Chapter 3

“Vex the sun to stay down longer!” There were cries all around, cries I never heard before, even in my dreams to the glowing orb in the middle of space. All around me were these creatures, close to half my height, a dull grey in color. There seemed to be some sort of riot going on, at least for what I could perceive. There was one standing on the top of a crater, the rest in the hole, chanting a repetition of something the one at a higher elevation said to some extent.

“Too many have we lost to the sun!”

“-Too many lost!”

“He sneaks up on us, and we lose thousands each night!”

“-Thousands!”

“We need our women to repopulate faster!”

“-Repopulate!” What seemed the deeper voices cried out, before higher voices cried out that they can’t just repopulate like that.

“You are commanded.”

“-Commanded.” And it looked as though all of them in the crater were soon against another, either being grabbed or doing grabbing, where they all started to have sex because of being commanded to repopulate. It didn’t seem that much longer until the crater overflowed with hundreds of new children.

“We will block out the sun.”

“-Block Sun”

“He will learn to stop this madness, his children will fall into death!”

“-Death!”

I woke up in a pool of sweat, terrified of these creatures that appeared to be on the moon, and were going to disrupt the sun, and kill the sun’s children. “Who are the sun’s children?” I pondered for a little while, “Being blocked wouldn’t hurt anyone on the sun, if they’re like the moon’s children. But if the sun was blocked, it’s sunlight wouldn’t be able to go anywhere, so who would be harmed?” I hit myself slightly as I realized the Earth would be doomed into at the least another ice age if the sun was to be blocked for an extended period of time.

“I hope that was only a dream.” I sighed, and looked out the window, still dark out. “I can get more sleep.” I stretched a bit and looked over to my alarm clock, the lights blinking at just past midnight, meaning only a few minutes ago the power went back on from being off. I got my phone and looked at the time, and changed my alarm clock to the correct time 8:13am. As I noted the time, I looked back outside again, at the darkness, and then moved my blinds and curtains around, to no difference.

“What happened?” I heard questioned all over the place as I ran outside, everyone looking up in the sky where the moon was covering the sun, just a hint of the sunlight being seen from around the moon, where it couldn’t quite block out all the son.

“An unexpected lunar eclipse occurred around 7am Eastern Standard Time. It should cease in a few hours. Be careful of the darkness.” The anchor man told us on the news, a specialist being phoned up to talk about what could have caused this lunar eclipse, especially when it wasn’t projected to occur yet.

“Idiots!” I yelled at the television, which did nothing productive whatsoever. It would be impossible for them to know about the little creatures living on the moon that decided to punish the sun, and by punishing the sun make us suffer the consequences.

At the very least, someone giving information to the news casters knew something, as there was soon discussion about how a prolonged eclipse like this would result in plants dying, as well as creatures soon after. And if it was to go on for a month we’ll probably enter another ice age. They joked saying it wouldn’t be possible for it to actually go on for that long, and that as in most cases, it wouldn’t last for more than a few hours.

People went outside to watch, or at least try to see what couldn’t actually be seen for the lack of natural light, and seeing anything in space with artificial light is just about impossible. I decided that it might be interesting to record how people act as this is going on, and made note of people watching the sky, some eating treats in the process, as they didn’t move much in hopes that something would change with the state of the sky in any immediate moment.