Chapter 1, Walk Away
By : SilverRose82
It's the Prequel to A Bed of Stars, with this tale we learn how Cosmos came to know and love all that she knew in A Bed of Stars, I do recommend reading A Bed of Stars first. It is not necessary to understand this story but it would help make better sense if it was read first. ~~~ That was a lie it seems. Reading at least the last four chapters of A Bed of Stars will help you understand this story.
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It was a time on unrelenting peace, not for certain lands and galaxies but for Cosmos, the eternal guardian of the stars, it was peace. For now the dangerous wars that were raging on in the galaxy that had once been her home, would wait, having helped a proud race get relocated before the destruction of their planet had taxed her powers as a whole. Her body needed to gain back the magick it had lost, her sister-child Fëa guarded the doorsteps to the Cauldron allowing no creature to pass into the creation of the stars.
It had been many years since the tired soldier had stepped upon the lands of the Sol Galaxy; most of her years had been spent trying to stop wars that should not have been caused, stop the eradications of races that were needed in the future, and just protecting innocence was her life. She remembered when her sister-child, Fëa, had left for the green planet it had been in the early years of new creation. She had spent many years down there while Cosmos guarded the Cauldron with apt attention, nurturing it and staring into the white beyond, remembering her first sacrifice in that very endless room. She still could not believe how her life had changed after that battle had ended.
She had been forced into a marriage of false destinies, into a meaningless marriage where the only thing she was allowed to do was sit and look pretty while her husband ruled with the sole intent of power. She had sat on the sidelines as he banished the same people they had fought years ago trying to save a dying utopia, a utopia that would never be because its rulers did not love one another and bickered and fought more than they solved anything. She had stared into the eyes of their soon to be opponents, trying to relay to them that this was not of her choosing and she had not power to stop him. In reality she did but the planet was not hers, she was a Lunarian not a Terran it was a marriage out of alliance rather than love.
Sighing Cosmos shook her head, silver strands fell around her prone form as she gazed out into the black abyss of space where stars were the only companions she had. Well, that would have been a lie; the silver soldier had many companions along the years when she had been battling Chaos or some other force that could try an bring back Chaos. She may have made friends among many peoples and creatures on her journey but none of them filled the dull need that was in her heart. With all her friends and acquaintances throughout the years and decades, Cosmos still felt that she was missing something, something of great importance to her life.
Turning her thought back onto her sister-child, Cosmos remembered when she had first been given the child by Destiny, the woman had told her nothing more than this child was the balance between light and dark, good and bad, Chaos and Cosmos. Cosmos had come to her own conclusions after Destiny had left, but she had cared for the child as if she were her own, and while she very well could have been, she was not. There were no qualms on who the child was the reincarnation of but this time the said child was nothing more than a balance between her mother and father, she allowed neither of them to gain more power, in turn tipping the balance of life. Cosmos had relished in raising the child, the brightness that a child brought to the Cosmos Palace left the guardian in high spirits, all until the child grew up.
When Fëa had grown to the age of power, she had taken her place at an eternal guardian to the Cauldron. No one, not even the upper Gods, denied that Cosmos was the supreme ruler of all she guarded, only one other was more powerful than even the legendary Soldier of the Cosmos and that was Harmony. Harmony was the only being that could kill Cosmos; no other creature had the power to destroy the star seed that resided in Cosmos' heart. But they knew that nothing would make Harmony take such actions against the silver soldier, Cosmos was needed to keep the balance from tipping into the favor of Chaos.
But the powerful heart of Cosmos was weaving and wavering as she continued to guard a peaceful galaxy once again. Her heart was pulling towards the planet that even Fëa had come back from as a changed woman, her sister-child had grown up greatly during her years in the Sol Galaxy. She had found love in a great man, a Valar, she had said he was and to him she bore him two children, Galadriel and Finrod Felagund. There she had been when the first evils of Ennorath had come into play, when Cosmos had conquered the beast known as Chaos and had separated his powers into small manageable sections of which she sent to different galaxies, planets, dimensions. She would not allow Chaos to come back and try to kill her for a third time, and even if it did come back it would be a many great years. She had worried though, about Ennorath when she has sent the banished parts of Chaos when two pieces of the creature had gone into that planet. One she had known was kept within a mountain hold while the other had disappeared into the heart of a single man. A man that Cosmos did not think she would have to worry about.
She had been wrong about that, she should have worried and she should have gone to Ennorath at that moment to recapture the part of Chaos and send it to another location. But her battle had left her drained to a point of unconsciousness, where her main need and goal was to regain her strength. However, by the time she had the power the second Chaos part had dimmed and she thought nothing more of it. She knew that the Chaos part had picked its holder and would die with that holder, rather a rebirth happened was if Cosmos and the Gods of Otherworld deemed the soul safe of corruption and sin.
The once soft tug at her heart because of the problems on Ennorath became stronger as a dark entity once again reared its ugly head. Snapping her neck around in the direction where the Sol Galaxy was Cosmos stood up, her star staff in her hands, her fatigue forgotten as she realized the power, a power that she thought had fallen but in reality had only lay dormant. Waving her staff before her the center of the silver eight-point star glowed a deep burgundy as a portal opened before her. She was not one for using this sort of power to get from place to place, while it demanded less power than a transport, it was eerie traveling through portals.
Looking around her dreary Palace once more she took a deep breath as she prepared to use the timestream as her means of getting to Ennorath or in common tongue Middle Earth. Shaking her head the powerful soldier stepped through the swirling mass that was her portal to Ennorath, to the planet that she had once lived on and protected. But she knew that the planet no longer had the technologies that it had once had, the earth had started over again with new life and new dangers. Dangers Cosmos hoped to eradicate, hoped to destroy without injuring others in the process, she had known many who had willing jumped before blasts meant for her because they thought she would be killed. Taking one last glance she stepped through the portal, not knowing that her life would be forever changed by this visit.
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Disclaimer : While in A Bed of Stars I only owned three characters, Lantaranar, Belthil, and Brethil, in this story I still own Lantaranar, and any other characters that make their appearances later on in the story. However, I do not own Tolkien's work, I don't believe Tolkien wrote much of the Second Age, aside of when Bilbo and the dwarves left for the Misty Mountains, if he did will someone please direct me towards that book(s). I also do not own any other ideas that do pop into Cosmos' thought, about battles she fought in or leaves to fight in, planets she has saved, creatures she destroyed. A lot has happened in her lifetime.
Hmm, I did say that I was going to close this Galaxy and work on other stories of mine; however, this story line has been in my head ever since forever you could say. I don't know how many chapters are going to be in this story; I'm shooting for something in the teens. If I keep up with this. I'm going away for the weekend my cousin is getting married on the 30th so I may work on more chapters during the ten hours of driving time that will be taking place to get there.
9/3 I have found the book Unfinished Tales and I have to go fine some others, but I am finding out information about the second age and the elves.
Tell me if you like it or if I should burn it like some of my other stories.
Review, Thanks, and Goodnight :
~*~ SilverRose82 ~*~