West Journey Tempest: Volume 2--Chapter 5

This is the fifth chapter of volume 2 to West Journey Tempest. A young lady's life is spiraled out of control when she receives hate comments, jealous of a new girl, broke up with her boyfriend, and it gets worst from here. Inspired by the urban legend 'pasta of Annora Petrova, Black Swan, and Perfect Blue; please enjoy and hope you guys like it! --KatDon

 Chapter 5: Price of Fame and Failure

Many young girls, encouraged by family, friends and teachers, would like to become successful. Visions fills the minds of many promising young girls and women and they will do almost anything to achieve such a lofty goal. There is no doubt that these dreams can take turns for the worse. Annora Peters was born a successful young woman. By age six she began trying her hand at her fame. Thereafter, she was taught by famous trainer and boyfriend name Sergei. That night she was experiencing a lot of anxiety in anticipation. She is growing up. She depicts the thinking of a girl. Because a young girl doesn’t see life the way it actually is, she sees just the good parts of it. Annora confesses that she used to see life the same way, but now she doesn’t. She is not a woman yet, but she’s also not a girl any more. She past over the phase when she was said what to do. Now she thinks for herself. She sees the world with her own eyes and she has her own vision. Even though she embraces a more image she’s still the same Annora. Now she’s just looking for who she wants to be. And she assures us that she will find her way. Since Annora is in fact a primadonna girl, she wants everything. Annora really can’t do anything about her egotism; it’s not a flaw, it’s her personality, and the world just has to deal with it! In her eyes, she does no wrong. It’s simply everyone else who is wrong! Even through all the stuff she puts you through, you still keep coming back. She’s asserting her dominance, Annora doesn’t care about any consequences, because to the primadonna girl, there are no consequences. She’s aware that she’s a diva, but in her eyes, she sees no wrong in that. Even though she lives such a pompous lifestyle, underneath the big ego is a girl who is genuinely struggling with herself. Life isn’t necessarily a breeze when you’re a primadonna girl; Annora could be saying that either life is so repetitively hedonistic that it’s not much fun anymore, or that it’s incredibly difficult and strenuous, what with everything she does to keep being a successful star. She doesn’t just want your attention span used up on her, she wants the attention you have. She doesn’t just want her boyfriend to love her, she wants him to adore her and spend all his time with her. Because she’s a primadonna girl, she wants everything that people are capable of giving, and often, still more than that. Annora Peters has decided to be someone who all the boys love and adore, even if it’s not the real her. As a primadonna, Annora commands all of the boys' attentions, as well as all their cameras' memory spaces. And she adores the feeling of being desirable. She’s a primadonna girl, she can’t help but want things! And she’s successful at getting what she wants. All she has to do is butter up the person she’s going to ask, and then pop the pretty question. That’s how, even though she doesn’t deserve her privileges, she has them. Her life is dreamy and glamorous, as if she were the star of her own show, or the main character on the stage. And she absolutely loves it. The primadonna girl has her successes and failures, even though she craves only successes. As long as Annora gets all the power and all the material possessions in the end, she’s willing to do anything. Society really doesn’t want to spend its time appeasing the unappeasable primadonna girl, but Annora can’t stand for that. Even when the lights dim and the curtains close, she’ll be hopelessly spinning around and trying to catch attention. It wasn't until she found comments about her that read: "Annora Peters is a selfish bitch who is going to get what she deserves, she is a pathetic little good girl who should die friendless and alone!" Annora is shocked as she doesn't know what is going on. She learns that she is competiting with a new girl who is much more prettier. In walked in Kayla, mysterious and gorgeous while also nice. Too nice. She has large breasts and an hourglass figure. Annora doesn’t completely fit this mould she doesn’t feel valued in society. She resembled a thin model with no extra weight, Annora realizes she will never quite live up to the unrealistic image of Kayla. Annora is jealous of Kayla because she looks beautiful and is attracting the guy of her dreams, Sergei, and she’s ashamed of admitting her enviousness. Annora cannot help but have a desire as she wants everything that Kayla has so that Kayla will come to her. She wants to figure out why Sergei seduce othe women and not her. She wants to drown herself in the women’s perfume because she believes that Sergei is attracted to her for the way she smells and is causing her pain. "I wish I was her. Why do you love her and not me?" She thought while watching Kayla with Sergei. She feels the same emotions of restlessness that is usually linked with having a crush on someone. In this case, she can’t sleep or get peace for a different reason: Sergei is rebuffing her feelings by being with Kayla. Annora doesn’t need Sergei's company to enjoy herself tonight, and she’s also convincing him and herself that she will not need him in her life again. Tonight, her goal is to erase her troubles and enjoy herself with Kayla. On her night out she’s gonna come across a brand new guy that will make her completely forget about her troubles with her current lover. Everyone’s gonna be talking about this night and how she’s completely obliterating the memory of the guy that’s messed with her by having a fun night with her girls, and hooking up with new guys. He had it coming, though, he knew that the day would come where she would get up, leave, and do it on her own. She pushes the buttons even more to express that she’s had enough, and that she’s doing perfectly fine without him in her life. She’ll be fine without the guy trying to bother her and ruin her evening, she’s got her girls and that’s what matters. However; something changes as she didn’t expect it to happen and it wasn’t her idea but because she was so drunk, it gave her the confidence to kiss a girl and not feel awkward about it. Basically, Annora was probably drunk, and is therefore confused with what she should do. It is hard for her to just kiss boys. It seems the traditional view of orientation being a fixed trait was mostly determined through research conducted on men. Girls, on the other hand, seem to have a fluid orientation, falling in and out of love with both genders over a lifetime — thus being magical while her kissing a girl and liking it is actually quite the norm, and really is no big deal. She just wanted to try to get a taste of how it feels like to kiss a girl. Annora also worries that her boyfriend won’t take this issue up quite seriously allegedly labelling her. However, it was a dream and Kayla was amused to hear it. But she is going to pursue her desires over what logic and reason are advising her to do. The feeling of commitment that the person in this song is experiencing when faced with this sudden decision as good emotions that also come along with the constricting ones – perhaps going along with the love she feels for Sergei. Annora has come to terms that Sergei doesn’t love her and never will. She questions why she continues to fool herself into thinking this person will love her and to thinking that this relationship would work out in her favor. Annora doesn’t want to hear the excuses Sergei has however she isn’t ignorant to her lover’s lies and doesn’t see the point of what he’s saying. She’s generally hurt by the things he has said to her. This is more of she fell in love with Sergei and he’s saying that they’ll always still be friends. She criticizes her significant other’s pride and cowardice, which prevents him from ending the relationship. Annora is in denial and doesn’t want to put the relationship to an end. She knows that both her and Sergei won’t end it, so suggest that they pretend everything is going well. It’s just that Sergei cannot commit to her and only ever wants her when he is drunk or when they have contact. She doesn’t feel as if she completes him. She doesn’t want to know the truth because she’s tried for this relationship and can’t let go of what they may have once had. She strives for perfection and will not accept anything less. She is very bitter and feels she can’t let go of the relationship and her need for perfection as she realized this was a bad decision. She regrets breaking up and misses being part of the relationship. Annora was upset with her partner, but feels she overreacted by breaking up. She now wants to move on and forget about the breakup, but can’t let go of what has happened. She wants more and more so she doesn’t feel sad. She doesn’t want materialistic goods, she wants something from the heart. She wants love. For a far unexplained reason, Annora has been purged from a relationship that she is emotionaly seized to. However, she’s wasted her time trying to be in a relationship with someone she simply cannot have. She feels stupid for investing so much time in an unrequited love, and now she’s fragile. Fearful of being hurt again. She’s finally starting to give up on her task at hand, she wishes to become unnoticeable. Instead of her having to deal with herself, she’s passing it to her children. She realizes the destruction she has created, and just wants to be far from it. She wants to give affection to the person, but she gives too much. This happens with so many people that other people even say that she’s clingy. Even though she likes the attention, she does not have feelings for him anymore. Sometimes people are scared when they’re alone. She understands that it seems selfish of her to ask for another night with him since she was the one who broke their relationship off. Annora is searching for a reason to keep coming back to this guy. She gives lame excuses that she’s bored with him, but yet she still keeps coming around. As if she’s lying. Annora broke up with him, so she’s not really looking for a man to hold on to, she could’ve had him—but yet she cant stay away. Even though she broke up with her lover, she wants him to hold her through the night and to help her get over him. This results in her doing this several times over a longer period of time, breaking up in the mornings and getting together in the evening, indulging in an evil, never-ending circle. However; Sergei was black-balled because of his association with her and he quit training her! While Annora is with her overprotective mother name Nancy Peters; Nancy doesn’t reassure Annora when she is frightened but instead reinforces her fears and puts some of her own into her in order to make sure she will come running to her when threatened so she can protect her. Her paranoia and overprotectiveness is only damaging Annora’s self esteem and social skills, making her think she needs her approval for everything. Her mother attempts to police her whereabouts on what she says or does as Annora becomes afraid to be vulnerable with other people in part because of her mother putting her fears into her. All the things she was deprived of while being sheltered from the world. Annora didn’t feel like herself trying to maintain her past innocent image and this has robbed her of herself up until this point. She drastically changed her image, and was introducing a new look of herself, who is more mature, almost a woman, but at the same time much more sexier. Being sheltered prevented her from understanding who she was and what she wanted. She prefers to make mistakes and figure things out on her own than to feel restricted by authorities her whole life. Her mother is telling her how she should about what image to present to the public. She doesn’t feel the image she’s presenting is actually what she’s like though and wants to truly be herself now. Annora has decided that now is the time for her to get the things she’s been deprived of while being sheltered. Annora is sick of her overprotective mother, she is sick at how Nancy is suffocating her emotionally and left her out of anger! That's when Annora discovers that Bree is in the hospital for attempting to take her own life a few weeks ago and goes to see her. In these past weeks, Bree has been using it for so long that she has started believing that this mask is the real her. The pain that she feels, as she tries to convince whereas if she tries to touch them, in the sense she tries to meddle with her persona, she feels the bitter pain of it being so badly broken now. Her persona wants to make her believe that what she is going through is fake, and when she has gone through it all she will then understand that it wasn’t real. She’s wondering if people would love her looks or her actual personality. She’s in love with a Sergei but they knew that a relationship between them couldn’t work well, so he had to leave. But, she’s not able to let him go. She’s tormented by thoughts of him every day, and she knows she’s being childish by holding onto his memory this long, but she feels she needs to have him with her until the memories leave by themselves. Her emotional wounds won’t get better, and it hurts so bad emotionally that she thinks she can physically feel it, and that there’s too much time that she’s put into this thing that it’s unable to be erased. She and this guy were very close, and losing him was like losing a part of her. Time can’t erase the wounds of her loss, and she doesn’t know it but she’s opening the wounds by holding on to him. She loved him very much, and cared deeply about him. Then, he left her, and she became nothing. She never realized how much she needed him until the day he left, and she can’t stop wanting him back, her mind is slowly slipping into insanity. His presence, his grace, how he made her feel, made him her whole world. She’s then taken apart after he’s gone, with only shattered memories of the past times they had, to hold on to! Memories of him are slowly driving her insane. Images of him haunt her, and she hears his voice in her mind. She can’t help needing him, but she is desperately trying to hang on to what she has left of her sanity. She knows that their relationship had been a bad idea from the beginning, and she’d had to protect him from his fears, and she never got anything back, but she unwittingly gave all of herself to him. And now that he’s gone, she can’t live knowing that he’s not here. It wasn't until Annora is shocked by more hateful letter as she went to confess to Bree, who was in the hospital, and told her: "I know you hate me, but we were best friends once and I need you to read this. I think I'm in serious trouble and there's nothing you can do, but I need you to read this so you understand. I know we haven't talked in awhile. It's been forever, but what happened to you wasn't my fault. At least it wasn't entirely my fault. I know everyone thinks it was, but I would never do anything to hurt you." Bree looked at her with a glare, "You betray me..." She said. Annora looked down, "I know...I'm so sorry." She admitted. That's when the unexpected happens: She has cut herself, and is bleeding while screaming: "You're perfect! I'm not! You've become obsessed with the spotlight are now simply the puppets of others, the fool everybody laughs at!" Annora is horrified and ran off! She arrives at home and she is paranoid of her stalkers has stopped outside her house. So she’s locking the door and not looking back because she’s scared. She’s getting changed — undressing in the dark and not letting them see her, hiding from them. They’ll never know the way that what they’ve said has freaked her out and made her paranoid. She can’t believe they’d try and get her to do the things they want her to do, which is whatever the stalker’s demands are. They’re haunting her in her dreams and she’s terrified. They’ve all got her. She can’t sleep, because then she’ll experience these nightmares. They think she belongs to them. They’ve got her cornered, so just come out and get it over. She paid the price for choosing a sensational life of phenomenal and vigor. No one wants to be stalked or harassed! The people watching her might want to intrude but can people really see her? She fears anyone calling her at all. Everyone could be watching! Everyone is a suspect! She fears of being watched by authorities. The feeling persists, she has too much time on her hands and she spends it alone. Perhaps it’s a bad dream or she’s tired and is experiencing sleep hallucination. And yet whatever she does can be seen by everyone. And the people she loves are those that she fears and her life no longer belongs to her! Annora wished she was a blonde in her teen years, she thinks that she was robbed of the ideal teenage girl’s dream; popular, surrounded by boys, always going to parties or hanging out with her friends. She wants to go back in time to waste her life as a teenager. She wants to make mistakes, and worry about petty things, and rebel just because she can. She is depressed, she doesn't want to go out or deal with the world. She wants the drama and carnage that come with being a stereotypical teenager, and naturally, she also wants to eat rich, fattening desserts all day. She knows that the happy and carefree teen doesn’t exist, but that’s exactly what she wanted to be. She