Uranometria: Synchronized--Chapter 1

Hey guys, I'm back. Uranometria's next volume and I hope you guys like it. The weapon of Sinon is called Saorbhreathach. The name Saorbhreathach is pronounced: Sheer-vra-hock. It's an Irish variant of Justin. I hope you guys like it! --KatDon

Chapter 1: Female Hephaestus

"What are you talking about?" demanded Jack. "Don't try it, Jack! You killed your own father--He was a Revenant!" Cassandra called out. Jack gasped, the others of Brother 10 turned in shock. Jack looked ashamed of himself. "That's why he's never heard again! You killed him, he was like....like....sacrificing himself!" continued Cassandra. Jack was silent before nodding, "....Yeah." He admitted. "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!" cried Cassandra. "I COULDN'T!!!" Jack shouted. "OH SO IT'S THOSE TRAITORS' FAULT AND YOUR FATHER WAS PART OF THAT!? JUST LIKE THAT HEIFER WHO KILLED THE OTHERS OF THE ABENDSTERN SQUAD!!!!" That was crossing the line completely, Jack's face was filled with grief. Cassandra wanted to take the words back so badly, she was so motionless that she couldn't believe it. "Get out." Jack said with clenched teeth. "Jack, I--!" Cassandra started to say but Jack glared at her and yelled, "GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!!!!" Cassandra ran across the hall, tears blinding her vision. The two of them haven't spoke to one another until one day, Cassandra wasn't seen and it turns out she was kidnapped. How did this happen so quick? Find out, let's go back to the beginning....Again!

Earlier before.....

The time of blissful happiness has gone away, the end of summer comes closer. Autumn enters, and now you have to deal with the harsh realities of life and death. Summer begins in and ends, Sinon’s father died as the summer ended. At his father’s funeral; Sinon Sumner cried, ran home and locked himself in his room. When his mother got home and knocked on the door to his room, Sinon simply said, “Wake me up when September ends.” Here comes those times again, written in the stars called destiny. People only become what they really are when they feel pain, so that they can’t hide their real personality anymore. Some get to know the real character of somebody only in extreme situations where limits are exposed. Schools use bells to signify the end of start of classes,and is thus as sound that children hate to hear, especially after a carefree summer. Spring was a time when Sinon's father was still alive and can also represent the innocent, youthful period of someone’s life. In about the present time; Sinon is in his early 20's as he still lives with his family. His overprotective mother annoys him and his annoying siblings are driving him crazy. Sinon struggles with the fact that he is a high school graduate who is not going to college. He has no other plans, which this very much stresses him out. Sinon's family is in poverty and they have no choice but to move to Ulster and to live with his mother's relatives for awhile. However Sinon doesn't want to go. His mother try to convince him to come, "It's so beautiful there, Sinon. You'll miss out on the four seasons, you'll miss all of your cousins." She would say but Sinon's response was always, "I hate the dead of winter, I hate how cold it is. I really don't want to go." 

His mother kept urging, "You'll never know how wonderful it is." "I told you, I hate the cold." snapped Sinon. Although he was over 18; his mother gave up and lets him decide what he wants.  Sinon decided to please his mother by going to Ulster but he needs to prepare himself for the cold. He knows that Ulster has the dead winter and at night, it drops below minus 20 to 40. Two weeks later; Sinon and his family move to Ulster as Sinon says farewell to the life he lived in. He vows to return to his hometown one day. While on the 19 hours and two minute drive to Ulster; Sinon is bored of the long journey and he soon falls asleep. He wakes up to be greeted by his maternal relatives who are happy to see him. Sinon is not interested in what to do in the snow. When he was a child; he took a dip in the cold pool that took place indoors and he became so sick and frail for he was susceptible to the cold and had red spots from head to toe as he was medicate. His hands and feet felt numb. He was always throwing up in the afternoon. Sinon wasn't sure if he would enjoy it. He protects himself with thermal underneath his winter clothes. However he warms up to winter and the cold as he learns he is no longer sick to it. Just then, an intruder stormed into the family's home and fatally shot Sinon's parents and four siblings, who ranged in age from 4 to 13 years old, after binding them and putting them face-down on the floor of their home. Sinon suffered a fractured skull when a bullet grazed his head. He survived by playing dead and called police to warn that an intruder intended to go to his neighbors' house next. He speaks out a quote: "Life mistakes that people through life out there and crush those who was in the way." 

