Within the Citadel's gleaming spires, Aurora began instructing Sakura in harnessing her celestial gifts. Their lessons took them across myriad planes of existence, from nebulae-streaked vastness to the micro-realities teeming between atoms.
First, Aurora taught Sakura lucid dreaming, allowing her to consciously explore the realm of vision. There, possibilities stretched in all directions like the branching tendrils of nebulae, and she learned to subtly bend odds toward more enlightened outcomes.
"Focus not on manipulating events directly, but cultivating wisdom and empathy in participants so they choose higher paths of their own free will," Aurora advised. Walking realms of vision together, they averted wars and guided leaders to bring prosperity across myriad potential worlds.
When Sakura had mastered dreaming on macro and micro scales, Aurora initiated her into manipulating subtle energies with thought alone. In meditation chambers glowing with captured stardust, she learned to weave luminous threads into healing patterns, bend the very fabric of space on quantum levels, and perceive the morphic resonance of all things - past, present and possible future.
Their lessons took on more active forms as well. In training arenas resembling alien landscapes across the cosmos, Aurora pushed Sakura to new heights, defending herself against volleys of stars gone supernova, threading rapidly-collapsing wormholes, bending singularities into fantastical sculptures.
Through it all Sakura felt her gifts blossoming in sync with her sister's nurturing guidance. Power flowed through her veins like the song of creation, resonating to her will with growing ease. She was coming into her full potential as guardian of the mortal realm.
Yet in quiet moments, shadows still lingered at the edge of thought. Hiroshi's warnings of coming catastrophe remained ominous portents, and the stranger's parting words hinted at sinister forces preparing to disrupt the natural order. Only by mastering celestial abilities could she hope to counter such threats.
One night, as sisters rested amidst an astral corona bathing the Citadel in soft radiancy, Sakura turned to Aurora.
"Sister, tell me true - what darkness approaches, and how may we prepare?"
Aurora fixed her with a solemn gaze, stars shimmering in abyssal eyes.
"A shadow you've glimpsed before, child, though in form new to this age. The Fallen seek to spread taint through the mortal realm once more, twisting humanity to serve their fell purpose..."
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Sakura, Guardian of Light
Science FictionIn the sprawling metropolis of Tokyo, a young orphan girl named Sakura discovers that her life is far from ordinary. Born as a lab experiment, she possesses extraordinary powers and is destined to become the savior of the universe. As Sakura embarks...
