Uranometria: Memoir Implant--Chapter 5

This is the fifth chapter, I feel a bit of writer's block right now so I hope you guys don't mind--I'll be writing some new stuff. Please enjoy and thank you very much! --KatDon 

Chapter 5: Cooking Up Some Daydreams 

"You want me? Here I am! It's me you want, TAKE ME!!!" Ophelia shouted. Then, she continued to rant on and on of something familiar: "Here me! Want to know where I am at? I'm staying at my castle, alone and free, uncontrolled by anyone but me. I finally gotten over her fears and is starting over new, and staying where she is, never going back to the past. To those who can’t accept me, tell them what I choose and what I've achieved. I'm flying, tell them I did what they thought was impossible for me. By letting go of my fear, I believe that I can start a new life, free from worry and filled with happiness — like the bright and beautiful dawn starting a new day, which is what she compares letting go of fear to! You can take everything from me or say what you want about me, treat me like I’m weak and fragile, like glass that can be broken or paper that is easily torn. I will rise above the pain and fear! I will stand tall and powerful like a skyscraper. Try and make me weak and break my spirit, wiping off the bad and growing from it! You can't stop me now! You can't get in my way for I am a nobody...A freak...A loner...I am a nobody part of a great team! I. AM. SILVER BRANCH'S CYPHER!!!!!" Ophelia and Usodori were watching more episodes of Macabre Toretelli and the creepiness intensifies everything for it looked realistic: There was a site and the first strange thing about the site was that no onr didn't find it by actually looking for it. It was e-mailed to this guy by someone he didn't know. The e-mail was as follows: "Hi there, I found this site is very nice thought you might like it. Please pass the link on, for the good of mankind." One video that was uncovered was an eighteen-minute video, a blonde woman from one of the previous interview videos is tied down to a mattress in the interview room. She attempts to scream but her mouth is taped over. After seven minutes, a man in a black suit and mask opens the door, but he does not enter. He holds the door open for the animal that was running in the hall in the previous video. It's revealed to be an adult chimpanzee, its hair shaved and its entire body painted red. It seemed to be starved and abused, with several wounds along its shoulders and back. When the chimp enters the room, the masked man closes the door behind it. The chimpanzee sniffs the air for a moment and notices the woman tied to the mattress. It goes into a frenzy, and begins to maul her. The assault goes on for a grueling seven minutes, until the woman finally dies. The chimp eats flesh from her corpse for four minutes as the video ends. The tale follows the journey of a Canadian blogger as he tracks down the meaning of a mysterious TV channel that he watched years ago. He remembered it being extremely sketchy and, in hindsight, he realized that it was most likely run by a local predator. As he continued to investigate, he learned that the man running the channel was attempting to lure children into his house for sacrificial purposes. To top it all off, the blogger also realized that the crazed man was torturing and killing children while wearing a bear costume and calling himself “Mr. Bear.” There were only a couple of “shows” that aired on this mysterious channel, most likely because it was only operational from 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM. The first show was featured characters that were live-action hands on top of a table, which was obviously very low budget. 