Sinon was grieving over his family when all of a sudden; he is met with destiny. Sinon was lying outdoors on a slope by a tree in the neighborhood, when an 'angel' appeared to him riding a horse. The angel wears a skirt of grass-green silk and a velvet mantle, and is mounted on a milk-white and dapple-gray horse. The horse has nine and fifty bells on each lock of matted hair. The 'angel' beckoned him to come away, and when he consents, shows him three marvels and to her own world. After seven years, Sinon is brought back into the mortal realm, and asking for a token to remember the 'angel' by, is offered the choice of the gift of a musician or a servant, at which he chooses the servant option. The angel sang a poem: "All in the golden afternoon full leisurely we glide; for both our oars, with little skill, by little arms are plied, while little hands make vain pretence our wanderings to guide. Ah, cruel Three! In such an hour, beneath such dreamy weather, to beg a tale of breath too weak to stir the tiniest feather! Yet what can one poor voice avail against three tongues together? Imperious Prima flashes forth her edict 'to begin it' -In gentler tone Secunda hopes 'There will be nonsense in it!' -While Tertia interrupts the tale not more than once a minute. Anon, to sudden silence won, in fancy they pursue the dream-child moving through a land of wonders wild and new, in friendly chat with bird or beast -and half believe it true. And ever, as the story drained the wells of fancy dry, and faintly strove that weary one to put the subject by, "The rest next time -" "It is next time!" The happy voices cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland: Thus slowly, one by one, its quaint events were hammered out -And now the tale is done, and home we steer, a merry crew, beneath the setting sun. Alice! a childish story take, and with gentle hand lay it were Childhood's dreams are twined in Memory's mystic band, like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers plucked in a far-off land."

In Mictlan; A girl was wearing a cloak and one of her arms was covered with a glove that reached down her elbow. She was on her wagon as she carried supplies into the village where she dragged it along the path on foot but her dress was so long that it got caught. She tried to tug and pull on it. She went off the path and she took a pair of scissors and cut the remains of her dress and changed. Bellerophon, who was walking among the path, noticed the wagon and came across the girl who was half naked. When the girl saw, she gasped and backs away: "Stay away!" Bellerophon was trying not to look at her body but he was concern to ask, "Are you all right?" However, the girl try to run however Bellerophon saw her scars and was shock that he attempt to hug her. The girl was shocked as she screamed, "GET AWAY!!!!" She tried to tackle him however Bellerophon lost balance and they both went down. The girl looked up at Bellerophon, who is flustered a little. The girl's lips curled in a smile: "Hi." She said softly. Bellerophon saw her lips are bright red but there's uncanny about her teeth. There are some short yet unusually sharp fangs. Bellerophon wedge himself away, "S--sorry." He said. "Wait, are you a boy?" The girl asked. "Yes, you didn't know?" asked Bellerophon. "Not by your delicate face, no." said the girl. "I didn't know you were changing, I apologize." said Bellerophon. "It's OK, I'm sorry for my behavior. I guess I don't like to be touched." Claudia replied. They both seemed shy as Claudia was sitting next to him. But Claudia noticed something that made her concern: "What happened to your shoulder?" Claudia asked, pointing to the scars she can see on Bellerophon's neck. Bellerophon shied it away with the collar of his shirt. "It's nothing." He said. 