faked it all throughout her teen years, yet she wishes she hadn’t been so innocent and transparent. Annora wants to be nice and virginal because, to everyone else, that seems more desirable than being an easy harlot with promiscious behavior. She wants back her chastity, and the empowerment it gives because she feels so empty. She wants to get hammered, she wishes she wasn’t so careful and that she did those immature things. She wants passion and violence, but she also enjoys the simple things. Annora feels like she’s destroyed her chance to have her simple moments and she'll hate herself for it. She has that high school loser feeling bad about herself, but also feels like she’s a narcissist! She was incredibly disoriented, having found that being a teen was actually a really confusing ordeal. She was supposed to be testing her limits, she was supposed to be happy, going out there and making a fool of herself while she was still an adolescent. But instead, she stayed sensible and has made a fool of herself in the future. Now, she regrets wasting so many years of her life not doing fun things. Youth, in general is supposed to be a carefree time. Full of friends, happiness. But since Annora never really had any of this, and spent all of her time worrying and hating herself she never experienced much joy in her short adolescence. Annora wishes people looked up to her when she was a teenager. She wished everyone liked her and gave her respect. She wanted to be invited to all the coolest parties. She wishes she was actually interested in trying to be Prom Queen in highschool. When she was 16, Annora didn’t do what anyone else did. She was so outcasted, instead of doing things like running for prom queen, she was out looking for answers to religion, instead of enjoying the life of a teen. She feels like taking her own life. All her youth years was wasted because she didn’t make anything out of it. She wished that she had a teenage lifestyle where she’d be a happy, rebellious teenager. Annora wished she had been in her teen years, which gives her a sense of how it feels to be alive. After Annora had complete adolescence, she realizes that all along instead of wanting change, she wanted death all along. And so after her period of youth, she comes to realize that she is alive. She doesn’t care about her youth anymore, and she’s looking to the future now. And she lost herself inside her mind. She feels like a doll with no mind of their own and a forced smile. She has a hole inside of her, which means something is missing. From the day of her birth, she has had this void. This space of emptiness, that cannot be filled or destroyed. Annora was a caring and happy child as a start, but as she grew older, she became aware of the world’s dangers at an earlier age than most. Everybody is missing a piece of themselves, changed to suit the fakeness of that world. There’s no friendship or happiness, just emptiness and void. She wants to start all over again from the beginning, Annora is used to this sort of thing, having to cling to her drugs or dolls or such to make it through life. This isn’t anything new to her, she goes down into oblivion and is done with everything. There is something missing in her life, she feels the void while hanging with all her fake friends. She’s being friends with identities that she doesn’t relate to at all. Even she puts on a mask that conceals her true self, adding to the sense of mystery. This could be the low point in her life. Her depression, her hopelessness. She takes green tablets for the morning, blue capsules in the afternoon, and yellow gelcaps in the evening. Just to give herself some peace but with all these pills; they cannot make her happy and she gets rid of them. Everything from her is not fine, she hallucinates as she could hear those hurtful words again: "Annora Peters is a selfish bitch who is going to get what she deserves, she is a pathetic little good girl who should die friendless and alone!" She looked around her apartment where she can see there is nothing but saw herself as somebody different, someone more beautiful and perfect but it was nothing like her. More like Kayla, who was laughing and talking with Sergei. Annora shouted: "What the hell are you doing with him?!" But she turned to her and said, "What does it look like you pathetic, good girl? I'm here with your boyfriend. You think anybody's gonna love you, you're disgusting. Nobody wants to be around a selfish, friendless bitch." Sergei and Kayla laughed at her, then Annora could hear more laughter as she couldn't see where it was coming from. "What's going on?" She thought with a panic. The laughter died down where her mother is hugging her as she whispers to her daughter, "I won't let them hurt you sweetheart. You are my good girl. You don't need friends, you don't have to put on an act to please others." Annora tried to pull away however Nancy won't let go and Annora pushed her away as she shouted, "I AM NOT YOUR SWEETHEART!!!!!" Just then, she is arrested and is brought before Bree, who is a judge, as she condemns Annora for selfishness and hurting people who loved her, and then sentences her to be exposed by stripping her clothes off. Annora covered herself but gasped at how her body is branded with words on her skin: "LIAR", "TRAITOR", "THIEF", "SELFLESS BITCH", "PATHETIC", "FRIENDLESS", and "ALONE". People chanting: "ANNORA IS A LIAR!!!! ANNORA IS A TRAITOR!!! ANNORA IS A THIEF!!!! ANNORA IS A SELFLESS BITCH!!!!!" ANNORA IS PATHETIC!!!!! ANNORA IS A FRIENDLESS LONER!!!!"" She saw Kayla, Sergei, Nancy, and Bree also chanting as she covered her ears. And she screamed, "I JUST WANT TO BE FAMOUS, LEAVE ME BE---I DON'T DESERVE THIS!!!" And she runs out screaming. She runs while she tries to escape her personal demons: Being replaced, being dumped, being smothered too much, and being betrayed. Nobody else could see the branded words on her skin. She felt paranoid, delusional and then she was later discovered by authorities where she slept near an alley way as she being guided away. She lied there motionless in that room of the facility. And she died on the inside.

In the meantime; Erica woke up and decided to take a walk to a hill. While on her walk; she comes across a lean muscular young man, Seimi, and his friend Tengil where they were lying on the grass and looking up at the blue sky. Seimi was wearing white riding breeches, a buttoned collared shirt under a beautiful crimson vest while Tengil wore a blue suit and pants, longsleeve white pinstriped shirt, and a blue pinstriped vest with a tie. But Seimi said, "There's a storm coming, it's going to sweep things in its path." Erica looked up and saw that the beautiful sky's yonder blue was now a dark purple. When she turned back to the boy, she saw that he was already gone! So she decides to head back. As she walked back; Erica looked up and saw that the hurricane while she was determined to get home soon. She regrets on going on this walk, it was a bad idea and she wish she stayed home. She wished that it passed or wash away like rain. But it was getting closer and nothing could stop it. She hopes she won't blow away as she saw in horror of every debris, every part crumbling and it was blowing harder and harder. Erica managed to dodge every flying object and nearly went flying, it was so strong but she made it back home safe. However, she was horrified to discover that her house has been capsized and she managed to get in the house where she found that her big sister were nowhere in sight. Erica begin to panic a little bit, she cried; fearing that her parents could be dead. The next minute afterwards, Poor Erica was sitting near the mailbox, thinking about if her parents possibly got caught in the storm and possibly died but she didn't want to jump to conclusions. Then, she felt a shadow upon her and saw Seimi and Tengil. "What are you doing here?" Una asked. "I came to help you, I also want to tell you that your sister is safe." replied Seimi. Erica's gasp got caught in her throat, "You do? Where?" She asked. Here this was to be another day, an ordinary day until this boy came along as he will inspire her to look for majestic beauty that others wouldn't see and find them mundane. Seimi stretch his hand out, "Come with me." He said. "Where are we going?" asked Erica. Tengil smiled, "You'll see." Erica was hesitant at first but she knew that this boy would help her. Maybe help her to be in control of her own destiny and they were off. Erica got to meet Seimi's other companions, Geneva and Kent. Kent was a nice guy, pretty much average looking person...Nothing magical about him. He wears a silver uniform of a high-waisted and a striped suit, and has a mandarin collar. And Geneva was just an eccentric person but yet she was kind. She wore an ice blue gown, sleeves are puffy and off the shoulder. Bodice is corseted and large, sequined petals cascading from the waist. Erica was shy at first however she bonded fast with these guys as they stayed up late because of no power, they played spin the bottle and laugh and joking around while drinking root beer and Erica found a place of belonging with friends that care about her. And don't judge of what she is not. The next day, when the storm was over; Erica and her new friends stumble upon a village as then other monsters appeared as they terrify the residents into hiding as Erica, Seimi, Tengil, Kent, and Geneva were horrified to see them, which they look hideous with their horned wings, claws, and fangs so sharp. They snarled and Erica shivered a little. The monsters cursed Una by the fact that many enemies will come for her. Some would kidnap her and held her in prison while others would try to kill her, or use her for lustful desires so she must keep her head down, watch her back and stand her ground: "We''ll get you, sweet blood--AND YOUR MEDDLING FRIENDS TOO!" They growled, they laughed and disappeared into smoke. Erica and her friends were sent on her way until the manananggals came as they kidnapped Seimi, Tengil, and Kent as they flew off while Erica and Geneva followed them as they try to sneak in. But they are also kidnapped while brought before the evil queen. The queen demands her heart but Erica begs her to release her friends but the queen tortures her mentally that her friends are in the dungeon where they are in deadly fights against brain craving zombies, heart eating beasts, and fear mongeling monsters! Erica fell to her knees, horrified by the thought as the witch laughs at her despair. "Sis, please help me..." Erica whispered, "I'm frightened sis." Her hand reached to her shorts where she felt the vial and remembered the holy water. Geneva attacked the witch distracting her as Erica sprayed the witch with the holy water! The witch screeched in pain, "You cursed wretch, look what you done!" She shouted. She looked disoriented as she cried out and yelled in agony. Erica was horrified however she and Geneva went to free Seimi, Tengil, and Kent two from their prison. The three of them were unharmed, perhaps scratches here and there but they were OK! They escaped as they made their way through the forest. However they have no idea which way they should go. "OK, now which way do we go?" wondered Erica. A voice spoke up, "Pardon me. That was the way." Erica looked behind her, and around as she said: "Who said that?" When she saw no one, she laughed to herself: "I must be hearing things." Kent smirked, "You could be." He said. "It's pleasant down that way, too." The voice said. "Of course, people do go both ways!" Then, someone was swinging in a tree--It was a Vanara, a half human and half humanoid. "Oh, so it was you?" Erica asked. She anf her friends could see a young Vanara man who looked like a monkey slightly. But he wore a green jacket and pants with gold trim on the front. "We haven't really met properly, have we?" Geneva asked. The Vanara man thought for a moment before replying, "Why no." He said. "My name is Alphege." Erica and the others also introduced themselves too. Alphege jumps from tree top to tree trop as he ask where they heading to. Erica shrugs, "To look for my sister but it's a crazy realm around her." She said. Alphege smiled, "The trouble with life is, they always try to teach the wrong lesson. Believe me, I've been kicked out of enough of them to know. But I say why invite stress in? Stop strifing, and learn to live." He said. Erica and the others exchanged glances at one another: "What do you mean?" Erica asked. Alphege bounces off a branch and starts to dance forward down the road, "Well, I see that the danger is coming to corrupt my fellow travelers. Fortunately, I'm up for the task. Follow me." He said. But then they were attack by the woods as they try to seize Erica and the gang but Alphege saves them as he was so fast that the wood that came to life could not keep up with his speed as he saved Erica and the others. Later, he told the story about his lover was named Lorelai and he explains how Lorelai bumped into Asmund which she wish she didn't because she must look like a crying mess. But she managed to tell Asmund what had happened and they talked for awhile in a garden where they confess their love for one another. But then, they were discovered by the guards as Lorelai escaped while Asmund was being lead away to be beatened to death. Asmund was placed high on a stick as if he was a scarecrow as his bones crunched and whips with sharp ends made his flesh ripped apart and before he passed out from blood loss, he heard a voice screamed, "ASMUND!!!!!" Then, he woke up to hear something incoherent as he woke up and realized what he become. Erica shivered but smiled, "Sounds like a familiar story but...COME ON, LET'S MOVE!!!" She said with a cheer. Just as she spun around to continue the journey ahead; Erica sees a pig's face, she reacts by a yelp before she examines it. Her friends were startled, but Kent got another look as he grimaced: "Why, it's a man! With a pig face." He noted. The pig face man groaned, clutching his chest. "Where is it?" He moaned in pain. Erica approached him with a concern, "What? What are you looking for?" She asked. "Oil can....My oil can." The pig face man answered. Erica nervously looked around as she is unable to answer, "Um...." But luckily, Alphege appeared with a serious expression. "Hang on, Troynt." He said, handing him an oil can. The pig man, name Troynt, grabbed the oil can and tore his shirt open to reveal his beating heart. Erica gasped! The heart has many metal parts mixed with the circulation system. Troynt uses oil and felt bad as he got better. Then, Alphege told about Troynt's past: He had a lover name Emina and a boy by the name of Jimmy Talon, son of Marshall Talon! He and Emina were inseperable, Jimmy hands Emina a cup of punch and Emina took a sip. She was surprised how good it tastes, "What's in the punch Jimmy?" She asked. "Oh! It's my mother's speciality. Lemons, pears, and melons." said Jimmy. "Mmm, it's good." Emina said. She grinned at him and Jimmy smiled back. He then said, "Um, Emina?" Emina glanced at him, "Yes Jimmy?" Jimmy looked a bit nervous, "Listen, there's something I think you need to know...Why I brought you here." He said. "Oh Jimmy, I already know why you brought me here." said Emina. "You...You do?" Jimmy asked. Emina begin to have tears in her eyes as she said: "It's because I'm in this chair, right? You feel sorry for me so you ask a silly girl like me, isn't it?" Jimmy felt bad, "No, not at all...It's not that at all, it's because you are so beautiful. You're so beautiful and I think you are so fair and intelligent. You know, it's not about being not able to do anything, you can make the most out of it." So Jimmy decided to give Emina the best time of her life! The day Lorelai gave Emina the shoes known as Talaria, which caused Emina to walk. Tears of joy, Emina confessed to the surprised Jimmy of her feelings however Jimmy admits that he was in love with Sianna! Heartbroken by the rejection; Emina attempted to use a love spell but it backfired as it almost made Jimmy's heart explode. Lorelai saves him by using metal parts however Jimmy came back all wrong as Emina screamed in horror at the sight of Jimmy, who has a grotesque pig face! Jimmy was terrified at what happened and fleed in shame. After hearing this, Erica was in shock and stares at Troynt before she blurted out in a quiet voice: "Jimmy Talon....Is that you?" Geneva and the boys are shocked, they looked at Erica before glancing at Troynt, who nodded. "It is...Or what's left of me." He said. Erica looked over at Alphege, "And you--Prince Asmund...Is it really you?" She inquired. Alphege nodded, "Yes." He said. More gasps are heard, Erica looked at the two as she said: "I heard what happened to you." Troynt nodded, "It's because of Lorelai, she did this to me. It's because of her that I've become piggish and heartless." He said. Alphege glanced at his new allied friend, "No, Jim. She was trying to save you, you know that." He said. Troynt squeezed his eyes shut and shook his head rapidly, "No.....No....." He whispered. Alphege placed a hand on his shoulder while saying, "She saved me, I mean....Look at me." Tears brimmed in the pig man's eyes as he shouted, "She killed my Emina! She's dead!" Alphege shook his head as he shook some sense into him: "No, Madame Evelyn did that! Not Lorelai, she would never do that!" He claimed. Alphege turned as he looked and the others as he said: "Excuse us for a moment." He took Troynt aside as they talked in hushed tones, "Why are you standing up for the woman you love when she did nothing but wicked things? I can't just stand