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Excalibur the Sword
There once was a king in a land that prospered. There hadn’t been a war in Century’s because of the things that the king did. Zeus knew this so he decided to call a counsel of the gods. Zeus proclaimed,” I am proud of this king. He has kept peace in the world. I want to design a sword for him. When he uses the sword it will defeat any foe that he might have.”
And so it was that the king had a magical sword. The king started boasting about it and Zeus was angry with him. Zeus told Ares, “ Go down to Earth and cut down this man for he shows no gratitude but he boasts saying that he made this magical sword and has power over the gods.”
That night, as Ares went to kill the king and get the sword back, Zeus was making a masterpiece to put in the king’s place. The next morning the king was dead. In his palace was a mysterious boy of 21. The priests went to the temple of Zeus to ask of the boy in the king's palace. Zeus announced proudly,” This boy is your new ruler for the past king has done wrong in boasting about that sword that I have given him. The boy of 21 whose name is Cornelius Shall be your new king.”
When the priests told the people this they refused to accept it. They demanded, ” This new king is just a boy, he is not married and he must prove to us that he is a good person to be the king. We know nothing about the boy and we want a king that we can trust. Ask the gods to give this boy a task to prove that he is trustworthy person to be our king.”
With that the priests went back to the temple to speak to the gods. Again Zeus told the priests, “ The boy is to be your king.”
The priests exclaimed, “ The people want proof that the boy is worthy. They want you to give him a task to prove himself.”
“The boy will have a task. You will find out the task tomorrow,” proclaimed Zeus.
The priests told the people this. The people were tired so they went home and had supper and went to bed.
That night Ares got the sword of the king and gave it to Zeus. Zeus threw the sword into a stone and told the priests,” This sword is the sword of the king. Whoever can pull the sword from the stone will be king.”
The priests told the people this. That very night a thief came with a pickax and broke the stone in half to take the sword. This man knew that only the chosen person could pull the sword from the stone. Unfortunately Zeus saw this man take the sword so he struck him down with a lightning bolt and took the sword to a sphinx.
The next day the villagers found the pile of ash that was once the thief. They sent the priests into the temple of Zeus to ask what had happened the night that they were all asleep. “What happened last night oh Zeus the All mighty?” the priests asked.
Zeus answered, “There was a thief in the night whose intention was to steal the sword to become king. Send Cornelius after the sword that will be placed by me on an island in the middle of Poseidon’s sea. If Cornelius returns to this land alive he will be king and choose his heir.”
The priests told the people this. Cornelius went off to find transportation. Cornelius had heard of an animal that was part bird part horse. It was called a Hippogriff. Cornelius knew this creature existed so he set out to find it. Cornelius went to the haunted woods to find the hippogriff. He found it while it was hunting mice.
The Hippogriff approached him and Cornelius found the hippogriff loved him. Cornelius got on the Hippogriffs back and it set off smoothly into the sky. The feathers ruffled in the wind as the hippogriff glided smoothly through the sky. As the hippogriff went down for a landing Cornelius realized that he loved the hippogriff as much as the hippogriff loved him. Cornelius didn’t know what he would do without his hippogriff.
When the hippogriff and Cornelius sat down to eat Cornelius explained clearly to the hippogriff the problem that he was in. The hippogriff just nodded his head when Cornelius asked if he would help him with his long journey.
The next day Cornelius sets out to find an arrowhead to make a spear with incase there was to be a monster attack. Cornelius found some arrowheads by a pool of water. There were some sturdy branches on the ground. The next day Cornelius and the Hippogriff set off to the Island. After three days it started getting darker. “I wonder why it is getting so dark?” Cornelius questioned.
In one hour they could see the island. While were landing Cornelius could see what was in front of them. It was a giant maze. As Cornelius thought over the situation Blunder took flight and took in the sight of the maze in front of them. When Blunder came back down he pulled Cornelius into the maze. Cornelius trusted Blunder with his life so he followed Blunder. Blunder guided Cornelius through the maze and in ten minutes they were out in the open. Before them there was an open field of brown dried up grass. Quickly Cornelius realized that they were in the underworld. Hades’ world.
The place was decorated with pots and dead flowers. Suddenly they saw something. Hades! As Hades came forward Cornelius threw a pot toward the left. Hades turned when the pot smashed against a dead tree. Finally, when Hades decided that there was nothing out in the fields he left. Then Cornelius decided that it was safe to leave so they followed a path to some stairs where they could see some light at the top.
It took at least an hour to get to the top and when they did it was lush green grass with beautiful green trees. “ This I could live with,” proclaimed Cornelius.
As they walked on they began to rise onto a mountain. After about two hours they heard a roar and noticed a huge Sphinx. As they approached the Sphinx it boomed, “ I will give you one day to prepare for the fight that lies ahead. One day, human. Only one day! At dawn I will strike and you will die.”
That night they planned on how to defeat this creature. The next morning they approached the Sphinx with the bow and arrows and the spear. The Sphinx met this challenge. In seconds they were in the air away from the sphinx. But what they didn’t expect was to see the sphinx take flight as well. The Sphinx had huge dark purple wings with dark crystals all over the rims.
Cornelius used one arrow in the first minute and it struck the sphinx’s majestic wing. The second and third missed but the fourth hit his hind rear. The last arrow pierced his neck. His loud roar pierced the air. Finally, since Cornelius was getting tired he threw his spear and it hit its mark. The spear went into the Sphinx end through his heart to the other side and out. In 5 minutes the sphinx lay dead on the ground. Its wings folded by its side as he died.
Cornelius looked past the sphinx and found that he was guarding a cave. Cornelius and Blunder went into the cave to find the king’s sword. As Cornelius, the once shallow boy, held the sword, a surge of energy went through him and Blunder to provide him the strength for the journey home. After about 5 days Cornelius could see land. When they landed the people were in aweof what they saw. The man who now stood before them was once a shallow boy. Now he came into their village riding a Hippogriff. The people of the village were astounded that a great beast would choose this boy to be his companion. Every man and woman in the village had heard the stories of a great hippogriff in the woods but they also knew that the hippogriff would choose a companion to follow for the rest of his life. The people of the village were astounded that this man once was a boy in many ways that it was impossible for him to be gone for just a month and have changed so much. The next day Cornelius was pronounced king. The sword was hung on the mantle in the throne room by the throne.
For years the land was lush and wonderful for planting crops and everyone was happy for a time, but Cornelius wanted a partner to spend his life with. People had heard of the king who slew a sphinx with the Hippogriff. A princess from Crete had heard about this man and so had her father. Her father wanted her to marry Cornelius so she traveled to Cornelius’s castle. When she saw him she fell instantly in love with him. In the next month they were married and the kingdom was overjoyed. Over the following years the sword still hung on the mantle in the throne room. Even after Cornelius died and chose his successor the sword just hung there never used until the gods chose. Zeus new that the boy would find the sword and Zeus also trusted Cornelius’s judgment in choosing the next king to come. Zeus would only step in if a war started over the sword and the same tests would be tried.


