While Cleon is driving his car, a beam of red light appeared in front of him that made the end of his lips curved upward in slight relief that he's nearly there to see his beloved daughter.
After he entered the beam of light that turned out to be a portal to the Villa of some people. His eyebrows narrowed in curiosity thinking of 'What is this place? Why am I even here? Why did the butterfly lead me to this place? Is my daughter here?' a lot of questions were popping out of his mind as he drove to the gate of a Villa.
He stopped the car in front of the gate where a guy looking like a butler or already a butler stood in front of the gate, Cleon lowered down the car window and asks the guy "Mister, I'm Cleon Esquivel and———" he was about to start asking when the guy cuts in "Ah, Mr. Esquivel what a pleasure to meet you. Welcome!Please get out of the car and come with me." he instructed and he does as what the guy said.
"We're so glad to hear that finally, we're gonna meet you Mr. Esquivel" the butler spoke cheerfully that made Cleon think about what's going on.
As they reached the gigantic wooden door, the butler-looking guy pushed both doors open and a crowd of people layed their attention to the person who's about to enter the door with some genuine smile on their faces which made them look creepy in Cleon's perspective. "Don't you see something strange?" Cleon asked the butler while their walking in the center of the crowd "Strange? That's just how they smile genuinely Sire. Don't be scared, they won't bite" he jokes at him.
But still, Cleon feels something bad about this place. As they approached the mini stage in front, the butler-looking guy took the microphone on the long rectangular table at the right side near the mini stage and patted the microphone three times before placing it in front of his mouth and speaks "Sound check, sound check sound check" he checked the microphone's sounds if there's nothing wrong to bother the celebration.
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen, tonight, we're celebrating our two hundred and eightieth foundation of our group and with a special guest who'll be joining us tonight, Mr. Cleon Esquivel." he introduced while gesturing his hand towards Cleon as he says his name with a genuine smile; Cleon replied with a slight bowing of his head and a bright smile managing his fright and suspense of what's going on.
"We've been looking up at you for what accomplishments and achievements you've received for being so great in doing everything in your life, so we'd like to ask you about it. What is the very thing that made you do things greatly?" the butler-looking guy asked then handed over the microphone to Cleon.
"Thank you for that question, the very thing that made me do things greatly is my family. I'm doing these things just for them but even if I don't have those stuffs, I'll be willing to do things for their happiness and a better life." he answered.
Some people were now wiping their tears with tissue papers and some with their handkerchiefs due to what they've heard "Aww, that's so sweet of you for thinking of how you've been doing things wholeheartedly and it's because of your family. If your family heard this, I'm sure they'll be very proud of you Sire." the butler-looking guy replied "Give it a round of applause for Mr. Cleon Esquivel" he added and the crowd does as what's been said.
"Please besitted" the butler-looking guy spoke and everyone sat down on each chair reserved for them around the long rectangular table, he gestured Cleon on where he was assigned to and the dishes appeared one by one on the table that made Cleon's eyes widened in surprise when the Lechong Baboy appeared in front of him.
Every guest who attended the party ate happily except Cleon, who's still thinking about his known daughter that really wasn't his daughter about her condition and keeps on hoping that she's in good condition right now. After some moments of playing games that surely entertains everyone, Cleon felt good about it that he forgot about his doubts and made each and every people's lips reached from ear to ear.
The sun rose brightly, birds were chirping around as the leaves in the trees were waving. What a wonderful day to start a life in process. As every morning she wakes up, there's always a trace of dried sour saliva flowing out of the corner of her mouth.
(chicken crowing)
I looked for my alarm clock on the bedside table while my eyes are closed.
"hmmm" I yawned as my eyebrows narrowed while my eyes are still closed as I dig into the alarm clock on the bedside table. When I turned off the alarm, I put my left hand on the left side of my face and rubbed my eye; I left lying down and sat down. I was greeted by bright and warm sunshine, I blocked my right hand to prevent the rays coming from the sun on the right side of the room; I slowly opened my heavy lashes wanting more sleep but even though I want to, I have to wake up to study.
I faced the mirror at the bathroom and opened my eyes, my hair is tangled with each strand with traces of dried sour saliva dripping down my mouth while I slept.