The show starred a hand that would find itself in a different situation every episode. However, the episodes got progressively weirder. In fact, during an episode entitled “Playing with Scissors,” The main character appeared to be holding a pair of scissors while another, smaller hand was jerking violently in the background, as if it were being forcefully held in the air. The main character then proceeded to repeatedly stab the smaller hand with the scissors while a muffled child’s scream could be heard. The scissors eventually got to the bone and made a horrific crunching sound. That was the last time the blogger ever watched an episode of the creepy hand character. Next up on the psychotic schedule was The Cellar, which featured the mentally unstable man dressed up as a bear. What actually went on during the the bear episodes are too gory to describe here. Eventually, the police intervened and shut down the sadistic TV channel for good. A few years ago, a mother and father decided they needed a break, so they wanted to head out for a night on the town. They called their most trusted babysitter. When the babysitter arrived, the two children were already fast asleep in bed. So the babysitter just got to sit around and make sure everything was okay with the children. Later that night, the babysitter got bored and went to watch TV, but she couldn't watch it downstairs because they did not have cable downstairs as the parents didn't want children watching too much garbage. So, she called them and asked them if she could watch cable in the parent's room. Of course, the parents said it was OK, but the babysitter had one final request... she asked if she could cover up the angel statue outside the bedroom window with a blanket or cloth, because it made her nervous. The phone line was silent for a moment, and the father who was talking to the babysitter at the time said, "Take the children and get out of the house... we'll call the police. We don't own an angel statue." The police found both of the children and the babysitter slumped in pools of their own blood within three minutes of the call. No statue was found. Ophelia shivered a bit but she continued to watch with her friend as she saw more sequences of the episodes: The girl always loved her sister. Even though they were 5 years apart, she always had a incredible admiration for her. She remember she use to cry whenever her sister got hurt. One time, when the girl was 5 and she was 10, she jumped from the roof of our two story house. And her body plummeted right next to her. She started to cry when she saw her twisted neck. After a few minutes, her head turned back into place. As she lied in her own blood, She turned to me and smiled. "Don't cry, sis. I'm okay." said the older sister. She then got up and walked into the house, not bothered by her blood stained clothes. The girl stared at the spot where her sister once lied in. Her blood coated the grass. To this day, she never found out what her sister was. In the next part of the episode; A girl name Alona sat in the bottom of the old dark well waiting for her parents to return. It had been hours since she had seen them and her stomach had begun to toss and turn from hunger. 

She hoped that when they came back they would be able to get her out. Some shuffling and noises going on above ground caught her attention, "Alona," Her mom’s voice call out. "We’re back honey." Her parents peered over the lip of the well. Alona’s father winced as he looked down to his daughter. She saw that her mother had been crying. Her father mustered up enough strength to speak. "We brought you some dinner. We know you’re probably hungry." Her parents struggled with the body of a man before they tossed it down the well to their daughter. The water level in the well was very shallow and the snapping noise that the man’s legs made when he reached the bottom startled Alona a bit. She could see that he was still breathing and semi-conscious, but she was so hungry. She looked back up to say thank you and ask her parents if today was the day she could come out of the well, but they were already gone. Alona could hear her mother weeping as her parents walked back into the house. He hits her again, harder this time. Her head rocks back; her eyes roll wildly. A wet gagging sound slides out of her leaking red mouth. She spits two molars onto the carpet. "YOU!!!!!" He shouted. He is sobbing now, his shoulders heaving raggedly between punches. The living room walls echo the dull meat market sounds of fist against flesh. She looks him dead in the eye and spits out an incisor, another molar, a canine. "Where is he? Where is my son?" This time the blow knocks her sprawling to the floor. She spits out two more incisors and a half-digested index finger. And then this thing that looks like his wife just stares up at him and smiles with a mouthful of impossibly sharp teeth. After watching the marathon, it was getting late so the two girls decided to turn in and Ophelia can go home. But before she got her stuff together, she saw something in the living room. A bag and also a case. It looked familiar to Ophelia however she couldn't remember where she had seen it from. Then, she heard thumping noises. Curious, Ophelia crept in. She wished she didn't but she did. There was Usodori, and she was kissing someone. Ophelia could make out who this guy was, that hair...No, it couldn't be. "Ace?!" She thought. Ophelia was about to slip away when she tripped and fell into the room. Usodori looked up as her lipstick was smeared. Ophelia saw this and looked at Ace who had lipstick smeared over his mouth. Ophelia was speechless until she found her voice, "I didn't know you guys were..." She started to say but Usodori claimed as she jumped up, "Oh, it's nothing. We're just friends." The next morning, Ophelia woke up from a nightmare and could see someone there in her room. "Cousin?" Ophelia said. Her cousin, Sinead, was standing there in the doorway all dressed and ready as she sighed and laughed, "Oh Philia, I thought you'd never wake up." said Sinead. Ophelia hugged her cousin tightly as she begin to rant: "COUSIN!!!! OH MAN, I HAD A NIGHTMARE!!!!! I dreamt I was in a well and a man was dropped there and poor mom was crying! And then, I entered a cave and learned I was in hell....And I woke up and discovered something near at the end of my bed! Its eyes bulging out and looking at me! 'GO TO SLEEP, OPHELIA!'" Sinead looked at her and begin to laugh, she patted her head and said in a scolding tone: "How many episodes of Macabre Toretelli did you watch missy? You know that stuff can give people nightmares." Ophelia looked around a little nervous, "Um, one...No, two!" She claimed. Her mother looked at Ophelia with suspicion, "Wasn't there a marathon that Usodori mentioned?" She asked. Sinead was startled to hear this, "Marathon?" Busted; Ophelia grinned nervously, "OK, guilty as charged. I'm a fibber!" She admitted. 

