The Monster That Never Left

The Planet of Two Lakes was a peaceful and beautiful land. Its people the Green-bellies, lived a good life on its lucious habitat. One day a foul little monster happened upon this bountiful land and decided that it was for him, and the local grub (the people)looked mighty tasty. Consequently he attacked, and war was on. The people fought back and it became a closely tied match.

The Green-bellies held a meeting and decided the best option was to make a truce with the monster, and they did. The terms were that the monster would be allowed to live in the southern quarter of the planet in exchange for peace and every 6 months would be presented with a sacrificial offering for lunch.

And so the deal was struck. The laws where placed, and life continued as before. "cleaning up our streets" "for the common good" - propaganda used by the authorities to legitimise their new plan. Over the years, the sacrifices became part of the culture and people took it as routine. Those believed to be expendable, or a burden on society found themselves on the monster's dinner table. Over the years, the monster, in its new nurturing environment found itself double its original size and alot more hungry. Soon the bi-annual sacrifices where not enough and the sacrifices had to be increased. The authorities where overwhelmed, and increased the sacrifices and sent more and more beings for slaughter until they ran out of the expendables and started sending whole villages to the now very huge monster. He was so big now that he cast a permanent shadow over this desperate land. The people, now vastly de-populated couldn't fight this awful monster even if they wanted to. The Green-bellies begged for help from the other planets but to no avail as no one was interested in helping them. They had no choice but to flee to neighbouring planets in refuge.

And the Planet of Two Lakes had no one but an overgrown monster who was starting to get very hungry, and now was eyeing up the neighbouring planets for some grub.