Claudia looked at him, "Someone hurt you?" She finally asked. Bellerophon was silent for a moment before he spoke, "...Yes." "Who?" Claudia inquired. "Some women, it's a long story....I rather not talk about it." admitted Bellerophon. He turned away, looking ashamed. Claudia glanced at him and nodded, "OK." It was really quiet, too quiet. Neither of them spoke but Claudia broke the silence: "If it makes you better; I don't want to talk about mine either. It's too painful." She said. Bellerophon looked up at her, "You were hurt?" He asked. Claudia looked away, "You could say that." She said. They didn't talk so much but they enjoyed the sights and sounds of nature. It was so peaceful that Bellerophon fell asleep, he dreamt that the succubus, Eisheth, tried to get him to come to bed with her--again. "Come and have some fun with me." purred Eisheth. Bellerophon was uncomfortable with that. "I can't, I don't--I'm sorry." He said nervously, Eisheth placed her hands around him and begged, "Please, come to bed with me--Don't let me sleep alone." Bellerophon was overcome with such terror, "No, stop it!" He cried as he pushed her away. Eisheth looked at him with shock, Bellerophon felt guilty and he said: "I apologized but I can't..." He then went away. In the meantime at night; Bellerophon was collecting some sort of storage and was returning back when he heard footsteps and giggling of women. Bellerophon turned around to hear or see nothing. "Hello, anyone there?" Bellerophon called. He peered into the blackness, to his horror he saw glowing red eyes and started to run. "Stay back! Stay away!" He cried but he tripped and fell but felt hands on him. He turned around and screamed with terror. Bellerophon would wake up and realize it was all just a dream. 

Claudia's face was almost sallow, her eyes glowed of a reddish yellow, and her hands were like razor-like talon hands. Lips twisted and stained with blood. Bellerophon was too frightened to move, "Claudia?" He gasped. Claudia looked ashamed, "Go." She hissed in an ethereal and harsh tone. Bellerophon was too scared, Claudia then shouted: "GET AWAY FROM ME!!!!" Her voice was diabolistic, more harsher. Then, she ran. Claudia felt hot tears flowing from her eyes. She was so ashamed of herself. Claudia was a girl born with a veinous, scarred and deformed limb of her left arm. Her parents, Haemus and Rhodobe, were very disgusted by Claudia as they couldn't stand the sight of her so they send her to live with Melissa. Melissa was kind to poor Claudia and taught her craft as well as art. Claudia developed into a dollmaker as she made friends of her own. She pretended that the dolls she made were her sisters and Claudia became an 'imaginary friend ventriloquist' as she pretended to speak as her own imaginary friends. She was so angry of the cruelty her parents did and decided to sent in a doll for her mother but created a knife in the doll to try to kill Rhodobe. Rhodobe almost died so she and Haemus sent their servant girl Denise Weine to come home and help the family. Claudia was so gracious that she accept, she was around 11 when she returned. As a joke around the time she was 13; Claudia was honored to wed to the spoiled and pompous Foutin Venusberg, who was also disgusted at Claudia and cheated on her with the clever and beautiful, Erzulie Marshall. Hameus, Rhodobe, Erzulie, Foutin, and the other cruel servant girls--Denise Weine, who pretended to be her friend, Ritona Jorgen, and Kathleen Almar. They tied her up, spin her on the pedestal wheel, and threw fruit at her as a sort of humiliation. Claudia was so ashamed and she retreated to isolation of Melissa. 

Melissa cared for Claudia, where she comforted her and gave her love. Then, a fire broke out in Melissa's home as Claudia survived with severe burns as Melissa died in the fire. Claudia remembered that she saw Erzulie and the other servant girls. There, she vowed revenge. During her time in the custody with Melissa's kind family; Claudia learns her disfigured arm is really part of a Revenant and learns she is a Krsnik so she changes into one and goes after those that wronged her. Erzulie was bathing in a spring with a waterfall while the servant girls are sewing nearby as they let the young mistress relax. Just then, Denise Weine saw a woman in a black dress with a bodice, she wore an apron that stained red and wore a coif on her head but it looked torn. Denise stop sewing and followed the young lady. However, she lost sight of her. She looked around when she is seized by a claw that gagged her and pulled her into the unknown. Ritona noticed that Denise didn't come back and went to go look for her. She walked about a minute and was grabbed and dragged away. Kathleen begin to fear of what was going on as she looked for the other girls however she hurt a twig snapped and she is pounced from behind. Erzulie was too busy relaxing to notice anything, but she was suddenly pulled under. She struggled and struggled, she tried to fight this unknown aquatic monster but it was no use. It was too late! In a wagon; four bodies are wrapped in sheets and pulled away. They are hidden away in a safe place. Meanwhile; Foutin learned that Erzulie did not return, he begin to fret. He heard a knock on the door and answered it but he was horrified to see who it was. Now there were five bodies in the wagon. Haemos and Rhodobe were finishing dinner when someone was knocking on their front door. Seven bodies filled the wagon, all wrapped up and placed in a statue made out of woven fibers called a wicker man as the bodies are place in there and lightened up. Claudia watched the wicker man light up as she begin to dance around slowly, swaying back in forth. She waltz like a ballerina as she seemed to be a dying swan who wants to feel alive again. 

