It’s night time, the sky looks clear without a single star, and clouds, but there is something else in that clear night sky, there are… two moons. The twin moon, now, people treat it as a natural phenomenon or some sort, understandable, because humans believe what they see as the truth and nothing more.
On one of the streets in the slums area, the street was dirty and there were many rundown buildings on the right and left side. Many people sleep on the pavement with cardboard as their mattress and dirty blankets to cover the rest of their body. A little boy wearing tattered clothes with a makeshift pistol on his right-hand walks past all the people with a devious smile on his face, the people around him cowering in fear especially when they look at the makeshift pistol, they don’t want a hole on their head.
The little boy finally stopped at the mouth of a giant tunnel in front of him. The tunnel was covered with moss, trash and there were a lot of mice. In the middle of the tunnel, there is a waterway which connects all the way from the water fountain in the plaza to the sewer in the royal area. The little boy can hear many footsteps from the inside of the tunnel, he rubs his chin and murmurs, they are starting, eh… perfect, I need to kill this Rompis lad, tonight.
The little boy went into the tunnel cautiously, he climbed the ladder to the second platform. Thanks to his little body structure, he easily slips past the narrow path and obstacle on the second platform, he goes on exploring the tunnel from above. Until he spotted a crowd of people in a vast area with lots of pipes, the people sat on those pipes like a chair. That vast area seemed to be a gathering place. Because the little boy is on the second platform, he is out of radar of the surveillance of the people bellow, there are thousands of people under him with pistols, machete and molotov, the little boy eyes scanned the area, there he spotted a speech podium on the middle of the gathering place.
The little boy grabs his makeshift pistol on his right hand, then it transforms into some sort of sniper with a silencer on the end of it nozzle, then he pulls one of his front teeth, he endured the pain of forcefully pull his teeth as his mouth bleeds, the blood trickles down and touch the sniper, it transforms again into a bizarre and eerie sniper with lots of tiny tentacles. Those tentacles grab the little boy tooth and place it inside the sniper, the little boy takes his position and looks at the speech podium waiting for his target to come.
A middle age man with skinny body and a face full of scars, his eyes that look like a dead fish, his curly brown hair, he is wearing a pair of black earrings, tattered clothes and his body is full of tattoo, that man walks to the speech podium on the middle of the place, the crowds soon went silent when that man announce his presence, then he tore off his tattered clothes and the crowds saw the tattoo on his front chest, it says ‘ringleader’ , as he is standing on the speech podium scanning all the people full of killing intent, but he made a middle finger gesture to them, a wide grin appeared on his face, he is the one who controlled all the gangs in the slums, the ringleader, Rompis.
“It seems you all have been waiting for this moment, to run amok and burn this sickening kingdom of Welsterven.” Rompis said as he clenched his fist and grit his teeth, all the crowds thumping their shoes to the ground together to make some sort of chant, and Rompis went on to his speech. “My brothers… we’ve become too silent and as a result someone broke the truce… our good old friend, the police, bobby… they betrayed us with their own stupid rules.”
Rompis raise his pointy finger and shouted, “One fucking police officer wiped a thousand of our people! I’m sure you heard the rumor about him…the binman…our fallen brothers, the lazy crooks…they got killed… and the next day, the police did what?...a fucking award ceremony for killing us!, isn’t that immoral?, we are humans too! not an animal that needs to be caught and slaughtered, they are spreading the goddess teaching, saying her benevolence didn’t discriminate and it reached all the people… but did it reach us?. FUCK NO! the king and the nobles, they made a social class, apparently we are the lowest status, we are slave, slave to the kingdom, slave of this fucking system, waiting to be hunted and put the collar around our neck. They are treating us like an animal, yet they have a religion that teaches about life, the goddess of light and life, Seraphina. What a joke! They're all hypocrites!”
All the crowds became agitated as they are clenching their fist and grit their teeth, they all what you call as a parasite of society, the failed product of an industry, an industry called kingdom that is full of controversy and heresy, but deep inside none of it is true about them, they are humans, they have identity, they have empathy, they have morality. They’ve gone through many sorrows in their life, they can feel something inside them become hollow, it’s their soul, they have lost their faith in humanity.
