As they sat on the Ferris Wheel, Kenshin's cell phone rang. He answered it.
"What? Ok calm down we'll be right there!" Kenshin said.
The two got off the ride and Kurai didn't even question him. She knew. Reiko was in danger.
The two arrived in front of Headquarters and transformed. Several monsters were standing there and two were holding Reiko. The monsters were standing on the necks of Yahiko and Sanosuke.
"Why would you do this?!" Kurai shouted. "I fought for you! I wanted to save you!"
"We do this on the King's orders." The monster said.
"You are a child who would do well to obey her father!" The other monster scolded.
"Soon the world will Fall to its one true king!" The two chorused.
"NO!" Kurai shouted, and the resulting pulse purified the monsters and threatened to knock them away.
The electric and ice attack rushed toward Kurai, and Fighter wasn't close enough. Reiko ran out from her hiding spot and took the attack.
"It isn't too late..." Reiko whispered as blood spilled from her lips. "Remember Priestess, Darkness doesn't always equate to evil and Light doesn't always equate to good..."
The words resonated in Kurai's sleeping mind.
Xxx
"Mama...if I'm Dark, doesn't that mean I'm evil?" Priestess Kaguya asked her mother.
"No, little one." The High Priestess said. She picked up her daughter and showed her the stars, and the earth. "Your father is Light, and even now he battles against us."
"I do not understand." Kaguya said.
"Darkness doesn't always equate to evil and Light doesn't always equate to good." High Priestess said. "Just as power itself is not inherently good or evil, not even the power to end the world. It is our choices that make us who we are, not our abilities, or even the planet we represent."
"So I'm not bad, and the Fallen are not bad either?" Kaguya said.
"Even the Fallen will be presented over and over again with the chance to redeem themselves. It is your job to never stop believing in them, just as Kenshin never stopped believing that a Priestess could be a soldier, despite what your father said." The High Priestess said.
"A priestess soldier." Kaguya said. "Kaguya."
"Priestess Kaguya." The Priestess said.
Xxx
Kurai's form shuddered as memories flowed into her, her body awakening. It was time at last.
Everyone stepped back as her form pulsed and changed.
She was wearing the hakama of a priestess and glowing with silver light
"When born we are guided by the light of each moon, we will meet by chance again and again." Priestess Kurai said. "I am the Soldier of Redemption, Priestess Kurai!"
The Priestess called Joyuese, her sword by placing her right hand, with index and middle fingers extended, in front of her neck, then raising her hand to the upper right. Joyuese then appeared coming out of her chest.
"HIKO!" The Priestess shouted. A powerful attack purified all monsters in the area. It was thrown by a whirlwind.
The monsters had fallen to the ground, and looked terrified.
"Wait! Wait!" The Priestess spun the sword in the air above her and it became a harp. She lifted it and started to play.
"I will sacrifice...all I have in life to clear my conscience..." she sang.
The monsters grabbed Reiko and took her into the shadows, but their power had come undone, and they looked at the Priestess with a broken expression.
"NO!" Tears began to fall and hit the harp. It glowed and out of the top came the light of her soul.
The glow consumed her, and her entire body. Fighter moved to her, but Yahiko and Sanosuke held her back.
Kenshin, Yahiko and Sanosuke bowed in front of her.
"Priestess..." Kenshin said and walked over, holding her in his arms. "I gave you that ring the day you expressed your love for me. We had a hard time of it, as the three of us were your guardians. Your father outlawed us, realizing our love for each other and trying to keep us apart. I gave you my Warrior's Oath. I became your Warrior, and you my Priestess. I gave you that ring and it was our promise to love one another no matter what form we took."
Kaguya stood. "I remember our promise, and I have kept it. But there is another promise I remember, one that I could not keep in my former life. We will save the Fallen. I have the power now. It is time to face my father. This world belongs to us, we just have to fight for it."