here grinning pretending to go along with all of this!" demanded Troynt silently. "Do you think I like to be this way? You expect me to talk bad about her? She would hate me because of it? I miss her! And I have nothing against her!" whispered Alphege. "Well, what are we doing here? Let's go, Asmund." rapsed Troynt. Alphege said in a soft voice, "I can't--We can't---This girl and her friends need help!" Troynt bluntly replied loudly, "That annoying girl and her meddling friends is more like it!" Erica was offended as she called out: "I HEARD THAT!!!!" Troynt shouted, "YOU'RE AN ANNOYANCE IS WHAT YOU ARE!!!! YOU THINK YOU KNOW ANY OF US, WE DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE OR WHAT THE HELL YOU ARE BUT YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A WITCH!!!!" Erica was hurt, she backed away and ran off with tears in her eyes. The others went to find her, even Alphege but not Troynt. His heart was so cold that he didn't seem like James Talon anymore. While traveling amongst the town; Erica was wearing a cloak and ride in a wagon as it carried supplies into the village and got off with her friends She went off the path and she took a pair of scissors and cut the remains of her dress and changed. Timias, who was walking among the path, noticed the wagon and came across the girl who was half naked. When the girl saw, she gasped and backs away: "Stay away!" Timias was trying not to look at her body but he was concern to ask, "Are you all right?" However, the girl try to run however Erica saw her scars and was shock that he attempt to hug her. The girl was shocked as she screamed, "GET AWAY!!!!" She tried to tackle him however Timias lost balance and they both went down. The girl looked up at Timias, who is flustered a little. The girl's lips curled in a smile: "Hi." She said softly. Timias saw her lips are bright red and wedge himself away, "S--sorry." He said. "Wait, are you a boy?" Erica asked. "Yes, you didn't know?" asked Timias. "Not by your delicate face, no." said the girl. "I didn't know you were changing, I apologize." said Timias. "It's OK, I'm sorry for my behavior. I guess I don't like to be touched." Erica replied. They both seemed shy as Erica was sitting next to him. But Erica noticed something that made her concern: "What happened to your shoulder?" Erica asked, pointing to the scars she can see on Timias's shoulder. Timias shied it away with his jacket. "It's nothing." He said. Erica looked at him, "Someone hurt you?" She finally asked. Timias was silent for a moment before he spoke, "...Yes." Erica nods, "If it makes you better; I don't want to talk about mine either. It's too painful." She said. Timias looked up at her, "You were hurt?" He asked. Erica looked away, "You could say that." She said. Just then, she and Timias is attacked by monsters as Erica got pushed too far as she took down the monsters in a fit of rage. Erica's face was almost sallow, her eyes glowed of a reddish yellow, and her hands were like razor-like talon hands. Lips twisted and stained with blood. Bellerophon was too frightened to move, "Erica?" He gasped. Erica looked ashamed, "Go." She hissed in an ethereal and harsh tone. Timias was too scared, Erica then shouted: "GET AWAY FROM ME!!!!" Her voice was diabolistic, more harsher. Then, she ran. Erica felt hot tears flowing from her eyes. She was so ashamed of herself. She was running so much where she is discovered by Timias but he wasn't alone: He has people with him. There was Geneva, Seimi, Tengil, Kent, Alphege, and Troynt. For the time being; A young man name Victor Casimir has a feeling of pleading for salvation in the tide of doubt. Victor is reminiscing about what was left unsaid in this relationship. It evokes the image of a meeting where no one spoke. An unknown enemy, fighting against a concept, rather than an identifiable person. Time is passing, and he doesn’t know what’s going on. He’s stuck feeling the enigma of time, moving forward, yet remaining stationary. Victor is regretting missing opportunities either out of laziness, procrastination, or simply having explored different opportunities. His father name Nuada was a cunning man who was rich and manipulative however he and Victor got into an arguement with one another. After the arguement; Nuada approached Victor and asked what was wrong so Victor spilled his guts out and Nuada pretended to understand how he felt. But then Victor realized what Nuada was planning to do as he tried to kill poor Victor, pulling his own son in as he try to stab him but Victor was pushed off the ship as he was left to die from drowning and bleeding to death. However, Victor woke up as he has survived where a young teen boy by the name of Conrad 'Connie' Lech saved his life and helps him up to his feet. Meanwhile; Gwen occasionally gets lonely and nobody never comes to see her, she’s tired of spending her time crying over the loneliness. She is afraid possibly because her glory years with her childhood are gone. Every once in a while she gets a little terrified and it goes away when she sees the look in his eyes! She’s more emotional now than usual and needs love especially badly this night and holding on forever. One ordinary day; Gwen and her best friend, Sarah were laughing together when her cell phone rings. She picks it up and answers it. Gwen looked at the posters but then, she heard commotion as she saw Sarah walking into the street, still talking on her phone as a car is coming at her. "Oh shit!" Gwen thought. She rushed over as she then thought to herself: "No, get away!" Gwen called out her name, "SARAH!" She pushed her friend out of the way as the car was edging close to Gwen but stopped abruptly. People surround her as Gwen had blood matted her face and hair. Everything went black but before she passes out, Gwen could see a boy and another one watching her. Their faces look gloomy and sad. The girl has tears streaming down her face. "What...why are they looking at me that way?" She thought and then, the darkness enveloped her. She woke up, alive, was there when she heard voices in clouded area! "Oooh, she smells nice!" One of them said. "Come to us..." The second beckoned. The third laughed a little, "Poor girl, she's all alone. All alone.....Alone...." It taunted. Gwen covered her ears and ran off. "Get away from me, you monsters!" She shouted. Gwen was on the ground as she had to watch out what was happening. She cannot make a sound or any movement yet. She watched people from her corner from where she was! Waiting, waiting, and waiting. That's when she saw something that made her gasp in awe: It was that boy from the accident she suffered in! He ran over to the ghouls as he slayed them with his thin sword called a katana, cut them in half and then he was approached by a familiar boy besides the dark haired guy. That night; Gwen was asleep when someone crept into the room. Only she heard the intruder coming in and she meets is a young man in green clothing as he looked to be beautiful. "Who are you?" Wanda asked. "Just a mysterious boy, creeping in." The boy said. However, she remembered the boy from before and looked at the dark haired boy and then said, "I know who you are" The boy said to her, "Pleasure is mine, my name is Saruta. I have come to help the people in this town deal with the ghouls around here." He then offered his jacket as he said, "You don't have to be scared, we'll protect you." Gwen looked at the jacket as she said, "Oh, thanks?" The other boy, Connie, rolled his eyes and looked at Victor with a glare: "You're offering that stinky, sweaty thing again?" He snapped. Victor looked exasperated as put his jacket back on, and Connie was about to take off his jacket as he said: "Here, take this." Gwen accepts it gratefully where she bonds well the two boys but Victor wanted to take them both somewhere. "Tell me again, why are we here?" Gwen asked. She and her friends--Victor and Connie--had arrived at some sort of shop. "She should be right here." Victor said. Just then, someone came and hugged Victor: "VICK!!!!!" A girl squealed, hugging Victor. Victor smiled, "Hey there, cutie pie!" He said. "I missed you so much, I--Who is that?" The girl asked. Victor looke over at Gwen, "Ah, Moira. This is Gwen. Gwen? This is Moira." He said. Gwen waved, "Hi." She said shyly. Moira smiled, "Hello!" She said brightly. "Hansel! We got a newbie here!" There was this grouch like man who was pretty scary to look at! But overall, he was nice. Moira kept saying how Victor is teaching her but Hansel scoffs at this, "Oh please, Moira, she's much stronger than Victor." He remarked. Victor was shocked and his face turned white. "By the way, nice to meet you Gwen." Hansel added while he extended his hand. Gwen shook his hand, "Likewise, Hansel." She said.
Love is not the hardest thing in the world really, the problem is in his low self esteem. Self esteem is a part of everyday life. He is not the ideal male for girls, as he shows us. They search the night for someone to hold onto but he is not the one, he passes through, he is almost invisible, that’s why he is looking for a shot, a perfect situation that he might not get. Victor wants Connie to get his hands off his girl, for she should be his, but he lacks the confidence to maintain the would-be relationship, he cannot make it work, he cannot satisfy her needs and as she wanders off, he is left thinking whether he is the right one at all, whether he is only obsessed with her with no actual backup to it. The worst part is that he thinks that he cannot blame her for that, that he is a loser who does not deserve to have a girl like that. He is desperate, searching for a greater meaning that will ever lead to a happy ending, the special thing he deserves. While fighting against the monsters in the evening, Connie got hurt and he thought he was going to die. Connie could've sworn he was dreaming, he thought he would bleed to death until he woke up in a daze to see a dark haired girl dragging him. "Who are you?" He asked. The girl turned to him and said, "Just....Here to help...." Then, she reached over and picked him up. Connie couldn't help noticing how pretty she was. Her hair was black and long, her eyes were vivid blue and her skin so pale. "Who are you?" inquired Connie. The pretty girl glanced at him, "Klervia." She said. Then, Connie had a dream: He dreamt that he saw a girl half naked and wearing light puple underwear with lilac flowers printed on them and her hands on her head as her hair was piled on top. She turned her head sideways as she whispered, "Tell me I'm pretty." He woke up from the dream, blushing like crazy. Then, he was summoned into the study and waited for Klervia to come. While reading, he heard the door opened and looked up from the book he was reading. "My dear boy...Connie, was it?" A deep seductive voice left goosebumps down his arm. Connie turned his head to the door, lifting his eyes from the book in his lap. He always tried to look calm, but it was far from what he felt inside. The cozy fire next to him burned with the same passion he saw in the girl's eyes. She was deliciously beautiful. An angel in disguise. Her deep black hair whipped up at the one end and his cat-like eyes searched his for something he hadn't felt in a long time. "Yes..." He said in a voice was soft. The strange girl smirked gently and let go of the doorknob. She stepped inside and closed the door. Her black attire blended well with the mahogany wood of the study and Connie felt blush creep onto his cheeks. He walked towards her, holding his gaze like a snake would it's prey. Looking away; Connie tensed up and mentally thought of all the weapons he had hidden in the room. Then, Klervia walked around him. Suddenly her hands were on his shoulders. Connie jumped slightly. "Be still, my Connie...You are so very tense." She began to massage his shoulders, "Here, let me help...It is after all my duty to protect the boy I've been assigned to..." Suddenly her mouth was right next to his ear, and her voice was so full of unbridled passion that he found it hard to sit still, "In any way he desires..." Klervia is very secretive and cold one minute, then the next she is sneaky and flirtatious towards Connie, who is confused by her intentions and annoyed at her. Not knowing what she really is! One day, it all changed when Connie had enough of this stupid girl's tricks! It ends here. "I want you to leave. NOW." He demanded. Klervia picked up her towel and glared at him evily. Connie picked up her things laying on the floor and threw it at her with disgust. "Did you really think I was going to let a girl get to me?" He scoffed and folded his arms, "You don't know me very well then, do you?" Klervia was upset and answered in a nasty tone, "I knew you weren't a ray of sunshine, but damn... You really are a complete, heartless ingrante..." She opened the door and Connie waited for her to leave. He gave her one last glare. "You don't fool me Klervia. And you better keep your distance or I'll shorten you by a head." He warned. Klervia turned her eyes away and slammed the door as she left. He didn't play games, and no girl like her was going to get the better of him. Then, he could feel his childhood fears suppressed and they were coming back to haunt him until a ghoul came in and was stronger than Connie. Before he almost died, he was suddenly saved when the ghoul was taken down--It was none other than Klervia! She came back! "Sorry, I couldn't stay away for good." She replied, she made her away towards him and was close to him. Shocked; Connie felt the heat travel to all the parts in his body as she got closer and closer. He haven't been like this with anyone for along time.After a few minutes of an embrace and an apology, Klervia pulls away. Connie felt uneasy again. "Klervia, I want you to know..." She lifted her head to gaze into his eyes, "I don't want any complications between us..." He said. Klervia lifted her eyebrow and he could see the confusion on her face. "What do you mean, Connie?" Klervia's frown deepened. "Well wasn't that what you had in mind as well?" Connie asked, confused by her reaction. "Not at all." Klervia said squeezing his hand tightly, "I wanted you. I always wanted to protected you. I heard about the famous boy and I wanted to meet him. So badly, and when I did, I think I might have lost my sanity to lose him..." Connie stared at her, shocked at her confession. "I want you to be something special, but nothing like me." said Klervia. Connie smiled softly and touched her cheek gently, "I'm not sure I can give you that..." He said. Klervia smiled with determination, "Well, then I'll just have to show you how amazing your life would be with me by your side...." She said. He knew the attraction was there and he knew he wanted it, wanted her. Then, things went black as he woke up and heard voices. That's when someone came into the room, Connie felt a gasp escape his lips. Klervia was gorgeous, but looked lethal and serious as she held a gun at him reluctantly. "Are you going to try and kill me?" He asked, his voice like a melody. Klervia shook her head, so Connie relaxed, but not completely. "What are you doing here?" Klervia asked fiercely. "Um...Well, I...." Connie stuttered. Klervia was annoyed and snapped at him, "Ugh, Nevermind..." Connie felt insulted, "Excuse me?" He spoke, he sounds snippy. His smile turned to a frown and he stepped right into your face. "Who the hell do you think you are? I deserve some respect." Klervia glared at him in front of you and pushed him aside. "Show me some respect before I cut your tongue out!" She remarked. Connie only stared and frowned. She thought of just leaving him here and pretend like you never found him. But that meant he might die and she don't know why that frightened her so Connie smiled then, cockily. "Oh, I see...These tricks. Your here to make my surrender easier, am I right?" He said winking. Klervia scoffed at his ridiculousness attempt at swooning. Although she couldn't help but notice how skinny and fragile he was under that crisp white shirt. "I am no such thing...Frankly, I'm here to kill you..." She said. Connie smiled again, this time intrigued. "What on earth is such a beautiful woman such as yourself doing on a mangy building? I could help you know?" He said. Klervia scoffed again. "No really..." He said. Connie dropped the act. His face clear of any lies, he was genuinely concerned and interested. Klervia's heart swell from joy. "I don't think you can..." She slowly swept her legs and it was passed right through. Connie's eyes grew wider by the second. His mouth agape and his expression horrified. It took him some time to come to his senses. She knew it wouldn't last. She felt tears in her eyes and looked away, she couldn't do it! He then comforted her and says he doesn't care what she is and claims that she is his friend. "I won't let that happen. I promise. " Connie said, his voice full of reassurance. Klervia embraced him and couldn't stop saying, "Sorry!" over and over. Suddenly, the dark room was surrounded in a bright light and as Connie opened his eyes once again, he came face to face with a breath-takingly beautiful and completely naked young woman...Well, she was wrapped in a towel but still. "Hello Connie, are you feeling any better?" asked Klervia. "Um, yeah." replied Connie, blushing. He begin to sniff the air, "What's that aroma?" He asked. "Do you like it? It's tea tree oil. Nice smell isn't it?" Klervia said with a smile. "Yeah, it smells good." Connie said, trying not to let her see him blush but it was dark except for that light tinted in the background. Klervia went to get dress