(UNFAVORABLE PAST) “SAY, do you want to play a death game with me?” The first question and eerie words that little Alliah asks of him. Words that he expects to hear and receive from her. Especially during this particular night of Blood Moon where the darkest side of hers is reigning. “A death games?” The seemingly innocent reply of the young boy who they meet for the first time.” “Yes, a death game.” “Isn’t that dangerous?” The young boy’s curiosity, no, his definite knowledge of the thing that little Alliah wanted to do. “Well, if you will think of it that way. But I can promise you that it will be fun.” She giggles in between her words. Somewhat taunting, no, tempting the young boy who is currently her prey and that she needed to teach a lesson with. “Do you hate me that much for asking me to play such game that will only upset Daniela?” “Daniela?” Little Alliah’s irritated tone, followed by a laughter that is cursing to
(DYSTOPIA) “THE team captain of the Baseball team of Eagle Eye, with his calm nature, intellect, and sophisticated personality from the influential family that owns the famous restaurants in the country, holds the devil Leviathan as the sin of envy, Harry Stein Stanley.” Aira introduces the second embodiment of the sins, the sin of Envy toward Nate. Along with the background information in the shortest statement that she didn’t lazily done. “The sin of Pride and Envy.” Nate whispers, counting the first two that he needed to know about their biggest enemy. “With Lust at your side. Pride and Envy in check, who’s next?” “Are you that curious enough?” “I guess so.” Their little taunting exchange that they both finds amusing about and towards each other. With Aira pouring him another cup of tea, but this time and again is a new one, she smiles slyly while Nate didn’t think twice and took a sip and gave his thoughts about her poison. “Not the perf
(MIRAII) “THIS is exciting and more than what I could ever expect for coming here!” The little boy’s words and delight that is all new to the innocent one. Expression and the way that the little boy perceives what happened and unlike the normal beings who never been in their land have acted. “I couldn’t believe that I will be meeting and this soon of the Shrine Maiden’s holder and one of her knights.” “Who are you?” The question and half curious thought of the innocent boy. Who is contemplating if he needed to kill the little boy who is currently in front of him? For knowing things that shouldn’t be known by a new comer. Facts that should be introduce a week after they stay. A precaution that is needed and been implemented to protect everyone, and those foreign people who thinks that their land is magical. ‘SHOULD I KILL HIM RIGHT THIS INSTANT?’ He wonders and the question that keeps on popping from his mind. Yet, unlike the usual days and the rules
(THE FUTURE IN BETWEEN) “NOW, are you up to next sin?” More than willing to hear the identities of the embodiments of the sin. Nate looks at Aira with those eyes that tells her exactly what he means. “Very well.” Aira whispers. With a cunning smile that draws to her face and the satisfying tune of a music box that sound is an eerie beat right down from the very core. The clock ticks and suddenly stops, with the crow that’s been observing the two of them from the very begging. Its blood shut red eyes delivers the message that she wanted. “Very well, very well indeed.” Bianca’s words and her smile that draws perfectly into the blood moon hue of the place and little space that she created and declares to be her very own. “I got what I wanted to know for a while and for now.” Her delighted expression, after having the information that she wanted. Information and the characters that wasn’t written on the first pages of the book, yet she now knew and
(OWNERSHIP) “EMBODIMENT or not, we do not own anything in this world including our very own lives.” A dark truth and the fact that they seven embraces and are proud about. “Are we complaining or even thinking about such a thing?” A reply in a sarcastic way and tone that they are all use on doing. An innate response that they casually doing, for they are all made with those foul words and darkness that represents their sins. “Am I right? Tucker?” “Me?” Tucker opens his eyes, looks at his kin with those uninterested gazes. His lazy nature and sleeping habits that the rest of the six is all used on having from him. “Seriously?” Keith objected, and a bit irritated. “For all, why do you keep asking trivial questions to Tucker who is clearly too lazy to care about a thing, Harry?” “What could I do? I envy that lazy nature of our kin, Tucker.” His little protest that Harry casually defended that is all part of his innate sin of Envy. “En
(CLOCKS) TICK TOCK, TICK TOCK, TICK TOCK! The same sound of darkness, along with the type of eeriness that accompanied by the dwindling time of a being, but still the early stage of world and book that they are bound and curse from within. “Me?” Tucker softly whispers, stopping on his way and asks the question that the shadows that’s been following him heard him so. Loud and clear, but only to their called perception. “She’s here.” “She chooses you.” The shadows whisper to his ears. Running back and forth and around him. With their human form gliding the walls and ceiling with only their two set of circular, but hallowed white eyes and mouth that is plastered into a Cheshire smile. “Would you like to go?” “No, you shouldn’t.” “Go back.” They warn him. Asking him to ignore the invitation and set himself to where he should be. With the words and reminder that he should prioritize no matter what. “He will be disappointed if you
(DESIRE) JUST when did all started? “My name’s tucker and you are?” “Holder of thunder under the ruling chaos of God Gemini. Nate Figurer.” The meeting that started everything. “Meet that particular holder and gain his trust, along with the clan that will be your identity in the circle where the Maiden is.” The mission and identity that was given to him by their God. With the sin that he holds and the embodiment that he is created for that soul purpose of the entire book and worlds destruction. How did it all went haywire? For the person that he supposes to look at, it all drags to the other that hits him hard and he shouldn’t be. “Just wait and see, I will be the top hunter under the clan of Dionne. Even stronger and powerful than Kyle, and when that time comes, the Shrine Maiden will finally look at me.” His promise and confidence that without any doubt he will accomplish and fast. For an embodiment like him who swept everyone’s trust to his s
(NOT JUST A SIMPLE WARNING) “DO you understand, Beatrice?” Not just a simple warning, no, it is definitely not just a warning at all. But a threat that Tucker slams inside Beatrice mind and shatter her confidence in a satisfying way. Just like how they do everything, how an embodiment of a sin like him finish such charade. “Your desperation.” His taunting and the words that flips the moment upside down. With him, the sin of Sloth holding the upper hand that was once from a moment ago is something that Beatrice holds. But now slips from her grip and put her into the predicament that is slowly consuming him from the dark presence and darkness that Tucker is looming right in front of her. “Your little game and desire that could never be compared to our God.” Tucker continue to taunts her, with his now blood red shot eyes. “Wake up Beatrice! You maybe a pure darkness that couldn’t never be compared to us. But your presence and mana that is as little as an ant. Who
(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