Masquerade Play "The Betrayal"

Author's POV :

"Dajia Hao!"....

"Now I won't take your time with my long and boring speech. Let us proceed to see the Play performed by Drama Club."The Betrayal!"Please Give them a big round of applause."

The lights focused on the stage and a young boy in a prince's attire can be seen standing. The narrator was narrating the play and the Prince was saying his lines.

Narrator :" And in a far land from here there was a girl named Cellestia, living in a forest she was told by her fairy God mother that she is God's Light. At such young age she didn't knew the meanings of it but soon destiny was going to reveal why she was God's Light."

The lights turned off and after a few moments turned on again. A girl was sitting on a wooden bench  facing the audience but her face wasn't quite visible because of the direct light falling on her making her look ethereal and was playing a  melody on a flute. After a few seconds she lowered the flute and looked towards the sky.

The lights dimmed a bit and now everyone could clearly see the girl. Gasps and whispers were heard from everywhere. Many students had came to auditorium during the rehearsals but nobody had seen the girl before. (How could possibly had they seen her she *cough*I mean he was directing the play😅😅)

Shen too was dumbfounded at the beauty the girl, on the stage, possessed.

Jing Ri : "She is so beautiful isn't she Shen!?"

Getting no response he turned to see his friend who was dumbly staring at the stage.

Jing Ri : "Shen!? Shen-ah.. Sheney. Wang Shen"

Everyone except Shen turned to look at him and Shush him.

Everyone was saying how beautiful and ethereal the girl was just like a celestial bieng. Only when the girl started talking did the auditorium fell in silence.

Cellestia : " God mother. I'm doing good. Since the day you left there's a void in my heart that will be empty for my whole life but I will live happily for you."

The lights turned off again.

Narrator : "It was one evening when the Prince had came for hunting in the forest (The lights turned on and the scene was playing as the narrator was narrating) and went deeper into the forest. There he saw Cellestia walking with a basket of flowers. He went closer.

Prince : "Excuse me!"

Cellestia flinched and turned away to run but halted when hand gripped her wrist. She turned to see the Prince gazing at the birthmark on her wrist.

Prince : "How did you get this mark!?"

Cellestia : "It -- It is a birth--birthmark. Can you please let go of my hand!?"

The Prince at once let her hand go.

Prince :"I'm sorry."

Cellestia :"It's getting dark I should go back"

Prince :"Wait.. Can I come here again? Can I meet you again!?"

Cellestia nodded with a 'Hmm' and went ahead. The Prince also returned to the castle.

Cellestia : God mother you said one day there will be someone who will come in my life to spread happiness, To protect me to love me. I guess that person has arrived. I wish all of this true. "

She said facing the sky eyes sparkling with tears of happiness.

Narrator :" The next day the Prince did came and gave Cellestia a pendant and asked her not to take it off for Hundred days for their friendship, The pendent had a blue shinning stone. Cellestia agreed but the next demand caught her off guard."

Prince : "Cellestia I want us to take a blood oath"

Cellestia : But..

Prince : "Trust me! The first time I saw you I knew I wanted to spend my whole life with you"

Narrator : "Cellestia who had never experienced love before was easily moved and agreed without giving much thought. He had cut her wrist lightly on the birthmark and extracted a few drops of blood and even cut his own hand too."

Prince : "I want you to meet someone"

He gestured someone from behind the tree. A boy came out. He looked stern.

Cellestia : "Who is he!?"

Prince : "He will accompany you from now on when I'm not around"

Cellestia smiled got up from the stone and went to the boy and cupped his face. This caught the boy off guard. He stood there stunned. Cellestia took her hands back.

Cellestia : " Ah! --Sorry I couldn't stop myself."

Boy : "It's--It's OK"

Prince : "I'll be leaving now, I'll come back ok. Come here June!"

Cellestia :"So you are June!"

June : "Yes!"

They went to a side.

Prince : "Protect her at any cost don't let even a drop of her blood outta her viens."

June came back to Cellestia. He stood near her when suddenly Cellestia held his hand which was injured during a fight not long ago. She caressed it and her blood drops fell on June's wound he felt as if he was born once again but didn't express it.

Narrator : "Time passed by quickly. And it was already the night of 90th day of the enchantment. Prince at first visited her but didn't came Afterwards. He came on the 99th evening and asked Cellestia to come to Palace with her so she  could could meet the Queen. June also went with her,these 90 days June had became Cellestia's shadow and protected her. They had became close too.Now June called her Celles. The Queen didn't treated Cellestia well and June had restrain himself to not burst on the Queen. The 99th day ended and the 100th day came. Prince called June. "

Prince :" Kill her"

June : "Pardon me!"

Prince :"I said kill her. The ritual is completed once she dies I'll give the God's light to the demon and he will grant me endless power."

June : "How could you!? She's so innocent, she trusted you, she loves you"

Prince :"Oh shut it with this love bullshit I appointed you obey me, Kill her"

June :"Never! I was appointed to protect her and I'll protect her till my last breath"

Prince :"so,this is how it's gonna end. Then first you die"

Narrator :"Before June could take action a sword pierced through him. He fell and died.Prince proceeded to Cellestia and togather with the queen. They killed the God's Light. Cellestia was lying in the pool of her own blood staring at the ceiling..... "

Cellestia : "God mother! I th--thought maybe I'll have my happy l--life now but it seems like I--I'll be joining you soon.I only regret not seeing June for the last time. I wish I--I wish..."

Narrator :"The door opened and revealed a blood soaked June He ran towards the unmoving Cellestia."

June :"NO! Celles! Don't do this to me. Get up"

Without much thought he slit his arm and fed his blood to Cellestia. In a few moments Cellestia opened her eyes. Cellestia hugged June and cried.

June : "It's OK Celles everything is going to be OK"

Celles : "I thought *sniff*they killed you. I thought*sniff* I won't be able to see you"

Zhan's acting moved everyone's heart so much that many students had tears in their eyes. His acting even shook the hardcores. As if he was portraying the original pain. (Ofcours he could portray the emotions after all he was the one who wrote her emotions)

June : "They did kill me but I don't know how I healed"

"Because you had God's light with you"

They turned to see Cellestia's God mother.

Celles : "God mother!"

She hugged her.

Celles :"What is happening!?".

Godmother :"Your blood made contact with June's that's why he had the ability to heal. They took your God's light to offer the demon but they didn't knew that the God light had already accepted June as your other half. Thier pact with the demon wasn't full filled. They got destroyed by the demon residing within them. "

Celles :" June!? "

Godmother :" Yes! June. June sweetie Come here. June have my blessings my Children. "

Narrator :" They got Godmother's blessings and lived happily ever after. "

The curtains closed. There was pin drop silence and then the whole auditorium erupted into claps, whistles and cries.

Shen didn't knew he had shed tears too. He came out of his daze with the sounds of claps.

Fiang : Wow! THAT. WAS. AWESOME."

Yeon :" Even I agree.What do you think Jing Ri.....Oye! Why are you crying. "

Jing Ri :" It was so touching. See even the cold stone Shen is crying too. "

Shen :" No I'm not"

The three of them came closer to Shen's face. But Shen harshly pushed them away. And ran away saying.

Shen :"Aish!...You guys! I'm gonna go look for my brother."

Leaving all of them laughing at how flustered he was.