Rompis took a deep breath to calm himself, then he slowly scanned all the people, his eyes looking weary and tired, but his burning spirit didn’t fade out, as he shouted.
“My brothers!! I’ve decided, tonight we will show this sick-place the taste of their own medicine!, we will kill, pillage, and destroy their cherished home, just like they did to us, they did it first, why we can’t fight back?, we have dignity to protect!, The sanctuary, the Doctor just gave you all the pills to make you ignore all the pain, you can let out your anger, your frustration, to them!!” All the thousands of people became excited when Rompis said that, then he said another thing which was quite shocking to them, “Don’t worry, our friends in the jail will join us in this party, before I got here, I freed all of them, I have successfully raided the jail.”
The crowds raise their hand in unison and shout together like a war cry, Rompis slowly raise both his hands to the air, and said,
“Tonight, we will kill the goddess and this kingdom, the sanctuary will truly become our sanctuary, and Antonio, we will worship him as our ruler, our god!”
The crowds shouted Antonio multiple times, he is the one who helped them, he is the one who gave them a proper job, he is the one who didn’t turn a blind eye to them, compared to goddess Seraphina who did nothing. All the people here want to repay Antonio for his kindness, but again, did Antonio ever cared for such kindness and moral in the first place?, because suddenly right now, there is a hole on Rompis chest.
The crowds went dead silence, Rompis take a look at his chest, there he saw a hideous hole, his heart isn’t there anymore, he looks at the crowds to check but he is the only one who got this hole, bloods slowly escaped from his mouth, his whole body turned pale, his pupil rolled into white, the crowds looks at their ringleader with their hairs raised up, they got goosebumps because of what they saw… Rompis just died, he died while standing on that speech podium. They didn’t hear anything amiss, not even a gunshot, it looked strange and creepy, then they heard a shout which made them snap back to reality.
“IT’S THE POLICE!! THEY USED A SNIPER WITH SILENCER!!”
That's what they heard from a sudden shout. They don’t know who is the person who shouted that out loud, but it’s convincing enough to explain this situation. They all got up from their seats and all of them shared the same feeling. It was anger, anger towards the police. They all swarmed at the ladder near them that connects to the manhole in the royal area.
“IT’S THE POLICE!!! THEY KILLED ROMPIS!!”
“THEY BETRAY US, THEY LIED TO US, WE WANT JUSTICE FOR ROMPIS!”
That’s what the crowds said, more and more people started climbing the ladder and some of them arrived on the surface through the manhole, the sounds of people screaming and explosives could be heard from the surface, and chaos occurred in the middle of the night. There is a person, a little boy who can’t stop laughing while looking at those fools, they can’t see him because of his little body structure plus he blends into his surroundings perfectly, he is the one who shot Rompis using a bizarre sniper on his hand and the one who shout that fake call, as he mockingly said,
“Hahahaha they believe what they saw and what they heard like a fool, they are bunch of fools”
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At the same time, in the royal area, to be exact, in the opera house where there is still a late-night performance, William sat and watched the performance at the VIP lounge alone. He didn’t want to invite Vendetta because he thought Vendetta is fine watching at the audience seat with Vilily, William smiled when he saw the couple happily watching the late-night performance, he looks at the painting at the wall, it’s William’s family painting that his wife couldn’t complete it, only William’s part that doesn’t have any color, he didn’t understand about art, but he felt that his wife is trying to tell him that it’s perfect because she is died while smiling when looking at that unfinished painting.
William let out a long sigh, then he shifts his focus on the late-night performance, it’s a performance called the fool, it’s a comedy sketch where the main character was born with low intelligence, he grows up with laughter of the people and ridicule towards him, he acts like a clown that’s why everyone called him the fool, until he meets a young lady that he really likes, unfortunately that young lady suffered from rare illness which makes her unable to laugh, laugh is a strange concept to her, her parents consulted countless doctors and physician, but they all told the young lady parents to give her these prescriptions, that stimulate her body to laugh, it’s been 18 years and the young lady still can’t laugh out loud, her expression is always stiff as board, even worst she can’t smiled to people and her parents.
