She was right in front of me with that smile on her face, that girl has a smile that makes me a little uncomfortable because it is so fake.
Rosita - Miss...?
Emília - ah… Hi…
I stop looking at it and look more inside the library.
Rosita - this library has aged along with the base, it was the only building that has not been refurbished within the base and… miss?
Emília - because... She is so... oh forget it, it wasn't important.
Rosita - can talk. I already got used to it.
She still had a smile on her face, a smile that was somewhat uncomfortable.
Emilia - eh... Why does she look so abandoned from the outside? And so… beautiful inside…?
Rosita looks at the bookshelves and starts walking in one direction.
Rosita - my library represents "life". For some, one life goes unnoticed, other lives stand out. Some justify this by saying that appearance is everything, because with good looks you could get anything you wanted. Examples: a good job, a good partner, a self-respecting image.
She paused as she spoke and stopped to look at the ceiling with some candlelight chandeliers.
Rosita - but, here in this library we believe that it is not so. What matters to us is the inner beauty. The beauty within us is a beautiful thing.
Emília - I believe in that too...
Rosita - I know you do, your look says that. His look is sincere and naive, it looks like I'm looking into a child's eyes.
My cheeks turn red just by hearing her words, she was so young and yet so wise. Her manner of speaking was calm, as if she were an angel.
Emília - eh ... I came to look for a book ...
Rosita - what kind of book are you looking for?
Emília - something like "how to make friends" ...
Rosita - are you anti-social?
Emilia - what ... ?! Oh, no, no, no ... I just want to know how I can make friends quickly.
Rosita - I understand. I have books like that, but they are all for children
Emilia - it will do.
Rosita - ok. You can find the children's section at the end of this book corridor.
I walk through the library, past a corridor. In this corridor there were several old books, however, very well preserved. They must be from the time before the "invasion". This place is really a rarity.
I reach the children's area and start looking for my ideal book.
Emília - well, let's see…
Looking at the books on the bookshelf.
Emilia - this…?
I notice a book on the shelf with a curious title.
Emília - "Elliot, the rabbit has two daddies now"...? Hmm… It must be about homosexual rabbits.
I put the book back in its place and look for another book. Looking for another one and I find another one with the title somewhat curious.
Emília - "Moon Hunters."...? Something's wrong here.
I start laughing and put the book in its place. Looking for another book and I find an interesting one.
Emilia - look who we have here! "Courtney, the giraffe is new to the zoo." it looks like I found a good book to make new friends.
I run to the store owner with the book in my hand. As soon as she sees me she makes a "silence" sign
Emilia - I want this one !!
With a certain cheer on my face, I place the book on Rosita's table.
Rosita - you are not a child, but you make more noise than one.
Emilia - hehehehehe…!
She puts the book in a bag and looks at me.
Rosita - are you a newbie?
Emilia - Huh ..? Yes, I am, how did you know?
Rosita - it was a hunch. See you.
She hands the book in the bag, pick up the bag and say goodbye to her. Rosita was still waving with an uncomfortable smile on her face.
Already on the street, in front of the library. I look ahead and start walking towards my room at the inn so that I can read this book.
Halfway there I meet Eleanore, she was walking towards me giving a few waves.
Eleanore - ei, Emilia. On here!
I go to her and we start walking together, we were talking about our day and my book, when we saw a stranger.
A girl with red hair and light eyes. It could be May, but it wasn't her, because despite her hair and eyes, this girl is much smaller than May. Eleanore also noticed the girl, but she wasn't surprised or anything.
Eleanore - she is one of the Ockman, Fumiko Ockman. May's younger sister.
Emília - WHAT ?! have more of them?
Eleanore - yes, a complete family, everyone was born with the gift of having the 'Moon Light' of the fire style, however, fumiko is the most different of all, being the only one not to have the 'Moon Light', for a very good reason obvious.
Emilia - hum... And what would that be?
Eleanore - Fumiko has the devil's blood inside her.
Emilia - this devil story again? I never understand that ...
Eleanore - devil is an evil creature of religions that do not exist today. Fumiko has the blood of that being.
Emilia - is this bad?
Eleanore - look around the girl, look at how people around her look at her.