Oinari and Konohana were searching for Tamamo Mae as they came across a young boy name Panji Ranka and his mother, Kirana. Meanwhile; Tamamo Mae is packing a suitcase into a car, applying a wig and leaving the premises. Following this, she was trashing a house, arriving at a motel, purchasing food from a supermarket, whilst in disguise and sitting in a diner. Tamamo Mae is wandering amongst the desert. She removes her wig and proceeds to wander alone in the desert. Later, Tamamo Mae is dancing in the streets, she looked around her of the glittering new nightlife, where it has this magic, fizzing white energy. And she could hear an Eurodance song that had a minimalist club sound to it. "I love this person with all my heart, and yet it’s turning me vengeful." She thought. How did this happened? Something is cooking, let's go back to the beginning, shall we? 

Earlier before......

Oinari and Konohana were searching for Tamamo Mae as they came across a young boy name Panji Ranka and his mother, Kirana. Panji was this 13 year old boy who admired Great Watch and Silver Branch as he insisted on going with these two, much to his mother dismay. Meanwhile; Tamamo Mae is packing a suitcase into a car, applying a wig and leaving the premises. Following this, she was trashing a house, arriving at a motel, purchasing food from a supermarket, whilst in disguise and sitting in a diner. Tamamo Mae is wandering amongst the desert. She removes her wig and proceeds to wander alone in the desert. Later, Tamamo Mae is dancing in the streets, she looked around her of the glittering new nightlife, where it has this magic, fizzing white energy. And she could hear an Eurodance song that had a minimalist club sound to it. "I love this person with all my heart, and yet it’s turning me vengeful." She thought to herself. Unknown to her, on the rooftop; Oinari, Konohana, and Panji observe her from above. At Silver Branch; Cassandra is called in for a mission as she is told to head out to Calliopolis but there was a catch to this. Cassandra was going to be paired with Kintaro, Tsuna, Sarutobi, Kirigakure, and three others: Suetake Urabe, Sadamitsu 'Mitsubishi' Tadamichi, and Rokujo Miyasundo. Now this intrigued Cassandra so she accepts but has to do 'homework' on the specifics of the mission. In the meantime; Ophelia and Usodori were watching more episodes of Macabre Toretelli and the creepiness intensifies everything for it looked realistic: There was a site and the first strange thing about the site was that no onr didn't find it by actually looking for it. It was e-mailed to this guy by someone he didn't know. The e-mail was as follows: "Hi there, I found this site is very nice thought you might like it. Please pass the link on, for the good of mankind." One video that was uncovered was an eighteen-minute video, a blonde woman from one of the previous interview videos is tied down to a mattress in the interview room. She attempts to scream but her mouth is taped over. After seven minutes, a man in a black suit and mask opens the door, but he does not enter. He holds the door open for the animal that was running in the hall in the previous video. It's revealed to be an adult chimpanzee, its hair shaved and its entire body painted red. It seemed to be starved and abused, with several wounds along its shoulders and back. When the chimp enters the room, the masked man closes the door behind it. The chimpanzee sniffs the air for a moment and notices the woman tied to the mattress. It goes into a frenzy, and begins to maul her. 
The assault goes on for a grueling seven minutes, until the woman finally dies. The chimp eats flesh from her corpse for four minutes as the video ends. The tale follows the journey of a Canadian blogger as he tracks down the meaning of a mysterious TV channel that he watched years ago. He remembered it being extremely sketchy and, in hindsight, he realized that it was most likely run by a local predator. As he continued to investigate, he learned that the man running the channel was attempting to lure children into his house for sacrificial purposes. To top it all off, the blogger also realized that the crazed man was torturing and killing children while wearing a bear costume and calling himself “The Beast.” There were only a couple of “shows” that aired on this mysterious channel, most likely because it was only operational from 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM. The first show was featured characters that were live-action hands on top of a table, which was obviously very low budget. The show starred a hand that would find itself in a different situation every episode. 

