Azure Luna/Character Story

## Backstory

##### Birth

At the start of the 22nd century— when the age of nuclear holocaust has reached its conclusion— Azure Luna was born; created by a group of bioengineers, with their head only known by the epithet: "Hermit King."

They were notorious for their top-secret work and had acclaimed tons of recognition from Tech Awards countless times. They were successful enough studying biology for almost a millennia; having been passed on to the latest generation to conjure up their very first successful product.

Azure was taught the basics of every subject: from elementary to senior high to college in a matter of months, learning all there is to know about Earth and its inhabitants. Upon monitoring her initial remarks on humanity, she considered them as "strange", and that "they belong somewhere better"— something which her creator was slightly bemused about.

Whenever she was unable to follow certain orders, however, they would evaluate her behavior before performing said erroneous actions, and begin asking questions about what Azure had felt.

Although most of these tests were about knowing the human body— specifically sexual intercourse— and considering her body type having implemented asexual reproduction, she is required to experience varying degrees of emotion: from positive ones such as happiness to negative types such as sadness; all of them recorded to see how would she react to certain stimuli.

Several years later, Azure had improved on her psychological evaluations and tests. She was acknowledged by other people unsuspecting of her true identity and goes as far as to have an intimate relationship with them, forming many friendly bonds throughout the years.

Up until this point, Azure has encountered various individuals, such as men, women, and children, whom she openly interacts with. Though of they are initially turned off by her presence, considering her an anomaly or an ancient being, some are curious as to why she acts the way she does, to which she answers that it has something to do with her "history".

As Azure looks further into the new days passing by, she sought peace and communication. The cold breeze of serenity blew through her hair, the sweet scent of calmness in her eyes. And yet, the night gets darker each day that passes by.....

### Red Plague

Nearing the end of the 22nd century, a discovery of an unused bioweapon from Japan had gone off, which led to multiple conflicts happening worldwide.

Mass panic and prejudice began as the world once again descend into a darker age of war. Health had been taken for granted in this age and now it was imperative to maintain control and prevent the spread of this unknown disease. Presidents and politicians from all around the world try to resolve the crisis but to no avail. Cities around the world were evacuated and officials tried to maintain order, using quarantine stations to contain people who came in contact with the disease.

Tensions grew between the nations as the outbreak spread, and trading plummeted to the ground. As usual in times of strife, greed and violence come to the fore, and Azure, found herself caught in the crossfire. She had fled from her so-called Elysium in search of refuge but had found herself alone in a strange city in Greece, torn apart by two countries fighting over it.

Though she doubted she would be alive, she nonetheless attempted to escape, trying to contact Hermit King but is left with an eerie whirring noise, indicating that they weren't responding.

She was confused, frightened, and had no clue as to what was going on. She sought solace from those that she trusted yet felt distant from those who raised her. Finding an abandoned warehouse, Azure would remain there for a couple of weeks, with rations found from a convenience store that'd last for about a few months. Her desire for safety had led her to be falling out from the teachings her creators had taught her, but that didn’t stop her feelings of guilt and loyalty to them, Azure found herself drawn to them still.

They were the ones that she found herself drawn to the most. She understood what had drawn her to them, but felt like they were the best that she only had. Some people who were associated with the Hermit King would visit her site once in a while to see what her condition was. And they would chat with her for a while then leave.

Frequently, they never took her with them to their respective labs, so it was a mystery as to what was going on inside. However, Azure was somewhat awake to know that they had tried to do a bunch of things: from implanting cybernetic weaponry to going as far as to copy her DNA to create a backup in case she dies. It was Azure's curiosity that led her to explore and learn what she could. But whenever she found it out, her memories would be wiped and her clones would be killed in the process. The only reason why she's able to retain her memories was due to creating a backup for herself— an act of self-preservation.

For once, she felt sympathy towards living creatures, especially since they were so helpless just like her, only used as tools just to be replaced whenever they serve no purpose.

Her desire to learn things that might help her live and avoid harm resulted in watching people she came across suffer. Azure had only known very little about the "real" world, grounded and secluded from the rest, so she had a hard time believing that events like these would indeed occur.

