Kinard Mythology Anthology Volume III

by Kinard Middle School

When the summer was over, everyone came back to school and so did Jacob and Camren. While Camren and Jacob were at school Zeus, Poseidon, and Melquert were all still fighting over who was going to give them some of their power. So Poseidon said that Camren and Jacob needed it because they can breath under water and be great in school because they will now all about the ocean animals. Zeus said that he needed it because he could control the sky, and so he could, be really popular in school, and finally Melquert said that they needed it because he could be awesome and everyone would like them.

  The gods kept on fighting till a huge demon came and started tearing up the school. Then, the gods saw the big demon, and they all recognized him, and it was Hades the god of the underworld. Zeus struck him and struck him, and then Poseidon kept slapping him with water and Melquert  just stood there looking awesome.

  While the fight was going on, Hades sent his army of demon dogs at him and a evil skeleton army to attack all of the gods. The gods kept fighting for about a couple of days while when Jacob ran home he thought that Camren had something to destroy that evil monster. So, Jacob ran to Camren’s house and asked him if he wanted to join on the fight and Camren said that he wanted to fight a demon. While the got everything ready, they came over and started hitting the demon, and then Melquert said, “What are you doing?” So Melquert struck them with awesomeness power and then they just stood there and started blinding the demon.

  “You both got some of my power,” Melgert said.

  Then when Hades went back to the underworld, everyone lived back how there lives were. Because he gave Jacob and Cameron too much power, Merlquert started to die. Melquert because he gave Jacob and Camren too much power and he started to die. So, everyone was happy except Camren, Jacob, and Melquert.

  After a couple of days went by, it started to get all sad and droopy because Melquert died and everyone was really sad about that. Then they were one god short. Eventually Camren and Jacob became gods, after they grew older like about 30 years old and lived a lonely life and were eventually friends and were really good friends.

  Pine Trees and Apples to Pineapples

  By Ally

  Two Costa Rican towns accumulated together where they happily savored some sweet, juicy, and flavorful pineapples in front of them. There were several pineapples piled up and there were more just starting to grow in the distance.  The fruit shined and glistened and the spikes poked out in pride.  The sun shined down and the world seemed to be at peace.

  No fighting, anger, or tension.

  But it wasn't always like that.

  In fact, it was just one incident that caused everything to change.

  The leaders of the two cities were Juan and Jugo. They had great resemblance to each other, because they were twins.

  Juan was the ruler of Appleca and Jugo was the ruler of Pineville. Every day the towns would fight and fight and fight.

  “We have a better Clocker team than you!” A citizen of Pineville shouted in disbelief of the other town.

  “NO WAY, PROVE IT!” screamed an aged woman from Appleca. She then boiled up with anger from this act. Her face turned as red as a sour and pungent grapefruit and her fists slowly clenched together. The woman’s face scrunched up and she was ready to fight.

  There couldn't be a day without anger or hatred for the opposing town.

  One bright, sunny day in the middle of Spring, Hera, a goddess and queen of Olympus, got bored and decided to cause some trouble. She knew that both of the towns presented the different types of plants including pine trees and apples.

  Automatically that gave her an idea.

  So, from this idea she planted a new seed directly in between both of the towns because she knew that the towns would fight over the seed and who got it.

  The seed was plopped silently into the moist rich soil. The worms that lived in the soil could already taste its sour existence.  Hera gave the plant water and a spell that made it only grow when something truly incredible happens. This meant that if the town's fight, the seed will never actually grow.

  The seed sat there completely still.

   

  And it sat there for three months.

   

  It sat there until one day when a farmer from Appleca dug up some dirt next to the lonesome seed. He notice the little speck in the ground that stood out from the others. With excitement, he galloped into town and told everyone.

   

  This information traveled all the way to Pineville. Everyone knew that the seed was directly in between both towns so each person began to wonder.

  “I think Appleca should get the seed because we are a bigger um…….town,” an aggressive and annoying man from Appleca pauses and then exclaimed, “because we are more intelligent.”

  Then someone from Pineville would shoot back, and it would go back and forth until the dark, silent night.

  It was a week later that this quibbling turned into big arguments across the towns.

