The Origin of the Pufferfish
By Micah
Once upon a time in ancient Greece there lived a man named Pufferish and he had deep feelings for the maiden of the land named Kassandra, Kassandra was as sparkly as the ocean and as beautiful as the sea.Pufferish was madly in love with her but she loved another whose name was Valethragha.Pufferish hated this man and sums up a plan to kill him.First he will gain his trust then he will invite him to a picnic right by the chasm of death and finally Pufferish will push Valethragha of the chasm and he will fall to his demise.
On the day of the picnic, Valethragha said “ why did we meet here at the chasm of death instead of the pastures of sweet?” Pufferish said with a devilish smile“oh no reason.” Pufferish knew that he had been unwilling to come but he thought it to be rude to come so he came any way at first it seemed like it would be a normal picnic but what Valethragha did not know is that he would die before the sun sets.At about noon pufferish decided to make his move so he asked valthragha to step by the cliff for a toast so Valethragha came over but this was probably the worst thing hed done in his life, because right at that moment he was thrown off a cliff.The gods were mad at Pufferish for killing this young and beautiful man, but Pufferish did not care that the gods were angry instead he decides to go and find his love.this makes the gods even more unhappy especially Poseidon. Poseidon was only mad because Kassandra was his daughter.Poseidon is so mad that he doesn't give Pufferish’s town any rain until Pufferish dies but before he dies,Pufferish begs Poseidon to let him escape this madness,but instead Poseidon turns him into a fish that has only on defense which is he can puff up to the size of a balloon. And his knew name was Pufferfish,did not enjoy this in fact he hated it more than death.
The Origin of the Continents
By: Anaka Hansin
Once upon a time there lived a proud young sea nymph named Aquilonem. She was beautiful, with skin the color of soft green coral, hair like the soft ocean waves, and the fullest lips, as blue as the sunny waters. And her eyes,they could find their way to any young man . All she had ever wanted, was to be free of the ocean. She enjoyed ruling over the sea nymphs, but she was distraught. Aquilonem wanted to explore the open-armed sky. But instead she had to live in her castle, all alone. Her stunning, huge, castle that echoed the sound of the ocean waves up above, and smelled of sweet sugar pearls. Aquilonem’s cook always made wonderful meals for her that tasted so good, but she was beginning to dislike lobster. She was just about to drift off to sleep with all of her subjects just as she did every day after the tide moved in.
When all of a sudden, there came the loudest noise anyone had ever heard! It shook the entire kingdom awake. The queen was startled at the loud noise, and swam up to the surface to find out what it was. She later found out that it was all the gods arguing about what they should do with the sea nymphs. Aquilonem was taken aback, and her pride got the best of her.
She decided to take six other nymphs along with her, the best subjects she had. Sul, Europa, Afrika, Azsia, Soce, and Aussailia. Aquilonem decided that they would leave in two days. As the time passed, she was thought a spell by the kingdom’s sorcerer to allow the nymphs to breathe above water. At last, the time came. The queen had a chariot prepared for them that was made of the hardest armored coral in the kingdom. It was pulled by the most masculine hippocampus, with a scaly dragon like tail, and a mane made of seaweed.They all left, and on their way decided that they would prepare a speech for the gods. After two days, the nymphs finally broke the surface of the ocean. They were on their way to Mount Olympus! Once they arrived, they told those gods and goddesses to shut up! Zeus, Athena, Poseidon, Hera, Aphrodite, Demeter, and Apollo were furious! (However, they did mask it very well, for once.)The gods and goddesses stepped into another room to discuss this matter. They finally decided that they would pretend to agree, and ask the nymphs to stay for a few days. Then, they would bring the nymphs into the chariot room, and each god and goddess would get to turn a nymph into a giant floating land mass in the ocean. Later on, they would turn the rest of the nymphs into little islands floating around these, continents.
Suddenly, the nymphs stormed in, demanding an answer. The gods and goddesses, proud of their brilliance, said that they would quiet down, on one condition. That the nymphs would stay for a few days. Cautiously, they agreed. After a while, the gods and goddesses grew anxious with excitement. Soon after, on the last day, they all brought the nymphs to a chariot room where their chariot was being held. The supernaturals stood in a circle around the nymphs, and Zeus told them of good!