Moral: don’t boast about doing something you really didn’t do for pure glory and honor.

Story Created by Brittany

How the Sun Shines One Side of the Earth
By: Shae
“Woohoo” sounded like 100 lions roaring. Apollo and Aphrodite just got married. Hermes which is the messenger of Zeus gasped and his mouth was as wide as the Nile River. Hermes flew as fast as he could to go tell Zeus. “Zeus! Apollo and Aphrodite just got married.”
Zeus boomed at the top of his voice “What?” Hermes ears were ringing from his loud voice. “Yeah Apollo and Aphrodite. Should I summon the ferocious eagle to claw them up?”
Zeus exclaimed “Yes summon it now!” Hermes went to the eagle and it was scary it had claws as sharp as a machete, a beak that could rip you up in one scratch, and he could swallow two people at once. “Perfect” boomed Zeus
Zeus hit the eagle with a lightning bolt and it got angry. It went away from Mt. Olympus to Earth. When he saw Apollo and Aphrodite he started to attack them with its claws. Apollo pushed Aphrodite out of the way then the eagle stopped. It heard Apollo’s music from his instrument. It seemed to like music so Apollo kept on playing his music. They noticed that the heart of the eagle was glowing inside him then it just burst out light and it shined up the whole earth. Everyday for a month in a half Apollo and Aphrodite fed the eagle and took care of it. “Where is that eagle” exclaimed Zeus.
“It probably ate up Apollo and Aphrodite by now or didn’t eat them yet.”
“Nonsense my animals will do what I tell them to do Hermes.” Boomed Zeus

Hermes ears were ringing after that again. Anyways Apollo and Aphrodite went to bed and said goodnight to the eagle. It was pitch black, new moon, and you couldn’t see anything. Hades the god of the underworld didn’t like light so Hades tied up the eagle so good nobody could untie it. The next morning well actually next night Apollo and Aphrodite went to go see the eagle. They saw the eagle all tied up and tried to untie it so they did. 5 hours of working on one side they got it, but only one side they noticed that the other side of the rope was even more tangled. So they didn’t do the other side. Apollo told Zeus “Are you happy!?”
Zeus exclaimed “Yes you and Aphrodite are at least ok.”
Now that the eagle can only shine on one side of the Earth it should shine 24 hours on each side so it gives everyone light.
Apollo and Aphrodite lived happy, Zeus was happy, everyone was happy except for one person I think you know who that person is, HADES!

