Stardust
There is a theory, that says all humans are made up of stardust.
Crimson hair and wedding gowns do fit together. They really do as if a puzzle piece made up of only two pieces. The handsome purplish haired man, with an extravagant princely face and tailored tuxedo, looked at the door with a rather a mix of anticipation and anxiousness. And as the door to the white bell occasion themed chapel opened with a resonant bang of the wood doors, everyone stood up and a few remarks of 'aww' and delighted gasps vanished in a resounding echo of claps. The groom who seemed anxious at first calmed down and a face of relief laid on his features and stepped forwards in the aisle with confidence and a wide confident smile brimming unto his face.
With a 'click', each step disclosed with fragility, honor, happiness and dreams crushing together in every weight falling to the ground from the feet of the bride exhibited in a wide grin, smile piercing through the veil on her face with her father on her side standing in a grandeur firm way like a commander leading the victorious wars.
It was a wonderful sight and probably for once philosophy, science, religion and politics agree with the ambiance. A moment of peace granted for the destined future holder of a known longstanding and perpetual castle of the Mysterious planet.
Fine took this moment to heave a breather and sucked in a long deep breath. The wedding was going well and everything is right at the moment. She prayed silently for the world to make this time be with extemporaneity. She closed her eyes for a moment and let the buzzing of cicadas outside flush over her in a purposefully manner. She opened her eyes again and looked forward with a small smile.
The gown was beautiful. She thought lovingly repressing the nervous throbbing on her head and the dizzy motions of the car she was into moments ago. The wedding was smooth, well-delivered and just superb up until this moment.
Shade in there in the middle of the aisle looking as perfect as ever like the prince Fine had always daydreamed ever since she heard her first bed-time fairy tale story.
The white and pink laces of the wedding gown pumping up and down with every moment as if it can feel the excitement of the environment.
And the bride… what was her name again? Fine blinked while neurons on her brain trudged down like ants to remember what was the bride's name again. She almost gasped in shock to actually remember it, it was Liliana Bertruness right? A princess of a high economic rate planet which Fine did not bother to try remembering.
The crowd sat down and so did Fine. She looked at how the bride's hand locking with the prince's with exchanging blush and smile. Fine's vision blurred for the whole wedding and before she knew it the ceremony was over.
Fine looked at the plate she was holding, filled with delicately organized filet mignon and pasta. This is the only reason she was here but now for some reasons the idea has dulled into emptiness. She put the plate down into the nearest table on sight. On the table stood her beloved twin sister Rein who looked at her with knowing eyes.
Rein raised a glass of wine on her face. Fine looked at the pale maroon alcohol she was offered for a moment before taking it and coming nearer beside Rein. Fine sipped into the wine and regretted it immediately afterwards. Rein giggled as Fine looked at her with slight annoyance.
"What?" Rein asked innocently "It's not like I forced you to drink it."
Fine stood up straightly again putting down the glass in the table.
There was silence and the twin princesses just let the environment lull them to the flow of the surrounding.
"You know…" Rein started blinking for a second and biting her lower lip. "You really are brave." She said finally with a tone of finalization and probably with almost adoration. Rein sighed after the words escaped from her mouth and looked down on her shoes. Fine looked at her for a second and looked ahead again.
Rein sighed again. "I was waiting for a reply" Silence followed.
Rein sighed again for how many times now? "But really, I never knew you were serious. I was ready with an exceptionally well planned excuse. But then you actually came here on the last minute before the bride arrived. I…" Rein trailed off and pauses for seconds "I wish you haven't, I wish that you let your immature side of you win and did not come to see a disgustingly peaceful ceremony… I really did. But when you came fashionably late having the attention to yourself before being outshined by the main ceremony… I was confused, angry and glad at the same time. You were… you were brave more than any knight I have ever seen, with your confident brimming smile but… when I saw your eyes, the thought diminished."
Fine looked at Rein still not speaking. Rein took a deep breath before looking at her ring finger, a shiny diamond illuminating the sun's light.
"I'm sorry-" Fine finally spoke
"Don't!" Rein almost shouted. And with an almost decapitated breath she continued speaking. "It was not our fault, It was fate. I'm just annoyed that you actually looked cool coming here! I mean what if I did come to Bright's wedding that day, wouldn't I look cool too?" Rein said with a fatigued cheerful tone.
Fine closed her eyes for instance before smiling "Yeah, you would probably had been cool."
It was really not their fault, It had been fate. Their prominence that was used to save countless lives and disasters took their entire planet's sun's energy, the main energy of their planet, and gradually the effects came. The economic died down and people are starving. They did not know that the prominence are actually connected to their planet's source of energy and had used it more than they actually should. The mysterious planet faced a dire crisis. Fine and Rein especially was pressured with this… they talked all night and finally came up with a solution that they decided to execute as the sun goes up.
Fine and Rein decided to marry the people that have the capacity to save their planet, they had suitors of high profile economic planets and if they just played their cards right the planet will be saved.
This is not a straight-out-of-a-manga story, do you really think there was a nakama-power that can solve a dying planet? Or a miraculous idea that Fine or Rein would come up? As cruel as reality can be in the verge of a dying planet, they did the only thing that can save them.
The royals were shocked at first but all of them agreed that it was right, and the planet was saved.
Rein looked at her ring with glittering eyes "I still cannot say I've moved on… And our planet is still starting anew with the sun's energy replenishing. But you know… what might have been."
Fine looked down, ashamed forgetting that her sister is suffering as well "I know" she said timidly before opening her mouth again. "But you know…"
"The stardust theory" they both said in unison and giggled with each other.
