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Chapter 3 - Blessed child

Celestia was once a dry dark Empire. Filled with drought, the people starved as the old kings drained the empire's treasures. The people believed because of King's greed the lands had become dry and a curse was brought through the lands. The sadness of the people affected the land as clouds covered the sun all year round. The weather becoming cold and dry not allowing growth. Filled with snow on its colder days becoming the only way the people could drink water.

The old kings carried not about the people of the land but the jewels filling their rooms. The people began losing hope.

It wasn't until one day. A boy digging through the snow found a small sprout. The boy unlike the rest of the people was filled with hope. Every day the boy shared his water with the small sprout. Shielding the small plant from the harsh weather.

One night as the boy wrapped a cloth over the small sprout a silver-haired girl appeared behind him. The girl so small and fragile with her hair growing down to her feet with only a thin white dress. The girl watched the boy with silent clear eyes.

"Why do you look after such a small sprout?" The girl asked the boy.

"Because it's so small. It should still be allowed to grow."

The small boy told the small girl who watched the boy silently without a reply. The next day the small boy returned and found the girl sitting beside the small sprout.

"You share your own water with the small sprout. What if it doesn't grow?" The small girl asked the boy as he turned to leave.

"I have to believe."

When the boy returned the third day the girl was standing there waiting for the boy.

"Why do you continue to help this small sprout? Without the sun it will never grow."

The small girl told the boy who smiled.

"I have hope. If I can make this plant grow maybe hope will return to some of the people."

"Hope?"

"I still think this land is beautiful and one day it'll flourish once again." The small boy said the small girl how had been watching the boy silently let out a gentle smile.

"And you can be the start of that hope. A new beginning." The girl said smiling before her body began glowing brightly. Her hand stretched out over the small sprout before a small drop of glowing silver water dropped down on the sprout. In an instant, the sprout grew into a large silver tree. The land around it flourishing.

"You will be our new hope." The small girl said smiling as she pressed a small kiss on the boy's forehead. At that moment the small girl transformed into a silver horned doe. The silver doe stared at the boy for a moment before vanishing. The child who had received the doe's blessing when he walked into the town each step he took the land around him flourished.

It was soon that the empire's people rejoiced filled with hope the people named the boy their prince. As the years passed the boy grew and fought against the old king becoming Celestia's new King and Emperor. A blessed child who held the silver doe's marking on his forehead. With each generation after the blessed emperor, his children inherited silver hair. The old castle was destroyed and the new palace was built surrounding the silver tree which the blessed prince grew. Each generation promising to protect the tree and it's people. If a blessed child were to be born once again the child was born clenching a silver leaf from the holy tree.

No other blessed child had been born until the one-day young silver-haired daughter was born to a loving king and queen with two boys. The daughter became beloved to the growing family. Upon seeing the silver leaf in her small the king and queen were filled with joy. They're a beloved child. Naming the child after its flourishing empire.

Celesti, their blessed star.