Delios
had awoken after a troubled night’s sleep and cast her eyes upwards towards the
sky. There was no doubt the two moons of planet Koshka were closer than ever.
Life used to be so nicely organised. Night would arrive and there would be one
moon on the right, Gany, and its partner, Mede, on the left. A nicely balanced
sky. The Powers said that the planet was growing older and the moons did not
have enough gravital strength, so they were pulling towards each other and
growing closer. There would come a time when they would touch and they were
powerless to do anything about it.
“Delios,
make yourself ready. Pack just the necessary clothes you need. There will be
many of us on the ships and we have to save on weight.”
“Ok, mum.
Do you think the rescue will come in time.”
“I do not
know Delios, we can only hope. The Powers have done what they could. They say
there is another world on the other side of the galaxy with the same
atomosphere as ours and in time we will reach this world and perhaps be able to
colonise it.”
“How can
we be sure mum?”
“We
cannot be sure Delios. We will never be sure again. Our world is on the edge of
its collapse. We cannot stop it and can only hope that this new world will be
able to support us.”
It was
then that a crackling noise was heard coming from above. Gany and Mede were
moving faster towards each other and there was an eletric storm between them.
Two peaceful moons that had declared war on each other, or so Delios imagined.
“Come
Delios, we have no time to lose. The ship is ready, take my hand.
Delios
and her mother went out into the world of Koshka. There were other members of
their planet teeming into the streets, all marching in the same direction,
towards the landing place of the ships. It was an amazing site, many large ships
were waiting for the Koshkians. They were a disciplined race and there was no
panic. They obeyed the Powers and went one by one into the ships, their names
being ticked off a list as they entered.
The male
species had already left Koshka with some selected females and were on their
way to the New World.
“Hi
Delios, you here too. I am so glad to see a familiar face.”
It was
Krator, a schoolfriend of Delios.
“And I am
glad to see you. At least the journey will not be so monotonous with some
friends.”
“We are
all here Delios, the Powers made sure that the school groups would be in the
same ship.”
This was
a tranquilising thought for Delios, knowing that her school colleagues would
also be there. Delios mother was also glad and she soon settled into a group of
other parents.
“Attention,
fasten seat belts and stay calm. Preparing for take off” came a voice from the
loudspeaker.
There was
a noise, a roar and the ship left the solid ground of planet Koshka. As they
move further away from their familiar home planet, the Koshkians looked back on
their world. There were some tears shed knowing that they planet would stop
existing in time and they could do nothing about it.
Delios
felt tired, as most of the travellers. It had been a day full of stress. The
ship moved on through the space when the dark surroundings were suddenly aglow
with an extremely bright light. They looked through the windows of the ship and
saw the last and final signals from Koshka. The moons had touched and fought
their last battle with each other. They had exploded and planet Koshka
disappeared into a myriad of tiny fragments. There was no return.
The ships
continued on their way and arrived on the new world. It was a long journey, and
the parents of the children on board were now older, the children no longer
children and there was a new generation on the ship. Some inhabitants had not
survived the long journey and had been sent into the endless space surrounding
the ship as their last resting ground.
“Fasten
seat belts, we are landing on this new planet which is to be known as Earth.”
Delios
looked out of the window and saw trees, grass and flowers, just as on Planet
Koshka. She also saw Koshkians standing and watching. Descendents of the
original colonists of Koshka. The new colonists were welcomed with open arms.
The
original colonists that had landed so many years before had to work to prepare
a safe colony for the descendents. They had rid the new planet of the monster
animals that had seemed to be the only inhabitants of this wild but beautiful
planet. At least they had enough food from their enormous bodies. They called
them dinosaurs.
And so
life continued, and developed.
Well it
could have been like that.
No doubt their descendants named one of Jupiter's moons Ganymede in remembrance of the two 'warring' moons :-))
ReplyDeleteAwesome blog Pat and the photo above is beautiful and unusual.
ReplyDeleteThe photo is from the entrance hall of our local Natural History museum.
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