*The drought started in southern Libertia*

*Inflation skyrocketed*

*There is a feud between the north and south*

Ananis: Aria! *arriving at his house*

Ananis: Uncle! I'm back!

*Dr Reine kneeled beside the dried out Aria on the sofa*

Dr Reine: There is nothing we can do. She suffered from malnutrition.

Dr Reine: She vomited several times.

Dr Reine: We tried to call the doctor, but your uncle's health insurance had expired.

Ananis: Aria...ARIA! *kneels in front of the sofa*

Aria: Brother...

*she formed a wrinkled smile*

Aria: I will watch you from the heavens.

Ananis: No, Aria, you deserve to live. I promised dad to take care of you!

Aria: Big...brother...thank you...for watching...my concert...

Aria: *closed her eyes*

Ananis: Aria, ARIA...

*Ananis shakes Aria*

Ananis: It can't be...it can't be!

Dr. Reine: I'm very sorry for your loss.

Ananis: What is wrong with us, uncle? Mom died, dad gone, Dian died and now her?

Dr. Reine: It's time for me to explain what you have to do. I explained this to your uncle.

*Dr. Reine summons him into an illusion*

*Ananis couldn't believe what she saw*

*He saw an angry Dagat carrying Aria as the blood moon shines above her*

Reine:"If you let her live...I won't be able to give her the cure to raise her back from the dead."

Ananis: Why her?

Reine: As you can see *the centipede spirals on his finger*

Reine: You know the answer. *looks at him*

Ananis: *realizes*

Ananis: She is the child of the two world government leaders.

Reine: Correct, in fact...

Reine: She is the child of the ocean and lake.

Reine: Her parents are born of the remains of our old queen Anathalasia...her friend.

Ananis: The world government...*he covers his mouth*

Ananis: They attacked our town as a reward for trying to take over stolen territories.

*fell down on his knees*

Ananis: Why...why did I trust her?

Ananis is about to open his mouth

Reine: There is nothing we can do. You better choose.

Reine: Your family? Or, your true love?

Flashback: "Do it for the family mijo," *this word is repeated 10 times in his head*

Ananis saw a view of Dian, his dad, his mom, and finally, Aria.

Ananis: For

Ananis: the

Ananis: family.

Reine: Good choice... *smiles*

Reine: Your uncle will prepare us a ritual sacrifice for the virgin maiden.

Reine: You have to pass the test.

Reine: But! *raises his index finger*

Reine: It requires you to sign the contract. *he snaps his fingers*

*a contract covered with embers and the echoing cries appeared in front of Ananis and Uncle Sunny*

Ananis looked at his uncle.

Uncle Sunny *nods*

Both of them agreed to sign the contract (note: the contract will be shown in the final version of the manga)

*The contact burned*

*Reine gave him the curved dagger*

Reine: You must set yourself free... *Reine looks at Ananis as he put his hands on the dagger*

*Ananis looked down at the blade on the palm of his hands.*

🦊

*Dagat swims*

*Dagat rises out of the pool*

Kate: C'mon the school will close! *the voice echoed*

Dagat: I'M COMING!

*underwater shot of Dagat*

Dagat: What are you doing?

Dagat: HELP!!

Ananis *with a shade on his face*: covered her mouth.

*Ananis submerged into the water*

***

Pitch black

*Dagat's POV*: *coughs as she was about to open her eyes*

Dagat: who..are those people... *everyone wears a tribal mask*

Dagat: "Where am I?", *her arms hung in chains*

*A shot of Ananis squeezing the wood of the curved blade, with its words written in cursive letters. *

Dagat *talking to Ananis*: What's the meaning of this?

Reine's voice: Life has no meaning.

Dagat: You! *her eyes squinted with a warning glare*

Reine: "Well lady, it turns out that your mother was born from the remains of Anathalasia, the moon eater." he chuckled as he wore a tribal garment with a cloak.

Dagat: How did you know?

A centipede crawled into his finger.

Reine: *caressed the centipede by his finger*

Reine: Well, a little friend told me.

Dagat: No, no, no, no

Dagat: HOW COULD YOU! WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TRUSTED YOU! *the chains are shaking*

Reine: SILENCE!

Reine: It seems that you were caught in a web of lies.

