Uranometria--Volume 1

Hello everyone, this is Katherine Donovan! I wrote this one called Uranometria but decided to change the title to 'Uranometria: Febris Morrigans', then to 'Shatter Me: The Breakthrough of the Caged Birds' however its official title is Uranometria. This whole story is about 'breaking free' from the troubled life and into something better. So buckle up my friends, another story awaits you. --KatDon 

Prologue: Shatter Me

All my life I twirled in the night sky, I see the same diamonds in the sky. I feel like a dancer in the music box, who is tired and dance & dance until the song disappeared. I need someone someone to shine a light on me. I feel frozen in icy fear, someone....please....make me feel alive again. Break me out, I feel dizzy in the norm of this trauma. So that's why I need someone to talk to and not feel alone. Spiral into the unknown, I am not sure what I should do. If I break this glass, will I fly? Will someone catch me if I fall? I'm scared of breaking free but I'm tired of the same things that spin only in the downpour. Someone come find me, someone make me feel alive again and shatter me. 

Chapter 1: Trauma Conga Line

A damn cold night where the innocent lives dwell in the different parts of these worlds they live in. One part has patrols, the other has a person with friends enjoying the night. But just then, monsters who are fast spider crawling and biting monsters attacked the others. These people get kidnapped by the creatures, as their friends are horrified and are helpless. However, someone was watching all this happen as this person pulled out her walkie talkie and spoke into it: "S.T.I. I repeat, S.T.I.--Save the Innocence." Then, the spider crawling biters are suddenly attacked by warriors. Warriors who will fight to protect others, warriors who will inspire others to fight back, and warriors who have experienced pain before. But, exactly where did they come from exactly? Before any of this happened, before all their heroic efforts, want to know how it all begin? Let's go back to the beginning, back before the mirror broke into fragments....

Earlier before...Onogoro Island, 11:55 p.m. 

It was May 30th, Venusir Academy's end of the year prom raged of music and dancing. These people are there to celebrate the senior high school students' last day before they graduate. There were high school graduates: 20 year old Cassandra Endymion, who was having a blast with friends: Reuben, Judy, Danielle, Asher, Benjamin, Josephine, and Ephraim. This will be their last day with one another so they decide to make the most of the night with one another. But not everyone was having fun: There was a loner name Eulalie Merlin, a 19 year old young lady who has been 'invisible' as no one has seem to see her. They don't notice her and she is not the only one; Athletic gifted student 18 year old Norna Thomas was an amazing with her gifted skills but no one has ever seem to notice her. They never did. 17 year old Ariadne Sirius didn't had a lot of friends, she was all alone and she hated it. Ariadne always wanted to be a musician. But nobody recognized her pretty singing voice. Without much encouragement or any reconciliation; Ariadne never had any dreams of being a talented artist. So some of them couldn't wait to get out of high school, to get as far away from here. There were some that were noticed in the wrong ways. 

For example, 19 year old Deirdre Ganymede was one of the most beautiful girls she had ever met. She was gorgeous, very gorgeous so much that boys love her with a passionate obsession. Girls were jealous of her and they often told lies about her. Deirdre was sick of her own beauty, she hated it so much that she never had a lot of friends lately. In the meantime; there was also 18 year old Turan Cypris, who was considered an 'untouched prude' as she was always vestal that boys wondered if she was pure or floozy. Last but not least is 17 year old Juanita 'Juana' Pita who wanted to be a famous vocalist however she was stage fright and in her life, she was humiliated after she threw up while being nervous onstage in middle school. She was teased a lot. Juana wanted to be a star however there was no way to do that since she was scared of embarrassing herself however her mother wishes to encourage her even further. What these girls have in common is that they had hard times in their lives earlier: Cassandra witnessed her mother, Annis, in a domestic violent marriage with Cassandra's father Boreas, who had also hurt her when Cassandra was a child. For Eulalie, she dreams of being a violinist and a ballerina however she was in an abusive relationship with her boyfriend name Gene, who had abused her physically, verbally and emotionally. So, Eulalie plans her escape by faking her death; leaving behind the life she had. Now she can live her life without the man that had abused her in the past. 

Deirdre once lived in a family that was very attractive, however their house got burnt to the ground. In the panicked confusion, Deirdre escaped however there was no sign of her family anywhere. Turan was once abandoned when she was a baby and had been in many foster homes, she lived with a family that was dysfunctional and neglected her. Norna on the other hand was kidnapped and experimented into some sort of being that was going to be the ultimate weapon. Ariadne lost her family by a psychotic killer, she had tried to hide and was almost found until the police arrived. And Juana's father was killed under circumstances in some sort of robbery. But this prom night was going to take a darker turn, a man in a tuxedo came up to the microphone and said, "All right! It's time to announce the winners of this year's Prom King and Queen." He had a small envelope in his hand and rips it up. "And the winners are....REUBEN MATTHEWS AND JUDY DAVIS!" Everyone broke into an applause, Reuben and Judy went to the stage to accept their crowns as Judy is given a bouquet of roses. Just then, unexpected visitors crashed the party with loaded guns and started a massacre. They shot at other people who fell to the floor. Panic filled everyone else, they try to flee but some were shot in the process. Cassandra watched in horror as her friends were being shot at. She noticed that Reuben was panting of the wound bleeding from there as he cries out, "Ohhh, the pain." Judy noticed Cassandra there and calls out, "Get away from here Cass!" "Save yourself Cass!" Asher called out, "Get away from here!" However they were all shot at as Cassandra screamed with terror. 

Turan was attacked and tortured by five men while Deirdre and Norna, who were hidden, watched in terror as they weep softly. Ariadne and Juana for the time being were hiding from one of the killers trying to find survivors to look for them and then killed them. Ariadne and Juana prayed quietly to not be found by this man--Whoever he was. Just then, there were police sirens in the air and the men heard them as they escaped from the prom. So many were dead and only Cass and the others survived. These men that started this massacre were Ector Absalom, Jobe Sethlans, Zachariah Red and Perseus Aion. Even their accomplices, the five men that tortured Turan, was Orcus, Haman, Shalom, Cadmus, and Nadab. Since the incident; Cassandra, Eulalie, Deirdre, Turan, Norna, Ariadne, and Juana begin to have troubling dreams. They dreamt of the prom, how they were attacked as it replayed over and over again but in their dreams; they thought they were actually killed. But then, the girls woke up, feeling rather different today. Cassandra was getting prepared for a job interview, she had a resume prepared with her. She took a shower motionless, she slowly clean her hair and body. Then, she got dressed and put on lip gloss. As she went to the interview; it doesn't go smoothly. The sounds of a loud boom set off Cassandra as she screamed while remembering the tragic incident. The employer then said after Cassandra calmed down, "I cannot hire someone who cannot get her act together. Go get some therapy and come back as a sane lady!" Cassandra was humiliated of this, she walked out with tears in her eyes and drove away. As she got back home; Cassandra takes a bubble bath. As her feet were at the foot of the tub, she rested her eyelids and slid underwater. 

This where she can daydream in this state. She had done it many times. This time, it was different. Today, she was swimming in the Caribbean sea and saw the animals hiding behind the rocks. She went under the sea as she sees fishes swim as they move their lips, 'Swim' and 'Talk to me.' With her feet in the air and her head on the ground; She begin to spin around however her head inside has collapsed and there's nothing. She begins to wonder, "Way in this water, I swim....Where my mind is? Where is it? Where is my mind? Where is my....Mind?" The word 'mind' begins to echo over and over again. Cassandra opened her eyes and emerged from the water of the bath, gasping for breath. Then, Cassandra could not look at her mother when she got out of the bath and hurried to her room. All of the girls begin to wonder about their purpose in life: "Don't they see? They believe they see me for who I am but they don't know the real me..." said Ariadne to herself. "...I wear a mask to fool everyone but in my heart, I can't fool myself..." replied Eulalie to herself as well. "...I'll never be a 'normal' girl again, or be in touch here. I can't hurt mother or me...." Cassandra said to herself too. "...Who am I? I just wish someone could tell me why was I bestowed here....?" Norna wondered to herself. "...I want to know what have I become...?" Deirdre demanded to herself. "...Who will tell me why am I here?" Juana said to herself. "...Who am I? What am I?" wondered Turan to herself. But these girls will expect more paragon happenstances coming for them.....There had been strange activity going on like cyclones, wormholes, and people disappearing into them. Nobody knew what was causing this. They were affecting Camelot, Avalon, Lyonesse, Sarras, Tintabel, and Caerleon but the source was coming from a mysterious island from above--A floating island known as Carlisle, Father Sky. 

In the meantime; Eulalie had to deal with her defensive boss, who was doing things that made her uncomfortable like putting other co workers down but favorite others and treated them as if they were royalty. Deirdre was being stalked at while one night at a bar and Deirdre was intoxicated. She flirted with a man, playing a game of cat and mouse before she kills him in a secluded area. When Deirdre was clear-minded, she was shocked to see what she had done and escaped before anyone found her. Deirdre had to know what was happening to her. On the other hand, Turan woke up with a rash on her back but she had no time to waste for her friend Norna, who had called the police earlier before at prom after she suffered witnessing helplessly as Turan was being tortured and left for dead. Turan and Norna are introduced to other girls--Dinah, Snowdrop, Violet, Rose, and Kitty where they are girls who had been stalked, attacked, and abused before in their first dates. They decide to train them however during the training, Turan's rash came to life as she developed blood-like symbiotic powers with flesh engorged masses across her body. Meanwhile; Ariadne goes to meet her record producer name Hot Shot but while Ariadne was singing her song that she wrote. Hot Shot laughed at her and called her a 'Sarah Face with no place' for talent. He shows Ariadne an example of talent of music videos of sexy women dancing! Ariadne is flabbergasted and seems upset at the face that he just dissed her on her music masterpiece. Leaving the studio in such a fit, Ariadne was driving back to her flat as she curses: "Stupid producer, 'Sarah Face with no place' huh...He can't appreciate real musicians when the only thing he looks at his the dancing and those with no talent."

But then in her fury, she discovers she has ice and water powers after she stopped the rain with her flaring hands and then turned the raindrops into ice. Ariadne got back into her car, muttering to herself: "Too weird." One day, Cassandra was going to another job interview and entered an elevator but on the elevator buttons, there was a rabbit on there. Curious, Cassandra pressed it as she then suddenly felt the elevator going faster and twisting around and around. "Am I going to crash?" She wondered, "No, it can't end like this! It can't!" Cassandra screamed in utter terror. Eulalie was so stressed at her job that she quit in a fit of rage however while walking back to her place; she wandered to a forest and she saw a glowing well. She peered in the well but then she lost her balance and fell into the well. Deirdre was trying to take a nap but she couldn't however she felt something come in, she sat up and saw a magic carpet in the room. Turan and Norna were walking down the stairs to find a meadow however the girls got lost and stumbled across an abandoned dungeon, they got locked in. They were trying to find a way out however it was impossible. Turan discovers a trap door and it opened up, revealing a secret staircase. The two of them went down the stairs. However Norna lost her footing and fell with Turan down into the abyss. For the time being, Ariadne was suffering from writer's block and she cannot seem to come up with any other music pieces lately. She decided to get some air when all of a sound of someone crying made her ears perked. Ariadne went downstairs as she hurried out to see who was weeping. She found a girl with untidy magenta hair, wearing a blue dress that reached her knees, black ballet shoes, and white leggings. 

There she sat on a rock, her face buried as she hugged her knees. Ariadne reached over and touched the girl, asking: "Are you OK?" The girl looked up startled, glaring when she saw Ariadne. "What do you want?" demanded the girl. "I heard you crying, and I came to see if you were OK." explained Ariadne. The girl sniffed, "I'm OK. I'm just stress, that's all. Why do you care?" She snapped. "Don't be that way, are you sure you're all right?" said Ariadne. "Yeah, I--I am." said the girl, sobbing a little. "What's your name? Can you at least tell me that?" Ariadne inquired gently. "Melisande Zebedee." replied the girl. Melisande turned around and looked scared, "No..It's them." She whispered. "What?" asked Ariadne. "NOOOO, NOT ME!!! NOT ME!!!" cried Melisande. Then she ran away quickly, Ariadne ran after her! Melisande found a tree, she pulled out a chalk and made a circle over it. The circle became a portal and she hurried in. Ariadne follows her by jumping into the magic chalk portal. Juana was taking a walk when she saw a whitish blue deer who runs away after Juana saw her and Juana went after it. The deer sprinted faster, Juana followed it, no matter how tired she was, she didn't stop until she found that deer. The deer went into a tunnel and Juana followed it, disappearing into a vortex. Later on, Cassandra woke up, lying the grassy fields and gets up from the ground. She begins to look around however she looks around but almost lost her footing. She looked down, horrified that this mass of earth is floating in the sky! "Am I in Heaven?" wondered Cassandra, she begins to walk around. 

"Well if this Heaven, then why don't I feel dead?" thought Cassandra. She looked around to see perfect blue skies, white puffy clouds, tall buildings, and trees. She was curious so much that she didn't watch where she was going, Cassandra slammed into someone! "Oh hey--" She started to say but she saw that it was a thick, burgundy haired boy who has light skin and leaned muscular figure built. He wore a crimson glory colored T shirt, sweat pants, and sneakers. "Hi." Cassandra said, surprised. "I'm sorry, I didn't know where I was going, I apologize!" Although the guy looked cool-headed, he smiled kindly. "It's fine." He answered. Cassandra is touched by his smile, he sure was nice. Cute too. But she begins to hear his thoughts in her mind. "Are you OK?" asked the guy. "Uh, yeah." said Cassandra quickly. "What's your name?" asked the young man. "My name is Cassandra." answered Cassandra. "I'm Samson, Samson Diaz." said the young man. Cassandra nodded, "Yes...Do tell, Samson. Are you what they call a swordsman?" She asked. Samson looked at her with surprise, "How--How did you know?" He asked. Cassandra looked over at him and said with a smile, "I don't know. I guess my mind can read your mind." She replied. Samson looked at her with dazed amazement, "OK. Let's find out where we are." He finally said. Cassandra seemed intrigued, "'We'? As in us? Together?" She asked. "I like to get to know you, Samson. I really do." Samson smiled back and they both journeyed into the unknown. Meanwhile; A young man who is between ages 16-17 with brown hair and his eyes are piercing, striking, pure, untainted hue of a color. His name is Justice Dix. Next to him is Echo Decataur is between ages 15 and 16. He has headphones around his neck, his hair is in cornrows, and wearing a dark liver colored jumpsuit. Kamaitachi Jitsu is a boy between the ages of 14 and 15. He has silver-gray hair, with matching eyes, and wore clothes that were shadow gray. And the youngest, Borvo Teene is a 12 year old boy with baby blue eyes and bright blue wavy short hair. He looks like someone going to break down in tears, he was so cute. 

These boys are special; Justice has vision that's more enhanced than the average 20/20 vision. Echo has enhanced hearing. Kamaitachi can control the air and has a supersonic scream. Even Young Borvo has the power over water and has healing tears. "Yo Justice, where are we?" asked Echo. "How should I know, Ech?" snapped Justice. Kamaitachi sighed deeply, "Guys, c'mon. Don't start." He said. "Yeah, Kamaitachi's right. No fighting, please." said Borvo. Kamaitachi looks annoyed, "Geez, dude. Why you have to go and agree with every fricking thing I say?" He growled. Justice glared at him, "Kam, don't start." He warned. Kamaitachi remembered, "Sorry, Borvo." Borvo beamed and replied, "It's OK, Kamaitachi." Echo stopped for a moment, "Shh, did you hear something?" He said. Justice turned to him, "What? You hear something?" He asked. Echo nodded, "Yeah, something's coming..." He said. There was the green haired, earth bending guy is Zaden Ashara, the hot headed rubber-arm guy is Proteus Zehn, the one with the stoic frames is Lleu Deich, the flying dude is Hanuman Sampo and the big guy is Christopher Yuhl. "Die, you bastards!" Proteus cried, using his elasticity powers against Justice and his friends. "What the--?" Kamaitachi said. "Look out!" Justice and the others dodged it, however a fight breaks out until finally, a voice cries out: "Hold it!" They all stopped when they saw Cassandra and Samson. "What are you guys doing?" Cassandra asked. Justice looked at them, "Who are you guys?" He asked. "I'm Cassandra Endymion and this is my acquaintance, Samson Diaz." introduced Cassandra, gesturing towards Samson next to him. Proteus sneered at the two, "What a couple misfits doing here?" He remarked. 

Justice, Kamaitachi, and Echo turned to him as well as Christopher, Lleu, Hanuman and Zaden glared at Proteus: "MISFITS?!" The fight breaks out, Borvo stepped out of the way. He went towards Samson, who keeps him by himself like a fatherly type. Cassandra stared at everyone fighting and rolled her eyes up to the ceiling, then she flexed out her hand and yelled, "SHUT UP!!!" The others were lifted from the ground, Cassandra couldn't believe that she was the only doing this. Then she drops them down safely, she sighed and smiled. "Now, tell me....who's a misfit?" asked Cassandra with a witty look on her face. The others stared up in amazement, "Ohhhh...." They chorused. One minute later; Samson, Justice, Echo, Proteus, Kamaitachi, Christopher, Lleu, Hanuman and Zaden were standing up like soldiers. Cassandra paced left and right from them. "Listen up!" She said to them. "We come from different places of our homes, and brought here for an unknown reason. So, If we're going to find some answers, we need to ventured to the unknown and find this person responsible for this; we must put our colors--our personalities aside--and become one....Any questions?" Borvo raised his hand, "Ma'm, I have one." He said. Cassandra turned to him, "Yes Borvo?" She asked. Borvo then talked normally, "Um...Exactly where do we start?" Cassandra nodded, thinking about that. "Ah, that's a very good question my friend." She turned to the horizon of the city, pointing over to a building. "You see that building over there? This building stands out than the rest of them, it has stained glass windows. I'm curious to know what's in there." 

Cassandra wasn't the only one, the other girls found friendships and heading to that strage building too; Eulalie and her new friends are awesome too because they saved her life, these people were: Heyoka Leo, Hermes Antares, Joan Ladon, Isis Lynx, Minos Apis, Coyote Thoth, Lifa Heidrun, Aurora Jade, Themis Pegasus, and Nestor Chapa. Deirdre met some girls that started off in fights with one another however Deirdre accidentally reveals her succubus form, which amazes them. The girls she befriends them: Marian Sagittarius, Judith Apollonius, Selene, Deborah Reginald, Athena, Susanna 'Sunna', Nyx, Freya, Sif, and Artemis Janus. Turan & Norna meet some people who were belligerent but stand for justice and this army: Ares Cuchulain, Kai Medon, John Phemius, Perun Umi, Ajax Heracles, Sharik Jofur, Asura Susanoo, Tucker Achilles, Yazi Nezha, and Gwedion Lancelot. Even Ariadne's group is a bunch of strange folks however they are a bunch of badass warriors that seem to suit Ariadne: Bricriu Alexander, Ceridwen Phoenix, Peredur Silas, Medea & Katie Vasily, Antigonus Klaus, Dorian Peetrus and Gavin Didymos. Even her misunderstood friend Melisande. And Juana's posse are charming, beautiful of people: Diarmuid, Adonis, Hyacith, and Ishtar. Cassandra and her boys were wandering the streets to get to the strange building with the stained glass windows. When all of a sudden, they begin to hear music in the air: "Do you guys hear that?" Echo asked. "Yeah, where is it coming from?" wondered Cassandra. "Is there a carnival?" Borvo sounded so excited. "Let's find out." said Samson. And they head over to see that three guys were doing a performance. There was a sign above them that said, "The Sofus Bros. Circus" The ring leader is Hamdir, who has red haired. The other performers, brainy brunette Sorli and dumb blonde with a hair strand like an antennae name Erpir. 

Hamdir stepped out to the crowd: "Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! Step right up, come closer, you won't believe your eyes behind this curtain! Witness something you've never seen, heard, or dreamt before, The most amazing show on earth! So sit back, relax, fasten your seat belts it's going to be a bumpy ride to the other side!" announced Hamdir. Sorli was the juggler while Thor was the one in the mascot, Erpir, who doing all sorts of tricks. Hamdir continued to grand stand before the audience, "As they say 'things aren't always what they seem to be.' Even in your greatest fantasies; You won't believe your eyes or even recognize the wonderment that lies behind the shimmer and the lights. But you may think, 'Is it true what they say? Is it all just fun and games? Or is there more behind the makeup and the faces full of paint?'" He ranted. Cassandra looked at this with curiosity as she seemed amused but not naive like the rest of the crowd. Odd continued to rant. "People, I like to ask: Do you want to be widely entertained? People to know your name? Do you crave fame? I ask you, do you want to come and play?" Just then, Cassandra begins to have visions of monsters. They looked like a naked human, or large hairless wolf. Its body looked unorthodox as if it had been hit by a driving vehicle. And it had large claws. Their fangs are bared, and they attacked the crowd, who screamed as others ran for their lives. Cassandra saw this in horror as she remembers the night of the prom massacre. Traumatizing memories of her friends who were shot and killed. Just then; the creatures attacked, puncturing Cassandra's body abdomen. Cassandra felt anger, the wounds on her body begin to vanish from her skin. 

Samson, Proteus, Zaden, Lleu, Christopher, Hanuman, Justice, Echo, Kamaitachi, and Borvo are shocked to see this. Cassandra had tears in her eyes; thinking about her dead friends and their dreams which were gone forever. Now she was pissed, the creatures 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. The commotion started to attract the attention of others: Eulalie, Deirdre, Turan, Norna, Ariadne, & Juana and their new friends heard this. Curious, they walked over there to see what was going on. When they got closer, they were shocked to see Cassandra losing control on the monsters who had killed innocent lives. Once it was over, Cassandra finally calmed down and looked around the deceased of others, she saw that there was a child's body lying there motionlessly. She had tears in her eyes and she looked at the citizens who were watching her lose control. "Does anybody have anything to make a cremation? I want to make a proper funeral for the lives that are lost." said Cassandra. The others looked at each other, not sure what to do. Samson turned to them and said, "Listen, I know that was scary for all of you to see but this girl saved all of you from those beasts and she had a heart for the people that were killed." A bartender came forth with a bottle of liquor. A guy who was a smoker had a lighter. And someone who had fireproof materials & a proper funeral was made for them. While doing this cremation; Cassandra thought to herself, "What kind of person would sent so much monstrosity to kill innocent people? Whoever it was, they were gonna pay with their lives for this." Later on, Cassandra and her team--With Eulalie, Deirdre, Turan, Norna, Ariadne, Juana, and their gangs following--as they head for the stained glass windows building where they come across the front where a security scanner examines them. "Subject Examination Approved." said a computer voice. Then the double doors opened automatically opened at once. The computer voice said, "Please enter the door on your left, Mimir Sofus is waiting for you." "Neato!" Cassandra said. Kamaitachi gives her a look, "'Neato'?" He asked. Cassandra gives him a look, "Riddle me this, twitch." She remarked. Borvo giggles, "'Twitch'. Good one." Cassandra smiled, everyone walks in and saw a man they never met before. He had his hair in a short ponytail and wore clothes. 

He was meditating as Cassandra and the others walked in. Cassandra spoke up, "Hello? Are you the one responsib--" "Smoke." said the man, his eyes didn't open yet. Cassandra looked at him perplexed, "Beg your pardon?" She asked. The man responds back, "You smell of smoke, I can smell it from your clothes." The others were surprised, especially Cass. "Does this guy has a nose of a bloodhound?" She thought. "Oh, I'm sorry. Would you like me to bathe first?" asked Cassandra, politely. The guy opens his eyes and smiled, "No, no. It's not that bad." He assured her, turning to her and everyone else. "Can I help you?" asked the man. Cassandra remembers what she was going to ask, "Um, yes. Are you responsible for these strange events?" The man shook his head, "Oh no, I'm not. You people probably haven't met her but she didn't mean no harm, she was supposed to follow orders...Please forgive her." He said. Cassandra looked at him, this is was surprising. A girl was the cause of all this? "Who is she?" asked Deirdre. "Opehlia Tagtraum." Everyone looked at one another, "Can we talk to her?" asked Lifa. The man shooked his head, "I'm afraid you are going to wait until she wakes up from her nap. But let me explain why she did this and myself, my name is Mimir Sofus. The reason why she did this because we need to find someone who is brave enough, emotionally understanding enough to help others and fight to save the blood of innocence. Now before I continue, does anybody have any questions?" Again, Borvo raised his hand, "I have one, is this place Heaven?" He asked. Mimir smiled, chuckling a little. "I wish but no. This differs from the afterlife. This is a different world. It's called Father Sky, it's where floating islands and flying ships are resided." He explained briefly. Then moved on to the subject, he went into a wall, which was a secret drawer secluded in there. He pulled out one of a device with a screen on it. 

"This is interactive monitor device is called Moneta. It is a memory device that plays back good, bad, and traumatic memories of others. No camera recorded, it already can keep storage of memories like this. But besides that, this device has different applications--It has different applications: One is a telecommunication where you press on the speaker and ask the Moneta anything. You don't have to type, you can always speak into it to. Whatever you guys want." He said. He handed it to his rookies. Then, once everyone got one, Mimir then explains the rules: Cassandra, Eulalie, Deirdre, Turan, Norna, Ariadne, and Juana are to go to the other worlds in flying ships. Their teams cannot come with them, much to everyone's dismay, but they had to observe from the scrutiny monitors. The next thing Mimir tells the others is about Wendigos--the creatures Cassandra slaughtered with her powers. These mysterious creatures become faster and go on their hind heels and hands as they crawl like a spider. They can bite, so everyone needs to be on a look out for these things. Now that this was out of the way, Mimir gives them an hour to come up with a team name for everyone. During this process; Eulalie's team came up with the name 'Zodiac Tarot', Deirdre and the girls came up with the name titled 'Amazon Brigade'. Turan and Norna came up with the name 'Miscreants Band' for their love for carnage and also for justice. Even recklessness. Ariadne's team is 'Concord Ritters' and Juana's group is known as 'El Elite'. For Cassandra? She and her friends struggled for a team name however Cassandra came up with a name, her friends' last names each means 'ten' and there is a lot of boys in her squad. The name is known as 'Brother 10'. Once the results of this information has been sent, Mimir decided to let the others rest since they've been exhausted from all that has happened. Nevertheless there will be dark days ahead. 

A figure was busy writing in a book, she loved books as she tensed her hands a bit as she has perfect handwriting. But then she heard her mother calling her name, "Ophelia!" The figure took the headphones off her ears. She went to the edge of her balcony from her room to look down to see her mother on the couch, watching TV. "Ophelia, are you going to the gathering?" asked her mother. The girl seemed uncertain, her plum red lips begin to twist around, thinking. She then replies, "It could be loud." "Mimir was concern about that but it's not, don't worry. So...Do you want to go?" replied her mother. The girl smiled a little, "Are they going to be there? The ones that Mimir told me about before?" "Of course they will." answered her mother. The girl felt thrilled, "Then yes I'm going." she replied with a calm face. But when she went back to her room, she went into her a closet and squealed happily, "Yes!" Later, she had showered and brush her teeth. She freshens up and wears nice clothes. At the gathering, it wasn't so loud as she feared. But she seemed shy, looking around for Mimir. She found him talking and laughing with some young people. Ophelia is fascinated in the young woman who looked happy. Ophelia felt ease, curious how to approach this but she fears of disapproval, to be judged for her flaws. "No, never again. Don't let them in, don't let them see...You gotta be good like you have to be. Obscure, swim with the tide....Don't let them in." She told herself. 

One of them look back to see Ophelia, who turned away quickly. Mimir noticed her and grinned happily, "Ophelia! Come and say hello to our newest batch of operatives in the agency." Mimir said. Ophelia shyly approaches them, she makes her head look up and gave them good eye contact. "Hi there, my name is Ophelia Tagtrum. It's nice to meet you all." She said in a polite manner. Cassandra looks at her up and down, this was Ophelia? This little angel? Ophelia was a petite young lady with fair olive skin that was striking. Eyes dark brown and perfectly white pearly teeth. She had a curvaceous figure, she even had a large bust. Ophelia looked shyly at Cassandra and said, "You remind me of someone I used to know." Cassandra looked at her perplexed, "I do? Like who?" She asked. Ophelia felt like an idiot. She looked away, "I...Sorry, not important." said Ophelia quickly. "Great, just great! My first impression is that she reminds me of stupid Abigail! Ugh, why the hell I have to go and say that!" "No, no. You can tell me." assured Cassandra. Ophelia looked up at her hopeful, Was she trying to be nice? Or was it just an act for her to look annoyed and then be rude to her later? She didn't know. Cassandra smiled, "If you don't want to, it's OK." She assured her. 

Just then, Cassandra and the other girls are called for a mission. Cassandra turned to Ophelia and said, "I'll see you later then?" Ophelia brightens up, "Um, OK." She said. As Cassandra left, Ophelia feels like maybe...Just maybe, Cassandra can be her friend. In this assignment, which takes place on Caer Sidr, Cassandra and the others learned that there are fraternal twin brothers that are half breed, possibly the sons of a legendary creature, a yuki onna, so off they went. 


Chapter 2: She Who Fights Monsters

Traveling on a flying ship, there was unconsciousness and Cassandra can hear someone calling her as she saw humans coming back to life as they look un-dead. "Oh....God!" She whispered as she ran as fast as she could. But she tripped and fell into a ditch where lots of other undead corpses were biting and clawing her.  She screamed in terror, she kept swatting them as she continued to scream. Would this be torment? How will she get out of this? When she woke up, Cassandra didn't know what she was doing or where she was. But she found herself in Caer Sidr with complete strangers however she couldn't see them completely. "Can you tell us your name?" One of them asked. "They're all dead..." Cassandra said weakly. There was silence, "Who is?" asked another voice nervously, a woman. Cassandra started to speak but she stuttered. "My--my--my--" She felt someone's hands on her shoulders, "Whoa, whoa, take it easy!" The third voice commanded sternly. Cassandra begin crying, "He's a bad man, a bad man! He's evil!" she sobbed. "Nice goin', Brennius!" said a guy's voice. "What? Hey I didn't mean any--" the third said. Then Cassandra begin to howl in anger. "MURDERER!!!!!! MONSTER!!!!!!" she screeched and thrashed. Then, the hands on her shoulders pulled her into his chest. "Hey, hey, easy! Take it easy!" He said loudly but Cassandra thrashed more and more. "I'll kill him! I kill him and---" screamed Cassandra. She then calmed down and sighed into the guy's lap. "Easy, easy...That's right." said th guy, caressing her hair. The female made an 'hmph!' sound, the guy soothed Cassandra again. "You're okay, you're just upset. It's OK, shhh." Cassandra spoke up, "You're all gonna die...." And passes out. Cassandra woke up to find herself in a garden, underneath a cherry blossom tree. The petals of the blossoms were falling off were cascading down like snowflakes. Cassandra saw this as she laughs joyfully. She was like a butterfly fluttering and fluttering in the spring, from flower to flower. It was so peaceful, being in someplace that wasn't...She stopped wandering enough to see a piano. 

A piano that she once had as a child, she remembered that sounds of Beethoven's "Fur Elise" that she used to play with her mother. That was so long ago, Cassandra was seven years old at the time of that happy memory. Cassandra walked over to the piano and begin to play this classical piece. Her fingers were adequate on the keys, she let the music guide her. She didn't realize she was attracting someone else's attention. Cassandra felt like she was living in her happy moments of her past all over again! By the time she finished, she felt cool over her. "Ahem!" Cassandra snaps out of her daydream and turns around to see a young man applauding. He had disheveled dark haired, he looked like a nice guy with a rebel going on. Cassandra moved away as she seemed embarrassed. "Oh! I'm sorry!" She whispered softly. "That was beautiful." said the young man. "Th-Th-Thank you, I hope I--" stammered Cassandra. But the young man seemed to pity her, "Do you know Beethoven? I mean, I know his pieces but I never met anyone who can play one of them. You're talented." "Thanks. I, um, looking for someone name Brennius Zwilling?" Cassandra said. The young man grinned impishly. "You're looking at him." He replied. Cassandra looked embarrassed. "Oh....! I didn't know! Your voice is familiar, I didn't see you clearly in the van. You were the third voice, right? Thanks." Brennius nodded. "Its fine, you look lost." He noted. Cassandra turned away with a flushed face. "Was I?" She said, looking at the window which begin to rattle. "Everyone can be lost sometimes, even I can be so you're not alone." Brennius reassured her. Cassandra said, laughing to herself but she felt a . "I don't think I'm lost, I think I have gone a little crazy."  

Then, the window cracked in a startling matter. "Whoa!" Brennius cried. Cassandra covered her mouth, "Oh! Oh, damn! I'm sorry." She said. Cassandra said this as she turned around and locked eyes with Brennius. Embarrassed; Cassandra bowed her head, Brennius put and arm around her in an embrace so gingerly that Cassandra felt comforted and safe for a moment, just a moment she felt safe. Meanwhile; Eulalie entered the classroom, she opened the door to see students talking amongst themselves as they wait for their teacher to come. Eulalie looked to see a lone desk in the back of the class and walks up and takes her seat there. Just then, the door opens and the chatter silenced. In walk a teenager, Eulalie was surprised to see that it was a teen boy walking in. He had dark hair and powder blue eyes, pale skin and he was pretty cute. A mature looking boy in well-dressed clothes. "All right, take your seats." He said. "Let's settle down now." The young man cleaned his throat and continued, "Welcome, My name is Belius Zwilling." Eulalie was stunt, "That's Belius Zwilling?" She mumbled. "He's nothing that I would picture." Just then, Belius glanced at Eulalie, “Was it you, Miss Merlin?” He asked. Eulalie shrugged her shoulders, “No. Why would you say that?” She asked. “You looks like your trouble to the core.” Belius noted, “You looked like you want to rebel but who knows! Maybe you will.” Eulalie glared at him, who had his back turned. Eulalie clenched her fist, then the window cracked and the students jumped. "Oh, I'm trouble to the core? How does he know that I'm trouble? Who does he think he is? Low life child prodigy my ass." She thought. "He doesn't know a damn thing about my past!"  

In her rage; Eulalie doodled a crude art of Belius Zwilling of him with sharp teeth and a word bubble next to him, saying: "Blah, blah, Blah!" It was so funny when she finished because she laughed to herself. "And pray tell what's so funny, Miss Merlin?" Belius called out. Eulalie calls out smugly, "Nothing Mr. Zwilling." Mr. Zwilling marched over to her desk and snatched the doodle. He looked at it, then sarcasm crossed his face. "Is this how you see me?" Mr. Zwilling asked. He showed the doodle to the class, who snickered at this as Belius crumpled the drawing and stomped it with his foot. Eulalie didn't flinched. Mr. Zwiling leaned in her face and said, "Respect me or I'll fail you." Eulalie glared back at him, "Fail me and you'll be sorry!" She replied. "Ooooooh!" went the students. Belius was surprised by this and narrowed his eyes. "Are you threatening me?" He asked. Eulalie shrugged. "I'm simply giving you a warning." She said. Belius smirked, "Hmm...Interesting." was all he could say and continued his lesson. Later, Turan and Deirdre heard of a swimming hole in this place so they including Norna decides to go and swim. She was seen in a short-looking bottoms and bikini strapless top. There was no one around, so she slips in and enjoying the cool water. It wasn’t too hot, not too cold. But then she heard rowdy sounds and ducked behind a rock. It was a bunch of normal people who jumped in. They rough house with one another like friends. One of them takes notice of Morgan, he smiles and calls out: "Hey there!" Turan’s blood went cold, she peeked out from the rock, "Oh--Hi guys! I didn't know you were here! I was just swimming, but I can go now! See ya." Turan said, awkwardly. 

She was about to swim away and get out of the swimming hole. But the other boy stopped her from leaving, "Hold on! I'm sorry if we scared you, here! Let's start to get to know each other. Hi, I'm Moses Daniel." He said. Turan took his hand and shook it. "Hi Moses." She greeted. But she jumped when someone was behind her. Turan turned and looked to see a light haired young girl. "And I'm Eva Barnabas." She introduced with grace. Deirdre smiled, "Hello Eva." Deirdre replied. Then she heard a voice from behind her, "And I'm Lilian Paul, the queen. And nobody's gonna stop us now." gloated the dark haired girl playfully. "Oh yeah? I'll like to fight you, 'Your Highness'." Sebastian remarked. Deirdre swim away to the rocks, "OK, you have fun, I'll watch." She said. "What? Oh no! You're part of this!" Sebastian countered. "No, I don't have to if I don't want to." Deirdre said nicely but Sebastian wouldn’t take that as a ‘no’. He gently pulled Deirdre close. "Just one round--Ha! Who did that?" Sebastian looked around frantically, “Oops.” Deirdre said, her powers did that. Guess she didn’t know her own strength. "Not me!" Lilian said, holding up her hands in defensive. "Me neither!" Eva said. "Is it a phantom?" Moses asked, nervously. Sebastian and Lilian smirked at each other before creeping up behind him and making him jump. Moses jumped with a yelp, glaring at the two boys who laughed at his reaction and the three fight. Deirdre and Turan watches them, amused and laughing at how funny they are. Back with Eulalie, she sneaked off to the library to dig up some research and was trying to find some files on anything but she couldn't find a thing! Then, out of the corner of her eye, she saw some scrolls in the back and gets up to take a look. As she opened one of the scrolls; she couldn't read what it says. She heard someone coming and hid. It was Belius, he appeared to inspect the scrolls, Eulalie watched him carefully as she saw him looking at one. “Does he know?” thought Eulalie. 

Without thinking; she pounced at him, who fell down and felt Merlin's hands around his throat. "You know how to read this thing?" She demanded. "Y-Y-Yes. I do." Belius managed to choke out. Eulalie loosens her grip on her him and gets up as Belius panted and cough, "Good, you can help me understand it. Go! Do it! Get down to reading! What are you waiting for? Is it hard for you to read too?" She commanded. Belius looked at it and said, "This scroll, I don't think we can use it. It has a--" "‘has a--' What? Tell me one word and I'll be satisfied. The scroll has a problem? A password? An aneurysm?" Eulalie guessed. "A secret code." Belius said, he looked at her with chutzpah. Eulalie narrowed her eyes. She pinned his neck to the wall hard with her shoe, "How do I know you're telling the truth?" She asked. "Because--If--If I lied then you would get in trouble and I'll be in trouble." gagged Mr. Zwilling. Eulalie released him, "All right, top secret is in your hands." She said. Eulalie turned to walk away but Belius stops her. "Hold up! Look, no one, such as yourself, should look at this. Besides, if you discover it then--" He said. Eulalie raised a finger to hault him. "Don't tell me, they'll gag me and lock me up to keep my mouth shut." She said. Belius looks at her before he nods. "Exactly." He said. "Gotcha." Eulalie said with a thumbs-up. The two of them left the library. Unaware to them, someone was watching--An eccentric yet suspicious person known as Nasrudin Corbinian and his creepy brother Shiloh. "My, my. She'll be a nice chew toy to play with." said Nasrudin. Someone else was watching all this on the Moneta too; Ophelia oddly enough was observing this as she seems to have some sort of attraction for all this. It seems to interest her, these people that Cassandra and the others meet are just simply fascinating to her. She feels like she can emphasize them however when she looks away, the images of those people are etched in her brain. 