That was awhile ago. In the meantime, Cassandra was called in by Mimir Sofus, who showed her something that shocked her. It turns out that Jack killed his father, who was a Revenant, and he was so shocked that he didn't remember it. "Oh my God, I don't believe it." Cassandra said softly. She was so shocked, she couldn't look at Jack and kept avoiding him. Jack didn't understand it and confronts her: "What the heck is your problem?" He demanded. "Oh, it looks like you didn't have a choice did you?" Cassandra countered. "What are you talking about?" demanded Jack. "Don't try it, Jack! You killed your own father--He was a Revenant!" Cassandra called out. Jack gasped, the others of Brother 10 turned in shock. Jack looked ashamed of himself. "That's why he's never heard again! You killed him, he was like....like....sacrificing himself!" continued Cassandra. Jack was silent before nodding, "....Yeah." He admitted. "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!" cried Cassandra. "I COULDN'T!!!" Jack shouted. "OH SO IT'S THOSE TRAITORS' FAULT AND YOUR FATHER WAS PART OF THAT!? JUST LIKE THAT HEIFER WHO KILLED THE OTHERS OF THE ABENDSTERN SQUAD!!!!" That was crossing the line completely, Jack's face was filled with grief. Cassandra wanted to take the words back so badly, she was so motionless that she couldn't believe it. "Get out." Jack said with clenched teeth. "Jack, I--!" Cassandra started to say but Jack glared at her and yelled, "GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!!!!" Cassandra ran across the hall, tears blinding her vision. The two of them haven't spoke to one another until one day, Cassandra wasn't seen and it turns out she was kidnapped. There was a note from the kidnapper who claims that Cassandra was being held in Jannah, one of the most strangest places. More stranger than Niflhel, which was a place that hardly snows but rains and there's sun there. Despite their fight and the regret for what happened; Jack decides to rescue her. 

The riddle the three friends had to solve was: "What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, three legs in the evening, and no legs at night?"Jack, Minerva, and Bellerophon didn't know the answer as they search for it. But they come across Sinon where he explains that his 'Majesty' requests that the three friends should surrender to his 'Royal Highness'. Jack refuses, neither did his friends. But then Bellerophon found the answer to the riddle--Sphinx. In the meantime; Ophelia was horrified when someone was banging on the door and broke it down, she screamed to see the salamander quickly scampered in the room. The salamander had an orange body, a black head, and black around its neck. It was about to attack when a feared Ophelia pulled out a wine bottle and splashed it on the creature. The salamander hissed as its orange body turned black as it coughed and wheezed but Ophelia did not stop until it was dead! And it was. Ophelia swiftly escaped before anymore came to attack her. She can hear someone singing in a creepy manner: "Twinkle, twinkle, little bat. How I wonder what you're at. Up above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle, little bat. How I wonder what you're at." Jack, Minerva, and Bellerophon were taking a walk one day when Jack begins to wince at a throbbing headache, which was cause by the vision of a girl. He couldn't see the girl clearly in his head. But he saw a glimpse of the vision of her flowing dark hair, the curve of her lip, and her pink parasol. The throbbing pain stopped when the three friends saw Gloriana their age was skipping with a pink parasol and smiling heartrendingly at them. She begins to sing, "Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance?" Just then, the trio loses conscious. 

