It's been fifty years, since then, I am no longer that little girl I've been, for years I've been growing and learning by observing.
We had officially graduated from sycromono's class as ready to go to the
World to explore.
I am now a teenager , my body has adapted itself to the environment and I have learned a lot of languages and about a lot of cultures , as well as skills in combat and communication.
Sometimes I visit the lunar queen whenever I need advice and Fionna and Flyorian have grown with me into puberty.
They began to lose their chubby faces just like me, and of course taller than they were before.
Fionna was older then fly so she was already somewhat into her puberty and Fly was still a boy when we met.
But since my process of growing up had slowed down just to adapt to their cycle , it amazed me at times at how long it took me to be a little bit grown.
Now there were still places the palace wouldn't let me go, but there were places I had promised myself I should go.
I began to be more interested in politics and got eventually involved with them.
About my grandmother, do I still think about her , yes I do. It is someone I'll probably never forget, because I'll always remember that she told me that we live on in the heart of others.
There are so many things I would've learned if I wasn't chosen to be the daughter of a god.
But it is all in the past , what I saw , what I learned is what I lived for the past few cycles.
I am growing into womanhood and here I am not a freak that gets bullied or hurt or yelled at.
Here I am the one who controls and who builds and who saves lives and situations.
Who can say that ? One day I woke up here and it became my life goal.
Do I still want to go home ? The question would not be that , the question is " what is there left?" I have something else here , something more.
Here I can be who I am and people respect it because I am the daughter that brings light to the world of Darkashia.
Of course I decided to look for the others. We had prepared ourselves for many years , I had put on my gown and the Armor that protects my body parts.
Of course my dresses and gowns. Capes and hats were made by the former Aldaan herself, she sends it to me by the sky dragon, she sees me as her first daughter, and even made a lunar market international , so that people could buy her dresses and costumes.
And as earth , technology also evolves here, before we had to take the sky dragon only for two places but now the sky dragon can go to four more places.
Fly had grown into a handsome teenager, his dimples were still a thing as his hair was longer and always in a tail, curled and volume, he showed more of his forehead.
He also got more outspoken, happier and very proud of his traditions and culture.
His father died because it was time , he got older.
Oh in those filthy years Flyorian has to prepare soon to meet a wife, but he had fought it for a long time , we don't know if that will ever happen, he makes his mother furious, also he has a little sister now, the trip that the Queen mother went to with the father king was because she got pregnant and had to go away from her population for a while, since giving birth was seen as a moment to be attacked by her siblings.
So when she came back a baby sister was in her arms, and I had never seen Flyorian be so happy about it. She is still a toddler and she loves to play with my long kinky curly hair.
Fionna was a warrior at heart, her skills in archery were the best , she has cut her hair very short and it suits her.
Her body got more volume, she had more freckles with age.
Of course she was still an arrogant female leaver , but as long as she saw me as her friend I was good.
She often goes up and down , mostly she is here at Lyor for training times.
When that is done she would go back to do her duty.
No Yraus and Yquina adapted to the Lyor situation, they took a home near a cloud lake, they slowly adapted to the food in the kingdom.
They just didn't want to go back home.
I often go there to train with them and mostly go on walks or hang out by the bridge with them, people are a bit scared of them.
They do love the air from Lyor and even contribute to the changements they want in their country , even wanting the country Darkar to change.
Of course that would be a lot of bloodshed that a Lyor can't engage with.
Even so we got all a bit used to the situation but still there were two missing pieces , fire and water.
We have new tech , and found out where they are situated.
The queen mother gathered us around today to talk about the mission.
We were all there lined up and waiting for orders since I am still too small to order anyone around.
" .. it's been amazing fifty cycles, my late husband has left us a few cycles ago, I am happy that he was my last and gave me my last joy a joy that I thought I would not have anymore longer.. one day she will be the next queen and I want her to be in changed world, where queens and kings are not mistreated for their gender, we want an equal life , where traditions and cultures become one like it was in the beginning of our stories, here we are.
Here you are daughter of the sun, you have grown, it is an honor as an soon to be elder to see this with my own eyes, we are proud and we feel that now there is hope , because you proved to us again and again how you can rise above everything. You were so little and look at you now almost a grown female, praise the universal god for giving him his reign of sun, you are our hope.
This mission to find the fire and water element will not be easy, but you have been trained for this mission.
I saw how long each of you held your breath.. and how your combats every day developed, but that is just a simulation close to reality but not yet, here the world is unpredictable, the waters are not that quite and the fire is not just a tiny burn, convincing those two elements to collide with yours would not be different.. they have been chosen, it could be the sauvage wilds but it is not the ground.
This time the elements are situated in the right environment , Which I never had seen before.., so don't waste time , come back healthy and safe. Learn and thrive because you are ready.." Her speech gave us hope. She handed us two documents , one was the environment and the place we're we could find the fire element , we had her name , she was in puberty and had run away from home , she had been adopted and withheld a powerful egg, her environment consisted of lava and was very dangerous to enter.
The second file was about an ancient male shian, who behaved differently than the other akarians, the akarians are known to be cabalistic.
It was very dangerous to travel there, but we had special combat armors for that, even an adaptable fin to let us breathe in the water.
This mission Fionna could not partake because she is made out of tree bark and too much water will destroy her.
