"THE RISE OF LAFIERY"

The continuation...

Gabriela wakes up in a dark forest, and she sees the men guarding in the distance. While the others surrounded her. Although she was still weak, she knew the people around her because of their voices.

"Hey beautiful lady," The man said and Gabriela noticed that man by his voice.

"Senior Arnulfo. What do you want?" Gabriela said her voice was shaking.

While at Aunt Azon's club, she was getting worried about her niece.

"Anastasia, did you find her?" Aunt Azon said to Anastasia as she was tasked Anastasia to find her niece but Anastasia just gave them a sad face.

"I can't find her anywhere, some of our guest relation offers saw your guest that Gabriela was taken away by Senior Arnulfo," Anastasia said.

"Robert, what I have done!" Aunt Azon said as she got more worried about what she knew at Anatasia's investigation.

Meanwhile at Gabriela's house where her sibling Kevin is waiting for her to come home.

"Why are you still awake young guy?" Candice said.

"I am waiting for Ate Gabriela to come home; she promised me to bring some new beads for my hobbies. But it's been 7 in the morning she's still not at home." Kevin said as he was staring at their picture together.

"That witch! Don't worry I'll drop by at Aunt Azon's place to ask her about that witch." Candice said as she made Kevin comfortable and not to worry about her Ate Gabriela. But Their Aunt Azon suddenly came.

"Where's your mother?" She asked.

"Mom is not here," Candice replies.

"Okay, follow me!" Aunt Azon said

"What's happening?" Candice asks her but the old lady just gives her a sad face. When they stepped away from the kitchen where she saw the siblings. Kevin asked them and said.

"Auntie where's Ate Gabby?" He asks. Azon was suddenly stunned by Kevin's question, she didn't know how to respond and explain to Kevin what happened to Gabriela.

She kneeled and stared at Kevin's face.

"Kevin, your Ate is missing but we will find her as soon as possible okay? And I'll do my best to bring her back. So don't worry." Azon said to Kevin.

And Kevin suddenly smiled at her and said at the same time.

"I feel her Auntie, she's alive but she's exhausted. She's strong,"

While Candice and Azon are stunned by Kevin's words.

Going back to Gabriela on that night that she kidnapped.

And after senior Arnulfo's men exploit her. They thought she was dead because of the stab wounds. That night they left the girl in the Dark Forest; a mysterious woman helped her.

"I'll give you the essence of my magic, use this to save your world from the upcoming apocalypse." The woman said then a fireball suddenly appeared in front of the mysterious woman.

"San Elmo possessed her with your fire and gave her your power." She said and the fireball suddenly entered her mouth.

"SANTELMO or SAN ELMO"

Fire of San Elmo- commonly shortened to Santelmo, - is a bad omen or a flying spirit in Filipino folklore. Others said this is the wandering soul of a deceased person who has not found peace yet. Similarly, young men wandering through the countryside seek in vain reconciliation.

Suddenly her body was shaking and the mysterious woman smiled at her and she said at the same time.

"Wake up Gabriela and do what you are destined to do." While Gabriela's entire body was engulfed in flames that gradually burned her clothes, her skin didn't seem to burn even when fire touched it.

After a few minutes, Gabriela's Consciousness returned then she noticed something on her clothes, and her stab wound was healed. But how? That's the question running on her mind. When suddenly she was distracted by an old woman asking her if she was doing okay.

"What's your name my child?" The old woman asked her. While She's calling her husband. While Gabriela just stares at her and says.

"Do you have coffee?"

Back to Sy's mansion where Jasper was worried about Gabriela's condition. When suddenly he was approached by his twin brother Jan.

"Hey bro, are you okay?" He asked but Jasper started to bite his nails on his finger.

"I know you, Jasper; you are stressed and worried why Jasper? What did you do?" Jan asks his brother.

"Dude, I messed up! Fck! I'm completely useless." Jasper said and Jan sat next to him to ask his brother about the mistake he was making.

At the Black Dragon's hideout where Senior Arnulfo was hiding and counting his money from his illegal businesses. When suddenly a mysterious woman appears and calls his name.

"Arnulfo, what's the progress?" She asks.

"Enigma, gladly you are here! sit down and we will serve you some drinks or food" he said, but Enigma just gave him a smirk and said.

"Don't you remember I am a goddess? Your human food is no match with all the souls I absorb. Now, instead of avoiding my question. Do everything that you have promised to the god of darkness." Enigma said and she suddenly disappeared.

Going back to Gabriela, she was taking good care of the old lady that helped her earlier

"Thank you so much for your delicious breakfast, Aleng Tali and Mang Benny." She said to the couple.

"She's so cute in my dress, and we're glad that you like the food that we prepare for you. Anyway, where do you live?" Aleng Tali asks her. But her husband Mang Benny answered her question.

"Maybe she came from the city, but my child I would like to ask. What happen to your clothes they have blood stains and they burned. But when we check you don't have any stab wounds, because of the blood stains that showing on your clothes that's a cause of the stabbing" Mang Benny explains.

But Gabriela just stared at them and tried to remember everything about what happened to her and how she got to the place.

"I don't remember everything. Where am I again?" She asked the couple. And the couple looked at each other and it was obvious on their faces that they felt sorry for her.

"But for now, since you can't remember your name. We will call you Paulina is that okay?" Mang Benny said and Aleng Tali agreed on the name.

"Paulina? A beautiful name, I like it." Gabriela said and she smiled at the couple she hugged them at the same time she said.

"Thank you"

"You can stay here whatever you want until you will remember everything." Aleng Tali said.

While Aunt Azon is still getting worried for her niece.

"We will do our best madam to find your niece, we will keep you posted on this," The police officer said.

"Thank you, Akihiko. I hope she's okay. This is all my fault." Azon said as she suddenly felt dizzy and she fell to the ground.

"Madame Azon? Can you hear me?" The police officer asks and she is completely unconscious.

"Auntie wake up! OH MY GOD!" Candice said she received a text message from her boyfriend Jan.

"I call the ambulance, Wait, Auntie hold on," Anatasia said while she panicked.

"Faster Tasia!" Candice shouts at Anatasia.

While Kevin was sitting in their garden a butterfly suddenly landed on his hand and he said that.

"Thank you for saving my Ate Gabriela, where is she now?" But the butterfly immediately flies away from his hands.

"Ate Gabby, please come home," Kevin said and he still watching the butterfly that slowly disappeared from nowhere. And Gabriela slowly discovers her powers.

"Paulina, are you okay? What happened?" Aleng Tali asked when she saw a huge amount of was floating in the air.

"OH MY GOD, Paulina stay away from that thing." Aleng Tali said as she got worried about Gabriela but she was still staring at the fireball.

"Santelmo!" Mang Benny said.

"She was hypnotized, let me grab her!" Aleng Tali said and she immediately grabbed Gabriela, on that time she was hypnotized by the SANTEMO.

TO BE CONTINUED...