Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Bittersweet: Next Turn part 3

I hurriedly led them to the library where our destination should be. Wearing the special lab coats and wielding our devices, I'm sure we'll get them.

Takashi slammed both doors open. The girls started shrieking and running around the tables. The librarian braced herself under her working desk while trembling. When they saw us, the girls froze. Their eyes hesitated on Ryuu and Aika. They were the ones feared by many. They thought both of them can tell the dreadful fates awaiting them, and how they'll waste a lot of effort to fight them when they can't at all.

"There they are," Ryuu's green eyes went on the two ninth-grader suspects.

The guy's using a baseball bat to smash the windows, shelves, chairs, tables, books, even the computers. The girl captured a poor female student and stabbed her from behind. The victim coughed out blood and fell on her stomach. Meanwhile, a girl with blonde hair and yellowish-green eyes stumbled on the floor as the insane female targets her next.

Aika swooped in and pushed her abruptly, sending her staggering backwards and dropping her knife. She stood in front of Miyako, the blonde-haired one.

"What's your name?" she demanded. The girl grimaced.

"Well, you're Momoko Aika-chan everyone's talking about," she smirked. She stood up without picking up the knife. Everyone froze on their tracks as they watched in fear. "Hahaha! You absolutely look too cute to be Takashi-sensei's apprentice!" then the girl started mocking her with taunts.

"I'm only asking for your name." Aika said sternly. "You've spent enough time playing with everyone."

The girl smirked and flicked her hair. "My name is Hanamatsu Kaori. Now, you happy?" She placed her hands on her hips when her glance went on Ryuu. "Heh. Bet Harugii-kun here's your boyfriend, right?"

"Hanamatsu-san!" I yelled, interrupting their conversation. "You don't really know Aika-san's family name!"

Aika sighed and her blue eyes stared at me. "Satoko... please, I can do this myself..." I swallowed and stepped backward. She faced Kaori once again, her eyes glaring at her behind the lenses of her glasses. Takashi helped the librarian and ordered a few girls to take her to the clinic. Ryuu immobilized the guy, whom we just discovered that his name is Hirozaki Itou, in a ...unique way. Itou-san, the guy with the baseball bat, tried to fight against Ryuu with a stun gun. But then Ryuu grabbed his arm and squeezed it tightly, making Itou drop the stun gun to the floor with a loud clank. He fished the syringe out that sort of from hammerspace and stabbed the needle abruptly on Itou's neck. He yelled from extreme pain as he let out gurgling sounds.

The girls inside the library trembled. Because they saw Ryuu-san's unmistakable face as bitter and cold. He let go of Itou and let him fall on the floor.

Aika closed her eyes and reopened them. Her blank and bitter facial expression is not unusual. "Kaori.... do you even know what my family name is?"

Kaori pretended to be surprised. "Me? Ahaha! Momoko Aika, right? Nyahahaha! Nameless! AHAHAHAHA!" She let out a maniacal laugh while Aika just stared at her bitterly. The crazy female's laughs grew louder, almost laughing like a madwoman. Her teal eyes started to form nasty and insane orbs that proved she'd gone mad. "I've killed a lot of people than that little brat! You know?? That Tsukiyoru freak? Ahahaha! She stabbed her head several times for no reason! AHAHAHAHA!!!"

The memory is Yoake-chan almost shattered Aika. But she just shook it off. "You think bullying and killing people is fun?"

"Fun!" Kaori grinned madly. "Yes! Of course it's fun! Ahahahaha!" Her head almost twisted like how a zombie does. Her eyes are wide and a wide mad smile spread across her lips. "It's like my favorite game everyday! It's like playing hide and seek! It's like playing tag! Get it?!" She laughed again and stared at Aika with stammered eyes. "How about we play a game, Aika-chan?! You hide while I seek!"

I can see a stun gun on her hand. Guess Itou's not the only one owning one. Aika is too aware, so was Ryuu.
Silence filled the air. Kaori got her stun gun ready, but Aika wasn't moving. She just... stood there.

"C'mon, Momoko! If you won't move, then I will move before you die!" Impatient, she kicked a stack of papers, sending them flying everywhere. Aika shielded herself with her arm before Kaori could lunge onto her and attack.

ZAP!

Aika was sent falling on her back. Her arms were spread wide, her eyes squeezed shut and her teeth bared. Her glasses fell from her face so did the syringe she kept from her pocket containing a drug (different from the suicide drug they usually use), something more poisonous than the other one.

I stood in front of the electrocuted Aika before Kaori. "YAMETE!" Takashi-sensei is suddenly nowhere to be found...