We tried suits but it did not matter because the feathers could never fly again.
They are invincible when they don't fly but they are always there.
With the lava mission it would be hard to bring Yquina. She just doesn't like lava , how will they help? They will monitor us from the outside and we get an orb specially designed for us, Which will be equipped with everything we need.
It consists of tech to undertake All sorts of environmental issues.
With all this and designed armor for us and weapons trained and we'll we were ready to go.
There was a party in three days held for us at the palace.
Time enough to make us ready.
I enjoyed the peace for so long but I was ready to meet new people , seek out new adventures and this time we had the mission to find the others but I have no doubt that out there there is something more we could do.
I passed down the hall like the first time I did with Piapa and Fly when we were younger.
Saw the picture I saw replaced with the mother, the father and the two siblings.
I never asked Fly about his sister's death. I figured that one day he would talk about it to me but he never did.
From all the shians I met , blue or yellow. He never told me really anything about his past.
Will I ever know? I don't know that all I know is that sometimes it makes me wonder who my friend was when he was born.
I only met him when he was just a hundred years old.
Now look at him being hundred fifty years old, a beauty I could never shake , breath taker.
I even wonder if angels existed this would be the representative form they have.
Not of how I remembered I was told.
I went to my old room which eventually changed in time and the walls are completely white instead of that purple and all those colors.
My bed was enormous by the window, just like a poster bed but then the mattress was round and big like a big pillow with transparent curtains falling down.
And my closet was more like a long hanger, where all my clothes could be hinged on.
The air was fresh outside but it was a warm day unlike others.
I sat there for a while staring at the window.
Fionna came inside and decided to sit next to me.
" Are you ready, feather?" She said she had a nickname for me , feather because next to her I was kind of light weight.
I stare at her in her eyes. I could see she appreciates me a lot and I nodd.
We walked together towards my garderobe and she was helping to get ready for that last day at the palace.
After that I went to the science lab asking if I could ride some horsos, sycromono gave his permission and I went ordering one at the gate.
When the gate opened , there stood his Royalty , tall and handsome.
" What brings my handsome friend in front of the palace , are you also in need of a drive?" He chuckles when he sees me , he used to blush by just looking at me, he had changed a lot.
He invited me to ride the horso with him and I accepted the invitation by hopping upon the back of his horso.
We drove for a while through the city then the big field we could never go see, because there was never the time.
Now there was no Aldaan to interrupt our moment.
We stared at the dark blue sky and stars appeared from it.
The evening had fallen.
"..Well look at that, your brothers and sister …" I smiled and responded , "..I have many of them even on this planet" I could not see his reaction but I could feel his content.
" ..There is something I wanted to tell you from when I was a kid.." he starts , I let him finish probably have waited for this story for my whole life.
" .. truth is Ocean I have liked you so much, I think it was the first time I experienced an emotion so intense. The love I have felt for you over the years was unbearable, because I knew we could not be together or maybe you did not feel the same as me..but I wanted to have the chance to one day say it.. I liked you a lot..", when he said that I just couldn't say anything back , what was I supposed to say ?
Then I tried to remember while he was driving us around in silence " I did to" I said while he stopped and then tried to stare at the back.
" ...what?" He asked , you could feel his voice trembling. He now had a deeper voice than before.
" ..I know we are from a different species heck we are alien to each other, but I know that I liked you , it's just that I did not see my priority to be a wife of someone, I just prefer you to be my friend and not make this complicated.." he then smiles again and then touch my hand that is touching his belly , he caresses my hand palm and counts the fingers I have.
" Do you remember you were so tiny on my handpalm, that's when I knew I found my other part of the sky.. but like you said eventually with time you understand that this affection is because I lost a sister, so to me you were that replacement of that part, you see I was a twin until one day she died because of an illness, my father blamed me for that. Anyway the point is to me you're more than just the person I like, you are my family Oceania.." , and just like that he called my name, for the first time under the bed of stars.
The party came and it was our last meal with the people of the palace.
After that confession I was afraid that in this life I could ever love another species, that there was no one who would even look at me like I am today.
The beautiful dress for the party , covered in glitter, almost undressed tall till the ground and on my head I carried little stones.
My lips were painted and so we're my nails , from natural flyorian cosmetics.
There was a balcony and the sun was bright. Everyone looked nicely dressed and they had a blast.
I knew that my other part , the part that Fly was talking about , was there somewhere, to fulfill myself I needed to find him.
But that's a project I recently gained, because I thought about it for years.
After I save the shians world, what will become of me?
Those questions were my sorrows, but now I found a possibility of another goal behind the actual goal.
I stood in front of a world full of mistakes and there was some fixing to do ,at least that's what they believed.
We raised our glass by hearing the sound of tapping on a glass.
" Friends , elements and true companions. Let's drink together for the very last time , let's have fun and let's be happy because a lot is waiting for us. There are things we don't know , even if we become confident and with courage, we still do not know what is awaiting us out there in the lands and up the air.. but take note , that no matter what happens we have each other.
Come let us drink more to whatever comes.." they yield to my speech and raise their glass in chants and laughter , dancing to happiness on repeat " to whatever comes" and I know that to whatever comes at us, we will be ready to fight, as long as we have each other.