Third chapter, and end of act1/prologue here! I sure hope the long wait between all these chapters hasn't been too much of a hassle to deal with, I really don't mean to make you guys wait so long.

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And now, to the chapter!

Luna's guitar strumming was brought to a halt when she flinched and turned to the nearest window, feeling slightly uneasy.

That energy... Lily?

"Is something wrong, Luna?"

The rocker snapped back into reality and turned back to see who was calling her: Becky, with a concerned Dana by her side.

"Oh, it's nothing, just that I feel like Lily could be in some magical trouble," Luna scratched the back of her head. "But how could that even be, right? The world has been ordinary for ten years."

Becky and Dana exchanged looks, then tilted to their sides, allowing Luna to gain a good look at a monochromatic crack on the wall.

"H-How long has that been there?" Luna stammered, pointing at the crack.

"It opened a little bit ago, but you were so focused on the guitar lesson we thought you wouldn't want to be interrupted," Becky explained. "And before you ask, we asked other people if they could see it, but it seems we're the only ones who can see it."

Luna put her guitar down and walked to the crack, Becky and Dana following her as Luna took a closer look at the crack, scratching her chin as she looked at the other end of the crack.

"I can't believe it... This definitely looks like the Twilight World, but that was closed years ago," Luna remarked. "How come there's a crack on the world leading to it?"

"My best guess is that something from the Twilight World entered our world," Dana said, crouching next to Luna. "After all, the creatures from the Twilight World are still fairly mysterious; there could always be one that could travel dimensions."

"But that only raises another question," Becky pointed out. "If there really is a Twilight creature capable of going between dimensions, why would it wait until now to do it?"

"Perhaps travel between worlds requires a lot of energy?" Dana guessed. "Or they just figured out how to do it recently? Just because there could be a creature that could travel dimensions doesn't mean they'd be good at it."

Luna paid little attention to the banter between the girls and reached for the crack, though she didn't get far before some electricity escaped from it And struck Luna, sending her slightly back as she screamed in pain and clutch her hand.

"Luna!" Becky exclaimed as she and Dana ran to the rocker's side. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, but... It's been so long since I've felt like this..." Luna slowly stood up and looked at her hand. "Last time I felt like this was... Ten years ago..."

And with that said, Luna closed her eyes and channeled some energy, prompting Becky and Dana to take her out of the club before she caught any unwanted attention.

They scolded her for it, but she mostly paid attention to what happened in front of her: the energy came out of her hand, and slowly morphed into a familiar weapon shape.

An axe.

"Wait, isn't that the axe you used to summon back when you were... A Lux Aura?" Dana inquired.

"I-It is, but that can't be possible," Luna inspected the weapon. "All Lux and Umbra Aura weapons were erased when the Twilight World was sealed."

"Wel, that crack did look like it lead to the Twilight World,"-Becky shrugged. "Don't know why it would give you your weapon back once you touched it, though."

Luna felt uneasy once more. "There's that feeling again. I guess I'm going to have to see what Lily's up to."

Dana raised an eyebrow. "Are you planning to go alone?"

Luna raised her brow in return.

Lily was pushed back by the taller cloaked figure, groaning before she blocked an incoming sword swipe with her mace. She proceeded to push the figure back slightly before she swung the mace, hitting them and sending them back a couple feet.

"Impressive," the smaller figure said as Lily caught her breath. "Even ten years later, without touching the weapon once, you can handle and swing it like it was nothing. You truly are incredible, Lily Loud."

Lily winced. "How do you know my name?!"

"Doesn't matter," the figure smirked. "Just as how it doesn't matter how long you search, you won't find the Twilight Fox."

"That's it!" Lisa exclaimed, putting a hand on her head. "Twilight Fox! That's the name of the thing that can close the rifts!"

"But if they know who's Lily, and the Twilight Fox," Lincoln's eyes widened. "Then they must know about the rifts-!"

Suddenly, the smaller cloaked figure leaped from the lamppost and landed in front of the energy dup, swinging the remaining sword at hand, forcing them to back away as a line of fire erupted in front of them.

And then, the smaller figure chuckled as she appeared behind them and spun around, creating a circle that burst to flames soon after.

"I'm sorry, but I can't have you get involved with Lily's fight."

"Ha, the fool here is you!" Lisa began levitating. "We can just fly-"

And then the top of the circle was closed off with another ring of fire.

"-out of here."

And outside the orb of fire, Darcy backed away from it as she glanced back at Lily's fight with the taller figure, who began swiping their sword harder and harder as Lily could only guard against the barrage of attacks.

"Lily..."

Darcy glanced at the orb of fire once more, then narrowed her eyes with determination as she ran towards the attacking figure. She reached for her pocket, and took out what looked like... A small balloon.

"Hey, you!"

The figure stopped attacking and turned to Darcy just as the girl finished inflsting a balloon before releasing it, sending it flying straight for the figure's face.

The figure was barely stunned by the balloon, but they were stunned long enough to allow Lily to send them flying with another swing of her mace.

"Darcy, I'm grateful for the help, I really," Lily sighed as the girl ran to her side. "But balloons aren't going to help; I need you to take put your lux aura weapon."

"That was my weapon, though."

What sounded like a record being scratched was heard as Lily threw a baffled look at the girl. "Excuse me?"

"Yeah, back when I was a lux aura, my weapons were balloons," Darcy explained.

