Taiyo and Agata stand in a field full with flowers that he doesn't recognize.
"These are Manna Ash flowers, some people recognize them as the Ashurian flower." Agata says as she touches one of them.
"Nice, but what do you mean I have yet to use my Ashurian life force?" Taiyo says in confusion.
"So hasty... so basically, Ashurians, when they are born, they are almost like regular humans. Although they might be stronger, they don't gain any cool elemental powers or anything like that. The key to them unlocking their Ashurian force is through death. After that they have to learn how to use their force properly without reckless use because if you use your force like how you use ki then your soul will end up in the realm of no return, you literally no longer exists and nobody will know who you are except yourself and anyone you encounter in that realm. Only one person has gone there and made it back. His name is Ashura. After Ashura had come back from the realm of no return, he had become the strongest Ashurian in all of history." Agata pauses and takes a deep breath, "On top of us having to control our life force, we half humans, half Ashurians have a different...personality as you may say. As you may know, Ashurians are naturally aggressive and cruel people. Although most have learned to control it over time, others like us, have it as a second personality. We have our Human names, mine is Amelia, but then we have our Ashurian names, Agata, We have to first find out our Ashurian names and then learn how to control their powers without letting them take control of us."
"And how do we do that?" Taiyo says.
"It's estimated to be a 3-year process, trust me it isn't fun nor is it easy. You have to first play a game of "Tag" with the spirit. You must chase after it and touch it, even if it's just by a hair. Depending on where, how much you touch them, and how long it takes for you to touch them that shows how strong they are. If you touch them by the chest with your whole hand and palm then they aren't that strong but if you touch them on the clock with 3 fingers and 1 year 3 months, like me, then they are quite strong. The strongest is 2 finger touch on the cloak and 2 years. I think you can guess who that is. Anywho, stage 2 is that you have to win against your Ashurian side in a fist fight with whatever conditions that they set. If your Ashurian is weaker than you, then you should win quickly. But since you are of royal blood, there has never been a weaker Ashurian in our history. We are the most direct descendants from Ashura too so it's understandable. The third and final stage is to relive your most traumatizing moment of your life multiple times and I mean like 1,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 times. It's terrible." Agata says as she looks zones out and begins to recall a few memories.
"You good? You know you can talk to me. Even though we have known each other that much, we're still family." Taiyo says.
"Probably some other time..." Agata says, "Anywho, each stage is a year long."
"Wait, wait, wait, I can't be here for years who knows how long my friend and brother can hold out for." Taiyo says panicking
"You don't believe in your own people? That's quite disrespectful considering how Ashurians never doubt in their companions." Agata says.
"It's not like that it's just I don't want them to die for somebody that not even actually dead." Taiyo says.
"Oh you are dead but if you can complete this in time before 4.5 years then you won't die completely. Your heart may have stopped working but your brain is still active as we speak right now. I'm a special case because I can choose whether or not to go to earth whenever I want but the others have to go through a whole complex process." Agata says, " And plus 1 year here is 1 hour on earth. I'll be with you as a spirit if you need help so just know that whatever you face you won't be alone."
"Ok..so how do I start?" Taiyo asks.
"Turn around."
Taiyo turns around.
"There's nothing here." Taiyo says.
Agata slashes her blood and sprays it.
"DNA check confirmed! You are now allowed access to the Pond of Eternity." A robotic voice blurts aloud.
"What the?" Taiyo says as a large golden gate opens.
Agata walks ahead.
"Well are you just gonna sit still and look pretty? or will you follow me."
"I'm coming." Taiyo says as he slowly walks in looking around at the gate in astonishment.
"DNA check confirmed! Welcome Lost Prince of the Ashurian Heavens!"
"Uhhh, hey there!"
"It is a pleasure to finally meet you."
"Same here."
"HURRY UPPP." Agata screams from afar.
"I'll be there!!" Taiyo yells back.
Taiyo and Agata arrives at the pond.
"This is the Pond of Eternity. Relax and don't panic." Agata tells Taiyo as he pushes Taiyo forward.
Taiyo stares at the Pond.
"Let the water consume you no matter how violating it feels." Agata tells to Taiyo.
"Whaatt? what do you mean viol-" Taiyo is sucked into the Pond.
Agata joins right after.
Taiyo tries to screams but it's bubbles gurgling from his mouth.
Agata puts a hand on his shoulder.
*Close your eyes* Agata says to Taiyo Telepathically.
*What the heck? Since when could I do this???* Taiyo say as he calms down.
*It only works if one of us opens the pathways to our minds and since you don't know how to close yours I was easily able to enter it. In case you don't know, that's a next level type of embarrassing.* Agata says as she smiles.
*Shut up!.* Taiyo says as he closes his for a sec.
Next thing he knows. he's in a snowy blizzard forest filled with trees.
*Wow, your Ashurian is dramatic like you.* Agata says.
"Oh, shut up."
"Yo" A chill and relaxed voice.
Taiyo turns around in shock.
*I didn't even hear him.* Agata says.
"Me neither... What's your name?"
"I know you get the gist of what you have to do here so come and catch me and maybe i'll tell you it ahead of time." The Ashurian says as he turns around and looks back, "If your fast enough."
In a sec, he gone.
"Can I use ki in this stage?" Taiyo asks.
*Yeah."
"Release!"
Taiyo transforms into his demon mode and spreads out his wings outwards.
*You have wings? Cool!! You should let me piggyback ride you someday in that form.* Agata says in astonishment.
"I'll think about."
Taiyo flashes forward.
Meanwhile back on earth.
Aika's full vessel transformation is complete.
She has pink and green hair.
One eye is green, the other is pink.
In each eye, it contains a ticking clock.
Her spear turns into a double-edged scythe.
She has multiple markings of times and numbers flow through her.
She has a time themed Tapered harem trousers with a green and pink themed multilayer wrap top, and another time themed kimono jacket.
She has green and pink ki flowing with different times of the day and different numbers.
She flows from out the forest and into the open field that Taiyo and Apollo fought at.
She sees Kinishi blast Apollo with a ray of moon power.
Aika blitz forward and slashes Apollo on the back.
Apollo god tries to hit her but she dodges each attempt.
Aika falls back.
Kinishi falls down from his chariot and gracefully touches the ground.
"You look and fight differently." Kinishi says looking at her.
"So do you." Aika says as she gets low with both hands holding her weapon close to the ground.
"Do you have any ideas?" Kinishi asks.
"Follow my lead." Aika throws the scythe at high-speed.
Kinishi jumps up in the air and flips, going for and backflip kick.
"Stop." Aika says.
Time just completely stops and freezes.
Aika goes to her scythe and gears up for a slash.
"Continue."
Apollo and Apollo god looks up with shock to see Aika having dodged their attack to swipe away the scythe.
Kinishi comes from the top and slams down at the same time Aika launches her slash.
A large explosion ensues.