"Get out of the way, kid!" Kaori yelled. "I'm gonna beat her up and tear her into pieces!" She pushed me away. She picked up the syringe and bent to locate Aika's wrist. She slowly starts to lean the tip of the needle while Aika just laid there, motionless and trembling.

"KYAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!"

Everyone turned their heads at Kaori. They thought it was the end of Aika-san. But then, the syringe was on someone else's hands.

Kaori is screaming her head off. A baseball bat is pushed on her front neck horizontally, choking her. Her fingers started to crawl on the floor to search for her stun gun, but Ryuu pushed it away with his foot. His face didn't show any extreme force of choking this girl to save Aika.

"Hanamatsu-san," he said grimly. "Let me ask you one question."

Kaori struggled from the baseball bat's choke and grunted. "Ggghh..!!!"

"You got me wrong," he said in a mocking tone. "Aika asked you earlier. Do you know her last name?"

The mad girl managed to speak. "I-it..s...Mo...m..ok...o!" But then the male redhead just smirked.

"That's her very first name before Aika. You're probably wondering what her last name really is."

I saw the blonde-haired girl Miyako clutching her left arm. Her left sleeve is stained in blood. Kaori slit her skin earlier before she tried to kill her next, but then Aika swooped in and only ended up attacked by a stun gun. I approached and helped her get up. But she refused.

"You're bleeding," I persuaded. "You have to get in the clinic right now."

Miyako rapidly shook her head. "No! I-I want to help Aika!"

I stared towards the still half-motionless body of Aika-san. Her glasses were shattered into pieces. I can only see her fingers twitching but her whole body trembling from paralysis.

"Y-you can't!" I retorted. "She's in a bad condition!"

Miyako pushed me away. Wincing from the pain, she forced herself to help Aika sit up. She flashed a smile and whispered. "A...arigato..." she said. "Thanks for saving me from Kaori..."

But Aika didn't answer. She remained paralyzed. But still, Miyako didn't give up.

"Do you know what her family name is?" Ryuu repeated his question while choking Kaori with the baseball bat. His green eyes still haven't got the bitterness erased from them.

"ITOU-KUN!" she yelled. But he laughed mockingly.

"Too late, Kaori." he smirked. "The little guy's poisoned before you tried to attack everyone else. You don't want to end up like him, do you?"

"USODA!" she shrieked, but this didn't stop Ryuu. "You only used a barbiturate!"

"Really?" his face darkened as he prepared the syringe containing the venomous and the poisonous drug. "Tell me your answer and I'll spare you."

I gasped. "What?!" But he snapped a glare at me to shut up. It's the sign he's up to something. He dropped the baseball bat and his hand grasped on her hair to keep her head from twitching.

"Two seconds."

"Ggghhh...!"

It took a couple of seconds of silence before Kaori guessed.

"It's Haruhii, right?"

Ryuu's face formed a half smirk. Kaori sensed victory. He fell silent but his eyes still had the same mocking stare. But then, he jabbed the needle into her neck, making her scream on top of her lungs.

"You traitor!" she yelled. "I got it right!"

"Huh. I was suppose to grant your wish." he said, pushing the fluid inside her. "You pronounced it wrong. So I'm gonna take it back (the wish)." He let go of her as Kaori grabbed her neck, twitching and gurgling. The fluid rushed into her veins as she screamed, until they are replaced by faint gagging noises. Her hand fell faintly on the floor.

Takashi came out of nowhere and knelt beside Kaori's limp body. He flashed a smirk at Ryuu. "Good job, Ryuu."

One of the girls reacted. "Aika-san is Ryuu-kun's sister?"

Takashi-sensei nodded. "Bet you didn't know. They have the same blood, the same family name Harugii, and the same heredity from their parents."

Miyako's eyes blinked. When she locked gazes with Ryuu, her heart suddenly skipped a beat.

He handed her a roll of bandage to wrap them around her wound. Miyako's hand trembled as she accepted it.

"T-thanks..."

"Satoko," Takashi-sensei called me. "Tell Ash to get in here immediately with two stretchers. Put Kaori and Itou on them while Ryuu will carry Aika and come with me to the clinic." he ordered as I nodded.

"Hai,"

He turned to the girls. "Ladies, it's alright now. You can all go out of the library and we'll try to fix this problem." He then turned to Miyako. "Don't strain yourself, Ichinose-san. You might as well come along to the clinic if you want to."

"Uhmm... no thanks," she smiled. "R-Ryuu-san gave me this bandage..."