“One day when she was walking with her parents, she saw a ridiculous young man who acts like a fool, he slipped because he just steps on banana on the road, and he even point at the banana saying that the banana is alive, that young man action made the young lady parents stay away from him, but not for the young lady because she…smiled when she saw him.” said William, his eyes focused on the actor who is acting on the podium, William chuckled when he saw the main character funny acts, the fool is William’s favorite performance, because he too was once a fool, being an illegitimate child of king Edward IV, he always want to prove himself, he studied very hard when he was a kid, he became a noble and starts doing business, having a connection to the palace, many people used him for their drugs, slave auction, prostitution establishments.
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William didn’t have a choice back then, that’s the only way to prove his worth to the higher society, truly, he was a fool, he watched people getting addicted with the drugs he sold, he sold people lives like an accessory, he watched many young ladies gives their virginity just to continue living, some of them ended getting pregnant and throw away the innocence baby. One day William had enough, he run away from the palace, and he met with Evelina, his soulmate, William life starts to change, he give up his dream of proving himself, he cut ties with the palace people, he starts studying acting and before he knew it, he reach where he is now, but, his wife, Evelina, she didn’t make it, and she passed away leaving William alone when he is at the top now.
“I am…a fool…heh…Evelina…dear…I really missed you..” said William, his eyes start to get watery, as he watches the performance unfolds, the story continued with the girl parents hired the fool to entertain their daughter, every day he acted and watched how he made the girl smiled and laugh, then one day, she is laughing but this time it’s not from the fool, she got married with someone else, dumping him, the one who cured her rare illness, unfortunately, he is too dumb to understand that, he keeps coming back to the girl house like a creep until her new husband report the fool to the police, they arrest him and interrogates him, again, he is too dumb to understand all the question that the police asked to him, they decided that he is guilty, and finally the story ended with the fool execution, as everyone watched how he got decapitated with guillotine knife, his last expression however was, smiling, smiling to the crowds, he think that the crowd gathered for his birthday.
The late-night performance ended, the crowds was too shocked with that sudden twist at the end, some of them shed a tear for the misfortune of the main character in the fool , even it made William speechless, even though he already watched the show multiple times, the ending always get him, when he was about to get up from his seat, he noticed the chair beside him trembles, William focused on that trembling chair until a surreal and strange event unfold, he saw it, he saw it with his own eyes, how that ordinary chair turned into disgusting and eerie mouth creature, he stumble back to the floor, with panicked expression, he never saw anything strange and horrifying like that, it’s almost like his nightmare became reality, suddenly that mouth creature opened itself, there is a person sitting on that tongue and he said.
“My apologies, it seems I scare you a bit, the king bastard son, William Feld.” said the jet black haired long man-bun gentleman wearing a suit and a monocle, with his sorry face expression and black gloves on his hand sitting elegantly at the tongue of that mouth, William whole body trembles when he saw that person, he knows who he was, he is the law, the judge of Welsterven, Antonio Del Sanctuary.
“W-why did you come here?,” said William, he stuttered at his word, the person in front of him, Antonio, get up from that tongue, and it closed itself, the mouth creature turned back into an ordinary chair when Antonio get up and approach William, he fixed his monocle on his right eye, and move his face closer to William’s face who is on the floor, then he said with threatening voice.
“I have many reasons to come here William, in the past, you conducted many illegal businesses, little by little you gathered all the wealth, suddenly, you switched into acting… you erased all your past record with the money you earned, but your trick is futile against me, since you didn’t want anyone to know your past, I made a new plan… a plan to erase your future… that’s right, I’m the one who made your wife suffered that illness, I just showed her who you truly are, William, your past record, I wrote it back on the letter, envelope it, and send it to her… and she begged me to not call you into the court, but, she need to bear your accumulated sin, she accepted it for your sake William… You know, I have the ability to modify living beings and non-living beings.” Said Antonio as he removes one of his gloves, he grabs William’s neck and raises him like a hunter that caught his prey.
“I-I…Impossible…Evelina…she… died…because of me?...” William's mind raced as he struggled to process Antonio's words. The weight of guilt and grief bore down on him, threatening to suffocate him. He had believed Evelina's illness was a cruel twist of fate, never imagining it was orchestrated by someone he knew. Someone he had once crossed paths with in his dark past.
