Dustmaker Aftermath

Chapter 5

Dustmaker's Pov

I felt someone nudge me awake, and when I turned to them, I saw that it was Darkstalker. "Come on, time to go to my world." He said waking me up. He grabbed my hand and suddenly we were in a valley. His spirit flew away and I followed, very cautiously.

I didn't want or need anyone to see me. I found Darkstalker's house. Or, Snowstalker in this timeline. I probably should become invisible like a rainwing could, by using magic to distort the light around me.

I walk in using this technique, and as expected no one sees a thing. Except maybe Whiteout, but she was born yesterday so I doubt she has the words to say I'm here. I see Mini mint Darkstalker.

Both Darkstalker and Whiteout are on their parents backs.

They then set them down and go to the other side of the room. "Okay. Now walk towards us." They said. Oh, they're teaching them to walk. Darkstalker seemed to get the hang of it instantly, while Whiteout seemed to be struggling. I slightly helped hold her up for a bit and helped walk her forward slightly before she got it on her own.

Then she scurried over to her mother. Darkstalker was patiently sitting on his fathers head, looking in my direction. It was adorable really. I knew he couldn't see me, so I moved over to him and tugged on his ear.

That got his attention, as he immediately turned his head in my direction, only for his snout to smack into his fathers horns. He then started crying and his father grabbed him and 'ssshhh'ed him as he patted his back and put a bit of frost over where his snout hurt.

Then I remembered that cold could numb pain. I used slight healing magic on his breath and the pain should've been completely gone. His crying stopped and he calmed down. "You shouldn't turn so suddenly like that little fella." Arctic says to him.

"Ohie dada." He says like a child. "Wait what?" Arctic says shocked. Foeslayer also came over to him. "Dada!" He said joyfully looking at Arctic.

Arctic hugged him even closer and more joyfully, tears forming in the corners of his eyes. "I'm so proud." He says.

He eventually puts Darkstalker down and watches him play with his toys. I follow him. He starts talking in old Pantalan, so his family would brush it off if they heard us as he plays. "Thank you." He says.

"What for?" I ask. "If it wasn't for you, my life, well, I wouldn't have one. And, not only did you help me, but you helped my family. In my last life, I had lived my whole life without seeing my father smile once. And now he's not only smiling, but it's because of me."  He said.

"Yeah, well, everyone deserves a happily ever after. And besides, you saved my life on multiple occasions and helped me get started on my happily ever after." I say. His parent were looking over and we had to stop talking for a bit. Or at least I did, Darkstalker kept rambling in Pantalan to make sure his parents didn't suspect a thing. He said quite a lot of things.

Eventually he swore in pantalan, and Foeslayer dropped a plate she was carrying. "My mom instincts are kicking in. You two are behaving, right?" She asks. Darkstalker only boops his mothers nose and starts giggling, before falling backwards.

"Alright, just stay away from the kitchen sweety." She said as she went to the kitchen to help Arctic clean up a mess.

"Sometimes I can't tell if she can read minds or not." I say. "I have the same thoughts about all mothers(who care). They seem to immediately have some sort of super sense as to when something bad is happening to their child, or their doing something bad." He says.

"I wonder how much of a helicopter parent Clearsight would be." I say. "She would watch over our child's future more than she did mine. All she would dream about is the possible decisions our child would make." He says.

I could tell this was going to become a common thing since it was so appealing. Definitely took some weight off my soul to be experiencing this.