The Forgotten Princess

"You're lacking battle experience, but you're strong. Just stand aside and let me finish her." Demonic girl stand frightening in front of kneed exhausted Ai,

"No one touches her before me!"

Despite being frightened by Saega, she still protects Asahi from her. Saega draw her sword swing it to Ai to finish her off,

"Hey, Minase… At least try to run away instead of letting yourself be killed."

Asahi stands before her, holding Saega's hard swing with bare hands. Asahi's form changed the last time she faced Saega at Sanna's restaurant with a more complete form with a wing on her back, and her left eye glowing red.

"A-Asahi…" surprised by sudden appears,

Saega smiled at Asahi,

"Finally you showed your full power…" Saega said,

"(Laughed,) it's been a while since I'm back to my own body, now it's time to make you submit, Demon!" Asahi smiles madly.

Like a psychopath trying to kill its prey, she blasts Saega away, and quickly runs to her to blow her again up into the air. She jumps up after Saega and blows her once again down to the ground.

"This speed, it's unbelievable!"

The word slipped out of her mouth Saega regains her stands and attacks back Asahi with the same speed, they exchange blows while Ai only can see the trace of lights moving forward, backward, side to side over and over again.

"Ai! Can you stand?!" A pink haired girl ran onto her.

"Azusa… How's Sanna?" Ai asked.

"Sanna is fine, Fuku also regained his consciousness… Besides that, is that Asahi?"

"Yeah, Asahi… She sounded like a different person.." Ai said,

"Her negative and positive energy are spiking at the same level, she must be under control. But that form and speed, none of them had we seen…" Azusa said.

Sanna walks closer to Ai, "We need to back her up!"

Fukushima followed her, "No, we can… We might stand on her way.. Just like he said, trust this to her… Besides, I'm already on my limit. You too Ai."

Ai sees her hand trembling,

"You're right…" Ai agrees with her brother,

"So what do we do now?!" Sanna anxiously asked.

Azusa holds Sanna's hand, seeing Azusa also trembling makes Sanna realize that the situation is getting worse.

"They are slowed, both of them exhausted…" Azusa said.

Azusa ran toward them in their fierce fight,

"ASAHI! STEP BACK!!!"

She aims a gun at Saega and shoots her several times which she easily evades.

"You piece of shit!"

Saega dashed toward Azusa, she placed her right hand at Azusa's head and slammed it on the floor.

"Azusa!!!" Asahi shouted,

Everyone is shocked by Saega cruelty toward Azusa, Sanna quickly runs to her shooting her with her pistol but Saega does not give any reaction soon when it hits.

Sanna charges her Distortion Shoot once again and Saega finally evades it. Run away from her and make a space between them.

Asahi lands on Sanna's side, looking at unconscious Azusa,

"Is she okay?!" Asahi asked anxiously.

"She passed out…" Sanna unsure about her condition,

"I'll take her to the medical facility, you three hold the monster until Takaya is here!" Fukushima lifts Azusa and runs away, clearing the battlefield, let alone the three girls fighting Saega.

"What do we do now?" Sanna asked Ai and Asahi.

"We should hold up until he's here.." Ai said.

"Both of you cover me, I'll attack her with all I got." She dash toward Saega.

"Asahi!" Ai shouted, worrying Asahi.

Saega summons a energy on her palm, a dark energy flowing from every direction and quickly forming a ball of darkness energy,

"Don't stand in my way!" She shoot the ball toward Asahi,

Asahi lets the shots hit her, not leaving single damage on her, her body glows with purple energy making her withstand the hit. While Saega attempt to shoot again, Asahi's heartbeat suddenly slows down,

"(Holding her chest,) Not now…" Her energy slowly dissolves, she stops her step in the middle of Saega's another shot.

"Switch with me, let me handle it! You're not ready yet-" her other self said.

"No! Don't! I can!" She said,

But her word not showing her reaction, she became weaker, and drop on her knees while the shot nearly hits her,

"You owe me one!" Ai said while shielding Asahi from Saega's shots.

Not long after Sanna jumps in front of Asahi strengthen the shield for another impact,

"Get ready!"

Soon it hits, the shield shattered,

"No way…" Sanna trembles.

Saega shoots them one last time with a more powerful shot than before, the three unable to make another shield.

Asahi's left eye suddenly glows red, and she raises her hand forming a dark shield to hold the impact, it absorbs the big energy and the shield comes back to Asahi's hand.

Asahi was confused, reacts to her own sudden move, unconsciously doing it.

"Our power also shares the same, Darkness.." Saega said

The word 'Darkness' makes Asahi's mind snap, her vision becomes dark and nothing that she sees is there as before. The atmosphere began heavy like she was falling into hole.

"I told you are not ready yet…" a girl's voice talks to her in the darkness.

"What is going on? Where am I?" Asahi asked.

The girl appears once again, showing herself with a sad face.

"This is… Your memories… Your deepest mind…"

"It's dark. Sure it was because we decided to erase everything and start a new life…"

"What do you mean?" Asahi asked.

"Do you remember who you are?" her otherself asked.

"Me?? I am Asahi, Asahi Fukasawa. The daughter of Bella-"

"Before that?" She cuts her,

"I… I…"

"You don't remember, do you? Or should I say, You don't even know why you ended up there in the first place…" she said.

"S-so… You are telling me you know everything about me?! Why don't you start to explain to me and stop confusing me with all of this shit!"

"As you wish…" she walks toward Asahi and makes their head touch each other.

"It all started 5 years ago…"

"What is this view?"

"My memory…"

"Yours?"

"It all started when my- our mother planned to end the cycle of the reincarnation of the ancient warrior. She did that to prevent an experiment that was conducted by our grandfather over Takaya, making him a vessel for the forcefully reincarnating The Prince."

