Short Stories

Hey guys, this is just a folktale I randomly came up with and i hope you guys like it :) !!

How the Weather Changes

A long time ago, the weather didn’t change at all. There was only a big sun shining bright at the people. The people always wore sun hats to block the sun. The sun was humongous and every single day the sun smiled at the people from day to night. The sun provided water, light, and warmth. The people were grateful that the sun was helping them, but often they were too hot. One day, one of the farmers was so frustrated from working day to night every single day, while the sun was just happily sitting there smiling as the farmer just kept worked in the superior warmth.

Faraway, the moon was smirking because he knew that the people would hate the sun for being so hot and soon he will be chosen as the next weather king. When to sun was elected to be weather king, the people liked him. Even when the sky said he was going to turn dark, the sun still shone through the color of the night sky. The people started being really, really annoyed. One morning went the sky turned bright again all of the people started marching out of their houses shouting to the sun saying, “We don’t want you to keep smiling at us from day to night!”

The sun answered, “You don’t want my warmth and rather suffer from the cold.”

“No, you are just too warm for us. We are sweating so much.”

“Ok, then I will leave along with my water, light, and warmth. I shall have moon take my place,” the sun answered. The sun left angrily and left a trail of fire as he returned to his home. The moon reluctantly heard he was going be the next weather king, so he ran to his spot smiling from ear to ear. The people greeted him happily and he was delightful. The next few years Moon was the weather and had the sky turned bright, but the moon shared his own coldness. The people were not used to this kind of weather so they decided it was still better than the sun. Over the years, there was no light to bring the food. The people tried asking for food, but moon just said no. Other times people would barge into Moon’s territory and just blurt, “Give me food now!” and Moon would reply, “I have provided water. Well, cold, refreshing water. Are you so greedy that you need food too?” The people would always ignore Moon and rush back to their house. After, there was absolutely no more food.

The moon didn’t want the people the hate him like the sun, so he provided cucumbers and rice just so he can stay as the weather king a little bit longer. “No warmth is allowed ,even for cooking,” the moon declared. The people started to feel kind of cold and a lot of people started getting sick. The moon knew nothing of this and only cared about himself. The people didn’t want the moon and were suddenly wishing for warmth and more varieties of food. They didn’t want the sun because he was way too hot, or the moon because he was way too cold.

“We don’t want you spreading your coldness towards us day to night!” the people shouted.

“I don’t care what you want because I am the weather king now.” the moon said back.

“We want more varieties of food and at least some warmth.”

“Is cucumber and rice not enough? You shall eat what you have and love it. Greedy people don’t always get what they want!” the moon yelled, starting to get angry. “I will stay as your weather king whether you like or not.” The people got scared and scurried back to their houses.

“That’s what I thought!” The moon smiled boastfully. His loud, booming voice echoed through the sky until the moon voice traveled all the way into the sun’s own, bare ears.

The sun’s eyes turned bloodshot red as turned looking at Moon’s back as he had all the spotlight. Was he bragging? Sun didn’t like Moon’s attitude and flew down, about to have a serious conversation.

“MOON!” the sun said like thunder. The moon whirled around and looked in fear as sun swooped as fast as lightning to talk with his son.

“Moon, how could you be like this? I thought I taught you better.” questioned Sun.

“I’m sorry, the people angered me.” Moon answered.

“SO it gives YOU the right to be mean to them?” Sun said.

“No, but they hated you when you were weather king,” Moon talked back.

“OH, OK but did I disrespect them or treat them like garbage?” Sun shot back.

“Ok, fine I’m sorry, you happy?” Moon said.

“No, and I will take your place as Weather King.” Sun said sternly.

“But, that’s not fair!” Moon talked back.

“You can become bright at night and that could be your job for eternity.” Sun added.

“Really?” questioned Moon.

“I’m sure, and I’ll talk to the people about our compromise.” Sun confirmed.

“But, what about you being too warm for the people?” Moon asked.

“I need to ask sky for a favor. Goodbye, I will try to visit you every night.” Sun left and everything was back to normal as Sun talked to the people. After, the sun asked sky to make clouds. The clouds were for blocking the sun so it wouldn’t get too hot. Later on, sky added wind so it would be more chilly at times. The sun also decided the people needed to be punished for being so rude and added times where it would be super warm,our summers and super cold, our winter. That’s why the weather changes today.