The Day the Earth Collided with the Moon

The Day the Earth Collided with the Moon

Hi. My name is Joshua. I am 16 and in my reality, the Earth collided with the moon. Let me tell you how it all happened.

It all started a few weeks ago. It was a normal day in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. My parents had gone to drop my little sister at her school, which meant I was alone at home. I woke up at the normal time, did my normal daily routine, had my normal breakfast and got going to school. I took my normal route and walked to school normally. I looked up and saw a tiny dot in the sky while walking to school. I thought it was some debris or rock and I didn’t pay much attention to it. I went to school, secretly slept through the first period, the usual.

But, when it was time for recess, things started to get weird. The small dot in the sky got bigger, like 10 times bigger. Its colour was grey. I thought to myself, ‘That dot got bigger! Probably nothing threatening.’ but oh boy was I wrong! I told my friend who was sitting right next to me, “Wouldn’t it be funny if the dot in the sky was the moon or something?” He replied half laughing, half choking on his beef sandwich, “Yeah, as if!” Not long after, the break ended. I headed to my next class, maths. I hated mathematics more than anything in the world because I sucked at it. I sat down at my seat and immediately tuned out.

I looked outside and the dot had gotten way larger. So large you could see dark-grey spots on it. I thought to myself, ‘Huh. The dot is way bigger than last time! I wonder what it could be.’ The back of my mind was going, ‘Hey did you notice this? That dot, or rock I should say, looks suspiciously like the moon.’ The thought was so absurd, ridiculous and stupid that I started to laugh loudly. The whole class looked at me suddenly and the teacher stopped abruptly. “Would you like to share what you are laughing about?” asked my maths teacher in a very harsh and stern voice. “N-N-No sir.” I replied stuttering while barely being able to contain my laughter. After maths class, lunch and science, I started walking.

But this is where things start to get extraordinarily weird. The rock had gotten bigger. You could see the details on the rock as well as a fiery trail behind it. My whole body started quivering. I had a stronger feeling that it was the moon. But why would it be out so early? And why was it so close? All these questions started flooding in and I felt like a detective that had a mystery to solve. I decided it would be best if I just kept walking and ignored what I saw.

When I got home, I knocked on the door. No answer. I knocked on the door again. Still no answer. I was about to ‘round to the back door (which was always open) when the front door slowly creaked open. ‘Weird’ I thought to myself. Throughout my whole life of living in Brisbane, the front door had never been left open. I stepped inside and it was pitch black. ‘Why aren’t the lights on? Maybe Mum and Dad haven’t arrived yet? But I didn’t turn off the lights when I left!’ I tried turning on the light but they wouldn’t turn on. I assumed that there was a black out or power outage.

Suddenly, the ground started shaking vigorously, more violently than any movie could portray. Dust, debris and rocks kept flying towards me from the North-East, the same direction the rock was in. Volcanoes started emerging from the ground and fire started raining down. Just in front of me, I saw a giant crack in the Earth. ‘What the heck!!!??? What is happening?!’ The crack got bigger and bigger by the second and at any moment me and my house would be isolated from the rest of the world. I had no other choice but to take the leap of faith to cross the ever expanding gap. I hesitated for a moment. ‘What if I don’t make it through?’ But then the back of my mind said ‘You also won’t make it by just standing here.’

So, I closed my eyes and jumped.

I just managed to make it to the other side. I tumbled and rolled on the gravel and wouldn’t stop. I got up and brushed off all the dust from my school uniform. I noticed that there was hole in it and it was smoking, so I knew I had gotten hit by lava. I looked around and it was total chaos. People were running around screaming, houses were on fire and giant cracks in the ground were getting bigger. By now they were so big that an SUV could fall in there without having to be squeezed in there.

I saw a car that looked like my Dad’s. I looked more intensely at it and saw that it was! I ran over there and saw my Mum panicking, my sister crying and my Dad was unconscious. Blood was pouring out from his neck. When the 2 saw me, they were so relieved that I was okay. They were banging on the doors and shouting something which I couldn’t hear over all the other noise.

Just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse, a crack, the biggest one out of the lot, started forming underneath the car. It kept getting bigger and wider. I started panicking as well. In a matter of a few seconds, my whole family would be dead. I tried pulling on the door handles as hard as I could, but they wouldn’t budge. My mind was blank. I couldn’t think of what to do.

But then the worst happened. The crack swallowed my family. The whole car fell and plunged into darkness, never to be seen again.

I left Brisbane that same day and I now live in Sydney. The world is still full of terror, but I am sure that one day chaos will bow down to peace and order.

That is how it all started. I made a house out of wood and I am currently devising a plan. A plan that will be the one that stops all evil.

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