Lifting The Veal (Star Darlings Fanfiction)

Chapter 3

Libby spun around to her side of the room and collapsed on her bed. The Comforter poofed out around her as she sank deeper into it. Everything on her side of the room was pink, which very poorly clashed with the orange on Gemma's side of the room. But Libby was mature enough to understand just because it doesn't go with her, doesn't mean it doesn't go with anyone else. Libby closed her eyes and smiled, enjoying the fact she was alone. She started to absentmindedly play with her developing breast then THUD! 

\There was a noise! Gemma's bag had fallen over on its own. Libby quickly let out a squeal and sat up. She stared at it from across the room and waited for it to do something. Libby blinked twice to make sure she wasn't just seeing things. She crawled down her bed to get closer to where the bag was on the other side of the room. 

It moved again. Libby squealed again and watched in horror as the bag continued to squirm and move. It looked like there was something alive in there trying to escape. Libby gently stepped off of her bed and walked as softly as she could across the pink carpet. The kicking from inside the bag got more and more violent until RIP! 

Out came a weird appendage from a new hole in the bag. Then another through the same hole. More and more, whatever was moving around inside was trying to work its way through the tiny tear in the bag. Libby watched in absolute terror as the strange creature seemed to bend and twist its way out of the hole that was getting more torn open as the small creature came out. 

Then it was out completely.  It stood on all fours with giant eyes, which made the fear factor go away completely for Libby. "Oh! You're just a little baby thingy!" Libby glowed a bit with a big smile. Upon seeing Libby glow, the small creature let out a strange horn like noise and ran to the nearest corner. Libby quickly doubted her energy as much as she could and ran over to the corner, keeping a good distance. 

"Hey, little girl, I won't hurt you." Libby smiled and put her hand out.She watched the creature back away more into the corner and stare at her with its eyes widened more than before. It was making very strange faces at her and Libby wondered if she was trying to cast some kind of spell on her. She kept her hand out, not letting this strange creature overpower her. She had to be the dominant here, but she also needed to be as soft and gentle about it as possible. 

"My name is Libby, I'm a first year at Starling Academy. You might know my parents, Erica and Miles?" The strange creature didn't answer her, but it wasn't making faces at her anymore. Libby shuffled a little bit closer to it. "No? That's okay. So what's your name?" 

.......Libby waited with a patient smile for its answer...... she kept her hand out for it to shake still...... it was still staring at her.....

"...moooeeuurn..." 

It made a weird noise. 

"My, what accent is that?" Libby asked, trying to translate in her head whatever the creature just told her, "Did you say Mern?" 

It didn't answer but it started to sniff Libby's hand. 

"No? Hmm... Was it Moon?" 

The creature then closed its whole mouth around Libby's hand. It moved it's slimy and rough tongue against Libby's hand and then started sucking it. The creature didn't in anyway bite Libby, and in fact, it felt to Libby that the creature was going out of its way to avoid biting. Libby instantly covered her mouth with her other hand to stop herself from projectile vomiting. She didn't want to be rude, this creature was clearly not from here and had much different customs than Libby and Libby was the last Starling to disrespect another beings culture. 

"So... Uh... Is your name Moon then?" Libby took that as an answer. Libby wiggled her fingers a little and slowly took her drool covered hand out of the creature's mouth. The strange creature drooled on the floor and watched Libby as she went back to her side of the room to get a towel. Moon followed her making a weird galloping noise on the carpet floor. 

 "You remind me of a Galliopes. Do you have those where you're from? See, they have hoofs too. I'm from Starland City, myself." Libby wiped her hand off the best she could while still hiding how disgusted she was by the fact her entire hand was just inside the mouth of another living being. Moon didn't answer and instead, she started smelling around Libby's carpet. 

Libby smiled at it and sat down on the carpet with it and let it smell around as it pleased. Libby examined the creature further now that she knew it felt safe in her home with her. It acted young and skittish like a child, but Libby had no concept of what it was and what the actual size should be of this creature. She admired it in a way, it was a very innocent looking creature with large eyes and a beautiful black coat, black being a very rare colour to see. It was also very rare something this dark and black would be this harmless.

Sure, now it was taking bites out of Libby's carpet and tearing huge chunks out of it then spitting it out, but Libby knew she could just replace her rug. She knew she could just ask a botbot to clean up this mess. 

Its tail wasn't big and bushy like any creature on Starland she's seen. Its eyes were big like a creature from Starland though, so Libby was still unsure about its exact origins. She then saw the tag on the creatures ear and her eyes lit up with joy. "Oh! You have an earring! Are you a Princess?" Libby then gasped, "Princess Moon! You're the Princess of a Moon?! Or all moons?!" 

Libby quickly took out her StarZap and started looking up what she could about moons, animals and princesses. A bright light shot from her, causing Princess Moon to quickly jump and run to a corner of the room. "I'm sorry, your highness!" Libby quickly followed it and put out her hand to try and calm it down again, "I'm just glad I was able to find out what you are!" 

Princess Moon jumped again and backed away at the sound of another girl's scream. Libby turned to see Gemma in the doorway, looking terrified at Libby interacting with the creature. 

"Gemma, don't gawck! We're in the presence of a princess. She's from the planet Cow, she jumped over the moon and ended up here." 

(Picture source http://hp-comic.com/calf-01528/ )