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37 | Terrestial Planets - "Math Sucks" (UNFINISHED)

A/N: Round two of this, but one dedicated for the terrestrial planets. This was kinda an older fic, but you guys really seem to like the terrestrial planets and the way I write them, so thank you. I decided to post this cause it's a little more bearable to read. This time, Luna is included because why not? He's awesome.

This is unfinished by the way, SORRY!

SHIPS: none explicitly written

THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS:
- Personal headcanons, briefly look at chapter 34 if you haven't seen that headcanon yet because it's mentioned a little here.

- Maybe slightly out of character Mars and Venus? It's one of the reasons I abandoned this one. Sorry guys.

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Earth had been floating in his orbit, although he had taken a detour to chat with Luna. The latter had been telling him about how Deimos nearly turned Phobos into a canary, and the two Martian moons had screamed so loudly it could've made the Sun turn into a red giant early. Earth was about to respond, but both of them fell silent at the sound of gradually climbing voices in the clear midst of a growing argument. He could only recognize the voices as Mars and Venus.

"We should probably make sure they haven't killed each other," Earth spoke up, making a beeline towards where they were.

"Mars wouldn't do that!" Luna protested, letting himself get dragged by Earth's gravitational pull.

Earth paused in place, raising an eyebrow. "I'm more worried about what Venus would do to him, actually. All this paperwork he's been working on is driving him crazy- you should've seen him earlier! Any time I interrupted his thought process, he practically attacked me!"

"I really think he needs to cut down on the paperwork." Luna dropped his voice to a whisper as they got closer.

"Agreed- but there's no telling him that."

As Earth and Luna made their way further through the Inner Solar System, he couldn't help but be shocked by the sight he saw before him. Earth wasn't sure what he'd been expecting - either Venus to have called Mars a nasty name, or for Mars to have somehow rubbed Venus the wrong way with one of his all-knowing comments.

Whatever he had been expecting, it certainly hadn't been Mars and Venus arguing over a bunch of floating numbers.

"For heaven's sake, Venus, it's basic mathematics!" Mars exclaimed furiously, gesturing to a floating chalkboard with a triangle on it. Mercury was watching with a bemused expression, "You're supposed to use Pythagoras for polygonic Arithmancy, or all you're doing is messing about with numbers with no magical properties!"

"And I'm saying that you need to find out the square root of each of the sides before you can start calculating anything with Pythagoras' theorem!" Venus fired back, eyes flashing. "You've read The Philosophy of Cosmic Spirituality, I would assume? Your shitty calculations would suggest otherwise!"

"You wouldn't know mathematics if it hit you over the head with a—"

"STOP!" Earth shouted, and Mars and Venus went silent immediately. Both of them clearly hadn't realized Earth and Luna were RIGHT there, and had just walked in. "Holy fucking SHIT. Have I gone completely crazy, or are you two arguing over MATHS! Bloody hell!"

Mars let out a loud sigh. "It's more than maths, Earth," he said haughtily. "For someone who has a firm grasp on Arithmantic technique, I cannot possibly understand how Venus' coming to the conclusions he is..."

"Because it's all up for debate, Mars!" Venus snapped angrily. He looked slightly disgusted. "Bloody, blimey- even Ophiuchus himself couldn't work all of this out before he went supernova!"

Mercury made his way to Luna's side. "They're really going at it right now, wow," he commented absentmindedly. Luna glanced at him for a brief moment, before nodding.

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If you guys REALLY want me to, I'll finish it.