Chapter Text
On a rainy spring evening in Burgess, a young woman was sitting in her room with 2 small children, a boy and a girl. The boy was a brunette with honey brown eyes, about 7 years of age, wearing blue pajamas. The little girl had messy blonde hair, bright green eyes and looked to be about 3. She was wearing pink and white pajamas.
The adolesent appeared to be 16 years old. Her hair was white with silver steaks, icy sapphire blue eyes, and snow white skin. She was wearing black pajama shorts and an oversized white t-shirt. She also wore jewelry; a silver ring in a swirled shape, a silver bracelet with a golden sun, and a silver necklace with a crescent silver moon pendant. Just by looking at her you got the impresion she never took them off. She was playing a board game with the 2 children.
The boy interuped the older girl. "Star tell us a story!"
"Please?" The girl teased.
"Please!!" The boy begged.
Star laughed "Ok Jamie! What story do you want me to tell?"
"Two Sisters Two Sisters!" Shouted the little girl.
"Ok Sophie calm down, I'll tell it."
"Hey! Its my turn to choose!" Said Jamie.
"Oh so you were going to choose a diffrent story?" Star smiled slyly
"No- er Yes- uh- Oh just tell the story please!" Jamie flushed.
Star laughed cheerfully "Ok then." She then grew solemn and began weaving her tale.
"Once upon a time, there were two celestial sisters. The elder sister was Solana and she resided in the Sun. The younger was Luna and she lived in the Moon. They once had a third, but she was long passed." The girls voice grew solemn at that point, as it always did.
"The sisters' power came from the unique qualites each child is born with. In return for this power, the sister's were sworn protecters of those children and their world. Well, one day the two sisters decided that they needed a group of very special people to protect the children of the world. They had already chosen 4 guardians, but those were adults and the two sisters wished to find children. For, a child could only be truly understood by one of their own.
"And so Solana tried her hand first. She searched the world but could find no child gifted to do the work she had in mind. So she let a single drop of sunlight fall from the sky. And from this small drop of sun, grew a magic golden flower. This flower had the ability the heal the sick and injured, for Solana had decided that, if she could not find a child to wield her gift and protect the other children, she would gift all the world's people instead.
"Unfortunatly, the first person to find the flower was a selfish old witch. Instead of sharing the sun's gift, this woman- Mother Gothel- hoarded its healing gift the keep herself young for hundreds of years! And all she had to do, was sing a special song. You must remember, magical incantations are often interwoven with music. The witch intended to keep the flower for herself and use its healing gift forever. But sometimes even when a secrect is as tightly kept as that of the Witch's flower, the wind whispers it, and the creatures of the forest gossip. And so soon a small kingdom flourished in the surrounding area, started entirely by whispers of the sun's gift.
"Well as all this was happening, Luna was trying her hand at finding a child. Years after the flower bloomed, Luna sensed something. She looked for the source of the feeling and she found it! She saw a child, a baby about to be born. He would be the firstborn of a royal couple from a small northern kingdom. This child was to be born with an incredible gift. This gift would give him a connection to Luna herself. She decided that once he came of age, she would tell him of this connection and give him the choice to take up his dutys as a guardian. As it was, she blessed him on the day of his birth. With a single drop of moonlight, His gift, his connection to Luna, and his very Fate, were sealed.
"But alas! Once the child reached his forth year and his gift was made manifest, his parents took him to a village of trolls whos elders were gifted at spell weaving. They came looking for a spell to rid their son of his gift. Thanks to Luna's blessing, the child's gift would not be ripped from him, but they did find a spell to suppress it. But, the price was high. The couple may have lost their son; but their son lost his special gift, his memorys, and his family. And as though that weren't enough, the spell also erased the boy from the minds of almost all who knew him, so that no question would be asked. Only the boy's parents and the woman with them that night would remember. The child was given to the woman, Alice, to be raised by herself and her husband. All three present that night were blind to the suffering that would be caused by their attempt to change fate. Suffering for themselves, for their children, and suffering for untold numbers both inside their kingdom and out.
"Luna was deeply grieved by the loss of one of her chosen, and by the fact that the very ones she was trying to help viewed her gifts as a curse. The northern kingdoms suffered the worst winter they had ever seen, forceing vikings who resided in the northern seas to clash with those further south as they searched for ways to survive. Luna's sister sensed her pain and- overcoming her own grief- cursed the Kingdoms next summer with a heat nigh unbearable to man and beast alike, as punishment for the royal couples thanklessness. It might not have ended there, if not for Luna overcoming her grief and quelling her passionate sister's rage.
