Prologue

"Uncle Henry! Uncle Henry, look! Look, look, look, quickly!"

"Sweety, you know I'm not that fast, you have got to wait a little", exclaimed the man called Henry with a gasp, faking to be entirely exhausted.

"But it will be all gone until you are outside! Now hurry up", squealed the little girl, her wild bright blonde hair jumping up and down as she ran across the trimmed grass and finally came to a stop next to an old tree, of which all leaves had already fallen in gold glory as the winter was fast approaching.

The child raised her arms up to the raven blue night sky, closing and opening her hands rapidly, as if she was trying to grasp something from mid air. Her different coloured eyes were wide with wonder sparkling in them. One was blue, the other was with a little green tint in it. Something she had inherited from her father, just like the light hair. Her skin, actually rather light as well, looked a little tanner than it was in comparison to her hair, which reached barely past her shoulders.

"Are you coming?!", she demanded, a big smile spreading over her face, showing two holes in the front where her teeth were currently missing.

"Yes, yes... gosh...", Henry gasped, acting as if he was desperately catching for air, as he knew it would make his niece happy if she thought she was the fastest girl on planet. He dropped to his knees and laid his big hands on his thighs, coming down to one level with the girl. He was her father's younger brother, but looked nothing like him. He had dark brown hair, with very few slightly lighter hair. His eyes were a dark blue, his skin naturally tanned as he worked outside all day as a commander of a big fleet of space-ships. His full name was Henry Griffin Jr., named after his father. And being only 27 years of age, he was one of the youngest commanders in their part of the galaxy. "How can a six year old be so fast, it's a miracle to m-"

"-Stop talking and look", the girl laughed, grabbing her uncle's face in her little hands and making him look upwards.

"Oh my... how... This is overwhelming...", Henry breathed in awe, getting back to his feet and craned his neck up even more, taking in the full sight above him.

"I knoooow", the girl squealed happily.

"How did you know of this?"

Without taking her eyes of the star constellation she was so excited about, she began to explain: "I was looking for my book, and saw a picture of this", she pointed at the stars once more, "and thought it was mine, but it was some strange astorolog... asotrology... no astrolg- uhh..."

Henry chuckled lowly when his niece trailed off, frowning deeply when she didn't know how to pronounce the word she had stumbled upon, before helping her out. "Astrology."

"Yes! Yes, something about that", she said quickly, her round cheeks growing warm in embarrassment. "And then I found out about it being tonight, it only happens all one hundred years, you know?!"

"You were really lucky to have spotted it today, and not tomorrow", replied Henry with a warm smile, grabbing the girl under her arms and putting her on his wide shoulders.

"I know", the girl sighed, setting her elbows on her uncle's head and rested her chin in her palms comfortably. "After I tried to read all of that star stuff in your book, I took it with me up to the roof and looked through the telescope. Aunt Sophie showed me how to use it rightly-"

"-Correctly, sweety, not rightly."

"Ah.. right.. thank you", she answered, squeezing her eyes shut for a second before she continued. "Well, then she showed me and I looked for the stars, and after an hour I found it. It took me really long... I didn't even need the telescope, that's way I couldn't see it. In your book was something about it only being visible for 16 minutes, because the Lagoon Nebula gets in our way really fast, that's why I was so excited." With that she bent over Henry's head so she was looking into his eyes upside down, her hair falling all over the place. "You are toooo slow!"

Henry laughed when his niece's already high and squeaky voice rose even a few notes higher when she tried to scold him, and trickled her sides carefully, getting loud squeals of laughter out of the young girl.

"Do you think it really exists?", the blonde asked after some minutes of silence, the star constellation already fading, and added with a pout: "Daddy and Mummy say it doesn't."

"I don't know, sweety. What do you think?"

"I don't want it to be just a legend! I want to go there and find it myself. And every planet has its own constellation... And we look at it right now."

"Then, I'm pretty sure it does exist somewhere outside this or any other galaxy, Heaven."

"Yeah...", Heaven sighed in content, smiling widely once more and stared up into the sky until the ever so short star constellation of the legendary Treasure Planet slowly vanished completely from their sight, leaving only faint stars behind that glowed lonely in the night sky of Caelum, the smallest planet in the entire galaxy.

Heaven's family, including her of course, was one of the very few partly human that still lived on Caelum. There ancestors came there about 200 years ago, since then they never moved on, so they were basically 'hybrids', part human and part caelum. The origin people of Caelum were descendants from the sky itself. Legends were told about stars dropping out of the galaxy and becoming mortal as they found themselves a place to live.

Caelums had special connections to the stars and drew power from them. They were able to create a special form of dust, star dust as they liked to call it, due to its sparkly and bright appearance. It had special properties and could be used for various types of circumstances.

It occurred rarely, but there were some lucky hybrids, who inherited those talents as well, by far not as strong, but they could develop their gift, just like the origin caelums could, too.

"I'm going to find it!"


AN

So, this is it. I started off from the beginning.

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