I arranged myself for school and leave the room; when I entered the living room, a red velvet envelope with my name on it is lying on the floor near the door.
I walk towards it and picked it up "Where did this come from?" I thought as I glared at each side of it while my eyebrows narrowed.
A moment later, my eyes widened as my eyes fall to my wristwatch on my left arm. "Oh Shoot, I'm late!" I hurriedly put the envelope inside my bag and pull the door from the outside and...
"Huh?" I pulled the door but it won't move. "What's wrong with this door?" I just closed my eyes as I pulled the door shut. A moment later, the door moved little by little "One more pull and you're ready to go Aly" I cheered myself then I took a deep breath and let it out before pulling the door again. The door moved to shut so I removed my hand from the door; I started walking away when suddenly...
(Bang!) A loud sound of the door echoed in whole subdivision. "Oh... No..." I whispered as I heard that it was from the door in my condominium.
"Hey! will you please be quiet lady!?" the neighbor of my neighbor exclaimed.
"I'm sorry Mr. Flores." I apologized.
(Baby crying)
"Look what you've done. You wake the baby!"
"I'm sorry, I'm i-in——" I'm about to tell the reason when Mr. Flores cuts in.
"I have no time for your excuses! Make the baby fall asleep again or you'll be thrown out from your condominium!" I've been hammered at my position, wanting to say something but no words comes out. 'Where will I stay if I'm thrown out?'
"Ms. Esquivel!" Mr. Flores yelled my name bringing my spirit back to where I am.
"Y-Yes sir" I ran towards their house and wait for Mr. Flores to open the door. My heart started thumping loudly as I think about my situation with my studies and living; there will be some consequences after this one.
After making the baby fall asleep, I sighed in relief then carefully put the baby inside the crib. But when I was about to put the baby down, the baby cries again. 'I thought you were asleep, looks like you're just about to sleep' I thought in my mind while I put the baby to sleep 'I hope this baby goes to sleep fast, I'm really gonna be punished' I thought.
Some time later, the baby is now finally getting its sleep. I glared at the sleeping baby in the crib with a small curve in the lips then suddenly, a phone rang.
"Hello" it was Mr. Flores' phone rang lately.
"Yup, still here"
"Okay, bye" then he ended up the call.
My heart started thumping loudly like there was something bad is going to happen. A second later, it was harder for me to breathe; my eyelashes gets heavier as my body weakens causing me to fall to the floor. My vision rotates with each awakening of my eyes, until I let my body rest because I can no longer move my body.
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"Dad!" a person wearing a red-hooded coat cried as that person saw its own father laying on the street bathed in his own blood while his internal organs were revealed due to the slash in his stomach.
"THIS WAS ALL YOUR FAULT ALYCIONE!" the person cried out with stress at every syllable at every word as hot liquids flow from the eyes of hers while holding its father's head in its arms.
"I WILL MAKE YOU PAY!" the person wearing a red-hooded coat exclaimed with stress at each word as its eyes were blazing with anger; she hold the knife near the body of its father and say "I'll make her pay for what she took from me and I'll make sure of her end." the person gritted its teeth in anger as that person tightly hold the knife in its sharp side or wedge causing that person's blood to flow at the end of the knife. "Rest now father, be happy in your destination" the person added as the person caressed its father's right side of the face leaving some of that person's blood on the father's face.
Meanwhile, at Flores' residence....
"Whe-where where am I?" her eyes slowly orifices after a long shut-eye.
"Goodness you're awake, why did you slumber on the floor?" He asked her as he gave her a glass of water.
She drank the glass of water Mr. Flores had given her, "I-i.... s-sorry s-sir" she apologized as she make an obeisance thinking of what had happened earlier that she couldn't understand.
"You may leave now, the baby's asleep" then he left her in the living room.
She stood up and grabbed her bag, leaving the Flores' residence at peace. She sighed as she traipse on the white rock pavements to the next class which was 10:30 a.m.
I pulled the door and the face of Usher greeted me with some bitter smiles and blazing eyes that were about to kill.
"Oh, hi there little flirt, why did you come up so early?" she greeted a deadly grin as she folded her arms in front of her.