After that, I stormed out of the library. Everyone emptied the area and promised themselves they'll keep quiet about the incident, and spread the fact that Ryuu and Aika were purely born as siblings.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Bittersweet: Next Turn part 2

Murder Case # 187

November XX, 20XX

In the same destination of the head-stabbing case, a boy assumed to be fifteen is found dead in his dorm room. The police found that he was holding a glass already shattered. A vial with a golden fluid is spilled beside a blood-stained knife. The corpse is hanging on his neck with his skin covered in slit wounds. The school psychologist and doctor, Takashi, also a Chemistry professor, examined the boy's wounds and said he found live maggots inside his body. It is assumed that the boy drank poison mixed with his drink, slid a blade on his skin and hung himself due to complete depression or a psychological disease.

~*~

Nah, I made a mistake. It's not related to the laboratory scene. I browsed through the file and found the snapshot of the boy hanging myself on the ceiling. His mouth is open and tongue sticking out. I saw the vial secured with a tape with the remaining droplets of the poison. I examined the contents until I found it was the same suicide drug...

I read the file again. That boy looked familiar. He looked identical to that girl. I lifted a page and saw the victim's file.

Name: Tsukiyoru Arashi
Age: 13
Height: 4'9"
Cause of death: Suicide
Siblings involved:
-Tsukiyoru Yoake (relationship: sister)

Great, now they got the guy's age wrong. His photo at the upper right portion of the parchment confirmed he's twins with the girl.

"Ryuu." Aika called after me. She was at the door. "Takashi-san's calling us to the examination room. Hurry."

I slammed the cabinet shut and brought the file with me. We locked the door behind before we left before those detectives notice anything about our sneaking in. Our footsteps went across the aisle when a door with a glass window captioned: EXAMINATION ROOM caught our glances. I gently twisted the knob open, and Takashi, psychologist, doctor and Chemistry professor, stood few distances away wearing his pure white lab coat. A stethoscope hung around his neck.

"What's that?" his eyes went on the file I was holding.

"It's Arashi's file," I replied. "They identified him as Tsukiyoru Arashi."

Takashi-sensei put a finger on his chin. "Tsukiyoru... sounds familiar."

I made it clear enough. "He and Yoake are purely related. They are twins."

He nodded. "I know. I browsed the file earlier. Both twins died from the suicide drug. You still remember those three tenth-graders from the lab? They thought it was a barbiturate." Thinking about the incident earlier almost made me want to break into an outrage. Takashi looked towards a metal table with the corpse of Arashi lying on it. His grey eyes are still open and are fading their color.

Sensei held a light glass plate on his hand, showing us the contents: live maggots drenched in dried blood. Just like from the file, he determined himself and examined his cuts. They were live maggots inside Arashi. Wonder where they came from.

"How did he get those maggots inside him?" Aika asked.

"I'm afraid we still have to find out." Takashi-sensei replied. "He severely cut himself and released the larvae that kept on crawling back into his wounds. I also saw visible nail marks on his skin, determining he must have scratched them."

"Gross..." Aika and I winced.

"So, where's the other one?" I asked, referring to Yoake, the corpse's twin sister.

"Yoake-san's body has been preserved. You probably know about the embalming fluid they pour on dead people. Once we are done with this little guy, the morticians will be on their way to groom him up and set the burial for both of them."

Aika suddenly frowned. "I guess it's my fault she's dead..."

"Aika," Takashi sighed. "Don't blame yourself. I know you're trying to help. But what really happened is Yoake suffered a psychological disease. She insisted on you injecting the drug so she can end her life."

"But still..."

"Past is past," I interrupted. "You can worry about her later. We're dealing with this little guy over here," I turned away without noticing there were tears stinging her eyes.

I approached the corpse of Arashi-san on the metal bed. There're still the visible slit wounds and those gross maggots crawling out of them. They knew he wasn't alive.

"What are we gonna do with him?" Aika asked me.

"Well, you know the picture. We're gonna have to wait for those morticians to groom this 'baby' up and embalm him." I say. "Hmm. Takashi-sensei says we got another victim on the loose."

Before I could continue, the door slammed open. A girl with brown hair and maroon eyes approached. She wore the lab coat almost identical to Takashi's. Her braided hair dangled behind her as she stared at us with hesitated eyes.

"S-senpai!!" she stammered. "S-someone --" Great. A perfect timing.

"Tell me where it is," I say. Mikagami Satoko's maroon eyes fixed on my green ones.

"H-he...he's at the library assaulting girls and the librarian." she reported. "I tried to stop him but... they were two of them!"

"Crud," Aika cussed. "This is gonna be harder than I thought."

Takashi-sensei arrived. When he saw Satoko, he knew about the news.

"Mikagami-san," he said. "Two more victims at the library attacking girls, right? A boy and a girl. Very different and unrelated to one another. Ryuu, Aika, come with me. Come along too, Satoko."

