Origin of Fearlings…
Summary: Everyone knows of Pitch Black and his rebirth from the fearlings… but what were the fearlings origins, where did they come from… and why are silver stars the blame of their origins…
Arthur's notes: Story takes place in the normal universe of RotG… in a time when Pitch Black was not the boogieman… in a time; even before he was General Kozmotis Pitchiner… he is a privet working under the first general… General Satin Onyx (Sa-teen On-ex)…
Also some head-cannons for this story (only for this story until further noted… if you want to use these head-cannons, feel free to use but I would like to be credited for these please…):
Sandy is a MALE star… and is GOLD… but what of female stars. So here it is; Male stars are Gold, Female stars are Silver. Male stars are numerous, Female stars are few… very few. Because of there being so few females to males, male stars fight over or even kill to protect their female from other male stars… grim, but a fact (for this head-cannon).
In rare cases when a Gold and Silver star meet, they form a bond that cannot be severed by no other… because there is no word for this bond in star language, they adapted a word from a race of trolls who have a complex system for romance (homestruck reference :D)… the only word that truly fit… Matespirit.
(And this one is a bit m-rated) a Female star who has yet to mate with a Male star and is a virgin, apon a Female stars first mating session… she can give one wish that can break the bounders of normal wishes. Whatever the wish is, it will be granted… but be warned, some wishes backfire and turn on the person who wished it… the severity of the backfire depends on the type of wish… which can be deadly, or worse… it takes the saying 'Be careful what you wish for' to an extreme…
I may add more in later chapters, but for now these are the main head-cannons for this story. Now for a bit of foreshadowing and character info;
General Satin is a bit of a control freak, but he hides it well. He is a man that wishes for more power… more than what he has now. He has short, straight black hair and golden eyes… I'm sure you are figuring out the story thus far…
Kozmotis is a young man about to be a father, he is honored to be in the golden army and always does his best to protect the innocent… and every promise he makes, he keeps. His motto 'A man is only as good as his word.' (All takes place before his change…)
Nova Phoenix Mansnoozie is a single father, like most Golden Stars. His matespirit passed away during a mission as a star pilot granting wishes. His son, Sanderson 'Sandy' Mansnoozie, was still a new born and has never seen his mother, thus has never seen a silver star in which the mother is the first a young male star sees… he himself is a star pilot an is said to be the best around… thou he would deny it greatly, stating his matespirit was the best around…
Silver is a new born and is an orphan… she will develop thru the story. (Is also my OC :3)
Sorry to have kept you waiting but I thought I should inform you of some important stuff before we dove into the story… I hope I didn't confuse you too much. If you have any questions please leave a review and I will answer it to the best I can ^^;
It is rated T because I am terrible at mature moments… this is sad because I am 22 :P
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
The Golden Age… a time where there was no shadows… no fears… no darkness. The Tsar Lunar family watches over the golden star citizens… male citizens. There were rarely any female stars to be seen. Almost none…
The head of the family established an army in gold as the enforcers of justice and peace… the king has dubbed them as… The Golden Army.
The one who was chosen to lead this Golden Army was one person who has proven themselves as the best of the best… Satin Onyx….
"All hail you're new general… Satin Onyx!"
"SATIN… SATIN… SATIN…" the crowed cheered…
The new general had hidden a dark grin…
"Ok soldiers… LINE UP!" comes the command of General Satin.
Satin had been a general for a few years now and loved every second of it. He loved the feeling of power, of dominance over the weak… but as of late, he has been working on a project. A project that will get him even more power…
But as of today, he needed someone to work at his side… to assist him. To do so without questions…
Satin walked the line of solders, carefully looking for any flaws or reasons that the solder could not preformed the task… he stopped at a scrawny looking young man "…" he looked at the boy who cowered under his glare, Satin inwardly grinning "… Tisk… and you call yourself a soldier… MAN UP BOY!" the young man straightened up and yelled "SIR YES SIR!" and Satin continued down the line…
'Huff, these are not men… these are lambs being lead to the slaughter house…' he thought as he looked over every soldier, every man, every boy… till one caught his eyes…
The soldier was tall and lean, slick black hair, and had a smile on his face… This interested the general.
"YOU…' Satin pointed to the man as the soldiers around him backed off '… what is your name?"
"Privet Kozmotis Pitchiner… SIR!" he answered.
"Tell me… Kozzy… why are you smiling?" he asked.
"Because I am an enforcer of justice and peace, and will protect the weak and innocent… SIR!" Kozmotis smiled. '… and my beautiful daughter was recently born as well…' he thought.
Satin brought a hand to his own chin… "Tell me, if I pick you to assist me… will you do as I say?"
"To the full extent of the law. …. Oh, SIR!"