"You... you did this..." William's voice cracked, his eyes wide with horror and disbelief.
Antonio's grip tightened around William's neck, his expression cold and calculating.
"Yes, William. I did. And I can do much worse than you think. You see, I have plans for this kingdom, plans that don't include a bastard son with a tainted past. I need to kill you, so you don't become the king of Welsterven."
William’s face turned to pale as Antonio coldly looks at him, William tried to break free from Antonio’s grip, he punches Antonio’s hand, kicking him, but it was to no avail, his eyes wander off and he saw the painting of his family that her wife made, the one where he thought the painting is not finished yet, it’s the opposite really, when he is on the brink of death he finally understand why his wife said that, the painting is perfect, the reason why there is no color for William’s portrait is his past, his wife didn’t paint it because William’s life is full of color, she hoped that the portrait is like a new canvas to him, and she was right, he became a completely different person, there are people who care for him, his children, his staff in the Field club, why he didn’t realize this sooner, truly, he is a fool, as his body slowly turned into lifeless doll.
“William Feld… your sins have been paid.” Antonio said, he turned William into a lifeless doll, then he pierces the heart location of William doll’s body, he grabs a white small pearl from that place, he throws the dead body to the floor, he examined the white small with his monocle, a wide grin appeared on his face, this small thing on his hand is the soul of a person, an essence of a living being, a precious thing which contained many secrets.
When Antonio wanted to leave from this VIP lounge, he heard a door open, a couple just saw what he did to William, two eye-witnesses, Antonio froze on his spot, what should he do?, deceive them with words and money? No, he needs to kill them both. First he will kill the young lady and the young man behind her, Antonio’s feet turned into a grasshopper leg which made him leap fast to the young lady, the young lady startled and dropped to her knees when she witnessed that. Antonio extends both his hands trying to choke her when suddenly, an unexpected thing happens.
“DON’T YOU EVER TOUCH HER WITH YOUR FILTHY HANDS!!” the young man shouted as his hands grabs Antonio both hands, the two of them wrestling and in a stalemate position, the young man face contorts into a mask… a black vendetta mask, Antonio widen his eyes when he saw that, the white pearl on Antonio suit’s pocket fly to that mask like it’s being vacuumed, then the mouth of that mask opened itself and eat that white pearl.
Antonio became enraged when he saw that…it was his chance to obtain more information with that thing, and it all got ruined because of nobody?, unforgivable!, this bastard… I need to kill this bastard!! Antonio’s mind became unstable because of his sudden rage, he didn’t aware the fact that on the young man right hand there is a flintlock pistol that materialized out of thin air and shoot at his face in close distance, the ammunition is a flaming bullet, there is a flaming hole on Antonio’s left cheek that blast through his right cheek which made his mouth bleeds, he can feel his mouth burning with flames, he grab his lower face with his hands and rolls on the ground, the pain of high burning injury made him screamed.
“AHHHHH… IT HURTS…YOU!!”
Antonio extends his right hand and clench it, the flintlock pistol on the young man right hand contorts into a balloon to explode, but he successfully throw it to Antonio right before it explode to his face, Antonio took the blast of explosion right into his face, the young man grab the young lady hand and both of them flee, leaving Antonio which is getting burned alive, then, Antonio arise with his whole body that is burning, his flesh were melting like a candle, he took the stairs down and the crowds saw his gruesome appearance, the whole crowds panicked and flee to the exit, another explosion could be heard from the outside, Antonio sit at the audience seat to heal himself by touching at the burned wounds, his skin wiggles back like a bunch of maggots, then he finally healed, he catch his breathing and then he laugh out loud while covering his face with his right hand, then he brush off his hair, he clench his teeth and laugh.
“Ha…ha...hahahaha…bastard…I never get this pissed off when dealing with a person before… that motherfucker with black vendetta mask… I swear, I’ll fucking rip his body and dissect it to feed the dogs.”