"But before that happened, our big sister and I did not know everything, and what we did was a mistake."

"Is that… Vanny? Big sister-"

"We are taking shelter for the Chaosits large invasion, We are so afraid about the current situation. Takaya suddenly disappeared, we only took Rin into the shelter."

"So we decided to search for him around the shelter even the military buildings, he's not there."

"But we bumped to our mother instead, standing in the middle of runes, holding a big sword."

"Seeing us there made her furious, she asked us to go, but after we told her about the Takaya situation, she immediately told us about Takaya's situation, told us everything about the experiment and she was attempting to stop it in her own way."

"But since we did not know how to react, we just let our mother sacrifice herself to die and walk away from it. While mother was preparing her spell to sealing every ancient warrior power that wandered around the world, we ran onto her, believing she can't take that risk."

"But suddenly the runs flew and hitting big sis in the head left her unconscious. The only one who left was me and I attempted to run again and stop my mother from doing it."

"But I accidently touched the sword, it made my body couldn't move like being struck by lightning… The Power, This Power… Flew inside me, until this day I still can feel how painful it is.."

Asahi falls, unable to process the word from her other self.

"That was how we got this power… The power that chose our mother, and it also chose us…"

"I see everything about my mother's memories, her childhood, her research, everything… Unlike my mother's way, with this newly received power, I made a decision, the most regrettable one…"

"Is to erase and manipulate every single human in this world to forget all about the ancient warriors. Hopefully, grandfather will also forget that. But that also comes with cost…"

"Making them forget about one or two things, it also makes them forget about my existence.. Even if it was odd, the facts and everything that comes to me will also be erased."

"Choosing a mistake yet again, even if my mother fights that decision, I'm still doing it.."

"After that, I was awakened, and saw my body lying in the bed with two women arguing about my well-being. Bella, as you see she's our mother's younger sister... I see Vanny crying beside me, hugs me while mother is trying to pull her and leaving me."

"The only word that I hear from her for the last time is, 'I don't wanna leave my little sister!'..."

"That time I knew that I didn't completely change everything, in fact our blood line seemed not affected at all. So I changed our look from that into you and decided to do the Memory Manipulation once again. But this time I changed my appearance."

"After that, I don't know if it has any effect. Hearing my mother died, seeing everyone Takaya, Rin, Ai, Fukushima live without remembering me, for days, months even years witnessing nobody remembers who I was. It is so painful, but also a relief.."

"B-but… If this is… this is your body…"

"I know what you're thinking, why am I not in control of my own body?" She walks away from Asahi and turns herself back,

"By manipulating people's memories, erasing my existence, and to create a whole new existence, Asahi Fukasawa was borned. Controlling my body, walking, running, fighting, thinking, doing everything with it…"

"It all costs my soul to be sealed away from my own body. Like I said, we are a different side of the same coin, where I became your shadow, controlling everything about this power, not letting it harm you, but you live as my alternate existence."

Hearing all of that, Asahi seems mad,

"Why are you doing all this?! You should be able to stop it! Changing everyone's memories, making them believe you do not exist only to save your little brother… Even creates me as a result…." She sobbing with tears,

"I told you, it is a mistake that I regret, not knowing things after I did it-"

"So take back your body! Instead you are asking me to switch sides and you are using me as a weapon!!!" Asahi cuts her and screamed angry,

Her other self laughed soon after Asahi said that.

"You are mistaken for one thing… Yes I was doing it for my brother but it appeared as a failure, he's now like we all know, he even surprised me. The experiment is successful, and he even finds his own way to use that power, the power of The Prince."

"But I'm not interested in taking back my body and once again robbing people's fate!"

"I do that to protect you not directly absorbs Saega's power! And look where you are now? This is the result."

"If our power purity disturbed by her darkness energy, it will begin to affect you, who knows what it can do to you but it's like you already know what. I'm trying to cover things, letting you live your life without knowing the past, it's all for preventing this event from happening in the first place!!!" her other self shouted scream at Asahi,

An argument between them stops, the images of memories are fading away. The two stare at each other's eyes without saying anything.

Wiping her tears off,

"So what now? Saega is too powerful… Takaya is even on his way to come here and is dealing with her. Is this another reason you wanna switch with me? Not letting your little brother fight the danger?" Asahi said

"I thought you would stay shut and go crazy after hearing all of that, I am impressed…" her other self said.

"What can I expect from an overprotective big sister like you will do for her little brother?" Asahi smiled without worrying about any of the facts that had been told earlier.

Her other self smiled at her,

"Let him off the hook for today, we can't stop Saega, but he can. This is his first test for showing us what he will use The Prince power for…" she calmly said that.

"And it's about time he showed up, we are lucky."

After hearing that, all of the atmosphere started to lift up, the darkness become lighten by the shining light for above, but before things ended,

"Hey, Is it now about time I know your name?" Asahi asked

"(Chuckled) Hmm.. It no use yo hiding it anymore. But promise me onething…"

She step closer to Asahi,

"Even now you know about our past, it is not like you can act as me. You'll never be me. Our lives are different and you have your own, no matter how hard you try to show people who you really are, no one's gonna believe it."

"Promise me, don't make the same mistake as I did… And live your life as you should be…" She said,

Asahi reaches her hand and holds them,

"I promise…" she smiled.

Her other self turned herself into a yellow haired twin tailed child, wearing white jacket. Exactly like the image's that she saw before,

"My name is Asagi, Asagi Takahashi."

"The second daughter of Takuma and Erisa Takahashi. Younger sister to Vanny, and older sister to Takaya and Rin."

"And also, The Second Reincarnation of The Forgotten Princess."