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Journey To Prove
by:Chloe Carper
Deseraye, the beautiful daughter of Zeus, is not quite as talented as her brothers and sisters. All she has is the power of lightning . She often felt misplaced in her family and that was reinforced by the way her father spoke to her in a cold sturdy voice. “Deseraye, you are not worthy of your place in Mt. Olympus, or this family if u do not prove yourself I will turn you into a mortal.” Deseraye was taken aback by this coming from her own father and went away crying in shame. Not sure what to do, she went to her room and without thinking she climbed out of her bedroom window and ran into the dark and cold night. Shivering, with nothing on her back, she ran and ran faster until she had no clue where she was and was so tired from crying heavily and running that she layed down and went into a deep sleep. When she awoke, she heard someone whispering to her
“Wake up wake up!”said a strange voice.
Finally she awoke and with a burst she cried out “Ahhhh what are you doing?”and then he jumped back more frightened than she was. They both just stood there shocked for a minute and then finally she asked, ” Who are you?”
The boy she was talking to was Andrew the son of Mother Nature blond hair with a low voice and ragged but clean clothes. He invited her to dinner which smelled so delicious she decided to join. While eating the wonderful dinner she told him about the conversation with her father and how she ran away to prove herself and he decided to help her. When they awoke Andrew told her that they were going to his relatives to see who could teach and help her.
So on they went through the vast green forest. They went to all of his relatives no one could teach her how to do their magic but onward they went to his last relative. Andrew warned her that Rubberto was very powerful. Rubberto really tried to teach her his magic and the effect went completely wrong. A huge loud explosion occurred and knocked Deseraye out. In shock and very frantic motion thinking if all the fairy tales he read he kissed her as he pulled away a flicker of hot light fell onto a piece of wood and a glow with red and yellow flames took over the piece of wood. Ecstatic she jumped up grabbed his arm and they ran all the way to the place.
They showed zeus the fire and he said, “Well done Deseraye you have proved to me that your are worthy of our family’s title,” he said in a proud voice. He invited Andrew to dinner and they all had mostly joyous lives.
Law Of Retribution
By Spansor Cho
Long, long time ago in Patras, Greece where mighty gods existed, there was a guy named Sel. Sel was annoying and complained about everything, at least he had patience. His favorite thing to do was to lay around in his house and do nothing. One day, people in Patras, heard of a new law and it was unfair to some people and benefited other people. After that day, people began to argue everyday until there were sides in the Patras. One was disagreement side, and the other was the agreement side. Both sides debated against each other to win over the law. Even gods took sides at that point. The agreement side was losing and losing until Hera the goddess of marriage, women and childbirth who was in the agreement side and wife of Zeus, planned to tilt the debate. Hera paid gold to some of the disagreement side to come over and join the agreement side. The debate was again fearsome. Overnight the people of Patras debated until Sel jumped out and clumsy punched somebody and said
“I am done here!” the debate was awkwardly silent… until another guy came yelling,
“AHHHHHHHHHH!”and punched Sel, the fight began. When the councilors saw about the fight over the law, government sent forces to stop the fight, but the government was powerless, even the soldiers without weapons were observing the debate and starting to fight. Some people could taste the blood gore in the mouth.After a fight, the hospital was busy, but nobody was killed. After a week later, Sel was getting annoyed by Zeus because he couldn’t decide which side to choose. Sel ran out of patience, he finally said the sentence he wasn’t suppose to,
“Oh my gods, why hasn’t Zeus picking his side yet?! It's taking forever or is he just he a stupid?” Sel asked himself. As Zeus heard that mocking from Sel, Zeus, without a word, stroke down from Mt. Olympus, making a loud noise that almost every people in Patras can hear. Zeus summoned a lightning out of a clear sky and aimed at the mortal, some people could smell burning trees, which paralyzed him forever and that was not all, Zeus opposed the side of disagreement, and said
“I declare a new law around Greece, the new law is to never mock the gods or you will be punished forever.” People was amazed how Zeus quickly decided to make a new law. The new law was to never ever mock the gods and if somebody even the king would be punished harshly. People of Patras feared of divine retribution and that's why never mess with the neutral, and a stronger person or people.