Eulalie is reads a book in the library where she is engrossed in reading when she heard a growl sound and looked around, then she saw a Liderc--His face was mouthless and he opens the mouth, which its jaw reached the torso. His fangs are bared as he was faster than Eulalie, who tried to escape however the creature caught her and then he bite into her wrist. Eulalie screamed in pain, she begins to feel pain in her system. The creature leaves her for dead as Eulalie continue to cry out for help. Belius heard her cries and rush to aid her. Cassandra too was being attacked by a Liderc however the pain lasted for 60 seconds. Confused, Cassandra went to go find Brennius. While the pursuit to find her ally, Cassandra felt her nose running so she wipes her nose from the snot, only to find blood on her hand. Cassandra gasped, "Help....Help me." She looked around as she saw no one was paying attention. She begin to run as the bleeding from her nose went down her nostrils to her lip. It was in her mouth, "No!" She gasped. Looking around frantically, but didn't see who was coming. WHAM! She bump into someone, Sebastian Atlas who looked crossed for being rammed into. "Augh! Hey, watch--" Sebastian started to speak, but stopped when he saw Cassandra there. "Oh, sorry." He quickly apologized. "Are you OK? You look like you're panicking like hell." "I--I---I'm bleeding. Help me, please." Cassandra begged, stammering as she gestures towards her blood stained shirt. Sebastian's eyes bulged in terror but he looked calm at her. "Don't panic, here. Let's find something to stop..." He said to her as he looked around, Psyche clutched at his shirt and said, "I don't want to bleed to death." "Don't worry. You're not, easy there. Freaking out will make it bleed more than it already is now, all right?" Sebastian assured her. Cassandra was scared. "I...I don't want to die of blood loss...I..." She stammered, Cassandra looked up and gasped. A zombie-like of Sebastian had a grin that showed his sharp teeth and chuckling at her. "What's the matter? It's just a nosebleed, just plug it up!" "Stay away from me, stay away from me!" Cassandra screamed but she is surrounded by other people who looked demonic and undead. Cassandra backs away in horror, she then stumbles as she heard a zombie taunting in a satanic voice, "Bleeding to death? Your time has come. You sweet, little, fidget girl!" 

Cassandra backs away on the floor as they were closing in on her. Then, the demonic zombies chanting: "Die, die, die!" Cassandra panted, gasping. This was too frightening for her. It was like hell, there was no escape from here. "Help me, help me! Help me! Help! Please! AUGH!!!!" She screeched. Clutching her head as she cowers away from the zombies, who continued to jeer and laugh. In reality; The others are concerned at the hysterical Cassandra. "Is she OK?" Sebastian asked. "She looks scared." replied a girl name Alma Young, who is a friend of Brennius and Belius. "Somebody--Get a doctor!" called Moses. A young lady name Aggie Menelaus immediately rushed over and took Cassandra by the shoulders, "Hey girl, calm down!" She begged. Cassandra continued to scream so Aggie begin to do something out of element: She slapped Cassandra across her face. Cassandra stopped screaming, she panted as her hallucination ended. Cassandra look to see that her nose is no longer bleeding. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to." Aggie said, looking ashamed. She embraced Cassandra, who looked dazed. Cassandra was being treated at the medics, she looked better but her hair was a mess. She heard someone calling her name, Cassandra looked up and saw that it was Brennius running towards her. Overjoyed with tears in her eyes; Cassandra embraced her friend as she is happy that he's OK. "Are you all right?" Brennius asked, he pulls away from the embrace as he looks at her tired eyes. "Yeah, I'm fine. It's nothing, really." claimed Cassandra. "Excuse me." A voice said. Cassandra and Brennius turned to see Aggie standing there with an apologetic look. "It's my fault for slapping you, I hope you can forgive me." She said. "No, thank you. I really was losing my mind, I apologize for that." replied Cassandra, a little too quickly. An authoritative man name Finn Kane appeared, "So, you managed to snap out of it, Miss?" He asked with seemingly kindness. "Yes sir." Cassandra said. 

"My name is Cassandra Endymion, I am a rookie agent of Silver Branch and my mission is to recruit you, Brennius Zwilling." explained Cassandra. Brennius looked at her shock, "What?" He asked. "I am. You see I need to gather some allies for a reason." Cassandra protested. Brennius looked at her funny, "Um, are you're OK? I'm not sure--" He place a hand on her forehead but he suddenly saw visions in his mind. Cassandra try to push him away, "Let go of me! Ah!" She gasped. But Brennius didn't, he could see images in his head that were memories: A girl happy smiling and playing. Another memory shows of that happy girl crying as she tries to cover her ears from the screaming coming from downstairs. A third shows a man screaming as the girl cowers and whimpers, "Don't you dare cry or I'll give you a good damn reason to cry!" The man shouted. The girl was a young version of Cassandra, who was abused as child. One memory showed of Cassandra around 18 years of age as she and her mother move away from Boreas, Cass's father, who had pleaded with them not to go. But Cassandra and her mother did not listen. Her father tried to stop the car, he was yelling: "CASSIE, DADDY LOVES YOU!!!" Cassandra's mother locked the doors as she drove away, while Cass's father screamed, "I will find you and bring you home! You hear me? I WILL FIND YOU!!!" "What the--?" Brennius thought, "What is all this?" Cassandra thrash about violently from her friend, "Stop it!" She cried. "Get out, GET OUT! GET OUT OF MY HEAD, STAY OUT OF MY MIND! PLEASE!" More memories invaded into Brennius's head, he saw the prom massacre. Brennius was horrified, "Ah...What...?" He thought. "Stop this..." He saw in his mind of people getting shot and all sorts of people tortured to death. 

When Cassandra looked at where she was bitten, she saw that there was a symbol of a stitch heart. "What the hell is that?" She thought to herself. Eulalie look at her wound where she had been bitten, there was a stitch heart symbol there. Deirdre, Turan, Norna, Ariadne, and Juana also have that mark too have they've been attacked by the Lidercs. They didn't know what the heck was going on. They were starting to get strange, bad dreams of people who were lured into a house. Their drinks drugged and how they were experimented in disturbing, bloody surgeries that made them into deformed, insane hematophagic monsters that were swift and were hungry blood of humans. However their saliva has some sort of wrath-like serum that would make a person lose their cool if they are pushed over the edge by some sort of cruel twist of torture and could go on a murderous rampage. Seeing a figure being bullied and laughed at, this person was so angry that this person slaughtered those that laughed at this person. Cassandra, Eulalie, Deirdre, Turan, Norna, Ariadne, and Juana woke up shrieking however they had forgotten about these dreams eventually until the next night, they would have it over and over again. It wasn't long when the girls are called for another mission and they went on their next assignment. Deep within Hybrasil; there is a haunted attraction that comes around only on Fridays, weekends, and summers too. This is called Rappe Licht; the haunted attraction has many scariness to go around to: Haunted houses which displays the worst fears, areas known as Fear Sector. Jump scares are everywhere--courtesy of the icons: Hans Nico, the main ring leader. He is assisted by Bast Lunus. Featuring Maugris Walross. The stoic faced kimomo wearing girl name Vivian Zimmerman. Then, we got the eerie tea party with Dio Griff. A young teenager, who is a primadonna, name is Phoebe Mros. Alongside her is her partner and acquaintance, Janus Sayer, who is an interesting pretty boy with a dark secret. The only way out of this madness is the guidance and protection by Juniper Icarus, a childlike tween boy who is innocent. And his big brother type friend Desiderio 'Desi' Coinin. While watching the urban horror show; The Lidercs creep in and made their attack. The others thought it was part of the fun but when the brutal murders are shown, screams are heard. Cassandra is shocked by this. 

But she's not the only one, Eulalie and Deirdre are stunt by all of this as well. Not sure what to do; Cassandra turned to Mimir, "Master Mimir?" She asked with anxiousness. Mimir smiled and nodded, "Go crazy." With an excited grin, Cassandra ready to spring: "All right, let's get dangerous!" She jumps and heads over to fight the Lidercs. At the same time; Deirdre smiled with excitement. "Yes, it's go time!" She said. Eulalie smiled, she ran her fingers through her hair. She then said before she jumped, "Going turbo!" The three girls saved Rappe Licht from the monsters: Cassandra pounced and wrestled one of the Lidercs. Once the Lidercs were dealt with, the people were awed before they showed their gratitude. But then she felt someone hugging her. She looked to see Juniper was the one hugging her, "Yes! You saved Rappe Licht. We owe you one." said the boy. Cassandra is embarrassed, she never wanted this kind of attention but it was nice for the appreciation. Her walkie talkie radio squawked, "Retreat, retreat, we have to get back!" Mimir was saying. "Oh man." muttered Cassandra. She turned to everyone and said, "Sorry. Gotta jet." There was a moment of silence with astounded expressions on each of the cast of Rappe Licht. "Who were those girls?" Juniper asked. "I have no idea." Desi admitted. That night while the agents slept, Cassandra begins to have prophecy foretells of Juniper has a dream vision of his brother, Angelo, who is still alive and well. But he is with a girl with a crush on him, her name is Circe Bran. She is the daughter of the charming yet dubious Pelles Bran. Cassandra researches on the Moneta about Pelles, who is involved of creating creatures called Hobyahs. And some guy called Malvolio Lyncus.

The next day, at Rappe Licht Carnival Days, it had all the fun rides. There were people screaming on the roller coaster. People on the merry-go round, there was fun in the air. Food of cotton candy, popcorn, hot dogs, and prizes. Turan and Norna were there in hoodies with their sleeves pushed up. They look around with dubious expressions on their faces. "Is this place too saccharine?" asked Norna, looking around. "Ugh, the atmosphere.  It makes me nauseous." groaned Turan with disgust. "Yeah, that whole 'taste like diabetes' scenario makes me feel like a crap sack world is underneath this honeyed place." Norna agreed. "I wonder if this is something that I dreamed...." Norna saw something that caught her eye and took Turan by the hand. "Wait, what are those?" She asked, pointing over to the stand where it had mesmerizing jewelry. They seem to glisten of rainbow, absolutely far-fetching. "Now these are a price worth seeing." Turan remarked. They walk over there and took a look at this. Norna is quite fascinated in this. "Beautiful...." She mumbled. "They are." A childlike voice spoke up. Turan and Norna turned to see a young boy with fair hair. He beamed as a cheerful child would, he wore something that a 12 year old boy would wear. "They're handmade, by the way." He continued. Turan is touched by how cute the kid is, "Did you made these?" She asked. The boy shook his head, "Oh no, she did." He pointed to the girl in the kimono. Norna seemed at ease, "They are gorgeous." She said. The girl in the kimono nodded, "Thank you." said the girl. 

For the time being, Ariadne looked around to see the colors in the air as she danced around, feeling magic in the air of how beautiful this place. However, she was daydreaming so much that she didn't watch where she was going. Because she bumped into someone else: "Aaah!" The person said. "Yipe!" Ariadne yelped. Ariadne and the other person stumbled down as Ariadne cries, "Good Lor--Whoa!" Down, down they went but Ariadne uses her water powers to save her and the person she is tumbling with. "Hey, pal! What the hell?" Ariadne demanded. "Sorry about that." The person said. He was a cutie, Ariadne felt like a jerk to this totally attractive guy with glasses, which he was adjusting. "Hello...It's OK. I'm fine, it's no big deal." Ariadne apologized. "You serious?" asked the guy asked. "Yeah, my bad. And I'm dead serious." confirmed Ariadne. "Fascinating." The guy complimented. Ariadne smiled, The guy realized he forgot to introduced himself. "Oh, sorry. Janus Sayer." He introduced. Ariadne shake his hand, "Ariadne Sirius." She said. While things have been going on; Ophelia was observing this world as well, she is attracted to these people but she has somewhat of an infatuation for Janus. Janus seems cute as she begins to feel amorous and romantic. Meanwhile Cassandra was exploring the places of the fair when she accidentally ran into someone, it was Juniper. "Oh, I remember you!" Juniper said with delight. Cassandra is shocked, "Um...Hi." She said. "What are you doing here?" He asked happily. "Uh, enjoying the fair?" answered Cassandra in a questioning tone. Juniper hugged her, "I'm glad you're OK." He said, he pulls Cassandra to meet the others and invites her to be part of tonight's show. Cassandra tried to refuse however Mimir made a telepathic connection, "It's all right, Cass. Make the boy happy." And so she accepts. But Desi doesn't seem to trust Cassandra. 

At tonight's show, Juniper and Cassandra are performing about two friends sadly departing from one another but Juniper added some lines. "Well, how about you join....Rappe Licht!" exclaimed Juniper. The crowd gasps in delight, Cassandra look stunt. "Rappe Licht?" She asked. Juniper sounded excited. "Yeah!" He squealed. Cassandra wasn't amused, "I'm sorry, why do you want me--Wait, you mean..." She said. Cassandra is shocked, she read Juniper's mind. He was serious! "Yeah, I mean. You may be new to these parts but we can help you out." Juniper explained. "You guys?" Cassandra asked. "It sounds like fun, we can teach all the tricks and the trades...." Juniper started to ranted but Cassandra begin to cut in. "Whoa, whoa. Slow down. I am not joining Tarot Arcana, I'm sorry. I can't!" She said. Juniper looked stunt, "What do you mean?" He asked with timidness. Cassandra looked at the crowd who looked complexed. Then back to Juniper and whispered, "May I talk to you? Off stage?" "No, you can tell me to the crowd." Juniper said, gesturing towards the people. Cassandra sighed, "All right, you can't ask a stranger you don't know to join." She admitted. "You're not a stranger, you are my friend!" Juniper protested. "What do you know about friendship?" Cassandra asked. Juniper looked down, "I know that you and I have a great friendship. You don't have to be scared." He pleaded. Cassandra cannot drag him into her life like this. "I--No, it will never work out. I'm sorry, Juniper." She said. She turned to the crowd. "Everyone, much obliged for coming. But, alas, The show is over." And turned on her heels and walked. Juniper watched her, "What? Wait, Cassandra!" He grasped her hand. Cassandra tried to wriggled her away, but the boy wouldn't let go. "Juniper, please let go of me!" She said. "Cass, please! I know you don't want to but I can help you." begged Juniper with innocent eyes looking at him. Cassandra looked at him sadly, "You can't...." She said. She gingerly pry his fingers away and walks off. Juniper is stunt, he felt tears in his eyes. "What did I do to you?" He cried. "Stop it, Joon." Cassandra said, in a nervous tone. 

Juniper runs after her, "No, no more hiding. What is the matter? I want to be your friend but you have to tell me." He exclaimed, still trying to understand her. Cassandra turned around fiercely, "NO!" She cried. But she accidentally loses control. Her powers made Juniper fall backwards but he wasn't hurt. He looked up at Cassandra but it's not fear that crosses his face, "Cass...Your powers....are real...." He whispered. Cassandra shake her head and fled. She fled from Rappe Licht as fast as her legs could take her, Juniper calls out Cassandra's name however Cassandra couldn't face him. She just couldn't. She was so ashamed. She ran off however Juniper didn't stop there, he wanted to go after her and convince her that he wasn't afraid of her. Desi was angry that he want to kill Cass however Eulalie won't let him do that. The three of them heads out, while Turan and Norna heads after with Margaus in between them. Ariadne runs her fingers through her hair as her ice/water powers are revealed to Dio, Phoebe, and Janus who watch with wide eyes at this. Ariadne looked at their gaping faces and grinned before she sped away with a trail of ice behind her. Dio was shocked but smiled, "Well, well. I knew something about her seemed special." He muttered. In the meantime; Juniper finally found Cassandra, who was sitting by the creek. "Hey Cass. Are you OK?" He asked. "Hi Joon." said Cassandra sadly, not looking at him. "Please, don't blame yourself. I'm not hurt, see?" Juniper said. "I could've killed you." replied Cassandra, her eyes squeezed shut. "I know, but you didn't. But please, open your heart and allow me to come in. I wanna help you but you need to invite me in. Control this power, I know we can work together on this." Juniper said with hope. Cassandra turned to him frantically, "How Joon? What ability to help me? Help me control my powers when I can't figure it out myself?" She demanded. Juniper didn't know what to say, "I--I don't know. I just want to help you...I'm not leaving my friend." He protested desperately. Desi arrived with Eulalie behind him, he was angry that Cassandra harmed Juniper. Juniper tried to stop him, talking to him that Cassandra didn't mean it. 

Just then, Heaven's light shine upon Cassandra as her hair begin to glow. Her skin was luminous as she looked more angelic. Juniper and Desi was shocked of this, but Cassandra wasn't the only one. Deirdre, Eulalie, Ariadne, Turan, Norna, even Juana all had their hair glowing like sparkling angels. Everyone could see what was going on. Then, a female archangel appeared before all of Rappe Licht, who were in great shock. "Hello there, everyone. My name is Ernmas. I don't think we met before have we? You see, these girls may be cursed with anger but they also have been blessed to be female berserkers called a Morrigan. Please be good to them, no trouble or harm will come upon them. Understand? Go with thou and be thy recruits for evil has been trying to invade in other places of Father Sky." said the mysterious woman. Juniper was intrigued, he had never heard of such things like this. When Ernmas vanished from sight, The glowing hair from their heads became normal. Eulalie looked more radiant than she already did, "Beautiful." whispered Desi. Eulalie looked at him, "Huh?" Desi flushed, "Sorry, never mind." He said. Eulalie glanced at him, her hair no longer glowed and Desi turned back to her. "Can we come with you?" He asked. Eulalie smiled, "Sure." She answered. Juniper looked worried, "I don't want to leave behind any of the others." He said. Cassandra took him by the shoulders and smiled in a reassured manner, "Oh don't be silly, their coming with us too." She said. Juniper beamed happily, and so there was more new members for Silver Branch. However, A loud speaker squawks on: "Cassandra Endymion, please come to Master Mimir please. Cassandra Endymion, please come to Master Mimir please."  Cassandra was shocked, What did she do wrong? So she decided to go see him; nervous. 

When she enters the office, Cassandra approaches Mimir, he tells her something important: "I have scheduled an appointment for each agent to take a blood test." He explained. "It's very important since your blood is to be tested for anything and we keep data on all of you rookies." Cassandra seemed surprise, she obeys these orders. She was the first to attend as she waited in the waiting room. It was getting very boring, she waited and waited. However, she saw someone entering the room with a rifle. That guy looked familiar, however the guy begin a massacre by shooting everybody and then he pointed his gun at Cassandra, "No...Please..." She begged but it was too late, she was shot in the chest. Cassandra woke up, gasping. She looked around to see everyone looked normal and was still alive. "It was just a dream...? How, how could this be?" She let out a sigh and then she leaned back in her chair. "Well, looks like someone had one hell of a nightmare." A voice said next to her. Cassandra jumped at the sight of seeing a young man in a leather jacket and black jeans with shades on his eyes. He laughs, "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare ya. You OK?" asked the guy. Cassandra caught her breath, replying back: "Yeah, just suffer a bad dream." She explained briefly. The young man nodded. "Hmm, yeah. I thought it was hilarious to see you tossed and turned like a maniac." He said. Cassandra looked mortified, "Heh, right. So, um, what do you do?" She said, changing the subject. "What's that supposed to mean?" asked the man, quite perplexed. "I mean, what did you do for a living?" Cassandra said. The young man cocked his eyebrows, "What? You want to know like you're interested?" He said. Cassandra let out a sigh of dismay, "Fine, fine." She said, annoyed. "Is your disappointment a cry for a plea?" inquired the young man. Cassandra looked at him, then the young man pulled out a card and said, 
"Odd jobs." "Say what?" Cassandra asked. "I do odd jobs my sexy princess." said the young man. He hands her a card, Cassandra takes it and reads the name, " Elisha Starkad." She glanced at him with a cocked eyebrow, "That's my name, don't wear it out sugar." shrugged Elisha. The nurse calls out, "Cassandra Endymion." That's her cue! Cassandra looked at him, "Sorry, I have to go now." She said. "Don't worry about saying goodbye, I'm sure we'll see each other again soon." said Elisha. Cassandra grinned and walked off. Later on, Once all blood tests have been in, Cassandra and the rookies can finally get to their next assignment in a place called Mictlan. 

Mictlan was hell, it had always been to hell. "What is this place? Oh god...!" gasped Cassandra. Brother 10 observes this as they couldn't believe this was Mictlan, it was a nightmare. Destruction, like the apocalypse. What kind of world was this? Turan was panicking and freaking out as she begins to lose her mind a little by the shock she was seeing of this place. Cassandra and the others were shocked to see a monster confronting her. Then Cassandra could hear its thoughts. "You--you want to eat me? No, I won’t let you!" said Cassandra to the monster. She flexed her hand and uses her telekinesis to kill this monster. The monster convulsed, it twisted, and then finally; it exploded! There was a mass of beige substances splattered all over her! Cassandra was stunt for a while before a grin broke over her face. She giggled to herself, "I did it! Ew....I really did it! I can't believe it! I just nobody saw--" She turns around as her smile faded. "--That."What she saw was a 15 year old boy. Chocolate brown hair. Red eyes. Light skin. Buttoned shirt, a cap on his head, it looks like. He was a teenage soldier, who looked horrified at Cassandra. He saw it, he saw her kill that beast. "Oh crap." Cassandra thought. "Busted! How do I get myself out of this?" She slowly smiled kindly, "Hello there---" she greeted but the boy lunged at her, "AAAAHHHH!" He cried. The boy begin to claw at her like a wild man. Trying to punch her but Cassandra restrained the boy. "Hey! Hey!" She protested, the boy did not yield. "Stop! Cease! Take it easy! Will you stop?! I am not going to hurt you!" Cassandra held the boy's fists away from her. "Who are you?!" The boy demanded. "My name is Cassandra. I swear, I will not hurt you. Here, I am not going to hurt--" She reaches over to touch his face but the boy recoiled away. "Get away, no! Don't you dare--Don't--" But he was helpless, Cassandra was calm as she stroke her hand on his face. At once, Cassandra could read his mind, know his name. But not completely of a lot.

"Did you seriously kill that Revenant?" asked the boy, softly. Cassandra did a double take. "That's a Revenant?" She asked in disbelief. The boy looked at her with amazement, "You never seen one before?" he asked. "I heard of them..but in all honesty, I didn't know that was an actual Revenant!" Cassandra pointed out. Just then, a voice called out. "Jack! Who are you talking to?" Another boy in the same uniform as the other guy's was standing there. He looked young, quite a fetching fellow. "Nobody!" Jack called, he turned back to Cassandra fiercely. "Listen, you gotta get out of here now!" He demanded. "Why? I can help!" Cassandra persisted. "No, you--" Jack started to say but the boy calls back: "Jack, who is that?" "No one!" Jack snapped. He turned to Cassandra with pleading eyes. "Please, get out now!" He begged. "I can help. I can hear that your thoughts are disoriented so--" Cassandra insisted, but Jack stopped her out of shock. "What?" He gasped. "You--you--can read minds? You can hear my thoughts inside of your own head?" "Of course I can." Psyche said, in a matter of fact tone. Jack was shaken out of fear. The red haired boy appeared, "Jack? Who is this?" He asked. Cassandra smiled and held out her hand, "Cassandra Endymion. It's a pleasure to meet you." she said. The boy was stunt, he shook her hand though. "I'm Bellerophon Leseratte." He said. A girl with shoulder length hair appeared, wearing the same uniform as Jack and Bellerphon. "Boys, who is this girl?" She asked in a voice so soft but full of curiosity. "Wow, this your girlfriend?" Cassandra asked, to Jack. Jack glared at her, "She's not my girlfriend!" He declared. "Who are you? A witch?" The girl asked. "I am no witch, I am an ally and I came to help." Cassandra said. "No, she's--" Jack started to say, but the girl stopped him. "Hold up, Jack. This girl may able to help." She said, coming to Cassandra's rescue. 

"Sh'yeah, I killed a Revenant." Cassandra admitted. Bellerphon and the girl were shocked. "How?!" They asked. "I have an ability where I can move obstacles or other things with my mental conscious." Cassandra explained. Bellerphon and the girl looked at each other, they turned to Jack. "You know about this?" Bellerphon asked. "Yeah, but she doesn't know what the military does here." Jack said. "Let her help, Jack. She can be of help to us." The girl said. Jack was irked but he agreed. Cassandra smiled with delight, "Thank you." She said. The girl turned to her, she stretched out her hand. Although her stern face remained unchanged; she sounded nicer. "I'm Minerva Toter." "I'm Cassandra--" Cassandra said but other Revenants attacked and Cassandra, Jack, Minerva, and Bellerphon prepared for battle. They ran from them while battling. “Who are you? Why the hell did you come here?” screeched Jack. "Be careful, Jack Morder. Don't do anything reckless!" Cassandra called out. "How did you know my name?" Jack asked with shock. Busted! Cassandra turned away, "Later!" She shouted. The Revenants were chasing after them. Cassandra thought craftily as she reached over to Loki, carried him into her arms and flied! Jack was amazed by this, "What? You can fly?" He asked. Minerva and Bellerphon watched in amazement but they followed the gliding Cassandra. "YOU! CAN! FLY!" Jack shouted, Cassandra smiled at him. Minerva, and Bellerphon were amazed as well: "Oh my..." Bellerphon breathed. The two followed Cassandra and Jack to wherever they are going.

Meanwhile; George Trottel and Margaret Reiten got to the stone figure as George beat the drum. But nothing happened. "Hello?" Margaret said to the stone figure. Nothing happened, so George walked up to it and said, "Wakey wakey. Up and at 'em!" Still nothing. Margaret was getting annoyed. "Ugh, c'mon! Wake--" She didn't realized she was holding the drumstick as the stone figure fell apart. George and Margaret watch in horror as it fell apart. "Uh oh." They both said. They looked each other nervously before back at the figurine. "Look at what you've done!" George exclaimed. "Me? You should've stopped me!" protested Margaret. "Yeah, well...You're the one who got upset." George argued. However they noticed someone coming towards them, Turan swayed side to side but saw George watching her. George was terrified as he started to run out as the wind went swoosh. But then, he felt a boom against him. Turan had bombard him and knocks him off balance, Turan lands on top of him. Her blood formed into magical-like, slender hands which one caresses his sides while the other holds the back of his neck. George can't seem to escape as Turan presses down her chest on his torso. The blood hands slide down in the back of his shirt towards his skin. The blood hand multiple as it caressed his back, his arm, his shoulders, and down to his thighs. George is frightened and confused to resist, Turan's eyes were red violet clouding her vision and not looking at him. The red bloodied girl on top of him was a shade of red, like a raw piece of meat. He could feel her heart beating like wings flapping furiously. Memories coming back to him. Him and Margaret, his friend, stumbling across a nice looking house and a woman who seemed sweet. She was fun, she had a wonderful garden and she had great hospitality. 

But the seemingly sweet woman turns out to be a creepy hag that was a Revenant. The Revenant Hag then caused George to suffer of torture and is placed with a painful mark. Luckily, Margaret rescues him and they killed the hag, escaping from the house and reunited with their families. George panted as he found his voice, "No...Don't touch me...." He begged towards Turan but she says, "A...scar?" Her voice, she sounded like a creature from the netherworld! "Wha--?" George choked. The blood hands formed together as they did some sort of surgery upon him. "Stop it....!!!!" He cried. But then he felt something, the pain, the roughness of his scar was healing from the blood hands. Turan's head move back and forth, swaying left and right. She stood up slowly as she started singing in that creature voice again, "Where is my head?....Where is my head?...What do I...say or tell? Please tell me, where is my head?" George watched her stood up, her red violet eyes faded as they became normal once again. Her voice was more human sounding again. She became normal, although she looked normal at him. Margaret saw Turan standing there motionless. She looked at George, who looked back nervously and looked at Turan who looked dazed. George and Margaret escorted the stupefied Turan back to their base so she can be examined at. Minerva and Bellerphon was still searching for Jack and the mysterious Cassandra. However the Revenants were trying to overpower them, when Eulalie and Deirdre appear to help them. When they arrived, Bellerphon and Minerva thought they saw angels coming down from Heaven to rescue them from Hell. One of the Revenants tried to eat Eulalie however she used her powers of gravity to explode it into pieces and she was covered in gore and goo. Bellerophon saw this as he begin crying hysterically. He cried and cried when Eulalie silences him with 

A stoned face captain and others cadets are under attack by the Revenants. But lately, they were struggling against them and things weren't going too well. That was about to change when someone looked up and saw something in the distance. "Look, up there!" One of the soldiers called. Immediately, The stoned face captain saw someone standing on a mountain top. It was Ariadne, which she hollers: "Soldiers, heed my words, I am here to delivery you from the hands of the Revenants. Witness a miracle I will perform."  The others looked at each other with confusion, the stoned face captain watched what she can do. Ariadne took a deep breath and flexed her hands out. She then said to herself, "Water....my friend...my partner...my world...my element...the only thing I ask for you...is for a little control." All of a sudden; to everyone was shocked to see a body of water in the sky. Then, the water came onto the Revenants and drowned them. Freya then said to the water, "Water flowing through...." She chanted, ".....Freeze up when this spell is through." The water turns into a huge block of ice prison for the creatures. Then she glided down and kicked the ice block, which exploded in pieces. Ariadne landed among the pieces, she saluted. "Ariadne Sirius, reporting for duty." She announced. She beamed and then looked to see stoic-faced captain looking at her. "Captain Siegfried Krieger. Nice to meet you." said the stoic faced guy. One of the soldiers, name Indra Seltsam, and the commander Adam Rustung were amazed by this. Another soldier, name Tristan Fanger, noticed the shy and disturbed Melisande as he suddenly has pity for her. By her depressed look, she seemed sad. Juana came from the shadows to aid a startled female soldier, whose name is Henrietta Sonne, and comforted her, "Are you all right, Senorita?" asked Juana softly. Henrietta looked up and nodded, "Yeah. I'm shocked but I'm OK." 

Back with Cassandra; They managed to find a quiet, abandoned place and landed there. Cassandra let  Jack go safely from her grasp."So, whatcha think?" Cassandra asked with a smile. Jack was speechless until he remembered what happened. "Arrrrrgggggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!" He shouted.  Jack charged at her with a vorpal blade but it smashed into a wall. "You're right, you're right. I was trying to show you--" Cassandra said quickly as possible. "You....You!"  Jack warned. "Right, sorry! Sorry!" Cassandra apologized."OK, OK, Take it easy." She claimed.  Jack nodded, "Are you an angel? A demon?" He asked. “Not at all, I just…I don’t know what I am but I can tell you one thing. I am no demon nor angel. I come in peace and came to know you— Jack Morder. Please, let me talk to the authorities and explain what’s going on.” Cassandra explained. At once; Jack lowered his weapon and nodded. “OK. I’ll trust you. But if you pull anything, I’ll kill you.” He said. Cassandra nods, obeying to his word but she fear of being hurt again. Minerva and Bellerphon came by, “Are you OK?” Minerva asked. “I am now.” Jack said. Minerva and Bellerphon stared at Cassandra with curiosity. Wondering who she is. Cassandra, Jack, Eulalie, Bellerphon, Deirdre, and Minerva walked back to the base of the camp where there were staring from the others. Jack looks at Cassandra, "Well, ask them if you want to talk to the 'authorities'." He whispered. Cassandra was nervous around these people, she cleared her throat and spoke up, "Hello there...Is there someone I can talk to? Please?" Just then, the commanding leader Adam Rustung appears before her. "I may be useful for any assistance." He said to her. A few minutes later, Adam & Siegfried are seen talking to Cassandra who was seated and looking rather shy. 

"Let me see if I heard you right, you are trying to tell me you took on a Revenant with just your mind. You didn't even touch it, am I correct?" asked Adam Rustung. Siegfried scoffed, he didn't even smile though. Adam gestured him to be quiet, Cassandra nodded. "Yes sir." She said. "That thing wanted to eat me...And I didn't, I didn't want to die so I had no choice but...Is that a problem?" Adam shook his head, "No. Not at all. I think you did it to survive and I must say I am impressed." He admitted. "Can I say something?" said Siegfried, "I like to see some proof of your power." Cassandra looked at him with disbelief, "Right now?" She asked. Siegfried nodded, 
"Yes." He said. "Me and my big mouth." thought Cassandra. She stood up as she said slowly, "OK..." Cassandra straightened herself together, she rolled her shoulders back and then she closed her eyes as she whispered, "...Here goes...." Concentrated; she was about to summon this power but the distraction of the door bursting open made her lose concentration. A soldier's voice called out, "Commander Rustung, I apolo--" Cassandra spun to him to glare however her telekinesis accidentally sent the man backwards, "Ahhhh!" He cried. "No!" Cassandra screeched, using her telekinesis to save the soldier, who was shocked over what just happened. "Do not tell anyone." begged Cassandra. The soldier was so frightened that he couldn't speak, he was speechless so Adam came to him and said, "I would advise you not to speak of what you saw to anyone. I believe this 'witch' you would try to accuse will not be in this record." The soldier saluted, "Yes sir!" He said and off he went. It was silent for a moment before Siegfried spoke up, "I don't think this is good for her to use this power. She shouldn't use it." Cassandra looked at him with surprise, "What--?" She asked. But lucky for her, Adam came to the rescue: "She needs practice, that's all. A little encouragement." He said. Siegfried glared at him, then he thought about it. "True...." Siegfried admitted, he was quiet for a moment before he spoke again, "...I have an idea." Krieger and Cassandra head out to the training area of the encampment. A lot of soldiers were talking a little, Cass saw Jack among the crowd. 

"Listen up!" Siegfried Krieger announced , silencing the chit-chat. The soldiers immediately were standing tall, and they looked stoned face. "Captain Siegfried Krieger!" They respond. Siegfried Krieger removed his cap and spoke to the others with authority. "You will assemble full tilt and without a sound." He said, loosening his white collar underneath his uniform. Ariadne looked at him with wide eyes, he looked almost dashing but she too went stone faced. Siegfried turned to the soldiers and then he called out, "Cassandra Endymion, step forward please." Cassandra froze, she gesture towards herself. Siegfried nodded, "Come forth." He said. Nervous, she approached him but Siegfried seized her by her chin and found herself looking at Siegfried's icy blue eyes. "Let me see those eyes." He instructed. Cassandra looked at him in the eye. Waiting. After what it seemed like an eternity; Siegfried nodded, "Hmm...They look normal, display your powers OK?" He says, letting go of her. "Just, relax." Cassandra looked around, she was shaken. Cassandra never learned how to maintain her powers, it was really scary for her to display it publically. Captain Krieger realized Cassandra was not using her powers, so he walked over to her and stares down. Cassandra didn't meet his eyes but he spoke to her: "He who is impulsive can be murdered. As a result, though we have heard of foolish urgency in battle, inventive has never been seen associated with far-off hindrances. To accomplish centenary fights is not of the cardinal merit. Conquer one's enemy past combating is the climax of power. You can't show fear, you are stronger than this." 

Krieger went behind her, speaking softly to her. "Allow your expedition be that of the tempest, your density that of the woods. In maraud and liberation be like the pyre, in stability like the peaks. Allow your strategies be crepuscular yet substantial as night, and when you run, drop like a drum fire." Then he spoke up, "Let's try it again." said Siegfried. He moved away, Cassandra took his words to heart and she concentrated. However she can hear something, she looked around but no one was speaking but she can hear in their thoughts. A song, it sounded strange. Like a chorus of an army. The song goes like this: “Art of war….” and Cassandra could hear a thought singing, “Quick as the cyclone air.” The chorus of thoughts belted into her mind, “Art of war….” The main thought crooned, “Of the calming as the woods.” The chorus of thoughts intoned in Cassandra’s head, “Art of war…” The main thought serenaded, “Be brutal as the flaring flames, adequate as the great peaks of the mountain.” The singing in her head, it gave her courage. She concentrated and then she managed to telekinetically break apart all of the objects of the training. All the dummies but she manages to control her emotions. Once she was finished; there was an applause from the others. She was embraced by someone from behind. She looked to see that it was George grinning and Margaret hugging her, Eulalie and the others praised Cassandra. Jack had a hand around Cassandra’s shoulder, he has a small but pleased smile on his face. For the first time, Cassandra could belong. She noticed that Siegfried was slowly applauding to her. His face remained unchanged however there was a hint of satisfactory.

While taking a walk in the forest, Cassandra saw Jack training but then Cassandra watched in horror as Loki turned into a Revenant creature, “Oh dear Lord! He’s a Revenant?” She thought. Revenant Loki begin to do all sorts of combat moves in order to take down these savage, killer monsters. Cassandra hide behind a tree, watching him work hard at his skills. Once Jack was done, he changed back to normal but he fell unconscious. This is it, this was her chance to see inside his head and she rushed over there. Cassandra kneel down at the unconscious Jack, she placed her hands on the side of his face and begins to read his mind: In a flash; she saw it. His memories. More clear though. She saw a memory of a young Jack living in a happy life but he was a fearsome person when it came to his anger. Jack was not an idiot, he was simply emotional. The memories changed--It was an unconscious dream of darkness and blood flowing...Wait? Whose blood is that? There were monsters with claws and baring their teeth. Someone called out a name, "Jack...Jack!" The boy, Jack, woke up from sleep with a start. He panted and looked around, his foster sister Minerva was calling his name. She was dressed in uniform. "W-what?" Jack asked. "Come on, we're gonna be late." Minerva urged. At once, Jack threw the covers to reveal he was in his pajamas. "Sorry, coming!" He called. 

As Minerva left the room; Jack got ready. He got his uniform on and looked out the window. The beautiful sky, would it be like this forever? He wasn't sure about that. "Jack! Minerva is waiting!" It was his mother's voice. "Coming Mom." He called. And left his room with his messenger bag. It was the first year of middle school, Jack and his friends were attending there. They were excited about the next field trip until one day, it happened. Jack was paying attention but he heard a scratching sound. “What the heck was that?” He wondered. He turned and was shocked to see an Revenant! Jack got up, when his teacher asked but saw the creature too. The Revenant broke in and wreck the classroom. The only ones that survived luckily were Jack, Minevra, and Bellerophon. They each hurried back to their homes, Jack enters his house but is stunt to find his mother struggling against an Revenant. She looks to see her son, “Everything’s going to be OK. Just don’t look.” “Mom!” Jack cried but his mother shake her head, “Sweetheart. Just go, please!” She said. Tears welled in his eyes, “No….No, NO, NOOO! I’m not leaving you! Just forget it!” Jack shouted. “JACK! GO, RUN!” screamed his mother. The Revenant bite into Jack's mother, who gasped. Jack was motionless, frozen, his mother was lifeless now as she bled to death. Jack was pulled away by Minerva, who dragged him off. She and he reunite with Bellerophon and other survivors from the school. Losing his mother to a Revenant was the most unsettling mental wound, and ever since that day; he vowed to wipe out as many Revenants as possible. 

When Jack was 15, his present age; He made friends during his training: Beowolf Kannibale, Apollo Himmel, Gaia Erde, two goofballs name George Trottel & Margaret Reiten and made a rival with Tristan Fanger but they made a truce and got along just a little bit. However things changed when Beowolf, Apollo, and Gaia turned out to be Revenants too as they were the ones that started the massacre of Jack's school. "Jack...I don't want to hurt you, I just want to understand you. To feel better, to feel like I'm not the only one." Cassandra thought, talking to him in his thoughts. Suddenly, she felt a burst of pain through her. "What's happening? I feel--Augh! It hurts!" She said, gasping. Jack regained consciousness, he was shocked to see what was happening. "Oh no!" He thought. Cassandra begin to change into a Revenant, she was unaware of what is going on but for the first time, she wanted to fight. She saw other Revenants and she went after them fiercely. She lunged at them as she rescues lives like the other soldiers and kills them. As soon as she is done; the soldiers stared at her in fear. Revenant Cassandra approached them and placed her claw-hand on Lieutenant Reiten. A few moments later; she was in astonishment. “Cassandra…Endymion? Is that you?” asked Margaret. Cassandra transformed back to normal. She gasps as she fell unconscious to the ground. "Did Cassandra just--?" asked George. "How did she do that?" Margaret inquired. Adam glanced at her body, his face was calm and relax but he looked concern at this mysterious girl. "Cassandra Endymion, what are you?" He thought. 

Once more while watching the Moneta, Ophelia was observing all this as she becomes even more obsessive. She turns away and goes to her room where she close the door and lied on her bed for a moment; the faces from Mictlan are haunting her. But the most ones are Jack, Minerva, Bellerphon, Siegfried, Tristan however mostly Jack. And then her hands fumbled under the covers and she begins to...Jerk. She looked like she was crying, thinking about Bellerophon's tearful face when he saw Eulalie, who is still alive but she is covered in blood, gunk, and slobber. Thinking and in tears while thinking about George and Margaret in a horror experience with Morgan, even the healing surgery she did on the bruise George had on him. But then, Ophelia begins to moan softly and gasps while remembering when she saw Jack's suffering memories, his determination, his emotions, and his transformation into a Revenant. However she stops and she goes to the bathroom to wash her hands five times. "Ugh, what is the matter with me?" She said to herself. 


