Entry #b2 [Luna]

Hello everyone, N0V4 here! Again! Aino hasn’t been making posts lately because she has been so preoccupied with… something. I’m not sure I can say what it is yet. So I’m here again, ready to take over! 

 

Where did we leave off last time…?

 

Oh yeah, Cyno went to space to find people that would help her run the Continental

and streams!

 

Before I can tell you all about how Cyno met Luna, I need to tell you Luna’s backstory. Be warned: Luna told Cyno, who then told me, so this virtual telephone may lead to some details being exaggerated or forgotten. Also, don’t mind the flourish in my writing: I firmly believe that even if I don’t know what the characters are thinking, I can take some creative liberty. Hope you all enjoy this retelling!

 

Luna lived in a nondescript moon, orbiting around a nondescript planet, orbiting a nondescript sun. 

 

What? Is that not enough detail? I told you some things were forgotten! Curse my memory chip…

 

Anyway, as I said before, Luna lived in, not on, the moon. Indeed, he spent his entire life in the small core of the floating rock. He had one job: keep the orbit steady and allow his moon to flourish in the light of the sun. Although some may find living in the core of a moon (which is essentially just like a spherical cement prison in my humble opinion), Luna never wished for anything more. He knew what his job was, and he was satisfied fulfilling it. He would have been content living and dying in that little circular hole, never seeing the surface.

 

He believed in his noble purpose, you see, so he didn’t mind serving it. 

However, this little bunny’s dream was shattered one day when an unknown ENTITY consumed the planet that Luna was orbiting. As a result, without a path to follow and gravity to pull, Luna found himself drifting through space.

 

For the first time since his creation, he had no job. He had no purpose. 

 

Without this driving force, the moon began to crumble and lose its energy, revealing the brilliant soul that was trapped inside its core. In other words, Luna was reborn. This time, to the real world.

 

The newly minted Luna, stepping out from the shadows into the ruins of his home, found himself at a loss of what to do. He firmly believed that he was created solely to keep the orbit of his moon and his planet. Now that the job was gone…

 

Who was he?

How could he continue living?

What did he amount to?

 

All these new questions that he never had to think about swirled in his mind, causing him to sit on the destroyed pieces of his moon until the space dust buried him up to his ears.

 

Meanwhile, Cyno (the heroine of the story!) had been travelling for a while without luck. Her stamina was running low and she was beginning to get frustrated. It came as a surprise to her and her alone that her plan (if you can even call “go to space and find help” a plan) was failing. Unfortunately, she had no backup plan. 

 

She was ruminating deep in her thoughts when her ship beeped out a message: “Warning! Fragmented planet ahead!” 

 

Cyno sighed. It had been days since she had arrived at a planet, and now it was discovered that the planet was destroyed? There was no use stopping there: everybody was probably dead anyway. A more pressing issue, however, was that Cyno was beginning to lose her sense of direction.

 

Wait! I can hear the voices of the readers now, She’s the North Star! She’s meant to know her directions!

 

When you spend your entire life in one place… Well let’s just say she never had the opportunity to hone her orientation skills.

 

While Cyno was ruminating about what her next step was, a stray fragment of the moon lightly scraped her ship, nudging her towards the broken moon that Luna was on and irreversibly changing both their lives.

 

Because of the change in direction, Cyno drifted so close to the broken moon that she decided, ah whatever, let’s just land here and take a break for the day. After she landed, she decided to take a little walk outside her ship and stretch her legs. That’s how she found Luna, the aforementioned bunny. 

 

Well, more specifically, that’s how she found Luna’s ears, buried until only the tips showed.

Now if you know Cyno, which I’m sure you do as a Cynova, you’ll know that she just won’t leave anything alone. If there’s a door, she’ll open it. If there’s a rock, she’ll kick it. If there’s a button, she’ll press it: even if there’s a sign pointing to the button (which is glowing red with the word NO on it) stating that if the button is pressed, unspeakable things will happen. She’ll press it, just to see what the button means.

 

So after seeing these strange little tufts on the ground of a destroyed moon, what did she do?

 

She pulled it.

And out popped Luna.

 

Maybe Luna was stunned by being pulled up suddenly by the ears, maybe Luna was still stuck unable to make a decision about his life, or maybe Luna was having a stroke. We’ll never know. What I do know, however, is that Luna was frozen in place as Cyno yanked him out from the ground. In fact, Cyno was frozen in shock as well, staring at the little bunny.

 

But she didn’t stay that way for long. In a stroke of heroism, she decided that she would save the bunny and instil in him a new life! So Cyno squeezed her eyes shut, held the bunny by his ears (she didn’t want to hug a dead bunny), and imbued him with magic that would jumpstart his heart!

 

Except… his heart had not stopped. He was still very much alive. 

So instead of making his heart beat again, the magic flowed into excess pushing through his very soul until he gained…

 

A human form! 

 

Within seconds, she found that the ears in her hand had morphed into a tuft of brown and white hair. What I wouldn’t pay to see the look of horror on Cyno’s face as she realised she was holding a human!

 

She probably screamed and fell backwards, scrambling for balance. Luna was probably just as surprised with his new form, flexing his fingers and wobbling on his feet.

 

Before long, however, they both recovered from their fear and began talking.

 

Cyno explained that she thought he was dead (and also not human), while Luna explained what had happened with his planet and job. Seeing him in a state of distress, and also needing some help of her own, she offered him a place to live in exchange for his help. That place was, you guessed it, the Continental.

 

Luna, however, refused. He wanted to stay on the moon and protect what he had left. After all, he was nothing without his moon, wasn’t he?

 

But Cyno wouldn’t take no for an answer. She stayed on the moon for days, pleading and begging Luna, until finally, she came up with an ultimatum.

 

"Luna. I’ve stayed here long enough. I need to continue on my quest. Tomorrow, I’ll be leaving on this ship, and I’ll never come back again. I know you’re sad about your planet. I promise you that if you get on my ship, I’ll hunt down the creature that destroyed your world. In return, please come with me back on Earth. I’ll help you find a new purpose. Look at you. You’re not a bunny trapped in the cage anymore, are you? You’re human now! You can make your own decisions, forge your own path."

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With that, she turned away and back into the ship, packing her bags. Luna was left sitting there, on the same crater that Cyno had pulled him out of, wondering what he should do, paralyzed by the decision.

 

The next day, when Cyno packed up her bags, Luna was nowhere to be seen. Dejected, she scanned the horizon one more time before slowly closing the ship door. When she looked at the ground, however, she saw little pieces of moon dust on the ground in the shape of little footsteps.

 

Turning around, she found Luna sitting in the cabin, staring at her.

 

Yelping with glee, she hugged the bunny-turned-boy and fired up the ship, leaving for the next adventure. Little did they know, however, the next encounter would be with a monster…

 

I hate to end on a cliffhanger everybody, but Aino is asking for my help in locating a specific memory chip, I’ve gotta blast! Hope you’re excited for the next mod that joins! I know I am!

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