Garan

The red sea
There was a farm boy named Chase, he lived in a city called Athens well the on the outside of Athens, any way he one day he was told of a great deal who ever would cross the sea and deliver some wares would get 500 gold but no one has ever crossed the sea so he went to mount Olympus to go to the gods to ask for safety on his journey they vowed yes we’ll grant your safety sir Chases. Chase was wondering who would be brave enough to help him on his journey so one day he came across his best friend Leo.
Leo had been his best friend sense grade school so he suggested” I know some people that can help us he yelled us who told you your coming its to dangerous . Chase told him common remember you and me would go everywhere
Leo told ok I guess but who are these people that you told me of. “Well one day I was on the beach and these guy told me they would come there was ten making the boat sail on so he told Leo ok they can come only because there making the boat. About a month later they set off on there boat to cross the sea and deliver the kings wares.
So when they set off they had a solider whom did not believe in the gods so he was mocking Poseidon the god of the sea. He was saying stuff like I think he is a joke and other things but Poseidon did not like this so he became enraged with fury and sent he meanest evilest serphant in the ocean to kill them after many long days and many cold night they saw land with there telescope. But then the serphent rised from the water and roared who dares make fun of Poseidon “
Sorry that was I whimpered a voice in the back ground
Now you all shall pay your dues just then a sword was thrown into the serphants neck now you will die and the serphant came at the full speed and arrows were flying and just then chase jumped from the boat and lunged his sword into the serphant it was screaming swing and then he fell on the boat killed them all then the blood from the warriors made the sea into the red sea. So those who loved the solider always throw things into the sea to have a reminder of those who mocked Poseidon. Now no one mocked Poseidon ever again matter a fact they didn’t mock any of the gods because the gods always had proof so that’s how the sea is now the red sea.

Why there are Dreams
By Kristina


Many years ago near the city of Athens a new baby boy was born. He was given the name Obrien by his mother. He lived with his mother in a small cottage. Zeus watched over the baby carefully so no harm would come his way. There was something about this baby that Zeus liked. He wanted the baby very badly but his wife Hera was mad at him as it was and he knew he would get in trouble if he brought the baby to Mount Olympus but he took it any way. He sat Obrien on his lap and smiled and Obrien smiled back. Every thing was perfect until Hera awoke. She was furious and sent Obrien back to his cottage right away. “ZEUS!” she yelled, ‘I forbid you to see that baby ever again!” After that she stomped away angerly. Poor Zeus was very sad that he didn’t get to raise the child and all he could do was watch helplessly for fifteen years on his magic mirror. Obrien was very kind and always helped his mother on the farm and fed the animals. Zeus was impressed with him for being so good but wished he could have taut him to grow crops just by pointing at them instead of toiling for almost nothing in pay. In Athens there was no such thing as dreams only sleep. One night Zeus couldn’t sleep, he couldn’t get the fact that Obrien wasn’t his son so he made up a plan.