Reine: *lifts chin of Ananis* Unfortunately, your love has the mind of a naive newborn.

Dagat: *shakes the chain* What did you do to him?

Ananis: My love, please forgive me. We have to part ways.

Dagat: What do you mean?

Ananis: We should break up, I have to do this for my sister.

Dagat: This isn't you!

Dagat: That guy brainwashed you! He twisted the story!

Reine: HISS! Don't listen to the girl. She will end up leaving you. *he started speaking in Ananis's ears*

Dagat: HE KILLED DIAN! WHY DID YOU TRUST HIM!

Ananis: That was...the giant fox.

Dagat: AND YOU? WHAT ABOUT MY WISH?

Reine: *scoffing* WHAT ABOUT MY WISH?

Reine: I told him that you wanted him...

Reine: because you're jealous of other people.

Ananis: *squinted his eyes at her*

*Dagat's face frowned*

Dagat: I'm...sorry...it's...my fault, *looks down*

Dagat: but...I never wanted this! *she started crying*

Dagat: Why...WHY....

Reine: Well, it requires for you to become a sacrificial offering so that all of us will have crops to grow.

Dagat: THIS IS SO MESSED UP! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS? YOU PROMISED THAT YOU WILL NEVER GOING TO HURT ME! WE PROMISED THAT WE ARE STILL TOGETHER NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS!

Ananis: I'm sorry

Dagat: You're sorry? What are you? A crippled coward like Kulas?

*Reine started laughing hysterically.*

Reine: Bring in the beasts!

*Drums*

*Out of the darkness, a tied up Karagatan and Danau walked out of the shadows.*

Dagat: MAMA! PAPA!

Karagatan (in her dragon form): ANAK!

Karagatan: Leave my daughter alone!

*A chorale started playing in the background*

Reine: Ahh...I love the smell of tears. This is very entertaining.

Danau (blindfolded and chained with the dragon): ANAK KA NG BRUHA! YOU PSYCHOPATH! I WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO RESPECT YOUR ELDERS!

Reine: Well, well, well...what about the incident where you two got involved in taking this man's town in a fit of a genocide? *Reine gritted his teeth as he crossed his arms*

Karagatan: *her eyes at the side looking at Danau*

Danau: I was taken advantage of by a contract.

Karagatan: *sigh*

Reine: You just sneaked in so that you can bring back the utopia you always dreamed of! *He raises his arms like a cultist*

Danau: How did you know?

Reine: All of us know. *He smirked*

Reine: Well, this will be the right time for you to give them condolences *he shrugged*

*Dagat looked at the hidden dagger that Ananias was holding.*

Dagat: No...no...I have so much to do in my life...remember we shared our dreams together right?

Dagat: None of us deserve to be like this...

Dagat: What is the meaning of this?

Reine: What is the meaning? The fool asked. Little she didn't know that this would be her funeral.

Reine: Well, enough chit chatting. Now let us rejoice

Reine: for her tomb! *raised his fist in the air*

Everyone gave him an applause

A mother covered her little son's eyes.

The child: "Mommy, why are you covering my eyes?" he asked.

The mother: "You'll understand in a few years."

*Reine started waving his hands and a mountain rises off the stage, breaking the floor*

*Everyone started dancing*

*People banged the drums louder*

*The mountain carries both of the tragic lovers on top of the county lands. The full moon shone bright.*

Dagat: Here's some advice before I die.

Dagat: I never hated you. Ever.

Dagat: But...you have gone too far.

Dagat: You drove several miles until both of us crashed.

Dagat: None of this would've happened if we never met.

*Ananis raises her chin up*

Ananis: Both of us have been through a lot.

Ananis: I don't want you to keep on suffering in life. I don't want to be left behind by others like you but I have no choice.

Ananis: *crying*

Dagat: Ananis, I have more words to tell you, but my time is up.

Dagat: My eyes will watch you from above after this.

Ananis: *slaps*

Ananis: Don't...ever...mention...that...*gritted his teeth*

Dagat: haha. Well, at least we have good times together right?

Ananis: *slaps*

Ananis and his dad (in the shadows): Do it...for the family...mijo...

Dagat: You hurt my family. You don't even know how much I love them too.

Ananis: sigh

Ananis: Let's meet in the afterlife, Dagat.

