Fall of the Moon

'''Fall of the Moon is a "chapter" of Asriel's childhood. '''The lost of Wolfram's light.

One day, when he was 6, a group of unknown people attacked the Liengsky House for unknown reasons. It happened very suddenly: five aggressors were facing Wolfram outside the house when he was cutting wood, and his mother was in the living room with Asriel when other five entered through the windows. The attackers weren't a problem for an expert huntress; the problem was Asriel, who was defenseless without aura and semblance which made things difficult. Luna was taking a lot of damage, but she hid Asriel in the kitchen when she finally defeated the attackers. 4 more came in, one was a juggernaut, but she beat them back using her semblance (Elemental Control through Light). As she ran out of aura and energy, one of them woke up, clumsily grabbed his weapon and tried to kill Asriel (who was in front of him). However, Luna's last efforts made her able to stand between the weapon and her son... resulting in Luna being pierced by a spear. In that moment, when his mother fell down in front of him, she said her last words to Asriel.

"Be the one... Who howls to the light..."

And then turned into million sparkles. All that Asriel remembers of that day were those words, and the howling of wolves. It was on that moment when he activated his aura.

After those events, Wolfram fell into a state of depression for months, trying to hunt those who killed his wife. Asriel felt guilty about his mother's death, a feeling that led him to his wish of becoming a huntsman, to save people, serve justice, and help others so as to not have the same fate of his mother.

One year after Luna's death, Asriel and his father moved to Patch, where Wolfram had contacts that helped him to be a teacher at Signal Academy and get a house near Porte Dorée, a coastal city. One day, Asriel was trying to use a longsword that his father had for combat classes in order to hit a wooden dummy, something he was somehow able to do, getting the sword stuck in the wood but falling during the attempt. He could barely grasp the sword and, when his father saw Asriel hit the dummy, scolded him after his attempt, he concluded that even if he scolded Asriel for doing these kinds of things, he knew that he would never stop, so he told him:

"Look, you are holding it wrong. Rest your hands, tomorrow I will teach you some basic things. What do you say my child?"

The next day, Wolfram started particular sparring lessons with Asriel, giving him a lightweight and small wooden sword, adapted to a seven year child. For obvious reasons. Wolfram promised his son that he will carry a real weapon soon, that for now he must learn how to even wield one. "That's a promise."