Chapter 3: Spontaneous Me 

In this unconsciousness; Cassandra begins to have vivid nightmares of a young girl losing her parents to the Revenants until Jack saved her. The girl is Minerva, which she is touched by his heroic efforts. The next memory shows of Jack and Minerva as kids rescuing a fainted-hearted, intelligent boy who was in shambles of fear from bullies. This boy was Bellerophon. It was where Jack and his friends become close to one another, scenes show Jack struggling while he worked hard in his skills. He wouldn't go back on his promises; thinking of his dear mother. One day earlier when he was a preteen, Jack reunited with his father who loses his edge on sanity! "Dad? Are you OK?" Jack asked, noticing his father was acting stranger than usual today. His father turned to him slowly, "Jack...Did you see what they did to your mother?" He asked ominously. "What?" Jack said, "I don't know what you're talking about." "Did you see them murdered innocent people?" Professor Morder asked. "Dad, why are you asking me this? What's going on?" Jack insisted. 

Jack's father seized his son's shoulders and he looked overwrought, "TELL ME YOU SAW PEOPLE GETTING THEIR VISCERAS TORN OUT AND EATEN! THE INNOCENT LIVES DYING, PLEASE! YOU HAVE TO TELL ME WHAT YOU SAW ON THAT DAY!!!!!!" He demanded. Jack was frightened, "I--I heard scratching on the window, I looked and--I ran home during all this disaster! Why the hell would you ask me this?! Mom's dead, her throat had been torn open and I didn't save her! It's all my fault! Punish me if you want but it won't bring her back!" Jack protested. But somehow he didn't, Professor Morder never raised a hand on his son and always forgave him before. He released his son from his grasp and he turned away where an emotional yet quiet sound made Jack wondered if his father was really crying. He had never seen his father cried before. Not in his life has Jack seen his Dad blubber. Morder begin to pray softly to himself in a murmur: "Oh God....Please, help this little boy to face the dark days ahead. Show him if he becomes an abomination, he will deliver these monster back to hell." "Dad? Dad?" Jack called out to his father, "What's wrong?" His father turned to his son after he wiped his eyes with his back turned. "Jack, I have something to show you." Jack and his father were heading towards Professor's workshop, the one that Jack and his friends were told to never go in there. But when they got inside, Jack went unconscious and then he woke up strapped to a table and his father standing over him with a scalpel. 

Jack was so scared that he tried to scream for help but his father put a hand over his mouth and shouted: "SAVE THE INNOCENCE, MY SON! YOU PRAY, BOY! YOU PRAY FOR MERCY!!!!" Jack is terrified and that was all he remembered. Cassandra was so shocked of that memory in her mind that she woke up. Panted and gasping for breath; Cassandra looked around to see that she was in the medics. She looked beside her to see Jack sleeping beside her cot. Cassandra seemed pleasant to see him there as she wondered what happened. That's when she remembered, she had touched Jack's forehead and absorbed his powers! And how she became a Revenant for 60 minutes! "Oh god, did I really become an Eldritch?" She thought. "Dear Lord of Elijah! Have mercy on me!" She looked back at Jack, who was still asleep: In all her life, she had been a broken person since the shooting of the prom. But with some like Jack; he was a passionate, determined, and emotional and she never met anyone like him. Hot blooded, berserk warrior as he was and strong. Cassandra's mental insanity made her feel like a twirling ballerina rotating in that old music box of herself and mind. She wants to be free from her pain, not to be broken over and over again. But she is afraid of chance since her powers came into view. Cassandra had always been trapped, unabled to do anything. She needed liberty, a fish that need to be cut from the rod. She wants out from her anguish. Jack was somehow an inspiration for her. So has Commanding Leader Adam Rustung and Captain Siegfried Krieger. Doubt clouding her mind; Cassandra is caught between freedom from her trauma and not wanting to be in danger. Would she die while doing this? And more importantly, Cass wonders to herself: "What the hell am I? Just what in the hell am I?" 

In the meantime, the blood tests' results came back. It turns out that Cassandra were bitten is influenced by a serum force submitted inside them. A sort of rage fuel for Cassandra, Eulalie, Deirdre, Turan, Norna, and Juana. Once a person is pushed too far over the limit when they are hurt emotionally or physically by merciless torment; all their emotions, their stress, and fears is in a combination. This rage fuel is known as Febris! But if someone had supernatural powers like Cass, plus Febris, would equal a cyclone of mass destruction. However, Cassandra is the only one bitten--At lease for now! But then, the disaster happens: Eulalie was playing her violin, ballerina dancing, and defying her gravity powers. Every time she did a twist, a grand plie, a pirouette, chasse, fouette, a glissande, and releve. But she didn't stop there--She did grand jete, pas de chat, pas de bourree, passe, demi plie, sissonne, tendu, and grand e' cart. However this attracts the attention of Bellerophon, who praised her for her talent. Just then, a Liderc attacks Eulalie bite her into skin. Eulalie screamed out in pain. Once the Liderc left her; Bellerophon was emotional a little as he took her to the medics. But Eulalie wasn't the only one being brought in; Deirdre was brought in by Minerva, Turan & Norna was being escorted by Margaret and George, Ariadne was brought in by Captain Krieger, and Juana is being brought in by Henrietta. While watching her sleep; George felt so guilty that he didn't want to leave Turan's side, he would wait until she awoke and he would apologize for not saving her. However he refuse to get some sleep but Margaret told him to go; saying to him not to crucify himself over something like this. George agrees reluctantly as he went back to his quarters to sleep. But while half asleep; He felt someone caressing his head in a comfort manner. He wondered who it was and turned but found no one there. Then, George went to sleep. 

For the time being; Jack, Minerva, and Bellerophon were in town today as they were at a memorial site of the day their school was killed by the Revenants. But someone was skipping passed them as they look to see it was a giddy Ophelia, daydreaming as it would seem, however she noticed them and grinned. Then she skipped away happily. "Who was that?" asked Bellerophon, who broke the silence after the three of them were staring at the retreating, mysterious girl. "I have no idea.....But I think she knows us." remarked Jack. Ophelia's happy mood attracts the attention of Henrietta, George, Margaret, Tristan, and Captain Krieger. Then, trouble began. Someone stole an important weapon of the cadet's base. Only a few cannot fight the Revenants without their weapons. But there was worsen news: The Lidercs were also attacking! But during this battle is about to get worse when some sort of wicked young lady with blonde curls, icy blue eyes, and perfect skin. "Well, well! Silver Branch's Misfits Squad. What a bunch of freaks! Too bad you're all gonna die!" said the crazy woman, in a sneer tone. She laughs at them, "Eat shit, bastards!" She exclaimed and laughed maniacally. She was about to use her powers to attack however her weapons are disabled telekinetic. That person came from Melisande, who has telekinesis just like Cassandra! "Back off!" She cried. Everyone was shocked about this, "Whoa...." said Cassandra softly. "Just like Cass." replied Deirdre. "Mel....?" Ariadne thought. The woman looks at Melisande for a moment, "Melisande Zebedee, is that you? Good Lord, you look like hell." She commented. "It's been awhile, hasn't it...Hestia? You look like crap the last time I saw you." recalled Melisande. Hestia looked at her, "What did you say, Zebedee?" She asked. She was about to attack however Melisande got the upper hand, "Wipe that smile off your face, Mel!" 

Melisande smirked at her, "Don't get distracted now, this is the grand finale!" She said. Hestia looked disgusted, "No way, I'm done here. I'm outta here!" She said. "Hold up, we're not through here!" Melisande called out. "You are with me." Hestia snapped. "There is still time, Tia." said Melisande. "Take that godda--" Hestia cried, but Melisande slapped her with her telekinesis. Everyone gasped in shocked, Hestia is angry as she screamed: "SHE SLAPPED ME!!! CRAP, YOU BITCH!" "Never damned Yehweh, he is holy. It is who is damned." Melisande replied. George begin to laugh with surprise, "What a beast!" He exclaimed. Ariadne couldn't believe Melisande, "Mel never told me about her powers....How can this be?" She wondered. Hestia looked at her and then turned to everyone else, "Do something about this cow, you freaks!" She shouted. "Like hell!" Hestia looked around frantically, panic rose in her chest. "C'mon, help me out here! She's not like all of you!" Hestia begged. Ariadne snapped out of it and cried out, "She's my friend!" Hestia turned back to Melisande with a deadly glare, "You can't get away like this." She said. "I just did." Melisande remarked. Hestia was pissed, "THIS ISN'T OVER YET, MISFITS OF SILVER BRANCH! NOT BY A LONG SHOT!!!!" She screamed and she went away. It turns out in the end, the others found out the culprits--Two girls name Levina and Simone. But when the two saw Ariadne; they were filled with joy. They begin to call her 'Aunt Aria', much to Ariadne's confusion. Levina introduced herself, "My name is Levina Sirius, call me Vina if you wish. Simone and I are the daughters of Phaedra....Nice to meet you Aunt Ariadne." Some people try to convince Ariadne that these girls were making up lies however Ariadne believed them. She begin to get slightly tearful, "No, they're telling the truth...They both have my mother's hair. My father's eyes, and the rest is from my sister. One of them is authoriative like my mother and sister while the other is jolly just like my--father....And me...." She said. 

Meanwhile; Cassandra was brought into questioning about what Hestia said so Cassandra explains what is really going on. She explained of the strange events, but she left out the tragedy of prom. It was too traumatizing for her to say or she'll start to freak out while having grisly, painful flashbacks. Siegfried and Adam seemed intrigued by this. Don't ask how but Jack and his allies joined Silver Branch. They got to see the floating island of Carlisle; everyone was amazed by this whole, new, brave world that was truly amazing, so many wonderful things to make mankind beautiful. Once then; Cassandra and Jack went to the pool, where his friends were having fun when Samson and Borvo noticed Jack, they decided to introduce themselves. Even the others catch a glance at the newcomer and befriend Jack but not Proteus. He resented Jack because he was not even human but that wasn't why. He feared that he must have a dark influence on Cassandra and doesn't want him to make things worse for her. Samson mentioned that there is a package for Cassandra that is anonymous. A curious Cassandra seemed ecstatic about this so she went over and opened the package. But her excitement turned into sheer horror; inside was of blood samples, viscera--vital organs, and hair and skin tissues that was labeled her dead friends' names. Brother 10 noticed that Cassandra hyperventilating. There was a note in there, it says: "Sending this was easier than finding you on foot. Sorry for your losses, their deaths were a gut wrenched hell but there's going to be a lot gore for what's ahead." Cassandra was so scared that she fainted. 

When she woke up, she was blinded by light and then she rubbed her eyes to see her team staring at her. "What?" She demanded crossly. The others of Brother 10 looked away, "Nothing!" They said. Later when she recovered; Cassandra meets a beautiful doctor name Iris Bifrost; she has wavy brown hair, emerald green eyes, red lipsticked, a black dress and a doctor's coat. She gives her a prescription medication called Nepenthe. Nepenthe is to help her prevent bad dreams however the side effects include hallucinations, dizziness, and unusual dreams. One day, Simone was playing when she saw Melisande working but she was crying emotionally. She looked like she was in distress, in such pain. This broke Simone's heart; she felt so bad for her. Perhaps she doesn't know her that well but she hates to see people so sad. Something must be done, that's when Little Simone had an idea! She ran to find Tristan, and she found him working. "Tristan!" Simone called out, run-skip to him. Tristan saw her coming over to him, "Hey Simone." He greeted. When Simone came over to him, she asked: "Can I ask you a favor?" Tristan looks at her with suspicion. Simone explained what was going on, Tristan was shocked and then he said: "You want me to take Melisande, that girl who faced the other mad woman, out in the city for a 'date'?" Simone nodded, "Yup!" She said. Tristan was unsure, "I don't know, I....You saw what she did back there...." He said, with uncertainty. "Please, Tristan! She is so sad. I hate seeing people so sad, think of it as an act of sympathy!" Simone begged. Tristan doesn't know what to say, "I..." "Please?? Pretty please?" pleaded Simone. Tristan looked at her big doe eyes and sighed, "OK, I'll do it." He admitted. Simone pumped her fists in the air, "Yay! Thank you, Tristan!" She cheered. She jumps up and kissed his cheek before running away happily. 

Melisande is reading a book on stress and emotional behavior when she felt someone by her side, she looked up startled to see Tristan, "Hi." He said. Melisande closed her book, "Oh! Hi there." She said. Tristan looks down at the book and asked, "What are you reading?" Melisande rolled her eyes, "It's just a stupid psychobabble book really." She said grumpily. Tristan nodded, "Interesting." He said. But then he noticed Melisande looked depressed, "How are you?" asked Tristan. "Fine...I think." Melisande admitted. They were silent for a moment, until Tristan spoke: "You know, this world is very beautiful and the city looks great at night. I was wondering, would you like to go see it with me?" He asked. Melisande looked up in shock, "Pardon?" She asked. "I said, would you like to see the city with me? It'll be fine, it'll be just you and--" Tristan said. Melisande felt her blood boil, "I AM NOT GOING ANYWHERE WITH YOU! FORGET IT!" She said and got up to walk away. Tristan ran after her, "Melisande, wait!" He called out. Melisande walked faster, she didn't dare look back. But felt a graze on her shoulder, "Wait!" Tristan's voice said. Melisande whirled her head around, "DON'T TOUCH ME!!!" She shouted, she felt guilty when she saw Tristan's face. "...I'm sorry, please don't try to trick me. I don't like being tricked!" begged Melisande. "I'm not trying to trick, really. I would never do that, honestly." Tristan insisted. "Right....Sorry, I--I--I can't!" stuttered Melisande, she ran off in a hurry as she begin to cry. Tristan sat alone, angry about what happened. "Great! What do I do now?" He thought. A happy Simone came up to him, "Well?" She asked eagerly. Tristan looked down, scared to disappoint her with an explanation; he admitted saying: "...I'm sorry...."

Deep in some sort of secret place; Ophelia is printing out pictures of Brother 10, Zodiac Tarot, Amazon Brigade, Anarchy Sons, Concord Ritters, and El Elite. Everyone from the new-coming recruits to the original teammates. There are most pictures of Jack Morder too! Other photos include of Cassandra, Eulalie, Deirdre, Turan, Norna, Ariadne, and Juana. Ophelia kept them all these photos in tribute collages and under lock & key! However, she fears that they will be found. And when that happens, she is scared of being laughed and rejected. She idolizes these people, she wants friends. To be loved, that's all she ever wanted. Realizing what time it is, she stored it away, locked the key, and hurried back to help Silver Branch with her little brother. While working; Ophelia was tedious of all the work that had to be done. "Geez, this is such a bore." moaned Ophelia. "Eh!!!" said Ophelia's little brother. "Don't complain, woman, it'll be fine." "Riiiiiigggggggghhhhhhtttt." Ophelia remarked. She groaned, "Why can't we have a crew like Cassandra?"whined Ophelia. "Will you stop?" said her brother. "What?" asked Ophelia. "It's all you talk about. Cassandra this, Cassandra that." replied her brother. Ophelia shrugged, "Hey, she's cool. I want a team just like hers." She said. Mimir called Cassandra, Eulalie, and Deirdre in to tell them that they need to use guns against the Lidercs--much to their dismay however Mimir seemed to know their fears and said to them, "I understand that you girls are uncomfortable but the only way to face fears is fear itself. You won't be anything like those people that killed your friends and peers at the massacre. You will not use guns to kill humans, only to Lidercs. Understand?" "Yes sir." The girls replied but they are unsure about what lies ahead in their next mission. Surprisingly; Cassandra, Deirdre, and Eulalie are paired up to go on their next mission together. While riding in their flying ship but then a dark vortex caused them to see their fears come to life. They hallucinate seeing themselves confronted by Lidercs, they have a gun in their hands but when they pulled the trigger; they found a dead body of a human there. They couldn't believe what they did. People begin to jeer, "Murderers, murderers!" "No, you don't understand! There was a human there!" Cassandra protested but the girls were locked in an asylum however they were surrounded by monsters who preyed upon them. The three girls screamed as they begged to be let out but laughter and jeers torment them so. 

When they wake up, they found themselves in a city at day time, this city is called Annwn. They were amazed by it however Cassandra begin to remember the hallucinations from before and begins to cry. "Cass, what's the matter?" asked Eulalie. Cassandra try to talk but all that came out was, "Ah, gug! Uh, ub." She was crying uncontrollably so much that she couldn't speak. "Hello, anyone there?" Someone called out. Cassandra didn't look up, the tears in her eyes clouded her vision. "Your friend all right?" Another voice asked. "She just--Hit her ankle near a ditch and almost fell. It shocked her so much that she begin crying." lied Eulalie. Cassandra felt like someone's shadows upon her. She looked up to see who it was. "Are you OK?" The young man asked, he sounded concern. Cassandra sniffed and then replied in a calmer tone, "Yeah...I'm fine, my name's Cassandra Endymion." She said. The young man nodded, "All right, I'm Loftr Ivan." He said. Eulalie nervously introduced herself to the other guy, "My name is Eulalie Merlin." She said, outstretching her hand to the guy. The guy then took it and replied with politeness, "Pleasure, I'm Edvin Wabosso." "Torina Kumakarna, but call me Tora." said the girl. 
"And I'm Deirdre Ganymede." said Deirdre. They became friends on that day, Loftr's group was known as Paradies Castillo. For the time being; Turan goes undercover and works for a bunch of intimidating guys known as Weiss Castillo, she disguised herself as a masked man. With her symbiotic-blood powers; she kept her gender a secret however she has been running into trouble with the Lidercs lately and has given Weiss Castillo a bad name. And they are not so happy about it when they learn what was going on. In the meantime, Ariadne begins to perform her singing on the street while playing the guitar. But this caused her to be arrested without a license by Rote Zentrum. In the cell; Ariadne begins to sing and play different instruments. It turns out that Rote Zentrum weren't really arresting her without a license--It was because the leader has taken an interest in her of her abilities. Things got crazy when the Lidercs invaded the base of Rote Zentrum so Ariadne freed herself and fought back against the Lidercs; amazing the others of her skills. Cassandra is chased by Weiss Castillo, after she is seen talking to a disguised Turan. Cassandra confronted them and she absorbed their powers and used them against this gang. Finally; Cassandra made her escape and told her friends what happened. 

Watching Cassandra and all the others with the Moneta, Ophelia is ecstatic to see the missions they are on and how exciting this all is. "If I wasn't so fretful about loud noises so much, I would love to be part of all that." thought Ophelia, feeling dreadful for her condition of hypersensitivity to loud sounds and trying to find a 'remedy' for it. In the past; Ophelia was rejected by troubled classmates whom she once thought of as her friends because these people were cool. In middle school, she was bullied. And as a child, she went through a mess of her being hypersensitive to sounds and being abused by her father because she couldn't 'behave right'. But in her young adult years, she had graduated and thought she would find a man she would like to date. Ophelia finally met a handsome young man name Caleb Nabal. Caleb was a nice, beautiful, yet caring person so the two of them decide to hang on a date but then Caleb begin to act strangely. He begins to smoke, he got drunk, he was violent, he was sadistic to the distress Ophelia. Ophelia try to escape however Caleb tried to prevent her and attempt to 'do his way with her'. Ophelia used skills she was taught to fight back and she made a way out. She ran, and ran until she finally found shelter. She used a phone to call her mother and tell her what had happened. Her mother finally found her as she took her daughter back home, crying happily to see that Ophelia is not dead. Ophelia is scared from that experience, this was the last straw; she couldn't take this anymore. She vowed to never again count on someone else to rescue her. From now on, Ophelia would be rescuing herself. Angry of her father's behavior, him wallowing in his pathetic self and driving her little brother crazy; Ophelia cuts out a picture of his face and scans it on her computer. She places his face in a photo edit of Mad Father character name Alfred Dryes. Ophelia smiled, feeling better about all this.  

In the interim; Edvin explains to Cassandra, Eualie, and Deirdre of the two rivaled groups: The Weiss Castillo. Their original leader, Reinold Natter, was a man that lead them into taking on the person who had killed a member of their group. These people have the ability to control blood of their own and possibly of others. Charlemagne 'Charles' Blut is the new leader now and he is another good leader just as Reinold was but his blood powers is much too deadly as he fears of hurting others. His behavior and fears remind the others of Reinold was. Charles' Blut is 27 year old, very good looking but also he is reserved. His friend from childhood: Naimon Frosch, who is younger than him by three years--He is about 24 years old. 12 year old Juliana Lause was the only girl on this team. And there are other young men: 20 year old Roland Wilde, 23 year old Oliver Vieh, 22 year old Ganelon Furunke, 21 year old Thierry Grashupfer with his close friend who is the same age as him Pinabel Dunkel.  And lastly is Ogier Eins, who is 23 years old. Their opposites are Rote Zentrum Castillo; A clan that wields ice and water abilities. 27 year old pompous, smug leader is Caesar Konig, the lady second in commander 24 year old Rachel Kaiserin. The jack of the trades, 19 year old Ace Schelm. The others include 20 year old David Springer, 23 year old Pallas Knape, 22 year old Judas Bischof, and someone who is the same age as him is Lancelot Turm. 23 year old Etienne Rossel, and lastly is Hector Soldat who is 21 years old and Argus Diener is the same age as him. Since the girls' new appearance; they will likely to cause more problems. Cassandra turned to Edvin and said, "I believe we have other issues at hand." Just then, a teacup and a kettle begins to float telekinetically. They were circulating around Cass; Tora, Edvin, and Loftr are shocked by this. Cass simply said, "I did it with my powers...." Then the stuff landed on the table with a loud thunk. It looks like Loftr and the others are about to face something unexpected that lies ahead. 

Concurrently, Turan enters a warehouse, where the gang is, and closed the door behind her. She was still in her red ninja disguise as she kept looking quiet and masculine. But when she got inside; the fewer lights from above flicked on, and there they were—Weiss Castillo. They looked intimidating, look like some sort of fire-like rage ready to burst. The leader, with dark brown hair and mature looking, like his late 20’s. He spoke with a stoic quiet voice, “So, you’re the buyer. We need to talk.” Turan seemed shocked, but nodded. The leader, Charlemagne 'Charles' Blut, walked around circling Turan. It was a lie. We saw on the news that those explosives were used to attempt murder. No more games, we want answers.” This was getting out of hand, Turan tried to back away but was blocked. “Nowhere to run, Sorry.” said the gentleman guy. Turan was ready to fight back but the junior high looking guy name Roland Wilde restrained her and pinned her down, he smirked arrogantly. “Heh, you messed with the wrong crowd, pal.” He snickered. The others were staring down at her. Turan felt a pulse of panic, trauma of her past came back, from that night. She tried to wrangle away but Roland used his shoe to press down harder. Emilia felt like she was choking, she resist the urge to blow her cover.  “Uh-uh. I wouldn’t do that if I were you.” Roland warned. He glared down at Turan, she felt anger inside her. Stress, the same she felt the night she was attacked. That was it, the limit was broke. No turning back now! Never again, she would have to suffer, never!

Turan clenched her fist as Roland grabbed her shirt, “You got some nerve messin’ with…” but he stopped and blushed. He accidentally grasped something round and orb like. “—the hell?” He muttered. Then, it came down on him as he face became a cherry red. "Holy--Boss, this is no dude." Roland said. Charles looks at him, "What?" he asked. "It's a girl!" exclaimed Roland. "WHAT?!" The boys of Weiss Castillo exclaimed. Turan freed herself away from Roland’s grasp, she revealed her true identity which had a Cheshire grin on her face. “'s the matter boys? Did you know I was a girl?" She said. Weiss Castillo, who were sneering and glaring, were now terrified by this. "No, hey! Hey! Come on, sugar--" said one of them, Pinabel. "DONT CALL ME SUGAR!" Turan screeched. She punches, kicks, upper cut hit, and knee to groin on each of the guys; who were terrified to fight back. Turan turned to her next victim but she stopped to see a familiar little girl. "You?" Turan asked. "You remember me, Turan." said the little girl, smiling. Turan nodded, slightly dazed. "Yes, you are Juliana, I can't believe it's you." She admitted. "Let me introduce my full name, I am Juliana Lause." said Juliana. The Vindicators were stunt by this. “You two know each other?” Charles asked. Juliana smiled up at him, “I saw in the city one day.” The other boys looked at Turan, the gentleman name Naimon Frosch smiled dazzling: "You're not what I suspected..." He said. Turan scoffed at him, “Oh, you trying to hit on me, hot stuff? I don’t think so. Not since you guys try to kick my ass.” The other guys looked embarrassed and they were guilty. In the meantime, Ophelia found a cute guy. 

He looked like a matured young teen at around 14-15. He seemed cute, good looking. Ophelia felt weak in the knees, she forced to straighten them and went over to give him a smile. When the guy saw Ophelia standing there smiling awkwardly, he glared at her dubiously. “What?” The guy asked. Ophelia felt really stupid, “Uh, what?” She said nicely. “You’re just standing there, what do you want?” The boy asked. Ophelia completely forgot what she came for but she remembered. “Oh! I want to know your name.” She replied. The guy smirked at her, “Pfft, like I’d tell you loon.” He said, as he strolled away. Ophelia is stunned but she runs over to him and stops him. “Loon? Now wait just a minute! I wasn’t ready, I was fashioning on being funny and cute but I totally blew it. Can I have a second chance? Please?” She asked with pleading eyes. The boy looked at her but he seemed interested, “You wanna know my name? It’s Ace Schelm.” Ophelia smiled, “I’m Ophelia Tagtraum.” She said. Ace was awestruck by this, “Ophelia, huh. I’ll remember that.” He said and turned to walk away. Ophelia felt her heart beating, “Score one, for the girl!” She thought happily. She skipped away gleefully but she stopped when she saw something there. "A skateboard!" Ophelia cried.  She said. She starts to do cool tricks on it. "All right, let's do this!" She belted as she did the skateboard tricks. "A couple more!" She stopped again and said to herself, “One more!" "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FRICKING MIND?!" A voice cried. Ophelia yelped, "Aaah!" She fell on her face. The boy looked guilty and came over to the girl, concern that she fell on her face as it could be bruised. "Are you OK?" He asked nervously, red in the face. Ophelia is stunt by this boy. "No, I'm sorry. I didn't know this was your board." She explained. The boy looked shy, "Yeah, m-my bad! I-I-I'm sorry! But, don't touch it--I mean! I mean, be careful!" He stuttered. Ophelia looked at the boy. "Are you OK?"  She asked. The boy laughs nervously. "Nah. Nothin' wrong with me." He claims. 

Ophelia looked at him with a suspicious look, this girl was making him uncomfortable so he decides to approach this more gently. "I--Um, I just thought those moves were pr--pretty cool." He said. Ophelia beamed. "Thanks. I've been skateboarding for a while." She explains briefly. This surprise the boy, "Really? W--Wow!" He stuttered. "Yeah." Ophelia nodded. She grew more suspicious of the boy's behavior. "What's wrong?" Ophelia asked. "Just--s--sh--shy!" The boy stammered. Smiling coyly; Ophelia placed an arm around his neck and pulled him towards her. The boy blushed, nervous as he was when he stared at the leering girl. “Come Kitty, You're so pretty.  Don't go Kitty! Stay with me! Play with me!” She said in a sing-song voice. Just then, Roland's cellphone rang and he answers, Ophelia loosens her grip from him to answer it. Roland nodded a thank you and answers it. "Yeah?....What?.....Oh man, yeah....Where is it?....Shit, that's gonna be tough but what the hell?....Well I--" He turned around to see Ophelia was gone. Then he turned back to the phone, astounded by what happened. "Yeah, I'm good to go." And he hung up. He was stunt to see Ophelia gone that fast however no time to waste, he had to go now. Earlier before her mission; Ophelia was subjected to Silver Branch's Project Agent. She had asked Mimir about this and told her reasons why. So she gained enhanced abilities of speed, strength, agility, and danger intuition--The ability to detect impending threats. She did not want to be a damsel in distress, she wanted to be the 'damsel out of distress', the action girl that any girl want to be. Their inspiration, just as Cassandra and the others. 

But the culprit looked familiar--She had brown eyes, brunette hair with blonde highlights. Olive pale skin complexion. She wore a long sleeved shirt, leggings, and shorts. She wore slip on flats on her tiny feet. The strange girl slowly walked over to Ace. "My friend, you are....A good looking devil!" She exclaimed. Roland and Ace looked flabbergasted. "What you call me?" Ace asked. That's when Ophelia is knocked out by a scent in the air. The next thing they knew they woke up in a tower, surprisingly they learned to know that it belong to Ace! "So, you are the little pixie that's been causing a lot of trouble." Ace remarked. "Me? Trouble?" said Ophelia, "I'm just an angel from heaven to be sent here on earth. Anything you want me to do, is in the Lord's hands." Roland looks at her funny, "You're so fricking weird."  He remarked. "Thanks, I know I am but who are you? A punk? A kid?" said Ophelia. Ace looked at her and said, "Mind tell us who you working for?" Roland look back at him with a hard glare, "'Us'? Since when do you and I work together? You got me imprisoned here, asshole!" "Shut up." snapped Ace. He turned back to Ophelia, "Would you mind telling me who you working for?" He asked. Ophelia twists her lips thoughtfully yet in a cute manner, she considers this for a moment as Roland and Ace wait for her to reply. "I could! But that would just give myself away." She said finally. "Here, let's hold a challenge!" "Challenge?" Roland and Ace chorused. "Yup, whoever defeats the Lidercs will win this competition. Starting...now!" Ophelia pressed a button on a pen-like device and a puff of smoke out comes! She escapes. Roland and Ace went after her separately as they try to track down the place she is at. But they ran into Wendigos and try to fight them. Until strange forces of levitation, darkness, and other matters that defeated them. 

Finally; Roland and Ace found Ophelia's location but when they got in; they found something gold and silver. They've seen this before and even heard of this before. "Is this--?"Roland started to say but a voice from above startles them. "Hi boys, welcome to the grand palace, cool ain't it?" It was Ophelia, coiled around a pillar. "How the hell you got in here?!" Roland demanded. Ophelia shrugged casually. "What can I say, I'm that good. I am the trickster." She bragged. "You are one hell of a woman, I guess Orlando and I underestimated you." Ace commented.  "You guys sure can unimpressive, you guys are one gold hearted boys." Ophelia said. "Frick, we're not just any gold hearted guys right? We're 'good looking devils', as you said." Ace said, blood and water-ice went off quickly! Ophelia ran, dodging and hiding. "Game's over, Ophelia! We win!" Ace replied. "We won this stupid game!" More blood and frost aqua but Ophelia dodged them still! "Come out, come out, wherever you are!" Roland hollered. "Boy oh boy, I knew there was something interesting about them since we met. They're more impressive than I thought." Ophelia muttered to herself, pleased by all this. "You can run, but you can't hide!" Ace called out. They thought they got her but it was only her jacket. "What the hell--?" Roland demanded in shock. Ace turned and his eyes widened, pointing to what's coming. "Look out!" "Surprise!" cried Ophelia, lunging at Roland. She was in a long sleeved shirt, smiling down at Roland, who blushed at her ingenue beauty and her large breasts but realized what he was suppose to do. "Hey, get off me, will ya?" Roland said. "Oopsie, sorry bout that!" Ophelia replied, giggling. The Wendigos were in that explosion and Ophelia cheered, "Yay! I won!" She said. Then, Ophelia turned to Roland and Ace, "Congrats you guys, you did you're best!" The three of them managed to escape. 

In a hotel room; Ophelia laughed happily as she bounced on the bed. "OMG, that was super intense! Too cool!" She squealed. Roland narrowed his eyes, "You almost died back there, you loon." He remarked. "I made it out all right, didn't I?"Ophelia said, she then had her legs in the air and kicked happily like she won a billion dollars. "How did you do that?" asked Roland, referring to her abilities. Ophelia stopped bouncing and sat up. "Uh, I'm Spider Girl? Catwoman?" She lied. Roland glared at her, but he looked blushing in the face as he looks at her breasts shyly. "That's one way to convince me..." He muttered. Ophelia glared back at him suspiciously and looked down at her boobs, she covered herself. "Hey, don't look at my chest!" She exclaimed. "Will you guys be quiet?" Ace said, he was dressed up again and rubbing his messy, wet hair with a towel. "Geez! How did we get stuck with her?" He moaned. Roland glared at him, "We? I was brought into this mess with you, we are not a team and no longer friends." "Yeah, until she came in and messed you up!" Ace argued back. "Why the hell do you care, you--" Roland started to ask but Ophelia interrupted them. "Ahhh, Power and control....One person always want to have the upper hand in this cock fight, it's somewhat similar to who would wear the pants in this part. It's always a competitive sport, to see who can get the upper hand and control. Me? I shouldn't be labeled as part of the problem." She turns away on the bed, "Now, I'm going to get some shut eye for a little. The same goes for you guys. Nighty night." said Ophelia. When she awoke from her nap; Ophelia went for a walk. Then she saw a park and a playground so she heads right over there for a reason. 

Moments later; She was on the swings, but then heard someone behind: "So, care to tell me what happened back there?" Ophelia turned around to see Roland's annoyed face. "Fine, I was subjected as an experiment to become an invincible hunter." admitted Ophelia. "Liar." Roland snapped. "What? It's true. But...." Ophelia started to say but Roland seem irritated, "You're hiding something all right, and I really am annoyed at how much of a damn priss you are and being all mysterious." Roland said. Ophelia begin to look huffy, "Well, it shouldn't be my problem that other people cannot seem to agree with me. Hell! It's my life if I should be allow to live as I see fit. More than the usual need to succeed. It is not nobody else's business to tell me what I want to do. As I stated before, it's my life! No one can stop me from doing what I want to do. People have been judging me, discussing about my problems in an irrelevant manner. I warn them to not be concerning around me of what I do. Leave me be! I can handle this on my own, without criticism." She ranted. "Argghh, do you ever shut up? I mean, what do you want out of life? You might as well as been unnoticed and just pretend you're all that when you're not!" Roland demanded. Ophelia was quiet before turning to him with sad, doe-like eyes. "Is having an unnoticed life okay with you?" asked Ophelia. "Wha--What?" Roland questioned, his face softened at her ingenue self. Ophelia got off the swings and looked at him, "Do I need to pretend I am something that I'm not? Do I need to pose to all the people who have ever doubted me? Once all your dreams come true and you get the fame you desired, you’re left alone with your riches, totally unfulfilled." She said. 

Ophelia looked down and said, "I feel so empty; no matter how far I'll go, I'm not satisfied. I'm always searching for more and wondering why I can't be happy with what I have. I feel that I've been given a fair trade." She looks up smiling a little, "A girl's life is not as wonderful as  she imagines, I believe it's stereotypical. It's exaggerating with romance and passion so fame is blamed. Let's be real, This is a place that everyone wants to be in right? I am so obsessed with it. How could I? It's so glamorous here!" Ophelia squealed, "How amazing! How many wonderful creatures there are here! Mankind is so beautiful! Oh, what a wonderful new world, that has such people in it!" Roland glanced at her, "It’s new to you." He remarked. "Oh yeah!" agreed Ophelia, she then begin to giggle insanely. 


Chapter 4: Take Flight

"I don't know if I want to do this...." Loftr said nervously. Cassandra, Eulalie, Deirdre, Loftr, Edvin, and Tora are at a diner where Cassandra will demonstrate her friends her powers; carefully not to exposed these powers. "Cass, Cass, wait! I'm not sure about this." Loftr insisted. He didn't want to be stab by a fork with Cassandra's powers, "C'mon, I promise you I won't hurt you." said Cassandra. "Promise?"  asked Loftr. "Yeah, I--" Cassandra promised but she surprised him with a prick at the fork. "Yowch!" Loftr yelped, he clutched his hand. Deirdre and Eulalie was surprised that they had to hold their laughter. "Why you..." Loftr glared at her but a small smile was on his face. Cassandra hold up the bent fork which its pricks were now deformed. "Gotcha." She said, giggling. Afterwards, The gang then were walking in the city. Eulalie pulled out her violin, "Look, look! Watch this." She said. She played her violin as the gravity begin to float six cars in the air; shocking the crowd who think the wind is doing this. "Wow! Ooooh, oooohhh, Ooooh!" Tora squealed. "Ohhhhhh, awesome." complimented Loftr. "Thrilling." Edvin agreed. "That's nothing, look. Watch and learn." Deirdre said, she strolled over to a man while her hips wiggling back and forth. Then, the man's eyes are drawn to her gorgeous legs and hind quarters. One look at her face and he flushed. Cassandra and Eulalie hold back their laughter as Loftr, Edvin, and Tora were shocked at this. When Deirdre returned with a smile on her luscious smile; Cass and Eulalie cracked up. "You just made him blush, oh my god--that was great!" Cassandra said, gasping to catch her breath from chuckling. 

The six of them were eating later on. "So, you woke up with those powers?" asked Edvin, after swallowing a bite of his food. "Yes." replied Cassandra, "I mean...It was weird but for some reason, but with these powers; I feel like they are weapons like a knife for an assassin or nunchuks of a martial artists, I mean some do."  "It can be deadly, on the contrary of your emotions and powers combined." Edvin pointed out. Cassandra nodded, "True." She admitted. In the meantime; Rote Zentrum and Weiss Castillo are concern about where Ace is as well as Roland. They didn't realize that a zany, whimsical young lady who looks like a teenager but her age has these boys under her wing. While asleep; Ace had a dream: It was a raining day, where people are holding umbrellas. Both Roland and Ace sitting behind the fence. While everyone on the other side of the fence look at both boys with having a lack of emotion, it then cuts to both of them banging and hitting the fence to be let out. Both of the boys coming closer together, and eventually near the finishing of the second chorus, they kiss each other passionately, with the public looking at this with a poker face expression. The boys sitting with seemingly snow falling down, with the boys gently touching it. They both walk around corner and shows a place where the sun is breaking out of the clouds; they clasp hands and walk off together into it. Ace woke up, stunt at this. Later, Ophelia in a T shirt with shorts and she looked cute so much that Roland was feeling 'funny' around her as he can feel himself amorous. Ace glares at Ophelia, who had nice legs and a beautiful body which made him think that she was trying to seduce Roland but that wasn't it at all. 

"I don't believe this! You mean you boys used to be best friends? Wow, that's....that's why you guys hate each other's guts because of the fact was someone did something to the other." She was lying on the bed of her room at a hotel as she was talking to Roland and Ace. Roland looked over at the smug Ace and said, "Yeah, that bastard..." "You sure know how to put the hurt in someone else don't you Orlando?" taunted Ace. "I can never forgive you for calling me by that name, Jack of all stats." barked Roland. Ophelia sat up as she looked at them with surprise, "Whoa, that's harsh. Forgiveness is divine." She said. "Ugh, shut up!" Roland snapped but then he realized what he said and turned to Ophelia, "Sorry." "It's OK. Let's not fight, shall we?" Ophelia said. Roland nodded bu Ace blurted out: "Fighting is more his style." "How would you know, you freak?" Roland snapped. "Boys, boys. You're both pretty." remarked Ophelia, she laughed. And then she said, "Kiss and make up." "I ain't kissing him!" Roland protested. "Forget that. In my dreams, I already did." said Ace. Roland looked at him with surprise. "Wait a second! Did you had a steamy, homo dream about me? About us?" He asked. Ace glares at him, "Can it!"  He snapped. Roland glared at him. "You bastard. It's a dirty secret that you would stargaze about me. You knew it was wrong but you didn't mind, you were going to start sh.." He ranted. "Shut your mouth!" exclaimed Ace. Ophelia let out a gaspy sounding spasm, "This is so engaging, boys. I feel so...mmmph!" Then she noticed their weird faces and giggled, "Whoops!" "What kind of girl are you?" Roland demanded. Ophelia beamed at him, "One of a kind!" Things get worse when Ophelia, Roland, and Ace learned that Weiss Castillo and Rote Zentrum are about to declare war against monsters but neither one is strong enough--And this is coming from the news. Cassandra and her friends see this as they heard about what's going on so they went over to downtown. 

