Once upon a time, mankind looked up to the stars for the first time.

The stars, forever eternal, looked back, and were shocked. For humanity reflected them in a way that they'd never seen before. While the celestials were pure, never knowing sorrow or pain, the earthbound knew sorrow and strife.

And this pain, this torment, called to them in a way nothing had before. For you see, the Celestial Spirits have always been beings of protection, though they had never seen anything that needed their protection before. The call was like a siren, and so, despite their King's warnings and wishes, they left their heaven to meet the earthbound, to ease their pain.

And they fell in love.

And from that love, came something never seen before. A being that knew happiness and pain, purity and impurity, a child of the Earth and Stars.

Draco's was the first, though he was not the last.

Enraged by the Dragon's actions, the Spirit King banished him to the sky, forever locking him from his children, but Draco, desperate, spread himself far across the heavens, as far as he could go, taking up most of the sky in an effort to be able to watch over his children in exile.

And he was not the last…

Soon enough more and more children of Spirits were born, so that many of the earthbound learned of their origins and the secrets of the spirit realm. This made the King angry, and eventually he even threatened to cut off his world from the earthbound forever! These children are a risk! He'd said. I will not put my friends in danger!

However, the spirits, attached to their children and their earthbound loves, were upset by this. They pled, begged with the King, asking him for mercy, for once knowing sorrow, fear, desperate to not lose their families.

Then, one spirit, a brave, powerful Lion, stepped forward. I will go. He said. I will see if the children are truly to be feared.

And so he went, quick before the Spirit King could tell him no, he fled to the Earthland to find one of their children, to prove if they were a danger or not.

But then it soon became apparent that there were so many people to look through! Too many, the spirit children were far too few and the Earthbound too much, there was no possible way for him to find one, nor even did he know how to prove that they weren't a threat.

And then he heard the cry.

A call, a piercing through his heart, his soul, a desire to protect, to care for, to guide. He followed that feeling, so unlike what he experienced in the Celestial realm, and soon came to find a little girl, surrounded by a mob, crying out for help while her two parents were assaulted.

In that moment anger came over the Lion, such as he'd never felt before. He gave a great war, a blinding flash of his brilliance taking out the villains, and soon he was alone with the child, confused and concerned. Why did they want to hurt you? He asked.

The child clung to his clothes, crying and shaking, afraid still, even after he'd saved her. They know what I am. She said. They say it's my fault that the heavens turn against us. Because I'm born of the spirits.

In that moment his heart broke, and he returned to the spirit realm, set in what he was going to say.

The King was angry, irritated that the Lion had run off without his permission, but he cut the King off, returning with his report. They are no danger, he said. They are in as much risk from their own kind as us. Our children need us. He spoke on and on, for hours, making his case, days in the Earth Realm passing like a dream, but some of the most important, as he fought for them.

Don't they deserve to be given a chance? And in a world that would reject them as much as we have been?

The King thought long and hard over his old friend's words, and, seeing how much it hurt his friend's hearts to see their children in danger, he finally conceded.

Very well Leo. He responded. You will be allowed to protect and aid your children, but. He added in. Only so long as they prove they deserve it.

And so, keys were made, portals that whispered directly to the spirit bound to it, and if the children were very lucky, and clever, and brave, they would find these keys, and their birthright would come if they only asked.

For the spirits loved their children, and still do to this day.