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Chapter 8:

Strongest friendship of all.

Starfire woke up when she heard a gentle tapping on her huge door. She got up and realised that she had slept in her lilac dress. She smoothed out most of the creases and went to the door. When she got there she opened the door slowly but sighed deeply because it was only her maid. She has had this certain maid for all her life on Tameran. They had become like sisters over the years.

She was called Moondust (AN seem familiar? Yes it is a rip off of me!) She was tall and had the same orange tinted skin as all tamarian folk. She had large blue eyes that match the colour of her starbolts. She had the same length hair, as Starfire but her hair was a bright silvery blonde colour. She was a tamarian but she did not have the hair colour nobody really knew why but Starfire being who she is, always made out that her hair made her extra special. She had on silver and blue boots the height as Star's, the same skirt but again in silver and blue. She did not have the neckpiece but she did have the gloves with a white jewel in the middle. Her top was a boob tube the main bit blue with a thick silver trim. What also made her different from normal tamarian people was that a small moon shaped white jewel was stuck on her front. It was attached to the skin and was just above her chest. It was there because her eye laser did not come from her eyes but from this jewel. She used to get mocked about this but Starfire always stood up for her. Moondust's family was very poor that was why she was only a maid but she and Starfire grew so close that you never saw one without the other. Moondust was heart broken when Starfire left for earth and had waited for her return for all the years she was gone.

Starfire opened the door fully and swung at Moondust giving her one of her bone-crushing hugs but of course Moondust had the alien strength and gave an equally crushing hug back. They had not seen earth other in ages and Moondust was ecstatic that Starfire had returned. When she took a proper look at Starfire's face she saw that she had been crying and immediately sat her down looked into her jade eyes and demanded to know what was wrong.

"Starfire, what is the matter are you feeling the sick feeling?" when Moondust saw that Starfire went to earth she made up the earth names for herself and Koriand'r and learnt english as best she could.

"Nothing, I am just glad I am seeing you again!"

"Do not lie to me Starfire! You know I hate it when you lie to me! And you also know you can tell me anything please Starfire I want to help you"

"Oh Moondust you know me too well, I do not want to be here. I do not want to get officially married to him! When we had these transmissions and I told you about my friends well I love Robin now, I wish to go back home." She started to cry again when she mentioned earth to her near enough twin sister.

"Star don't cry if you cry I will cry! I know that you do not want to marry him, personally I cannot do the blaming on you, and I hate him. He only like you because of your body and because he wants to be king! Don't worry Starfire I wont let you marry that man even if it's the last thing I do!"

"I thank you Moondust I don't know what I would without you. Do you like it here Tameran?"

"Not without you, people have began to call me an outsider again because of these." She pointed one finger at her hair and one finger at her chest where the moon crystal lay on her skin.

"I know maybe you could come back to earth with me? Please Moondust? Will you?"

"Sorry Star I would love to but I cannot, I cannot explain why please just believe me!" with that Moondust gave Starfire a quick hug and walked out the room before Starfire could question what she had whispered in her ear when she hugged her.

When Moondust hugged Starfire she almost just breathed it but Starfire caught every word of what she said.

"When you leave for earth never forget me"

As soon as Moondust got outside the door she made a run for her room when she entered she broke down to a crying heap on floor. She would make a bargain with the king so Starfire would not have to marry that horrible man. But she knew that the bargaining chip would be her life, but she would do this for Starfire she had such a good life on earth and she had nothing.

Starfire looked at the clock and realised that she had slept in for quite awhile it was time for her lunch already. She had a quick shower and changed into her normal attire and went down to the kitchen for some glork.

Moondust went over to her drawers and pulled out a bracelet that Starfire had given her just before she left for earth. It was silver and between each link on the chain there was a white gold moon. In the middle it had a large blue moon and on the back it was engraved

'To Moondust

Don't be afraid of who you are, you are a great person and nothing going to change that

Love Starfire x x x'

It made her eyes swell up with tears as she read it aloud and fingered the elegant gravings. She held it to her heart and ran back to Starfire's room. When she got there she knocked on the door. When she heard no response she snuck in quietly and placed the necklace on her pillow just to let her know that she wanted her to have it.

