Book Four
Volume 14
Ch. 197 Darkmoon
Pov.
-Cana-
3 months later
I hand Eri and Paris each a bowl of fish soup.
They hurry to serve the rest of the orphans.
"Thanks a bunch, Cana. This is awesome." Lione takes her serving and Thorfinns who had her by the hip
"I'm just glad I can help!" I beam
She smiles before leading Thorfinn over to their table.
"Hi!" I smile at Akame. Her clothes were disheveled. Her hair was messy and she couldn't look me in the eye
Kara was standing behind her.
"Are you okay?" I ask Akame
She nods shamefully.
I looked up at Kara who had been gone all week.
He meets my gaze before looking away.
"Hey, how was that thing you had with Najenda?"
He accompanied her to try out her new biological imperial arm.
"It was weak."
"Weaker than, Esdeath?" I tilt my head
"Worlds."
I heard that imperial arm can level nations. Esdeath must be really strong to be worlds apart.
"Have you spoken to her?" I hand him his bowl of soup.
"No." He takes it and joins Akame at her table.
…
I continue serving the rest of the orphans and the community, silently watching how Kara made Akame giggle despite how serious she is.
He didn't laugh much himself, he only put on a fake smile and teased her.
The way he would hold her despite her efforts to hide whatever they had going on from me was heartbreaking.
He would look over here to make sure I was watching before getting even more handsy.
…
I know he doesn't mean it. No matter how much he tries. He can't push me away. I just… I have to be patient with him.
Because I know him…
I've seen what he's capable of.
But I also know his heart. And what it's dying to blossom into.
…
"And we played, mommy. And we had funn." Lia waddles beside me, snacking on her little shrimps.
"Yeah? I bet." I giggle as she happily tells me all about the friends she made as she balanced a bowl of cherries on her head with the help of my magic.
After arriving back home she keeps telling me all about her day as she helps me around the house.
"And papa say-ed 'no boys!' And the nice boy got scared and leaved me alone because he es-scared of pap-pap" she munches
"Really? Awe."
I wish I got to see that.
"Yeah-mom! Shee! Shee!" She hops before the cabin trembles.
Eri and Paris look over as Lia runs into my arms.
The barrier…
"Everyone downstairs."
I led them all to the bunker I made since the last attack.
"Stay with them, okay boy? Don't leave them." I tell Odin who is sitting on Carrot's head as a little fat hamster.
He barks
"Okay…" I pat the barking hamster before hurrying outside
The barrier was shaking and trembling.
Someone's trying to bring it down.
"What's wrong, Cana?" Thorfinn lands beside me.
I point east just before a 25 meter tall Falling Star Danger Beast breaks through the barrier.
One of the very few Danger Beasts that can run through mountains and specialized to break down powerful barriers.
"What is it, Cana? What do you sense?" Lione joins us with the rest.
"It's a Falling Star Danger Beast! And he brought some buddies from the Imperial Army!"
I raise my staff, splitting the pink laser beam that it blasted through its horns in half.
"Keep them from reaching the cabin!" Thorfinn takes off
"I'll take care of the Danger Beast!"
I charged behind Thorfinn who then split away to intercept their other soldiers.
The beast charges head first. I jump over his snout and off his forehead and into the sky before spinning my staff above my head.
A miniature hurricane with winds speeds upwards of 170 mph trap him, and freezes everything inside
He turns around to face me as I catch my staff and aim the crystal shard at his face.
"Lunar Princess!" 3 magic circles spin opposite to each other in front of my staff forming a Darkmoon.
"Darkmoon-Forest!" I blast the Darkmoon into the beasts face
It stumbled back as the Moon burst into an icy mist that then birthed a forest of icy thorns that welded him into the ground.
He roars into the sky, summoning a magic circle that birthed dark clouds and rained meteors inside the icy storm.
I twist and dodge the meteorites that slowly chipped away the thorny vines holding him down.
I spin along with the staff
Knocking every meteorite out to get me aside
I thrust my staff through the last meteorite
I quickly summon 3 magical shields as the Danger Beast charges straight through with ease before sending me across the lake like a skipping rock.
Nimbus catches me before I'd sink into the water
I shove my staff into the water's surface, summoning two twin water dragons.
They shoot towards the Danger Beast.
They bite and whip the beast with their tails, smacking him around.
I hold my chest, healing a broken rib and my punctured lung as I cough some blood.
"Jeeze…" It's been a while since I've been hit so hard.
That's totally because I've gotten so strong and not because I'm a stay at home mom.
"Hehehe." I giggle before raising my gaze to the sky…
Kara…
"Hmh…" I smirk "Watch closely, you…"
The Falling Star Beast blows the dragons away with a roar.
It uses gravity magic to rebuild everything they chipped away.
The collar around its neck glows bright purple.
I see… that must be why it was able to break through my berries.
It's a bio-beast type imperial arm.
I was wondering why it was able to fight so well.
Even as his mass increases with boulder after boulder crushing into its rocky hide it began crushing into itself
Slowly but surely it crushed down to a 7 ft tall minotaur.
Nimbus quickly flew away after he settled me on the water's surface that froze the moment my bare toes sunk onto the surface to hold me.
…
"Darkmoon Secret Art." I raise my staff
First Phase…
My hair tingles and sparks, taking an Icy Blue color.
My aura frosts the air around me, creating small snowflakes that fill the surface of the water with snow.
I take a deep breath
"New Moon."
The entire lake freezes in an instant.
The minotaur was waiting for me to finish.
His mass was so compressed that his fists were glowing orange and he had molten rock outlining his muscles.
