οι δύο νέες ιστορίες μου που έκανα για την tarja turunen είναι απο της 29/01/2012 στα χέρια της"my two new stories i write for mis tarja turunen from 29/01/2012 is in her hands

εδώ μπορείτε να διαβάσετε τις δύο νέες ιστορίες που έχω γράψει και δώσει στην tarja turunen από της 29/01/2012 μετά από την συναυλία της στην αθήνα στο fuzz club με την πολύτιμη βοήθεια του φίλου μου γιώργου σοφού
here you can read my 2 new stories i have write and give to miss tarja turunen in 29/01/2012 after her concert in athens in fazz club with precious help of my friend george sofos
και οι δύο ιστορίες μεταφράστηκαν από την ανατολή λυδία στόιλα
both stories translated by anatolh lydia stoila
(η ιστορία προστατεύται νομικά απο τον κ.αθανασόπουλο δικηγόρο και συμβολαιογράφο και επίσης απο το deviant art site καθώς εχει γίνει εκεί upload epishs)
(story protected legally from lawyer mr.athanasopoulos and also deviant art site)



SCENE 1: PROLOGUE
NIGHT SKY WITH STARS OUTSIDE OF THE SECOND TARJA'S HOUSE IN BUENOS AIRES
THE WEATHER IS SUMMERY AND COOL AT THE SAME TIME AND THE WIND CARESSES SOFTLY TARJA'S HAIR AND AS SHE LOOKS AT THE SKY, SHE SMILES LIGHTLY.
THE CAMERA GOES UP SLOWLY FROM THE HOUSE, SHOWING A BIT ON THE BIAS THE TILES OF THE HOUSE'S ROOFTOP.
SOME DRIED LEAVES FALL FROM THE TREES TO OUR DIRECTION (THEY ZOOM TO THE CAMERA) AND SOME OTHERS DISPERSE TO THE WIND, RIGHT AND LEFT, TOWARDS THE SKY.
SUDDENLY, A BLACK LIKE DUST ENERGY EMBRACES THE LEAVES AND TOTALLY SCATTERS THEM, TURNING THEM INTO DUST AND A VOICE SOUNDS FROM THE BACKGROUND, SAYING ONLY THIS: “REVENGE”.
TARJA HEARD IT, SHE LIGHTLY FROZE FOR A MOMENT SHE TURNED RIGHT AND LEFT TO CHECK IF SOMEONE TALKED TO HER BUT NOTHING!
SHE OPENED THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE AND GOT IN.
THE CAMERA GETS UP AGAIN TO THE SKY AND TO THE BIG FULL MOON, AND THE TITLE “DIE ALIVE 2 (WHAT LIES BENEATH)” APPEARS FAINTLY

SCENE 2: TARJA'S AFTERLIFE
IT HAD BEEN 14 YEARS SINCE TARJA'S LAST ADVENTURE THAT ALMOST COSTED HER OWN LIFE BUT ALSO SHOWED HER A LOT OF FACTS THAT WOULD HAPPEN IN HER LIFE DURING THE NEXT YEARS THAT WOULD FOLLOW. IT SHOWED HER HOW TO FIGHT AND WIN HER PERSONAL DEMONS, TO BE OPTIMISTIC AND POSITIVE TO HER FUTURE, AND THE MOST IMPORTANT, TO NEVER GIVE UP HER DREAM THAT HAD FOLLOWED SINCE HER CHILDHOOD. AND SO SHE DID, SHE HAD ALREADY BECOME A FAMOUS SINGER IN HER COUNTRY -AS WELL IN THE OUTER WORLD- AND SHE HAD ENTERED THE FAMOUS BAND BY THE NAME “NIGHTWISH”
BUT NOW, IN 2010 SHE HAD MADE 1 DISC OF HER OWN SOLO CAREER AND IN SEPTEMBER SHE HAD TO ENTER THE STUDIO TO START THE MAKING OF HER 2ND DISC BUT SHE LACKED OF INSPIRATION..!! SHE HAD A STARTING PLAN IN HER MIND BUT SOMETHING WAS MISSING, SHE NEEDED INSPIRATION... WHICH SHE WOULD CERTAINLY FIND, SOONER OR LATER.
09:30 PM, BUENOS AIRES, TARJA'S HOUSE:
TARJA IS CHECKING HER E-MAIL AND SUDDENLY HER CELL-PHONE RINGS! (DRRRRRRNNNNN!!!)
TARJA:”This must be Alex calling me to the studio.”
ALEX:”Hey Tarja, are you coming? We await you to continue with our ideas and also to show you some new tones I wrote.”
TARJA:”Ok I am getting dressed and I am gonna get there, hold on your ideas tightly, don't let go, we need them!!! Haha” THEY BOTH LAUGH
ALEX:”They are here don't worry, I am rehearsing them since last night.”
TARJA:”See you then” SHE PUTS AWAY HER CELL-PHONE.
SHE PUTS ON HER JEANS, HER SUMMER JACKET, HER SHOES AND SHE TAKES THE KEYS OF HER NEW MOTORCYCLE (THE OLD ONE WAS REFFERED IN “DIE ALIVE” STORY PART 1)
SHE ALSO HAD A BIG, NICE CAR BUT SHE BOUGHT THE MOTORCYCLE FOR EASIER AND FASTER MOVINGS.
(SOMETIMES LIFE TENDS TO REPEAT ITSELF AND MAKE A KIND OF CIRCLE, IS ANYBODY GONNA NOTICE WHAT I MEAN..?)
TARJA PUTS THE KEY IN THE STARTER AND ATTEMPTS TO START THE ENGINE (UNFORTUNATELY THE BATTERY SEEMS TO BE DEAD)
TARJA:”Aw come on!!! Are you kidding me?? ...get started already, we got work to do!!”
SHE TRIES AGAIN BUT NOTHING.
TARJA:”Better to take the car! I will have it checked tomorrow.”
RIGHT BEFORE SHE ATTEMPTS TO OPEN THE GARAGE DOOR, SHE REMEMBERS THAT THERE ISN'T MUCH FUEL LEFT IN THE CAR SO IT COULD STOP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WAY, SO SHE GOT BACK TO THE MOTORCYCLE.
TARJA:”I will try the other way” SHE PUTS THE KEY IN AGAIN AND SHE TRIES THE CRANK, FIVE MINUTES PASS AND NO RESULT! HER LEG HURTS A BIT SO SHE SITS DOWN FOR A WHILE TO TAKE A REST.
IN ALL OF A SUDDEN SHE GETS AN INTENSIVE HEADACHE, NAUSEA AND A TENSION TO PASS OUT! SHE REACHED OUT HER HAND TO HER PURSE, TOOK A SMALL BOTTLE OF WATER AND WASHED HER FACE.
TARJA:(BABBLING TO HERSELF) “It must have been the fact that I haven't eaten anything today... maybe I stop at a restaurant on the way.”
SHE GOT UP, TOOK HER PURSE ON HER SHOULDER AND THIS TIME THE MOTORCYCLE STARTED WORKING RIGHT AWAY!! SHE BABBLES AGAIN
TARJA:”That reminds me Deja Vu, like some years before that I lived the experience with my dream, just before it happened, on my attempt to go to school my old motorcycle wasn't working, just as now!! Let's hope that this time nothing weird is going to happen!”
SHE PRAYED FOR A MOMENT AND HEADED TO THE STUDIO.

SCENE 3: INFERNO
ON THE WAY TO HER DESTINATION, SHE PASSES BY A RESTAURANT BY THE NAME “DANTE'S INFERNO: THE HOTTEST BUT BEST TASTE SANDWICHES”.
SHE SMILED.. BUT JUST BEFORE SHE MANAGED TO SLOW DOWN, SHE BARELY RUN OVER A WOLF THAT WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WAY AND WAS STARRING AT HER!!
TARJA:”Jesus, a wolf!! How did it get here??” SHE TOUCHES HER FOREHEAD WITH HER HAND AND REMOVES THE SWEAT! SHE LAUGHS AT HERSELF! “You are in Finland and you travel through the woods, Tarja, that explains the wolf!” SHE THOUGHT.
BY THE TIME SHE LOOKED BACK ON THE ROAD, THE WOLF WAS ALREADY GONE!
TARJA:”Let's grab a bite here, but before I enter, let's call the guys to check if they want me to get them anything, they work so hard for all these hours!”
FIRST SHE CALLS ALEX (HER GUITARIST) BUT NOTHING, THE CELL-PHONE IS DEAD!
THEN SHE CALLS DOUG (HER BASSIST) BUT THE SAME, IT IS DEAD TOO!
TARJA:”Strange, both of them have turned their phones off!!.. Anyway I will try again later!”
SHE OPENS THE DOOR OF THE RESTAURANT AND SHE ASKS
TARJA:”Is anyone here? Such a deserted place.... excuse me, is anyone here??”...SHE LOOKS AROUND, RIGHT-LEFT, THE PLACE IS TOTALLY EMPTY.
“Pardon me!” A STRANGE OLD MAN SHOUTS FROM THE BACK, HIS AGE AROUND 60 OR MORE, IN APPEARANCE HE IS TALL AND THIN, MISERABLE BUT NOT MEAN, WITH KEEN BLUE EYES. TARJA, OBVIOUSLY SCARED BY HIS APPEARING, SAYS..!!
TARJA:”Excuse me, I thought the place was open but is ok, I will search for another one.”
WAITER:”No ma'am it is open, there was just a blackout in the area but now everything seems to be ok!”
JUST IN TIME, THE LIGHT IS BACK IN THE WHOLE PLACE.
TARJA AND THE WAITER STARE AT EACH OTHER FOR 3 SECONDS WITHOUT SAYING A WORD!
TARJA:”I'll take a sandwich please! Mustard and potatoes only!”
WAITER:”Right away, just wait for the sausages to get done with the oil!”
TARJA:”Sure!”
SHE SAT ON A STOOL NEXT TO THE DOOR, STILL LOOKING SCARED AND THINKING OF THIS PLACE!
WAITER:”There you go!” HE GIVES HER THE SANDWICH
TARJA ATTEMPTS TO GIVE HIM MONEY, BUT HE SAYS
WAITER:”No, you don't have to, you will pay me later, when you will enter the Circle of the 11 Trials!! Also known as Kolasi” IN GREEK MEANS “HELL”, HE SAID IT THIS WAY SO THAT SHE WOULD'T UNDERSTAND WHAT HE MEANT TO SAY.
TARJA:”Ok now you are messing with me right? You know what? Keep that sandwich, my appetite is gone. Bye!” SHE OPENS THE DOOR TO GET OUT AND SUDDENLY SHE HEARS SOMETHING STRANGE, A SOUND LOUD LIKE CREEPING CHAINS ON THE STREET, OR LIKE A HORSE'S WHINNY! SHE TURNS TO THE WAITER AND SHE SAYS
TARJA:”What is this now?..huh?”
WAITER:”Just run and don't look back! It's the Soul Reaper, a demon that picks up people and takes them to Death's ship for collection!”
TARJA:”Ok, this is obviously a place of mad people I got in, so I am out of here!”
SHE WALKS DOWN THE STEPS QUICKLY, HER KEYS FALL DOWN FROM THE MOTORCYCLE TO THE GROUND, SHE LOOKS QUICKLY FOR THEM, WHILE THAT MOMENT THE SOUND OF THE HORSE AND THE CHAINS IS GETTING LOUDER!! SHE FINDS THEM! SHE ATTEMTPS TO START THE ENGINE AND MAKES A QUICK PRAY!
TARJA:”Please, start quickly now, please!!”
THIS IS IT!! GOOD, SHE RIDES THE MOTORCYCLE NOW AND SHE GOES AS FAST AS SHE CAN! SHE LOOKS AT THE MIRROR TO SEE WHAT WAS BACK ON THE ROAD!
SUDDENLY, SHE SEES LINES OF FIRE GOING AFTER HER!
TARJA:”What in the hell is that?? God!! Doesn't this dammed thing go any faster?? And I am still going with 80 kms/h.. that thing over there, even if it is a horse, it must be possessed or something to be running so fast!”
IN ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE SOUND OF THE DEMONISED VEHICLE BEHIND HER STOPS!
TARJA STOPS AND TURNS OFF THE ENGINE, SHE REMAINS STILL FOR A MOMENT TO REST AND REGAIN HER LOST -BY FEAR- BREATH.
AFTER 1,5 MINUTES, A GREAT EARTHQUAKE TAKES PLACE AND SHE FALLS DOWN FROM THE MOTORCYCLE ON THE GROUND, AS THE FLAMING RIDER BY THE NAME “SPEEDING BULLET” WAS ALREADY CLOSING ON HER.
THE BLACK HORSE'S LOUD WHINNY REBOUNDED ON UNCONSIOUS TARJA AND ITS RIDER GOT DOWN AND WITH HIS CALM AND SERIOUS VOICE SAID TO HER...
RIDER: (WHO WAS TALL 1,98M WEARING A LONG LEATHER COAT, A FRAYED COWBOY HAT, HIS WHOLE BODY WAS LIKE A BLACK SHADE AND ONLY HIS TWO RED BRIGHT EYES WERE GLOWING)
“Tarja, your journey now begins so you can see what lies between the light and the darkness, and forget every hope, now that you get in there.”
(DANTE: WHOEVER GO INSIDE, LET THEM FORGET EVERY HOPE)
TARJA SLOWLY OPENS HER EYES AND FACES THE DARK PRESENCE OVER HER
TARJA:”Whoever you are, demon, I am not afraid of you, I have dealt with creatures like you again! Go away, in the name of the Lord.”
RIDER:”You didn't get it right, you eliminated one of the soldiers of Hell and you think that the Wolf (Satan) will not seek revenge for one of his children that is gone?..
When one of you sheep is lost, doesn't your Lord, the shepherd, look for it?”
TARJA, SCARED BUT ALSO COMPOSED, WAS TRYING TO REALISE WHAT EXACTLY WAS HAPPENING... AND THEN HER MEMORY BROUGHT HER BACK WITH A FLASHBACK
WHEN SHE WAS 19 YEARS OLD AND DEALT WITH THE DEMON OF THE NEGATIVE NIGHTMAROUS ZONE, WHO HAD POSSESSED HER BEST FRIEND FROM HIGHSCHOOL, LISA VUORINEN, IN THE ISOLATED AND DARK HOUSE WITH ALL THE STRANGE MESSAGES ABOUT HER FUTURE AND ALSO THE VOICE OF THE ANGEL SHE HEARD INSIDE HER IN THE DURATION OF THIS SPARKY DREAM, WHEN SHE TRIED TO GO TO SCHOOL WITH HER OLD MOTORCYCLE AND IT COULDN'T WORK, JUST LIKE NOW THAT SHE WAS 33 YEARS OLD, AFTER 14 YEARS HER ADVENTURE STARTED AGAIN WITH HER MOTORCYCLE NOT WORKING, LIKE AN INVISIBLE GREAT POWER THAT MOTIVATES EVERYTHING HAS SPUN THE SAME WEB FOR SECOND TIME, GETTING HER INTO A NEW DARKER ADVENTURE!
THERE WAS NO TURNING BACK, NOR ANY OTHER WAY TO EXIT. JUST TARJA, THE RIDER AND THE FLAMING GATE THAT APPEARED RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER, ALL THE WAY BEHIND HER HAD BEEN ERASED AND THERE WAS ABSOLUTE DARKNESS IN ALL OVER THE PLACE.

SCENE 4: ANTEROOM OF DEATH
SUDDENLY, AN INTENSIVE STRONG LIGHT FELL UPON TARJA'S EYES AND NOW SHE SEEMS TO BE LYING ON HER BED.
TARJA:”Phiou!! It was only a dream! Fortunately, everything is ok! Timo, are you here?
Strange, it's Sunday morning and my brother is missing...?!”
SHE WAS HOME IN HER BEDROOM, IT WAS DAWNING AND THERE WAS SILENCE EVERYWHERE!
TARJA GOT OFF THE BED TO SEEK HER FAMILY AND SHE NOTICED THAT THE ROOM'S WALLS WERE BLACK AND THERE WERE SOME MASKS ON THEM, LIKE THE ONES USED IN THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES AND ALSO, THERE WERE 2 PORTRAITS OF HER BUT LIGHTLY MISSHAPEN AND BURNED IN SOME SPOTS OF HER FACE. IN THE ROOM THERE WERE ALSO SOME STRANGE, SCARY PUPPETS HANGING FROM THE CEILING BY THREADS AND SMILING AT HER WITH A STRANGE, DARK SMILE. AND IN A CORNER, THERE WAS A VAULT OF GLASS, LIKE THE ONES WHICH ARE USED TO PROTECT RARE ITEMS IN MUSEUMS. INSIDE IT, THERE WAS A GOLDEN MASK IN VENETIAN STYLE!
TARJA APPROACHED IT AND ATTEMPTED TO TOUCH THE GLASS BUT SUDDENLY SHE STOPPED AND FROZE.
TARJA:”Hey, wait a minute.... there is no way my room is like that and neither had these masks on the walls! So I am not in my room, nor in my house but somewhere else!...
Yes, the Rider with the demonic horse who welcomed me in Hell.... everything is eventually true!!”
SUDDENLY, THE SUNLIGHT THAT FILLED HER ROOM WAS GONE AND THE DARKNESS SPREAD ALL OVER! AT THE SAME TIME, THE BLACK-DRESSED MAN WITH THE SCYTHE WAS COMING TO HER DIRECTION AND AN INNER VOICE TOLD HER..
VOICE:”Tarja, break the glass vault, take the golden mask and put it on, so that you can find the exit of this room of Death and save yourself.”
TARJA, PANICED AND WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO THINK OF OTHER WAY, STARTED HITTING THE VAULT BY HER ELBOW, TRYING TO BREAK THE GLASS! SHE HURTED BUT SHE HAD TO INSIST CAUSE DEATH WAS APPROACHING HER MORE AND MORE! HER ARM WAS BLEEDING AND FINALLY SHE BROKE THE GLASS AND TOOK THE MASK, JUST BEFORE DEATH ATTEMPTED TO TAKE HER HEAD! SHE SAW THAT WHERE THE ABSOLUTE DARKNESS WAS, SOME WHITE UNSUBSTANTIAL FOOT-STEPS APPEARED WHITCH SHE HAD TO FOLLOW TO THE EXIT!
DEATH:”Noooo, you can't get away, it's impossible!!! No one has ever fled from me, I have orders not to let you go!!!”
TARJA:”And I know myself that the good ones die young, but you will make an exception for me, body!!”
AT THAT MOMENT, THERE WAS SUCH AN INTENSIVE LIGHT COMING OUT OF THE MASK'S EYES THAT DEATH WAS BLINDED AND HIS SCYTHE FELL ON THE FLOOR, SO SHE MANAGED TO SEE THE DOOR OPENED, SO SHE COULD ESCAPE NOW FROM THIS PLACE BUT BEHIND THAT DOOR, THERE WAS THE ABSOLUTE, PURE WHITENESS WAITING FOR HER....

