(ANOTHER DOLL IN QUESTION)“JUST HOW SIMPLE ARE YOU GOING TO BE, CHRISTOPHER?”Honey’s direct insult and curses to Christopher. Meeting him inside his little prison sanctuary and exactly the in the last second before his time limit expires and what they both agreed upon.“Simple?” he thought about Honey’s words. “I think the right word that you say right now is a genius.”His ever-towering pride is ringing in an irritated tone to Honey’s ear. But she is not in the mood to fight his little game, and instead she is just curious for the game that he made and just impose to Ayumi.“Just tell me what do you expect to gain from this little game of yours Christopher?”She now asks and in detail about. Wondering and decoding the possibilities for the positive ways that Christopher might earn something in exchange. A thing that she actually doubts that he will have anything in return.“What would I gain?” He thought to himself, asking the question back in a clown like manner that only irritate
(DARKNESS BEHIND LIGHT) “THE time is ticking and dwindling. Now, what do you plan to do, Aira?” Nate directly asks the most beautiful holder among them all. All after Aira explains to him the character of the sins embodiment that she needed help for a bit and two. “It’s more like, I need for you to do something, Nate.” Her tone that is knocking with the sense of dead and eeriness that Nate is fully aware what, and why. “And how can I help?” “Simple.” Aira draws her own signature sinister smile on her face. A bit expressing her excitement for a thing and two, but is in deep wants for perfection and dread that she needed to accomplish before the time runs out. “Luke, the sin of Wrath.” She specifically pointed the embodiment. “Just a bit, a little one, I need to know his weakness.” “Tsk! The embodiments weakness?” Nate scoffs, thinking that Aira’s wish is just so little to no value for him to do. Especially that she can do it herself and
(SOMEONE’S BET) “WELL, well, well. Just who do we have here?” Mood up and now is excited after all that quiet boring days that pass by. Nate’s cunning smile draws expecting someone to come in his way, yet not the person that he is seeing right now. “One dark tone, and a strip of the remaining darkness that is now fully grown.” A bit of a puzzle, and distinct meanings in between. He is more than familiar to the soul, no, the vessel rather that is approaching him with the footsteps that’s echoing along the tick of time in a kind of symphony that is both tragic and dreadful. “How do I owe such a visit and like this, Ayumi? No, the strip of darkness from the original sin and devil Mammon.” “Such a delight to be called of my original name. Holder of the twelve gates Sagittarius, Nate.” Into the light and proudly showing her face without any fault, but pure darkness up to her sleeve. Ayumi greeted the holder, with the smile and slyness of two that Nate i
(MEETING DARKNESS AND LIGHT) “I’LL look forward to seeing Gilbert soon, Nate.” Ayumi’s typical last words, with a sinister smile drawn to her face and the tone of her voice that is both eerie and taunting. “Tsk!” Nate smirks, all after gritting his teeth and letting go of his anger and frustration for the last time. Keeping his cook and confidence once more, knowing that he shouldn’t let himself be dragged down or anything by anyone’s provocation or anything with regards to that fact. “To see him or not? Just who am I to you that I couldn’t do what I needed to do from the very first place?” He clenches his hands into a tight fists. While keeping his cool and emotions in check. For he didn’t want to have the same mistake that he did in the past. The past sixth loop and the reason behind losing his twin. “I’ll bring him back.” He whispers, with a firm tone and proud stance. “I will make everything right this time.” The promise that he made long
(UNKNOWN-KNOWN GOD) “WHO ARE YOU TO PRESENT YOURSELF AS GOD?” With his eyes wide, twisted expression, and broken conscience. Nate looks directly towards the serpentine image and the same of the guardian God of the Maiden, Ophiuchus. His eyes don’t mark any fear, but rather a wrath and puzzling thoughts for someone impersonating the Supreme One. “Do you want to know, holder of the sixth gate, ark angel, Gemini, Nate?” His twisted smile which is like a sinister one draws immediately to his face. He wanted to laugh and maniacally in that sense, yet he couldn’t. “You know me?” He asks, a bit stupid at that moment to throw such an obvious thing. “Of course, you do.” He immediately takes it back, along with his foolishness. “You know everything, for you even act like you are the Supreme One. But you cannot fool me, you cannot fool anyone of us.” “Very amusing indeed.” His compliments, amusement, and excitement behind His disappointment. Expecting that He
(THE SAID DEAL) THUNDER rumbles without the lightning. The weather is in chaos, but only around the premises of the palace and particularly in the crown Prince's room. “We got an intruder!” The crowd is in a hurry, running in a coordinated pattern with their swords and weapon. Yet not of them couldn’t penetrate the wall of a dark cloud that is surrounding the palace. The holders are fighting against the shadows, ghouls, demons, and hallows that suddenly came out from the said wall. “Damn! This is serious! We need someone to check the crown royals!” Aira screams while fending the hallows that are much stronger than the previous ones that they encounter. Worst, the darkness where it all came from is created by the wall of thunder cloud that they knew from whom, yet they couldn’t accept it to be the truth. “This is the first time, did he?” “Stop it, Marie!” Aira scolded the holder of God Scorpion, Marie. All the while she couldn’t accept the pos
(SACRIFICE AND EXCHANGE) EYES are all dark and somewhat looking nowhere. Nate slowly clenches his hands into a tight fists, standing and all prepared for the consequence of what he is about to do. “You will protect me, help me, Nate.” Gilbert’s words that’s echoing nonstop in his mind ever since that day. His twins plead and pain that he shares for being his blood relative and brother. One of the paid prices for the action and darkness that Gilbert brought for everyone. "A chain, just one. All you need to do is follow everything that I have told you and your wish will be fulfilled.” He damn remembers the said deal that he took. The price that comes from it and the fact that he doesn’t have any choice but to follow the path to save the ones that are dear to him the most. “Very well then, very well indeed.” The words that he whispers, hearing nothing but the taunting words and curses that are whispering inside his mind. All along with the hate, pain
LITTLE TO NO DEAL IN EXCHANGE) “THEN, I’ll be taking my leave now, Emie.” Winona bids her temporary goodbye. Always and within the times where they needed to meet, expectedly or not. A temporary word and even a little play for words that the four of them considers. An insignificant one to this world and book where everything will end in tragedy and not just a mere soft goodbye. “See you later, Winona.” Emie waves her hand, all smiling and starring at her ‘little sister’ to call with Winona’s silhouette fading into the distance. “Well, well, well.” She whispers, while drawing a sinister smile on her face and looking back at the mirror where the particular poor holder is now facing the dread of his choice. “How will things run from here?” Her question, no, her teasing thought. For she already knew what will happen. What that particular holder will do and the expression that he will paint to his face. Yet, she just wanted to play about it for a while, smilin
(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