”You have come here to disturb our conversations. We are very angry at this, and now you will be punished.” At last, the nymphs finally realized what had happened, but it was too late. It was said that the screams of the nymphs could be heard twenty-five miles away as their bodies were expanded and turned into rock and dirt, their arms and legs turned into mountains and volcanoes, and their fingers and toes turned into lush forests filled with vegetation. All the other nymphs in the sea could also be heard, screaming for mercy, as their bodies turned into islands.
The End
Unicorn Incident
BY: Merrinn
Hi I am Merrinn, I also have a twin sister, her name is Cara. We were born on, June, 12, 2005. My brother Matthew was born on March, 8, 2003. We are getting ready to go explore the forest that is close to our backyard. We are going to prove that unicorns are real and not extinct.
Legend has it that there is a unicorn running around in the forest. Cara and I are the first to go and look for the unicorn. We are also going to bring our big brother, Matthew. He always loves to go out into the woods with his friends. Almost every day when he would finish his priorities he would go explore. This is so exciting, I cannot believe that we are actually doing this. Cara and I have never been into the woods before. We are scared but yet very excited. Some people also say that there is a unicorn goddess. Isn't that just awesome?
We are walking up to the beautiful sight of the woods. From a mile away you could probably hear the lovely sound of the birds chirping and singing. We could smell the fresh flowers that were starting to bloom. The taste of the air was fresh and alive. The beautiful forest has the feel of the rough and the soft tree barks. The woods were also kind of scary, but it was one of the most beautiful places I had ever been. The first on my list is probably Mutino Neui the island.
THERE IT IS!!!!!!!!!! THE UNICORN… I had never seen such a beautiful animal in my whole life. Cara and I are super pumped to go and see the unicorn up close. Here we go. Matthew, like always, is speechless about cool stuff. I grabbed my camera and took a picture as fast as I could. Cara and Matthew did the same but from different angles. THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!! The unicorn has white fluffy fur (but not to furry/fluffy). It’s horn is a golden sight of beauty. The mane and tail are both braided.
“Come on, let's go! I want to touch the unicorn,” I said. We are now are on our way, walking slowly. Wait, I cannot go any further. There is a force field… we can't go all the way to the unicorn. Oh no, I think that the UNICORN GODDESS IS HERE… WOW! She is gorgeous. She has long, silky, dirty blond hair in a messy bun. She is wearing a beautiful golden gown. Her shoes are 8 inch heels. She is a glowing goddess in the world. She starts to yell at us for endangering the unicorn. But then we told her that we just wanted to pet the horse and not hurt the animal at all. We said that we loved unicorns and that we would never do anything to hurt it. Then the unicorn goddess unlocked the unicorn and let us
pet it. It was a wonderful day to live This is an experience that I will never forget. This is a lasting memory. Forever I can tell this story to my friends and family. I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS DAY OF MY LIFE!!!!!!!
The Origin of Softball
By: Hayley Freshwater
On a morning where the sun was mildly hot, Hayley, Hannah, Jordan, Evelyn, and Lizzy, were warming up on the baseball field,ready to play baseball, where they were eating the dust because it was really windy. Jordan pointed out that there was a tree stump that read “These fields are to only be used by goddesses. If your step foot on this field and are not a goddess, beware!” But it right in the middle of the field, nobody knew why. But there didn't care
After they warmed up the game begun, Evelyn was up to bat and the pitcher was winding up expertly, and threw the ball right over the plate. She launched the ball far and long, among the infield and outfield, straight out by the fence.
“Yay” screamed the crowd thinking that it was going to be a home run. But something weird happened! The ball disappeared. There went their last baseball! They didn't know what they were going to do because they couldn't finish their game.
Jordan announced, “How about we hit rocks!!”
“Ummm…. No!” Snapped Hannah.
Jordan smelt the hot dogs from the concession stand as fast as a dog can find steak. “Hey Hannah, can I ask you one more question?” She asked.
“Are your serious, I know what you're thinking……. so no!” Hannah rudely said.
After Jordan was done whining about not getting a hotdog, they marched back to their houses.
The next morning the girls got back together, they found a large, green ball sitting perfectly on the pitcher's mound. Hannah picked up the unusual ball, her face was puzzled.