  The big arguments, as usual, never stopped without intervention by the leaders.

  Even though the twins disliked each other, they knew they had to think of a logical solution that would solve the towns’ problems.

  Eventually, after many days, the leaders decided that if they fought in a game both of the towns played, and the winner of them got the seed for the town, that maybe the chaos would stop.

  Since the leaders were in charge of the towns, there could be no interruption in this decision.

   

  Word was sent around about this game, and pretty soon it became a festival.

  For the first time, the towns got together to host the game. Which was very unusual since the towns were never happy together. So the leaders decided that they made the right decision and carried on with the game.

  After three long weeks of preparation, it came the time of the real event. Both of the towns accumulated into one big stadium.

   

  Juan and Jugo put their armour on and prepared for a long long battle. They knew each other's strengths and knew that it would take awhile to end. But they didn't know that it would never end. Up above Hera had been watching the whole thing. So she put a spell on both of the leaders so that there would never be a winner.  She loved making spells. Especially when it ended messing things up.  And in this scenario, messing things up was just what the towns needed.

   

  The game was clocker.  It was a fast paced game using two sticks and a round lightweight ball.  It would be arranged in between the leaders and each would try to hit the ball with the stick into the other one's goal.

  During the game the twins realized something.

  The fight would never end.

   

  They had been sweating and swatting at the ball  for hours and it felt like a whole day.

  The crowd sat half asleep, and the sun shone down which made it feel hotter every second.

  So, they sat there after they decided to take a break.  They hated each other and knew that they shouldn't.

   

  The longer they sat the more they realized that they would never solve anything if they kept up the quibbling.  In fact, that had never had solved anything.  The two towns got into many fights for this reason and they were just letting it happen.

  Jugo thought, why do we do this?....Why do we spend so much time and energy fighting each other when we could work together.

  It took lots of strength for the defeated and dull Jugo to finally look his brother in the eye and say the one thing that he has dreaded so much to say. “I am sorry, I shouldn't have been so mean and stubborn all of this time.”

  As he said this, Juan absorbed what Jugo said and began to cry exasperatedly.

       

  He had cried many times before this because of Jugo but never once in a relieved way.  “I am sorry too, for all of the hate I have given you.”

  Both brothers went leaping into one another and their tears went gushing down onto o
ne another's armor.

   

  The crowd began to gasp.

  And soon after this, everyone was apologizing.

   

  It was a day that they would never forget, and a day that would be enjoyed for forever.

  Immediately after this chaos, the little black seed shoots out of the ground leaving a giant implant where the seed was growing.

  It sprouted directly from the ground.  The leaves began to sprout incredibly fast, and a little blob was forming directly in the center of the bush.

     

  Soon after this people began to see the pineapple growing.

   

  They were astonished.

  Why now? Why us?

  But the only people that could answer that were the brothers.  They went by later that day and gave an hour long speech of how they were going to combine towns and their plant and town would be called Pineapple.  They said every word proudly and with honor.  They always said things proudly and with honor but this time they did it together.

  Then and there the pineapple completely sprouted out of its bush and plopped beneath the brothers.  They cut it open and were the first to eat it's delicious, citrusy and juicy substance.

   

  While they cut it out, the people gathered around could sniff the sweet smell that floated in the air.

  The pineapple was passed around slowly and quietly.

  From then on, the people from the town of Pineapple cherished the fruit and shared it with other people passing by.  The town grew to bond tightly together and the brothers lead them.  And it was all from Hera.  Because sometimes a mistake can turn into something that is not a mistake at all.

  The Changing Dragon

  By: Micah Robertson

  In a cave on a distant island, there were three sirens “that” looked like vultures “and” were caring for a egg none of the three saw before.The first siren said, “What if its parents come looking for it?”

  The second siren said, “No chance, I saw its parents killed by the Greeks.”

  And the third one said, “So let's care for it as our own.” All three sirens agreed on this.

  The gods in Olympus saw this and they agreed that it was the right thing for the sirens to do. But the gods were worried because they also knew that the Greeks were looking for it and that they would stop at nothing to get that egg because that egg was a changing dragon egg, a dragon that can use all of the elements like fire, water, nature etc. It wasn't long until the greeks found the egg.   