SCENE 5: UNTIL MY LAST BREATH
AFTER SHE PASSED THE PURE WHITE LIGHT, SHE FOUND HERSELF ON THE SAND OF A HUGE, WIDE PLACE THAT WAS SURROUNDED BY HIGH MOUNTAINS AND CLEAR BLUE SKY! BUT EVERYTHING SEEMED PRETTY MUCH DESERTED AND THERE WAS SILENCE EVERYWHERE, THE SILENCE THAT SOMETIMES SCARES YOU... SHE GOT UP SLOWLY, BUMPED THE SAND OF HER AND SAID,
TARJA:”From Darkness to Heaven... although, for Heaven, it is too quiet!” SHE LOOKED AROUND HER TO CHECK FOR ANY SIGNS OF LIFE, BUT NOTHING.
WHILE SHE WAS WALKING ON THE SAND NEAR THE SEA, SHE SAW A LITTLE GIRL WITH HAZEL HAIR COMING TO HER.
TARJA:”God, what is this? A little girl is approaching me..”
GIRL:”Hello!!”
TARJA:”Hello sweetheart, how did you get here?”
GIRL:”You tell me, you brought me here, your own purity... have you forgotten already?”
TARJA:”I honestly don't understand what you are talking about but come with me to walk, see if I can get you out of this place.”
SHE NODDED WITH HER BEAUTIFUL CUTE HEAD AND SMILED, HELD TARJA'S HAND AND THEY WALKED TOGETHER ON THE BEACH FOR A PRETTY LONG TIME.
TARJA AND THE LITTLE GIRL SAT ON A HIGH ROCK AND STARED AT THE CALM SEA AND ITS WIDE BLUE HORIZON UNTIL THE GIRL SAYS
GIRL:”Tarja, when you were young, you had made in your mind your special own world, where you used to escape so that no one bothered you and you could relax, right?”
TARJA:”Yes!! How do you know that?”
GIRL:”Let me continue and I shall tell you. But you were always afraid of a human-formed monster, something like mermaid right?”
TARJA:”.......!!!!” SHE WAS SILENCED AND LOOKED SURPRISED.
GIRL: (SMILES AND SAYS) “Now, Tarja, do you know who I am?”
TARJA:”No.... oh no it is not possible, haha!....no way!!”
GIRL:”Hold on your answer, you can tell me later. Now, do you see this beautiful sea in front of us?”
TARJA:”Yes, of course..!!”
THE LITTLE GIRL PUSHES FIERCELY TARJA AND IN RESULT, TARJA FALLS IN THE WATER!! SHE WAS TRYING TO HOLD HER BREATH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE AS SHE WAS SURE THAT SHE NOTICED A MERMAID SWIMMING ON HER RIGHT AND SIGNING HER TO FOLLOW.
AS TARJA APPROACHED HER, SHE WAS SURE THAT SHE HAD SEEN THIS STRANGE SEA PRESENCE AGAIN...!! RIGHT BEFORE SHE REACHES HER AND ATTEMPTS TO TOUCH HER, SHE SEES A MONSTEROUS, DEMONIC MERMAID WITH A SEAHORSE TAIL AND SHARP TEETH, LIKE A SHARK!!!
OBVIOUSLY SHOCKED AND SCARED, TARJA UNDERSTOOD THAT THIS WAS A CHARACTER FROM A STORY HER MOTHER USED TO READ TO HER WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD, A FARYTALE CALLED “OCEANBORN” , THE QUEEN OF THE ETERNAL BLUE, THE DEMONIC MERMAID WAS THE ENEMY OF TARJA'S FAVORITE CHARACTER AND WAS SO DEEPLY INCISED IN HER MIND THAT TARJA HAD NIGHTMARES OF HER.
HER FAVORITE CHARACHER HAD DEFEATED THE SIREN, USING A PEARL, BRIGHT AND SHINNY LIKE NO OTHER, STICKING IT DEEPLY IN HER HEART!!
SHE SAW THE SHELL WHICH CONTAINED THE PEARL THAT, ACCORDING TO THE STORY, WAS POSEIDON'S HEART. AS TARJA WAS ATTEMPTING TO REACH THE SHELL, THE MERMAID GRABBED HER LEG FIERCELY, PULLING HER BACK AND WILLING TO BITE HER NECK. AS TARJA KEPT HER HEAD BACK, SHE MANAGES TO SLIP AWAY AND REACHES THE SHELL BUT SUDDENLY THE DEMON SCREAMS LOUDLY AND DRIVES HER AWAY!!
THE SHELL HAD OPENED BY THE SHOUTING AND THE PEARL POPPED OUT, WHILE TARJA GRABBED IT! THE MERMAID QUICKLY MOVED TO HER DIRECTION, ATTEMPTING TO TAKE THE PEARL FROM TARJA'S HANDS AND TARJA THOUGHT “It's me or her now!!”
AND AS THE MERMAID CAME TO HER DIRECTION, TARJA STICKED THE PEARL INTO THE MONSTER'S HEART!! THE MERMAID TURNED INTO DUST AND EVAPORATED LIKE STEAM FROM THE SEA, AS TARJA GOT ON THE SURFACE!
THE LITTLE GIRL PULLS HER HAND AND TELLS HER “Well, Tarja, I am you, in younger age”!!!

SCENE 6: IN FOR A KILL
THE LITTLE GIRL (TARJA IN YOUNGER AGE) WAS HOLDING TARJA'S HAND ALL THE TIME, AS THEY WERE WALKING TOWARDS A DOOR ON THE SEA! THEY WERE WALKING ON THE WATER, THE LITTLE GIRL OPENS THE DOOR AND SAYS
GIRL:”So, Tarja, now your new adventure is about to begin, you have to solve a riddle in a mysterious case!”
TARJA:”Why am I passing through all these trials? Am I in hell? Did I die?”
GIRL:”First finish all your trials and you will find the answer you are looking for.”
SHE PASSES THROUGH THE DOOR AND SHE GETS IN AN OLD NOIR FILM OF THE 70's. SHE GOES IN A DETECTIVE'S OFFICE AND SHE SEES HERSELF DRESSED WITH A CLASSIC SUIT STYLE, BIG BLACK HAT, BLACK SUNGLASSES AND AT THAT MOMENT, SHE SEES HER PLACING A SMALL POCKET-PISTOL UNDER HER GARTER AND DOING HER SHIRT!
NOIR TARJA:”All set, Jimmy, I won't disappoint you! I will take the documents and leave no signs!”
SUDDENLY, WHILE SHE WAS BEHIND SOME BOXES, WATCHING THE SCENE, THERE WAS A VOICE INSIDE HER THAT TOLD HER “You have to follow yourself to the place she goes and help her to solve the case, but be cautious cause if she sees you, you will be trapped in this dimension forever and won't be able to go back..!”
TARJA:”Wow, nothing can be harder than this.... haha it's child's play!!!” (TO HERSELF IRONICALLY) “Why am I passing through all these tests, what's the point?? Just because I made a negative wish when I was younger, do I have to get through all this?”
NOIR TARJA: “Can I take the car, Jimmy? ...You have to give me the keys.”
JIMMY: “Ok but return it to me in one piece, please!”
NOIR TARJA: (IN A SREWD AND MINCING WAY) “Aw, you know me, I never destroy anything, unless I want to” SHE WHIFFS THE SMOKE OF HER CIGARETTE ON HIM.
TARJA: “Great, my self is driving a Rolls Royce, how am I supposed to follow her??”
SHE WAS THINKING FOR SOME SECONDS, AS NOIR TARJA ENTERED THE VEHICLE AND WAS ABOUT TO START THE CAR. SUDDENLY, TARJA SEES AN OLD MODEL SCOOTER.
TARJA: “A scooter AGAIN?? Are they all after me?...” (TOUCHES HER HEAD AND LAUGHS) “Fortunately its owner has left the keys in. Now let's see, if it takes me so long to start the engine with the future motor scooters, just imagine how long this rotten thing takes!!... God, my self is leaving, I have to catch her in time...!! I must not lose her of my sight, elsewhere, I will be trapped in this dimension forever!!”
FIRST SHE TRIES WITH THE CRANK, NOTHING! SHE TRIES AGAIN HARDER, AGAIN NOTHING! THE CAR WAS GETTING AWAY IN THE MIST AND THE FAINTING LIGHTS OF THE STREET, UNTIL THE OWNER OF THE SCOOTER COMES AND YELLS
“Hey, you!!! Stop, what are you doing??!!”
TARJA: “Oh, no! Not now!.... come on, start please!!” SHE MOVES FAST AND JUMPS ON THE CRANK FIERCELY AND THE SCOOTER STARTS WORKING IMMEDIATELY, JUST BEFORE ITS OWNER ALMOST CATCHED IT! TARJA WENT AFTER THE CAR AND BARELY MISSED IT, RIGHT BEFORE IT COMPLETELY DISAPPEARED!
THE CAR HAD STOPPED OUTSIDE A DESERTED WAREHOUSE, THEN TARJA STOPPED TOO, JUST A FEW METERS BEHIND. NOIR TARJA ENTERS THE WAREHOUSE AND TARJA FOLLOWED HER, BUT SHE STAYED OUTSIDE TO LISTEN IN THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN HER SELF AND A MAN.
MAN: “Here you are, this file contains everything you need, including the names of the people we definitely need to eliminate!!”
NOIR TARJA: “There is something like a riddle, what is this?”
“THE SMALL LIES LEAD TO THE RIVERS OF PASSION AND THESE LEAD YOU UNDER THE SURFACE OF THE TRUTH, MAKING YOU TO BE A PART OF THE MURDER!”
TARJA: “Wow..!! What did I got into again, what does this riddle mean...? I have to help my self to solve this riddle -without seeing me of course- and avoid being trapped here for life...”
WHILE BEING HIDDEN, TARJA NOTICED ON THE FLOOR A USED CIGAR OF THE VERY SAME BRAND OF THE ONE THAT NOIR-TARJA'S BOSS WAS SMOKING WHEN SHE FIRST SAW HIM AT THE OFFICE.
TARJA: “I don't like that boss of her at all, he must be connected to something but what? I think I can help her in a somehow risky way...!”
SHE WHIPPED FAST-MOVING IN A LOW -ALMOST CRAWLING- HIGH AND WITH HER HAND SHE PUSHED THE CIGAR TOWARDS NOIR TARJA AND IT ROLLED AND BARELY TOUCHED THE POINT OF HER SHOE. THEN TARJA QUICKLY MOVED BACK TO THE BOXES SHE WAS HIDING BEFORE. A NOISE SOUNDED FROM OUTSIDE THE WAREHOUSE AND THE MAN SAID TO NOIR TARJA “Quickly, run!! Take your car and go away, we are probably busted by Jimmy's men!!” (THE POLICE MEN OF DETECTIVE'S OFFICE)
NOIR TARJA: “Ok done, talk to you on the phone!!”
SHE ENTERED THE CAR BUT SHE DIDN'T LEAVE, SHE HID BEHIND A BIG TREE AND FOLLOWED THE TWO OTHER CARS, HOLDING THE USED CIGAR IN THE SAME BRAND WITH HER BOSS' CIGAR.
NOIR TARJA: “I don't know how this got in my way but it is certainly the brand my boss uses.... let's follow these guys, see where this takes me.....”
TARJA: “Aw great, do I have to follow them too now? Hm the voice told me that I must not lose her of my sight..!!” SHE STARTED THE ENGINE AND FOLLOWED SLOWLY..!
THE TWO CARS STOPPED AT THE SIDE OF A RIVER AND THE DRIVERS GOT OUT! NOIR TARJA GOT OUT OF HER CAR TOO AND WITH QUIET MOVES, SHE TOOK OFF HER SHOES AND HID BEHIND A BIG ROCK, AS TARJA WAS FURTHER BACK.
“Nice, now pull the body out of the water!!!” SAYS ONE OF THE BRUTAL MEN.
TWO MEN IN DIVING SUITS JUMPED IN THE WATER AND PULLED OUT A DEAD WOMAN'S BODY!
“Oh my God!!!” BOTH TARJAS SHOUT! NOIR TARJA TURNS BACK TO CHECK FROM WHERE THE STRANGE ECHO OF HER VOICE SOUNDED, BUT NOTHING! TARJA WAS HIDING WELL!
BRUTAL MAN: “Now, men, take the fingerprints Jimmy gave us, and the brush, and place them on the body! On the neck, where the strangulation was made!”
NOIR TARJA: “What the hell is going on here? They are trying to charge this on someone else but who..??”
BRUTAL MAN: “Good, now let this body here on the sand so that the cops think that the water pushed it here and let's go give Jimmy a report!”
THEY GOT IN THE CARS AND SO DID NOIR TARJA TO FOLLOW THEM. TARJA ATTEMPTED TO START HER SCOOTER BUT NOW IT GOT TOTALLY STUCK AND WOULDN'T WORK AT ALL!! BUT SHE DIDN'T HAVE ANY TIME TO LOSE, SO SHE QUICKLY GOT IN THE TRUNK OF THE ROLLS ROYCE THAT NOIR TARJA WAS DRIVING!! SHE DIDN'T FEEL MUCH COMFORTABLE, AS THE CAR GAINED MUCH SPEED AND ITS SUNSPENSION WENT UP AND DOWN, CAUSING TARJA TO SHAKE AND HIT RIGHT AND LEFT! EVENTUALLY, THEY STOPPED OUTSIDE THE DETECTIVE'S OFFICE AND JIMMY GOT OUT, PAID THE MEN IN CASH AND THEY WERE GONE!
TARJA SLIGHTLY OPENED THE TRUNK'S DOOR AND GOT OUT ALL READY TO THROW UP BY THE SHAKING! BUT SHE HAD MANAGED TO SOLVE THE CASE HERSELF, NOW SHE HAD TO HELP OTHER TARJA IN THIS NOIR DIMENSION TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON! SO SHE APPROACHED HER FROM BEHIND CAREFULLY, BEFORE SHE ENTERS THE OFFICE, AND SHE HIT HER ON THE HEAD WITH HER SHOE!! SHE PULLED HER SELF BEHIND THE CAR, SO THAT THEY COULDN'T SEE HER, AND SHE STARTED WRITING ON A PAPER ABOUT WHAT SHE UNDERSTOOD OF ALL THIS, SO THAT WHEN NOIR TARJA WOULD WAKE, SHE WOULD READ IT. AS NOIR TARJA WAS UNCONSIOUS, TARJA TOOK THE CHANCE AND WORE HER CLOTHES, CAUSE IF HER SELF WOKE AND THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER, EVERYTHING WOULD BE OVER!
SHE HID THE POCKET-PISTOL UNDER THE GARTER, JUST AS HER SELF HAD DONE, SHE PUT ON THE SHOES AND AS LAST DETAIL, SHE ADDED SOME INTENSIVE RED LIPSTICK.
JIMMY OPENS THE DOOR! HE ATTEMPTS TO CALL THE POLICE SECRETLY, USING THE EXCUSE OF MAKING AN IMPORTANT CALL!
JIMMY: “Make yourself at home, Linda, and I will be there in a while.” AS HE PUTS AWAY THE PHONE, TARJA TELLS HIM
TARJA: “I know that you did it! You killed your wife cause you knew that she was ready to turn you in the police, you see, the poor woman found out that you held close business with counterfeit currency traders and drug dealers, then you took my fingerprints by brush, from the objects I have touched in here!! Well, it makes sense, and you told your men -the ones you made me consider of as my enemies- to put them on your wife's neck, letting the body be “pushed of the water”!! And to avoid going to jail, you would charge this on me, cause you knew about my feelings for you, so that the police would think of all this as a crime of passion and jealousy, and put me in jail!!”
JIMMY: “Haha, what are you talking about?” (AT THAT MOMENT, HE WAS GETTING READY TO GET HIS GUN OF HIS COAT SLIGHTLY, BUT TARJA MADE IT FIRST)
TARJA: “Freeze!! Don't make me shoot at you!!”
SHE TIED HIM UP TO A CHAIR, SHE STUCK ON HIM A NOTE THAT CONTAINED THE EVIDENCE OF THE CRIME, JUST AS HE DID WITH NOIR TARJA!! SHE DRESSED HER SELF AGAIN CAREFULLY LIKE SHE WAS BEFORE AND RIGHT BEFORE SHE WAKES UP AND THE POLICE COMES, TARJA HAD ENTERED THE DIMENSIONAL GATE THAT OPENED BEHIND HER.