Minerva wakes up as she was scared to see small animals lying dead on the ground bleeding. Minerva had a shocked and saddened look on her face however she kept moving as she begins to walk a little more with that worried look. As Minerva kept moving, there were more dead animals as Minerva moved past them looking more and more worried. She was shocked to see how they all died in rather gruesome ways; a puppy was hanged on a tree with what appeared to be his viscera hanging out, a kitten had all four of his limbs torn off and a bunny had his eyes gouged out and his throat slit. Minerva was running up a hill and then she stopped, there was a man in black with his back against Minerva with his eyes closed. Minerva looked happy to see a silhouetted figure but then her smile faltered, obviously noticing that the wasn't responding to her, if not acting as if he was totally oblivious of Minerva's presence. Minerva walked closely toward the man. In a split second, Minerva saw the girl facing towards her. She laughed as she said, "Hello. Do you want to play with me?" Minerva ran, looking scared out of her wits. Suddenly there was a creepy laugh, the girl was seeing flashes of the man popping everywhere, again with those black and red eyes. The girl behind Minerva slowly gaining up on her running! This time she had the most deranged looking grin on her face, she looked as though she was enjoying the torment she was giving poor Minerva as she gained up on her. Minerva tripped and laid there and started crying. But then the man appeared right in front of her and the girl looked up in horror. Just in a split second the man lunged at the girl who let out a loud screeching. "You're too slow, want to try again?" said the girl. She saw a dark reddish cloudy sky. There was Bellerophon who looked afraid just like the girl did, though not as much, more rather he looked a little unnerved. Then there was that maddening laugh came again. Bellerophon saw several bloodstains on the ground as he looked nauseated walking down this blood-stained road, still he kept going. 

As Bellerophon ran, the girl appeared right in front of him, "Found you!" She said. Bellerophon tried to fight the girl, but the girl vanished in black smoke. Then the girl appeared behind the boy again and then the boy punch again, and the girl vanished again laughing. Bellerophon was panicking even more, he then fell to his knees and clutched his head sobbing. The girl lunged at Bellerophon who let out a distorted screeching and a terrified Jack was scared that she begins to hallucinate and saw Bellerophon and Minerva pleading: "Help us...Run away, before he gets you too..." Their cries died out as she heard the girl's laugh, "You're a lot fun to play with sweetheart, just like they did, though they didn't last long. It won't be long now until you join him and all my other friends. You can't run, girl. You're in my world now. Just like the others." Then there was Jack but he looked eccentric as it seem however he was walking in a hallway. The floor was shiny and checkered, the walls were a dark greyish purple with animated candlelight’s and a few dark bloodstains here and there, and there was a dark red curtain hanging above on the top part of the screen. Then, the red curtain sways very slowly. Jack didn't look entirely nervous like his friends did, but he did have a suspicious look on his face as if he was just a bit paranoid. He went down a long flight of stairs leading downward, the boy seemed unsure of himself, though he pressed onward. Down the steps, Jack noticed that the walls have gotten darker and more reddish; the red torches are now an eerie blue. The walls turned more dark red and the torches were a black flame now. Suddenly, the girl in black popped right in front of Jack. Jack was scared as she looked away as she could hear someone whisper, "Try to keep this interesting for me, Jack." Jack turned around to see where the voice came from, and what he saw made him scream. Sitting in a chair, staring right at her was the girl.

The three friends wake up scared. They search for Cassandra and were terrified by the singing: "A boat beneath a sunny sky, lingering onward dreamily in an evening of July --Children three that nestle near, eager eye and willing ear, pleased a simple tale to hear --long had paled that sunny sky: Echoes fade and memories die. Autumn frosts have slain July. Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies never seen by waking eyes. Children yet, the tale to hear, eager eye and willing ear, lovingly shall nestle near. In a Wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by, dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream --lingering in the golden gleam --life, what is it but a dream?....Child of the pure unclouded brow, and dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou are half a life asunder, thy loving smile will surely hail the love-gift of a fairy-tale. I have not seen thy sunny face, nor heard thy silver laughter; no thought of me shall find a place in thy young life's hereafter -Enough that now thou wilt not fail to listen to my fairy-tale. A tale begun in other days, when summer suns were glowing -A simple chime, that served to time the rhythm of our rowing -whose echoes live in memory yet,  though envious years would say 'forget'. Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tidings laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near. Without, the frost, the blinding snow, the storm-wind's moody madness -Within, the firelight's ruddy glow, and childhood's nest of gladness. The magic words shall hold thee fast: Thou shalt not heed the raving blast. And though the shadow of a sigh may tremble through the story, for 'happy summer days' gone by, and vanish'd summer glory -It shall not touch with breath of bale the pleasance of our fairy-tale."

