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Rainy Days

  Once there was a almighty god named Zeus who lived in Ancient Greece. Zeus had a son named Hercules. Hercules was wealthy, strong, and healthy. He was handsome and he loved sports and felt happy all the time. Hercules had many great traits but he was gullible. All the people loved him and they followed him around all day and night. Hercules had the perfect life. But one person hated him, a filthy, creepy, Mischievous, dull, aggravated boy with dark hair and blue eyes who liked stealing and he smelled like trash. He enjoyed causing trouble and his name was Adam. Adam was so jealous of Hercules’ life. While his life was hard, by watching him he knew if Hercules died he could steal his money, so he started plotting his evil plan.

  Adam finished his plan. First, he had to gain Hercules trust. Then, he would give Hercules a potion which would make him weak and powerless. So Adam went to Hercules and gained his trust after a couple of weeks. Now, Adam’s plan was ready and he took Hercules to his shabby shelter and offered him wine.  But little did Hercules know the wine was Adam’s potion. Adam stared at him until Hercules drank the whole cup of the potion which smelled like grapes and flowers and tasted like regular wine. But then he started to get dizzy and fell on the floor. Hercules immediately felt weaker. Adam picked him up and threw him outside and started beating Hercules up aggressively.

  “Why are you doing this?” Yelled Hercules, “You don’t deserve your luxurious life.” replied Adam.

  Adam continuously punched Hercules’ stomach and teared his smooth silk shirt. Then Adam pulled out a long sharp blade and was ready to end Hercules’ life.

  “Help father!” Yelled Hercules

  Zeus heard him and saw what was going on and threw his lightning bolt. Adam heard the thunder and used Hercules as a human shield. Zeus tried to stop his smooth lightning bolt but it had already left his finger tips. The lighting came down and impaled Hercules and Adam, killing both of them.

  “No, why Hercules take me instead!” Zeus shouted while crying.

  Zeus never got out of grief. Every once in awhile he is reminded of Hercules and cries and it starts raining and thundering in greece. Still to this day Zeus is reminded of Hercules and creates thunderstorms and rainy days.

  Origin of the Grand Canyon

  By Riley

  In Ancient Greece, the world appreciated and deeply honored Poseidon, the strong and heroic god of the sea. But there is another side of the powerful gods, Poseidon's brother, Hades, the god of the underworld, unseen and unheard was never appreciated. Poseidon was loved by all the people and Hades was nothing compared to Poseidon’s courage and bravery. Hades was very jealous of his famous brother so he decided to do something about it. He wanted to be the new Poseidon so in order to do that, he needed his charming power.

  About a week later, Hades started carelessly sending massive earthquakes from the underworld all the way up to the sea because he was mad that he was never appreciated by the Greeks. This made Poseidon angry at Hades and tried to stop the earthquakes from causing damage to the beautiful land.  

  A little while later, the filthy Hades swiftly pulled himself out of the underworld. Hades surprised Poseidon by coming to the sea and he started yelling at him and telling him how he was unappreciated.  Except confident Poseidon didn't care for his brothers feeling and told him to return to the underworld immediately.  Mad at his brother, Hades started fighting against Poseidon and trying to steal his trident.  Hades started to make it further and further towards his brother.

  A few seconds later Hades was inches away from taking Poseidon’s trident.  Hades reached out in front of him and forcefully latched his hand around the trident and yanked it towards himself with all his strength .  He pulled away with the trident firmly in his hand.  Almost instantly Hades felt  more powerful and stronger then ever. He could feel the shooting power of the trident running through his blood.  The trident had a rough scratchy texture due to the carving engraved into the gold.  Hades started randomly pointing the trident and aggressively striking the land with his new power because he didn't know how to control it like poseidon did.  He caused damage to everything he saw.  With the splashing water everywhere, Hades’ mouth was full of salty, dry taste buds screaming for fresh water.

  “Stop!” Poseidon screamed.  