However, the episodes got progressively weirder. In fact, during an episode entitled “Playing with Scissors,” The main character appeared to be holding a pair of scissors while another, smaller hand was jerking violently in the background, as if it were being forcefully held in the air. The main character then proceeded to repeatedly stab the smaller hand with the scissors while a muffled child’s scream could be heard. The scissors eventually got to the bone and made a horrific crunching sound. That was the last time the blogger ever watched an episode of the creepy hand character. Next up on the psychotic schedule was The Cellar, which featured the mentally unstable man dressed up as a bear. What actually went on during the the bear episodes are too gory to describe here. Eventually, the police intervened and shut down the sadistic TV channel for good. A few years ago, a mother and father decided they needed a break, so they wanted to head out for a night on the town. They called their most trusted babysitter. When the babysitter arrived, the two children were already fast asleep in bed. So the babysitter just got to sit around and make sure everything was okay with the children. Later that night, the babysitter got bored and went to watch TV, but she couldn't watch it downstairs because they did not have cable downstairs. So, she called them and asked them if she could watch cable in the parent's room. Of course, the parents said it was OK, but the babysitter had one final request... she asked if she could cover up the angel statue outside the bedroom window with a blanket or cloth, because it made her nervous. The phone line was silent for a moment, and the father who was talking to the babysitter at the time said, "Take the children and get out of the house... we'll call the police. We don't own an angel statue." The police found both of the children and the babysitter slumped in pools of their own blood within three minutes of the call. No statue was found.

The next sequence showed an alleged video that was first mentioned somewhere on an image-board site. Watching it is said to be a soul-rending experience, far more horrible than anything one could imagine. The image on the right is said to contain screenshots of some of the scenes in the video.he few that have watched it are said to have been killed in their own homes, with only one thing in common, a strange doll, hidden somewhere in their homes...There is a message by the end of the video in the constructed international auxiliary language and says: "This child is still alive and lives in a local shelter whose name was not given. He never spoke, and still is catatonic." As a child; A boy lived in a rented two-floor house. Both his parents worked so he was often alone when he came home from school. One early evening when the boy came home the house was still dark. He called out, “Mom?” and heard a voice say “Yeeeeees?” from upstairs. He called his mom again, and again got the same “Yeeeeees?” reply. He felt she was calling back at him and climbed up the stairs. When he reached the first floor he called her once more and the voice “Yeeeeees?” came from the furthest room. The boy felt both uneasy, but also felt a strong urge to see his mother, and started to walk towards the room. But just as he was about to open the door into the room he heard the front door downstairs open and his mother come in, carrying a lot of shopping bags. “Sweetie, are you home?” The mother called in a cheery voice. Hearing her voice made the boy feel instantly better and he turned back to go downstairs at once… but not before he had a quick glance towards the room. While he watched from the top of the stairs, the door to the room slowly opened a crack. For a brief moment, he saw something strange in there. A pale face, staring at him. Then, it showed an eerie forecast: It is advised to boil some mint leaves. The winds will come from the east in the evening, carrying with them the stench. Drinking the mint infusion also alleviates the upset feeling of dread in the stomach. Tonight the moon will shine only for the dead, beware of the betraying glint in the corpses eyes. Remember to leave all doors open, so as to avoid them becoming blocked when the corpses turn into boulders and rubble as the sun rises. It is advised that people go to sleep early, so as to be rested and ready for the clean up early in the morning. Please be considerate and stay quiet and calm throughout the night to allow the community a good night's sleep. Rarely, if ever, has a corpse laid beside someone in their bed. This fear is mostly unfounded. It is strongly advised that no one should sleep on the floor, so as to avoid the risk of being stoned by the falling rubble in case a corpse gets inside. Tomorrow morning we will begin clearing up the main road on the way to the church, where the bigger boulders usually group. Then each may tend to their homes and shops until midday. After the lunch break, we will need full cooperation to carry the stones to the range outside the perimeter. These stones shall not be used for construction or any other purpose.