Sinon keeps stalking Jack and the others, he remembers that his 'Majesty' promises him to take him back to his life he once went. Sinon is skeptical as she watches these three for a moment. He looks at the sword he was given by his 'Highness' which is known as Saorbhreathach. He looked at the others with surprise, "Who are these people?" Jack and his friends found Cassandra, who was in a tower and managed to go inside. They saw her all miserable, "What are you doing here?" Cassandra asked. "I came to rescue you." Jack said. "Why?" Cassandra inquired. "Because it looks like you need something." Minerva pointed out. Cassandra shake her head, "I can't...Jack, about what I--I know, it must be hard. I didn't mean it, I wish I didn't say it." She admitted. "I wish I told you about that memory, honestly I didn't remember it at the time." Jack explained. "You mean you didn't remember?" asked Cassandra. "No, I didn't." Jack said, shaking his head. Cassandra sighed, she wiped her tears away. "Well, I feel stupid. I can read minds, right? I guess I'm helpless and nobody needs someone like me." She choked out. Jack sat next to her, "I need you Cass." He said. Cassandra looked at him with surprise on her face, "You do?" She asked. "More than anything, I mean what would I do without you?" Jack said tearfully, "You're my only hope, my friend. What would I--Brother 10--and the rest of Silver Branch do without you?" Cassandra had tears in her eyes, she sniffed. She got up and hugged her friends. "Thank you, I'm sorry." Cassandra said. The four of them were about to leave when Sinon confronted them, he had his Saorbhreathach pointed at Cass, "Why are they important to you?" He asked. Cassandra looked at him, "Why? Their my friends. But they are more than that....They are precious to me." In the meantime; Androcles and the gang weren't doing so good when Thalatte showed up.

"Hi, my name's Thalatte. Hi, how are you doing?" Thalatte introduced. "Ugh, not now!" said Androcles. He retreated away from her, Thalatte appeared in front of him and the others so quick. "Whoa, whoa, where do you think you're going?" She asked. Hijiro jumped, "Whoa!" He exclaimed. Thalatte smiled, "Cool, huh? It's called teleport! I can disappear for a moment--" She snapped her finger when she said it and appeared behind them, "--And appear in another!" Androcles smiled, "Nice." He managed to say. Thalatte was annoyed, "Oh c'mon, can't you at least try to look impress! What, bad day?" She asked. Yvain nodded, "You could say that." He admitted. "Yeah, you're not alone." Thalatte said. Androcles and Yvain looked at each other with suspicousness about this girl. Antrocles sighed, "OK, what do you want?" He was really annoyed. He didn't have time for this. "Don't you recognize me?" Thalatte asked. This shocked Androcles, "What?" He asked. "We met when we were kids? Don't you remember that?" Thalatte inquired. "You're crazy, I don't remember you." Androcles said. Thalatte's smiled faded as she was heartbroken to hear him say that, "Crazy? No, no..." She begin to sob, however that turn into rage as she screamed: "I'LL SHOW YOU CRAZY YOU BACKSTABBIN' JERKOFFS!!!!!" She took out an ax and tried to chop them but Androcles uses his psychokinesis as he and his friends ran off. Thalatte screeched and she went after them, she barged into a room. She looked around, she looked left and right. "Boys? I know you're in here." Thalatte said in a sing song. She waited and got annoyed quickly. "COME ON OUT!!!!!" She screamed. She thought she heard something and walked to where it was coming from. But when she entered the room; Thalatte found herself pinned to the wall by sharp objects, her ax pointed at her. Thalatte could see Androcles with his hand outstretch towards her. "Wha--?" Thalatte gasped. "Sorry." Androcles said. The ax telekinetically strike her, killed her. Androcles and Yvain looked at this with shock, they freed her corpse from those piercing objects. 