She was right, the mood on the street had become strange just because Fumiko had appeared, the people on the street were all silent, staring at Fumiko.
Emilia - people ... They looked at her with disgust ... But why is that? ...
Eleanore - it happened a long time ago, but the marks of the past remain. Emília, you know the story of "Moon", right?
Emilia - well, yes. The basic.
The Moon's story is based on a wonderful and kind being who saved humanity from an impending disaster.
Humanity was on the verge of extinction, when from the starry sky, it emerged. A being that illuminated the whole place around, came to earth to save everyone and defeat the dreaded "Sun".
Eleanore - I'm not talking about this side of the story, but the story inside the story.
Emilia - what do you mean?
Eleanore begins to tell the true story.
It was a long time ago, the land had already been invaded, humanity was at war with magical creatures. The number of living humans decreased sharply with each passing day.
It was when, on any given day, from the sky in the north of the country, in a camp of soldiers, she appeared.
The sky shone on that cold, dark night. A silhouette of a young woman appeared in that night's sky.
Lua - "do not fear, my name is Moon. I am the one who will free you from all this pain and suffering."
The words of that majestic being resounded across the country in a graceful tone.
Moon came down from the sky and went to the humans at the camp. She arrived at them and made the following proposal.
Moon - "please let me help you in this war, in return I want you to save this planet."
The captain of that group of soldiers went to the moon and questioned it.
'Captain' - why would you help us? Especially because every being we see today who uses magic is an enemy, you are no different from them.
Moon was silent for a moment, looking at the ground until he met the captain of that camp.
Moon - me, moon ... I am a divine being. I am only alive because of human belief, even though the people who still believe in me are very vague, there is still a little belief.
The camp captain sat on a log and stared at the ground.
'Captain' - then, without us you die?
Moon - exactly.
It took a while for a trust between friends to be made, but a temporary partnership was established that day. That was the day that Lua and humanity started to work together.
Moon said that she could not interfere in the wars that humanity was fighting, because, according to herself, it has nothing to do with the 'invasion', but she said that she could do something else to help us in the war. Moon gave the location of the most resistant metal that exists on our planet, a metal that until then humanity had never discovered.
The name of this metal was "Supreme Adamante". Moon called that metal "Remains of the excalibur."
Moon said that that material was the only one that would make humans win the war. But to do this feat, the humans of that time would need to have two things: the Supreme Adamante and the river of blood of the six elementals.
Who were the elementals? It is quite simple to explain what they are. The elementals were beings that possessed the elements that hunters nowadays use to defeat magical creatures.
The adamante's location was in the east of the country, the territory that was most affected by the mass destruction of magical creatures.
As soon as the humans got there, they noticed that there was an army there, as if they were already waiting for them. There was no escape, it was fighting or dying.
The war lasted 4 whole days, humanity was champion of that war. A victory suffered, however, well deserved.
There was a cave a little further east of the battlefield, the remaining warriors entered it, the cave was deep, they went down so much that the heat was extremely low below.
They then found an iron door at the end of the cave, as soon as they opened it, they were able to witness the much desired Adamante waiting for them. Floating on a stone totem, a purple crystal that had a yellowish light inside
The humans collected the adamante and took it to the moon that was on top of a hill near the soldiers' camp.
When the warriors arrived there, Moon was sitting on the grass, surrounded by fireflies that illuminated her. The camp captain dismissed his men, took the fragment and headed for the moon.
It is not known what happened between them that night, except that the next day the moon took all the warriors in the camp to a river a little far from there.
Once there, everyone was amazed at the appearance of the river. He was reddish and had a strange smell.
Moon - this is the blood river of the six.
Moon explained what it was, being very direct and clear.
Further to the river's horizon, they realized that on the banks of the river, there were 6 giant heads cut off on the other side of the river. It was there that everyone realized what was happening, while they were fighting in that war to win the adamant, Moon was fighting the Six elementals alone, without the help of anyone.
The ground starts to shake and the river of blood starts to get agitated. Various white weapons such as swords, katanas, axes, hammers, bows, spears, shields and many other weapons came out of that red river.
Moon - extend your hands.
Said Moon with a tired tone.
Everyone extended their hands and the weapons floated to the hands of human warriors.