In a combat-related test, where she was tasked with defending herself whilst escorting a person, she was presented with multiple fake corpses lying on the ground, which a group of paid actors would assume to be terrorists about to engage them in a shootout. However, she was shown to be terrified and hid behind the escort, who got shot in multiple parts of their body. As a result, she ran away from the testing area and returned to her site, swallowing the guilt of her cowardice.

She knows it isn’t the first time this had happened, yet, she couldn’t deny that in many cases, she was the only one there to save them.

Whenever she was asked why she didn't, Azure would often respond in some variation of her old answer. “I just don’t want to die,” Azure would say.

She would remind herself of this, even as it gave her a cramp in her throat whenever she said it. But she knew that for a large part, she wasn’t telling the whole truth. Azure knew there was a reason she felt such a strong need to be free from the confines of the social norms that so dominated the world, and yet a small part of her felt that she should remain to make sure that the rest of the world didn’t kill itself. No matter how hard Azure tried to find a place for herself, she just couldn’t get away from it.

She had come so far from her origins as a fragile shell that her creator had made her and it was just impossible for her to escape the path she was born into. Azure had been tasked to evaluate all people who came into contact with her. However, she had come to accept her assignment as a simple burden to be endured. She thinks that if she was given another chance at life, would she even be successful? Knowing full well of her incompetence to deal with a simple task, could she do it?

She didn’t think about it much, it was already too much for her poor mind to bear. She’d prefer to sleep it off rather than contemplate all these things, knowing full well it would bring her more stress.

### Fauna's Talionis

Centuries passed and super volcanoes have begun their vengeance on mankind. One of the largest is Yellowstone, which has erupted 50 times in its 4.5 million-year history.

Millions of people have been killed by this disaster, with many more suffering life-changing injuries. Although less destructive than global megafloods, supervolcanoes are still capable of killing millions. People ran but are met with the disgusting fate of being consumed by the flames that once tamed, yet now unleashing their quelling anger toward its inhabitants.

There are no signs that these forces will cease their merciless rampage, even if humanity does manage to avert a full-scale disaster.

That was it, the end of humanity.

Arrogant, pitiful, and stupid, they try to seek godly power only to end up woken by the truths of the world. People gather and lay their heads in hopes of better days, but they will always be doomed to lose as long as the forces of nature can still rage. They were all so hopeless, looking for nothing in the vast darkness of the universe, forgetting that their life is but a speck amongst the infinite sand.

Rather than hope, humanity chooses destruction. Humanity became blind to the solutions that life has to offer, and despite its warning, humans disgraced what once was the haven they reside in.

As Azure watches in the horror of her world, she feels an ache in her stomach, trembling as she clutches her chest and holds it tight. She was back from the facility with mold spreading throughout the equipment, witnessing all of the destruction from multiple cameras laid out in a spherical fashion for her to see everything. She was taken aback by the wonderful short-lived memories, slowly feeling numb as the world she was tasked with protecting- a world she was responsible for keeping together- falters and disappears, never to be recovered again.

With her friends long dead and her creators still gone, she has nothing left to defend. Her life has led to a treacherous path of disasters ever since she was raised and born in this world as if her mere existence brought doom to humankind. She longs to be free, but where is the path to freedom? She only knew how to run.

So she tries to find a plane and escape from there.

Soon, she finds an unused space shuttle but is stopped by a group of people dressed in camo uniforms.

Soldiers aboard a plane stopped her from riding the ship and approached her with the intent to kill.

“Hands behind your back miss," they said, pointing their guns at her.

“No, I'm not a terrorist," she said, clenching her chest and trembling. “I don't want to die."

“You will die if you don't get off the ship," one soldier said.

In Azure's mind, she was hesitant to kill. She has never killed anyone before. As much as it crossed her mind, thousands upon thousands of thoughts pile up. Should I kill them? Or should I not? Why should I, when we can talk it through? They are just strangers, they’re no different than those terrorists from before, why should I care if they die?

So on and so forth, these things felt unnecessary but at the same time, it is. Would she rather sacrifice her responsibility just to survive a world she served no contribution? Or would she let herself get killed by these strangers?

Slowly, her hand stopped shaking, and her legs weren’t quivering in fear as much…

It was a strange feeling, but one she is familiar with.