"Were you dreaming about you having Cyd as yours?" she grinned as she slightly tilted her head to the left. "Well...." she started and stepped closer to me and smiled annoyingly, "I'm sorry, because he'll be mine soon and he will choose me because my rank and standards is higher than yours. Maybe he volunteered to train you in your slaying skills, but I'm sure he doesn't like you and you're just an annoying trash in his life" she grinned as she slapped me with hurtful words that stab me in my heart; she spoke those words with stress in the words 'Doesn't like' and 'Annoying trash'.
I smiled at her and says "Okay, and will you please excuse me, you're blocking the way." she's blocking the way so I made my way inside, I diverted her and went to my seat.
"Were not done yet Alycione!" she yelled that call the attention of many students and made me and Usher the center of attention.
"Then undone, noted" I replied with cold tone and a face with no expression visible.
"You!" her eyes were totally blazing with anger as she stomped closer to her while her nails were digging into the skin of her palms.
"Me what?" I spoke then scoffed while I stared at her disgusted face.
"You're nothing compared to me, I'm way much better than you!" she said angrily that made me sneer.
"If I'm nothing, then why are you wasting your time telling me that you're the one he'll be choosing in the future? OMG! Do you see the future? Wow, congratulations, it'll wake you up in daydreaming" I grinned.
3rd person's POV
Her eyes widened in shock due to Alycione's unexpected answer, where did this woman come from? Is this the one that can knock her down for the first time?
"Y-You—" she was about to speak when Alycione cuts in.
"And why are you so affected about that trainer-trainee connection if you already know that he'll be yours?" I folded my arms in front of me and a small curve formed in my lips. "do you think i can get him from you? oh wait, is he yours? Or are you really the only one who assumes that he's yours? Look at you, a beauty queen and do you think he will like me? Are you kidding me?" She grinned and shook her head.
She raised her hand to slap Alycione, she just sneered and dodged when she's about to slap her causing her to twist and fall to the floor. A loud thud echoed in the room.
Just as Cyd arrived, he saw Usher on the floor "What happened here?" he asked. "Cyd, please help me stand. Aly slapped me so hard it made me fall on the floor" Usher said while doing those puppy eyes while she raised her arm expecting Cyd to help her.
He scoffed "Go help yourself Kath, I know you're the one who started a fight and it ended up with you on the floor right now so you definitely don't need any help except for yourself" he stated coldly.
He approached Alycione with some strands of hair down to chin blocking her face. He hugged her tight and closed his eyes as he sniffed Alycione's fragrant scent, he smiled and opened his eyes; he held both of her arms "Are you okay?" he asked with concern and sincerity in his eyes.
"I'm okay, thank you for your concern" she answered calmly and smiled at him.
(Bell rings)
Alycione's POV
It's now recess, all students were uproarious to buy they're snacks to eat. I get my sandwich out of my bag and begin eating.
As I do my first bite on my sandwich...
"Ahhhhhh!" a loud scream is heard out of nowhere. Out of curiosity, I stood up and went to where the scream came from; my eyes widened in shock to what I just saw, a girl being stabbed in the left side of the neck as the skin of her face is being slashed three times diagonally from the upper left face to the lower right face of the victim and blood keeps on flowing down while she sat on a wooden chair with her body tied up in it. Students gather their phones and take a picture of the victim.
3rd person's POV
A moment later, someone from the back spoke.
"Ahem!" he cleared his throat but no one took notice of it. "ONE!" He counts loudly that made every student dropped their phones in shock and slowly turning around to look at the person who counts at them.
He made his demonic expression surrounding a cold aura and one eye contact with him, is like he can slay you before a second is counted. "TWO!" he continued and a sarcastic smile occurred in his lips that made all the students dashed away from the scene. "Except you!" he spoke as he points at her while sneering devilishly.
She's not sure if who's the one he's pointing to, so she keeps on traipsing slowly. "Hey! Sandwich girl!" He yelled that made her turn around slowly at his direction.
Everybody vanished from the scene and left Alycione with this 6 foot and 7 inches guy who's now grinning at her innocent reaction and the girl being slaughtered by someone. He traipse towards her as he glared at her with the chocolate brown orbs of his that matches his face.
In the midst of walking, he stopped when he reached a distance of 3 steps before her; he took his cellphone out of the right pocket of his slacks and ask "You killed him, don't you?" that made her eyebrows furrowed and slightly tilt her head to the right "H-huh? Who's him?" she asked in confusion.
