//------------------------------// // Prologue // Story: When You Wish Upon A Dying Star // by pwniiz //------------------------------// He was just 17, about to become an adult. But he saw the world for what it truly was, nightmare you couldn't wake up from. His misery and hatred for being born tortured him to no end. He only wished to escape. But there was only one way to do that. He stood in the kitchen with a knife to his throat, and his mom standing in front of him not 10 feet away, panicking and pleading with him. He couldn't hear her thou. He was hoping they wouldn't witness the act and that he could leave without saying goodbye. But he already wrote down one last essay as a goodbye for them to read after the fact. Then his mom tried to approach him, but he barely noticed and flinched. The knife slipped and it felt like how nails on a chalkboard sound. He felt warmth overcome on his neck, followed by a muffled scream. He smiled and mouthed “I love you” then he stumbled to the floor resting his head against the washing machine and closed his eyes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luna was patrolling the castle late at night like she always did after raising the moon and organizing the stars. Her footsteps echoed throughout the corridors as she walked around aimlessly. Thinking about the upcoming Nightmare Night and thinking of plans on what to do she didn't realize she had wandered into the old library. It was very quiet and musky inside the old library wing. But she decided to wander around a bit more. She dragged her fingers along the rows of scrolls and books as she walked along as if she was looking for something to read. She pulled out a faded red book and looked at the title, “The diets of all known creatures”. She instantly put the book back out of the mysterious boredom that overcame her. “Why am i even here” she asked herself. She started to walk towards the door. suddenly a small clattering sound echoed from the back of the room. Probably a scroll that fell from a shelf Luna deduced. She decided to go and put it back where it belonged and walked back down past the shelves of books and scrolls. She turned the corner and saw a small golden laced scroll lying in the middle of the floor. It looked rather colorful and caught Luna’s curiosity. She picked up the scroll with her magic and placed it in her hand. “no ordinary scroll has gold trimming” she thought aloud as she unraveled it and walked towards a window to get some moonlight so she could read. She looked closely at the glittering letters and read the scroll. A dying star doth give one wish As one one who is dying giveth one last breath. but only if thou wish be true from the heart Will heart and wish unite. Luna, having read the poem out loud in disappointment. She thought it would be an interesting well written story. She looked up at the sky where she noticed something flickering and realized it was a star, and it was dying! She panicked and dropped the scroll as she teleported through the window. She flew as fast as she could towards the dying star and was worried she wouldn't make it in time to save it. She broke through the atmosphere and flew near the star. It was pulsing its light at random as if struggling to live. She tried to use healing magic but it had no effect. The pulsing light began to slow down even more and floated there in shock. There was nothing she could do. One of her stars was dying and she couldn’t do anything to stop it. The star shrank to the size of a basketball and the light dimmed. Luna held the star in her hand and she began to cry. The stars were like her children, and she hoped she would never lose any of them, but she just did. The light from the star faded to black and it crumbled into stardust. Then at that moment Luna recalled the poem from the scroll. A dying star doth give one wish as one one who is dying giveth one last breath. She floated there for a moment still running the words through her mind. Surely she didn’t cause the star to die, but what if it was true and she could make a wish. She thought deeply remembering it said only a wish true from the heart (or something along those lines) would actually come true. Than she felt it, a small sensation building in her gut. Something that had been picking at the back of her mind since she was changed back to normal and went back to living her normal life. She wanted to be loved. Not the same love which is that of her family or citizens, but that of someone not related, but close to her heart. A boyfriend. She thought about it for a moment still floating where the star used to be. “I wish i could find my special someone”. Deep down she realized that was what she had been craving for a long time. The love and affection of another person. Suddenly the floating stardust glowed faintly, slowly spinning around Luna. She looked from left to right surprised that the dust came back to life. The dust began to spin faster and faster and it slowly began to spin Luna in a circle as well. There was a sudden flash of light and she closed her eyes tight. Then she slowly began to stop spinning and opened her eyes. The dust was all gone and she was alone in the night sky with only the other stars to keep her company. When she flew back down to the library she saw the scroll on the ground with a faint glow illuminating from it. She teleported back inside and picked up the scroll with her magic hoping to get some answers. But when she looked at the scroll it was blank. The glowing faded and it simply became a plain blank scroll. She dropped it and it bounced around on the floor making a tapping sound before rolling off down the hall for a short distance. All the while, Luna stood like a statue lost in her thoughts. As Luna walked back to her room she realized that her wish hadn’t exactly come true. None showed up or magically appeared out of thin air in front of her. But it was odd how the star dust acted and the words on the scroll vanished. Maybe there was something to it anyways and she just had to start looking for that special someone. She opened the door to her room with her magic and approached her bed ready to sleep. She had nothing else to do this night so she simply decided to sleep in early. She lifted the blanket covering her bead up with her magic and discovered there was a boy lying in her bed.