(TOO MUCH OF THE FEAR) “NOW, unto the next scene.” AN OMEN FROM THE GIRL. “Uhmp!” Winona gasp and deep, now with her sweat that’s dripping from her forehead. After witnessing that sudden detour and dread that she never expected to see and experience, even though she is just a being in that past that doesn’t really exist. “Is there a problem, Winona?” Carlos asks her and somehow slap her into the reality and realization that what she just saw for that short minutes are glimpse of the darkness from the past. The dread and blood that the Supreme being that she is looking for is the one who initiated for it. “Nothing.” Winona replied that Carlos accepts without any question, but in reality, he is just pretending. “Very well.” He somehow assures Winona. But the truth is that he knew what happened, seen it all and had been given the order to let Winona be drag into that state. Yet. “Shall we continue?” Winona offers, hiding t
(THE SUPREME ONE) STILL shaken by the gore that she had just seen. Winona’s knees are trembling, all along with her entire body, she is currently fighting over not making Carlos notice a thing. Yet. “Scared? Shaken? Or perhaps you are not still qualified to meet the beings?” Carlos laughs, mocking Winona with the fact that she immediately realizes that Carlos already knew what she is currently struggling with. “You can act tough, and you can hide what you feel inside. But remember Winona, I am not like anyone else. I’m a proud commandment that can read everything and know the meaning, even a flinch of your eyebrow.” He stated high and mighty. Along with his laughter that is slowly turning in a hellish kind of way and tone. “Tsk!” Winona clicks her tongue silently. Disappointed in herself and realizing that she couldn’t beat Carlos in any mind games for being the person that she is right now. “Shaken? I might be, but not too long.
(SHALLOW RETURN) SHE finally remembers everything. The complete one hundred percent of what HE had written to be her goal and Carlos's task. “Well, well, well.” HE smiles. Whispering the word three times with a bit of dread and drawing a sly smile on HIS face. “You do know what to, am I right, Winona?” HE instructed, without asking for an assurance that HE above all else knew what HIS current doll will reply to him. “The pleasure to fulfill your wishes is mine, My God.” Winona gladly accepts. Drawing a sinister smile on her face acting the opposite of her character from the current loop of seven, but the same as who she is from the doll who turned human from the sixth loop. “Exhilarating.” HE couldn’t contain HIS excitement. Along with Carlos whose face is currently plastered with a wild twisted smile. “Call them all.” HE directed. Still in HIS favorite mask as
(DIRECTIONS) “I’M SORRY, ALLIAH.” Winona whispers, while looking at Alliah’s back that’s fading by the seconds. Words that doesn’t mean sympathy nor sadness. But an act of apology towards the person that life will not be too long to exist. “Winona is a bit acting weird. Why is that?” Alliah thought, but immediately shove it off and continue her way just like how she used to with her carefree nature and cheerful attitude. But then. “You should be waking up right now, Alliah.” The sudden dreaded voice that echoes to her ears. Voice that’s familiarity is uncanny, yet she couldn’t remember who. “Alliah.” “Who is there?” Immediately raising her guard up and holds the Hoshi that is in her possession. Thinking that what is happening is the same old way of her light to attract spirits and worse, demons. Alliah looks around, only to be left hanging by the thought that ech
(THE ROSE FROM THE SOUTH) LOOKING at the old rustic tower that was the holy library from the past and back to the sixth loop. Winona draws a sly smile on her face, seeing the real pristine tower that was over grown by roses and weeds that was all a spell to preserve and protect. “Such lovely roses. Beautiful, but deadly.” She compliments, giggling in two. Touching the flower while evading its thorns with the poison within. That though she will never fall victim in such, she still finds it necessary as caution. “Well then.” Alone in that so-called curse forest. She stands in front of the door way, bite her thumb and draws the pentagram of key using her blood. With the neon green illuminating from the symbols and mark of the pentagram, she whispers. “Clama ad turrim invoco.” The spell of the key that the tower recognizes. The roses that surrounds the door then pave way, as is opens welcoming her ins
(THE OTHER DOLL) AN eerie song echoes. Playing and circling in the closed room that is only intended for one. "Upon curse night, I found a soul that is lost. Down by the edge of time, where everything fell in rhyme.” Her voice sings that beautiful tone. Her wonderful voice can be compared to a nightingale. She smiles, as she continues singing. “There the present is torn. Creating multiple futures that only give nothing, but dread and sorrow. The princess was trapped and stripped of her memories. The prince that is seeking endlessly for her.” A love song. A tale from the past, yet a curse and lonely melody to begin with. She smiles as she made her way and look at the cards where she is the current keeper. “The worlds that were created from their souls. The lives that are twisted by dread and curses. Played by time and being sought by the sins. Gold and dust had no value in this tragic tale that is ever told.” She sings a tale that mirrors the wo
(THE WAY OF THE CARDS) DANIELA OR ALLIAH. The two-person that is vying for the fool’s card. The representation that in the current time of the book and the world one is reading, had already figured out that it belongs to Alliah. The card that Emie is trying to play with, along with the command that her Mistress wanted her to do. “What can you say about the one who’s holding the fool’s card?” A question that Emie knew her to answer, yet she couldn’t directly say it in front of her Mistress. For she needed to be cautious, even though she is loyal to the beings that she is serving, she is still a human who is influenced and can still be influenced by the sins. “The one who is pure, yet clueless. While the other one is a curse, yet doesn’t have a clue. Opposite, but running in the same path. In between the two of them, I still hold my hope and my loyalty towards the Maiden.” “Very well.” The Mistress of time, Chie, laughs maniacally after hearing h
(THE LADY OF THE CARDS) “Now, now, now.” Emie whispers. Counting the seconds while tidying everything and back to where they belong and are hidden. “The books, the cards, and the keys.” She utters, making sure that every little piece and detail is all in the exact place and way where she wanted it and where it all should be. “The time is dwindling. The pieces are being called to complete the board. The pons is being awakened one by one, but the queen is still oblivious to the truth.” Words that she utters with dread and hunting. Leaving the meaning of her words to someone that’s reading their world and book up to this point. “And the king.” She continues. “The head of the board, the most important piece.” Emie thought of ‘him’. Then she smiles, in a cunning way, and said. “He’s still sleeping, while the shard of his soul is trapped, while the other is lurking with the plan at hand.” She smiles, as a thought cross her mind and made her
(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