Vol. 3

Chapter 11

I'm Selina Chase, 18 years old, My birth metal is silver. I'm in the first year of college under the Managing Program, hoping to manage a hotel or a apartment building. I'm just a little clumsy and a bit of a complainer. That's about it. One day, a strange woman in black named Luna Lupo showed up and turned me into Guardian of the Moon. But she wants me to fight bad guys. That makes me really nervous. Oh well, I guess everything will be okay. Hopefully.

In the dark, cold cave, Lady Pandora sits upon her throne listening to a digital track of a classical genre with a vase of roses by her side. Jason stood by waiting for a response from Lady Pandora. By time, the roses started to wither and becoming as dry as paper. Lady Pandora was shock to see the effect of the music against the plant. "It stole the plant's energy, this music..."

"Lady Pandora, this music has subliminal high-frequency waves hidden inside it. The humans that listen to this will become like this plant..."

"Interesting...Try it." Lady Pandora gave Jason a USB key that contains the track.

"At once! Kyrene." A woman of long red hair wearing a loose purple dress, black leggings and purple booties, appeared behind Jason, in her bow position. "Place the high-frequency wave on this USB into the humans' music."

"As you wish." agreed Kyrene.

During a rainy day, Selina and Luna stayed over at Ellie's place, which is right above her mother's jewelry store. The two girls were listening to a track of piano music through Ellie's MP3 player while Luna sits by enjoying her cup of tea. The two girls seem relax and calm by the sound of tranquility. "Ellie this is a good song." commented Selina as she lay on the floor with a cushion underneath her head.

"Isn't it? I highly recommend it." responded Ellie.

"This is consider classical right? Ellie, you have proven yourself to be quite a lady."

"I know...If you have any questions, just ask me."

"Don't take it to highly, of course. Hmm, Guido Dylan, huh?" Selina was reading an article about the artist in a magazine.

"Isn't he great? He's probably a wonderful and mature man. I'd like to go out with him."

"I think I'll pass." As Selina said that, Luna laughed in her tea.

He'll turn you down first. Luna said to herself. Selina looked at Luna thinking that she choked on her tea.

"Are you alright?"

"Oh I'm fine, the tea just went in the wrong way!"

A man outside of the JAM Records building holds a bouquet of roses in the harsh rain. "Today...Today, I'm going to confess." In one of the studios, a woman appeared in thin air, Kyrene. She took out the USB that contain the high-frequency track.

"The stereo that plays this track will become infected with the evil virus. In other words, any music recorded in this studio will have the subliminal high-frequency wave in it." She put the USB key in the slot of the computer and was ready to click play but someone was coming in. Kyrene was startled; a woman walked in the studio looking for something, Kyrene hid in the corner waiting for the woman to leave.

"Here it is! I can't believe I left it here. Guido is going to be mad at me." The woman was wearing a lady's suit looking all professional and all. She walked to the computer and took Kyrene's USB key out of the slot and put it in her pocket. Kyrene straighten out her hand and extended out her claws, almost ten inches long, ready for the kill. Before any of that could happen, a man stepped in.

"Ms. Fairbairn. Mr. Dylan is here to see you. He is in the lobby on the first floor." the man announced.

"Okay, I'm coming. Guido didn't have to come on such a rainy day like this." Ms. Fairbairn and the man left the studio, Kyrene retracted her claws missing the opportunity for her to attack and having her USB taken. In the lobby of the building, a man soaked in rain sitting on the bench with his bouquet waiting. "Guido!" Ms. Fairbairn ran up to the man. "Oh my, your soaked. You didn't use an umbrella? You were probably too busy thinking about music, weren't you?"

"Sure, you can say that." responded Guido.

"Here is the demo track from the other day. It was really good. Let's discuss the recording next week or so."

"Um, it's your birthday today , right?" Guido held the bouquet behind his back.

"Oh, you're right..."

"Ms. Fairbairn!" a man ran up to her in a panic. "It's terrible! We made a mistake with the mixing."