Later on in the darkness of night Zeus grabbed a handful of magic sand put it in a bag and put a spell on it so it would never empty. Obrien had just finished a hard day’s work and was very tired. He lay down in his bed and quietly said goodnight to his mother and fell asleep. Zeus stood atop Mount Olympus and threw a handful of sand and tossed it right over Obrien’s cottage and threw the sand in Obrien’s eyes.
Obrien was suddenly transported to Zeus’s castle.
The inside was beautifully covered in paintings and statues. He wandered into the throne room and there sat the great and powerful Zeus. Zeus said in a kind voice “Come forward.” Obrien walked forward scared. “Please sit beside me on my throne.” Obrien sat down as if he were a trained dog. “Do you like it here?” Obrien muttered a bit and then answered “Yes your majesty.” “Obrien would you like to live here almost all your life?’ Obrien nodded. ‘Ok take this.” Zeus handed Obrien him the bag of dream sand and told him that this is how to get to Mount Olympus.”Sprinkle this in your eyes and I promise you can come back each night if you tell no one.” Obrien agreed and just as he was handed the bag he suddenly woke up in his room in the cottage. He wondered if he really did have a ‘dream’
He got up did, his daily chores, ate supper and went to bed as usual n fact every thing was normal that is until he walked into his room. He turned the corner opened the door and there sitting on the bed was the magic bag of sand. He was almost in a daze he approached cautiously opened it then sprinkled some into his eyes and just as Zeus predicted he was at Mount Olympus. Him and Zeus talked and laughed and reminisced the night away and this went on for three years. Each night Obrien did the same thing. Every thing was fine until one night when Hera woke up to see Obrien in the throne room with Zeus still talking. Hera was furious and she had a plan. She contacted Hades on the magic mirror and persuaded him to give her an evil monster that looked like a scaled lion with wings. She was going to send the monster to steal Obrien’s magic bag of sand. So the next morning Obrien put the bag of sand on his shelf like every night and went to his chores then just as he stepped outside Hera’s creature swooped in and stole his magic bag. He saw the monster flying ahead and he tried to kill it with his arrows. He chased it for about a mile when he trapped it. He stuck the monster in the heart with his arrow and down, down it fell along with his bag. Suddenly the bag hit the ground and just as Obrien went to pick it up the monster fell crushing both the bag and Obrien. Zeus rushed over to find the bag empty and Obrien under the monster Zeus weeped and turned Obrien’s body into a bed of flowers so he could come and remembered the son he never had. What happened to the magic sand may be a bit shocking, When the monster crushed it the sand flew out and flew into the clouds so now when ever a god walks the sand becomes loose and falls out into the eyes of mortals if they walk hard to much falls in their eyes and they have night mares but if they walk lightly then they will have good dreams. So now every time they walk the sand falls out and insures we have dreams. That’s how it has been for centuries and more to come.

Why Turtles Are Slow
By: Dakota

There once was a turtle named Hindue that started to wonder why turtles are so slow.

So he went to his friend cheetah named cheets how he got so fast. He replied ask the rabbit named Fluffy. So he set off to find him. He found him and he told Hindue to ask the gazelle Laneer. He hollers to Laneer how did you get so fast he hollered back ask Zeus for a potion.

Then a goddess appeared in front of him and zapped back to Mount Olympus. So he asked Zeus for the potion and he said come back early tomorrow.

The goddess appeared again and zapped him back home. The next morning he went to get the potion and Zeus gave it to him like he would any other animal. He was fast for one hour.

He went home and showed everybody how he was fast now. Then it wore off and all the other animals went to get theirs. Cheets didn’t get his so the other animals were angry and agreed no other turtles could have any potions because they weren’t made to be fast. Hindue got married to Cheereese and they lived happily ever after.

THE END

How Natural Disasters Happen
By Matthew

Long ago Poseidon was having a really boring day. He got so bored that he decided to mess around with the humans. He started making it poor rain like crazy and was melting the polar ice caps. He had so much fun that he decides to do it forever. After weeks had gone by people got mad and didn’t know who was doing it so they blamed Zeus.

Zeus didn’t care at first but then everyone in the world was yelling at him to stop. Zeus tells Poseidon to stop but he’s having too much fun to stop. Zeus is always mad but this made him the maddest he had ever been.

He started to make a huge super storm. He blew at the Earth to make tornados, punched at the water to make huge tsunamis the size of continents, and smashed his fists into the Earth to make Earth quakes.

Earl was the name of a common man that just wanted to make a living. His job was to find out what to do with criminals. Killing them was too cruel. He had just finished making a huge tunnel that was 5,000 feet long and 50 feet underground. There was tons of food and water. The criminals would be sent there, but just as they finished building it, someone noticed the super storm. He was a wise man and he had an idea. He constructed a huge funnel and yelled into it, “Run to Apollo’s palace and follow the string to safety.” He had carefully tied a string to Apollo’s palace that led to the underground chamber.

Poseidon got hurt when one of Zeus’s strikes to the water to hit him. Then he realized what he did wrong. He felt sorry for the humans. Then he called so Zeus could hear him “I’m sorry!” “Please stop.”
Zeus now realizing he was sorry shouted “Are you truly sorry for what you’ve done?”
Poseidon exclaimed “Yes.”.
Zeus then declared “Are you also sorry for all the things you have made the humans go through?”
Poseidon remarked “Yes I’m sorry even though you made them go through this disaster.”
Zeus then bellowed “Be gone now!”

