The Book of Gemma VOL. 2

1: My Mind

"Aries."

Growing up on Fierita and Darus, I was twirled around the town by my father Kyto. He would spin me to each new challenge to fix, big or small. Like rebuilding the side of a house to helping him stop a tsunami. I didn't have a normal human upbringing but my father always tried, sometimes he would throw a ronsin berry across the planet for me to catch, or the times he would play that silly hide and seek game by hiding in the depths of the ocean. My mother, Zion, wouldn't play many games with me. She would teach me to focus, testing me on my memories and studying the human's behavior. Almost like spying on them under a microscope. She told me it was to make sure we are helping them evolve but knowing the truth about my purpose.. She wanted me to make my decision at a young age.. And I don't know, maybe she thought if I knew my purpose early in life and made my decision then she could go back to Veedu earlier.

Why Vyx wanted to keep me here for so long still eats at me, Why wouldn't she want me to make a rash decision? I mean she gave me six thousand years here to fall in love with the humans or utterly despise them, I could have made that choice on Darus. Why would she give me this much time?

I still wanted more time with my father. My mother I think I could only get along with for another hundred years before killing her. All the times she would lock me away in my room for being caught laughing with the humans. She always said that I must stand and watch, never engage in the peasantry act. I loved to laugh though and she took it away everytime a chuckle hit her ear. I don't think I've ever heard her laugh, my father laughed but never in front of her. I don't know why they were together sometimes, it made no sense to me. I love when Deecon makes my ribs hurt from laughing so hard, why did they never enjoy it?

I do remember one time I caught them dancing in the kitchen, no music playing but my father humming a sweet melody as they rocked back and forth. Maybe Starzithian love was differently felt, all I knew as a child was to find the person you could tolerate. Someone who would twirl you around in the kitchen. Other than that? They never showed me what romance was or even how precious a peck on the cheek would be. I was lost when it came to the complex feeling.

Looking back at how Leo, Scorpz and Virgo acted around me, it made sense why they didn't like me. Vyx had created them to decide and they failed miserably, I was the success. A little princess they had to look after, the end of their reign. I don't even know what happened to them after they fled, I think we talked more when they were pulling my braids as children.

But, Aries?

I vaguely remember Leo saying once, "Aries should be watching her, not us."

That was the only time I've ever heard his name.

Aries should be watching her..

Watching me? I had thought, why was I to be under a microscope?

Why were Zodiacs more powerful than a Starzithian? We all had a star burning in our chests. What could make us so powerful? Was it the fact that we had a darker side? Do Starzithians only have the light to control? Maybe they couldn't wield the power of the darkness.

Aries chapter in the Book of Fables was short, not much information was leaked about him from the other Zodiacs.

It only tells that he is waiting impatiently for my decision, trapped on Veedu to train until I've made my decision. That every reborn, he too is plucked from the stars to carry out my will. That.. we are lovers in every life. Constantly being pulled to one another by an unbreakable force.. But what happened the last time I decided? Why had I been reborn as an infant when every time I was supposed to come out full formed and ready for my next command?