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I LIIIIIIIIIIVE..... AGAIN!

I'm sorry for the disappearing act everyone. I lost my phone and couldn't access DA, so I couldn't upload. I apologise even more to those I was I'm the middle of a conversation with. But I got it back and I'm ready to get back into it!

But anyway, here's the bio of the new characters!

Name: Atka

Height: 10,644.6 kilometers (MAX.)

1.3 meters (MIN.)

Age: 11 (Appearance)

11.9 billion years (Actual)

Abilities: Size shift, Soul Sight, Able to breathe in space, telepathy, impossible strength and durability (Although still very strong and resilient, both powers are severely weakened in his small form), and flight (Exclusive to any size above 80').

Personality: Kind, gentle, and a protective guardian of all. He knows that in his natural size, he can cause major destruction if he isn’t careful, as most, if not all of the “Small people” (his collective name to civilized creatures on alien worlds) are very fragile and need to be protected. As such, he is always careful with life and planets. He never touches them in his full form if they harbor life.

His main defining trait, however is his ceaseless curiosity. Whenever he goes to a new world, he explores every inch of it that he can. He loves meeting new people and learning about them. He does try to keep his true power hidden from most civilizations that he meets, since he doesn't want to be treated with fear like a dictator or be worshipped like a god, since he's neither of those. Many planets have dubbed him as something along the lines of "The Star Spirit".

Appearance: Atka is a colossal, cream-skinned young boy that has animal-like features. His hair is soft and wild. His ears are long, fluffy, and the same color as his hair, which is bright blond. The edges of his hair and tips of his ears are red-orange, same with the fluffy tip of his very long tail. His shirt is orange with white edges and accents. An intricate design is on the centerline, all capped off with a small, red, robe-like t-shirt underneath the orange one.

He has arm, tail, and leg bands that are made of packed obsidian, each of which has rhodite lining the ends. They also have intricate orange patterns designed into it, made with sunstone. His shorts are simple black ones, with the edges of the shorts’ legs being yellow.

His eyes are completely white, giving off a soft glow whenever it’s dark. His teeth are mostly humanlike and pure white, the only difference being that they’re a slight bit sharper. His tongue and inside parts of his body are inky black in hue, but due to the extremely powerful chemicals in his stomach, an orange-yellow glow comes up from the back of his throat, illuminating his mouth when he yawns or simply has his mouth wide open. You’ll really only see the inside of his mouth when he’s eating or yawning, as he mostly talks to people through telepathy.
Another reason for not seeing the inside of his mouth is that the heat from his stomach reaches his mouth, making it excruciatingly hot. It's hot enough to melt many metals into their liquid state.

Additional Info: The largest he can grow without changing back into his Celestial form is roughly 268 meters. This is helpful for when he needs to get around a planet quickly without alerting anyone that lives there. He can grow to any size in between that midpoint and his minimum as well. His supernatural power of strength grows with him as he gets smaller or larger depending on his size. At his smallest, he's as strong as an adult man. At his midpoint he can pick up and move entire hillsides without breaking a sweat. And when he's at his max, he can move entire planets without much fuss.

He doesn’t eat organic matter as we do on Earth. The only things that he eats on a regular basis are space stones, like asteroids or meteors, and metals, like iron or nickel. His teeth are the strongest known material in the galaxy, able to easily crunch through the minerals he consumes with the added strength of his jaws. If he gets hungry enough, he might find a dwarf planet, a large asteroid, or maybe even an entire moon and stay near it, eating it over an undetermined period of time. This doesn’t happen very often though, as the longest he can go without getting mildly hungry in his large size is about two months.

It is important to note that his body, inside and out is impervious to fire. His stomach is able to digest and melt any metal in the known universe, as the chemicals inside his stomach burn intensely hot. His throat and stomach walls are extremely well insulated, but the heat does still spread to the rest of his body if he wants it to. When he wants his mouth to heat up, he closes it and opens up a special, translucent organ lining his esophagus, allowing the full heat of his stomach to flood into his mouth, making his mouth roughly 4,300 degrees within. When that organ is closed and all the heat stays within, his stomach heats up to 7,560 degrees and his mouth cools to rest at 110 degrees.
His stomach can withstand anything put into it, like the molten lava inside many things that he eats. Despite him being able to stomach the core of a moon, he does have a code on what he doesn’t eat.

