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“Shadow is not the absence of light. It is its reflection, twisted and set free.”
The Moon trembled that night — not from war, nor eclipse, but from the return of something long buried.
In the Lunar Abyss, beyond the vault Suisei once broke, the veil tore open with a soundless cry. And from that wound in space stepped Getsu — reborn, fully awakened, cloaked in living shadow.
Her hair flowed like black mist, her eyes mirrors of the void. Where Tsuki was moonlight, Getsu was the eclipse incarnate. She walked barefoot across sacred marble, the corrupted moon spirits swirling around her like mist, their celestial forms now twisted, broken, beautiful in their ruin.
“It’s been a long sleep,” she whispered, touching the etched stone walls. “But the Moon has never stopped calling to me… or fearing me.”
The palace bells rang — not in celebration, but in warning. Hoshi arrived first, heart pounding, scrolls falling from his grip. His constellation mark burned on his skin.
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“Hoshi,” she smiled darkly. “Still pretending to be just her guardian? Or have you told her who you really are?”
His blade glowed with starlight. “I came to protect Tsuki. I’ll die doing so if I must.”
“Then die,” Getsu hissed, and with a wave of her hand, shadows surged.
Their battle was brief, brutal. Moon spirits turned into sickle-sharp tendrils. Hoshi fought valiantly, but she was no longer a memory — she was power incarnate.
A final blast of shadow pinned Hoshi to the wall, his blood a dark smear on sacred ground.
Tsuki arrived moments too late.
She gasped — not from fear, but from recognition.
Getsu looked like her. Exactly like her.
“Who… are you?” Tsuki whispered.
Getsu stepped closer, unafraid. “I am what was taken from you. Your mirror. Your silence. Your rebellion. I am your twin, Tsuki — born in the same breath, torn from the same prophecy.”
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“You know I’m not.”
And then she said it — the words Tsuki had read in Kanji’s scrolls, the words whispered in her visions:
“The light split in two shall choose either ruin or rebirth.”
Getsu extended her hand.
“Embrace the eclipse, sister. Together, we can tear down the heavens that chained us. We can rule not just the Moon — but all of existence. Or…”
The shadows sharpened.
“You can die, just another pawn of light.”
Tsuki looked from Hoshi’s broken form to Getsu’s blazing eyes.
She did not answer — but her hands began to glow, moonlight crackling like ice.
“I choose neither ruin… nor surrender.”
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And the Moon would never be the same.