in her own room and came back to tell him of a mission. They both were hunting ghouls until Klervia grabbed Connie, he leaned over and whispered in his ear: "Can you do me a favor?" Connie nodded, "Yeah, what is it?" He replied. "Put your arms around me and hold on." Klervia commanded softly. Hearing this, He wrapped his arms around her waist, then whispered to Connie as she embraced him tightly while resting her chin on his neck: "Whatever happens, don't open your eyes." Pulling out a gun, she said: "On three....One.........Two.....Two in a half.....Two and three quarters...." It was an eerie silence until she screamed, "THREE!!!!!" BOOM! They were thrown forwards while they crash safely to the ground. Once he opened his eyes; Connie was horrified to see what was there. There was fire combustion and smoke everywhere! "Damn, you're good." Connie whispered. Klervia smile, "Thank you." She replied. Connie managed to return to Victor and Gwen but doesn't know about the girl he has a crush on as he fanatize about her: Connie is a young teen boy is inexperienced and naive. Klervia doesn’t want to know his age because if he is under 18 then she could get in trouble for loving him. Connie interested in Klervia and wants to get closer to her. He wants to know if she’s back from work, because her mom is the only reason he wants to go round. He wants to know if Klervia is trying to push him away. He is so in love with her he thinks everything she does and says is towards him or trying to seduce him. Klervia is the only thing he’s interested in. Because a relationship between them is probably unlikely to develop, that would be why he’s waited for so long. Connie understates his love for Klervia, he doesn’t reveal his true love for her, which is shown by his desire to get her into bed. Klervia is so infatuated so all she wants is just to finally have a romantic night with Connie— she doesn’t care if people judge them because she wants to do it her way. She loves him and offers to take him to figurative heaven in a hotel room forty stories high. Klervia sees herself as being normal, yet she cannot believe that she managed to get such an amazing person to be with her. Connie’s persona wants to carry on having relations with his new special someone yet doing the two together are impossible. He wants to have the fun of playing around and he wants to be in an exclusive relationship. He knows that having the two is impossible so he must choose what he really wants. His persona knows that he perhaps that he does not look the best at times. This life has led to her looks being drained prematurely due to its stresses. He doesn’t care about all the abuse he gets for the things he does. He is a young teen having an affair with Klervia— which is probably grounds for some people to judge him. Yet since he’s coming up against such a problem, he can’t show any weakness otherwise people will take advantage of him. People are skeptical of Connie’s love because he is so young they think that surely he cannot experience love. He is convinced with his feelings. Despite the fact that their ages are so different. In life, he seeks only happiness, and he does not see the problem of his being happy — even if it is with a pretty young lady. For Klervia, she gets what men want in their women, and she’s going to take advantage of this. Klervia has grown out of playing and doing things such as playing jump rope. Klervia flaunts her beauty. She makes all men lust after her wherever she goes. Klervia has finally found that special someone who fulfils her and who has made her stop roaming the streets for work. She came across Connie as she smiled while whispering in his ear, "Hey there, handsome. How soon are you gonna grow up, so I can ravage you?" Connie woke up, sweating as he managed to calm his nerves as well as raging hormones.

West Journey Tempest: Volume 2--Chapter 4

Hello everyone! This is Katherine Donovan again and I have the fourth chapter in store for all of you guys. Monica comes across an intense, passionate character and some interesting people. And it looks like Monica is getting involved in this passionate character who is a young teen boy as things are about to change for good. Also, Monica comes faced to face with some personal demons. Can she make it out alive? Find out! Enjoy! --KatDon

Chapter 4: Fruitful Jeweled Heart

Long ago in the East, there was a young pubescent boy name Timias Geir who left his family's work shop where he'd work as a mechanic there. He noticed a boy with a small object, Timias asked if he may look at it and promise to take it in to fix it which the boy agrees to. Timias heard that his best friend, Vaughan Rother, got fired from his job so he and Vaughan's crush Perdita Leif decided to go visit him. Vaughan was looking at a boulder with symbols on it as it shook until Vaughan threw it up in the air and it exploded in the sky. Timias and Perdita were surprised to see this, Timias asked what would happened if it didn't blew up in the sky. Vaughan expressed his desire to see bastards blow up with the boulder that roam this world, he is asked about how he cannot stay at a job for one second however Vaughan hates how some people who have great wealth treats those with poverty like they are nothing! The three friends suddenly come across an old friend of theirs, his name was Hammond as Vaughan reveals that he wants to join the Crimson Arrow Legion however the others were shocked and said that many people die from being outside. Vaughan didn't care because he hates the same old things that go around here and wants a change. It wasn't until a revolution broke out as Vaughan and his friends escaped but Perdita broke away from the crowd when she heard an infant cry. Vaughan tried to get her back but was pushed back into the crowd where he was dragged in while hearing a gun shot and a girl's scream! Vaughan whirled around, "PERDITA!!!!!!!" He cried. Years later as a young man; Vaughan and Timias are willing to join the Crimson Arrow Legion until they heard about a 'goddess' will be joining them too. That 'goddess' is none other than Perdita. While she played the piano; Perdita unknowningly entices Vaughan. Vaughan is happy that Perdita is alive until he is horrified to discover that she was branded on the side near her hip almost! And the infant she was protecting was killed by the revolution soldiers so she broke down and killed the soldiers as she now has a different look in her eyes. She is the same girl Vaughan loves but she hates being touched as she is stoic than she was before. Among the trio of friends; Vaughan, Perdita, and Timias have things amongst themselves. For Vaughan, he is not the prey, he is the hunter. The countless soldiers that died fighting the manannggals, the names of the soldiers that have been sent out to fight the manannggals are often unknown, they are like flowers that are carelessly stepped on. The East is on its last legs and in dire need of some divine intervention. They need something to lift their spirits, if they just sit around wishing for something good to happen, there will be no effect. Vaughan has the motivation to fight, he and the other soldiers have to deal with people who laugh at others who move forward despite all the trials and tribulations. They’re like livestock, sitting there waiting for the next attack. They don’t fight back. These people are okay with that. They’re just complacent. These people think that they’re prospering inside the walls, protected by them while they have the freedom to fight back and they should starve from the lack of false security. The horror and humiliation of the human race being trapped within the walls while the manannggals hunt outside around the rest of the world is what motivates Vaughan to fight. He desires freedom. Vaughan is consumed with surging bloodlust, his rage is burning with an overflowing urge to kill, that will pierce the darkness of the manannggals' oppression! The bowstring pulled until it is about to snap as endless volleys continued, until the target drops dead. To describe Vaughan; he's 178 cm tall, he weighs 63 kg, and his dark brown hair is layer upon layer. But is parted from his face as it looks neater. Vaughan is sick of rotating in the same life day after day and wants his soul to fly free—even if that involves becoming broken. The tragedy that haunts is all he knows as he has nothing to make him feel alive. If he could change it, then maybe he would feel more lively. He wants his prison to not only be shattered, but erased, so he can forget about it as he reconnects with the world. On one hand, he wants freedom. On the other, he wants to stay safe. He might be unhappy inside the glass, but at least he knows he’ll be okay. If he escapes, he might die outside and continue being miserable. Vaughan is afraid of changing his ways, so he’s frozen, unable to do anything and he wants to let him free while he feels like a trapped person, and he’d like to escape. He is becoming free from he's fear and free to create. Then he remembered the words from his commanding officer echoing in his ear: "Do you feel like you aren’t enough on your own to accomplish anything? Don't be afraid to take risks, sometimes in life you don’t feel great. You lack confidence and self esteem. Quit your inner shyness and say what has to be said, and do what has to be done. Get up and make a scene, just be big and live life. You learn an build upon failures to grow as a person. You’re always more than you think." He took those words to heart. As a young lady; Perdita possesses a mysterious yet innocent look, she has black hair and the style is in a bob with no bangs. She's 168 cm tall and she weighs 42 kg. In her own view; Perdita feels like she is infected with the people around her and the setting she is in, she wants to leave and live without all of the disruption. Perdita is empty inside as she wants to be like people in reality. She feels like there is no support from family or friends in her time of need, she wants somebody to help and go through a troubling time in her life. When crying or in a state of anxiety, most people feel like they’re unable to breathe properly which is what she's going through right now. People will say that the state she’s in now will blow over shortly, but to her it’s more than that. She’s allowed to ask for help, she then recalled what her master once told her: "No matter what mistakes people do you got to remember that we are only humans and are not perfect." She knows that however she is traumatized by the branding on her skin and how she hates being touched by others around the area at her side. And there was Timias, fragile yet intelligent Timias. He has medium length, short brown hair and green eyes. He is usually wearing a coat possibly based on a naval commander's uniform with brass buttons at the sleeves, torso, and collar. His height is 161 cm and his weight is 53 kg. Timias acknowledges his mistakes more than anyone else would. Neither could a thief though he made a much better prince! Sick of living life without the feeling of a deeper purpose, the person he cares about brings him out of the depth of the hallows. He’s not the weakling that he spiraled into for a while. The one he cares about is the reminder of the man he is without his bravery. Even after what they have been through together, he still has feelings for her. He has told her before that he loves her, and still even after everything he still does. with all of the mistakes he has mad, he can’t be considered a wise man. He has no excuses for his mistakes which is why he couldn’t cut it as a poor man stealing. Timias is the one that’s been doing her wrong. It’s his fault, he has made a bad mistake of what he done he should stick by living what people have told him. For he might be on the right track. Since all that has been going on, Vaughan is given the assignment to the West and that's where he went! In the meantime; Monica and her friends are basking in the glory of their first achieved victory. So it can give them enough energy to win the next battle. But she won’t let anybody speak as if her friends death was for nothing. As long as she’s still standing to fight back. No matter how impossible the enemy they face may seem. They will find a way to fight them. However, Monica and the other four girls cannot forget the loss for the people they care about. It was so excruciating that Monica takes a vacation alone. Arriving at the same time of their holiday; Monica and Vaughan noticing each other before they go in their neighboring rooms. Then, they are shown thinking about each other with a dream of Monica walking towards the door to Vaughan's room. The next thing she knew, Monica in the boat, she buys an egg and the woman serving in the shop turns into a sheep, and the next minute they are rowing in a rowing boat somewhere. Vaughan follows the girl to a bridge near a fountain. Nearby there are rocking people eating pies. She wants to remove all past bad things in the relationship that she was in, she’s going to burying it to start over. She wants to know that she can start over, and she wants help to do so. Monica is going to bury hurtful memories of the girl he loves so they can leave the past behind and move on. The whole dreaming experience is summed up in colorless nightmares in her mind. She doesn't know why she feels this way, she wonders if she ever dreamt in a place like this. as it is so vivid that it comes again into her mind. Has she found her destination? She awakes from her dream and is horrified by what she saw. Monica doesn’t want to fall asleep again, because she fears the dream will continue. She’s seeing the nightmares again and is horrified. After one nightmare, another starts again. She doesn’t want the dream to continue, but she cannot wake up either. Monica actually now wants the dreams to happen again, because she is interested in what she sees, knowing that there might be some truth in them. She’d like to get another one of those dreams to see beyond what she knows about what is to come. Monica tries to convince us that her dreams probably predict the true future, even though she’s not a spiritual man herself and doesn’t usually these kind of things. Monica wants to see into the future again, but doesn’t want to experience the horrifying dreams ever again; she is convinced that there’s got to be an afterlife and doesn’t know if anyone has a purpose. She is lost in a dream of mirrors paradox! Monica holds Vaughan's hands against her sides of his waist while Vaughan drapes his hands on Monica's shoulders. Then, they sway back and forth with the music. Their foot movement is minimal, but the pair use their feet to slowly turn on the spot slowly as they still sway to the music. Monica and Vaughan enveloped in a dream sequence passion with one another due to their dark pasts. In order to assert her control over Vaughan, she’s bewitch him so he won’t hurt himself in his suffering. Monica could see that Vaughan has murderous eyes, which is a bit of a problem since he is angry yet different from all the rest. Despite this, she still looks to stay with him. No matter what, Monica loves Vaughan even when he's doing things she doesn’t like. Vaughan fixates on Monica, as if she had enchant him, while she grapples with the new world that she entered. His behavior is a double-edged sword because while it guarantees him rage, it also guarantees that many enemies only want him for battles and the privilege of being an opponent to him. With this girl, Vaughan knows he has something different towards Monica. Although there is something special about this girl, Vaughan knows that even if their love was real it would not work out, people lie when they’re in love, or at least act like they have something to hide. Vaughan’s relationship with Monica is understood enough to where there’s no need to lie. It’s a lonely night, and when it’s a lonely night, what do you want? Somebody special. Vaughan and Monica were convinced that there wouldn’t be any real love between them. They are both in an argument and Monica is starting to look for a compromise. He left for a while, and now that he’s returned she wonders what pushed him to come back. In their dreams they aren’t hiding like they are outside of them. Though Monica may feel crazy in love, it’s not so crazy to be both the cure and the pain—It only makes Monica want more. Even though she’s afraid of him, she can’t help but love him. Her adoration trumps every emotion he could possibly instill in her. She wants her lover to see the distances she’ll go for him. Monica sometimes passes out momentarily after particularly intense spasms of each dream experience with Vaughan. Monica does let Vaughan set the pace, but it’s less romantic than it sounds here. However, Monica agrees to their play because she loves Vaughan, not because she wants to. The way Vaughan loves and touches Monica is particular. Regardless of Monica’s past and her fears towards Vaughan to take the chance with him of love. She wanted to tell Vaughan how she truly feels about him. Throughout the beginning of Vaughan and Monica’s relationship Monica doesn’t let Vaughan touch her or completely express herself to him but he continues to ask him for it. She wants to take a chance on him. With his help, Monica can make it through her past struggles and she will be okay again. She wakes up at night sweaty and her head is pounding. only he can truly satisfy her like no one else can. He isn’t like any other guy that she has been with. He’s different. He’s on fire. The way Monica acts towards him makes him feel in a certain way, and he believes that