Full Moon Rising

**Full Moon Rising** is a Story Arc of the Exteria Multiverse. It takes place in Interra and follows the perspective of Lunarean barbarian Regulus. It acts as a partial continuity to The Binding of Enoch.

## Main Arc

### Moonlit Dreams

Regulus's first memories are hazy - wilderness, the hunt, and the pull of the moon, that is all he can remember. Taken in by a militaristic group meant to hunt mysterious, dark monsters, the feral young boy is put into a group with the innocent Aiko, the distant Gauthiere Den Anfan, and the poetic Eliondra. Together, as team RAGE, they fight alongside other teams, such as the underestimated team JUNK, and the elite team HOPE recursively named by star hunter Hope, who forms a close bond with Regulus.

Despite Regulus engaging in the thrill of the hunt, memories of his actual aim and desires remain vague, even as he believes the world to be changing. Attacked by a monstrous team, Team BAD, team RAGE escapes towards Gauthiere's mansion, where they are hostilely greeted by Gauthiere's sister Victoria Den Anfan. During that time, Eliondra also seems to have disappeared, with other members of team RAG having no memories of her, further confusing Regulus.

An apparition of Team BAD, pulling the strings and attempting to assassinate the mansion's leaders, and the reveal of the mastermind behind the monsters, Leptys Horenheim, further complicate things. Despite Regulus attempting to protect the mansion, he is overwhelmed by the monsters and the powerful foes, with his teammates unable to help him. At that moment Eliondra appears, asking of Regulus to keep going on, without despair - and at that moment, Regulus wakes up.

### The Collapsing World

Regulus wakes up surrounded by Gauthiere and Ai. The previous episodes are revealed to be dreams, fragments of chaotic memories and symbolic trauma. Regulus is in fact an experiment subject in 2018 Earth, whose brain was studied to its limit by Leptys. Gauthiere and Ai, who had discovered his agonizing body, had in fact nursed in back to life, telling him stories in order to keep his brain stimulated during his coma. However, Regulus refuses to believe this, claiming that members of HOPE and JUNK exist as well.

However, Regulus's reeducation is cut short by a cataclysmic event: as the world reshapes to its idealized version, civilisation at is it known is destroyed in a catastrophic transformation of the world. As this happens, Regulus, however, is pulled towards ancient technology, allowing him to transport himself, Ai, Gauthiere, and VIctoria who has joined them to the Moon, in Lunarean palaces - now devoid of life. There, part of Regulus's repressed memories return to him, as a Lunarean in exile, one of the last of his kind.

### Wandering in White

With humanity and Lunareans almost extinct, Regulus keeps holding on to the notion that his dreams were more than dreams. This is confirmed as, when returning to Earth after the calamity, Regulus finds the bodies of Team JUNK - Bestians heavily experimented on by Leptys and left barely conscious - under the rubble of Leptys's laboratory. Using Lunarean technology and Den Anfan expertise, Regulus manages to restore them to life, albeit barely.

Regulus's journey continue; during his exploration, briefly helped by Silver Noachia who has temporarily been exiled to this world, he finds Pamella, a member of HOPE who has been heavily mutated by the world's transfiguration, her love for perfume and flowers turning her into a nymph-like creature; although she is tied to the world, Regulus manages to make her overcome the transformation and join him. When he asks her Hope's whereabouts, Pamella claims to be part of Hope herself, a personality given form due to the world's whims.

### Gathering Pieces

Learning that, Regulus endeavors to look for the last missing pieces, journeying with members of JUNK. With Koala, he encounters Orisa, another part of Hope, now become an avatar of gluttony and whimsy, who attempts to brutally subjugate him. With Noemia, he locates a place infected with a grim corruption, releases Leptys's corpse-like body from it - revealing the scientist to have succumbed to her own research, and faces off against team BAD, subjugating Bestil, Alama and Dardanime, freeing them from Leptys's corrupting influence.

With Utalla, Regulus manages to find the last member of Hope, Esbella, in her chessboard world, and earns her respect through kindness and determination alike. As Hope can be pieced together once more, Regulus travels with Jem until he reaches a mysterious cottage, untouched by the world's transformation. Itt houses Eliondra, who claims to have overseen Regulus's story. As Eliondra apologizes for Regulus's wanderings and claims she could not give it meaning, Regulus denies this, content with what he has lived, finding his path to have meaning enough, and only asks of a surprised Eliondra to follow him, back to the Moon, which she accepts.

## Characters

### Team RAGE

* Regulus
* Aiko "Ai"
* Gauthiere Den Anfan
* Eliondra

### Team HOPE

* Hope
* Orisa
* Pamella
* Esbella

### Team JUNK

* Jem
* Utalla
* Noemia
* Koala

### Team BAD

* Bestil
* Alama
* Dardanime

### Others

* Leptys Horenheim
* Victoria Den Anfan

## Trivia

* This storyline intersects with Leightown Cold Case.