Earl had been checking for weeks if the storm was done. Then one sunny morning he was proud to exclaim, “It’s over!” “It’s over!” just as Zeus was sucking in the tornadoes, holding the ground steady, and holding the water down. Just to keep Poseidon on his toes Zeus will make a small tornado or something to remind him what happened. That’s why disasters happen.

Why It Rains While The Sun Is Out.

Long ago it hardly rained. Apollo the sun god was the problem because he made the Earth to hot. Fred the rain god groaned, “The humans need water, the crops need more water. Apollo Fred and went on don’t make it so hot so I can make it rain .Never shouted Apollo now be gone .No yelled Fred and threw a water ball. Apollo got so mad his hair caught on fire and he through a fire ball and the fight went on. Little did they know Zeus and bob the rainbow god were watching. Zeus yelled “stop” and explained it can rain while it is sunny out. So Apollo made the sun come out and Fred made it rain and for some reason bob made a rainbow some people say “It was the rainbow of peace. The end.


B. Sig

WHY DOES IT SNOW
Once upon a time Zeus falls in love with a human princess. Zeus makes amberina marry him. Zeus tore the princess amberina’s dress .She left him at the alter. Amberina is a human and didn’t want to married a god .So she wanted to marry a human. Zeus punished humans by cold snow .Princess amberina’s wedding dress falls from the heavens .Because he is mad at her for not going to the wedding .Amberina ended up marrying a human prince instead of a god. Zeus gets married to a god named hera .Hera loves Zeus and they live ever after. They end up ding 100 years later.

A.S.

Dana
Why mythical creatures don’t exist



A long time ago a nasty king went to the god to beet on if he was tough enough to fight Yorks. Zeus shouts, “Okay but on one condison if you don’t beat them you will suffer a painful death.” The king sends a 12 year boy to go fight the York. The king does this because he does not want to do it him self. The boys name is Sirus. The king treated him if he didn’t beat the yorks he will have his sisters head. Sirus had to agree. Sirus goes to the gods for help. “May I have am army?” questioned
Sirus.
Zeus asked “Why should I give you an army?”
“Because I need to save my sister” gasped Sirus.
“How are you going to do that with an army” questioned Zeus.
“The king has my sister and if I don’t defeat the army of yorks he will have her head”. Exclaimed Sirus.
“Okay then I will give you an army.” reasoned
Zeus.
“But if you don’t you must spend November and December in the under world.” Exclaimed Zeus. A shock wave shot across the world. Their was Sirus army. Filled with centaurs, and unicorns, and Pegasus.
“You shall go practice with your with them.” demanded Zeus. So he did they got to practice for 3 weeks. Then they came we were all lined up ready for war. We were charging their team was diapering and so was mine. At last it was only me and my unicorn agents 5 yorks. The unicorn jumped to action he took out 3 of them then got sliced in hafe. Then all if a sudden a ran at them soared pointed a head. I stabbed one then the other. For once I was proud. Well I got my sister back but all of my army was dead. As for the king he died the next day. Well with the king gone the villages came out of its shell. That is why mythical creatures don’t exist.

Why Mars is Red
By: Andrew R

A long time ago in the Mythological times, Zeus and Hades had an argument. They both wanted to rule the earth. Zeus wanted to rule it for good. Hades wanted to rule it for evil and torture. They couldn’t find a good way to settle who would rule earth. Hades exclaimed, “I get to rule the EARTH!!!”
Zeus screams, “NO I get to rule it!!!” Finally after long debate, they agreed to have a war. It was going to be the greatest war of all time.

“Now all we need is a place to have it,” grunted Hades. They agreed again to ask Ares if they could have their great war on his mars. Ares is fine with the idea of that. Then, they both set off on a journey to find warriors and creatures big, small, fat, skinny, and any other size that you can think of. They are recruiting anything that could basically move. Now, they had their warriors by the billions and were ready to fight.

Hades and Zeus had both their armies and were taking them to mars. They were coming up to mars when one of Zeus’ men blurts out, “I see it! It is the big white round ball out there.” He points in an upward direction.

Another one shouts,” Yeah I see it too!” There is an enormous burst of drums all of the sudden and everyone jumps. Then, Hades comes into sight with all of his army. Zeus and Hades went to the front of their armies. They discussed what happens to the loser and other things like that. After that… the war begins.