While there; Cassandra, Eulalie, and Deirdre  saw these new monsters there that wasn't just Wendigos. There were other creatures too: Tenome, Khloros, Futakuchi and Tacita. Tenome are types that have eyes on the palm of their hands, Kloros are monsters who are obese as well as gross with boils and fungus-like substances on their bodies. Futakuchi are monsters with tentacles with their suctions cups that have razor tipped spikes coming out to attack any opponents. And Tacita, who seemed to be haggish looking creatures who harvest quietness as they are repulsive to loud noises. Ophelia, Roland, and Ace just arrive to help the others. During the battle against these creatures; The Tacitas were in the distance, babbling lyrically to themselves. But when they heard the commotion, they charge over to beat their skulls but one of them let out a sonic scream. It was so loud that Ophelia screamed in terror as she try to plug in her ears, she fell to the ground and begin to whimper. "Ophelia!" Cassandra cried, rushing over to her. "Aaah, the noise....." whimpered Ophelia. She remembered the laughter, the loud voices of her parents. "Shhh, shhhh. It's OK. It's all right. I'm here, just try to listen to the sound of my voice." said Cassandra in a soothing voice while her hands caressed her head. Ophelia begin counting softly to herself, "21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, .9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4....3.....2....1." "Good, good...You're doing good, it's over." said Cassandra, comfortingly. "I'm OK." Ophelia replied timidly. "Can you stand?" asked Cassandra. "I feel dazed..." Ophelia whispered. "All right, try standing up." muttered Cassandra. Slowly and steady, Ophelia got up as she removed her hands from her ears. "You OK?" asked Cassandra. Ophelia bored her eyes into her face, "Yes...." She said. Cassandra nodded, "Good." She said. "Pathetic." said Caesar Konig. Cassandra turned to glare at him, "What?" She said. "Why can't she be a normal person?" replied Caesar smugly. "She's not normal, she's different than the rest of you." Cassandra said back to him. Caesar smirked at her, "Is that so? I don't want to waste my time with a feeble minded girl." He said with a small laugh. 

Cassandra glared at him, then some sort of power from her begin to stir as she cried out: "Take that back, you bastard!!!!" Then, the windows broke behind them that made everyone jump. The lights and wires from above fell at their feet and almost at them. One of the members from Weiss Castillo pointed to Cassandra and cried out, "There! It's her, she's doing it!" Konig looked at her, "Black magic! I knew something dubious was going on here." He said. "This is no black magic.  I can move things....with my thoughts." replied Cassandra. Caesar smirked at her menacingly, "I knew someone as you had a 'fire' coming through you." "I did some research on this but if you don't believe me, you should know some things." said Cassandra, she slowly got to her feet and faced them with a vicious look. "You may take away my happiness....My pride...my self-esteem...my joy. Sometimes I feel weak and things like glass or paper are going keep trying to hurt me but I will be fighting back to overcome these things and be strong for myself and my friends....When I overcome these things, I will feel tall and powerful like a skyscraper." She explained. Her telekinesis caused wires to come to life, scaring everyone. "I can't be forced to return to the my normal self. I am breaking out and rebelling against my personal demons." Cassandra continued. "Whoever is criticizing me.... keep going. Fire all you want at me because anything negative will just be deflected. It’s a difficult thing in life, as long as it doesn't kill you, it will strengthen you and better you as a person." "I can stand on my own. No matter what someone is saying about me, it doesn't make a difference, I am too strong." She let the wires dropped and she faces the creatures, who were hideous looking. Cassandra bend her head back and smiled, "This time, I won't be the one running, and instead, it will be you." She said. The fight begins again as this time, nobody is going down without a fight. Never. Ever. In the end, Cassandra and the others got new recruits. And no one could say it any different.

In an asylum; A young lady was in her cell, she was watching a movie emotionless, and alone she was in that small ward of hers. But outside, people are watching and monitoring her intensively. "So, any reason why she's here?" asked one person. "Who?" asked the second. "Her." said the first, gesturing to the girl in the cell. "Oh, this is Chloris Zephyr. She's a graduated student from the school massacre." said the second. "Why would she try to kill herself?" asked the first. "She was one of the bullies that tormented those two boys and the other, a girl, who committed kamikaze, because they were being bullied by her." answered the second. "Are you serious?" the first was surprised. "I'm dead serious. She has PTSD, survivor's guilt as it looks like. I wonder if she's remorseful for things she done." replied the second. It's true, Chloris Zephyr was once a bully but not anymore. However, her story is quite a tragedy: Chloris was a senior graduate in high school, she was beautiful and popular but was wicked as a witch. She had always torment those who were not popular, she jeered and laughed at the clumsy and the outcast. She and her friends, even her boyfriend and the jocks, would always pick on mostly three others: Balor, Joshua, and Virginia. But one day, it happened: Virginia had a crush on Medrod, Chloris's boyfriend, but he found out and he plays a cruel prank on by writing a love letter. Virginia was thrilled as she goes up to talk to him but he humiliates her. Virginia was heartbroken, all her life she had been dreading of going to school. Facing those people who do nothing but pick on people. That's when she had enough. The next day, Balor and Joshua arrived at Virginia's house, but she wasn't in the kitchen so they decide to search her house. 

They checked her room, she wasn't in there either. They kept searching for her, that's what good friends are to Virginia. Balor and Joshua didn't care if they were late or not, they weren't going to leave until they found her. They checked the hallways, they checked the living room, they checked the attic, they checked the basement, and the bathrooms. Nothing, so they go to the backyard. What they found was horrifying: Virginia's body was sprawled on the floor, she was bleeding badly. A gun in her left hand, Balor and Joshua were in anguish. They found a note from her, where it says how the boy she loves hurt her and how she can't take anymore of being bullied another day. Balor and Joshua were angry so they sought their revenge. They went to Balor's basement, found guns in there as they tucked their weapons in their clothes. They hurried to the school, where they started the shooting. Chloris survived the shooting but what she saw frightened her. But the cops came along, Balor and Joshua rushed outside but there were rapid gunfire as Chloris watched the victims, that she picked on, falling dead on the floor. Her boyfriend was dead by Balor and Joshua, who knew about his horrible prank. Chloris was traumatized of what she done, which she never knew that it would go this far. Since the shooting, her friends--the ones that survived--showed no remorse and were drunk in a video they posted over the Internet. Chloris was upset by this, she deleted all contacts of her friends and didn't hang out with them anymore. How could they be so heartless? Why was she friends with them in the first place anyway? Her father, Constantine was concerned for his daughter. When Chloris was 11 years old; her mother Rhea had died from a disease. And Constantine has been in a shed with his beautiful assistant and lover, Helena Jacobs. 

In the present, Chloris just fell asleep after the movie was over. The observers are still watching her, "She did pretty good for the past weeks. Heard that she's leaving, her mother is coming to collect her from this place." said the second. While Chloris slept, she wakes up to find herself sitting on the ground in a deserted, destroyed school hallway. She slowly begins to stand up and makes her way through the hallway. Chloris then sees a teacher in a classroom who's stricken with fear and closes the door, realizing she is the cause of the damage. As Chloris makes her way outside the school building, a police car arrives and the teacher rushes outside to tell the policeman about Chloris. Chloris then quickly rides a bicycle home to pack her things. While at home, she sees a news report about the incident, causing her to quickly gather her things to flee. Several policemen then appear outside the front door of Chloris's house, while she tries to escape through the back door. Chloris realizes that the door is locked so she uses her telekinetic powers to grab the keys from the kitchen bench. The policemen then enter the house to find that Chloris has escaped, Chloris is running away from a SWAT team in the woods. Chloris is caught by one of the men who pushes her to the ground. Chloris using his supernatural powers once again to push the men away in a burst of power. She can hearing someone calling her name, "Lady Chloris? Lady Chloris? Wake up!" Chloris wakes up as she could see it was her servant Garrett, "Dick?" She rasped. She embraces him tightly. "You're here!" She said softly. Garrett picked up Chloris from the seat and escorts her out of the asylum. Into the car as they both drove away. "So, how are you feeling?" asked Constantine, gently. "OK." Chloris said softly. "Are you hungry? Would you like something else to eat?" asked Constantine. "Maybe...Just a little." admitted Chloris. And they drove to a fast food place to eat. 

Meanwhile; Cassandra is talking and laughing with Brother 10, with a new member--Loftr. Just then, an agent came in and politely interrupts, he says that someone is here to see her. "Her name is Miss Annis Zalman." said the agent. That name sounded familiar, Cassandra hurried over and she couldn't believe she saw a slender woman with dark brown hair, tan skin, and she was pretty. "Mom?" Cassandra asked, then her face brightens up and smiles. "Mom!" She hurries over to her. Her mother looked at her, "Where have you been? You've been gone for days, I've been worried sick about you." She scolded. Cassandra smiled, "Sorry Mom, but I have some friends I want you to meet...." She replied, gesturing towards her crew. "Miss Zalman, hi there!" greeted Samson. "Hello!" replied Jack. "What's up?" The others replied. Then, Miss Zalman begin to act strange, "Ohhhh, friends...eh?" She said as she turned her backs on them. Cassandra looked puzzled but anxious, "Mom? What's going on?" inquired Cass. The boys didn't like this however Miss Zalman pulled out a box of a birthday cake and holding candles. "Well good! I was so worried about you that you must've forgotten your own birthday." said Miss Zalman. Cassandra looked shocked. "What?" She said. Her mother smiled gratefully, "Happy Birthday Cassandra." She said. Cassandra begin to smile, it was a heartwarming and tearful smile. "Oh, Mom...." She said. Cassandra, her mother, and her friends gather around to celebrate. During this time, Cassandra's mother ask Jack to get her a cutter to cut this cake. He was gone for awhile when an agent appeared, "Ms. Endymion, come quickly! It's Jack, he's in trouble with some mad man!" He said. Cassandra rushed out there, what she saw horrified her. Jack was being strangled by a man that looked deranged in his eyes. He was partially bald, he was thin and pale. And he looked really angry. 

It was Boreas Endymion, Cassandra's father! Jack kicked his legs and try to wrestle away from him. "Get your filthy paws off me, you maniac! Get off me!" Jack cried. "I want to see my daughter! What have you people done with her?!" Boreas screamed at the boy. "Like hell I would tell you!" The screams attract the attention of a horrified crowd but Cassandra moved through it, apologizing and politely excusing herself before facing her father. "Dad!?" Cassandra cried. The man turned as he released Jack, he smiled at her, "Cassandra, my daughter." "What the hell are you doing here? How did you find me?" demanded Cassandra. Boreas's smile faded, "Do not talk to your father that way!" He admonished. "I'm an adult now, Father. Now tell me what you want." Cassandra said. "I want you back." Boreas begged. He walked one step closer, "Father." Cassandra started to say nervously. "It could be like it was before, Daughter." Boreas said, pleadingly. This horrified Cassandra, "No, Dad!" She said. Never, she never want to go back to the way it was. Being abused by him. No, no. "You were the only one I ever loved, worthy. Especially your mother. I know you're every thought, I can't live without you." He said. "Father, Stop this now! I want you to be flat out honest and answer me--" Cassandra admonished Boreas but cut her off. "I am only trying to protect you from these people." Boreas said. "Those people are my friends, Father." Cassandra confessed. Boreas looked at her with disbelief, then a smirk appeared on his face. "Friends? Friends?" I said, then he laughed at Cassandra who looked down. She clenched her fists as she activates her powers almost. Jack watched him. "This can't be Cassandra's father, could it?" He thought. Her father claps menacingly as he spoke to her, "All those bitches, They are feeding you lies, like his mother." Cassandra covered her ears, "Father! Stop it!" She shouted. But did not Boreas ceased, "They tell you things They just want to brainwash ... They are demons, do not stay here." Cassandra spoke back, "Too late, Father. I've already made ​​my decision." Boreas looked at her, "Cassandra, you get your ass out there right now!" "No." Cassandra said. 

Boreas walked over to her with a rage look. "Are you talking back to me? Disobeying your own father, I do not care how old you are. You are going to listen to me." "Father, please I don't wanna go with you ..." Cassandra begged, taking a few steps back of her own but her father would not stop. . "..... Like it or not, I will call the police. By law, I will force you away from this place one way or another ....." "Shut up!" Cassandra screamed, her telekinesis caused the furniture to raise and drop as Boreas was terrified. He felt down on the ground and looked up in shock. "Good God." He whispered. Cassandra stared down at him blankly. "Dad, stand up." she commanded. Boreas shook his head, I was trembling. Cassandra gritted her teeth. "FATHER, STAND UP NOW!" She exclaimed, flexing her hand out as she lifts him telekinetically. Boreas shouted as everyone was in shock of what They are seeing. "I belong here, Father. Things are going to change around here." Cassandra said sternly. Boreas was gasping for breath but rasped out, "Sorcery. I knew it." "It's not sorcery, Dad. Wanna know where it's coming from? Me. There are other people out there who like me have this power." Cassandra said. "You people--What have you done to my little girl?" Boreas exclaimed with desperation directly at Silver Branch and the others. "It's not them, they are trying to help me do better and help me recover a tragedy that happened to me in high school." Cassandra said. "Dear Cassandra, don't you know? This sorcery is working through you." Boreas persisted. "It's a gift. I mean, yeah it's out of control but with a little more practice, I can do anything." replied Cassandra. Boreas shook his head feebly. "You lie!" He said. "Why would I lie?" demanded Cassandra. "I do not know, all those lies That wretched mother of yours ---" Boreas started to say. But he is lifted higher by the psychokinesis as he writhes and shouts louder, even grunting of it. "Dad! Do not say that about Mom!" Cassandra scolded. Boreas growled and snapped like a deranged wild dog, a shark being kidnapped and about to be skinned alive; he couldn't believe this was really happening to him. His own daughter is being brainwashed by a bunch of misfits who didn't seem to like him at all. He looked at the crowd, who were disgusted, and among them was Mimir Sofus. Surely, this guy was to blame for the trouble he had done to Cassandra. 

"You! Take this power away from my daughter!" Boreas cried. "I will not, this is no curse. It is a blessing bestowed upon her." said Mimir. Boreas growled and turned back to Cassandra, "Do not use this power!" He demanded. "It's my power, I decide whether to use it or not!" Cassandra exclaimed. "Renounce That power! You must surrender it! You must never use it!" Boreas cried with the edge of hysteria in his voice. "No!!! I am not going to listen to this anymore!" Cassandra said loudly. Boreas then begin to say a prayer while weeping: "Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make veils for the heads of persons of every state to hunt to life ..." Cassandra continued to talk, "I am nothing like you...And I'll never be like you." Boreas snubbed her and prayed desperately. Cassandra spoke again, "You can wallow, pray, and cry all you want but I'm staying here." "... I will not allow a witch to live ...." muttered Boreas but he was dropped to the floor and was weeping pathetically. Cassandra stares down at him sternly, "Not you or anyone else can stop me...And I don't want to talk about it anymore." And with that; she walked away. That night, Cassandra takes her medication of Nepenthe, where she begins to get high and becomes euphoric however she begins to see hallucinations of the prom massacre. The euphoric feeling reminds her of the time she was with her friends before their deaths as she then falls into a deep sleep. She wakes up crying, she dreamt that she was lying unconscious as two men wondered if she was dead or not so one of them thought they would cut her open with a knife. Just before the knife cuts into her skin; Cass woke up and begin crying hysterically. Cassandra begin to feel depressed as she couldn't get out of bed, until it was noon. Her friends begin to worry about her however she claims that she is fine. But she isn't; Cassandra begins to pace around in circles while she is dysphoric. She forgets her purpose as the effects of Nepenthe begins to affect her trauma. She begin to hallucinate but afterwards, she recovers and becomes normal. 

Later, Chloris was in her room late at night, lying in her bed as she thought of the memories of her past: About 15 years ago; Chloris was born a child prodigy, where she learned to take care of herself when she was three. Chloris also excelled in math, language, literature, science, and history--even for a child around 4 years of age. Her parents and other adults were astounded by how wonderful she is academically. Her sister, Branwen, gets along with her sister well with her, in fact they are best friends. One day, 6 year old Chloris was reading in her bed in the afternoon when all of a sudden, Branwen--who is 5 year old at the time--ran to her sister's room. "Chloris, Chloris! Come on, I want to show you something." Young Branwen said, bouncing up and down. "What?" asked Young Chloris, not looking up from her book. "I can't explain it, I just want you to come see it! Quick!" Young Branwen insisted, bouncing up and down. This 'something' was topless, bikini clad neighbor name Alcestis, who was bathing in the sun. Her large orb-like breasts were there. Chloris is shocked, she never seen those before! "What are they?" She whispered. "I don't know, let's go ask her." said Branwen, she huried over there. "Bran, no!" Chloris said. Branwen stood next to Alcestis, who stirred and smiled at Branwen. "Well hi there, cutie." said Alcestis. Branwen stared at Alcestis's chest, "What are those?" She asked, pointing. "Oh...Breasts." said Alcestis. "Do they hurt?" inquired Chloris, shyly. "Nah, they don't." Alcestis assured her. "Can I have some?" Branwen asked. "You have to wait a few more years, I think you'll like them. They'll be nice on ya." Alcestis replied with a kind smile. "You sure? That's not what Mrs. Bram told us, she said that women with breasts that large are more likely to be a floozy woman." Chloris said. Alcestis looked upset, she sighed. "Girls, don't listen to that harp polisher. With all do respect, she is a woman of the Lord but with teachings like that are causing a stir." She said. 

"She told the girls at the Sunday school that girls with big breasts, she calls them.....a bust. A bust for a bimbo." Chloris said. Now Alcestis looked down at her chest and looked offended, she taken back what she said about Mrs. Bram. When Rhea heard about this, she was very upset so she took her daughters out of the Sunday school and of the church. Mrs. Bram wanted the girls to come back but Rhea refuse to bring them, and that's when that woman became very violent and fundamental. Alcestis and her mother witnessed this as they were about to call the police until Chloris came out as she caused a mass of meteor showers to scare Mrs. Bram away, and it worked. Thinking back in middle school when she was a young teenager; Chloris Zephyr was in a happy family of her mother, father, and sister. But Constantine forbids his daughters to go down to the basement, which they obey to. Chloris and Branwen also love their mother as well as their father. Chloris's mother, Rhea, has a loving yet restrained relationship with her husband. it's all because of the woman name Helena Jacobs to whom he brought home. Helena is Constantine's assistant however she is also his lover, much to Rhea's heartbroken dismay. Chloris and Branwen spends time with their mother, Branwen tells her mother about his romantic feelings for a boy she admired and Rhea encourages her daughter to admit her feelings to him. Branwen is unsure, but she accepts. At school the next day; One of the popular girls name April exposed Branwen's secret crush on Adonia. To Branwen's surprise, Adonia admits of liking Branwen too and they begin dating. However, this love creates jealousy for April and her friends, who bullied her a lot as a mean boy name Tarquin begins to torture her. After that; poor Branwen was crying and Helena, who was a teacher at the time, saw her bleeding and crying. She came to help her however Branwen ran home and couldn't faced her parents, but Constantine & Rhea begin to worry about their daughter so they asked her what was wrong. 

Branwen hesitantly told them what happened at school, her parents were shocked. Rhea decide to call the school and report this however Constantine stops her, "I have a better idea." he said, a look of sinister in his eyes. The next day; April and her friends: Marcia, Anthea, and Sapphire were not at school today, which Branwen was relieved by this news. But then two weeks later; April, Marcia, Anthea, and Sapphire were reported 'missing'. Branwen begin to wondered what happened to them, even her father begin to feel more disoriented than usual. Rhea seemed more upset than usual and she is getting more stressed over her husband, who is cheating on her with his beautiful assistant. One day, Rhea went missing and never came back, Constantine told Chloris and Branwen that their mother died and they attended the funeral. Since then, The girls begins to feel uneasy around Helena, whom the latter tries to be nice to. Chloris soon will learn more about what their father is doing in the basement. Chloris always thought of her dearest mother and the happy memories they shared together as well as a family. More weeks went by as Chloris begin to see less and less of her dad, so she went to see him but what she found disturbed her: There they were, Branwen's bullies--April, Marcia, Anthea, and Sapphire. All of them had abnormal body shapes, claw hands, and looked like naked humans but looked more violent. "What?" whispered Chloris, she couldn't believe it. "Magnificent isn't it?" A voice said. Chloris gasped as he turned around and saw her father standing there with a sadistic smile on his face. He stepped out of the shadows to admire his work, "These scoundrels are part of my newest creation." He said. "Father?" asked Chloris. "What did you do to them?" "Isn't this wonderful? They will never hurt your sister again, Chloris. Adonia will always be hers. Always. You see, my daughter, I had always wanted to know what happens if I did something like this, or this....Or maybe something....." He ranted, a psychotic look in his eyes. Not a good sign! 

Chloris is terrified as her father looked at her and took a step towards her. Chloris stepped away from him, "But you...I have much bigger plans for you, my daughter. I do not wish to make you a creature--I called it a Wendigo. I have more too....Tenomes, Khloros, Futakuchi, and Tacita...Choose wisely...oh no, I want to make you someone more powerful in all of the world." Chloris was scared but she try to destroy his 'work'. Constantine tried to stop his daughter however Chloris claims she wants be human, she doesn't want to be 'different'. She rushes out but heard the sound of her father calling out to her, "Chlooo--rrr--isssss." Chloris shivered, she tried to open the door but it wouldn't budge. "No, come on! Come on, come on!" She muttered. Just then, The deranged Constantine had a sickle in his hand and was laughing like mad. "CCCHHHLLL--OOOOORRRRR--IIIIISSSSSSS!" He said, swaying side to side like crazy. With all her strength; Chloris breaks down the door and runs however Garrett appears and rescues Chloris. After running away with her servant; Chloris thought of her sister but she couldn't go back to her father. She felt guilty, however one day she will make it up to her. She found some recruits to take down her father's creation. Her group is called White Horse Society. This group is a bunch of ragtag bunch of misfits: A child soldier, who had a dark past that traumatized him, name Nergal Kitsune. Blenda Sargon, a bisexual assassin with an Amazonian beauty and a fit body. Other assassins are Lawrence Learmont, a brainy yet pacifistic young man but beware; he doesn't like to be pushed emotionally or physically. A beautiful assassin with scars along the side of her face. Her name is Dido Barber, and she has a quixotic life partner friendship with Lawrence. Another brainy member but he is an assassin and hacker name Baruch Engelbert. Lastly is a dark persona with a heart of gold name Shamash Cain. 

How did the girls got their powers? Well, Mimir had witnessed the tragedy of the prom massacre of the Moneta and had heard these girls made a vow to get stronger, strong enough to take down the bastards that murdered their classmates, teachers, and friends. So, Mimir took matters into his own hands: He had gotten different potions: One is called Mustafa, which is telekinesis. The second is Taliesin, telepathy. The third is Tamas, known as clairvoyance. Durga is the fourth, and this one stands for power absorbing. And lastly, there was Prometheus, which is accelerate healing. Combining them all, he had created an elixir. He also created others for the other girls as he had given them these powers. Meanwhile; Cassandra was getting ready for her mission and has a gun in hand to prepare herself from any Lidercs coming. She then looked at an item and picked it up. It was a so-called good luck charm from Jack. "Where did you get that?" A voice asked. Cassandra turned to see her father standing there. Boreas had been seeing her since his lawyer told Cassandra that he would be visiting for two hours. In the fewer days; He had been depressed while also calm but something in him, that Cassandra senses, is about to break. Cass looked at the object, "Oh, it's a gift. Cool huh?" She said, showing him. Boreas walked over and looked at it. "It's unholy." He said. Cassandra gave him a look, "It's not unholy, Dad." She said. Then, Cassandra finished getting ready. Boreas watched her and then he said, "Throw it away, it's a proselytizing tool from these fiends." Cass rolled her eyes, "No, Dad. Stop being so ridiculous." She snapped. "I wish you could be happy for me." Cassandra turned away from him. She thought she heard a sound from the speakers, but there was nothing and she went back to get her stuff ready. 

Boreas follows her, "You've fallen between cracks I fear for you." He said. "What? You think I'm going to hell for this?" replied Cassandra sarcastically. "I don't want to think what's going to happen. But if you fail to do this, you will be sinning against Elohim; and you may be sure that your sin will find you out." said her father. "Dad!" groaned Cassandra.  "And when that time comes, you'll be dragged in the depths of abyss." Boreas ranted. Cassandra was pissed, "Dad, is this how you see me as this people? I told you, they are just helping me." She snapped. "And I told you, they are not your friends! They will destroy you just like sin! Sin never dies!" shouted Boreas. Cassandra and Boreas heard something from the speakers, "Agents! Your next mission is about to commence, please get to your ships and on to your next destination." Cassandra sighed, she turned to her father. "I'm going, OK? You wait here." Cassandra ordered but Boreas slapped her so hard that she fell to the ground. She tried to get back up however she was pinned down by her father. "Stupid brat, why do deliberately defy me? Is it me? You love to get hit? You love it, right? Do you love it when I beat you to a pulp?!" yelled Boreas, wrestling her to the ground. "Get away from me!" cried Cassandra. "What happened to my sweet girl? Huh What happened to my beloved daughter Where's my angel?" argued Boreas. Cassandra clenched her teeth and shouted out, "Gone, father! She's gone, and she's not coming back!" Her telekinesis broke Boreas's hand who cried out in pain. 


Cassandra moved away from him but then Boreas seized her, "You're not going anywhere!" screamed Boreas. Cassandra pushed his hand away, "Get off me!" She exclaimed, Cass turns away from him. "You cannot handle this!" Cassandra turned back to him, "Oh, I can't? I'm the one messed up and trying to atone for my sins. You're The one who is in denial!" She bellowed, and stormed off. "CASSANDRA!" Her father shouted, charging after her but Cassandra hold him back with her powers. In a strained voice she said, "I warn you, Father. Stay there and you do not say a word until I'm gone." Cassandra lets him go and then she softens up as she said, "I'll come back later. I love you." Once she was gone; Boreas slowly stood up as he mutters to himself: "You will not let a witch to live."  


Chapter 5: Monster Knight

Since she took the Nepenthe; Cassandra begin to have strange dreams: Justice was Krankheit. Echo was Pistos. Zaden was Ähky. Hanuman was Luuvalo. Proteus is Riisi. Kamaitachi is Paise. Lleu is Rupi. Borvo is Syöjä. Juniper is Rutto. Brennius is Kateus. And Cassandra is Louhi. In the next dream sequence; Cassandra was standing near the shore at night, she had no idea why she was there but for some reason he was there. Cassandra tried calling out, but no sound or words came out. Then, she saw it some sort of strange blue crystal spiral on the water. "What is that?" She wondered. The scenery changes into a misty desert where there was a girl with flowing dark hair, ivory skin that made her look porcelain, and she wore a strapless gown in the breeze. "Who are you?" Cassandra asked. The girl looked up to glare at her with the same blue color as the spiral. Those eyes glared viciously into her soul. Cassandra wake up in a different island: Ir-Kalla. Meanwhile; Ophelia research on the symptoms of Febris are mild depression, irritability, tension, euphoria, aggressive/risky behavior, psychosis, temper, sadness, hopelessness, guilt, and high anxiety. Mimir fears for the girls who might get darker and angrier if they are not careful. For the time being, Cassandra is at some sort of mellow party that wasn't too loud but she didn't feel like dancing. However, she knew something was about to happen. In the meantime; there was a group of silhouetted figures, which someone--the leader--whispers to them, "Things are about to get nuts, so it’s time to break out the guns and grab some hostages. Throw down and explode, but if all fails; they were going to blow this place into ashes." They sneak inside as they look around this mellow party. One of them shoots above as the lights burst into sparks. 

Everyone screamed, but then a voice calls out: "Listen up, everybody! I'm taking charge, because I am willing to take extreme measures to make sure my demands are met! Stick with me, without hesitation or question; we are about to kick some ass and taking names. In other words, we're going all in. So, let me see them hands.” Cassandra didn't know what was going on however she knew what to do. She hesitantly used a gun and fired above the guy's head. The guy noticed, "What the hell?" He demanded. Cassandra kept firing away and away but she felt footsteps getting heavier and heavier. She got away as she ran into the rain but got inside a warehouse. This is where she hid until now, she was safe. But someone crept inside and found her. "Well, well....A girl, a woman. I never would've guessed it'd be someone like you." replied the voice. Cassandra got her gun ready and turned to face her opponent but she was shocked to see who it was. A man with a mask and and a gun pointed at her. But Cassandra was quicker, she fired first. The gun man jumps back but he found himself looking at how beautiful and how glowing Cass is. "Is anything wrong?" asked the gun man. Cassandra stare at him and a little smirk on her face, "Is anything right?" She said. She fired again as he dodge it. "You know, I didn't mean to try and kill you, babe. I think you're hot..." said the gunman, nervously. He then look out and called out, "Do you like me?" "Do I not like you?" said a sneering Cassandra. Irritated; The gun man begin to go crazy, he was about to pull out his gun to inch his finger to the trigger. Just then, someone came down and killed the gun man. Cassandra was shock to see who it was. It had blood spot bruises on its body, a mouth-less faces and tentacle/extended limbs behind their backs, they are standing up but then its mouths open in an inhuman way, which its jaws reach to its torso. 

The creature was shocked to see Cassandra, "A....A...A woman?" It said with an inhuman voice tone. "What....are you.....?" whispered Cassandra. Then, she felt something swirling, there was rainbow psychedelic illusions as she fainted. Cassandra wakes up in a vast, Escher-inspired room filled with stairways. She looks around when she saw a hand climbed up and it turns out to be a young man name Arcturus Danda. He outstretch his hand towards her in a gesture for her to take it but Cassandra runs and falls down from a ledge. She finds herself with her hair in a left side braid woven, wisps of her bangs slicked back on top of her head. She wears a crystal-blue, off-the-shoulder dress with a right knee-high slit, a crystal decorated bodice and translucent, powder blue sleeves. Covering her feet are high heels, attached to the shoulders of her dress is a long, transparent cape and sweeps the floor. She wanders through the ballroom, continuing as she is eventually found by Arcturus and drawn into a waltz with him. Cassandra is dipped backwards but in her mind she could see some sort of monstrosity. Then, Cassandra breaks the illusion as it resonates around the ballroom. Arcturus gasped as he fell to the ground. He turned back into a creature, who looked like a familiar beast man. "It's you...." Cassandra gasped. In the meantime; Eulalie meets a young lady name Findabair Shekhinah. She started off initially cold and even hostile towards her before gradually showing her warm side over time. Deirdre meets a young man who was a determined fellow name Llwch Thoth. Turan and Norna meet a bunch of young men led by someone name Hector Phaethon and the others are: Emrys Attis, Nudd Pascual, Marcus Audoin, and Maponos Erebeus. Ariadne meets Drustan Hermod, who is so completely obnoxious that it is unbelievable anyone would willingly interact with him. But there's more to this guy than meets the eye however; he also likes to do good deeds but in secret, to keep his reputation intact. And lastly, Juana meets Bernard Etoille, who is a incorruptible pure that never lose their moral compass or idealism. But these guys got a secret: They are hunting eldritch abomination, beast humans--Lidercs. 

Later, They managed to find a quiet, abandoned place and landed there. Cassandra let human Arcturus go safely from her grasp. “So, what are you?” asked Arcturus. “I can’t explain it, I came from another place.” explained Cassandra briefly. This didn’t satisfied Loki one bit. “That’s not a good answer.” He said. Cassandra sighs, “Fine. Maybe I can show you.” She said. “How?” asked Arcturus. Cassandra leans over and kisses him on the lips. Loki could see Cassandra’s memories of her being abuse as a child, her life that was now a tragedy. Her new life at Silver Branch. Cassandra parted her lips away from Arcturus and looked at him. "So, whatcha think?" Cassandra asked with a smile. Arcturus was speechless until he remembered what happened. "Arrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!" He shouted. Arcturus charged at her as his monstrosity but Cassandra dodged him as she hit a wall. "You're right, you're right. I should've done that. It was wrong to kiss you but it's just a kiss. I was trying to show you--" Cassandra said quickly as possible. "Never. Again!" Loki warned. "Right, sorry! Sorry!" Cassandra apologized. "'Less I say so." muttered Arcturus. Cassandra looked at him, "What you say?" She asked. "Nothing!" replied Arcturus, defensively. Cassandra held up her hands, "OK, OK, Take it easy. I thought you said something but never mind." She claimed. Arcturus nodded, "Are you an angel? A demon?" He asked. “Not at all, I just…I don’t know what I am but I can tell you one thing. I am no demon nor angel. I come in peace and came to know you—Arcturus Danda. Please, let me talk to the authorities and explain what’s going on.” Cassandra explained. At once; Arcturus turned back into a human and nodded. “OK. I’ll trust you. But if you pull anything, I’ll kill you.” He said. 

Cassandra nods, obeying to his word. Arcturus looked away as he can hear someone echoing in his head: "Men can be masters of their fate. It is not destiny’s fault, but our own faults, that we’re slaves." Then he turned to her and said with a warning, "There’s a virus in my blood, the fear running in veins all the time, taking me place in life, fear is the most powerful mean to control a person. Violence kills a person’s self conscience, kills dreams, self esteem, authentic emotions and feelings, kills silence and sleeping, is like living through death and it is horrible when I only emotions are pure terror, anger, hate for myself and love taking me over, an insane love. And this lovely illusion is controlling me." Cassandra knows Arcturus that he alone knows about, but he doesn’t want to show anyone. Arcturus carefully tries to hide it from others, but sometimes he’s just not able to control it anymore.Arcturus doesn’t want anyone to see his bad side, as it is dangerous, and some people might not like it. Wherever he goes, people recognize Arcturus and want to kill him. He does not feel like a normal person anymore, because Arcturus does not get treated like a monster. This may have made Arcturus hate what he is and what he is doing. "Madness go hand in hand. People who you've known all your life… they’re steady, then they’re not. But you can’t ponder, ‘cause it kills you. It mainlined into the veins but it has pain reliving effects and it's not too dangerous." said Cassandra. She leaned over at Arcturus, who blushed as his gaze was upon her luscious lips. "One word of advice. Make friends with me, it’s probably not wise to be on my bad side. You think it will be all okay, but I don't deal with crap. If you hurt me, I will get you. I'll rip you to pieces if you wrong me in any way. You don’t know how powerful I am actually is. I'm more attractive and enigmatic that you can ever realize. Watch out, I can be a nightmare!" She warned. 

Jack was asleep in his bed when somebody sneaked into his room, crept by his bed, and then rang a small gong. Jack woke up with a start, he look to see that it was Proteus who used his rubber powers to wake him up. "Wakey wakey, Revenant Boy! Look alive, up and at 'em!" He said loudly. Jack groaned as his hit almost back on the pillow when Kamaitachi used his wind to levitate him off the ground. "Get dressed, be prepared. Brekafast is downstairs!" announced Kamaitachi. He then lets him down as Jack is perplexed to know what's going on. "What--?" He started to ask. Kamaitachi and Proteus turned to him confused at his expression. "Come on, you got training with Cass right?" "What are you--" Jack asked but stopped when he remembered Cassandra had asked him to train with her and Jack agrees. "Oh, that's right." thought Jack. His hand
smacked him in the face. "Ugh, I feel stupid." Proteus and Kamaitachi snickered at his reaction, Jack glares at them when a voice calls out to him. "Jaaaaaaacccccckkkkk! Where are you?" It was Cassandra. "Sorry Cass, I'm coming!" Jack announced, he hurried out to the training field. "Have fun!" Proteus called out. Jack turned away, he rolled his eyes. "Assholes..." He muttered. Cassandra and Jack were ready to battle against one another. "Give it all you got, Jack." Cassandra said. "Always." replied Jack. And their training fight begins, however Cass noticed Jack wasn't going in his potential level. "C'mon! Is that all you got? I think you don't have what it takes to defeat the Revenants." called Cassandra. This shock Jack, "I do!" He insisted. Cassandra shook her head, "No, you're not showing your true power." She said. "I am!" Jack called out. "You don't have the guts to save innocent lives, you couldn't even save your mother or anyone else!" This made Jack furious, "WHY YOU--!" He yelled, his fist hits Cassandra as she hits the floor. Jack was shocked, "Are you OK, Cass? I'm sorry...." He said, bending down to her. 

Cassandra look back at him with a fierce look, "AUGH!" She pinned him to the ground and bared her teeth. "YOU DARE PUNCH A GIRL?! NEVER. EVER. DO THAT TO ME!!!!" She screamed. But then, she snapped out of it as she lets go of Jack. "Cass?" He whispered. Cassandra was clutching her head in fear. "I'm so sorry." She apologized. Jack looked at her with concern, "What's going on with you?" He rasped. "I--I have no idea...." Cassandra admitted. She walked away, ending the training. That was a memory that Jack thought about after he heard her warning to Arcturus. While Cassandra was in this other world, She had nightmares about a creature called a nuckelavee. It was a formless specter living off the coast, this foul faerie would rise from the depths of the ocean and take the form of a massive, skinless, black-blooded, yellow-veined, fin-footed, man-eating horse with its "rider" fused to its back from his waist down. The horse head had a single blazing red eye and a gaping mouth full of vicious teeth, while the "rider" had an oversized head that rolled about on its undersized neck, and long, muscular arms that ended with razor sharp claws. This monster was an Omnicidal Maniac of the highest order, rising from the sea to deliver a plague called the Mortasheen that would kill livestock and crops, and it reserved a special hatred for any unfortunate humans it came across. Its one consistent weakness was fresh water, which it could not cross. She had visions of a chupacabra: It was at least 7 feet, 2.1 milimeters tall and that it had a black face which appeared to glow from within, and a black body. The creature's head as elongated, non-human eyes and as either being shaped like a sideways diamond, or as having a large circle shaped cowling behind it. The creature's body was described as being inhumanly-shaped and clad in a dark pleated exoskeleton ; later described as being described as a shadow. Some accounts record that the creature appeared to have no visible arms do to the incredible ability of speed. Others describe it as having long, stingy arms; ending in long, claw-like fingers, which protruded from the front of its body. 

In this attack, eight sheep were discovered dead, each with three puncture wounds in the chest area and completely drained of blood. She also had numerous of other nightmares of supposed extraterrestrial beings as there were strange things like lights in the sky and odd sounds. There was a man-like figure fly low from the trees over their heads, it was a huge and white creature about 7 feet tall with huge wings and red eyes--This was called The Mothman. There was a dream of a kangaroo-like creature with the head of a goat, leathery bat-like wings, horns, small arms with clawed hands, cloven hooves and a forked tail. It has been reported to move quickly and often is described as emitting a blood-curdling scream. There was a dream about a two-and-a-half-foot long Sand Worm that's said to live in the Gobi Desert. It's called the Allghoi Khorkoi since it resembles a blood-red cow intestine, and the death worm because it can spit deadly venom and electrocute its prey. After they've eaten another human, they turn into a tall, gaunt corpse-like being with sharp fangs that have shredded the former human's lips to nothing, bloody stumps where its feet would be, and transparent skin through which you can see its icy blood and heart of ice. It can turn invisible and ride on the wind to pursue prey, and it is always hungry. There are some of becomes a statue in Hell, able to hear everything said about her on Earth, almost all of which is nasty as various creatures surround here: Hydra, Chimera--a hideous amalgamation of a lion, a goat and a dragon, Cerberus, Orthrus, Prometheus' fate of being chained to a rock and having an eagle peck out his liver each day. Waking up scared; Cassandra was in dazed and wonders if she should talk to Dr. Bifrost. But then, Cassandra observed Arcturus and his Liderc self. Suddenly, Cassandra found herself absorbing Arcturus's powers and she became a Liderc just like him. This was then everyone was shocked by Cassandra, seeing her powers and her personality become darker than it did before. Now Cass has become some sort of clandestine lady. 