He refuses to eat:

Life-bearing planets

Moons/orbiting bodies of life-bearing planets

Celestial bodies crucial to the survival of life-bearing planets

Celestial bodies that have the potential for life on it.

Animal meat (animals make him sick to his stomach, as he feels terrible harming something conscious. Plants, non-meat animal products, and artificial foods he can eat, though)

Aside from his dietary info, his occupation is unique. He’s appointed himself as the protector of the milky way galaxy and all life within it (Some civilizations consider this ironic since his diet consists of structures inside the galaxy). He defends life from meteor impacts, volcanic winters, interstellar raiders/dangerously powerful local wars, and once, even a black hole.

The civilizations he protects usually thank him with gifts. This is how he discovered that his favorite food in the entire galaxy is gold, as many planets give it as thanks. This makes him a bit dangerous to rings or other jewelry that has the precious metal in it, since to his unique taste buds, pure gold tastes like caramel coated milk chocolate.

Name: Rosa Vasquez

Height: 5’ 10’’

Age: 42

Trades: Astronomy, engineering, gemology, and microbiology

Personality: No nonsense, very rational and intellectual, yet empathetic and loving (In a tough-love kind of way). She can be cold, but she can also be the sweetest woman you’ve met.

Appearance: Rosa is a thin, middle-aged Hispanic woman with curly black salt and pepper hair and a slight addiction to coffee. She most often wears her black lab coat around the lunar base in which she works. When off work, she can be seen in dark blue and green clothes wearing jewelry more than what she wears at work.

Rosa has a young daughter that lives in a separate part on the moon base, and her name is Chloe Vasquez. The two have a strong bond and spend as much time together as possible. Chloe lives a life of luxury on the moon, shared with her mother and their little, grey Scottish terrier, Haggis.

Additional info: The primary reason that Rosa, along with everyone else on the moon, is on the moon, is because of Rosa herself. She’s considered to be one of the smartest people of our time. She invented a 99.9% efficient, portable way to purify CO2 back into Oxygen. This simple advancement made millions of peoples’ jobs easier as divers could now stay underwater for longer and catch more fish. Doctors can more easily help patients breathe. The use that the National Space Agency was most interested in was the possibility of long-term interplanetary travel

At first, Rosa scoffed at this idea. She had designed it to be used on Earth for Earth-related things. However, the more and more she reviewed her work, the more intrigued she became. She used her many different trades to sketch out the blueprints of a massive lunar colony, being visible as a dot on the moon from Earth. And when a scale model was constructed, tested, and proven successful, Rosa and her daughter were guaranteed a spot on the first successful Lunar colony. The colony they’re on is actually named after Rosa, being called Rosa-1.

How they met:

It was a normal day for Atka. He had just finished eating a large asteroid that was causing a sizeable amount of worry on a planet nearby. He enjoys doing this, since it doesn’t just get rid of a big threat to life, but it also gives him something to eat! After the people of the planet thanked him, he left and went to his very own, personal, sleeping planetoid.

This planet was entirely smooth on the surface, with the only life on it being a soft, lush, grass-like plant that made it comfortable for him to sleep on. It was made by a highly advanced civilization that he saved from self-destruction, making it extra personal to him. He doesn’t get visitors here often since it’s relatively far from most inhabited planets. This is where he goes most days when he wants to relax on a solid surface, as it comes without the risk of crushing cities as he lays down.

However, today was not like most days. Just as he was laying down to let his stomach take care of the no-longer threatening asteroid, he felt something. Something faint, yet extremely powerful. He couldn’t tell what it was, as it had never been felt before. It was like a massive burst of energy, but not just any energy. Soul energy.

He lifted his head up and gazed in the direction the blast came from. He could tell the direction it came from, but it was so far away from where he was, that he couldn’t tell the exact distance. He pouted for a split second, knowing that his self-appointed responsibility pressured him into investigating it. He sat up and stretched, yawning away the small amount of coziness that he had, and flew off in the direction of this energy blast. It could take a while, but he was sure that he’d make it. He probably won’t need anything to eat, as it must’ve been at most a few lightyears away due to how strong it is, so he won’t pack any food.