Ananis: Farewell,

Ananis: love.

*Ananis raised his dagger*

*He leaned in to kiss him*

*And strikes the blade into her chest*

Karagatan and Danau: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

*Reine started laughing*

Karagatan: "You're sick! Sick people! You really want rain so bad? WHY DON'T YOU TASTE THE WRATH OF A STORM SO THAT YOU HAVE MORE CROPS TO GROW!" *with tears in her glowing sapphire eyes, roared.*

*The place rumbled, and the thunder roared yet a million people fired them with bullets which put them to sleep.*

*Reine snapped his fingers*

*bringing the mountain down*

*Ananis looked down at the corpse*

*He looked at his bloodied hands with disbelief*

Ananis: AH...A....AH... *tears flowed down his face*

*He dropped to the floor and kneeled*

*The knife dropped*

Ananis: "W-what have I d-done?" Ananias's tears streamed on his cheeks

*His memories of her flashes before his eyes*

Ananis: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *shot of his face looking up as his hands put on the sides of his head*

*He looks at the audience, kneeled down dramatically, his hands were drop from the floor with a big smile on his face*

*He stood up like a mad man and spreads his hands laughing*

Everyone put a crown on his head and wore a long furry coat.

*Reine, holds the syringe*

*He pins down the laughing Ananias and stabs him with a syringe*

*He presses the small plate down the tube*

Ananis's saliva fell from his mouth and bubbled.

*Uncle Sunny pulls the fallen Ananias and moves him closer to the corpse*

*Reine snaps his fingers as the curtain closes*

Reine: Now my brothers and sisters! Feast your eyes upon the king's feast! *raises his arms again like a cultist*

*Everyone banged the drums*

*Ananias's POV* His hands raised to the image of the corpse.*

*He puts his own hands onto himself*

*He pulls his manic face and it reveals a shadowy monster with eyes and teeth.

Ananias: "Remember that I want to turn your brain into a sandwich?" *he whispered*

His mouth dropped open, crunching down the face, pulling her away from the chains.

The chains broke and her body plopped down the floor.

Ananias: At least your beauty will stay forever in my body once I have you inside me.

Ananias: *his jaw opened wide and bit her face*

*The curtain shows the silhouette of a man beast devouring a woman from head to toe*

Ananias: *slurps her legs and her feet down to her throat*

*An eye shot of Ananias, his pupils turned into slits*

*He can feel her body slithering inside his throat as he touches it*

*Chin up, he licks his lips*

*Just his face* Ananias: "I didn't know that you were delicious."

*Gunshots were heard from the outside*

*One of the tribe leaders revealed Paul, Julio, Brie and the police enforcers*

Officer Stewart *holding a gun*: "YOU BETTER NOT MOVE!"

Reine: What if I do?

Officer Stewart *shoots him*

Reine: Ohoho! You think a gun can kill me? *He raised his hand with a bullet hole.*

*Reine regenerates his hand*

*Paul turns himself into a ravaging dog*

*He charges at Reine*

*Reine summons two large hands and cups the dog, shakes it and turns it into a dice*

Reine: Don't worry, he is back to where he started

Reine *snaps his finger and turns every single foe into dice*

*The police, Julio, Brie, and Paul fell into the swimming pool*

*The police and the traumatized trio are outside the school building, the mayor is also present*

As Ananis enters to school,

Everyone stared at him as he entered the hallway.

Nurse Jackie started screaming and panicking in the clinic (muffled)

Then, Ananis's visions blurred and he was about to throw up.

Other guys vomited in front of him.

He vomited spilled drops of blood, so he rushed to the bathroom.

Paul closed the restroom.

As Ananis vomits in the sink...

Paul: YOU SON OF A WITCH! *He kicks his butt*

Paul: I thought you were my friend!

Paul: DON'T YOU EVER THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU DID? *He pulls his hair backwards*

Ananias: *smiled* It's for her own good

Paul: *slams his face of the sink*

Paul: YOU HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT BREAK UPS!

Paul: DO YOU KNOW HOW I FELT AFTER I BROKE UP WITH MY FIRST CRUSH?

Paul: I DATED HER BUT SHE CHEATED ON ME!

Ananias: She transferred right?

