Misleading Belief

I woke up, it was a bright day. The sun was shining, and the wind was non-existent. A few minutes later my optimistic mother slammed my door open, opening my curtains and making me wake up.

 She sang:

 "Bom dia, dia. Bom dia, Sol. Borá levantar e Aproveitar esse dia!"[1]

 Honestly, she shouldn't sing but her self-esteem was way to elevated for her to listen to me.

 Like every other morning for the last ten years, I went to the bathroom, washed my hands, and brushed my teeth. Meanwhile, my head was having a party… it was as if it had sent invitations to over two hundred different ideas and about fifty of them decided to attend…

 Having this many ideas was more of a burden than a gift due to not being to have peace inside myself…

 The year was 2019 A.D, my grandma talking about God like always. Whatever we talked about, she found a way to insert God, Jesus, my mom, and my father in it. It was annoying. Although all this talking about God, heaven, The Devil, Hell… made me realize stuff that other humans didn't, religion is the cause of most prejudice. Like Adam and Eve. The first Humans in Earth. God created Adam and made Eve to be his wife. Meaning, she had to obey Adam and be a loyal wife and couldn't state her mind. After that Adam put all the blame on Eve for eating the apple.

 That is despicable…

 Well, anyway, I had to go out with my girlfriend. She was my best friend for years. Half Chinese, half Brazilian… weird family tree if I'm being honest. Her family owned a Chinese restaurant all over Brazil.

 We went on a picnic date underneath an ancient tree, and we talked a bit. The park we were, was close to my apartment and near the neighborhood she lived in. We used to go there with her little cousin to roller skate and eat cotton candy. Heng Daiyu, was her name. although the family name goes before the given name. In English that names mean: Eternal Black Jade. Weird huh?

 While we were on our picnic, we ate some fruits and some Chinese cheese rolls from her family's restaurant. A few minutes later, a weird topic popped up out of nowhere:

 "You know, this isn't working. I haven't been in love with you for months now." She let it out.

 "Why not? Did something happen?"

 "Actually, it has. I've started liking Jones and we get really well together. So, I can't be with you anymore?"

 "What? When did this start?"

 "About two months ago…"

 "Why didn't you break up with me then?"

 "I wasn't sure about how I felt, but after hanging out with him at his house, we connected somehow."

 Jones was our school friend; we've known each other for about the same time. His mother was American, and his father was Brazilian. I could feel my whole life pass in a flash before my eyes.

 I stood up and leaned my body on the ancient tree to try to sort things out. She followed me.

 "Listen, it's not your fault Vinicius, I just wanted to see that look of despair, lost and sadness."

 She looked to her hands as her nails grew sharper and sharper. She pressured my chest, her nails were so sharp, I could feel it slowly tearing through my skin. The agony I felt as her hand entered my body was excruciating. I shouted intensely for hours but it was as if no one could hear me. Am I really this worthless? I thought as she ripped my heart out breaking through all the veins and those tube things that feed blood to the body. As she grabbed my heart on her bloody red hand, she starred at it and smiled with a wicked smile as if she were enjoying it.

 Since my heart was no longer in my body, I could hardly breathe, and it was like I was underneath an endless body of water which no noise nor voice was able to come out. My eyes were crying tears of blood, as I was kneeling on the grassy floor. As she crushed my heart, I went to a black screen. Somehow I could hear a familiar female voice of someone I never met before call onto me:

 "Go… Liba… ry…. Go… Nat…rale… Disa…ers… Fid... Uuhhs…"

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 A couple minutes later, the alarm clock made an annoyingly loud noise. Again… I had that same nightmare again. And this time the girl said more stuff in the end.

 2020, they started dating and I got depression. To cope with my depression, I started writing screenplays and song lyrics. But for some reason, everything I wrote, got darker and darker with every step I took.

 I went to a public library one day, and saw a book called: The True Story behind The Natural Disasters. Was that what the voice meant?

 I went to grab it but as I touched the book, I felt my hand get burned. I looked at my hand, but it was fine. So, I tried grabbing the book again and took it to a table to read it.

 I sat down and saw this familiar name written in the cover page: Mares Poy Rea. That was the pen name. Although it was more like a code: M A R E S P O Y R E A.

I wrote the letters in a piece of paper, which the librarian leaves on the tables for notes if needed.

M A R E S P O Y R E A.

R O S E M A R E P O Y.

R O S E M A R Y P E A.

 The authors real name was Rosemary Pea. Although Rosemary Pea is one of the deadliest plants on earth. I saw a bit of dirt on the cover over her name. I cleaned it up and passed my hand over it to see if there was more of it.

In a blink of the eye, I suddenly got flashbacks of a life I didn't remember at that time. It was incomplete, as if something were preventing the connection. I could see a dark elf with green hair, a human-like girl with white hair, a doll made of Sakura tree, and naming the doll Rosemary Pea, as she came to life.

After coming back to reality, the book suddenly opened by itself and went to page: sixty-eight.

