2- La Luna By: Anisha512
In the dark forests of Earth, hidden behind the thick and prickly bushes, and laying upon a rock was an astronomer named Mona. Mona did know some things about astronomy. However, she knew very little about what was happening in space. One day, a meteor shower was about to hit the town , but Mona told the people that the meteors were performing a dance ritual for the god Jupiter and nothing was going to happen to their town. Thankfully, Mona was lucky and the meteors stopped moving and went about floating. Otherwise, if the people found out that Mona knew very little about astronomy and that what she told them was inaccurate, they would run her out of town.
Jupiter was filled with envy when he saw what the mortal girl was doing. He almost decided to kill her and send her to the God Pluto. However, his sister Ceres suggested that he disguise himself as a mortal man and teach her a valuable lesson that she will never forget. At first, Jupiter disagreed, but then he also wanted the mortal girl to live, so he agreed at last.
Jupiter went to Mona's cottage disguised as an old man. He told her that a shape will appear in the sky that night and she might not know what it is. The old man also told Mona not to tell anything inaccurate about the shape. However, Mona drove the old man out of her cottage and paid no attention to what he told her.
At night, Mona was looking at the sky when she saw an odd looking shape. She widened her eyes and she saw huge meteor. However, it had no light of it's own, so it was really hard to see. At first, Mona thought it was just a meteor, but when she really focused on it with her telescope, she saw that someone was standing on it and it was the god Jupiter. Suddenly, Mona vanished into thin air and landed on the shape, which Jupiter was standing on. Jupiter told Mona to not say anything inaccurate about this shape to the people if she didn't know anything about it. Of course, Mona didn't know anything about the shape.
Then Mona instantly remembered the old man and said "So you were the old man. I'm so sorry if I harmed you in any way. I didn't really guess that a God would go to the trouble to disguise itself as a mortal to visit me. I mean like, it would have happened to anyone. How would I ever undo my sin?" Jupiter told Mona that to undo her sin, she must be the shape in the sky and become the moon forever. Mona agreed to become the moon and destroy her sins. From then on, Mona was the moon and she became the astronomy and never went back to being an astronomer…………………