the effect that she has on him is witchcraft. She has him to the brink. There is no use fighting the passion he has for her. Monica is tempting Vaughan to be unfaithful through her seductive ways, she makes no attempt to hide what she wants and he knows this but a part of him loves it so he wouldn’t switch it for anything. Vaughan basically makes her do stuff she never imagine doing with anyone besides him. She is consumed by his sallow heart. It’s enough to make her want to stay. She feels that she is losing herself. No one cares and she feels lifeless, feels as if everything is closing in on her. She doesn’t pay any mind to it, though. She doesn’t care what happens next. She wants to know why he didn’t care about her for so long, but now that it’s the last night together he’s giving her all the love he can. When all the pain was taken from her, Monica felt like a lifeless soul. If they only had one more night to spend with each other, they would make sure to be more passionate and care for each other because it’s their last time ever seeing each other again. They would love like no other. But for Vaughan, he wants to love on her for one last night. Though Monica’s kept an air of mystery to Vaughan about her past, pains from the previous events have never been too discreet. Also, Vaughan's resistance to love in terms of affection. But when it comes to loving, Monica is the first person that comes to his mind. Extreme passion comes from being with one another, and when he’s inside of her it’s as if he’s on fire, burning with lust. He’s the only one that controls her and it allows him to do whatever he wants to her, which is where she belongs. He’s told her countless times that she belongs to him. He wants full control over her; she is his and only his. Even when Vaughan is away, he can’t get his mind off of Monica. Yet, despite the experiences Monica has shared with him, she easily forgets who loves her, and who controls her. Monica believes that Vaughan has love deep inside of his heart but he’s afraid to show it. She’s afraid that he’ll leave one day. Monica was innocent before meeting and falling in love with Vaughan. She wants to be in his life and change it to the better life. But Vaughan does not want her to recall her dark past and think about a different future, because she has many things to work out so it’d be easier and better without them. Monica is losing faith in her relationship as she lost her patience on how this relationship would work! Monica has faith in Vaughan and believes blindly that he can love her, if she’s patient enough. Vaughan lives in pain and is dragging Monica with him into the pain and darkness, and she sees that he isn’t trying to get better, but his on his way to a darker and even more painful place. Despite Vaughan’s attempts to try and push Monica away, she still believes that he truly wants to stay and be with her. When she’s with him, chemicals flow in her blood, so she knows that she loves and belongs to him. Monica knows how her feels towards Vaughan, she influenced by the depth of perspective and has immersed him in the appeal. Monica even how much wanted to tuch him and feel Vaughan, he wont let her do this. And because of that Monica is curious about why and it’s getting a bigger mystry time by time. She want him and she imagine him since she met with him. She tries to get him to stay with her by calling him. She’s obsessed. She has too much pride to actually just out and say how she feels. But it’s coming out regardless! Monica deeply begins him to not to live her alone. She couldn’t say it out loud , she’s in a fear that he may live her for good if she tells it to him. Vaughan had never been to explain himself and Monica had no idea about what she feel and what she wants from him. He has scars and wounds on his soul. And Monica had a love but extereamly painful and different. People ask her who he is that’s got her going so crazy in love. The way she’s dressed casually, not really trying hard. She gets butterflies with him and she doesn’t understand what exactly he’s doing differently to make her feel this way about him. Just because he created something in her that she didn’t even know could exist. It’s more about passionate love. Vaughan’s love was so passionate and this is making Monica so crazy, it makes her feel like living the life from the top of the world. Monica doesn’t understand how he makes her go crazy when she never been this crazy about anyone else. She feels the air when he touchs her. Though it felt real, it was all in the state of dreaming so it couldn't be physical. Vaughan asked what was the real reason for this and Monica expressed that she wants to help herself with anger and trauma she had been feeling, Vaughan thought about Perdita and agreed as they hope the two could meet again in person. They both return to their homelands where things looked normal to them when one day, Vaughan was working with Perdita alone as they both took a break. Then, a song with taiko drums and a piano melody was playing. Vaughan knew what to do as he walked over to Perdita and held his hand. Perdita looked at him as she reluctantly takes it and rose up. Vaughan holds Perdita's hands against his sides of her waist while Perdita drapes her hands on Vaughan's shoulders. Then, they sway back and forth with the music. Their foot movement is minimal, but the pair use their feet to slowly turn on the spot slowly as they still sway to the music. Monica watched this in her mind and then she smiled while sleeping in her bed. The next morning, Monica encounters Colt as she asked him what he was doing around here and Colt tells her he is looking for someone special. However after Colt left, he is tracked down and kidnapped but he is interrogated about Megan so then, he tells the story of when he was a boy as how he and Megan met:

Colt went to the doctor's place but then he was witnessing the doctor creating something special. There was lights and buzzes. "What is going on? What are they doing?" The young boy wondered but what he saw, he could not believe it, it was a beautiful girl with long reddish auburn hair and she wore white. "Who is that girl?" He wondered. One day while making jack o lanterns; there is a knock at the door. Colt wondered who could that be and went to go answer it. It is a girl who lives in another building. She is briefly overcome with faintness, and Colt helps her to a chair and offers her a glass of water. She thanks him. After a few minutes, she says that she is better and must go. But as she turns to leave, she realizes that she has lost her key. Her lantern goes out in the draught and Colt's lantern goes out too; the pair stumble in the dark. Colt, eager to spend time with the girl, to whom he is already attracted, finds the key and pockets it, feigning innocence. He takes her cold hand, then he spoke in a language that he hadn't spoke at all but only his mentor did. What came out of his mouth was unforgettable, "Che gelida manina!" Megan looked at him, "What did you say?" She asked. Colt was surprised, "Sorry, it means 'what a cold little hand'." He explained. Megan was amused, "I didn't know you could talk that language." She said. Colt was red faced, "Neither did I. I used to live with someone who taught me language. I'll stop if you want." He said. Megan laughed, "No. I think it's wonderful. I always wanted to learn a new language but my father is overprotective of me." She said. They begin talking and getting to know each other, where Colt tells her of his life as a pumpkin grower which he claims to be 'The Great Pumpkin Boy', then asks her to tell him more about her life. The girl says her name is Megan, and describes her simple life as the isolated daughter of Dr. Ferrand Seymour. As she was talking, Colt turns to see Megan bathed in moonlight and stopped himself but he thought, "Soave fanciulla." which meant 'Lovely girl'. It seems that Colt and Megan realize that they have fallen in love. And Colt promised to help Megan not be isolated within her home by her father as he never goes back on a promise. As Megan managed to arrive at the gathering of Colt's ceremonial anniversary of the Jack o lanterns; he hands her a small gift as she comes to sit beside him while the mayor preaches the history of Colt's bravery against his role as the Jack o' Lantern guardian: "Colt was on his way to his destination, carrying a flail on his shoulder, for he had corn there, when whom should he meet but his old friend. After conversing for some time they began to quarrel, and presently were in the midst of a terrible fight. Colt fell to basting the devils with his flail, until the bag containing the two little ones went all to pieces, and the two tumbling out, fled for their lives to a village which is considered to this day a very wicked place from this fact. Eventually, however, they met, and this time Colt had his gun on his shoulder. After a lapse of time, Colt met him again in the guise of a gentleman, but the Welshman knew it was the tempter. This time he made a bargain for which he was ever afterwards sorry, as he sold himself to the devil for a sum down, but with the understanding that whenever he could cling to something the devil should not then control him. One day when Colt was busily gardening, the evil one snatched him away into the air without warning, and Colt was about giving up all hopes of again returning to earth, when he thought to himself, and laid hold of the apple tree, and hung on. The devil had to leave him there. But the reprobate was now the personification of the jack o' lantern." During the speech, an annoyed Colt wasn't listening as Megan looked at him worried. "Are you OK, Colt?" She whispered. "I'm leaving soon once this over." muttered Colt to Megan only. Megan looked at him with surprised, "You can't!" She said in a low voice, "This is your anniversary for the jack o' lanterns." Colt said quietly, "I'm sick and tired of this every single year and I could less about this shit." Megan looked at him and finally once it was all over; Colt walked off while Megan followed him. She watched him as she ask him for why he is tired of this. Colt was silent for a moment before he answered while he said: "There’s nothing wrong with him because of this. I will do what I want, because I am my own person! I don't trust many people, I'm going to do what I want and don’t care. I absolutely destroy shows! Melting faces, blowing heads up, and it’s all in the life of a slayer against the monsters. I didn't care for much for this place; I didn’t deal with the typical life that occurred, and was more concerned with other things, which for him was one normally filled with vices. Life moves so fast, and we as humans tend to act on what we feel at the moment and what we think is right even though it isn’t. We live in the moment a lot, and sometimes the moment moves to fast. Good times tend to go away suddenly and sometimes the good times do not feel like they lasted long enough." But he stopped and speaks out that made Megan emphasizes him: "I would stare out the window and think of my impending future that was coming too fast for me to handle. I didn’t know what it would hold, and just prayed that it would be. I to tell people how I felt but couldn’t so I kept it all inside. Nobody knew how unhappy I was. I just feel out of place and just wished I could find somewhere I belong....I yearn for a place of opportunity and anonymity — the opposite of the small-town existence I'm known to." Colt said. "I will escape the world and learn how to fly, doing whatever it takes to escape this place, "By saying that I'm going to spread her wings is best meant to mean that I'm coming out of my shell to be with the rest of the people. Now with spreading my wings I'm going to become a part of the community, to finally interact with the rest of the world. Instead of being all locked up, now my sores up high with no fear, because of my spread wings. Although what is I'm taking the risk for, to say goodbye to someone that I will possibly not see again. That’s why I feel the need to tame the risk. Away from all this that makes me feel worthless and into a better place, but I won’t forget everyone I love and will always love them." Megan looked at him with a sad expression, "Colt..." She said. Colt turned away with a sigh, "I know, it sounds stupid." He said. Megan shook her head and took his hand in hers as she said, "No, that's not it at all. I--I know how you feel." Colt turned back at her with surprise, Megan smiled. Just then, they were both interrupted by voices--Unfamiliar voices as Megan look and see who it is from afar. "How much further?" A girl's voice asked in a whiny tone. Then, there was a boy's voice: "Relax, we're almost there." Megan saw the figures walking away, Colt approach her and asked, "What did you see?" Megan wasn't sure as she said, "Something curious...." So she followed the figures through the leaves and Colt followed her. Megan almost fell off the cliff but Colt caught her safely in his arms and never let go of her. "I'm not going to let anything happen to you, Megan." He told her. They locked eyes before Megan and Colt managed to break apart, blushing so they decide to walk into the world of strange and find those figures. After listening to the story; Artha was surprised to hear this before she smiled at him. "You love her don't you?" asked Artha. Colt nodded with a shrug, "You could say that." He replied. Watching from the cameras; a figure gritted her teeth: "Recruit him, recruit him. RECRUIT HIM!!!!" Colt notices Artha's face was trying to not crack and he asked with a weary expression, "You're not gonna go crazy again, are you?" Artha shook her head, "No, look at me. Do I look like I'm crazy?" She said but her eye twitched and Colt sighed, he knew where this was going as Artha burst out in hysterics: "LOVE! IT'S SO EXHILIRATING!!! SO PASSIONATE!!!! FULL OF LIFE!!!! OHHHHH, I HAVEN'T SEE SUCH BEAUTY LIKE THIS SINCE HIGH SCHOOL....It was during the first time I was rediscovering myself but that's another story.....AHHHH, SHE MUST BE SO IMPORTANT TO YOU, ISN'T SHE?! If that's not bad enough, she's in trouble with you as her beck and call protector." Boy were things going to be complicated. Speaking of complicated; Monica was driving on an errand and stopped for a bit to get gas however she nearly lost control of her car. That's when she stopped and saw her tires slashed. So she decided to stay somewhere and found a sign that read "STAY THE NIGHT AT GRANIA'S MANOR". Monica went up to the manor and knocked on the door, "Who's there?" Monica heard a woman call out. "I mean no harm really," Monica answered. "Sorry to be a bother. My name is Monica. Sorry I never mentioned it before. I guess I will take a room for the night, if the offer's still good." She looked a little concern. "Oh, of course it is, dear," said Grania, answering the door and turning the lights on. "Monica. Oh, that's such a pretty name, honey. Well. Let's get you situated. You put your name and arrival time in the book there and I'll get you a key. All the boarding rooms are on the second floor, and there's only a couple left." Monica was shocked to hear this, "There are others here?" She asked. This was surprising. Not a single car had been in the front lawn when she pulled in. "Oh, yes, Miss Monica." Grania was puttering around in the adjacent room. "There's a few of us here." She came back out with a key in her hand. "Just out of curiosity, what made you come here anyway?" She seemed to brighten as she asked the question, as though relieved that Monica would stay after all. "Oh, it's probably just local kids getting kicks," she said. "But I found my vehicle's tires slashed." Grania stopped suddenly, her face twisted with concern and worry. Then she resumed, as though nothing was wrong. "Nothing to be done for it, I suppose," she said, with a look of sadness. Monica relaxed for a bit when she decided to maybe finds something to eat around here. However while outside of her room, she saw a figure in black detached itself from the shadows of the trees and made its way to her car. Monica jumped up and ran at the window. The figure was tall, and seemed to be wearing a cloak made of night. She saw as its arm extended. In its hand was a long, jagged dagger. It dragged the dagger across the side of her, leaving a long gash-mark in the paint of the wall. "Hey!" she shouted. The figure kept dragging the dagger. She reached for the window to open it. It wouldn't budge! She looked for a lock, but couldn't see one. "Hey!" she yelled again. This time the figure raised its head. She could see the glint of two eyes under the hood. The figure raised the dagger, slowly, determinedly. It pointed it straight at her face. She leaped away from the window and ran for the door. A noise on the other side stopped her. Footsteps. Dragging, shambling footsteps. And crying. The sound of a person for whom deep, longing sadness is a way of life. She waited. Somehow, she just felt that she should let the old man pass before she opened the door. Before he got very far, however, she heard other footsteps, these much quicker and lighter, run up the stairs and stop near the door of her room. She opened it as she saw someone with a sharp object and chased Monica, who ran off in fear until she reached a dead end. But found a door and went through it as the piercing object cut through the door. Monica gasped. "Stop it!" hissed Grania. "Go back in your room right now! You know better. Never run around with sharp objects that way to a young lady. Now you go back in there. You've got no business being out at this hour anyway."

