Monday, April 16, 2012

Spring Break ends... and I give you Planetarium Chapter 1

Why... Why did you have to end?!
(=△=) ガーン・・
My Spring Break just ended and I came home from school...
And there are so exams and tests and other ugly stuff!!
Starting from tommorow,
is the New York State English Language Arts exam...

You know what, let's go to Planetarium.
I decided to do a different style of art for the cover,

so forget about the video!



                Stargazer leaped off our island home, while Starlight and I followed right behind him. He led the way, trying to remember the area with his sharp eyes. Ever since I was little, I knew our small are in space like the back of my hand. That was because I was Starcatcher, and I needed to know all routes. But I thought maybe I could teach Stargazer, and Dreamer agreed. Stargazer quickly learned and Starlight was pleased.
                We jumped off meteors and waved at stars and leaped onto the Dreamer’s floating island. It was an old dome made of crystals. The crystals acted as bricks, and were all perfect hexagons. The round, spherical gems were strapped inside the glass hexagon-shaped crystals and created the bricks. The gems were all bright colors. They were magenta, sea green, mint blue, pale yellow, violet, tangerine, and much more slightly different shades. We knock on the silver door of the dome. A cracked, old man’s voice spoke.
                “Come in, kids. You’ve got some wishes for the old judge, right?”
                We all laugh and skip in a lilt manner through the entrance. There sat Dreamer with his small spectacles on the tip of his pink nose. He had a long, silvery-white beard. His hair was short and he was sitting at his wooden desk. Thirty light bulbs were hung from the ceiling, and on his desk were lined up bottles of sleeping shooting stars. Tall, short, fat, skinny, spherical, square, and all kinds of glass bottles were there, keeping the dreaming shooting stars in them, all corked up and glowing.
                Then I realized that there were, I think, three skinny bottles, with a white silky cloth draping over them. I smiled slightly, and met Dreamer’s dazzling eyes. They were most likely for us.
                “Dreamer, Dreamer! We got four plump stars!” Stargazer said with pride. “And I lead them back to Dreamer’s dome!”
                Dreamer smiled and patted him on the head. Stargazer’s pink, elf-like ears perk up, joyous to be praised by our wise “grandfather”. His soft wrinkles on his face, but he never had them on his forehead. He was wearing his usual white cloak and was barefooted. Even at the age of his, he was an outdoor person. He loved to take a small walk in his beautiful, wild garden, filled with all different kinds of flowers. Some were kept under glass cases, since they needed something called “oxygen”. Even on earth, I never had a chance to learn much.
                “I was just about to go to the Milky Way to grant wishes! But let’s do that a little later, right?”
                His eyes… were emerald. Bright green with hazel highlights around the edges. I wish I had them. Mine are just plain brown, like a dried up earth plant. I had always wanted to visit the Milky Way, but Dreamer said it was dangerous. I do not understand what was dangerous about wishes. I ask Dreamer as constant as I can but he just smiles with a little tear that was soon blinked back.
                I unbuckle all the belts, buttons, and fasteners and give the jar to Dreamer. They were slowly breathing and repeated their wishes again and again. I couldn’t hear much of it, but Starlight can.
                “These are pure, beautiful stars!” Dreamer said, but turned to Starlight with in an unsure tone. “These shooting stars, they only have one…”
                “Yes, Dreamer. Only one. I will give a full report on in later, but not in front of Starcatcher, and definitely not Stargazer.”
                “Why?” We both wail in unison. Starlight was older than the two of us and is at least 5,267 moons old. I was only 4,380. Two more days till my birthday.
                “On your birthday, shall Dreamer tell you all of the star’s secrets. In human years, Stargazer is 8, you are 12, and I am 14. Till you turn 13, you must wait for the secrets.”
                “Secrets?” I realize that Starlight was holding tight onto Stargazer’s ears, trying to block off the conversation. Stargazer was thrashing, but Starlight held tight.
                “Alright, now I have some presents for all of you, children!”
                Starlight let go and Stargazer growled. Dreamer carefully took off the silky cloth from the three skinny bottles. Inside were green, heart shape petals. Four of them lined up next to each other in somewhat a circle format. A thin green stem supported it all.
                “Dreamer!” Starlight gasped. “Those are lucky clovers! From earth! How did you get them?”
                He winked and gave them to us. As we all took them, Starlight was joyous, while the two of us inspected what was so special about the plain “clover”.
                “Clovers,” Starlight began, “are most commonly seen with three of these green leaves. But rarely, you find four leaves on them, and people on earth say that it is unbelievably lucky!”
                Stargazer and I grinned and skipped around in circles, cheering for the great present we all received.
                “Luck-y! Luck-y! Luck-y...”





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