They were shocked to see this. Even Hijiro and Maud were astonished. "Ohh...I can't believe I did that." Androcles said. "I can't believe you did that." Yvain echoed. Androcles was shaken, the ceiling above begin to crumbled by Hijiro seized him and said, "Don't even! We made it this far, don't try to take your own life like this!" Androcles begin to hesitate and nodded, the ceiling stopped crumbling. The four of them found a portal, which leads to another world. They found themselves in a land of saccharine and also something dark along the lines. But they soon came across Ophelia! "Ophelia!" Yvain said. Ophelia turned around, she smiled with joy. "Yvain! You're OK." She exclaimed. "What are you doing here?" Yvain asked. "This is my mind you're in." Ophelia said. The other four are confused, so Ophelia explained and she would like to take them on a tour. She showed them the happy consciousness called Gumdrop Candy Palace; she dreamt that she was Alice in a boat, she buys an egg. The woman serving in the shop turns into a sheep, and the next minute they are rowing in a rowing boat somewhere. They were traveling in a mystical, psychedelic countryside where tangerine trees are pleasant skies. The kaleidoscope was reflecting into colorful symmetrical shapes that looked like flowers. Ophelia gets off the boat and goes to a bridge near a fountain. Nearby there are rocking horse people eating marshmallow pies. She’s confused like Alice when she fell down the hole. She walked to where the ultimate bliss on a desolate isolated sand beach. lying on the ground in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at a gray house on the horizon; a barn and various other small outbuildings are adjacent to the house, the image quickly fades as it now introduces of soft melting pocket watches. That is a sign that the Blood Church is closing in. Towards the Blood Church; a dark woods, the sun begin to shine on a mountain and the person climbs up. Further in the journey towards the top of the mountain there is a lion, leopard, and a she wolf. In the limbo vivid dream, The person enters a part of the realm, where girls are seen in a chase of an pointless game to get a black banner while hornets bite them and parasitic worms are sucking their blood. 

There is a leaden, smoky mist and the blazing backdrop against which the person endures a fearful crossing of the river. The boat plough though the water of tormenting girls. One of the girls try to get on the boat but they are pushed back in. The Minos lurk around and take the female victims into the chaotic storms, where they swirl into the madness. Girls are seen lying the mud while filth and 'droppings' rained down hard on them. Two girls are seen pushing boulders at one another in a raging matter. Into another terror, There is a swampy river, where a girl is seen being tortured by demons as a person watches her suffering in delight. Girls are seen trying to commit suicide to escape their living hell but they are in deep and despair, they blame God for putting them in a place like this because of giving up on him and on hope, they are seen taking their tearful rage on nature. A disembodied face hovering against a barren desert landscape. The face is withered like that of a corpse and wears an expression of misery. In its mouth and eye sockets are identical faces. In their mouths and eyes are more identical faces in a process implied to be infinite. Swarming around the large face are biting serpents. In the lower right corner is a hand print that was left by someone's own hand. There was Narcissus sitting in a pool, gazing down. Not far away there is a decaying stone figure which corresponds closely to him but is perceived quite differently; as a hand holding up a bulb or egg from which a Narcissus is growing. The viewer tried to get his attention but he didn't get up. After walking away; the viewer saw something strange in the distance as they saw of nearly identical men dressed in dark overcoats and bowler hats, who seem to be drops of heavy rain of floating like helium balloons, though there is no actual indication of motion, against a backdrop of buildings and blue sky. The men are spaced in hexagonal grids facing the viewpoint and receding back in grid layers. 

But that's not all; a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a short wall, beyond which is the sea and a cloudy sky. The man's face is largely obscured by a hovering green apple. However, the man's eyes can be seen peeking over the edge of the apple. Another subtle feature is that the man's left arm appears to bend backwards at the elbow. There are girls are lashed with whips, forced to lie in a river of 'droppings', are hung upside down while their feet are burning, forced to walk backwards blindfolded, monsters tear at their flesh and cause them to bleed, and walk in circles 1000 times. One of them is crucified to the ground, as the others are forced to walk on her. The girls are giving remedies after they were bitten by vipers in a room, the wounds of the females continue to open and close, & they are suffering of diseases and plagues. The girls are in a frozen lake. The worst part of this was where she saw: Creatures with eyeless and no noses facial parts, they have piercing claw hands, and sharp teeth. They screech as Ophelia covered her ears, her mind was filled with many things that were scaring her. There was images of losing her family, she could see the burning flames of Hell and a grave-site with her name on it. Ophelia screamed in terror! She wakes up back in reality. She saw Androcles, Yvain, Hijiro, and Maud were OK but they were shocked. "Whoa, what a trip." Hijiro said. "Agreed." "I want to tell you guys something, I wasn't trying to show anything scary but that was a lesson...The mind sometimes can be a parasite, if you fall into the dark parts. But if you filled with positive thoughts. Positive thoughts can chase away the parasites in your mind vanish, they go away for awhile until they make their next attack. We all feel lost and anxious, our minds drift and we have stray thoughts. I want you to use that piece of advice when you use your mind powers. OK?" 