  The Greeks on the island where puzzled that they didn't find the egg. But after a few hours, they found the footprints that the second siren made. They followed the footprints to the cave. The sirens used their powers to get them away but the Greeks pushed in and took the egg. The Greeks ran down to the shore and they were in such a hurry that they forgot one man named Pompythesis was left behind.  

  Pompythesis had know choice but to go back to the sirens cave. When the sirens woke up, they were startled to see the Greek there. Pompythesis said, “I beg you to take me home I will do anything for you.

  The first siren said, “ Ok but we want to know where those men took the egg because that egg is very dangerous. The gods said that it was a changing dragon and that it could not be raised like a normal dragon is raised.”

  The young Greek definitely agreed to this, but meanwhile back with the Greeks they were nearly halfway home and already bad luck was with them, the waves were crashing on them like an eagle diving for its prey. But the sirens and the young Greek made a boat and was heading for Greece where the changing dragon was about to hatch. In a stable in Greece, a baby changing dragon was born and the captain of the mission,Pom said, “Do you know the type of dragon this is Caca.?”

  “Yes,” said Caca, “It is a changing dragon that can use any element like fire, ice, nature etc.

  “Yes, you are correct,” said Pom, “I'm going to sell this magnificent dragon to one of the wealthy men.”

  “Sell it to me,” said Caca. “I have the most experienced dragon breakers and dragon trainers in all of Greece.”

  Pom agreed to this thinking that over the years that he would steal the dragon and kill Caca. Over the years, the sirens got very lost and they killed Pompythesis because they thought that he was lying and after they killed him they returned home empty handed. But meanwhile in Greece, the changing dragon had found its powers. One night, Pom broke in and killed Caca and stole the dragon, he wanted to use the dragon to get back at the sirens for that long ago the sirens killed his family. The next morning, he rode the dragon to siren island. When Pom reached the island, the sirens saw the dragon and knew that that was the changing dragon.  They ran down to the dragon and said, “It is us that had cared for you when you were a egg.”

  Pom said, “do not listen to them now kill them!” The dragon obeid and fired ice and it nearly killed one of the sirens.

  But just then, Athena the Goddess of war and wisdom came down and said, “ These three sirens are telling the truth, now kill this man for he is the real villain.” Pom turned white as snow and the dragon turned and froze him with ice. The dragon and the sirens had a reunion. But it was not over they saw a hundred more Greek ships coming!

  Athena and the changing dragon rose up and combined their powers and made a Athen Dragon and killed 50 Greek ships in three seconds. The remaining turned back and headed home. For many years the sirens and the dragon lived in peace.

  The Sheep's Wool

  By Mila Schneider

  Every day Genette would tend to the helpless little sheep that grazed in the field all day doing absolutely nothing. Gennette only kept the sheep because her poor old father believed that one day they would be used for something great. She would then get going on her daily routine. Every day, the young girl would go out and gather ramie that grew in her father's greenhouse. She would pick and cut the ramie perfectly for making her clothing that she would sell at the market that weekend to make money to support her family since her father was getting a little too old to be working. It was only her and her father that lived on a farm that sat on a hill right on the edge of the Greek city, Athens.

  Genette was a 16-year-old girl with auburn hair. Her mother had died when she was 10 years old from a fire that had started the market from a flamethrower that had no talent. Gennette tried not to think of it because when she did she instantly started crying.

  She once found her father sitting in his favorite chair reading the newspaper. His eyes were set on an article about what was going on in the town below. She looked over his shoulder and saw people saying that sheep were useless creatures and that their species shouldn't even exist. That got her wondering why her father still wanted to keep the sheep and not get something like a cow that produces delicious white milk. A cow would be a far better animal to keep around than a sheep.

  She pulled the newspaper away from him and asked, “Why do you still want to keep those worthless sheep anyway? Everyone in the town obviously agrees that they do nothing but sit a graze all day long. If we get rid of them, and get cows, we could be selling cheese and milk and other dairy products at the market instead of clothes. We wouldn’t need the expensive ramie plant in the greenhouse.”

