The Prettiest Star || Wattys 2018

Chapter 8 Mitus

The baby's loud cries echoed out loud throughout the entire kingdom and Mitus was becoming hysterical.

"Here, do you want your binky?" he asked as he put the binky in the baby's mouth, but she just spit it up and fat tears went down her cheeks as she continued to cry out. Mitus sighed and put the screaming baby against his shoulder, gently rubbing her back. "Oh Zonia, I know you miss mommy, but she's gone now and we just have each other now sweetie."

She started to sniffle back her tears and suck on her thumb when he noticed that her star birthmark was glowing brightly. He rubbed his thumb across her birthmark and looked down at her. "Oh babycakes, it's okay. Let it glow, it will pass, I swear."

She looked up at him with watery eyes as he smiled down at her and took her outside on the balcony to look up at the night sky. Her glow started to fade on her birthmark as she looked up at the sky in wonder and happily tried to reach for the glowing stars in the sky, making Mitus laugh. "You see those bright lights up there Zonia? They're called stars."

"Eons ago, when the universe was still in development, there was just one star in the whole galaxy, and it was a planet full of special beings."

"These beings deemed themselves as perfection because of their special abilities to bend the light, but they were also very cruel and coldhearted because they looked down upon anyone that wasn't like them."

"Any planet that wasn't perfect to them they would destroy, because they felt that it was their duty to make the universe perfect like them." He said with disgust in his voice.

He looked down at Zonia who was happily giggling at him. "But there was one being who was not like them. He could feel emotion and see the beauty in anything."

"The people looked down upon him and outcast him from their society because he was different. His own people exiled him." He looked up at the sky and sighed. "He never saw them again, and he didn't care.

"He wandered the universe for thousands of years alone, until he met his goddess, Minerva." Mitus frowned and wiped his watery eyes. "She was a very smart woman, who had also fallen for the man, but he could not be with his love."

"He would never grow old with her and experience life with her, so he made a drastic decision." Zonia tiredly looked up at him and softly yawned into his arms, closing her tiny eyes. "He became mortal for her, so that he could be with her for all eternity until they died."

"The first couple of years, they had made wonderful memories together, reading under the trees, running through the rain, or making passionate love at night."

Mitus bit down on his lip and moaned, "Oh how he loved those passionate long nights with her, the heat of their bodies colliding against each other as she opened her legs for him oh god. But I'm getting off topic here," he stated while rapidly blushing. "After one of their crazy nights together, Minerva had discovered that she was pregnant."

"They were going to become parents and he felt like the luckiest man in the galaxy when Minerva gave birth to a little girl."

Mitus brought zonia closer to him and smiled down at her sleeping form. "A beautiful little girl, with the pinkest skin and curliest hair. She was the most beautiful little baby he had ever seen, but there was a problem. She had a star just like him. He had unknowingly given his curse to his own child." he stated firmly. "His goddess minerva soon afterword drowned in the river in a freak accident, leaving him to raise their child by himself and take care of the kingdom."

"Minerva's gone now, but I'm still here." he said sadly while stroking her head. "So don't you worry 'bout a thing because I'll protect you my sweet babycakes."