"Yeah." Androcles, "Sure." "OK." Yvain said. 

Meanwhile....

"Who is Cassandra? She's a witch, that's what she is!" barked a man. This was Ifan Morris; he was a loud, hot blooded, and ungrateful bastard, he loved to hear himself talk. "A necromancer, a pythoness!" He continued to rambled. "I couldn't agree more, Mr. Morris!" said a young man. This is Sigifrith Xidorn. Sigifrith is a very devoted, strong and proud journalist; he is greatly driven by revenge, he based on his own sense of justice. Not only is he driven by revenge; Sigifrith is very flirtatious with attractive women but he does not take kindly to those who abuse or take advantage of women. "Xidorn, did I ask for your opinion?!" shouted Ifan. The young man looked startled, "No sir, I was just--" He started to say but his boss cut him off. "No, I didn't! We have to find out about Cassandra and her being a threat to us all!" Morris bellowed. "Ifan, Cassandra is nowhere in hell being evil!"  said Morris's good friend,  Margon Xerxes. "Evil? She's beyond evil! She's a menace!" Ifan claimed. "She's monstrosity!" Sigifrith agreed. "She's a heroine! Part of Silver Branch!" argued Xerxes. "Then why is she coming clean?" demanded Ifan. "That's what we all need to know." Sigifrith said smugly. Ifan looked at him thoughtfully, "Good, I think you're the guy for it."  He announced. Sigifrith looked up with shock, "Wha--Me?" He asked. "You want to look for her, good luck with that Xidorn. You find out more about Cassandra and give me a good scoop on her as well as Silver Branch! I want to see them as the fraud them all, Capisce?" said Ifan. Sigifrith sighed, him and his big mouth. "Yes sir." He said. "Good, get out of here!!!" barked Morris. 


Sigifrith thought about Cassandra, he viewed her as a despicable sorceress. "I met a lady in the meads, Full beautiful—a fairy’s child, Her hair was long, her foot was light, And her eyes were wild." Sigifrith recited some lines from the poem titled La Belle Dame sans Merci, "I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—‘La Belle Dame sans Merci hath thee in thrall!’" He thought about events he heard about Cassandra Endymion: The Wendigos looked scared so they try to leave but Cassandra held them against their will and then killed them one by one with her telekinetic powers. Cassandra losing control on the monsters. Cassandra and Ector were the only ones in there, Ector tried to attack her but Cassandra flexed her hand, telekinetically choking him by the throat. She threw him backwards and he landed there. Cassandra uses her powers to cause a fire. The others peeked inside, what they saw was hell. The whole place was scorched of fire. But the doors closed automatically. She wanted to kill him! Cassandra telekinetically seized him by the throat and pulls him toward her but she did it too far. Cassandra, Jack, and Trygve watched as Ector fell down to his death. Sigifrith knew something sinister about her was wretched and troubled, something so bewitching that disgusts him. "That hag....Crone....Harpy....She Devil....Battle Ax Killer." He thought, "I'll expose for what she is..."

In the meantime; Persephone was writing things in down in a diary and she talks to herself like a maniac: "When our relationship began, everything seemed so wonderful… and it seemed like nothing could go wrong. The relationship that began so well turned to crap, I should have seen it coming yet still can’t believe it happened. He has his own evils but these evils push the limits of those seen previously, or even worse than the devil himself. I keep turning back to the source of my pain, even when I know I'm getting hurt. He's fricking insane." Persephone ranted, she laughs bitterly. "Our tones are harsh because of the hurt and anger that’s developed during our conflict. We threw things at each other, and now there’s shattered glass from the fight. It doesn’t matter what we argue about, the guy will always win. But, I like the pain." Persephone begins to moan, "I want to leave for my own safety, but I want to stay because I love insanity and pain!!!!" She stopped and then continued, "He is just going to stand there and watch me while I break down. But I become psychologically dependent on the abuse..." She finished writing as she sighed, "Not too easy for me."