Mya continued to scream.
She shouted her sister's name repeatedly, as though reciting it would bring Nui back to life, but her voice was hoarse, broken, and tearing itself apart. She continued despite the burning sensation in her throat. She was unable to.
"Nui! Nui!"
Tears streamed down her face as her hands clenched into her hair and her nails dug into her scalp. Her body seemed to have forgotten how to breathe correctly, as her chest ached with each sharp, uneven breath.
"Why…?" she exclaimed, her voice breaking as she spoke.
She gave a fierce shake of her head, as though she could banish the thoughts.
"What went wrong for me?What went wrong...?" Mya broke down in tears.
She got no response from the room.
The weight of everything fell on her at once, causing her small body to tremble and her knees to press into the cold floor. She was just ten. Ten years old. She hadn't lived long enough to comprehend the world, much less the reason it would gradually rob her of everything.
Her voice broke entirely as she whispered, "I'm still a kid,I am still ten years old."
As she struggled to understand how the world could be this harsh, this unjust, and this final, her voice broke into nothing and turned into choking sobs.
With her tiny fists thudding feebly against the ground, she exclaimed, "Why?Why did you take them away from me?"
Shuren stood quietly a short distance away. Grief was nothing new to her. She had witnessed it decompose people into corpses or weapons. Normally, she would have waited for it to finish.
Mya's body had a slight blue glimmer. It responded directly to her distress, leaking out in wild, trembling waves. As though reality itself were flinching, the air around the child started to warp and bend a little.
"Shit."Shuren muttered.
Like mist attracted to a flame, the energy grew thicker and crawled over Mya's skin. It grew stronger every time she screamed at the world, pulsing in time with her sobs.
Mya sobbed, "Why did you take my family?" "What did I do?"
Shuren moved at once. She took a single step across the room, abruptly picked Mya up, and turned abruptly toward the door. She moved with urgency rather than hesitation.
Mya was thrown out of the mansion by her.
Mya hit the ground outside, skidding a little as the blue energy flared brighter around her, before Assad and Taura could even react.
"What are you doing, Shuren?" Taura yelled and hurried ahead.
Mya's voice broke entirely as she screamed once more.
With tears running down her cheeks, she exclaimed, "There's nothing left for me!" "Please just take me away so I can be with them."
Outward, the blue energy exploded.
Instead of exploding violently, it grew, engulfing her in a flash of light that made Taura and Assad cover their eyes. The aura surged, unsteady and uncontrolled, and the ground shook slightly beneath them.
Shuren's jacket fluttered in the backlash as she stood in the doorway, staring at the child.
She clenched her jaw.
"Damn it, her emotions are piling up.Of all things… she was awakening as a true failure."She muttered.
Taura's eyes froze, her gaze snapping back to Shuren, disbelief piercing the fear on her face.
"Wait, are you serious?" she demanded. "You're saying she's awakening? A true failure?"
Her voice fell, trembling. "What the hell happened there?!"
The blue energy pulsed once more, waves of instability radiating outward. The earth beneath Mya trembled, hair and clothes being lifted as if caught in a rising tide. Her sobs had become erratic, interspersed with shattered gasps as the energy reacted to every shred of despair she felt.
Shuren did not look away from Mya.
"No time for explanations," she said flatly.
She fully emerged now, positioning herself between Mya and the mansion, her presence resolute and deliberate. Her threads quivered faintly at her back, reacting to the energy in the air.
"If we don't stabilize her now," "she won't survive the awakening. "Shuren said, her voice cutting.
Assad froze for half a second longer.
He watched Shuren intently, her stance rigid, her eyes fixed on Mya as if she were gazing down the barrel of a ticking bomb instead of a grieving child. None of this made any sense to him true failure, awakening, stabilization, but the tension in the air told him one thing definitively.
This was not the time to ask questions.
Shuren spoke again, her tone crisp this time.
"Both of you. Go hold her steady."
Taura didn't wait. She acted the moment the words were out of Shuren's mouth, charging towards Mya despite the furious blue energy surrounding her.
The energy pushed against her, pulling at her clothes and her hair, but she gritted her teeth and pushed through, dropping to her knees beside the girl.
"Mya...hey...listen to me. You're not alone, okay?"Taura said, throwing her arms around the girl's shoulders to hold her back from falling forward.
Assad swallowed hard.
Every fiber in his body screamed at him to demand answers to ask what Shuren meant, what had happened in the mansion, what exactly Mya was becoming. But another wave of power radiated out, and Mya let out another cry, her body shaking violently in Taura's grasp.
Assad gritted his teeth.
Later, he told himself. If there is a later.
Sliding down to Mya's other side, he supported her carefully, laying a firm hand on her back, anchoring her so she wouldn't be tossed about by her own power. The energy slammed into him like a hurricane, biting cold and sharp, but he didn't flinch.
Mya's crying hitched into ragged gasps.
"I can't...stop it!" she wailed.
Assad spoke softly, trying to calm into his voice even as his heart was racing.
"Hey. Just breathe. We've got you. You're safe."
Shuren didnt waver. She reached into her jacket and pulled out one single bullet that was different from the other ones. The casing had engravings with thin, clean lines and the metal was light rather than dark.
From her palm flowed the White Kensei.
It was like a liquid light that entered and filled the bullets grooves until the engravings started to glow softly while the force was humming in a gated manner.
Almost instantly, the pressure around them changed, the kinetically blue cord of energy around Mya reacted by recoiling, becoming more chaotic, like it was aware of being naturally countered.
Shuren lifted the firearm.
She didn't change her aim, it was still directly at Mya.
The blue energy responded like an angry wild animal. It spread itself in a huge passionate wave trying to protect itself. Mya only cried again, tears were her only expression as her hands covered her face and her whole body trembled.
Despite all that Shuren's voice was heard like a needle in a haystack calm, clear, certain.
"Go to rest."