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The power within
The night had always been a calming time, sometimes it could symbolise the end of someone's life or it can mean the beginning for others.
This was a dark night in particular.
The skies of the Sol dimension were peaceful and the ocean below gently lapped —it was practically just as calm and still as the sky was. The skies were a deep and dark indigo/navy blue colour and were dotted with teeny twinkling stars that shined bright. The starlight shone brightly as the moon was absent for the night, probably giving the night some illuminance elsewhere.
The nighttime in the Sol dimension was extraordinarily spectacular.
Sometimes even the stars arrange themselves in a peculiar pattern and would shine with a bright purple aura.
King Silver had been away on a negotiations trip to another kingdom not so far away, thus he was absent during his own daughter's birth. He had been more anxious then anyone about the birth of his child yet the second he heard it had happened made him rush back so he could meet his newborn. He normally just left the political stuff to his wife but when Blaze got a summons for a conference saying that she had to leave to the kingdom of Sol.
Given his wife's delicate "condition", the hedgehog couldn't let her do too much travelling to other kingdoms just because he had trouble not starting wars with other countries. While the job was harder than he had thought, he was happy that he (at least) didn't hurt the alliances his wife and her family had made for the good of the kingdom.
The futuristic hedgehog could not wait to see Blaze and see if their little bundle of joy had arrived yet, he really hoped so. It would be like an early Christmas surprise or something...but at the same time, if she hadn't had the baby then it would have meant that he could be there to meet his little boy or girl.
Yet, even though he was anxious, he didn't want to miss anything when it came to his family.
It was very late by the time he had arrived back.
The moon was high in the sky and the lights were sifting and flowing against the night sky.
Silver hefted himself into the room through the bedroom window, landing on one knee and using the palm of his right hand to keep it stable. He looked around, glancing at his surroundings as he tried to see if his wife would be in the room.
He was well aware of how the window wasn't the best way to enter the castle but he knew that if he went through the front door then it would just be a hassle since the staff would probably make a huge deal about it and all he wanted to do was to simply spend some quiet time with his wife and enjoy being by her side.
Silver stood back up from his knelt position on the floor and took a quick survey of his surroundings.
The room was quite dark so he had to squint his eyes to see whilst using some of his power to light one of the tips of his fingers with an illuminating turquoise glow.
The light helped a bit as he glanced to his left and smiled softly at what he saw:
Blaze was fast asleep and laying in the king-sized bed that both she and Silver shared as she slept peacefully, her graceful form nicely tucked beneath the rococo-styled black covers.
Blaze was fast asleep and her bunches spread all across the pillows of the bed —she had completely buried herself beneath the blankets and duvets of it, the only thing of the cat that was even remotely visible was her face that only just peeked out from the blankets.
Silver stood from his crouched position on the floor by the window and meandered straight over to her bed, making sure to keep his footsteps as light as possible as to not disturb her. He leaned over the bed, looked down at her slumbering form and he watched her with a soft smile.
She was more than likely exhausted after giving birth earlier.
Silver could have stared at his wife forever, she was just so lovely and beautiful.
The futuristic king hedgehog's heart would pound in his chest each and every time he saw her and he recall the very first time he laid his eyes on her.
Of course, at first, he didn't really understand why his heart would beat so hard whenever he gazed upon the cat flame former princess and was in a heap of denial so he didn't get that what he was feeling was love. He just saw her as a friend to be honest. But then, the very same day when Blaze had sealed Iblis inside of her and vanished, he discovered that what he felt for her was more then a mere friendship.
It wasn't until both him and Blaze reunited that he had confessed his love for her and Blaze confessed that she had a gigantic crush on him since they met.
That was one of the happiest days of his life.
He sighed tiredly as he bent down, placed his hand gently atop her head, minding her bunches, and placed a soft kiss on her head. He could feel the warmth her body was emitting when his lips made contact with the top of her head and it made him, too, feel warm with adoration for her.
"Sleep well, Blaze..." He spoke softly, his voice a whisper.
