JMALGZ BETA
by Angiyongkonsensiya
Chapter
1.5: Fortune or Misfortune? Part II
Renan’s
POV
'Damn you, Donante! How dare you steal the
game I created?' A man in his early 30's angrily stared at the TV screen.
His face was
painted in red and veins were popping' out of his forehead. He hastily got up
from his couch as the 5 minute commercial break started.
He went outside of
his house. He then started calculating which post would cause brownout inside
the studio. After few seconds he finally located it.
'Well, this should do it- not only will it hinder
the video broadcast but it’ll also test out one of my latest invention.' He
let out a snicker as he sets the bomb into place.
After he sets his
plan into action he walked away from the scene like any logical person would.
But instead of
returning back to his place to watch the events unfold, he decided to stroll
around at the furthest corner of the street and then decided to look at the
broadcast on the TV screen inside an electronic store. As he saw Donante's
countdown he silently whispered on his cell phone "BOOM". Then the
bomb he placed on a post detonated at the command of his voice.
"Experiment
VB003 has been tested and it’s a success." He murmured happily to himself.
'Just like killing two birds with one stone.'
He then flashed his evil smile as he saw the TV screen went blank.
His thought
stopped as he was startled by a child who passed him by. The ragged lad holding
few sampaguita garlands in his hands looked without a care at the blank screen
and then suddenly smirked. He thought at
first that the child got a few screw lost, but as he looked at the boy's line
of sight he saw the miserable face of the store owner.
'Well, what do we have here, a future ‘S’?"
He jokingly thought to himself.
Then when the lad
starts to walk away, he called the child’s attention. Since he was in a good
mood he decided to buy all the garlands the child was selling.
As the young boy
handed him his change and garlands, he accidentally saw under the child’s
unkempt hair a pair of beautiful heterochromic eyes. As he looked more closely,
he recognized if only this lad had not been covered with dust and ashes he will
be certainly cute. As he submerged deeper in his thoughts, he didn’t notice
that the child passed him by.
His senses were
pulled back when the TV screen resumed and then broadcasted a news
flash about
bombing and terrorist near channel 13's studio.
'This
is so funny. No wonder our country is not progressing well- with this quality
of information and people jumping into wrong conclusion. There's bound to be
panic and
misunderstanding.' He smirked as he
stares at the host panicked face.
'Now I felt becoming an S myself, speaking of
S---' As he looked around he saw that the boy was no longer there. Then he
search and then saw that the boy has already walk a few distance.
'Well, I guess I need to go home as well.' He
happily thought.
He was walking on
his way back home, when suddenly a white van pulled over to his side and two
men drag him inside. He was blindfolded first and then they quickly tied his
hands. When he tried to shout for help his mouth was gag.
After a few hours
of riding, the vehicle stopped at a quiet place. Then he was drag inside still
tied, gag and blindfolded.
He was drag inside a room of an unknown place. When he heard women's screaming and
crying in a room next to his, he felt panicky but what sent shiver to his senses
was the blood curdling silence that followed after a few gun shots were fired.
Now he knows how
serious his situation is. Then suddenly he heard the door opening and what
followed it were heavy footsteps.
"How's it
going?" The man's voice echoed inside the room.
"Hnngh--nggha"
He stubbornly replied.
"Oh my! Did I
forget to get the gag out of your mouth or not! Psyche!" The man
sarcastically replied.
"Hahaha! Just
be glad that my boss is generous enough to give you two more days to live. Rest
well, 'cause you only got 53 hours left." The man laughed while walking
out of the room.
'Sh*t!
Is this how my life ends? No, this isn't supposed to happen and I'll never let
it happen. I'm Renan Mortez the, smartest and greatest scientist, (LOL self
proclaimed) so I got to think some way out of here.' He
thought to himself.
After the man left
the room, Renan tried to focus his sense of hearing on his surroundings. He
heard noises downstairs like there was some kind of party. He thought of
shouting but he knows it was futile since his mouth was gag and the noise from
the party itself makes it more impossible to be heard.
