(UNCANNY SUMMER) “ALLIAH.” Chie whispers. Now thinking about the past and the moment that everything is broken and set by HIM to have the final pieces rolling for the perfect destruction that is needed for the current book and world that they are keeping track with. “Poor soul who only existed to be the key for the said destruction.” “But isn’t that makes her fun and interesting?” Kyle responded, giggling at the thought of Alliah and the past where he inflicts pain and breaks her soul into pieces until she snaps. Creating that perfect darkness that is fit for the crown of the daughter of hell. “I believe that you are currently reminiscing about the time when you made her suffer with the dark past and future that she chooses and not, right, Kyle?” “I wouldn’t deny it. Besides, it is amusing to think back to that time. The last sixth loop where everything is set to the existence of this current loop and the last of the seventh. The sixth loop and he
(OMINOUS AUTUMN) “BEATRICE.” “What the?” Daniela jolts up, wide awake, upon suddenly hearing a faint whisper Calling for a certain name, no, somewhat giving someone a name. An ominous tone and trickling darkness made her entire body shivers awake. “Beatrice.” She whispers the name. Hearing and feeling something from deep within it. From that uncanny darkness of the identity of that person that is knocking some importance to her life. “Tsk!” She clicks her tongue, holding her head and clenching her right hand tight from the sudden pain that hits her. Then she looks in front of her, towards the ticking clock with its hands at the exact time of the witching hour. “What is this, a de ja vou?” From a glimpse of the past, yet probably not. She giggles upon remembering and feeling the same story that is about to unfold. Deciding to see if this is a nightmare under a certain time loop. She gets out of bed, walks towards the door, and holds the
(INTO THE COLD WINTER) THE thunder claps after the lightning strikes. Daniela is thrown from afar by the wave of lightning that rushes towards her in a split second fast before she could even set a pentagram to protect herself. “Tsk! Lightning.” She whispers in wonder, easing the pain that she receives from the attack and panting for air and deep from the cuts and some deep wounds that she got. “A different pentagram.” The warry that she put up with her guard at full. Noticed the pentagram that is different from the rest and the type that she had never seen before, but now. “What’s going on.” The first that she asks for such a thing. Somewhat shove into the edge and corner with the things that were clear then, but quickly turns into something else that she now couldn’t understand. But looking at the dancing lightning in a pattern, with the glow of the marks from the pentagram is both making her put her guard up even more and at the same time is kn
(CURSE FOR LOVE) LOVE. The emotion is warm and precious, yet it is the same emotion that can push anyone to the edge and commit the unthinkable. The blessing and the curse, an emotion that is created first from the very beginning, but at the same time the same one that draws everything to what it is right now. “Disappointed?” "Who, me?” HE asks, a bit taken aback by the sudden question that the Mistress of time suddenly asks. But quickly recovers in a split second and confidently rejects what’s currently running inside the Mistress of time’s mind. “Well, I have been thinking if you are.” She started to explain, no, just putting her thoughts in the open rather than HIM reading them from inside her mind. “Since you finally push your dearest pieces, the queen into the square of truth.” HE knows who the Mistress of time is been talking about. The piece of chess is the queen that represents the Shrine Maiden, Daniela. All the while looking and calcula
(THE ONE TO TRUST AND NOT) “KYLE.” One word, that one name. Didn’t expect to hear it, and felt like it was a death sentence in some way. Daniela looks at the girl with surprised eyes, expressing the debate that is now running and currently inside her mind. Of whether she will believe it or not. “I have told you, didn’t I? Do not blame me for what you will hear, see and know. Do not look at me with those expressions, and stop defending the things that are about to get dark and ominous, Daniela.” “Dark and ominous.” She whispers, still shaken by what she just found out, but slowly calming herself and patching everything up as fast as she could. Her standing and identity require her to be awake and vigilant all the time. Even though--- “You have failed to do that one thing since you failed to check everyone thoroughly beside you.” The little girl finishes her thoughts. The little girl’s words sound like blaming but in reality, it is all a mere w
(MEETING HER FROM THE PAST) “WHO are you?”The question snaps Daniela back to reality upon just being shaken and a bit terribly from facing the young Alliah. The face and the image that resembles Alliah completely from the past that she knew and when she met her. But unlike that certain past that she remembers. The Alliah that she is looking at right now, has the smell of death, looming darkness, and eyes that are all used from violence and cruelty. All from her porcelain skin, pretty face, and seemingly innocent gaze, yet taunting with the dreadful warning that everyone should be wary about. “Daniela. My name’s Daniela.”She smiles genuinely, reaching her hands towards Alliah. The person that she just meets and saw in this time. “Are you new here?”“New?”“I see. You sure are, for you are so innocent and bearing that expression in front of me.”A statement that she immediately understands. Stitches everything up and most especially after just witnessing the reaction of the childr
(CURSES) “THE HORROR HAS JUST STARTED.”Dreaded words and a deep tone suddenly echo inside Daniela’s mind. A spell hiding in secret and wearing a façade is a type of warning. The darkness and smell that were making her dizzy caught her unprepared and fast, and she didn’t see it coming. “Alliah.”“I told you didn’t I, I will let you see everything that everyone is all afraid of me.”Her vision is getting blurry and her knees are getting weak. Holding the railing of the stairs and hearing the door shuts behind them. She looks at Alliah, but the last thing that she just saw is an evil grin, a smile of a devil, and a giggling tone before everything turns black and she falls straight down the stairs. “Don’t worry, I will let you go. I will fulfill my promise. Just beg for it, Da-ni-e-la. Daniela.”The giggling laughter continues to ring inside her mind until it slowly fades away. Leaving only the silence and darkness, until. “YOU ARE A WITCH!”“YOU ARE A CHILD OF A DEVIL!”“GO TO HELL!
(QUESTION TO ASK) ‘FRIEND’. The word that immediately shakes Alliah’s existence. The word that she often hears, but never once had. A warm feeling and the joy that she only knew and had been observing only from her room window, for no one would ever dare to let her have it. “Friend?” She asks, wondering about it and pondering on which side it falls into. “Do you realize what you are talking about?” The word that is for her is both a blessing and a curse. “Alliah?” “Do you not understand a single thing?” She continues to ask, now twitching her head sideways from time to time. Slowly drawing her biggest cunning smile that made the Maiden felt that slight shiver of uncanny fear to her spine. “After I have shown you this.” She opens her arms, proud of her art. “Don’t you get it? Or perhaps you are just blinded?” The thoughts that are screaming and debating inside her mind. In between the things that she wanted and should believe from not.
(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