The Burning Blue Star (a Sonic OC story)

Chapter 5 Duty and Discovery

Aura's narration

If you've managed to get everything pieced together by this point, you must have seen more than anyone in their life.

If you still haven't linked it all together, the truth is about to show itself.

One day, something changed the valley forever.

Something that nearly destroyed everyone and everything.

While the Forbidden Valley tries to stay isolated, we were aware somewhat of what was going on outside the world.

We knew about the long war that was going on between some robotic dictator and a speedy hero.

We knew about the God of destruction, Chaos, being let lose on the world, until he was defeated.

And we certainly knew about the world being split apart recently.

This was because of scouts we send to explore the world for a whole year.

They only come back for holidays before exploring again.

Ki did this to make sure we never face a threat of an invading enemy.

We didn't have the tech that the outside world had, so an invasion meant destruction for us all.

A mad scientist with a robot army would be something that could catch us off guard if not warned ahead of time.

One of our scouting groups came back...

....or what was left of it.

Only one scout had returned, completely terrified of what he saw.

And the news he had...

....scared everyone too.

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Normal POV

Kaiju Monastery

Infirmary

A young man was sitting on the bed, showing clear signs of paranoia.

Shivering, constant eye movement and a tight grip on the bedside said it all.

Ki was sitting in a chair, calm as ever.

The elder asks. "What did you encounter? If this is something urgent, I need to know so we can prepare for it."

The scout replied nervously. "A f-f-factory....t-t-tons of n-n-ninja....all bearing the m-mark of...."

Ki gave him a cup of tea to calm him. "Calm yourself. You are safe here. Just tell me the mark, then you will rest."

The scout breathes in and out. "The mark...it was....a claw or scar of some kind. My father told me about it before....but this version of it was different. It had one of our characters in it..."

Ki looked concerned. "What did it translate to?"

The scout looked up at Ki with visible fear.

He whispers. "Hakai..."

(Translation: Destroy)