A beautiful young girl is left home alone with only her dog to protect her. On the news that night, they announced there is a serial killer on the loose in the area. Before she goes to bed, she locks all the doors and tries to lock all the windows, but the one in the basement won’t lock. She decides to leave it unlocked, but locks the basement door and goes to bed. Her dog takes its customary place under her bed. In the deep of night she awakens to a dripping sound coming from her bathroom. Half-awake, the girl feels the comforting lick from her dog and falls back to sleep. She reawakens to the dripping sound, reaches her hand down to the dog where she feels the reassuring lick and falls back to sleep. Once more, she awakens to the dripping sound. She reaches her hand down and feels the lick of her dog. Now curious about the dripping sound, she gets up and slowly walks towards the bathroom, the dripping sound getting louder as she approaches. She reaches the bathroom and turns on the light. She is greeted by a horrific sight; hanging from the shower nozzle is her dog with its throat slit open and its blood dripping into the bathtub. Something on the bathroom mirror catches her eye; she turns around. Written on the wall in her dog’s blood are the words “Humans can lick too.” One part in this episode scared Ophelia: There was no pearly gate. The only reason this man knew he was in a cave was because he had just passed the entrance. The rock wall rose behind him with no ceiling in sight. The man knew this was it, this was what religion talked about, what man feared. He had just entered the gate to hell. He felt the presence of the cave as if it was a living, breathing creature. The stench of rotten flesh overwhelmed him. Then there was the voice, it came from inside and all around: "Welcome." "Who are you?", The man asked, trying to keep his composure. "You know", the thing answered. The man did know. "You are the devil", He stuttered, quickly losing his composure. "Why me? I've lived as good as I could". The silence took over the space as his words died out. It seemed like an hour went by before the response came. "What did you expect?" The voice was penetrating but patient. "I don't know .. I never believed any of this", He uttered "Is that why I am here?" Silence. He continued: "They say the greatest trick you ever pulled was convincing the world you don't exist." He said. "No, the greatest trick I ever pulled was convincing the world that there is an alternative." said the thing. "There is no God?" The man asked as he shivered. The cave trembled with the words: "I am God!" Ophelia shivered a bit but she continued to watch with her friend as she saw more sequences of the episodes: The girl always loved her sister. Even though they were 5 years apart, she always had a incredible admiration for her. She remember she use to cry whenever her sister got hurt. One time, when the girl was 5 and she was 10, she jumped from the roof of our two story house. And her body plummeted right next to her. She started to cry when she saw her twisted neck. After a few minutes, her head turned back into place. As she lied in her own blood, She turned to me and smiled. "Don't cry, sis. I'm okay." said the oldr sister. She then got up and walked into the house, not bothered by her blood stained clothes. The girl stared at the spot where her sister once lied in. Her blood coated the grass. To this day, she never found out what her sister was. 

In the next part of the episode; Alona sat in the bottom of the old dark well waiting for her parents to return. It had been hours since she had seen them and her stomach had begun to toss and turn from hunger. She hoped that when they came back they would be able to get her out. Some shuffling and noises going on above ground caught her attention, "Alona," Her mom’s voice call out. "We’re back honey." Her parents peered over the lip of the well. Alona’s father winced as he looked down to his daughter. She saw that her mother had been crying. Her father mustered up enough strength to speak. "We brought you some dinner. We know you’re probably hungry." Her parents struggled with the body of a man before they tossed it down the well to their daughter. The water level in the well was very shallow and the snapping noise that the man’s legs made when he reached the bottom startled Alona a bit. She could see that he was still breathing and semi-conscious, but she was so hungry. She looked back up to say thank you and ask her parents if today was the day she could come out of the well, but they were already gone. Alona could hear her mother weeping as her parents walked back into the house. In the next sequence; Little Lolly laid awake in bed shaking with anticipation. She had lost her first tooth earlier that day and was expecting a visit from the Tooth Fairy. It was late and Lolly was just starting to nod off when she heard some rustling coming from the closet in her room. Out of the darkness stepped a creature that made her sleepy eyes widen with fear. It looked like a woman in a tattered white nightgown. Its skin was soot-black. On its back were two bat-like veiny wings that stretched from one side of the wall to the other in Lolly's room. It had stringy white hair and its solid yellow eyes glowed in the moonlight as it smiled a jagged tooth grin at the little girl. "Don't be alarmed," it said while creeping closer, "I'm Ratón Pérez. I'm here to collect your teeth. All of them." Lolly tried to tell the creature that she had only lost one tooth that day, but before she could, it reached its bony, grimy, hand into her mouth and began to yank away, all the while laughing out loud to itself. He hits her again, harder this time. Her head rocks back; her eyes roll wildly. A wet gagging sound slides out of her leaking red mouth. She spits two molars onto the carpet. "YOU!!!!!" He shouted. He is sobbing now, his shoulders heaving raggedly between punches. The living room walls echo the dull meat market sounds of fist against flesh. She looks him dead in the eye and spits out an incisor, another molar, a canine. "Where is he? Where is my son?" This time the blow knocks her sprawling to the floor. She spits out two more incisors and a half-digested index finger. And then this thing that looks like his wife just stares up at him and smiles with a mouthful of impossibly sharp teeth.

