Kinard Mythology Anthology
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How the Horse Was Created
By Brian
One fine morning, a Pegasus named Soul was born from his mother a fairly young Pegasus who died giving birth to Soul. Some say people Soul had the heart and soul of a killer because he killed his mom in the process of being born. After many years, Soul was now a young Pegasus.
He flew to Ancient Greece, a country full of lush green grass. Or he thought so. It was actually a polluted city full of people. He wanted to go to Greece to start his life over. There, he made some bad friends. He went around Greece causing a lot of trouble. When lord Pegasus heard about this, he reported to Zeus king of gods immediately.
Zeus bellowed in rage, “BRING HIM TO ME! I DO NOT WANT ANYMORE SNAKES IN PEOPLES UNDERWEAR!” In a few seconds, Soul was trembling towards Zeus, the king of all gods. Zeus’s face was red with fury and shouted at Soul,” STOP THIS NON-SENSE!”
“Yes sir “Soul retorted trembling with fear.
Zeus said,” If I ever hear of this again, I will serve you horrible punishment.” Soul walked away with a horrible feeling in his heart. He walked to his friends and one named Tony came to him and asked
“What's wrong Soul? Let’s go destroy some crops and cause trouble!”
Soul replied,” I don’t feel like it.”
“That’s not like you.” Tony replied said as he tilted his head in question.
“I need to get some rest I’m not feeling good right now.”
“Ok we will visit on you later.”
Soul flew home and sat in the stable. He started pacing back and forth thinking about what he should do. Should he ignore Zeus and keep causing trouble with his friends or should he stop and tell his friend what had happened. The moment he made his mind up, he heard a knock on the door. He opened it to find his friends at the door. He greeted them and willed them to come in.
Steve, leader of the gang asked him,” What's wrong? You’re not as cheerful as you usually are.”
Soul decided to tell them about him being summoned to Zeus. They laughed at him and said,” Are you really going to let him ruin your life?”
“But I don’t want to get in trouble.”
“Don’t be a chicken c’mon let’s go!”
“Alright. But this has to be a secret okay?” Soul said with a feeling that this would go wrong.
“Okay.”
So they went back raiding people’s houses. They came across a house with a husband and a wife. They made a mistake of not checking the window first to see if anyone was inside. When they went inside the house, they saw two people, the wife was named Amber as they soon figured out and the husband was named Bruce. They were very scared and reported this event to Zeus. When Zeus heard about this, he was very disappointed in Soul and summoned him again.
“Why are you doing this Soul?” Zeus asked
“My friends made me.”’
“For punishment, I will put you on a magical island for 10 millennia without your wings.”’
“But sir,”
“No excuses.”
“Yes sir.”
So from that day on, Soul lived in the magical island and no one could pass through or go out without Zeus’s permission. After 10 millennia, Zeus forgot about Soul and so after that, Soul had a new name. He called himself Horse. After many more millennia, many more Pegasus’ experienced the same fate as Soul and they had children together. That is the story of the first horse that ever lived.