The Clock of Miss Fortune ✔

Chapter - 23

What time pulled towards it and pushed away was Alvarez's wish. "Where are the others?" Hannah asked.

"Oh~ They are playing their part in making the course of time as Alvarez has intended to play." Baron skipped around the room.

"Baron, listen to me. This is all Alvarez's doing. You have to stop this and stop Alvarez from resurrecting." Hannah spoke as she remembered her conversation with O'lim. But where was O'lim. What part did he play in all of this? This was something she couldn't think of.

"O'lim is in a cage." Baron spoke. "There are unnecessary intruders who are only fodders."

"Baron, Alvarez was the one behind your wife and daughter's death. Please, you have to stop him."

"Wife? Daughter? Who exactly?" Baron spoke. "I never had any. I was never a human."

"That is not true. We have seen your life. We know who you were and how you changed into who you are now."

And the room was filled with bodies who once entered in butchered into unrecognizable forms. Aside from Baron, Hannah, and Miley, everyone was dead. But their eyes moved, their lips fluttered like wings and their heart was beating which were outside their bodies. You did this. They all said. You made a mistake and we had to pay for it.

"Don't listen to them." Baron said. "It's a grudge which might come true."

Hannah looked at Miley. She had already realized who made the contract and sold the souls of many to Alvarez. Miley's cheeks had started to sink in and her eyes were lifeless, and weak. Only a soul that bears hatred and sympathy towards everything can form a bond with Alvarez. The clock held the final piece of the girl's soul which was thought to be Miley's and it indeed was. Everyone else was just a means of fodder to be fed. What brought this situation was Alvarez's manipulation of memories in different times through Hannah and Michael. Miley's memory was in some way, in some time also altered. The thing was, the ones who made a choice were them. They never understood the situation. They thought that they were trying to help everyone in different times but it was the opposite. They created this path which led to the past and might cause the same effect in the future. Or maybe they already had.

"Miley." Hannah called her. "Listen. What they showed you is not true. You are our child. OURS! Do not believe in such a lie."

"Lie. Lie. Lie." Baron giggled. "How can a lie be the truth? How a truth can be a lie? How can both exist?" He giggled again. "A riddle to laugh at and kill for." He skipped round and round the room. "Miley dear, tell your mama what you saw. Tell your mama the truth you saw. Tell your mama how naughty she is."

"You are not my mama. You never were. I was lied to. Lied to by many and then some. Lied by the god and the devil. I drove my own birth and ended it as well. I lied. He lied. You lied." Miley spoke. Her voice was low. "You lied. You lie, you die. You lie, you die..."

"You lie, you die..."

Both Miley and Baron started to chant this phrase.

Every single word twisted the reality they stood in and a black hole opened beneath them. The room itself started to wrap itself into a twisted, grotesque figure. The walls were skin and inside it were bones cracking and breaking apart. The ceilings filled my many eyes looking at Hannah, and underneath was a voice coming from the black hole. There were several voices to be exact. Miley's body was starting to fade. It was losing its physical form. Slowly everyone who once stood in the room started to appear.

Alvarez has awakened.

Cristal's body was alive and naked on the floor but with no limbs. Michael's naked body stood lifeless with erected penis. Henry naked body stood lifeless without the penis on the other side of Michael. Two young happy couple, Hannah and Michael stood holding each other's hands. And eventually Hannah stood there naked. Her clothes had been ripped off and her vulva stitched shut. Miley stood like a tool and her newly born form floated above the black hole.

And the voices beneath them spoke, "The sacrifice has been accepted. The world shall end and time shall move the course once again."