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The falling sun
We used to call humans to those ape-like animals who flatten the land so their flying boxes could help them travel from one nest to another. They were smart, but had no claws, no jaws, no hard skin. But they were the first one’s to notice it, thirty moons ago, they all hopped into gigant steel birds of theirs and vanished away, leaving us behind. We weren’t so lucky, we had to face the falling sun that was heading towards us. The meerkat came running and screaming to me one hot afternoon:
- “Mr. Turtle, Mr. Turtle! Quick, look in the sky! I think the sun has a new friend! What does that mean?”
- “Meerkat, what are you....”
Then I saw it. A second sun right next to ours was there, just hanging out with him. I’ve lived 150 winters and in all that time had never seen anything like that.
-“Gather the others, all of them, ants, bees, spiders, snakes... we have a big problem approaching.”
Meerkat told the birds to spread the word and tell the rest of the animals to come as fast as they could, and so they did. The moon wasn’t even out by the time everyone was wondering what could possible be so important to call for this meeting.
- ”Brothers and sisters, I called in this meeting because the second sun that Meerkat spotted, isn’t good for us. I’ve been studying it and it seems to be getting closer, I presume we have two moons before it falls in us, and I fear, if it does, the end of the world will come,” I said.
The panic began to rule in the crowd, I couldn’t understand a word among all the grunts, screeches, buzzes and clicks. And suddenly everyone seemed to have a solution.
- “We should all hide in a cave, that will keep us safe,” the bears growled.
- “No, let’s make a tunnel and gather inside it until it’s safe to come out,” the ants buzzed.
- “You are all crazy, we need to climb a tree and wait until it’s ok to go down,” the monkeys chattered.
And one by one, all the other animals yelled their ideas, each and everyone of them was as useless as the previous one. Until a little bee figured it out.
- “I have an idea Mr. Turtle. Why don’t we combine all our abilities to send back the falling sun to the sky?”
- “That’s actually not a bad idea, let’s see... we can make a giant web that protects the Earth from the falling sun.”
- “Horrah!” the animals shouted unanimously.
So we began to do it, together, the gorillas carried the rocks, bees buzzed the orders, ants coordinated the movements, spiders constructed the web and moles cutted the trees. In no time there it was, a magnificent web built by all the animals waiting for the falling sun to come; and so it did, the sun went down faster than a Cheetah, a Lion and a Horse combined; it smashed violently the web, and stretched it until it almost hit the ground. But, it worked, the falling sun rised and went straight back to the sky, and for some reason it didn’t stay with our sun, he just vanished in the darkness, maybe it went to the same place the humans did in their try to escape from it.
