Continued…
The little light from the earth’s moon shone down onto Luna as she emerged from the darkness of the portal. They were surrounded by a bunch of trees with a little pond next to where the portal was. Birds and squirrels chattering up above with some landing on the ground and then going straight back up. They had never seen any of this stuff before. Malta was out farther than the others, patrolling the area, while Sky and Edith were waiting by the portal for Luna to appear.
“Where are we right now?” Malta asked rather loudly.
‘’Um, Earth.”
“You know that isn’t what I meant, Luna. I know different parts of this earth have different names. Which one are we in?” Malta growled. She was very tense because of the situation.
“I don’t know. It’s not like I can just look at the things around us and now. Everything around us is in a lot of places on earth.” Luna said as she glanced around at the surrounding area.
Luna looked at Sky and Edith, knowing they were probably seeing the majority of their goddesses label. Sky was glancing from the moon and stars, and occasionally taking a glance at her sister, Luna. She was probably wondering why Luna was not in awe at the stars she was gifted. Edith had a squirrel and two or three birds around her as she petted each one while her smile got bigger and bigger. They were happy for now, that was all that was important to Luna.
“This is very…strange.”Malta said uneasily.
“It’s strange to all of us, Malta.”Luna pointed out.“none of us are ready for this completely.”
“I know, It is just…familiar…the darkness of this place. I thought it was brighter?” Malta stated as she glanced all around them.
“It is a bright place, especially when it is the hottest time of their year. We just came when it was night time for them when the galaxies beauty shines down to them. Anyway, It isn’t that dark with the light of the moon, as well as the portal’s light.”Luna exclaimed.
As if the portal heard her say that, the wind started to howl as the portal spun and it got smaller and smaller until no more light was there.
They were officially stuck on earth.
Luna looked at the others as they all looked at her, they knew there was no turning back now they had to start the mission.
“Ok, we are on earth now.We…need to find this human high school my mother told us we needed to go to.”Luna sighed.
“Hold up,” Edith started.“We don’t know one, where we need to go. And two, we have no clue how to act like a human. What are we going to do about that, huh.”
“First off, don’t get mad at me just because we are all tense and nervous about this whole thing. Secondly, I know how humans are. Just let me talk first and after you learn more, then you can act like them as well.”Luna said as calmly as possible.
“Ok, so we just stay quiet and not talk. Who does that!”
“A lot of humans teens do, Edith, you guys will fit in.” Luna smirked.
“What about the direction of this school?”Malta asked.
“That…I don’t know. But I’m sure my mother will show us somehow.”Luna tried to say confidently.
“Couldn’t she just open the portal and give us instructions on where to go and what to do?”Edith protested.
“Edith, they…cant open the portal again,” Malta said before Luna was able to think of what to say.
“What!”Edith exclaimed startled, “You mean we are actually stuck down here!”
“The portal room wasn’t made to be used more than once, and it takes a long time to use it again. For anyone to open it again sooner than ready, they would be drained of their energy and power.”Luna said looking down at the earth’s ground.
“But how are we going to get back home when we find Shadow?”Sky asked concerned.
“…To be honest with you, sis, I don’t know.”Luna said hesitantly.
Everyone was silent. They had no idea what to do now that they knew they were actually stuck on earth.
Light from the moon and stars disappeared as a new light emerged from the hills ahead of the girls. The earth’s sun.
“Guys look!”Luna squealed.
“What? It’s just the earth’s sun.”Malta said confused.
“Hello, my mom is the goddess of light, Malta.”Luna said excitedly.“This is her way of telling us where to go!”
“OK, I don’t know much about the human’s sun, but I am pretty sure it stays on the same path every day down here. It always rises from that side of the planet.”Malta pointed out.
“I know this, but right now this is our best bet.C’ mon Malta, we have to at least try it.”Luna protested.
Malta stood there for a second and finally rolled her eyes and nodded. Luna was about to take off towards the sun when she stopped dead in her tracks.
“Wait a minute. We almost forgot to hide our goddess stuff.”
“What do you mean?”Malta asked puzzled.
“We need to look like humans. Hide your wings, ears, and tails. Oh, and also change your pupils to be round and black.”Luna stated.
They all made a wall around them with their goddess power. Clouds around Sky, leaves, and flowers around Edith, a fireball covering Malta, and a nebula around Luna. Luna felt weird taking away her wings, ears, and tail only to replace them with human body parts. It was different but necessary. She was almost done when she realized the others most likely didn’t know what humans looked like without a reference. Luna sighed and prepared to roll her eyes at what they created… or to laugh at them.
The walls disappeared as Luna and the others revealed their “human” selves. Luna was right, none of them knew what a human looks like. Malta was the closest to looking human, with the only thing wrong being the ears that were still pointy like their normal ears. Edith and Sky had the pupils right, other than that they just looked like themselves with no wings, their ears and tails were covered in skin. Luna laughed at how stupid they looked, what human did they think looked like that.
“Oh stop laughing, Luna, you knew we had no idea what a human looks like!”Edith growled.
“I’m sorry, it is just hilarious that you think humans look so weird.”Luna giggled.
“I think I got it close enough, right?”Malta asked.
“Yeah, you guys still need help, just copy what I look like, ok,” Luna smirked as she tried not to laugh at them again.
They all nodded and put up the walls of clouds, flowers, or fire and started to work on looking more human. It didn’t take as long for them to fix their mistakes as it did to get the first one. The walls came down and everyone stops moving and just stared. Stared at each other and how much they looked…different.Luna shook her head and snapped out of the endless stare they were in, and decided to break the silence.
“So…we look like humans. Me and you, Malta, will have to change our eye color to a human color. A blue, green, or brown will work. Remember what my mom said, don’t use your powers unless we find Shadow or are in a life or death situation. And don’t show weakness to humans.”
“And no falling in…”Malta started to say.
“That isn’t as important, none of us would even think of doing that. We’re fine.”Luna interrupted.
Malta rolled her eyes as she and Luna quickly changed their eye color. Luna made her’s bright blue while malta made hers a darker brown. They all looked at the sun still coming over the hills in the distance.
“You really think we are going to find this school by following the sun, Luna?” Sky asked solemnly.
“Why not, we have no other options right now anyway.”
“What if we don’t find it?” Malta questioned.
“Then we try again.” Luna said confidently as she started walking toward the sun.
“Please don’t let me down, mom.”She prayed as she led her friends in the direction of their mission. At least the direction she hoped it was.
The Middle Seat 