Chapter 4 - Fragments

Heavily breathing, sweating all over her face, Asahi suddenly opened her eyes only to see the familiar ceiling with the lights off, She was surprised she was on her bed. Looking at her balcony she sees Belania sitting and sightseeing the night sky alone. She stands up and walks over her, 

"What are you doing?" Asahi asked

"You're awake?! Gosh you make my heart stop beating for a second! What happened?!" Belania is surprised to know Asahi awakens from her faint.

"Honestly I'm about to ask you the same question, What happened to me?" 

"You suddenly fall after talking with mom, mom said you were freezing for a bit and fainted all of a sudden."

"Ah, I remembered." Asahi closes her eyes."

"Sis, what happened?"

"Mom informed me about Takaya is on the XAG main base and the base are under attack some unknown person, I'm about to go there but mom stopped me because the situation is already under control but,"

"But?"

"Mom showed me the recorded surveillance camera that catches the sight of the attacker, after my head start very heavy and I see some weird images,"

"Images?" Belania asks.

"Yeah, like a memory, but it doesn't belong to me." Asahi responded.

"This is the first time you ever talk about it, You should ask mom about it! I'm calling her!" Belania stands and runs to call her mom.

"Bel- damn she fast."

Asahi is left alone in her room, she then stands and reaches the light switch to turn on the light. She sees her phone and seeing a lot text messages from Ai, when she about to open,

"Asahi," Bella enters her room, "You're awake.."

"Mom, I'm sorry to make you worried, I'm okay now." 

"It's alright, I'm glad nothing serious happened to you." Bella calmly pats Asahi's head. "Your sister tells me everything, is that true?" 

"Yeah It's true," Asahi feels uneasy about what she experienced, "Mom, what happened to me? Why am I seeing those images that are not mine?"

"Huhh…" Bella deeply sighed, "It's about time you know about yourself," she walk the Asahi's desk and turn her computer screen to show her something,

"This is the last examination data that was reported today, as you see that your stats are rising alongside your unique power," she shows another data, "And this is Erisa's- your aunt's data stats that were recorded about a week before her death."

"Why are you showing me this?" She confused,

"As you know that examination process is capturing the strength of physic, durability and agility,"

"Since you have an unique power you can manipulate it and cast a magic like power without the V.D device, you can use it either for defense or attack,"

"A person with that unique power is very rare and that's why XAG managed to make an academy for those who had that ability to train." Bella explained.

"I'm aware of that, but what's the connection with aunt Erisa data?" Asahi asked.

"A person that has a unique power is also related to the strength of ancient warriors that have been reincarnated for the past 5 years until now,"

"That's why XAG conducted the examination to its personnel to allow us to know if the person is the reincarnated ancient warriors,"

"What are you saying?" Asahi is trembling hearing Bella's explanation.

"The first ever reincarnated ancient warriors that XAG made to confirm is The Forgotten, and that person is your aunt, my elder sister Erisa."

"No way!! Why this info never been known?!" Asahi, shocked hearing about her aunt is the first reincarnated ancient warrior ever known.

"It's classified to the academy students and teachers to prevent data leaks, also to protect you from SIN,"

"But since we know about your data, I will tell you the classified information from now on, including Ai and Fukushima," Bella stops for a second to prepare herself to reveal the information, "Asahi, the power of The Forgotten is falls to you now, the signature is identical to Erisa's power and no doubt that you are the next reincarnated warriors,"

"Same for Ai and Fukushima siblings is the reincarnated of The Golden warriors,"

"Wha- mom…" Asahi shocked and loses her balance while Bella tries to bring chair for Asahinto sit.

"I know you're shocked about this but I need you to listen to me very carefully, there's two things I want you to keep in mind,"

"..." Asahi calm herself and try to get herself together, "Alright, tell me…"

"Firstly looking at your data last week and todays is look like your stats is jumps higher and higher, but if you looking at your unique power the stats is ridiculously rising so much higher than before,"

"Same as Erisa's that her power keeps rising each time she done examination, and that explains that your power will rising up each day even if you don't use it,"

"But unfortunately the power you have is different from Ai and Fukushima, their stats rising slower than you and that's why they trained everyday to keep it up,"

"Today's incident on the main base is causing you to faint and apparently you had a vision, I'm pretty sure that was the memory of the past Forgotten warrior that triggered because of you seeing the unknown attacker, and maybe you might see that again in future,"

"By knowing this I hope you are not rely on that power from now on, please use it if you feel necessary or in danger," 

Asahi grabs her mother's hand, "Mom, why do you know what I'm seeing?! What's gonna happen to me if I use this power?! Why do you know this much?!"

"Because I already dealing with a person who had that power," Bella stopped for a moment and stare on Asahi's watering eyes, 

"Erisa, your aunt whom I dealt with 6 years ago is the reason why I know this far, right before and after she got the power she suddenly changed to be another person that I even had to watch over her each day," Bella said.

