(THAT LITTLE OLD GAME) “DO YOU WANT TO PLAY A GAME?” The question that is all used up multiple times in every corner and every given moment in the world and book is that they are all running in circles. But is getting dreaded and puzzling with each passing turn. “I can give you everything that you could ever desire. All you have to do is to have a deal with me.” The offer that is so tempting to pass. The consequence is not so dreadful to think about it and deep. Yet, it is an offer that in the end will leave anyone without much of a choice but to give their soul as they could no longer turn back from it. “A deal, a game, but for all else, they are just the same.” “Who is there?” Alliah jolted, looking around and on her immediate guard from the sudden voice that was whispering to her ears. “You can call it whatever you want as you can play it according to your wishes.” Turning her head around and is a bit preoccupied to notice that no o
(THE WAKE-UP CALL) “IT took you a bit longer.” Emie reminded, not asking or scolding Pauleen and Farah in between. “Things happen, but the most important thing is we are here.” Pauleen replies with a cheerful tone, yet a smile that is provoking and a bit insulting. While she is directly giving it to Emie. “That’s enough,” Winona warns the two of them. As she knows that the pure darkness of their book and world’s original Pauleen and a drop of Gennivier’s darkness, never like Emie nor the latter. “It is not the time to greet each other with some sour expressions. While we are on to something that we should be taking seriously.” Winona reminded that Farah immediately agrees and breaks the two apart. “Shall we four get along even for a while?” Farah suggested that Pauleen, not that surprisingly agreed immediately. “So, what now? We are all here. Are we just going to see each other in the eyes and have some tea?” P
(SWORD OF TRUTH) “WELL then, let us meet our master.” Emie’s words echoes. Just in time and in that perfect second a pentagram draws right to where the four of them are standing. Illuminating with that golden light that only one being and the Supreme One could ever hold and have. The four of them immediately bows in respect, as the door appears and opens, and HIS footsteps echo, with HIS sinister smile, HE greeted. “Nice to see the four of you in front of me, my dear dolls.” HE giggles, sitting unto HIS throne with HIS façade as a little boy. Which HE enjoys so much, yet HE could only do in this world and book of Death Reincarnate. “Command us your faithful and loyal directions, our Master and God.” The four of HIS dolls and direction paid HIM respect for who HE is. With a satisfied smile and while looking at HIS dolls that once more in the same place and at the same time. HE couldn’t help but giggle in satisfaction and amusement, whispering
(HOWLS) "THINK carefully Alliah, for your life and who you think you are right now is not you.” The same voice of a woman echoes inside Alliah’s mind. All at the same time where she is sucked, trap, and caught inside a dark void where she doesn’t know how to get out. For she doesn’t know how she went inside it. “Who are you?” Alliah asks, taking a brave front and controlling her emotion to not show her weakness to the unknown enemy that she is currently facing. Besides, she swears that she will never be that weak person who constantly needed Daniela’s protection. “Who me?” The voice answers, giggling in a demonic tone that she hated. Yet, it is ringing from the back of her mind that she knows who is she facing right now. “Stop the drama, for you know very well who I am, Alliah.” With the eerie tone and way of saying her name. Alliah slumps down on her knees as the pain hits her, which she never felt before. “Ahhh!!!” She screams
(SHIFTED) “WHO I really am?” The words and the question immediately run inside Alliah’s mind. All after being taunted with the facts that at this point, she doesn’t want to accept nor think of it to be the truth. “You are not who you think you are.” The voice taunted her once more. Added to the vision and her current state where in the particular scene that she is now seeing, Kyle is the center. “Can’t you see it? Why don’t you open your eyes and dig deeper beyond the memories that you sealed yourself? The people that you knew and care about are not who they are to you.” The clues, yet rather pain and agony that Alliah needed to endure, to understand, and to realize. Yet, her heart and half of her mind are still screaming that she shouldn’t give in. Everything of this is the work of a devil who wanted to cause chaos days after the death festival. “Enough!” She screams, believing in one thing, the present and where she is currently living
(UNCANNY VISITORS) “YO, GOD!” A pentagram suddenly appears, along with the gate that they are all knew who it belongs. As the door opens and the familiar giggle and the image of a little boy as a façade greeted them. Arius smiles wide, welcoming their Master and only God. “Arius.” HE greeted back, smiling widely with the mark of a sly plan that shows in HIS eyes. Where it wasn’t that hard for Arius to read what was running inside HIS mind. “And whose soul do I need to split in half this time?” Arius teases, that HE replied first with a cunning smile. Then HE snaps HIS finger and immediately HIS throne appears, where HE sits comfortably and said. “A simple soul, but a complicated one. The one who shouldn’t exist, yet I let it be. His daughter and the darkness that is about to explode.” A bit of HIS little charade that Arius is all used to hearing from HIM. He smiles with his reply. “Aren
(THE SEAL) “DO not touch anything!” Arius raises his voice and almost screams authoritatively toward Misha. Not asking, but rather commanding, he is on the edge of making sure that she is safe and a close distance from where he is. “I am not touching anything, so do not worry over some little trivial things, Arius.” Misha tries to calm him down, yet Arius is someone that is not fun with that fact, especially in their world and book, Misha is always put in danger and taken from him when he is not looking for even a few seconds. “Besides, the Supreme One promises that nothing will ever happen to me in this world. And it does shows with the seal that HE made for me.” Misha smiles in an assuring way, but with a bit of a sly tone. Arius is not convinced, especially with his ego and principle that he is the only one who can assure her safety and can protect her above anyone else. “Tsk!” Arius smirks and is still unconvinced, driving his ego that there
(ERADICATION) THE four of them bows down, paying their respect. As the known pentagram is drawn and the gate that marks the symbol and words of the Supreme One. Light footsteps can be heard, as a snap draws them to say and welcomes. “We will heed your desire and fulfill your wish. Your dolls and directions, our Master and God.” With a sinister smile that HE draws in HIS face, sitting into HIS throne. HE gladly replies. “I am glad to see you four in front of me this time and in this final seventh loop. My dear dolls.” They raise their head to look at their Master and God. Waiting and patiently to HIS command where each one of them had their own task at hand. With the same sinister smile, but even wider. HE giggles for a second and started HIS little game into the depths of the end. “Well then, let us start.” HE then snaps HIS finger and Pauleen stands immediately as a response to the call.
(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