"This is the perfect spot" Rina walked towards the moonlight direction.
"The weather seems to being your favour, even the moonlight came earlier than usual." She said and sat down, the wave of the ocean sweep some water to where she was seated
"Come and sit." She said and signaled to him to come sit in the water.
"Why now?"
"I know I'm rejected, but why is she doing this?" He thought.
"What is she planning?" Different thoughts ran through Katsu's mind. However, he reluctantly went to sit.
"I know you are surprised about all this, and you might be wondering why we are here." She paused and touched the water, then continue.
"I'm sorry, if I've done one thing or the other that for to angry, I apologize." She said calmly and smiled.
Meanwhile Katsu was lost in thought, the only thing on his mind was his last prayer and I'll thoughts. But he jolted out of his thought on hearing Rina's apology.
"It's nothing, I'm used to it." He whispered.
"To make up my wrong, I'll help you awaken your Meridians." She said sharply and looked into Katsu's eyes.
"What!" Katsu shouted. He was shocked, confused at the same time grateful. But something change the mood.
"It's against the code of conduct, what if someone sees us and report, you....."
"Then let's go." She cut him off and tries to stand up.
"No. No. No, let's do it"
"All right then" she sat back and began the spell. She raised her hand with her the curved, one of her ring shone, sending a golden light directly from her palm to Katsu's chest but it was rejected.
"Unbelievable." She whispered.
"What is it?" Katsu asked.
"Let's start again." She said.
This time she used her index and middle fingers to touch his palm and a blue light send a shocking wave to her body. Katsu opened his eye, and Rina was on the floor. He rushed towards her and lifted her up.
"Are you okay." He asked his voice was cool and charming. At first Rina was lost in thought she wasn't focusing on what he was saying, she was captivated by his voice, so sweet.
"Hey, are you okay." He repeated and shook her.
"Yes, sure." She sat up while Katsu stood up and stretches his hand to her, but she declined.
"Let's try again." She said.
"Isn't it obvious already." He asked.
"Just one more try." She said with a smile.
"Save your strength and don't exhaust yourself, they need it in the rift." He said with his voice raised a bit, his eyes were narrowed and his fist clenched.
"That's why I need to do this, they need you in that rift, I need you." She paused and sighed. She was about to say something but Katsu spoke.
"You need me?" He said with surprise, he never knew someone would need him after twelve years. At that moment, something soaked inside him, it was determination, just as he was still trying to decide, Rina spoke.
"I've always been there for you, all this year's, I've always protected you from the shadows. You said you will look fo they mysterious saviour that helped you when your parent felt you unconscious by the street, I'm here now, I need you." Rina paused and Katsu was shock at that revelation.
"So the person I've been searching for, the person that has been saving me, is right in front of me, telling me she needs me?" He was lost him thought.
"One thing about flower is that, whether it blooms on the street, or on mountain, or in the garden, however and whenever it blooms, all of them are still called flower. However or whenever, you got the power, you will still be considered an Awakening." Rina shouted with tears in her eyes, although she doesn't know why she was sobbing, she just found herself in the situation. But one thing is for sure, she felt his pain over years.
Deep down, Rina knew that it's impossible to unlock Katsu's Meridian and with what she saw, Katsu's Meridian requires process and days to fully unlock, and his Meridians is a very rare type. But she decided to use the forbidden spell. 'The Elemental Moon Invocation.' This spell has been long banned it's enhance someone to Wield the moon's power temporary, making them surpass their current level, sometimes, it might get in to the users mind and turns it to evil, and when that happens, they might be unstoppable, which is why it is banned.
Katsu was left with no choice, and he sat down, then she started The Elemental Moon Invocation, by summoning the energy from all four elements and connect it with the moon and directed it into his body, then sealed with 50% of her powers.
Meanwhile, inside the rift, Kira and her team were doing great job and everything was going smoothly. Just as said low level beast appear, and they were being killed them the gate locked, once inside, you can't go out until the core is shattered. Also the level of the rifts will change too.
"You hear that, let get to the core in time." Kira instructed and slayed one beast with her sword.
Then a D-level vessel appeared in a beast rift, something extremely unusual. (Vessels are like humans, but with some trait like animal head, or hand, or legs, and some are complete human, but language differs).
The eerie feeling gripped the E - level Awakening in the rift as fear took over them. But luckily, D - level Awakening were part of the raid, and Kira was also there. As they dive deeper into the rifts, it keep getting bigger, and aliens start coming, that was when they knew this was their last fight. (Aliens are creatures with an oval head and a orc body).
The intensity of the battle grew more and more as the level of the rift increases rapidly. Kira was wounded. And the other Awakening panicked.
"Why is Awakening Rina not here yet, things are getting worse." Shinjuku an E - level Awakening lamented.
"My wife is at home, I just got married and still planning my honeymoon, I don't want to die," another E - level awakening cried.
Then one of the beast, screeched as they rush forward from the inside, they were about 150 B-level beast, aliens, and vessels, rushing towards them from the inside at they moment, they all have up and some of them said their last prayers.
As they moved forward, one of the vessels leaped forward, and grabbed Kira by her neck. Just as he was about to land a blow and the squad team were about to be erased, something shifted, and dust filled everywhere, something moving like a shadow and with precision, faster than the speed of sound, ran through the Army of the invaders.
Everything seems to be like miracle, Kira dropped to the ground, and the dust settled. The whole army rushing towards the team dropped dead to the floor even the team began to shake in fear at the sight of what unfolds before them. Someone was standing holding the hand of the beast that grabbed Kira's neck, then with few slashes with accuracy, he skinned the beast alive.
