Blue Moon

 Just a cute little fact before you read this:

According to the more recent definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a calendar month. For a blue moon to occur, the first of the full moons must appear at or near the beginning of the month so that the second will fall within the same month (the average span between two moons is 29.5 days).\

But my story is about a myth that blue moons are rare. Just like the saying "once in a blue moon". In real life, the moon would never really become blue, but in the story, that's how the Blue Moon is supposed to be.

Well, i hope you guys enjoy this one! :)

Created:              Novemeber 22, 2007

                           10:19 PM

                           Cebu Boarding House

BLUE MOON

Before men could even learn to write, before they even knew science and alchemy, they already know this thing called LOVE. The wonderful emotion which knows no time, no beginning and no end, no place, and no particular person. It is a feeling that make us happy..and sad. A something that can be expressed, and be hidden without success. A thing that that touches all of us and all of life. LOVE.

***

It all began in the ancient times when giants roamed the earth, and gods and goddesses ruled the world inhabited by mortals, demigods and other entities. Harmony was established in the heavens and earth for the mortals followed all the rules set upon them as they revered greatly the immortal ones. On the other hand, the rulers are generous to their people.

Everything went smoothly until…

The middle of the night came under the BLUE MOON. They said that a blue moon is a very rare event. It can only be experienced in every one thousand years. It is in this glorious event that the beautiful goddesses of Mount Parnassus would come down to earth and choose any body of water to bathe into as the luminescence of the moon rejuvenates their powers and immortality for another millennia.

Accidentally, Haenos, the handsomest of all men, was walking near the Lake Elixir that night. He was doubting whether love was real. There were many pretty ladies of his time and place but he just couldn’t get hold of that feeling they call love. He was on the verge of not believing such nonsense when he saw a very beautiful maiden bathing in the middle of the lake. She was closing her eyes, feeling the rays of the moon. Her hair was glowing a bluish white hue, her skin heavenly, and her face that even surpassed the beauty of a song, a poem or a flower.

Haenos was dumbstruck. He felt like the world has stopped turning and he couldn’t help but just stare at the angel before him. He felt something inside of him..something different..something he’d never felt before. Could this be love? He asked himself as the maiden opened her eyes.

She was startled seeing him. She didn’t know what to do. And she just couldn’t stare at him without finding herself blushing. So, she just looked down.

What is a mortal doing here? A handsome mortal!, she smiled at the thought and felt ashamed later on. No, she can’t be attracted to him. It just can’t be.

She saw ripples in the crystal clear water. The moment she looked up, he was already infront of her…only a few inches away. She smelled his sweet boyish scent. He has dark mysterious eyes which tries to tell her something. She could see a smile painted in his pink lips and straight-set white teeth. Again, she blushed. A tickle in her heart followed. This was the first she felt this. Being a goddess, their feelings are walled and guarded, especially when it comes to those of not their kind.

“You are so beautiful”, he whispered. He realized he was facing the goddess of heart and attraction. It was the first time he’d seen her come down to earth. The paintings the old race made for her, did no justice of how striking and wonderful she looks.

She sucked in air. You are beautiful, too,she wanted to say. Instead, she shyly looked up to him straight in the eye.

That single night, led them to fall in love with each other.

They dated in the meadows of tulips, the banks of the River Tigris or Euphrates, swam on the Lake Elixir or simply lie down in the clouds. Everything was beautiful. But still, fear was in their hearts.

“I know this is wrong but I love you. No matter what I do, I just can’t stop this”, he told her, cupping her face, kissing her in the forehead.

“I love you, too.” She sighed. “Why are there rules? Why do we have to break rules for us to be happy? Why can’t we be free? I want to be with you..forever”, she whispered, hugging him knowing in her heart that she would always love him even if obstacles would separate them.

If they would end up together, would she give up her immortality and power? Or would he give up his mortality and forever leave his friends and family on earth? Who would bend? Who would leave everything behind?

Wouldn’t it hurt? And if it hurts one of them, wouldn’t it hurt the other more?

“Bersvire!”, a booming angry voice sounded, radiating to the earth and heavens like a loud thunder.

The lovers looked towards the where the voice came from. Seeing where it originated, Bersvire stifled a soft cry. It was Lord Craeon, the Prime Ruler of the heavens and earth. They were doomed.

“Please! Don’t hurt her! This is all my fault. Please don’t punish her, Lord Craeon. I’m begging you..” Haenos knelt infront of the great lord, tears and fear in his eyes. But it’s to no avail. They broke the first rule of the Holy Tablet that no one mortal and one immortal should love each other romantically.

