Sun Moon Challenge

Everyone would see the sun rule the skies during day. The shining light washed over everything and everyone, giving color and life and energy, and people loved it. However, the sun was not the only to watch over the world. Silently, the moon followed behind. It watched the beauty of people growing, watched as animals played and plants grew up towards the sun. But that wasn’t all it saw.

There were others, small creatures that slept through out the day. They weren’t able to join the others and play in the light, their eyes would not allow it. Instead, the moon would watch for brief periods as these small animals slowly left their hiding places at dusk while everyone else went to sleep, and after the sun had left.

The moon couldn’t watch for long, not if they were to follow the sun around the world as a silent presence.

As the days trailed past, the moon would wait longer and longer to see who all would show up after sun drifted past them and the light left their lands. Little winged creatures peaked out, testing their eyes in the dark as eyes that shown with their own glow darted around across the ground. The moon stayed watching for as long as it could, only trailing after once more when the sun grew worried.

The sun was not used to the moon wandering off. In all their time together, moon stayed close in sight even as the sun’s rays made it invisible to all on the land. The sun’s constant companion changing it’s actions was curious to say the least, but the sun did not dare to linger and watch what the moon did. Staying in the same land would cause havic to those below, the plants would start to burn and wither, while other areas would freeze and die.

The sun would not make that mistake again.

And so it traveled, mourning the moon’s absense as it drifted away from the sun for longer periods every day.

The moon did regret the lost of their friend at times. Not that they were forever to be apart, the moon could decide when to follow more closely behind during some days, though others they trailed farther away. At one point, the moon noticed the sky, not just the ground and those living on it. Up above and around it were twinkling lights, most white though some were blues and yellows and reds. They danced off in the distance and the moon longed to join, but there was a job to be done.

Since the moon began to wait and watched some of the critters living on earth, it noticed an improvemennt. They were better fed, though for what reason the moon wasn't able to decipher. An idea flitted through it's mind that maybe, maybe the light which was reflected off of itself allowed the animals to hunt better and for longer.

It was a silly idea, for the animals had survided for so long without the assistance of the moon, but it couldn't help but wonder.

The moon decided to talk with the sun and figure out what was best to do. It loved the night and watching the animals and the stars dance among the moonlight, and it loved the reflection it made in pools of water with stars sparkling among it. But the sun knew what was best for the earth and for the animals. It was more important to learn the opinion of the sun than to go off on its own.

The sun was sad, of course. It's best friend was leaving, even though it wasn't for good. Traveling the skys alone was not what the sun had in mind to spend the rest of days, but it agreed that with the last glimse of creatures which came out as the sun left, each creature was happier and healthier. It couldn't see the moon was it danced with the stars, with the sun's brehteren, but if the moon was happy with them, the sun was willing to comply.

They would meet often, and on those nights the sky stayed dark as it had for hundreds of years before the moon strayed away from the sun. As the sun worked, it listened to the moon's stories about each life it saw and the dances the stars performed.

It talked about the beauty of darkness, and how moonlight shining on a pond was the most gorgeous sight, surpassed only by the sun rising around the earth as the moon stayed only a small away ahead.

The sun told stories of the flowers growing and daylight animals playing, how animals would bask in the warm heat of its rays. How it loved spending time with the moon, and loved their reflection that would shine down on water with the moon floating right next to the sun.

And then they would part, and the sun would travel it's lonely route while the moon enjoyed the beauties of the world.