(TAINTED HEARTS)
SNAPPING her finger as clocks emerges and surround her. She smiles looking at the mirror as it reflected her jet black eye color. Smiling in content, as she waves raises her hand like harmonizing the ticking seconds of the clocks that surround her. A knock on her room’s door stole her attention. Knowing forth as she had anticipated it all and unto this day and moment, between time, reality and dreams. She snaps her fingers as the clocks disappear, to the dark void that she just dwells in everything slowly vanishes turning the endless void back to a bright room that perfectly pictured a queen’s chamber.
Standing up from her bed
Hello readers, hope you are all doing well. Please do not be confuse of the alternate time and shifting scene of the novel as everything is interconnected. This few past chapters is dedicated to the past of Arthur and Daniela and how they meet during their childhood days. To the Princess Ai, you will soon know about her in the succeeding chapters. Kindly support this novel. Thank you.
(SAKURA’S MELODY) BEAUTIFUL.Yet more than that. That was the word that crosses Arthur’s mind the moment that he saw the person that somewhat beats the wanting beat inside his heart. Now, and somehow glued onto the top of the wall, he stares and is locked unto the person’s starry night sky eyes as everything in that time and the existence of his world started to slow down.To the wind that blew between them as their eyes meet each other, they both asks. “You are?” Both are taken back, as they as
(DIRECTION OF LIGHT) ON the thickest branch of the big and old Sakura tree, he leans his back on its trunk and sitting comfortably while he is gazing up the bright full moon. Arthur could not help, but laugh and smile for himself and the fate that he crosses and took now. Somehow counting the Sakura flower petals that slowly falling with the aid of the gentle wind and moving in a steady, graceful, and swirling pattern. He reaches his hand, and a petal falls unto his palm. With the bright light of the moon that forms a silhouette of his shadows. He gazes at the petal, where the Maiden’s image draws from his memory. He grasps the petal and quickly. With his palm close and with force, a mix of wanting, regret and hate draws to his face. He leans his head to the tree, then he remembers the clan’s elders’ words that then echo unto his ears like it was just yesterday. “A curse will always be a curse.” The child that should be dead the day that he is born, finally come back to ruin everyt
(THE SACRIFICIAL ONE) DIE! DIE! DIE! The word and nightmare she lives her entire life for the past eight years and since the day that she learns and remembers that not everything of the world is true and a fantasy. “Please help me.” “Please, someone, please help me.” Covering her ears as she closes her eyes while crouching in the corner of her bed, she is shivering
(BLOOD HOWL) DRIP! DRIP! DRIP! The sound echoes to the entire mansion as silence is imminent and the storm continues to get worse. To the eerie hallway, to the dim corners, the fast-asleep servants, and the long-running time of the peculiar and particular stormy night. A hum slowly is being heard as a song plays and echoes together with the symphony of the music box that does not exist. “Die, die, die, just what should I do?” A little girl's voic
(EXCHANGED SOULS) DEATH, REBIRTH, AND REINCARNATION. The three words that are keeps on circling into his subconsciousness, yet the same words that keep on whispering unto his ears like it is some kind of a bug that keeps on buzzing and nonstop, somewhat wanted something out of him by which he knew what, but pretends not. “I will not, I would not give in.” He whispers unto himself as he eases the voices that are howling inside his mind and somehow
(SILENCE SCREAM) HEADlow and eyes in dim, Alliah would cower into the corner where she finds it comfortable while trying to ignore everyone around her, with their words and voices that dim her in the far distance of the past she could never escape from. She feels like she is trapped in an invincible cage as she thinks that the world is against someone filthy like her. Now in her new world, life, and a chance she took amid her doubts and fear, and without someone to turn to, worst of having the mixed thoughts and feeling to the only person who reaches her hand towards her, she is caught in between of the word trust and not. She wanted to somewhat escape, and run away from everything, yet she could not, as she cannot betray that person. 
(THE SINS) GASHINGas a warning is heeded on her way with the wind that suddenly shifted into an eerie tone. She heightens her guard and up as the turn silence engulfs the place. With the slow-moving flow of what the time becomes, fast and unexpected to her stance. She looks back preparing for the worst as a demon might be near. “Who is there?” Asking, yet rather demand and command. She draws a transmutation circle of the owl and is small enough at the back of her to be noticed. Holding her drowsing necklace, she stood in a tight stance to take on anyone or a being to a fight. As she will take this chance to test the ability she learns and is trained for. Yet. “You.” Stun and somehow taken drivin
(DEADLY SINS) TOa sinister smile that draws into HIS face, he comfortably sits and afloat unto the center of HIS sanctuary as the thousand mirrors with their distinct features, designs, and marks surround HIM. Starring somewhat blankly, yet not into space, the mirror around HIM reflected the choices, events, and scenes each of the characters in IT’s game is choosing. To the game that’s progressing rapidly and the desire of the main created souls are eminent and is being fed by the sins, HE disappointedly smiles as he observes everyone from his void. Yet. “Now, now, now, whose path should intervene next?”
(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