  He looked at her with big eyes, “I have told you before, I believe that some day the sheep will become the most useful animals the world has ever laid eyes on. They may not be very useful now, but they will be, trust me, you just need to give it time. But for now, why don’t you go out and cut the ramie in the greenhouse before it gets too late.”

  She shrugged and had an awful thought that her father was going crazy, but she shook away that horrible idea the moment she had it. Of course, her father might have some different thoughts but he was not going crazy...she hoped.

  As she walked up to the door to the greenhouse, she noticed that the lock on the door wasn’t locked, it looked like it had been jammed open...recently. She opened the door and looked inside and w
hat she saw surprised her more than anything had surprised her before. The ramie had been stolen! Pots were tipped over, everything was out of place and even one of the greenhouse windows was broken, which she oddly didn’t notice when she walked up to the greenhouse, but the worst part was, there was no ramie to be seen, every single leaf had been stolen. Even the beautiful scent of the ramie was gone. She had always thought the ramie smelled like a wonderful spring day in the forest, and now it was gone! How could this happen? How was she going to explain this to her father? He would feel so lugubrious. They had absolutely no way to make enough money to buy more ramie. Only if those stupid sheep could make them money!

  Up above on Mount Olympus, the goddess of weaving, Athena, saw what had happened to Genette. She had always been very fond of Genette because she made such fine clothes. She wanted to try and help Genette, but she knew that since ramie was so hard to get in Greece because it is a plant that likes to grow in Eastern Asia, there was no way that she could help Genette in time for the market. She started thinking about how she could help Genette and her father. And then the goddess had a great idea.

  Genette slowly walked back inside dreading that she would have to be the one to tell him the bad news. The front door slowly opened and she found him exactly where he was, reading now a different article. Steadily, she walked up to her father, and sat down in the squishy chair that sat in front of the one her father sat in. He looked a little confused because she was supposed to be collecting the ramie.

  “Hey dad,” she said with a guilty smile trying to procrastinate, “I, uh, need to tell you something that you're not going to like.”

  He knew right away that something was up.

  “The ramie sort of got stolen,” Genette said with gaps in the middle of each word.

  She knew she would be in big trouble, so she just sat there on the couch with her eyes shut and a scrunched up face ready for the fireworks to explode out of her father. But no fireworks came. He said nothing and got up and left. This was no surprise to Genette because it had happened before when her mother had died, he was going to pray to their goddess Athena.

  It was not long before Athena had gotten the prayer from Genette's father. She knew that things were getting utterly urgent so she decided to test out her master plan. The great goddess went to the cloud closest to Genette’s house and found exactly what she was looking for, the sheep. Disguised as an old woman, she found Genette sitting on the porch and she went to go and talk to her.

  Athena sat next to Genette and said, “Why do you look so down my child?”

  Genette answered with a long face, “Well, let’s just say there is nothing to sell at the market this weekend.”

  “Oh, I wouldn’t be too sure of that,” and with that the old woman touched one of the bare sheep’s back and instantly it started growing little white curly hairs everywhere. The old woman touched another and out poked those curly hairs. She touched another and another and soon enough, all of the sheep in that field had their own huge blanket of white, curly, and soft hairs. The sheep could barely stand up with all of the new hairs on their back and the field was filled with baaing in all kinds of pitches.

  Genette looked at the old woman with eyes as wide as an owls and was finally able to mutter, “Are you some kind of god?” As she sat there gaping at the old woman in awe.

  And with that the old ugly woman turned into the beautiful goddess Athena.

  “Now, you can shave off the precious sheep's wool to make beautiful clothes that nobody has ever seen before. You can still go to the market and make enough money to last you and your father the entire year.”

  Genette squealed with delight.

  Her father came rushing outside to see what caused all of the baaing, and to his surprise he saw the goddess Athena standing right next to his house and even more surprising the sheep had their own white curly blanket laying on them.

  Genette ran up to her father and said with delight, “We have something to sell at the market tomorrow! We can shave off the sheep's wool and make one of a kind clothing.”

  He looked at her with a huge smile on his face and he said with a laugh, “I told you that those sheep would be good for something one day.”

  And with that, Athena went back up to Mount Olympus and looked down as she saw all of the wool be weaved into marvelous clothing that would last for a long time.