Back on Earth, the source of the blast is quite clear. The event that caused the massive energy burst was an experiment done by Dr. Artz, including a ring that took several million creatures from other worlds and plopped them into this one via interdimensional tampering (Read Lukas's bio for a more in depth look at this). It was powerful enough to be pinged on the moon’s lunar colony, Rosa-1. And the namesake of the colony, Rosa Vasquez, is hard at work studying the effects this had on Earth and the magnetic field around it. It was similar to a solar flare, disrupting all electronics on Earth for fifteen minutes. It was so powerful that the Northern lights had been triggered.

Pressured by the governments of the world, Rosa kept hard at work, studying, analyzing, and recording information on this experiment. It was out of her field of expertise, but the world didn’t care. It wanted a reason as to why this happened and how it might be fixed. So she kept at work, for a very long time.

-----

Ten months pass, and Atka is still traveling to his destination. He hadn't eaten anything the entire trip, and he was getting impatient. He had kept up the pace of flying for so long, that it became almost unnoticeable when he passed another star, another planet, another moon. He was less focused on the task of flying to wherever he was going and more focused on how famished he was. His stomach growled with the strength and intensity of an earthquake, begging for food. He hated to admit it, but he needed to halt his progress and take a break, a pit stop to refuel if you will.

He reached a relatively unimpressive moon. It was decently sized, enough to fill him up once he’d eaten it. He saw the planet it orbited, but he was too hungry to care enough to give a second glance at it and check if it had life. He turned and faced the moon once again, his stomach growled, ready for the incoming meal. His mouth was watering in anticipation. He spent a few seconds looking for the best angle to bite into it from. Once he found it, he carefully grasped both sides of the moon and licked his lips. He closed his eyes and opened his mouth, ready to chow down on this unremarkable satellite.

On the moon’s surface, however, it wasn’t as much of a “careful grasp” as it was “an entire moon shaking beneath your feet.” Rosa was heavily affected by this, as she was walking down a hall with a cup of coffee in her hands. When the ground started shaking, she almost spilled it all over herself. She dashed out into the main hub of the moon’s colony and froze, letting the coffee spill all over the floor as she did.

In front of her was a gargantuan face of a young boy. He looked no older than 9, I but that wasn’t what really mattered. He seemed to be looking at their base, but it was hard to tell due to him having pure white eyes. He seemed to be inspecting not the base, but the moon, as he moved his head side to side, up and down. However, she gazed in horror at what he did next.
The young colossus outside licked his lips, closed his glowing white eyes and opened his mouth. She stared into a massive maw that was bigger than the entire state of New York. She looked with even greater fear and panic than she had felt a moment before. The boy’s mountain-sized teeth were whiter than the shiniest pearls. They would've been admirable if they weren't about to close around her. His innards were pitch black, but an orange glow from the recesses of his throat lit up the horror and details inside the drooling cavern. The temperature around her began to increase, all coming from the boy's mouth, which still got closer and closer.

Rosa knew that she wouldn’t be able to do anything from here, so she walked over to Chloe. Chloe was standing nearby, gazing in awe rather than horror. Haggis was jumping up and down, barking at the approaching face. Rosa walked over to her daughter and knelt down. She didn’t have the strength to tell her that this wouldn’t end well for them, their home, heck even the moon. Her eyes teared up as her daughter blissfully waved at the nearing oblivion.

---

As Atka’s teeth were about to sink into the moon's appetizingly soft crust, he felt something. Something very similar to the energy blast he’d been tracking. He stopped and looked at the spot he was about to eat and squinted. He used soul sight and saw that there were thousands of the small people all along the surface of the moon. Inside a little speck on the surface, a girl waved from inside. He felt shocked at first, but then he felt overjoyed!

It had been so long since he’d met a new civilization! He looked to the left, and the less he focused on his gurgling stomach, the more souls he could sense, on a planet not too far from here! Billions upon billions of small people to meet! He was ecstatic. He waved back at the girl before looking back down at the thousands of people that were almost his lunch. He decided to go in and say hello (and sorry) to the quavering mom within. He closed his eyes once more and shrunk down into the colony's hub.
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When the shaking stopped, Rosa opened her eyes and looked around. She expected to see heaven, hell, or some other afterlife where she'd go after being eaten like a breadcrumb. But she wasn't dead. She looked around and saw that she was still very much alive and inside the hub. She saw Chloe, who was also alive, chatting with someone. Upon closer inspection, Rosa saw that this was the boy that had almost eaten them!