The next day, Arcturus managed to catch up with Cassandra. "I got you something. for your belated birthday." said Arcturus. Cassandra looked at him with surprise, "How did you know?" She asked. Arcturus smirked at her reaction. "How didn't I know?" He said. "What is it?" asked Cassandra. "It's a photo frame." replied Arcturus. Surprised at this, Cassandra looked in and said to him, "Um....It's empty, you know." She remarked. Arcturus placed a picture of him. "Now it's full." He said. Cassandra smiles at this, "So is my heart. Thank you." She admitted. "You're welcome, Cassie." said Arcturus. Cassandra gave him a look, "No, not Cassie...Cassandra." She said. 'Cassie' is what her father used to call her when she was little. She hated it however every time she complained to her Dad, he'd get mad at her. Ridiculous! Cassandra sighed, "Jeez! I'm weird." "Yeah you are." admitted Arcturus. Cassandra gave him a look, before the two of them burst out laughing. Later; Arcturus would be doing his job as a Liderc, but when he returned human and back at Cass, he would hear her screaming. He went to the chamber and opened the door. "Hey, are you OK?" asked Arcturus. Cassandra had a nightmare of the prom massacre again but it was more like demons that the ones who killed her peers and friends. Cassandra thought she was in hell. She was screaming and thrashing about earlier. She was now startled to see Arcturus as she ducked her the covers in terror. "S--sorry, just ghosts haunting me in my dreams!" stuttered Cassandra. Then, she cursed softly to herself: "Oh sh--I forgot to take my meds." Cassandra got out of bed and went over to take her medication of Nepenthe and she went back to the bed. But she was too scared to sleep! Arcturus looked at her, "You scared?" He asked. "I--No! I just..." Cassandra didn't know what to say. "You want me to leave?" asked Arcturus. 

"No!" cried Cassandra. "I want you stay by me. Please...Until I fall asleep." She was trembling so Arcturus sat on the foot of the bed. "I'll be here while you sleep." He said. Cassandra nodded, slowly her eyes drifted close and she dreamed again of many things: A shower, blood on hands, being pelted at, locked in a closet, the doors of a house shutting automatically, a pretty maroon-pink dress, a beautiful ballroom, a bucket of blood, the ballroom being destroyed, knives being thrown, the house debris and pieces as the place is now destroyed, and a gravesite. Was this visions of her? Of what's going to happen to her? No, she didn't want to think about death. Not since what happened to her friends. She feared death, she never want to die. But the visions changed: There was a girl in red who was wandering in a forest when she can he are wolves behind her. She runs in fear as she hides in a house, the wolves were growling outside so the girl in red got an axe and she opened the front door where she slaughtered all the wolves in a blinded rage. Once it was all over; she was smiling psychotically while holding the blood stained axe. She is then seen with other silhouettes with weapons. Another vision showed of another girl fighting back, alongside some others but she remains trust in them. She is trembling in fear, crying as she trembled and shivered. Cassandra woke up to find herself in a garden, underneath a cherry blossom tree. The petals of the blossoms were falling off were cascading down like snowflakes. Cassandra saw this as she laughs joyfully. She was like a butterfly fluttering and fluttering in the spring, from flower to flower. It was so peaceful, being in someplace that wasn't awful. Cassandra has fallen into the river from a tree overhanging it, while gathering flowers. She lies in the water singing songs, as if unaware of her. Her clothes, trapping air, have allowed her to temporarily stay afloat. Cassandra is enjoyed throwing any object at his body and watching it bounce off of her harmlessly, she is pierced from a spear thrown by an un-name guy. 

The spear is made out of mistletoe, which is fatal to Cassandra’s mind because mistletoe was apparently too young to swear an oath to not be able to kill her. People are upset at her bleeding. A man lies on top of a girl. There is a funeral with possessions. A dwarf getting kicked into the fire and burning into ashes. Cassandra watches with a slasher smile on her face. Cassandra is Judith and behead the general after he has fallen asleep drunk. The wide spurt of blood to the energy of Psyche as she try to wield the large dagger. The effort her struggle and grasped by the fist of Noah as he desperately struggles to survive. The dark background is suggestive of night. Behind Psyche lies a passage of richly painted drapery composed of browns and ochers that impart a golden warmth. Around her rests a thickly painted background of white chemise; set against this her naked flesh stands out for its solid form. Initially she appeared to be looking out of the corner of her eye, as if watching, her gaze is softened. Then, Cassandra depicted in front of a patterned forest-green damask. She holds an alabaster ointment cup. Cassandra seated at the center, her arms above her head as she arranges her coiffure. Preparing to offer herself, she holds a pose in a waist length gown that is whitish and rosy colored garments. She has a necklace and bracelets on her arms. She is staring out of the picture to the left. Behind her is a landscape of trees and sky. Cassandra was a ballerina in an underground place, doing all kinds of dance moves. Turnout, pointe, twirling and gliding. She feels someone on the left blowing her up to the surface. She is gliding up and looks down to see she is standing on a large seashell nude and modestly posing. She is displaying much grace as she carefully leans on one hip. Her hair flows gracefully as she is blown up to the surface. Reaching land; Cassandra picked some spring flowers: two of roses, and two of irises as she smiles. 

This changes to other visions: An unpopular outcast young female student. The girl apparently spends much of her time drawing pictures, revealing that she probably has dreams of becoming an artist. She is largely shunned and ridiculed at school, considering that when she is told off by the lecturer for drawing in class everybody laughs at her and teases her, when she trips on the stairs nobody stops to help her up, and that when she tries to join a group of girls at a lunch table they immediately get up and leave. There are also self-inflicted cut marks on her arms. There others out there troubled like the outcast girl: Another girl who breaks a mirror, then writes "I'm nothing" onto a sheet of paper. She then picks up a shard of broken glass, clenches it in her hand, and smears her blood on the note. A woman is shown coming home to see a man, her boyfriend, with another woman in bed. The woman breaks down and hits her boyfriend repeatedly in a fit of rage. A man has apparently fell to his death. The deceased man is shown lying on a car's roof. The surrounding area has been taped off and is littered with investigating police officers as well as onlookers who are rapt by the scene. Cassandra is hiding in the bathroom and prays a rosary as she hears her parents arguing. She could hear her father yelling, her mother crying. Cassandra screams at her father, “Stop it, Dad!” But she knocks down a door. Cassandra wakes up to find herself sitting on the ground in a deserted, destroyed school hallway. She slowly begins to stand up and makes her way through the hallway. Cassandra then sees a teacher in a classroom who's stricken with fear and closes the door, realizing she is the cause of the damage. As Cassandra makes her way outside the school building, a police car arrives and the teacher rushes outside to tell the policeman about Cassandra. Cassandra then quickly rides a bicycle home to pack her things. 

While at home, she sees a news report about the incident, causing her to quickly gather her things to flee. Several policemen then appear outside the front door of Cassandra's house, while she tries to escape through the back door. Cassandra realizes that the door is locked so she uses her telekinetic powers to grab the keys from the kitchen bench. The policemen then enter the house to find that Cassandra has escaped, Cassandra is running away from a SWAT team in the woods. Cassandra is caught by one of the men who pushes her to the ground. Cassandra using his supernatural powers once again to push the men away in a burst of power. Cassandra wakes up in a place with five doors. “Where am I?” She wondered. Looking around, she watched as the door open on their own. This startles her so she looks at each of the door. In the first door; Cassandra is walking a dog in a grimy, industrial setting. The dog urinates on an abandoned television lying on the pavement, causing it to sputter unexpectedly into life. This unleashes an evil spirit, accompanied by a gang of small children, all of whom bear grinning face and who appear to inhabit the abandoned buildings. The children go around wreaking havoc, trashing an alley and chasing a man into his car. The demon emerges from the television, screams in Cassandra’s face, who falls down but then she watches as children gathers around the demon. Terrified; Cassandra left that world as the first door closed on its own. "Geez!" Cassandra said with a sigh. "Now that--was creepy." So she moved onto the next one. In the second door is of a deranged Cassandra wearing a wedding gown, she wandering around an abandoned street in a tutu, birds fluttering around her and leaving droppings on her body, and of her riding a pig wearing a cowboy hat and covered with mud. 

Cassandra left the second as that one also closes behind her. In the third door, Cassandra terrorized by a shadowy figured before she herself grows an extra set of limbs and is devoured by a giant arachnid. Cassandra screams as she wakes up to the doors. The third had already closed and Cassandra sighed with relief. She gets up as she enters the fourth door, Cassandra is surrounded by creepy wide-eyes and rictus grins of all the ordinary individuals. Then housewives, old ladies and little girls are accurately imbibed into a dark abyss at the center of a burning sky. Cassandra is stunned by this and leaves, dazed of what she saw. Now she entered the fifth, and the last, door shows innocent-seeming Cassandra as she skips down the street while someone follows her. As she descends into an underground area, he pulls out a cloth with chloroform. Just as he is about to attack, she screams and begins utilizing telekinetic powers to manipulate the person's body. She raises him into the air and contorts his body into a variety of positions, slamming him against walls and shooting black smoke into and through his body. Cassandra’s eyes turn the same color black. Ultimately she makes a final twisting motion with her hands, indicating she has killed the person. When she woke up, it was morning and she was in her bed. She let out a sigh, "Yeesh, talk about dream within a dream. Crazy what Nepenthe can do to someone with post traumatic stress disorder." She muttered to herself, clutching her head. During this time, Arcturus and his gang joined the agents of Silver Branch. In the meantime; Jack is working when he heard classical music and went to see where the music is coming from. He entered a room where he found Cassandra is dancing alone. He enters as he looks at her mesmerizing self. "What are you doing in here?" Jack asked. Cassandra stopped for a moment, she strolls over to him with a smile. "Dancing to this song, it's pretty is it not?" She replied. 

Jack listened to the song and nodded, "It sounds nice. You dance very well." remarked Jack. Cassandra answered back with a grin, "Thanks, practice makes perfect." She lends out her hand, "Would you like to try it?" She asked. Jack looked nervous, "No, I don't think..." He started to say but Cassandra hold firm and said, "C'mon, just one second." Jack sighed, giving in. Cassandra lead him to the floor, she stood there with him as she instructs him of what he needs to do: "OK, first your gonna put your hand on my shoulder here. Good, now put you arm around my waist. Awesome! And I'm gonna..Oh wait, I made a mistake. There. We're gonna go slow, follow my lead but we'll do baby steps." answered Cassandra. Jack awkwardly placed his hands on her shoulder and then in her hand. "1, 2, 3. 1, 2, 3...Oh!" Jack stepped on her foot, he then winced with shame. "I'm sorry." He said. "No, my bad! I went too fast." Cassandra apologized. Jack felt tears of anger in his eyes, "Ugh, forget this crappy--" He cried, he was about to pull away but Cassandra hold him tightly, "Uh, uh. C'mon, one little screw up. No blood, no foul. It's all good." She said. Jack leaned his head on Cassandra's shoulder, "I guess I'm more of a brute than a gentleman." He remarked. Cassandra smiled, "That's why I'm helping you." She reminded. Jack looked at her eyes, Cassandra looked back at him in his eyes and then she did something she never imagined. Leaning towards him, she pressed her lips against his. Jack was shocked, he felt slightly suffocated for a second. "Why was she doing this?" He thought. "I can't breathe but I can't help but taste her soft lips and that taste...Sweet mint...." Cassandra's kiss took a turning point, where Jack is letting himself give away of his powers. "No....No!" He thought. He unattached his mouth away and pushed himself back from her. They both were gasping, "I--I'm sorry, again." Jack said. "Ah! I forgot. Your powers...Forgive me, my bad." Cassandra apologized. "Let's keep this kiss between us." Jack said. 

Cassandra agrees. But she gets a text from her father, which says: "I need you now." "Hello?" She called. Cassandra, Jack, and Arcturus looked around but found no one. However, they saw someone violently bashed them each with a shovel, and they lost conscious. Later, Cassandra wakes up to see that her wrists are bind together above her head and she is hanging a little from the floor. She looked over at Jack and Arcturus. They are also have their wrists bind together above but they have their mouths gagged. Cassandra saw her father, he had different sharp objects there. "Dad? What's going on?" Cassandra asked. Boreas turned to her, "Cass, I told you before....I told you....."  He muttered, taking a knife in his hand. "Daddy, this isn't right." Cassandra replied. Jack shouted at him but the gag in his mouth made a muffling sound. "Shut up, you abomination!" Boreas cried, punching him in the stomach. Jack let out a 'mmph!' and groaned underneath the gag. Bellest tried to call his name however he couldn't say because it was muzzled. "You guys, you are all the same! Always come between me and my daughter!" exclaimed Boreas. Jack glared at him, but then he looked away with defeat on his face. "You flush her entire brain! You have no right! No right!" cried Boreas. "Stop, Father! I told you before, and I will say this again; I cannot trust you! Not for everything you put mama and I through!" Cassandra claimed. Boreas glared at her, "Oh? Then you won't trust me if I killed these three in front of you." He cried. The two of them squirmed, their moans and screams still muffling. They shook their heads, Cassandra shook her head. "No..." She begged. "Hell, I can do it right now! I would love to see their corpses covered in blood and guts if I want to!" Boreas screeched, he was going to really kill them. "No, Dad!" Cassandra screamed. Her telekinesis broke free of her bonds and she begin to attack her father, holding him at choke hold. She then freed her friends from the prison. Releasing them from their bondage. Jack and Arcturus were free as they released the gags from their mouths. 


Jack embraced Cassandra, "Cass, you're OK." He said. "I am." admitted Cassandra. There was a loud scream as Boreas had his knife and stabbed his daughter, who topples down with Jack and Arcturus. Boreas found the three of them, "You know sin never dies? You gotta keep killing it!" He said in a creepy monotone. "Dad!" screamed Cassandra, terrified. But then, her powers to cause Boreas to trip as he almost fell on the knife but Cassandra caught it before his father was nearly stabbed himself. Boreas scrambled to his feet as an angry Cassandra blocks him from attacking Jack and Arcturus. "Get out!" Cassandra screamed, using her powers. "What's the matter, bitch?" exclaimed Boreas. "Out!" Cassandra cried. "You're sick!" Boreas yelled. "Out!" shouted Cassandra. "Sick in the head!" screamed Boreas. "OUT!!!!" bellowed Cassandra. "OPEN THE DAMN DOOR, CASSANDRA--" Boreas exclaimed but Cassandra steps back and uses her psychokinesis to slam the door on his knee several times. Her father cried out in pain. His leg went out the door as Cassandra can hear him scream in anguish, it was beyond pathetic--It was really pitiable. Cassandra panted and panted. She huffed and gasped for breath. A few minutes later, the medics of a mental facility came and took Boreas, Cassandra and the others watched him go as they were relieved to see it was all over. Boreas was placed in a windowless room and They strap in his new bed. Boreas try to bite and claw them however he was like an animal he was left no choice. He screamed at them, "BASTARDS! YOU'LL SUFFER FOR THIS! YOU SHOULD BE LOCKED UP!!" The medics left with blank faces. They closed the door, and his shouting was muffled. Cassandra is outside of the asylum but smiles as she thought, "Dad.....Thanks to all the troubles you put me through and all the pain you made me feel, you made me stronger as a person and able to see the negative qualities and avoid them in the future."


Chapter 6: Undying Loyalty

Here she was, lying in her bed and listening to music again. Thinking for her new inspiration, her next project. She needs something fresh. Something different.....Ophelia is hark-backing of the so called friends she once had: She remembered her freshman year of high school as one of them complimented her on her T shirt. Touched by the compliment; Ophelia thanked her and was about to talk to her when a snobby girl interrupted rudely as the girl forgets about Ophelia, who is now hurt by the mannerism of the snobby girl. All Ophelia wanted was someone kind, someone to talk to but alas, there was none. She begins to recall more memories from her past; One time she was sick of a bad cough and a high fever. Instead of sympathy, all of her 'friends' had jeered things at her mercilessly, "Get away from me!", "Ewww, don't cough on me!" and "Why don't you stay home if your sick?" Even a nice girl she met and felt pity for was also mean to her as well. Ophelia was trying not to get anyone else sick but she hated it. A teacher noticed her not feeling well and called Ophelia's mother, where she picked her up and Ophelia rested in order to recover, which took about a week. Although the violent tantrums she had, all the pain and the skepticism she went through; Ophelia longed for a friend and for acceptance but her behavior had always shunned others from her as she felt alone. Someone to love, a friend. But alas, there was none. 

In the present era; Ophelia has always have a habit of eavesdropping but to her, it was a way to keep secrets of others and to sympathize them in case somebody needs someone to talk to, Ophelia would be that person. Today, she heard Cassandra's angry complaints to her mother about her father with his lies, wallowing, and how he 'wants to die'. She thought her father was pathetic in so many ways. Ophelia was upset by hearing this, she feels sympathy for Cassandra however she is angry at how much of a jerk Boreas is to his own daughter. It was making Cassandra's mood resentful and irritating. Later, Ophelia enters in her shrine-shed where she begins writing about the people at Silver Branch. The only reason why she's obsessed is because their faces are etched in her head as their facial expressions seem to haunt her. Some of her entries are creepy: "My experience has no place for rehab, I can't stop thinking about you 24-7. I look to see if you're always there. I call you and stay up all night to see if you call back. There's no one who gets me like you, I think about the way I feel about what you feel. I'm emotionally weak, I feel so high up. I can't understand why aren't you interested, I am obsessed! I feel like a loser, here I am staying home all night. Waiting for you to call, you might have noticed my obsession for you. I'm a mental stalker. You won't call me for I'm infatuated. Is it my appearance?  I won't let anyone get you or let you get away." 

She then decides to take her obsessively crazy ideas and turned them into a light novel book called Sanity & Sanctuary. It was about a boy, who had been rejected before, as he longed to be accepted by 'cool yet kind' young men. But these young men are really from 'the world above' for their beloved queen is being imprisoned by an evil queen and now the boy must help his 'heroes' that he looks up to. Ophelia based the boy's feelings off her own. She wrote the boy's past, similar to her own. Ophelia eventually typed her story onto her blog: "Phantasi Grrl Online Journal" under her alter ego name Larunda 'Lara' Seltsam. She hopes to find an artist for her light novel and to get it published soon. In her emotional state; Ophelia begin to cry as she fears of acceptance and the loud noises she dislikes so much. But she managed to pull herself together and for a moment, she felt a glimmer of hope. It was shining through her for one moment, and then the next; it faded as Ophelia begin to feel depress once again. Quickly, Ophelia prayed above to Shiloh that she'll be accepted by others and loved. One day, she will be loved. Never again will she be rejected. She wrote bible verses such as these kinds: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. At times, you will feel lonely, but you’re not. He will guide your path, enlighten your days. Prayers seem to help her however it won't be just the Lord's work to help her but she has the perseverance to survive. 

In her writing; she had wrote on the boy's point of view: "...He is close to losing hope, it could happen at any coming moment. Losing my mind. he is just a person like anybody else and can’t take the hate and everything on his own. Therefore he asks for help. Everyday is a struggle to live, not gonna be silent for any longer. He’s gonna speak up even if he is by himself. Today he is going to speak up and people will hear him! Who’s gonna be brave enough to say what everyone thinks or wants to say but can’t because they’re afraid? They have to solve the hardest problem, they’ll ever have to solve and they aren’t ready yet. In this line there’s a little note of uncertainty. He’s searching for a hero for so long to come and save the day. He later realizes he has to be his own hero. Calling to a force or being of some kind to rescue him before it is too late...." She eventually wrote on the acceptance part: "Often someone would hide their flaws in order to look good to others. I just want you to open up about your inner feelings. And I have to admit, just like you; I'm flawed and I'm scared too. I will love you without limits. Nobody comes stuff-free. Everybody has their issues and you’re never going to be perfect. Even when you are upset, angry, drunk, or otherwise being hard to be around, I will be there for you. You have my full permission to be yourself." And ends it with, "Everyone will be able to see how fantastic their partnership is, like how wondrous a pair of shooting stars are."

Ariadne thought about her past: Her rocking out on a guitar, jumping up and down on her bed. Her mother came in and looked at her, "Young lady, if you fall like that; you will hit your head and I will have a cow." Mrs. Sirius scolded. Ariadne jumped down on the floor with both feet and smiled. "I'm a rock star, Mommy. I'm going to be famous!" said Ariadne. Her mother ruffled her hair playfully, "OK. Listen, Miss Rock n Roll Star, you need to be careful of the whereabouts around you. You as a singer-songwriter must never give up. I love you no matter what." She said. "I love you too, Momma." Young Ariadne said. She hugs her mother. The memory fades. Then, she begins to remember how she came across her crew in the first place; Ariadne woke up to see a bunch of strangers attacking her but Ariadne got away and jumped back in horror. She walked away fast, "Keep away! Don't touch me!" Then she remembered the massacre and how she was hiding. "No, not again." She thought. Ariadne activates her powers as she looked fierce. "Don't come near me, there's something inside me you don't want to mess with because I'm pissed!" She commanded. The others looked frightened as Ariadne cried out: "I am having a bad day! I am sick of this! Today, I got laughed at the producer I just met! I was dissed of having no talent! And I was called a 'SARAH FACE WITH NO PLACE'!!!!! I almost got myself killed by monsters, AND HERE I AM! Surrounded by complete strangers that I don't know about! WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?! WHERE AM I?! WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?!" 

Eyes were glued on her, they looked scared. "Hey, miss--" A voice said, but Freya turned to as she had fierceness in her eyes. "Miss? MISS?! MY NAME IS ARIADNE! ARIADNE SIRIUS! It's not 'girl', 'miss', 'lady', or 'Sarah Face''!!!!!!" cried Ariadne. She felt on her knees, she begin sobbing. It was too emotional for her, she just couldn’t take much more out of this. The girl with the pigtails approached her, "Hey, Don't cry. Here..." She handed a teary eyed Freya a napkin. , who took them from her but smiled with gratitude. "Thank you." said Ariadne. She smiled but then she heard a faint shouting. “Do you hear something?” She asked. Just then, from above. Two boys, one was dirty blonde haired teen boy followed by a brown haired boy were falling. "GANGWAY!" The dirty blonde cried. "Look out!" Ariadne called out. Everyone dodged or ducked out of the way. “Ahhh!"They cried. Luckily, those two teen boys landed safely however the dirty blonde exclaimed: "Owwwww, why did your body slammed me?" The brown haired guy exclaimed back, "You said you wanted to go first so I DID!" The dirty blonde looked away, annoyed but plastered a smile. "Oh, Nickkkk." He said in a sing-song tone. Nick, the brown haired one looked up at his friend. "Yes, Launce?" He asked. "Youuuuu, DINGLEBERRY!!!!" cried Launce. He flips Nick over and Nick let out a shout. "AHHHHHH, MY SPLEEN!" "Good! YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL!" exclaimed Launce. Freya smirked, amused by this. "Nice entrance." 

In the present; Ophelia had been testing the Nepenthe and so far, she had been experimenting some psychedelic illusion in her head: chocolate rivers, giant edible mushrooms, and lickable wallpaper. It was like being in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. But these are making her seeing something crazy: There once was a woman 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. a figure as the famous seventeenth-century work in which a painter, thought to be a self-portrait of Vermeer, is depicted with his back to the viewer, in distinctive costume. Next; Ophelia finds itself in front of an almost photo-realistic table setting with a slice of ham in the center. The scene is made surreal by the presence of an eye staring back at the viewer from the center of the ham. Terrified; Ophelia ran off in a startling matter. Then, the viewer saw a geometric monster type creature and connected to a similar monster. The two creatures appear to be two parts of the same creature so that it appears to be wrestling itself. All over the background and on parts of the monster are boiled beans that look like they are melting. The monster stands on trees and a brown wooden box. The background is a blue sky with clouds, that are darker in some parts and lighter in others.

A nude female figure rises from the back of the head; The woman's mouth is near a thinly clad male crotch, a suggestion that fellatio may take place. The male figure seen only from the waist down has bleeding fresh cuts on his knees. Below the central profile head, on its mouth, is a locust. A swarm of gather on the locust's abdomen, as well as on the prone face. In the landscape below, three other figures are arranged, along with an egg and sparse other features. Two of the characters in the landscape are arranged in such a way as to cast a long single shadow, while the other character is seen hurriedly walking into the distance. Ophelia hears something ringing calmly, softly and got a closer look to see where bells float high in the sky. Ophelia comes across a horrifying scene: a blood-smeared nude woman, is seen lying on a couch. The assassin of the painting's title, a well-dressed man, stands ready to leave, his coat and hat on a chair next to his bag. He is however delayed by the sound of music, and in an unhurriedly relaxed manner, listens to a gramophone. In the meantime, two men armed with club and net wait in the foyer to ensnare him, whilst three more men also watch from over the balcony.

Ophelia turned around but has found herself in another horror place. 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. Once the viewer panted from that horrible face, they come across 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. Ophelia 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, or to be floating like helium balloons, 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.

Ophelia is called in to do some training and to unearth some groundwork on some young man who is mild, antisocial, kingfish lone wolf name Jurek Fitzwarin. Ophelia is suspicious to know who he is. He seemed to interest her but doesn't know where to start. Out of curiosity; she did some research on Juana's 'boys'--Diarmuid, Adonis, and Hyacith. Ophelia blushes and getting all giggly, "Hell-O Can-dy!" She exclaimed. But then she noticed a car coming near her. A strange young lady with a Cheshire grin stopped and offered her a ride. Ophelia tried to refuse however the lady insist out of kindness. Ophelia was surprised by this, so she takes the woman's offer. The next minute; Ophelia sat quietly in the back seat of the car, which is driven by a young lady. Next to her in the passenger seat was a young boy. He looked like a bodyguard, because he had a gun in his "I don't think we've been introduced." the woman said in the driver's seat, interrupting Ophelia's reverie: "My name is Chloris. And this young man is Astrild." Ophelia looked up, she didn't say anything during the ride. "So, where did you from? Walking by yourself?" asked Chloris. That's when Ophelia looked up, not meeting her eyes in the review in the mirror, however she pretended to. "I...I don't want to say much personal information if that's OK." replied Ophelia, a little nervously. Chloris nodded, understanding. "Yeah, OK. I won't probe anymore." She said, looking at the road. Ophelia managed to contact Mimir Sofus and explained of a job she has. Mimir understood however deep down, he knows who. 

Later on, Turan and her squad were invited to some sort of day party of mingling at the opening of a new hotel. Turan was touched as she went to the man and thanked him. But she begins to wonder out of curiosity. "So, who invited us? Who's the princess that invited us?" asked Turan. The guy smiles, "She's waiting for you." He turns around and called out, "Hey, Penny. Your 'friends' are here." Then a familiar voice, a Southern belle, called out. "Howdy y'all!" That voice made Turan's blood turned cold. "Oh no!" moaned Turan. Kai recognized that voice, "Is that who I think it is?" He asked. Turan put her face in her hands, "Yes..." She squeaked. Out of all the people she wasn't thrilled, this girl had to be one of them. Penelope Solomon was the name of this southern belle. She wore a low cut, see through shirt. Daisy Duke shorts. High heels. D cup sized bust in that shirt. She had a 'babyface' beau arrived. Penelope's face lit up when she saw Turan and gave her a hug as if they were long friends. "I haven't seen you since that blow up attempt, doll. You look better than before. It's nice to see a pretty girl like you..." ranted Penelope with delight. How these girls met was a long story: It all started when Turan was watching the news where she saw that an infant faced 20 southern belle name Penelope Solomon. She was being interview of women being tortured by men. Penelope simply says that women are making excuses as they like feeling tortured and into submission. Turan was enraged by this, she couldn’t believe this. She was furious, who does this woman think she is? A Messiah complex of a guru? 

She kicks the TV out of the window and screeched, "How dare that bottle blonde prima donna girl say that shit!" "Someone's got issues." Kai noted with a smirk. Turan glared at him and says, "Clam it, Kai!" After having a meltdown; Turan collapses on her bed. Norna looked down at her with concern. Then she finally suggested in a nicer tone: "OK, I think someone needs to take a few deep breaths and blow off stea….” "NOOOOO!!! No, No way! Nada, Zip, Zilech. I wanna burn her, I wanna stomp on her face and smear her makeup!" cried Turan. "I--I--I want to corrupt her novelettish, schmaltzy, chocolate box complex called her life!" She grabbed her pillow and buried her face in it. The others glanced at each other before back at her, "So, what do you want to do?" Yazi asked. Turan lifted the pillow halfway, "Blow up the empire." She said. But then, she thought of something wicked….."Wait a second....My presbyopia cerebrum just hatched an idea. Yes, yes, why did I think of this before? It's so rich! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” She laughed, Bianca and the boys looked at each other; fearing that she has gone the deep end. "I got it--I will disguise myself as a male dealer and ask them to set off a bomb in her beautiful kingdom and then watch the fireworks as the narcissist princess burns! Yes, yes! Dramatic carnage, brilliant! Beyond perfection, no words to describe this devious plan of mine." announced Turan. Norna sighed, her chin in her hands as she looks at her friend. "She's cracked." admitted Norna. John chuckled slightly, "Yup." He agreed. "I think hanging out with a bunch of men that do nothing but fight has gotten herself to go mad as a March hare." 

She planted the bomb and called Penelope anonymously to tell her about the bomb before hanging up. But Penelope, panicked slightly, as she contacted the bomb squad figured out how to deactivate it. It was a difficult task but they managed to stop it in time. Turan learned that the bomb didn’t go off, she was really upset about it. She went over to Penelope’s mansion to investigate and attempts to shoot the perpetrators that deactivate the bomb. On the news; the reports of lives being injured. When Norna saw this; she was in shock. “Oh my…God…Are you fricking kidding me?” She rasped. Norna had enough, she turned to the others, who are also stunt at this. “We gotta do something, this is serious. If she continues like this, she could kill someone. We have no other choice, for Turan’s safety; we’re going to kidnap her. Let’s go, we have a harpy to tame.” Norna announced, and off they went! Turan was insane of blood she spilled of her victims. She was searching for Penelope, which is she almost kills her however Norna stops her from killing Penelope. “NO, WHYYYYYY?” Turan cried. “This is gone long enough. You are out of line!” Norna admonished. Turan breaks free and tackles her own friend to the ground but Norna kicked her down. Turan looked at her with shock however Norna looked at her calmly. "Don't you see? I did this for you. I was trying to tell you something, all this time.” Norna said gently, “You can’t go on like this. Please, stop. Before it’s too late. Who cares what anyone said about you, you have a whole life ahead.” Turan was trembling, she passed out. Later, Turan is in the mental hospital ward, she will be treated for her alleged bipolar behavior. And now, here she is facing Penelope Solomon. This has to be the worst day of her life! 

Meanwhile; Ophelia had finished cleaning up and she was starting to get things done. It was about time for lunch break when she heard something from the floor making a thumping sound underneath her feet. Ophelia was startled but she prepared herself. Just then, Roland's head popped out as he panted while looking around. He sighed, "Dammit, that was close!" He and Ace got out from beneath. "I swear, if I see one more Wendigo; I'm gonna chop its head off!" grumbled Roland. "Riddle me this, Orlando. Are we there yet?" said Ace. Roland glares at him, "'Are we there yet?' 'Are we there yet?' Yes! We're here, if it weren't for your frigging brains I probably wouldn't get away from those bastards." He said. "Roland, Ace." Ophelia gasped with happiness. Roland and Ace looked up to see a surprised Ophelia.. Overcome with joy; she couldn't help but embraced them. "OMG! You're here!" Roland was blushing while Ace looked pissed, annoyed. "I'm so happy to see you two! I miss your faces! I missed you!" Ophelia said, she looked over at Roland. "Especially you, Kitty." She said. Ace looked over at Roland, "'Kitty'?" He asked. "She thinks I'm her pet." Ace glares at Ophelia, "What is this bondage and dominant?" He snapped. "Ew, no!" Roland cried, horrified. Ophelia laughs, "Like hell, I'm not into that stuff. I mean, that's not love. Who takes pleasure in that?" She said. But became serious, "So, what's going on in your neck of the woods?" asked Ophelia. "We're bustin' you out of this joint!" Roland said. Ophelia looked surprise, "I--I--I can't! This is my part time job. I gotta get stuff done." She explained. "Hey, who's there?" A voice called out. Chloris and Nergal appeared; seeing Roland and Ace. Nergal fired at them however Ace and Roland deflect the bullets. Soon, more gun men appeared. During their fight against Zephyr's gun men; one of them took a appendage knife gun and used it towards Ophelia, causing a sort of pain in her capillaries. 

As the sharpness piercing into her vital arteries; Ophelia felt pain in her as Roland and Ace but are shocked to see she has a climax spasm. She was moaning softly as if she was being pleasured. "The hell--? Is she turn--" thought Roland. Chloris couldn't believe she is seeing this, "Good Lord." She said. "Wow, I never seen a girl cry out in delight over this." Astrild remarked, he was flushing a little. "It's kind of hot." "Focus, you. This isn't the time for any admiration. Once Ophelia had been released from the piercing, she then heard something that her bionic ears picked up, a Wendigo was here! She saw the monster coming at Chloris and she ran over to protect her. She used her arm as a shield. The creature left a horrible wound on her arm. Ophelia then killed it but she was bleeding. She was then rushed to the medic of White Horse Society, where someone used a tourniquet to help stem the blood from oozing out. And she felt someone sewing up her arm. Once again; she begins to splutter with more passionate frenzies. But only in her head. "I--can--do--this, I--can--do--this...I just gotta focus." She thought, between gasps. When she woke up, Roland was sitting beside her. "How are you doing?" He asked. "Fine." replied Ophelia. "Sorry about that." It was quiet until Roland spoke up with a question. "So...Why are you turned on by pain?" asked Roland. "I'm not. Ever heard of taking your fears and turning them into exhilaration? That's what I'm doing." said Ophelia with a shrug. Roland scoffed. "That is weird." He remarked. Ophelia smiled, nodding. "Yup, but call me crazy; I think the nervousness is also a fuel for my climax gasping." She admitted. "Oh geez." Roland said with a groan.  Ace was listening to this, jealous of how Roland is attractive to Ophelia. "What makes her special?" He thought angrily. Ace decided to teach the 'special girl' a lesson so when Ophelia was better, Ace took her out for a sparring. "Ready? Don't hold back." Ace taunted. Ophelia smiled, "Not me." She said. Ace attacks but Ophelia dodges it. Ace tried to attack again however Ophelia dodge. "Geez, what's with your skills? You fight like a...." Ace started to say but he was punched in the face. 

He almost fell however he steadied his balance. Roland let out a whoop. Ophelia flipped her hair back, "A girl? Puh-leeze!" She said. Ace coughed as he felt something in his mouth. What he pulled out was a tooth. Ophelia giggled at this. Ace looked at her with surprise, "Damn, not bad." He praised. Ophelia smiled brightly, showing her teeth. But closed her mouth to show off her shiny pink her rosebud puckers showed. Ace felt his heart going 'pitter patter', "What....What is this feeling? Why do I feel this way?" He thought. "I hate her, she...She's nothing but a vulnerable...." Ophelia then tousled her hair, which glowed gold in the sunlight. Ace looked away, "....but look at her...She's so....." He then glance back at her who looked naïve, wholesome, virtuous, and has the fawn-eyed purity of a child, but keen enchantment as well. "Beautiful." A fist was coming at him and punched him so hard that he hit the floor. "Ahhh...." He spit out another teeth and glance at Ophelia. "Admit it, I am awesome!" Ophelia said. "Well, well. I can see someone is really making an impression on you." A voice said. Roland, Ace, and Ophelia turned to see it was Janus Sayer. "Janus!" Ophelia exclaimed. Ace and Roland begin to glare at him with green envious. "Who is this creep?" Roland asked. Ophelia turned to them and replied, "A...friend." She rushed over to Janus and asked, "Janus, did you get any results back?" Janus pulled out a folded piece of paper, "Right here." He said. "Thank you, your a life saver." said Ophelia, she looked at the results. "So, it's from the Nepenthe correct?" She asked. "Yup. There's no dying it. Whoever is doing this, must be successful at making Cassandra hallucinate and have some unusual dreams. This isn't your usual side effects, you know." said Janus. Ophelia nodded, "Yeah. I knew something was up. She needs to stop taking Nepenthe, it's really going to screw her up." She said. 

Cassandra, for the time being, was lying in bed as she took the Nepenthe again, just to feel good. Thinking back in high school; Ophelia remembers seeing some children who were highly functioned and different. They may be whatever age they are but still act quit childish. They have sensory stimulation, social triggers, communication problems, and unusual interests. They have disheveled hair. They are running around babbling lyrically about the strange visions flashing through her deranged mind, singing creepy little rhymes, scattering flowers and occasionally bashing people's heads in. In the upstairs part of World Tree; there were 12 children of the middle school. In the downstairs of World Tree is bustling with noises of crying and scolding. There are 11 elementary kids. The mornings go like this: There is prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, sing along, they have to do work, and one of the students have learning therapy. Then they go out for P.E., the children finally come back to go to the bathroom, and have lunch. In the afternoons; the children have different classes like TaeKwon-Do, they have music but some are hypersensitivity to the noises, and they go outside to play. They have snack and then they go home. The kids in the middle school have a different lesson in class: They have prayer and the Pledge, they have work to do. Next they go down for P.E. and then snack, then they go back to do their work, and finally they have lunch. They have music or some of them are having physical or learning therapy. And lastly they go home. There are some stressful days of kids having major outbursts that would go on for minutes, maybe hours. Some who are disobedient, and some that make accidents. She finally realized that a couple of teachers are mistreating kids, keeping them from having fun because they can't 'behave right'. Ophelia is troubled by this, they think these kids should be positively reinforcement and not be handled roughly. She had been through that, these kids shouldn't be treated this way and something must be done. 

In her sleep of a lucid dreaming starts off with a dark woods, Cassandra walks through it as the sun begin to shine on a mountain and she climbs up. Further in the journey towards the top of the mountain but then there is a lion, leopard, and a she wolf. Cassandra is frightened and runs off back to the dark woods however she ends up entering the nightmare realm of Inferno. In the limbo vivid dream, Cassandra 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. Cassandra gets on the boat and rides it across but is horrified to see a leaden, smoky mist and the blazing backdrop against which she endures a fearful crossing of the river. But she is steadied by a learned voice in her mind  while 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. Deep in the lust zone, The Minos lurk around and take the female victims into the chaotic storms, where they swirl into the madness. Cassandra hears soft noises and looks to see what it is. It looks a man and woman kissing in the style of the statue but the woman pulls away to have blood dripping from the sides of her mouth. The man is shown to have two punctured marks on his neck. The vampiric woman turns back to the man and ripped his chest open as she devours his blood and heart. In the next part of Inferno; 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. 

In her horror; Cassandra then sees 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. Cassandra discovers a well, and goes down to see the girls are in a frozen lake. Suddenly, someone brushed beside her and Cassandra turned to see a young lady there, who smirked at her. "Hello. Wanna play with me?" She said. Cassandra saw the young lady's wicked look. "GET THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!!!!" Cassandra cried. The girl giggled as she was closing in. Cassandra ran as she cried out for help. But alas, she thinks no one is there. In the meantime; Jack and Acturus each heard Cassandra cry for help. They somehow made a telepathic connection as they begin to see Cassandra's memories: Cassandra was having a blast with friends: Reuben, Judy, Danielle, Asher, Benjamin, Josephine, and Ephraim. This will be their last day with one another so they decide to make the most of the night with one another. A man in a tuxedo came up to the microphone and said, "All right! It's time to announce the winners of this year's Prom King and Queen." He had a small envelope in his hand and rips it up. "And the winners are....REUBEN MATTHEWS AND JUDY DAVIS!" 

Everyone broke into an applause, Reuben and Judy went to the stage to accept their crowns as Judy is given a bouquet of roses. Just then, unexpected visitors crashed the party with loaded guns and started a massacre. They shot at other people who fell to the floor. Panic filled everyone else, they try to flee but some were shot in the process. Cassandra watched in horror as her friends were being shot at. Judy noticed Cassandra there and calls out, "Get away from here Cass!" "Save yourself Cass!" Asher called out, "Get away from here!" However they were all shot at as Cassandra screamed with terror. Just then, there were police sirens in the air and the men heard them as they escaped from the prom. The young, deranged girl was closing in on her. Just then, a blind of light. She then heard two voices calling her name. Cassandra recognized those voices, "Jack? Arcturus? Where are you guys?" She said. But she didn't know where they were. That's when she closed her eyes and begin to concentrate. She couldn't see Jack or Arcturus at first but she could feel them. she's talking to them. There was a blind light as she finally saw them, which sends a feeling through her that she never felt before. Being with them, seeing them and talking to them makes Cassandra feel alive then she ever been. she feels their completely around her. "Good Shepherd, Yehweh.....Have these monsters are angels? Just as Daniel saw an angel made from gemstones? Could this be Gabriel?" thought Cassandra. 

