(ARCANAS)
“ARCANAS?”
She asks wondering about the name, the title, and the very card her older twin is playing with.
“Do you mean the Tarots cards?”
As it teasingly asks her with a giggling tone and expression that left her dumbfounded with her prequel interest and wants to know regarding the set of a somewhat ordinary playing card, yet not. The set of cards that she always sees holding by it, passes down from their grandmother and her twin as the successor. The very deck of cards that her twin and older sister treasures so much and cared for.
“Tarots?” she whispers unto herself as she could not take her eyes off the deck and somewhat mesmerize and even drawn to it and deep like hypnosis she could not resist.
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(THE WHITE HARE) A step as each counting one is signed with calmness but forcedly emphasize. Beyond the ominous dread and warning death that is coming into a slow, yet the impending end. Dwelling now unto the spiral staircase that is bound with illusion spell and maze-like room. An uninvited person, an intruder, and a definite enemy will be lost, will be hypnotized to take one’s life, and even end up insane. Yet, for the being and the totality that is her and with the blood the exactly resembles the one this very room is hiding and guarding upon. She draws a smile as she steps foot at the end of the hall and where the sleeping God is protecting and guarding the holder it deems caring. “I’m here.” Whispering the words that were once sweet and originally a sign of respect and glee towards a family member who came and arrive after a long day of work,
(BLACK HARE’S TWIN) THE MINOR ARCANA’S. She reads through her mind, as she stares and intently towards the deck of cards that her twin kept and secure inside a box. Now and unto the silence of their room where the rustling of leaves and twigs of the Sakura tree from outside the open glass window is the only breaking silence in between. She slowly took the deck as she held it close into her were her eyes and wanting expression is beaming a chance to understand and use it. But. “Ouch!” as she jolts in pain leaving the cards to fall and out of her hands, yet in submission to its master and owner and where no one can shuffle nor hold it all in one other than its keep
(MY MAD HATTER) “ALICE IN WONDERLAND.” She calls, yet in a whisper as her interest is taken and drawn towards the book that the young master and holder of Capricorn is reading. Standing a few steps away from him, as he rested his back unto the Sakura tree and where the both of them is unto its shade with the wind that gently blowing its petals towards them. She unknowingly found herself in the garden where her mind that for a moment is under some cloud and finally crossing into the presence of the hunter and the very knight of the Maiden. “Have you read this book?” Kyle deliberately asks her as she startles and almost falls unto her stand, with the words of both agreements a
(OPHIUCHUS) ALL WITH PERFECTION AND GOLD A VOICE ECHOES. “Choices, it’s the freedom I grant to them as love is the reason they exist, as do you, Ophiuchus.” Closing His eyes as memory is knocking the reminding words, yet rather a longing and painful miss from the ONE and the only, He wanted to be in the beginning world. He slowly opens His eyes as he closely watches over his worlds and creation. To the books that lie the seven sins, the gates He needed to find to free the originals, the tools that He manipulated to have His very way, and the play He wrote as the perfect stage act to fulfill His only desire. He is counting the passing time where into His very realm is only an illusion and where it does not exist as He i
(DARK TONE) SINISTER, DARK AND CUNNING. “The pleasure is all mine, God Ophiuchus.” With her delight and mark of a smile, she bao in courtesy as God wittingly accepts her address and respect, with the words to offer. “Now, now, now. At which every wish should I grant this time?” Taunting the sin that both of them are prepared and are head first and everything to take with and within. She draws a cunning smile as she plays along knowing that He knew, yet is taking the game into a dragging distance she is expecting to. With fate and too cliché to call it destiny, she replies. “Everything that I am not.” On-point and with the deliverance of nothing and even remorse
(CLOUDED) “ALICE IN WONDERLAND?” She asks, yet is not. Within and from the hidden darkness, worst and beyond the shadow that she kept in secret after achieving the wish, she exchanged with everything that she has. She is now walking freely and in bliss, unto the land and very life of her twin’s destiny. The twin to whom no one remembers, no one recognizes, not even the most powerful Shrine Maiden. The past that she changes and plays as the author. Within the will of her heart, and manipulates everything from the grasp of her hand. The God that is at her side is more powerful than the ability of guardianship and being a seer, the Maiden is gifted with. Now, unto her new written life and a very clouded heart full of desire and wa
(DARK DEAL) “EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE, OR SHOULD I SAY?” Eerie and whispering, she draws a sinister smile with the tone and the heart of a victorious villain, where her prey and very protagonist o the story is caught within the spine and slick of her web and hands. To the crimson, yet marmalade color sunset and just beyond the hills where she stands observing and looking. She finds the fault, a root, and a key she could use, no, she will definitely use it to gain the favor and the heart of the one she wanted the most. “So, is this is where you are, Shrine Maiden.” She speaks in the gloom, a vicious and cunning way was out from the rest, and definitely above the ones who seek the Maiden’s whereabouts about suddenly disappearing at the early morning of her birth celebration and the City’s
(WHITE RABBIT) ONE, TWO, THREE AS THE RHYME BEATS INTO ITS TONE THAT CREATED THE VERY DREAD OF A SYMPHONY AND STARTED THE MELODY. FOUR, FIVE, SIX, IT STARTED TO HUM WITH THE IMPENDING WORDS THAT TOOK THE DREAD AND COLD FROM THE INSIDE. SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE, THE TWO OF THEM FIND THE PERFECT SPOT. IN A CORNER, YET NOT IN A DISTINCT TONAL PLAYGROUND, HE ACCEPTED THE INVITATION AS SHE GAVE THE CARD IN RETURN. THEN FINALLY, TEN AS THEY FINALLY MEET. “Well, well, well, nice to meet you, Arthur.” Calling upon taunting as her smile is fixed into a sinister one. She steps out of the gate of a void to call, where she made it, and when she arrives a moment for a second
(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