The Tale of the Light Bulb

Many will tell you that it was Edison who first invented the lightbulb, but I am here to tell you the truth. How the lightbulb and the capturing of light as days drew to a close actually came to be.

It was not Edison himself who invented the light bulb and the idea of illuminating the world. Instead it was a traveler name Arthur Carrey, an explorer and scientist who was fascinated with the differing conditions and life which are to be found at the poles of the world. His curiosity would be what would be the spark which would ignite the creation of the bulb.

In his expedition to the Artic, in hopes of coming to the conclusion of the concept that the northern pole caused a higher level of snow to occur then what would be found in Antarctica it would be what he had not come looking for that would be his greatest discovery. It was a single night when he awoke to see the sky illuminated in blues, greens, and purples which gave him the thought of lighting up his own world. As he looked around at the time when the world should be shroud in darkness instead he was able to clearly see for a distance due to what he believed at the time to be the reflection of the sun's remaining light off the snow after being captured all day. He had so often heard of snow-blindness due to the refracted light. So it only made sense that it was collecting it during the day and releasing it at night.

As he left his scientific expedition to once more return to Kalamazoo MI, he was still in constant thought of how to capture the sun and its light in a location where the snow would not be able to hold it. Still set that the way the Northern Lights were occurring was from the release and expulsion of stored light. It was not until 1892 that he would once more return to the pole in hopes of discovering the light's secret. To capture the lights for his own usage.

Upon returning with his small crew they were quickly overtaken by a roaming gang of polar bears who had heard them hit land (well ice) and had come to inspect what had happened and likely collect food / sustenance. Being white and blending with the snow, the bears were able to get far closer then Arthur and his crew would have liked.

It was only when they made themselves known that the true feat of what was occurring would happen and would forever change the world around us.

"Who are you?" spoke one of the larger bears in the direction of the recently departed scientists.

"Who is speaking? Where are you?" shouted Arthur as he spun around looking for the being whose voice he had heard and had spoken out of nowhere. Knowing that the bears were close and this person would be in immediate danger.

"I am Pox the White, Archduke of the Northern Hills," the bear spoke once more now moving closer to the crew, "I shall ask once more of who you all are and why you have come to invade."

"Sir, I am still unsure where you..." He stumbled off as he came to the realization that the being who was speaking was the overly larger bear which was approaching. "I am Sir Arthur Carrey, and I have come not to invade but to try and capture the lights which come from the snow."

This would begin the discussion which would soon last hours as the talk of what the lights were, how they were created, the plan to capture them, and how it was that Pox was able to speak the language of Arthur while not being human and in no way having ongoing contact with the world of the English.

It was then that Arthur and Pox would travel to the Eastern Hills, outside the archduke's rule to speak with the world's most important and yet unknown scientist and inventor. Professor Cloudpaws of the Cottonball line. A polar inventor who had only recently been working on a way to convert the snow into a highly renewable resource. Converting the moisture into a steam which upon release would condense once more and would re-enter the system. A loss-less energy source. But one of his side projects was the capture of light into spheres of ice which would be hung around the Eastern Hill and illuminate the village carved out.

It was here that Arthur would spend 15 years with the Professor and learn the ways of ice lighting, only to be just as soon rescued by a savor vessel sent to search for the now thought to be ling dead scientist. 

Once back in his home state, although now joined by the Professor at his request to see the world beyond his Artic, both went to see a man who Carrey thought may be able to reproduce the effects which Professor Cloudpaws had performed in his home.

The man named Thomas Edison who had only recently found a way to send surges of energy through wire was taken back as his long thought-to-be dead friend entered his small warehouse accompanied by a polar bear who seemed to be speaking to the man.

"Arthur, I thought you had died"

"I have not, and I have come hoping your mind may aid me and my acquaintance"