I can never keep my stories off of here for long, it seems. So here is an older story that I do plan on updating when I get the time. You can also say I really butchered the mythology of Selene to fit my own needs, but it's a free country, so yeah. I will try to update at least once a month, if not more. Hopefully much more than once a month.

Son of the Moon

Chapter I: The Saga in the Stars

In the very beginning there was but Selene, the goddess of the Moon, and a single, solitary, lonely moon. Selene was as radiant as she was powerful, but in the end she was lonesome and her downfall was her love for a mortal. By this painfully mortal man she had fifty daughters, each more beautiful than the next and each with the name Selenity. When her daughters were old enough she placed them on the Moons orbiting different planets to rule as they saw fit. Being only half goddesses they were short of divinity but revered by their people nonetheless.

Selene was so unable to watch her daughters, and eventually even her lover himself, perish due to old age that Selene ended her own existence with magic we can not begin to understand.

It is said that in the blood of each of her fifty daughters and their children and their children's children a little bit of Selene's magic and essence carried on, and would forever. The daughters of the many moons were always blessed with daughters of their own, never sons, and as such, a little piece of Selene herself.

Princess Serenity, Selene's many times over great-great granddaughter, was the first daughter of the moon, the first decedent of hers to not be named Selenity in honor of her divine being. It had been a break in tradition that had been met with discontent at first by the people of the White Moon, but as they watched the young Princess grow and mature into a daughter fit of Selene's grandeur and name they accepted that this daughter of the Moon was different and deserved a special name all of her own. Her mother had know from the day she had held her newborn daughter, all wrapped up in pink with soft blonde curls and enchanting blue eyes that she was destined for great things. Queen Selenity had known that her daughter would be different and would lead their Kingdom to something great.

And the Queen had never felt so betrayed.

Sometime later another child was born.

This child was precious, of this there was no doubt. All life is precious when granted by Selene, and surely this child had to be blessed by Selene to be born under her stars. Maybe even, this child was just as precious as Princess Serenity had been.

He was born into the world christened with blood and screams and tears.

Queen Selenity held the gorgeous child in her arms, still wet and messy from it's birth. He was to be her new son, she thought gazing down at the tiny bundle that honestly looked nothing like any Lunarian she'd ever seen. His hair was far too dark, and his eyes too murky, his skin a darker complexion than it should be.

Her heart was disquiet.

"The child needs a name," Selenity spoke to herself more than to the midwives as she handed the baby over to them to be cleaned up. "I will allow you to name him," she glanced at the young woman – no, girl of only sixteen, who was laying in the bed, exhausted and drenched in sweat. "For it will be the last significant decision you make in his life."

"Endym-"

"No." Queen Selenity cut in sharply. Her blue eyes burning with unspoken rage at the mere mention of the name. "No," she repeated, this time more gently, not wanting to fret the girl in her delicate condition.

The girl who had just given birth, her daughter, her Serenity, cast her gaze down and remained quiet for a moment. "Adam," She said in a voice barely above a whisper.

"Adam?" Queen Selenity repeated the foreign name, it sounded strange on her tongue. It wasn't elegant or flowing like a proper Lunarian name. It wasn't fitting a Prince of the White Moon.

Why Adam? She wondered, but her question was answered before she could even ask it. "It means Earth," Serenity said somberly, hoping her mother would allow it.

For a moment the Queen looked as if she would contest, but eventually her eyes softened and she let out a small sigh. Nodding her head, she'd allow her daughter to have this one thing, this one memory to treasure.

Looking over to the nosy midwives who were watching with keen interest her soft exterior quickly toughened up as she rose to her full height and regalia as Queen. "You, ladies," she spoke to the women scattered about the room, one holding the child, "Are to remain loyal to me. This child," she pointed to the now sleeping babe in the blonde midwife's arms, "is mine. I birthed him. No one shall know otherwise. His parentage, on his father's side, is a mystery even to you, for you'll say a Queen is allowed to have her secrets. Do you understand me?"

"Yes m'lady," the four women answered in unison.

"Good." Selenity then gestured for the babe to be brought to her again. The moment the baby was placed in her arms he awoke, dark blue eyes gazing up at her almost suspiciously, as if he knew she wasn't his mother. He didn't have their eyes, she thought almost bitterly. Her bitterness began to melt, however, upon seeing the longing look in her daughter's eyes. For a moment the Queen wanted nothing more than to give her the child that was rightfully hers, consequences be dammed, but she knew it would spell disaster for everyone if she allowed Serenity to raise this child as her own. As a Queen she must protect her Kingdom, her daughter, and even this child she was now responsible for. She couldn't put her feelings first.

"Adam," she spoke down to the child, "You shall be the first Prince of the Moon. May Selene bless your soul and watch over you." Looking up at her daughter who was frightfully close to tears and the midwives who were watching their Queen with large round eyes simply in taking everything, she added, "May she watch over us all."

End.

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