AKUSAIMONTH: BERSERK
Day 06: Sun & Moon

Summary: The love Isa's mother has for the universe, turns Lea and Isa into the Sun and the Moon.
Genre: Gen
Length: 570 words


Birthday Stories

At the age of five, Isa's mother told her son the story of the day he was born. Her love for the universe imbued the story and turned it into a tale that Isa took very seriously. Isa, much like the moon, was born in destruction. The most vicious storm in a hundred years had pulled over Radiant Garden the same evening Isa's mother went into labor. Two of the castle's four towers fell to the intimidating and ear-deafening sound of light, thunder, and Isa's first cries. It had seemed a near impossible task for the villagers to recuperate from all of the losses the storm had caused, but time showed that Mother Nature might have had a plan for them. The storm had, according to legend, been just as devastating as the disaster that created the moon, when a sister planet crashed with incomprehensible force into Earth. A new, stronger, viable city rose from the rubble and made it possible for Isa, the little miracle, to grow and flourish in a place where only the sky was the limit for what could be accomplished.

Lea was born much earlier. A whole six months earlier, when the seed for wondrous growth lay in the future, awaiting Isa's arrival. Lea didn't have a story of his birth like Isa's, and so, Isa could only conclude that there was almost nothing special about Lea's birth. Lea was one in a line of many.

They were ten the first time they argued about it. Eleven when Lea had had enough and poured liquid glue onto Isa's hair in art class. Isa had first cried of anger, but it was his cries of sadness that made Lea regret his impulsive actions. Lea regretted them again when they both sat in the principal's office, accompanied by their mothers, sullen looks all around.

As they waited for the principal, Isa's mother told Isa another story with quick glances at Lea to make sure that he, too, was listening. No one could suspect the birth of a sun. What seemed like colorful clouds, with no other purpose than to look pretty, were, in fact, baby chambers for suns in the making. Quietly, the clouds created what would become the center of systems, homes of planets and moons alike. After a million years of the colorful clouds twirling, a sun was born.

"Isn't Lea your friend, Isa?" She asked softly.

"No." Isa quickly shot Lea a glare and pouted.

"The Moon needs the Sun to shine," she tried again.

"Lea, apologize to Isa," Lea's mother said.

Lea slid off his seat and walked over to Isa. With the story fresh in his mind, he felt a little better about their argument earlier. Isa had been born in the destruction left behind after Lea's birth. They had both made an impact on the world, and with that knowledge, Lea could find it in his heart to rise above the hurtful things Isa had said.

"I'm sorry I poured glue in your hair, Isa." He shifted his weight from one foot to another. "I won't make you cry again. I promise."

"… I'm sorry for saying that you were a nobody. I didn't mean it."

"Can we be friends again?" Lea asked cautiously.

"Okay."

By the time the principal came into the office, Lea and Isa were in their corner of the room, re-enacting their explosive births with creative sound effects and lots and lots of twirling.