Developments
Jupiter has awakened. She is amazing. The raw power that she can command…it’s breath-taking but also very scary.
After we left CROWN last night we ran into Motoki-onii-san he told us that Mako-chan had turned him down. We were trying to track down where she was at to find out if she was okay when she called us and said there were youma attacking her.
We were making her way to the lake to help her when we were stopped by youma of “our own”, they were strange, melting up from the pavement, unusual for youma. Rei said they felt weaker than youma we’d fought before, but youma they still were, so we transformed to fight them.
The appearing and reappearing was confusing us and keeping us off guard until Venus appeared to help us, and we were able to defeat them to go and help Mako-chan.
When we found her she was holding her hands together in front of her standing beneath a tree. The sky turned from day to night as thunder clouds rumbled overhead and lightning flashed and struck her, but she absorbed it. She didn’t seem to hear us when we called out to her.
“The power of Jupiter is awakening,” Venus told us.
When she finally opened her eyes she snatched more lightning from the sky, thunder clapped around us. Jupiter called a power we hadn’t heard before, and destroyed the youma that remained nearby with a brilliant burst of crackling green energy as it dissipated the daylight returned.
Mako-chan turned to us, “It’s because I’ve always been alone,” she said, and then she looked at Venus and said, “I…understand. It was necessary for it to be like that forme to end up alone, listening to the wind. All of it has been decided for us since our past lives, that’s why I’m okay alone.”
Both Moon and I tried to protest given she’s such a good friend but she told us that it didn’t mean she wouldn’t be friends with us any more, that it was hard for her to put it into words but that it all came from the past lives we shared.