She screamed in confusion and leapt back. The boy seemed to notice her then, and walked over to her. His long tail was hovering just inches above the floor. He walked over to her, smiled, and sat down on the floor.

Rosa cautiously got up, eyeing the once colossal figure before her. He tilted his head in curiosity, looking back at her. Then he spoke into her mind without ever opening his mouth.

"Hello! My name is Atka! What's yours?"

Rosa stammered in her words before replying in a shaky voice, "I'm... Rosa Vasquez..."

"Nice to meet you Rosa! Um... " he blushed a shade of orange. "Sorry I almost ate you..."

Rosa had so many questions. How'd he get here? Why did he almost take a bite of out the moon? Why and how was he smaller than her!? Nevertheless, Rosa calmed herself and tried her best for a smile. She offered her hand to Atka, and he took it. His grip was firm and powerful, yet gentle. It was clear he was holding back, careful not to damage her. His stomach growled loudly enough to be heard from where she was sitting, making it clear that he was very hungry. She chuckled to herself and thought, "hungry enough to eat a moon?". She helped him up and took him to her room to make him something to eat.

Atka was impressed with all the advanced tools and comfy bed. He went over to her jewelry drawer and opened it. He gasped and took out two gold, large earrings. He pointed to them, and then to himself. She nodded, giving him permission to keep them. Though, she wasn't sure how good they'd look on his big ea...

And before she could finish her thought, Atka nonchalantly tossed them into his mouth, catching Rosa off guard. He moved them around in his scorchingly hot mouth, savoring their taste, until they had actually melted into liquid gold. Once they had, he gulped them down, sighed, and licked his lips to clean off any remaining metal.

Rosa flinched as he did so, before once again chuckled and said, "At least I won't have to polish those anymore! You sure have expensive tastes, huh?

Atka looked at her and tilted his head before using telepathy to say, "huh?"

Rosa laughed and realized that he had no sense of Earth ways. He might know about manners, but he doesn't seem to know about currency, human food, or even basic things like not jumping on the bed, which he was doing at the moment. She knew that this boy was going to be a tough one to teach, especially since he left a several hundred kilometer wide handprint on the moon's surface.

Description
I LIIIIIIIIIIVE..... AGAIN!

I'm sorry for the disappearing act everyone. I lost my phone and couldn't access DA, so I couldn't upload. I apologise even more to those I was I'm the middle of a conversation with. But I got it back and I'm ready to get back into it!

But anyway, here's the bio of the new characters!

Name: Atka

Height: 10,644.6 kilometers (MAX.)

1.3 meters (MIN.)

Age: 11 (Appearance)

11.9 billion years (Actual)

Abilities: Size shift, Soul Sight, Able to breathe in space, telepathy, impossible strength and durability (Although still very strong and resilient, both powers are severely weakened in his small form), and flight (Exclusive to any size above 80').

Personality: Kind, gentle, and a protective guardian of all. He knows that in his natural size, he can cause major destruction if he isn’t careful, as most, if not all of the “Small people” (his collective name to civilized creatures on alien worlds) are very fragile and need to be protected. As such, he is always careful with life and planets. He never touches them in his full form if they harbor life.

His main defining trait, however is his ceaseless curiosity. Whenever he goes to a new world, he explores every inch of it that he can. He loves meeting new people and learning about them. He does try to keep his true power hidden from most civilizations that he meets, since he doesn't want to be treated with fear like a dictator or be worshipped like a god, since he's neither of those. Many planets have dubbed him as something along the lines of "The Star Spirit".

Appearance: Atka is a colossal, cream-skinned young boy that has animal-like features. His hair is soft and wild. His ears are long, fluffy, and the same color as his hair, which is bright blond. The edges of his hair and tips of his ears are red-orange, same with the fluffy tip of his very long tail. His shirt is orange with white edges and accents. An intricate design is on the centerline, all capped off with a small, red, robe-like t-shirt underneath the orange one.

He has arm, tail, and leg bands that are made of packed obsidian, each of which has rhodite lining the ends. They also have intricate orange patterns designed into it, made with sunstone. His shorts are simple black ones, with the edges of the shorts’ legs being yellow.