SCENE 7: DARK STAR
ENTERING THE NEW GATE, SHE FOUND HERSELF ON A DARK MOUNTAIN, IT WAS NIGHT, THERE WAS ABSOLUTE SILENCE AND CALMNESS AROUND IN A THREATENING WAY THAT SCARED YOU!
AS SHE WAS ON HER KNEES, SHE GOT UP SLOWLY AND LOOKED AROUND, CHECKING THE PLACE. SUDDENLY SHE SAW A BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE OF NO-WHERE AND IT LOOKED LIKE HER HOME! SHE ALSO NOTICED THE PRESENCE OF A YOUNG WOMAN STANDING ON THE BALCONY! AT THAT MOMENT IT STARTED RAINING AND AS SHE WAS APPROACHING THERE, SHE HEARD THE YOUNG WOMAN SAY
YOUNG WOMAN: “I wish through my heart to stop having musical knowledge! I wish to lose my voice and everything else I have common with music!!” (WORDS FROM FIRST PART OF “DIE ALIVE” STORY, ALSO WRITTEN BY ME AND ALREADY GIVEN TO MRS. TARJA TURUNEN HANDS IN DECEMBER 3/2010)
TARJA: “Oh my God, I can't believe it! This is me!...Some years ago!”
IN A SURPRISED AND SHOCKED WAY, SHE WAS LOOKING AT THE WOMAN ON THE BALCONY, A DEEP SENSE OF THRILL CAUGHT HER AND TOOK HER BREATH AWAY! BEFORE SHE ATTEMPTS TO CALL HER, THE WOMAN HAD GOT INSIDE THE HOUSE, AS THE DEEP SILENCE WAS ABOUT TO BREAK BY THE DEAFENING SOUND OF A BIG EARTHQUAKE! THIS WASN'T COMING FROM THE EARTH SHE WAS STANDING ON, BUT FROM RIGHT ABOVE HER AND A HUGE SHADOW WAS COMING TO COVER THE WHOLE MOUNTAIN!! TARJA, SCARED TO DEATH, HAD HUDDLED DOWN WITH HER HEAD BETWEEN HER KNEES AND PRAYED TO GOD!
AT THAT MOMENT SHE HEARD THE VOICE WITHIN HER SAYING
VOICE: “Tarja, get up! Run into the house and get the girl out, you have to protect her, you are this girl! She was your innocence many years before, when you made that damned wish, you must not let her be destroyed!!!”
TARJA: “God, I must get there in time!!”
YOUNG WOMAN: “Help, what is going on??!! I have to get out, the big black blazing star is coming!!”
JUST IN TIME, PUSHING FIERCELY ON THE DOOR, SHE BREAKS IT AND GETS IN, SEEING THE GIRL HIDDEN UNDER THE TABLE OF THE LIVING ROOM, CURLED UP AND CRYING FOR HELP!
TARJA: “Come on, give me your hand!! Don't be afraid, I will get you out of here, just give me your hand!”
THE GIRL, STARING AT TARJA, ASKED HER WITH ADMIRATION
YOUNG WOMAN: “Who are you, miss..?”
TARJA: “Just trust me, dear, and give me your hand!”
THE GIRL REACHES HER HAND TO TARJA, ATTEMPTING TO GET OFF OF THE TABLE SHE WAS UNDER. AT THAT MOMENT, THE EARTHQUAKE GOT EVEN STRONGER, CAUSING AN INTENSIVE VIBRATION AND ALSO THE REMOVING OF THE WHOLE ROOF, AS BOTH OF THE WOMEN LOSE THEIR BALANCE AND FALL TO THE GROUND! THE GIRL HAD LOST HER SENSES BUT TARJA WAS STILL TRYING TO CATCH HER, AS THE DARK STAR WAS COMING CLOSER AND CLOSER TO THE BUILDING!!
TARJA: “I have to make it!! I have to take her with me and lead her to the bright gate that opened, before it's too late!!!”
MAKING A LAST BIG TRY, SHE CAUGHT THE GIRL'S HAND AND PULLED HER TO HER DIRECTION, THEN THEY CRAWLED OUT CAREFULLY, SO THAT THEY WOULDN'T BE HURT BY THE VIBRATIONS OF THE FALLING STAR AND GOT OUT OF THE HOUSE, AND JUST BEFORE THE STAR CRUSHED ON THEM, THEY MADE IT IN TIME TO THE BRIGHT GATE AVOIDING THE DANGER FOR GOOD!!

SCENE 8: FALLING AWAKE
AFTER THEY PASSED THROUGH THE GATE, THE GIRL DISAPPEARED INSTANTLY, SHE WAS JUST IMMATERIALIZED LIKE A GHOST, AS TARJA WAS FALLING IN THE ENDLESS DARKNESS, A LONG VERTICAL WAY THAT LEAD TO THE UNKNOWN, AND ONLY HOPE, TO END THIS ADVENTURE SOON AND SAFELY!
ALL THIS TIME SHE WAS FALLING, IT FELT LIKE SLEEPING, THE ONLY DIFFERENCE WAS THAT SHE HAD HER EYES OPEN.
MANY PEOPLE SAY THAT WHEN YOU DIE AND LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND, YOUR WHOLE LIFE APPEARS TO YOU LIKE A FILM. THIS FELT EXACTLY LIKE THAT FOR TARJA NOW, EVERYTHING SHE HAD PASSED, GOOD, BAD, ROMANTIC MEMORIES, HER SCHOOL YEARS, HER PARENTS, HER HOME CITY, EVERYTHING WAS DISPLAYED IN FRONT OF HER EYES LIKE A MOVIE,
BUT AS SHE WAS FALLING, SUDDENLY AN ANGEL APPEARED NEXT TO HER, FALLING TOO, HAVING HIS WINGS LEANT UP!
ANGEL: “Tarja, I am your Guardian Angel, the voice you were listening from within in all your trials! Trust me and just follow me downwards, and don't look up at any case!!”
TARJA: “As you can see, my heading is downwards, what could possibly make me turn up??”
ANGEL: “Just follow my advice.”
AT THE SAME TIME, ANOTHER ANGEL COMES FROM UP AND TELLS HER
2ND ANGEL: “Tarja, I am your real Guardian Angel, don't listen to this demon!! The only way to escape, the only exit of this nightmarous world is upwards!!”
ANGEL: “Don't listen to him, Tarja, he is the demon, the dark side will get you up but believe me, not to Heaven..!”
TARJA: “Honestly, I don't know what or who to believe!!”
2ND ANGEL: “Don't be silly, we all know that Heaven is upwards and Hell is downwards, where this demon leads you!!”
ANGEL: “Tarja, now say the simple but strong prayer with me..!! <> Repeat this after me, 3 times!”
TARJA DID AS THE ANGEL TOLD HER TO.
ANGEL: “Now ask the demon to say the exact same thing.”
TARJA: “Well, now you say it too!”
2ND ANGEL: “Our Lord, Jesus Christ, have mercy on me, the sinner!” HE SAID IT 3 TIMES TOO!
IN ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE SECOND ANGEL TURNED INTO A DEMON AND IN NO TIME, HE WAS COVERED IN FLAMES UNTIL HE TURNED IN TO DUST IN THE AIR!
ANGEL: “You see, Tarja, the demons cannot say <>, they cannot ask for forgiveness from God, cause they become angels too and head to Heaven..!”
TARJA: “And now, Angel, I am dead, what will become of me?”
ANGEL: “That, my sweet Tarja, is yours to decide, in a while!”
TARJA: “What..? What do you mean?”
SUDDENLY, THE ANGEL DISAPPEARED AND TARJA KEPT FALLING UNTIL SHE CRUSHED THE BOTTOM AND ENDED UP IN A HUGE, OLD LIBRARY.

SCENE 9: ARCHIVE OF LOST DREAMS
AFTER THE BOTTOM CRUSH, TARJA FELL ON THE FLOOR OF THIS HUGE, OLD, WELL DECORATED LIBRARY, LIKE IT CAME OUT FROM THE PREVIOUS CENTURY!
AS, AFTER EVERY 25 METERS THERE WAS A STATUE OF GOTHIC STYLE AND SOME LIKE ANGELS, OTHERS LIKE DEMONS, ON HER RIGHT AND LEFT THERE WERE BIG GLASSES THAT PRESENTED THE OUTSIDE BEAUTIFUL GARDEN THAT DECORATED THIS PLACE!
ALTHOUGH, THE LIBRARY LOOKED LIKE IT HASN'T BEEN CLEANED FOR MANY YEARS AND ALL THE SHELVES WITH THE BOOKS WERE DUSTY AND THE SPIDERS, IN ALL OVER THE PLACE, REMINDED A HORROR FILM STYLE.
AFTER SHE BUMPED THE DUST OF HER -AND THE PLASTER PIECES FROM THE BOTTOM SHE CRUSHED- AND SHE TOOK A DEEP BREATH, LOOKING AROUND HER
TARJA: “Where in the hell am I now? I suppose at the Twilight Zone!”
THERE IS THE STATUE OF A MYSTERIOUS GENTLEMAN, OBVIOUSLY OF SOME PERSON OF THAT OLD TIME! HE SAYS TO TARJA
STATUE: “Well, I see you still have your sparky sense of humor, Tarja.”
TARJA: “Aw great, now I am certainly a psycho, statues are talking to me!”
STATUE: “In Hell, my dear, everything is totally normal and things co-exist, the difference with Heaven is that there, everything looks like their Creator, all in the same calm style. Devil, as you can see, has a more distorted sense of decorating.”
TARJA: “What's your name?”
STATUE: “Julius.”
TARJA: “Julius, tell me what I am supposed to do now here, what is my trial and when is this misery going to end?”
STATUE: “You are almost in the end but sometimes we hurry too much to think of conclusions! What is the end and what is the start, tell me Tarja?”
TARJA: “The Alpha and the Omega, something that starts and ends, simple I suppose..!”
STATUE: “And if you made it to your end so that you can start something new again, what if this is all an endless circle, like a wheel? Pick a book here, whatever you want, and show it to me. My instinct tells me you are going to pick the right one for you!”
SHE APPROACHED A SHELF, SHE REMOVED THE DUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM IT AND SHE PULLED OUT A BOOK BY THE TITLE “THE ALCHEMIST”!
STATUE: “Well, show me, what did you find?”
TARJA: “Wow! The alchemist, my favorite book!”
STATUE: “Tell me one sentence of the book that impressed you and imprinted in your mind.”
TARJA: “When you want something very much, the whole universe works to give it to you.”
STATUE: “Good! Very beautiful sentence, Tarja, but many times we have to accept things that we fear, so that we succeed, what about then?”
TARJA: “What do you mean? I am starting to fear now!”
SUDDENLY, THERE WAS A LOUD SOUND, LIKE WAR ALARMS AND ALSO, LIKE A RIVER WAS RUSHING TO THEM!

SCENE 10: CRIMSON DEEP
STATUE: “Do you know how to swim well?”
TARJA: “I guess so, why do you ask?”
STATUE: “I also know that the thing you most fear and dislike is blood and violence, right?”
TARJA: “Yes, you are right.... hey, is that a river coming here? Oh my God!!”
STATUE: “Yes, Tarja, it is a river of deep red color, and that red, my dear, is blood and it will carry you to the worst level of Hell, the one full of blood and violence, where all murderers, responsible of the blood of millions of people, are convicted! And Devil is testing you in this level cause he knows that this is your weak spot. Well, I know this is hard for you but take a deep breath, get in the deep red river and follow your instinct, it will take you to the right place! So, goodbye, Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen Cabuli!!”
AS SHE SEES THE BLOOD RIVER COMING TO HER, MANGLING EVERYTHING IN THE LIBRARY AS IT PASSES, SHE HARDLY RESPONDS TO HIM “Goodbye!!”
THE RIVER COVERED ALL OF HER AND AS SHE WAS HOLDING HER BREATH AND HER COURAGE NOT TO PASS OUT, SHE WAS SWIMMING WITHOUT KNOWING WHERE SHE WAS HEADING!
IN THE BED OF BLOOD, SHE COULD SEE MANY DROWNED AND SCRAWNY PEOPLE GOING UNDER, THOUSANDS RATHER THAN JUST MANY!
ABOVE THE RIVER, SHE COULD SEE MANY INNER BIG HOLES SPURTING PLENTY OF BLOOD -LIKE WATER- ALONG WITH CORPSES ENDING IN THE RIVER WHERE TARJA WAS!
THERE WERE MANY TIMES ON THE WAY THAT SHE ALMOST LOST HER SENSES BUT NO! SHE HAD TO CARRY ON, TO END THIS ADVENTURE!
SUDDENLY, WHERE A TUNEL WITH LIGHT STARTED TO APPEAR FAINTLY (OBVIOUSLY THE EXIT) A DEMON GRABBED HER LEGS, SHOUTING TO HER
DEMON: “Revenge!! That's all I want!!”
TARJA: (TO HERSELF) “Damn it, not now that I got almost to the end!!”
THE DEMON HAD SCRATCHED HER LEGS, FILLING THEM WITH WOUNDS BY HIS BIG FANGS, AS TARJA IN GREAT PAIN AND BARELY HOLDING HER BREATH, WAS TRYING TO PUSH BACK, KICKING HIS FACE!
DEMON: “I am the one that possessed your friend, Lisa, years before, I believe you remember me!! Now the time has come for you to pay!!”
TARJA: “Yes, right, we had left some things undone, as I remember!!”
SHE HAD ALMOST REACHED THE TUNEL WITH THE LIGHT, AS THE DEMON HAD GOT OVER HER BACK, TRYING TO BITE HER ON THE FACE! TARJA, HAVING NO OTHER SHARP THING TO USE, SHE TOOK OFF HER SHOE AND USING THE SPIKE HEEL, SHE NAILED HIM ON THE EYE SO HE WOULD GET BLIND! THE DEMON, BY THE GREAT PAIN, LET HER FREE!
TARJA: “Now, excuse me but go to hell!!!”
THE DEMON, LETTING OUT A POIGNANT SCREAMING, ABANDONED HIS TRIES AND LOST IN THE WHIRLPOOL OF THE RIVER, AS TARJA GOT IN THE BRIGHT TUNNEL THAT WAS ABOUT TO CLOSE!!

SCENE 11: EPILOGUE
TARJA JUST OPENED HER EYES AND WAS LYING NEXT TO HER MOTORCYCLE, AT THE PARKING OF HER HOME! SHE SEEMED TO BE THERE FOR A LONG TIME!
TARJA: “Wow!! What a headache, God! And what a lively dream! Like a horror movie!”
BUT STRANGELY, HER CLOTHES WERE WET FROM THE BLOOD RIVER AND ALSO, ONE OF HER SHOES WAS MISSING!
TARJA: “Oh my God!! It wasn't just a dream, it was all real! I lived it all through a real dream! Thank God, I am alive... and safe, as it seems! Guys in the studio must be pretty concerned, let's call them to reassure them I am going there in a while!”
SHE WENT IN, CHANGED CLOTHES, STARTED HER MOTORCYCLE AND HEADED TO THE STUDIO. SHE KNOCKED ON THE DOOR AND HER GUITARIST, ALEX, OPENED!
ALEX: “Tarja, what happened, you are late..! You seem a bit pale, like you spent the whole day in hell!”
TARJA: “Alex, believe me, I did spend a day in hell! And I just came back from there!”
ALEX: (HUMOROUSLY) “Really? Tell me what lies beneath Hell and Heaven, the light and the darkness?”
TARJA: (WITH A SMILE OF SOOTHINGNESS) “...And you just found the title of our new album! <>! Make some coffee and take a pen and a paper to write the new concept for the new album!”

Created and write it from vasilis saroglou

SCENE 1: INTRO





IT IS NOVEMBER AND COLD WEATHER TOOK PLACE FOR GOOD IN ALL OF EUROPE, ESPECIALLY IN FINLAND. THERE WAS SNAPPY COLD AND CONSTANT RAIN FOR 3 DAYS IN A ROW.
TARJA HAD ALREADY GOTTEN OVER WITH HER WELL-SUCCESSFUL TOUR ABOUT HER LAST RECORD, NAMED “WHAT LIES BENEATH”.
AS 2012 WAS GETTING CLOSE, TARJA WAS GETTING PREPARED ABOUT THE PROCEDURE OF MAKING A NEW RECORD, SHE HAD ALREADY WRITTEN SOME NEW SONGS.
TODAY WAS THE DAY TO VISIT THE STUDIO AND CONTINUE HER WORK, SHE WENT OUT OF THE HOUSE WELL DRESSED AND READY TO OPEN THE GARAGE'S DOOR, IN ORDER TO GET HER CAR.
SHE SAW A NOTE FROM HER BROTHER THAT SAID “I AM SORRY SIS, I NEED IT CAUSE OF SOME BUSINESS I GOT TO ATTEND TO”
TARJA: “DAMN IT!! NO WAY, THIS IS JUST AWFUL.... OK, TARJA, TAKE IT EASY, EVERYTHING'S GOOD. YOU BEAT YOUR OLD ENEMIES AND YOUR NIGHTMARES, NOTHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN NOW.”
TARJA WAS SCARED CAUSE LATELY, EVERY SINGLE TIME SHE ATTEMPTED TO START HER SCOOTER'S ENGINE AND IT DIDN'T WORK, THERE WAS ALWAYS A NEW CHALLENGE APPEARING, LIKE A SIGN OF HER ADVENTURES.
TARJA: “OK MY DEAR SCOOTER, IT IS TIME.”
SHE PUTS THE KEY INTO THE STARTER AND, WITH FORCE, SHE MOVES THE CRANK.
TARJA: “WOW, THAT'S A MIRACLE!! IT STARTED WORKING RIGHT AWAY, YOU ARE A VERY STRANGE SCOOTER, FOR WHEN THE WEATHER IS FINE, YOU DON'T WORK BUT NOW WITH ALL THE RAIN, YOU STARTED IMMEDIATELY... HEH”
ON THE ROAD, SHE WAS MOVING SLOW CAUSE OF THE RAIN BUT SHE GOT IN HER DESTINATION SOON, SHE PARKED, SHE TOOK OFF THE HELMET AND KNOCKED ON STUDIO'S DOOR. THE BASSIST OPENED IT.
DOUG: “HEY TARJA”
TARJA: “HEY.... BRRR IT IS COLD OUTSIDE”
DOUG: “HOW COME, YOU DIDN'T DRIVE THE CAR? YOU WANT TO GET SICK?”
TARJA: “MY BROTHER TOOK IT, SO I HAD TO DRIVE THE SCOOTER. WELL, LET'S DO SOME WORK.”
DOUG: “TARJA, TELL ME PLEASE, LAST TIME AT THE CONCERT WE MADE -4 DAYS AGO- THERE WAS A MOMENT THAT YOU GOT LOST, FOR ABOUT 15 SECONDS OR SO.... IS EVERYTHING OK?”
TARJA: «I... 15 SECONDS? AW YEAH, OH MY GOD, THAT REALLY BLACKED OUT OF MY MEMORY... BUT NOW I START TO REMEMBER»
DOUG: “WHAT ABOUT? YOU ARE KINDA SCARING ME”
TARJA LOOKS AT DOUG SILENTLY FOR SOME SECONDS.
DOUG: “HOLD ON, I WILL GET YOU SOME WATER... YOU SEEM A LITTLE PALE.”
TARJA: “YEAH, THANKS” SHE KEEPS HER HEAD BENT AND THE MEMORIES OF THESE 15 SECONDS START COMING BACK AT HER.