But that was when a high pitched sound caught his ears.
It made his ear twitch.
Upon instinct, the hedgehog whirled on his feet and turned to face a small cradle he hadn't even noticed before —it was a few steps away from the bed and it looked surprisingly simple, considering that this was serving as the little princesses bed until she had grown up enough to move into her own room.
Without a second to even hesitate, the hedgehog walked towards the cradle and slowly peered inside.
What he saw was the cutest little ball of light purple/greyish ball of fur ever.
The small hedgehog/kitten hybrid was wrapped in her pink blankets and she had tears swelling inside her eyes, which were closed with sleep, those same tears streaming down her muzzle and chubby cheeks. Her own tail curled around her.
"Heeeeey..." He said in a slow, hushed voice.
He reached into the cradle and scooped up the infant, accommodating her in his arms.
He could feel his heart warm up inside his chest as tears started to well up in his eyes and his mouth formed a squiggly smile on his muzzle, his lower lip quivering as he tried his best to contain the overpowering emotions he had felt.
The teeny kit mewled softly as she seemed to stir in her father's arms as she looked up at him for the very first time.
"H-Hey there, little one..." Silver sniffled, blinking back tears.
He had never felt so happy to hold an infant, especially his infant, it felt so strange to hold something so small and dependant on him. It was as if his whole universe had changed at that moment. Not only was the centre of his world his wife but it had developed so that his daughter became included in that too. He blinked back most of the tears pricking at his eyes and brightened himself up as he suddenly became quite jovial.
Blaze and himself had decided that "Iris" was the name they were going for, if their child happened to be a girl so he knew his child's name.
He smiled cheerily, albeit tiredly, as he raised the baby and kissed his infant daughter's forehead.
"You must be Iris! Nice to meet you, I'm your daddy." Silver spared a quick glimpse for his wife whilst turning his body towards the direction of the sleeping queen in the bed so the kit could see. He felt unable to feel prouder then he ever had before and he whispered to the newborn kit in his arms. "I guess you've met your mother already."
Then the hedgehog smiled sadly, "I'm sorry I couldn't be there for you when you first came, sweetheart, but I'm here now and I promise that I'll help raise you the best I can."
Iris's whole body vibrating as she purred in contentment.
Silver's eyes watered yet again.
"...I can't believe...h-how gorgeous you are, my sweet baby girl...!"
Then the moment was wrecked.
The baby cooed softly as she lay in her father's arms, she grabbed hold of Silver's chest fur...and yanked it.
Hard.
Silver cringed hard in pain, biting his lower lip and holding his breath to try and hold back the scream of pain building up in his throat. He felt his eyes water slightly as he looked down at the giggling infant he was cradling in his arms. Using one finger, he gently pried his daughter's chubby fingers off from his chest fur.
"Okay, Rissy, I think that's enough pulling on that for tonight."
Iris seemed to understand what her father was telling her and just giggled quietly, her tail swishing with enthusiasm. She squirmed in her blankets —they still restrained her for the most part but she
Silver shuffled the small kittenhog into one arm.
"Wanna see something cool, little princess?"
He took his daughter's idle cooing as confirmation and he closed his eyes, let his hand become engulfed in a bright turquoise glow, and all at once a few objects started to move around in the air with that same glow.
It was like a magic performance and it was awe-inspiring, observing such a thing was amazing.
The kit gurgled excitedly, reaching out (or trying to) for the turquoise glow that made all the objects float around the room.
The new father heard a soft moan from across the room and stopped using his powers to levitate items around and, as he ceased using his telekinesis the objects slowly set down on their rightful places and out of the way. He noticed his daughter's gaze turning to his wife again and he looked over, too, and smiled sympathetically.
Silver still felt bad that he couldn't be there to support his dear wife earlier due to the fact that he was on a very important mission. Didn't make him feel all that great, "Poor Blaze, she must've worked so hard. Nice to see that she's getting all the rest she needs..."
He looked down at the little hedgekitten in his arms.
