Axis-powers.2013- Well I could not allow that to happen!
The first few days with Kankri were somewhat difficult. Cronus had to explain a lot to him now that he was human- well mostly human. He apparently still glowed when he gets excited or happy, but only faintly, much like now. "What's this?" he asked, pointing to a mirror and Cronus laughed as he moved around and made different faces at it.
"You've never seen one? It's a mirror." He said as he walked besides him and his reflection joined Kankri's.
"I've never really seen anything up close before...well, not in a long time I haven't. Is it supposed to do something?"
"Nah, it just shows you what you look like."
"Oh." He said, moving closer and studying his reflection. "I look really weird."
"You look fine." Cronus says and ruffles his hair.
Kankri's small smile makes Cronus' turn into a grin. It was still hard to believe that what happened was actually real, even when Kankri has been here for three days. Cronus knows it's impossible that he's been dreaming this long- a small rumbling sound pulls him from his thoughts and he looks at Kankri, who looks like he's about to have a panic attack. "Oh my god what was that?! Is that normal? Am I dying? I've been a human for three days and I'm already dying and-"
"Kan, its fine. You're not dying." Cronus puts and arm around his to calm him down. "You're just hungry, okay? When humans get hungry their stomach just makes noises like that, okay?"
"Oh…okay. Sorry."
"There's nothing to be sorry about, Kankri. Now c'mon, let's go get some food."
Cronus leads Kankri to the kitchen and starts looking around while Kankri sits at the table. He opens a few cabinet doors open and takes a bunch of different cereals to the table. He set them down in front of Kankri and let him see each one. Kankri looked at them curiously before picking up one of the boxes and reads whats on the box. "'Lucky Charms'?"
"Its cereal." Cronus says and Kankri just gives him a blank look, so he explains a little more. "It's food and it has little marshmallows in it. Try it." Kankri hesitantly reached into the box and pulled out a small handful of the cereal and stared at it a second, as if expecting it to move. After confirming that, no it will not move or do anything, he ate the cereal. After a second, he suddenly glows brightly, almost scaring Cronus out of his seat.
"It's really good!" he grins and grabs another handful.
"Glad you like it." Cronus grins also and gets some cereal for himself while Kankri continues to eat it like a kid eating candy. He paused for a second and looked at Kankri, remembering a part of their earlier conversation. "Hey Kankri?"
"Hm?" he mumbled with a mouth full of cereal.
"Remember our conversation earlier, when you said you hadn't been up close to anything in a long time?" Kankri smiles and nods. "What did you mean by that?"
Now the smile is replaced by a frown and his light fades out. Cronus winces and realize that this is probably a touchy subject for him. He is about to take back what he said but Kankri answers him.
"As a falling star, I could grant wishes to people who believed in me enough. I was able to make wishes come true for people, to make them happy and that was my job- circling the sky until I am needed. That is all I did. Stories about "wishing on a falling star" were passed down through families and many people knew of me. Although…one day it all just kind of stopped. No one passed it down, those who knew forgot and eventually I wasn't needed anymore. There were no others that I knew of, so I couldn't ask anyone what to do, so I stayed up there for a long time, a hundred years, if I remember correctly." He pauses for a second and takes a breath. "When you wished on me I was so excited. I hadn't been down in so long that I didn't know how much had changed. I was so happy, but also scared because as soon as you made your wish, I would be unneeded for even longer," he looks at you and smiles. "But because of you I am able to stay here and not be alone. You have given me friendship and a home and for that I will always be grateful."
Cronus smiled, glad that he was able to make Kankri happy. He had a lot of questions he still wanted to ask, but he figured it would be best if he didn't ask them right now, so they both enjoyed each other's company in the faint light and silence.
This is somewhat rushed but I actually do plan on continuing this because I have a lot of plans for it that I just need sorted out. Thanks for reading! : 3