SCENE 2: ONCE UPON A TIME

TARJA: “WHILE WE WERE PLAYING THE LAST SONG, THERE WAS A MOMENT THAT SOMETHING REALLY STRANGE HAPPENED. DESPITE OF MY LIMITED VISION (CAUSE OF THE PLACE'S LIGHTS) I CLEARLY REMEMBER THE STRANGE PRESENCE OF A MAN APPROACHING.... HOLDING A BOOK IN HIS HANDS AND LOOKING AT ME”
DOUG: “MAKES SENSE TO ME, TARJA, HE MUST HAVE BEEN A FAN OF YOURS AND WAS COMING TO YOU, WHAT IS STRANGE ABOUT IT......?”
TARJA: “NO, DOUG, HE WAS NO SIMPLE FAN, THERE WAS SOMETHING STRANGE IN HIM, SOMETHING UNREALISTIC...”
DOUG: “HEHE, SORRY TARJA, LATELY ARE YOU WATCHING TOO MUCH EX-FILES PERHAPS? OF COURSE I AM KIDDING, IT ALL JUST SEEMS A LITTLE WEIRD TO ME”
TARJA: “(SMILES LIGHTLY) TELL ME ABOUT IT.......”
DOUG: “BUT CONTINUE PLEASE, I WANT TO LISTEN TO YOU”
TARJA: “AS HE WAS GETTING CLOSER TO ME, HE LOOKED AT ME WITH HIS INTENSIVE BROWN EYES AND I THOUGHT I HEARD HIM BUBBLING SOME MYSTERIOUS WORDS, HOLDING THAT BOOK IN HIS HANDS”
DOUG: “SO, YOU MEAN, IT LOOKED LIKE HE WAS READING SOMETHING FROM THE BOOK? AND WHY WAS HE LOOKING AT YOU WHILE READING IT?”
TARJA: “THIS IS WHERE THE WHOLE THING BEGINS... AS SOON AS HE REACHED THE STAGE ONLY BY A STEP FAR, HE SPOKE SOME LAST WORDS AND CLOSED THE BOOK. THEN I FELT DIZZY AND SUDDENLY EVERYTHING AROUND ME GOT DARK AND AS I OPENED MY EYES, I SAW I WAS SOMEWHERE ELSE”

SCENE 3: MAGICIAN

THERE WAS A PLACE LIKE A DARK CAVE AND IN THE MIDDLE, THERE WAS A ROUND STONE TABLE, WHICH LOOKED VERY BRIGHT, AS IF IT WAS LIGHTENED BY A SUN RAY, DESPITE THE PLACE BEING CLOSED. NEXT TO ME, THERE WAS THIS MAN THAT APPROACHED ME IN THE CONCERT. HE REACHES OUT HIS HAND AND CAREFULLY PLACES THE BOOK HE HELD AT THE CONCERT, ON THE STONE TABLE.
OUT OF CURIOSITY, I LOOKED AT THE BOOK AND IT WAS OPEN AT CHAPTER «ETERNAL LOVE AND ATTRACTION FOR THE PERSON THAT....» AND THAT PART WAS RIPPED OFF OF THE BOOK.
THEN HE TURNS TO ME AND SAYS
MAGICIAN: “NOW, TARJA, I ASSUME YOU KNOW WHAT THE REST OF THE LINE SAYS....”
TARJA: “YEAH, I GOT SOMETHING IN MIND BUT TELL ME, WHO IN GOD'S SAKE ARE YOU AND HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME?”
MAGICIAN: “I AM MARK, THAT'S ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR NOW. AS FOR YOUR NAME, I HAVE FOUND YOU AFTER MONTHS OF RESEARCH.”
TARJA: “ARE YOU A DETECTIVE?”
MAGICIAN: “(SMILES) NO... STUDENT IN LAW SCHOOL, AT LEAST I USED TO BE... I HAVE GIVEN UP BEFORE A LONG TIME.”
TARJA: “(LIGHTLY NERVOUSLY) YOU DIDN'T ANSWER MY QUESTION.”
MAGICIAN: “I WORK ON MAGIC DURING THE LAST 2 YEARS AND I MADE A HUGE MISTAKE.”
TARJA: “YEAH, I SEE THAT, YOU KIDNAPPED A RANDOM WOMAN AND IT HAPPENS TO BE ME, ‘LUCKY ME’....”
MAGICIAN: “I DID NOT KIDNAP YOU, I FOUND YOU... AND OF COURSE, I DO NOT WISH TO HARM YOU, I CAST -BY MISTAKE- A SPELL AND I TRAPPED MY GIRLFRIEND IN A DIMENSION OF FAIRYTALES AND FANTASY, WHOSE GATE I OPENED BY A BIG MISTAKE...”
TARJA: “IS THAT SO? GOOD, THEN CALL THE LOCKSMITH AND UNLOCK THE GATE, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO HELP???”
MAGICIAN: “I LIKE YOU, YOU ARE HUMOROUS AND SMART.. ABOUT THE RESEARCH I DID, AS I TOLD YOU BEFORE, I WAS LOOKING FOR A STRONG AND PURE SOUL THAT WILL BE ABLE TO TRAVEL IN THAT WORLD AND BRING MY GIRLFRIEND BACK. THEREFORE, MY MAGIC SPHERE SHOWED ME THE PATH TO YOUR CONCERT AND YOU, SO I FOUND OUT YOUR NAME.”
TARJA: “GREAT!!! AND NOW YOU ARE EXPECTING ME TO GO AND HELP YOUR GIRLFRIEND?? WHY SHOULD I DO THAT???”
MAGICIAN: “BECAUSE YOU ARE A VERY PURE PERSON WITH LOTS OF SYMPATHY TOWARDS YOUR FELLOW PERSON, AND ALSO, YOU HAVE BEEN THROUGH MANY SITUATIONS AND YOU UNDERSTAND ME BETTER.”
TARJA: “OK, I CANNOT SAY I LACK OF APPRECIATION FOR YOUR GOOD WORDS BUT I HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT.”
MAGICIAN: «I FEAR THERE IS NO TIME FOR THIS, IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THIS NOW, SARAH WILL STICK THERE FOREVER»
TARJA: “(SHE REMAINS SILENT AND THOUGHTFUL FOR A WHILE) AND HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO RECOGNIZE HER? AND WHAT IF I FIND DIFFICULTIES THERE?”
MAGICIAN: “I LEAVE THIS TO YOU, THOUGHT I AM SURE THAT YOU WILL DO JUST FINE AND YOU WILL FIND HER, I BELIEVE IN YOU. IF YOU ACCEPT TO GO, I WILL GIVE YOU SOME HELPING POWERS FOR AS LONG YOU ARE ABOUT TO STAY THERE... THE POWER OF INSTINCT, THE POWER OF INVISIBILITY -FOR 10 SECONDS-, THE POWER OF ICE AND THE POWER OF FIRE.”
TARJA: “NICE... SOUNDS LIKE A SUPER-MARKET OFFER, HEH... SORRY, THAT WAS A JOKE. OK I WILL GO.”
MAGICIAN: “THANK YOU. AND NOW, THE LAST THING... I NEED YOU TO PIERCE YOUR FINGER WITH THIS KNIFE AND LET A DROP OF BLOOD FALL ON THE BRIGHT TABLE. CAN YOU DO THAT?”
TARJA: “I GUESS... I HOPE IT WON'T HURT.”
TARJA PIERCES HER FINGER AND THE DROP FALLS ON THE TABLE, WHICH BECOMES BRIGHTER AND A GATE OPENS BEHIND TARJA, WHERE SHE ENTERS.

SCENE 4: SNOW-WHITE

TARJA FOUND HERSELF IN A LARGE FOREST AND, ON THE OTHER SIDE, THERE WAS A HUGE CASTLE, HEAVILY GUARDED. THE FOREST WAS DARK AND HUMID, AS IF IT WAS RAINING JUST BEFORE SHE GOT THERE. SOME TREES LOOKED LIKE THEY HAD BEEN CUT OFF AND SOME OTHERS, LIKE BURNT. TARJA WAS WALKING CAREFULLY, SO THAT SHE DIDN'T STEP ON ANY PUDDLE OF THE GROUND AND WAS SLIGHTLY COLD CAUSE OF THE WEATHER. SUDDENLY, ON HER WAY TO WALK, THERE WAS A SHARP BRANCH THAT ALMOST GOT HER, CAUSING HER TO FALL ON THE GROUND. CAUSE OF FALLING, HER DRESS WAS RIPPED AND A LITTLE OF HER PANTY HOSE TOO.
TARJA: “PFFF DAMN IT....!! 14 EUROS I PAID FOR THIS AND NOW IT GOT RIPPED!!!”
A FEW SECONDS LATER, SHE TURNS AROUND HER HEAD LIGHTLY
TARJA: “TARJA, HOLD TOGETHER, FOCUS ON WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO DO.....”
SUDDENLY, A SHOUT SOUNDS
“HEY!!! SHE IS THERE, I SEE HER!! COME, QUICKLY!!”
THERE WAS A BAND OF 40 ARMED MEN, ALL DRESSED LIKE PALADINS BUT IN MORE GOTHIC STYLE AND THEY WERE WEARING HELMETS WITH HORNS, BRINGING VIKING WARRIORS TO MIND.
TARJA WAS SCARED AND SHE HID BEHIND SOME BUSHES, WHILE NEARBY, THERE WAS A SOLDIER THAT SHARPENED HIS SPEAR.
TARJA: “AW, GOD HELP ME, WHAT AM I GOING TO DO NOW? WHY ARE THESE SOLDIERS LOOKING FOR ME?”
ARMY LEADER: “WE GOTTA FIND SARAH, BY THE ORDERS OF THE QUEEN!!”
TARJA: “SARAH...? SARAH, YEAH!! THAT IS THE GIRL THAT MARK THE MAGICIAN LOOKS FOR!! NOW, THAT'S A PLAY IN WHICH I AM NOT THE MAIN ACTRESS (LAUGHS WITH HER SELF-SARCASM)”
ARMY LEADER: “...AND AS PROOF, WE HAVE TO BRING HER HEART TO THE QUEEN AND SHE SHALL REWARD US WITH GOLD!!!”
TARJA: “WOW!!! I WOULD PREFER TOURING FOR ANOTHER YEAR THAN LISTENING TO ALL THIS!!”
SHE ATTEMPTED TO LEAVE BUT A RIP SOUND CAUGHT HER ATTENTION, A PART OF HER DRESS WAS RIPPED AND THE SOLDIER TURNED TO HER.
TARJA: “GREAT, PANTY HOSE 15 EUROS PLUS DRESS 280 EUROS, TOTAL 295 EUROS..!!!”
SOLDIER: “I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS ‘PANTY HOSE’ YOU SAY IS, LADY, BUT YOU ARE COMING WITH ME!!!”
TARJA: “AAAAAA (SCREAMS LOUDLY) TARJA FORGET ABOUT MATHS AND RUN!!!”
SHE STARTED RUNNING AS FAST AS SHE COULD, IGNORING THE ROCKS, THE PUDDLES AND THE WOLF SHOUTS SOUNDING FROM THE MOUNTAINS. SHE GETS IN A CROSS-ROAD OF 3 DIRECTIONS. SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHERE TO GO, UNTIL A SMALL HAND POKES HER FROM BEHIND AND SHE HEARS A FUNNY VOICE.
DWARF: “AYE!! I'M ELGEDOINSTEN THE THIRD, O'THE BIG HOUSE OF ELGEDOINSTEN WOODWORKERS!!”
TARJA: “HI, I AM TARJA SUSANNA SOILE TURUNEN CABULI.”
DWARF: “DAMN, YE HAVE A LONG NAME!!”
TARJA: “SURE, NO CHILD'S PLAY (SMILES WITH A HUMOROUS FACE)”
DWARF: “FOLLOW ME IF YE WANNA BE SAFE, THERE'S A GIRL WITH US TOO, SNOW WHITE!!”
TARJA: “I KNOW HER AS SARAH, I SUPPOSE WE SPEAK OF THE SAME PERSON....”
TARJA FOLLOWED HIM TO THE SMALL HUT, WHERE WERE THE OTHER 6 DWARVES WITH THE GIRL. THE PLACE LOOKED LIKE IN FAIRYTALES, JUST IN A DARKER APPROACH, WITH OLD TREES THAT DROPPED THEIR LEAVES, AND HUMIDITY EVERYWHERE. IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS RAINING FOR DAYS, CAUSING POT-HOLES ON THE ROADS. AS SOON AS TARJA ENTERED THE HUT, THE OTHER DWARVES SMILED AT HER AND EVERYBODY INTRODUCED THEMSELVES.
TARJA: “WOW, YOU SURE NEED A WOMAN'S HANDS IN HERE... LOTS OF DUST AND DARK, WHY IS THAT?”
DWARF: “AFTER THE INCURSION O' THE QUEEN'S SOLDIERS, 'N 'ER ANGER FOR 'ER DAUGHTER'S ESCAPE, SHE CURSED ALL THE LAND TO BE IN ENDLESS DARKNESS 'N SHE LEFT GUARDING WOLVES EVERYWHERE, 'TILL SHE FINDS 'ER!!!”
TARJA: “SO, SARAH-SNOW WHITE, WHATEVER, I HAVE DIRECTIONS FROM YOUR BOYFRIEND, MARK, TO GET YOU BACK.”
SARAH: “MARK, GOD YEAH, MY MAN!! YEAH I GOTTA FIND HIM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT EXACTLY IS GOING ON BUT PLEASE, HELP ME, TARJA!! I DON'T KNOW HOW WE ARE GOING TO GET OUT OF HERE, LET'S JUST OPEN THE DOOR FOR NOW.”
DWARVES: “AYE THERE!!! WHERE ARE YE GOIN'?? 'TIS HELL OUT THERE!!!”
TARJA: “WE MUST, EXCUSE US...”
SUDDENLY, IT STARTS RAINING AND STRIKING THUNDERS OUTSIDE, AS THE DWARVES GREW SHARP TEETH AND THEIR EYES GLOWED RED, THEY HAD BEEN AFFECTED BY THE QUEEN'S NEGATIVE ENERGY. TARJA, WITHOUT SECOND THOUGHT, GRABBED SARAH, OPENED THE DOOR AND THEY STARTED RUNNING IN THE FOREST, WHILE THE DWARVES WENT AFTER THEM. SUDDENLY, TARJA REMEMBERED ONE OF THE POWERS THAN THE MAGICIAN GAVE HER, INVISIBILITY. SHE TOOK 3 DEEP BREATHS, SHE FOCUSED AND RIGHT BEFORE THE DWARVES ATTACKED THEM, THE 2 WOMEN DISAPPEARED FROM THEIR SIGHT, JUST WHILE THEIR SHARP TEETH WERE ONLY A BREATH AWAY.
AFTER A WHILE, THE DWARVES LEFT, IN ORDER TO SEARCH ELSEWHERE AND THE INVISIBILITY EFFECT ENDED. TARJA TOOK SARAH AND THEY HEADED TOWARDS THE NORTH, WHERE THE FOREST SEEMED TO GO ON.

