Prologue

"Stay with me a bit longer."

Are you also lost? In a depth of abyssal plain, drowned in pool of memories, didn't know how to swim out from that pain? You badly want to know where and how deep you sank but you realized you where nowhere to be found. And there you see the light from the surface and you reached out your hand unto it to be saved, but it's too late for salvation because you let darkness swallowed you.

"I can't!"

Or are you paralyzed? There are vines from that 'yesterday' that keeps on strangling your feet making you to unable to move forward. Stuck in the present while carrying the burdens you made before. Cuts from the past that healed already but there's a scar that keeps on opening until it affects your limbs including your feet unable to walk away.

"How can you leave me like this?"

How about, numb? You lose the battle, you lost everything including yourself. You turned back and stayed for a minute finding your emotions and yourself. Can't cry, can't shout, can't get mad, can't get afraid. You heard your heartbeat but there's no pain, and too sad there's no life.

"Stay with me, no, no, no, you have to stay with me."

Or All of the above? Tears coming out, you're hurt but you can't feel it, you're lost but you can't run away and you walk but you're in the same place. If that's how you feel we're same then. We keep on fighting those battles inside us. 

"Please!"

Shhh. There's no time anymore, you have to fight. I wish I can wash away that pain, I thought you're too numb to feel anything. But you don't have to run anymore, you'll face it, I know you can do it. You're you, I know you won't settle for less. I know no matter what you went through from the past, you won't think twice to move, you'll keep the burden but I know you'll move forward, and by the time you're ready to turn that burden into a treasure, you are healed. 

"Just..."

ahh

"Just one more time.....Please."

I see, there's no much time. How ironic.

Prologue

11:45 pm

FIFTEEN minutes before midnight yet the town in the capital is too busy for their most awaited special occasion. Shining lights are scattered in different areas, firworks displays can be found in different part in the air,  streets and alleys are too crowded while people are wandering around the town. Madaming mga nobles at ibang mga may kayang tao ang naglilibot rin na bihira lang lumuwas sa kanilang mga mansion. Some of the vendors at ang mga iiang negosyante ay kinuha na ang orpotunidad na yun para makapaglako at magkapera. Some are even having 'monkey businesses'.

"Even in this time ay madami pa ring tao."     A mysterious person whispered, bit amused by his sight. Iiba ang kanyang kasuotan, natatakpan ang mukha nya sa hood ng suot niya. That person knew he doesn't belong there kaya nandoon sya sa tuktok ng time tower, nagtatago habang pinagmasdan ang mga taong nagkakatuwaan  mula sa pwesto nya. 

Tinignan niya ang isang bahagi ng bayan kung saan pumapasok ang iilang mga tao -ang arko na may nakapaskil na "Hoseki....festival?"

He sat properly and watched the sky, from that position ay kitang kita nya ang mga bituin na malayang nagniningning kasama ang maliwanag na buwan sa kalangitan, but something is strange. He frowned as he noticed that something is off --the moon is currently covering by shadow and slightly turning into red.

Tinagilid niya ang ulo niya. Inayos nya ang hawak sa bagay na kahit isang segundo ay di pwedeng mahiwalay sakanya.

"Blood Moon. A sign how Luna suffered in agony owing to the fact that she was betrayed by Sol"

Tinignan niya ang pocketwatch niya.

11:58pm

He suddenly felt chilly as the wind hugs over him without any warning. "Weird." as if someone is watching that mysterious person. He stood up so that he can watch the people wandering around the town. Ngunit isang babae ang nakaagaw sa atensyon nya, she's wearing a vintage purple ball gown, the outer layer was made of lace while the interior was built out of silk, it's a long sleeve but it's off the shoulder. Images of daisies and roses   are sewed on its waist  part. She's wearing a white half-masked covering her eyes and nose and even though it's late in the evening, she's carrying a pastel purple parasol. Her black and silky hair was braided into low bun. Base sa kanyang postura at paglalakad, mahahalata na ito ay galing sa isang maharlikang pamilya.

"That figure.."  he paused.

"Reminds me of someone."

11:59pm

Habang naglalakad ang dalaga na pinagmamasdan niya ay nabangga ito sa taong naglalako ng sapatos. Nabitawan nito ang parasol maging ang  mask na tumatakip sa kalahati ng mukha niya ay nahulog sa lupa. Mahahalata sa kilos niya  na nagmamadali nitong pinulot ang mask para takpan muli ang mukha nya. It seems like she didn't want anybody to see it but it's too late. Ang misteryosong tao na nasa tuktok ng time tower ay natigilan, pigil ang hininga at parang naestatwa nang makita niya ang imahe nang dalaga. Napaatras siya nang bahagya ngunit sa pagkakabigla ay namali ang tapak nya dahilan para mawalan siya ng balanse. Hindi sya makasigaw sa gulat ngunit bago pa man sya makabagsak ay napindot na nya ang bagay na hawak nya.

A light came out from that mysterious object  swallowed the whole, not just the town but the whole kingdom. It was like a phenomenal scenario. People throughout the kingdom didn't move and posed the same as a statue. A leaf that was about to fall like a light feather to the ground paused in the mid air. Fireworks hung in the sky without producing any sound. There's no breeze, no sound, not even a single action from anyone. As if the time stopped.

12:00 am

The light passed and everything went back to normal. But the strange thing is, the mysterious person that was supposedly falling is nowhere to be found.

-To be continued-