(BOTH LIGHT AND DARK) “THE perfect time.” With a sinister smile drawn unto her face, followed by a giggle with the tone that the other three will immediately know that it was her. She immediately made her way into the gate and perfectly into the place where she is meant to be. “I see.” She whispers, stepping out of the gate and quickly surveying the place with the beings that she expects to meet at that moment. She wastes no time and went her way into the place where she is once created, pulled, and owns the personality that is the half darkness of the now awakened holder. “You know what to do. Take your place and bring that person back to where she should be.” Emie’s words are echoing suddenly inside her mind. Words that she didn’t like nor hate, but something in between. But for all else no matter how she would try to protest about the inevitable, she couldn’t do anything. “I hear you, I knew what to do, as I am on my way to that place.” A l
(HOWLING MEMORIES) THE gate is open, initiated by the darkness that came from the holder that recently woken. Valerie’s doubts over Pauleen are still lingering. With her guard up and prepared for anything that might happen. Pauleen draws a sinister smile on her face, and a bit mocking Valerie with her words. “You may be a commandment, but I am one of the directions. You are under the direct command of the Mistress of time while I am under the Supreme one. So, it is just fair if that so-called security of yours should be put towards the real enemy. Am I right, Valerie?” Pauleen’s mocking and superiority complex are innate to the darkness that she is. But it is not something that Valerie is fond of. “What did you say?” Instead, her mind ticks with the red flag that she rather wanted to vent out right towards the direction and face the consequence later. “So, you aren’t just a bit of a hold-up, but a deaf one.” With Pauleen giggling along with
(TIME) THE stage is set as the needed pieces are in place. In this little mini-play, HE draws the kind of smile that HE considers perfect with the words that he says. “Shall we head on to the game?” A few seconds of silence took place. With the pieces still head low and bowing. The definition of loyalty sounded. “As you wish, Supreme One.” Pauleen’s words, that proud tone, and the superiority complex that she is presenting in front and slapping it towards Valerie. Their little feud isn’t that unknown to HIM, nor the Mistress, and by the moment is rubbing the patience that Valerie has inside. “That is enough, Pauleen.” The familiar voice echoes, along with the steps that they knew. From the sim-lighted corner, she slowly appears and walks towards the side of the Master, with her face bright and with a sinister smile. “Why did you stop her, Chie?” The name that HE can only say with a casual tone and sometimes with superiority. All above an
(THE WOODPECKER’S SONG) “THE old song.” Words that are lingering and somehow echoing inside her mind. Words that she is familiar with, knew it more than anyone would. For in those words, lies that one most important memory. “Will you sing it to me again, Pauleen?” The wish of the little sister. The innocent and wishful heart of the person that she cares about so much. All into this memory and somewhat a dream where everything is still fine, and they are still living in peace and without any worry. “What song?” She asks, with her comforted smile and warmth. The love and gentleness that she only gave and had for her sister. “The Woodpecker’s Song.” Her little sister requested, giggling and excitedly asking her for it. With a smile and gladness in her heart and showing it in her eyes, she nods and said. “Alright.” With her little sister laying on the grass and comfortably resting her head on her thighs. She is slowly stroking her li
(MEMOIR) ‘WAKE UP! WAKE UP! HOLDER OF ARIES! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! PAULEEN!’ The chanting that is getting on the nerves of the holder, Pauleen. Making it painful with each passing second and somehow ringing past her ears and into her head. “Wake up. That’s all that you needed to do.” Her other self. The one who was introduced to be her darkness. The past of her darkness. Smiling wide and sinisterly which is making her uncomfortable and doubtful of everything that is happening. “Stay away from me!” The holder, Pauleen, screams while in pain and in anger from the chanting that is getting louder and more painful with each passing second. “You cannot run away from the truth and the inevitable, Pauleen.” The words that are taunting her. Adding to the burden that she already had and is inflicting the pain that she doesn’t want to have nor to ever feel. “Where is my sister?’ She suddenly asks. Now bothered that for a while now had been explai
(TRUTH III) “COULD you promise me one thing, Pauleen?” The words and gentle voice of her little sister that she loves so much. “What is it?” Her confirmation and gentle heart that is willing to do everything for the sake for her little sister and all for her happiness. “Promise me that you will do everything for me, to protect me and give me everything that I want.” Words that is alarming, yet she doesn’t mind at all. Thinking that it is just a request from her still young and younger sister, which is out from her younger years said those words and such. “Of course.” Her reply. The assurance that she gave, thinking nothing serious about it, and in that sense didn’t reprimand her little sister for the wish that is not appropriate in the first place. “No, I want you to promise it to me with your words.” Now insisting, yet she didn’t still think much about it. Instead, she gladly gave the promise like giving a candy as simple as that one.
(DARK WORLD) HE draws HIS usual sinister smile. Amused, no, HE is enjoying every bit of what HE is seeing right now. Doing the things that HE could simply ask one of HIS pawns to do. Yet, the way HE wrote this entire book is what it is currently dictating right now. “Aren’t I a genius?” HE asks while giggling and making Valerie and Clayden shiver from deep within their core. But then they couldn’t let it show, nor even breathe a sign of it. Let alone and worse, speaking about it. “No.” HE protested, changing the premise and claim. “I am a genius. For who else will it be? I am GOD after all.” The darkness somewhat spreads but unlike the miasma of the known evil that everyone knew. The type of darkness that slowly surrounds them is different. Something that doesn’t taunt, nor will be able to hurt someone. It can provoke and convince, where everything about it is the equivalent of the light that balance everything. “Good and bad, light and dark, the oppo
(LITTLE GAME) WITH a kiss on the lady’s hand, Clayden honors his position and gives his loyalty to his lady. On his knees and in a knight’s stand, he pledges himself to protect the person that promises from the very beginning. “Holder of the ruling gate of Aries, I present to you, the Prince’s gift. Your knight, Clayden.” Pauleen smiles, knowing and very much familiar with her knight Clayden. For all else ‘she’ already knew and meet him. The piece of her darkness, and from all the memories and knowledge that her darkness and once Pauleen had. “Now, now, now.” HIS favorite word, and by this time HE somehow resorted back to HIS usual self. Compose and calculated, not laughing the way an insane being does, nor blabbering about a thing or two from time to time. “Valerie.” HE immediately commands, snapping HIS finger and giving back the mana that the commandment had lost due to the pentagram and spell of unification. But adding much and the necessary te
(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