When the Moon and Sun Collides

Some hundred years ago, the world received the news that an asteroid will hit the moon. The size of the asteroid is twice the size of the moon, with a damage range of seventy percent. Debris will rain down on land, with estimated land and sea damage of sixty percent. Living things' population will decrease down to merely ten percent, and an uncertain number of plants that can survive might not be enough to sustain oxygen. All these predictions will happen on the day of the full solar eclipse.Some hundred years ago, all these predictions happened precisely. But the United Nations salvaged what remained, plants, animals, infrastructures, and humans. Oceans dried up to reveal lands that connected the continents, remaining water parts turned into seas and lakes. Mountains were wiped out, replaced by rocks, towers of rocks. The Earth once again connected.Some hundred years had passed since then, one fateful day, two children were born on the night of the Lunar eclipse. One with the bless

Sol woke up with a sweat. It has been a week. Ever since she saw the moon princess on a trip to the market, the throbbing headache and the scary dreams won't go away.He stood up from his bed and went to the only window on his attic room with just a mattress on the floor and a chair and a table that will lose one of its legs sooner or later due to termites. He is the oldest kid in this orphanage so he got to have a room, in exchange with helping around the facility , it is free accommodation and food. He also works as a newspaper boy circling around their tech-filled city where no one really reads newspapers anymore but still prints news everyday. A small change to earn, adding coins to his savings so he can move out of the orphanage one day and live on his own. Yeah, that's the plan.He looked out of his window, saw the tower of the Almazan Family, the most prominent family in the city, and also the home of the moon princess."Luna." He whispered to himself."Who's Luna?"Sol turned

Luna didn't have time to think about Sol the moment she started preparing for the ceremony. The servants helped her bathe in milk and very gently scrub her skin. She admits, the thought of being offered to a goddess scared the shit out of her. She has a lot of questions."Sonia, what will happen later after I pray to Mayari?" Luna asks one of her servants that is scrubbing her back and shoulders."The light of the eclipse will fall on you, princess. And then you will receive the blessing of the goddess."What kind of blessing?" Luna asks again as Sonia rinses her back."It depends, princess." Sonia put the vessel of water down and sat at the rim of the tub where Luna is sitting. She carefully brushed Luna's hair and smiled."Some received powers like clairvoyance and healing. Some received money and power over other countries that tried to conquer ours.""Some died." Sonia immediately slapped the hand of the maid who said that. Luna was shocked. No one mentioned that."Died? How?" Son

Kira opened his eyes. It still hurts from the punch he received last night from his father. He caught him having a smoke in one of the empty lots near the school. He is seventeen and knows what he is doing. He knows it is bad. And he’s doing it because it's bad.It’s Sunday, and the whole family, Mom, Dad and two little twin sisters, are in the church. He stopped going when he was fifteen. Can’t see the point. He opened the fridge to get milk and grabbed the cereals from the cupboard. He wonders what he will be doing today. He got his phone and laptop confiscated. He thought of using his sisters’ ipad later after breakfast. His father is a retired general of the US Army. He got his father’s golden eyes and his mother’s tan complexion, as she was from Asia. He is well built, as his father is looking to enlist him in the army once he reaches eighteen. He never wanted to, not interested really. But he can’t oppose a retired general with the failure to understand that not everyone is und

The whole city of Bulan knows that the banquet that will be held tonight will be for the search for Luna's husband. Luna, on the other hand, is not really fond of the idea."Why do you have to publish it like that? Now all those boys that will come will think that I will be marrying them! We don't know that yet!" Luna is scolding his father."It's alright, dear. We didn't promise anything. I said, 'we hope' to find you a husband." his father explained."What if they asked me for marriage? What would their parents say if I didn't choose their son?" Luna can be seen fuming while watering the plants in their garden.Sol is drinking tea beside Serene, Luna's mother. He didn't know whether to console Luna or laugh at her father who is basically panicking with his daughter's rejection of the marriage plan. So he just stayed quiet.He doesn't like the idea, too. But he figured his opinion doesn't matter in this situation. Although he does wish Luna won't pick anyone. He silently wishes no on