Family Circle

There once was a man, Etzvanogo, who had a quest, a very brave quest, a very dangerous quest. He had to cross the Tilsm Desert, saunter across the Valley of the Rain, conquer the Dragon of Agulamanaga, and arrive in the wonderful city of Penz. It cost him much bravery, but he was determined to follow his father’s footsteps of doing dangerous deeds.

He started his journey at the foot of the oversized arched rock Eddam and he started running. That was a bad choice, since he had plenty of time, and the expedition would only take three months walking.

As he reached the Tilsm Desert he stopped to drink from the Gandol, a gadget that keeps itself filled with water to drink. Then, he started his long journey across the desert and found it was full of life. But not mostly cacti, or any plant. It was full of spiders! They crawled in gigantic swarms, ripping and tearing at his skin, making it almost impossible to sleep. But when he cried a long howl, the spiders ran away. They were repelled by sound! Whenever he saw a spider, he shouted and it scurried away. That made the journey much easier.

But soon, his throat was sore from all the shouting. So he designed a whistle made of Mudstone, dried wet sand, and spider exoskeletons. It worked perfectly. But he did not know that the queen spider was after him.

She came, and she was simply colossal. It loomed high above him, and Etzvanogo was so chickened out that he bolted behind a boulder. Then he thought ‘I’m not a chicken’ and ran to meet the queen spider. The whistle was still flying, starting down and then-KABOOOOOOM!!!! – It landed right on the middle of her head, her pressure point. Etzvanogo walked past the border of the desert and headed for the Valley of the Rain.

It was easy to recognize, even from far away. It was completely covered by a humongous cumulonimbus. He got there and it was constantly pouring and he thought ‘Totally opposite places, no wet and no dry.’ And there were no animals, only plants. Trees, bushes, lots of moss, you name it!

And you thought it was easy to cross. He soon found it was ruled by a group of man-eating birds, the Carbå, and had wiped out all the living animals, and their specialty was humans…

They flew over him in circles, cawing and cawing. But he was too strong and equipped for them. One throw of his motion-seeking boomerang, all of them were dead. He crossed it with ease.

Now for the dragon. The dragon rarely came out, only when there was another prince to gobble down. The dragon was stupid, but the princes were even stupider. But Etzvanogo was smart. He knew the dragon’s weakness, the same as the Spider Queen: the head and the stomach. Of course, a stab in the heart would work, but the heaviest plating is over there. So he got one of his bombs placed it in a replica of him, and the Dragon saw the faux Etzvanogo and took it real. He swallowed it in one gulp. Only his stomach was injured, but not his brain or chest. So he threw all of his boomerangs and as the dragon was swatting them, he threw his sword right at the dragon’s forehead and once again, KABOOOOOOM!!!! He exploded.

Now the short journey to Penz. He had finished it, finished the journey and faced it all.