Title: Stardust
Author: Shadow Rider
Classified: General/Romance
Disclaimer: None of the things associated with this story are mine (there are too many things to list)
Summary: Clark Kent is trying to win the heart of his one true love by trying to catch a fallen star however will fate intervene or will evil win. Clois and other pairings.
A/N: This is not a crossover, inspired by the movie and book Stardust. Please give this story a chance. Hope you enjoy it. (I have been trying to do my other story but this idea has been going on in my mind for ages anyway on with the story.) If you get confused please just tell me and I will do my best to get rid of any confusion.
STARDUST
A philosopher once asked "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really. Do the stars gaze back? Now that's a question. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Our story really begins here, 150 years ago at the Royal Academy of Science in London, England, where a letter arrived, containing a strange inquiry.
It had come from a farmer and the scientist who read it thought it might be a practical joke of some kind. But he duly wrote a reply politely explaining that the query was nonsense. And posted it to the young man who lived in a village called Smallville, (in America) so named, the man had said, for it was a small place but famous for the wall that ran alongside it. A wall that according to local folklore hid an extraordinary secret.
"Look Martha, I'm just going to go and explore the place, nothing will happen, it won't be dangerous but if I can just get proof that I am right, we could earn lots of money and get out of this place. Don't you want that?" the young man strode around the cluttered room trying to locate his belongings for the trip.
"Yes Jonathan, I do want that but we have been over this many times, You can't cross the wall, you know that, everyone knows that and even if you found something there no one would believe you" Martha replied secretly begging that her husband would not go but her mind knew that the man was too stubborn to give in.
"Martha, you can cross the wall and that's what I'm going to do"
"I just don't want to see you get hurt or come home disappointed that you found nothing"
"I will find something Martha, I can feel it"
She sighed "Fine, just promise me that you will be careful"
"I Promise" And with that he kissed his wife on the forehead and set off on his adventure.
After half an hour of walking Jonathan had finally arrived at the gap in the wall to find an old man stationed there but as he edged closer the man immediately blocked his way.
"Um excuse me, I'm just trying to get through to the other side" Jonathan asked nervously
"Don't you know the stories that roam the village, let me just refresh your mind, YOU CAN'T CROSS THE WALL" he shouted unnaturally loud for an old man
"You don't control me; I can cross the wall if I want to" Jonathan raised his voice levelling the same tone as the man's, as if challenging him.
The man was silent for a moment before replying "I know you don't I, you're Martha Kent's husband Jonathan, you read all those rumours about the wall..."
"Don't try to change the subject, can't you just let me through"
"I'm charged with guarding the portal to another world. And you're asking me to just let you through?"
Time to change tactics decided Jonathan; he grabbed the man's shoulders and turned him around so that he was facing the deserted Greenland on the other side of the wall.
"Yes. Because, let's be honest, it's a field. Look do you see another world out there? No. You see a field. Do you see anything nonhuman? No and you know why? Because it's a field!" he said in exasperation.
"Hundreds of years, this wall has been here. Hundreds of years, this gap's been under twenty-four hour guard"
"Well..." he started
"One more word and I'll have you up in front of the village council!" he said as he tried to shoo the young man away.
"Well that sounds rather final" his heart fell as he turned around to go home.
"Yeah"
"Better just go home then I suppose."
"Right then, Night Jonathan, give my regards to your wife." He patted the man's back and walked with him a few steps forward. As soon as the old man was away from the gap, Jonathan ran as fast as he could and jumped through the gap in the wall ignoring the old man's cries of "stop" he carried on through the field until he reached a market place, little did he know what awaited him...
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