Fallen Stars
Mystery Fourteen
Color of Aurora
**At The Top
of
The Mountain**
Wrath with excitement on his face.
Wrath: Yeeeessssss! 2 days! No one can fuck with us!
Vega (calm expression): Let’s see these ruins and head out.
Draco: In due time, Vega. Don’t worry.
The gang looks around at the summit, and they see statues of dragons all over!
Draco has a quick surprise, then a joyful expression.
Draco: Dragon statues?! I’m hyped!
Wrath: Yeah, but these things look old and worn down. Some are even cracking apart.
Apocalypse is off to the side flying around.
Vega: This one is missing a head.
Draco: Doesn’t matter, it just existing is amazing. C’mon, let’s head inside.
Vega: Alright, stay on guard.
Draco: Mhm.
Draco runs in looking around and touching everything. As the rest follow him in.
Vega (annoyed): He’s not paying attention...
Wrath: Well, it is his animal. Looking at these murals on these walls. Some dragons have wings or have no wings with big horns, like Draco’s. Wow and look at this, it’s a three-headed dragon.
Vega: You about to go crazy over the ruins too?
Wrath: Nah, I’ll contain myself here. But when I get to Zeus’ place...
Wrath (big smile): I’m going to go crazy!
Draco walks in.
Draco (chuckles): Ah, so you do admit you’re crazy?
Wrath (getting mad): Stop playing with me!
Vega: You searched everything?
Draco: Yeah, just a bunch of murals. No gold, tombs, or anything.
Vega: You were looking for a tomb?
Draco: I thought all ruins have one. But forget it, let’s go. Let’s leave this city and on to the next one.
Wrath and Vega: Alright.
The gang walks out of the ruins, and back onto the walkway with the statues. And someone says something behind them…..
Clair: And I sat here and thought you were the one.
The three turn around quickly and see an old white woman kicking her legs back and forth sitting atop the ruins. She has two horns on her head.
Draco: Uhhh. Who are you?
Clair: The better question is who are you?
She jumps down landing face first!
Wrath (shocked): Oh shit! She’s gotta be dead.
Clair is still moving around.
Clair: Don’t go killing me off yet, young blood.
Clair jumps up and walks close to Draco with her cane. Eyeing him down.
Clair: What’s your name, sunny?
Vega: (Are those horns on her head?)
Draco: Uhhh. I don’t know.
Clair: What did you just say?
Vega’s eyes get lower, and he starts to grab his sword. Draco has a mad look on his face.
Draco: I said, I don’t know!
Clair busts out laughing.
Clair: Yup, you’re Draconis’ kid.
Draco: How do you know my….
Clair (smiles): Your dad and I go way back. I’m Clair. Follow me.
She walks off into the ruins.
Draco: I guess we’re following her.
Vega: What the hell? Not this again.
Vega stops Draco.
Vega (serious): Whatever happened to not putting your trust in people? Not believing everything they say.
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Draco (dispirited): I know, but my dad instilled this dumbass reasoning, about trusting old people whose names start with “C.”
Vega standing there stunned.
Vega: That has got to be the worst reasoning ever.
Wrath: Well, I’m going.
Wrath walks off, cape flying behind him.
Draco: C’mon, and you know I want to know about these dragons.
Draco follows Wrath. Vega facepalms.
Vega (disheartened): Why do I hang around these two?
Enma (cheerful): (Let’s go.)
Vega: Yeah..., I’m coming.
All of them walk into the ruins.
Clair: Do you not realize what you missed?
Draco: I saw all the murals. But I saw no artifacts or anything else.
Clair shakes her head.
Clair: (Not the one, huh.) There’s a secret lever right here.
Clair hits the lever making the floor separate apart.
Draco: How was I supposed to notice that?
Clair: You don’t look close enough.
Draco: (.....)
Wrath: What’s down here?
Clair jumps down to the second floor, followed by The gang. She hurts her leg.
Clair: Ouchie! These old bones are not good for jumping.
Draco: You jumped down outside and were fine though.
Clair: Yeah, a one-hit wonder.
They all look around the room and it's filled with yellow flowers.
Wrath: Wow, I’ve never seen these before.
[Flowers mainly being yellow, with purple and red also on them.]
Draco: What are these called?
Clair: They are called, Stargazers.
Vega: Stargazers?
Clair: Yep, they’re the National Flower of the Tanninul Dynasty.
Clair goes around watering them.
Draco, Vega, and Wrath: (The Tanninul Dynasty?!)
They all become silent.
Draco: ….
Clair watering the flowers.
Draco: You just keep them here?
Clair: It's a remembrance of where I came from.
Draco: That’s cool, You should always remember that.
Wrath: So you’re always here watering the flowers? Trying to keep this place in shape?
Clair: Trying to. Just doing the lord's work. As your friendly everyday Dragon Guru.
Wrath looks around and sees dust everywhere, but around the flowers.
Wrath (bothered): (This... is trying?)
Vega: Guru?
Clair: Yup, that’s my title.
**Clair**
Epithet: Dragon Guru
Draco: That's a good title.
Clair: One of a kind.
Clair pauses.
