The Attack of the Light Monsters

Long, long ago, the sky was charcoal black, no light could be seen except through lamps. The Light Monsters lived above the sky in a strange land where there was a huge Sun but no sky. They made lamps and sent them down to the human world, so they could have some form of light.

One day the humans started to abuse these lights smashing them and selling them for money to each other. The Light Monsters got very angry and sent down a warning note.

This read:

Dear silly humans:

Stop abusing our lights we have sent you, if you don't we will eat you all up for dinner.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Yours truly,

Light Monsters.

This letter was posted to a young girl, Heidi.

Heidi laughed as she read the strange letter. She assumed that she should show the town council, they would know what to do. She wrote a letter to the mayor explaining the situation; she also included in her letter the Light Monsters warning. She licked the stamp and walked out of the house to post it.

On the way she met her friend Carla, a sunburnt young girl of her age.

"Hi," Heidi said as Carla joined her "I got sent this really strange letter, it was in this really strange handwriting. It said to "stop abusing our lights we have been sending you, if you don't we will eat you up for dinner."

Carla laughed and said, "what are you doing with it now?"

"I'm sending it to the mayor. He'll know what to do," was the reply. Heidi stopped and slipped it into the bright red mailbox. Carla and Heidi went of talking and laughing about the silly and strange letter.

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"They're still abusing it," said a light monster his yellow face turning bright red with anger.

"Calm down Alexandra," the mother Light Monster said with a laugh.

"Okay," sighed Alex. "But they are laughing at us."

"We must have a meeting," the mother said with a sigh. "This is what I have not been looking forward to.

Soon afterward the whole group of the Light monsters had gathered.

"Listen," said the mother, "as you probably already know, the humans are laughing at us. If they do not take our warning seriously in the next day we, will then plan to attack."

Most of the younger Light Monsters did not agree with this plan. They were impatient and wanted action.

"But if we don't attack now, they will smash even more lamps," a green headed Light Monster said worriedly.

"No, no," an old and wise Light Monster said "we must wait. It is very important to wait." This made most of the younger Light Monsters see sense and they agreed readily. It was taken to a vote and majority ruled they would wait.

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The mail was soon deliverd to the mayor, after Clara and Heidi posted it.

The mayor laughed as he read the letter that the Light Monsters had written, he then read the explanation Heidi had written him. It was all very strange; it had to be a prank that this girl Heidi did not understand.

He looked at his watch and realised it was time for yet another council meeting.

The councillors were all giggling as they read the letter.

"How pathetic," one of the councillors said. "Who sent it to you."

"A young girl called Heidi," was the reply.

"How dumb is she. Not even understanding a pathetic prank like this," another councillor giggled. The councillors soon put away the letter and continued the meeting.

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