Monica was surprised and headed back to her room. While looking around; Monica discovers a horrible chamber of 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. The female victims into the chaotic storms, where they swirl into the madness. Girls are seen lying the mud while filth 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 lashed with whips, forced to lie in a river of filth, are hung upside down while their feet are burning, forced to walk backwards blindfolded. From being awake to dreaming, at the core, which is a memory lost but it still exists elsewhere in the center of the subconscious. Monica is stuck in a dull routine, seeing the same old people and doing the same old things over and over again. Each day, everyone wakes up early to get a head start in the rat race, competing for money or power, but because everyone is stuck in the system, no one really gets ahead. Although everyone feels like Monica, sad and unfulfilled, they hold it back so that their sadness doesn’t show. Since everyone is going through life on automatic, trying hard not to think or show how sad they are, everyone thinks everyone else is fine. She wants to put her head down and pretend that there’s no tomorrow, since each day is the same as the last. Thinking about how the unfulfilling cycle will continue is too much to bear, and makes her want to drink until she forgets. The world is so mad that dying actually sounds like a good idea to and Monica must find her only escape. During her visit, Monica bears to witness the shocking depravities of the human mind as well as monstrous abnormalities of the physical body. Tragically incurable, these tortured souls spend their vile existence plauged by a nightmarish reality that mercifully eludes those who cling to their sanity. And she comes across some strange people as she meets a man and what was left of him: The lower half of his face was a ruin of bone fragments, shredded muscle and blood. So much blood. His left side was similarly destroyed. His arm hung on a few hanging strings of muscle, his hip was just as much a mess of bone and blood as his face was. He kept his one good hand on the bannister as he shuffled toward her. Behind him stood a young woman with stomach was cut open, and looking out of the wound with mangled remains of what was left of her. Monica could hear haunted singing and she was attacked by the demented Grania! It turns out that the one who chased her was Grania's son name Calvin and this whole manor was nothing more than a torturing madhouse. Monica ran away as she sets the whole manor on fire as she burnt all the deformed and sadistic residents alive! Grania managed to escape as Monica ran from her. The whole house was falling apart right before Monica's eyes as debris was piled on everywhere! Just before she escaped; Grania emerged from the rubble as she cried out, "No, please! Don't leave me here!" With all of her might; Monica kicked Grania in the head, her neck snapped and her lifeless body fell in the rubble however Monica pulled herself away as she got to safer ground, back to her friends in the West. In a rehab facility; Karina was in her room, watching a movie with an emotionless expression, 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 Karina. She's the daughter of the politician." said the second. "Why would she try to kill herself?" asked the first. "She claimed that she saw something inhuman as it was her father. She said her father is responsible for the manannggals." answered the second. "Are you serious?" the first was surprised. "I'm dead serious. I wonder if this is going to be a turning point for her." replied the second. Hours later; Karina 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. Earlier in that time of the more weeks went by as Karina begin to see less and less of her dad, so she went to see him but what she found disturbed her: There they were, humans who have become manannggals. All of them had abnormal body shapes, claw hands, and looked more violent. "What?" whispered Karina, she couldn't believe it. "Magnificent isn't it?" A voice said. Karina gasped as he turned around and saw her father, Atlas, 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 Karina. "What did you do to them?" "Isn't this wonderful? 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! Karina is terrified as her father looked at her and took a step towards her. Karina 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 want to make you someone more powerful in all of the world." Karina was scared but she try to destroy his 'work'. Atlas tried to stop his daughter however Karina claims she doesn't want to be 'different'. She rushes out but heard the sound of her father calling out to her, "Kaaareeeeeenaaaaaa." Karina 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 Atlas had a sickle in his hand and was laughing like mad.

"Kaaareeeeeenaaaaaa!!!!!!!" He said, swaying side to side like crazy. With all her strength; Karina breaks down the door and runs however she couldn't go back to her father. For the time being; Axel and Jude are sent on a mission, where a girl with dark hair, blue-green eyes, pale ski-- and dark circles under her eyes--is seen cornered by a boy and his gang but she talks that led them into a fight. Axel remembers this troubled girl--It is Karina, the daughter of Atlas! During the fight; The girl escapes from the boys while Axel cries out: "THEY'LL CATCH YOU!" Karina responds back, "NO! NO! NEVER!" but she is shocked that she can hear that cry and nobody else can. Jude is shocked at this as he yells at her in disbelief: "She can hear you? She can...YOU CAN HEAR HIM, CAN'T YOU?!" But Karina runs away until she was out of breath as she tries to sooth herself with lies such as that those voices are part of her imagination. Karina is seen walking down a path as she enters underneath the bridge but she is stalked by Axel and Jude, who try to interrogate her: "Karina, I know you can hear me....Your father is responsible for those monsters.....Don't you dare try to walk away from this and treat this incident like it was nothing. Because I know it meant a lot to both of us and I don't want you to act any differently." He says. Karina ignores this as she says to herself, "I am just hearing things." Jude was next to speak up, "You're a liar Karina...You lie so much that they become the truth and you don't seem to tell the truth always. You think you can give up on trying because of all this. Do you really have everything you want? You can’t give love to anyone else because your heart is cold. Like ice." He said. Karina placed her hands over her ears and begin humming but Axel speaks out: "You may think other people are the main source of all your problems but you're the really the problem and you can’t runaway from yourself like you feel like you could do from everyone. You happy now that you're living the life without anyone to love you? You know you're not doing well as you say you are." However Karina does not reply as she claims that she's hearing things. Axel cries out, "PSYCHO!!!!" Karina screams and gasps to see that nobody is there until she hears faint snickering. Karina comforts herself but she feels stalked as she starts to hear footsteps so she takes off running again until she feels the feet are behind her too. Karina is so scared and begs for mercy however she trips and tumbles down a hill while she weeps bitterly yet silently. Karina begs for help but she hears nothing and cries harder but she hears someone singing softly to a lullaby. Eventually; Karina starts to calm down as she starts to trust the fainting footsteps. After a while of silence; Karina is talking aloud for Axel and Jude to hear, "My life was overwhelming and against odds, all the pain that I have been through, and the sufferings that I had encountered. The weight bears on me." Then; her moods change, she's becoming quite hungry and eats something she never had before as she feels nausea. The next day; Karina notices that something is terribly wrong and begs for help as Axel and Jude came to her aid. In the meantime, Karina has been suffering of traumatic nightmares as well as talking in her sleep: Her fundamentalist religious grandmother that has been staying with her and the family for some time as she is abusive towards her and her own family. Karina also witnessed her crazed grandma killing Karina's mother as she was so terrified but she does not know that Axel is watching her from outside her room! He is curious to know what's going on with Karina as he and Jude attempts to use some kind of mental trick to let her admit what is she hiding underneath the happy mask. Hearing their plan in their mental consciousness; Karina pretends to be naive and accepts their offer so she writes about her father's abuse. She confesses that she wants revenge--Justice towards the one that raped her up pretty badly and starts crying a little, Karina claims that she just wants some peace in her pain! Jude feels remorse, he never realizes that someone would do a cruel thing to a young woman. Axel is also remorseful but he fears that Karina might turn into someone else so he refuses to help her in revenge and that's when she refuses as she becomes mercilessly until she sees them both bleed and stops as she heals them. She apologizes over and over again as she cries even harder: "Oh god, I feel like a monster!" She sobbed.