But in her hallucination; Jack and Acturus were donned with wings. She is alone with the angels all along. Protected."I'm cured....Praise God....!" She whispered. There was a bright light and all three of them woke up, back where they belong. Later, Cassandra was being offered for a job but she never imagine what this one could be: "This is a job you're offering me? A maid?!" Cassandra couldn't believe what she was hearing, she was assigned to be a maid. A sexy kind of maid, this has to be a joke right? No way in hell was she going to be one. Mimir assured her calmly, "Don't worry, this will only last....Probably a week?" He said. "A week!?" Cassandra shrieked. "Are you kidding me? With all do respect sir, this is so stupid. I am not doing this, I can't do this!" "Yes, you can." encouraged Mimir. "No, I can't!" argued Cassandra. "Yes. You. Can." Mimir said. Cassandra looked at Mimir, who waited patiently. Cassandra will not admit it, she won't. She cannot, she doesn't want to. But alas, she has no choice. 


Taking a deep breath; Cassandra finally said it: "I'll do it!" Mimir smiled, "That's the spirit!" He said with enthusiasm. 



Chapter 7: Of Mortals and Creatures

Manaha Inc., 7:35, Bedroom of Arjuna Gilgamesh....

Nice legs, a small black short-sleeved dress with a white apron. Knee-high white socks, black high heeled Mary Jane shoes, and a maid bonnet. She was sauntering down the hall as the calves of her legs are slender. She opened the door after knocking the door. "Good morning Mr. Gilgamesh. You have lessons today. Oh, and you have an appointment in the afternoon today." said the maid. The young man Mr. Gilgamesh woke up, stretching, as he looked at the maid. The maid carried a folded pair of clothes and placed them on the foot of the bed. "I have your clothes here, breakfast is being prepared downstairs." said the maid. Mr. Gilgamesh looked at her and threw a vase but the vase stops in midair. "Nice, Mr. Gilgamesh." complimented the maid. She turns around, revealing to be Cassandra. "But..let's save the mind games for later, all right?" Mr. Gilgamesh looked at her and then nodded, saying: "Fine by me." Then, Cassandra sauntered away. Out in the dark, Cassandra was horrified to see what she thought she was seeing. Something so inhuman and also human. She didn't know what she was getting herself into but it wasn't a good thing. Cass didn't care, she really didn't. Because this has to be truth, no sense of denial. No more shutting her eyes, she is wide awake and can see clearly. 

Earlier before.....

"This is a job you're offering me? A maid?!" Cassandra couldn't believe what she was hearing, she was assigned to be a maid. A sexy kind of maid, this has to be a joke right? No way in hell was she going to be one. Mimir assured her calmly, "Don't worry, this will only last....Probably a week?" He said. "A week!?" Cassandra shrieked. "Are you kidding me? With all do respect sir, this is so stupid. I am not doing this, I can't do this!" "Yes, you can." encouraged Mimir. "No, I can't!" argued Cassandra. "Yes. You. Can." Mimir said. Cassandra looked at Mimir, who waited patiently. Cassandra will not admit it, she won't. She cannot, she doesn't want to. But alas, she has no choice. Taking a deep breath; Cassandra finally said it: "I'll do it!" Mimir smiled, "That's the spirit!" He said with enthusiasm. Later, Proteus knocked before opening: "Almost done--Whoa!" He could not believe what he was seeing. Cassandra in a a small black short-sleeved dress with a white apron. Knee-high white socks, black high heeled Mary Jane shoes, and a maid bonnet! "Ugh, dammit." said Cassandra to the mirror, "It looks a little small." She bent down to look in the mirror, but Proteus flushed as he gazed at her still. He hadn't noticed but Cass had some nice legs, the calves of her legs are slender. "Hubba hubba." He said. Cassandra looked behind and she glared at him, "PROTEUS!" She used her telekinesis to get him out. "Pervert." She shouted. "Cass, wait. I wasn't--" He started to protest but the door slammed. Proteus sighed, rolling his eyes. "Idiot." 

In a forest; Cassandra was sitting alone. She feels she is not living her life or love. She doesn't live & so she feels she can never change and she is just plain. Everything that happens bad when she is hurting. Cassandra is feeling there is a void that makes her sad. Cassandra is alive physically, but not living life. That she is herself when she pretends she has died. She hasn't experienced anything with life or love. She hasn't lived it. Cassandra has watched other people experience it, but never could herself. Because she feels that this is what she truly is. Cassandra is waiting for her life to start. for her to start living emotionally. But, she never begins living. She never moves up a step in her life. So she stays at the start. Cassandra had thought about it last night about her life more and she doesn't like it one bit. Cassandra hasn't lived her life right or experienced love. She is saying that she has just watched others experience it. It turns out that post-traumatic stress disorder numbing reduce the positive feelings of joy and love, however not the anxious feelings of fear and dread. So it's common to have high anxiety but low mood. She may seem remote and less responsive. But her family and friends are still important to her. At the backwoods, Cassandra could hear a music box playing a song, Over the Rainbow. She remembered this song, Reuben liked this song! 

In a flashback; Reuben was listening to a music box of it. Then, something cold hit her chest. "R--Reu--Reuben?" whispered Cassandra. "Could that be his ghost?" She walked further in the forest as the music box tingling sound was getting closer. Cassandra tripped, she fell--feet first--and landed on the grass. She felt pain however it faded when her acceleration healing kicked in. "Hey, are you all right?"  Cassandra stood up, she staggered however managed to stand tall. She looked around and looked up. This guy, he looked like Reuben but she could see that he had dark brown hair, Reuben's hair was light brown. "Um, yeah. I am. Sorry." said Cassandra. "Why the hell am I saying sorry to him? I don't know him and never met him at all." She thought. But then, she could hear the song again. Playing from that music box. The music box was maroon but Cass could see on the cover was a meadowy looking picture that was upside down. Cassandra listened to the tingling music playing...Then, the young man that had the music box closed it. "You like it?" He asked. Cassandra snapped out of her trance, she saw that the young man was near her. She looked away as she blushed and stammered: "I--I thought it was a pretty song." The young man glanced at her. "Really? I was playing this in honor of my mother. She died when I was 2, I kind of not remember her too much but I keep this with me." explained the guy. "I'm sorry to hear that..." said Cassandra. 

"Yeah, death...It's really depressing, don't you think? You don't know where to go from there..." said the guy. "Yeah, I think." replied Cassandra, she felt her heart beating. She bit her bottom lip, however her telekinesis caused her to break a tree branch from the other side and fall down. The young man jumped, "Whoa! What just--Hello, someone there!" He called and went to check it out. "Wait, did you do that?" asked the guy in concern. Cassandra winced, "You think I'm a freak, don't ya?" She said. The guy looked at her with surprise, "What? No, I--" He started to say but Cassandra turned as she was about to leave but the young man called out, "Hold up, my name is Arjuna Gilgamesh. Want to meet back here tomorrow?" Cassandra turned to him and said, "How about now? I heard you guys were looking for a maid so I decided to work for you." Arjuna looked at her with surprise, "Really? OK then. You coming?" He said, beckoning to follow. Cassandra came up to him, brushing up against his arm and said, "Don't tell anyone about my powers!" Arjuna looked at her with shock. "Promise you won't?"  asked Cassandra. Arjuna was confused, "OK, I won't." He said. "No! You gotta promise me!" Cassandra almost shouted. Arjuna was startled, but he replied. "I promise! I won't!" Cassandra exhaled, "Thanks." She smiled and followed Arjuna. Cassandra introduced herself as 'Alexandra' who 'cannot remember her real name or past'. In the meantime, Eulalie met a silver haired young man name Csaba Enkidu, but for some reason he reminded her of someone she once knew from her past. Eulalie used the name 'Meda' to avoid suspicion. And last but not least is Deirdre who meets a bubbly, chatty red head name Pyrrha Aphrus. Pyrrha reminds her of someone she once knew. She used her maid name, Bronach, to avoid suspicion. 

All three are working as maids for them. In this organization called Manaha Inc. While cleaning and doing the chores; The three girls learn of some other members in this place. All the while Turan, Norna, Ariadne, and Juana are working there as maids too as they begin to learn also that Manaha Falconer Inc. was no ordinary corporation; it was an academy school too! The top students are Eachtach Kwan, she is part American and part Japanese with a hint of Vietnamese. Her close friend, of their platonic life partnership, is Tarchon Hippolyte. Tarchon is partnered with her, where Eachtach is ashamed of her father--A reporter name Tinia--and how she dreams of being an S class Wendigo Hunter. Along the lines, there is a loudmouth boy with a big heart and dreams is Rostam Amos, who is partnered with the all loving 'sweetie', Afek Maldus. Rostam plans to be the top of the class and 'talk of the town'. And there is a prodigy in this place--Conall Turnus, son of Josva, as he is sensitivity to loud noises and likes everything to be 'quiet'. He is partnered with Finola Zethos and her sister, Berta. Their mentors are Hermia Efnysien, her friend and rival Davina Nysien, a scary but nice guy name Nero Teufel. And also, Midgard Neuhaus, who is Hermia's informant. Zelinda Whittington, she is a doctor with special equipment to help patients, they were like the ones medical crew used in hospitals. However; Manaha Falconer Inc. has a purpose here: Their main purpose is to take down as many Wendigos as they can. Every 'scar' has a story to tell about how each of these students were how they came here. During their time as maids; Arjuna begins to feel suspicious of his maids as he is about to sense these are no ordinary maids. Or for that matter, they are not maids at all. 

While there, Cassandra ran into someone familiar, Elisha Starkad. "Cass, what are you doing--" Elisha started to ask but Cassandra silenced him by shushing at him. "Shhhh, I'm going undercover so I don't want anyone to know." whispered Cassandra. Then she looked at him and inquired him, "What are you doing here?" She asked. "I work for these people." replied Elisha. "What? By who?" inquired Cassandra. "Who? This smoking hot woman did, her name is Lynette Myrmidon. She gives up on the updates on which Wendigo I should kill." replied Elisah. "Wow, what? You got all hot and heavy with her." said Cassandra with sarcasm. "No, but she did tell me that if I win, she..." Elisha explained however Cassandra stopped him, "Uah! I don't want to know. Please, I don't want to know." "What?" asked Elisha. "Just--You don't need to, um--I have to get back to work." said Cassandra but before she could leave, she warned him: "Don't tell anyone of this, OK?" Elisha nodded, "Gotcha." He replied. Cassandra nodded and walked away. Unknown to them that a camera had filmed it all, it was a security camera! Meanwhile; Melisande was working harder than ever and denies to get any rest. However, she is approached by Tristan once again. "Melisande." He said. Melisande cursed softly to herself, "What do you want? I told you, I do not want any intentions with anyone!" She said. Tristan looked at her and said, "You're a broken person aren't you?" Melisande looked up, "What? W--Where did you hear that?!" She demanded. "Are you trying to hit on me? Flirt with me?" Tristan looks at her, "I know what it's like. And back there, I really wasn't trying to lead you on. I know what it's like...to lose someone. I lost someone who was a friend and I was a coward. Selfish, but I had a change of heart, learning to be better y'know." He explained. 

Melisande was shocked by this, she never knew that! "I--" She was speechless. No words need to be said, He knew what it was like with her? "So, I want to ask again...Would you like to come with me and see the sights at night?" asked Tristan. But then added, "You can if you want." Melisande was quiet however a faint smile appears, "OK. I like that." She admitted. Tristan smiled, "I knew it. I'll pick you up at...eight?" He asked. "Yes, eight. That's perfect!" said Melisande with sudden enthusiasm. "Good. See you then." said Tristan, and he went off. Melisande was excited, maybe some people here weren't so bad. In the meantime; the agents of Silver Branch had been keeping their identities a secret. But they are magnetic by some weird creatures: Eulalie was walking down a dim lighted hallway, where she carried her body wash and shampoo to take a shower. She found the room where the stalls of showers were, she went inside, shut the door; locking it. Then, she stripped off her robe and turned on the shower. The warm water spraying, relaxing her tense muscles and Eulalie begin to wash herself. She was humming as she scrubbed the dirt and dust from her body when all of a sudden; the lights went out. Eulalie jumped, she called out: "Hello?" No one answered, Eulalie covered her body, turned off the shower, and reached for her towel. She opened the door and looked out from her stall. That's when Eulalie is pinned down from her back by a figure. She saw the eyes of the figure, "Yoouuuuuu..." said the inhuman female voice. Eulalie screamed in terror. She used her gravity powers to push the creature off, fixed her towel, and ran away from who knows what it is. She ran and ran, Eulalie thought her lungs would crawl out and beg for air. She was confronted by this figure, it was about to attack when a young man rescued her in time. 

"Roderigo?" said the female. A young man was standing there, "Easy, Mish. She's not the target." He said. Eulalie looked at the girl, "Mish?" The girl said, "I'm Michelle Dorotheus." Eulalie pointed to the guy, "And who's he?" She asked. "My caretaker, Roderigo Starkad. Temporarily." said Michelle. "You mean, ours, right Mish?" said another female's voice. A young lady with hair parted away from her face, showing only her forehead. She was wearing a pale blue kimono and sandals. When she noticed Eulalie, she bowed and said, "Ah. Sorry, you must be a friend of hers." "'Hers'? Who are you talking about?" asked Eulalie. "Sorry." A familiar voice said, out of the shadows Deirdre appeared with a little girl. "Who's the kid? And who are you?" asked Eulalie. The kimono woman bowed again and said, "I am Rafah Carnus. And this is Ariella Nicholas." Eulalie is amazed by this, she didn't know what to think of this. Meanwhile alone in the study room; Turan noticed how quiet it was when she could hear one person chanting, "Hello...Hello." and an echo saying, "Goodbye...Goodbye." It repeated over and over, until Turan thought she would go mad. Suddenly, three blobs fell to the floor, only they were not blobs at all...Thy were figure that looked human and creature. Turan was horrified, "W--Wha--What great eyes you have...Such teeth, wha--what are you?" She stammered. Then, one of the figures said back to her: "What are we? We are...Your worst nightmare!" Turan moved away as she was cowered in a wall. "Get away from me, please!" She begged. Turan begin to have flashbacks, her screaming and hearing the ones that tortured her laughing at her misery. "No...Never again! No, please! Not again, I beg of you!" She thought in her anguish. In her mind, she thought of Norna and the others. "I gotta stand tall...That's right, come to me....Let me kill you....." She said softly, getting her manifesting symbiotic powers prepared. 

Just before the three could get closer when a young lady with brown skin and red hair. "Hold on, boys!" She ordered, "She's not an enemy." This young lady seemed to know them. "Well, well...Penta. You've come." said the figure. "Stand down, I said. She is no threat to us." said the red haired woman. Turan was amazed, this woman saved her life! Who was she anyway? And how does she know this....things?! "Who are you?" asked Turan. The woman revealed her badge, "Penta Gaynor." said the red head. "Silver Branch? No way." gasped Turan. Penta gestured over the shadowed figures, "I like you to meet my....'pets'." One of the figures was in disbelief, "Pets? Really?" He said. Penta chuckled, "This is Brialdur Tiresias, Uriah Orestes, and Julius Belial." She said. Turan was shaken with fear, "Are they even human?" She asked. Penta shook her head, "No. They are Wendigo." She replied simply. Turan swayed and swooned. Penta looked stunt, she turned to them and asked, "Too much?" "A little." admitted one of them. At night, Ariadne had woken up in the middle of the night as she couldn't get back to sleep because the room was so warm so she sat by the window to watch on how beautiful the moon was. Her eye caught on an apparition of a figure coming close to her. Ariadne saw it coming closer, seeing it was no phantasm. Hell, she didn't know if it was human or not. As it got closer, Ariadne wanted to run however she remembers what she had to do. Ariadne turned away and turned back, but she jumped at the sight to see a creature of a young man with shoulder length, almost short hair that was dark blue-indigo and dark purple eyes. Ariadne locked eyes with it, the creature man was staring into her soul. The young man smirked, reaching for Ariadne as her powers shattered the window and she chased down the man. The young man chuckled in a sinister matter, this made Ariadne's blood boiled. 

"Come back here!" She called out. "Try harder than that, babe!" said the young man. Ariadne followed him into a room where she was horrified to see: Broken caskets, bones, and rotted flesh. "Like it? A work of art, eh?" said a voice. Ariadne turned around, there he was again. "You...Who are you, just--Who do you think you are?" demanded Ariadne. "My name is Ezra Xingtian, I don't know who you are or what you are but I'll be taking your life now." said the young man. "Like hell you would." said Ariande. The two of them fought, Wendigo versus Human but Ariadne is no ordinary human. She used her powers, Ezra is shocked by this of her abilities. "Necromancy." He said. "I am no necromancer, nor a she devil either...." replied Ariadne. Ezra attacked, but Ariadne dodged his movement. "Not bad...for a human....Or a witch." He said. "Shut up!" snapped Ariadne, using her powers. "Wait, Ezra!" said a girl's voice, she appeared in a bubblegum pink dress and black hoodie jacket. She was protecting Ariadne, this stunt her completely! "What the friggin' hell?" thought Ariadne in disbelief. "What are you doing, Alcestis? She's a witch!" Ezra protested. "No, she's from Silver Branch." said Alcestis. Ariadne was shocked, "No..I'm just a maid. Surely, not from...." She explained. "It's OK." said Alcestis, pulling out her badge of Silver Branch, much to Ariadne's shock. "Silver Branch?" asked Ariadne. "Agent Alcestis Petrus." introduced Alcestis. From that moment, Ariadne knew things would changed around here. Meanwhile, Cassandra was on the balcony as she looked up at the moon and stars. She remembered when she was a child, she believed that wishing on stars was magical but realized some things were not meant to come true. She wondered, pondered if this was possible. Sighing; Cassandra whispered to herself, "I can't believe, I'm doing this..." She closed her eyes and whispered, "I wish, I wish, upon a star, that I'd be free from the pain and the past afar. Please rid me of my fears, help me..." 

She opened her eyes but gasped at the sight of a figure. Cassandra is in disbelief, "Wow." She muttered. "Just--wow." Then, she glanced over at the figure and said in a seductive tone: "So, stranger, what's a guy like you doing out at night?" The man turned as he revealed to have tendencies of a Wendigo and smiled with sharp teeth in that grin, "What's a girl like you doing here?" He asked. Cassandra screamed as she backed away but she hit the wall hard and fell. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to--" said the strange creature man. Cassandra was horrified to see what she thought she was seeing. Something so inhuman and also human. She didn't know what she was getting herself into but it wasn't a good thing. Cass didn't care, she really didn't. Because this has to be truth, no sense of denial. No more shutting her eyes, she is wide awake and can see clearly. The inhuman young man ducked when Cassandra used her telekinesis to throw objects at him. "Whoa, hang on! Ah!" said the man, he came out and complimented Cassandra on her skills, "Very nice powers, pretty thing." But dodged again when more objects are thrown at him again and again. "All right, easy! Put down the book!" He said. But he is almost hit and dodged it again. "Get away from me or....or...or else!" stammered Cassandra. "Easy, easy!" said the young man. "I mean no harm, I come to help you." "W--wha--Who are you?" asked Cassandra. "My name is Trygve Fragarach." said the young man. "I believe I work as an agent here but I am no ordinary agent, I'm half human...Half Wendigo. I know you, Cassandra Endymion of Silver Branch." 

Cassandra gasped, horrified of this. Trygve explained to her that Arjuna was aware that she and the agents are here for a reason because of some strange things that go on in Manaha Inc. And the rumors are true, they are monsters there. Trygve explains that his mentor, Simoom Nestor, had suspected because the scent of a Wendigo was upon Cassandra and the others. Cass was shocked, her bite mark was leaving a trail for other Wendigo hybrids? Arjuna had been watching Cassandra's movements all this time. "He's been watching me?" gasped Cassandra. Trygve explains that Arjuna believes Cassandra is the only person, a savior rather, a hero to everyone if she could take down the person responsible for all this tragedy. The tragedy of his family and believes that maybe she can help her out. Cassandra was shocked by this, and touched by this. She could not believe as she begins to have new respect for Arjuna. And she develops a bond with Trygve. The next day, Cassandra was in her maid outfit. She was sauntering down the hall as she opened the door after knocking the door. "Good morning Mr. Gilgamesh. You have lessons today. Oh, and you have an appointment in the afternoon today." said the maid. Arjuna woke up, stretching, as he looked at her. Cassandra carried a folded pair of clothes and placed them on the foot of the bed. "I have your clothes here, breakfast is being prepared downstairs." said the main. Arjuna looked at her and threw a vase but the vase stops in midair. "Nice, Mr. Gilgamesh." complimented the maid. She turns around, revealing to be Cassandra. "But..let's save the mind games for later, all right?" Arjuna looked at her and then nodded, saying: "Fine by me." Then, Cassandra sauntered away. 

Meanwhile; Turan and the others were searching for a kid with supernatural powers. They said that this kid has been causing disasters in the city. They noticed a lot of buildings exploding, cars getting crushed on their own, objects flying or moving on their own, demons that look like pigs, ghosts, snakes, blocks of ice, and magic. It was time to find out what’s going on. But during their investigation; they meet a young girl with long ebony haired girl who had a pale face and faded red lips. She had bags under eyes which looked red from crying. Her attire was a mahogany long sleeved shirt, matching pants, and pointed black flats. "Are you alone?" Turan asked. The girl look hesitant. "I--I--I'm lost..." She stuttered. Turan looked at her and inquired, "Are you hurt?" The girl shook her head, "N--n--No...." She stumbled again. "C'mon, we'll help you find your family." Turan said to her kindly. Turan and Norna lead the girl away, however the girl looked down to see her spear tucked in her sheath so she used her telekinesis and the spear floated towards her. But Norna looked, his expression was horrified. "Um, Turan---?" She said. Turan turned, but what she saw stunt her. The girl confront her with her weapon, "Who are you, and how did you learn to do that?” Turan asked. "You should know, you're the ones hunting me!" The girl exclaimed with such emotion. "Wait, you mean...You--" Othello started to ask, but the girl ran away and Turan instructed the men to not hurt her but captured her. The girl was faster than they were and she pointed a gun at them, "Wait! Don't shoot!" Norna cried. The girl jumped farther and aimed the gun at the cliff, "Stay away from me!" She called out, the girl pulled the trigger as an explosive bullet cause a smoke and Turan and the other guys suddenly lost sight of her. They were disappointed however they hope to find her again. However, Norna and the other guys were a bit trouble at the sight of Penta, Brialdur, Uriah, and Julius! 

In the interim; Ophelia was listening to a rock ballad as she sat on her bed but begins to pace around the room as visual images of everyone else she met begins to haunt her. Her hand is in the back of hair as she clutched a clump of strands. She then leans against the wall of her room. She remembers the looks of puzzling that haunts her, "Don't look at me that way...I know I am weird...but please! Don't turn away, don't laugh at me...." thought Ophelia. Just thinking about it, it's making her heart beat fast and she feels warm. "Maybe I'm a masochist. Maybe I like being a sadist towards myself...Maybe I want someone to dominant over me and I like the feeling of being in bondage...Maybe I like apologizing over and over just to be verbally told not to be sorry. Maybe I enjoy it but instead; I have this feeling inside of me that is screaming that I shouldn't be this way!" Ophelia begin to think of Cassandra, Eulalie, Deirdre, Turan, Norna, Ariadne, and Juana. Then of the people she had encountered with--Heyoka Leo. Hermes Antares. Joan Ladon. Isis Lynx. Minos Apis. Coyote Thoth. Lifa Heidrun. Aurora Jade. Themis Pegasus. Nestor Chapa. Marian Sagittarius. Judith Apollonius. Selene. Deborah Reginald. Athena. Susanna 'Sunna'. Nyx. Freya. Sif. Artemis Janus. Ares Cuchulain. Kai Medon. John Phemius. Perun Umi. Ajax Heracles. Sharik Jofur. Asura Susanoo. Tucker Achilles. Yazi Nezha. Gwedion Lancelot. Bricriu Alexander. Ceridwen Phoenix. Peredur Silas. Medea & Katie Vasily. Antigonus Klaus. Dorian Peetrus. Gavin Didymos. Diarmuid. Adonis. Hyacith and Ishtar. She remembered all of their faces. She will never forget them. They gave her a reason to live, a reason to stand on two feet and the reason to write. But fears of rejection, despite being her fault before, she wants friends like them. She has bad memories of her past: Her father's beatings, his yellings, his jeering. Ophelia was clutching at her hair, she remembers all the temper tantrums, the violent outbursts, the slaps and beatings to students and teachers, trying to stab someone with a pencil or throw things of chairs, her scratching and screaming, her exhaustion of the meltdowns. 

Her unhappy parents as they came to pick her up. Her pleas as her stuff was being taken, only until she behaved good. Her father lashed out at her, her mother and older brother Bragi for the smallest things like leaving the fridge door open or spilling juices. Ophelia being shunned by some of her classmates because of her behavior. How she lost her friends for over-excitement personality. More memories flooded back of her middle school, where she was bullied and mercilessly tortured. In the beginning, it became innocent however it turn into bittersweet. She try to find friends however they abandoned her, spread awful rumors about it and denied it when she confronted about them. She was teased for the things she enjoy, and how she was humiliated before she was teased. How no teacher, except one however it didn't last long, helped her. So, Ophelia went to a different school but while making friends with cooler kids, whom some were nice but Ophelia continued to struggled. She was still having meltdowns, causing more trouble however she had been offered grace from other students. Ophelia had been force-fed from someone who says the End Days 'draw near'. Ophelia was a nervous wreck over things like that and couldn't stay calm. Her hypersensitivities to loud noises made it traumatizing events. But the people she was surrounded with, they weren't to be trusted and she told her mother things that this person force fed in her brain. Soon, newcomers at Ophelia's new school noticed this person and eventually, they convinced her to go into retirement as way to prevent 'force feeding' and Ophelia felt free. She got help through her anxiety but her sensitivities to loud noises did not decreased and still struggled. But she managed to find sanctuary in the end and became a anew. 

Ophelia imagined all the violent things she could do because of all the torment; she could tear them apart, she could harassed them verbally, she could kick them, pelted them with objects, and all sorts of horrible things. But a vision, a very terrible one, of her being arrested. Her in court. Her being in jail, where she is being watched and is brutally beaten to death. Her future shattered. Gone! Ophelia woke up, it was all a dream! She had to remember the optimistic things: That's when she remembered where she had to speak out a short speech about helping children until the host made a cruel joke and taunts her when Tucker coughs out, "Bastard!" Everyone turned around, gasped, and the host demands to know what Tucker said and he replied with a Cheshire smirk, "The best. I thought what she said was the best, didn't you think so?" He said. Ophelia was instructed to get off from the podium, she did but as she was leaving; she turned to look at Tucker, who's back was turned, and smiled. Touched by this act of kindness, someday she will pay him back for this. She remembered Cassandra, she remembered when she waved to her; Cassandra was happy to see her. She waved back! Happily, ecstatic. Ophelia clapped her hands with delight, she remembered how she waved to people--They sometimes find her annoying. Even in the darkest hour, they teased her and asked her why is she weird. But someone like Cassandra, it was a touching thing! To have someone see past her flaws and see a person as just a person. Not someone with such issues. Ophelia remembered that she had let Roland and Ace go back to their respective clans. She was sad to see them go but Roland assured her that they might do this again, however he glares at Ace, whom the latter was glaring at him as well, replying reluctantly: "And with him too." 

Ophelia flushed pink, thinking about Roland. "I can't wait to see you again, Roland." She thought to herself. Drenched in the rainy weather; Turan and the others were searching for the girl that escaped earlier. During this time, A figure was walking past them but the person accidentally bumps into one of the guys, who recognized who this person is--It was the girl! Immediately, the girl hid under her hood even further. She hurried away, barefoot, and inside a cathedral. She shut the door as she makes her way inside to stay warm. While trying to stay warm, she looked around to see other people, who are praying. The girl looked down and pulled out a cross that is chained around her neck; she felt guilty for not praying in so long, forgot how great Yehweh was to her. But...She had to keep hidden. No matter what, she will never go back to that day...That place...Never again. The girl started to relax as she made her way through the cathedral, away from the people praying. She walked down a column where candlesticks were aligned as well as lit up as the girl kept walking further. She walked by as shadows of people walking in a different direction from her. Unknown to her, the girl was being followed quietly by someone. No, more than one. Reaching the reflection of the stained glass's godly rays; the girl becomes emotional as she bent her knees to the floor where she prayed silently. She looked up to see a statue of Nova Maria in front of her with the child, Yehshua, in her arms. 

She placed her hands in a prayer and begin to beseech, "Forgive me, Lord...If you would be so kindly to listen when I request you to bear no malice towards me for what I've committed. Help me see my faults and self regards. Show me when I ask you if I had remained innocent as the lamb....Maybe I wouldn't be forced to kill so many victims to whom their blood is on my hands." Just then, she saw multiple shadows. The girl turned around, "No...You!" She gasped. Her telekinetic powers activated and were about to attack however Turan held up her hands, motioning the others who had their powers and weapons ready to stand down, saying to the girl: "Easy, easy. We just want to talk to you....Can we take this more privately?" "NO!" cried the girl. Her powers forced everyone back and she took off running. Turan was not going to let this girl escape. Never again. 



Chapter 8: Who's Laughing Now?

Fire, fire was all around. Tears pooling and cascading down Cassandra's eyes as she was filled with rage. She faced the person that had destroyed her, murdered her school peers at the dance. Now, it was getting personal. No more Miss Sweet, she was pissed! And how did she became this way? Let's go back, back to the beginning.

Earlier before in a cathedral.....

The girl made her way through the cathedral, away from the people praying. She walked down a column where candlesticks were aligned as well as lit up as the girl kept walking further. She walked by as shadows of people walking in a different direction from her. Unknown to her, the girl was being followed quietly by someone. No, more than one. Reaching the reflection of the stained glass's godly rays; the girl becomes emotional as she bent her knees to the floor where she prayed silently. She looked up to see a statue of Nova Maria in front of her with the child, Yehshua, in her arms. She placed her hands in a prayer and begin to beseech, "Forgive me, Lord...If you would be so kindly to listen when I request you to bear no malice towards me for what I've committed. Help me see my faults and self regards. Show me when I ask you if I had remained innocent as the lamb....Maybe I wouldn't be forced to kill so many victims to whom their blood is on my hands." Just then, she saw multiple shadows. The girl turned around, "No...You!" She gasped. Her telekinetic powers activated and were about to attack however Turan held up her hands, motioning the others who had their powers and weapons ready to stand down, saying to the girl: "Easy, easy. We just want to talk to you....Can we take this more privately?" "NO!" cried the girl. Her powers forced everyone back and she took off running. Turan was not going to let this girl escape. Never again. "Please! I swear, we will never hurt you!" Turan begged, coaxing her. "You can't take me there, I beg of you! Don't take me back there!" The girl shrieking, "Stay away, get out! Leave me alone! Don't come near me!" Her powers caused objects to float in the air, "Wait! Easy, you can't do---" Turan protested. However, The girl didn't listen so then Turan used her blood symbiotic powers and knocks her out. "You got her!" John cried. "Nice one." Nezha remarked. Turan sighed deeply, she looked over and said to the girl, "Sorry. But I want to help you...I don't know where to take you back to anyway." 

In the meantime; Ariadne got leads on where her sister is. She is being held at a facility of the 'insane females' so Ariadne and the others head over there but soon discover that it's tight with security and had to take down the guards with their abilities, which they did successfully. Ariadne seized one of the guards and demanded from him, "Where is Phaedra Sirius?" "I--I don't know!" He protested. "You better know, tell me!" cried Ariadne, clenching tighter and the guard grimaced in pain. "All right, all right....She's in Room 346." He choked out. "You sure?" asked Ariadne. "Yes! She has her medicine almost every day." protested the guard. Ariadne nodded, "All right. Thanks." She said. They did in time, a young woman was in the room and turned around. "Who are you?" She asked. "Phaedra, it's me. Ariadne." said Ariadne. The woman, Phaedra, was spellbound. "What? Aria, is that you?" asked Phaedra. Ariadne nodded, then they embraced each other in a tearful moment.  "I thought you were dead." said Phaedra, when she pulled away. "I thought you were dead." replied Ariadne. "I'm so glad to see you." said Phaedra, "You met my daughters, I assumed?" "Yes, they are gorgeous, angels." said Ariande. "Yes, I know. Ohhh..." said Phaedra. Just then, the guards came. “You there! You are on reserved terrain! Release your artillery and yield or we will use deadly dynamism.” said a soldier over the speakers. Ariadne unleashed her snake powers and she took down the guards. Then she straightened up and sneered, “Sorry, not happening!” called Ariadne. She and the other three ran off from the guards. 

Angry at this incompetence; Zachariah turned on the microphone for the speakers, “What the hell is happening down there? Guards, get off your posteriors and investigate! I’ll be in my chambers, don’t let those dragons show up here!” He commanded. Ariadne and the others were running from the guards when one of the guards made an announcement, “Warning! We are padlocking up on all zones immediately. Soldiers must—gah!” He is knocked out, he stumbles forward. Zachariah glares down at him and speak over the public address system, “Enough, you fool! Give heed, you basilisks. No one damages my territory like this. I foresee it was valued.” He declared. Just then, a flash of light shine upon the four of them, Ariadne gasped. “Well, well...If it isn't Ariadne Sirius. I found you now. You look fetching on monitor, alive. But you’ll be wholesome when I'm through with you!” Ariadne and the others dodged his attacks when Ariadne was separated from them until she was held hostage by Perseus Aion. Zachariah threatened to kill her, however he was unaware that stoic Captain Krieger. He apprehended Perseus, and rescued Ariadne. Perseus tried to stab Krieger, who wrestled the knife away but with so much strength, he stabbed Perseus on accident, much to everyone's shock. In his fear; Zachariah got away, but Ariadne didn't want to leave until she found Zachariah. "Why?" Krieger asked. "You saw what he tried to do, I will not..." Ariadne said. "What? An eye for an eye? Fight fire with fire? Is that it?" Krieger asked. Ariadne chuckled darkly with no humor and said, "That's the thing...You forget, you don't know anything about me." "I am not going to let you go after him by yourself." said Krieger. "Oh really?" Ariadne said, unleashing her powers. "Captain Krieger, what are you going to do to stop me?" 

Calmly, Krieger walked over and put his hands on her shoulders. Ariadne gasped, but she heard him say: "Nothing. Because I'm going to help you do it." Ariadne trembled, "You'd do that...For me?" She asked. Then, her emotions got the best of her and she embraced Krieger tightly but he didn't care, all that matters he was going to help her. He caressed her hair in a comfort manner. "Thank you, thank you!" blubbered Ariadne. She wiped her face and pulled herself together. There was a battle to be started. Ariadne and her crew confronted Zachariah. "So you came. I knew you've come." He said. "Why'd you do it, Zachariah?" asked Ariadne. Zachariah glared at her fiercely, "Why? Why? Because you people have no idea what it's like to be a loner. You think you're so great but you're not." He exclaimed. "You're wrong, I'd never been noticed before. I was all alone and nobody ever noticed me." Ariadne said. "Yeah, you know it feels huh? Well no loneliness from me, I was nothing to anyone and was the figure of ridiculed. All of us were. Ector. Orcus. All of them!" Zachariah cried. Ariadne looked at him with disbelief, "You started a massacre all because of being bullied?" She asked. "YEAH, SO WHAT?!" screamed Zachariah, waving his hands around as his eyes were bloodshot. "I HATED EVERYONE, I HATED THEM ALL!!!!" "Oh, Zachariah...I never knew...I didn't know." protested Ariadne. "Why didn't you get help?" asked Juana. "Oh sure, the principal said that these people weren't such bad people and didn't do a damn thing." He said. Captain Krieger attempt to take him down however Zachariah got the best of him and took him down. Upset, Ariadne confronted him. That's when Ariadne and Zachariah fought off against each other. But Ariadne got the best of him, Zachariah was pinned to the ground. "This is the end for you." said Ariadne. "Oh really? You weren't so sure of yourself? Well, it won't be peaceful for you for long." taunted Zachariah. "You are nothing, you couldn't be strong enough to save your peers in that massacre. You couldn't save your family when I killed them!" Ariadne shuttered, she couldn't believe it and she lost control of herself. 

She begin to stab him repeatedly while screaming hysterically. When she snapped out of it, Ariadne was shocked as she saw that her hands were dripping with blood. Ariadne begin to cry uncontrollably, "Di--di--di--Did I do that?" She spluttered out. She thought she lose conscious and Krieger placed his hands on her shoulders comfortingly. Cassandra woke up, she got out of bed and went to see who is shouting. She was curious, she looked out to hear. "C'mon Paul, where is your son?" demanded an unfamiliar voice. "Give him a break, he was abused by his own son!" Mimir said. Cassandra looks in, she saw a distressed man. Who was this guy? But she could see his memories and they all flash through her mind. This man....He knows.....He knows Ector Absalom. "He was my son!" Paul cried. "I tried to stop him but he wouldn't listen! He--he said to me, 'Old man. you have no strength left in you.'" He begin to cry, Cassandra was furious. She barged into the interrogation room. She heaved a breath. Paul, and Mimir looked shocked. “You---You? You are Ector Absalom’s father?!” Cassandra yelled. The man cowered in fear, “Yes, I—I’m sorry, I am so sorry.” He whimpered. “You’re sorry? Why couldn’t you stop him? From killing my friends? What did they ever do to him?” screamed Cassandra. But she was restrained by Mimir and Brother 10, who keep her from hurting Mr. Absalom. “OK, OK. Easy.” Mimir chided. “He should be arrested for being his accomplice! Put the needle in his arm and punish him!” shouted Cassandra. She still ranted on and on, as Mimir and Brother 10 dragged her away. Later, Cassandra was hugging her knees as she looked away. “Psyche?” Mimir asked. “What?” Cassandra mumbled, not looking at him. "I arranged an appointment with a psychiatrist." Mimir said carefully. "I don't want to talk to a shrink." Cassandra grumbled. Mimir sighed, "I know. But I want you to mentally sane and sound from what happen. Get things off your chest."Cassandra dropped her legs, flattened them. 

"Fine." She snapped. "Let's get this over with." And she gets up to follow Mimir. Cassandra was sitting on the opposite side of the psychiatrist’s office. “You know I don’t want to talk.” She finally said, breaking the silence. “I know, I’ll be here all day.” said the psychiatrist. Cassandra exhaled, “OK. Why is that guy here? He knows what his son did!” She said. “Did what?” asked the therapist. Cassandra rolled her eyes, “Noah Claude!” She said. “They guy that killed my best friends, all 12 of them! I had to graduate alone. My Grad Bash was supposed to be something to remember but now it’s a nightmare that I can’t look back. But it haunts me so much.” She put her face in her hands, “I think there is something wrong with me.” She dropped them and looked fatigue almost. "What's wrong, Cassandra?" The psychiatrist asked. Cassandra stared off into space dully, "My friends…they’re dead..." She said in a low monotone. "What else is wrong, Cassandra?" The therapist asked. "Something's shattered." Cassandra said dryly. The therapist looks at her curiously, "What's shattered, Cass?" He asked. Cassandra looks at him with anger in her eyes, "Me." She said. Then, a toy sitting on his shelf fell down and then a snow globe tumble down and broke. The psychiatrist was in shock by this and looks at Cassandra but she got up and left. Later; Cassandra, Jack, and Trygve are sent on a mission: Silver Branch receive reports of a girl name Jade Eastertide who had vanished and the only clue remains is rabbit footprints. Another about how an angry man slaughters rabbits, blood everywhere in the meadows. And lastly, another article shows that the angry man was found dead. His flesh was torn apart, he bleed of oozing wounds. They managed to find the factory where these 'undead rabbits' were hiding out. The three of them entered, only to find it was empty. 