"Grief and disappointment nontheless, 6 years later- when Luna agian sensed a child -she blessed the newborn girl all the same. It was somewhat ironic, considering her connection to Luna's lost chosen. The girl was sweet and kind, a loving child.
"3 years after, when Luna's second chosen was eagerly awaiting a young sibling, there was an accident. Though fatal to none, the fall brought the girls younger sister into the world a month early. The stress, and fear this event brought on caused the girl's gifts to show themselves a year early. But because her kind heart didnt want to worry her parents anymore than they were, she kept her new ability a secret.
"The newborn was gifted just like her older sister, but not in the same way. In fear of the newborn suffering the same fate as Luna's fist chosen, Solana blessed her, thus in a way gaining her own first chosen child. And Solana came to love her as though the newborn was her own. The sisters were doubtless as to what wonderful guardians the two kind-hearted sisters would one day be.
"The night after her sisters birth, the girl snuck into the nursery. She stared down at her newborn sibling, pondering her new responsability as an older sister. Summoning her newfound gift, she created a single snowflake. As it drifted down to land on her little sister's nose, the girl swore to protect her.
"Centuries after this, in the southern kingdom of the suns legend, a queen was about to have a baby. But she became very sick. She was running out of time, and that's when people usually start to look for a miracle. Or in this case, a magic golden flower. The whole kingdom had heard the legend of the sun's gift, of how it was the foundation of their realm. And so they started their search.
"That night Gothel was visiting the flower. She was, as usual, restoring her youth. After all, all she had to do was sing a special song.
"Just as the glow given off by the Flower's magic faded, Gothel heard footsteps. She hurriedly covered the flower with a fake bush and turned to run. But in her haist, she failed to realise that the movement had cause her lantern to knock over the bush concealing the flower. Just as Gothel hid two castle guards appeared. 'We found it!' They shouted to the others in their search party. As they made their way down the cliff, Gothel realised with growing horror that her disguise had failed, revealing the flower! Her flower!
"As the guards dug up the magical plant, Gothel swore vengence. And she would not rest until she had it.
"Meanwhile, the Queen was healed. A healthy baby girl- a princess- was born, with beautiful golden hair. To celebrate her birth the King and Queen released a flying lantern into the sky. And for that one moment, everything was perfect.
"And then that moment ended.
"Gothel Broke into the palace. She was intent on killing the new baby princess, because without knowlege of the magical song to unlease its power, they had destroyed the flower to heal the Queen. But before Gothel delivered the blow, she noticed something. The slumbering King and Queen were both brunettes. But the hair of the princess was the color of gold. Just like the Flower. "On an impulse, Gothel sang her magic song. The baby girl's hair started to glow! Gothel reached down and grabbed a lock of the princess's hair. It turned her young just like the flower!
"How was this possible?! Gothel knew that the Flower's power could not be passed on in another form. Perhaps having the gift of the sun flowing thru her mothers veins -and thus her own- had changed the unborn child so that she was gifted this way. What Gothel didn't know was that Solana had blessed the young princess at birth, the same way as her sister blessed her own. Letting yet another drop of sunlight fall, Solana sealed the Princess with this power, also sealing her connection to the sun and her fate. Nothing can ever break a seal created by a Celestial, except for one thing.
"Gothel grabbed a nearby pair of scissors to cut off a lock of the child's hair. But when she tried to cut it, she found she couldn't. The child's hair couldn't be cut! 'Fine!' Gothel decided 'There is more that one way to take this power and still have my revenge!' "Gothel grabbed the child, but the harsh treatment made her wail; wakeing her parents. They startled awake, only to see a cloaked old woman in the window. In a flash, the figure disappeared with their child. The kingdom searched and searched, but they could not find the lost princess; for deep within the forest, in a hidden tower, Gothel raised the child as her own. Gothel had found her new magic flower, but this time, she was determined to keep it hidden. "But the walls of that tower could not hide everything. Each year on her birthday the King and Queen released thousands of flying lanterns into the night sky in hopes that one day, their lost princess would return. "But, long before any of this happened, someone was born who would help guide these lost children. These children of the Sun and the Moon. Though she did not know where her destiny lay, who it would lead her too, or how she would change the fates of so many...." Jamie and Sophie slumped against eachother, fast asleep. Star smiled and started to put them to bed. They never stayed awake to the end of the story when she told it before bed. In truth, that was why she alway refused to tell it any other time. There was no end. Yet. She sincerely hoped that, someday soon, there finally would be an ending she could tell the children in her care...