SCENE 5: RED RIDING HOOD

WHILE THEY WERE WALKING, SARAH NOTICES THAT TARJA WEARS A RED CAPE WITH HOOD AND HOLDS A BASKET.
SARAH: “YOU REMIND ME OF.... OH GOD, I KNOW IN WHICH FAIRYTALE WE ARE IN, THE RED RIDING HOOD!!”
TARJA: “(IN A HUMOROUS WAY) AW DON'T TELL ME, I ASSUME I HAVE TO TAKE THIS MEDICINE TO MY SICK GRANDMOTHER! THOUGH, AS I HAVE NOTICED, FAIRYTALES ARE A LITTLE TWISTED IN THIS DIMENSION...”
SARAH: “YEAH I AGREE.. LOOK, I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE BUT THANK YOU FOR COMING HERE TO TAKE ME BACK, I BELIEVE MARK HAS HIS OWN REASONS FOR PICKING YOU FOR THIS.”
TARJA: “(SMILES TO SARAH) EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OK, DEAR.”
SARAH: “LOOK! A SIGN THAT STATES THE DISTANCE FROM HERE TO GRANDMOTHER'S HUT!!”
TARJA: “YEAH, LET'S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK.”
THE SIGN SAID 35 KILOMETERS.
TARJA: “AW, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO DRUG OURSELVES THERE.... ADDING MY PUMPS -WHICH ARE GOING TO BE DAMAGED BY WALKING- TO THE BILL, THERE ARE 385 EUROS IN TOTAL!!”
SARAH: “SORRY, WHAT?”
TARJA: “OH, NOTHING... JUST SAYING, IN SUCH TIMES CARS ARE NEEDED.”
SARAH: “I DON'T SEE ANY CARS BUT THERE IS A SCOOTER OVER THERE, THERE ARE KEYS ON TOO!!”
TARJA: “NOOO, FORGET ABOUT IT!! I PREFER 1000 TIMES WALKING THAN RIDING A SCOOTER AGAIN!!”
SARAH: “ARE YOU KIDDING? WE ARE GOING TO WALK TO BLEED, IT IS WAY TOO FAR! WHY ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF SCOOTERS?”
TARJA: “EVERY SINGLE TIME, JUST BEFORE TROUBLE COMES, THERE IS A SCOOTER IN MY WAY AND, BELIEVE ME, THEY ARE TOO STUBBORN TO START WORKING AND I TAKE IT AS A BAD SIGN..!!”
SARAH: “COME ON, BE POSITIVE... IT WILL START, YOU'LL SEE”
TARJA: “I HOPE SO.”
THE WAY TO THE MOUNTAIN, THROUGH THE FOREST, WAS TRULY WONDERFUL. GREEN FIELDS, FLOWERS, BUTTERFLIES FLYING EVERYWHERE... SUDDENLY, CLOUDS SURROUNDED THE SKY AND THUNDERS CLAPPED, AS THE FLOWERS AROUND STARTED TO WITHER.
TARJA GOT ON THE SCOOTER AND TURNED THE KEYS ON THE STARTER. SARAH WAITED FOR IT TO START WORKING, AND THEN SHE WOULD GET ON IT TOO AND THEY WOULD LEAVE.
TARJA TRIED TO MAKE THE CRANK WORK MANY TIMES BUT NOTHING HAPPENED.
TARJA: “SEE? I TOLD YOU SO.”
SARAH: “COME ON, TRY A COUPLE OF TIMES AGAIN!”
SUDDENLY, THEY HEARD A WOLF HOWLING FROM FAR.
SARAH: “COME ON, TRY!!”
TARJA STARTED TRYING AGAIN WITH THE CRANK, WORKING IT WITH MORE FORCE THIS TIME, UNTIL THE SCOOTER STARTED WORKING AND SARAH SAT BEHIND HER, AS IT STARTED RAINING.
THE RAIN MADE THE WAY HARD TO CARRY ON AND TARJA HAD TO SLOW DOWN ONCE IN A WHILE. AT THE SAME TIME, THE HOWLING WAS GETTING LOUDER, LIKE IT WAS FOLLOWING THEM.
SARAH: “TARJA, FASTER..!! IT'S GETTING CLOSE TO US!!”
TARJA: “DEAR, THIS IS JUST A SCOOTER WE ARE RIDDING, NOT A HARLEY!!!”
THE RAIN BECAME SO TENSE THAT THEY COULDN’T SEE ANYTHING AND EVENTUALLY, THEY FELL DOWN, FORTUNATELY WITHOUT GETTING TOO HURT. TARJA HELPS SARAH TO GET UP CAREFULLY AND ALSO GETS THE SCOOTER UP, ATTEMPTING TO MAKE IT WORK AGAIN BUT WITH NO RESULT.
TARJA: “WELL, IT DIDN'T START IN GOOD WEATHER, WHY EXPECTING IT TO WORK NOW, IN THIS STORM...? COME ON SARAH, TAKE SOME BREATHS AND START RUNNING WITH ME.”
THE 2 WOMEN STARTED RUNNING AND, BEHIND THEM, THE WOLF'S PRESENCE WITH THE SHARP TEETH STARTED BECOMING CLEARER, AS IT WAS HUNTING THEM IN THE WOODS.
SARAH: “WOULD IT BE TOO MUCH IF THIS BASKET YOU HOLD, CONTAINED ANY GRENADE OR SOMETHING, AND NOT MEDICINE??”
TARJA: “YOU ARE RIGHT BUT I GUESS I SHOULD TAKE THIS TO GRANDMA, AS IN THE FAIRYTALE.”
SUDDENLY, THEY SEE A HILL WITH A STEEP SIDE AND ON TOP OF IT, THERE WAS GRANDMA'S HUT.
TARJA AND SARAH BEGAN GOING UP, BEING CLEARLY EXHAUSTED, BUT THEY HAD TO MAKE IT QUICK CAUSE THE WOLF WAS AFTER THEM AND IT WAS COMING FASTER.
THEY REACHED THE HUT'S DOOR AND SARAH KNOCKED ON IT FIERCELY BUT NO ONE RESPONDED. AFTER A WHILE, THE DOOR OPENED ON ITS OWN.
SARAH: “GRANDMA? HELLO?”
TARJA WAS CHECKING AROUND FOR ANY POSSIBLE PRESENCE OF THE WOLF, BUT SAW NOTHING.
SUDDENLY, THEY HEARD THE VOICE OF AN OLD WOMAN SAYING:
“I AM RIGHT HERE, YOUNG LADY” A PEACEFUL OLD LADY, DRESSED IN OLD CLOTHES, APPROACHED AND CONTINUED TALKING.
GRANDMA: “WELCOME, GIRLS... MY CHILD, YOU BROUGHT YOUR FRIEND TOO, VERY NICE.”
TARJA: “(TO SARAH) I GUESS THIS IS OVER TOO, WE CAN FINALLY MOVE ON AFTER THAT.
(TO GRANDMA) YES, GRANDMA, HERE IS THE BASKET YOU ASKED FOR.”
GRANDMA: “YES BUT WHY DID YOU BRING ME MEDICINE? I AM NOT SICK, I AM JUST HUNGRY.”
AT THAT MOMENT, GRANDMA STARTED TURNING INTO A WOLF, BIG EARS GREW SLOWLY, THE EYES BECAME LARGER AND DARKENED TO BLACK, THE NOSE BECAME ANIMALISTIC AND THE CLOTHES GOT RIPPED OFF, REVEALING A STRONG WOLF'S BODY.
TARJA: “I DON'T BELIEVE IT, HERE GRANDMA IS WOLF HIMSELF!! RUN, SARAH!!”
SHE OPENED THE DOOR AND THEY STARTED RUNNING DOWN THE HILL BUT THE WOLF MANAGED TO KNOCK DOWN SARAH AND AS HE WAS READY TO DEVOUR HER, TARJA CONCENTRATED, THIS TIME TO USE THE ICE POWER ON THE WOLF. SHE WAS SUCCESSFUL, SHE FROZE UP THE WOLF, COMPLETELY CRYSTALLIZING HIM, AND SHE TOOK AN AXE FROM THE HUT AND STARTED TEARING HIM INTO PIECES.
RIGHT AFTER THAT, THE GATE WHICH LED TO THE NEXT PLACE, OPENED. (IT WASN'T EXACTLY A GATE, JUST THE WEATHER GOT BETTER, SHOWING THEM WHERE TO HEAD.)

SCENE 6: CINDERELLA

TARJA WOKE UP FROM DEEP SLEEP AND FOUND HERSELF IN A DARK BASEMENT FULL OF HUMIDITY AND SPIDER WEBS ON THE WALLS, AND NOTICES SHE IS DRESSED LIKE A MAID. HER FOOT WAS BOUND WITH CHAINS AND WAS WOUNDED. SHE LOOKED FOR SARAH BUT SHE WAS NO WHERE. SUDDENLY, SHE HEARD SOME PEOPLE TALKING FROM OUTSIDE:
PEOPLE: “WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT HER? WE HAVE ORDERS FROM THE NEW FIANCEE OF THE PRINCE NOT TO LET HER OUT, UNLESS SHE SCRUBS THE FLOOR SO HARD UNTIL IT SHINES! MEANWHILE, THE 6 DAUGHTERS ARE HUNGRY AND WAIT FOR THEIR DINNER, DON'T FORGET THAT EVERY MIDNIGHT THEY EAT, JUST LIKE ALL NIGHT CREATURES DO.”
TARJA: “GOD, WHAT ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT? AM I IN BRAM STOKER'S STORY OR SOMETHING?? SARAH, WHERE ARE YOU? IN WHICH FAIRYTALE ARE WE??”
SARAH HAD ALREADY ESCAPED AND WAS IN THE FOREST, WANDERING ALONE, AS TARJA WAS AT CINDERELLA'S ROLE AND SHE HAD TO GET OUT OF THERE AND FIND SARAH, BEFORE THE CLOCK SHOWED MIDNIGHT AND BEFORE THE 6 DAUGHTERS ATTEMPTED TO EAT HER. SHE WAS TRYING FOR MUCH TIME TO FIND ANY TOOLS TO CUT THE CHAINS BUT NO SUCCESS.
TARJA: “WHERE IS MY PRETTY DRESS? WHAT ARE THESE RAGS??”
RIGHT AFTER THAT, SHE NOTICES A SMALL TABLE WITH A RUSTY SAW ON IT, AND WITH 2 FIERCELY HITS, SHE MAKES IT FALL DOWN, SHE TAKES IT AND STARTS CUTTING SLOWLY THE CHAINS. MEANWHILE, SARAH WAS WANDERING FOR HOURS, WEARING TATTERED CLOTHES. SHE GOT TIRED AND SAT NEAR A FOUNTAIN TO REST. SHE HEARD SONGS AND LAUGHS, COMING FROM THE VILLAGE'S SQUARE, CAUSE THE LAND'S KING ANNOUNCED HIS SON'S PREPARATIONS TO MARRIAGE, WHILE SHE WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH TARJA.
AT THE SAME TIME, TARJA HAD CUT OFF THE CHAINS, CROSSED THE BASEMENT'S DOOR, FOUND A TORCH FROM THE PALACE'S KITCHEN AND GOT OUTSIDE. SOMETHING STRANGE WAS IN THAT PALACE, SOMETHING DARK AND DISTANT... THERE WHERE FRAMES EVERYWHERE, PRESENTING DARK, IMPOSING PICTURES OF LORDS AND OTHER PEOPLE OF THE CASTLE.
TARJA HAD ALREADY WALKED SOME DISTANCE AND SHE WAS APPROACHING THE FOREST, THE SIDE WHERE WAS SARAH. AS SHE TURNED HER LOOK TO THE MOON, SHE SAW IT WAS DEEP RED AND FULL.
SUDDENLY, A HAND TOUCHED SARAH'S SHOULDER AND SHE DASHED OF FEAR.
TARJA: “RELAX, IT'S ME.”
SARAH: “PHIOU, I WAS SCARED... WHAT HAPPENED, WHERE ARE WE? IN WHICH FAIRYTALE? EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT FROM THE ORIGINAL FAIRYTALES.”
TARJA: “YEAH, I NOTICED THAT. BY THE WAY, WHAT'S WITH THE SONGS AND THE DANCE THAT SOUND?”
SARAH: “I DON'T KNOW, SHOULD WE GO AND TAKE A CLOSER LOOK?”
TARJA: “SURE, WE MAY FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GOING ON HERE...”
SO, THEY HEADED OFF TO THE MAIN SQUARE OF THE VILLAGE, THEY JUST STAYED HIDDEN SO NO ONE WOULD NOTICE THEM.
KING: “(GAVE A SPEECH) SO, MY LOYAL VILLAGERS, THE TIME HAS FINALLY COME FOR THE LUCKY LADY THAT WILL MARRY MY SON, TO WEAR THESE BEAUTIFUL JEWELS, THIS DRESS AND THESE BLACK SHINY PUMPS, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, TO TASTE ETERNITY AND BECOME THE MOST POWERFUL VAMPIRE -AFTER MY FACTION AND MY SON OF COURSE.”
TARJA: “VAMPIRE? OH MY GOD, WE ARE IN CINDERELLA AND THERE ARE VAMPIRES?”
SARAH: “COME QUICKLY, I DON'T SEE THIS ENDING UP WELL!”
BEFORE THEY HAD TIME TO ESCAPE, 2 GUARDS NOTICED THEM AND TOOK THEM TO THE KING.
KING: “WELL WELL, WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE? SPIES? HMM.... THE MAID FROM THE CASTLE AND HER LITTLE FRIEND.... I FEEL LUCKY TODAY.”
TARJA: “LET ME EXPLAIN...”
KING: “EXPLAIN TO MY SON, IT IS HIS DAY, TODAY.”
PRINCE: “FATHER, IS THIS THE MAID YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT? SHE IS GORGEOUS, I DO NOT KNOW HER BUT I THINK I AM GOING TO MARRY HER.”
FIANCEE: “WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, DEAR??? SHE IS JUST A MAID!!!”
PRINCE: “HOW DARE YOU, QUESTIONING THE DECISIONS OF THE LAND'S PRINCE AND HIGHEST VAMPIRE OF THE FACTION, AFTER THE KING?? TAKE HER AWAY, MEN, I FOUND THE CHOSEN OF MY HEART. THERE IS NO NEED OF YEARS PASSING, ONE MOMENT THAT I MET YOU IS ENOUGH. COME CLOSE.... WHAT'S YOUR NAME?”
TARJA: “HUM.... TARJA..”
PRINCE: “(EXCITED, KISSES HER HAND) IT IS A NAME THAT SUITS SOMEONE LIKE YOU.”
THEN HE EXHORTS HER TO WEAR THE DRESS, THE PUMPS AND THE JEWELS.
PRINCE: “NOW, NOT ONLY YOU WILL TASTE THE ETERNAL POWER OF THE VAMPIRES, BUT WITH THE FIRST BITE, YOU WILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO CLIMB ON TREES AND RUN LIKE A SHADOW, YOU WILL BE MY CINDERELLA, TARJA! WITH THE SECOND BITE, YOU WILL LIKE BLOOD AND WITH THE THIRD BITE, YOU WILL BE MINE FOREVER.”
TARJA: “(WHISPERS TO SARAH) LET HIM BITE ME ONCE AND WHEN I TELL YOU, CLIMB ON MY SHOULDERS AND HOLD ON TIGHT!!”
SARAH: “DONE..!!”
PRINCE: “LET THE CEREMONY BEGIN.”
THEN, DRUMS STARTED TO SOUND IN RHYTHM, PLAYING A MELODY OF PREPARATION, FIRES WERE LIGHTED AROUND THE PLACE, BY TORCHES THAT PEOPLE HELD, AND EVERYONE STARTED CHANTING STRANGELY, AS THE PRINCE APPROACHED TARJA, REVEALED HIS TEETH AND LAID HIS HAND ON HER NECK. HE BIT HER AND HIS EYES GLOWED RED, AS WOLF HOWLINGS SOUNDED FROM BEYOND.
FOR A MOMENT, TARJA GOT SOMEHOW DIZZY AND ALMOST FAINTED, BUT SHE REGAINED HER STRENGTH QUICKLY. SHE FELT A STRANGE POWER INSIDE HER, SO SHE TURNS CAREFULLY TO SARAH AND SAYS
TARJA: “NOW!!”
SARAH QUICKLY GETS ON TARJA'S BACK AND THEY LEFT VERY FAST, CLIMBING ON THE TREES AND FADING INTO THE FOREST.
PRINCE: “NOOO!!! SHE CAN'T DO THAT TO ME, I GAVE HER SUCH A GIFT!!”
GUARDS: “WHAT DO YOU WISH US TO DO, YOUR HIGHNESS?”
PRINCE: “SEND THE 6 DAUGHTERS TO FIND THEM!!”
THE GUARDS CALLED THE 6 WOMEN TO CHASE THEIR PRAYS, AS THE PEOPLE WERE LOOKING AROUND WITH CURIOSITY, WONDERING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED.
THERE WAS ALREADY MUCH MIST IN THE FOREST AND ABOVE THE TREES, THERE WAS NO SIGHT OF THE GROUND, AS IN THE TREES' LEAVES, SOUNDED THE 6 VAMPIRE-WOMEN THAT WENT AFTER TARJA AND SARAH, WITH GREAT SPEED.
SARAH: “THEY ARE WAY TOO FAST, TARJA, THEY ARE GOING TO FIND US!”
TARJA: “DON'T WORRY, TRY TO REMAIN CALM! DON'T FORGET THAT AFTER THAT BITE, I CAN MOVE QUICKLY TOO!”
THEY MOVED FROM TREE TO TREE, AS BEHIND THEM WERE THE WOMEN AND ONE OF THEM APPROACHED THEM ENOUGH TO CLAW TARJA'S LEG, AND ANOTHER VAMPIRE GRABBED SARAH'S SHOULDER AND PULLED HER BACK. SARAH ALMOST FELL OFF OF TARJA'S BACK, BUT TARJA QUICKLY HELPED HER GET ON AGAIN.
AS THE CHASING KEPT ON GOING, TARJA NOTICED A FAINT LIGHT ON THE FRONT AND SAID
TARJA: “HOLD ON, SARAH, I SEE A LIGHT! OBVIOUSLY, IT IS DAWNING AND WE ARE GETTING CLOSE TO THE NEXT GATE!!”
IT HAD DAWNED FOR GOOD, THE 6 WOMEN HAD ALREADY TURNED INTO DUST BY THE SUNRAYS AND THE 2 WOMEN FINALLY ENTERED THE GATE.

