Thursday, May 30, 2024

Chapter 3, Part 1, Planet of the starlin

Lonely hadn't realized that when Eos had said "They were almost there," she meant they were two minutes away from his doom. When they landed, he was put in handcuffs and brought to the king, whose name was Arun, to be sentenced to his death. 

"Now. Eos said you pulled her starship off course. What do you have to say about this?" King Arun boomed to his court from his throne, which was solid gold and hovered above the floor of the palace. 

"Your majesty, I didn't know that shooting stars were alien ships! If I did, I would have left it alone and gone back to my book." Lonely tried to explain, but he could see the king wouldn't take his explanation seriously. 

"So you're saying that you almost killed my head junior officer by accident? This is unacceptable." The king raised his voice, but the floor shook and a darkness crept over the large room. There were screams from outside. The doors burst open, and green rocks shot up from the ground. One after another, right towards the king. 

A guard standing near Lonely shouted and ran. Running faster than Lonely could believe a normal person could run and he jumped in front of the king before the spear-like rocks could pierce the king's chest. The rocks stopped, so did the breath of the fallen soldier, who was held up and bent over a green and black rock that now jutted out of his back. 

Eos ran forward, "My king, are you alright?". 

"Yes...thanks to Captain Apollo. He will be remembered. There will be a royal funeral in his honor. As for you, wisher. I have your sentence. You will go on a quest of sorts, and you will defeat our foe, with the help of our new captain, Eos."

"What!?" She exclaimed, stepping back, "But, sir, I'm just a junior officer, surely one of the-"

"Silence. I've already decided. You and the human will go to the surrounding planets and find the portal to Foe's fortress to end his reign of terror, by any means necessary, and you will leave immediately."

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Chapter 2, Part 2, The girl from the stars

The trip took longer than she had anticipated. The boy, Lonely, wouldn't stop asking questions, and it was starting to get annoying. 

"So how are the ships powered?" He asked another mind-numbing question. 

"Cosmic energy." She answered, but in her mind, she was wondering how humans could know so little about themselves and the universe they live in.

"Are there others like you?"

"Like what?"

"Mind-numbingly to the point." 

"Ha ha." Eos rolled her eyes. 

"Just picking. No, I meant like the same species or...?"

"You're asking if all people in space are Starlin?"

"If that's what you are, then yes." 

Eos inhaled a deep breath, getting ready to explain a long story, "Yes, there are other star people, many cheerful and many cold. They live much longer than humans, well, most species really. It started many eons ago after the lifeless war, when the last Starlin started to go out. He planted fountains all over the universe that would unknowingly give any person who drank from it a much longer life. One was on earth, I believe you humans called it the fountain of youth. He used the last of his power to travel around the universe to pick up the newborns and teach them our way of life. We repopulated and destroyed the fountains."

"And the others?" Lonely asked curiously. 

"Hate us. For not sharing the power with them, they don't understand that once you drink...you forget. You forget everything. We were powerful and content being alone in our small corner of the universe, but others want our power. There are small planets around ours, with creatures who want a taste of our power, but they've sat in silence for the last hundred years until.....well, until the Foe came." Eos trailed off. She didn't want to talk about that. Not now. 

"Foe? Is that a name?

"Yes. Now, no more questions, please, Lonely. We're almost there."

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Chapter 2, Part One. A girl from the stars

 "YOU ALMOST KILLED ME!" Lonely yelled at the bazaar floating girl in front of him. 

"YOU ALMOST KILLED ME!" Eos retorted, "DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH ONE WISH COULD PULL A STAR SHIP OFF COURSE? LET ALONE TWO??"!

"A what?" 

"Look, I'm going to have to go back and get new coordinates, because your wishes erased my old ones. I'm also going to have to bring you in for major interference on a junior star cadet's ship."

"WHAT?!" 

"Look, kid, I'm sorry, but-"

"Don't 'kid' me! I'm the same age as you!....Probably.". She raised an eyebrow and looked him up and down.

"Last time I checked, humans couldn't live to be 1,600. Are you 1,600?"

"...…No, 16." 