After watching the marathon, it was getting late so the two girls decided to turn in and Ophelia can go home. But before she got her stuff together, she saw something in the living room. A bag and also a case. It looked familiar to Ophelia however she couldn't remember where she had seen it from. Then, she heard thumping noises. Curious, Ophelia crept in. She wished she didn't but she did. There was Usodori, and she was kissing someone. Ophelia could make out who this guy was, that hair...No, it couldn't be. "Ace?!" She thought. Ophelia was about to slip away when she tripped and fell into the room. Usodori looked up as her lipstick was smeared.  Ophelia saw this and looked at Ace who had lipstick smeared over his mouth. "Hi." Usodori said softly and sheepishly. Ophelia was speechless until she found her voice, "I didn't know you guys were..." She started to say but Usodori claimed as she jumped up, "Oh, it's nothing. We're just friends." Ace smirked and said, "Friends with benefits." Ophelia felt pretty awkward and went home. She couldn't stop thinking about what she saw and that night, she had a nightmare that scared her too pieces of what she saw on Macabre Toretelli and what she saw yesterday. She woke up with a start and looked around only to see someone is here. "Cousin?" Ophelia said. Her cousin, Sinead, was standing there in the doorway all dressed and ready as she sighed and laughed, "Oh Philia, I thought you'd never wake up." said Sinead. Ophelia hugged her cousin tightly as she begin to rant: "COUSIN!!!! OH MAN, I HAD A NIGHTMARE!!!!! I dreamt I was in a well and a man was dropped there and poor mom was crying! And then, I entered a cave and learned I was in hell....And I woke up and discovered something near at the end of my bed! Its eyes bulging out and looking at me! 'GO TO SLEEP, OPHELIA!'" Sinead looked at her with surprise and begin to laugh, she patted her head and said in a scolding tone: "How many episodes of Macabre Toretelli did you watch missy? You know that stuff can give people nightmares." Ophelia looked around a little nervous, "Um, one...No, two!" She claimed. Her mother looked at Ophelia with suspicion, "Wasn't there a marathon that Usodori mentioned?" She asked. Sinead was startled to hear this, "Marathon?" She asked. Busted; Ophelia grinned nervously, "OK, guilty as charged. I'm a fibber!" She admitted. Ophelia and Cousin Sinead laughed as Ophelia got ready and went out to lunch with her. Back with Cassandra; she remembered her phone call with Kintaro once: That night; Kintaro was working late, when he picked up the phone and dialed a number. "Hey, Cassandra Endymion? This is Kintaro Sakata." He said. Silence, then he said with a grin: "Good, I'm doing well. Uh, listen...Can you tell me about these world crossing mission?" Cassandra couldn't believe it, "Hmm....I don't know, I mean I'm not saying you can't but let's just say I'm not the teacher type." Cassandra admitted. "Can you give me tips? Advice maybe?" Kintaro asked. Cassandra knew he sounded serious, so she responds back: "World crossing is natural as eating, sleeping and breathing my friend. You just need to make yourself blend in before your true colors burst out and you give these people what you believe in." In reality, Cassandra researched on this new world and saw a perspective of other people: 