"Hmm… do you have a motto?"
"Yes sir… a man is only as good as his word…"
Satin began to grin… 'Yes, he will do…' "Ok then… Kozzy… Do you give me your word that you will assist me with a project I am working on?"
Kozmotis stood straight up "SIR. YES SIR!"
As the months went by, Kozmotis found his work to be just… weird…
The general preferred to stay in his home… never taking a step out. Kozmotis mainly would be running to and from the Grand library, bringing back books from generations ago.
Kozmotis went to ask Satin about them but the general merely said "… it is no business of yours. Just bring the books I ask for and return these." The general looked pale and worn, having not left his home for the nine months that Kozmotis has been working with him.
Satin was looking darker and darker as months pass…
'How long can the general keep this up?'
Kozmotis looked at the current books he held, all on female stars. 'Why is he looking up books on silver stars? They are only stories and legends… I doubt there are any silver stars left… there is just so few of them… it's sad really…'
He looked at a particular story… one that was said to be the beginning of the Tsar Lunar Empire. He read it to himself, seeing as he didn't need to be back so soon… the book itself held the ancient star language and the pictures where in simple detail…
'Once apon a time, there was two stars who loved each other very much… a young Gold star and a young Silver star… the silver star wanted to make the gold star as happy as she could make him… she asked him what he wished for the most… as he thought, he asked to be a king… but deep down in his heart, he only wished for her to be with him… in life and in death… 'Your wish is granted…' she said, seeing his true wish rather than the one he asked for… soon after, the gold star became king and the silver star his queen… not long after, he fell to the greed and power of the crown… the silver queen begged for him to come to his senses, but the golden king ignored her pleas… one night, during a great storm, the gold king let his paranoia get the better of him… he held his sword close as lightning flashed and thunder sound… as his fear grew, he saw a figure in the dark… he rammed his sword threw the being… only to find out it was the silver queen, coming to check on him… the gold king began to weep over what he had done… he failed to see ax on the wall… the ax fell, and cut thou his side… as he bled, he looked to his queen and admire her silver light… 'I should have never wished to be king…' he said to her, crying… 'For you to be king, I did not grant that wish. You did not truly wish to be king… you wished for us to be together forever. Your true wish for us to be together, in life and in death… that was the wish I granted…' she said with a final smile… tears came to the golden kings eyes as she said all this… and as her light went out, the golden king held her close… he realized what a fool he was… he did not need to be a king to be happy… 'Wait for me, my silver angle… I will join you soon.' He whispered to her… the next day, a servant found the king and queen passed on… they were entombed in a gold and silver casket together… in the will of the royalty, for the silver queen was only a few months away from her first born child, the title of king and ruler of the land went to Manny Tsar Lunar the first, the loyal servant of the silver queen… the lunar family was said to have been in rule ever since…'
It was an old fable on how the Tsar lunar family came to power, as well as the old legend of sliver stars and the ultimate wish…
Kozmotis closed the book as he looked up at the sky… why was Satin looking at these old stories? What could he be after? "Maybe I should check on him…"
'LOOK OUT!'
The startled cry caught Kozmotis attention. He looked in the direction of the cry…
A black creature on four legs ran into the open square…its body long and slender… spiral horns grew straight back from its head… its tail long and whip like… its maw dripping with saliva… its long claws dripping with liquid gold. "Yeess, run little stars… your feearr… such a delicacy…"
Many golden stars, young and old, ran from the beast in fear… a young infant star fell over and began to crying as the father went to protect his child… Kozmotis immediately got to his feet and drew his sword.
"If you harm another star, I will slaughter you beast!" Kozmotis yelled as he stood in front of the father and son…
"Hee hee… you threatening me little soldier? I am more powerful than you can ever image… I AM A GOD!" the beast called. It stood on its hind legs; standing twice the size of Kozmotis…
The father star and his son ran for cover as the two began to fight…
Kozmotis got in a few good shots in on the beast… but the attacks seem to do nothing. The creature out best him by using its whip like tail to trip him. As Kozmotis was on his back, the creature pinned him down… it drew its dragon like head down to his ear "You won't be able to protect them all… Kozzy…" whispered the beast as he gave a toothy grin…
Kozmotis eyes widen at what the beast said… and that nick name… only one person called him that… "… Satin?"
The beast lifted his head, his yellow eyes and toothy grin face down at Kozmotis as more soldiers were arriving… "Tell next time… Kozzy…" the beast said as he ran into the shadows…
"Kozmotis… are you ok?" asked one of the two soldiers that came to his aid…
"… I am fine… but we need to check on the General…"
As Kozmotis and the soldiers come up to General Satin's home, Kozmotis busted the front door down…
"General?!" Kozmotis called out… no answer.