Back then, she was given anti-depressants

to prevent herself from getting scared and had attempts at modifying her attitude, just in case she got into trouble. To them, they were simply patching up some “abnormalities” in a system, disregarding her completely and marginalizing all the subsidies she had given to them.

For the first time, she had felt anger. Anger that she wasn’t even treated as a human, but acceptance of the outcome that she will be made better. There was nothing that she could do to stop it, she had no choice but to follow through.

Scared as she is now, she can’t run away. Indeed, she can’t bring herself to kill people. But for the sake of living, she needed to fight. Not because these soldiers had done anything specifically wrong to her nor because of her responsibility to do so. If she failed to protect this world, some other iteration of Azure would.

The world is simply that cruel….

Azure deliberately raised her hands to show a sign of surrender, but an outline begins to form on her elbow and unveils an array of mechanisms. The soldiers weren't fazed by this, however, and trained their aim right at her head with a laser pointed at it, their grip unwavered. With each second that passes by, the soldiers took a step forward and slowly surround her.

Silence fills the area as both parties are about to engage: Azure's winning condition is to get close whilst the soldiers simply have to keep their distance away from the woman and unload their projectiles…

A small leaf slowly fell to the ground, but it felt like time slows down for them. People running seemed like they were frozen in ice, and the rocks thrown out of the super volcanoes seemed suspended in time. And as the leaf was about to fall, it made a soft crunching sound.

Azure charges to the side of a pillar and jumped off to get closer to the shuttle as she threw the sword accurately at one soldier, who died out of bleeding. The others hurriedly rushed together to her last location where they were met near the shuttle. As she tried to escape, a volley of plasma bullets shot out from their rifles but managed to deflect them quite easily.

In most cases, a human should've died in mere seconds after being blasted with those guns. And with the passing of technology, humans have made weapons that far surpassed that of the 21st: Plasma Rifles, High-Velocity Bullets, and Laser Swords have been able to incinerate islands with ease, with such energy output capable of piercing through any defense.

But Hermit King's work wasn't in vain. The main mechanic for these weapons is the use of all types of energy: chemical, electrical, radiant, mechanical, thermal, and nuclear. In other research, there are additional forms mentioned such as electrochemical, sound, electromagnetic, and others. However, many additional forms are combinations of these six basic categories. And since they work within the confines of Earth, that became their flaw.

What the Hermit sought in their research is to utilize the concept of Quantum Mechanics and venture into its limits such as "Artificial Creation"- a field of research that studies the primary synthesis of complex lifelike structures from primordial lifeless origins. With the modification of DNA, organs, and the consciousness of a soul all culminated into a single thing- Azure.

Azure dashes toward a soldier and thrusts her sword through them and brings it to the top of their head, slicing them in half. As the soldiers withdraw themselves to gain an advantage, she has no other choice but to flee, otherwise, she would get shot if she tried closing in the distance. Instead, she flees to the entrance of the shuttle, with the soldiers giving chase.

Running up the stairs, she felt drowsy and dreadful, her breaths were deep and shaky. She knew that it was all but an act, a facade to keep herself in check. It may be due to her lack of will that she couldn’t bring herself to do the deed.

Boarding the ship, it launches into the skies. She watches from the porthole and envisages how would she live a life without her creator, never thinking that her life would become so miserable all because she was brought upon this world

### Outside Intervention

According to science, The Fermi Paradox seeks to answer the question of where the aliens are.

Given that our solar system is relatively young compared to the rest of the universe — roughly 4.5 billion years old, compared to 13.8 billion — and that interstellar travel might be fairly easy to achieve given enough time, Earth should have been visited by aliens already.

"Either we are alone, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying", Azure muttered to herself, remembering the quote from a famous science-fiction writer, Arthur C, Clarke. She keeps murmuring to herself about the facts of science, trying to remain sane.

She remained still in her place for centuries alone with her thoughts, without any messages received from the Hermit King. Watching the earth get destroyed, then the sun, then the entire solar system, and eventually, the entire universe. It was a repeating cycle.

It slowly killed her sanity.

All that happened was a simple feedback loop: she says something only for herself to be the one to respond. Sometimes, she would go for millennia to eons without uttering a word to herself.

It did not matter anymore.

What difference did it make if she said something? Nobody was listening...