His eyes are completely white, giving off a soft glow whenever it’s dark. His teeth are mostly humanlike and pure white, the only difference being that they’re a slight bit sharper. His tongue and inside parts of his body are inky black in hue, but due to the extremely powerful chemicals in his stomach, an orange-yellow glow comes up from the back of his throat, illuminating his mouth when he yawns or simply has his mouth wide open. You’ll really only see the inside of his mouth when he’s eating or yawning, as he mostly talks to people through telepathy.
Another reason for not seeing the inside of his mouth is that the heat from his stomach reaches his mouth, making it excruciatingly hot. It's hot enough to melt many metals into their liquid state.

Additional Info: The largest he can grow without changing back into his Celestial form is roughly 268 meters. This is helpful for when he needs to get around a planet quickly without alerting anyone that lives there. He can grow to any size in between that midpoint and his minimum as well. His supernatural power of strength grows with him as he gets smaller or larger depending on his size. At his smallest, he's as strong as an adult man. At his midpoint he can pick up and move entire hillsides without breaking a sweat. And when he's at his max, he can move entire planets without much fuss.

He doesn’t eat organic matter as we do on Earth. The only things that he eats on a regular basis are space stones, like asteroids or meteors, and metals, like iron or nickel. His teeth are the strongest known material in the galaxy, able to easily crunch through the minerals he consumes with the added strength of his jaws. If he gets hungry enough, he might find a dwarf planet, a large asteroid, or maybe even an entire moon and stay near it, eating it over an undetermined period of time. This doesn’t happen very often though, as the longest he can go without getting mildly hungry in his large size is about two months.

It is important to note that his body, inside and out is impervious to fire. His stomach is able to digest and melt any metal in the known universe, as the chemicals inside his stomach burn intensely hot. His throat and stomach walls are extremely well insulated, but the heat does still spread to the rest of his body if he wants it to. When he wants his mouth to heat up, he closes it and opens up a special, translucent organ lining his esophagus, allowing the full heat of his stomach to flood into his mouth, making his mouth roughly 4,300 degrees within. When that organ is closed and all the heat stays within, his stomach heats up to 7,560 degrees and his mouth cools to rest at 110 degrees.
His stomach can withstand anything put into it, like the molten lava inside many things that he eats. Despite him being able to stomach the core of a moon, he does have a code on what he doesn’t eat.

He refuses to eat:

Life-bearing planets

Moons/orbiting bodies of life-bearing planets

Celestial bodies crucial to the survival of life-bearing planets

Celestial bodies that have the potential for life on it.

Animal meat (animals make him sick to his stomach, as he feels terrible harming something conscious. Plants, non-meat animal products, and artificial foods he can eat, though)

Aside from his dietary info, his occupation is unique. He’s appointed himself as the protector of the milky way galaxy and all life within it (Some civilizations consider this ironic since his diet consists of structures inside the galaxy). He defends life from meteor impacts, volcanic winters, interstellar raiders/dangerously powerful local wars, and once, even a black hole.

The civilizations he protects usually thank him with gifts. This is how he discovered that his favorite food in the entire galaxy is gold, as many planets give it as thanks. This makes him a bit dangerous to rings or other jewelry that has the precious metal in it, since to his unique taste buds, pure gold tastes like caramel coated milk chocolate.

Name: Rosa Vasquez

Height: 5’ 10’’

Age: 42

Trades: Astronomy, engineering, gemology, and microbiology

Personality: No nonsense, very rational and intellectual, yet empathetic and loving (In a tough-love kind of way). She can be cold, but she can also be the sweetest woman you’ve met.

Appearance: Rosa is a thin, middle-aged Hispanic woman with curly black salt and pepper hair and a slight addiction to coffee. She most often wears her black lab coat around the lunar base in which she works. When off work, she can be seen in dark blue and green clothes wearing jewelry more than what she wears at work.

Rosa has a young daughter that lives in a separate part on the moon base, and her name is Chloe Vasquez. The two have a strong bond and spend as much time together as possible. Chloe lives a life of luxury on the moon, shared with her mother and their little, grey Scottish terrier, Haggis.