Karina was persuaded to join Axel and Jude but she decided also to find out more about her father's dirty work with manannggals and found one on a rainy day as she went inside. While exploring, she thought she saw someone there and turned but found no one was there. Karina shake her head and rubbed her eyes, "I must be seeing things." She muttered. Karina watched the mechanic ballerina dance until its tired, machine heart beats slowly until the song disappears. Then it stops. There was an eerie silence until Karina heard singing, sad but soft crooning. Karina was a little freaked out when she heard the singing and then, there was something that made Karina shrieked when she heard a shock, panicky scream, "AAAAAAAAAAA!" Karina ran as she went to the bathroom, which was the safest place she could think of. There was a voice on the opposite side of the door. It was just a quiet, whisper voice. And then she could other two more of them. There was three? "Why don't you open the door?" said the first. "We've come for you." said the second. And then the third, a woman's voice said, "You'll be happier if you open the door. It's not so bad..." Karina trembled, however she didn't know what to do anymore. Maybe it won't be so bad. However, she won't fall for it but she musters the courage. Panting with fear; Karina had her pen knife in her hand as she mumbling to herself in a mantra: "I'm OK. I'm not scared, I'm not scared. I can do this. I'm not afraid....." She went out there, looking around as she stepped out of her hiding spot. She looked left, then right. Breathing a sigh of relief, Karina walked as she said to herself over and over again, "I am not scared, you hear that? Not scared at all." Then she shouted out, "I AM NOT SCARED!!!!!" Just then, a crash of thunder was so loud that made Karina screamed and jumped. "Oh crap." She muttered. However she finds something fell and she jumps. There laying on the floor was a mascot on the floor. It looked like some sort of disturbing looking one that remained unfinished, Karina looked at it and then to her horror; the mascot started to get up. First sitting up, then climbing to its feet, the mascot stood there at the center of the room, its fake face just starting at Karina directly as she mumbled "No...This can't be happening..." over and over and over. She wanted to run however her legs refuse to work. She wanted to scream however she was so terrified that she could not make a sound! The mascot now quietly sizing her up. Karina raised her eyes once again to the costumed figure."Hey," it said in a hushed, perverted voice, "Wanna see my head come off?" It started to pull at its own head, working its clumsy, glove-clad fingers around its neck with clawing, impatient movements similar to a wounded man trying to pull himself free of a predator's jaws. As it worked its digits into its neck. So much blood. Murky, solid, fulvous plasma. Karina turned away, sickened by the sight, she only cared about getting away. Above the doorway out of this room, she saw a message clawed into the metal with fingernails it said, "ABANDONED HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE". Karina ran away in fear and she tried her best to not look back. "What was that thing?" thought Karina with fear in her mind. Finally, as she calmed down; Karina walked down the hall to the door and tried the handle. Sure enough it was locked. She bent down and looked through the wide keyhole. Cold air passed through it, chilling her eye. What she saw was a bedroom and in the corner was a woman whose skin was incredibly pale. She was leaning her head against the wall, facing away from the door. She stared in confusion for a while. Karina almost knocked on the door, out of curiosity but decided not to. As Karina was still looking, the woman turned sharply and she jumped back from the door, hoping she would not suspect he had been spying on her. The scenery changed before her eyes, all she saw was redness. She couldn't make anything out besides a distinct red color, un-moving. Perhaps these inhabitants of the room knew she was spying the night before, and had blocked the keyhole with something red. Karina backs away but then she found a record about that room: A long time ago, a man was killed after he murdered his wife in there, and what people find that even now, whoever stays there gets very uncomfortable. But these people were not ordinary. They were white all over, except for their eyes, which were red. Karina was scared, however she found something that frightened her. There were four test subjects also had large portions of muscle and skin torn away from their bodies. While the heart, lungs and diaphragm remained in place, the skin and most of the muscles attached to the ribs had been ripped off, exposing the lungs through the ribcage. All the blood vessels and organs remained intact, they had just been taken out and laid on the floor, fanning out around the eviscerated but still living bodies of the subjects. They continued to scream to be left in the chamber and alternately begged and demanded that the gas be turned back on, lest they fall asleep. One of the subjects died from having his throat ripped out, another was gravely injured by an artery in his leg severed by one of the subject's teeth. When heart was seen to beat for a full two minutes after he had bled out to the point there was more air in his vascular system than blood. Karina was scared, she thought she heard someone's footsteps as she pulled out her pen knife and prepared for anyone who might be coming would attack her. There was a figure standing there, she didn't know who it was. It looked like a silhouette of a man and then a creature. Karina pointed her pen knife at the remaining figure, "I won't be locked in here with you! Not with you!" She screamed at the figure. "WHAT ARE YOU? I want to know!" The figure replied, "Have you forgotten so easily? I am the madness that lurks within you all, begging to be free at every moment in your deepest animal mind. I am what you hide from in your beds every night. I am what you sedate into silence and paralysis when you go to the nocturnal haven where we cannot tread." Karina got away as she didn't look back. Venetia got herself involved in going undercover however she noticed Jude and Axel were here so she quietly revealed her name to Jude, who keeps her secret and managed to fight each other. After the match, Jude looks over his shoulder and smirks a little bit, "Don't look now but your propitious yet eye catching enthusiast is approaching in this direction." Sure enough; Axel was heading over to Jude and Venetia: "Well, well, Axel. Your comrade has some impressive fighting skills." said Axel. "I try to make this young lady look good on the battlefield." shrugged Jude. "C'mon, Axel. Her skills far surpasses you even more than you think." Axel commented. Smiling at his praise; Venetia spoke to Axel: "Perhaps you and I can fight right here and now, Mr--" Axel finished Venetia's sentence, "Axel--Axel Rivers, and I accept." Venetia chokes back a squeal of glee, "Sweet! Sounds like a date."During the fight; Axel asked Venetia, "You look familiar.......Haven't I seen you before?" Venetia smiles as she says, "I'm an interesting person." After the breath-taking battle is over; Venetia queries, "So miss, what's your name?" Venetia replies seductively, "Why? It's common for me to not let you know anything personal." This made Axel was confused, "What? What does that suppose to mean?" He asked. "Anonymous name. Kinda like an enchantress?" Venetia purred demurely. "Who the hell are you?" Axel demands. But then Venetia blows her own cover as she bellows, "Hell-O, Jude and Axel--Are you up for some chasing?" And runs off as she is being followed by Axel and Jude as she flirts with them playfully. She also tries to convince them to let her go. The boys almost fall for her charms as Venetia suggest that they can join her. "Sorry but I don't sustain mutineers." confirmed Axel coldly. "Mutineer? What happened to the guy I used to know?" Venetia asked in mock sadness. "He became fully grown from appealing, problematic schoolgirls, for example yourself, and found a lady of his own so you coming back with us?" Axel asks. "Depends! You and Jude going to chase me?" Venetia shots back playfully. "Better get underway, Sweetheart." said Jude. "Try and keep up, Wonder Boys. Don't fall behind!" called Venetia. The chase is on as Venetia reaches to a dead end but Colt and Megan helps her escape as Venetia calls out before vanishing, "Sorry gotta run, catch ya later--Wonder Boys!" And escaped as Jude and Axel were upset as she escaped.

For the time being, Adele remembered how she helped Venetia as she debates on whether she will always have another chance to say it. She’s questioning what compassionate is if she is not there physically and if there’s some indecisiveness. Adele thought about her life in these last years for her: Princess Adele Deimandis is quite a superficial young lady but underneath all that, she is a sweet person. But lately her reputation as a heartbreaker has been the talk of the town lately. Her mother, Governess Mariah Deimandis, is a widow and she is concern of her daughter's promiscious behavior as a heartbreaker while wanting her to be a respectful woman of society which Adele laughs away at this as she does what she wants. With her naturally dark tresses, her tan skin, and red lip color; Adele wears clothing '70s-inspired looks with retro and cartoonish style to it. Her body is curvaceous which is why her bosom are big. And her legs are gorgeous. Adele's servants are also her glamour posse: Kessie Lesley, Jemima Padget, Corinne Harper, Theo Roman, Jared Parisdell, and Cassian Gillian. Kessie is a tall woman with large breasts and an alluring figure. She has short black hair with long strands on each side of her face which are curly. Jemima wore a yellow kimono with floral patterns. However, her kimono still shows a bit of her leg and she also has part of her hair tied into a small ponytail. And Corinne wore a bright blue dress, which looks as if it had been made ​​out of flowers. On her shoulders are presumably wings and, at her head, both left and right glowing orbs are attached. Adele's mother, Mariah, has dark way tresses and her nose was straight and cute while her smile was big and bright that lights up everyone's heart when they see it. Adele’s confident that her body looks good. She knows her body is something any girl would want — it’s great. They might think that she’s stupid because of it, but she doesn’t care because she knows she’s better than that. She knows that men would die for her. But what she really wants is to be admired and loved, because she’s awesome and has a bangin' bod. However; she will use and leave men heartbroken. And that’s the end. Because what she’d consider young puppy love never has a future. Especially since Adele Deimandis knows no better way to be in love than to take what she can get and run. Men to her are like bubblegum loses its taste, like a love maybe does after a short time. Adele just pushes him away, leaves some bite marks on him and a little bit of her. Even though young love isn’t going to last or turn into something real, she’s still going to jump into it. She wants to experience it and get what she can out of it. But she warns her guy that she’s going to mess him up and break his heart, because it’s delicate. She can pop it like bubblegum. Adele is a sad, lonely, dark twisted person, but this boy made her heart light up and he made her happy. So, Adele Deimandis presumably broke up with him, because she couldn’t let him into her heart. The reputation involves with other people’s boyfriends. She wants them because her for she thinks it’s her right to have them. She’s a homewrecker. Alternatively, she automatically assumes her boyfriend is perfect for her. But she knows there will become a time when something will happen and she won’t feel the same about him anymore. She wants other people’s boyfriends because they are the difficult things to get, which makes them more interesting so she must snatch the ones which are good. But for real, the good ones are partners that won’t hurt her, but she’ll have a hard time wooing them. The easy ones are far less reliable, but they are definitely easier to court. Before departing to the West; Adele shows up in a pale pink, cinched waist ensemble dress as she spins around in it. However she prances around as her mother enters, telling her it was time to go but Adele was still feeling spiffy in that dress she was saving for this special occasion but her mother interrupted: "Adele, stop making a spectacle of yourself! I'm only sending you here for one reason..." Her mother, Mariah, said while scolding. Adele sighed, "Yes, I know Mother." She replied. Smiling; Mariah holds out a box for her daighter, "My precious little girl: this a parting gift." Adele was annoyed, "Now, mother! I thought I told you..." Adele protested but her mother pulls out a pair of shoes from the box. Adele gasped with delight, "Jeweled shoes! Oh mother!" She said as she embraced her mother and pulls away as her mother says, "As befits the future governorness, take care of yourself. And try not to talk so much!" Mariah said. Adele nods, "I won't." She said. Mariah kissed her daughter's cheek as she tells her: "Have fun!" Then to the other servants of three young yet stunning women and three beautiful young men, she said: "Kessie! Jemima! Corinne! Theo! Jared! Cassian! Take good care of my beloved gem, understand?" All six of them agreed and Adele climbed in the carriage with the other glamorous posse. They traveled to the West for awhile, but after for awhile; they arrived at their destination. Adele had been sleeping for a bit however Theo leaned over and woke her up gently, Adele rubbed her eyes as Theo said with a hand gesture, "Here we are, m'lady! This is West!" He announced. Adele squinted, "What? Already?" She asked. "Yes, ma'm." Jared replied. Adele sighed, "What a shame." She said. As soon she stepped out with her posse; people cheered as she heard people spoke out: "OMG, do you know who that is? That's Adele Deimandis, that's Princess whose reputation is so scandalous!" Girls look on with disgusted expressions. Adele walks toward Monica, who is surprised to meet her. "Were you looking for something or someone?" asked Monica. Adele glanced around, "Uhhh yea... Monica Currie? I don't know... somewhere?" She said. Erica puts her arms around Monica and smiled, "Right here, my friend..." Adele brightened up and seized Monica's hand shaking it, "It is an honor to meet you!" She said. Monica managed to smile as she said, "You too." She said, "Welcome to the West." Adele expressed her excitement as her posse agreed. Madame Quincy appears as she had an idea: "Well, we want to ask if you'd be interested in perhaps sharing a room or maybe we can give you a room, how does that sound?" Madame Quincy suggested. Adele smiled with glee, "Oh, thank you for asking, but I've already been assigned a private suite..." But then, she begins to notice her servants' disappointment and then she said, "But you can all come visit me whenever you want!" She added. The three girls and three boys of her posse group hugged her, making her squirm a little. "Oh, Princess! How good of you!" Kessie gushed. "You're so good!" echoed Corinne. When they weren't looking, Erica taps Monica on the shoulder and pretends to throw up. Monica nudged her but both girls giggled as Adele protested: "No I'm not!" Her entourage cried out in sync, "Yes you are!" Irritated with the group hug; Adele pushed them away gently while exclaiming, "Now stop! Stop it! GIVE ME SPACE!!! She adjusted her hair and clothes before she swishes her hair. "Well, we have a party so if you want to come and join us." Monica suggested. Adele was thrilled by this as she and her posse went away. Erica rolled her eyes as she followed her friends. Una, Conner, Aiden, Fiachra, and Sirius also went away but the only one left was Monica as she turned to Madame Quincy and calls out, "Madame Quincy, may I ask a favor?" In the meantime; Adele was still in that dress as she was glamorizing herself and finished up. "Now I must accessorize myself for the party." Jemima pulls a hat out of one of Adele's hat boxes, the hat was a large red hat which was upwards on the sides and golden edges, with an extremely long, massive and spiky pink plumage. "Adele, what in the world!?" Corinne exclaimed. "Now, just pretend you didn't see that. My mother is always giving me the most ridiculously beautiful hats. I'd give it away, but I don't hate anyone that much." Adele explained. They managed to get ready and hurried to the party. Before they could go inside; Madame Quincy makes her way towards Adele and her posse. "Oh, Princess Adele?" She called. Adele and the others turned around, "Lady Madame Quincy...What are you doing here?" Adele asked. The madame took her aside and rummaged through her bag, "I have something for you." replied Madame Quincy. She hands her a blue gem necklace that sparkled like the ocean in the sun. Adele gasps, takes it as she almost dropped it and looks at it with tears in her eyes. "Oh...How can I ever express my graditude?" She asked with a genuine smile. Madame Quincy shakes her head while waving a hand, "Oh, don't thank me! This was Monica's idea, not mine." She said. Adele looked surprised, "What? Monica?" She said. Madame Quincy smiled and nodded, "Yes, Miss Currie requested that I include you in the ceremony for an inspirational speech. She insisted I tell you this very night." She said. Confused, Adele had to ask: "But... why?" Madame Quincy shrugs, "I have no idea. She is good to newcomers around here, especially with people like you." said Madame Quincy. She leaves as Theo comes up to Adele, "What is it?" He asked. Adele shrugged, "I got what I wanted..." She said. Theo looked concerned, "Then what's the matter?" He persisted gently. Adele tucks it away as she turned to him and smile, "Nothing..." Theo smiled, "Good. Let's go." He said. The other servants were happy to see everything was fine as they head to the party but stop as newcomers walks in. The others stop as they gasp and make comments for the way they are as a few laugh. Cassian was the first to comment, "Who are they?" He said. Adele saw them too, "I have no idea, Hey