"Hello? Anybody here?" called Cassandra. Just then, Trygve could hear a soft snuffling and then a small grunt. "Crap!" He rasped. The three of them stay hidden above, as someone--with something--slowly crept in. "Who....Is in....My house?" said the girl. She was about 17 years old with black hair and has light tan skin. She wore clothing that somehow are similar to rabbits but nothing made out of animals or any fur. She happily hopped in like a bunny but was followed by the undead rabbits. When Trygve saw this, he almost freaked out but was hand gagged by Jack. Cassandra watched the girl with disbelief. This was Jade Eastertide? Wow, she looks sane now, unlike her usual insane self from the vision dreams. She was being pleasant, smiling, and look attentive. She listened to "bower-birds bur oak tree" and "bower-birds in our talons" when she needs something that is inspirational and calm. She ate pellets and fresh vegetables, just like a rabbit! She brushed the decayed fur of the rabbits, "To survive my bunny bun castle, you must be mad as a March Hare." She sniffed the air and covered her face while saying, "You rabbits need a bath. Seriously, zombie decay smell is gross of poor hygiene." The second vision was of the girl acting motherly towards the zombie rabbits, scolding at them like: "Bigwig, don't be a stubborn with me! Mister." She admonished one. The girl noticed that one of them was shaking. She comforted that one, "It's OK, Fiver. Don't be scared. Mother Josephine is here, my baby." She continued to talk to the rabbits: "Hazel, keep your guard up, the Hares are coming.", "Flopsy? Are you crying?", "Be gentle, Mopsy.", "Don't be weak-hearted, Cottontail, be brave.", and "Floppy ears you have there, Pipkin." 

However the girl is suffering from a psychotic breakdown when her bunnies are bleeding from the effects of the resurrection as she tries to save them. Her screams and tears haunt in Psyche's ears: "Their--their eyes are re--re--red!  Oh no, no, no! Not good.", "The meadows--They are covered in blood!", and "Blood....Blood! Why are you bleeding my sweet bunnies?". She begin to strangle someone as she screamed, "SEE WHAT YOU DID TO MY HOPPITY HOPS?!" She lets them go as she begins to rant: "Bunnies and blood...DO YOU KNOW WHY THEY ARE REPULSIVE TO BLOOD?! These jacks are hemophobic since what my father did to them and their brethren." Then, there was her having another nervous prostration: "No, not again....NEVER PUT MY RABBITS THROUGH THIS BLOODSHED EVER AGAIN! NO BUN BUNS WILL BE SLAUGHTERED AGAIN!!! You know how long it took me to revive 14 innocent bunny buns? It took me 336 hours to put their body parts together for 168 minutes with only 28 doses and they love me! Bunnies love me!" There was slashing and squishing sounds that made Cassandra nauseous. "Bunnies are not food or used to make fur, they are my PETS!!!" screamed the girl. The squishing and slashing stopped. There, she saw a rabbit's left foot was on fire. There were fearful, ghastly people who saw undead rabbits while walking down the street. A rabbit with a blind eye in his left pupil glaring before it went away. The clock struck noon, and a black rabbit appears. There were ferocious rabbits who fought at the humans. Then, the horrifying part: The capitol was caked in mass of blood. Murderous bunnies in a circle while holding hands around the capitol while the girl with the messy hair is smiling insanely as she is bathed into the carnage. "Time awaits, so don't be late. White rabbits on the run." She said in a creepy monotone.

Behind Jade; she sensed a big monster behind her and turned around. It was a rabbit monster, a zombie plus cyborg. His left eye was robotic and he looked scary. Jade greets the grumpy thing with happiness, "General Woundwort, we meet again! Hmph, your eye looks funny." replied Jade, jokingly. "She's kind of weird." Jack remarked softly. "Yeah, I mean look at this--That friggin' zombie-cyborg rabbit looks really creepy and yet she's hugging it!" Cassandra commented. "Hoppity Hops!" Jade replied in a loud voice. The undead rabbits staggered in a line. "Um, are you sure this is suppose to be scary? Because I think this is all too....mind-bending." Trygve asked softly. Jade paced around as she gave out train instructions as they will have to train against General Woundwort. The zombified bucks try to fight back however they struggled against the bloody mouthed zombie cyborg rabbit. Jade was angry, "You are aching Mother Josephine's heart, coneys! Stand up for yourselves!" She encouraged. The rabbits obeyed, and they fought back. Jade clapped happily, "Good bunnies, I taught you well." She cheered. Then, she looked up at the Mater Dolorosa figure and clasped her hands together, "Mama Josephine, please help the bunnies be safe!" She whispered. Mother Josephine was a Blessed Mother type as she was the Queen Mother of Rabbits. Jade begins hum to 'Let the Lower Lights Be Burning' and swayed. She then stared at Mother Josephine as she has tears in her eyes. Cassandra face palmed herself, "Oh geez." She thought. "Lunatic, she's an absolute lunatic." Just then, she heard a horrible sound. "Not now." whispered Cassandra. Just then, a Wendigo appeared and swooped down to attack. Jade was in hysterics. "Get that beast, my darling hoppers!" She cried. The undead rabbits obeyed her command. They fought back but they weren't much faster like the Wendigo. Just then, the Wendigo seized one of the bunnies and escaped. 

Jade begin to throw a tantrum, "PET-ER!" She screamed. "MY BABY!!!!" As much as annoying she was; Cassandra went down there to go and help her. "Wait!" Trygve called but Cassandra didn't answer. She went over to her and try to be nice, "Hey. You OK?" asked Cassandra. Jade looked up from crying, "Who are you?" She asked. "We--were sent here to help you and to find out about some strange deaths of people." explained Cassandra. That wasn't the truth but this girl needs help. "I'm not helping you until I get Peter back!" yelled Jade. Cassandra and the others were annoyed, "Fine! I guess we made a mistake coming here." remarked Jack. They were about to leave when Jade stopped them. "NO, Please! Not Peter, you help me find Peter!" begged Jade. Cassandra looked at her, she looked at Jack and Trygve. She knew what she had to do. As much as Jade was mentally unstable and loved her dearest rabbits; she couldn't allow Jade to suffer too much as she already did. Cassandra, Jack and Trygve search for Peter as they looked around. They saw someone in the garden, eating radishes and carrots--It was Undead Peter! Casandra rushed over to the undead bunny, "Peter, get out of there! What if someone saw you?" She whispered. Then she realized that Peter looked sad, he was trapped in a cage as his captor was nowhere in sight. Casandra flexed her fingers as the cage fell apart as Peter was free from the pain. Peter ran into Casandra's arms, this alarmed her but she was happy to see he was OK. Then, she heard a growl and then a Wendigo appeared! Undead Peter cringed but Cassandra had to fight it however Jack stepped in to protect her. "Don't worry, I got this." He said. Cassandra is surprised as she watched Jack become his Revenant form as he fought back the creature. He savagely tore at the monster's flesh and he eventually killed the beast. Then, he turned back to normal. 

While back to the factory; Cassandra and the others saw that Jade had her face buried in as the rabbits comforted her. It was pretty weird, how can she trust them? Monsters like these? It was really misunderstanding really. "Jade? Jade?" inquired Cassandra. Jade looks up, "Yes?" She asked. "We got Peter." replied Cassandra in a sing-song voice. Jade got excited as she reached over to her, "Give me, Peter!" She begged. "No, Jade." Cassandra said, shaking her head. "Please, I need Peter! I need him or I'll have a convulsion. That happens to me sometimes." whimpered Jade, practically on her knees. "I will give you Peter Rabbit, but first--You got to tell me about how you resurrect the bunnies." Cassandra replied. Jade crossed her arms and snorted a huff. "OK, I'll tell you. But let me see my poor Peter. He needs his chamomile tea!" She begged as she reached over but Jade is squirming, her feet are kicking as she is restrained by Jack and Trygve. "UGH, PETER!!!" She whined. "Uh-uh." Cassandra said, "You promised, you can't see him unless you tell me." Jade stopped kicking and squirming, she looked defeated but not too bad. "OK, then." She said with a sigh. One of the rabbits grunted, she glared at it. "Vervain, the Black Rabbit is watching...BEWARE!!!" scolded Jade. Cassandra, Jack and Trygve were relieved but at least maybe now she might talk. A few minutes later after she calmed down; She was already explaining her story; Cassandra, Jack and Trygve were gathered together to listen to Jade's side of the story of how she got her hands on reviving the dead rabbits: "So, I...I had to revive them with a secret recipe of the Elixir of Life." Jade said.  Cassandra nodded, "Uh huh." She said. "I used one pint of goats blood and one cup of well sifted sand. Second, I used a pentagram, which I poured it over the carcasses of the rabbits...and then...Then I chanted the incantation which was: 'Moarte, va, vine, viata. Tabula Rasa Per Capitar Non Sequitir Et Cetra!'" said Jade. 

She looked at them and asked, "Am I scaring you?" Cassandra shook her head, "No, continue." She said. Jade was relieved as she continued her story, "There was thunder and lightning, which zapped as I cried out, 'Lepis americanus!'....And to my joy, they came to life! To life, they came to life! My hoppity hops came back to life!" She cried out. Trygve glance at Cassandra, who was still listening to her, and whispered: "How long do we have to hear crazy ramble?" "Let's just hear, who knows what else she has to say." replied Cassandra quietly. Jade told them what was going on and told them of her life: As a child, Jade Eastertide had found a warren full of adorable rabbits. Learning of her abusive father is planning on fattening them up by feeding them; Jade breaks them out and takes them to her secret house where she names each of the bunnies after her favorite book, Watership Down: Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry, Dandelion, Silver, Pipkin, Hyzenthlay, Blackavar, and Kehaar. But her favorite bunnies of all are Peter, Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail which were named from her favorite book of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. However her happiness fades when one of the rabbits, Bigwig, escaped and Jade's father, Gregory, discovered this. He was so angry that he let out the bunnies to the fields and then he butchered them in a grisly way with Jade watching in distressed. One by one, all her rabbit friends were murdered in front of her. After her father was finished; Jade's mind snapped as she uses tools to revived her bunny friends but in the process of the reanimation, it made them into undead species with elements of with antelope horns or deer antlers and sometimes a pheasant's tail (jackalopes) and generally wings, antlers, tails and fangs (wolpertingers). She then saw visions of El-ahrairah, who has been kind to Jade than her horrible father was. 

El-ahrairah and his disciples: Prince Rainbow, Rabscuttle, and Frith are helping Jade conducting in her research by making her undead bunny friends have fun. This succeeds well as the zombie rabbits are happy to be with Jade, who was the only one who loved them and freed them. They sang "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning" together: "Brightly beams our Father’s mercy, From His lighthouse evermore. But to us He gives the keeping, Of the lights along the shore. Let the lower lights be burning! Send a gleam across the wave! Some poor struggling, fainting seaman. You may rescue, you may save." She cried of tears of joy, never knowing that they would be her friends. Jade had no friends so the undead, jackalope and wolpertinger bunnies were her only friends. Jade was always bullied for her bunny love as she was always outcast from the others. She hated it, so much that she couldn't take it anymore. In honor of Jade's loyalty to the rabbits, as well as reviving them, they gave her a gift: A stuffed bunny rabbit which she calls the stuffed bunny 'Bilby'. One day; Jade was approached of a vision of the Black Rabbit, who is telling her that her father must be punished for killing the rabbits. So, Jade lured her father to a rabbit hole and the plan works. Jade watched as the zombie bunnies clawed, bite, and tear at Gregory, who could only scream and cry. Begging his daughter to spare him however Jade wouldn't. She had been through that, but never again, will she faced torment from him again. First he killed her mother, Nancy, and now the rabbits. Now he was going to pay dearly with his life.

High school. Don't you hate it? The students picking on you, they don't leave you alone. Well. That's what is like for 16 year old Jade Eastertide. She is a loner who wants to have friends, but with her different clothes and her crazy overzealous religious mother, Fantine. The girls that pick on her are Eponine Patzzi and her best friends, Azelma Cameron and Jean Tamir. Eponine is a bad girl type girl that was the queen of this school who had a bad boy type boyfriend, Gavroche Birch. It all started like this, she was sitting at her desk, trying to focus on the lesson. Her long yet messy white-blonde hair was all she could feel between her fingers. Jade was feeling on edge, the teacher rambled on and on. She felt bored and looked around the room to see a boy staring at her, it was Faust. Jade turned away but then out of curiosity, she turned back to see Faust was still looking at her, he smiled at her. Jade glanced away. But before the bell rang, Jade turns to Faust who was staring at her. His small smile grew into a wide and wondrous grin. "Why is he staring at me? Why is he smiling at me?" Jade thought. The bell rang, Jade collected her things and rushed out of the room. Jade hated her next class, which was gym. Here was two reasons: The first one was that she wasn't the most athletic and always hit someone in the head or get hit. The second one was Eponine, Azelma, and Jean were there to bully her mercilessly at her screw ups. Today, Jade was klutzy than usual today. It was the exact same thing, she would drop it or hit someone by accident but it's not enough to be mocked at by the other girls. Faust watched her, feeling bad for her. "Eat shit, disgusting little pig!" jeered Eponine. The others laugh, except for Jade. 

"You eat shit!" Jade called out. Heads turned, "What did you say to me?" Eponine demanded. "You heard me, eat shit. Bitch!" Jade said. "Oh yeah? You think you're all that, don't ya?" Eponine remarked. "Oh yeah, Me. All that." countered Jade. "But you would get a kick out of what I heard this morning." Eponine placed her hands on her hips, her eyes narrowed at him. "What are you talking about, asshole?" She asked coldly. "You. Gavorche. In the car of the school parking lot." Faust smirked. He then imitates his voice to be like Eponine's, 'Oh Gavorche! Oh, you dog! Don't stop! That feels good!'." The other girls gasped and howled. Eponine was furious, "You are. So DEAD, FREAK!" She screeched. And she begin to chase Faust, who was so amused. The other girls chanted at Eponine to catch her. But she tripped and fell, she was laughed at as her face was covered with dirt. She turned to the guffawing girls, "Shut up! SHUT THE HELL UP, YOU CRAPPY PIGS!!!!!" screamed Eponine. During the uncontrollable laughter of the other girls; Jade makes her escape. In the girls' locker room; Jade takes a shower as the other girls change and ramble among themselves. Once she is finished; she covers herself for she had forgotten to get her clothes from her locker! She got out but she accidentally bumps into Eponine however in the midst of this, her towel slipped off. Eponine and the girls saw her mutilated back, "Oh no!" thought Jade desperately. Indeed, she was scared. Instead of the girls taking pity on her; they instead beated her rapidly and chanted, "Die!" & "Suicidal!" Eponine was taking photos of Jade's mutilated back when the teacher came in to see what was going on. She was shocked and yelled at the girls while she comfort Jade. While the girls left; Jean looked back as she felt guilty for what she had done to Jade. Jade looked at the window, which somehow begin to shake and then cracked.

At home, Jade was repeatedly whipped for 'committing sin' by her mother. During all the pleas and tears; she then felt the whips were now flying and out of her mother's grasp as they instead slapped her. Jade and Fantine were both shocked by this. In the meantime; Jean was at a diner with her friends. But Jean was sad, thinking about what she did in the locker room. Gretchen nudged at Jean to get her attention: "Hey, Jeanie. What's up? Cat got your tongue or something?" She asked. Jean shook her head, "Nah, I just had a bad day." She admitted. Gretchen's eyes were full of pity. "Awww, what happened?" asked Gretchen. Jean was trying not to cry so much, "I was involved picking on Jade in the locker room. I really feel bad." She choked out. Simon, Theophilus, Gretchen, and Marius were open mouthed shock until Gretchen spoke out a mouthful, "Seriously, Jean. Why do you hang out with Eponine? All she does is pick on the people who aren't even popular! She's like the prom queen from hell." ranted Gretchen. "Yeah, did you guys hear what happened to her? It was so funny." Theophilus jumped into the conversation. "What?" Simon asked. "She was jogging around the court and tripped so hard that she fell on her face." Theophilus said, chuckling. "No way!" Simon cried, he and Theophilus laughed. The next day, Jade was the laughingstock now. Someone sent pictures of her bare back scarred to everyone in school! Jade was so frustrated that she skipped classes, she knew she shouldn't but she couldn't faced anybody. But the school wasn't helping her, at all. She then realized while she skipped school for awhile, Jade found a mirror as she meets her 'guardian angel' who gives her the powers of telekinesis, control snakes, summon demon pigs and ghosts, control ice & fire, manipulate magic, have the power of mirror like abilities, and has premonitions. 

She was to use these powers for revenge! And Jade heed to these as her responsible. Later, Jade stalks Eponine into the gym room. Eponine felt like someone was watching her, she turned and jumped to see Jade. “Hi Eponine.” She greeted. “What do you want freak?” She demanded. “Nothing, except…Look behind you.” replied Jade. Eponine does and saw snakes, demonic pigs, and ghosts hit her repeatedly. Magic, ice blocks, fire balls, and mirror fragments hurts her. Jade filmed her on her cell phone, in retaliation of what she did to her. She slips away as she sent the video to the other students anonymously. Eponine was the laughingstock, everyone thought it was hilarious of how she was getting attack. Only Eponine was angry at how this happened but everyone was sick of her, except for her friends who were really upset about this. Gretchen smirks down at Eponine, "Now you know what it's like for Jade." She remarks. Jade was happy that no one was laughing or teasing her. After school; Jade had to do errands for her mother: Hand out pamphlets of 'The end is coming', pick up her curtains from the seamstress, and get groceries. Jade had done the hand outs and got the curtains in a bag.  She went to get some milk, eggs, bananas, and bread. When she got back the phone rings, Jade answers it: "Hello?" A pause. "Yes, this is her." A long pause, her voice was shaken. "What?" She said. "What do you mean?" Another pause again. She begin to cry a little, “I don’t understand. What do you mean?” She listens and hangs up, sobbing. Her mother had been murdered by Gavorche, Eponine’s boyfriend.  One thing's for sure, they won't have any mercy from her. 

Jade found the mirror again as she is shown how Gavorche did it, her mother was harassing him of 'saving him' but Gavorche was so annoyed that he uses his knife to stab her. Her mother's last breath was, "...Forgive us for our...trespassers...." On her way to school; Jade watched Eponine walking with Gavorche. The two are arguing, though Jade couldn’t make out what it was but they got in the car and drove away. Jade levitates in air, she follows their car and sneaks pass them. She went around the corner, he senses them coming and she uses his telekinesis to flip the car over. Both survived the crash, Eponine and Gavorche got out as they confronted Jade. “What is your deal?” Gavorche demanded. “I know it was you, you killed my mother. If you are a ‘demon’, I shall exorcised him and Eponine, who is a harpy from HELL!” Jade screeched. She lifts Gavorche telekinetically and swung him side to side. Beating him, Eponine tried to hit her from behind but Jade uses her powers against her tormentor. She broke her wrist, Eponine cried out in pain. She lie there helpless as she watched her boyfriend struggled however Jade uses her powers to break his arm, cut off the other and make his eyes bleed. Then, Jade turned to Eponine, who shook with fear. “I’m sorry! I’m sorry!” She begged. But both arms were torn off, she screamed and howled in pain. Then her legs came off too and then, Jade taunts her: “Eat shit.” and decapitated her. Jade saw their car so he took the body parts, placed them in the car and set the vehicle on fire! Jade watched it burnt, she noticed her clothes didn’t have blood or anything on them except for one. But she turned away but not before muttering, “Good riddance.” And left.

Then, there was an inhuman scream that made everyone freak out in terror. They decide to investigate when they are almost annihilated by a explosion however Cassandra rescues them and they all went unconscious. Cassandra is the only who is awake and saw who is responsible: Jobe Sethlans. "Hello Cassandra Endymion." He said. Jobe step forward as he is about to hurt her but he trembles with fear as he saw Cassandra begin grew veins all around her face, he looked horrified of this. Jobe got more weaker and sprawled on the floor with terror. "I can break you anytime, Cass. You wouldn't stand a chance against me." threatened Jobe. Cassandra's eyes flashed as he could see her lips, which they look like a rosebud pout and they turned to a thin, luscious pucker. "Power and control...that's all I have now...and I’m gonna make you fall. Fall down good." She purred. Then, with one last scratch and bind Jobe, who scream in fear. Then, with one last scratch and bind Jobe, who scream in fear. And then, Cassandra use one last struck to leave Jobe in shock. And then, Cassandra use one last struck to leave Noah in shock. Turan and the others managed to find the people who tortured them mentally one by one: The first one is Nadab. Turan and her allies track him down in an alley as they sedate him and bring him back to the warehouse! He wakes up to find a video of himself as a child and his mother, He is terrified as he demands to know what’s going on. Turan appears as she says: “This is the pain you put me through, you brute.” She tells him that Turan has return from ‘the grave’ to get her revenge against those that hurt her badly! Nadab denies of hurting her but Turan growls at him: “I know exactly who you are; you made me into what I am!” And the torture begins while Nadab screams in terror. 

The second victim is Haman. Turan and the others track him down as they sedate him before taking him back to the warehouse. Haman wakes up to find himself surrounded by fire as he screams at the fact that he’s in hell! Turan appears to bound, gag and tortures him. Before torturing him; She says: “This might hurt a little.” And the nightmare begins for  Haman. The third victim is Shalom. Turan and the others sedated the the bastard before dragging them back to the warehouse! They wake up to see all the pictures of their victims as they demand to know what’s happening. Turan appears to say that this is payback and she rehabitates herself for assistance and reminds them about the number one rule between sexes: No man is allowed to hit a woman. Shalom denies this until finally Turan tortures him as she says random things: “Game! Innocence! Mercy! Life! Wasteful!” The fourth victim is Cadmus. Turan and the gang went to go and find him as they sedate and take him back to the warehouse. Cadmus wake up to find himsself in the warehouse as they see pictures of their mom and the two as little boys. Turan reminds them that she is not weak: “I’m stronger than yesterday.” Cadmus beg for mercy but Turan does not believe them: “What? So you can do it again? I’m not stupid, you know. Actions speak louder than words….Like this.” The torment begins as Cadmus scream for mercy. Orcus hears noises and starts to get scared at the eerie place. Turan arose in blood-spattered, stimulating outfits as they wrangles him, dignified him through smothering and chained him to a table to constrained & gag him! Orcus wakes up with a muzzle on his mouth and he lets out a muffle scream as the young ladies torture him through his mind. 

There was music, mingling, and food there. She was sitting with Jack and Trygve, "Wow. What a crowd this is." remarked Cassandra. "Yes, it is." Jack agreed. Just then, someone appeared at the microphone, it was Mimir. "May I have your attention please?" He said. Everyone stopped what they were doing as they looked at him. Samson cleared his throat before continuing, "I have two special awards for our great warriors. And these go to--Cassandra Endymion, Jack Mordor and Trygve Fragarach." Cassandra couldn't believe this, she looked at Jack and Trygve which they were grinning too as they stood up and went to the stage while others were applauding. Cassandra, Jack and Trygve were honored of their awards, they exchanged glances with grins. Then, they bowed before the crowd. The applause faded but some were  still clapping. Everyone turned to see who but they frowned or glared at that person. Jack and Trygve looked at Ector and his other friends angrily. "Oh, look at this! Ain't it touching?" mocked Ector, pretending to cry but was smirking. "I love celebrations, I really do." Cassandra’s eyes bulged in horror. "Our great heroes are honored at long last but you won't be honored when I play...This!" A large TV image plays of someone entering a movie cinema. Cassandra couldn’t believe it, "It can't be!" She gasped. Next was gunshots, people screaming. It shows images of Cassandra’s friends and other people being shot at. "Oh my..." Mimir gasped. "Oh no...!" Trygve cursed. Everyone was horrified by these images however Ector and his friends laughed. They was in hysterics of this. They thought this was all so funny? How dare they…Cassandra’s body tremble but felt a rough hand on her back, "Bitch, are you gonna cry--" Ector said. Cassandra turned to him fiercely with her telekinesis. Ector flew back into a column. "Ohhh!" The crowd gasped. "Uh oh." Lleu said softly. "Cass." Samson muttered. 

Jack was furious at Ector, he ran over at him and cried, "You will pay for that!!!!!!" "Jack!" Bellerphon cried. Too late, Ector pulled out a gun and fired at Jack. Jack fell to the ground, "Nooooo! Jack..." Cassandra screamed. She rushed over to him. Cassandra felt hot tears running down her face, she turned to Ector. Her veins pulsed with anger. A turning point where her powers are activating. She looked up and spread out her arms, where her powers bend the lights from above. Everyone looked up in horror. "Oh crap..." Hanuman thought. Proteus forced the doors opened and shouted, "Everyone out NOW!!!!" Immediately; the crowd rushes out. Borvo and Juniper look back, they were concerned about their friend. "Cass!" They both cried, Zaden seized them both and said, "Come on, let's go!" Borvo and Juniper  tried to struggle but Zaden pulled them away.  In the abandoned party, 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 however she realized something, this wasn't sure about this and lets him live. Later, Cassandra stalks away from the now destroyed party in anguish over what happened. She found Trygve, who looked concern for her. How dare Ector did that to her, how cruel he was. Well, he won’t come around here anymore. Just then, someone followed her and came up to her, putting a hand on her. Cassandra whirled around, gasping. "Cass, it's me!" Jack said with a small smile. Cassandra let out a sigh and embraced him. "Jack, you're all right." She said. Cassandra buried her face, there was heaving of sobs. Jack hugged her back, "I'm sorry that happened." He said, patting her back tenderly. 

Cassandra sniffed. "Oh, Jack! It was awful. He was so mean to me..." She blubbered. Jack could only pat her back, soothing her: "It's OK, Cass. It's OK.." But he looked up and his eyes widened with terror. "LOOK OUT, CASS!" He cried. Too late, she is being held hostage by Ector's. Ector looked over and gouged her heart out. "Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!" cried Jack and Trygve. Ector and his friends were cackling with glee but they wouldn't laugh for long. Cassandra rise, her eyes were hollow and black with red pupils. She had blood coming from the whole in her chest. Her appearance was different: There were short ram horns, her hair became red like mahogany, her clothes matched her hair and her face was pinkish white. Jack couldn't believe this, Cassandra. She was rising as some sort of undead being who was slaughtering the Ector's friends in order to get her heart back. And she did kill them all, she butchered them. She beheaded them, and then she made their limbs go numb so she can split them apart in a grisly way. Jack and Trygve were shocked by this. They couldn't believe that someone like her would such things. Finally, Cassandra faced Ector Absalom, who was holding her heart so Heart less Cassandra put up a pretty good fight. She broke his legs and the heart went up, Cassandra caught in her hand and placed it back in her chest. The hole in her chest closed up and she turned back to normal. Jack and Trygve could only stare at her in amazement. Who was this girl? Whoever she was, she was nothing out of the ordinary.

A deranged Ector who was smiling like a Cheshire as he held a knife. His hair was a mess and was bleeding from his hands. He panted and heaved, "I will not stop until I kill you, Cassandra." yelled Ector. Jack grabbed Cassandra, helping her up and shouted, "Run, you guys!" They ran, however Ector chased after them. He was still clutching the knife as he waved it. Laughing maniacally. Cassandra, Jack, and Trygve did not stopped. But they did, they found themselves at a cliff. Ector laughed more malicious, "End of the line, you damn ass." He exclaimed. Cassandra held her friends close, she glared at Ector, who lunged at them. "DIE!!!" He cried. "No!" She exclaimed. 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. Cassandra couldn’t believe what she had done. "I killed him...I....AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" She screamed hysterically, waving her hands frantically. Jack took her hands and speaking to her, "Cass, Cass." When Cassandra didn’t answered; Jack slapped her. Cassandra stopped screaming, she slowly placed a hand on her cheek where she had been slapped. Cassandra looked at him, "Jack..." She whispered. Jack sighed, "Sorry. Are you OK?" He asked. Cassandra feebly shake her head. "I don't know, I can't live like…" She admitted. She went to the ledge and spread her arms out. She was about to take a step until Trygve reached for her. "Cass, nooo!" He cried. Jack and Trygve seized her, Cassandra struggled against them as she tried to push him away. "Let go of me! Let go! Lemme--" She ranted. "Don't even try, I am not letting go no matter what you say." Jack said. After many struggles; Cassandra gives up and embraces her friends. "Oh, you guys." She sobbed and begin crying until she fell asleep. Jack carried her, she felt light weighted in his arms. 

Ad interim; Tristan was searching for Melisande but thanks to some people that cared about Melisande, he was able to find her--At an old abandoned facility! Tristan went in alone, hoping to convince her. Earlier before; Melisande and Tristan were having a good time seeing the sights of Carlisle's city however they ran into a drunk Hestia and her friends. "Well, well, look who it is. Mel, you sure have good taste in men but how about in killing? Was it wonderful when you killed your family who were turned into Wendigos? Shit, you were always a frigid little girl. What a floozy call girl you were to Constantine, you think this is over? It only just begun." Hestia said, then she and her friends laughed like hyenas as they stumbled away. Melisande's happy nature faded and trembled while tears were pouring down her face. Tristan turned to her, "Hey, what did she mean--?" But Melisande ran from him in anguish and shame. Now, Tristan had been searching for her. He had learn what Melisande did after looking at the Moneta, Melisande was blackmailed and forced to be Constantine's servant so she can keep her family safe but then her family were going to go public and somehow Constantine found out their plans. So he turned them into monsters and forced a nervous wreck Melisande to kill them. She was devastated as she ran away after burying her family. Here was Tristan, who ran inside the abandoned place, calling out: "Mel!" He heard someone called back to him, "Go away!" However he ran in as he was shocked to see what Melisande is doing: Her ankle chained a rock and a Wendigo was chained there beside her. There was explosives of dynamite on the rock being prepared. "What are you doing?" asked Tristan, eyes filled with fear. "Making a statement." replied Melisande. "Mel, whatever you think your doing, please don't do it." said Tristan calmly. Melisande looked away from him, "Please, go away." She said darkly. "Let me help  you, Mel." Tristan coaxed, walking over to her carefully. 

Melisande begin to weep, "Why can't you people leave me alone?" She demanded through her sobs. Tristan hold back his own tears, "I'm sorry, I didn't know you went through so much pain." He said. Melisande gave him a glare as she telepathically choke holds of him. Tristan chokes and gasps for air. "Look at what you made me do, Tristan!" Melisande sobbed. "Don't kill me, Melisande!" rasped Tristan. "Why not? Haven't I been through enough?!" exclaimed Melisande, tears were splashing out from her eyes. Tristan had never seen such painful rage in a girl like her, Melisande let him go so he can breathe as she begin to cry again but she tells Tristan in her grief, "I--I--I killed my family....Did you know that? I hate myself for it, I really do, it's all my fault!" Tristan walked slowly to her, "I know the real truth, you were blackmailed! He was going after your family! It's OK, you don't have to hide from me. I can help you, nobody will hurt you but I can't help you if you close yourself in. Open your heart, I want to be your friend." Tristan said. Melisande considered this, she was touched by the fact that he came to find her. That was sweet. Nobody has ever done that for her. Not at all. Melisande nodded, "OK. Get me out of here." She said. And Tristan did, he found the key in Melisande's pocket and freed her. They were about to leave but Melisande stopped him, "There's something I need to do." She replied. Melisande used her powers and light the match to burn away of the place she hate. Then, she and Tristan ran before the place was about to blow. Melisande felt better, thanks to Tristan but it looked like she was going to need a lot more help then she ever did and she found her first friend in Tristan. 

In the medical center, Cassandra was resting as Jack and Brother 10 watch her from the window. She looked peaceful sleeping as they felt bad at what happened. But Jack noticed someone is next to her, Paul Absalom and his son Rocky, the good brother of Ector. “What is he doing here?” He asked Mimir, who approached behind him. "He came to visit her. Wanting to apologize but he's asleep I guess." Paul was beside Cassandra, who was still asleep. He begins to talk to her, "Cassandra, I'm sorry. I wish I did something a long time ago but I didn't. I feel bad for the actions and troubles my sons have caused. I really am sorry about all this." He felt the tears in his eyes. He took Cassandra’s hand but she opened her eyes and her eyes turned red. Paul looked horrified, he backs away as Cassandra used her powers to choke him. He screamed in terror, "NOOOO, NOT ME!" He woke up, it was all a nightmare but he couldn’t stop screaming. 

Rock looked at his father, taking both his shoulders, "Dad?!" He asked. His father was still exclaiming, "NOT ME! PLEASE DON'T KILL ME! PLEASE, HAVE MERCY!" "Dad!" Rocky said, shaking him and hugging him. "MERCY!" Paul cried, "PLEASE!" Rocky started crying, "It's OK, Dad. I’m here.” He soothed. Paul begin to sob, the only thing that his son could do was comfort him. “It’s OK, Dad. It’s OK. I’m here. It’s OK.” He said it all over again. It looks like Paul Absalom was going to be traumatized from this, never again will he do this. Never will he ever. In the meantime, Chloris looked on the security footage and saw a mysterious, deranged girl there. She was shocked when she realized who it was. Her sister Branwen was there. "My God, what did Dad do to her?" Chloris muttered to herself. 


Chapter 9: Another Side, Another Story

There it was again, the same dream over and over. The same one he had billions of times, and it never goes away! He was a little boy, frightened by the muffled screams. The blood he saw on the walls, and the people in masks that were responsible. When the ones in mask heard him, the little boy ran and ran until it felt like his lungs were going to burst. Then, he tripped and fell down. It all went black. Trygve woke up with a start, gasping for air. Sweating. He looked around as he was in a chamber alone in his bed. He was OK, it was just a dream. It wasn't real...Or was it? Why couldn't he remember anything? What happened to his mother? Why was there blood smeared on the walls? The next day, they were all staring at her. Here she stands today. In her brilliant shining way. Stronger than her pain. They wonder if she will ever better. Cassandra is sick of people being worried about her, she's fine. She is not in any critical condition towards herself, she feels fine. And is no where near feeling super suicidal. But today she is given a room to breathe for she is researching about Wendigos. What she discovered shocked her--According to the The Wendigos were experiments done by a sociopath scientist name Constantine Zephyr. Cassandra was surprised by how much he has done to violate humanity. She went to report this to Mimir, who listens and then asked, "Are you sure?" "Yes sir." Cassandra answered. Mimir nodded, "All right. Thank you, Agent Endymion." He replied. Cassandra nodded with a salute and then leave while Mimir ponders this for a while. His mind has a plot of what he now knows. 

That night, Cassandra was dreaming once again: She dreamt that she saw four pieces of bread with butter on them sitting in a basket. One is separated from the others and is half-bitten. The basket sits on a white cloth. In the next dream is that she at a smooth gray plane. It is elevated on the right and steps down to a lower level at the left. Clustered in the middle of this space is a variety of strange and colorful surrealist images. In the distance is the small shadowy figures of a man holding the hand of a small boy. Toward the left is a figure seated in a chair with his back turned to the entire scene. She begins to walk away from the scene as Cassandra saw herself in front of the Virgin Madonna seated with the infant Yehshua on her lap. Both figures have rectangular holes cut into their torsos, suggestive of their transcendent status. In the background were nails, fish, seashells, and an egg. The Virgin Madonna has a sea urchin, a rhinoceros and figures of angels. In the middle ground of the scene, where the sand of the beach appears to end, a small version of the fruit dish can be seen on the ground with several pears scattered near it, all to the same scale as the only embodied human figures depicted in the painting. A second iteration of the face appears further in the distance, just to the right of the elbow of the nude male figure; in the same area of the painting, two dogs are playing along a path in the distance. One of those dogs is itself an echo of the immense, illusionary figure of a dog which stretches from the left to the right margin of the painting, with the dog's collar formed by a multi-arched bridge or aqueduct in the landscape beyond.

In another dream; Cassandra was at what appears to be a slave market, while a woman at a booth watches some people. She moves along to see something of brown-skinned pears with the eponymous footed silver fruit bowl, which somewhat resembles a wine glass. A deliberately created optical illusion of the eponymous human face occupies the same space as the dish; the fruits suggest wavy hair, the dish's bowl becomes the forehead, the stem of the dish serves as the bridge of the nose, and the dish's foot doubles as the chin. The eyes of the large face. Psyche was startled by this as she walks away quickly but she saw something in the distance is a wall housing a bell resembling the figure of a woman in bundled skirts. In the distance towards the center is a strangely eroded rock form. The most significant element of this image is a small figure in the lower right of a woman running with a large hoop. In the shadow cast by the figure, her arms appear to merge into a circle around her head. The shadow cast by the figures head takes on the appearance of the hub of a wheel. Cassandra found herself at a twilight atmosphere with deep blue sky. There are two female figures in the foreground, one with drawers opening from her side like a chest. They both have undefined phallic shapes of melted clocks protruding from their backs which are supported by crutch-like objects. The hands, forearms and face of the nearest figure are stripped down to the muscular tissue beneath the skin. One figure is holding a strip of meat. Both humanures that double as a chest of drawers as well as the crutch like shapes.

Cassandra has a third dream of the Sparta queen Leda who is seated on a pedestal with a swan suspended behind and to her left. Different objects such as a book, a set square, two stepping stools and an egg float around the main figure. In the background on both sides, there was a violent struggle of the men in the picture and the big fish. A golden knife stabs into the fish and the azure- blue sea becomes red with blood. Cassandra is horrified, the water begin to smell like fish and she finds a door, opening it. She saw in the room that puzzled her: The bishop chess piece seems to play an inanimate role analogous to a tree or plant. In other instances, it is given the anthropomorphic feature of a single eye. There is an ambiguity between windows and paintings. The back of the room shows a boat in a thunderstorm, but the viewer is left to wonder if the depiction is a painting or the view out a window. Near the bishop chess stands a table. On the top, a disembodied hand is holding a red bird, as if clutching it. The front right leg of the table resembles a human leg.  Instead of taking place in a room, the action has moved outside. There is no table or hand clutching a bird and the scene of the rough sea in the ambiguous window/painting at the rear becomes the entire new background. Near the front a low brick wall is seen with a bilboquet behind and a suited figure with an eyeball for a head in front. There is ambiguity as to whether the suited figure is a man or another bishop. Some other bishop figures have similar eyeball heads, however the suit covers the body and no clear identification can be made. If the suited figure is a man, it could be a self portrait, which means that the eyeball is covering his face.

More dreams became more vivid and made her mind: There were many different varieties of life--history, religion, art, and myth into a unified whole. She saw a large egg which was entrapped in a cage. There was nocturnal scene of a forest of bizarre, abstract trees. In the thick of the forest is a childlike depiction of a dove. Cassandra saw herself at a swimming pool surrounded by buildings. The sense of dimension is unclear. The features of the buildings appear to be hand-drawn. The buildings leave shadows against the sky like a wall. Hanging in the sky is a clock that reflects on the water as a moon. In the pool, the picture shows a possibly female or childish body in an upside-down position with only the waist and legs above the water level. The person appears to be diving or is drowning. In the foreground is an armless stature-like figure that appears to have been made out of clay, throwing a shadow in the direction of the pool, similar to another shadow originating from outside the picture. The person looks away from the pool and bears a handlebar mustache, but also has features which could be interpreted as female. She walked over and saw three seemingly identical men in bowler hats. They are in an outdoor setting at twilight. Though they appear to be sharing the same space each one also seems to exist in a separate reality. Each is facing a different direction. In the sky above each figure is a separate crescent moon. Cassandra walked around and she saw a geometric figure with a tumescent red hand protruding from its head. The figure is composed of cones and triangles. Surrounding the structure are ghostly images of nude female figures and torsos superimposed on a blue, watery dreamscape.

Cassandra woke up, her hair was a mess and her eyes were bloodshot. Those dreams really made her feel weird, and she didn't know why. They were all staring at her again. Cassandra didn't glance at them, she kept her head down and didn't meet anyone's gaze. Next to her, Stoic Captain Krieger was next to her, looking concern. "You OK?" Captain Krieger asked. "It's just the medicine I took that's making my dreams go insane." Psyche assured. Cassandra felt unease by this a little however she was also relieved that she doesn't have to suffer from any nightmares. Captain Krieger had to leave the room for once second so Cassandra felt as if it was quiet and begins to sing to herself softly to a song she has in her head for so long: "Art of war….Quick as the cyclone air. Art of war….Of the calming as the woods. Art of war….Be brutal as the flaring flames, adequate as the great peaks of the mountain." "Where did you get that song?" inquired Captain Krieger, it seems he had been listening. "I'm a mind reader, remember? I heard it in my head on the first time I display my powers." replied Cassandra. Captain Krieger stared at her for a moment, "Oh, is that so?" He said. "What is that song, anyway?" asked Cassandra. Captain Krieger pulled up the song on an old record player where a choir line was crooning before a man begin to sing, "To be a warrior, work hard and walk the path to fight. Strong, brave, and heroic; that is who you are inside. Do not cower, it may be dangerous yet find the courage in you. Do you want to survive? Come with me if you want to live, do you want to die tonight? I'm not leaving you here alone, teamwork means everything. Heed my words if you wan to stay alive." 

