Kinard Mythology Anthology
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The Awesome Adventure
By Niro the Creeper
The blazing sun shone on me, Traxxas slash 4x4, as I rolled into the busy market to get a lot of new batteries. I was red and black and build for the off road with off road tires and racing details. The tires smelled like dog doo. My racing details were as sharp as a knife.
One day, I got lost in the market and then a crate of fish was dropped on me by accident. It almost flattened me like a pancake and I was soaked in fish slime and I was mad. It was so crowded, I couldn't see where I was going. Then, I got so lost I ended up out in the middle of nowhere in the middle of a forest which was uninhabited.
I didn’t know where I was and then Nuker, the god, reigned catastrophe all around me and I skidded aimlessly trying to avoid getting hit and he was firing shots like the one in tanks at me and they made mini mushroom clouds every time they hit something.
Later on, I got more lost and I didn’t know what the elevation and latitude and longitude where. I got so lost.
All of a sudden, I ran over some wet banana peels and I spun around in circles. I spun around so fast that I didn’t know I was about to run into a furry brown bear named Bananas. Crash! I crashed into bananas.
“Sorry,” I said.
“Never mind,” he replied as he kept opening up a delicious banana.
Suddenly, the Nuker threatened to nuke Bananas and I but then Bananas and I went to work. We gave him a counter attack. I handed bananas to Bananas the kind Bear and he squirted bananas out of their peels using his arm pits. The result was like a machine gun.
“I love the stench of bananas in the morning,” said Bananas. As he shot the bananas, they smacked Nuker in his hairy face and killed him. He was crushed by so many bananas that one was in his stinky nostril.
At last, Bananas directed me through the dangerous muddy terrain, and he let me ride on his back. As soon as we got home, we became roommates. We lived together, and we ate together. We played awesome video games together. We went quickly around in circles seriously shooting each other until one of our tanks blew up in the game. Bananas the bear got bigger and stronger and I got stronger and lighter in pounds.
The moral of the story is nature is never too hard to conquer. Adventures can be dangerous!
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The Tail of Poison Ivy
By Gabe Patterson
“Wow.” Apex says. “To this point we have no chance…. no chance at all, Italy now has no chance.”
“You have made your point Apex, and you’re right, no more opportunities.” says an Italy fighter.
During the war against Greece and Italy, the amazing Greek warrior, Achilles, was winning the whole battle for the Greeks. At night, people thanked him for trying hard and winning this battle, as Italy was bigger and stronger, it was a big surprise that Greece was winning. At a meeting of the gods, Ares, god of war, was very furious because Italy wasn’t winning. Zeus made a rule about no interfering, but Ares was closing out Zeus’ voice with his anger.
Apex, an Italy fighter, was furious that they weren’t winning. He and his army agreed that they needed help from someone powerful, someone that overpowered ALL warriors, even someone who was immortal, like Achilles. Everyone was thinking of someone that was on their side, and was an overpowered war genius. Then they thought. Apex said, “what about Ares? He is always on the more powerful side, maybe we could actually get him to come help us!” Everyone agreed with the smart and strong Apex.
Apex and his army sent a message to the god. Ares retrieved it and agreed, but he had to keep a secret. He sent a quick message back letting Italy know that they will help them.
Apex made an announcement about what Ares would do to help them, he would deflect arrows, and protect them in every way. Someone asked “What if he betrays us? What if he goes onto the Greek side?” Apex answered, “Trust me”, knowing he would never betray them, “He always is on the most powerful side, even though they are losing.” He brought up a point, everyone knew that Ares would favor the more powerful team.
The next day, everyone was preparing for battle, feeling confident because of Ares helping them, also feeling safe and like they were indestructible. When the battle began, arrows were whistling through the slight breeze heading towards the Italy fighters as Ares blocked them from hitting Italy. Achilles was storming in on Italy, as Ares could barely do anything.
Achilles was indestructible, and being immortal he knew it was no problem to kill everyone from Italy he saw. But then Ares had an idea, he could craft a special javelin with poison on its tip. He knew that nothing would be strong enough to resist this strong javelin.
After the big battle, Ares was almost no use, but he had a plan the next day. Italy had switched the regular weak javelin with the strong poison tipped one.
The day after that, Italy had gathered their weapons, and was ready to battle, knowing Ares had a better plan. Apex had gathered his stuff, his pile of weapons felt heavy, but he dealt with it as he was ready to battle.
Apex saw Achilles storming in on them. Apex, knowing that Achilles was indestructible, still threw the javelin in a huge effort. He missed. But then he picked up the heavy, strong, poison tipped javelin, and chucked it so hard it could rip through any normal man. It had struck Achilles in the stomach. Achilles, thinking that he was ok stilled tried to continue with the battle. But he got weaker, and weaker, and finally died. At the very end of the day Italy had been winning, slashing through all of the warriors.
Later that night, the Greek army took the immortal Achilles, and buried him in the woods, where he could rest in peace.
About a month later, his mother came to visit him at his grave, but she couldn’t find it. The area was covered in a weird kind of plant. She left because the grave was nowhere to be seen.
People were wandering in the woods one day where they found the mysterious plant, it made them itch and had a puffy face. They had looked around for what may be causing this. After days they finally found Achilles grave, everyone was shocked of what had been causing this weird plant. From that day everyone had called that mysterious plant, poison ivy.