Episode 20: In Which Everybody Dies

Posted: Thursday, October 9, 2008 by Jannah in Labels:

We will all die anyway. Why wait a few more years? Why not go out in a blazing glory? A famous rock star once said, "It is better to burn out than to fade away."

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Lang never really did want world domination. In truth, he is a super sensitive individual who happens to be obsessed with semi precious stones. Is it really his fault when a being of a higher power offered him unlimited access to the wonders of his one passion? Imagine having the ability to harness the power of stones. He could literally move mountains, changing the shapes of continents, the very landscape of Earth as we know it. His power would be the envy of all world leaders, they would all bow down to his supremacy. Jason Bourne, eat your heart out!

So Lang brought the girl as instructed by Tyzen to the top of the mountain, the very same mountain where he first caught sight of Tyzen, the elusive spirit of the Forest, guardian of all things old and precious, hidden away amidst lush greenery of wild plants and animals. Suki would be the perfect candidate for the bait. Lang remembered how crazy Duncan had been for Suki. How hopelessly in love they were, both willing to lay down their guards, opening up their hearts to the innocence of love.

All that had to change the day Suki told Duncan she was late. Her monthly menses were precise. Even Duncan would know when to go the the nearest 7 Eleven for sanitary pads midnight run. Suki wanted to keep it. "It's a testament of our love. It's both you and me merged into one being."

Duncan was not having any of that. "We're not mentally and financially ready to commit to a child Suki. We're too young. We still have so much hopes and dreams. A baby will only ground us. We'll be stuck with mortgages and bills and the next thing we know years have passed, the kid will leave us rotting in a Hospice and the last image you and I will see as we kick the bucket would be the nurses changing our diapers. Do you want all that?"

So Duncan told Lang about his predicament. They called some friends in New York, the best place to get the procedure done would be in a private hospital there. Duncan sent Suki on a pretense modeling career booster, and he conveniently forgot about her. Suki herself upon realizing what a thoughtless bastard Duncan was (this while having both her legs propped up on the hospital operating table, her most intimate self opened like a flower for the doctors to probe on) decided at the very last minute, before the general anesthetic injection, to keep the baby. Fuck Duncan. She can be both the mother and the father for this child.

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"Tyzen. Where have you been? I've been waiting for you like mad. She's starting to wake up from the poison I gave her."

Tyzen told Lang he was stuck in between Sara's mind and the outside world. Her love for him was so strong, additional forces from Tyzen's waning spirit had to be used just so he could break free from her hold. It was her love that first brought his spirit to life. He was but a wandering apparation before he met Sara.

"Sara wants me to stop you."

"Like hell you will. You're the one who started this. You got me into this."

"Sara seems to think this is for the best, that I should stop you from becoming the next Langkasuka. She said Suki should be released to be with her child."

"Suki doesn't have a child. Duncan took care of that."

"No he didn't." Gasped Suki as she woke up from her drugged state of consciousness. She has been eavesdropping on Lang and Tyzen's conversation for a while now.

"So the plan was to use me as bait huh? You didn't have to make me fall in love with you just to do that. You could have just simply asked. I would have said YES! The bastard deserves castration!"

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Sara, Duncan, and Mraz went up the hill,
To fetch a pail of water,
Duncan fell down and broke his crown,
And Mraz came tumbling after....

What happened to Sara?

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Duncan, all morose because he's a father now, responsibility of child support looming ahead, waving its colorful hospital, nursery, college tuition bills to his face, fell into complete silence as he went up the mountain.

"This is not a hill. This is a freaking mountain," said Mraz.

"The higher Tyzen stands, the stronger his spirit could materialized," said Sara.

"I thought he's a spirit. Spirits can't stand. They float."

It is obvious Mraz was trying hard to be funny, just so he could cut the tension emanating from Duncan's muscular frame. Mraz has been holding a torch (literal torch when he's alone in bed with Duncan's dirty laundry) for Duncan since they first meet. Mraz has never had the balls to openly tell Duncan, for fear that Duncan would kick him in the arse (oh yes please). He watched silently from far as Duncan gets himself into trouble from one girl to the next.

"Duncan. In case we die on top of that hill, mountain, I have to tell you something."

"What Mraz?"

"I love you."

"I know. You love doing my laundry. I figured it out when one of my shirt went missing. And we're not dying on that hill. We'll discuss this when we get back home."

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Love and hate are two sides of the same coin.

Sara's love for Tyzen.

Suki's hatred towards Duncan.

Lang's love for stones.

Mraz's secret longing.

All these feelings, now, on top of this mountain. The surrounding birds in the forest started to sing out loud the song of despair. There would be death tonight chirped the canaries.

"She is the mother to my child Lang. Give her up now!" Duncan yelled out to Lang, his voice reverberated on the mountain's wall of precious stones.

"Give yourself up on her behalf first Duncan. I bet Sara told you all about my masterplan. What she failed to mention is that Tyzen wants to be with her, regardless of her choice to sacrifice their love so that others may live."

"Tyzen. How could you?" Sara started sobbing hard. Mraz being her best friend forever, held her close. He took her to the side away from the impending doom that's obviously going to happen pretty soon.

Tyzen stood still and said, "I'm sorry Sara. I love you so much. I want to be selfish this time. I've been alone all this while. I want you to stay with me here in Ulam."

Quick as a lighting bolt something came at Duncan. It was Suki with a huge boulder held tight, raised above her thin figure. She dropped the rock on Duncan's feet, bringing him down to the mountain's floor.

"What the fuck?" Groaned Duncan.

"Yeah Suki. What the fuck? I said wait until he willingly offers himself on your place. Then you hit him with the rock." Lang couldn't contain his anger. This is not a part of the plan. Everything is a mess. And what the hell is Mraz doing with that switchblade?

"Arghhhh. How dare you hurt my Duncan!!" Stab stab!!!

Suki fell down. Her guts disemboweled by a possessed Mraz.

STOP!!!! STOP!!!! This is not how its suppose to end!!! I'm suppose to be the noble one and sacrifice myself for the rest of humanity, yelled Lang to the rest of the people on the mountain. Nobody seemed to be listening to him. "I even have the perfect ending written down;

Sometimes we cling to an alternate reality, just so that we could make sense of the shit we're in at the moment. Lang's decision to not kill everyone around him while sacrificing himself to save the others shows that there's good in all of us. All we have to do is dig deep inside and eventually, the good will surface and help guide us down the right path.

Damn you Ulamer Jane!! Damn you!!

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So how does it end?

Suki was slaughtered by a raging Mraz, which in turn got kicked in the arse by Duncan for his earlier confession.

Sara decided to be selfish and took off with Tyzen into the forest. Her fate sealed under the stars as Tyzen released her spirit by way of drowning.

Lang found himself alone on the mountain. A failed attempt at being good. But him is a different story yet to come.

And Suki's child? He has his loving grandmother to take him in.








Finish. Finally.