Xebek\’s Blog

So, this time the people that were doing some stuff before were doing some other stuff. That one person died so the other person was upset and then that other person was all like why’d you die and runs away, so people go and do some stuff because soon there will be a war and the people try and do stuff about the other people.

Summary:

• We see Falsetto walking alone in the rain, looking sad. She screams to herself, “Why did you have to die. Now Jazz will never forget you and never get over you”
• Beat and Fredric make their way to the hideout where Allegretto is there. He tells them of what happened to Claves and we see a scene of Jazz alone at what looks to be the gates of Baroque. Fredric says Claves must have been deeply troubled by what she was doing for a long time, indicating they all know she was a spy.
• Allegretto says Jazz went to Baroque to talk to someone, and Viola headed home to check on her goats and was going to head to Salsa’s house afterwards. He says that Falsetto disappeared after everyone learned of Claves’ death.
• Allegretto, Beat, and Fredric learn that some of the townspeople are afraid of monsters under the church. They head to eliminate them when they run into Viola, Salsa, and March who said they say them head into the church and followed. They say that they will all take a boat tomorrow over to Baroque, March now coming along with everyone on their journey. Allegretto leaves everyone else to do the work saying he’ll go get Polka and tell her of the plans.
• Allegretto approaches Polka and says how they are meeting up tomorrow on a ship to Baroque. They sit and talk about the mistrust that people have in the world. Polka eventually says some stuff and stand sup near the cliff they are sitting at, saying, jokingly, that she wonders if she should just jump off, if a new world will be waiting for her.
• Allegretto seems to get some kind of flash of Polka on a cliff by herself and jumps up yelling no. Polka asks what’s wrong, saying she wasn’t going to do it but is glad he’s worried about her. She takes out her odd shaped rock and throws it far away towards Ritardando. She says that the rock that was her treasure, it ca go in her place. Allegretto says that’s a weird thing, and says it reminds him that he picked up a weird shaped rock. He gives it to Polka telling her to keep hold of that one to replace the one that jumped, saying not to throw it away because it’s the first gift he’s given to a girl. He tells her not to be late tomorrow morning, and heads off.
• Polka is in shock, looking at the rock that Allegretto gave her which is identical to the one she had for years and just threw away. She says it can’t just be another similar rock, as she’s had it for years, the weight and shape is identical. She then realizes that the rock she had before was special to her not because of its weird shape, but as she explained to the others when she was with them and they say it, it was important to her because she received it from someone she loved. She continues to look confused, wondering if Allegretto could be that person.
• We see everyone in Baroque, Salsa, Beat, and Viola playing cards, Viola always coming in third. They said it’s been a week already and nothing much has happened.
• Crescendo and Jazz argue over if war is going to help and what they should do about Forte. Crescendo just says how it eventually makes things worse and just becomes a power struggle. Jazz keeps insisting there aren’t any more options but Crescendo till wants to avoid war.
• After Jazz leaves he talks to himself about Serenade, saying he always knew she had a connection to Waltz, originally just thinking she was sent by Waltz to just avoid war, meaning that they may have a chance to win. However, although she’s a spy he knows that everything she’s said about war is right in regarding how it doesn’t solve the overall problem and so forth. He says he doesn’t care who’s side she’s on, as long as they can avoid this war, and then asks in a louder voice isn’t that right Serenade, showing he knows she’s been in the room listening.
• Viola is outside with Polka just talking. She mentions good luck charms and tells her of one she should try, how you hold your hand out a certain way in front of the person you love and they’re supposed to love you back. She tells her to try it on Allegretto next time she sees him. Polka gets embarrassed and leaves. Jazz come sup telling Viola not to tease her too much. Vila says how she just made up that charm. Jazz walks away after telling her that they will be heading out tomorrow. As he leaves she holds her hand out the way she told Polka to do in front of the one you love. She says how it looks likes he’s in third place again, with Claves and Falsetto.
• Everyone heads off the next morning to visit a temple because of what some priest said. They go there to the top and eventually are confronted by Rondo who says she must take Polka. They stand to fight her and all of a sudden Falsetto appears behind, saying some things like she was just running away because she knew she could never reach the level that Claves had, but realizes that it doesn’t matter. She says she’ll take revenge for Claves by defeating Rondo. They defeat her and Jazz approaches Falsetto. He slaps her and then soon after they hug.
• They head back to get an answer from Crescendo on what he’ll do but they find him no where in site. They figure out that he and Serenade have gone to Forte to try and surrender themselves and Baroque to stop the war. Everyone heads after them, going though some ruins to try and catch up to them while we see Crescendo and Serenade together, saying that this is the only way to avoid war. Crescendo says that Serenade doesn’t have to come, but she says she wants to, to make up for what she’s done and to try and get Waltz to spare his life, although Crescendo says it’s useless.
• Eventually everyone reaches a clearing with a shrine and a tree. There is an old lady there who knows Polka’s name, saying its been a long time since she last saw her, but fees like it was yesterday, or perhaps a hundred years ago. Polka asks what she is talking about, as she doesn’t remember the old lady. She says she’s been waiting here, because she’s the one who has to draw a fortune and she has to make sure that Polka ties it to the sacred tree. Polka asks if they’ve met and she says of course, in this same spot at the same time. She says since she’s on time it mans nothing bad must have happened this time.
• Polka draws a fortune and reads it, being bad luck. She ties it to the tree, seeing that all the hundreds of fortunes over the tree are bad luck and wonders who the old lady is Polka returns to everyone else and they find the old lady gone.
• Everyone eventually meets up with Crescendo and Serenade, Crescendo saying their only option is surrender. All of a sudden a dozen or so dragons appear and Waltz is among them. Waltz confronts them and Crescendo says how he’ll surrender but Waltz basically says he doesn’t care, he doesn’t need them what he needs is Polka. If he receives her then Crescendo and Serenade will be spared, although it seems like they’ll still attack Baroque and invade.
• Polka says she’ll do it, as she just wants to help people. She approaches them and they confirm that she makes the agogos glow and that makes the mineral powder better. He then hits her unconscious and tells his assistant guy to take her; he’ll deal with everyone else.
• Waltz is defeated and his assistant, in a desperate move, drinks the entire potion of mineral powder that was mixed with a glowing agogo. He starts to transform into a freakishly huge dragon thing and in an explosion of power rips a hole in space. Everyone decides there is nothing left to do except go after him, so jump though the portal it left.

