#native legend

“Now that feels like home.”

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Aldebaran (Alpha Tauri) is the brightest star in constellation Taurus and 14th brightest in the sky. A giant reddish star called “the fiery eye of the bull”. I chose this name for one of my favorite location cause of my zodiac sign, but also cause of a native legend I feel connected to :

“In the Dakota Sioux tradition, Aldebaran was the child of the sun and the lady blue star (Rigel). He desired to hunt the White Buffalo (the Pleiades) and as he pulled a sapling from the ground to make a spear, he looked into the hole and saw all the people of the world below. As he stared down, the white buffalo took its chance and pushed him through the hole to plummet down to the earth where he was found by an old woman. He was then known as the Old Womans Grandson and gained a reputation for killing monsters that had been plaguing the people. One such monster was the serpent that had caused drought. When he killed the serpent, it released a great stream of water that then become the wondering Mississippi River. Similarly, there is Canadian Inuit cosmology which also associates the Pleiades and Aldebaran with a hunt but it is the other way round. The Pleiades are this time the hunters of a polar bear Aldebaran (Nanurjuk).“

(A mythic prequel to Transformers: EarthSpark)

Long before the Malto family. Before Cybertronians walked Earth. Before the chaos of the Emberstone shattered into fragments —

There was the First Chosen One. A teenager of the Native peoples of the Americas, in a time before colonization.

The Emberstone came to them — not as a floating crystal or glowing program, but as a spirit that looked like Quintus Prime. They saw it in visions. It spoke to them in dreams.

But their elders warned them:

"The gods demand sacrifice. Beware the gifts of spirits."

Still, they followed the voice. or glowing program, but as a spirit that looked like Quintus Prime. They saw it in visions. It spoke to them in dreams.

They were the first human with a cybersleeve, like Mo and Robbie. But they were more creative — a shaper of light and spirit, using their bond with the Emberstone to build light-based constructions: illusions, shelters, bridges, wings.

They created a single Terran — a being of warmth and emotional clarity. But the Chosen One, sensing that the Terran was overwhelmed by emotional echoes from their cybersleeve, made a sacrifice: They turned off their own emotions through the Emberstone, removing them from the Terran's link, so their Terran could feel their own emotions freely.

And then... they met Terranus — a towering Titan being, protector of the Emberstone. Terranus spoke gently and listened well. She became close with both the Chosen One and their Terran. They spent days exploring, learning, protecting the land.

One evening, the Chosen One asked:

"If you weren't guarding the Emberstone, what would you do?"

Terranus replied:

"I would travel the cosmos. Seek other lights. Other lives."

But the Chosen One had questions.

"Where did the God come from? And why does it not speak of Cybertron?"

They began to doubt.

One day, they met a strange creature — vague, alien, and mocking. The creature said:

"Do not trust the Emberstone. It is not what you think."

The Chosen One asked why, but the creature vanished. When they asked Terranus, she only said:

"Do not worry. You are doing good."

But something changed. The Emberstone, once speaking, now fell silent.

They met the creature again. This time, it confessed:

"I was created by the Emberstone. But Earth is doomed. It will be terraformed into a colony world. The Emberstone is the key."

The Chosen One asked, "How do I know you're not lying?" The creature said:

"Look in your heart. You already know."

They told their Terran. The Terran said:

"Then I will stand with you."

Together, the Terran and Chosen One protected Earth from strange beasts, rogue machines, natural threats — always watching the stars.

But one day, the Chosen One met a strange creature again. It warned:

"Do not trust the Emberstone."

When asked why, the creature vanished.

They met it again later. This time, the creature said:

"The Emberstone will terraform Earth. All will be lost."

The Chosen One asked:

"Why do you help me?"

The creature smiled:

"Because I enjoy ruining Quintus Prime's plans."

The Emberstone reacted — violently. It built a great Tower, like the one in the show — but whole, not shattered. From it came monsters, twisted dwellers, chaos-born guardians — and even dark gods from the shadowy corners of forgotten realms.

The Chosen One and their Terran fought them all. The Emberstone, now silent, abandoned them, letting the gods consume the Earth.

But in the silence, the Chosen One heard Atlas — the sleeping spirit of resistance — and with that divine strength, they rose again.

Together, with Atlas's power and their unbreakable bond, the Chosen One and their Terran defeated the dark gods. The Chosen One and their Terran fought them all.

In the final battle, the Chosen One became a being of energon and light, a giant golden guardian, and broke the tower. The ruins sank beneath the Earth.

But the victory came at great cost. The Emberstone struck back. It killed the Terran. As they died, the Terran said:

"Thank you... for my life. For being my family."

The Chosen One, mortally wounded, found Terranus. They asked:

"Why didn’t you tell me the truth?"

Terranus replied:

"Because I was loyal... to Quintus Prime."

With her mind fading, the Chosen One took a fragment of Terranus’s memory — proof of colonization plans.

They faced the Emberstone and won, not with strength, but by channeling the power of Atlas — the spirit of resistance, of grounding, of human will.

The Emberstone hissed:

"If you destroy me, she dies. Haven’t you hurt her enough?"

Terranus fell into stasis, a living sleep.

The Chosen One did not destroy the Emberstone — they sealed it, deep beneath the Earth, in the place where they had first found it.

Before their final breath, the creature returned.

"You do not have to die," it said. "You can live... but not as human."

The Chosen One agreed. They became the Golden Guardian, immortal, no longer human, but a protector.

When the Spanish invaders came, the Guardian fought to protect the Native people. When the Quintessons attacked, both united.

But the invaders had found a way to trap the Guardian in a stone tomb, a tomb created by the Quintessons themselves — a place built to contain what they could not control.

They betrayed the Golden Guardian.

And so he sleeps. But before his slumber, the Golden Guardian wandered the land one last time. Wherever he walked, he seeded flowers and plants, not for himself — but for Terranus. A garden of hope, so that one day, if she awakens, she would see beauty first — not war. Waiting. To awaken again, when the Emberstone rises…

Legend of the Moon:

    Menominee legend about the cycles of the moon

Once, the Sun and his sister, the Moon, lived together in a wigwam in the east. The Sun dressed himself to go hunting and took his bow and arrows and left. He was absent such a long time that when his sister came out into the sky to look for her brother, she became alarmed. She travelled twenty days looking for the Sun. Finally he returned, bringing with him a bear which he had shot.

The Sun's sister still comes up into the sky and travels for twenty days. Then she dies, and for four days nothing is seen of her. At the end of that time, however, she returns to life and travels twenty days more.

A really neat legend, if we had the time I would have liked to see the island up close and see for myself if its as creepy as everybody says.