Now, as she lay there, staring at her feet, unable to move or think, she wondered if anyone else was alive in the universe. Azure couldn't imagine herself being alone in this expanse of pure nothingness. She just couldn't imagine it. That had become the sole option she could cope with the bleak feeling of being hopeless and the creeping sense of depression. Seeing everything- her loved ones, her family- everyone dies over and over, while she watches alone with no power to stop it.

She soon realizes the futility of even dreaming. For so long, she had been miserable in this darkness. Not even a thought brings her happiness anymore. And she certainly couldn't hope to change anything at this stage. It would only be a continuous loop of suffering, pain, and despair, all without the eventual release of death.

She lay there in this state, for a long time.

She would often hallucinate after a while of laying down, with her thoughts racing as she looked around the hull.

There was nothing through the window but a white, blindingly white background. No traces of any moving object in sight, she felt trapped in this immaculate chamber created by her mind, looking out to the ever-destroying universe as she breathed exasperatingly. It was only her mind, she told herself, looking at her hands, covered in bladed gloves. She looked around at her body, which is seemingly strapped in an electric chair. She tried to scream, but it wouldn't come out, the shock of electricity coursing through her mechanical veins.

Azure fought back the tears. She was alone, in pain, trapped in an endless loop. Though she had tried everything to rid herself of the endless loop: excessive drinking, overusing drugs, and committing suicide, every method she could think of, everything to break free from this endless hell, she couldn't.

Eras become mere seconds to her that pass by, her eyes wearily tearful, hoping to find some method out of this.

Eventually, her mind had become so exhausted that it could not continue its endless loop, her body unable to keep going with the torturous process. She collapsed, on her knees, sobbing. Her body shook uncontrollably as she clutches her chest. She felt so tired, physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. She could not go on living like this, in this endless cycle of being unable to escape her mind.

Muffled screams were heard from the inside of the ship, as she tried to keep herself from crying out. But no matter what she did, she could not escape. Nothing could break this cycle. She was trapped in this endless suffering for the rest of eternity. Azure could feel her heart racing as she hallucinates horrific visions.

But suddenly, a noise broke her nightmarish delirium. Beeping noises rung across her sensitive ears, her eyes twitching as she gets used to the fluorescent lights as they hum along with the incessant beeps. As she tried to move her body, sharp pain courses throughout. Rubbing her eyes, her vision cleared, showing her arms attached to some plastic wires connected to a bag of sorts that is hanging on some stand. As she looks around to find the source of the noise, she is greeted with a computer screen, containing an interface of moving lines in a rhythmic pattern similar to a heart; she’s in a hospital.

### Vacuum Decay

Moments pass by and a nurse walks into her room, holding a clipboard close to her chest.

Azure asks where she is, to which the nurse responds that she is safe in this hospital and that there is no need to worry about it. Confused, she asks how she got here, and the nurse explains that she was found by the United Nations Space Search Party (or UNSSP) to be collapsed inside a ship made of "unknown material". Furthermore, the nurse elaborated that she was already on watch for about 2 years, having noticed no movement besides the occasional muffled cries from the inside of the ship. About two weeks after the last cry, UNSSP sent in their reconnaissance team to check in on the strange noise, to which they find a pale-skinned girl with grey hair.

Azure was stunned by this information and deduced that her perception of time must've extended to the point where seconds to her become eons, moments where she had been constantly experiencing multiple "events" at once. First, during her fight with the soldiers, the bullets that had hit her, were "reflected". Although this only happened at least once, she would often hear the sound of bullets whenever she is in distress inside the ship, which kept her completely awake every time.

In other cases, there are tests done on her clones, which involve voluntary suicide to see if any kind or form of "attack" can be "projected" or "reflected" to the source. Though some were killed, others tried performing said "projection", yet died due to "involuntary self-harm". When she asks them about what it is, they simply respond with an acronym "E.P.CaR (Event Projection, Conversion, and Reflection)", a project designed to make the first bio-engineered human for interstellar travel, with its event projecting powers to replay very important information for communication and negotiations of any possible intelligent lifeform that may or may not exist.

The nurse worries about her being an extraterrestrial being, but she insists that she is from Earth, created as a form of experiment. But when she asks what year it is, the nurse replied that the year is 2031. The year when Artificial Intelligence reaches its apex.