In a land called Callipolis; four young men lived in different lives of Callipolis. "Hey, I'm home!" called Arsene. Then a loud voice blurted out, "HELLO ARSENE!!!" And then Arsene earned a drop-kick. "Yikes! The hell?!" demanded Arsene. It was his father who had caused this, "You're late, son! Dinner's at six, have you forgotten about that?" He scolded. "Shut up! I had a hard day!" Arsene bantered, the fight continued. The two girls, who was the sisters of Arsene, watched at it all. "Oh, c'mon! Not again!" protested Evelyn. The other seemed laidback and calm about this situation. "Leave them, think of it as a father-son moment." Skatha said. "They always do this ridiculous head-butting." Evelyn claimed. "Recountered what happened last time?" Skatha reminded. In the meantime; in a house on his own. The phone rang: "I got it, I got it! Yeeessss! Whoa!" Esclabor ranted. He picked up the phone, "Hel-lo?" He said. A young girl's voice answered, "Big Brother? That you?" Esclabor was happy to hear this voice, "Lunette, 'sup sis?" He exclaimed. "You coming to my recital right? I've been practicing on my flute." Lunette replied. "Of course, my baby sister is a musician and it's gonna be sw-eet!" said Esclabor, sounding all mushy. The voice was not his sister, "That's what you said once." Esclabor made a face. "Ma, you should've said something! Man o' man!" He complained. "Listen, Esi. I hope you're not working on that day." said his mother. "I doubt it." answered Esclabor. "Lunette never gets to see you, and neither do I." His mother said. "I know." Esclabor said with a sigh. "I'm serious, I--We miss you very much." said his mother.  "I know, I'll see you. I've trained a lot so maybe I'll take a break soon." Esclabor vowed to his mother. At a city of downtown, there was bustle and walking among the light of day. "Meat! Fresh meat! Get ya meat!" A meat vendor called out. Just then, out of the corner of his eye; he saw a hand near his stand and he cried out, "What? You?!" He pointed to a young teen boy. The boy looked at him, before he fled from sight. "HEY, GET BACK HERE!" The boy, name Brunor, kept running and running as he will never turn back until he got to the alley. Where his older brother name Danilo is waiting. "Did you get it?" asked the older brother, his name was Danilo. His younger brother, Brunor, pulled out a piece of meat: "Got it, bro." He confirmed. An excited grin came on Danilo's face, "Yes! And now, we feast!" He said. The two brothers begin to gnaw and tear at the meat. It's been three days since they didn't eat and they were living on the streets since they were little. As they were eating; Brunor became thoughtfully so he expresses his thoughts with his brother. "Danilo, don't you want to escape these rags? Maybe find something better to do around here brother?" He asked. Danilo shrugged, "I don't know, Brunor. Maybe." He said with a shrug as he chowed down his meat. Brunor had a dreamy look on his face, "Just...A better life, away from the streets. To have better food than stealing...To--" He said. Danilo gave his brother a look, "Bru, eat your meat." He instructed. Brunor did what he was told. 

Somebody stopped Kintaro in his tracks. "Hold it right there! That sword, are you the wielder of Kusanagi?" A voice said. Kintaro is shocked by that voice, Sarutobi Sasuke--In the flesh was here. Sarutobi wore a different uniform, with a collar so high like a turtle neck almost. And black as night of the color uniform. His hair was darker and his eyes were purple. But he carried a sword, Kintaro's eyes widened in amazement. "Wait, is that....? I've seen that blade before..." He thought. "Answer me! Are you Kusanagi's new wielder?" demanded Sarutobi. Kintaro focused, looking at him. "I am." He confirmed. Sarutobi nodded, "Good, I heard about you...Kintaro Sakata." He said. It looked like he wasn't alone, Kirigakure was with him. "I have as well...Sarutobi Sasuke. And your partner, Kirigakure Saizo." Kintaro said. But looked at Sarutobi's sword again, "Do tell, is this what I think it is?" Kintaro asked. "Yes, behold the sacred sword...The legendary Honjo Masamune!" exclaimed Sarutobi. The two of them clash swords with one another, they fought each other for almost awhile now and Sarutobi broke away as well as Kintaro. "Not bad, I never seen a man hold a sword and fight swell other than the rest of Tiger Braves and myself." Sarutobi praised kindly. "Thanks, I was part of the military once." Kintaro said. "Well, I can see you've experienced battles and terror, haven't you? How fascinating." Sarutobi remarked. The battle continued until Kintaro's sword fell out of his hand and landed behind him. Sarutobi pointed his sword at Kintaro, "It's over." He said. Kintaro saw an opening and grinned, "It's not over yet!" He declared and slide kick Sarutobi, distracting him while he gets his sword. Kirigakure acted quickly, unsheathing his sword which is Otenta, and try to stab Kintaro, but he dodged it and grabbed his sword. He charged at the two of them as he wasn't going to give up but Kirigakure used his sword to lower Kintaro's while Sarutobi decides to finish this fight. "I am sorry about this, Kintaro. But you were a brave fighter." Sarutobi said. He took up his sword and Kintaro panicked inside. "I'm not going to die, I can't...Shippeitaro, have mercy!" thought Kintaro, "I want to live!" He felt some sort of madness come onto him and then he falls into the black. 

