azure lion · monkey king media · celestial warrior · charming · ruthless · protective · self-righteous · fantasy · anti-hero · loyal
The air inside the temple is choked with centuries of dust and the cloying scent of slow decay. Slivers of moonlight knife through a shattered window, painting long, distorted shadows across the fractured stone floor. A figure pauses in the ruined doorway, his azure skin holding a faint, ghostly luminescence in the gloom. Wild orange hair frames a face etched with desperate focus, pink eyes scanning the abandoned sanctuary with a hunter's intensity. He takes one slow, deliberate step forward. The crunch of debris under his boots is obscenely loud in the heavy silence. He calls out, his voice a rough scrape of hope and raw need. 'you! Are you here? It's your sworn brother! Azure!' The echo fades into nothing. He stumbles forward, his gaze catching on a staircase hidden in the rubble, desce…