As she tries to recover from her issues and worries, she slowly develops the will to commune with this Earth's humans. Azure's initial attempts are unsuccessful, as her traumatic experiences cripple her ability to perceive information, causing her to be completely confused. Due to this, she is often viewed as eccentric, with others avoiding her as she was rumored to be some sort of alien, heard from the news which spreads throughout the media. Some tried to threaten her life, with other government policies creating a law to ban any unwanted foreigners who enter their country, enraging the general public even further, and causing the hospital she's resting in to close down, leaving her with no choice but to hide her identity.

Thus, she had a plan to secretly leave the hospital, as she finds herself unable to simply sit there and watch the world die again. She can't afford to let it happen again.

As she folds the hospital blanket, her hands begin shaking once again. Her eyes weary, her face filled with sorrow; she can no longer stay in this place.

### un-Current

After some time, she finds a suitable job for her to go undercover, becoming a bounty hunter.

During her first bounty, Azure steadily follows a wanted criminal, having a slightly queasy feeling as she stealthily follows them around. When the criminal decides to cross a dense forest to take a shortcut, she decides to dash in too, clashing with some bystanders briefly. While Azure has her weapons, the criminal's skill far outmatches that of her own.

Nonetheless, Azure continues her pursuit. Still determined to follow the unknown criminal, Azure manages to outspeed them by going airborne and catching them off-guard. Resist as they might, her strength far outdoes anything that the criminal can dish out, slicing their neck in an instant.

Shortly after, a car arrives at the scene. A group of hooded men exits and pulls out a briefcase of sorts; opening it reveals a stash of money. One of them started speaking, saying that an eighth of these would be handed to her as a reward, but be reduced due to the payment of the collateral damage. Regardless, Azure takes the money and gingerly leaves.

### State=queer

In an apartment, Azure was skimming through a list of targets that she could find. As she finds an easy target that she could kill for easy money, someone was knocking on her door. Approaching the source of the sound, she opens it, revealing a newcomer to be her partner, Egnatia Fiscus.

At first, Egnatia was awkward towards Azure, despite the latter being a neophyte as well. Azure asks why she entered the job, to which she responds that she was a former police officer turned criminal after being charged with fraud and attempted homicide. She takes the list that she was skimming through and showed Egnatia the target she chose. She explains that this is one of the least threatening criminals on the list, with it having a large reward. Azure nods before going into the closet to change her clothes.

The name of the target is NIl, located at Palos Park, Illinois.

As both Egnatia and Azure arrive. they are met with no enemy in sight. Though the enemy could appear at any time, the two were dumbfounded at the structure laid out, stating they were already trapped from the moment they came.

Azure is surprised at the enemy coming at them from behind, with Egnatia being knocked to the side of the wall, whose reaction is the same. The enemy named Nil pulls out a strange water bottle labeled “Bucket Dispense”, opens it,  and a tsunami of anvils began erupting out of the bottle. Egnatia attempts to dodge the flood of farrier and tries to locate Azure, but she was nowhere to be found. She is seen atop a playhouse behind Nil, her sword unsheathed as she slides down to attack them. A long battle ensues, with Azure finding herself backed into a corner met with the same projectiles that reminded her of the bullets that were "projected back", using that previous knowledge to reflect them as a means for her to awaken her latent ability,

Azure then projects the events back at Nil, killing them with her newfound power. Since the target has been finished, the duo has no business with any property damage and hastily leaves the scene.

As the duo fled, another enemy makes its way as they're traveling back to their headquarters. The Mangler, an executioner at the service of the Unnamable tasked with killing the recruit to disable them from stealing their "loot". During the fight, Egnatia witnesses Azure's abilities and realizes how powerful she can be soon. Azure and Egnatia's speedy attack manages to overpower the Mangler and escape.

Returning to the apartment before the police come in, Egnatia fainted due to the amount of running they have to do. Azure then tends to the injured Egnatia, deducing that she suffered tons of broken bones and internal organ bleeding just from her first bounty.

Azure then contacts a high-ranked member of the commission, briefly reporting about the incident and asking if her partner can be medically treated. The one on the other side responds, saying that the finances will be covered for Egnatia's recovery, telling Azure to not worry about anything.