Lily blinked twice. "Okay, but, could they do something different or-?"

"Nope."

"They were just balloons?"

"They were just balloons..."

Lily hummed. "I see."

And then another swing from the figure's sword separated the pair. While this didn't stop Darcy from giving Lily some balloony support, the cloaked figure was a step forward than her, swinging their blades to sporadically pop the balloons before they became further annoyances.

"I don't think this is working, Lily!" Darcy exclaimed, hesitating to make another balloon. "Any other ideas?!"

Lily simply grunted as she was forced on her knees by the figure's intense sword swings, each causing more and more cracks on the supernatural mace.

"Lily!"

The pair turned around and the cloaked figure stopped their attack on Lily ro focus on the newcomer: Luna, who clashed hard enough to send the figure slightly back.

"Are you okay, Lily?!"

"Luna!" Lily chirped before hugging the rockstar. "I'm so glad you're here!"

Luna brushed Lily's head. "And I didn't come alone!"

A couple explosives rained down the taller figure and blew up just as Dana and Becky entered the scene, holding more explosives and a sword respectively.

"You got weapons too?" Lily asked in disbelief. "How's that possible?"

"We'll give you an explanation soon, I promise," Luna said as she cracked her knuckles. "But first, we need to deal with whoever this is!"

Luna, Becky, and Dana leaped for the cloaked figure, only to be sent flying back by a swing of her sword. The resulting gust of wind, too, dissipated the fiery dome from which the smaller figure was using to contain their fight with Lincoln and Lisa.

"Oh, and it was just starting to get interesting!" the smaller figure whined as she jumped back to the taller figure's side. "Why did you interrupt my playtime?!"

The taller figure pointed at Lily, who turned back to normal as she was surrounded by Luna, Becky, Dana, Lincoln, and Lisa. It was soon after that the rest of the sisters and Clyde also arrived that the figure started to get nervous.

"Well, I know that fighting back isn't the best idea when outnumbered," the smaller figure grabbed the taller figure's hand and they both jumped up to a lamppost. "So, we'll take our leave now-"

"Not yet!" Lily exclaimed. "First, you will tell us why you attacked me!"

"Simple, really: You're the Lily of legend, one of two auras who " defeated" the menace known as Dawning Dusk and saved the world," the smaller figure chuckled. "I wanted to see if you had gained some rust since then, especially since if you did, getting the object to seal the cracks will become much harder."

Clyde raised an eyebrow. "You know about the cracks?"

"The thing you're looking for is called the Twilight Fox: a creature that can travel between both our world, and the Twilight World," the smaller figure explained. "Whenever they travel between worlds, they create rifts between the worlds, which are meant to be used as shortcuts."

"Why can only former Lux Auras see these rifts, though?" Lynn asked.

"You think I got all the answers?! I'm just an ordinary dark cloaked figure who knows more than they should, but not that much!"

"There's so many things wrong with that sentence," Lisa groaned.

"Speaking of cloaked figures," Lincoln turned to face the taller cloaked figure. "Who's the figure that attacked Lily?"

"Ohoho, you're going to love the answer!" the shorter figure answered with a mocking tone. "Go on, buddy. Show them who you are."

The taller figure grabbed their cloak and ripped it off, revealing themselves to be none other than...

Leni Loud. Wearing some kind of futuristic mech armor, and with grey markings across her face. But her most striking feature were a permanent glare with glowing eyes.

"Leni?!" Lori exclaimed, but the figure said nothing.

"What did you do to Leni!?" Lincoln growled.

"Relax, Lincoln, I didn't do anything to her," the hooded figure answered as they jumped off the lampost and landed on the ground. "All I did was receive her after the members of the company chose to punish her."

It was at this point that Lincoln recognized the figure's voice. "Wait a minute, I know that voice! You're-"

The figure took off their hood and shook their head as they revealed themselves to be a girl. But not just any girl, she was-

"The girl that was pestering me earlier today?!" Lily exclaimed.

"Stella?!" Lincoln shouted soon after.

Suddenly, the duo turned to and pointed at each other. "Wait, you know her?!"

"Ahaha, you guys really are a riot!" Stella snapped her fingers. "But the time for jokes is over."

Suddenly, a large shadow loomed over the team, and once they looked up, they saw the source was a large spaceship, looking rather oddly shaped like either a camel or a donkey.

Probably both

Hopefully not both.

Once the ship stopped, Stella reached for her pocket and took out a piece of paper, which she threw to Lily soon after.

"What's this supposed to be?"

"An invitation!"

Lily inspected The paper. "An invitation?"

"Yup! It's an invitation to my floating island, which is also my home, in order to try and get your sister back to normal!" Stella eyed the rest of the group. "Of course, you have a limited number of guests you can take with you, so choose wisely."

Lily frowned. "I don't understand."

"It's simple: you want your sister back with free will? Come to the floating place to find the key to unlock her brainwashing. Do nothing, and she remains under my control."

With that said, Stella and Leni were teleported into the ship with a tractor beam, and once inside, everybody stood back agape at what just happened: a girl, who was someone Lincoln apparently knew, and who lived in a floating island, also had Leni under her control somehow.

Couple that with the Twilight cracks, and it seemed everybody had their work cut out for them.

But that wasn't what caught Lily's attention the most; what caught her attention was what she saw once she opened the paper, and saw the first line:

Tetherby Enterprises.