A day passed...
Shirogane Sasine is still unconscious.
Gake village is in a endless state of chaos.
And there has been zero signs of the Red empire.
No one had answers but everyone had questions.
And as all the villagers rushed to their elder..., they were all refused the right to visit him, their own leader.
Their voices and cries for help were left unanswered.
Although the village was now free, that freedom came with a great cost.
The death of Pairo and the destruction of the elder's spirit.
Chorite became terrified which grew into horror as the reality set in.
The reality that he has lost everything that made him special, his enhancements have been taken away and in place was weakness.
Inside Ember's forge...
Chorite refused reality, stepping towards the door breaking his new limits set upon him by the late Tantrum.
"You can't leave yet, we still don't have anyone to heal you completely yet" Chi pulled his hand on Chorite's shoulder, hoping to bring some sense to his leader.
But...
Chorite's blood began to boil, in which Arge backed his brother up.
"I don't care..., if i don't face my subjects now then the village will be swarmed in chaos" Chorite shoved Chi and Arge to the ground.
Blood spilled from Chorite's joints as he placed his hand upon the exit.
Stepping in a pool of his own blood, Chorite pushed his hand upon the door but it didn't move an inch.
"If you go out now..., they will see how weak you are and..." Yari grasped a hold of her flarite spear.
"And that would bring even more chaos, some may even rise against you" Yari guarded the door, raising her spear to block Chorite's path.
"You're only alive now thanks to the meteorite scrap holding you together, but look at you, you can barely move never mind lead a community" Yari crushed Chorite's soul with words alone.
Chorite was rushed to treatment whilst Shirogane fought against Tantrum, but even with their haste Chi and Arge failed.
And thanks to their failure Chorite can only move his arm joints and lower leg joints upto twenty five percent of the normal amount.
But they managed to save their elder by giving his body meteorite enhancements in place of his flarite enhancements, but they only serve as place holders.
As they all hope one day they may find a person capable of healing him...
And as Chorite backed off, Yari's guard began to crumble down.
In which Chorite raised his right arm up into the air dangling it above Yari's head.
Chorite's arm was sent crashing down upon Yari.
But Chorite barged through her before his arm could make contact.
And in his assault Chorite shattered the door of Ember's forge while also knocking the young ember unconscious.
"They are my subjects..., so I decide what is best for the village" Chorite stepped over Yari and into the view of the whole village.
Every single Martion who called Gake village their home had gathered at the door step of Ember's forge.
And once they could see Chorite their elder, the villagers were sent into a frenzy.
Without any control, fire and energy swarmed the sky above them all.
"We tried to warn you, Chorite you cant face them as you are" Chi appeared behind his elder.
Arge took care of Yari, helping her to stand before her people.
Meanwhile at the gates of Gake village...
Hikaru stood awaiting his ally's recovery, but in his patience came Flair.
"Hey you said ill never know my true potential unless I train, so help train me" the young prodigy begged.
"Why me?" Hikaru looked across to the girl before him, an unlikely ally.
"Because you were a prodigy just like me and yet you trained yourself to become more then that, so i wish to become more then what i am too" Flair answered her face stuck in constant excitement.
But before Hikaru could answer an explosion of black chaos energy erupted from Ember's forge.
And secondly came an explosion of fire and then more black chaos energy and once again fire.
It's a constant cycle.
And the birth place of this chaos is Ember's forge.
With this sudden eruption Hikaru knew that Flair would have to wait.
And with that in mind Hikaru vanished....
Heading further into the village.
And upon his arrival the warrior learned just what fear could do to a person.
Villagers were dead, their bodies mangled, torn and scorched.
The surrounding area was set a blaze with smoke turning the blood orange sky pitch black.
The forge brothers laid unconscious upon the burning ground.
And as for Yari she was in the clutch of her elder, being starved of oxygen.
Drenched in his own blood Chorite tore his own body apart to move his limbs as if his injuries had never happened.
Hikaru grasped hold of his blackite dagger, rippling energy through the blade.
And in the same second he vanished.
His dagger appearing before him, directly in Chorite's spine.
And as the energy ran its course through the dagger, the blackite exploded furthering Chorite's injuries.
Looking upon the crater made on Chorite's back, Hikaru appeared just in front of the Furea elder.
"I never expected for you to turn out this way, you had issues but your strength was respectable so tell me what broke you?" Hikaru's dagger returned to his hand allowing for Hikaru to disappear once again.