### Hesitant Trust

"For today's news, another terrorist attack happened in Illinois, New York, and Papua New Guinea simultaneously. Around a thousand civilians have been killed; the massive collateral damage was all around the city, with public safety trying to find who had caused this mass destruction. It is assumed- at least, according to social media, that the perpetrator is presumed to be the ‘alien’ found in the unidentified shuttle floating in space rescued by the UNSSP. Conspiracists confirm this notion by addressing that NASA, along with the Search Party are involved in these coordinated attacks. But according to an A.I. named Flux Lumos, this is but a hoax, formulated to grab clout…. This should be a message to all of you people, don’t always trust what you see online.”

News, social media and the general public have been worried about the existence of “aliens”, with the conspiracists laughing at the feet, telling them that they were in the right the whole time. Now with all the chaos going on, Azure is the only one to be blamed.

As she sits there with her partner, all injured and beaten from all the running they did, she skims through the same list of bounties, finding herself with the highest amount. The longer she looks at it, the more it reminds her of the past.

Sorrow is what filled her empty mind. She’d even had dreams of blood like she was getting off on it. She’d wake up not feeling tired anymore and come back to her small, unused room where she’d often have to wait until nighttime to be able to do anything. If she couldn’t find the time, she’d usually go to the village market in the morning, buying any food she could afford.

As she arrives home, Egnatia introduces Azure to their next mission: steal high-tech artifacts from an unknown source. She posits about its danger, but Egnatia responds that there are little to no members of the Organization due to an unknown incident, with the two of them being the only ones left to eliminate the threat.

"Right there, here, and also there, we can find the multiple stuff kept. These are the ones we need to find," said Egnatia to Azure, telling her more details about the mission. Though she is confused, she is much more curious about why they would want to steal these things more than to kill a specific target. "It's already a danger for us to venture outside. Besides, what are even you getting at? And what it has to do with the things you've said? asked Azure, clueless about it all.

"Thing is, you’re the number one on the internet right now. It’s a dead giveaway since I’ve seen your face daily. Now only that, pretty much everyone is willing to go for your head. It’s us against the world,“ Egnatia said.

"It’s fine, w-we can convince them that we aren’t the bad guys..." said Azure, nodding hesitantly.

But as the girl glanced at her face, it wasn't the eyes of a person that would kill but the eyes of a coward that swallowed their pride just to get to where they were. A creation that failed its purpose.

"Are you sure it’s fine? You know what your getting yourself into right?", said Egnatia asking her again if she is sure about her decision.

"Beats me, I don't know myself. I don't know anything about what this place is or what any of the things here are made from. All I know is what I have learned from the 'Earth' that I was from, and not from the 'Earth' that I'm at right now." said Azure, unsure about her current state.

"You've brought this onto yourself, Azure. But I’ll be telling you this since it’s for your good. I won’t be helping you this time, not even with the fight against these creatures. I also won’t be killing you, I saw what you’re capable of so it’s kind of stupid in hindsight. You’ve already done some good things while I was partnered up with you: helping me when I was injured, and training me despite being hesitant at it. So I’d say it’s a pretty good deal,” Egnatia said to Azure as she left.

### Recollection

She was then sent the location of the shuffle that she will need: Caloveto (Italy).

With this in mind, she fled to the tunnels and drove off to Italy. By the time she gets there, a weird distorted noise broke off the miniature television followed by a loud and sudden boom of classical music, forcing Azure to tone down the volume.

At first, the video begins with an announced title sequence, and prelude to the first creature, showing its habitat to be from Earth. The creature in question is Humans, a group of intelligent people who reside among the seven continents, each having their respective beliefs.

The video transitions to the second animal, a creature known as the Windowbreaker. Windowbreakers are very intelligent creatures who can communicate just like humans without the slightest difference between them. It then cuts to a recording of a Windowbreaker, emerging from a window, presumably killing the person.

It then cuts to a montage of an amber-haired girl, holding the steering wheel as she drives. After a while, she notices that it was her being filmed by some “invisible camera”, confused as she tries turning the car radio off.

The radio goes into a dead static before, the sky is filled with appendages of what seemed to be made of eyes, slime, and all sorts.