Death would be given to the mortal and the immortal would be driven off from Mount Parnassus, the first heaven, taking away its powers, therefore, remaining as an infutile immortal.

That dawn before they were condemned…

“Please don’t cry. This wouldn’t hurt. I would be dying for you..and it would be all worth it. I would still see you in the next life, right?”

She burst into tears. For someone inclined to be punished forever, there is no next life. She also fears that she no longer has powers to go to that time and place where he’s be born again.

“I want to die with you…but I can’t” Immortals couldn’t die unless Lord Craeon would command the all the Heavens to. But it has never happened in the history of Mt.Parnassus. “Haenos, though you deserve more than all that I can give, you ask nothing.”

“I love you”, he whispered, “and knowing that you love me,too, is more than enough, Bersvire. I will wait for you…”

He was burned to death, her seeing it all as he was consumed by the angry flames. But there’s nothing she can do but cry and ache her heart out.

Bersvire was then bought to an uncharted part of the universe to live miserably forever. She was trapped in the last heaven.

 ***

 But.. Love is powerful. It knows no rules, nor no boundaries. All it knows is that it has to prevail. To fight until the fight is over.

"A blue moon is seen in our night sky right this very moment. This is the rarest of all phenomena. Nobody knew how this came to be. Even our scientists are still trying to find out where the moon got the blue luminescence emitting from its core." the TV reporter announced on live tv.

"It's been a thousand years", Krishna stated, closing the ancient book she's reading. She went outside to look at the moon. It's really the same as it is in the book. A book handed down by their ancestors only to chosen ones. Then, she saw the glowing circle at the center of the blue moon.

"Jesus, man! Can't you see it?", Mikel asked his friends. "It's in the center. It's a glowing circle".

"Are you crazy? All we can see is a blue moon, man! And that's that. End of story. Maybe it's just the sun blinding you! Or maybe because of too much heartache!" his friends laughed and teased.

Little did Mikel know that only two people on earth can see the glowing circle. He and another one on the other side of the world.

She's from the East, seeing the moon at night, while he's from the West, seeing it at day. How miraculous as it may seem, the moon fights the golden brightness of the light of the sun.

>> ASL pls<<

^^19, male, new york..u?^^

>>18,girl,iraq<<

Technology has also one way of putting two ends together. It all started there and soon Krishna and Mikel fell in love with each other.

>> i love you, too, mikel...but its hard...i havent seen u yet..(yes,in your facebook and twitter,but not personally)<<

^^does it really matter? would anything change if we see each other now? would your love fade away? krish, i've been real honest with my identity. no photoshop. no borrowing of friend's picture. if you want, i could go and get a ticket now. my savings are enough already for me to travel there..^^

>>please...it's not just that. i'm a muslim...and you're a christian. we just can't be..<<

Days later, Mikel landed on Iraq. He really wanted to marry Krish in the future. No difference in religion could make him stop loving her.

"My heart and life was a mess until you came and fixed it. I can't afford to lose you, Krish. I just can't. I love you too much".

"Please..Please go away! I don't love you!" she sounded angry "What I said via email and chats, those were not real...Now, go away! I don't need you here.." she said that with agony etched in her voice. She didn't really mean to hurt him. She just wanted to save him. Her father is a strict and notorious man and so are her people.

"If you don't love me, then why can I see pain in your eyes? Krishna, please! If you're scared,then so am I. But if I'm with you, I know things will be fine. Please hold my hand and trust me on this. I won't give you up without a fight, Krish.."

The moment he hugged her, a gun shot was heard.

They say that you have to bleed to know you're alive. But Mikel bled because he loved, and will continue to love.

With his last breath, he mouthed the words, "I love you, Bersvire...I will still wait for you.."

She cried, "Haenos!" and he died in her arms.

***

But... Love knows no distance, no difference, no religion. It goes beyond boundaries. Even the impossible.

Another millennium passed.

"Didn't it hurt when you fell?", he asked her.

She laughed. "What are you talking about?"

"Oh..aren't you an angel? Didn't it hurt when you fell from the heavens?"

She smiled. If only,she whispered.

She was an inventor. She create robots---humanoids, to be exact. She made them with emotions and physique that of real humans. In the world that she's living now, robots mingled with humans. It was year 3017.

Her name is Kliere. And his name is Robo 1.7. He is Kleire's masterpiece. He is very human physically, mentally, emotionally. Sometimes, you'd even wonder if he has a soul.

Kleire knows that it's crazy to love Robo. He's a robot. Not human. But deep inside her, she knows, she love him as much as he says he loves her.