"I will check the upstairs, you two check the main floor and basement…" he said to the soldiers.
They both nodded as one went down the steps to the cellar and the other went through the hall door.
Kozmotis walked up the steps, sword drawn for defense…
He entered a room and looked around, finding papers and unreturned books…
Kozmotis took a look at the papers on the desk "What where you doing Satin?"
From the looks of what the general was doing, he was trying to… reverse a wish. All theories on how to undo a wish…
"What was I helping you to do?!"
A small noise came from a crossed the all… to another room.
"…?" Kozmotis walked out of the room to see what the noise was… he slowly opened the door…
As he walked into the dimly lit room, the site he saw before him was horrific…
Before him was a silver star… incredibly thin and malnourished… her stomach was huge and round… she was barely breathing…
"… no… oh Royal Tsar, no…"
He rushed over to the star, he looked at her fragile state… he looked her over, and came to a conclusion.
Satin raped her, and wished for something… but what that something was… that was the mystery…
The star flinched and griped at her stomach, her silver blood flowing from her…
"…! A-are you… oh, oh what do I do?" Kozmotis had no idea how to comfort the little star in her time of pain… he didn't know if the star would survive the birth… "… c-can you hold on while I get a doctor?"
The star looked at him with tears in her eyes; she shook her head 'no' …
Kozmotis looked helplessly at the Silver Star as she was giving birth to her first… and last child.
Hours seem to pass as the two soldiers came up to check on Kozmotis, only to find him looking after a dying star… she had yet to birth the child and was growing weaker…
They brought up a few chars for Kozmotis and themselves to sit in… he took the sit and gently grabbed the stars hand… "… Please… please live…" he begged…
The star looked at the young man, her eyes glazed over. She gasped as she pulled on the hand clasping hers, wishing to speak to him one final time. Kozmotis leaned in to listen…
'I don't… have… much time. Cu… cut her… out of me. Save her… and… and find her… a good… home…' she weakly said as she final breath was drawn…
Kozmotis when wide eyed as she watched her die that very second… 'She… she knew the child's gender already…' he looked to her stomach as the light congregated there and began to dim once more…
"…! You… soldier, hand me your knife NOW!" he commanded hastily…
The soldier complied and had the knife out before the command left Kozmotis mouth…
Kozmotis was quick to cut out the child from the dead star… he had the new born female star in his hands… small and loud as she screamed out… so tiny and underweight…
"Sir, I can't believe what just happened… in the GENERALS house…"
Kozmotis held the bloody child close… and looked to see that only one of the two soldiers stayed behind "… Where is the other soldier?"
"I am here sir… just fetching some warm water to clean the infant." Spoke said soldier as he entered with a small tub of warm water and a few towels slung over his shoulder. "Is the mother star ok?"
"… She died before the birth… Kozmotis had to cut into her lifeless body to get the child out… thou I doubt she would have survived after anyway, looking at her current condition." Said the other…
Kozmotis began to clean the screaming child as the two soldiers gave the body a look over…
"Shhh little one, you're safe now…" he said to the blaring infant, gently washing her as she began to calm down… "… there, there little one… for one so small, you have quite the lungs…" he chuckled…
Kozmotis had never seen a child so silver, he has seen many few young female children, but none with a glow like this infant. Her silver hair and her pale skin… she barely opened her eyes but he could tell they were a combination of blue and silver… Kozmotis gently wrapped the child in a warm clean towel.
"Now, dear child… what do we call you?" he said as he pointed his finger to the child. Her incredibly tiny hand barely grabbed his thin finger, making cooing noises…
"How about Silver?" asked the first soldier.
"Yea I like that name…" replied the second…
Kozmotis looked to the two soldiers and then at the child. "Hmm, that seems appropriate. Silver it is." He smiled down at the new born… thou in his heart, he felt like the cause of the now orphaned child…
"After the events of what you have told me and how you handled yourself… I promote you to General. Congratulations… General Kozmotis Pitchiner." Said the king "Do you plan to care for the orphan child?"
"Yes your majesty. I promised the mother I would care for her." He said, still holding the child close.
"I see… will you be able to care for her with your own not even a year old yet?"
"I believe it will be easier to care for them both…"
"I see… I wish you well, thou the young infant looks to be of low health…"
"I believe she will survive, after all… she is a Pitchiner now." The new general smiled as the little Silver Star dreamed…
I worked all day on this first chapter rather than work on the forth chapter of 'a memory in a song'
Please tell me what you think so far of this story and if you leave enough reviews, I'll make a second chapter.
Also, I would love to hear what you would name the two soldiers that helped Kozzy… if I like them I'll use them in the next chapter…
And if you can guess the father and son in the square, I will give you cookies and Doritos :3