[ WP ] 'Lunar Colony 2 , this is Lunar colony 1 , do you hear me , over ? ' It 's no good , they 're not responding . We need need to send a team to investigate .

**PART 1** 
 
 # **LUNAR EVEN LOG 0357** 
 
 Date: 5/8/2038 
 
 Alright, I'll tell it as best as I can remember it. It's just.. it's going to be hard to say it. It still is pretty recent in my memory. 
 
 Three years ago, I was posted to Lunar Colony 2. Lunar Colony 1 was to see if we could develop a self sustaining colony in completely hostile terrain, where as my colony was to see if we could build a profitable, economic colony, one that could send things back to Earth or continue its own development. We focused on Water, since the moon has a lot, and Earth is having cleanliness issues in Africa still. 
 
 Since this report will be read in the future, I'll give some contextual information: In 2033, NASA started getting increasing funding instead of decreasing, when Sona Ericson convinced the Government that NASA, if given funding could bring in Space Mining like what Elon Musk and others are doing privately, and that extra-planetary colonies could bring in other materials that space mining ca n't bring, or are difficult to bring in. 
 
 So, my colony had myself, Stephen, David, Mark, and lastly Sona. Sona intended to go on the first colony, but realized it would be better for the Government to see her go to the second. 
 
 So, Three years ago, we arrived at the base the robots who arrived before us built. It was large, but modest for how many of us there were. We immediately settled in. 
 
 As we lived, we worked on water extraction, and eventually started outputting so much we no longer had to filter, though we did just so we could be self-sustaining. We send the excess back to earth, which was donated to various African countries that have low water quality. 
 
 In this entire time, we had kept some form of contact with Colony 1, but.. two weeks ago, that ended. They did n't respond to our weekly contact request. We spent 2 hours trying to get a connection until we decided to take a rover over. Me and Stephen went out with constant communication to Sona. 
 
 After a few hours of driving, we arrived. We found the base.. all lights were off. Usually that was an indicator for everyone sleeping, but the time of day goes against that. We first thought they had an electrical problem. 
 
 We knocked on the airlock door, requesting entry. No response. We looked through the window to make sure the other side's door is closed, then forcibly opened our side. We were pushed back as the inside's air was higher pressure, that was a good sign, they probably did n't die of suffocation. We closed the door behind us, with a toolbox in hand just in case. Opened the next door, and walked around the base. 
 
 Nobody. Not a person to be found. That's when we noticed their rocket had been sent off. Our base sends rockets off regularly to transfer water, but theirs is for emergency leave, and or when their 5 year time is up. But they should have contacted us in emergency, not just run away. They'd at least have given us a report to make sure we do n't get the same problem, or whatever was wrong. 
 
 We explored, and found we were right, the batteries were not outputting. Checked with a multimeter, and it was as if the battery was n't even there. Usually even dead batteries output *something*. We did n't have replacements, so we just took note to bring over a spare if we ca n't find one here, which we ended up did finding spares, but they were also absolutely nothing to the multimeter. 
 
 The food stores were empty, completely, as if food was never there in the first place. Then we found something, different. One of the beds were torn to shreds, and we found blood on it. A lot of blood. A puddle that before drying, had dripped a second smaller puddle over the floor. We reported it to Sona, and were were all confused and disturbed. 
 
 After clearing the building, we looked where their rocket used to sit. The moon rock below it was burned, and still warm enough for the heat to permeate through the suit, so it was launched recently.. But our sensors should have reported that. 
 
 We returned to our base, grabbed a battery, and before we were about to leave, Sona saw through the airlock door, and looked horrified. We asked what was wrong as the outside door opened, worried that she saw a tear we were unaware of. She was stuttering, and said `` The blood''. We looked at our suits and it looked clean. 
 
 When we returned to the base, I decided to see the bed again. The blood was all gone, and however it was removed, had not disturbed the bed sheets at all. Stephen said he was hooking up the new battery, and when the lights turned on, the blood returned, and more.. 
 
 The ceiling, the walls, and the floors were soaked in old blood. There were footprints from our boots. We originally wrote down the slipperiness as cables or something we could n't see, but now we realized. 
 
 I chuckled seeing all of it, and said something like it sounded like a cheesy horror story. I was still confused though. 
 
