The Gentle Moth and Vicious Beast

Chapter 3: I'll Be The First

Many mushrooms. Crystals everywhere. This is what Luna saw as she walked through the cave. 'So many mushrooms and crystals.' She thought. She still is very shy of speaking. She doesn't even know how her voice sounds like. Maybe she'll try one day but not at the moment. She continued on her journey through the cavern, so many twist and turns. She started to think she has the wrong cave until she heard crying. She followed the cry to a pile of rocks. She peaked through and there he was. The grey cactus. Crying as he looked a crystal with his reflection. She felt worried for him. He soon showed anger and slammed his head against the crystal causing it to break but not shatter. 'Probably he had a meltdown. Maybe I should leave him be.' She was heading to leave until she heard the sound of him speak.

"I wish someone saw me for what I am, not how I look..."

She went back to see him. He look down at the place he stand. He stand on a crystal floor with mushrooms surrounding the walls of the rocky cavern. She frowned at the quote he said. 'Maybe he does need some comfort.' She thought to herself. Her thoughts were cut off when she accidentally slipped from the pile of rock she hid behind and bunch of pebbles fell and causing a bunch of sounds, this cause the cactus to notice. "Who's there?!" He yelled at the emptiness of the cave. She couldn't hide forever behind the rocks, so she decided to reveal herself to him. The cactus watches as a crescent shape appeared out of a pile of rocks. Her color blue, her eyes soft, and the tiny wings white and blue spots. His surprise face was short lived as it quickly turned to anger. "Who are you?! Are you here to mock me?!" She was scared as his sudden outburst of assumptions. She shook her head 'No'. He looked at her with a confused look. "Then why are you here? Don't you know who I am?! I'm the freak every shape talks about! The one who tried to steal! The one who is labeled a monster!" He yelled in frustration. She looked at him with a sad look. 'They called him a monster? Why would they say that? That's too much to say...' she thought. He notices her lack of speaking. "What are you? Mute? How about you just leave me alone, alright? How about you go before the monster gets you..." he turned away from her, hoping she'll leave.

"I don't think you deserve to be called a monster..."

He was shocked at the sound of her voice. A soft and gentle voice. He turned back to her. "I don't think you deserve to be called that, just because you did something wrong doesn't make you a monster." She said in her gentle voice. Her first time speaking. She was surprised. "I saw you, crying all because of your appearance and your past, you feel like no one will see on who you are without them having to look at you and think you're a monster" she calmly went closer to him. He didn't move. She took a step closer to him until she was 1 foot away from him. "You aren't a monster and I don't see you as one." He stared at her. She looked at him with her soft eyes. He started crying. She notices. "Oh I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you cry!" She tried to calm him down.
She patted his head gently and he calmed down. "There there. No need to cry." She said quietly. He got himself together and went back to his regular position. "Sorry, it's just...you're the first to say something nice to me"
"I figured. I heard about you recently and I got curious about you so I came by to see if you were here." Luna explained to him. "Recently?" He asked. "Oh, I was recently was created by the Treeangle and now living here." The name 'Treeangle' made him growled abit. "Does that word bother you?" She asked. "It does. I just hate hearing that name." He said. "Oh sorry, I'll try not to use it as much." She said, assuring him that she won't use it to make him feel comfortable.
"Why are you acting nice to me? Why aren't you afraid?" He asked Luna. Luna simply responds, "I was born to bring comfort and kindness, and I'm not afraid cause you don't seem bad to me." He blushes. He started to enjoy the presence of this shape around him. Luna felt the sense of the sun rising. "The sun is rising soon, I should be going now." She started to walk but she stopped to ask him one last question. "By the way, what's your name? Mine's Luna." He was surprised, but he responds. "It's Blixer." "Blixer. I like it." She smiles and started to leave. "Wait!" Blixer said stuttering. Luna stopped to turn to him. "Can you come back again? It gets lonely in here and it's comforting to finally have someone to talk to." She smiles and answered with a yes. She walked out of the cave and went back to Cube's house before the sun rises and woke him up. Cube finally woke and went find Luna awake. "Oh! Did you sleep well?" "I did but woke up abit early." She said. He smiled "That's fine. Seems like you were the first to be up." Luna smiled and looked at the sunrise. "I guess I'm the first..."