Kinard Mythology Anthology Volume III

by Kinard Middle School

All of a sudden, Achilles showed up throwing and stabbing spears at the four beasts. Shocked by the surprise, Hwon and Cree jumped in and fought too as the four birds retreated. We all new they would be back for more, so we prepared for the worst.    

  A week later, they returned but not with four. They returned with 400 as we saw them approaching over the horizon we were lugubrious . They were furious because that one hit Achilles threw was fatal, and he killed the alpha.As they came storming in, we killed them off one by one until one hit Achilles heal, and he was dieing quickly, and we had one more left to kill, but little did we know it was the chief.

  All of a sudden, the phoenix bolted at Cree just as Achilles jumped in front of it and killed it. Right as he, himself found he was Oozing blood out of his heel, he could smell and taste the

  underworld and died.

  A Fraction of an Android

  By: E. Willow Shadow

  For thousands of years, humans were doing just fine; until pollution and garbage made Earth nearly impossible to live on. Eros was a newly discovered Earth-like planet, perfect for supporting life, but Earth was better. Now, instead of pollution people have to deal with, it was horrible, deadly creatures.

  The town of Phobos was home to many creatures such as Manticores, Giant Eagles(can pick up about 10 people at a time, and flies away with them), and more of the sort.

  These creatures made surviving a bit difficult. Aidan had run into a Manticore quite recently, while she was going out to the trade store. She tried to sneak past it, but then Aidan realised, entangled between its legs was a much smaller creature--a baby Manticore. And just as the mother Manticore turned her head, it saw her, and Aidan had to reach safety in about a minute or two, or she would be torn apart and eaten. She could hear its massive bat wings flapping hard to try and keep the hirsute beast in the air; all the while trying to stab her with the giant scorpion tail attached to its rear, in place of a tail.

  Aidan ran as fast as she could, and finally, spotted a warehouse that could provide shelter. She slid under the massive metal garage door, and she could still hear the heavy breathing and scratching of the Manticore outside, too big to fit through the small gap. The warehouse smelled of lemons and oranges, which made sense when she saw a bottle of scented floor cleaner. She turned to one side of the room, and saw a mirror. Aidan admired her reflection. She had blond hair that faded to light blue hanging down to a little higher than her waist, green eyes, and a jean jacket, light grey shirt, and shorts with ankle-high boots. Aidan sighed. Not very fashionable, in her opinion.

  Then, without warning, the lights flickered out. This was normal, because the lighting system was still being worked on, and so the lighting wasn’t very stable.

  She then heard a scratching from outside, and grabbed her taser, even though it was just the Manticore trying to get in another way. Most people had tasers equipped on them to temporarily stun Androids.

  Ever since the war broke out, tasers became more common. The war was by far one of the fiercest battles most historians had ever seen, and it began when humans were stupid enough to give Androids AI (Artificial Intelligence), and then, well, they started to learn on their own. Eventually, the Androids started demanding rights, like humans have. Some people voted for it, but others remained firm against the Androids and other machines such as their toasters (since then, a lot of people still can’t eat toast, because the toasters refuse).

  Suddenly, Aidan heard groaning, and she looked around, and saw a hallway in one corner. She followed the groaning sound down the hallway and through a large door marked, ‘Parts Room’. It was a large room made of brick, in which sunlight barely glinted through the small, rectangular windows, which gave Aidan a prison-cell vibe, since they were barred. A feeling like something was being trapped here. And then she saw it. They were everywhere--Android’s severed parts. There were even boxes full of parts. It was like a technology mass-murder.

  “I can’t move...”

  Aidan looked around the room, and in one corner, she saw a shape. Then, the lights flickered back on and she realized it was a person.

  “What happened here?!” said Aidan.

  “There were a lot less Android corpses when I got here.” the figure replied. “We’re all Androids. All of us here--- well, except you. But I’m one, too.”

  The Aidan  then started crawling, very slowly, to a charging station. Then, the Android set itself to charge.

  Then, they spoke; “By the way, my name’s Jay. Who are you?” said Jay.

  “I’m Aidan. Nice to meet you.” replied Aidan.

  Much later, and to their surprise, gunshots could be heard from outside and a huge explosion set off nearby, so big that it knocked Jay out of her charging station, and onto the floor where Aidan was knocked down, also.

  “Uh, oh.” they said in unison.

  “That must be UNIFY,” said Jay.

  “Who now?” Aidan questioned.

  “They want to eliminate everyone except themselves to restore Eros to ‘the perfect society’.” said Jay, “they’ll even kill one of their own if they step out-of-line.”

  They both ran outside to, in both horror and disbelief, there were people in massive, armored rovers, tanks, and more, shooting down buildings and people alike.

  “There is nothing you can do,” said a man inside one of the armored rovers.

  “We have to stop this!” exclaimed Aidan, “This isn’t right! People should stick together! Not fight each other!”

  “There’s a major difference between what is right, and how much power people have. A large amount of power over others can drive some people to do crazy things.” said Jay calmly. “There is nothing we can do. We’re only two people.”

  “Don’t go repeating what the guy in the tank was saying--wait--I know!” shouted Aidan excitedly.