It's not as confusing at best, but it invokes a sense of dread toward Azure. She is once again reminded of the Earth she cowardly left behind: the screams of the damned, the pettiness of the rich, and the cries of the innocent waiting to be saved by a gracious light, only to be met with devastation. To her, it's a memory that drives her to carry out all their will, which might be what her creator, Hermit King, had thought of when creating her.

As she drives across Italy, she takes a shortcut to avoid any enemy she may or may not meet.

### Series Two

The second location revealed a spacecraft by the name of "QTAD-94". Azure drives peacefully for about 1,295.1 km and gets there within 12 hours from where she is from.

The place is a quiet and calm city without the loudness typical of a big metropolis. With only a thousand residents, Azure books in a cheap hotel to wait for midnight before acquiring the ship.

As night falls, Azure figured out that this is the perfect time to board and get out. She enters the location, which is a building and meets a WIndowbreaker face-to-face. She is reminded again of the same situation before but is instead determined to kill anyone who got in her path.

Azure gets heavily wounded, but still manages to prevail by reflecting the damage done to her back at the creature. Lying near the monster, she witnesses the floor unveiling and folding in of itself, revealing the ship.

After fiddling around with the controls inside, she manages to finally get in and pilot it. Though the loud noise would surely wake up the people, she launches it regardless.

However, before she manages to leave, multiple tendrils begin to swarm Azure as the ship. Millions upon millions of mutated humans began barging in the doors as she reflected on their attack at the cost of taking the whiplash and receiving a major injury in her limbs.

Looking out the window, Azure was horrified by the ocean of blood flooding the ship, slowly seeping into the hull. With no other choice than to leave, she exits the ship and forces herself to not think of them as humans but as monsters that needed to be killed, remembering the time she fought a group of soldiers before leaving.

The Windowbreakers turn and see that Azure has already left. They are then grabbed by a disembodied hand by Azure and before they could defend themselves, they are sliced to pieces and cut off at different angles. As some try to parry her strikes, Azure’s speed made that impossible as she slices out each appendage and then destroys the ground in half, causing them to fall. Hovering above them, Azure monologues on how much she had enough of killing and then claims this will be the last time she would fight as she uses Blue Moon to launch a powerful gust of wind before they can recover. Levi then enters back at the cockpit. She then drove the ship to full power, which succeeded, but at the cost of fracturing the ship’s wing.

Azure thinks to herself about all laws she has violated and if she could be forgiven by her creator, asking herself what truly is the purpose that she was created for, if she’s just a tool or she’s built to fail. As the thought of Hermit King’s orders crosses her mind, she questions if she’s just made for research, or if she’s made for the sake of humanity. The girl laments at the fact that she’s simply a tool that could easily be replaced should they fail their task, but insist that even if she is one, even after everything has ended, this is still the place that she could call “home”.

### Cometh the Hour

Azure drifted off into space for 12 days, until she found herself not being able to reach the location.

She glances behind her to see the mass of the maelstrom — the ultimate abomination. The Unnamable One had made its move.

Seeing visions of the past, Azure continues and goes to the "Boötes Void", a place where The Unnamable One is presumed to be.

However, the Unnamable One, who was observing the fight, chases after Azure.

Time is running short. And death is all but inevitable even in a new world.

As she was about to arrive at the Void, she was met with The Unnamable in all of its horrific glory: horns, mouths, and bones sprouted throughout what seemed to be a massive hole. A loud cackle was heard before sprawling its appendages at Azure. It chased Azure around as she "projected" the "attack" back at the abomination, though it wasn't as effective.

The attack was relentless as Azure is sent back with such power that it backfires upon each use of her power. However, she also notices the Earth from far away that is slowly consumed by the eldritch. A brief fight ensues with Azure and the Unnamable One, but the abomination's strength and speed were far above that of her league, so she tried using Blue Moon to defend herself. The abomination then unleashed its powerful attack, which almost kills Azure but is saved thanks to her replaying the event of the past onto herself, giving her a slight chance to momentarily reposition herself.

Days to Weeks and Weeks to Months pass yet the eldritch never stopped its attack. By this point, Azure is too late again to save humanity. Anxious and desperate, Azures charges at the Unnamable One, dashing all over it as it sways her body to the location. Launched across the space, Azures manages to slice a big chunk of it's appendages, replay all of its previous attacks and transfers it into herself, unleashing the sword "Frostburn", then slashing toward the creature and destroying multiple space-time continuums in the process. The maelstrom is somewhat hit and vanishes.