Additional info: The primary reason that Rosa, along with everyone else on the moon, is on the moon, is because of Rosa herself. She’s considered to be one of the smartest people of our time. She invented a 99.9% efficient, portable way to purify CO2 back into Oxygen. This simple advancement made millions of peoples’ jobs easier as divers could now stay underwater for longer and catch more fish. Doctors can more easily help patients breathe. The use that the National Space Agency was most interested in was the possibility of long-term interplanetary travel

At first, Rosa scoffed at this idea. She had designed it to be used on Earth for Earth-related things. However, the more and more she reviewed her work, the more intrigued she became. She used her many different trades to sketch out the blueprints of a massive lunar colony, being visible as a dot on the moon from Earth. And when a scale model was constructed, tested, and proven successful, Rosa and her daughter were guaranteed a spot on the first successful Lunar colony. The colony they’re on is actually named after Rosa, being called Rosa-1.

How they met:

It was a normal day for Atka. He had just finished eating a large asteroid that was causing a sizeable amount of worry on a planet nearby. He enjoys doing this, since it doesn’t just get rid of a big threat to life, but it also gives him something to eat! After the people of the planet thanked him, he left and went to his very own, personal, sleeping planetoid.

This planet was entirely smooth on the surface, with the only life on it being a soft, lush, grass-like plant that made it comfortable for him to sleep on. It was made by a highly advanced civilization that he saved from self-destruction, making it extra personal to him. He doesn’t get visitors here often since it’s relatively far from most inhabited planets. This is where he goes most days when he wants to relax on a solid surface, as it comes without the risk of crushing cities as he lays down.

However, today was not like most days. Just as he was laying down to let his stomach take care of the no-longer threatening asteroid, he felt something. Something faint, yet extremely powerful. He couldn’t tell what it was, as it had never been felt before. It was like a massive burst of energy, but not just any energy. Soul energy.

He lifted his head up and gazed in the direction the blast came from. He could tell the direction it came from, but it was so far away from where he was, that he couldn’t tell the exact distance. He pouted for a split second, knowing that his self-appointed responsibility pressured him into investigating it. He sat up and stretched, yawning away the small amount of coziness that he had, and flew off in the direction of this energy blast. It could take a while, but he was sure that he’d make it. He probably won’t need anything to eat, as it must’ve been at most a few lightyears away due to how strong it is, so he won’t pack any food.

Back on Earth, the source of the blast is quite clear. The event that caused the massive energy burst was an experiment done by Dr. Artz, including a ring that took several million creatures from other worlds and plopped them into this one via interdimensional tampering (Read Lukas's bio for a more in depth look at this). It was powerful enough to be pinged on the moon’s lunar colony, Rosa-1. And the namesake of the colony, Rosa Vasquez, is hard at work studying the effects this had on Earth and the magnetic field around it. It was similar to a solar flare, disrupting all electronics on Earth for fifteen minutes. It was so powerful that the Northern lights had been triggered.

Pressured by the governments of the world, Rosa kept hard at work, studying, analyzing, and recording information on this experiment. It was out of her field of expertise, but the world didn’t care. It wanted a reason as to why this happened and how it might be fixed. So she kept at work, for a very long time.

-----

Ten months pass, and Atka is still traveling to his destination. He hadn't eaten anything the entire trip, and he was getting impatient. He had kept up the pace of flying for so long, that it became almost unnoticeable when he passed another star, another planet, another moon. He was less focused on the task of flying to wherever he was going and more focused on how famished he was. His stomach growled with the strength and intensity of an earthquake, begging for food. He hated to admit it, but he needed to halt his progress and take a break, a pit stop to refuel if you will.

He reached a relatively unimpressive moon. It was decently sized, enough to fill him up once he’d eaten it. He saw the planet it orbited, but he was too hungry to care enough to give a second glance at it and check if it had life. He turned and faced the moon once again, his stomach growled, ready for the incoming meal. His mouth was watering in anticipation. He spent a few seconds looking for the best angle to bite into it from. Once he found it, he carefully grasped both sides of the moon and licked his lips. He closed his eyes and opened his mouth, ready to chow down on this unremarkable satellite.

On the moon’s surface, however, it wasn’t as much of a “careful grasp” as it was “an entire moon shaking beneath your feet.” Rosa was heavily affected by this, as she was walking down a hall with a cup of coffee in her hands. When the ground started shaking, she almost spilled it all over herself. She dashed out into the main hub of the moon’s colony and froze, letting the coffee spill all over the floor as she did.

