The Avalanche
By: Samantha Minks
Abbacus, the leader of Athens, was a curly haired, blue eyed girl and Kailypso, the leader of Sparta, was a gorgeous, tall, green eyed girl with long blonde hair. They both lived in Europe. The god and goddess of snow lived at the top of Alps Mountain. Bradus was a tall strong god and Harmandia was a brown haired goddess. The goddess of peace lived in the clouds and her name was Sambrosia. There once was a war between Athens and Sparta because Abbacus of Athens felt cheated when she was trading tea and jewelry with Kailypso of Sparta and the gods became furious because the gods were tired of hearing all of the fighting and bickering.
A war started between the two groups. After many years of battles between Athens and Sparta, the gods became angry. Bradus and Harmandia were so angry that they caused an avalanche with the sound of a mad cry. Bam! Abbacus and Kailypso got buried under the snow and both sides couldn’t figure out how to save them. While Kailypso and Abbacus are buried under they were both scared and they worried that they weren't going to make it out alive. Sambrossian the god of peace quickly appeared from out of the clouds and spoke to the two groups. Sambrosia taught the two groups about peace, happiness, and love. The groups were mesmerized by Sambrosia, and learned their lesson about sharing and helping each other.
“Everybody we should work together, just like how Sambrosia said we should” exclaimed the Athens group.
All the love in the air melted the snow and Abbacus and Kailypso were rescued by their people. They realized that being kind to one another and helping each other was more important than fighting.
The Piano’s Creation
Apollo, the god of music, smiled as he watched his city. All of the mortals were having a great time while they enjoyed the sound of the music that they made. And the sound was as joyous as a child at their birthday party. Apollo remembered those days. But now, instead of hearing music, he heard rumbling and saw things moving in robotic patterns. Machines. Machines were one of Apollo’s greatest enemies because they got in the way of the art of music.
Apollo and his friend, Pegasus, the winged horse, soared down into his city disguised as a visitor with his horse. They came across a man making some of the machines and asked him a question.
“Hello. I am a traveler that has been here before when there was music. What happened to it?” Apollo asked.
The grouchy stranger looked at him with a frown. “That music left our hearts long ago. There was nothing new about it and it got old I guess. Besides, we have better things to do.”
Apollo considered the stranger’s words and headed back out of the city. He then flew up to Mt. Olympus, hoping to find some help there.
Apollo and Pegasus went into great Zeus’ temple and begged Zeus to help him with his problem. Zeus didn’t know how to fix this and told Apollo to go to Athena, the goddess of wisdom, for advice.
Later, when the god of music was at Athena’s door, she opened it and welcomed him into her home which had the scent of healthy plants. Apollo told her everything about his city and the machines. Athena thought for a bit and finally gave Apollo her idea: invent a new musical instrument. Apollo adored the idea! He knew that his past instruments were old and boring, but a new one would get the mortals’ minds off of the noisy machines. Apollo thanked Athena and headed out the door to get to work.
After many days of thinking and working, it was finally made. Apollo could taste his sweat as he stared at his masterpiece. A wooden, large shape that was too elegantly carved to describe. But something was missing. This wooden shape could not yet make music.
Apollo searched for his last piece for two seasons. When it was springtime, Apollo was as tired as a horse after a long ride. He was almost ready to give up when he saw a white feather on the ground. He followed a trail of them until he found Pegasus, Apollo’s friend. Pegasus was shedding his winter feathers. This gave Apollo an idea. He asked pegasus if he could borrow 88 of Pegasus’ shedding feathers and the winged horse agreed. Apollo went back to his instrument and made 52 of the feathers into white keys and 36 of the feathers he turned a black color. After turning the feathers into keys, Apollo put them onto the instrument. Apollo was happy that the hard work was done.
He brought the instrument down to his city and gave it to the mortals. At first the mortals were confused, but after each of them touched a key, they knew that this was a new musical instrument. But this one was different. This one could be loud and soft. Usually instruments were only loud. Therefore, the people of the city named it the piano which meant soft.
Now when Apollo looked down at his city, he saw people enjoying music once more. He heard the sound of the music they made and he felt the joy that they all felt. Apollo and his city were happy.
Across The Sea
Amber was a beautiful, young women who had lovely, long reddish brown hair. She loved to sing when she was by herself where no one could hear her, except her only pet, Jay. Jay was a gorgeous blue bird that sang with Amber. Together they would frolic along the soft beach sand of Bayocean, in Oregon and sing songs that Amber wrote. Every day they would go to the relaxing beach where she could almost taste the salty water and Amber would bring her notebook. In her notebook she would write more songs and poems about the ocean, she always wished she could lead a boat out into the deep blue sea. One day Amber asked her dad if she could get on a boat and drift far far away knowing that her dad would not endorse it. But one thing she did not know was that her dad was going to start yelling at her. She had tears in her eyes and ran to her room crying.
That night, Amber was writing in her notebook and looked back at some of last years pages and she started reading. Today I was thinking about how when I am older I will ride my dad's boat into the ocean so I decided to take a box I found in the garage and bury it right under the immense tree at Bay ocean. I stocked the box full of things I would need for a trip on the ocean. Amber looked outside and saw darkness. She also realized that her parents were sleeping. She reflected back to the argument and went to the garage. She came outside with her Bird Jay, her dad's small boat, a shovel, and a flashlight. After walking to the Bay Ocean Beach, she snatched up her shovel and started digging under the tree, then all of a sudden she heard a thump and looked down to the hole, it was the box. She set down her boat and put the box and the shovel in the boat while she was still holding the flashlight. Amber gracefully climbed into the boat with Jay on her shoulder, and drifted off into the ocean.
All of a sudden, she heard an ear splitting noise as she is faced the opposite direction it's coming from. Amber turned around looking up 15 feet at an enormous wave. She froze and saw a giant man staring down at her as if he had just been angered and he was, Amber recognized him and it was Poseidon holding a giant pitchfork, he smelled like rotten fish.Amber swallowed like she was choking on a piece of food she was eating, very nervously. Amber looked on her shoulder and Jay was gone. He had flown up into the midnight, black sky many minutes before. Poseidon threw her boat upside down and she fell into the ocean, it went so fast that she hit her head on the boat and was unconscious.
The next thing she knew, she was laying on very soft sand by a shady, short palm tree from the sun , not on bayocean but somewhere she had never seen before somewhere with charming pink and red flowers. She heard a voice.
“Amber where is Jay?” Shouted a loud voice of a women.
“ He abandoned me and who are you and where is your voice coming from?” Amber questioned back.
“ I am Athena the goddess of wisdom and I was the one who created this island, just for you.” Athena Stated.
The next few days she built a boat out of stacks of wood she had supplied, the boat was sturdy and strong. After a few days of staying on the island Amber got homesick and wished her bird would come back and all of a sudden there he was Jay, she climbed onto the boat excitedly with Jay and said good bye to Athena then drifted off back to get home with her parents happily. She had learned to never leave withou
t saying off the shore again.