[Page 1 – Calm Before the Fall]
Open on a memory. Three teenagers run across a broken city rooftop at dusk. The sun glows orange. They're laughing.
Narrator (softly):
"Before gods and devils.
Before power or sacrifice…
We were just three souls trying to stay whole."
[Page 2 – The Trio]
Kai – Normal. The balance between extremes.
Ash – The flame. Loud, proud, fiercely protective.
Luna – The shadow. Quiet, calm, eyes always watching.
They sit together on a high ledge, legs dangling off the edge.
Ash (grinning):
"When I get my power, I'll burn everything holding us back."
Luna (flat):
"Fire burns everything—friend or foe."
Kai (nervous laugh):
"…Can't we just stay like this?"
[Page 3 – Change Begins]
Ash storms off one day, fists shaking. Luna turns her back. Time skips forward.
Narrator:
"They couldn't wait.
One gave something up.
The other held something in.
I just… watched."
[Page 4 – The Reveal]
A month later. Luna stands before Kai with blank eyes.
Kai:
"Luna…? Your voice—it sounds…"
Luna:
"Emotion is noise. I gave it away."
Her eyes glow faintly. Kai sees duplicates of himself appear behind her—illusions.
[Page 5 – Ash Returns]
Ash erupts through a wall during a heated moment. His arms burn, eyes wild.
Ash:
"You think giving up your heart makes you better?! I fought for my power. I earned it!"
He blasts flames into the air, scorched tiles flying everywhere.
[Page 6 – Tension Builds]
Kai steps between them. Hands shaking.
Kai:
"Stop! Please—why are you both like this?!"
Luna (emotionless):
"Power requires loss."
Ash (bitter):
"Power requires pain."
Kai (desperate):
"You were both my family…"
[Page 7 – The Ultimatum]
Both step forward, one on each side of Kai.
Ash:
"Join the Vein. Fight with me."
Luna:
"Join the Hollow. Let go and evolve."
Kai (soft):
"I… I can't."
Silence.
[Page 8 – The Fight Begins]
Ash ignites the ground. Luna splits into mirages.
Fire and illusion clash as Kai stumbles backward, helpless.
Buildings collapse. Dust and light flood the screen.
[Page 9 – Kai's Horror]
Amid the destruction, Kai screams their names. He runs toward them, but a blast of flame and illusion throws him back.
Narrator (breaking):
"I didn't choose.
And because of that… I lost them both."
[Page 10 – Aftermath]
The battlefield is scorched.
Luna lies collapsed, eyes blank.
Ash is curled in a crater, his flame flickering out.
Both… gone
Kai crawls through the dust, reaching out, sobbing silently.
[Page 11 – Aftermath]
Kai, alone. The light behind him gone. His face is unreadable
Narrator:
"That day… I broke too.
But unlike them, I never gave or endured.
I… accepted.