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It had been during the long and devastating rule of The Iris when Earth had become a moon.
No one else, but Iris and Earth and its moons of course, knew how it happened. To them, Earth just started orbiting Iris and Luna soon followed by orbiting Venus one random day. They had just thought the two had a messy fight and would be over it soon.
They were quickly proven wrong of course, but not quick enough it seems.
Even Luna apparently didn’t know why Earth was orbiting Iris herself, just that he had told her to find some other planet to orbit.
That didn’t stop theories on why Earth might’ve left Luna of all people.
One theory was that Earth was being coerced by Iris and its moons on the threat that they would mutate him to the point of extinction of all life, even including organisms such as stromatolites (look at me, I remembered something from seventh grade science guys-).
Another, he was being physically forced to. Seeing as Iris has a greater gravitational pull than Earth, it could easily just pull Earth into its orbit.
One popular belief, however, is that Earth is being manipulated. Whether by drugs, harmful mind games, or some otherworldly power, no one knows for sure.
This is one, albeit unpopular, telling of how it happened, and it is the only not ringing false.
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[Roughly 4.5 billion years ago]
Theia and Proto had just finished listing their favorite asteroids, they had both settled on Bennu as their top one.
There was a nearby disruption that Theia had heard so she went to check it out, leaving the unusually lonely Proto by itself. Well, I guess not really by himself considering that he had his own little stalker.
Well, this ‘little stalker’ was getting bored all by himself as well, so he decided that today would be the day he went and talked to Proto.
“Boo.” Ah yes, the infamous phrase often used to greet close buddies, “boo”. Of course, Proto wasn’t expecting any company for a bit so this got quite the rise out of him.
“Oh my stars! Wha- who are you?” the young planet asked.
The man had quite an unnerving stature. His droopy purple and black streaked hair covered one of his eyes, the other was a stark contrast to the otherwise purple planet. The yellow iris shone down on the young planet, observing.
“How rude of me; I’m Remina,” said the ‘kind’ planet.
“Remina…what an odd name,” Proto replied (with an equally odd name, but okay…)
“Hey, I don’t know why I’m called that either. Plus, you guys have a planet in your solar system that is named Ouranos, you can’t be talking.”
“I suppose that’s fair. Wait, ‘your solar system’? Are you not from around here?” Proto inquired.
“Oh! Well, I am technically a rogue planet, but Sol is working on officially transporting me here,” says Remina.
“How is that allowed? Because I’m sure that many others would have made their attempt to enter our solar system if it were that easy.”
“You would be correct on that matter. However, I heard that UY Scuti has been taking in rogue planets, and because of that Sol wants to show that he still has the superior solar system.
“And how would you prove that?” asked young Proto.
“Well, I am the awesomest color of all: purple!" Proto let out a grumble about 'awesomest' not being a word. "...And I have life with intelligence..” the kind planet replies.
“WHAT?!?” was quickly followed so loud it echoed across the entire solar system. All the planets turned towards Proto only to find no one there.
“Shh, Sol told me to talk to you first and try to meet people through you since everyone's ‘aggressive’,” Remina said, slapping a hand over Proto’s mouth from their spot behind an asteroid. “If they hear us now and find out I'm here, they won't be very happy..”
He released my hand over Proto's mouth, but slipped his hold to Proto’s hand.
“Let's go somewhere they won't see us.” Remina led the two over to an area crowded by asteroids.
“So what did you-”
“BOO!” another planet (?) shouted from behind Proto
“OH MY, dear Stars above, please help us all…who are you?”
“I'm Iris. I'm new just like Remina.” he stuck out his hand to shake.
It was dripping with ink black goop.
And that wasn’t the only odd feature either. His orange streaky hair (looked to be colored in the same style as Remina’s..) went past his hips, his clothes were these oddly tight suit pants and vest with a button up underneath, his eyes were just as eerie as Remina’s.
“Oh..uh I'm Proto, nice to meet you,” he said as reluctantly grabbed his hand.
It was now coated in the ink black goop.
“Oh, sorry about that,” Remina said, grabbing a handkerchief from his back pocket and handing it to Proto. “We don't meet a lot of new people so I forget he does that. Don't worry about it, it isn't harmful or anything, it's just kind of…there.”
“Right..” Proto wiped the gross goop from off of his hands.
He looked up again to find Iris with the same unnerving smile. Does he stop smiling, or is that just there as well???
“Anyways, there are a few more of us out there in our little group of exoplanets that have sort of banded together. However, I think you'll only meet like one or two more like ever, so let's not bother with trying to find them just for introduction’s sake,” Remina said.
“And in the case that you do meet one more of us, whether it's with us or by yourself,” Iris started. “Don't let your guard down just because you know us.”
His unnerving smile dropped for a second as he turned to Remina and whispered something.
Just a moment later Remina could be heard saying, “looks like we ought to get going, Helios might get mad if you're out of orbit for two long…see ya later!”
And with that, they left.
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“Hey Proto,” Theia called.
“Yeah, what’s up?”
“Who were you talking to just now? The others and I heard you shout.”
“Oh…I was just talking with myself. I remembered something all of a sudden and let out a loud shout by accident. You don’t need to worry about it,” Proto said in his best lying voice.
“Right…Whatever, as long as you’re fine I couldn’t care less why you’re hooting and hollering.”
“Theia,” Proto giggled.
“C’mon, let’s go meet up with Phaeton. He said he has something ‘cool’ he wants to show us.”