Kinard Mythology Anthology Volume III

by Kinard Middle School

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  Andy went outside and went to the work area where she was waiting for the opening to finish but saw someone on her way. She looked at him and he looked at her, they already knew how this was going to end. They knew this because this was Andy’s version of the boy of her dreams, and the boy, Eric, knew because Andy was the girl of his dreams.

  Young love! Aphrodite thought. She then heard Andy and Eric thank her; she knew her son and Hades daughter would be very happy together, maybe even they’d marry.

  Hades was watching his daughter when Persephone came to see Andy be happy. He thought, the feeling Andy had earlier, what should it be called. The village won’t know because they never experienced the feeling before. He kept on thinking what was the opposite of love, but their was no word to describe the horrible feeling. But then it came to him; what if I spell love backwards? It would be E-V-O-L. Evol? Evol! He told Persephone and she said the spelling was odd, so Hades changed the O to an I. Evil, what a perfect word! He smiled and watched his daughter walk away with Eric, into his house.

  “They're going to be so happy together!” He said. Persephone agreed.

  And that’s was happened in this young town where love is revealed during hard times.      

  THE END!

  Ares

  By: Aidan

  Long ago, in the ancient city of Athens, there was a person named Ares. He was a humble young man in his early twenties. Ares was very smart and was so smart that he was given an award for getting all A+’s on all assignments and tests. He really loved his life with his school, Athens and most of all his family.

  Ares’ family meant the most to him. He had a sister named Bertha that he loved to play with. He had nice parents that he helped with the chores. When his parents went to give him allowance, he refused and said he did not need it. He thought he was lucky enough to have food, water, and a roof over his head.  

  At the time, Athens was such a kind city that the other cities helped  wanted to help them build up their city by building statues, houses and temples. Athens was the main centerpoint in Greece. Everyone went there for food and friends and some ended up staying there. This made the goddess Athena very happy because she had won the land in a contest Poseidon. She watched the Olive Tree that was in the center of the city that she had given Athens so long ago.

  In another part of the world, Greece was not as happy as Athens. In the northern part of Greece, lived a giant. While most giants are usually dumb, this particular giant had a very high IQ. The giant’s name was Dave. Even though he smelled like rotten fish, he had big ideas, and deadly ones at that. He wanted to control Greece and get all the wealth and power. He already had an army of well trained followers, but he needed a plan.

  He thought for many days but then it hit him. He would attack Athens. He thought that since Athens is is the main point of Greece, if that fell, Greece would too. So, he prepared his soldiers and set them off to Athens.

  Later that day, the Athenians and Athena were unaware that something bad was about to happen. Everything was going smoothly. Ares was helping people, he was doing chores, he caught a fluffy cat that fell out of a tree and gave it back to it’s owner.

  But then he heard something. It made him have a chill down his spine like everything was going to go wrong. Ares turned around to see one of the city guards running down the street. He had bruises all around his arms, a bloody nose, a black eye and a arrow in one leg.

  “They are coming!” yelled the guard, “Dave and his warriors broke down the wall and are coming here!”

  Everyone was screaming! It was complete pandemonium!

  Suddenly, Ares realised his family lived on the outskirts of Athens. He needed to get them but he was in the center of the city.

  Athena liked Ares very much and knew his struggle. She gave him amazing speed so he could get to his family. With his newly found power, Ares sprinted to his house and ran inside the door and found his family in the kitchen eating lunch.

  “We need to get out of the city now,” exclaimed Ares, “Dave and his men are coming to destroy Athens!”

  At hearing this news, Ares’ family started packing food and water for the journey. It was a frantic situation with only a few minutes to spare. When all the sudden, they heard a rumbling. They looked outside the window and saw Dave destroying houses and chucking people into the ruble.

  Without warning, Dave took the upper level of the house down with a single blow of his club.

  Ares watched in horror as the smelly giant dismantled the house. Ares tried to hide his family under the rubble, but it was too late. Dave picked up Ares’ family. First, he ate Ares’s dad. Second he threw Ares’ mom into the neighbors’ house with deadly force, and finally, he threw Bertha into the lake and Dave’s army drowned her. Ares wanted to avenge them but he had no weapon.  

  Ares watched in despair as the Giant killed his family. Ares waited for the giant to pick him up too but it never happened. Then he heard Athena.

  “Go to the forest where you made your treehouse,” Athena said softly, “I have made you invisible for the next hour. I know you want to avenge your family, but if you do it now you won’t survive. Now, go.”   

  Ares sprinted quickly to the forest. He had been here many times before when he had free time. When he was there, he built a treehouse out of the dead trees and sticks on the ground. Ares went up to his treehouse and he remembered it like it was the day he finished it.