"Robo, stop it. Just stop saying those words. Okay?"

"Why? Didn't you install in my system that the truth will set one free? I'm telling the truth because this is what I feel. I really love, Kleire...I know I'm a robot but I'm also capable of human emotions. Is it wrong to love too much? You didn't input in my system the answer to that.", he said with a very hurt expression. Have he been human that could produce tears, he could've cried. But he couldn't.

"God! Listen, Robo...It's not wrong to love too much. It's not wrong to give it all when you love. What's wrong is that I'm human. You're a robot. Can't you see? We're different." she cried, frustrated, angry at herself while pitying him. "Feel this?"---she let him touch her tears---"You can't produce this. Only humans do."

"Just because I can't produce tears, does that mean that the processing units you placed in me doesn't get hurt? Maybe I don't produce that water your lacrimal gland produces but I feel the pain inside the metals and wires you placed inside of me. I don't even understand why I feel pain when robots can't get sick!"

"Just hate me, Robo.."

"It's funny I felt so broken inside...like a glass shattered into a million pieces...but still loving you with all the pieces that are left."

"Damn! Stop it, will you!"she said, hurting, too. I said I don't love you and i don't need you but I lied. I swear, I do,she wanted to tell him that but instead she said, "It's too much poetry I placed in your system..that's why you're saying that."

"You're wrong..." he said, motioning towards the trash bin. There she saw broken pieces of every microchips that's controlling him as a robot.

"How could this be? You're programmed by these!"

He took her hand and looked intently into her eyes.

"Bersvire, don't you recognize me?"

A tear dropped from his eyes.

"Haenos.." she whispered. "Please..please don't leave me this time.."

"I don't want to...but if that would come, always remember that things would always end up right. If things won't go our way again, it's not yet the end. Like I've told you, I wouldn't give up without a fight. Every lifetime that the blue moon has given, I searched for you. And if I have to do it all over again, I would.."

"I'm willing to wait for another thousand of years for you. Now, I understand. Now, I wouldn't ask you to stay. Because I know you'd come back until we find a time and place that's right...a time and place where we can freely love each other.."

They hugged tight and there was a loud bang. They saw a blue fire and smelled sweet smoke. They felt that they're burning in an instant. Those were the last things that their senses perceived. It was the last day of the world. The blue moon has collided with earth that fateful night.

In the nothingness and emptiness, you could hear him say, "I know a place that we can go...a place where no one knows us...a place where we can stay together...forever..", and her saying, "Please take me there..."

"It was a fairytale that night but it didn't end the way I expected it. How could I let it happen? Were my words not right? Did I hold you too tight? With every moment that passed, it kept getting worse. Now, with every breath, I'm sinking deeper. Listen to my heart as it says,'Please take me. You are everything to me and no matter what you'd do, I'll stay.' Does it make any sense to you? I'm telling you this with no wine in my breath..I always said I'd never give up without a fight. And all this time, I've been fighting battles for a reason. A reason I can call YOU..", Haenos told Bersvire that night as she peacefully rested her head on his shoulders. They are looking at the calm sea under the starry-studdied nightsky.

"My life was slowly fading away. I didn't want to fight back anymore. I was breaking down. Then you came. It turned my world upside down. Everything changed in an instant. You made me feel again. I didn't have to fake every smile that I made. I can be myself everytime I'm with you. You changed me. I've never been like this. Never this happy in my entire immortal life. It's as if I can live with only your smile. You made me feel special. You mad me feel loved..", she replied with a hint of a sweet romantic smile on her lips.

"I'm glad we've found this place..."

He answered her with a kiss.

They did find a place where they could live happily ever after. It's hard to find it in reality, that's why they've found it in "Blue Moon". A place of fantasy. A place where the author writes a story that would end with joy in the readers' hearts.

Had it not been for Haenos and Bersvire, had they not found this place at the tip of the pen of the author, there wouldn't be such a place of imagination where they'd love each other with no ifs and buts. If not for them, there wouldn't have been a story called, "BLUE MOON".

Love will really find its way.

No matter how far the distance,

no matter how strong the opponent,

no matter how unwinnable the battle,

no matter how stiff and tough the competition,

no matter how rough the roads to trudge,

no matter how different the beliefs,

no matter how wide the gap,

no matter how great the obstacles,

Love will lead you back and take you home.

It asks no why, no if, no but, no how, no time, no place...

It only asks you to believe

and everything will end up

more than fairytales do.

"You always find the things that you're looking for at the last place you looked.."

-camaeja-