She walked out as quietly as she went in. She started to walk into the throne room but she didn't notice a certain a princess followed her in there Starfire wondered what Moondust would want with her father and decided that she would follow her but made sure that she didn't know. She hid behind a large cupboard that was in her fathers throne room. She listened for a while but she heard nothing but maid raises and other servant stuff like that. Starfire decided to then go up to her room and then talk to Moondust later about the conversation she was currently having with her father.

She had finally reached the door she was aiming for then opened it when she did she saw something twinkle in the light that was coming from outside. She looked more closely at the sparkling object on her pillow then she noticed it was the bracelet she had given Moondust years ago. Then it hit her. The only time people did this is when they planning on being a sacrifice. On tameran if you are planning something that you might not return from you leave your prize possession with the person whom gave it to you.

Starfire quickly walked towards the bracelet and picked it up. The chain was very delicate and she had to take utmost care not to damage it. Maybe she could stop Moondust before it was too late. As she was silently running through the wide halls of the palace toward the throne room she had realised what Moondust had meant. If Moondust gave her life Starfire would be free to go back to earth, back to Robin and not get married to the vile creature she had married once before.

She skidded past the royal doors slightly then forced the door open when she ran in she thought she actually rather not run into the room at that moment in time.

"Beastboy if you saw are we there yet one more time, you might find yourself single again."

"Sorry Raven please don't split up with me I will be good I promise"

"Well you can start now by shutting up thank you!"

"Anything for you Raven"

"Smarmy! Don't creep up to me fool, I am too focused to lose my cool."

"Wow, you rhymed!"

"Fascinating!" she sighed and rolled her eyes out of habit. She did love Beastboy but he could get annoying he suddenly become all smarmy and kept on complimenting her he was practically kissing the ground she walked on. It was good at first but it had become ever so slightly annoying.

Robin was sat in his comfy seat thinking about how close he and Starfire had become over the years. He had missed her dearly when she had been kidnapped twice. Why was it always the one he loved never the one that Beastboy loved or Cyborg loved nope it was always Starfire. He wasn't blaming it on her though, he could never accuse her anything. The only time he did he was under some sort of nervous breakdown about Slade. He never realised how much he hurt her mentally and physically. She did not like being shouted at and his grip on her arm was extremely tight she had never shown anyone else but it left a pretty nasty bruise. He kicked himself for doing that to Starfire. They were nearly there they could just see tameran, white with purple lines on it, in the distance. Robin's heart did a jump when he thought that it was only a matter of hours before he could see Starfire again.

Starfire fell to her knees and began to cry uncontrollably on the floor. For when Starfire had opened the door she saw her very own father with a gleaming white sword, made of his starbolts, she screamed out her name as he plunged the sword into her heart. When he withdrew his now red sword from her body it flew limp to floor-dead. This was too much for Starfire to take she had scrambled over to Moondust and was crying as she hugged her close. Her eyes were now waterfalls of salty tears, from Moondust's wound blood seeped into Starfire's clothing as she hugged the best friend she ever had. Now she was left with nothing on this planet. She hated her father for agreeing with Moondust. True she was now free of marring this monster and true Moondust made it so Starfire was free to go back to earth with her friends. The king ordered that the body would have a memorial service at sunset tonight because he agreed with Moondust if she sacrifices herself Starfire is free to go. So there will be a funeral instead of a wedding.

The guard pried Starfire off the corpse of her dead best friend and was going to prepare it for the service. Another one of Starfire's personal maids came up to her and led he to her room to prepare herself. Everyone she saw round the castle was in all black and some were crying. She decided that because Moondust did this for her to be happy she went into Moondust's room a stole one of her uniforms. She slipped into it-changed gloves from green jewel to a white one. She thought if Moondust saw her now the look on her face would be priceless.