We all switched into our black lab coats as I slammed the file down on a table. Aika tossed Satoko's lab coat as she put it on, tossing her own white lab coat on the table that covered the file. Her expression is replaced from hesitant to confident like how she normally is. Takashi nodded at us as we prepared our syringes, tranquilizers and duct tapes. Duct tapes were normal for us. They are used to gag the victim to keep him or her from screaming.

We broke out of the room and left Arashi's rotten corpse inhabited by maggots.

+stay tuned for PART 3

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Bittersweet: Next Turn

Ever wonder what this is?
It's tough to face death. More victims than I've expected. Browsing through these files regarding the drugs we use as remedies. One file revealed the suicide of a girl named Tsukiyoru Yoake. It says here from the file "between fourteen to fifteen". Heck, she's only thirteen! I knew this girl before! She suffered from that abnormality syndrome. Reports included she assaulted four girls inside her classroom with the absence of the teacher. Our fellow comrade Mikagami Satoko-san have done the job of suspending her and confining her with us.

Aika has a lot of explaining to do. Hey, I wasn't gonna confront her. She's not the only culprit.

I browsed another file. I gave the Tsukiyoru Yoake file to Aika before the picture I ripped get noticed. I stared at the used syringe with the tiny golden droplets. Then my eyes went to the file I'm holding.

Hmm... kinda reminds me of what I did two weeks ago:

The last time I became brutal was that two weeks. Since Aika narrated her story of whacking an armrest on a brown-haired girl several times, I have to narrate mine. It's two times brutal than hers. [She told me she really meant to kill that person, but since she's inside a classroom, she can't.] And... this scene... she witnessed the the whole thing.

How is life when you're inside a Chemistry lab with your buddies fooling around while you just sit there and do nothing?
Me, that's how I behaved. Doing nothing and watching those bad-ass freaks make fun of the laboratory instruments.

I got myself distracted on the special suicide drug that I kept hidden on my pocket. A sealed syringe is placed on the table, my buddies mistaking me for converting it into a water gun. (What?)

Three beakers are placed on the table, labeled with roman numerals. The Chemistry professor advised us NOT to lay any finger on those. (Our Chemistry professor is actually the one assigning us for those suicide drugs, which we kept as a secret between us three, including Satoko.) They contained with the real suicide drugs that are needed to be tested. The students thought it was food coloring mixed with fruit dew.

"Ahahahaha! What do you call this again? Shot glass?"
"And hey, have you ever heard of this thing?" one buddy shows an eye dropper. "I thought I can use this to extract those white stuff from girls! AHAHAHAHA!"

Ugh! Green-minded assholes...

The small vial of the drug caught my attention. I ripped the seal open and tore the syringe's. When they say me, they were like "Whoaaa!" as if they thought I'm gonna do some experimenting.

"Ryuu-kun!" one of them cried. "If that is some kind of a barbiturate, why can't we try experimenting on this little hamster for dissection?"

"Shut up," I answered abruptly. "Or I'll put this on you instead."

The three of them awed and laughed. They knew me for this bitter personality.

My eyes went on the glass cage with lonomia, what they call "assassin caterpillars". They look like brown and white striped worms with green spikes that almost look like grass. The spikes are contaminated with venom. It is considered as nature's deadliest.

"Heeeyy, how about joining for us for a quick shot drinking?" another one suggested, giving me that toothy grin. "Nobody's around! Just the four of us! Three plus Ryuu-kun!"

"Hahaha! I bet this is his first time drinking!"

Stupid jackasses...

Then this stupidest thing happened to THEM. They snatched the syringe with the drug inside from me. They played with the object and squirted the content inside like a tiny fountain. Fortunately, none of them drank it. Otherwise, I would be dead.

One of them pulled out a metal bottle container containing... beer. What the hell are those guys thinking? They smuggled on a bottle of beer and now they're gonna share that thing and get themselves drunk inside the Chemistry lab!

Without realizing what's inside the beakers (the ones that are forbidden from the hands of people), they snatched those three and, ah hell, poured the beer on each. I stood up and slapped the bottle away, sending it clanking on the floor.

Aika arrived on the scene. Just when she stepped inside, the guys immediately got their eyes on her. One of them stormed towards her and grabbed her arm.

"C'mon, babe, join us!" he grinned. But Aika pulled away. She grimaced and stood beside me.

"Ryuu," she hissed. "What's going on?"

Before I could answer, the beakers are filled with beer mixed with the drug fluid. I bared my teeth in rage.

"HEY! Sensei told you twice not to touch them!" I yelled. "The real drug samples are in those!"

The one with the messy hair smirked. "Oh really? You mean the food coloring mixed with fruit dew? Hahaha! You've got to be kidding me!" He gulped on the drink, using the beaker as a glass. Aika's blue eyes widened in shock. Soon, the other two idiots are starting to gulp the contents down their throats. Aika swooped towards them.