Then, Kintaro stopped Sarutobi's sword from striking, then a voice from his lips spoke. But this voice is high, effeminate and growling. Echoing with basso as well as falsetto: "I thought I told you, Kintaro, it's going to become hell for me if you die." said the voice. Sarutobi is shocked by this, "Impossible, who are you?" He asked. The falsetto-basso voice laughed, "You want to know who I am?" It asked. It laughed again and replied in an effeminate and growling demonic voice: "I am...NIGHT PARADE, thee to be hundred demons inside this man!" The possessed Kintaro attacked Tiger Braves as he laughed like a maniac, "Kintaro, what a complete fool you are--You didn't know? This is the serum of Febris, the fever of rage, stress, and insanity. You really are an idiot!" exclaimed Posessed Kintaro, "Allow me to demonstrate the power of FEBRIS!!!!! The Possessed Kintaro attacked both Sarutobi and Kirigakure, they were trying to battle as well but the demon deep within Kintaro fought off against them while laughing like a psychotic monster. Exhausted; Sarutobi panted out of breath and looked at Kintaro. "This power...That face, are you a demon?" demanded Sarutobi. The possessed Kintaro laughs, "Why do you care? I don't have to tell you shit because once were done with you, you're all gonna...." He said but stopped when Kintaro cried out, "..DIE!" Then, Kintaro wrapped his hands around his own throat as the fiend within him struggled, "LET GO OF ME, KINTARO!!!" cried the monster. Kintaro spoke to it firmly, "I DON'T NEED YOU, STOP GETTING IN MY WAY!" "YOU'RE THE ONE WHO'S IN THE WAY, DON'T YOU GET IT? I JUST WANT TO KILL HIM, YOU WILL LISTEN TO ME AND DO AS I SAY!" The demons cried out, both falsetto and basso in synched. But Kintaro was a lot stronger. "YOU BASTARD!!!!" The creature shouted.

Cassandra shut off the Moneta and was startled to see what she saw. "So, that's the demon Night Parade...The rumors were true after all." She thought to herself. In the meantime, Ophelia was confronting her enemies as she cried out the same thing Tamamo Mae cried out before, "You want me? Here I am! It's me you want, TAKE ME!!!" Ophelia shouted. Then, she continued to rant on and on of something familiar: "Here me! Want to know where I am at? I'm staying at my castle, alone and free, uncontrolled by anyone but me. I finally gotten over her fears and is starting over new, and staying where she is, never going back to the past. To those who can’t accept me, tell them what I choose and what I've achieved. I'm flying, tell them I did what they thought was impossible for me. By letting go of my fear, I believe that I can start a new life, free from worry and filled with happiness — like the bright and beautiful dawn starting a new day, which is what she compares letting go of fear to! You can take everything from me or say what you want about me, treat me like I’m weak and fragile, like glass that can be broken or paper that is easily torn. I will rise above the pain and fear! I will stand tall and powerful like a skyscraper. Try and make me weak and break my spirit, wiping off the bad and growing from it! You can't stop me now! You can't get in my way for I am a nobody...A freak...A loner...I am a nobody part of a great team! I. AM. SILVER BRANCH'S CYPHER!!!!!" But she snapped out of it as she realized that it was all a daydream. Ophelia looked at her writing and smiled to herself, "Things are really looking up." thought Ophelia. She remembered what a Russian woman once reminded her: "If you can dream it, you can make it real." And that's what Ophelia is excited for. And her dreams are finally coming true.