now--please, don't stare!" She scolded. Jared looked at her in amazement, "How can you help it?" He said. One of the newcomers was Venetia who turns and glares at the crowd as she heard that the chatter stopped and she & the three friends proceed to the other side of the party room. The other two, Colt and Megan, glared at them as they followed her. Adele looked surprised, "Well I'll say, she doesn't give a damn about what anyone else thinks. Same with these guys." commented Jemima. Adele has a look of guilt on her face, "Of course does, maybe she just pretends not to... I feel awful...For them." She said. The six servants glanced at her in surprise, "Why? It's not like it's your fault." Cassian assured her. But Adele left them as she told them, "Excuse me..." She walks over to Venetia, Colt and Megan as sh clears her throat. "May I cut in?" asked Adele. And she took Venetia's hands as they both had a good time. The next day after celebrating much overnight; Venetia and Adele barge into their suite. Adele is in hysterics. "Your very first party ever?! Your very first party!" She exclaimed happily. Then she realized it was lights up and checked the day when she realized it was a new day. "Oh look, it's tomorrow! Tia... do you mind if I call you Tia?" Adele asked. Venetia felt a little bit awkward but at ease, Well, it's a little perky....But no. I don't mind." She assured her. Adele squealed with excitement, "And you can call me... Adele. So... Tia... now that we're friends, I've decided to make you my new project!" She said. Venetia was nervous as she backs away while saying, "Uh...You really don't have to do that." Adele gently escourt her to the makeup room, "I know, that's what makes me so nice!" She said. Hours later, Adele was still giving Venetia the makeover, Venetia was nervous as she told Adele: "Adele? This isn't going to work!" Adele looked at her, she smiled at her: "Oh Tia, don't think that way anymore! Your whole life is going to change and all because of me. Okay, stand up, my Cinderella, for I will turn your frock into a beautiful ball gown!" She said. She managed to get out one of her dresses which was a pink, teal and navy floral butterfly print and bow like detailing on the neckline. When Venetia puts it on, Adele helped her adjust it and then told her, "Now, I'll show you how to flip your hair: Flip flip. Or you could use your hand." She helped her by demonstrating and then she squeals with delight. "Now, for the finishing touch." takes flower out of a vase, puts it into Venetia's hair. And stepped back in amazement, "Why, Lady Venetia, look at you, you're beautiful." She breathed as she hands her a mirror. Venetia was amazed, Adele was right--She was beautiful! "Adele, I--" She started to say but then there was a scream and Venetia rushed out but called out to her, "I have to go!" After she was gone, Adele said: "You're welcome." Once outside, Venetia managed to find Colt and Megan while trying to keep away from the monsters. "What's happening?" Colt said. Venetia realized what she caused as she tried to timidly explained, "I don't know I......" She stopped as her cheeks turned red. Colt looked around, "Alright just....don't get mad at me...Or Megan for that matter. He then took out his weapon and slayed the monster before turning to the other two girls, "Well are you coming?" He asked. Venetia nods, "Let's go!" said Venetia. She and Megan runs with him after he was fighting the monsters. "Careful, we don't want to ruin the place." Venetia said. Colt was annoyed to hear this, "Don't you think that I realize that? You must think I'm really stupid or something!" He said. Megan added, "No, you're not really stupid." She was concerned. She didn't know what was going on and it scared her. While battling the monsters; Colt couldn't help but asked, "Why is it that every time I see you you're causing some sort of commotion?" Venetia rolled her eyes, "Maybe because I am one." She shouts. "And I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow." Megan looked at her in surprise, "No you're not. Or you wouldn't be so unhappy." She said. "Hey, I could go all day and if you ladies don't need my help..." called Colt but Venetia managed to say, "No, we do!" And they got out of there. Once afterwards, the three of them were catching their breaths. Megan looked at Colt and gasps softly, "Oh look, you're bleeding... those things...they must have scratched you." She said. Colt looked at the cut on his face and smiled a little, "Yeah... they did scratched me. I better get to safety... I mean, get first aid for this stupid cut." And he walks away. Megan looked after him, "Colt..." She muttered with concern. Venetia wrapped an arm around her and said, "It's OK. He'll be fine." Megan smiled, nodding. "Yes, you're right." She replied. The next morning, Adele stood on the podium of the welcoming ceremony for her with the necklace around her neck. She tapped the microphone gently to make sure it was on and then, spoke into it: "Fellow people of the West, let us....celebrate! Oh what a celebration we'll have today, let's have a celebration the Adele Way!" Adele said. The audience cheered however Adele felt a tap on her shoulder, so she said to the crowd: "Excuse me for just a moment!" She turned and saw Monica handing her a piece of paper of her speech. Adele smiles as she then turned to the crowd and begins to read a speech titled 'Capable of Greatness': "You can be the best as long as you try and use your abilities to the fullest and believe in yourself. If you work, you can be the best at anything you want to be. You can be strong. Anything is possible when you put your mind to it. You can live by your own schedule and not have anyone controlling you. Living longer. If you were enough dedicated into living a longer life, your human passion and dedication will make you go and do all sorts of stuff to make that happen. All because you CAN DO IT! You can do anything as long as you believe and persevere. Nothing’s impossible, you can break free of whatever’s restraining you." During her speech; Adele's reading caused everyone to feel empowered by those words. Monica, Conner, and their friends smiled as Adele continued, "If you apply yourself, you can be the master of everything. You can do whatever you want if you set your mind to it, instead of just waiting around and hoping something will happen. MAKE it happen. Dedication, passion, and faith is all you need. Work hard to achieve your goals and you could end up, well, in the hall of fame. You can do the toughest things with ease if wish to and apply yourself. Even hell can’t be a problem for you if you do that. Just try it. Most people never develop their biggest talent because they don’t try. Do whatever you are doing for the people that got you there. Do it so you can always be proud of yourself and others can be too. You’ll never know what things are like if you never actually try them. You’ve got nothing to lose. You could one day represent your country and make it proud." She took a deep breath, "You are capable of greatness because you can make things happen for your talents are what makes you successful. Never give up and believe in yourself." And it was over. There was a slow clap coming from Monica before everyone applauded to that speech as Adele smiled with delight.

Adele is after success and she’ll not slow down her pace for a relationship that she doesn’t have time for. She won’t soften the grip she has around the fame she’s striving towards. Celebrity status is often short-lived, but terribly exciting. Hedonism is the order of the day. She rather throw all her financial security away for parties. Media has brainwashed her into conformity; she has developed an obsessive need to change herself in order to be successful. Adele has her mind and heart obsessed on what she wants to do with her life. If she doesn’t become an artist, she’ll be depressed and ruined that she’s not. Insecurities are rife nowadays, with the media’s unrelenting obsession with success. It feels like the anxiety one gets studying for a hard test. Thus she puts on a front of bravado and cockiness, so to hide her doubts. It is incredibly easy to succumb to materialism and vanity, due to how prominent they are in popular culture. She is going to live and have glorious times in her life but inevitably she will dwindle and die like everyone else. Vacuous celebrity types live on fame. Without it, they’ve unknown; they might as well be dead. It finally sets in that she’s a star, whether she likes it or not. Celebrities without much of an opinion are often criticized for being like robots. This sort of inoffensive nature tends to bring success, though. And that she’s now. Adele is slowly becoming as bland and neutral as the people around her. She proclaims that she saw her new conformity coming from a mile away, and that she is fearing for her individuality as a person. As if society and her relatives are trying to change Adele and who she is as a person. And they won’t stop bothering her! Adele will accomplish her dreams if she puts enough practice and effort into her singing career, proving society wrong when it tries to tell her that it won’t work out. Society urges her to take the easy road, the one that everybody travels on. She has her doubts about this, resulting in an inner conflict that everybody is confronted with at some point. Being positive in something doesn’t mean you will actually succeed in it. She is asked: "Do you have it all? Will people appreciate you for that?" Because society or her relatives, who are always going to be up in her face, pressuring her to do one thing or another. It’s impossible to escape. She intends to let society to tell her what to do, because she is uncertain about herself and is willing to give into that weakness even though it isn’t what she wants to do. Let's face it: Adele finally found the success she was looking for but is stressing out about it because she’s scared it might not be exactly what she wanted. She knew this was it, it was all going to change, and she began to have absent minded second thoughts about whether this will all go according to plan. Adele pretended all the time to be happy for having got what she always wanted, but actually she did that only to convince herself that she really wanted it. As a teenager growing up, Adele always said she wanted to be famous, living her dream come true goal as well as pursuing her love for music. But teachers, family members and friends for example, will have doubted her unrealistic ambitious dreams, telling her that would never happen. It shouldn’t be her problem that other people can’t seem to agree with her. It’s her life she should be allowed to live it as she sees fit. Disregard for what other people have to say about her goals and career. Many have doubted Adele in the past, and she doesn’t care about people’s doubts, that she’ll still tread on and fight for what she wants. At the same time, Adele’s thirst for success and for her goal is never quenched; she’s always on the move and desires for more, despite her accomplishments. She wished they would not worry about her, she is in control of how she will make it and to what degree. More than the usual need to succeed, they say Adele is greedy for success so she’s overbearing in the work she puts in to get there. Nobody else’s business what she wants to do, because it’s her life, and that nobody can stop her from doing what she wants to do. Her problems are her problems, people who are judging her and discussing her problems are irrelevant, she is warning people not to be concerned about what she’s doing and to leave her be, she can handle this her own way without criticism. She wants success and is unhappy with the state of her life as is. However, she doesn’t know for sure that success will make her happy once she gets it. It’s quite the cliche that once all your dreams come true and you get the fame you desired, you’re left alone with your riches, totally unfulfilled. Adele cannot help but wonder whether if people are happy with their average or unnoticed life is okay with them. When Adele was a teenager living an average life, she did not like it, she always dreamed of making it big, and so now she has made it. "Do you need to pretend you are something you’re not?" She wondered and thought of the people who have ever doubted her. She remembered how underneath all the glamorizing style to her life, she was depressed and alone: Her tears hit the ground as she moves slowly through the sadness in her life, all alone, she has nothing but tears. Adele is weak and she feels vulnerable to the attacks of people who she deems to be superior to her. Adele is starved of love, starved of happiness and satisfaction, starved of comfort with nowhere to feel like she belongs, no one to turn to for protection. She chokes on all she has left She continues to search for anything that can make her feel accepted and give her the satisfaction she has been searching for. Adele is out on the streets and is hungry. She hopes to give herself just a little bit of happiness, she doesn’t feel like she belongs--She's a kingdom but she lost her king. Everywhere Adele goes, she is rejected. With every rejection, she is growing more unlikable and desperate. Roots usually refer to someone’s emotions. A tree needs roots to grow. People need emotions to survive. Adele is getting colder and colder every time someone rejects her. They are taking away everything that is love able in her. Adele warns anyone near her to never make her angry or upset, and she threatens them by saying she knows how to use a gun. Whilst everybody is talking and laughing, Adele struggles to find the right words to say, she knows she has nothing in common with these people, and so she hesitates whether to join conversations. She’s good at putting up walls to protect herself from getting hurt by others. She knows she can’t pretend to be somebody she’s not in this social circle where she doesn’t belong, so she decides she’s going to leave them and go back into the dark. She doesn’t feel like she fits in at all, she thinks these people around her are nothing like her and this makes her feel very anxious about what they could be thinking about her. At this point, she has probably took herself to the bathroom for some space to think, and as she is looking at herself in the mirror, she realises that she is nothing like these people and that she shouldn’t be here. Adele wonders whether she should carry on mingling with people she knows she doesn’t belong with so that she’s not alone, or whether she should go back to being alone and isolated. That night, Adele lying down in her bed alone and she isn’t able to move but she isn’t able to sleep either. Drinking to numb the pain of life. This memory of her walking away keeps replaying in her mind over and over again. Adele feels ashamed and pain because she walked away! Her nights are spent over thinking and over analyzing so she wonders when morning will come to relieve her. She thought if she had some and thought about her worldly riches it would take her mind off how poor she is when it comes to sentimental things such as love. She drinks to drown her sorrows, but it only makes her feel guiltier and guiltier. Adele feels high in spirits while drinking, because feeling high is worth the tears and pain. Her nights are spent over thinking and over analyzing so she wonders when morning will come to relieve her. One morning; Adele has woken up as stressed as she was when she fell asleep, due to one of her damaged love affairs, she needs something to calm the nerves before facing another day of the painful reality of the situation. She and her hooked up lover wash their sheets and brush their teeth. The two lovers have had a disagreement of some sort before bed, due to their obsessive ways of handling things, maybe related to relationships. And someone in this relationship is now crying, whilst they both lay in bed and contemplate the events, the other is trying to sleep but is disturbed by the others cries. One minute the whole relationship seems so perfect and innocently invincible, the next minute reality hits them that they are no good for each other, they are bad news to each others health, but they are obsessed with all this. The pressure to get it right is so overwhelming that she has to escape, even if it means going without food for a week. He’s never truly opened up to her and shared his feelings and their relationship has suffered from it. Something takes over in her mind and how her life involves doing certain things to stop bad things from happening and the bad thoughts. Whilst Adele hugs the man, she can’t help but think all of the bad things this relationship is doing to her, how much it is hurting her, and although they are getting on fine now, she knows that it wont be long until they are arguing and abusing each other again. But Adele wants to ignore all the bad things, and just wants it to be perfect. She wants to forget the negative aspects of their relationship and to continue on as if there is nothing wrong. Their relationship isn’t as strong as they thought because they haven’t had intimate conversations about anything and everything, they never really knew each other. Whether it be what made that strong or what made him crumble. She feels like a less diminished version of herself around him. She feels as if she is seen as an ignorant being and takes a back seat to the man she mentions in the previous lines whenever she is in the presence of others with him. She starts to feel restless whenever she is the same place for too long. She’s ready for a change. Something big happened before she went too far, friends and family hadn’t seen the side of the person that so they told her that they aren't so nice. She doesn’t think so. She felt as if something was taking over inside her, she was losing her mind. She knew she wasn’t the same person she used to be, she was changing for the worse and this was beginning to scare her, so she went to the doctors for help and advice. The affection Adele feels for this guy is starting to take over her body without her being able to stop it. Now she knows if she wants to make good, she has to do good and make a change for herself as well as be compassionate yet selfless to others. "If I make good, so I'll make good." Adele promised herself. And so, she will!