"No!" she cried. "You brainless idiots! Why did you --"

The guy in front of her gave her an abrupt push. "Why do you care, ha?! Can't you see we're having a feast here?!"

I winced and slapped him. "Oh yeah? Do you even know what the drug does? I told you before, didn't I?"

He laughed, almost drunk. "Haha! It's only a barbiturate, dude. It doesn't mean any harm, right?"

I smirked. "Really?"

The guy tasted his drink and licked his lips. When he saw me smirking, his toothy grin is replaced by a surprised glance. The rest of them did, too. Aika just sighed.

"What does he mean?" they asked, exchanging glances.

After a couple of seconds, the guy suddenly grabbed his neck. He staggered around the area and heading towards the sink. But then his elbow knocked the glass cage, sending it falling down and crashing on the floor, releasing the assassin caterpillars now crawling. Because that idiot dropped the drink, he slipped on the floor and his arm... hit the caterpillar's venomous spikes. The venom rushed thoroughly in his veins, destroying his red blood cells one by one until they spread.

That is when I saw blood on the spot where he was hit. Tiny holes on his skin that are drenched in blood. He screamed in pain. His arm felt burning and immobilized. Then soon, while still screaming, I can see blood oozing from his nostrils... then he starts vomiting blood until his shirt is stained in blood.

The two other idiots dropped their drinks and started choking. Aika skipped a heartbeat. She's not liking what she was seeing.

"Ryuu, do something!"

"No," I stared at her from the corner of my eye. "Let them suffer. That's what they get from violating the rules." I picked up the syringe from the floor, I can see the remaining contents since they played with it. Now I'm staring at the guy with tears -- bloody tears -- streaming down his eyes. He was there, lying on the floor and lifeless. The assassin caterpillars continued to crawl on the floor until Aika and I wore the lab gloves and snatched tweezers to put them inside a new glass cage. Aika cleaned up the mess of the shattered glass, except the small pool of blood. The two other idiots gurgled blood from their mouths, now lying lifeless on the floor and the beakers shattered.

"Ryuu, what are we gonna tell sensei..?" Aika asked with concern. "We're so dead if he finds out..."

"Don't worry about them, Aika," I said. "We didn't do anything. We tried out best to stop them, but they prefer violating the rules."

~*~

What happened next was Sensei arriving in the lab. When he saw the three corpses, he wasn't shocked or surprised. He already knew what happened. I explained the other details as he nodded intently.

"I knew it," he said. "Those three boys did violated the rules. " He held the metal bottle on his hand. "This is a beer, right?" I nodded. "Ryuu, Aika. Keep those acids with you. They need to be experimented later after class. And we've got another victim on crisis."

(Note: The part of the assassin caterpillar is true. These are one of the deadliest species found in Brazil that is known to have killed more than one thousand victims with its venom)

Assassin Caterpillar (Lonomia Obliqua)

Still have doubts? Watch this sample video yourself. 

Stay tuned for the next murder case... with the same character pov


Saturday, September 17, 2011

Bittersweet: First Turn

The moment I entered the classroom, notice how my classmates are looking at me. Huh. They look scared. They are scared because they don't want to get their lives taken next.

What? Many have done that before. And nobody cared, anyway.

Have you ever wondered about those serial killings from school? A female corpse suddenly found hanging on her neck and her wrist slit open? A young girl lying on the floor drenched in her own blood with a knife dropped beside her? And another girl lying naked on the isolated part of the school garden and devoured by ravens?

The targets are like only very few people. The rest are just the victims killing themselves. I don't laugh like a maniac in front of my victims like I've won the battle already. Maniacal laugh is so amateurish. The truth is, it's not unusual when you see corpses or even murder/suicide cases around your environment.

When those girls are bullying me, tossing the book around and won't let me get it back. They expected me to get angry and mad. But my main target is that brown-haired freak. Since she started it by snatching my book and taunting me. Tossing my book around with her goody-goody friends just for fun. Ha-ha-ha! Whatever...

She thought of teasing me more. But then, I stood up and grabbed an armchair. I grabbed her by the hair and dragged her across the room, suddenly sending the other desks and chairs tumbling on the floor and the books scattered everywhere. I don't care how injured she got. Without hesitating, I slammed the armchair's backrest on her several times in front of our classmates, who just watched in fear and horror.

I threw the stupid armchair away, watching the freak trembling before me. I didn't meant to kill her. Teaching her a lesson, you presume.

I took the book from her hand and walked out, my classmates looking behind me and not daring to approach the injured freak I "bullied" back.