The choir belted out, "Art of war…." and the male main vocalist sings, "You must be quick as the cyclone air." "Art of war…." The choir crooned together. "With all of the calming as the woods." The male singer vocalized. "Art of war…." echoed the choir. "Be brutal as the flaring flames, adequate as the great peaks of the mountain." sang the male man. Cassandra was amazed, "What an awesome song, who wrote it and who sang it?" She asked. "Someone who was once a soldier but anymore. He's moving on from war however he was a great man and is still alive but he's suffering from survivor's guilt. He will be remember as a true warrior." explained Captain Krieger. "What's his name?" inquired Cassandra, curious to know. "Braggi Väinämöinen." Krieger replied. In the meantime; Ophelia is stressed out, she cannot deal with the stress, the doubts, and the negative thoughts. She is troubled for some reason, no one is in her heart or anything related to love. She had her nose in a report about how an enemy has worked for Constantine Zephyr has a source of the project about the Wendigos. So, Ophelia made a decision. She went to say her prayers before she head off to get herself a gun. Find a horse to 'rent'. She got a saddle, and she loaded her weapons to prepare against the enemies. She road off but before she did, she left a note for Mimir that said, "Please forgive me. I just wanted to help." She managed to find the enemy's warehouse. She got off her house and entered it. Just then while inside, she heard something. Something that made her cover her ears. She heard it--A creepy sound of belly laughter. "No...No, it can't be!" She thought. Ophelia heard laughter over and over again. She tried to plug in her ears however it was too much. Hearing all that. 

"Stop it!" She called out. But it wouldn't. It kept going on and on, like an eternal torture. Ophelia couldn't take it anymore: She screamed and kicked the box, which is where the laughter is coming from. It was a recorder that was playing that laughing track. Angry of what has happened; Ophelia begin to go crazy. The first thing she did was hypnotized the guards, saying to them: "I hate you all, die for me please." and then she caused them to commit suicide. She begin to repeatedly stomp her until she was bloodied and bruised. Ophelia spit on her, "Stay away from my men, they are mine!" She screeched. Then she hurried away and then she went to the flirty girl's house and she set it on fire, melting the ice palace. She almost set the city on fire in her rage and emotional passion. And finally; Ophelia became furious and pursued her enemy in rage. When Ophelia saw that he was escaping her, she jumped into the river and started to swim after him. While swimming in the torrent of the river, Ophelia then got close to boat and attack him, going underwater. But when she got closer, she saw it all got black. This time, she wasn't going to brush this off. Now she was on her guard. Ophelia turned around to see who it was, but she saw that no one was there. Ophelia kept walking, a little faster however the person who was stalking her was closing in on her. Calypso quickly turned around to face her stalker. She was surprised to see that it was--The enemy spy. "Oh, it's only you." Ophelia said coldly. "What do you want?" "I got something that will make your eyes sparkle." said the enemy spy. He pulled out a slim box and hands it to her. Ophelia took it curiously, she opened the box to see a necklace of white pearls with a sea blue charm to the necklace. "Oh, it's so pretty. You got this for me?" Ophelia asked, touched by his kindness. 

"Yes. For your heroic efforts that is." replied the enemy spy but a smirk appeared on his face. "I feel you need to be more honored in a special way, like...Maybe joining me in a more--burning sensation." He said. Ophelia's face fell, she closed the box and glared at him. "You got to be kidding me! First, you give me this gift. And now you tell me this? Oh no, I don't think so. I'll take your gift but I'll have to refuse your offer." She said. The enemy spy was disappointed by this news. "Hmph. That's a shame, really." He said. "I am not fighting crime by burning criminals to a crisp. I won't. Forget it!" Ophelia declared. But then she felt a painful sensation in her body and she cannot move anything herself. "Leave. Me. ALONE!!!!" begged Ophelia. "You can't stop me, Sweetheart. I can control every muscle, every nerve, every vessel in your body." The enemy spy declared, laughing insanely. Then, Ophelia writhed on the floor. Her body parts--Hands, fingers, toes, feet, and legs--were twisted around on their own. "Stop....Please, stop! I can't take much more of this...." She begged. "Accept my offer and I'll let you breathe!" The enemy spy replied. "NEVER!" screeched Ophelia. "Fine. I'll make you suffer more and more...AND MORE!" cried the enemy spy.The next minute, Ophelia was chained from her wrists and feet. She looked miserable, being the damsel in distress sucks as she feels like this could be the end. That's when she could hear something, or something in here. "Hello?" Ophelia called but no one answered. However she heard a small childlike laugh and then a strange, familiar figure appeared. It was Astrild! "Well hello there, my pretty." He greeted. Ophelia was shocked to see him, "I--I--It's you!" She gasped. 

Astrild did some acrobatic movements before appearing at her. "Looks like someone bound you good." He said, looking at the chains. "Yeah, not so comfortable now, is it?" remarked Ophelia. "Actually, you look so good helpless. It makes me all weird inside...." said Astrild with a smirk. Ophelia groaned, "Don't start!" Astrild looked at her chest, Ophelia let out an 'ahem' but Astrild was not listening. "Oh for the angel's sake, FO-CUS!!!!" exclaimed Ophelia. "You or your boobs?" Astrild asked cluelessly. "For heaven's sake, get me out of here!" said Ophelia. "Fine, fine, I'll help you....Only because he asked me too!" said Astrild with a sigh. Ophellia looked at him, "'He'?" "Ace, you know him?" replied Astrild, shrugging. "Ace..." Ophelia is shocked, Ace sent him to rescue her. In the meantime; Ace was beating upon the enemy. He had heard about the laugh track. He had done research on Ophelia. He was shocked on the Moneta about how much the noise bothers Ophelia so much. When Ace learned about the laugh track by the thugs, he was filled with rage. He begin to beat them so much that they cough up blood. "You bastard, you have no idea how much torture she'd suffered from noises like that. You should have known she would have a weakness such as that!" Ace said with menace in his voice. Ophelia and Astrild managed to escape from the prison however they were confronted by the Wendigos. But Roland came to aid, Ophelia was thrilled to see him. "Roland!" She cried, she threw her arms around her. Roland blushed as he felt the warmth embraced of this girl. "H--hey Ophelia." He greeted shyly. "What's a pretty thing like you doing here?" Ophelia said teasingly. "Um...The jerk off Ace got me here, what'd you think?" snapped Roland, "And I wanted to save you." Ophelia smiled, touched, and embraced him further, "My pretty kitty." She whispered. 

"Hey, when you're done making out; get your asses over here!" Astrild called. Immediately, Ophelia lets Roland go and they fight together. Later, Ophelia talks to Ace alone on the roof, "How did you know where I was?" asked Ophelia. "Your boss, Mimir Sofus, sent me. He gave me the coordinates so I decided to bring Roland with me. And along the way, we meet that imp Astrild. And he helped us with his sensory detecting abilities." Ace explained. "So, why'd you do it?" asked Ophelia. Ace flashed a glare at her, "You have no idea do you?" He snapped as he went over to her. He grasped her chin and pulled her close in a kiss.  Ophelia's body pulsate, "Mmm..." She said muffled but she felt something lingering in her mouth that caressed the roof of it inside. "Oh..." She thought. Now, she felt a different sensation....Arousal. "Oh my God! I--I--" thought Ophelia, she pushed Ace away as blood spurt from her nose. Ophelia panted, and panted, she clutched at her throat as she tried to catch her breath. "Oh...Wow...That was..." stammered Ophelia. "Did you like that? Hm?" said Ace smugly. "Um...I need to clean myself up, OK? I feel...oooh." said Ophelia. She left in a hurry as she closed the door and ran to the bathroom where she saw how much blood was running down her face. "Good God, have mercy." She muttered as she used a paper towel and soaked it with water while cleaning. Ophelia remembered that kiss from Ace. The way he pulled her in, mouth to mouth....It was his tongue in his mouth that caressed the roof of her mouth. But that wasn't why she was getting a nose bleed. It was his unbuttoned, hairless, bare skin against her own that turned her blood up in her nasal passages. "Good God, bless him for that smooth, silky skin...." thought Ophelia, feeling turned on a little. That night; Ophelia somehow sleeping out in the open, without a blanket, She's shivering in her sleep, turning over in a really vulnerable way and clutching herself. Ace comes along, see her distress, and react to it by tenderly draping a blanket over her shoulders, petting her on the head, and saying, "Sleep tight, Ophelia." 

Freed from the discomfort, Ophelia faintly smiled in her sleep, she is grateful for the warmth. But Ophelia could hear an argument outside her room as she went to check it out. She saw Roland standing over Ace, who was bloodied and bruised. "You son of a bitch, how dare you--!!! Are you trying to manipulate her?" Roland shouted. "No...I...." Ace started to say but Ophelia stopped them. "What the hell?" She demanded. "Did this bastard kiss you?" Roland enjoined. Ophelia looked down shamefully. "Y--yes..." She admitted. Roland was about to hit Ace again. But Ophelia seized him from doing this. "Why do you care if I kiss who?" She asked. "Because, this jerk off did it before and left someone to die!" claimed Roland. Ace sat up, "I'm not trying to do anything to do that to her. You don't understand--" He said. "Oh I understand completely. You try to use her because you want something from her. And then, she gets confused by your manipulation!" Roland cried. "How about we settle this somewhere secluded?" Ace suggested, "Just to get things off your chest." Roland looked at him for a moment and then nodded, "It's on!" He declared. "No!" gasped Ophelia. But it was too late, she felt helpless. In an empty alley, all silent and nobody was around; Roland and Ace were standing in front and apart from one another in preparation of their battle. Ophelia was there too, she didn't like this. This was all too much for her to bare. "I’m grateful for your 'love'. Come on and we'll play this friendly match enthusiastically." said Ace. "Yeah, let's rev it up." Roland accepted. "I’m going to make you look sharp, Orlando. I’m so bad at the game that your skill will shine like the sun in the sky." Ace said. 

Roland rolled his eyes, "You’re making fun of me." He said. "No, I swear I’m not." replied Ace. They fought each other, Ace strike Roland but he didn't seemed to be unfazed. "That was one hit." claimed Ace. Roland shook his head, "No, it wasn’t." He said. Ace looked at Ophelia for help, but Ophelia nodded as she gestured him that it was. "Well, let’s go on." Ace said to Roland, motioning him. Their battle continued, none of the two can't seem to take a breath for one second. Heart pumping, nerves wrecking. Blood and wounds from each of their strikes. "Another hit. What do you say?" Ace said smugly. "You got me, I admit it." Roland said. "Get ready for the third hit, Orlando. You’re just playing around. Come on, give me your best shot. I sense you’re treating me like a child." replied Ace. "Really? OK then, Jack of all trades....Bring it." Roland called. Ace charges at him and strike Roland in his shoulder. He is shocked of himself as he backs away. Roland smirks at him. "What's the matter, Fresh meat? Not so tough isn't it?" He taunted. Ace felt anger and he stabbed him in the side of his abdomen. Roland grimaced in pain and he was about to attack however Ophelia just had enough about this. She ran over but then, she sensed someone was here! And knocked out Roland and Ace. They looked up at Ophelia. "Hey, Ophelia!" Roland protested. "That wasn't me." claimed Ophelia. "Then who--?" Roland started to ask when the three of them heard a voice from above, "Honestly, you guys are acting like children. Can't you get along for once in your life." Ophelia flushed and smiled happily. "Oh my God, you too?" She squealed. It was Janus Sayer. 

"What are you doing here?" Ophelia asked. Janus landed to her and said, "Mimir sent me to help you." He pulled out a piece of paper and hands it to her, "He's got an assignment, he said you could finally debt you talked about." replied Janus. Ophelia is curious to know as she opens and looks at the piece of paper. What she saw amazed her, she just couldn't believe it. A few minutes later, Ophelia begin to do acrobatic moves and laughing maniacally. "This is great, now I won't have to say 'I promise' and not do anything. Now I can repay my debt to everyone." She said, and she laughed like crazy as she went away like Spider Man would. Roland looks at Janus and said, "You really are a manipulative bastard." Janus shrugged, "Yeah, well. It's the truth." He said. Roland and Ace looked at him confused. Ophelia stopped after jumping and flipping from rooftop to rooftop. She pulled out a Moneta and looked up at how it all began: On Friday night, during the set at a comedy club, a woman called out that jokes of Wendigo assaults are never funny when the comedian said: “Wouldn’t it be funny if that girl got attacked by, like, five Wendigos right now? Like right now?” The woman and her friend were so uncomfortable while the audience laughed at this so they left as 200 eyes stared at them while they left. As they were in the car, they begin to talk about how bad the comedian and his joke was. "That’s not a joke. It’s an invitation. It’s a celebration of a violent crime, which is itself another violation. It’s not a way to cope." said one of the two women. The comedian that the two women were talking about exactly was Cailleach Arlequin. 

Ophelia hated comedians. But not to get the wrong idea, she hated the sounds of belly full of laughter, it's unappealing for her. She had been traumatized since the loud noises of one possibility of her parents' arguments. They didn't mean it, they were going through troubles before they divorced. But throughout childhood, she hated the sounds of laughter. She always plug her ears or hide in the bathroom. At first, her mother didn't understand until Ophelia turned 19-20 years old. She learned about why her daughter hates it so much. It was a trauma she'd been through since she was about 3 years old. But Cailleach wasn't the only one, there are others who are most hated: Thalia Columbus is one of the most hated comedians on this list, but it's not the fact of women should be funny or not sort of thing. But Thalia is too crude for her own good. She's hated also for being popular, and also for the punchlines that nobody saw coming. There is also Momus Pantaloon, who has puppets that make racial jokes and that causes shocked to others. Some may find this funny, but most others aren't pleased.  And then, there is Gelos Payne; a fiery, obnoxiously loud comedian. Then, there is Alcaeus Koosby who has props of all sorts of crude things that relate to carnal essences. And is repulsive for his 'tighter face' because of the plastic surgeries he had. 

Baubo Owlglass is one of the most hated for smashing big fruits such as watermelons. In an interview; she showed off being a nuisance, bigoted, and unfunny. There are others out there that really do comedy in an unfunny fashion. Euphrosyne Motley did a sitcom about domestic violence and child abuse. Even animal cruelty. It was supposed to be a joke, right? Wrong! And then there is Lambe Pedroline and his laugh tracks recorded on recorders or boxes of all that. He only uses it when he makes a joke, even if it's not funny. He steals jokes and he is one of the few who are most hated. And now, they are kidnapped & brutally tortured by haggish looking creatures. They have stringy long hair and have hands of claws. They mutilated almost on the crude, hated, vile, disgusting, obnoxious, and jerk off people that some would ever meet in their entire life: Cailleach, Thalia, Momus, Gelos, Alcaeus, Baubo, Euphrosyne, and Lambe. Do they deserve it? Well, their jokes are very gross and controversial but unfunny. How Ophelia knows who did this? She knows because she created 'him'. And by 'him', she means Cheshire. A dark character she created in her upheavel state. As a child, she was in her room where she hid in the closet after she shuts the door. She had suffered of a 'trauma' while she had expereince the loud laughter from downstairs that upset her. She begins to cry as she begins to write about some killer who is cursed with a Glasgow smile as he gained the fear of not smiling or laughing so he decided to make people have 


Ophelia used an 'alter ego' name Larunda 'Lara' Sordino. She created creatures who were liked the calm and the quiet. But if they heard loud noises or belly fulls of laughter, they can get violent and kill. She called them 'Tacita' and Lara is known as Queen Muta to the Tacitas. And she orders them to kill the laughter. But it was all in her imagination. Ophelia, Roland, Ace, and Janus managed to tame the Tacitas, but an uninvited guest appeared. "Hello Lara, long time no see. You've grown into a lovely young lady." Cheshire stood there. Ophelia was shaken in fear by this nightmare she had created. Roland and the other two guys were appalled of the sight of this guy. A pale face, black ominous eyes like they were bordered in. A long, horrendous grin plastered on his face. "This is impossible, you are a figment of my imagination." Ophelia exclaimed. Cheshire smiled, a slasher looking grin. "Oh, I've existed before you could ever created me on paper or in your head." He said. 


Interlude: Standing for Justice 


I've been called many things at my job....Leader. Savior. Lady Justice. I have seen death in the face and survived every moment of it. This is a place of sanctuary, a place of justice....A place of atonement. I've recruited my best allies on this team. Innocence is lost and their blood is on the hands of beasts. So, to you monsters; listen closely to this. Lock your doors, watch your backs, and take heed to my words. My squad will find you, and when they do; they will un-alive you as your viscera and plasma will splattered like paint. Someone had to do something about the Wendigos in this sky land of groundswell called home. Why should it not be me? You don't know my name but it's left on your lips, it's on every calling card given to you, and whispered when you are alone at dark....My name, is Chloris Zephyr and I stand for justice. 

Chapter 10: I Just Want To Have Friends 

"...So there I was at the comedy club, you would've hated there, my dear, all that laughter was loud so much that it was unbearable. I walked in to hear him talk joke crap about the Wendigo and then I called out how much of a chump he was. And then, he said: 'Wouldn't it be funny if that guy got killed by Wendigos, like right now?' and the crowd guffawed. And then I smirked, saying 'Wouldn't it be funny if the stand up here got beaten up by five Wendigos...Like, right now?' Then, at my signal; all of them came. The haggish creatures of Tacita and all the Wendigos. That was no laughing matter for this comedy club! All smiles came around the table and I was about to pull a gun on him. You should've heard the guy, he looked like he was going to piss himself and said in a whimpering tone, 'Please...I was just kidding...' but I pulled it, only to reveal it to be fake. 'So did I.' I said with a laugh and soon everyone was laughing. They thought it was over...Or was it??!! BOOM! All of the laughing people had their throats slit and the most hated stand up got a good beaten. Once it was over, I laughed as I left. Beautiful wasn't it? I did the same to the others...." Creepily grinning sociopath Cheshire, to whom Ophelia thought she created on piece of paper in her 'trauma' while dealing with her hypersensitivity to loud noises. "You. Are. Not. Real....How can this be?!" cried Ophelia. "As I stated before; I've existed before you could ever created me on paper or in your head." said Cheshire. "You mean...You existed before....?" Ophelia started to ask but Cheshire interrupted, "Ah yes. I had existed before you created me." He said. 

"You see, I was a bit like you. Hating loud sounds and how I was depressed but a new smile carves into my face. I looked beautiful aren't I?" Ophelia took a deep breath and said, "Yeah. You are above average." "I am, aren't I?" Cheshire said. Then he smirked deeper and it got more eerie with that leer on his face. "But what about when you stabbed your brother in the arm with a pen? All for a stupid peace treaty you made?" Cheshire remarked. Ophelia looked guilty, "I--" She started to say but Cheshire cut her off. "Don't give me that, you didn't mean it? Is that you were going to say?" He demanded. Ophelia looked away, "I haven't had an outbreak in awhile so I was surprised at myself." She said. "Yes, that's true. You've been a good girl lately, but then one outbreak." agreed Cheshire. "But you have to understand, maybe your daddy-kins is your mirrored image." Ophelia was shocked to hear him say that and begins to have a frenzy attack, she remembered the things she done and the things she said: "I...I'm nothing like my father. I'm trying to realize the things I've done while he didn't. I remember the terrible things, I repent, and I eventually get over it and try not to do them again." Cheshire patted Ophelia's hair on top. "Good girl." Then he turned around, "And what about you, Ace? You got a thing for Roland or something?" Cheshire taunted. "What?" Ace said, glaring at him. Roland looked confused, "What the hell are you talking about?" He demanded. Cheshire reached into his coat pocket while muttering, "Hmm, let's see...Where did I put it....?" Then he pulls out a book that was dark blue, "Ah-ha! Here it is. A journal, diary sounds more a girl." Cheshire pulled it out as Ace looks at him suspicious. 

Then, Cheshire begin to read them, "Log Entries....'Why isn’t he interested? I just wrote my cellphone number, but then I got worried that he might not be home for when I called so I gave all the info I could. And I feel like a loser because I'm is staying home all night waiting for that one guy to call...He might have noticed that I'm obsessed with him and thinks I'm a stalker...'" Ace was embarrassed and shocked, how did this bastard found all that? How could he? Roland looked shocked by this, confused by this and looks at Ace who looked tensed to him. Ophelia is suspicious of Ace and Janus is also dubious as well. However Cheshire didn't stop reading them, "'I'm obsessed with him, is that it? Is that why he won't talk to me? Is it my appearance has anything to do with why he won’t call me. No, that can’t be the reason!  It’s hard for me to do more and because he pushes me away. I don’t fall asleep because this is the only time when I am vulnerable and he makes my heartbeat...I says that I don’t love him when I really do, but I won’t tell him that. If I'm not in his heart, why should I act like I do?  If I got to settle for a piece of him then I gotta say peace to him. All I ever wanted was to be his starring role, the one he loves. Once I get HIM, and I WILL! I will never let him get away or let anyone else take him!'" Roland started to get mad, "Your sick, freak! Why would he want to write crap like that?! You must've forged them!" He yelled. "Oh really? It seems straight forward for me. Isn't that right Ace?" taunted Cheshire. Roland is angry, Ace is mortified and bowed his head, and Ophelia is frozen with fear. Janus looks at the three before glaring at Cheshire and then he punched him while retrieving the journal and hands them to Ace. Then tells Cheshire, "Get the hell out of here!" Cheshire then looked at him as he stood up and ran. Ophelia, Roland, and Ace were amazed as they try to process of what just happened. Janus sighed and the four of them head back to Silver Branch but Ophelia threw her arms around Janus and gave him the warmest embrace, "Thank you. You saved us." She said. Janus caressed her hair in comfort, smiling a little. Ace and Roland are a tad bit envious at this. Janus noticed as he asked, "Is something wrong?" Roland and Ace turned away with a huff. "Like hell!" They both said. Janus was perplexed while Ophelia was giggling softly.

In the meantime, Chloris was struggling on information of Cassandra. She was angry as she cursed herself, "Dammit!" But then she hears something. Chloris's eyes wandered to the side as a smirk appeared on her face. She leaned back in her chair, "A badass crew-army full of blood knights, boisterous bruisers, and combat sadomasochists. Colored through bonds of friendship and loyalty, so much so that even the grim-faced and sadistic warrior types would toss away their lives to protect the harpy. Am I right.....Turan?” She said. That was her cue to pull out a gun but the bullet missed. There were knives, guns, axes, rifles, and then there were lots of crazy blood thirsty people. Chloris managed to duck for cover until something of a blade grazed almost at her. The blade snapped away with shing sound. “Damn! Blasted warriors!” Chloris cursed. “I couldn’t agree more.” A voice said from behind, Chloris jumped and whirled around to see who it was. “What the—how did you get here?” She demanded. “That’s for me to know and for you to not know.” said the female voice. Chloris turns away and rubbed her forehead to the bridge of her nose as she replied, “I’d take it that I’m talking to Turan Cypris.” Turan appeared in a bustier and a skirt. “Yes, who else? And you must be Chloris Zephyr.” She said. “Yes, I'm part of this place. Hope you like it.”  Chloris remarked. Turan looked around, “You sure have a nice place here.” She complimented. Chloris nodded, “Hmm. Not like yours…..A ragtag bunch of misfits. Good cop-bad cop, played by the book, dirty cop, and yada yada.” She said. “You sure know about us.” said Norna. Chloris looked at Turan, “Gorgeous Jinx! A beauty so cursed and tortured during a prom massacre by five guys and you & other brutes took down on the bastards that hurt you.” She explained. “You read my profile.” said Turan. “Yup.”  said Chloris replied with a nod. 

Then she looks at Tucker. “Let’s see…Tucker I presumed. Feared, respected by his comrades and is hated by his rival and subordinate, Kai.” She explained. “I assume you read mine too.” said Kai.  Chloris gave him a look, “’Course I did.” She said. “That’s great, Hmph. I really hate him you know that?” “I do but…Yours is quite a tragedy.” replied Chloris. Kai chuckled nervously, “You don’t know that.” He said. Chloris gave him a look and read the file, “Oh no? As a child, you and your big sister lost both your parents. All alone until one day—‘He’ came along and took you in. You look up to him, respected him, you cared so much for him until…this guy came along and took the man you saw as a father figure away almost. He loved your sister but broke her heart completely. You grew more hatred of this guy, so much that you want to kill him in a more sadistic way. Get rid of him with his ultimate humiliation….Followed by his deliciously, delirious death, which will put you one step closer to that father figure of yours. In the end, more tragedy, your dearest sister was dying and not even the doctors could anything. You went to see her as she tells you her final parting words before she died. And you were there, in shock, and weep bitterly over that beautiful angel of your dearest sibling…Who is gone from your life.” Chloris explained. Kai was trembling while Chloris explained and his hand clenched into a fist. “What do you want, Chloris Zephyr?” He demanded. Chloris crossed her legs and sneered down at the others, “One thing, Cassandra Endymion. Tell me about her, how much do you know about her.” She said. 

That night, Cassandra and Brother 10 are in grayish black cloaks. They were heading up to the roof of a temple for a meeting. They meet with Mimir Sofus as he beckons them, "Cass, Boys, I'll like you to meet the priests of Carlisle." Cassandra and Brother 10 greeted them, "Hi." The priests introduced themselves, a man with a tall hat of authoritative was the high priest of the temple. He seemed gracious as he said, "Welcome Cassandra. Now we can begin." And so the meeting went on about Branwen Zephyr, the daughter of Constantine Zephyr. It is said that she was made into the 'perfect girl' but also the perfect weapon of destruction. The high priest explained of the 'unholy experiments' and how many people were used in there. Just then, Cassandra gasped when she saw an illusion of the girl she saw in her dream world. "It's her!" She cried. One of the temple priests called out, "Branwen?" "Where is she?" asked Jack. "We don't see her!" echoed Borvo. But Cassandra didn't answer as she walked over and fell into a trance. The others watched in horror, Brother 10 hurried over to her and managed to pull & push her back from walking off the ledge of the roof. In her trance; Cassandra faced Branwen, who beckoned her to come to her. Casssandra was seemingly walking to her when all of a sudden, Cassandra glared at her and said: "I have a message for your father, tell him we will find him. Be ready." Branwen gave her a vicious glare, "You'll never get near my daddy!" she growled. And she vanished. Since then, Cassandra is kept up all night and she begins to have trance visions of Branwen, she was on the ground in pain but when she woke up and saw her father glaring down at her. "Daddy, I'm sorry." She said weakly. But she's being beaten by her father for not being 'perfect' enough and Branwen begin to cry. 

This vision haunted Cass as she fell asleep at around 4 o'clock. The next day, Ophelia is searching for the precise notebook to start writing once again. She said to herself quietly, "C'mon Ophelia! Pick the ripest one and go! Don't keep Cass waiting!" She hissed to herself, she finds one and hurries away but she bumps into someone and blurts out an apology before she hurrying away. The person she bumped into kept staring at her and looked at a picture of her. "Cute." He said. In the rainstorm; Ophelia is walking slowly in sandals, not good walking shoes in this weather, as she carefully doesn't want to slip and fall into puddles. That's when a hooded figure approached her, "Excuse me, do you know where the nearest place for help is?" The figure asked. Ophelia shook her head, "Sorry, I don't." She said, staggering away. However she is taser from behind and falls unconscious but not before she heard Cassandra turning around and calls out, "Hey! What do you think you're doing?!" The next minute, Ophelia wakes up on a mattress but in a different room. She looks around as she stood up and walked towards the window, wondering: "Where am I?" She felt something wet and saw a little blood on the wound but she wiped it away and it was dry for now. Cassandra is angry for not rescuing her in time and will not stop until she found her. She gathers everyone as she heads over to the place called White Horse Society--where Ophelia was. In the meantime, Ophelia is ordered to meet the 'main boss' of the people that kidnapped her and she does in order to survive. She is surprised when she meets Chloris Zephyr, the young woman of this place and daughter of Constantine Zephyr. 

"You--You kidnapped me? Why, why would you do that?" demanded Ophelia. However she realized something, "Wait, it was you...You did that to Cass and the other girls?" "I used a serum that made the Wendigos act on a frenzy and they all got your friends. For a reason." said Chloris. She explains that Cassandra and the others to take down her father's work of monstrosity. She explained that somehow a man who was an ancestor of a family. This family is known as The Lambtons are 'cursed' for a reason: John Lambton died in a plane crash. Margaret Lambton was struggling and was undergo surgery but instead brought more problems to herself. Robert Lambton died in a fire, William 'Billy' Lambton was killed when he was born, William's wife, Allison Lambton, died after giving birth to him and William Lambton took his own life. Amid Lambton was killed in a car crash, Wynd Lambton was accused of murder of his girlfriend and Henry Lambton was assassinated. The reason of these curses happening; it all started when the horrid experiments upon humanity and also a war was going on long ago in Carlisle. Ophelia begin to listen as Chloris continued with her story: A man name Cyrus Lambton entrust them to a man name Jofur and his crew which were: Mordecai, Miguel, Jordan, Elijah, Lakshmi, Enzo, and Gretchen. But Jofur and the others went back on Cyrus's request to keep them safe and well-nourished. 

They instead did horrible things to the people, who are known as the Jahab Family: Ladon, Cadmus, Tarasque, Garguiem, Nidhogg, Campe, Leviathan, Behemoth, Echidna, Veles, Ajatar, Jaculus, Rahab, Tiamet, Sybaris, Poine, and Ceto. Their children were mercilessly tortured and bullied by Jofur's young assistants. They were beaten, tortured, not given any food to eat but only scrapes however not enough. No matter how the children and the people begged for food and how thirsty but always abused, flogged violently, slapped, and oppressed. They were jeered by Jofur and the others jeered at them 'freak', 'creep', and other names. That's when, the last straw came; Delphyne and the other children: Joseph, Izanami, Dionysus, Vanadis, Skadi, Demeter, Ingvin, Vulcan and Medusa were never treated kindly because Jofur said that these people were nothing but 'useless humans'. They were tied up from their wrists and forced to watch in the windows of the chambers where their families were experimented and turned into monsters. But Cyrus discovered, instead of helping these people, he killed them for the shock he went through. Delphyne was angry at this as she confronted Cyrus and shouts at him: "Damn you Lambton! It's your fault, you put us through hell! Everyone is dead because of you and for that, your family is cursed with the same thing as we did!" Ophelia was shocked at this and demands to know what kind of person would do that to so many people that had been turned into monsters and why would she want to know. 

"Because I want you to know of how I witnessed my father's 'work' and I must destroy it as a way to atone for my sins!" claimed Chloris. Ophelia was dissatisfied, "Your sins? Are you selfish? Do you realize how many lives are at stake?" "I'm aware of that. But what about you, Ophelia? You caused a lot of calamity to everyone and brought them here, didn't you? Why would you do that?" Chloris remarked. Ophelia looked uncomfortable but she replies back, "You don't get it. Those are great, inspiring, and brave warriors. I had watched them all this time, I'm obsessed with these people because they are stuck in my head and it feels so exhilarating, doesn't it?" Chloris looked at her with surprise, "Is that why you--?" She asked but Ophelia was angry by all this that she turned and faced her fiercely, "What? Am I a freak? C'mon, say it! I'm a freak!" She commanded. "Just tell me, Ophelia!" Chloris exclaimed. Ophelia was now pissed and flared her hand as it accidentally pressed the microphone button, "Tell you what? That I sent them all here because I was a loony fan?!" Cassandra and the others heard this, they turned with surprised looks. Chloris looked down in anxiousness. "Um, Ophelia, you've turned the mic on..." She said. Ophelia looked down at the button glowing on blankly and begin to rant, "I don't care! They need to know! Why I got them all here? Silver Branch was a kingdom of isolation and I was the queen. But I know, th--the others! The ones I've met, they think I'm weird. But--I don't want to be! I want to be normal. I want to be just like them! But I can't be me because I hate myself, even the stuff I do makes me feel shitty. Like stabbing my brother with a pen in anger over something stupid like to make peace or a truce. And I'm not proud of it! And stabbing myself to know what it feels like didn't make it better." 

Everyone looked shocked. "Stop this, Ophelia--" Chloris begged but Ophelia didn't heed and continue to speak, "I know, I'm crazy! I am a narcissist and a prude! I don't have much of friends except only two great ones. Being stubborn, acting out on my feelings, and I am not proud of it! I'm nothing but a violent, insane person who has a similarity to an abusive father to daughter complex and going through the same crap as he did and being the jerk like he was!" She was shaken so much as she begins to cry, "I just want to change and I can't say it, oh no! I need to do it now. I need...I need someone to accept me as I am. Not tell me to deal with all the loud places that overwhelm me. Please...I really hate it when people tell me to deal with it, it makes me so mad that I could spit!" The others are shocked of this, they never knew how she felt. They all assumed she was different and they didn't know what her true feelings were. Ophelia was in hysterics, she then turned out there and smiled a little through her tears. "See? I'm sorry, I'm sorry I took you away from your worlds. I did this so I can be cool! Spectacular! Brave! I want to throw caution to the wind!" She spluttered. Ophelia calmed down a little and then she spoke more clearly, "I know you can all hear me, even you...Cassandra Endymion..." and then she screamed out, "I WANT YOU TO BE MY FRIEND!!!!! PLEASE ACCEPT ME AS I AM!!!!! DON'T REJECT ME, MAKE ME FEEL ALIVE AND SHATTER ME FROM THE PERSON I HATE ON THE INSIDE!!!!!" Then she sinked to the floor in anguish as Chloris turned off the microphone. Cassandra is shocked of this as she ponders about the times that Ophelia was loyal to everyone and how she did different tasks. Asking them if they need any help. Cassandra came back to her senses and begins to walk away. "Where are you going?" asked Samson. Cassandra smiled and said, "I'll be back." She flew as she enters the building and found Ophelia crying. She came to her and knelt in front of her.

"Ophelia..." Cassandra replied. Ophelia looked up through her tears, "You always been my friend, and I always accepted you without limits. Come, just be yourself. Everybody makes mistakes. You are worthy to me as well as my friends and allies. I've made more than one mistake in my life. I've came out of the worst situations of life and survived, and you need to be confident about yourself instead of talking down about you. You were trying to hide your flaws to try and look good, it's OK. Just open your heart, I'm flawed just like you....Friends need to accept each other, right?" Cassandra said. Ophelia was trembling as Cassandra continued to speak, "With such a negative attitude, you can’t succeed. Change the hate and anger into love and peace." Ophelia nodded as she bowed her head and wiped her face away. She ran over and hugged Cassandra in her arms as she sobbingly replies, "Thank you. Thank you....You mean so much to me." Cassandra embraces her in return and carries her over to the others who rejoice, they thanked her, and advise her not to hate herself, they tell her to be herself. But Cassandra was shocked to see Ophelia was bleeding. It was the mark from the taser. She called out for some help and then turned to Ophelia, "Wha--what did you do?" exclaimed Cassandra, desperation in her voice. Ophelia smiled calmly to herself, "I did it, I felt it Cass." She said softly. "Felt what?" Cassandra asked. "Acceptance, cured....Perfect. I was perfect inside and out...." muttered Ophelia, before she passed out. She was recovering in the medical center where she is going to be OK. The wound was healed a little, thanks to Cassandra's powers that made Ophelia's deep cut bled less. Ophelia is awake now as she is talking to the others and laughing along with them. Cassandra is happy for her as things are going to be OK. Later on, Cassandra has another vision somehow and rushed over to tell the others; she reports that she saw a vision of Branwen who was singing to herself, "Going to take the Wends like herded sheep as we head fathom below...." 

In the meantime; 3 years ago....History is about to repeat itself again! 15 year old Loki Sylvester was a regular outcast in middle school; shy, insecure, and not so confident of himself. He is constantly bullied, tortured by his science teacher, bullied by his literature teacher but the only people that is nice to him is his coach and physical education teacher, his math teacher, and his counselor that he always talks to. Loki is being picked on by Delphyne Jahab and her friends: Joseph, Izanami, Dionysus, Vanadis, Skadi, Demeter, Ingvin, Vulcan and Medusa. He hates being humiliated and picked on all the time. But there are a few students that he idolized and are nice to him too. Damien  McCumhaill and his brothers: Louis, Cidney, and Robin. Loki wanted to be cool and great just like them. But one day, something goes awry where Delphyne and her friends claimed that the McCumhaill Brothers were coming but it was all a trick. Loki was branded and stripped. He was blackmailed however Loki went into a rage and try to attack but he fell as he hit his head. Delphyne and the others were not laughing anymore! "Is he dead?" asked Vanadis with fear, now she was feeling guilty. The others checked as they learn he was alive but not waking up. Izanami begin to cry, "Oh God, what did we do?" She sobbed. She begin to scream and cry in fear of what just happened. Until Ingvin calms her down with a slap to the face, telling to get it together as they realize this was serious and not so funny anymore. They were panicking of what they should do. Dionysus decided to take him to a hospital and didn't care what anyone thought. 

"No way in hell we're going to get away with this." Dionysus retorted. They went and took him to the hospital. Loki's abusive mother, who had abused and neglected her son, was away on a trip. She wouldn't be back anytime soon. At the hospital, the doctor reported about Loki's condition: "He's in a coma, it's unlikely when he's going to wake up." He was curious to know how they found him. So Delphyne and her friends told the doctor that they were going to see him because he was sick and they found him unconscious. The doctor was suspicious, but he nods. Delphyne, Joseph, Izanami, Dionysus, Vanadis, Skadi, Demeter, Ingvin, Vulcan and Medusa made a vow not to tell anyone about this and they decide to forget about it. Little did they know, things were about to get ugly. While in his coma; Loki was crying as he is haunted by the jeering and the laughter from others. "Why....I hate this, I hate being abused by my mother, my classmates....WHY?!" He cried but then some sort of angel came to him. Her name was Sigyn Meridian came to him, "Do you seek justice?" She said. "I will give you great powers beyond your wildest dreams...If you want revenge against those that tormented you in middle school, these powers will be given and vengeance will be yours." Loki is intrigued and nods with a serious look on his face, "Yes. I'll do it." He answered. Sigyn smiled, she kissed his cheek and then Loki is given a lot of different paranormal abilities; Psychokinesis, Snake, Pig, Ice, Ghost, Magic, Fire and Mirror. "Good luck, my darling, when you wake up; you will be spell-bounding." whispered Sigyn against his skin and then she vanished.  

Years into the present, at the hospital. The doctor and nurse were going to check and see how Loki is doing. They opened the door to see that Loki is covered with a sheet and they are curious to know why. When they pulled the sheet off; the doctor was shocked, the nurse dropped her clipboard as she nearly swoons but managed to get a grip. Loki woke up from his coma, he looked at them, "What? Is something wrong?" He asked. "My word. You--you look." stuttered the doctor. "I look what?" Loki demanded. "Can you give me a mirror?" "Don't worry, it's not that...serious." said the doctor. Loki grabs him and shouts, "I said, HAND ME A MIRROR! RIGHT NOW!!!!" The doctor turns to the nurse, "Mirror! Hurry!" He instructed. The nurse gives him the mirror from her pocket and hands it to the doctor, who gives it to Loki. When Loki looks at his reflection; he couldn't believe it. "Wha...Is that...Is that me?" asked Loki. He then begin to giggle madly and then he laughed and laughed like a maniac. When he faced the doctor and nurse, it turns out that he has a pretty face. 

His features, his eyes, everything looked as if they have been sculpted beautifully. "This--This is amazing. I--I can't believe, I looks so much better. So beautiful...Ha, ha. Ha ha ha ha! I'm beautiful! BEAUTIFUL!!!!" He laughed and laughed like a maniac as the doctor and nurse glance at one another in fear. It seems things were not going to be pretty. At all.