"Him." he coldly spoke and and showed her a picture of her with the man who had died in the woods. Her eyes widened as she observed the picture that it was her, standing near the dead man. "I didn't kill him!" she protested "Liar! You're the person caught in the scene and you're gonna say you didn't kill him!?" he yelled and scoffed at her; she make and obeisance and spoke "Yes, it was me in the picture but I didn't slay him I swear, I just saw him already dead with a knife stabbed in his head!" she explained.
"Based on your words, it seems like you really are...." she lift her head for expecting that he'll be persuaded that she's... "GUILTY" he grinned with stress and a hoarse voice that made her smile disappear.
"B-but, I didn't slay him" she replied "then why is your fingerprint seen in the knife, hmm?" his eyebrow raised as he asked her and he fold his arms in front of his chest.
She make an obeisance knowing that there is a strong evidence against her and she can't prove that she's innocent just by saying that.
Out of the blue, a slow clapping sound broke the silence that made her head lift. "Very well done, congratulations Ms. Esquivel. I never thought that a newbie will do such thing to get the rank higher" he greeted that made her eyebrows narrowed in confusion. "W-what do you mean?" she asked due to curiosity.
He released a silent sigh while he closed his eyes and smirked as he open them "You really are a newbie. Here in this University, the more you slay, the higher your position will be and there's another way to be at the top, and that is...."
"And that is?" she asked "slay a high ranked student" he sneered devilishly that made her eyes widened in shock, her knees were shaking that made her fall to the ground.
"I didn't slay him, I swear!" she protested that made him shook his head slowly while grinning "If you really are innocent, what are the words written on the piece of cloth wrapped around the left sharp Fang attached near the knife's wedge found stabbed in Mr. Ortiz's head?" he smirked.
"The words written was... Be Happy, Now Get Ready" she answered while her shoulders suddenly sagged that made him grin even more intimidating than it already did.
"In that case, you really are guilty and there's nothing you can do to prove that you're innocent just by saying that, it also come out from your mouth that the picture ain't edited so..." her head lifted up and gazed at him as he spoke "you need to accept my offer, be my Vice President from now on, you have to sustain the spreading issue that you killed the SSG Vice President Lynell Ortiz or you shall die in just for a couple of minutes from now" he smirked.
She took a deep breath as she decide which one she'll choose, be the replacement or be slaughtered. "I'll be your Vice President." she replied. He walks towards her and lend his hand in front of her, waiting for her to reach it. As she saw his hand in front of her face, she looked at his hand with confusion.
"Are you gonna take it or not? My arm's getting tired of waiting for you to take it" he coldly spoke that made her blink many times and slightly shooked her head. She reached his hand and he pulled her upward helping her to get up from lying on the ground.
As she stood in her feet, she couldn't feel her right foot standing and felt a twinge in her foot whenever she tried to move it. His eyes widened when she suddenly leaned forward and hugged him tightly "What are you doing?" he surprisingly asked but he still manage to say it with a hoarse voice; her hands began to shake in fright and replies "P-please, d-don't push me away. I can't feel my right foot."
He sighed as he calm down himself, "Okay" he replied as he swiftly place her in his arms like how a groom carry his bride after the wedding; her eyes broadened as if before a second count, she was being carried by this handsome young guy without even noticing his moves.
Some moment after he started walking "S-sir. You can now put me down, I can feel my foot now" she spoke that broke the silence covering them "Oh, is that so?" he put her down on the trunk of the near oak tree and kneel down before her, he hold her right foot and moved it carefully in a clockwise direction "Ah! it hurts" she groaned in pain that result him to stare at her raising one of his eyebrows "I thought you can stand all by yourself?" he asked, she looked down at her foot, silenced.
"Is that what it looks like to be able to stand in its own feet? I don't think so" he added and took a sigh; he carried her again in bridal style; she gasp in surprise "Hey hey hey, what are you doing?" she asked as her eyes enhanced by his sudden movements "Hmm? Carrying you, is there a problem?" he spoke as he laid his eyes on her "Y-you can't do that!" she replied as her heart started thumping loudly "And why? You don't have the right to tell me what I can or can't do" he coldly answered that silenced her.