Impressions:

Wow, this was just simply freaking amazing. There were so many damn things in these chapters that just simply blew my mind. I mean my god, I as amazed at so many things; I just kept getting blown away by all of the things that were happening. They seemed to be rather new things also. It wasn’t just some of the same old stuff, dealing with Forte and Baroque and then the dream thing. It seemed as if an entirely new focus was brought in, dealing with this weird time loop thing they may have going. Two events both seemed to hint that there was just this weird thing going on with time, and it was just suddenly thrown on the series, I was just shocked.

The first of the really really shocking things that when it happened I just sat with my mouth wide open in complete disbelief was the whole bit with the rock and Polka and Allegretto. This thought didn’t even cross my mind but it seems as if there is some kind of time thing going on, seeing as how Polka got a rock from Allegretto that she already had, which she most likely received from Allegretto. That was just weird, but along with that tit threw in a huge development between the romance possibilities that they have between the two of them. I really wasn’t thinking there was going to be much romance in this, but not only have they been hinting at it with just some of the normal interaction, its event pretty much says that Polka loves Allegretto, or used to or is going to because she received the rock from someone she loved and then she receives it from Allegretto. It’s really had to explain because whenever you get into an issue of time repeating or looping, whatever, it just gets really really complicated.

Then of course the second event that really dealt with this time loop thing would be the encounter with he old lady. I’m really not sure what the hell was going on with that scene, as a lot of it was really just confusing as hell. However, it really did point to some kind of time loop. She said how THIS TIME Polka didn’t have any trouble, as if the same events have been repeating but perhaps with some differences, or maybe it actually has been fine each time. Still, it seemed as if she knew she was coming because she came before. I really hope they explain that, as it was pretty interesting, yet confusing.

I also did find it interesting that there was a little romance bit between Viola and Jazz. Well, not that there was any romance there but them actually showing that Viola has feelings for him was great. Viola really wasn’t a very well developed character before, but adding in the whole her having feelings for Jazz, who already is in a romance mess up with his love being dead and a childhood friend being in love with him as well, that bit was great and I really hope they give Viola a bit more development, I don’t really think it would be a good fit for her to end up with him, nor do I think he will at all, but some kind of development closure would be great.

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