Time unfroze as Stellaluna started moving again… the land rushed by as she ran faster and faster till she tripped and fell… baby Astral started crying, "Shhh… it's okay little one… ouch my leg… I think I broke it." Just then a huge fireball rushed towards them, Astral crying harder… time froze again… "Do you wish to see what happens next?" "Yes, I have to." Time unfroze as Stellaluna cried out… Just then the fireball was stopped by a protect…
Stellaluna looked to see Aaron… "Aaron… you…" "No time to talk now… can you walk?" "No, I think I broke my leg." Aaron checked it over. "It's not broken, just twisted." He set it back in place. "Better?" She tested it out, "Yes, thank you." "Go now… take o… your son and go… I need to do this…" Time froze again… "What secrets are they hiding?" "Tell me please, I need to know." "You had enough for today… this kind of secret is too much for you, I'm sorry."
"That's fine." Opening his eyes panting. "So how did it go?" "Good I think." "Is everything okay?" "Yeah a bit confused and tired, but I'm okay." Aaron arrived and said, "Astral… you have made your first step in your training… I'm proud my student." "Thank you I have learnt A LOT today." "Good you can continue tomorrow, come lunch is ready… sometimes the past can come back to haunt you… that's why it's good to remember it… you understand?"
"Yes I do, I defiantly do now." "I have to say, you seem to be progressing nicely… you can have the rest of the day off to visit your mother." "Thank you, I will." Runs off to the garden. "Astral good to see you… oh Aaron what do you need now?" "I'm sorry about this, I was going to tell him… but he found out anyways… you look beautiful in the sunlight…" "Aaron…" "Goodbye." Stellaluna sighed. "What was that about?"
"Nothing you need to worry about…" "Okay, what do you want to do mom?" "I'm going to show you where I live… and where you were born." Astral couldn't help thinking that Aaron and his mom were hiding something… the question was what? What is up wquestion was what?"ith those two acting weird? But now I get to see… home. "Here we are… it's not much… but its home… this was your bed." "Cool." Looks at it with interest.
"And over here is where I made that scarf for you." Astral followed a familiar scent to the spot then sat there lost in thought, the scents brought a hazy image… voices… he also heard hazy voices… "Have you finished it yet?" "Almost… it's harder than I thought…" Astral shocked said, "Who is that?" He looked around quickly and saw his mother picking berries… he tried again to get a better image with his aura.
He strained hard to clear the image free of haze… he heard his mother's voice, "Almost got it…" And another voice but still hazy, "Have you finished it yet?" "Almost… it's harder than I thought." "Have you come up with a name for our son yet?" "I was thinking… Astral… like the astral plains." "Now I know my name origin, let's try to focus a little harder." Straining a little bit more he heard his mother's voice again…
"Do you really have to go?" He heard the other voice again, "Yes my _ need me… but I will be at _ if you need me." "_ don't go… I also need you." Astral lost focus all together, he thought, what was with those blank spots? "Hmm… what was with those blank spots?" "Astral I made you lunch… here you go… you look pale, are you okay darling?" "Yeah, just drifted off." Thinking… okay if that vision told me anything… it's this.
Stellaluna is really my mother… but who was my father? "Um mom… who is my dad?" He saw her flinch a bit, "Your father?" "Yeah I never hear you talk about him, why?" "It's hard to do so… just eat your meal… I need some air." "Okay… sorry." Munching the meal, he wondered what he did wrong. After his meal the question swirled around and around in his head till he remembered the scarf… who wrote on the tag?
Absol's can't write… taking the scarf he sniffed it long and hard… sniff, sniff, "Do you really have to go?" His mother's voice. "Yes, my students need me… but I will be at the training ground if you need me." That voice… Astral knew that voice. "OH MY GOSH! My dad is Aaron!" Then he heard his mother's voice shout, "Aaron, don't go… I also need you." "You look beautiful in the sunlight." "Aaron…" "I'm sorry…"
The vision just conformed what he already found out, "I'm going to tell mom I know." Walking over to his mother he said, "I know who my dad is… Aaron." "Wha… what?! Whatever gave you that idea?" "I sensed his aura and heard his voice." "Astral… I… yes its true… I hoped you wouldn't find out…" "Don't worry I can guess how hard it would be to tell me, and I understand you not telling me." Then what Aaron was going to say in the flashback made since.
"Mom, why did you two try to hide this from me, even after dad taught me to read auras?" "That's a story for another time… please it's just too painful… but if you really wish to know what happened, ask your father… he knows the story better than I do." "Okay, I will." "Astral… ask him in private… please." "Okay, I will ask him when no one is around." "Thank you, well you better be going soon… the training for the other students are almost done."
"Okay, see you mom." "See you son." In the training ground… "Focus… your losing it." "I can't hold it… I'm sorry master… I failed again." "Keep trying." Astral yelled, "Hi, sorry I'm late." "It's okay, just giving pearl here some help." "Thank you for the help master Aaron help."lmost done."." "No problems… keep practicing. Pearl is a riolu, she needs a bit more help than others… something is on your mind… what is it?" "Can we talk in private?"
"Let's go to my study." In the study… "I don't know how to word this so I'm going to be blunt; I know you're my dad." "Astral… I was going to tell you… I just didn't know how…" "It's okay; you took it better than mom." "I guess I should tell you how we meet then?" "That would be nice." "That mountain never had fire stones or lucarionite before, when that rescue team came and stopped the volcano, my family found lots of them…" "Go on, I'm listening."
"At first they were puzzled by this, fire stones are not hard to come by but lucarionite? You would be lucky enough to find one in your life." "So, what happened next?" "They finally figured out it was the gods who gifted them for stopping the volcano, and those gifts were used to keep the volcano in check." "Makes sense." "One day I was climbing the mountain, I was going to restock on our graduation gifts when I saw her." "Aww… how sweet, how did she react to you?"