Winona hopes for even a little. Just a bit to tick the mind and somehow the heart of JK to wonder more, even deeper, and finally understand what he needed to do and to remember. Then she asks about that certain person, that character, and the well-known one that is written inside the book of Alice in Wonderland. The character that resembles, but in the side of the dark that Winona asks and immediately to JK. “There is an interesting tale. A character that everyone knew, perhaps they all love, but in this book and world where everything revolves around and first into darkness. I want to ask you this question JK. Have you heard the tale of the Mad Hatter?” “Kyle.” The
(HIS ONCE DREAD) “YOU need to wake up and open your eyes for the truth that is just behind the closed door JK. Open the door and see to yourself what you should do and not. In this grand game where every one of us is merely a tool, you need to know and choose who should you trust and gave your trust, and not.” The warning is more than just a wake-up call that Winona is trying to embed inside his mind. But it seems like nothing’s been working, or perhaps there is. Yet JK is just too self-centered to admit it all. For he knows that his pride will be trampled by it. Putting the tragedy into the worst situation than anyone wanted it to be and not even hoping to have an experience. “What should I need to wake from? Just what should I need to realize right now and from the little children’s book and Alice tale in Wonderland that you just read to me?” “You are being naïve and too blinded by the thing that isn’t the truth and is only dragging you into the darkness and way beyond, JK.” Ts
(TORMENT) “WILL you, no, you will do everything for me your only brother and older brother, right, JK?” Stun and surprised, JK is frozen to where he is standing upon seeing his past self. The child that he once was is now right in front of him. He slowly took a few steps forward and slowly reaches his hand shivering and breaking in a cold sweat. All the while is trying to reach for the kid in front of him. “If everything is not going in your way, just use the death card on him. Use his past and open the wound that no one in this world and book could endure.” “I see.” The words and the sinister smile that Winona remembers and immediately in that time. HIS dreaded tone and the fact that HE is sometimes that cruel one of all. Playing with the emotions that the weak side of His creation. But HE doesn’t care, for what HE wanted is to have HIS plan moving in a smooth and perfect manner. “Pain, regret, desire and your trauma. How far can you go and endure when your wound is being rip an
CHAPTER CDXXVI (THE GIRL HE CALLS) “YOU’RE just a girl, a princess, and my brother’s daughter. I as your uncle will have to protect you no matter what. So, from now on I will be your knight and guardian.” Those are the words that are torturing him and now making him down on his knees and struggle to keep himself up. The kind of torment that he both deserves and does not. A contradicting reality and a debate that Winona doesn’t want to do and see him suffer like this. Yet, she doesn’t have any choice but to do exactly what she is commanded to do. Failure is not an option, especially since perfect destruction is what is at stake. “Do not struggle anymore JK. For you are the one that will be suffering to the end. Suffering that could be painful like this time, or even worst than you could think of and never dream of.” The warning and her final pity towards him. Things that are pricking her with the pain of seeing JK suffers. Yet, she also knows that he deserves this torment. A torm
(REALITY’S GAME) “I SHALL HEED UNTO IT AS I SHALL SEE IT ALL TO MYSELF. I’LL GO TO KILL YOU, DANIELA.” “The next on my list.” Words and enough for JK to be shaken out of his little misery and the darkness that he is dwelling in and worst than ever before. The green light that Winona is been waiting to see from him, and the queue for her to pull him back to the present and his current reality. “Damn, damn, damn!” The frustration that’s streaming down and fasts out of him. His anger from being the fool and the little toy that he’s been to all this time. All right after Winona drags him back to the present, and now boiling with wrath that unfortunately right now he could not do anything about but a curse. “B***S***! Freaking b***s***!” He continues to scream and curse. For all long, he’s been the foolish one in the game where everything was all just a lie. “Now, have you realized everything?” Winona then asks, a bit shaking him to the other reality that he needed to face and f
(HIS REALITY) “THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE.” Uttering the name of the stone that everyone said to be just a fantasy, yet it isn’t impossible. His torture just ended as he for a minute pauses and somewhat starring right into the darkness. With a smile that slowly crept upon his face. And the memory that is now as clear as the drop of the rain. He started to hum the same song that Winona used to sing for him them. The comforting song reminds him of both the light and dark. The curse and the shallow hearts of the mortals. With the memory of the past that aligns everything of what he forgot, no, he needed to forget. It is his turn now to sing the dark lullaby. “Who is asleep amidst the dark? The nightmare is knocking at the door. That one soul lies all in a deep sleep. Didn’t know the manner of ghouls, hags, and wraiths. For your hungry wanting wants are heard. Shhh… don’t let someone know, for the Witcher. Heartless cold who eats your dreams. He comes
(THE NEEDED SINS) “WELL THEN, I’LL SEE YOU SOON. JK.” Bidding a temporary goodbye as she vanishes along with the tormenting abyss that she pulls him right into. The pentagram vanishes along with the marks that he couldn’t recognize and read. Found himself once more inside his room. He took a deep breath in as he whispers. “Now, now, now. Shall the sins be born?” Sinisterly drawing a smile on his face. He immediately draws a pentagram as his mind is now clear as the day, and where he is aware of the play that they are all playing. The light draws as the symbols are written around him. The image of the cards that’s the main theme of this dark and cunning game. He needed to keep track of everything as he needed to review the facts. Started from the words and title. “The Tarots.” Heeding his command, the cards flip in face front and towards him. With numbers that correspond to one another, he whispers. “Shall we start?”With the 72 cards that a
(DARK EXPRESSION) GOLD AND SILVER. The words that make someone stands out in the crowd. A word and a standing that makes the entirety of someone’s life across the lights and stage of the prominent individuals in the play and life of an aristocrat. “Life, death, and honor.” With a sinister smile, he looks at the prominent cards in front of him. The cards hold the identity and life of the prominent ones, who hold the beginning and the fool that stands in the middle. “The fool, the magician, the high priestess, the hierophant, the chariot, strength, the hermit.” PRESTIGE. The honor of one’s heart, the pride someone carries and could never be stolen by anyone, but can be ruined by false lies. A glance and what people see hear and respect. The honor a knight earns in battle, defense for the weak, and even standing bravely where no one will and can. “Just when did this cycle ever ends?” He asks, not because he is wondering why. But because he can and
(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