SCENE 7: ALICE IN WONDERLAND

THE 2 WOMEN FOUND THEMSELVES AT THE COAST OF A RIVER, AFTER THEIR ADVENTURE IN CINDERELLA'S FAIRYTALE DIMENSION. THEY WERE LIGHTLY SPLOTCHY FROM THE DIRT BUT, FORTUNATELY, THEY WERE FINE, WITHOUT WOUNDS. TARJA OPENED HER EYES FIRST AND THEN WOKE UP SARAH, WHO WAS LYING BESIDE HER.
TARJA: “I AM WONDERING... IN WHICH DIMENSION ARE WE NOW...”
SARAH: “YEAH, SO AM I...”
THEY BOTH STARTED WALKING ON THE DIRT ROAD THAT LED TO A CHARMING BUT EMPTY AND LONELY WORLD AND EVERYTHING WAS QUIET AND PEACEFUL THERE.
SUDDENLY, TARJA NOTICES A RABBIT LOOKING AT HER STRAIGHT IN HER EYES AND THEN GETTING IN A TREE HOLE, AS IF IT WANTED THE 2 WOMEN TO FOLLOW IT THERE. TARJA AND SARAH FOLLOWED IT AND THERE WAS A POTION AND A PAPER THAT SAID “DRINK IT TO CARRY ON”. TARJA NODDED ON SARAH AND THEY BOTH TOOK A SIP, BECOMING TINY AND ENTERING THE NEXT DOOR, WHICH WAS TINY TOO.
IN FRONT OF THEM WAS A DARK ROAD AND THERE WERE LIGHTED CANDLES IN THE AIR, SHOWING THEM THE WAY TO THE ROCKY, MOUNTAINOUS LAND THAT SPREAD THERE.
AMONGST THE GRASS, A LOUD SOUND CAUGHT THEIR ATTENTION. IT WAS A HUGE MOUSE, NOT LIKE THE SMALL CUTE RATS WE KNOW, BUT HAVING VERY AGGRESSIVE INTENTIONS TOWARDS THE 2 WOMEN. HE STARTED GROWLING AND STARING AT THEM THREATENINGLY.
TARJA: “WOW... THAT'S A BIG MOUSE!! NOTHING TO DO WITH THOSE IN REAL LIFE!!”
SARAH: “YEAH, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO NOW??”
TARJA: “FOR NOW, LET'S JUST STEP BACK SLOWLY....”
SUDDENLY, A VOICE SOUNDED.
CAT: “LADIES, DON'T BE AFRAID, JUST HOLD ON THE BRANCH THAT I OFFER TO YOU AND GET ON THE TREE WITH ME.”
TARJA: “TALKING CATS, HUGE RATS.... I GUESS WE ARE IN ALICE'S DIMENSION, IN WONDERLAND... AND HOW DO WE KNOW THAT YOU WON'T EAT US?”
CAT: “AT ANY CASE, YOU WILL BE SAFER UP HERE.”
SARAH: “COME ON, WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO... LET'S GET ON THERE”
THEY MADE IT JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME CAUSE THE BIG MOUSE ALMOST BIT THEM, BUT IT EVENTUALLY BIT ONLY THE BRANCH. THE CAT WAS MORE LIKE A HUGE PANTHER BUT IT WAS KIND AND NICE TO THE 2 WOMEN.
CAT: “SO, LISTEN TO ME. EVERY NOW AND THEN, AN EARTHQUAKE TAKES PLACE CAUSE OF THE ANIMALS THAT PASS BY, RUNNING.”
TARJA: “MAKES SENSE, IF THEY ARE AS LARGE AS THE RAT...”
CAT: “NO, THEY ARE NOT. THEY ARE JUST ALL THE ANIMALS OF THE PLACE, GATHERED TO MAKE A... RACE. IN A SENSE OF SPEAKING.”
TARJA: “A RACE? WHAT DO YOU MEAN?”
CAT: “BEYOND THE HILLS, LIVES MAD HATTER, WHO IS ORGANIZING A TEA PARTY AND HAS INVITED ALL HIS FRIENDS, SMALL AND BIG ONES... WELL, HE KEEPS THE BIG ONES, THIS IS IMPORTANT.”
TARJA: “KEEP TALKING....”
CAT: “BECAUSE OF HIS HUGE FRIENDS TAKING ALL OVER THE FOOD OF THE FOREST'S ANIMALS -AND IN NATURAL RESULT, THE ANIMALS ARE STARVING- MAD HATTER POISONS THEIR TEA AND THEN, WITH HIS SECRET BELL, HE CALLS THE OTHER ANIMALS -THE ONLY ABLE TO HEAR IT- TO GET THEIR FOOD BACK, SO THAT'S HOW THE RACE STARTS.”
TARJA: “OK, I GUESS NOW I AND SARAH SHOULD GO. I GOT THE FEELING THAT WE SHOULD HEAD TO THIS MAD HATTER”
CAT: “YEAH, BUT BE CAREFUL, CAUSE THERE IS A HARD CHALLENGE WAITING FOR YOU.”
TARJA: “THANK YOU VERY MUCH, WE WILL HAVE IT IN MIND.”
THEN, THE 2 WOMEN GOT ON THE BLACK CAT'S BACK AND, CAREFULLY, GOT OFF OF THE TREE. THE CAT WAVED AT THEM AS IT WAS LEAVING AND FADING INTO THE WOODS.
TARJA AND SARAH WALKED TOWARDS THE HILL, TILL THEY MET MAD HATTER.
MAD HATTER: “AWW, I WAS WAITING FOR YOU, MY LADIES (HE REMOVED HIS HAT AND BOWED AS A TRUE GENTLEMAN)”
SUDDENLY, A BIG BLACK TARANTULA JUMPED OFF OF HIS HEAD. TARJA AND SARAH STEPPED BACK IN FRIGHT.
TARJA: “HI.... I GUESS YOU ARE.....?”
MAD HATTER: “YEAH, THAT'S ME, DON'T BE FRIGHTENED BY MY SOMEHOW SCARY APPEARANCE. DEEP INSIDE, I AM....”
TARJA AND SARAH STARE AT HIM SILENTLY, WAITING FOR HIM TO COMPLETE HIS PHRASE.
MAD HATTER: “....A MONSTER!!!! AHAHAHAHA (LAUGHS IN A PARANOIAC WAY, AS THE 2 WOMEN KEEP LOOKING AT HIM, SURPRISED)”
THEN, HE SERVES THEM TEA AND COOKIES. HIS APPEARANCE WAS NOT QUITE LIKE IN THE CLASSIC FAIRYTALE BUT MORE OF A GOTHIC STYLE, WEARING A LONG BLACK COAT, STRAIGHT BLACK WET-LOOK HAIR (LONG TO HIS WAIST), MAKE-UP RATHER LIKE A RAVEN AND NOT AS MUCH AS A CLOWN (AS BLACK EYE-SHADOWS RUN DOWN TO HIS CHEEKS), ONE EYE HAD GREEN COLOR AND THE OTHER ONE WAS BLUE AND HIS NAILS WERE BLACK AND SLIGHTLY LONG.
MAD HATTER: “TARJA, I KNOW THAT ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE PHRASES IS THIS... WHEN YOU WANT SOMETHING VERY MUCH, THE UNIVERSE OPERATES TO GIVE IT TO YOU, BUT TELL ME THIS..... SOMETIMES, DOESN'T IT OPERATE TO HURT YOU?”
TARJA: “I DON'T THINK SO, I LEARNED THAT THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING GOOD COMING OUT OF BADNESS, IF YOU REALLY WANT IT.”
SARAH: “I AGREE WITH MY FRIEND.”
MAD HATTER: “HMM.... YES YES, YOU ARE RIGHT, BUT YOU ARE STRONG INSIDE AND OUT... DON'T YOU WONDER WHY ALL THESE THINGS HAPPEN TO YOU?”
TARJA: “YES, I DO... BUT I GUESS THERE MUST BE A REASON FOR WHICH I AM BEING TESTED.”
MAD HATTER: “HOW DO YOU THINK I ENDED UP LIKE THIS, WEARING THESE RUGS, THIS LOUSY GOTHIC COAT, AND ALL SPLATTERED IN THIS DEATH-LIKE MAKE-UP?”
TARJA: “YOU TELL US.”
MAD HATTER: “I JUST PROVED OF MYSELF..... A PUNKY VAGABOND ON THE OUTSIDE, BUT A GOOD HEART ON THE INSIDE.”
“HRRRRR........”
TARJA: “THIS RABBIT NEXT TO YOU..... HOW LONG HAS HE BEEN SLEEPING?”
MAD HATTER: “HMM, DON'T KNOW, I GUESS HE GOT DRUNK OF TOO MUCH TEA (LAUGHS IN PARANOIAC WAY)
NOW, I AM GOING TO GIVE YOU 2 HORSES, SO THAT YOU GO TO THE BIG ARENA OF THE GAME!!”
TARJA AND SARAH, AS A LOGICAL PERSON WOULD, EXPECTED 2 NORMAL HORSES WHEN THEY HEARD IT. INSTEAD, MAD HATTER BROUGHT, WITH ONE NOD, 2 HORSE-CHECKERS OF CHESS (KNIGHTS).
SARAH: “ARE YOU KIDDING? ARE WE GOING TO RIDE THESE?”
MAD HATTER: “YOU WILL SEE, JUST GET ON THEM”

SCENE 8: SLEEPING BEAUTY

NOW WE ARE GOING TO MOVE TO ANOTHER FAIRYTALE DIMENSION BUT THIS TIME, A FUTURE ONE, TARJA AND SARAH FOUND THEMSELVES ON 2068. THERE, TARJA WAS IN SLEEPING BEAUTY'S ROLE AND SARAH HAD TO FIND THE PRINCE THAT WOULD FIND TARJA AND GIVE HER A KISS TO BRING HER BACK.
THEY WERE IN SCANDINAVIA, OBVIOUSLY IN FINLAND, AS THE WRITING ON THE WALLS LOOKED LIKE IT BELONGED TO FINLAND PEOPLE. THE CITY WAS DESIGNED AS IF IT WAS ON A PLANET OF STAR TREK MOVIES, BUILDINGS MADE OF TECHNOLOGY THAT OVERCAME WHAT WE ALL USED TO KNOW, DESIGNED WITH A LOT OF ATTENTION IN REQUIRED BEAUTY. IF YOU LOOKED OVER THE CITY FROM A HIGH VIEW, FIRST THING ON YOUR MIND WOULD BE A PAINTING OF FUTURISTIC DESCENT.
AS IT SEEMED, TARJA WAS FAMOUS IN THAT FUTURE DIMENSION TOO, EVERYONE KNEW ABOUT HER. BEFORE MANY MANY YEARS, SHE WAS IN A COMA CAUSE OF FOOD POISONING, AFTER CONSUMING FRUITS THAT WERE INFECTED BY A STRANGE VIRUS.
WE KNOW THAT IN SLEEPING BEAUTY'S DREAM, THE GIRL WAS SLEEPING FOR SOME YEARS BUT IN THIS DIMENSION, TARJA WAS SLEEPING FOR 35 YEARS. SOMEONE TOOK CARE OF IT, KNOWING THAT TARJA'S CAREER WAS ABOUT TO REACH THE TOP AND SHE WAS GOING TO SUPERSEDE THE NEW SINGERS, AND SO, THEY MADE IT LOOK LIKE A SIMPLE FOOD POISONING. IT WAS A LAB-MADE VIRUS, NAMED «TERVE RATKAISU» (HEALTHY SOLUTION).
THE WHOLE CITY WAS FULL OF ELECTRONIC PROJECTIONS OF HER NAME, AT SHOPPING CENTERS, AT FLYING TAXIS AND OTHER VEHICLES, EVERYBODY KNEW ABOUT HER. ALSO, THERE WERE SOME PROJECTIONS OF HER ALONGSIDE A MAN NAMED MARCELLO.
SARAH HAD TO LOOK IN THE SETS OF FINLAND'S KINGDOM, KNOWN AS «POHJOIS TAIVAASEEN» (NORTHERN HEAVEN) TO FIND A SOMEONE TO BRING TARJA BACK.
SHE DRESSED LIKE A BEGGAR SO SHE MANAGES TO ENTER THE YARD OF THE VERY WELL GUARDED CASTLE (THERE, THEY LET THE BEGGARS TO ENTER, THINKING OF SELLING SOME OF THEM TO THE RICH)
SARAH FOUND AN OTHER PERSON, DRESSED IN OLD CLOTHES, SO SHE APPROACHED HIM CAREFULLY.
SARAH: “EXCUSE ME, SIR, I NEED YOUR HELP.”
MARCELLO: “I AM SORRY, I AM IN THE SAME POSITION, SO YOU ARE LOOKING IN THE WRONG PLACE.”
SARAH: “MY NAME IS SARAH, YOURS?”
MARCELLO: “(THINKS FOR A WHILE) IF I TELL YOU, WILL YOU LEAVE ME ALONE?”
SARAH: “MAYBE...”
MARCELLO: “MARCELLO. I AM ARGENTINEAN BUT THIS COUNTRY BRINGS A LOT OF VIVID MEMORIES TO MY MIND.”
SARAH: “WOW!! ARE YOU THE PROJECTIONS GUY?”
MARCELLO: “WHAT ABOUT IT? I LOST THE WOMAN I LOVE...”
SARAH: “NO!! WRONG, SHE IS JUST IN COMA, I KNOW WHERE SHE IS... IN AN UNDERGROUND ROOM OF A HOSPITAL FACULTY.”
MARCELLO: “OK, THAT'S IT, I HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR STORY. GO AWAY, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.”
SARAH: “TARJA WAS A FAMOUS SINGER, RIGHT?... AND A VERY TALENTED ONE.”
MARCELLO: “...YEAH, CONTINUE PLEASE.”
SARAH: “SHE WAS BORN AND RAISED IN FINLAND.”
MARCELLO: “UNBELIEVABLE, YOU DO KNOW HER...!! PLEASE, TAKE ME TO HER!”
AS THEY WERE TALKING, A FEW ARMED GUARDS WERE LOOKING AT THEM AND ONE OF THEM YELLED
GUARD: “YOU, DOWN THERE.... DISPERSE!!”
SARAH: “SOME ON, LET'S GET OUT OF HERE, LET'S GO TO YOUR WIFE.”
AND THEY HEADED THERE.
IT WAS A CITY OF RICH AND POOR, THERE WAS NO MIDDLE CLASS.
THEY HAD GOT TO THE UNDERGROUND AREA OF THE HOSPITAL BUT IT WAS ABANDONED AND A LITTLE FURTHER, THE GUARD WAS UNCONSCIOUS, AS IF HE HAD BEEN KNOCKED DOWN BY SOMEONE. THE LAMP WAS FLICKERING AND SPARKLES WERE POPPING OUT OF IT. SOMEONE OR SOMETHING ATTACKED THE PLACE.
SARAH: “OH GOD, WE MUST FIND TARJA..!!”
MARCELLO: “YEAH, LET'S GO!!”
THE PLACE USED TO BE A LUXURIOUS HOSPITAL, FULL OF THE BEST LATEST TECHNOLOGY MACHINES, BUT IT TURNED TO A PSYCHIATRIC SHELTER WHAT HAD BEEN ATTACKED BY A PATIENT. EVERYTHING WAS TORN APART AND LEAVES WERE ALL OVER THE FLOOR.
THEY APPROACHED THE CHAMBER WHERE TARJA WAS, AND BRANCHES WITH APPLES WERE REACHING OUT OF THE DOOR. THEY HURRIED THERE AND THEY SAW THAT THE BRANCHES HAD WRAPPED ALL OVER TARJA'S BED. THEY WERE HUGE AND HAD APPLES ON THEM AND THEY WERE MOVING AROUND LIVELY.
ONE BRANCH GRABBED MARCELLO'S FOOT AND THREW HIM ON THE WALL, WHILE ANOTHER HIT SARAH'S FACE.
MARCELLO: “SARAH, WE HAVE TO RELEASE TARJA SOMEHOW!!”
JUST BEFORE SARAH PASSED OUT, SHE POINTED WITH HER FINGER TOWARDS THE ELECTRIC SHOCK MACHINE.
AS SOON AS HE ATTEMPTED TO USE ON THE BRANCHES, ONE OF THEM CAUGHT HIM AROUND HIS NECK AND TRIED TO CUT HIS BREATH. RIGHT IN THE NICK OF TIME, HE GRABS THE ELECTRIC SHOCK MACHINE AND ELECTROCUTES THE BRANCHES, REMOVING THEM FROM TARJA AND THEN, HE APPROACHES HER, BENDING OVER HER AND, GIVING HER A KISS.