Paul: *slams his face off the stall*

Paul: IT HURTS, YOU PSYCHOPATH!

Paul: YOU BROKE HER HEART OVER A MANIPULATIVE FOX WHO KILLED MY LOVE OF MY LIFE! *He smashes him to the wall before the toilet*

Paul: SHE'S THE ONLY PERSON FOR ME Y'KNOW WHAT? *Tears streamed down his cheeks*

Paul: YOU RUINED EVERYTHING THAT I LOVE! *He smashes him into the toilet*

Ananias's head submerged into the water.

"I wish that you and I, shall take a trip in my homeland and visit the sea," she smiled as she gazed her eyes to the imagery of sea creatures.

He carefully watched her inspiration from her ability to use water as a way of telling a story from the 8 ball game.

As she turns back, he no longer sees the usual girl that he once loved.

Her face is crossed out, a smile turned into a frown and her usual hue and lively color turned pale and monochromatic, making her white as a ghost.

Her chest revealed an empty hole, and her fingers pointed at his bloody hands.

This made him think that if she were alive, she would remain a shadow of his past and made him regret not standing up for her.

Her ash black lips spoke hauntingly without a sound, "you lied to me.".

Suddenly while his head is submerged into the water, Ananias's size grew larger

His skin tore and created petal-like holes filled with white.

He screamed in excruciating pain.

It suddenly developed pupils.

His own clothes tore off his own body and more eye shapes formed on his skin,

Which made Paul move away from the stall.

The boys are just watching the whole thing happen outside the stall.

Ananias's ears became longer and pointier.

He started developing a tail.

Young Ananias: Mr. Fox, I wish to be a wolf! A strong big wolf! I just want to protect my sister.

Mr. Fox: Well, you'll soon grow out of it. Those bullies are nothing to her.

His incisors turned into long fangs

A large claw swiftly aimed for the face of the other student and slapped him against the wall.

The beast turned around and swiftly pounced at the first student he saw and knocked him on the floor.

Reine appeared behind the shadows.

Locked the door.

And smiled at the bloody massacre.

Reine is amazed at his transformation.

Reine: What does the power taste like?" he asked from the shadows.

Ananis: "I...NEED... MORE!" Ananis's voice distorted and growled deeply as he looked at Reine in a new form.

. His eyes are still streaming with tears.

Reine: "Please have some clothes on."

*Reine walked away*

From now on, everyone started sacrificing naughty children into the maze where the King is hidden.

There, the helpless children were chased by the creature in the labyrinth and gobbled them to their deaths.

However, the government fears to touch this creature since they tried to send their men but ended up crawling with dismembered parts to their deaths outside the maze.

The cult became too powerful and they overthrew the mayor, yet he and a few citizens moved out of the Hudson county where the incident happened.

Meanwhile, the sea dragons were petrified and trapped underneath, except for their eyes filled with tears which made the other sea dragons weep over the Earth.

Habagat, who was once a nurse named Jackie, watched the chaos unfold on the surface of the earth as she wept silently.

Ananis: "There I created an altar, all for you Dagat." *The beast finally nailed the last flower on the wall over the head of a painted skeleton dancing in a dress, painted by the blood of his own prey. *

*His claws curled and placed all over his head,*

Ananis: "I DESPISE YOU!"

He punched the wall as his fists brushed his craft,

smearing the blood on the sides and disfigured the image of her.

Ananis: "I...despise...me" he pointed to his heart and wept.

Ananis: It doesn't matter, I told myself, sitting on a pile of corpses. The aroma of the deceased feels addictive, reminding me of the scent and the delicious taste of flesh. I have no one else to go, I am the last hope of everyone. 

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🪻AUTHOR'S NOTE🪻

🍓CHAPTER 19 Remake

Just keep the original chapter 10 story, except there will be changes with the fate of Uncle Sunny and Aria. 

The characters are arguing whether Reine is Timothy or not, which became the climax of whether if they should continue trusting him or not.

In the Epilogue, Officer Stewart reveals an entire detective board of mysteries surrounding Reine, Timothy, the death of the four students, the existence of the Sovereigns, the World Government, and the mysterious singer named MK who made her debut on Friday Night.

Note: All GIFs that are used are from Tenor.

🪻End of Story🪻

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