Opening Scene – The Dream Trap
Kai's team falls asleep at their camp to recover from the previous battle. The firelight fades into darkness… and they awaken in a shattered shrine beneath the split moon — one side glowing silver, the other dripping red.
Nyx's voice echoes:
"Sleep is the only truth. Let me show you what you've hidden from yourselves…"
Rei appears, stitched and radiant in blood-red robes, flanked by his team. No weapons drawn. He only smiles.
The Temptations…
Rei to Noa (her light flickers around her):
"You sacrificed fear, yet still tremble in silence. Don't you long for warmth? For your parents' embrace?"
Her dead parents appear in glowing form, arms outstretched. She almost runs forward, but Kai pulls her back.
Rei to Vee (as illusions of her Exes surround her, mocking, kissing other women):
"You endure heartbreak, but I can erase the wound. Imagine illusions not bound by pain, but by control. With me, you'll never be betrayed again — because you'll own every heart you touch."
Her tears glisten, but she glares back, activating her illusions to mask her trembling.
Rei to Jet (his voice low, tempting, personal):
"You threw away pain for strength. But now you're hollow, numb, less than human. What if I gave it back? To feel every victory, every cut, every kiss. Isn't numbness the true weakness?"
Jet's dialogue (breaking):
"Shut the hell up… You don't know what it's like. Pain is chains. I cut them off. I don't need it. I don't—"
Rei presses further, whispering:
"Then why are you trembling? You're terrified of feeling again… because deep down, you miss it."
Jet snaps. His telekinesis erupts, shattering the shrine's pillars and hurling debris into Rei's team.
The Bloody Battle…
Kai vs Rei:
Kai tries to restrain him with Embraced energy, but Rei parries effortlessly, threads of stitches whipping like blades. Kai bleeds from his shoulder, realizing Rei isn't even fighting seriously.
Rei summons threads tendrils and impales kai pinning him to a wall.
Blood flowing down…
Noa vs Nyx:
Noa summons blinding projectiles of light — Nyx twists them into black thorns mid-air, stabbing her in return. She's cut across her ribs, blood soaking her robe, but she still stands, forcing her light into a radiant explosion to knock back Nyx.
Vee vs Void:
Vee unleashes full-scale illusions. Entire forests, armies, and monstrous beasts appear around Void, but he smirks, imagining projectiles to rain down on them. Vee escalates, creating sensory traps, making Void think Kai killed him, blood drips from her nose as the strain mounts.
Jet vs Banshee:
Jet hurls debris, stone pillars, and entire walls telekinetically, smashing banshee left and right. But he adapt. Banshee screams through his projectiles.
Banshee lets out a screech that wound jet ears drum, jet been distracted, banshee uses directional scream focusing he's scream in a straight line, like a railgun, hits jet causing him to fly away and hit himself with full force.
He's loosing Consciousness…
Narrator:
But when all hope seems lost
One overcame he's limit but at what cost…
Jet screams:
"ENOUGH!!!"
He lets out a telekinetic explosion that knocks banshee and everything away.
With blood flowing down from down from him,and seeing he's team loosing, he realizes he only one choice…
Climax — The Slash ⚔️
The battle turns dire. Noa is pinned, her light fading. Vee collapses, bloodied from overusing her illusions. Kai is restrained in Rei's stitches, pulled closer as Rei whispers:
"You'll break… just like them."
Jet, battered and shaking, rises. His arm glows faint with telekinetic energy, veins straining.
Kai yells: "JET, DON'T!"
Jet snarls: "If I don't… we're dead."
He raises his hand slowly in a horizontal form. The air trembles. A glowing line forms a telekinetic slash.
With a wave of his hand, he cuts everything in that part horizontally. The slash tears through everything in that way the shrine walls, the moon above, the dream itself. Rei and his team are split by force, their forms scattering like torn fabric. The dream collapses, shattering into silver shards.
Ending – The Price
They awaken back at the campfire, gasping. Blood stains their robes — the wounds from the dream followed them into reality.
Jet's arm hangs limp, completely numb. He hides it, clenching his jaw.
Kai looks at him, furious and grateful all at once.
Vee whispers: "He almost broke us… from the inside."
Noa, clutching her side: "If Jet hadn't… we'd never have escaped."
The final panel: Rei, standing under the red moon in another place, smirking with stitched lips.
"Good… let them taste desperation. The next cut will be real.