"Why don't we let mama have some rest? Papa wants to show you something..."
Silver wandered straight towards the window and opened it up —the instant he did the cold air flowed into the room and it caused a bit of coldness to encase the bedroom, the platinum-furred hedgehog trembled a bit due to being exposed to the chilled air and his ears flattened a bit against his head. He felt as the bundle in his arm trembled, too, in the air and it took only a minute until he had fully acclimated to the cold breeze that crept into the royal bedroom.
He, using his psychokinesis, took to the air.
Silver had always gotten used to using his psychokinesis to soar across the night sky and he had always gotten used to absorbing his surroundings, whether they be the hot and flaming atmosphere of the apocalyptic world he had grown up in or the chilled and relaxing world that he had learned to call home. At first, he couldn't fly for long periods of time out of fear or exhausting his mind and powers but he had learned over the years to extend his usage just a bit.
He flew a short way to the castle tower rooftop and sat comfortably upon the roof tiles.
He exhumed a deep breath from his lungs as he cast his gaze up to the calm skies.
The hedgehog reclined back and cuddled his little girl as they both stared up at the stars above them and Baby Iris relaxed in her father's loving arms with her tiny hands trying to escape the confines of the blanket that had been wrapped tightly around her.
The kitten squeaked and sobbed as her mewling started up again, probably due to the cold.
Silver looked down at his babe and bounced the bundle up and down in his arms as he shushed her.
"Shhh, shh, shh, shh..."
Iris sniffled and huffed her breaths in and out, her eyes closing softly as her adorable eyes moistened. One of her ears twitched and she seemed to snuggle up in the blankets she had been wrapped up in. Silver wrapped the blankets a little more around his daughter to let her have a cocoon of warmth so she could be nice and warm and not have too much coldness.
Silver raised the kit to his chest fluff, hoping to also heat her up, and he returned his gaze to the sky above.
"See those lights, Rissy?" He asked, vaguely noticing Iris' own eyes lifting up to the sky too, "Those are the lights of our home. You are the heir of the throne to this kingdom, our princess, and your mother is the queen and me...well, I'm actually somebody who protected a world far, far away from this one —that's not important, though. Everyone in the Sol dimension will love you almost as much as both your mama and me."
Silver knew his daughter probably wasn't understanding a word he was saying, and he asked himself why he was doing this right now. Perhaps a foolishly sentimental part of him had wanted her to sort of understand the importance of what he was saying with that same naïveté that had stuck with him for all of these years (yet it was still the same thing Blaze liked about him) but, at the same time, he wanted to tell his baby this now so she could hopefully know how much he loved her.
The futuristic hedgehog smiled lovingly down at his daughter as he tickled the kit's tummy, causing her to let out a flurry of giggles, which sounded more like squeaks.
"Everyone has a light shining inside of them, so do your mother and me, and I'm sure you do too."
Silver then had to wonder what powers his darling daughter would have? What sort of person was she going to grow up to become? Hopefully she was going to be as disciplined yet kind as her mother but also have a trait from him, perhaps his trusting in people or maybe his hopeful optimism? He could practically envision his daughter sitting on the throne when she was all grown up and being a magnificent ruler...
The possibilities were endless!
He could feel his heart skip a beat of merriment at the thought.
He just hoped that he could protect her future like he tried to protect his own, though.
But then...
"A-Ahhh...ACHOOOOO!" The kit let out the biggest sneeze that was probably ever recorded.
Silver looked down at her in bewilderment and grimaced slightly. He hadn't heard such a loud sound come from something so small before and he couldn't help but wonder if maybe she was going to catch a cold or something, he really hoped not.
"B-Bless you..."
Iris seemed to immediately grow tired after her sneeze and snuggled deeper into her father's chest, purring lovingly, falling fast asleep.
Silver murmured as he cracked an awkward smile as he stood up to get ready to head back inside and to try and get some rest.
"Night night, sweetheart..."
A/N: Here's the third chapter of "The power within", where Silver meets his daughter.
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-Chloemcg