Clair: You know what, let's do this.
Wrath raises an eyebrow.
Draco: ?
Clair: Each one of you, one at a time, come up to the flowers. They can determine the Color of Aurora. (I want to see what I’m working with.)
Vega, Wrath, and Draco: (Aurora...)
Wrath: I’m going first.
Clair: Sometimes, your Aurora is the same as your eye color. It's said, that what you see is what you give off. Just watch the way it flows.
Wrath: Eye color? I wonder which one I’ll get.
Clair (genuine): Hopefully no one is black.
All three of them turn to her with stern confused faces and tones.
Wrath, Vega, and Draco: What the fuck does that suppose to mean?
Clair with a somewhat sweating look.
Clair: No, I didn’t mean it like that. (The one in the middle has black eyes.)
Wrath has a sarcastic unruffled look.
Wrath: Yeah, sure you didn’t.
They all stand back, while Wrath walks up to the flowers with his usual grin. The flowers begin swelling up, then they start oozing out a colored fragrance.
Wrath: Purple?
Clair: Closer to violet.
Wrath: What does that mean?
Clair: The color violet is often associated with royalty, luxury, power, and ambition.
Wrath: Hmm. All great qualities. That’s me.
Clair: Negatively though, violet can represent decadence, conceit, and pomposity. Often representing a violent person.
Draco: Hahaha.
Wrath: Shut up.
Clair: It also represents those who have so many Ideals, and tries to execute them no matter what. The Idealistic person out of the group.
Draco: Oh, that’s for sure Wrath.
Wrath: Can your color change?
Clair: Yes, they can. But you have to change your mentality.
Wrath: (Hmm.) I kinda want to keep purple, that’s me.
Clair: Who’s next?
Draco: I’m going.
Draco walks up to the flowers, embracing them with a smile. The flowers do the same as Wrath, oozing out a different color.
Draco: Blue…?
Clair: No… it’s more so, azure. It’s for those who have strong willpower, it is associated with Space, freedom, intuition, and Feelings and they completely understand self-worth. (He can be The Dragon King!!)
Draco: Dope.
Clair: But, they may be too concerned with themselves, becoming distant. Azure Blue also represents meanings of trust, Wrath, loyalty, confidence, Heaven, and intelligence. Whatever they set their minds to, it will happen. Through all their pain and keep pushing.
Wrath thinks to himself intensely.
Wrath: (Space, Heaven, and Wrath?!) Man, Draco got the best one!
Vega walks up.
Vega: Well, last but least.
Draco: It’s last but not least*.
Vega (sincere): That’s what I said.
Wrath sighs. Vega walks up to the flowers and is mean mugging. They spew out a sparkling color in fright!
Vega: Red?
Clair: Red….
Clair coughs.
Vega: Meaning?
Clair: Red is a wild type. Red symbolizes the color of blood and fire, it’s associated with meanings of desire, Reasoning, and determination.
Vega with his stone-cold face.
Vega: That sounds like me.
Draco has a cheery face.
Draco: Perfectly for you.
Clair: They also say reds are very invested in danger, malice, anger, and violence.
Clair looks at Vega while she slowly shakes. Vega gives off a nonchalant expression and answers.
Vega: I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Clair: …...
Clair sits down the watering can.
Vega: I like it with my content heart.
Wrath has an unamused face...
Wrath: ….
Draco: Heart’s content*.
Vega: Nah, I said it right.
Clair: You know what, follow me.
They all walk out of the ruins and go to the right. They walk and see Clair’s house.
Draco: I didn’t see this here either.
Clair: You were too focused on the statues and the ruin itself.
Vega nodded, agreeing with Clair.
Vega: Yeah, blinded.
Draco with a snarky remark.
Draco: Ok, so now I see it. Get off my back.
Clair: Didn’t your dad teach you to always check your surroundings?
Draco: He did.
A giant white swan flies overhead! They all look up reacting to it but Clair.
Wrath: Whoa, what the hell was that?!
Clair: Ah, just a swan. Keep following me.
They walk into the house. Before that, a big welcome mat says…
**DK’s Assistant**
It's a cramped one-room house. Papers all over the room with a whiteboard in the back.
Draco feels stuffed in the house.
Draco: Is this how you’re living?
Clair: I don’t need all that extra stuff. This is perfect.
Wrath feels irritated by the house.
Wrath: Let’s cut the small talk. What is this place and why do they call you crazy?
Clair: Oh, we got a lively one here.
Vega nodded again agreeing with Clair.
Vega: Mhm.
Clair began to get serious.
Clair: Let me explain. This place is called the Dragon Ruins. But, as you can see, this place isn’t in tip-top shape.
Wrath: We saw.
Clair: As for those punks in the city. They only call me crazy a few times, every once in a while.
Draco: Why?
Clair’s expression changes from serious to incredibly happy!! She has a big happy smile!!
Clair: Because it's that... TIME AGAIN!
The gang: Huh?
[What Is She Happy About?!
That Time??]
Mystery 14 Fin
Author’s Note: Real Stargazers…. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/603784191850577941/642690267530657812/stargazers-blog120824.png