Ankoku looked at Cosmica, then Stella, then Athena, and Cosmica again.
The two-tailed fox by her side was looking more than slightly ticked off. "Well now, that was quite the surprise, wasn't it?" He said rolling her eyes.
"Please excuse Mono. He says it is 'different' here." Ankoku said rolling her eyes as well.
Mizuiro looked at Cosmica in wonderment as she stood before him, tossing her hair casually.
"Hey doesn't Mizuiro mean Aquamarine?" Athena said snickering.
"Hush." Aquello the water dragon said nudging her with his leg. "A mermaid princess shouldn't do such things in the first place."
Cosmica suddenly had a flashback. The last things her mother, Rose, had told her.
"Don't run off like that Cosmica. You scared me, with this war going on. It's the perfect time as well for a member of the darkness to snatch you up and curse you from the guardian of light you are. You are important to this kingdom…we can't have you be taken away by death or the awe of moonlight. A girl like you shouldn't do things like that in the first place." Queen Rose said hugging her daughter close after finding her swimming in the West Atlantic.
"I know mom. I was curious; I wanted to see if your beautiful wish for me could really come true! You know what I'm talking about, the birth of love thing you told me about." Princess Cosmica replied to her mother, she was only 11, yet she was curious as a kitten of this 'birth of love' her mother talked about it and how it was the 'beautiful wish' everyone has at one point.
"Ah, you mean the songs in the story of the seven seas? In the story about the Indian Ocean? About how the orange pearl mermaids wished that when the future about their first princess, Princess Sara. Which no matter how long she kept her beautiful wish, she always wanted to return to the sea. Yet when she died, her successor, Seira, said it was the birth of love that led the Princess Sara to her own fate. Also, that she was meant to be with the one she chose."
"What did her kingdom think of her speech at the ceremony?"
"They laughed and scolded her for thinking such things. However, if they refused to listen, Seira forced them to listen to what she had to say. Her heart was young but pure."
"What about the first beautiful wish? Aren't you going to tell me about that?"
"Please ask questions more slowly Cosmica. Then, one dark and moonlight night when two lovers were about to be separated for almost their whole lives, she tried to save them in the name Sara's beautiful wish, and she sang a song just as beautiful. Seira was sad when it didn't work, but because of her, they were able to be together in the future. She also helped defend one of the strongest loves of the seven seas, by singing a song representing the birth of love. Everybody is eventually able to find it." Queen Rose said. "I also have a wish. I'm not sure at your age you'd think it's beautiful, but my wish for you is to fall in love, and stay with that person who you truly care for and who cares for you back…Oh my little star, this probably sounds silly…"
"No, not at all." Cosmica said. Everybody nicknamed her 'little star.' "I want everybody's wishes to come true! Nobody's wishes are silly mother….unless they make them silly…"
"I know" Queen Rose said, hugging her daughter tight. Queen Rose saw all, and with that she knew….that this was the last time she'd see her daughter for maybe forever.
The flash back ended. Yet surprisingly so did the meeting.
Cosmica snapped out of it just quick enough to see Mikosu ram into her head.
She screamed.
Ankoku, Mono, Athena, Aquello, Stella, and Mizuiro cringed at the sound.
"So let me get his straight." Athena said. "Mono is Ankoku's demon-cat guardian. Mizuiro is Stella's seahorse guardian. Aquello is my water dragon guardian, and Mikosu is Cosmica's bat-thing guardi-"
"Flying fox!" Mikosu shouted very annoyed.
"Tone it down." Stella said waving her hand in a down gesture.
"Who asked you?!?" Athena quickly snapped.
Aquello sighed.
Cosmica, however, walked slowly out of the cave and turned into a human with Mikosu tagging close behind.
A shadow was watching them. "I'll catch you in your downest hour….my little star. As long as I am Zephyro, the vampire slayer prince, that friend Luno of yours will never be able to live the same; I'll make sure he doesn't live at all!"
Luno was walking on the beach; he spotted Cosmica struggling on the rocks coming down from the cave. "Cosmica!" He shouted waving.
Cosmica waved back, lost her balance, slipped, and went tumbling down the rocky hill side.
Luno cringed as she turned over each time. "Are you okay? Of course you're not okay." He said when she was finally laying in the sand. "What do I do? What do I do?" Luno snapped his fingers. "That's right make sure she's not dead!"
Cosmica sat up straight and rubbed her head. She didn't look very happy…
Luno looked at the unpleasant expression on her face. He began pondering 'Run or stay, run or stay, run or sta-'he was interrupted by a punch in the head.
Cosmica was so very flustered she didn't even know why she punched him in the head.
"Cosmica, Please warn me when you're going to resort to violence" He said rubbing his head.
Cosmica got up. "Luno is that you? I that you were some random weirdo who decided to wave for some, very odd reason that I have no idea of whatsoever."
"No comment." Luno said, getting up and dusting off his knees.
"So how have you been in the past 5 hours?" Cosmica asked as she sat down on the shore. She stared out at the sea. Cosmica wished very much so that she could see her mother again.
"Pretty well. Then there's that big bump on my head." Luno said thinking about sitting beside her but decided it wasn't the best thing to do right now.
They both stood there on the beach for some time.
"Do you have any siblings?"
"I don't kn- no"
"What?"
Cosmica thought for a second, once again gazing onto the blue sea…
"No"