(THE HALF OF HER BISHOP) “I can give you your freedom. That’s a guarantee. I can make everything perfect like you never been trap in this place. As I can give you the life that you deserve to have.” Deal and her words. The things that Aaron is more than vulnerable about. The fact that no matter how pure his heart is, a tiny spot of darkness is surely there to grow and corrupt him from his very core. “Now, are you interested to listen?” A few seconds of silence dominated the entire place. With the atmosphere that is somewhat getting heavier and heavier by each passing second. Beatrice smile slowly widens, with the darkness that is getting bigger and bigger than it is all that is in it. “Tsk!” Yet. Aaron is not that foolish to be drawn into that temptation. Or is he? “Do you think that I am a fool like the others and how you perceive me to be?” His gallant words and a bit prideful tone. Holding on and tight to the right and sane mind that he had
(FEAR AND LOVE) A SNAP from Beatrice finger’s then echoes and quick. A command that her own dark mirror and mimicking the one that the Supreme One had heeded and immediately. Showing Aaron, the dread of the night from the past of his beloved, Alliah. “Die, die, die, just what should I do?” A humming dreadful lullaby started. All at the same time as Aaron’s heart almost jumps in both excitement and worry. Upon seeing the innocent face of his beloved that is slowly turning into a devilish one. “Die, die, die, what could I rhyme for it next?” Little Alliah’s voice that sings. Along with the symphony that the music box creates. Sitting comfortably on her folded knees and humming the eerie tone that is claiming the entire place. She draws a smile as she giggles in a twisted and sinister way. With her once innocent eyes that is now corrupted and in deep blood shut red in hue. “Remember you wanted this for yourself to witness.” Beatrice taunting in the side.
(ENDERMENT FOR DARKNESS AND PAIN) “JUST give up. You do not have the strength to stop anything, for the past will always be one.” Beatrice’s words, the fact and the slap that Aaron needed right now, yet he doesn’t want to have. The truth that he needed to wake up and accept, yet that acceptance is the only thing that he couldn’t dwell and more than how he is being taunt and pulled into this darkness. “We both know how much you dearly want to save your woman.” Beatrice’s sweet words and emphasizing one more time for a few times now how much Alliah means to him. A darkness that he just needs to took a step inside and everything will be alright for his woman’s sake. But. “Stop it! That is not what I wanted. That is not the only way to save her.” His remaining conviction and the strength for purity and goodness that he is. Not just being the Maiden’s guardian, nor the holder of God Sagittarius, but the reflection and the other alternate soul of the orig
(THAT DROWNING LULLABY) THE nightmare doesn’t end, nor it will end that simply. For the nightmare that Aaron is seeing, hearing and enduring right now is the same pain from his beloved women. That can only be stop if he decided to give up and take Beatrice’s deal.“Come on Aaron. It’s just so simple. All you need to do is to accept my offer and be free from this hell and pain that you are currently into. Yet, you are being too stubborn.”Beatrice words and her slowly dwindling patience. Patience that she needed to have more than what she can make. For she could not afford to lose some piece anymore, especially with the candidate that is a holder himself.“Come with me, come with us, let me be free, let us be free.” The words and the taunting of the darkness that is provoking the mysterious man in Aaron’s princess dream. The little girl that’s nightmare is eating her slowly but surely. The nightmare that ended for the tragedy to happen.“Stop!”That mysterious man’s screams.
(SWEET DEAL) “I’LL take the deal.” Beatrice laugh and maniacally with her pure glee and successful deal that the holder of God Sagittarius took upon. All after Aaron choose his woman over his mission and his identity. To save her and the world that she is about to face. “Such love, a stupid emotion yet it all went for my favor.” Her little compliment and insult that Aaron doesn’t care less anymore. Besides, he already gives in to the deal, yet have that will that he will never let Beatrice know. “Very well then.” “Wait.” Aaron interrupted that put Beatrice into a few moments of silence. Not wondering why, she casually smiles and waited patiently. All too complaisant that the holder already took her deal. “Before anything else, I want to play a game against the one who imprison me here.” The smell of revenge that Beatrice loves the most and more than she could play as an accomplish with. With a sinister smile and giggling laughter afterwards
(BLACK KNIGHTS) “NOW, now, now. Who could that be?” Beatrice asks, giggling and still dancing under the shade of the blood red moon. Thinking, no, planning her next move while she is weighing the facts, the significance and darkness of the characters of this world and book will benefit her. The perfect two knights that she needed. The rightful once to own the black title. “Of course!” she laughs, coming with the conclusion and choosing the ones that she needed to be her pieces. “Let’s have that person, shall we?” With a sinister smile drawn and perfectly unto her face, the crows scream flaying away from the scene and somehow perfectly painting the ominous Cheshire like smile as they flew over the blood red moon. All with the ticking time and the past rings. “INTERESTING.” Still in the darkness of her prison. Deeper into the subconscious of the corrupted JK and once the young prince of this world and book from the current sixth loop. Beatrice face draws an
(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
(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