A world changed, a goal set

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A blurred image of events taking place captures a white figure, battling a dark shadowy figure wearing bulky armor and a face-covered armored helmet, holding a battle maul and a large sword respectively inside what seemed to be a temple. The white figure, female in nature according to the voice she emitted due to her battlecries, was not backing down, no matter how bad the odds are stacked against her. She battles an armored foe that handles not only a sword, but an enchanted crossbow.

Soon the images skipped into events that happen much later. The female figure in white slows down as her exhaustion begins to slow her down, seeing that her opponent does not take damage at all... or is it because she was weakening? Soon, she was on one knee after being wounded many times that she was vulnerable. She looked at her opponent standing over her as she hears him grumble words she couldn't understand. She then spat at him, despising her adversary as she attempted to stand and summon her battle maul again, only for him to hold her neck to choke her with one hand, before plunging his large sword through her torso as the blades pierces through her back.

Ram and Rom, twin teenage girls, were in the room together that night dreaming something terrible while sleeping on separate beds. Those images moving like a film were played to them, and they gritted their teeth seeing these events play in their minds. It terrified them to a point they had tears leave their eyes. They were groaning the entire time, but it was after the white figure was lethally stabbed that they were able to scream in fear that they suddenly woke up and sat on their beds. Ram had her eyes wide open as she tried to control her breathing, remaining silent as she tried to process it herself. Rom however wasn't so strong-willed and began to softly sob while letting more tears leave her eyes as she couldn't handle the fear and pain of what she saw.

The twins looked at each other with their beds next to one another. Both girls had tears in their eyes and wondered what the other was thinking. They didn't speak of it that night and attempted to sleep, to forget about the experience. This move didn't help them in the short run.

They were training one afternoon at the side of the Basilicom where it's lightly covered with snow. Lowee's winter season was its peak, though there's no snowfall during that time, so they made sure to train. The twins had serious faces during their trainings and are always reminded to do their best even if they make mistakes they would eventually correct. Ram had a magic battle hammer which she summoned before charging at Rom. And Rom had her magic staff summoned, ready to defend against her twin sister before she fired ice projectiles. Ram evaded and smashed some of these projectiles with her hammer swiftly before she swung at her sister. Rom anticipated this and blocked Ram's attack and spun to return it with a spin kick. These two sisters were battle-hardened to a point they can accept each others blows without creating a form of rage, as they were each other's rivals. This helps them both to grow in their own ways possible to keep them ready for the times ahead.

They remembered that they were both essential in rescuing the CPU goddesses from captivity by ASIC at the Gamindustri Graveyard. It was Nepgear, the younger sister of Neptune, who was responsible to leading the charge to re-acquire the CPU goddesses and battle the evil Arfoire. Rom and Ram were there during that rescue, representing as newly-appointed goddesses of Lowee, and later helped in rescuing the older goddesses from the Gamindustri Graveyard. Arfoire was eventually defeated, and ASIC had dissolved afterwards. After peace was attained, the twins served as the goddesses of Lowee in formality and were often being visited by Nepgear, and Uni, the sister of Noire of Lastation.

The sparring went on, and the twins were in their fighting stance for a moment that Ram began to speak. "Hey Rom... You're not slowing down."

Rom blinked and smirked at her twin sister. "Neither are you. Drop your guard."

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