Purple Moon (FM8)

Purple Moon

Full Moon 8

   The water from the other tanks swirled around Luna. The others looked at Luna with aw as they stepped out of their broken tanks. The watchers looked on with fear in their eyes. Luna turned her attention to the exit and shot water at the ceiling. The concrete exploded outward, and she could hear the startled cries of people from above. The others became excited at shoved themselves through the exit. Luna ignored them at looked at the watchers. 

    Your time of control is done. I will not kill you but don't think that this is mercy. Your time of punishment will come, and when it does, you will have wished that I had killed you.

    They just stared at her, but she didn't care. She moved up through the exit to a blank room. There were signs that someone had been here, but they were gone. Luna kept moving until she reached the outside world. She looked up at the moon and breathed in the air. People in the town around her were screaming and running. Some of the ones that she had released were the cause of the screaming the rest of them had disappeared into the night.

    But there were still others that needed freedom. She turned her back on the town and headed south, to Thorn's den.

    The town Thorn was in was quiet compared to the one she had just come from. As she approached the building Thorn was in, she could feel Thorn gathering her power. Luna noted that Thorn had gotten stronger while they were apart before she gathered her power too. This time no one would be able to stop the power battle.

    The air vibrated, and Luna started to glow. The screams started in Thorn's building, and several explosions rang through the night as Thorn came closer. Then the wall just beneath Luna blasted outward and Thorn appeared.

    "I wondered when you would show up," Thorn commented.

    Luna looked her over. Thorn's physical state was fine, but Luna could tell by the way her red eyes glimmered that her mental state was in tatters.

    "I did tell you that we would meet again," Luna responded.

    Thorn laughed, "And this time no one will come to help you."

    Luna sighed, "If that is what you wish."

    Thorn smiled, "Then let us begin."

    Luna closed her eyes and took a deep breath. When she opened them again, Thorn was already coming after her.

    The power battle didn't last very long, but when it ended, the town was almost completely gone, and Thorn was breathing hard while Luna was not.

    "You did well for today." Luna commented, "But not as well as you can do. I am leaving for a period of time, sleeping you could say. It will be up to you if you have grown stronger when I wake. It will take me a long time to fully wake, four stages to be exact: No Moon, Crescent Moon, Half Moon, and Full Moon."

    "And why should I care about these stages?" Thorn growled.

    "In the No Moon, Blood has its greatest chance. Then come Crescent Moon, to begin the cycle. The Half Moon is next, and what is lost starts to return. Last of all is Full Moon to show the scales have changed."

    The moon came out from behind a cloud, and the moonlight gathered on to Luna's skin. There was a flash of purple light, and then she was gone. Leaving Thorn shocked and angry.

    Years later, a woman appears coming out of an abandoned town. Her hair is short and black. In her hands, she carries twin swords supposedly made from moon rock. The road she walks will lead her to the City, to an organization of hunters. Her eyes are a fierce purple only seen in Alterations, but in their depths, an ancient power sleeps. The only proof that it is there is the purple crescent moon on her shoulder blade.

 

 

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