CHAPTER ONE

The sun hadn't risen for so long.

The weather soon became affected, even his hands developed a kind of dryness that his powers sank.

Globus was a very powerful being, appearing like a man and a god, at the same time. He derived his strength and power stat from the sun.

The rays gave him the ability to detect whatever was coming his way; the light shined his feet forward. But at a time, the sun squeezed itself into his shell, going dim and making the weather dull and weak.

Then, Globus had the thought, that it was time he bent down to meditate and secure himself.

"Maybe the sun was not commissioned today... I have to seek the One above now..." He said to himself, winking his eyes intermittently, as his two legs dangled in the air.

As Globus was about to kneel down, a strong ray of light struck his eyes and his muscles came up. It seemed something was going to happen to him, but he was least ready.

Quickly, he raised his legs, somersaulting over a hill and tumbling over to avoid being hit by anything hard, Globus knew he shouldn't be hit or wounded that time.

Within two minutes, the sky was bright. The sun came out smiling at him and shining very brightly, at the same time causing Globus to wrinkle his face.

"Too bright for me, I think..." Globus remarked, raising his voice like a hollering creature being pressed hard.

"Maybe you have to come up and squeeze me to pieces, then?" The sun replied to him with sheer disdain.

"I didn't plan to fight what powers me, but at this time, it is upsetting me already..." Globus looked straight into the sun and stated angrily, "fighting me and cracking my bones, at the same time shrinking my cartilages!"

"I was created by God, always directed by God and helped by God... Even till this time and in this space" the sun said, giving Globus a fake and scoffing smile.

"I was created by God, too!" Globus exclaimed, covering his face as he was sweltering hard from the heat of the angry sun.

"But, God gives me power... Not any man, not any creature of his!" The sun objected, stating another claim.

"From the beginning of essence, you were created to be for me, and if God was not, then you wouldn't have been too, to glow the day for a man like me!" Globus retorted bluntly.

When the sun was fed up of Globus's objections, it wriggled itself into its shell and the sky was dark again, darker than before.

So, Globus started to blink his eyes in order to see, but he couldn't even detect a thing.

"What of the moon then? Where is the moon for tonight? And, why the sudden change of my atmosphere?" Globus questioned the disappeared sun rhetorically.

"Well, I have been here for sometime now..." The moon responded warmly as it would always do.

"You're no light! What fate you have gotten from God!" Globus exclaimed, shaking his nose in disgust at the smiling moon.

"If I wasn't a light, no inhabitants of the universe would see each other at all, at night..." The moon began to say, but then Globus charged it suddenly.

"Enough there! I sense a change coming! The sun might be giving you some powers actually... Get off my way!" He stated.

"The sun had long been the source of my power, and you know that... But for you, without both, or each of us at least, you can never live properly" the moon explained.

"Do you know where God lives? Can you tell? Because, I'm wondering about how you are also destined to have some powers above, you have to explain that too!" Globus instructed.

"Well, I can explain but I want to rest now..." The moon replied, as it turned into half to have a rest in the clouds.

"You're going away?" Globus asked it, also trying to take a rest, as well. He was not someone that considered rest as a means of gaining more powers, but rest was calling him itself and so, he placed his head on a soft stone.

Deep in his eardrums, Globus suddenly heard, "Man, you cannot wield power this time, until you reach the point I marked for you at first..."

When Globus realized he was actually hearing it, and not that he had been in a dream, he shrugged.

He thought of replying to the voice and said, "You sound like an immortal like me..." As he was saying this, the voice cut him short of his words.

"You're not yet an immortal, man!" The voice stated very loudly.

Out of no surprise, Globus reacted and replied to it, "I might not be, but at least, I have a high chance of becoming one soon..."

"That's true, but if you are not careful enough, you will keep being a mere man like your enemies here!" The voice stated clearly as it faded away.

"Enemies here?" Globus asked to understand, not knowing that the voice had gone.

Nothing made sound. Even the clouds were silent, and the moon remained almost inactive.

Globus raised his head high to the clouds and pleaded the sun to reappear, he was really expecting it to shine as before, not minding how much heat it would bring again.

"Soles Magnificus!" He cried, actually meaning to say, "Sun, I hail!"

The sun shook its head and winked its eyes, giving a strange ray of light writing a line slantly, through the skies. The sun started to feel so appeased that it planned to come out again.

"Would you like the strength of my new rays? Are you really willing to enjoy the aura of my presence?" The sun questioned Globus at length.

"Soles, are you there? How can I a milker man leave its cow?" Globus asked in return.

"I'm more than a cow than do to a milker man..." The sun objected.

"I know that!" Globus exclaimed in agreement.