"Welcome to the Castle of Celestials!"
The group stared in awe at the Castle of Celestials.
"Wow... this place looks beautiful."
"Pretty boring once you've been living here for 3000 years. It's just a big ol' castle."
"Just wait until you see the inside!!" Spring grinned, twirling over to the entrance of the Castle. The others followed suit, taking their first step into the Castle of Celestials.
It was like nothing they had ever seen before. The walls were glowing white & yellow & blue, their colors ever-shifting. It was almost ethereal, seeing something so bright & gorgeous in the depths of the galaxy.
"Holy shit. We don't have anything like this on Earth."
"Alright. You 5 have to be quiet when we go to Dad's room. Fate would be so mad if she ever found out we brought humans to the castle."
"I'm sure this 'Fate' would make an exception for the 'heroes of the prophecy', yeah?"
"Maybe. Just be quiet."
The 7 of then were silent as they traversed the Castle of Celestials. The Castle seemed bigger on the inside than it was on the outside. It was absolutely awe-inspiring.
After a few minutes, the group found themselves outside of a room with the symbols of the sun & the moon painted upon the door. The heroes could only assume this is where Spring & Storm's father resides.
Spring knocked on the door a couple of times, in a rhythmic manner.
A moment later, a voice cried out from inside the room, saying "Come in!"
Spring opened the door as she, Storm, & the heroes entered inside the room. The room was fairly large, with a bed in the distance. A few feet in front of the bed were 2 thrones: a yellow one with a sun symbol & a blue one with a moon symbol. The yellow throne was empty (as to be expected), but the blue throne had someone sitting in it.
From the looks of it, they appeared to be around the same height that Sun was. Their hair was blue, & curly just like Storm's was. The skirt they wore went down to their ankles, sort of representing the water. Based on all of the moon imagery, the group assumed that this was Mr. Moon.
Wiping a tear off of novs face, nov looked up & saw Spring & Storm standing there. The stars in their eyes lit up instantly.
"Spring! Storm!"
Leaping out of their throne, Mr. Moon ran up & wrapped their kids in an embrace.
"Oh, how I missed you two so much! You had me so worried! I thought you'd never come back!" nov sobbed.
"Of course we'd come back! We're not stupid!" Storm chuckled. "We did miss you, though."
"Sorry for leaving, Dad.."
"You know leaving the Castle is against the rules.. but I'll let it slide just this once."
Releasing from the hug, Mr. Moon caught a glance of the group.
"Oh, & who might these people be?"
"Oh, these are the heroes!"
"The- the heroes?" Mr. Moon gasped.
"Yea, we uhh.. took care of your kids on Earth." Cherry said.
Mr. Moon approached Cherry & shook their hand.
"Oh, I cannot thank you enough for keeping my children safe!"
"It's the least we could do."
"Anyways, uh.. your kids also wanted us to get you & your ex back together?"
"Oh.." Mr. Moon sighed. "I suppose that makes sense. It's been 2,200 years since they've last seen Sun.."
"Yeah, maybe not telling us what happened to Mom until yesterday wasn't your best move, Dad."
"Yeah, my parents dealt with their divorce a lot better than that."
"It's just.."
Mr. Moon spun around & sat back in their throne.
"Usually it's easy to forget someone when their presence isn't there. But Sun... I could never forget aem now. Not after the mistake I had made. & I don't think I'll ever get a proper chance to apologize."
The group glanced at each other, & then back at Mr. Moon.
"What.. caused the split, if I may ask?"
"Well..-" Mr. Moon choked back tears. "When a Celestial dies, they don't die forever. It's only for a certain number of years. Sun was dead for around.. 200 years, give or take. I had nearly forgotten about them when they returned, due to having to take care of Spring & Storm, & having to raise & set the sun for them each day."
The group was listening very intently to Mr. Moon's story.
"Sun was.. understandably very angry when ae learned ae fell out of my memory. I tried to make it up to them, but... but.."
"But they left to go live on Mercury for 2000 years, never to be seen again..?"
"..Precisely."
Mr. Moon curled novs legs up to novs chest. "..& it's all my fault." nov sobbed.
Cherry scuffled over closer to the Celestial.
"Listen, dude.." Cherry started. "It's not your fault. Well.. not entirely your fault, anyway. Sun shouldn't have gotten mad at you for something that was out of your control, & you shouldn't have waited 2,000 years to tell Spring & Storm."
Mr. Moon nodded, for this was the truth.
"It's not too late to reconcile with Sun, though!"
"But.. but they're on Mercury! No other Celestial is able to withstand the temperatures there!"
"We'll help you, then. Come on."