  The treehouse was connected to many trees and made of mostly oak, but there was some spruce in some rooms. On the outside, it was painted red but on the inside it was painted white. The house had a living room with bookshelves, couches, a sofa and a little coffee table for drinks. It had a dining room with a table and four chairs around it and a master bedroom with a king sized bed, a closet (big enough for three people inside it) and small tables by the bed. It had two other rooms with queen sized bed and a closet in them. In the livingroom, there was a ladder that he could climb to get above tree level and lookout across the forest with it. There was a shed below the tree house that stored all the food and another that stored the weapons and armor. Right next to the food shed, there was a little campfire area to cook food.

  Ares climbed the ladder up to the the living room and sat on the sofa and cried. He wished he could have done something for his family, but all he could do was watch. He sat alone crying for many hours, but then he heard a rumbling noise.

  He went up to his lookout and saw Dave and his army leaving Athens swiftly and was going back up north. Ares turned his head and saw that most of the city had been destroyed. All that was left was the temple and some houses. Then he saw some people getting out of the temple the ones he had helped over the years.

  He went down to his living room and got a glass of water. While he was drinking an idea hit him. He was going to get all of the survivors who he helped, give them armor and a weapon and Ares would leed an army to go and get Dave. He did not need to train them because every Athenian is required three years of military school.

  He went to his weapon shack and picked up a flare shooter. He ran to his lookout and fired it in the air. All of the survivors looked that direction and started walking to the treehouse. In about a half an hour or so, all of the survivors were at the front of the doorstep.

  Ares went down to them. There were more people than he thought which was good, more people to fight. He explained the plan to everyone. Everyone thought that it was good plan and wanted to join. Everyone except for Phineas, then he walked back to the city mumbling about how it was a waste of time coming there.

  Ares gave everyone a breastplate, a helmet, leggings and a shield. The armor was as hard as a rock. He let the people choose a weapon of their choice. Most people chose a sword or mace, but some people chose knifes and spears.

  Ares lead them up north to where Dave lived and ruled. It was a long journey with little water and food. They managed to survive on what little resources they had. Th
ankfully one day, they came across a river and some deer so they had plenty of resources for the final week.

  Finally, on May 8, they reached the outskirts of Dave’s camp at night and started to plot.

  “I say we go in and charge and destroy them,” Ron suggested.

  “But I think we should come up with a plan that’ll catch Dave totally off guard,” argued Trevor.

  “You guys are both wrong,” exclaimed Harry, “we should wait till it all blows over.”

  Ares took in each idea of each person and thought for a while. He considered each idea (except for Harry’s). Then he thought he should combine all the ideas together to make one awesome plan. He told everyone about what he just thought.

  Ares got out a piece of paper and laid out a plan. He had some people block the exits, people come with him, people raid the huts, and some to guard all of the alert systems.

  Everyone went into the camp and went to their stations. As Ares went past he could here nothing of his soldiers. The only thing he did hear was Dave’s army slowly dieing off.

  Ares walked passed a lot of huts till he found Dave’s hut he went inside and grabbed his sword. Then, all of the sudden, Dave had him in the palm of his hand. Dave was as big as a hill and more. Ares called for help and two people came inside. They threw spears at Dave but Dave deflected them and grabbed Bob and Jo and chucked them out of his hut.

  Ares tried to grab his sword but he could not. Athena saw his struggling and gave him super strength. Ares broke free of Dave’s grip and landed on the ground. He grabbed a spear and plunged it into Dave’s heart.

  He went outside and yelled that Dave was dead and all of Ares’ men yelled back that Dave’s army was dead. There was a loud cheer and everyone was filled with joy. They marched out of the city knowing Greece was again the most peaceful place in the world. They marched back to Athens and started rebuilding the city from Dave’s destruction.

  While Ares was rebuilding the city he heard a noise behind him. He turned around and saw Athena in all her glory. Standing right next to her he saw Hebe, the cupbearer of the gods.

  “You have shown great bravery and strength on the battlefield Ares,” told Athena, “great Zeus has given me permission to allow you to become a god if you want and if you become a god you’ll become the god of war.”

  Ares was astonished at this news. Very few mortals have ever drank from Hebe’s cup and became a god/. Ares thought and decided to do it. So Ares drank from Hebe’s cup. The water tasted like honey and niceness. He felt weird but when he opened his eyes, he was on Mt. Olympus.

  It was a magnificent place full of magnanimous building and powerful gods. He felt a fittle lugubrious at first, but then he felt at home. He wanted to talk to the gods and and find a place to live on Mt. Olympus but he looked down off the mountain and saw Athens.

  Everyone down there was still struggling to recreate Athens so Ares used his powers and rebuilt Athens as good as knew. Ares heard cheering and with that, Ares gave a gift to Athens and said that they will never be harmed or touched by any evil outside force. So Athens and Ares lived a happy, peaceful life.