SCENE 9: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

AFTER THE KISS IN THE PREVIOUS FAIRYTALE, TARJA WOKE UP NEAR A COUNTRY ROAD, SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE. IT WAS A AUTUMN NIGHT AND A LIGHT BREEZE WAS WHIFFING TARJA'S HAIR. SARAH WAS NOT AROUND HER. SUDDENLY, THREE WOMEN APPROACHED HER, SHOWING NASTY AND THREATENING INTENTIONS TO HER.
DAUGHTER: “HERE YOU ARE!! YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD GET AWAY WITH YOUR LITTLE ESCAPE?? COME HERE, YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO!!”
THEY GRABBED HER ARM, THEY GOT HER UP AND THREW WATER ON HER FACE. THEN, THEY DRAGGED HER TO THEIR HOUSE.
SARAH WAS IN A SOLITARY AND SNOWED FOREST, SEARCHING FOR TARJA. THEN, SHE REACHED THE COURTYARD OF A PALACE THAT LOOKED LIKE A HAUNTED PLACE, RATHER THAN A KINGDOM'S CASTLE.
SHE SAW A VERY PRETTY FLOWER, HANGING ON THE GATE'S BARS AND SHE ATTEMPTED TO CUT IT OFF. SUDDENLY, BEFORE HER HAND MANAGED TO REACH OUT TO THE BARS, A WOLF GROWLING SOUNDED FROM BEYOND AND TWO RED-GLOWING EYES APPEARED SLOWLY IN THE DARK.
SARAH GOT VERY SCARED SO SHE TRIED TO FLEE BUT RIGHT BEFORE SHE RUN AWAY FROM THE GATE, A HUGE WOLF JUMPED OVER THE BARS AND STOOD BEFORE HER. THE BREATH THAT CAME OUT OF HIS NOSE WAS COLD, AS THE WEATHER WAS SNOWY TOO.
SARAH: “(STARING AT THE WOLF IN TERROR) COME ON, MAKE IT QUICK... THIS IS THE END, I CAN'T DO ANYTHING ELSE.”
WOLF: “(IN A HEAVY TONE) I WON'T EAT YOU!! BUT I WANT SOMETHING IN EXCHANGE FOR THAT.”
SARAH: “...YOU SPEAK? WELL, WHAT WAS EVER LOGICAL IN THESE DIMENSIONS....?”
WOLF: “LISTEN TO ME!! IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE EATEN, BRING ME A WOMAN UNTIL MIDNIGHT! I'LL BE WAITING.”
SARAH: “WHAT DO YOU WANT THE WOMAN FOR?”
WOLF: “I HAVE TO GET MARRIED, ALREADY, TO A WOMAN THAT CAN SEE ME AS HER MATE AND NOT AS AN ANIMAL!!”
SARAH: “(TO HERSELF) OBVIOUSLY, HE MEANS TARJA, BUT I'M STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IN WHICH FAIRYTALE WE ARE... (OUT LOUD) BUT WHERE IS TARJA??”
WOLF: “SHE, WHO IS PREDESTINATED TO SOLVE THE CURSE, LIVES AT THE HOUSE OF THE POOR TRADER, NAMED WILLIAM. IF YOU ASK AROUND IN TOWN'S SQUARE, YOU WILL KNOW WHERE TO FIND HIM. I WILL BE WAITING, DON'T FORGET ABOUT OUR MEETING!!”
SARAH: “I AM GOING NOW, I WILL SEE YOU IN THE EVENING.”
SHE WENT TO THE TOWN SQUARE, WHERE EARLIER THE THREE WOMEN HAD FOUND TARJA AND TOOK HER TO THEIR PLACE. THE ROADS WERE DESERTED AND FULL OF SNOW, EVERYBODY WERE SHUT IN THEIR HOUSES AND THE OLD ARCHITECTURAL STYLE OF THE BUILDINGS BROUGHT A MEDIEVAL SENSE IN MIND. THE TOWN LOOKED LIKE IT WAS IN THE OLD FRANCE.
SARAH FOUND A BEGGAR, WRAPPED IN BLANKETS, OUTSIDE OF A CLOSED RESTAURANT AND HE WAITED THERE, JUST IN CASE SOMEONE OPENED IT AND THOUGHT OF GIVING HIM A PORTION OF WARM FOOD.
SARAH ASKED HIM ABOUT THE HOUSE OF THE TRADER WITH THE THREE DAUGHTERS AND TARJA, WHERE SHE WOULD BE. HE, NOT HAVING ANY COURAGE TO TALK, SIMPLY SHOWED HER THE WAY WITH HIS HAND AND SHE THANKED HIM AND GAVE HIM HER SCARF, EXPRESSING HER GRATITUDE.
WHILE SARAH GOT THERE, SHE SAW TARJA IN MAID DRESS, BEING EXHAUSTED AS SHE WAS CLEANING THE STAIRS FROM THE SNOW, WHILE SHE WAS IN GREAT DANGER OF GETTING SICK BY THE GREAT COLD.
SARAH: “OH MY GOD, TARJA ARE YOU ALRIGHT?”
AT FIRST, TARJA DIDN'T RECOGNIZE HER AND BEFORE SHE FALLS UNCONSCIOUS, SARAH CATCHES HER AND OPENS THE BACK DOOR OF THE KITCHEN AND THEN, WALKED IN. SHE SAT HER ON A CHAIR AND WRAPPED HER WITH WHATEVER FABRICS AND RAGS SHE FOUND IN THE ROOM, TO WARM HER UP.
AFTER A WHILE, TARJA WOKE UP.
TARJA: “SARAH, WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. IF THESE THREE SISTERS FIND OUT THAT I DON'T WORK, THEY MIGHT JUST KILL ME.”
SARAH: “I MET AN ENORMOUS WOLF, OUTSIDE A PALACE, AND HE TOLD ME TO FIND A WOMAN HERE AND TAKE HER TO HIM... THAT IS OBVIOUSLY YOU.”
TARJA: “YEAH, AND AS I FIGURED OUT, WE MUST BE IN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST FAIRYTALE.”
SARAH: “AND I WAS JUST ABOUT TO ASK YOU.....”
SUDDENLY, A VOICE SOUNDED FROM THE LIVING ROOM SAYING “HEY, GO CHECK IF SHE CLEANED UP THE STAIRS FROM SNOW”
TARJA: “QUICKLY, OPEN THE BACK DOOR AND LET'S GET OUT OF HERE, THEY ARE GOING TO LOOK FOR ME!!”
SARAH: “RIGHT, LET'S GO!!”
EACH OF THE THREE SISTERS TOOK ONE WEAPON, FIRST TOOK A SCYTHE, SECOND TOOK A SHOVEL AND THE THIRD TOOK A HUNTING SHOTGUN, AND THEY WERE SO FURIOUS THAT IN THEIR MINDS WAS ONLY ONE THOUGHT, KILLING TARJA IF THEY HAVE TO.
SARAH AND TARJA HAD ALREADY GOT INTO THE SNOWED FOREST, WHERE EVERYTHING WAS WHITE AND COVERED WITH SNOW, AND THEY WERE ONLY 500-600 METERS AWAY FROM THE PALACE'S GATES, WHERE THE HUGE MONSTROUS WOLF WAS WAITING FOR THEM. SUDDENLY, WAY BEHIND THEM SOUNDED A LOUD CLAP.
TARJA: “WOW, I DON'T LIKE THIS, SARAH, IT SOUNDED LIKE GUNFIRE!!”
SARAH: “YEAH, WHATEVER IT WAS, LET'S MOVE FAST CAUSE I GOT THE FEELING THAT THE NEXT BULLET IS FOR US..!!”
TARJA: “YES, LET'S KEEP GOING.”
DESPITE THE FREEZING WEATHER, THE TWO WOMEN TOOK OFF THEIR SHOES TO MAKE THEIR MOVEMENT FASTER, THOUGH THEY HAD A HARD TIME, PASSING OVER THE THICK LAYER OF SNOW THAT COVERED ALL OVER THE PLACE.
TARJA: “IMAGINE THAT, IF IN FINLAND YOU JUST NEED A THINK COAT, BOOTS AND PANTY HOSE, HERE YOU NEED 5 PANTY HOSES, 10 SHIRTS AND BOOTS-3 TIMES THICKER!!”
SARAH: “AW, I CAN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT...”
A SECOND SHOT SOUNDED, THIS TIME CLOSER TO THEM.
TARJA: “WE ARE NOT GOING TO GET FINISHED BY THE MONSTER, SARAH, BUT FROM THE BULLETS!!”
SARAH: “TARJA, BEHIND YOU!!!”
THE ONE WITH THE SCYTHE MADE A QUICK MOVE TO HIT HER BUT TARJA BENT IN TIME.
FROM BEHIND, THE ONE WITH THE SHOVEL CAME AND MANAGED TO HIT SARAH ON HER ANGLE, FORTUNATELY LIGHTLY.
TARJA: “SARAH!! ARE YOU OK?”
SARAH: “YEAH, YOU BE CAREFUL, I HANG ON HERE...”
AS TARJA WAS DOWN, THE ONE WITH THE SCYTHE TRIED TO HIT HER AGAIN BUT SHE BLOCKED THE WAY WITH HER FOOT AND THE SISTER FALL DOWN, BEING DISARMED. SARAH HAD ALREADY KNOCKED THE OTHER SISTER (WITH THE SHOVEL) DOWN, USING A STONE.
IT WAS HARD TO DEAL WITH THE THIRD ONE, CAUSE SHE HAD A SHOTGUN, SO THEY GOT UP QUICKLY AND RUN AWAY, AS SHE WENT AFTER THEM, SHOOTING AT THEM, LUCKILY MISSING.
THE 2 WOMEN FINALLY REACHED THE PALACE, ALL EXHAUSTED, BUT THE SISTER WITH THE SHOTGUN GOT THERE TOO. SHE WAS READY TO SHOOT TARJA, WHEN A LOUD WOLF HOWLING SOUNDED AND A SHADOW JUMPED QUICKLY OVER THE BARS AND RUSHED AT THE WOMAN WITH THE GUN, BITING HER ON HER LEG AND LEAVING IN BLOOD ON THE SNOW.
TARJA: “OK, WE GOT RID OF THE NUT'S WOMAN WITH THE BULLETS, NOW WHAT?”
SARAH: “YOU HAVE THE POWERS, THINK OF SOMETHING.”
TARJA: “RIGHT, MARK GAVE ME 4 POWERS, FIRE, ICE, INSTINCT AND INVISIBILITY. HERE, CAUSE OF SNOW, I GUESS WE NEED FIRE.”
TARJA CONCENTRATED AND WRAPPED THE WOLF IN A CIRCLE OF FIRE, TRAPPING HIM.
RIGHT AFTER THAT, THE CURSE WAS SOLVED, SHOWING THAT UNDER THE MONSTER FUR, WAS A CHARMING BLONDE YOUNG MAN WITH GREEN EYES. AS A FAVOR, HE ASKED TARJA TO DANCE WITH HIM.
SO TARJA DID, AS SARAH WAS ENJOYING THE ROMANTIC SCENE OF THE YOUNG MAN DANCING WITH TARJA OUTSIDE THE GATES OF THE PALACE.

SCENE 10: ALADIN

WHILE SHE WAS DANCING WITH THE YOUNG MAN, SUDDENLY, SHE FOUND HERSELF DANCING WITH SARAH IN THE DESERT, UNDER THE FULL MOON.
SARAH: “EHM…. TARJA, THE MAN IS GONE, IT’S ME YOU ARE DANCING WITH….”
TARJA: “(LAUGHING) YEAH, SORRY, I WAS ABSTRACTED…. WE ARE OBVIOUSLY IN THE NEXT FAIRYTALE AND WE SEEM TO BE IN A DESERT.”
SARAH: “YES INDEED, BUT IN WHICH FAIRYTALE ARE WE…?”
TARJA: “DESERT.. WE GOT FROM FREEZING COLD TO ABSOLUTE HEAT!! AND THEN, PEOPLE WONDER WHY THEY GET SICK….”
SARAH: “LOOK, TARJA, THERE ARE SOME NOMADS ON CAMELS THAT ARE COMING.”
TARJA: “YEAH, THEY LOOK LIKE A ROYAL ARMY OR SOMETHING…”
ONE OF THE MEN APPROACHES THE TWO WOMEN AND SAYS
ALLAH MANDI: “TARJA, MY NEPHEW, YOU HAVE TO COME WITH ME, NOW IS THE BEST TIME FOR US TO ENTER THE TEMPLE’S BASEMENT AND FIND THE OIL LAMP.”
TARJA: “(WHISPERS) SARAH, NOW I KNOW IN WHICH FAIRYTALE WE ARE…. IN ‘ALADIN’! ”
SARAH: “YES, RIGHT (SHE NODDED TO TARJA AND LOOKED OVER THE MEN, WITH A SCARED FACE)”
TARJA: “LET’S FOLLOW THEM TO SEE WHAT IS GOING ON.”
THEN COMES THE LEADER, A TALL AND STOUT MAN, DRESSED WITH ROYAL CLOTHES, HAVING LONG BLACK BEARD AND A STERN LOOK ON HIS FACE AND HE APPROACHES TARJA AND SARAH.
LEADER: “TONIGHT, AS SOON AS THE MOON FILLS THE SKY AND THE STARS TAKE PLACE TO SLEEP, YOU WILL ENTER THE PALACE OF MY BROTHER AND KING OF EAST, RAM ALLA DOU. YOU WILL GET IN THE ROYAL GARDEN AND AFTER YOU DISARM ALL THE GUARDS AND THE PLACE SEEMS CLEAR, YOU WILL HEAD TO THE CELLAR, WHERE THEY KEEP THE WINE. THERE, YOU WILL FIND THE SECRET TRAPDOOR THAT WILL LEAD YOU TO THE UNDERGROUND GALLERY, THERE IS THE HIDDEN OIL LAMP THAT WILL CHANGE OUR LIVES FOREVER!!”
TARJA: “BUT I DON’T KNOW HOW TO FIGHT.”
LEADER: “HAHA, ARE YOU KIDDING ME? IS IT ANY WONDER THAT YOU ARE CONSIDERED AS THE BEST ARCHER AND FIGHTER IN OUR TRIBE?”
TARJA: “(WHISPERS TO SARAH) I GUESS I ALREADY POSSESS THESE ABILITIES, IF NOT, I’LL BE SEEING US IN THE PALACE CELLS SOMEWHERE IN THE EAST, ALONGSIDE THE RATS AND SOME OTHER PRISONERS….”
SARAH: “YEAH, I WISH YOU CAN FIGHT TOO, PLEASE DON’T LET US DOWN (LOOKS AT TARJA IN FEAR)”
EVENTUALLY, THE TRIBE NOMADS SET CAMP WITH THEIR CAMELS, SHARPENING THEIR WEAPONS, JUST IN CASE THEY CONFRONT THE MEN OF KING RAM ALLA DOU, THE MOST HONEST MAN IN MIDDLE EAST.
TARJA DIDN’T MANAGE TO SLEEP DURING ALL NIGHT, AS SHE WAS CONSTANTLY HOLDING HER DAGGER BY HER BELT AND ALSO, GUARDING SARAH THAT WAS SLEEPING NEXT TO HER.
THE CAMP FIRE THAT THEY HAD LIGHTED TO GET WARMED UP –CAUSE OF THE EXTREME LOW TEMPERATURES THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE DESERT, DURING THE NIGHT- HAD FADED OUT AND SARAH STARTED MUMBLING, AS SHE WAS SLIGHTLY WAKING UP.
SARAH: “MARK, HONEY, I’M COLD, LIGHT UP THE STOVE PLEASE…”
TARJA: “SARAH, WAKE UP, YOU ARE DREAMING….”
SARAH: “OH, SORRY.. I GUESS SLEPT DEEPLY.”
TARJA: “IS OK, LET’S JUST FOCUS ON OUR MISSION UNTIL WE GET OUT OF THIS DIMENSION.”
SARAH: “(WITH A SCARED, TREMBLING VOICE) WE ARE GOING TO MAKE IT, AREN’T WE..?”
TARJA: “DON’T WORRY AT ALL, EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE FINE…!!”
SARAH WAS A BEAUTIFUL 24-YEAR-OLD GIRL, TALL AND THIN, NICE VITAL STATISTICS AND ROSE-PINK SKIN, EMERALD-GREEN EYES, LIPS IN MELLOW-CHERRY COLOR, AS HER RED HAIR GAVE HER THE SENSE OF A PAINTED CANVAS.
IT WAS MIDNIGHT ALREADY AND EVERYONE WOKE UP, THEY GOT ON THEIR CAMELS, TOOK THEIR SWORDS AND HEADED TO THE ROYAL COURT.
THE NOMADS WERE DRESSED IN THE CLASSIC WAY OF EASTERN WARRIORS, JUST AS WE KNOW THEM FROM THE REAL –OR NOT- STORIES. THEIR FACES WERE COVERED WITH BLACK SILK SCARVES, HATS THAT HID OFF THE TOP OF THEIR HEADS AND UNIFORMS IN DARK BLUE AND BLACK COLOR.
THE ONLY DRESSING THAT WAS DIFFERENT, WAS THE ONE OF TARJA’S UNCLE, WHICH WAS MORE OF A ROYAL STYLE, WITH JEWELS, INTERWOVEN WITH GOLD.
THEY GOT THERE AND THE TRIBE SURROUNDED THE ROYAL COURTYARD, AS TARJA AND SARAH WERE READY TO ENTER AND DISARM THE GUARDS. THOUGH, BEFORE THEY GO, SARAH HEARD ONE OF THE GUARDS TALKING TO TARJA’S UNCLE.
GUARD: “MY LORD, WHAT SHOULD WE DO AFTER TARJA AND SARAH BRING US THE OIL LAMP?”
ALLAH MANDI: “ WE ARE GOING TO SLAUGHTER THEM BOTH, OF COURSE, BUT BEFORE THAT, THEY MUST NOT FIND OUT THAT I AM NOT HER REAL UNCLE, BUT A WIZARD THAT TOOK HIS FORM AND SO, WE USE HER AND HER FRIEND TO GET THE OIL LAMP.”
GUARD: “YES, SIR, DON’T WORRY!! YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND!”
TARJA: “(AFTER SHE LEARNED ABOUT THE FACTS FROM SARAH) I THOUGHT SO… LET’S TAKE THE OIL LAMP FROM THE BASEMENT, CAUSE I HAVE THE FEELING THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE OUR WAY OUT OF THIS DIMENSION, AND THEN, WE SHALL THINK ABOUT WHAT TO DO ABOUT THEM…”
SARAH: “YOU ARE RIGHT…”
AS THEY WERE HEADING TO A HIGHER BALCONY OF THE COURTYARD, THEY SAW THAT TWO ARMED GUARDS RUSHED AT THEM. SUDDENLY, TARJA BEGAN PERFORMING CRAZY ACROBATICS OF A PURE AMAZON ON THE WALLS AND HAVING THE SPEED OF A PUMA, SHE DISARMED THEM QUICKLY AND TOTALLY SILENTLY.
SARAH: “WOW TARJA, YOU’VE GOT TO TEACH ME TOO!!”
BEFORE SHE FINISHED HER SENTENCE, ANOTHER TWO GUARDS APPEARED AND SARAH HID BEHIND TARJA. FOLLOWING, TARJA HELD ON HER ONE HAND THE SWORD, FIGHTING THE GUARDS, AND WITH THE OTHER HAND, SHE HELD SARAH TIGHTLY.
EVENTUALLY, SHE DISARMED THEM TOO AND GOT UPSTAIRS WITH SARAH. THOUGH, THINGS BECAME MORE RISKY THERE, AS 6 GUARDS WERE RUSHING TO THEM.
TARJA: “HOLD ON, I’VE GOT AN IDEA!”
BESIDE THEM, THERE WAS A BARREL FULL OF WINE, SO THAT THE GUARDS DRINK ONCE IN A WHILE. TARJA OPENED IT, SPILLED PLENTY OF IT ON THE FLOOR AND GRABBED A TORCH THAT WAS ON HER LEFT. SHE LIGHTED THE WAY, PUSHED THE BURNING BARREL TO THEIR SIDE AND IN RESULT, 3 OF THEM GOT BURNED AND THE OTHER 3 JUMPED DOWN IN FEAR.
TARJA: “THERE IS THE TRAP DOOR, COME QUICKLY!!”
SARAH: “YEAH, LET’S GO!”
THE TWO WOMEN WENT DOWNSTAIRS AND FOUND A DEEP AND DARK TUNNEL. THE ONLY LIGHTNING THERE, WAS COMING BY THE TORCHES OF THE PALACE THAT WAS ON THE UPPER FLOOR. THEY WERE WALKING SLOWLY, UNTIL THEY SAW A CHEST THAT WAS SEALED WITH A LOCK.
THEN, TARJA CONCENTRATED AND, USING THE ICE POWERS THAT MARK GAVE HER, FROZE AND BROKE THE LOCK.
THEY OPENED THE CHEST AND THEY FOUND THE OIL LAMP, WRAPPED IN A SHINY BLUE SHEET.
ONCE THEY UNWRAPPED IT, A BLINDING LIGHT FILLED THE PLACE, SHACKING THE PALACE IN AN EARTHQUAKE AND DROPPING DOWN THE MEN THAT WERE OUTSIDE, BOTH THE GANG OF THE BLACK MOON AND THE PALACE’S GUARDS.
TARJA AND SARAH GOT OUT OF THE BASEMENT, HOLDING THE OIL LAMP, BUT THEN, THEY WERE EXPECTED BY THE WIZARD, AS HE REVEALED HIS TRUE IDENTITY, BEING A DARK WIZARD INSTEAD OF TARJA’S UNCLE.
TARJA: “THIS MAN SEEMS TO BE PRETTY STRONG, I DON’T THINK THAT ICE OR FIRE POWERS WOULD DO ANY HARM TO HIM…”
SARAH: “MAYBE IF…”
TARJA: “(LOOKING AT SARAH) THE OIL LAMP!! THERE IS SUPPOSED TO BE A GENIE IN THERE, READY TO FULFILL 3 WISHES, RIGHT?”
SARAH: “YEAH, AND I SUPPOSE YOU SAY THAT WE USE ONE WISH TO DEFEAT THE WIZARD, RIGHT?”
TARJA: “EXACTLY!”
WIZARD: “SO, LADIES, WHY DON’T YOU LEAVE THIS CHITCHAT ASIDE AND GIVE ME THE OIL LAMP?”
TARJA: “I AM NOT GIVING YOU THE OIL LAMP BUT I WOULD GLADLY RELEASE WHAT’S IN IT!!”
WIZARD: “NO!!!”
TARJA RUBBED THE OIL LAMP AND BROUGHT OUT THE GENIE THAT WAS TRAPPED INSIDE, AND IT SAID TO TARJA
GENIE: “YOU RELEASED ME, YOU ARE MY MISTRESS. ASK ME 3 FAVORS AND I WILL MAKE THEM TRUE.”
TARJA: “I WANT YOU TO DESTROY THIS WIZARD.”
GENIE: “YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND.”
AND RIGHT AFTER THAT, THE GENIE SENT A BLUE RAY OF LIGHT ON THE WIZARD AND VANQUISHED HIM. AND RIGHT BEFORE THE DIMENSION OF ALADIN WAS OVER, THE GENIE TOLD TARJA
GENIE: “REMEMBER, NOW YOU HAVE 2 WISHES.”
TARJA: “THANK YOU.”

