There was once a girl by the name Amane. She was the eldest of three children. Born of the earth and darkness her watery nature was as unstable as it was beautiful. Chaotic at times, her mother had difficulty helping her through tantrums and troubles. Her dark and moody nature was a mystery even to her father since he had more of a still darkness about him. Amane felt torn. Both of her siblings were bright and beautiful yet felt that she was not because she did not shine. Although they became used to her dark and quieting nature they saw her as different and she saw herself as the outsider. As the oldest Amane was supposed to nurture her brother and sister. She was expected to love them and help them to grow and she did; but every moment was joined hand in hand with hate and jealously deep in her heart.
She did not like these feelings. They hurt her so deep and dark inside that no one could see them and she kept it that way. She wanted to love her brother and her sister without the strong feelings and painful thoughts that plagued her. Amane was confused. She had always helped her brother Áed out with his temper by cooling off his solar flares. Even with her sister Aria a simple rain or cooling pool would enough for even her hottest shooting star. However Amane was already cold and nothing good ever came of her getting hot so she was at a loss. She thought and thought and thought. For years she did this. She’d watch her brother cross the sky during the day and then she’d watch her sister at night. Each moment giving them what they needed while keeping her own feelings quiet while she thought of a solution. Then one day she messed up. Amane was so caught up in her own thoughts that she didn’t realize that Áed and Aria were fighting again during a sunset. Aria had got mad at her brother for acting like he was the only thing shining in the sky. He had insulted her stars calling them small and insignificant and infuriated her so much that she launched a comet at him and missed. By the time Amane saw the comet and realized what was happening it was too late. It had already pierced her mother in the side causing rock and dust to fly up and block out the view and her siblings staring in shock and fear from afar. Gaia was moaning in pain and Ancora, Amanes father, was not pleased. He became furious that Amane had lacked in her responsibilities to her siblings and as a result ended up getting her mother hurt. He demanded an explanation but Amane could not speak. She was afraid of saying or doing anything else wrong. Her silence only made her father more upset and his anger became so great that when he spoke his words would light up the sky as if Áeds light was shining at full brightness. He was so furious that he was unable to hear Amane start to apologize nor see her tears of regret. As she cried to her father her heart poured out and a great stormed appeared. Amane reached to her father for forgiveness and her waves began to engulf Gaia and heal her wounds. No one noticed that Gaia was healing but Gaia noticed that her family was in trouble right away. She called out to Ancora through the raging storm. Her voice immediately calmed him and distracted him from Amane. Gaia showed her husband how Amane had healed her during his argument and explained to him what she heard from Amane . She assured Ancora that she was fine and asked him to consider giving Amane something that could help her understand her darker side and not become too distracted by it. Then she sent him away to speak with Amane alone.
She looked at Amane lovingly and asked her if she knew just how special she was. Amane still in tears replyed that she did not know how there could be anything special about her. She told Gaia how she felt. How only her siblings were special because they shined in the sky and she did not. Amane cried about how everything was her fault and how her mistake that had gotten Gaia hurt. She told her mother everything about what happened that day and every day before and how confused and scared she was. She cried so much and so hard that Gaias hard surface began to soften into mud in order to soak up the tears. When Amane had finally calmed down she fell asleep and became more still than ever before. With Gaia healed Ancora tried to clear up the sky of her dust and let Áed and Aria know what was going on. Gaia stopped him. She asked him to place all the dust into a single sphere and she would use some of Amane’s tears to bind it to her soul. When Amane woke up it was night. Everything was quite and she could once again see her sister Aria brightly shining in the sky. She looked around and quickly found her mother and father. It was then that she began to worry that she would be in trouble again. Gaia calmed her daughter and told her that they were not going to punish her but they had both wished that Amane had told them of her troubles before. She then told Amane that they each had a gift for her. First, so that Amane could better understand the purpose behind her dark nature and control herself better Ancoras gift made her the gate keeper of realm of the dead. In this way he felt she could learn about her dark tendencies while also getting to know all the creatures she affects. She would also be the only child who could go from one realm to the other. Up until then only Ancora could go between realms and even Gaia did not posses the ability. With this gift alone Amane was happy but then Gaia gave her her other gift, a dark orb. Gaia told Amane that the orb was made from the dust and dirt from her ingury, the still darkness that Ancora used to collect it and the tears Amane cried during the storm to heal her. She then said that if Amane fused it with her dark magic that it would be so strong that it could glow with no light, catch the comets that her siblings would throw, help keep her emotions in balance and every once in a while it would become so powerful that it would make her the only thing that could be seen in the sky even while her brother was shining. Amane was thrilled. She danced with joy and appreciation. Then she stopped. Something told her that this little dark orb came with a catch. She turned and asked her mother if there was a catch. Gaia smiled at the question and turned away without an answer. Amane began to panic and was stopped dead in her tracks by her father. Ancora looked at his daughter with care and with stern caution explained how the orb like all things had a cycle. That in exchange for the orb being able to shine without light that it would draw energy from both realms and in doing so shine on both sides. He warned that sometimes it would shine very brightly on one side and sometimes it would shine very brightly on the other side but that the orb could never shine on both sides the same way at the same time. Amane asked if why she couldn’t just keep the orb it the middle so that it could shine on both sides equally at the same time. Her father decided not to explain this part but instead show her. As Amane opened the Gateway to her fathers realm for the first time she watched as her orb began to glow and rise into the sky but when she reached for it and made it stop rising it stopped glowing. As she repeated the process Amane realized that in order for the orb to work it always had to keep moving much like herself. Once again she became excited and thanked her parents for their gifts and set out to make her orb glow. It was slow at first, but as her orb took to the dark skies above she could feel the hate and jealousy that she had for her siblings disappear. She knew that she wasn’t the same as them nor was her orb as big or bright as theirs; but she had something that was hers. Amane had something that was formed out of love and made her feel closer to her family as opposed to distant from them. That was all she needed to be happy and at peace.
