A metallic sound bounced off the hallway walls and the two sisters froze in their tracks.

"Did you hear that?" Luna's ear twitched towards the direction of the small noise.

Star listened and nodded. "Yeah, it's probably metal again."

They hear it again. Luna smirked. "I don't think that's old metal. Let's go check it out!"

"Oh, I can't. I have to study, check the systems, make my bed, you know," Star sighed as she went on with her excuses. Luna's smirk turned into a frown and crossed her arms across her chest. She looked at the wall, then back at Star, who was running out of good excuses.

"Are you done yet?" she asked impatiently, somewhat glaring at her sister. Star stopped and looked at her sister.

"Yes," she sighed.

"Good. Now c'mon!" Luna said before she started running. Star hesitantly followed. They started running down the maze of halls and zoomed down the empty corridor like a pair of black and white streaks. The two sisters knew all of the halls by heart. Anyone would if they lived on the Space Colony ARK for about fifteen years. They even read through all of the file and a few books while onboard.

Luna and Star rounded a corner and stopped before hearing footsteps and seeing shadows head towards them. Luna jumped up and stayed there with her back against the ceiling. Star hid in a corner and made the light blend around her; camouflaging her. Three figures came around the corner; a white bat, a black and red striped hedgehog, and a human boy that they guessed was 12.

"I still can't believe that you took us here instead of letting us getting blown up!" the bat hissed at the hedgehog.

The only thing that the hedgehog said was, "Hmph."

The bat continued with, "I guess you do have a heart after all." The hedgehog looked like he was getting more and more pissed off by the second, which made Luna smirk. The bat looked at the boy. "What about him?" he asked.

The boy looked as if he would say "I have a name you know" but he looked too scared to talk. The hedgehog looked back at the human child.

"I'll take him to one of the rooms so he won't get in trouble," he said.

"Hmm, okay. That will work." The bat turned to go back the other way they came. "Later," he said over his shoulder before walking away.

The boy just silently followed the hedgehog down the hall. They passed Star and Luna and she could have sworn that she saw Star pull back even further. Star finally came back out after a suspenseful minute of waiting. "They're gone," she whispered.

Luna landed on the floor feet first. "Good, but what are they doing here and

"…how long are they staying?" Star shrugged. "I have no idea," she answered bluntly. They both thought about how long the strangers would be in their home. Luna then smirked and looked back at her sister. "Feel like watching them?" Star's eyes went wide. "Just until they leave?"

Star breathed a sigh of relief. "Okay, but it's still going to be weird for me," she replied.

Luna sighed and went after the bat. She over reacts too much, she thought. Luna followed the bat girl to the small cafeteria. She stayed close to the ceiling, keeping her eyes on them. This is boring. I wonder what Star's doing…

This is boring. I wonder what Luna's doing, Star thought as she sat behind a crate in the room, listening to the boy and the hedgehog talking. She pulled out a white marble from her pocket. Luna had one like hers, only it was black. The two sisters had them since they were babies, but the girls felt like they were together, even when they were apart through the marble.

Star stared at it for a minute and started to dose off. The marble slipped from her grasp and made a pang sound against the floor. That small sound, however, could be heard throughout the room. Star then woke up from an adrenaline rush as footsteps got closer to her location. She stuffed the marble in her pocket and began to bend the light again.

She held her breath as she looked up. The hedgehog's head poked over the top of the crate. His ruby eyes looking in the small space the five crates made. A few moments later, his head disappeared. Star looked down as she breathed a sigh of relief and let the light go back to normal. She then felt a hand on her head. Star's hazel eyes shot open and she looked up at him, her eyes meeting with his. At that moment, to say that she was terrified would be an understatement.

The hedgehog pulled her up by her head to the center of the room. He made sure she would stand before he looked her up and down. When he looked back at her face, he asked, "Who are you?"

For Star, she couldn't handle it. Some hedgehog that she doesn't know about or what he'll do just found her. She had never been so scared in her life about someone before. Right then and there, she broke down, screaming one person's name: Luna's.

First Fanfic, so lite on the critique onegai! .A.;;;

hope you people like this.

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-Luna