 When the lights turned on, I saw through the window. Some of the ship was back, but only where the light shone. It was like a 3D model that had been sliced apart, only what the light touched, could be seen. The side was completely invisible. But then I realized, the part of the hull I saw, was on its side. The ship must have fallen over or something. 
 
 As I tried to comprehend what exactly I was looking at, I heard a growl or groan. I slowly turned around, and looked at Stephen. He heard it too, I could tell. I whispered into my mic to ask confirmation, and he responded he heard it. It was loud, deep, but sounded like it was on the other side of the building. 
 
 So we slowly walked toward the Airlock, terrified and bewildered. We heard footsteps, but not Human. Something large, like a horse or cow. When we opened the inner airlock door, it started running. It sounded like it was right in front of us for some time, but we could n't see it. 
 
 Stephen said, `` Should we investigate, or keep running away? Maybe it was just the water pipes groaning in.. a really weird way? Absurd, but thinking it's a creature or something is even more absurd.'' 
 
 I agreed, so we walked around, searching trying to figure it out. We looked for damaged pipes, speakers, and anything else that could have made those sounds. We heard the footsteps as we continued. 
 
 When I left searching the bedroom, I turned the light off, and when I glanced behind me, I saw it. 
 
 I had never been more terrified in my life, to see a something like this on the Moon, that should be barren and empty. 
 
 Black silvery fur, like a polar bear with black fur instead of white. Four legs, a mouth of a rat wolf thing, and looked like it had the muscles to rip apart steel. 
 
 I stepped back, and it growled. I thought I would n't survive, so I just whispered to my mic, `` Get out, now. Run back to Colony 2, do n't worry about me.'' He refused asking for explanation, and I just said there was n't time. So he left. 
 
 As I stepped away, the creature slowly followed. As it walked into the light, it disappeared. I have n't seen anything like that in my life. I looked around for a weapon, but all there was, was a table to my right. 
 
 I ran to the table, grabbed it and threw it at the creature. By then the creature lunged into pure light, and it seemed I missed. The table went right through where the creature should have been. 
 
 Stephen said over the radio. `` Can you hear me? Can you explain what you saw?'' 
 
 `` A.. Thing. It was a creature, it was invisible in light, black fur, four legs. It looked like it could kill me in a second.'' 
 
 `` This is n't the time to be joking. What did you see?'' 
 
 `` I'm not fucking joking Stephen! That's what I saw!'' 
 
 `` We're on the moon, there is n't any life here except us!'' 
 
 `` Well, you're wrong. Bring back something explosive, this thing is dangerous.'' 
 
 Stephen did n't reply, he just sighed into his radio. I ran around looking for a decent weapon. Then I realized, the battery, if I hooked it up to some sticks, I could shock it with enough voltage to set it on fire. 
 
 I took a chair, and some spare wire in a storage room, and had turned two of the metal legs into conducting weapons. When I went to take the battery, I heard its growl. I removed the battery, and the building went dark. I felt it breathing on my neck. I immediately linked the cables to the battery and turned around. 
 
 Its howl was deafening. I thrust my chair weapon into its throat. Its squeal was worse. 
 
 `` What the hell was that?!'' I must have not turned off my radio for some reason. 
 
 The creature lunged at me, and when I hit it again with my chair, nothing. 
 
 I dropped my chair and ran, and thought. The table I threw passed through where it should have been. What if it does n't just turn invisible, but loses physical presence when its lit? 
 
 I rummaged through the boxes in the storage room until I found a flashlight. 
 
 The creature bit my left arm, as I swung the flashlight with my right into its face. I was right, the tear on my skin stopped continuing when I did that. It ran away. 
 
 I walked slowly and carefully watching it, leaving a leg or arm visible so I'd know where it was. I put the battery back in, and it was drained. 
 
 David and Stephen arrived, and knocked on the door if anyone was inside. 
 
 `` I'm alive! Get a flashlight or something in here, quick!'' 
 
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 This story was a roller coaster of writing. The way I write stories, I do n't think of the end, and how I get there. I just think of a base, a bit ahead to see if it's worth writing, and see where it goes. At first, I thought it was going to end in an explosion or something that killed everyone, then it became an alien spacecraft attack, then it became some disease that made them insane ( which I promptly pushed against because I realized that was a Doctor Who episode, except on Mars. ), until I got to the end.
