Triton Prism

CHAPTER SIX: THE RAMEI

After another dreary funeral behind the distant groves they left Kanra buried beside Elise. While the others seemed to be in a numb sadness, Douglas felt only fury. He hated Reburn, but he was mad at his elemental too. Hunting down the Titania leader should've been their top priority the moment Elise died; they should've done more.

They all trudged back to the house, a long walk. Training was cancelled that day. After they gave Lysander their report of what happened they were left to do what they liked with their day. Douglas was too mad to do nothing, he left the house and walked back to the distant forest to train by himself.

It was in the trees where he jumped between branches, slashing at trunks with dual blades. Practicing his agility, twisting and flinging chains. He tried swinging like Shari but again one of the links broke and he fell to a branch. His landing was too rough and it snapped, he hit the ground in a sprawl. Climbing up with a wince the black-haired teen spat grass from his mouth, then looked around for the weapon he'd dropped.

A lightning bolt struck somewhere in the direction of the house, probably his elemental teleporting over to see him.

Moodily Douglas picked up his scimitar and faced the nearest tree, determined to keep practicing his stances and ignore his creator. His black sword cut quick lines through the bark as Douglas's strikes blurred. The blonde man walked over and came to a stop a few paces back.

"Douglas."

A final furious swipe through the tree before the black-haired teen looked over his shoulder. Lysander stared with his different colored eyes - one blue and the other red "I need to know that you aren't going to sneak off and try to fight Reburn again."

"At least someone's trying to stop him!" Douglas shouted.

"I'd have never sent you all to fight someone Mark Five. None of you are ready for that yet. Reburn suddenly became powerful, there's more going on than you realise."

"Elise and Kanra are dead! Don't go thinking we're just replaceable!" Furiously Douglas leapt at him with his scimitar overhead, knowing it'd be impossible to hurt Lysander but possessed with rage anyway. His vision flashed yellow and he could see the man's attack before it happened, Douglas was too shocked to react and Lysander's metal palm hit his chest and threw him several metres back. Douglas's sword landed by the tree and he lay winded on the ground.

When he sat up Lysander's expression looked shocked before returning to the somber state he had at the funeral "I value all my crushers. And sadly, there's no way for me to prepare you for everything that's out there. That's why you need to become stronger. Elise and Kanra made a difference with their lives, they weren't wasted."

Douglas looked down sadly and clenched the grass beside him.

When his mentor spoke again his voice was careful in a way that made him look up "Douglas... when you attacked me just then, your vision went yellow didn't it?"

"Wasn't that you?"

"No. Did it happen while you were fighting Reburn yesterday?"

Douglas tried to recall. After Kanra died and the dragon Lucifer appeared, he remembered his vision being blinded by yellow as lightning bolts fell from the sky. While he stared off and thought, Lysander strolled forward until he was standing in front of him, Douglas looked up as he spoke.

"I think you just awakened the Ramei."

Silence passed between them, Douglas couldn't talk. The Ramei? They always talked about who'd be the first to awaken it, if anyone. They'd all thought it'd be Elise. Douglas thought that if possible it'd still take him years of extra training before he could do it. Even though he was more skilled due to extra training, his power wasn't as remarkable as the other crushers.