His chin was dripping with lava making him look like he had a small goatee and his horns were sparkling red with electricity, matching his aura that seemed to be relieving pent up kinetic energy he built up during his transformation.
"Hup!"
I caught his fist with my staff
I slap it aside before catching the other with the far end of my staff.
I slap that aside before going back and forth for half a minute.
I spin my staff behind my back as he tugs his fist back, ready to pound me into the ground
I step into his fist face first, but the moment he touched a hair on my head I teleport above his fist
I spin my staff over my shoulder
It snaps into a giant icy hammer within an inch from his face, and smashes him into the frozen lake so hard it sends ice cubes flying across the sky.
I perform a quick back handspring before a red lightning bolt could strike my back.
I jump and spin around trying to not get hit as he pulls himself together.
We go back and forth for a moment.
His fist slams into my cheekbone, sending an electric charge across nt body
The ice wraps around my legs as my feet drag across the icy surface, keeping me grounded.
He teleports in my face and smashes his fist against my chest
The ice swallows me like water and spits me out right behind him
I slam my shin into his lower back
He catches the small dragon that shot from the ground to bite his neck after I sent him flying
He spins around and sends it flying at me like a spear
It turns into water the moment it connects to my magic energy and bursts into fog when it touches my skin.
I hold my chest, healing my fractured sternum and some broken ribs.
…
He's really strong…
He pierces through the fog with his fist
I duck right under it and smack the butt of my staff into his chest.
He swats it aside
I twist around his arm and spin the staff behind my back before slamming it into his side
He yanks me into his face
I glare at his fist
It slows for a moment, just long enough for me to step aside before he could punch clean through my head.
I shake my head after feeling a weird pain in the back of my eyes.
Everything around us blackens.
I was weird
I knew where everything was but I could only see him.
He tosses my staff aside
I had to jump and spin around, smacking my palms against his rock hard body and slowing his attacks with my gaze.
I could see his attacks much more clearly.
After realizing that he picks up the speed
He knocks me back, charging an attack as I crash across the icy lake.
I was ready to jump out of the way when he unleashed his powerful beam before I remembered the cabin was right behind me.
I catch the lightning beam with my bare hands
My entire body bursts into flames, nearly overshadowing my magic
I manage to deflect the beam into the sky
Before I could catch my breath he smashes his fist into my gut, sending me crashing into the cabin
My eyes darted around for the girls.
Luckily they were still in the bunker
I slowed his fists with my gaze as he pulled them over his head, ready to smash me into the ground and through the bunker.
I summon my Darkmoon Greatsword as his fist taps the little antenna hair sticking out on the top of my head.
I smash it against his abdomen, blowing the cabin away and sending him flying across the estate
He crashes miles away like a meteor.
I follow behind.
He blocks my blade with his fist.
This time I force him on the defense as every other swing chips his chest open, flollowed by an icy cold black flame.
He summons rocks and lightning that knocks me around every now and then.
"Darkmoon Dragon Art" I duck under his fist. I pat his chest with one hand as I toss my greatsword ten meters back with the other
"Super Great and Awesome Darkmoon Dragon Spear of Ranni!"
I stepped back before he could elbow the little antenna hair on my head again and I thrust my Darkmoon Greatsword into his chest enveloped by the jaws of a Black Ice Dragon
It instantly freezes his insides with a blackened ice that pierces every one of his cores before he bursts into an icy cold blackened flame.
Crap… that name was super long…
Totally not-nonchalant and cool… I slap my forehead.
…
I catch his head and place him on my lap after I fell on my knees
My hair settles down to its natural brunette, only now realizing it changed un the first place.
"I'm sorry, baby…" I pet his head
Rather than burning into ash he slowly turned into a small pile of black snow.
…
I hurried back home where Odin was helping the girls out of the bunker.
"Ah-ma!" Lia hugs my leg
"Did you see how I did?! Did you?!" I scoop her up
"No, silly! We were trapped down stairs!" She squeals
"Wait a moment… What happened to the house, mama?"
"I blew it away, baby. Heh-heh." I chuckle
"What?! You're really strong!" She shrieks
"I have to be, for you." I nibble on her nose
"Cana!" The other two hurry over to give me a hug.
"Kara! Did you fight too?!" Paris ducks away and joins Kara behind me
…
I stand up
"D-did you see how I did? I'm strong aren't I?" I pat my bicep
"Yeah… I was watching both of you. You and Thorfinn are embarrassing to watch."
"Hmm" I frown
"You're only as strong as the weakest bone in your body. You only used a fraction of your magic power but you're exhausted."
The cabin slowly began to rebuild itself
"Wow, so cool!" The girls run around as Kara rebuilds everything with his magic
…
After he finishes I follow him outside.
"Well if you hate it so much why don't you teach us?" I follow him into the lake.
"Teach us what?"
"Thorfinn!"
"Hey…" he hugs me back "you were watching… Why didn't you do anything?"
…
"Those eyes… When did they awaken?"
"Eyes?" I look up at Thorfinn.
"I…"
"You have my blood. You inherited my eyes, when?"
"Months ago. When we lost Bulat…"
"I see…"
"Hey wait! Is that what happened to me?! I felt something weird too!"
"No, what Thorfinn inherited were my Sharingan Eyes."
"Sharingan?"
"And me?! And me?!" I jump ecstatically
"The Tsukigan, the Eyes of Selene."
"Selene?! Who's that?"
"The Dragon God of the Moon. I've never seen anyone else with her eyes. You're the first, Cana."
"Awesome!" I pump my fist.
…
-to be continued