"What happened to aunt Erisa after she got the power?" Asahi ask.

Bella smiled "You are really though young girl aren't you Asahi," she giggled try to calm Asahi.

Asahi smiled to her "Hehe, Is been a long time we didn't talk this much you know, and knowing this kind of things makes me frightened but also curious, I want to know what happened,"

"And I know you have a strong reason for telling me this because you want to prevent things," Asahi said calmly.

Bella was surprised by her daughter's words.

"It's been a while since I heard that word from someone else, why do you have thoughts?"

"I don't know, I always know you have strong judgment, and you always have that thought." Asahi said that calmly and smiled.

Bella smiles at her and closes her eyes for a moment.

"Mom, tell me what happened to aunt Erisa." Asahi demands her explanation.

Bella sighed, 

"She's changed a lot, right after she received that power her physics are also changed, her hair turns yellow, her eyes turns red, her personality changed from cheerful young lady to be mysteriously scary,"

"She used to be a reasonable but she changed and always rely on power and also drowned on her so called premonition,"

"Premonitions?" Asahi asked.

"She sometimes tells me about it at first, but started to keep it to herself for the rest of her life until her death come,"

"She became obsessed by the power and followed our father ambitions to recreate the ancient warriors and reveal what's is their purpose and why are they vanished,"

"One time we fought and nearly kill each other because of our father obsession to make a promising children's that will have her power, so the power will continue live on even after she's died one day,"

"Supported by her premonition in future there will be 11 humans who inherit the ancients warriors power, and by that she thinks that maybe one of her children, our father and her thinking that only the warriors can defend humanity,"

"But I argued that even after 40.000 years ago until now humans actually evolved and managed to survive, that our fight ending up I managed to open her eyes widely and she gave up about believing that because she felt guilty of making her children suffer as her,"

"She is married to Mayor Takuma and gives birth to 3 children, Vanny, Takaya and Rin, but none of them have her power."

"But mom, Takaya has a unique power even though he managed to achieve his astral armor with D.V!" Asahi said in confusion.

"Things changed 5 years ago, and that was my biggest regret ever in my life." Bella closes her eyes,

"This is probably the beginning of the second thing I want you to know,"

"Our father conducted an experiment on one of the children, to inherit the power of the most wanted ancient warriors that he ever wanted to get, he secretly researching about it found some method that he thinks can forcefully injects the power to humans, called The Light Project."

"There's 3 conditions, 1 it must be the children of reincarnated ancient warriors, 2 is boy and lastly he must have the Fragments or residual ruins of that warrior, and our father has that fragments and Takaya is son of Erisa,"

"The experiment conducted at the main base of XAG and at the same time we have war with another country so I, Erisa and Takuma are leading our battalions on the front line," 

"Our father take the chance and taking Takaya for the experiment, but Erisa was aware about our father's plan so she ask me to follow her back to main base leaving out battalions leading to Takuma," 

"Erisa wants to stop that experiment by sealing her power just like she unleashed a year before when she achieved it, so I gathered all the fragments that I can gather of the 11 ancient warriors to help Erisa with her plan, but things don't go well,"

"While Erisa performed the sealing, the front line needs me back because our situation became dangerous to be there, so Erisa ask me to go back first and she will go there after the power is sealed,"

"After that I don't know what happened when she sealing her power, she came back still having that power and I neve had a chance to ask what happened,"

"She only left me a word to take care of her children, and she died after that incident." Bella stops and sighed while Asahi cries after hearing all of that story.

"If only I was there, I would help her and Takaya, Ai, Fukushima even You don't have to suffered like this,"

"My biggest regret ever haunts me until this day." Bella grab Asahi's hand mourning for her regret.

"I'm sorry mom, I force you to tell this," Asahi cried a lot.

"That's why I'm here because I don't want to regrets things again, that's why I'm being the headmaster because I want to change the outcome, I want to stop it, or maybe it will be you who can stop it or change its way Asahi,"

"I'm not going to ask you to seal or not believing on things like all of this, let's face it, this all are real, the power is here and the power is growing,"

Bella hugs Asahi,

 

"That's why I want to keep 2 things in mind, first no matter how powerful you feel, no matter how big the influence that your power has, you shouldn't sell you fate to that power,"

"You must fight your own power and try to control it! And are free to be who you want to be! Don't stuck in the life of your past reincarnated self, you must find your own way, just like Erisa's did,"

"Even until now I'm believing Erisa did this with reason, don't be carried away by your power!"

"Believe in your own strength!"

"Second, the forced reincarnation that done to Takaya is the center and strongest, he might be key to change this reality,"

"I don't know what else that XAG hides from me about Takaya, but I know one thing, his reincarnated warriors are named,

The Prince of Light."