I swear, I could just update on Wednesdays and nobody would notice.
Yuuri hid in a corner of the entrance hall of the palace until his call to raise the moon came. Otabek stood a few feet away, looking throughout the crowd, his gaze lingering on a certain young man. Yuuri followed his bodyguard's gaze until it came to rest on a teenager with chin-length blonde hair, wearing orange robes with slight pink tones: Yuri Plisetsky.
Yuuri roughly remembered meeting the boy years ago, at Viktor's coronation. Nikolia Plisetsky had announced his plans to retire a little while ago, so it only made sense that Plisetsky come as he would soon be taking up his grandfather's post once he was retired.
It reminded him slightly of Phichit's current predicament. Benz had also recently voiced his plan to give his job to his son, and Phichit, now more than old enough to take up the job at twenty-one years, was anxious to start really do his part for his kingdom.
Speaking of Phichit, he had been drawn to one of the Solis guards, who had taken off his helmet, for some reason. Chris and Phichit were chatting like friends, both with… Yuuri looked harder, blushes on their cheeks. He couldn't help but roll his eyes. Oh, well. They did look like they could be a cute couple.
Another cute couple walked in, and he immediately recognized them, and started to walk forward.
They must have seen him first, however. Yuuko grabbed her husband, Takeshi's hand, and dragged him forward. "Yuuri!" she exclaimed, and threw her arms around his neck. He hugged back, and once she had pulled away, she fixed a strand of hair that had fallen down his face. Yuuko was such a mother.
"Hi, Yuuri," came a voice from Takeshi, who had been standing awkwardly behind her wife.
"Hi, Takeshi," Yuuri replied with a smile. "Where are the girls?" he asked, as he had not seen them.
"They're with my mother in the Kono village," Yuuko replied. "They wanted to come, but I knew they would just cause trouble, and I wanted their first time to be special."
"The next eclipse falls on their birthday, though," Takeshi piped up. "I think that would definitely be a good time."
Yuuri smiled to himself. He would enjoy having the girls at the eclipses. They would bring the life that these usually boring events needed. Of course, he really couldn't say that they were boring when he never really went. But he could certainly say that it was boring now.
People were merely milling around, waiting for the main event: Yuuri's moon to cover up Viktor's sun, a sign of the steady treaty that had held itself and the kingdoms together for eons. The eclipses had been declared a holiday throughout the two neighboring kingdoms, allowing people to mingle with others from different kingdoms in a declared moment of peace.
It wasn't impossible for people to see friends and lovers from the other kingdom, of course, but the distance between the two would make it hard to keep a steady relationship given the half-hour trip merely to the Midworld.
Yuuri shook the thoughts out of his head when he felt a hand on his shoulder. Benz looked him in the eye. "It's time, Yuuri."
The usual butterflies fluttered around in Yuuri's stomach for a moment, but nevertheless, he followed his mentor up the grand staircase to the large balcony that overlooked the huge courtyard and gardens that surrounded the ancient palace.
He stood on the balcony, seeing the people below notice his presence, cheering loudly. The citizens only got louder when Viktor joined him up on the balcony, just as ready to do his part as Yuuri was. Admittedly, Viktor's job was merely to stand next to Yuuri on the balcony during the solar eclipses, but his part during the solar eclipses was much more important: moving the sun to such an angle where the moon appeared red.
He looked up to see the sun, and the people immediately silenced when Yuuri felt his vision start to change. During a solar eclipse, people around him claimed that his eyes glowed blue. Of course, he couldn't see his own eyes, but always knew something changed when he brought out his true power.
Yuuri knew his or Viktor's magic wasn't something to play with. With just a thought, he could blast a man back with an explosion of blue magic, or make anything fly around a room at his will. He assumed Viktor could do the same, as these powers had only appeared once he had been given his father's role of raising the moon, and Viktor also had the respective role of raising the sun.
Through his blue-tinged vision, seen as glowing eyes to the people below, he looked up to the sky, seeing only the sun, shining brightly overhead, and the moon beside it. Focusing, he controlled the moon, and the courtyard grew darker, the shadow growing larger with every growing second, the dark moon covering the bright sun.
As he continued with his magic, Yuuri felt a gaze burning into his back. He didn't dare turn around and look, as raising the moon in the middle of the daytime took much concentration, but felt his cheeks flush up lightly at the thought.
At the peak of the cycle, Yuuri looked down from the sky and saw everything surrounded by pitch black. Only then did he turn around to face the burning gaze, seeing King Viktor looking at him through the darkness, everything around him glowing with its daytime shimmer.
The cycle was almost over at this point. Yuuri's vision started to turn back to normal, and the sky began to grow lighter again. The people started growing louder, cheering as the moon finally relinquished its hold on the sun, separating from it completely at Yuuri's command.
He turned to face the gaze again. Viktor was looking at him with a gaze of pure awe and admiration. Yuuri blushed, turning away to face the crowd as his brighter counterpart joined him to face the people.
Viktor looked over at Yuuri, seeing the man's glow dim slightly as the remnants of his magic washed away. "Beautiful," Viktor muttered. It should have only been something that Viktor himself heard, but the King of night only blushed darker, refusing to meet the other's glance.
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