(THE FAMILIAR LULLABY) NOW humming the same lullaby that’s been playing inside Emie’s mind, and by which is Winona is currently watching with the privilege of having to see the past that will answer her questions. She gritted her teeth in dismay. “Tsk! Just how funny this little game is.” Her words and insulting comment, after realizing but a bit that what she is seeing so far from the past is the lock chain of lives and destiny that put every one of them into the grandest scale of a complicated puzzle game. A game that is being played by two powerful beings that no one of them could ever fathom. “Everyone is link to someone. Each person took the deal to have the most important thing that they could ever wish to their life.” She deduces, yet rather the half of the conclusion that she finally understands after all that she had seen, and from the facts that she patches into a giant piece of a chaotic perfection. “Everyone is trying to protect someone that is either good or evil. Ta
(UNKNOWN SHE?) “WHO is Emie?” “Tsk! Seriously?” Winona suddenly asks in between the reality or foreshadowing her wants to know about that fact. The question with the underlying dread of who is she will trust or not. “Is that even a question? Or perhaps a statement that you rather wanted to say as a joke? Worst, you little game that you wanted to insist that we should play?” “Carlos.” “I am a bit surprise and curious for that sudden thought that you are asking me right now, Winona.” Carlos inquires of her. The first and probably the last that he will asks a genuine one towards her. “What more is there to it? I wanted to know, about Emie.” She then whispers but not the answer that Carlos is looking for, nor the answer that she wanted to give to him. “Aren’t you satisfied from what you have learned and remembered so far?” Carlos taunts, as he is in a bit bored from how things are going on right now. Impatient for Winona to say that she is satisfied, for he wanted to hear from h
(ONCE MORE) “TAROTS.” Winona whispers, reading the name of the deck of card that the neon purple light wrote in front of her. Just then, the lights that looks like fireflies disperse. Now flying around her, then stops, along with the ticking time that wasn’t been there from the first place. “Show me the cards.” She requested, no, she commanded. A command that the fireflies obliges. With the tick of the clock that once more runs, each light turns into a spinning card. Illuminating a purple neon light glow as each one turns to face her, with the image, roman number and the name of the cards. “The full deck.” She whispers, fascinated by the set of tarot cards that she is looking at right now. She draws a satisfying smile unto her face, as she waited and received the cards that slowly lit up around her, with their distinct features and name. Wherein and in the very moment as the cards line up according to their number
(THE NEXT STEP) “SHALL we continue?” The voice of HIS that is tempting. To strong to have the will to reject such desire to commit and went into the path that HE desires for you to take. One such command, yet a choice with the freedom to do so. Both good and evil, strong and weak. Winona listen, looks at the cards in front of her, as she continues wearing the shoes that Emie wore once. As the next step continues. “The lovers.” Looking at the card for a moment as it shows the image of the two persons under the grace of the heavens in a form of a sun, yet a moon is somewhat hiding from behind of it. She felt her heart sink in fear for a few seconds, as she stares at the sun and moon's image where she interprets one thing. “Death.” Keeping herself calm and reasoning for the good rather than the bad. She reminds herself to keep the very card close and the ones it pertains to. For what it tells and the warning that it brings, one of them or both will die.
(ENOUGH?) “THE Tarot Cards.” Winona whispers. While Carlos is slowly becoming uninterested in how things are progressing right now. “The Major and the Minor arcana’s. The suit is divided in two ways where the first comes with the heaviest ordeal and meaning, while the latter is a supporting view of what will happen within the Major arcana’s.” Carlos suddenly said, explaining the initial meaning with his tone of impatience that Winona doesn’t need any deeper thought to see it. “Do you still want to see the rest where Emie will finish saying in a tongue the full deck of cards? Or would you let me say it all in one fair sweep?” Wanted her to choose the second and the most convenient part that Carlos wanted. Winona gasped, and in a low threatening voice, she asks. “Why are you seem to be impatient right now, Carlos? For just a while you are having the best entertainment of your life?” “Impatient? Tsk!” Carlos smirk, when Winona hits the right q
(REINA’S BLOOD) “WHO?” The question that Carlos is been waiting for a while since his amusement is reawakened by the fact that Winona comes across that name from Emie’s past. The name that hardly anyone of them knew. But the being that she should have recognized, but at the same time should not. “Do you want to take a little detour?” The offer that she should reject. The question and temptation that she should run away from. For it is getting a little dragging, as she needed to get away from this stage and meet the being that she should be meeting right now. Yet. “Well. It will only take a while as you do not need to worry about the time. Remember, I have the key with me.” Assuring her and at the same time in reality manipulating her to abide by the little selfish wants that Carlos is more than eager for her to know. Winona looks back at the tarot cards, the Major arcana, as she then answered and decided.
(LEO) “WELL THEN,” Carlos whispers with his amusement towards Winona, for desiring the thing that awakens his interest but promising to be the last time. “Guardian God and one of the four main elements and next to time. The flame wing Lion, God Leo, or should I address as Reina.” With the menacing tone of his voice, Winona knew that Carlos is enjoying this little detour that they are having. All too much by which she is now regretting asking him for her other desire. But everything happens for a reason, and she couldn’t back down now, nor she ever has one in the first place. “The prince, the other half of the princess. The reflection and the shard soul of ‘his’, is born without any ability, as he only has the crown and destiny towards the person, we all care and known as the Maiden.” Carlos continues explaining. Engross by the moment, as Winona just let him be. “Now, shall we watch when that moment started and spins from the past?” The first
(THE SECOND MASK) “INTERESTING.” The word that Winona replied to Carlos’s question which in truth doesn’t fit to what Carlos wanted, nor she intends it to be. “Well, that is how you would often reply. Right?” Caught Carlos in a little teasing game that Carlos immediately realizes and chuckles off. He then draws a sinister smile on his face, not the twisted one, nor a broken one, but his usual smile that Winona is all use on seeing from him. “Mimicking me in return. Interesting.” He once more said. Lighten the mood, but only in the opposite way. A dark one, a deep dread that they are both is enjoying right now. With Winona that now remembers almost everything from the past. “Now shall we look into the second mask that you are proud off?” A little of teasing Carlos with the fact that he is rooting for his leader and the first born of the commandment. He giggles for a few seconds, then gladly turning the key that is inserted into the
(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