Murder Case #152

July 1X 20XX that a girl, assumed to be between fourteen to fifteen, is found bleeding to death at the school basement. No one else was around but the girl. According to the police, a knife was found lying beside the corpse. Her eyes were wide open. The suspect of this case is assumed to be a girl, but no one knows who she is since there were NO witnesses, no CCTV cameras, no security guards in the crime scene. There were no clues to be found like bloody footprints except the knife. One more clue is a syringe, proved to be pricked on the victim's wrist and the contents pushed inside her veins. It was defined to be a drug. A drug that caused the girl to kill herself by pounding the hilt of the knife on a wall, pointing the blade to the side her head. Then she continuously pounded her head at the east direction and pressing the blade rapidly on her head, splattering blood everywhere until she fell on her back.

Nobody was convicted in this murder case. The suspect is still unknown.

~*~

Ryuu and I sneaked inside the detective room and pry on the files shoved inside the cabinets. We browsed the files like catalog cards. No one else is around. We found the first file. The one with the first murder case of yesterday. The files were ALL murder cases. They reached more than one hundred and fifty five. Ryuu flipped the pages of the found case file as he read.

"Tell me," he said. "What does the syringe contain?"

I simply replied. "It's some kind of a drug that is the remedy of individuals suffering from abnormal syndromes. Like what you're reading, it prevents the victim to kill an innocent. She kills herself instead."

"You were holding it before you got there, right?"

"Hmm," I nodded. Yes. I was holding the object. That girl went insane and she has gone nuts murdering people for no reason. Ryuu and I were assigned to put remedies on those who have syndromes. The psychologists say suicide will end it, even though how unusual it sounds.

He read the file thoroughly. It wasn't the first time this has happened before. No one knows we are the culprits. Everyone has no idea it was us doing all those.

"Do you know who the girl is?" Ryuu asked, his green eyes fixed on my blue ones.

"Hai," I nodded. "I assume she's... Tsukiyoru Yoake-san. A seventh-grader."

My brother smirked and ripped a picture from the file. It was the snapshot of Yoake's corpse drenched in dried blood. I could see her grey eyes fading their color.

"Huh." he snorted. "Guess she made a very clever idea of stabbing herself on the head."

I just smiled. My eyes went on the tiny stain of blood on my skirt. I ripped that stained edge. I don't care about my skirt anyway, since it's already tattered and covered in despicable dirt.

Right after he read the file, his green gaze went on the syringe from the crime scene. It has the remaining droplets of the contents earlier. Golden fluid... Ryuu took it on his hand and stared at the sharp point of the needle intently.

"I've learned about this on a special Chemistry experiment." he said. "You remember? You were with me that night."

I nodded again. "I've said it before. It's a drug. A barbiturate, maybe."

"No," he shook his head. "It's made to kill oneself. More like a depressant."

Unfortunately, none of them defined what kind of drug I used.

We proceed to the next case file. Ah, this looks interesting.

Bittersweet

You know... what you're about to see might give you the seizures. If you can't violence, don't read this. Go on, read IF you want to. I'm not forcing you.
If you are fund of reading gore and violence, better look now. You'll need all the help you can get.

Ooh, how about watching this sample series of anime clips? You'll know if you've watched this anime already. But if you don't, find it out yourself.

After watching, imagine yourself into this condition.

Maggots in your body. Uncontrollable scratching and still the maggots are STILL in your body.

Hahaha! I like that concept! If only that kind of stuff can happen like today. YES IT CAN! Maggots CAN enter your body. People MAY suffer from psychological diseases when doing violent acts. People CAN get syndromes. People CAN hit their enemies with armchairs when inside their classrooms. Baseball bats CAN be weapons for self-defense aside from knives, daggers, whips and guns.

Based from my current favorite anime, Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni (When the Cicadas Cry), it gave me enough inspiration for violence. Look, I'm not growing up to become an assassin. I just want to see how violence can lead to many causes. Hatred. Anger. Wrath. Greed. Pride. Avarice. Jealousy. Rebellion.

But honestly, whatever the situation is, violence won't solve anything. True.

But since I'm talking about fantasy here, it's time I could share some ideas of mine regarding acts of violence. Based from my two main characters, let me show you how the meaning of bittersweet personality means. Bittersweet (for me) doesn't mean bitter at first impression then suddenly turns back into warm atmosphere. No. What I mean is: Bitter atmosphere and the sweet sensation of getting injured and killed.

Go on, can you keep it up? Stay tuned.
You'll need all the help you can get.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Scourge [P]

In a dark fateful night, a young woman lies on a metal bed. People huddled around the walls and the absence of a man observed. The woman is panting for breath. The midwife urging her to go on. That's when the woman starts screaming. She struggles between breaths and gasps. Soon, young ladies gathered and helped her with the labor. The woman screamed.
The midwife gave her the last urge before the offspring is born. The midwife held the newborn in her arms. The people glanced in awe. The newborn baby cries. The woman sheds a tear of joy before she held her child in her arms.