  Hades started furiously running to get away from his brother who was chasing him through the ocean. As mischievous as Hades was he decided to run through the land but was a lot slower than his brother.  

  Poseidon was wasn't far away from Hades and grabbed his trident from the back and grasped it from Hades’ firm grip.  Poseidon’s strong power was back.  Hades turned to face him with an angry look of disgust. Loudly, Poseidon took a single strong and powerful swing of his arm and smashed his trident down causing the earth to shake.  All that Hades could hear was the large cracking sound like nails on a chalkboard of the earth underneath him to split apart into two. This crack in the earth spread apart and caused the Grand Canyon. The sound of the ocean water shooting through the split causing a salty smell in the air. With one glance ahead of him, Poseidon pointed his trident forward and a bright light shot out of the end.  The light blinded Hades and as he focused his eyes he could see the dark, filthy, dusty, smelly, disgusting room of his own home. Poseidon sent him back to the Underworld forever.  Hades felt as defeated, angry, and revengeful as a shark eaten by a minnow fish. This is how the Grand Canyon came to be.

  Chrysanthemum

               By: Nate Brors

  Once upon a time, In ancient Athens, about mid-noon, there were two friends, Hera and Chrysanthemum. One day they were strolling and talking in the field when cocky Chrysanthemum challenged Hera to a javelin throwing contest. Hera accepts, knowing that a god would surely beat a  mere mortal. The game shortly began and thousands of Athenians were watching. At the final throw, Hera was at 216 points and Chrysanthemum was at 220. Hera threw her final javelin,

  Zephyr, the West Wind, who used to be best friends with Hera until Chrysanthemum met her, saw his chance. He quickly whisked the javelin of track and it pierced Chrysanthemum straight through the heart. Hera cried out in terror to Zephyr.

  She hollered, “Zephyr! How could you!”

  Zephyr called back, “It was the only way we could be friends again.”

  “Oh, we are far from friends” replied Hera. Zephyr, realizing his mistake tried to apologize but Hera would not listen. The air reeked like sadness.

  The next day, Hera asked her husband Zeus to give her a special watering can so she could cleanse her friend. But Hera had something else in mind. She had gotten a special herb that can bring someone back to life. SHe got the watering can and poured the herb on Chrysanthemum and a flower grew on her. Hera was surprised, but the flower was magnificent. The people of Athens cherished that flower to this very day.

  Trey William Brownell

  3/8/17

  ⅞

  Blakey

  Zeus and Poseidon's Troubles

  Once upon a time there lived Poseidon and Zeus they were brothers, Zeus had a wife named Helen and was the king of all the gods and could create lightning bolts. Poseidon was the god the sea and wore dark blue all the time and smelled like seaweed and fish all the time but was jealous of Zeus for he was just another one of the hundreds of gods like Hera, Demeter, Ares, Athena, Apollo and Artemis but Zeus was the god of all gods. Poseidon had asked mighty Zeus but he refused but Poseidon got very angry at Zeus. And one day Poseidon had an affair with Helen Zeus's wife when Zeus was away for revenge.

  When Zeus found out about this he was furious his own brother having done such a horrible thing with his wife he was ungodly mad at his brother for doing such a bad thing to the great Zeus. The next day Zeus challenged Poseidon in a fight at the top of the clouds and whoever lost had to stay in the clouds for the eternity of the earth, Poseidon accepted the fight.

  After three hours of straight fighting mighty Zeus struck poseidon with a lightning bolt and Poseidon fell to the ha
nds of mighty Zeus to be sent up to the clouds for The eternity.

  When Zeus got back to mt olympus he had a very very stern talk with Helen and Zeus made Helen swear a divine oath that she would never ever do it again. All the gods cheered for mighty Zeus because he was a good leader and didn’t want Poseidon to rule the gods they thought he was greedy and not loyal.

  As the bet said Poseidon was sent to the clouds and on the way up Zeus sent a curse to Poseidon that he could never ever leave the clouds.