8-how+the+moon+was+created

How the Moon Was Created A Long time ago, there was a boy named Chuck who lived in a large town thriving with many people. All of the houses were made of stone as well as the streets that were surrounded by bright green grass. Over the town loomed a massive bubbling volcano. However, nobody really paid much attention to it though because it was a part of their everyday life. That is, Except for Chuck. Chuck was a tall, skinny, brown haired, green eyed boy who was always fascinated by the volcano. Ever since he was little he wanted to see what the volcano looked like at the top. And today he was going to do it. Meanwhile on Mount Olympus, Hephaestus, who has an anvil as a symbol and is god of the forge, was planning to expand his forges. He already had thirty-five forges in varies volcanoes around the world, but they weren’t enough for him. Hephaestus was planning on making one central forge where all of his biggest projects to take place. The volcano over the town chuck lived in was the perfect place to make it. Knowing that constructing his forge in the volcano might cause it to erupt and destroy the town, Hephaestus begins construction immediately not caring about what consequences might follow. He would warn the people about the volcanoes potentially erupting, but then Zeus (who is god of the sky, has the symbol of a lightning bolt and is king of the gods), would find out. Zeus would never let Hephaestus risk people’s lives for a forge. Thus, Hephaestus decided to simply not tell him. Chuck began scaling the massive volcano. He had already snuck away from his family during the night in determination to make it to the top. He had packed food, cloths and water. He was sure that nothing was going to stop him. Many days went by, but chuck didn’t quit. He figured that even if he was really tired the trip back would be longer than the trip up the volcano so he persevered through. He was about a mile away from the top when the entire volcano rumbled and the ground beneath Chuck shook. Chuck thought, “This volcano had been here all my life, it couldn’t possibly be erupting now”. But instead of discouraging him the shaking and rumbling only made him want to go further up, so he carefully continued up the volcano, freezing every time it shook violently. People in the town were in a panic. Some of the made sacrifices to the gods asking for mercy, for they thought the volcano’s increased activity was a punishment for their sins. Of course, the first of the gods to hear of this panic was Zeus. Zeus didn’t know for sure what god would be causing all of this mischief, and knew he couldn’t just ask them. The culprit would never give them self in. To solve this problem, Zeus decided to use mortals to sabotage the volcano. Back on the volcano Chuck was having a dream. This wasn’t an ordinary dream though. Voices warned him of the volcano erupting and how clogging the entire volcano would prevent the eruption. The citizens in the town also had a similar dream. They began marching up the volcano with shovels, pick axes and other digging tools. Chuck, now having reached the top, racked his mind for a way to clog an entire volcano. How could it be done? For three days Chuck stayed on top of the volcano before he got an idea. There were a few peaks on top of the volcano that were higher than the mouth of bubbling lava where chuck was. If he could cause them to cave in it would clog the volcano. As he thought of a plan to do this, the rest of the town started to arrive at the top of the volcano. He quickly told them of his plan and they began digging into the bottom of the peaks to send them falling into the volcano. After four more days of the volcano rumbling and shaking the peaks fell one by one into the volcano. The citizens cheered and Chuck went home a hero. But the shaking and rumbling didn’t stop. Pressure built up in the volcano until one day, it exploded launching lava into space. The lava cooled and hardened while in space, forming a sphere of rock that now orbits the Earth.