(THE PERFECT ONE) “THE perfect one.” Nate could only clench his hands into a tight fists. While he couldn’t dare to say a word, nor argue anymore with Haruna. All after what she just said to him and the truth that they are all approaching the end. “We both may be the offspring of the prominent ones in our respective world and book, but only one of us is the perfect one.” Haruna suddenly whispers. Holding back her emotions to draw that certain regret and pain not towards Haru, but all to herself. A fact that Nate is never dumb to not read and recognize, yet he chooses to stay silent regardless of things. “Born with the same fate and identity, but in different gender is considered to be taboo. A fact that the sinner is me and not him. The imperfect offspring that couldn’t even summon that pure black flame that is the mark of both our parent’s abilities. The very reason for my choices and fate from the past loop.” A bit of reminiscing about it all. A part
(PERMISSION) “WHAT can I do for you my dear doll, Haruna?” A request that she needed right now and fast. And with her knees down and head bowing, she pays her respect towards her master and the Supreme One after entering the gate and seeing him first after just waking up from her deep slumber. “I your servant and doll, loyal only towards you Supreme One. I would like to have a wish.” “A wish?” HE smiles and in a satisfying sinister one. Hearing the words that he expects to hear from Haruna, yet not this early. But due to JK’s cunning mind and the butterfly effect that runs all through HIS plan and book. It is just a mere bit of the perfect consequence that HE all along is been anticipating with. “Then tell me what kind of wish do you want to have, Haruna?” HIS voice that is taunting, and currently testing HIS doll for all along HE already knew what she came for and the wish that she wanted to have and fast. “To prove myself, and introduce who I
(ALTER) “AS YOU WISH, HARU.” Jeffrey’s reply and an immediate one. Asking for nothing, but simply comply to what Haru wanted by just the look of his eyes. “Tsk! How long has it been?” He asks himself. Thinking of the day and the past when he meets him. The boy with the identity of his guardian mortal in this world and book, but is very different than what he expects from him. The day and the moment that he remembers everything of the past six loops. “YOU ARE THE HOLDER OF ELEMENT OF EARTH. WITH THE GUARDIAN GOD TAURUS.” The words and the repeating title that everyone around him are saying. With all of his life that is centered to the fact that he is special. The direct line of the holder of earth from guardian god Taurus. The pride and face of the clan of the Salvatore. “Just who is the one that I need to protect and forever have to make sure that she is safe?” The thought about the identity of the Maiden that all his life is one big puzzle for
(REDEEMER) “INTERESTING,” Jeffrey replies, after waking up the next day from the grim and almost drowning darkness that he just escapes from. Remembering Kevin, no, someone else inside the body of the boy he just met. “Tell me, where is that boy right now?” “He is currently in the guest room, young master.” The butler, his aid answers him immediately. Waiting for him to finish his meal and if he wanted anything during the times. “I see.” “Young Master?” His butler calls out but is hesitating to say anything. Looking at him worried and curious, he knows why. “Did I change too much after what happened to me two nights ago?” “I-I wasn’t curious young master. I—” “It’s alright. I don’t even care about anything at all and by now. Besides father is the one who is glad for my sudden change, and I think that is enough, for now.” His tone is deep and a bit threatening. His gaze is now piercing and telling that no one is allowed to
(A PAIR OF BOTH CRIMSON AND PURPLE EYES) HAIR is a mix of crimson and purple hue, standing out more than anything and anyone anywhere that he will go and wanted to go. Eyes that resembles the night sky and at the same time the auburn burn of the dawn. Uncanny beauty, resembling the most important maiden and at the same time drawing the aura of the most powerful flame holder. He who is currently didn’t conceal his appearance, no, he deliberately did so know that the one that he is about to face is someone more than aware of the truth and the world. “Tsk!” he smirks, being called and now facing the guardian that the identity that he took and stole is the one he needed to look after. “Finally, Haru.” “Enthusiastic? Tsk! Not a bit the same feelings towards you, Jeffrey.” “Then, shall we start the duel?” “Duel? If we will, I might end up killing you.” Haru’s confidence, no, the truth that for who he is, he can easily kill Jeffrey in one swoop of
(INTERESTING DARKNESS) “WOAH! Is she your mate?” “Tsk! Do you want to taste some of my wraths, Jeffrey?” “Alright, relax.” Jeffrey jokingly laughs. Hand up and calms Haru immediately. Who is pissed about a sinister thing that he doesn’t need to guess that it all revolves around and involves the person that he somehow kidnaps? “Did you perhaps fall for her at first glance for swooping her off her feet and literary?” “Do not make stupid assumptions Jeffrey. I am not an animal in heat, nor she is my mate in any way. Stop reading useless novels that are flocking your mind with unnecessary things.” “Useless?” He acted hurt and like a kid. Crying crocodile tears which Haru doesn’t and will never buy from him. “Don’t talk like that with my hobbies, besides I am just lightening up the mood and joking around with you for a little.” “Teasing or not, you know my tolerance in such. So, do not make me regret treating you as my friend.” “Alr
(PLAYING TRUTH) THE clock is ticking, the seconds are passing and fast. In between the silence and the intriguing truth that they all wanted to know. A pentagram suddenly appears, the spell of doors is open and their awaited guests have arrived. "Where is she?” The immediate question that Farah asks is. Not because it is the standard thought that anyone would say and inquire when things like this. But her little way of hostility knowing that Haru is having the same mutual feelings towards her. “You do not have to worry she is safe and secure.” Haru then pointed his finger in the direction where Marie is all sound asleep. Enough for Farah to understand the entire situation and the questions that needed to be answered and fast. “Let’s make it quick, shall we?” “Tsk! Very well. But it will all depends on how honest, no, on how willing are you to answer my questions.” A challenge that neither of them needed to further explain to one other. Havin
(HARU’S TRUTH) “THE perfect offspring, am I right, Haru?” Haru draws a wide grin unto his face. Amuse, excited, and more than just entertained by the truth that he never expects could bring him the adrenaline that he never had for a very long time. “And you are?” He immediately asks in a deep voice and warning gaze that Haruna is more than willing to answer with pure honesty and seriousness. With the boundary between them that are now crumbled. “The imperfect reflection of yourself. The product of the fault that shouldn’t had happen in my original world and book. The shard of the prominent and original couple’s offspring.” Wide eyes and on edge, almost confronting and screaming, yet he immediately held himself together and stop himself from the nonsense that he is just thinking. Jeffrey clenches his hands and tight into a fist. Dismay, but couldn’t be, knowing that he couldn’t do anything for the world and book that is long gone and crumbles. Having the
(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