Hey peoples! I'm back with a new chapter for Children of the Sun! I already have four submissions, and more are on the way! So, here is the first chapter of Children of the Sun, starting off in which Amaterasu has been in her torii for decades and ten children are called on to fight the monsters and demons threatening to take over Japan and Amaterasu.
"Amaterasu-Heika hasn't been out of her torii for decades!"
"Should we pray?"
"Nashi(1)! We should wait until sunrise."
"Poor Ammy...this must be hard for her."
Hundreds, maybe even thousands of people crowded around Amaterasu's torii. The sun goddess hasn't been out for decades ever since the Sun-Moon prophecy was told. Rumors had been going around that she was sick, or deceased. People of Japan went to visit and pray that she get better.
Out of all of them, stood a girl of a small stature with jet black ringlets hanging to her back with straightened bangs and brilliant blue eyes looking at the sky with a hint of uncertainty. She held on to a piece of paper with her blessings on it to her chest. "Otosama(2).." The girl tugged on her father's coat. "What?" "Can I pray?" The father nodded.
The child pushed herself through the crowd, saying sorry and excuse me. Until she found herself in the front. Hanging her blessing from the red ribbon it was tied to, she proceeded to go back to her father. "Hey, you!" She looked behind her. A fox with too many tails to count stood in front of her. It was pure white, save for the cerulean markings on it's ears, tails, and hind legs.
She ran toward it, while people were too busy to notice she was gone. She thrashed her arms out wildly, in hope to catch one of it's many tails. However, the fox was too keen, jumping over temples, buildings, even other torii. And then she decided to run to a dead end, in which she saw the fox was there.
"But how do you know that I'm a Kitsune?"
She smirked. "Moshi Moshi(3)?" She asked. "Mo-om-osh..what?" She laughed. "I knew it!" It nodded. "Good work, Kouri." She stopped laughing then. "How do you know my name?!" She gasped. The fox spirit morphed into a young man with jet black hair and cloud blue, almost silver eyes.
"I'm a Kitsune, named Hyokai. I know everything about you. Even the fact that your mother is a goddess, waiting for you to be apart of something." The man said, smiling and looking as if he were about to laugh. "K-kitsune? Hyokai?! Mother..?" He nodded, and started to circle around her. "Your father is waiting. Don't be late." He pushed his face against her cheek, earning a small kiss out of the 10 year old.
With that, the man disappeared and jumped over the dead end. "Mother...?" She was confused, but smiled. "Ka-san is here.." Now she actually had something to be happy about.
That's it for the first chapter! I decided to make little openings for everyone's character along with their Kitsune. So, here are the translations!
(1)-Meaning: No
(2)-Meaning: Father, imformal
(3)-Meaning: Hello. Also a trick for Kitsune, since they can't pronounce the word Moshi correctly.
So, there's my OC, Kouri Rae, Daughter of Yuki-Onna, the snow goddess. Her Kitsune is Hyokai.
Next up: Luna Rose, Daughter of Tsukuyomi, the moon God.