They often played dress up and Moondust always said Starfire looked great in her uniform. Moondust always like to dress up as Starfire because Starfire's uniform was much better quality than her own. Starfire being a princess got her certain privileges. This would be the last ever time she could play dress up with Moondust's clothes, she wiped a tear from her eye and remembered that Moondust would be very disappointed if she died to make Starfire happy and she was crying. When she had finished she looked into the mirror and saw Moondust's face in the reflection instead of her own. She was smiling and then held out her wrist. There on her wrist was a bracelet, it looked almost identical to the one Starfire had got her ages ago but the difference was that instead of moons there sat delicate stars. She reached out towards the mirror and her hand when straight through the shiny surface. Moondust handed her the bracelet. When Starfire got her hand back out of mirror she looked down and saw that the bracelet had been transferred to her hand. She quickly raised her head but the only person looking back was herself. She turned her attention back to her bracelet in her hands she turned it over the following words were in the back of the middle star:

'Dearest Starfire.

Enjoy life on earth, please go and enjoy life don't take my death to your heart

My love always Moondust x x x'

Starfire heard the bell ringing this was a sign that the service is about to start. She held the bracelet close to her heart when she heard a snap. She looked down and was preparing to cry because she thought she broken it already but when she looked closely the middle star was a locket. Inside was a picture of Star dressed Moondust and Moondust dressed as Starfire. Those happy memories filled her mind as she made her way to the funeral.

They were just setting on the planets landing area. Robin was the first one off the ship he couldn't wait to see Starfire again. He was followed by Cyborg then Beastboy and Raven came out together after Cyborg. He locked the T-Ship and walked towards the palace doors. When he arrived there was nobody around, even when they opened the door still not a soul around. They began to look around when they saw one person dressed from head to toe in black silk. Raven walked slowly towards the woman.

"Excuse me, but can you tell us where everybody is please?"

This woman was Moondust's mother so she had learnt a little English too.

"Outside, through door" she pointed at a large door in front of them "My bungorf has been killed by the grand ruler of tameran. Are you here for Koriand'r I mean Princess Koriand'r?"

"Yes, and we are all sorry to hear this about your child. Please do you know where Starfire is?"

"I know where Princess Koriand'r is but I have not heard of this Starfire of which you speak"

"Oh that's what the princess is called on earth."

"Well she is outside she is the only one not wearing black you should find her pretty easily."

"Thank you, and again we are sorry to hear about your loss" They all turned towards the door the woman had pointed to but she grabbed hold of Robin's arm before he could walk away.

"Look after the princess she was like my second daughter"

Robin looked at the woman's face and saw the pain she had experienced he nodded briskly and gave her a quick smile before resuming on with his friends towards the door.

The service had just finished, Starfire knew that Moondust's mum could not be here she was too emotional unstable at the moment. Moondust's mum had been more of a mum to her then her real mum, because Starfire's mum was queen she never really had time for her daughter, but Starfire didn't mind she had the best substitute mum she could ever ask for.

When it had finished she walked over to a tree that they had built together before Starfire had left for earth. She sat down on the swing, it was large enough for two people to share it when she sat down she immediately began to think of Moondust. She thought she felt another soft bump beside her but she decided it was imagination. Then she felt a soft poke in shoulder she reluctantly turned her head but when she saw who was sat there a wide smile crept onto her face.

She turned to see Moondust sat there with a smile on her face. She hugged Starfire and whispered a poem softly in her ear:

'of all the friends,

I've ever met,

You're the one,

I wont forget.

And because I die you do,

I'll go to heaven,

And wait for you.

I'll give the angels

Back their wings,

And risk the loss,

Of everything.

Just to prove

My friendships true!'

Then she dissolved in Starfire's arms. Starfire looked up at the star with one tear trickling down her face. When she felt a tap on her shoulder, she turned to see four people in front of her. She smiled while Robin wiped away the tear from her eye.

Well another chappie done! Sorry lovebug13 if you didn't want me to post this poem but I just had to include it and seemed a good place to fit it in. read and review people!

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