"Don't mess with my people." He said calmly, his voice was heroic. He went to Kira.
"Are you okay?" He asked and removed the masked covering his face.
"She's not." Rina spoke from behind and Kira smiled and nodded.
"Who is that figure?"
"Did Awakening Rina went to get help?"
"What a sight to behold."
Someone moved closer and said. "Are you by any chance.....?" He staggered back and fell to his feet.
"Is it what I'm thinking?"
"Is that Katsu?" It must be a T-level Awakening." Different sidewalk but Katsu was unbothered
Rina moved closer to Kira and touched her head. There was a moment of silence, then Katsu stood and went into the rift.
"Be careful and be fast, it will soon go down, I'm counting on you."
Rina spoke and turn to Kira, Katsu proceed inside.
"What do you meant by it will soon go down?" Kira asked, her eyes brightened.
"It wasn't successful, so I did it." Rina said sharply and checked Kira's wound.
"You did what?" Kira shouted and the Echo called people's attention.
"Did she awaken his power without permit?"
"What do she do?"
"Whatever it is she has done, it's obviously for us."
Whispers rose again, side talks and all but Rina wasn't moved.
"I'm not as powerful now, I'm as good as a C - level Awakening so, it might not be effective but it will work." She discarded Kira's concern and casted a numbing magic in her.
"Do you think the moon won't go down before the rift got cleared?' Kira grew more furious and got up as if nothing had happened to her, luckily, her wound weren't too deep, it healed quickly, thanks to the D - level healing Awakening.
"Where are you going?" Rina asked Kira that was heading towards the inside of the rift. But Kira paused, looked back for a moment, as anger boils In her.
"Don't you think the moon will go down soon? When it does, what happens to him in there? Do you think using the spell on people make them feel better? and you are asking about where I'm going?" She shouted bitterly and went inside.
"What!"
"The Forbidden spell?"
Isn't that The Elemental Moon Invocation?" Different side talks began again.
"I'm coming with you." Rina stood up and followed her.
Inside, dead bodies all over the place, the rift had turned to an execution ground. Out of the seven awakening the followed Katsu inside, three had died and Katsu is now going all out as the level of the rifts had increased to a level proportionate to Katsu's level. When Kira got there Katsu was trying to protect the other Awakening.
Unfortunately, an aliens, whose power is quite overwhelming stepped out of the core and Kira noticed, fortunately, Kira was also an assassin Awakening, hope flickers.
"The resonance." Kira ran like a bolt of. Lightening summoning all her strength to connect with Katsu's strength, Rina cast the neutrality domain over the alien, suppressing its power and just with one slash, the alien was dead however, Kira and Rina became weak. (Resonance skill, is a combination of power, this skill only work between two people that their relationship is very intimate, and the closer they are the effective the damage will be).
"Wow, that was awesome, you guys are quite close." Rina commented. Katsu sprinted towards Kira.
"Kira, are you okay?" He said with deep concern in each word that came out of his mouth.
"Why do you have to come?"
"Why did you channel all your strength to the resonance" he asked but Kira kept quiet and smile then suddenly her facial expression changes, she frowned, her eyes became narrowed.
"Why?" She Finally spoke out
"Why do you accept to do it?" There was silence for some second.
"Why?" Kira shouted as tears dropped from her cheek. Then Katsu stood up and explained to her.
"I did it because that was the only was to come inside the rift. Other rifts started joining together with this rift and the level started increasing drastically, you don't expect me to do nothing." Katsu said. He paced around and told the other Awakenings to head out while he destroy the core.
As he went have to Kira and bent down, the core started gleaming in purple and was shaking, letting out an unimaginable power that surprises the three of them.
"It's now Katsu" Rina said and amplified the moon energy in him since she can't transfer or boost his strength. She looked at Katsu and tears dropped from her eyes. She ran to him and hugged him, and Katsu carried Kira and walked to a distance and dropped her. He hugged her
"Make sure you have a good lives. I'll destroy the core, at that moment the gate would have weakened, get everyone out." He said and left.
"No. No. No, you can't do this." Kira stood up and grabbed him from behind.
Rina went and disengaged them from the hug. "Kira, he needs to go now before it's too late." Rina said but her voice was shaking.
"I'm sorry Kira." Katsu said and Rina forcefully dragged Kira out as they both of the sobs.
Katsu stood in front of the core and remembered the technique his B - level dad once used that killed almost killed an U - level Awakening., it's called the dance of the heavens ( a technique that can only be done once and if done wrongfully, the user might died and the energy flow might flow backwards).
"Just this once. No mistake.". He said and started the dance slowly and emotional, sword formed in the air, Warriors, Mages formed with the energy from the techniques, swinging his sword from the right to the left, to the middle, all around. Then he stopped and directed all the conjured image from his energy into his sword and slash the core.
Katsu dropped weak to the floor he spat out blood, the core cracked and the gate opened but it didn't break. It was too powerful that even the No.1 technique couldn't break it. Then two vessels emerged from the core.
They mended the core, at that moment, he knew he had failed. His body collapsed, torn apart and then, everything went dark.
Then he opened his eyes to a valley, more like a 4-d dimensions out of Earth, at first everywhere was dark, but then a blue light shone.
"Where am I?" Katsu panicked
"Am I dead?" He wasn't sure this is what death looked like.
Unexpected, a shadowy figure appeared.
"Welcome, your sovereign." The shadowy figure said.