[ WP ] For one week , the sky is no longer blue during the day .

It started on the morning of May 9^th 2017. Everyone expected a morning like any other. Yet as the sun began to rise lighting the horizon it was instantly obvious that something had gone wrong. Where one would expect the lightly burning orange embers of the suns first golden rays, there was only a sickly pale green light. Any who looked upon this light immediately felt a deeply unsettling turn in their stomachs. Whatever this was it was unnatural. Instinctively every living creature who looked upon the light was instantly filled with fear. 
 As the sun rose higher in the sky the pale green began to deepen. The once golden sun had taken on a shade of green not unlike the color of Oscar the Grouch. Dark and dirty the green sun turned the normally graceful blues of the sky into a murky, muddy mix of greenish browns. 
 Within hours, all over the world, people called out that the end of days had arrived. Scientists began grasping for explanations as to why the sun had taken on such a corrupted countenance, however nothing they could come up with seemed to explain the process. 
 As day three came to a close the first suicides began to be reported. All over the world people began to lose hope. As if the tainted rays of green light were devouring all the hope and happiness in the world. Like an epidemic the light began infect not only the human race but all land dwelling species of the world. Birds began to fly as high as they could before simply letting themselves fall to the hard pavement below. Stray dogs and cats could be seen leaping into traffic. Left and right people began launching themselves off of buildings, shooting themselves in their homes, even buying boxes of rat poison at the store and drinking it mixed with soda in the parking lot. 
 By the time the sun rose on day six almost 40 percent of the human population was dead. Corpses littered the streets where ever you looked. Rats filled the streets feasting, seemingly the only animals not discouraged and demoralized by the light. The rats actually seemed to thrive. Well at least the ones lucky enough not to have gorged themselves on flesh heavily laden with rat poison. 
 The humans who had made it this far without succumbing to the hopelessness began to find their sorrow turning to rage. By noon on day six hundreds of men, and women, even children had taken to the streets with guns, bats, knives, and any other weapons they could carry. In each of their eyes the blood lust could be scene. All traces of humanity had been washed out of them by the heinous green light of the sun. They roamed the streets. As day six closed and and day seven began the only signs of life across the globe were the shambling savage revenants that had once been human. Each hungry to take the lives of any creature that crossed their path. Slowly they cut themselves apart with their own weapons in anticipation of finding a life to extinguish. 
 As the sun set on day seven less than 25 percent of the human population remained alive. Most of whom were quickly giving in to the same hopelessness that had lead so many others to kill themselves or others. Each new that when they woke up tomorrow and saw that morose sky, they too would finally have to end it. Most could n't understand why they had n't taken their own lives yet. Not understanding how it was that the deep down need to survive had successfully kept them going this long. Tomorrow, they though to themselves, I will end it tomorrow for sure. 
 Confusion and shock rippled across the world as they woke on the 8^th day. For where there had once the world had been covered in sickly greenish brown gloom, there was light. Real light. The golden, heavenly, healing light that had disappeared what felt like months ago, had returned. Most believed at first that they had died in the night, killed by one of the roving murderers, or their bodies had simply given up on them having lost all will to live. Yet here they were awake and alive looking into the precious yellow light they had taken for granted all their lives. For a moment every living man, woman, and child wept with joy. Stepping out into the world, feeling the light on their skin, each was filled once more with hope and love. Then as the moment ended the harsh reality began to hit them. Everywhere they looked bodies littered the ground. Blood painted every street and wall. The brilliant yellow light was paired with the scent of death and rotting flesh. The remaining 20 or so percent of mankind looked upon the world and almost as one said `` Fuck it'' by the end of the 8th day the golden sun shined down on a world without a single human left alive. 