"What? Again? Sorry, I've got to go already. I'm working late tonight." She took Guido's hand and gave him the USB. "Here. Use my umbrella on your way home. It's the pink one at the entrance." She ran to the elevator to fix the issue. "And think of the title by next week! Okay?" she yelled out as the elevator's doors were closing.

"I already came up with a title. It's called, 'A Waltz for Fairbairn.'" Guido said to himself. Out in the distance, Kyrene has a keen eye on Guido.

Selina and Luna were finally leaving Ellie's place and preparing themselves to face with the heavy rain in the night. Ellie join them for their departure. "What annoying rain." Selina complained.

"They do say spring showers are long." Mentioned Ellie, not helping with the situation.

"Oh well, I'll see you in class tomorrow then. See you later." Selina and Luna waved goodbye to Ellie and turned to walk home. A man was running along the same sidewalk, dashing for his life. Selina and Luna made it to the Arcade Cafe. Selina glared at the window. "Maybe I'll grab a cup of coffee."

"You shouldn't be drinking coffee so late at night." warned Luna

"Come on, it's only a cup of coffee! It's not like I'm drinking alcohol." Selina walked towards the cafe's entrance.

"Honestly!" Luna look at another direction and saw a man running helplessly, not even looking of where he is going. "Selina, look out!"

"What now?"Before Selina could reach to the entrance of the cafe, the man fully collided with her, crashing to the ground. "Shit! My clothes got all wet!"

"Ouch!" exclaimed the man.

"You idiot!" Selina was piss! He looked up at her while trying to recover from the impact, the man was frighten and jumped away from her. Selina stared at him noticing something was up with this guy.

"Help me! Don't kill me. Please don't...Not my life!" he begged so hard on his knees. Luna walked up to the both of them wondering the same as Selina.

"Wait a second... I'm not going to kill you." said Selina.

"Huh?" the guy turned slowly to see her face.

The three ended up walking around downtown discussing what had happen to him.

"What? You were being targeted?" Selina asked

"Yeah, and you probably don't believe me, but..." the man hesitated.

"What is it?" Luna asked.

"The thing that was after me is actually...a monster..."

"A monster?" Selina was alert.

"Yeah..."

The man was walking down an ally with a pink umbrella and a bouquet of roses. He stopped when he saw a shadow, he followed the shadow with his eyes leading it to a long red hair woman. She had bats flying around, the man was scared. Every 30 seconds, the bats multiply and he got even more scared. For how scared he was he subconsciously drop the bouquet. The bats surrounded the woman and transformed her into a monster. The man screamed for his life, he threw the umbrella at the monster and ran as fast as he could.

Selina and Luna just looked at the man not knowing what to say. The man was exhausted, "It was probably my imagination. Sorry for telling you such a stupid story. Here is fine." They stopped at the requested spot.

"What?" Selina wasn't sure where they stopped.

"I've got a job at that music club." He explained.

"Music club?" Luna wondered.

"Oh yeah, dry cleaning money...Sorry, I don't have any money with me right now. Will you call me at this number later?" the man gave Selina his business card. Selina read the card out loud.

"Guido Dylan...HOLY SHIT! You're Guido Dylan!"

"See ya!" Guido ran off using his coat to block the rain. Selina watched him run off to where every he was going.

"So that was the Guido Dylan from the songs we heard with Ellie."

"That's not important Selina! The thing that's after him is a monster. We can't leave him alone." Luna interrupted.

"Yes! It's a chance to understand the world as a professional or as a grown-up according to you. We can't do anything." Selina ran off in the same direction as the man.

"I don't think she understood me?"

Inside the city's junkyard, Kyrene was having a meeting with her master Jason. "You idiot! You haven't gotten the USB key back yet?" Jason wasn't too happy of the situation.

"I'm sorry, I almost had him, but he got away."

"Stop giving me excuses."

"Yes, sir."

"Anyway, proceed as planned. Do you understand? If the USB key is not returned, consider your life to be over."

"Yes, sir." Jason vanished into the darkness and Kyrene vanished into thin air.