The umpires called “Play ball” and the game begun! While Hayley was pitching, she found that the ball was heavier than a baseball, Lizzy and Evelyn are pitchers too, our 3 pitchers struck out 5-9 girls each game.
Ever since that day, this team has played softball together. The city finally made official softball teams, and fields for everyone to
The team cheered “Stars on 3…. 1… 2… 3… stars!”
A Watery Grave
By Elizabeth
“Deal!” Poseidon shouted as he roughly and aggressively took his older brother Zeus’ hand.
Zeus had challenged Poseidon, that whichever side won the Worst War, would receive the finest wine of all Olympus. The wine was rich and had the sweetest kick of tang. 11 years later was March 20, 3034 in modern California USA. The USA and Japan had been at each other's throats for about the past 11 years. Generals for each side had come and gone. Most of them died horribly and suffered in battle. The last Japanese general had been replaced with Tsuki Shale, along with Naomi Roberts who had a charming freckled face who was the new American general. Tsuki Shale had raven black hair, pale peachy skin, and eyes like the starry sky on a clear night, piercing the the eyes of others. Plains would not have been covered in dried hard blood if the disagreement had just gone unnoticed. Japan was teaching children about the horrific traumas that happened between the US and Japan, but those lessons had become untrue, offensive and unrealistic to the USA. Sometimes when problems do not find a solution people can turn to a grim situation instead and that is what these countries came to conclusion on.
Minutes passed by as thousands and thousands of brave soldiers lost their lives, and at such a young age. Americans coming from the east and the Japanese coming from the west, mass chaos was surrounded the vast fields. Soldiers were dropping like flies as others quickly ran from the danger like a chicken running without a head. General Tsuki Shale was very insightful and found a pattern in which the American army was attacking from. She came up with a strategy to encircle their opponents by putting the strongest at the end and then put the weakest at the middle and as they charge run around and connect to surround. This would make the other army become frantic and break formation.
“Sergeant Leo, Lieutenant Richard,” General Shale commanded, “get to the edges and take your best with you!”
Camouflaged planes and jets flew overhead threatening millions of lives as dark grey exhaustion trailed behind them. Military aircraft soared and roared with speed as high powered machine guns fired from above. Rockets were raining like cats and dogs racing through the sky then hit and warm red blood was spilled on the fields. Not a soul saw it soaring through the sky as it prepared to shake the earth. General Naomi slowly lifted her head but to see an aircraft so large that it could fit 600 soldiers!
“ It's like the Death Star,” Shale was alarmed, “but this one was made to blow up.”
Hatches unlatched as spread apart and a colossal black ball of fiery flames came hurtling down. Because of the smoke and ash caking the sky from all the fire the pilots had missed the target. The USA. Although it did not hit the USA it made a mammoth sized “cannonball” into the ocean! A ringing sound lingered in everyone's ears. This created a wave so big it would surely destroy all that mankind had created and mankind itself. Poseidon, who was in favor of the US , had seen this happen before. Poseidon stepped in and attempted to hold the wave back with his rippling thunderous muscles. He struggled to keep it from killing everyone. The wave kept building up and building up and was such a strain that when Poseidon tried to tell the Generals to move all you heard was, “tsu...nami!” croaked Poseidon. But the armies were so paralyzed with fear that not a hair moved. Salty water was forced down throats.
The water was no longer a wave but a wall as tall as the Great Wall of China was long!
Gods only have so much strength to spare, and the God of the Sea’s time was up. Poseidon's everlasting strength gave way as the water pursued over the coast. It was a quilt dropped over the country as it killed any living thing in its passed. The Worst War ended because there were no more people to fight or disagree with. The roaring of water and dying fading screams of the murdered soldiers who died that day was all that was heard. The putrid smell of blood hovered over the ground.
“I now declare that any ocean waves threatening human life will be named tsunamis,” Poseidon managed to croak that as guilt took over him and salty tears dripped down his weathered face.
Poseidon never helped in another tsunami incident for the fear that he would die of the guilt he carried with him from the first accident. As for Naomi Roberts and Tsuki Shale, they observed the next generation carefully carry on as new technology was created to help prevent more natural disasters. Like seismographs and air bubble helmets.