Both gigantic armies raced at each other with creatures in the air, some underground, and the rest on the surface. Then the armies met and the battle of good and evil begins. The first few rows of warriors are already dead or were soon to be dead. The next rows are about the same as the first ones. Zeus and Hades were also in a huge fight. Zeus threw a lightning bolt at Hades, but he blocked it and starts to send dead souls at Zeus. Zeus then brought the souls back to life and then created a huge fireball and sent Hades clear to the other side of mars. Next, Hades death archers came in and start nailing warriors to the ground with their arrows and then leaving them to suffer and die. Menatours had come in and taken out the death archers with their axes. Then, giant worms started to come out of mars and suck Zeus’ army into the holes. Zeus then threw an atomic bomb into the holes and it killed all the worms. Possessed skeletons then appeared out of nowhere and kill more of Zeus’ army. Zeus retrieved his secret weapon from the sky which was his humongous beast with razor sharp claws, an axe tail, and it breaths fire. It also had dragon wings, with alligator skin. It had chainsaw teeth that are always going. It wiped out 1/3 of Hades army with one swipe of its tail. With a breath of fire the rest of the army was dead. Hades is the last one standing. Zeus got a lightning bolt ready, but Hades surrendered and accepts defeat.

All of Hades army was dead. Most of Zeus’ was too. Hades went to the Underworld and Zeus became the ruler of the earth. He also became ruler of the Gods. As for mars, it has huge holes and all of the blood from the armies soaked into mars and it turned it from a shiny, clean, and white to a blood red. That is why mars is red.

Why everything is not silver? Long ago in the far land of Greece there was a king named Amedias. Amedias was very greedy and was obsessed with money. He stole from anyone he saw and raised taxes all the time. But what Amedias truly loved was Silver. Everybody hated him and one day the villagers decided to take action. The villagers visited Zeus and told him about their repulsive and horrid king. Zeus thought and thought and demanded Amedias must be punished. Zeus and the villagers soon confirmed a plan. One day, Amedias was traveling up and down the dirt roads of the village he saw a wealthy old man with silver bracelets, rings, and large crown. Amedias punched the old man twice and he fell over and finally yelped out.
“NO, please don’t! I can grant you any wish you want if you do not kill me!”
And with that he wished for everything touched to turn into, of course silver. Weeks went by and Amedias turned gold and bronze jewelry and statues to silver. At first, he seemed to enjoy the wish but then it started to backfire on him. First, his dog turned into silver, then his wife became a statue of silver, and you do not even want to know what happened when he tried to go to the bathroom. He called a meeting and quickly got the truth out of his villagers, that Zeus disguised himself as a wealthy old man to trick Amedias into the dreaded wish. Amedias grew angry and got his best armor and weapon. At night he killed Zeus and tried to leave but was interrupted by a booming voice,
“You fool, no one can kill me that easy, and that was a replica!”
As Amedias ran Zeus threw a lighting bolt and killed Amedias in one fatal hit. After Amedias’s death Zeus turned everything back to normal and only certain things were left Silver. Amedias’s wife was left as a statue to remind all people off the once great king.
THE END


