Dawn slumped to all fours as she dry heaved, choking on exhaustion and failure. "Professor, I can't..!" She breathed, a combination of sweat and tears running down her face. "I'm not.. I'm not gonna make it..!" BraveCole and his titan disciple, Dawn, were deep in the Furnace of Sol in core of Mercury. They stood on top of a molten earth platform that was kept together by Brave's Light. The temperatures were more severe than the sun, and Dawn didn't know how much more her body could hold up. Brave walked over to his student and squatted down to her level, putting his arms over his knees. "You can't? You're not gonna make it? Is that what you're gonna say when all of your comrades around you have fallen and you're the only thing that stands between the enemy and innocents?" Brave told. Dawn cried more as she listened to her teacher talk. She wanted to be strong. She wanted to protect others. BraveCole grabbed Dawn by her short white hair, a fistfull, and brought her face up to his and looked her in the eye. "Sometimes you just feel tired.. Weak.." BraveCole spoke. "And when you feel weak.. You feel like you just wanna give up." Dawn choked on her inner angst. "But you gotta search within you. And find that inner strength, and rip that shit out of you. Find that motivation to [i]not[/i] be a quitter and [i]not[/i] give up.." Brave let go of Dawn's hair and grabbed her by her chest plate collar and began dragging her toward the boiling edge. "...No matter how bad you just want to fall flat on your face." After Brave muttered that simple phrase, he took Dawn and slung her over into the air. Dawn, being too exhausted to even scream, was quickly submerged into the unforgiving magma and did not resurface. BraveCole stood patiently, but a sliver of worry and doubt formed within him. Seconds passed by. Then minutes. "Dawn.." BraveCole said silently. Deep below the surface of the magma, Dawn continued to float down into the core as her body was still. [i]Am I gonna make it?[/i] [i]No... I'm not strong enough. The Traveler made a mistake in choosing me.[/i] [i]I'm a fluke.[/i] [i]But BraveCole.. My Professor.. My mentor.. My.. Father..[/i] [i]He's counting on me! RJ, Ventis, Ms. Becky, Ouros, and even the vanguard! They're all counting on me! I can't.. I can't...[/i] [i]I can't fail.[/i] And in that moment, Dawn's inner light and the spirit of the sun awakened inside her. She expelled a mighty roar and bursted up through the magma, engulfed in ferocious flames and landed back on Brave's platform. She looked at him, eyes burning with confidence as she gave a smug smile. BraveCole smiled back. "Now, then. Let me see what you got." Dawn then brought her arm up and swung it back out, summoning her true power. [b][i][u]*CLINK!*[/u][/i][/b]