(August 24 2005, Thursday)
Darna battles ferociously with Demonica. She elbows and kicks this new fiend repeatedly. Demonica is angered and lets out a shrill cry that pierces Darna’s ears. Darna falls on her knees and this buys just enough time for Demonica to make a retreat. Then Darna decides to go and look for Efren once again.
Efren goes home drunk. It is early morning. He falls down on the couch and goes unconscious. Ava walks in a few hours later and tells him to get up as it is their wedding day. He looks uninterested but tells her he will get dressed. Efren is still thinking of Narda. He goes upstairs and emerges sometime later in his barong Tagalog. They go out.
Narda runs down the street. As she passes by a corner, Divina is waiting in ambush and elbows her in the face. Narda sees her momentarily but is knocked off her feet. She falls down and Divina swiftly sucks out her voice and puts it in a bottle. When Narda comes to, she realizes that she has no voice. She decides to become Darna, but no matter how often she swallows the stone and tries to shout her name, no sound comes out.
Milagros wakes up and sees Narda stumbling into the house. She has no voice but she looks frantic. Her grandmother cannot understand her. Narda grabs a pen and paper and runs out. Narda goes to see Alice who confronts her about the crystal. Alice asks where her lucky charm is. She begs her friend to give it back. Narda makes signs but Alice demands that she speaks. Narda then runs off. She is able to get a taxi ride to the church.
Divina gloats over her collection of voices on bottles. She notices that the bottle containing Narda’s voice is cooler and fuller than the rest. Divina wonders what could be so special about this, as she knows Narda as an employee of the hotel. She asks herself what the girl’s secret could be.
Efren looks like is on death row. A lady tries to encourage him. Ava walks down the aisle. Efren remembers Narda doing the same escorted by her father. They then face the priest together. Narda is now inside the church but she is stopped. She starts to write on the paper when she hears the wedding ceremony being concluded. The groom kisses the bride. Narda can only stare at them.
- written by: South Rock
