Depths of a Black Hole

4038 was the year the Earthen sky split open. The once complete blue pureness of the world above the living was spattered with a large black dot making it resemble a ruined painting.

People were scared of the black hole fearing the idea of a vast nothingness as their hungry neighbor; a neighbor threatening to eat them whole and drag them into the unknown that was the sole base of a person's fear.

The fear that squeezed the human race like a snake squeezes it prey didn't last long. After numerous calculations and in depth studying, scientists discovered that the black wasn't growing nor would it be getting anywhere close enough to consume the planet.

They thought they were safe. The human race was out of harm's way.
But it wasn't the black hole that would be threatening them, it was what the darkness had brought with it. Those born from a black hole and the darkness within it. Those were the creatures they should have feared.