By: Kyle

WHY DOGS’ BARK AT PEOPLE

BY: FELICIA

Once a land long long ago had talking dogs and went by the name of Barkston. Barkston was full of happy dogs and puppies until Zeus brought something new to there town and made them frown. Here is their story.
“Daddy? Why are we the only things on earth?” Tug wondered.
Mickey answered, “Well I don’t know; Zeus does though. So why don’t you ask him.”
“Ok!”After their little conversation Tug went on his journey to ask Zeus why they were the only things on earth. He traveled along the desserts of Arizona and the somber forests of Australia. It took weeks even to get to Zeus’s palace.
Once he got there he searched for the mighty god. All Tug found was Hermes the messenger god. “Where may I find the mighty ruler?” questioned Tug.
“You may find him in his room,” Hermes chuckled.
“Where is that?” “
Zeus’s room is next to the Hades structure.”
“But I have already past the Hades sculpture.”
“Yes, but his room is hidden. To get in you must shake the hand of Hades.”
“Oh. Why thank you Hermes.”
“You are welcome.” With in a second Hermes had disappeared. Tug went on looking for the Hades structure. A few minutes later he reached The Hallway of Gods.
“O.K.,” Tug started down the hallway, “There’s Apollo, Ares, Asclepius, Cronus, Dionysus, Eros, Hephaestus, Hermes, Hades, Poisi…..Oh there Hades.” Tug then thought about what Hermes told him to do when he got to the Hades structure.
“Once you reach the Hades sculpture you must shake the hand and wait,” Tug remembered. So he shook Hades hand and waited. Finally Hades disappeared and Zeus told Tug to enter. Tug stepped in and sat down.
“What do you seek to know?” roared Zeus.
“I seek to ask why dogs are the only things on Earth.” Tug replied. “
Well I couldn’t think of anything else. But tell you what I will think of something and when I have an idea it will start to rain.” Zeus then zapped Tug back to Barkston.For twenty-one long days and nights Tug waited. Then on the Twenty-second day it started to rain!!!!!! A figure started to come out of the clouds, it was Zeus and a……. actually they don’t know what it is. “Zeus wa-wa what do you call this th-th thing?” Kay stuttered.
“I call “her” a human girl. Her name is Persephone. She is going to be living here with you guys so that you are not the only creatures on earth, Zeus explained.
“Wait who told you we needed another creature or should I say Persephone?” questioned Pugsley.
“The young man by the name of Tug.” Everyone turns and looks at Tug. They look back but Zeus is gone and Persephone is standing there with a note in her hand. Pugsley goes up and reads the note.
“Dear Dogs’,
Persephone does not know how to talk she can only bark. So on the ground I left you guys a Persephone dictionary. Good Luck!!!Sincerely, Zeus/your ruler” Well might as well hear her voice.
“Speak Persephone. Speak.” Demanded Pugsley.
“WOOF, WOOF!!!!!! Then Kay opened the dictionary and translated.
“Two barks means “Can I”, Kay informed.
“WOOFE, WOOOOF, WOOFS, WHIMPER, WHIMPER!!”Persephone begged.
“Woofe means trade, woooof means you, and woofs mean voices.” Kay continued, “She is asking to trade voices. Bark for voice.”
“NEVER!!!!!” Mickey boomed.
“But daddy, we have to give her a fair chance for her to trade voices.” Tug interrupted.
“Fine! Then we will have a race. If Persephone can ever become faster than us then we will trade.” Kay told Persephone what Mickey said and she agreed.
She practiced and practiced. Till the sun rose and the moon awakened. The human did that for 3 years till…….SHE WAS READY!!!!!!!!!When morning approached she told Kay she was ready. Kay told Mickey and Mickey told all of Barkston.
At 3:00 that afternoon Mickey picked his fastest runner.BUSTER!!!Persephone got ready at the starting line with Buster.Then Tug held up the bone and yelled.
“On your marks, Get Set, GO!!!!!!!!!”Buster and Persephone took off. At first Buster was winning, then Persephone, then Buster. When they got 5 feet from the finish Persephone finally got in front and………..WON!!!!!!!!All the dogs’ sighed and Persephone was barking up a storm.
The next week Apollo came to Barkston to switch the voices of Persephone and the dogs. They all had to teach each other how to use their voices. That is why dogs’ bark at people! : )

How Dragons Became Fierce
Long ago Zeus was creating Mythical creatures to fight with heroes. He thought he should make a peace loving creature other than the Pegasus.
“I shall make a creature that is not dangerous and eats vegetation”, Zeus boomed. So he made it out of clay and gave it life.
“I shall give it scales of gold!”, Zeus boasted. He forged wings and claws. Hades had known Zeus was hiding something.
“What are you hiding brother”, Hades asked inquisitively.
“Nothing Hades”, Zeus replied nervously. Finally he had to tell Hades.
“I have made a dragon” wailed Zeus. While Zeus was asleep he tainted the dragon and now he ate cattle and other animals.
“Arise my army of netherdraikes ARISE” the Dragon King roared. Then two million black dragons arose in full armor. Zeus herd and saw his dragon with an army behind him.
“OH NOOOOO!!!!!!!” Zeus screamed. “My dragon is loose!”. The mythical creatures came at them ready to fight. Atlas got someone to hold his burden and started fighting but he was out numbered 100 to 1. He got his burden back and stayed there. Now they confronted the gods of Olympus and a great war went on for 200 years and finally the dragons won and ruled the skies forever. In the end the Dragon King was married and ruled forever.

Noah

The End

The Reason for Solar Eclipses
By
Brittney M.