'Soldier 1'- I can feel the power flowing over my body.
'Soldier 2' - I feel stronger.
'Soldier 3'- I feel like I could cut mountains.
'Soldier 4' - what an incredible feeling it is to hold this.
The soldiers seemed happy with that, as they saw a peaceful future when looking at their weapons, everyone was very happy.
After so much celebrating, Moon looked at the camp captain and, with a sincere smile, she passed out right there. The camp chief ran over to her and took her to her hut.
As soon as Moon woke up, the camp captain was on a stool next to the bed she was on.
Moon put his hand over the Captain's hand and said:
Moon - it's okay now, we're safe, Haruo.
Sanada Haruo was the name of the camp captain. There were tears in her eyes when she saw Moon awake.
He approached Moon and hugged her, that hug left Moon flushed. At that moment the two realized that they liked each other.
And that late afternoon, Moon and Haruo made love.
The next day Moon and Haruo went to the river of blood and sat on the banks of the river.
Moon - there's something I didn't tell you about me… With so much going on, I ended up not having time to tell you that…
Haruo - what is it? Tell me?
Moon looked sad and struggled to express himself, but still ...
Moon - I'm married.
Haruo - M… Married...?
Now it was the two of them who were having trouble speaking. Haruo hardly believed that she was really telling the truth.
Moon - it happened a long time ago, his name was Sol. We fell in love, we were happy together, until he disappeared one night and reappeared 100 years later. As soon as he came back I realized that he had changed, he was no longer the same.
Haruo - what do you mean ...?
Moon gets up and turns to Haruo.
Moon - he said that I would have to die.
The legend of "Sun and Moon": two beings that fall in love, but that in a certain point of their beautiful love story, they would have to kill each other, what to survive will rule the universe. A love story that ends with the two fighting over the government of the universe, they were destined for that, there was no way to change that. Or was that what was thought ...
Moon loved the sun too much to fight it in a dispute where one of them would end up dead.
And to avoid this, the moon developed a magical technique, where it would allow the moon to travel between dimensions.
Traveling from dimension to dimension, for thousands of years she sought a dimension good enough for her to be able to speak - "I can finally live in peace."
After so long wandering around in dimensions, she finally found a calm and the level of magic in that dimension was zero. This universe was ours.
It is not known for sure when the Moon arrived in our dimension, it is only known that she had fun walking around the planets of our solar system.
It was having fun that she found the planet earth, she even entered the earth a few times, but it was only because she needed people to believe in the Moon religion. She built temples of worship and created her legend, based on her story with the Sun Some even say that it was she who helped the Egyptians to build the great pyramids of Giza.
After gaining followers, Moon left the planet and started living on that planet's natural satellite, which coincidentally, in the future would have the same name as her, "moon."
Moon, even living in an uninhabitable place, she received visitors.
In the terrestrial year 1969, she received a terrestrial visit, as soon as the humans landed on the surface of the natural satellite, they realized something outside of what was predicted.
- what the fuck is that ?!
- someone do something !!
- we need to go back!! Permission to return!!!
What was in front of them was Moon, she stared at them without stopping and did not dare to approach.
- permission denied, continue the mission and try to have more contact with the alien.
Said the man on the radio with the astronaut.
- oh my god, have mercy!!... Fuck, I'm not going to stay here to die.
He tries to run inside the ship, but the door of the ship they were returning to return to land ends up closing. When they look back, Moon was walking slowly towards the three astronauts.
What happened after that is another mystery, as it is the American government that is still the answer to this, and as you already know, we are not allowed to leave the country.
The worst is that ties with the American government have been severed, and it is not known to this day whether they are still alive.
43 years have passed since then, when Moon received another visit, the difference is that now the visit was not terrestrial.
Who came to meet were 12 beings with a pale appearance as snow, and wore white suits with golden details and on their backs there was a symbol that resembled a star, a mark that she was very familiar with.
Moon - children of the sun. The dogs of that idiot of my husband.
Among all 12 children of the sun, the tallest of them all steps forward and says:
- we will have no mercy on you, Avery Moon.
A battle between the Moon and the Deer of the Sun was about to be fought.
To be continued…