(THE LADY’S HEART) “AIRA.” Deep, provoking and a teasing tone. Nate calls Aira’s attention trying to calm her down with her worries that he thinks is unnecessary, but for a while. “Aren’t you a bit too excited for something that isn’t there and a way far from now?” He reminded her, a bit calming her nerves, yet is aware and more than how Aira does. “You know that I am not talking about that, but rather the eerie darkness that suddenly looms around the Maiden.” Aira clarifies. Guard up and worried from the pattern of events that is a bit getting out of hand and not like the one that they expect to have. “But you also know and pretty much aware that the Maiden always had that darkness following her.” A simple reminder that Nate speaks. Putting a nozzle to her steaming head and uncanny worries while he is perfectly hiding his own. “Nate.” Aira’s rebuke, impatient and irritated to his actions and seemingly uninterested thoughts to the proble
(THE SIN’S THRILLS) “I know. For I would also do the same if it is for Daniela.” Nate’s reply that Aira knew about and long gone is aware of that fact. That even though the both of them are not glue unlike Alliah and Kyle, they are still aware for everything that is happening around the Maiden. Especially the adviser of the Elite class that they both suspect to be an uncanny person in the first place. “Among the people around Daniela, I can tell that the only person that I could trust is Kyle.” Aira confidently omit Kyle from the list of people that they both on guard and warry about. But unlike her, Nate is thinking he opposite. It’s just that he is not that vocal in telling it to her, for now. “How about Winona, and Emie?” “Tsk! Those two? Probably.” She played with her words and suddenly wonder about those two that for her is nothing, but ordinary. Or so does she think. “Winona is a mortal in every way that I see her. While Emie is someone th
(HIS LUSTFUL GAZE) “WOULD you like to play a love game, Aira?” The question and the uncanny assignment that the holder of water and Goddesses Aquarius receives from the Supreme God. The request that leaves the same uncanny thought inside the young heiress mind. “Love game?” She draws that thrilled smile over that expressionless eyes that she is known about and her defense from anyone who had the ability to read expressions and gestures. “What kind of love game are we going to play?” The intrigue that HE loves to hear and to see deeper than those expressionless eyes of her. With a sinister smile and a snap of HIS finger, HE said. “I’ll give you the sin of Lust, the embodiment that you needed to guard and look after. The one that is destined to reveal that identity of the other sins.” Aira giggles, a different kind of one. More like a mix of dread and the tone from hell. But more than that, her expression changes, particularly her eyes that she rarely does.
(LOVE GAME AND PLAY) “CAN I be curious for a second?” Nate’s words and a bit too polite for asking a favor to Aira that is uncommon for him. The first and might as well the last time that he will asks such a request knowing his character and the things that the two of them knew about each other. “Well, well, well.” Aira giggles, amuse by the fact that Nate finally asks her that long impending thought that he should have asks of her from long ago. “What do we have here? Did I really hear you asks me for a request? A request that’s pointing and directing to the current love game that I am playing.” “You know that I will only say what I want once Aira.” Nate didn’t take the teasing as he always had and will be. A little stiff and too serious especially after knowing the truth about his twin holder and under the guardian God Gemini. “Alright.” Aira giggles, giving up and gladly gave him the answer that he is asking about. “Where do I start?” She pretended
(ROMANTIC TRAGEDY) “NOW Nate, do you want to hear some more?” Aira’s sly smile offering the story and that little kind of like a deal that Nate is asking for. “We still only on the exciting part, aren’t we?” Nate’s reply and casual words that Aira loves about him. His mysteriousness and seriousness that makes him the best ally and holder that she can trust and fully among the rest. “Very well then. Shall we continue?” The clock ticks and once more the atmosphere turns heavy as that little past and tragic tale continue with the words. “YOU shouldn’t be here, human.” The words and deep voice welcome the Princess, Aira. Into the warm place, and into the bed of roses where she woke up. Written perfectly just like the person that inspired her to do such a perfect tragedy of a love story. Aira is in awe by the vast green forest, surrounded by different kinds of sweet-smelling flowers. Birds that’s chirping and some are flying around. Animals tha
(SHAKESPEARE’S SONNET) “SO, is that how you got his heart? From the fictional past that you written yourself, Aria?” “Well, I am proud to tell you that, it is.” Aira’s cunning smile then draws on her face. Holding the expression of both excitements, and satisfaction from the thrill that she just did from the memories of the said past that is all nothing, but a fiction. “A fiction inside a non-fiction. Smart.” “I always am.” Nate’s compliment and her little proud heart to accept the things that is successful and the result of her wit. “But aren’t you regretting for a bit, in how you use such a precious gift that the Supreme One gave you?” “Regret?” Not a bit taken a back, but asking in a few moments for what Nate just asks of her. Aira giggles in amusement, then laugh out loud from the stupid question that Nate wanted her to answer. “Why should I? I am having fun and continuing to have the privilege of the game that I made myself. Besi
(ANOTHER) “WOULD you do me the honor to hear everything?” Nate’s reply to their conversation that is now directing to the sins and the embodiment that was introduce, but only a glimpse from this book and world. With Aira’s sly smile that quickly creeps unto her face, she gladly replies. “Very well then.” The clock ticks, started to tick and somehow for a moment from all those conversations that they both just had. It was in a pause. “Where should I start?” Aira’s playful tone with her words. While serving Nate a new up of tea that the holder gladly took and have a sip from. With a now cunning smile that is drawn to her face, Aira started the introduction. “The embodiment of the seven deadly sin.” “Would you like to meet them, Aira?” The words and a particular memory suddenly cross Aira’s mind. The time and the perfect moment that Mike introduces her the pieces that is her goal in the very first place. With the same thrill that she fel
(FAVORABLE SIN) NATE’S eyes glance towards Aira but only for a moment. A simple glance that the holder of water and goddess Aquarius doesn’t need to guess what it means nor what it might have meant. “What can you say? Intriguing enough?” “More like a fairytale to begin with.” His unfavorable comment. Holding the facts that Aira just said and his current opinion that the sins are not just having the perfect and unfair life. But it is all written in a way to be envied about. “Well, it is a perfect condition for them to have such an identity to freely do whatever they want as their sin tells them and about.” “I guess so.” He took his cup for another sip, but realize that it was empty. With Aira’s keen sense of observation and hospitable host. She poured another cup for him, but this time it is a different kind of tea. “Sometimes, I am thinking that you are kind of abusing me for having to taste your experimental tea.” “Experimental?” Aira’
(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