Soon, when the child was confirmed to be a boy, the woman was overjoyed. She always wanted a little boy. But there are traces of disappointment. She also wanted to have a daughter.

The husband of the woman finally arrived, got a word about his new son. He saw the child on the small crib. Lying peacefully on its own bed. There are traces of orange strands of hair, just like the father's. The color of the eyes are piercing emerald. The parents were shocked. The boy got the hair and eyes of the father.

They thought their lives would be peaceful again. But then, the father impregnates his wife again.

The boy, whom they named a very certain name, didn't say anything and have no clue about his mother pregnant. His name is adapted from the dark dragon that gave bad luck to their village and the parents gave him wishes to grow up tough, confident, courageous and resourceful, yet mysterious.

One night, a war waged in the village. Bandits killed women and their female offsprings. It was the day another baby was born without the witness of little son. His father took him somewhere safe before he even saw his second child. The mother, with another baby, stayed with the maidens to take care of her baby. She examined it and to her shock, it was a girl.

A smile spread across her lips. Her very own daughter. His husband and son never witnessed the birth of her daughter. But the father knows, the son doesn't.

The female offspring remained unnamed for several weeks. Until the mother decided to give the name which means 'loving child'. The name is being kept as a secret.

The time came the father, without his son, visited the child. He left his son to be cared by the maidens and trained by professional heroes. He and his wife kept their daughter somewhere before the bandits take her life.

It is a policy to kill female babies under five years. They'll be safe when reaching six.

The little girl, known as the Loving Child, stayed with her mother and rarely saw her father. The father failed to keep in touch with his wife just to ask about his daughter. The mother kept her hidden from the bandits. While the son, known as the Dragon, stayed clueless. He stayed with his father while trained and thought to be tough and steady.

But as years passed, they will never be the same.

Saturday, July 16, 2011

A Very "Formal" Celebration

Another celebration. A feast. A gathering. And an unforgettable meeting and moment. Ryuu sits at the almost central part of the table with his girl friend (who is a moon nymph) Miyako beside him. She looked a lot more passive than Aika,who sat at the other side with Ash. Ruko and Amy argued over a giant peach. Mirouni hummed tunes under her breath and Koizumu sat beside them and silently watching the other allies gathered around the table. The guests were ALL dark creatures: demons, death rebels, fallen angels, ghosts, materialized spirits, and phantoms. Butlers served wine and fruits to the guests. The main butlers served the greatest dish to the seven guardians (plus Miyako).

Each of them were given goblets. Silver goblets with wine. Except Ryuu who owned a gold one. It is the great goblet used by the Dragon and is known for its pure heavy quantity. Ryuu managed to hold it like a simple wine glass.

The guests, however, broke into chit-chats. One phantom sent drabbles and hordes of comments to the others. Aika's eyes glanced toward that phantom who is making a fool out of himself and blurting out a lot of foolish and random words.

The phantom actually sat beside Raifu Shi, a creature destined to kill and disobey the gods and a master of Latin incantations. The phantom beside him drank his wine and started to get himself thrown up. He simply rolled his eyes.

"Ryuu-sama is really an amazing ruler,right? Talk about awesome! He knows a lot of cool abilities no other dark creature can do!" the crazy phantom complimented gaily. "And the way he talks and raises the dead. Damn cool!"

"Alright... you may calm down now," a fallen angel named Hikaru tapped him on the shoulder. "You should talk formally. We're having a feast here,"

The phantom snorted. "Nah, who cares? Ryuu-sama doesn't mind. I'm just giving him compliments,"

Hikaru sighed. "But that doesn't mean you have to do it all the time. It's kinda...improper, you know?"

"What's with that guy?" Aika asked, irritated. She couldn't concentrated on her thoughts and she gets distracted from drinking her wine. "Who is he, anyway?" she faced her brother who is staring at the phantom by the corner of his eye.

"That's Loki. Obviously adapted from the god of mischief. He does that all the time," Ryuu replied calmly. "As long as you maintain your patience, you have to get used to it,"

"I don't think the fallen angel over there is not amused," Koizumu pointed towards Hikaru with her lips. Ryuu sighed. Hikaru started to lose her temper and her blue eyes are glowing between red and normal.

"Do another improper behavior or I'll..." she cussed. Ryuu turned his sharp gaze at her with his green eyes transformed into scarlet, darker than Hikaru's.

"Matsumoto," he said sternly. "Get a hold on yourself,"

Hikaru flinched and bit her lip. "Sumimasen..."