  Then, they ran back into the warehouse and into the Android cemetery. Then, Aidan set to work. Hours later, she was finally finished. She and Jay had rebuilt most of the androids, since most of their main functional parts were fixable enough.

  “We have an army of Androids!” screamed Aidan, “Yaaas!”

  “Okay, I get that you’re excited,” said Jay.

  And with that, they set out to battle against UNIFY.

  They fought for quite some time, rovers and tanks shooting down Androids, and Androids swarming the giant metal behemoths.

  Suddenly looking around, Jay realised that UNIFY had a laser cannon--pointing at Aidan.

  “Look out!” shouted Jay, but amongst all the chaos, Aidan couldn’t hear her.

  Jay started sprinting, faster and faster, dodging left and right to avoid the chaos and destruction around her. Without warning, time seemed to slow down for a moment. The fight all around them; then it fired. The laser cannon fired. She ran as fast as she could, trying to get to Aidan. Then, Aidan turned to see her friend in front of her, standing there, as the laser cannon fired. Jay absorbed the shock, saving Aidan’s life, but losing her own in the process, and this thought came to Aidan as Jay was blown into a million pieces right in front of her, that shot into space and appeared infinitesimally small from where she stood.

  Many years later, Aidan still remembered and admired Jay’s bravery, and decided it was time. She had recovered Jay’s hard drive, which was the only piece of her not blown into deep space. Hours later, she was finished.

  “How you feeling?” Aidan asked nervously, unsure if it worked.

  “Good.” said Jay. “And..uh..thanks for rebuilding me. Wow. You look older than before.”

  “I missed you!” said Aidan, her eyes full of happy tears.

  “I missed, you too.” said Jay calmly, pulling Aidan into a tight hug. “I’ll always have your back.”

  Since then, the sun has reflected off the pieces of the Android who gave her life for her friend’s, and humans have started calling the fractures ‘stars’, and they still shine brightly to this day.

  Thieves Never Win

  By: J
ames Miller

  In Houston, Texas, the year 2017, Jamey was in her living room. She was gladly knitting a fuzzy sweater for her cousin with her lips curled back, smiling. While Chris was in his basement plotting revenge, with a grin on his face, making sure that he had no contact with anyone, while he was working on the plot.

  While Hades was petting his Cerberus, and hanging out with the minotaur, in the Underworld, he was watching over all bad people.

 

  Back in 1971, Jamey would tease Chris. He thought it was because she didn’t like him, but it was the exact opposite. Jamey really had a crush on him.

  But now, back in 2017, Chris was finally figuring out how to get Jamey back. Chris had figured out the perfect way to get her back, stealing!

  Since they still lived right across the street from each other, Jamey still liked him. She had been working up the guts to ask him out. Chris never thought that it would have been a crush for all those years of teasing.

  They would always say , “hello”, every once and awhile just like normal neighbors while Jamey’s cheeks were red, and Chris was sweating hoping that she wouldn’t find out his secret.

  Jamey went to sleep that night as happy as ever while Chris just got in his car to go to Jamey’s house. When Jamey woke up she was excited because it was her birthday. But, once she walked downstairs she notices places empty in her house. She thought nothing of it. But then, the next morning even more things were gone. So then Jamey called the police, and she said,“Hello, I think I have been robbed!” she told the police.

  “We will be right over ma’am.”

  Meanwhile, Chris was at his house watching as loud sirens and cop cars went across the street.

  The officer said to Jamey,“The most we can do right now is either stay here all night, or you can set up a video camera. ”

  Jamey replied, “I will do the video camera thing.”

  That night, Chris came back and the video camera ran out of batteries, so the camera didn’t get it, but somebody else saw him do it.

  The following morning, Jamey checked the camera and saw that it ran out of batteries, and she was thinking that the camera was as useless as a garden hose with it not being hooked up to water.

  The next night, Chris came back, but he had a surprise in store for him, Hades, the minotaur, and his cerberus went into Jamey’s house and waited for Chris to rob Jamey again, and as soon as Chris showed up, they brought him to the underworld. In the morning Jamey saw that their were burn marks on the ground, as she touched them they were still hot, and it smelled like smoke in her house. She went to get breakfast, and everything that there was to eat in her house tasted like smoke.Once Jamey woke up in the morning, she went down and reviewed the footage, and she saw Hades taking chris to the underworld.

  Jamey then went down there herself. She found Chris. They saw each other and Jamey ran to him, and she finally confessed that she loved him. Jamey and Chris two of them had to work it out with Hades and he let him go back up to the real world.

  Up there, they worked out a few things and then they decided to get married.

  Then, they both told their parents and Chris’s parents asked why, and he told them.

  “It turns out, that after all of those years of teasing, it was because she actually liked me.”

  They had the wedding, but the deal with Hades is what they had forgotten; it was that Chris had to spend three months in the Underworld for the rest of his life, and Jamey could come down for two out of the three months. The two lived up the ten months that they both had on earth.

  A few years later, the two had three kids, four dogs, and a beautiful house to live in, they even had made a home in the underworld. Hades soften up since they had kids and dogs. So, they could stay in the Underworld of all three months.

  Chris made sure not to do anything bad again.