A whole opera house trembles when Antonio said that, a cracked noise could be heard, soon, the whole building collapse, Antonio looks at his surroundings, It was chaotic, all the people were running while there is a group of people chasing after them with weapons, the moment they caught up, they will get killed, the nearby buildings got engulfed in big flames, as people keeps throwing molotov and pouring gasoline nonstop, the royal area turned into a hellish area in matter of minutes.
Antonio gets up from his seat, and two people approached him, the one on the left is the little boy, the right side is a man with peculiar long black coat, black trouser, a black cane and a long beak bird mask, Jerrim, the doctor, both of them kneeling in front of Antonio’s presence, they got up and said.
“Master, I have completed my part.” Jerrim said while bowing to Antonio.
“Master, That Rompis lad is dead.” The little boy said while making a gesture with his hand slitting his throat.
A grin appeared on Antonio’s face when he heard them, now it’s time for him to move to the next step of his plan, he will show the whole Welsterven, the ignorant people who dares to tainted his father name, those people who should be better off dead, those people who killed his father, they will pay for their sin, especially that man who wore black Vendetta mask.
“Jerrim. I order you to track down a man who wore black Vendetta mask, he is with a lush brown hair young lady with a guitar on her back…I WANT YOU TO KILL BOTH OF THEM, FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION, DO YOU GET IT?” said Antonio, he looks at Jerrim with an eyes full of hatred, Jerrim whole body trembles when he felt the pure rage coming from his master, he lower his head and said.
“A-as you wish, Master.” Then Jerrim transformed into a crow, and he disappeared when he flew in the night sky. Antonio looked at the little boy, grabbed the little boy's shoulders, moved his face to the little boy's right ear and said.
“Great Job, now your next mission is to execute Alexander, don’t let him survive, I’ll deal with the queen, Mary Ashford and proceed with the last step in the plan.” The little boy's eyes brightened when he heard that, finally an easy mission, he gave a salute to Antonio, who was looking at him with a gentle smile, and the little boy said, “Aye-aye Master!.” The little boy runs into distance leaving Antonio alone, he is looking at the white marble palace with many towers surrounding it, I never forgive what you did to my father, your majesty, Mary Ashford, I’ll let you taste what you desired the most, power, only to show you that power means nothing in front of my accumulated knowledge, a knowledge to become a god, the ultimate ruler of this world, not this pathetic little kingdom that you want. That’s what in Antonio’s mind, he walks into the wooden podium and raises both his hands to the night sky, looking at the twin moon, he said.
"Oh, the true god of this world, I, Antonio Devlyn, beseech thee to punish all the sinners who are ignorant of your existence. Let them become a sacrifice for your revival. Oh, the true god of this world, all the things that I have seen, I am aware that you… have awoken."
After his prayer, Antonio snap his finger, and… all the people that causing a havoc, they… turned into a terrifying monster as big as a two-story building, the whole royal area soon was crowded by those giant monsters, not just that, the whole Welsterven turned into a sea of monsters, a deafening roar comes from the white marble palace at the top of the hill, on that palace, a bigger monster appeared, it was so big to the point that it reach 2.717ft tall, with a body of disgusting meat that keeps falling like raindrop, destroying that palace, an abomination being. It roared to the sky, Antonio laughed like a maniac when he heard that roar, because he knew that abomination was the queen, Mary Ashford who turned into that.
“Serves you right, Queen, in this world there is no such thing as longevity abilities, what you just consumed all these years is my blood, slowly but surely, you accumulated that, like a frog who got boiled in cold water, you become comfortable with your delusion of longevity, and when I turn the water into a boiling water… you didn’t realized anything amiss and look, you got boiled, you turned into my masterpiece, an abomination being with 2.717ft tall, HAHAHAHA”
Antonio looks at his surrounding with proud and satisfied expression, this is all the results of his experiments, the accumulated knowledge, now he just need to ascend to the godhood, so he could revived his dead father, it was perfect.
Let’s not forget the fact that on the clear sky night where there is no stars and clouds, there is two moons, that two moons became brighter, the twin moon, it looks like an eyes of a living, busy monitoring the lives bellow, it focused on the individual named Antonio, who is walking leisurely amidst the chaos, it’s tailing him, the twin moon tailing Antonio, but Antonio didn’t knew anything about this, understandable, because humans believe what they saw as the truth and nothing more.