"I've been made weaker and that means that my people are an even greater target, all you and that demonic warrior have done is made the unfortunate life we had turn to a hellish one, one that Gake village will not survive" Chorite raised his arms into the air, creating a pool of crimson below his feet.
And as Chorite raised his arms, Hikaru appeared from the shadows slitting Chorite's elbow joints.
Or at least Hikaru attempted too.
"These injuries may have made me a weaker fighter but my defence has only improved thanks to the meteorite" Chorite grasped hold of Hikaru's wrist, smashing him against the smouldering ground.
The slender warrior didn't flinch even in the face of this horrific slaughter and his approaching death.
"If I fail here then Shirogane dies too" Hikaru thought to himself while creating a dagger of raw zeon energy.
Both daggers in hand, Hikaru dashed forwards.
Running into a blitz of motions, paired with physical mirages in which created an army of assassins.
One that the broken brute could not hope to beat.
Chorite smashed through each and every mirage created by his opponent but in this he became single minded, focused on them and them alone.
Taking advantage of his opponent's tunnel vision Hikaru approached the crater.
Daggers in hand the young Zeon pierced the crater, grazing Chorite's lungs.
And as the raw dagger faded away Hikaru dragged his fist back, infusing it with dominant energy.
And once the infusion was complete Hikaru rammed his fist straight into the heavily breathing monster.
As Chorite was lifted off his feet sent into the rubble of Ember's forge, Hikaru created yet another dagger.
"You think too little of me Zeon" Chorite dragged his body across the ground, blood spilling out with each step.
But his efforts were rewarded.
The Furea elder pushed the rubble of Ember's forge to the side, revealing flarite weapons.
Chorite dragged these weapons up to his chest, almost as if he is cuddling them.
Chorite twisted his body to face his assassin.
And once Hikaru was in sight, Chorite launched a blazing spear straight towards Hikaru.
But this was only the start...
With Hikaru distracted Chorite launched himself into the air, a axe in his right hand and a war axe in his left.
But as the elder soared through the sky, blood rained upon the battlefield.
Hikaru dodged the spear allowing it to incinerate the dead.
Making his descent Chorite crashed down, the blade of his axe slicing through Hikaru's chest.
Hikaru being the prodigy he is, showed to fear to death.
A physical mirage appeared and threw a dominant fist towards Chorite but it was met with failure.
And in Hikaru's failure came Chorite's fatal strike.
Chorite lifted his war axe blazing with fire into the air, preparing to strike Hikaru down permanently.
In which Hikaru gave a response, entering the form cloaked with thunder but only for a slight second. As Hikaru also used the move vibration release at the exact moment of entering the form.
The shockwaves of thunder blew Chorite into the blood orange sky.
Allowing Hikaru to breath freely once again.
But as Hikaru began to stand, his legs crumbled dropping him to the scorching ground.
Leaving Chorite to be the victor of this fight.
Yari rose up, appearing out of no where.
Her spear of flarite burning brighter then ever, almost as if it was the torch of a new age.
Yari is a specialised Martion, most of the universe's population are born somewhat different from the normal, such as an extra twenty percent in strength or maybe the opposite.
But Yari is a rarer case, her specialised traits are not so subtle.
Yari was born without the ability to use energy, but in paying that cost her physical attributes were doubled.
And furthermore she can increase her physical attributes past the natural limit.
But in a universe full of energy what could she possibly achieve.
"Ultimate move: new light" Yari called out as she threw her spear flying towards her elder.
The spear's tip cracked creating a flame that burned hotter then the sun.
But that wasn't even its' most impressive feature as the air began to steam up around it blocking all from knowing the spear's true location.
And while Chorite wished this was all he had to deal with he faced even more, as the spear incinerated the ground and rubble beneath.
Even the corpses turned to ash.
And as it travelled further a wall of fire was left in its path.
"You're finished!, Chorite..., my elder you have served us well but if we are to move past our enslavement we must move past you as well" Yari gave her statement whilst she felt exhaustion overwhelm her body.
And only a few moments later she collapsed to her knees.
And as she collapsed her spear turned into a inferno, a hive of flames.
The spear of flames smashed against Chorite's broken, blood drenched body.
Burning, no Incinerating Chorite, the Furea elder, the flarite monster but all he is now is just ash in the wind.
"You killed him, I didn't expect that of you Yari" Hikaru collapsed beside his ally.
"Well I meant what I said, to move on we must move on from Chorite..., all he knew was enslavement but we must now learn to have freedom" Yari replied looking upon the destruction in which Chorite caused.