SCENE 11: DARK SELF

TARJA OPENED HER EYES AND FOUND HERSELF LYING ON THE FLOOR OF A BIG ABANDONED HOUSE WITH LONG HALLS AND MANY SEALED DOORS.
TARJA: “SARAH? WHERE ARE YOU?”
SARAH COULD LISTEN TO HER FROM BEHIND THE LARGE DOOR THAT WAS IN THE CENTER OF THE HALL BUT SHE COULDN’T ENTER OR LISTEN TO HER CAUSE TARJA DIDN’T LISTEN TO ANYTHING.
TARJA GOT UP AND TRIED TO FIND A WAY TO ESCAPE BUT ALL DOORS WERE LOCKED. ALSO, THE MORE SHE APPROACHED THE CENTRAL DOOR, THE LONGER SEEMED THE HALL THAT LED THERE. TARJA WAS SCARED AND STOOD STILL, FOR A MOMENT, TO TAKE TWO DEEP BREATHES. THEN, SHE HEARD A VOICE COMING FROM BEHIND HER SAYING
DARK TARJA: “I WAS WAITING FOR YOU.”
TARJA TURNED AROUND AND SAW HERSELF, DRESSED IN LONG BLACK DRESS, A MORE HAGGARD FACE AND HER HAIR FALLEN UPON HER FACE.
TARJA: “OH MY GOD!!! ME…? HOW IS IT POSSIBLE?”
DARK TARJA: “YOU SEEM SURPRISED. DON’T YOU RECOGNIZE YOUR DARK SELF?”
TARJA: “BUT…. NO, IT CAN’T BE, YOU ARE A DELUSION.”
DARK TARJA: “NO, I AM REAL AND I’M LIVING IN THIS DIMENSION, ALL STUCK IN HERE CAUSE YOU DECIDED TO BRING OUT YOUR GOOD SELF!”
TARJA: “NO WAY, THERE MUST BE SOME WAY OUT OF HERE..!!”
DARK TARJA: “THERE IS… TO KILL YOU OR TO KILL YOUR CHILDHOOD, YOUNG GOOD TARJA YOU USED TO BE.”
THEN, BEHIND TARJA APPEARS TARJA IN YOUNG AGE (8 YEARS OLD) AND SAYS
YOUNG TARJA: “DON’T LISTEN TO HER, TARJA, I WILL COVER YOU AND SHE WON’T HURT US.”
TARJA: “I THINK I AM GOING NUTS…”
YOUNG TARJA: “NO, COME WITH ME, I WILL WRIGGLE US OUT OF THIS, FOLLOW ME.”
THEN IN A SUDDEN MOVE, DARK TARJA GRABS YOUNG TARJA FROM THE NECK, AS TARJA FELL TO HER KNEES CAUSE SHE FELT SHE WAS SUFFOCATING TOO. AS SHE WAS DRAGGING ON THE FLOOR, SHE GRABBED DARK TARJA’S FOOT AND MADE HER TO LOSE HER BALANCE AND FALL DOWN.
YOUNG TARJA: “COME WITH ME, RUN!!”
THEY BOTH STARTED RUNNING UNTIL YOUNG TARJA FOUND A HOLE IN THE WALL AND HID, AS TARJA HID BEHIND ANOTHER WALL. DARK TARJA GOT UP EVEN MORE FURIOUS AND WAS MUMBLING, AS SHE WAS LOOKING FOR TARJA AND YOUNG TARJA.
DARK TARJA: “WHERE ARE YOU?? I WILL FIND YOU! YOU TOO, LITTLE BRAT, IT’S YOUR FAULT THAT TARJA JUST WON’T LET ME APPEAR IN HER CHARACTER, YOU, ‘LITTLE CUTE TARJA’!!”
WHERE TARJA WAS HIDDEN, BEHIND THE WALL, DARK TARJA WALKED BY AND STEPPED ON HER DRESS BUT SHE DIDN’T REALIZE IT, AS YOUNG TARJA WAS SIGNING AT HER TO REMAIN COMPLETELY STILL. UNFORTUNATELY, DARK TARJA NOTICED YOUNG TARJA IN THE WALL HOLE AND HEADED TO HER.
DARK TARJA: “HERE YOU ARE, LITTLE BRAT!! I GOT YOU!!”
AS SHE WAS APPROACHING HER, SHE REACHED OUT HER HANDS TO CATCH HER BUT IN THE NICK OF TIME, TARJA STOOD BEHIND DARK TARJA AND FROZE HER WITH THE ICE POWER.
THEN, TARJA TOOK YOUNG TARJA FROM THE WALL AND GOT HER AWAY, THEN SHE USED ANOTHER POWER THAT MARK GAVE HER, FIRE, AND MELTED DARK TARJA. THEY ENTERED THE LARGE WOODEN DOOR AND FOUND THEMSELVES IN FINLAND, NEAR TARJA’S HOME.
TARJA: “HEY… KID? WHERE ARE YOU?”
TARJA WAS THERE ALONE, HER YOUNG FORM, LITTLE INNOCENT TARJA, HAD DISAPPEARED ALONG WITH DARK TARJA’S DIMENSION.
TARJA: “WOW, AT LEAST IT SEEMS THAT EVERYTHING IS OVER NOW. AT LAST I AM IN FINLAND AND NEAR HOME! I HOPE SARAH IS OK TO AND THAT SHE FOUND HER DEAR MARK.”
THOUGH, WHILE SHE WAS WALKING, SHE SAW SARAH BEING A LITTLE FURTHER, BUT SHE WASN’T WITH MARK, SHE WAS WITH SOMEONE ELSE. SHE HEADED THERE TO SEE WHAT IS GOING ON.
TARJA: “SARAH, ITS YOU!! GOD, SUCH LUCK, EVERYTHING IS OVER AT LAST!!”
SARAH: “EXCUSE ME, HAVE WE MET? I AM SARAH INDEED BUT I DON’T KNOW WHO YOU ARE.”
TARJA: “(OBVIOUSLY SURPRISED) SARAH..? YOU ARE KIDDING ME, RIGHT?”
SARAH: “NO, I AM NOT KIDDING AT ALL, I DON’T KNOW YOU! NOW EXCUSE ME, MY HUSBAND’S HERE, WE NEED TO GO.”
TARJA: “MARK?? OH RIGHT, THIS ISN’T YOUR HUSBAND.”
SARAH: “NO, MY HUSBAND’S NAME IS ADAM AND HE IS A WRITER, HE ALSO WORKS AT A LIBRARY OF FAIRYTALES FOR CHILDREN, JUST A FEW BLOCKS FROM HERE. NOW, EXCUSE US, I HOPE YOU FIND THE SARAH YOU ARE LOOKING FOR.”
SHE SMILED IN A CONDESCEND WAY AND GOT IN ADAM’S CAR.
TARJA STOOD STILL FOR A MOMENT, BEING SOMEHOW SHOCKED AS SHE REALIZED SHE WAS TRAPPED IN ANOTHER DIMENSION, AN ALTERNATE VERSION OF HER OWN LIFE.
AS SHE KEPT WALKING, SHE NOTICED, A LITTLE FURTHER, SOME SLOGANS AND POSTERS OF A FAMOUS FINLAND SINGER, IN AN OPERA METAL STYLE, JUST LIKE SHE USED TO SING IN NIGHTWISH BAND IN THE PAST BUT IT WASN’T TARJA ON THE POSTERS, IT WAS HER SCHOOL MATE AND FRIEND, LIZA.
TARJA: “IT CAN’T BE, NOTHING OF ALL THIS IS REAL, I JUST HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO GET OUT OF HERE SOON.”
THEN, SHE REMEMBERED WHAT GENIE SAID TO HER, SHE HAD 2 MORE WISHES TO USE.
TARJA: “RIGHT!! NOW I REMEMBER, ACCORDING TO THE GENIE, I CAN MAKE 2 MORE WISHES, SO I’M GOING TO CLOSE MY EYES AND ASK FOR MY WISH.”
SHE CLOSED HER EYES, SHE TOOK TWO DEEP BREATHES AND MADE HER WISH.

SCENE 12: ASYLUM (END OF STORY)

WHEN TARJA OPENED HER EYES, AFTER THE WISH SHE HAD MADE, SHE WAS ON THE FLOOR OF A PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC, BOUND IN A WHITE STRAIGHT-JACKET. SOME CRAZY PEOPLE WERE LOOKING AND LAUGHING AT HER, WHILE ONE OF THEM TOLD HER IN AN IRONIC WAY
CRAZY#1: “HAHA, LOOK AT HER, OUR SINGER WITH THE MOST FAMOUS VOICE IN FINLAND, TARJA TURUNEN”
CRAZY#2: “COME ON, SHOW SOME RESPECT TO MRS. TURUNEN, THE WHOLE FINLAND KNOWS HER!!! HEHE!!”
TARJA: “YOU’VE GOT TO BELIEVE ME, I AM TARJA TURUNEN!! I’M TELLING THE TRUTH AND I NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE SOON!!”
DOCTOR: “MY DEAR MERJA TAIVALEN, YOU ARE NOT TARJA TURUNEN… CAUSE TARJA IS THE PRESIDENT OF FINLAND, YOUR NAME IS MERJA. MERJA TAIVALEN.”
TARJA: “NO WAY!!! I KNOW WHO I AM, YOU’RE NOT GOING TO DRIVE ME CRAZY!!”
DOCTOR: “MARCELLO CABULI, THE MAN THAT YOU HAVE BEEN MENTIONING FOR 4 MONTHS NOW, HE IS THE HUSBAND OF FINLAND’S PRESIDENT. I SUPPOSE YOU ARE ON NEUROTIC PSYCHOSIS AGAIN, WE NEED TO INCREASE YOUR MEDICATION.”
TARJA: “NO, I’M TELLING YOU, I AM TARJA AND I AM SINGER!! YOU CAN SEARCH FOR THE LAST RECORD I MADE, ‘WHAT LIES BENEATH’!!”
DOCTOR: “MERJA, DEAR, THIS TITLE YOU MENTION IS FROM A BOOK IN YOUR ROOM, IT’S A NOVEL, NOT A RECORD THAT YOU MADE…”
TARJA: “IT CAN’T BE, THERE MUST BE SOME LOGICAL EXPLANATION FOR ALL THIS!!”
DOCTOR: “MERJA, DARLING, LET’S GO NOW TO YOUR CHAMBER, TO GIVE YOU THE MEDICATION, AND WE SHALL SPEAK AGAIN TOMORROW.”
SUDDENLY, FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ASYLUM’S ENTERTAINING ROOM, COMES SARAH. AS SHE WAS APPROACHING TARJA, SHE SAID TO HER
SARAH: “TARJA, I KNOW THAT IT’S YOU AND THAT YOU ARE NOT CRAZY BUT THIS IS YOUR BATTLE AND I AM NOT ALLOWED TO INTERFERE…”
TARJA: “SARAH, THANK GOD!! BUT HOW CAN I ESCAPE FROM HERE?? THEY JUST WON’T BELIEVE ME!”
SARAH: “YOU WILL FIND THE WAY, I AM SURE.”
DOCTOR: “COME ON, MERJA, LET’S GO TO YOUR CHAMBER.”
TARJA: “OK...”
AFTER THE DOCTOR GAVE TARJA THE INCREASED MEDICATION, SHE WAS ALMOST IN SOME SORT OF SLEEPING CONDITION, LYING ON HER BED, AS SOME THOUGHTS WERE CROSSING HER MIND. SHE WAS WONDERING IF SHE WASN’T TARJA IN THE FIRST PLACE, BUT MERJA INDEED, A WOMAN THAT HAD PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS AND SOME OBSESSION ABOUT THE PRESIDENT OF FINLAND AND HER HUSBAND.”
THEN SHE CLOSED HER EYES AND HAD A STRANGE DREAM, IN FACT, SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST BUT SHE HAD FORGOTTEN ABOUT IT.
WHEN TARJA WAS YOUNGER, AROUND 23 YEARS OLD, SHE HAD VISITED A BOOK STORE AND SHE SAW AN 11 YEAR-OLD GIRL THAT WAS TRYING TO REACH A BOOK ON A HIGH SHELF. THEN, SHE APPROACHED HER AND ASKED HER
TARJA: “CAN I HELP YOU?”
SARAH: “YES, THANK YOU!!”
TARJA: “HMM, WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE? YOU LIKE ‘ALADIN’, RIGHT?”
SARAH: “YES, I ALWAYS WANTED TO HAVE A GENIE AND MAKE THREE WISHES.”
BEFORE SHE HAD THE CHANCE TO SEE THE REST OF THE DREAM, SHE WOKE UP SUDDENLY AND REMEMBERED THE GENIE THAT SHE MET IN ALADIN’S WORLD.
TARJA: “THIS IS IT!! I AM NOT CRAZY, I AM JUST IN ANOTHER DIMENSION AND I HAVE ONE MORE WISH TO MAKE!”
THEN. SHE CLOSED HER EYES AND WISHED
TARJA: “I WISH THAT I GET OUT OF THIS PLACE NOW!!”





EPILOGUE:

TARJA FOUND HERSELF AT THE CAVE’S PLACE THAT SHE FIRST MET MARK, TO BE SENT TO THE FAIRYTALE DIMENSIONS.
TARJA: “THANK GOD, I RETURNED!! MARK, SARAH, YOU ARE HERE TOO!”
SARAH: “YES, TARJA, AND THANKS TO YOU, I AM FREE AGAIN AND I FOUND MY LOVED ONE.”
SHE RUN AND HUGGED TARJA TIGHTLY AND TARJA RETURNED THIS EMBRACE.
MARK: “I AM TRULY GRATEFUL TO YOU, I KNEW YOU WOULD MAKE IT.”
TARJA: “IT WAS REALLY MY PLEASURE, HELPING YOU TO GET SARAH BACK. I WISH TO BOTH OF YOU TO REMAIN TOGETHER AND LOVED, AND TO STAY OUT OF TROUBLE.”
SARAH AND MARK: “THIS IS CERTAIN.”
TARJA: “SO, DOUG, THAT’S ALL THAT HAPPENED IN THESE 12 SECONDS THAT I WAS AWAY.”
DOUG: “TARJA, I DON’T MEAN TO DISBELIEVE YOU, BUT ALL THIS SEEMS TO ME LIKE A SCENARIO OF IMAGINATION-MOVIE, AND DEFINITELY, A FAIRYTALE.”
TARJA: THE IMPORTANT THING NOW IS THAT I AM FINE AND I AM IN THE STUDIO, READY TO CONTINUE MY WORK WITH MY FELLOW MUSICIANS AND FRIENDS.”
THE COLD WAS INTENSIVE THAT DAY AND TARJA HAD FINISHED HER WORK AND WAS GETTING READY TO RETURN HOME.
SHE WENT TO HER SCOOTER AND PUT THE KEY IN THE STARTED AND WAS READY TO TURN IT ON. SHE TRIED WITH THE ELECTRIC START BUT NOTHING HAPPENED.
TARJA: “OK TARJA, DON’T PANIC, IT’S COLD AND IT NEEDS SOME HELP WITH THE CRANK… EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OK NOW, MY ADVENTURES ARE OVER, NO MORE BAD SIGNS!!”
SHE TRIED WITH THE CRANK MANY TIMES BUT NOTHING WORKED. SUDDENLY, SHE FELT A PRESENCE, SOMEONE WAS BEHIND HER.
TARJA: “I KNEW IT… SCOOTER THAT DOESN’T WORK MEANS BAD SIGN!”
SHE TURNED AROUND QUICKLY, READY TO ATTACK AND PROTECT HERSELF, BUT SURPRISINGLY, SHE SAW SARAH.
TARJA: “GOD!! YOU SCARED ME!”
SARAH: “HAHA! THIS SCOOTER THING REMINDS ME SOMETHING, FROM THE RED RIDING HOOD DIMENSION.”
TARJA: “YEAH, HEH…”
SARAH: “I CAME TO GIVE YOU THIS GIFT… HERE.”
TARJA: “LOOKS LIKE A BOOK, LET’S SEE…”
SHE REMOVES THE WRAPPER AND SEES A BIG BOOK ENTITLED ‘THE BEST FAIRYTALES OF THE WORLD’.
TARJA: “THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE, THANKS!! I SHALL READ IT IN THESE DAYS, I PROMISE!”
SARAH APPROACHED TARJA’S SCOOTER AND EXAMINED IT.
TARJA: “WHAT IS IT, SARAH? WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?”
SARAH: “YOU KNOW, IT’S NOT ALWAYS A BAD SIGN WHEN YOUR SCOOTER DOESN’T START… YOU JUST NEED TO CHECK ON YOUR REMAINING FUEL, IT NEEDS GAS.”
TARJA: “OH!! RIGHT! (THEY BOTH LAUGH)”
SARAH: “COME ON, I WILL DRIVE YOU TO THE NEAREST GAS STATION WITH MY CAR, SO YOU CAN GET SOME.”
AND THE TWO WOMEN HEADED THERE, IN SARAH’S CAR.

έχω μάθει πρόσφατα απο το official site της tarja,είχε απαντησει σε μια ερώτηση που της έκαναν
http://www.tarjaturunen.com/?p=2970
88 – What fills you more, speaking of what a fan can do for you?

I appreciate a lot my fans, their support and love. That love is pure and invaluable. Many times an incredible story, a letter or a present of a fan can give me energy to continue in more difficult times.
και πραγματικά άν το τονίζω αν εννοεί και τις δικές μου ιστορίες μέσα σε αυτές που ονομάζει η tarja ingredible και τις δίνουν δύναμη στις δύσκολες στιγμές της τότε είμαι πραγματικά χαρούμενος
λέω αν ποιο πάνω για να μην δημιουργηθούν παρεξηγήσεις επειδή η tarja δεν αναφέρει κάποιο όνομα απλα επιδή της έχω κάνει τέσσερις ιστορίες που είναι όλες στα χέρια της



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respect filaraki

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