A WIP Short Story
I am writing a short story in school.
When you look up into the sky at night you can see the moon and a million other stars. Do you know the story of the moon, of the stars, of the worlds that are so far away, that time skips a beat? It is not what the world tells you, for something never wrecked into our world to create the moon, there was once life there..
Many millions of years ago, there was the earth, Terra, world of the humans. It was our home, but in the past. There was our moon, but then it was not a moon, but another planet. This world was known as Atlantus by its inhabitants. Humans, no. but they looked like us; or we looked like them, for they were the oldest of races among the stars.
There was another world, Tanoaus, called by those on Atlantus, but just called “home” by those who lived on it. It was no bigger then the moon, and its surface was a harsh grey rock with very little vegetation. Those who lived on it were equally as harsh as the planet. Skin as thick as armor, claws sharper then the sharpest knife, they were not primitive for they lived in a world more polluted then our world is now. They were the trolls. Not all of them were trolls, per say. Everything green, slimy, rocky, and ugly that ever existed in a children’s fairy tale lived there. Because this is, in fact, a fairy tale.
For that is what the inhabits of Atlantus were; fairies. Not all of them, but the vast majority. Everything from elves to pixies to nymphs and the like. Highly advanced life forms who had a vast understanding of the physical world. They were able to use this understanding to perform the acts of god and magic that we would consider today, but they just knew how to manipulate the world around them, they were not truly magical.
Atlantus, our moon, was a thriving metropolis. Silver cities, towering buildings ten times larger then anything built on Earth, flying cars, it would look like something crossed between a futuristic planet and a fairy tale, for most of the beings there could actually fly. The air was crystal clear, no form of pollution at all. Such a place could be considered a heaven were it not for the corrupt leaders that were the fairies.
They saw themselves as the oldest, wisest, and most powerful of any being that ever existed. Totally alienating themselves from most others on Atlantus, they saw Terra as a large toy and did whatever they wished with its simply human inhabitants. Tanous, on the other hand, was seen as a huge waste of space. Year after year they sent armies with weapons of unimaginable power to the world to exterminate the trolls, yet no form of explosion of radiation could kill them all off. They were nothing more then a pest.
That is, until they became a space faring race. The trolls slowly began to expand to other worlds, turning them into nearly inhabitable wastelands that nothing would ever want. Those of Atlantus need not concern themselves with this as they had everything they could ever imagine at their fingertips.
However, when every other planet and moon was conquered by the trolls, they finally turned their attention to Terra. The fairies would not at all stand for their planetary toy to fall to the trolls, and thus a thousand year long war began.
Such a war could not be described by me, you, or anyone else who saw it. Weapons powerful enough to destroy a star were used, billions of lives were lost, planets were even ripped apart by the magical energies of the fairies. There were, at one point, thirteen planets in our system, but only nine remain from the slaughter. One was plunged into the sun, another into Jupiter, one of the largest planet under Troll rule, closer to the sun then Venus, was sent to Saturn to be torn apart and becomes its rings, and the last one was Taonaus.
Taonaus, like Terra and Atlantus, were in the green zone. Life as we know it could exist naturally there, yet Taonaus was slightly further away from the sun. In a final attempt to strike back at the Fairies, the trolls launched their entire population to Terra in two great ships. At the same time, the fairies launched a weapon that could shatter the very fabric of reality to Taonaus. It destroyed the world, creating the asteroid belt.
One of the Troll ships/ landed on Terra with such a force that it killed nearly everything, the other went off course and hit Atlantus. These ships were so large, so massive, and so powerful that Atlantus’s orbit was changed. For three thousand years it zoomed within a million miles of the sun, all the way out past the Kuiper belt, a field of asteroids that make Pluto look like it is next to the sun! Everything there died, scaring the planet as we see it today. Very few of the people from Atlantus foresaw the coming onslaught and escaped to Terra, and on one faithful night, used their combined powers to slow and nudge their old world into orbit around their new home, Earth.
That was 65 million years ago.
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Ego Sum Deus Quo Malum Caligo et Barathum ...mainly involving gerbil feeding, tablet taking, cat stroking and the likes ~Little Laurence
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