In front of her was a gargantuan face of a young boy. He looked no older than 9, I but that wasn’t what really mattered. He seemed to be looking at their base, but it was hard to tell due to him having pure white eyes. He seemed to be inspecting not the base, but the moon, as he moved his head side to side, up and down. However, she gazed in horror at what he did next.
The young colossus outside licked his lips, closed his glowing white eyes and opened his mouth. She stared into a massive maw that was bigger than the entire state of New York. She looked with even greater fear and panic than she had felt a moment before. The boy’s mountain-sized teeth were whiter than the shiniest pearls. They would've been admirable if they weren't about to close around her. His innards were pitch black, but an orange glow from the recesses of his throat lit up the horror and details inside the drooling cavern. The temperature around her began to increase, all coming from the boy's mouth, which still got closer and closer.

Rosa knew that she wouldn’t be able to do anything from here, so she walked over to Chloe. Chloe was standing nearby, gazing in awe rather than horror. Haggis was jumping up and down, barking at the approaching face. Rosa walked over to her daughter and knelt down. She didn’t have the strength to tell her that this wouldn’t end well for them, their home, heck even the moon. Her eyes teared up as her daughter blissfully waved at the nearing oblivion.

---

As Atka’s teeth were about to sink into the moon's appetizingly soft crust, he felt something. Something very similar to the energy blast he’d been tracking. He stopped and looked at the spot he was about to eat and squinted. He used soul sight and saw that there were thousands of the small people all along the surface of the moon. Inside a little speck on the surface, a girl waved from inside. He felt shocked at first, but then he felt overjoyed!

It had been so long since he’d met a new civilization! He looked to the left, and the less he focused on his gurgling stomach, the more souls he could sense, on a planet not too far from here! Billions upon billions of small people to meet! He was ecstatic. He waved back at the girl before looking back down at the thousands of people that were almost his lunch. He decided to go in and say hello (and sorry) to the quavering mom within. He closed his eyes once more and shrunk down into the colony's hub.
-------
When the shaking stopped, Rosa opened her eyes and looked around. She expected to see heaven, hell, or some other afterlife where she'd go after being eaten like a breadcrumb. But she wasn't dead. She looked around and saw that she was still very much alive and inside the hub. She saw Chloe, who was also alive, chatting with someone. Upon closer inspection, Rosa saw that this was the boy that had almost eaten them!

She screamed in confusion and leapt back. The boy seemed to notice her then, and walked over to her. His long tail was hovering just inches above the floor. He walked over to her, smiled, and sat down on the floor.

Rosa cautiously got up, eyeing the once colossal figure before her. He tilted his head in curiosity, looking back at her. Then he spoke into her mind without ever opening his mouth.

"Hello! My name is Atka! What's yours?"

Rosa stammered in her words before replying in a shaky voice, "I'm... Rosa Vasquez..."

"Nice to meet you Rosa! Um... " he blushed a shade of orange. "Sorry I almost ate you..."

Rosa had so many questions. How'd he get here? Why did he almost take a bite of out the moon? Why and how was he smaller than her!? Nevertheless, Rosa calmed herself and tried her best for a smile. She offered her hand to Atka, and he took it. His grip was firm and powerful, yet gentle. It was clear he was holding back, careful not to damage her. His stomach growled loudly enough to be heard from where she was sitting, making it clear that he was very hungry. She chuckled to herself and thought, "hungry enough to eat a moon?". She helped him up and took him to her room to make him something to eat.

Atka was impressed with all the advanced tools and comfy bed. He went over to her jewelry drawer and opened it. He gasped and took out two gold, large earrings. He pointed to them, and then to himself. She nodded, giving him permission to keep them. Though, she wasn't sure how good they'd look on his big ea...

And before she could finish her thought, Atka nonchalantly tossed them into his mouth, catching Rosa off guard. He moved them around in his scorchingly hot mouth, savoring their taste, until they had actually melted into liquid gold. Once they had, he gulped them down, sighed, and licked his lips to clean off any remaining metal.

Rosa flinched as he did so, before once again chuckled and said, "At least I won't have to polish those anymore! You sure have expensive tastes, huh?

Atka looked at her and tilted his head before using telepathy to say, "huh?"

Rosa laughed and realized that he had no sense of Earth ways. He might know about manners, but he doesn't seem to know about currency, human food, or even basic things like not jumping on the bed, which he was doing at the moment. She knew that this boy was going to be a tough one to teach, especially since he left a several hundred kilometer wide handprint on the moon's surface.