She barged into the tent suddenly while aggressively eating a random apple she found in the woods, grabbed Tundra by the wrist and took him elsewhere.
She roughly pushed him against the tree and held his hands together, "Take me with you! Instead of taking Ellen with you take me! I don't trust her anymore, which, it's not like I trusted her much in the first place, but you know what I mean."
Tundra tilted his head slightly, "And how do you know I'm going somewhere with Ellen?"
Hirune laughed nervously, "Well, you see... I didn't know the jester plushie would listen in on your conversation and tell me what it was. Sorry, I didn't know."
"It's fine. I'm not sure if I said it but I'm meeting with two people so you can both come. Actually, one of them said they might bring a third."
"Okay then when are we going?"
Tundra thought about it for a moment then answered it'd be at noon. Hirune nodded then they walked back to the camp. Clint was cooking on the grill again, Ellen and Kala were researching the lake again, and Kopna was standing there waiting for someone.
Hirune walked over to her, "Hey, ya' waiting for me?"
Kopna looked at her, "Tell your friend Tundra to come over."
Hirune raised an eyebrow but did as she instructed and brought Tundra over.
Kopna nodded and looked at him, "Ellen told me about your whole ordeal with not being able to handle close combat well unless you use Cuelebre's power, so from now on I'm also training you."
He raised an eyebrow, "I'd like to disagree. And either way, I highly doubt you'll teach me something I don't already know."
Kopna took in a long breath and stomped the ground causing a bunch of ice spikes to rise out of the ground beneath Tundra and hold him in place.
"So, you also have an ice artifact huh? That's cool I guess."
"Wrong," she answered as she swept the devourers jaws at the ice on his feet. "My artifact allows me to share the powers of others with myself as long as they're within a certain range. That range is a secret only a select few know, one of those few being Hirune."
Hirune stuck her tongue out at Tundra, "I'm not telling you."
Kopna suddenly started throwing punches covered in moonlight at both of them. Hirune easily started dodging all of her blows, but Tundra was caught off guard and got struck a couple of times. Hirune quickly got on the way and engulfed her forearms in the devourer's energy while blocking. Kopna stopped and hit her with a sweep kick knocking her to the ground before striking Tundra with a Crescent Waxing Moon to the gut sending him flying into a tree hard.
"You, worry about yourself before worrying about others in a situation you can't easily handle. As for you over there, you have a lot to work on with close combat," Kopna said while looking at both of them without a trace of remorse on her face. After all, she was the greatest sword master to ever live.
***
It was a bright sunny day. She could feel her head thumping as she sweat profusely, her stick of bamboo already out of water. She looked up from it at the many people practicing with their blades in front of her. She'd always admired these people and wanted to learn the way of the sword, but her father never allowed her for the simple reason that she was a girl, and as a future lady of the greatest swordsman family, she'd be married off to some random rich kid when she grew up. This led her to see everything in black and white, both figuratively and literally, as the countless sleepless nights of complaining about not being able to train the way of the sword and getting yelled at for it, she'd learn to see things this way, this also led her to see everyone besides her mother and the trainees with a stroke of deep black inky paint covering their eyes.
One day though she started to really think about why she listened to him, and on that same day, she started to secretly learn the way of the blade at night. Not just that, but she'd secretly started to sneak away to a martial arts instructor nearby and learnt from them. Though obviously, one day her father found out about this and to "discipline" her, he decided that he'd make her duel his best student to the death with the deal that she'd be able to train freely if she won. Of course, he didn't plan to allow his daughter to die, and he'd stop the duel before she did, but something he could've never seen coming happened. As soon as the match started within the blink of an eye, she'd managed to break his katana and made a small slice in his jugular, causing his death to be slow and painful.
Surprised by this herself, as she expected him to be stronger than that, she turned around and gleefully smiled at her father. Seeing this the people watching the match gasped at how she could just smile this off and started making rumors about how she got possessed by a demon and that's why she dealt with him so easily and why she managed to smile after killing someone. Though both her father and her knew it was a lie, and he never listened to these rumors and was actually quite proud of his daughter and got the best instructors in all of the land to teach her the way of the sword.
She could finally see people's faces again and she saw all of the vibrant colors in the world after this, and for once, she found herself being happy. Though this happiness would be short lived as her father caught word that the people were planning to burn down their house, so he told all of her instructors to lead her somewhere deep in the mountains and to tell her it was for her final exam. And they did as he said and took her to the mountains and telling her it was her final exam before the burning of her home, which once she found out caused her vision of the world to go back to how it was before she was allowed to freely study the ways of the sword, this was also the catalyst of her creating the Moonlit Fist fighting style.
This was also the reason why all of those years ago, after the home of Namulenza's descendent got burned down and Namulenza hired her to instruct her, she found herself relating to her and agreed. So, she started to teach Hirune, and Hirune ended up becoming the only person she could see the face of, and the only person she could see color around. Now, she was reunited with her, teaching once again in the same way she did back then.