It was a page which talked about what happened after the natural disasters being captured by the holy mages.

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VIII

 After the Holy mages from Lechia (where nowadays is called Poland) captured Urekston, Ikius, Britia, Nerissa, Kage, and Runter. They took them to the Vatican and locked them in an empty dark room inside the basement, where they were left to rot for centuries.

Since they were immortals and the strongest beings in existence, it was impossible for the anyone in the entire world to kill them. So, they left them in a sealed room.

Years passed as the world changed. The Goddess of Creation was forgotten, the Holy magic users created buildings called churches and started ruling the world with the system which had priests, bishops, archbishops, and a pope.

Holy magic was used to mix with water to create the famous Holy Water that is told to dispel evil and exorcise demons.

They created a new world based in lies that humans believe in without any resistance.

Demons, Dragonkin, Gods, Merfolk, Elves, Dark Elves, Half-Elves, Witches, Vampires, and Werewolves were forced to mix with humans. Wars happened over the years. In the latest war known as WWII, the commander of the German troops, Adolf Hitler, was a demon. Although with the hate for humans and other creatures, his craving for blood made him kill thousands or more of people.

They have also held a lot of witch trials over the years, burning them at the stake in public, as some sort of sick entertainment.

And there's also the tale about the Countess of Hungary, Elizabeth Báthory. She was a vampire who killed over six hundred young women that worked inside her manor, she used to dismember them, and put their blood in buckets, which she would pour on chamber pots where she would sit and wash her body with their blood, with the hope of becoming young forever.

Although, there is also a monarch nowadays who is not human. Queen Elizabeth II of The United Kingdom. She was the Goddess of Hope. She has done wondrous things in her reign until now. A remarkable woman she is…

Anyway, the Natural Disaster became a series of events that happened in nature. While the real deal was scattered throughout the globe taking human forms. They believe that it is just events and not the pain they caused to the ones who had everything taken away from them.

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 There was something else written on the page, but it was a random note. It said:

 Something is not always as it seems to be. Try looking at a unique perspective.

 I've seen a detective movie a few weeks ago that the guy found a hidden message on a piece of paper which he could only see it using fire…

I looked again to that note… and this time it had a piece of red silk on top of it which led to the paper I was taking some notes.

 The paper was completely blank somehow. All my notes were gone. I turned the page of the book and found a realistic drawing of burning candle. I started feeling a faint smell of something burning tingling my nose. The pages were in flames. I tried to blow away the flames and saw the drawing moving its flames. Curious, I touched the drawing and felt my hand get hotter and hotter…. I felt something rather hard. I pulled it off the book. The candle came out. It was a thick red candle. Although, somehow, the drawing was erased as if it never existed in the first place…

 I opened the paper, lift it on top of the raging flames as I tried to figure out what it was trying to tell me.

 It looked like numbers… but there was an analphabet underneath it and a note saying:

 "Something is not always what it seems to be. Numbers are a way of telling where to go or where to look, but they can change one's view if they are used as letters."

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The message was rather long to solve but I ended up managing after a couple minutes.

It said:

"Before my lord was captured, he gave me information and items for a day the natural disasters might need it. He told me that: The members that created the Natural Disasters, formed a pact, in which they enchanted their eyes to let the other know they're real eye color. So even if they have a different appearance, they can always find each other. There are only six Natural Disasters. Humans have changed their existence and broke it down two four elements. Water, Air, Earth, and Fire. There are six with one of them possessing two powers which changes depending on her personality or mood.

Their titles were known throughout the world and society in general, feared them: Master of Chaos, Goddess of Death, Ruler of Life and Death, Mother of Despair, Nightmare, and Father of Souls.

P.S If you can read this. You are not human, and no one less than a member of the Natural Disasters."

A = 1 P = 16

B = 2 Q = 17

C = 3 R = 18

D = 4 S = 19

E = 5 T = 20

F = 6 U = 21

G = 7 V = 22

H = 8 W = 23

I = 9 X = 24

J = 10 Y = 25

K = 11 Z = 26

L = 12

M = 13

N = 14

O = 15

I wondered how that message got there. But most importantly, the last phrase it had. I closed my eyes, and I got a strange feeling like I was falling even though I was sitting down on the chair. Suddenly, a memory popped up in my mind. The librarian had taken my paper and changed it with a clear one… What was the name written on her name tag? I remembered her first name… it was:

May… No, Maya… and her last name was Spedo, wait no… ser… serp…. Serpero…

That's it! Maya Serpero.

That's an Italian name but she looked Korean. She had light pink hair that looked like the cherry blossoms.

M A Y A S E R P E R O

M A Y A R O P E R S E

M A R Y P E R A S E O

R O S E M A R Y P E A

I quickly got up and sprint across the library looking for her. But I couldn't find her. I went to the front desk to ask the other librarian. Although, for some reason, she told me she was the only librarian at that library, and she never heard anyone with the name Maya Serpero before.

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[1] "Good morning day, Good morning sun, Let's wake up and Enjoy this day."