As the party died
down, finally he can now clearly think how did this happen and who is the
mastermind behind it...
After few hours of
thinking things through, the leading suspect in his deduction was none other
than Donante, aside from him he also suspected Donante's colleagues.
'Damn them!' He angrily thought.
Then suddenly he
heard a familiar sound from downstairs, it was the chime of an old grandfather clock.
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Loue’s
POV
Morning came and
the once lively place became abandoned again.
The old
grandfather clock on the hallway started chiming loudly. The noise it made can
be heard even in the third floor since the building was so quiet.
The noise woke up
Loue, who was still in a deep slumber awhile ago.
Before moving out
of the bed, just like any normal person he stretch both his arms then yawn. He
then sit in an upright position on the bed and started doing his morning
routine: pray, bath, eat and then get ready for work.
After a few
minutes, Loue was now combing his hair with his hands while facing the broken
mirror near his bed.
'Shhkk' The sound
of tearing paper startled him.
Loue was frightened for he thought it might be a
ghost but then he thought that it was impossible since its morning already.
“Well let’s be logical Loue we know that ghosts
only show itself in the evening.” He said confidently as he convinced himself.
'Shhkk!
Shhkk!Shhkk!'
Now that he fully
convinced himself, instead of being frightened as he hears the noise again Loue
felt irritated.
He finally decided
to look where the noise is coming from. But before he could step any further, suddenly
he heard a faint cracking sound from below. He then looked down to where his
right foot was stepping from. He then realized that he was stepping on the old
plank that he placed to cover a big hole on the floor. Loue instinctively move
out to reach the stable floor but before he could do that he saw himself falling
down slowly to the room beneath his.
'BAM', this was
the sound of the broken plank as it hits the floor in the room. Loue luckily
landed on the sofa.
'Shhkk! Shhkk! Shhkk!'
Loue focused his eyes through the darkness. He
then decided to find the switch in this room. He slowly stood up and then felt
the cold wall and use it as a guide to find the switch.
‘CLICK’ the switch was flipped on, the room that
was once plague with darkness was now bathing with light.
But then this turn of event made Loue see
something he shouldn’t have. A corpse of a young girl and a woman (probably her
mother) bathing in their blood were lying on the bed. Loue was horrified and
stiffened for awhile. Then he suddenly remembered last night screaming and
realized that these were the occupants that were visited by death last night.
He went down on his knees and pray for the
salvation of these peoples’ soul. After his prayer, he realized that he was
stuck inside the room. While of thinking for a way out he heard again the noise
he was investigating.
‘Shhkk! Shhkk!Shhkk!’
Loue searched again where the sound came from. Then at the west corner of this room, he saw a cat with a kitten scratching the wallpaper. He then saw that the mother cat was making the noise. He was astounded how this cat could still scratch the wallpaper with its condition- since the mother cat was fatally injured. When she saw him she let a meow sound and then snuggled her kitten for the last time. Then her head went limp and her breathing slowed down until it stopped.
The kitten, as if sensing her mother’s body became cold, let out a meowing sound. Loue’s tears flowed as he saw this scene. He picked up the meowing kitten which white furs where covered with the mother cat’s blood. The kitten slowly opened its eyes for the first time. Loue then saw that he and the kitten has the same pair of mismatched eyes.
“Poor you, so young and now alone, it seems that we are bound to the same cruel fate like this?” Loue murmured as he looked into the kitten’s eyes.
He then cuddled the little creature to his chest and finally decided to lean on a nearby wall to rest. As he leaned to the wall, the wall suddenly moved itself.
“What the—“Loue saw himself being engulfed again in the nothingness. He was holding the kitten as he fell on his butt. The room was first filled with silence then he heard another sound.
“Nhggga—ngah”
‘Eh? What
kind of animal sound was that?’’ Loue thought to himself. He then supported
himself as he stood up with one hand while still holding the kitten on the
other. He was slowly copping the wall with his free hand but still determined
as well in switching the room’s light on. Finally he found the switch and
flipped it.
‘CLICK’
‘CLICK’
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