I went back into cas because I was looking at the pictures and something about Luna's skin and overlay wasn't convincing me... WELL.... GUYS LOOK, this is her final form. And listen, LISTEN, her name is Luna, right? It means Moon, right? SO IT MAKES SENSE
I also think she looks more like Stela this way.
And, of course, a close-up
I love her. I need to take all of the family pictures again lol
CWs: Blood, implied torture & captivity, some nasty descriptions maybe?
Luna didn’t believe what was in front of her, at first.
The muffled voices of Arielle, Lali and Lis barely made it to her ears, as if they were stuffed by water, and all she could make out was that they were worried and rushed and panicked.
Not at her, though.
She fell to her knees.
Kaiki was there. They’d found him. They’d finally found him.
But he wasn’t right. He was sitting down with his arms hanging over his head, by... chains? His bleached blond hair was falling in front of his face, loose and stiff and soaked. It was dark at the roots. It was also dark at the tips. Kaiki didn’t seem to recognize them. He had a vacant look on his face.
And he was soaked in blood.
Luna moved her hand in front of her mouth to avoid throwing up. Was that all his own? No. That couldn’t be. His chest was bare, and his skin was crossed by scars. There were large ones. Small ones. Luna thought one of them looked like a heart. Some of them had spiky edges. They were over his ribs. Over his lungs. They went up all the way over his neck. There was a big one on his throat. There was also a huge, wide hole where his gut should be. She could see some bones. And flesh. And lots of red. Like some dead deer she’d seen in cartoons.
But it wasn’t a deer. That was her brother.
No, it couldn’t—that couldn’t be true. Luna choked out a sob. And then, right before her eyes, it was like time was retreating and making the flesh piece itself together. Regenerating. More blood appeared. Kaiki coughed and some dripped from his mouth. When she dropped her gaze to it again, his belly wasn’t that much of a hole anymore.
Luna stayed there, mouth fallen open, knelt down and unable to fix her gaze in any other direction.
That had to be some sort of nightmare.
“-na. Luna!” Someone yelled in her ear. Luna winced and looked their way.
Lis was shaking her by the shoulders.
“Luna, you have to get a hold of yourself! Kaiki needs you. We need you awake. Do not faint on me right now. Are you hearing me?”
She slowly nodded.
“She’s too out of it!” Arielle screamed from far, far away. “Lali, help me break those chains. We need to get out of here!”
With a loud clang, her brother’s arms fell limp and he falled forward. Lali’s big figure catched him. He was shaking as he carried him up.
Oh, yeah. Up. She needed to get up.
They needed to get out.
They had Kaiki now.
Luna’s lungs filled themselves with air, and she felt like she’d been holding her breath. Everyone’s voices and all the noise that wasn’t making into her ears until now flooded her senses, and then a strong smell of blood reached her nostrils as well. She covered her nose with a hand and got up.
“Here,” Luna whispered—okay. She didn’t mean for her voice to come out that low—, running to Lali, who was having a hard time taking cuffs out of Kai’s hands with his own hands busy holding him up. “Lemme do this one.” Before he could retort with something like get off, I can do it on my own, she clenched her hand around the little bag of sand in her pocket and conjured up enough energy to break them. The metal cracked, and then fell split open.
“Guards are coming!” Lis said from the door. Arielle had moved to her side as well, to help Lis in guarding it. “Luna needs to open up the way, now.”
“Don’t we need to—to heal him or something?” She asked, looking down at Kai. His eyes were not closed, but he didn’t look like he was seeing anything in front of him. And now that she was near, she could also hear the sickly drip, drip, drip of his blood falling on the stone floor. She tried to prevent her eyes from tearing up.
“He’ll—” Arielle cut themself, face contorted as if they’d eaten a lemon or were trying not to cry. “He’ll heal on his own. Rush.”
Luna unclenched her fists—she hadn’t even noticed she was clenching them—and nodded. That was probably true.
The huge gape below his chest, she noticed, was smaller now than when they’d arrived.
“Okay.” She said. “Cover your ears!”
Luna grabbed her bag of earth and casted the magic that flowed through her veins. Concentrate it. She remembered. Move it where you want it to go. When it’s where you want it, hold it on.
She pointed her fingers like a gun towards the wall—she didn’t recall it very well, but according to the blueprints they’d gone over, the labyrinth they were gonna take on the way out was somewhere in that direction.
Luna breathed in, hand shaky.
Let it out.
A burst of light, and then a loud explosion. The wall burst open. Lali coughed behind her, and the dust also made its way into her eyes.
“Let’s go!” She yelled out to Lis and Ari, scrubbing them with the palm of her hand. They took their eyes out of the corridor, looking over to her, and nodded.
Arielle ran towards the hole in the wall to lead the way in front of Lis, who was anxiously looking out to see if they weren’t being followed.
Luna rushed behind Ari. She was the second in their formation. Her job was to help clear the way.
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Kaiki had been drifting in and out of consciousness for a while. He felt heavy. The blood on his mouth was dry. It wasn’t as dark as it was supposed to be.
Had Alvaro planned something with fire again? He forced his eyes shut. Please, no. He still wasn’t healed from the—no. Do not think about it.
But... something was wrong. He wasn’t in his cell. His arms were tucked over him. He remembered being left chained to the wall. Kaiki felt himself being moved up and now as if he was riding a bike. Was he moving? Now that he noticed it, his feet were also not touching the ground. Weird. He opened his eyes again.
It took a few seconds for Kaiki’s eyes to process the input they were receiving now.
But when they did, he was knocked out of his breath.
A cloaked and hooded figure had finally arrived. She arrived to the area where her teacher told her to go. To investigate the strange activities going on around here. She had no problem accepting this job, since it meant she was going to finally get her chance to shine.
She begins stretching her arms, legs, and soon runs...in a bright green light as she runs so fast that she appeared as a blur to anyone who she passes by. She soon arrives to the top of the mountain and begins looking around to find anything...suspicious.
“And if I happen to find something suspicious, then I can take care of it. I know Barry told me to call him instead, but I’m sure I can handle it,” said the stranger as she spoke to herself.