On a day like any other, Sun shined on Olympus and the Earth beneath that. That night it was Moon’s turn to light up the night. He started to notice that all of the humans were asleep! Hades saw him start to cry. Hades emerged from the underworld to speak to Moon.
“Don’t you see, Moon?” Hades boomed, “Sun seems to be better than you. If you don’t do something soon, the world won’t need you anymore.”
“Really, Hades?” Moon wept.
“Yep. You better find something else to do because your job won’t matter if you don’t do anything.”
So Moon started to cry even more. He started to make a pool now called Chatfield Reservoir.
The next morning, Moon had began to plot his revenge. He also thought up all of the consequences. Like, Sun may never be seen again.
Moon confronted Hades and told him his plan. Hades, of course, approved of Moon’s devious plan. Hades nodded and gave a smirk, “You should perform your thought when Sun is highest in the sky.”
“Where can I figure that out?” Moon questioned.
“Go and ask Father Time. He knows everything about time,” Hades replied.
“O.K. Thanks, Hades!” Moon exclaimed. Hades also told him Sun’s weakness. Darkness. Moon went to visit Father Time. Father time had told Moon that Sun is highest in the sky at noon. Moon tried his best to stay away from Zeus because Hades had told Moon that he already talked to Zeus about his plan and that Zeus wasn’t very happy about it. So when ever Zeus would call, Moon would not respond.
On the hottest day of the year, when Sun was highest in the sky, Moon slowly inched in front of Sun. All the people of Athens watched in aw of the sight. The gods and goddesses were sun bathing, when suddenly every thing went dark.
“Who took away the wonderful light of both Earth and the heavens?” commanded Zeus. He looked at Sun and saw it had gone dark, but as Moon kept moving, Zeus could see that the sun had not gone dark. I was just Moon.
“Why have you done this, Moon?” Zeus asked Moon in a calm voice, “Why have you intentionally moved in front of Sun without confronting me?”
“Well, Hades told me---“
Zeus interrupted, “WHY THAT LITTLE! WHEN I SEE HIM HE WILL FACE A TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT! I’m very sorry about that. Hades is a… Well, I really shouldn’t talk about my brother like I was just going to. So anyway, you will not face a punishment for his mistake.”
“Oh thank you, Zeus! Thank you a million times!” Moon screamed.
“Sun and I have thought it over and we think people should see you, too, in the sky. So we decided that every one and a half year, you may move in front of Sun. Also, all humans will be up later to see you at night also. Now to go talk to Hades.” Zeus grumbled.
Zeus went down to the underworld to talk to Hades. Hades knew that Zeus knew what he had done so he tried to hide from his brother. But Zeus found him hiding behind his hands. To tell you the truth, he was never very good at playing hide-and-go-seek when had to hide.
“I know what you did Hades! Now you must face your punishment!” Zeus boomed, “You are forbidden to ever go into Olympus again and you are also forbidden to speak to the moon or the sun. EVER!”
THE END

Why men fight!!!
Mitch
One day Zeus was watching the Olympic from mt.olympcs
“This is boring.” Zeus yauned.
The Olympic ware getting old.
“I won’t whach the Olympic no more. So he turned away. I want action!” Zeus demanded. Zeus went to bed.
In the morning Zeus had an idea.
“If the Olympic are old I’ll make a new game it will be called…..hmm….war! Bring me the Roman and Greek leaders.” He called.
When the leaders got there they ask what Zeus wanted.
“I want you to play a game. But not eney old game I want you to fight.” He side.
“O.K?” The Greek leader side.
“Now go prepare to fight in a week.” Zeus side.
One week latter.
“The rules are the first leader who dies loses.” Zeus side.
“Let’s go!” They side.
The Greek setup a fort.
“They should be comeing!” side the Greek king.
“They are comeing!” someone side.
The Roman came up fast. The war began. It was a bloody battle. Casuteys by the 100! Hades had to get more bouts. The war lasted for 5 years.
On the last day the Greek army was close to winning.
“Hand me your bow.” King Jason side.
“What….Why.” side the bowmen.
Jason pulled out his sword put it in pulled back, and locked for the kings hart. Every thing slowed down the mones and screams quietly filled the back ground. Some believed time stopped. Movement was as stial as the houst wien. You can’t even hear a drop of water right next to your ear. His hart is pounding like thunder. Then like an earthquake you hear twinge of a bow and the hiss of a sowed slicing thought the air. The fighting stopped and the king of Greek was dead.
Zeus is not board eney more because he is now happy and excited for the next war. That’s why men fight.