"Of course I do!" Rein said.
A man with a dirty brown hair approached them "Rein darling," he said in a gentle tone.
"Oh Ramirez dear I'm sorry, is it time to go now?" Rein asked as the Ramirez guy chuckled "Yes my love almost everybody have gone now and everything is ready do you want to stay longer with Fine? We can rent an inn…"
"No, no, no take your wife home Ramirez I think she already had three glasses of wine plus I'm always at your kingdom anyway" Fine said as they all laughed.
"Yeah, I'll be right there love just another minute with Fine please?" Rein pleaded with her eyes.
"Anything for you dear. Then, I'll be waiting for you in the plane" the handsome guy said before smiling dazzlingly pecking a kiss on Rein's cheeks before going away.
"Such a nice guy" Fine commented
"Yeah," Rein smiled in the distance "The only one who can rival Bright" she continued.
Fine was shocked but as she saw tears on Rein's eyes she decided not to talk.
"Sorry," Rein gulped trying to not make a sound "that was a stupid remark"
Fine decided it was the best to just nod and hum an agreeing 'hmm'. She looked at the distant fading iridescent colors on the horizon and realized that people have really left already.
"As I was saying… You were really brave, but being here means you again brought yourself trouble. Do your business and stay away from regret." Rein uttered facing the same direction as Fine "Ramirez might worry, I'll be heading out now" She said already walking away from the reception hall leaving Fine behind… as usual she knew exactly why Fine was there.
Fine looked at the space where Rein had been moments ago. The fading colors turned pitch black now but the hall's light glistened from the sides illuminating a total moonlight themed reception. Fine hugged herself, why did she wear a strapless dress in this occasion anyways, that was a very foolish idea. Additionally she needs to go back home or-
Something draped over her bare skin…
"Hey," a husky man's voice said
"Hey," Fine answered.
Prince Shade walked beside her to lean on the table too.
"You're here,.." Shade briefly said with a mountain of emotions and questions whirling inside of him.
"Or am i? Who knows clones probably do exist by now!" Fine tried to joke to make the atmosphere friendlier.
"Fine I'm serious… I mean I hoped you'll do but never really expecting-"
"Have you ever heard of the stardust theory?" Fine turned to him eyes glistening like a vast vacuum filled with wondrous shining gateway of stars.
Shade blinked back his questions "Tell me about it"
Fine stood up "One Philosopher and Astronomer once said that life is stardust. It flows on our veins and not swallowed by time. By the time we die, we won't vanish"
Fine looked up "Our physical bodies will rot but… Once it does, we won't vanish. Our memories, our blood, sweat and tears will become tiny heavenly particles called stardust. Everyone is made up of twinkling divine star fragments flowing in their bodies." Fine turned back to face Shade.
Shade could see it. Her ruby red eyes, flowing red hair strands and a strong yet fragile body of her draped in his coat… Blended in her eyes, mind, body and soul…
He could see it, a being made up of stardust.
The breeze flew over them blowing Fine's hair behind her is a sky flooded with millions and billions of stars.
Fine stared at him, inside him digging her own cove in his heart and his soul.
"And the stardust which once came from space, will flow back into space… each shred scattering all throughout the universe, scattering in a vast infinite unknown…" Fine paused.
"But one day for sure… it will fall back as one. On another form and another time" Fine looked down her tears glistening on her eyes.
"But I am sure, I'll still love you then."
Shade was dumbfounded there. Even without meaning to, he ran to her and crushed her with an embrace. He never felt so powerless and uncontrollable and Fine was his only lifeline at the moment.
"This is my wedding" Shade whispered but Fine could feel the trickle of tears on her shoulders.
"And I have an old perverted man as a husband" Fine virtually joked but is true.
"Why, do we have suffer? We did everything right and saved a lot of people and this is fate's comeback?!" Shade demanded compressing Fine into his masculine body.
"You still have a honeymoon to attend to," Fine said being skeptical as she learned to be.
"You want me to go?" Shade practically dared
"If I could only dare you to run away with me right now… but our planet needs us, from now and until the upcoming time…" Fine cried into him melting like a baby meeting her mom again after being separated.
"Liliana still talking with her father, she's obsessed with her father" Shade said pulling away and caressing Fine's tear-stained face.
They kissed. And it was magic like approximately 13,000 years of wandering around endlessly coming into an oasis and a perfect fit of iridescent colors with the scent of summer, spring, autumn, and winter combined together to fume a thousand years longing from a two-thousand light-years distance.
"Shade!" an unfamiliar shriek shattered the spell and fate bound prospect.
They parted and backed a few steps away from each other.
"Liliana's calling for me" Shade stated the obvious
"Yeah, then… see you later!" Fine answered as the two of them walked opposite directions, but rather of a sad face, they were brimming while sending "yeah see you later" signals in an invisible point and force rotating them.
~On another time: On another life~
"What? You mean the one who bakes my favorite cookies is actually on the shop?"
"The girl who comes here every day just for my special cookies?"
And as the door to a certain renowned cookies and pastry store chimed signaling someone opening it. The man in an apron looked ahead and the lady in a lawyer-suit looked forward.
The light years dwindled into meters and centuries dwindled into weeks.
Ruby meets amethyst.
Authors note:
yup this chapter was supposedly be apathy but I kinda lost my motivation on that certain one-shot, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE~~~
New year resolution be like: "I want to be not lazy enough and update my stories"
Next chapter coming up! (not really but hopefully)