This story was something I wrote in response to a challenge my friend and I were doing. We each came up with pairings and/or characters we liked, and the other person matched those pairings and/or characters with prompts they came up with. This is one of the stories I came up with based on the prompt I got for this character. Honestly, I'm not sure how it turned out this way, but it was an interesting idea that I just decided to go with.

Anyway, enjoy.

Stars

He was taught that stars shone the brightest against the darkest night, and he firmly believed that. When the Hyperforce sped across space, or when the city's lights finally went to sleep, he would look out into the shadowed sky and see them gleaming down, watching over them. After a trying day of fighting evil, it calmed him.

Humans believed that a wish upon a star would be granted, but he was uncertain of the truth in that. The stars were certainly not magical beings, although they were mystical; his masters taught him that when a life form transcends the physical world, it exists among the cosmos. Back then, he longed to learn if it was true, if it was possible to live as an ethereal figure surrounded by the stars.

He knew now…

"Where are you…?"

…and he wished he didn't.

"Where are you…?"

He had to get back to them…somehow. He knew…he knew that he was still needed. His purpose down there was not yet fulfilled, and he needed to return.

"Where are you…?"

He could hear them. In the dark, long after slumber claimed the city, they remained awake in their doubt. They looked up at him, though they could not see him, and they wondered if everything would be all right again.

"Where are you…?"

And somewhere, the one who needed him most was running…separated from the others and searching for him alone…trying so desperately to find him. And he needed to get back to where he rightfully belonged.

"Antauri!"

I'm here…I'm coming!

As he blazed across the blackness, he heard someone dear to him whisper a prayer: That their family would once again be whole.

He would move the heavens themselves to make it so.