197 Eclipse

"Perish as the rest of your kind have," declared Li. "Under the purifying light of the moon."

Li, his arm raised towards the sky, the fusion energy compacted into his hand, unleashed the killing blow.

"[Fusionboost: Moonbeam]"

A pillar of orange light, so bright that it was almost white, shot upwards from his hand. The light pierced through the dark smog, punching straight through the dome of smoky darkness above. 

It was as if the sun itself had been unleashed into the midst of night, and when that light dimmed as the pillar faded away, the smoke in the skies completely parted away. The smog of the smoke had gathered so strongly that it was hard to even remember that it was, in fact, day. But in an instant, night became day, the azure blue skies and golden sun of Soleil revealing themselves.

For what must have been the first time in nearly fifty years, natural sunlight fell onto the Chattering Woods. 

But day broke for only a moment.