"Look, I'm sorry I have to take you in, but you have thirty minutes to say your goodbyes to anyone you like, because they won't be here when, or if, you get back." She looked sorry, but Lonely didn't believe it. In fact, he believed this was all a dream. 

"I fell asleep reading again," was what he was thinking when he picked up a book from the ground and sighed to the fallen star, Eos. 

"I'm ready now.".

"Alright!" She hopped to the side of the comet and pulled at a section in the side, making a door. 

"After you, human!" Eos hummed. He stepped in, wondering how they would both fit inside something that seemed it could barely fit her, but his wondering stopped when he poked his head in. 

"It's bigger on the-!"

"Not anoth-! Inside. I know. Just get in!" She grumbled like she had heard the statement one too many times. 

"How?"

"Space magic." She stated. Lonely couldn't tell if she was joking or not, but decided not to ask because she already seemed ticked off.  

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Chapter 1, Part 2, The Star Girl

It wasn't unlike her to fall asleep; the long flight and the somber hum of machinery made her drowsy. The alarm had woken her from her sleep, 

"WARNING! WARNING!" It screamed 

Snapping back into existence, she saw that she was falling into a forest. She started punching random keys on the dashboard of her ship. 

"Come on...come on!" she muttered. Just before the comet-like ship hit the ground, she had managed to find the right button. It now stood at a standstill, hovering above the ground. Relief hit her like a train, thankful the ejector seat hadn't gone off from the quick stop. Turns out it was delayed, and just before she stood up to exit her ship, it ejected her into the air. 

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Lonely stared at the comet that hovered feet in front of him. The trees pushed away from him, now making a more open area. He wanted to move towards it, but the heat radiating from it made it impossible to get close. Then part of the top opened and spat out something. The thing flew into the air, screaming, and smacked into a tree. He ran to see what it was and was surprised to see a dark skinned girl with scars, bent over a branch on the tree, muttering something about Earth's gravity.

"ARE YOU OKAY?" Lonely yelled from the ground. 

"JUST PEACHY THANKS!" She called, sarcastically. She had managed to get herself in a good enough position to jump from the tree, but the girl would end up breaking her legs if she fell from that height.

"WAIT!" He tried to warn her, but she jumped. She didn't fall, though; she just floated to the ground gently. 

"Sorry about my...uhm startling entrance, my name is Eos, and your wish just pulled me off course."


Monday, May 13, 2024

Part one, Of Chapter 1: A Falling Star

Most people say that wishing on stars is a child's dream, but most believe in them. He never did. It seemed to the boy that it was the only hopeful thing in the whole messed-up world. His father had left when he was three, and his mother died a month after. 

They never gave him a name that he knew. His aunts said they knew it, but couldn't pronounce the name; all they knew was that it meant lonely. So that's what they called the boy: lonely. 

It had been a hard day at school. His name had made it difficult to make friends, and it didn't help that school just sucked in general. After dinner, he had escaped the arguments of the house and retreated to the woods to his usual hideout, which consisted of a rotting log and a makeshift skylight made from missing leaves up on the branches above. He had hidden a book of fairy tales in a hole in the roots of a nearby tree. 

Those books, not his aunt's house, were his home; they had been his mom's. His Aunt Molly wanted to burn them. His aunts believed you should die in honor; they hated Lonely's mom for dying and leaving him in their hands. 

These books told stories about princes, frogs, poison apples, towers, and happily ever after. Something Lonely felt he might never have. Taking a random book, he sat on the muddy ground, leaning on the maggot-filled log. He had started reading Rumpelstiltskin when the sky became bright. Shooting to his feet and looking up, he saw that a shooting star was trailing in the sky. Shutting his eyes tight, like he always did, he made a wish. Well.....this time he made two. 

1. A friend

2. An adventure 

Little did he know this star would answer both of them. Lonely opened his eyes. The star should have been gone, but it was there and seemed bigger than it had before he had closed his eyes. It had been getting closer and closer. Right. Towards. Him. 

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Promt #6

 "Are you sure you know what you're doing?" 

"Puh-lease! I've been doing this longer then you've been alive!"

"You're three years younger then me." 

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