Chapter 007 - The Stars Are Too Beautiful Today

Meanwhile, in the Crius clan's observatory field...

There was a 16 years old boy named Cerball Crius of Crius family. Sternly watching the changes happening on the artificial sky.

The stars were shifting for few weeks, finally they stopped movieng. And the significant changes that brought to the starfield could shocked anyone. Another constellation has made it place between the already existed 12 constellations.

"Oh shit! I have to notify it to the clan leader. What the hell am I doing!"

He was watching this change for few weeks. He was speachless with awe. Suddenly he felt the urge to notify it to the clan head. He started to ran towards the clan leader's court.

Crius Family is the 12th Great Clan. Their speciality is in detecting fate. The first ancestor of Crius Clan was an all in a millennia genius.

He made an artificial star field inside their Clan's Land. That starfield consists every people of Upheavel Territory's fate.

Crius family descendants can calculate other people's fate from the shifting of the stars. Every people of the Upheaval Territory has their designated stars.

And when the brightest stars gather together they make constellations. Constellations can be a group of people or a powerful family whose fates are tight down with each other with more rigidity than the other people.

Naturally the twelve biggest constellations shows the twelve great clans. And the additions of a new constellation can only mean one thing...

"Father, a great irregularity has appeared!"

"I told you already, call me patriarch when you talk to me in the court...sigh...what is it?"

"Forgive me...fath...patriarch! A new constellation has appeared!"

"Oh?! New constellation? Is it a new individual guild? Why are mentioning these trivial matters?"

"Patriarch! It's better, if you see it yourself?"

"You know what? That's why you are still far beyond from your brothers. They wouldn't ask me for help for these silly matters. Say it clearly here, I have more important matters to take care of."

"I beg your forgiveness. But it's a real dilemma this time. The new constellation has taken place between our twelve constellations."

"What bullshits are you spouting? Do you even know what does it mean?"

"I know, my lord. But, I am saying what I saw. I was following the changes of that constellation for few weeks. But sadly, this constellation is half-baked. This constellation have only one bright star...others are too fade."

The patriarch started to listen it with a little bit ignorance.

"But that star has same brightness as a clan patriarch. It first appeared as a normal fade star, with no brightness at all. But for past few weeks that star's brightness starts to rise and a month ago it started to move."

The patriarch got a little bit shocked, hearing this. The turned his head towards the speaker. Not only him but many people attending the court stopped their internal chattering and started to take this young speaker's words with great importace.

"But within past two weeks it's drifting speed rose to maximum, it was almost like a shooting star. But shockingly it stopped right middle of the Heka Clan's constellation and our Crius Clan's constellation."

"Seemingly, after it stopped, some of the twelve great constellations' stars' brightness decreesed by few microfractions. And some of the stars started to shift slowly towards this new constellation. And two of those shifting stars are blinking like tubelights. And..."

"Wait! Wait! Wait! Don't say anything anymore here. I will go with you."

Cerball stared both side without moving his head much and noticed, the officials have already started a discussion. And from the intensity of it, it's like the gravity of this matter is very serious.

The patriarch and some few allowed officials started to walk towards the artificial observatory. The observatory is huge. As huge as two or three football ground will fit into it. They walk to the middle of the field.

There's a barriar here. Only direct descendants can enter here. The patriarch look upwards and gazed at the beautifull array of the stars. Some are blinking. Some are staying still.

There are some shooting stars which are the signs of the deaths of the designated person. Blinking star represents the unstable fate of an individual, it's mean he is hanging bewtween life and death.

"Hmm...It's quite a dilemma indeed. I have to share this with the other clans' patriarches. But first we need to check something out"

"Patriarch is this matter really that serious? Can you explain the immensity of this matter. I don't quite understand. This family/group may help us in future or can't the 12 clans just dominate them?"

Cerball asked it with a serious face. He was amused to see his father this worried. There were many occurance like this before. But in all those cases either those powerful people absorbed by the twelve clans or they were nip in the bud.

"Too naive! But that's understandable. Afterall this is related to the forbidden secrets. Listen closely..."

"But brother, is it okay to tell him this? He is still too young for this."

This is Cerball's uncle and the right hand man and closest brother of the current patriarch. Also he is one of the two knights of the Crius family. There are many occasions where the knights are chosen from the brothers of the chosen patriarches.

"No it's okay. He is the one to inform us and he was studying the movements of that clan's descendant's movement. He need to know"

"I understand."

"Listen Cerball, even your brothers don't know about this. It's a family secret of the the 12 great clans. And you was not supposed to learn this either. Because you are not the next patriarch nor his future knight.", the patriarch faced towards his young child and continued,

"There were 13 clans from the begining. And the 13th clan's proginator was belonged to the same era as the other 12 clans' proginators were. But the 13th clan, Shezmu was defeated by the allied 12 clans. Even we don't know the true cause of that. And the new incomplete constellation appeared today is looked like the Shezmu clan's constellation. And besides..."

"Ahem! Ahem!"

Gráinne, uncle of Cerball, warned Gwyn, Cerball's father, aka the current patrarch, to not reveal more than what should be released.

"It's seems I told too much. So, that's it. No matter what you can't say a word about this to anyone, not even your dear brothers. You are the youngest, I have great expectations from you, don't disappoint me"

Gwyn told what he need to and both of them left the field.

"Gráinne, we need to contact Triton Clan now. they did say that they caught two brats few weeks ago. I guess they were in hiding for a long time, but in the end they didn't resist their curisity when the last book bearer appeared." He stopped for a sec and made up his mind on something.

"Also send messeges to the other 11 clans. Although they might already know about this, after all unlike us some of them need to depend on the book of inheritances till now."

"As you wish, my lord"

"I still can't used to your sudden changes in addressing me. Just stick to one, either my lord or brother. Although I prefer the later. You addresses me as brother in front of court and my lord when we are alone...sigh...I don't think you have a chance in this life..."

"Ok Whatever! What do think about this?"

"See! Now you are too casual!"

He remained silent for few seconds and replied,

"I don't know, but it was inevitable. Now if it is good for us or bad, we don't know until we meet him. The future is uncertain."...the ptriarch got a little bit emotional.

"We can only predict the future. Based on their fate and potential. We can't see through their mind. We are too powerless outside our area, if it's not, then should we have still remained as 12th clan? At the lowest of the order?...sigh...We can only wait and see, how the future unfolds..."

Gwyn looked abover the sky, the real one. Seeing him, Gráinne also looked above.

"The stars are too beautiful today."

Gráinne replied,

"Right?"