"Don't you think we should kick that guy out?" Ruko suggested. "He's driving me crazy,"

"He's starting to bother Raifu-kun over there," Mirouni's eyes went towards a nearly annoyed Raifu holding his temper while Loki ranted more harsh compliments that are starting to humiliate everyone.

"You could try charm-speaking him," Ash suggested to his sister. "You've done that before,"

Mirouni sighed. "Onii-san, how many times do I have to tell you I don't want to do that? They think I'm some kind of a hag who uses hypnosis on people,"

"Charm-speaking won't work," Ryuu tells her. "Authority will do,"

"Ooh, did I mentioned Miyako-chan is pretty and cute? Yep, she's a moon nymph alright," Loki laughed merrily. "HAHAHAHA! I like her hair. She kinda reminds me of Rapunzel~"

Miyako's cheeks turned red from flattery. "I'm not Rapunzel," she muttered.

"Ryuu-sama," a demon named Shadow Blackwolf let out a small cough. "Can you at least make him shut up?"

"Ei, Shadow, my man!" Loki suddenly broke in,waving his hand at Shadow. "It's been a while since I last saw you!" The demon frustratedly rolled his eyes and grumbled.

Just then, the door flew open. A guy wearing a red shirt with a monstrous and idiotic face stood on the door. Everyone stared at him in shock. Raifu felt cold water splashed all over his face.

"Ei, fellas! The name's Fryll! Nice to see a very beautiful place like this one!"

Raifu spitted out his drink. "What the...! Why the..! HOW THE..?!"

Fryll turned towards Raifu. "Whoooaaa... Raifu-kins! Never knew you're here! C'mon, mah man! Let's have some fun!"

"Get... Out..." he hissed. He cursed at him in Latin.

"Hey, isn't he the idiot who busted Koizu-chan's science experiment?" Amy asked. Koizumu grumbled and poked her hard with her elbow.

"Well, well, an unexpected guest!" Loki grinned, extending his hand. "The name's Loki, fella. Nice to meetcha."

The two shook hands and grinned at the audience.

"We hope Ryuu-sama won't mind if we invite this fella with us,"

"Of course I would," was his laconic answer. Raifu sighed in relief. But then his gaze went on Raifu. "How did this human know about our hide-out?"

"He must've followed me," Raifu hissed at Fryll. His hands balled into fists.

"Sorry," Hikaru said. "You are not welcome here. Loki, you may drag him out," she said. But Loki just stuck out his tongue.

"Nuh-uh," he said stubbornly. "He's my guest. I have the right to put him in,"

"Oh, really?" Raifu smirked. "That nuisance is a mortal with no powers. Ryuu-sama can easily reap his soul and RIP it apart,"

Loki blinked. "Whoa... really?"He grinned and turned towards the skeptic redhead. "Ryuu-sama, can you teach me how to reap? I always wanted to have my own scythe,"

"Dark creatures are not wielded with weapons that easily," Ryuu said. "Reaping souls is never an easy task."

"Aww c'mon! How come everyone has to train? Why can't I be part of them?!"

"Loki, a phantom like you seriously needs discipline and respect." the redhead says sternly. "If you're complaining, you might as well get a new life and prove yourself worthy,"

"Yeah right,"Loki rolled his eyes. "A ruler bossing me again," Hikaru shot him the "red" glare.

"Don't you dare discourage him," she hissed.

"Ooh, what does this do?" Fryll suddenly drank a vial of potion beside Koizumu's hand. He walked all the way just to get his hands on it.

"H-hey!" she retorted. "That thing's not even tested yet!"

Aika suddenly swallowed her grape fruit whole when Fryll randomly drank the potion. Her eyes widened. She swallowed. Ash knew what she meant.

A cloud of green smoke filled the area. What everyone saw made them gag. A witch with a long nose stood on Fryll's face.Koizumu's jaw dropped. "What the..?!"

"Hee-hee-hahahahahahaha!" Fryll let out a freaky witch's laugh. "At last I can do sorcery!"

"AWESOME!" Loki grinned. "I wanna try!"

Ryuu closed his eyes and snapped his fingers in the air. Loki and the witch Fryll were suddenly dragged across the room and led into an invisible cage. They banged their fists against the invisible wall that will trap them forever.

"Hey, lemme out!" Loki yelled.

"Who turned off the air conditioner?" Fryll suddenly asked.

"Good thing he trapped them," Shadow smiled,enjoying the two idiots struggling and squirming. The girl on his left has the blonde hair paler than Miyako's named Light Misuto.

"That witch guy over there almost looked like the one from Snow White,"

Koizumu held her laughter and grinned. I'm so good~

Since then, the two idiots were always stuck in that invisible cage with a fatal barrier. Then, it's Raifu's responsibility because Fryll mentions a lot of stuff about him and a boy named Zerafi Tendo.

-that's all XD