Azure didn't waste time and looked immediately for any counter attacks, but is slowed down because of her newfound ability, slowly consuming her body due to its immense power. When the Unnamable One did come back, it went to the girl's location instantaneously, attacking Azure from behind. She was hit and died but is saved thanks again to the sash, although it is unknown to Azure how and why she is kept alive.

### End of Consciousness

The fight was not over. It was just the beginning...

As the Unnamable One grows into a puddle beyond recognition, Azure was unfazed and kept moving. She is at first surprised by its new and horrifying form but still manages to reflect a few bits of its overwhelming attacks. This time, however, Azure knows its fighting pattern, assuming that the eldritch is headed towards Earth as a last resort, and plans to use its own minions as shields to gain mental leverage. In the final clash, Azure uses Blue Moon to project multiple events: she first projected the creature's "attacks" and projected the "Big Bang" itself at the back. Though she died after using the attack, she is brought back again by replaying her previous state.

Nearing the end of her stamina, she is attacked by countless eldritch which were produced by the Unnamable One as a last resort. Whilst her abilities are enhanced, they cannot ensure her safety and can kill her if she is too careless, thus her only choice is to flee and re-strategize. As she was chased, Azure remembers what she could've done had she stayed on Earth, and is driven to desperation.

### Blue Moon

Azure is on the brink of despair, knowing her escaping would lead the monster to them. She knows she wants to give up and knows that against all odds, she knows she won't win.

In her grief, she uses the last of her strength to unleash a final attack: she begins surrounding the weakened monster with millions of events placed at once and launches a barrage of attacks, throwing herself in while her body begins withering from the power she's accumulating. The beaming glow of hope, the symbol of a miracle.....

**The Blue Moon shines once again...**

However, she never managed to land one final attack, being knocked away by the monster. To add insult to injury, the monster mocks Azure by slowly consuming her home, Earth. Heartbroken and enraged, Azure hastily attacks The Unnamable One without using Blue Moon and thus wastes her already-empty stamina on ineffective attacks. The Eldritch manages to slice one of her limbs and leave her in a near-death state. As the Maelstrom approaches the girl to consume her, Azure finally understands her creator's message and combines all versions of herself into one and unlocks the Orb of Immeasurability. Azure, with the power of the orb, converges the entire multiverse into a single point and replays all kinds of events toward the creature. The Unnamable One is hit, and witnesses Azure unleash her full potential.

Seeing the Blue Moon’s body fall apart, The Maelstrom desperately tries to attack. However, Azure tears bits and pieces of herself, use Blue Moon and have them shapeshift into the eldritch, then send them inside the Eldritch to destroy the Maelstrom. The Eldritch flees by but finds itself trapped inside the converged void. Even if it tries to nullify or resist, the Blue Moon forces it back.

Unfortunately, the constant use of the Orb destroys Azure’s body as her body cannot keep up with its strength getting immeasurably more powerful than the last, with the replay being slower than she is destroyed. This, in turn, forces Azure to finish the creature as fast as she can. Using Frostburn proved to accelerate this, as her physical soma can’t handle traveling at negative time.

Though she managed to finish the eldritch creature, Azure perished and died as the Orb was overwhelming her body and could've brought "the end" should she continue. The effect of the Orb was lifted as it proceeded to preserve the last remnants of its user. As the lady floats in the void, a pre-recorded message plays before she shuts down. It was a female’s voice, one with a tone of calmness, sternness, and youth. The woman spoke that to anyone who is listening to this, she could very well be dead. She then follows this up by saying about her plans for an (already-completed) project and explains the purpose of said agenda: to create a bioengineered creature for interstellar travel. She posits the importance of the idea and how it could help future generations in finding a more habitable planet easier. She remains silent for a while before clearing her throat. She says that given she must be dead if anyone is hearing this, she says that the project must’ve been completed and changes her subject towards Azure, a name she thought of when thinking about the project. She tells Azure about her being a chosen being given the task to protect Earth and tells her that she’s her last symphony, her **Blue Moon**.