13 13. I'm your...
The night the Moon changed.
Earth.
Skull Island.
Ilene Andrew a British woman with brown hair, she was in her thirties, she is an anthropological linguist working for Monarch and she was gawking at the hidden face of the Moon. Her knee buckled as she fell on her ass.
"Th-the Mo-moo-on i-is spin-spinning on it-itself…", she stuttered out as she pointed a shaky finger at the rocky satellite that was doing something clearly abnormal.
She didn't notice that the Iwi bridge she was on was slowly getting swallowed by the salty water of Skull Island nor the heavy footstep of Kong coming her way. Then she felt a small hand tap her shoulder making her jolt back to reality.
-Back. Water. Danger.-, Ilene looked behind to see her mute two-year-old adopted daughter, Jia, signing to her with her little hands.
She dumbly nodded and made a yelp of surprise when she got grabbed by a big smelly hairy hand, the hand of the young Alpha of Skull Island, King Kong. She was shellshocked by the action of the titan, she thought in panic, 'Please don't crush! Please don't crush me!'
All three looked up at the Moon and noticed its change. The giant gorilla frowned then grunted in annoyance as he glared at the Moon recognising the symbol in the middle to be very similar, no, it was exactly like the 14 small luminous dots he sometimes saw in the sky.
Jia on the great ape's left shoulder was gazing with childlike wonder at the Moon, she didn't see clearly the new marks on it but she liked the new look of it. It was always a bit plain in her opinion.
Ilene was gawking, again she was in the same boat as Jia in terms of eyesight but her mind was working very slowly at the moment. She felt King Kong walk making the now reducing water level around move noisily.
While Kong was already realizing how much of a pain in the ass it is going to dry water and trash-soaked fur.
'I just want to be left in peace...', the Skull Island Alpha thought with irritation, nearly clenching his hands, that would have… well Ilene would have become a red paste.
He glared even harder at the Moon responsible for this mess, he would have thrown the woman in his hand at the Moon if she wasn't that important to his little hairless monkey frien.
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Earth.
USA - Florida
Two days after the Moon terraforming.
Third POV
A big decrepit building in the middle of a forest could be seen.
Inside, approximately one hundred humans of all races, ages and sex could be seen all dressed in black hooded robes that hid their faces, with two pendants around their neck, one representing the constellation of the whale; Cetus and the other is the miniaturised T-pose statue revealed to them by the Great Oracle of the Divine Whale.
Nobody knew of her real identity but since the revelation on the internet the little girl, Madison unknowingly became an important part of the many cults all around the world focused on Caelicetus, they didn't know his name yet.
And it's understandable what Caelicetus did to the Moon so casually was nothing but on the level of godly or magical to humans. Caelicetus image passed from probable alien to god or devil.
It affected all religions and beliefs around the world, without sounding insulting; most didn't bring a lot of proof that could make what they believe seems plausible or not on the level of something playing with the Moon, at least.
It also had an impact on humanity as a whole, not just believers and men of the cloths, the scientific community was in fact way more chaotic. NASA and Monarch particularly, first a leak in their database, then the hundreds of white holes followed by the 'bombardment' and now this… It was a bit overwhelming.
The ONU and the government of other countries were silent about the event well except for the country of the one-armed genius that declared war to Mars, nobody was going to listen to the hermit kingdom.
Luckily no real damage or human casualties were made, if we ignore a certain dictator and that at some place in the world the level of the sea has risen or decreased a bit too much but it was only temporarily. An impromptu king tide.
The cultists were in a circular formation, the pattern of the three crop circles found on the Moon was on the ground in a triangular formation, the divine constellation of the whale being in the middle of the three.
One figure, taller than the other, a male, wearing a more sophisticated version of the other robe with golden thread around the hood and sleeves. While also wearing around his neck two pendants one with the Constellation of Cetus and the T-pose but this one had four eyes instead of two, indicating his higher rank in the hierarchy, a priest.
They greeted each other by respectfully exposing then clasped their hands together and made a slight bow.
"Our Lord, Savior and only true God, the Divine Flying Space Whale has spoken to us, lowly ones for the first time, his holy words containing an infinite amount of wisdom.", the priest seriously spoke with a hint of madness and fanaticism in his tone.
The priest took out a strange book from his robe, he opened it with his right black-gloved hand. Every page inside we're blank, then with his left hand gloved and made a gesture and muttered, "Bring the Heretic."
Three other cultists entered the room four seconds later, one with a metallic table with wheels, trinkets, bottles like sodium citrate solution and alcohol, pieces of cloth, a dip pen, a small oven and other tools on it.
The two others were pushing a wheeled chair, on it a wide awake silhouette strapped with tape and gagged with a ball of tissue. It was a man seemingly of Asian lineage, he was one of the numerous whalers that were kidnapped in the world.
The table and chair with the terrified man on them arrived at their destination in front of the priest that started to preach fervently, "The Divine Whale's first words to humans were 'Whale, hello there human.'."
An audible gasp of shock was heard from every cultist present in the room. What did this mean? Where is there other meaning to it? How did they interpret it? The 'whale' was here for what? What did it imply is this the animal, the constellation or something totally different that they couldn't grasp?
They were all false, Caelicetus wrote this because he wanted to. Nothing more, he has taken the habit of creating random stuff.
The humans were members of a cult, whatever Caelicetus might do will be twisted by their own logic. He could have written 'chicken can fly' and they would have understood 'the Earth is a square.
"Rejoice and be honoured your impure traitorous blood will be used to write the Holy Scripture!", the madman cried out with both his arms raised to the sky, he was soon followed by the other. While on the chair the whale was horrified and tried to struggle out of his binding with the sound of his scream for despair muffled behind his gag.
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At the same time on Mars.
Caelicetus POV
I was currently playing with Olaf on one of the icy plains, Peach was currently sucking the mind out of a Reaper King, a new predator that lived in a hive-like structure with multiple Reaper Queen.
Playing might be a big word, I was just throwing snowballs at him that were forty HAL in diameter, HAL is human arm length even if I still prefer the metric system but an average arm is like 63 centimetres (25 in) but I don't know how long the man or woman arm was.
While doing this I was starting to work on my white hole shield, multiple brains and used the smaller for this, hmm will need names for those shields. Not like I'm gonna shoot them out like some shonen protagonist.
"Dah!", I froze as I immediately banished my shield.
'Did he just…', I thought while the two eyes on my left side glanced at the infantile titan that spoke his first word, he was pointing his left talon at me and looked proud of himself, he was purring very loudly.
"Dah! Dah! Dah! Dad!", he continued to repeat in his adorable voice and purring voice.
'Wha… but okay, okay… calm down. Technically he can be my 'son' since I'm partially responsible for his birth.', I calmed myself, he was also the only one that I actually spent most of the time with, Peach is shy and ironically enough colder… It seems to prefer to be alone and is only interested in stargazing.
"Yeah, yeah! I understand, I'm your Father, your Dad!", I declared it with a bit of awkwardness in my voices, it weirded me out a bit to declare it but I felt very happy to say it.
