“What was that for?” Roared Adam.
“He is our enemy yet you still think he will help us. What is the matter with you”, Mary replied.” Listen up everyone. Our best option is to stay here for now, as the dragon cannot cross the river but by tomorrow afternoon he will be here and with some of his friends so lets leave tomorrow morning. If you don’t get up in time then you will be left behind” Do you understand”, staggered Mary.
“Yes” said the people.
Mary and the rest of the people went to sleep and all of the people woke up and sleepily followed Mary. Mary and Adam were good friends ever since they were young and were always together where ever they were. The journey to there new location took hours of traveling but they made it. The people collapsed on the floor and were out of energy. Their long journey sucked up most of their energy despite having to wake up early in the morning.
“Mary. Mary” called Adam. “Don’t you think we are traveling to much? I don’t think everybody can take much more of this traveling.”
“Adam! Don’t you know that we have to do this, or we should just walk into the dragon’s mouth? They are quicker and stronger then they and us have god on there side. The only way we can survive is by moving far away from our last site. Remember what happened last time. Half our people died and we are running out of supplies. We have to move places to collect more supplies and dodge the dragons”, answered Mary.
Adam countered, “Yes I understand but every one is not like you. We can’t keep walking for long. We need rests.”
“Well if that’s all you need to say I need to go help the others.” As Mary walked away she turned around and guiltily said, “Adam you no I love you but we have been friends for this long, don’t you trust me.
“Its not that but were sick of running we cant live in fear forever. We have come up with a plan to trick god and kill all of his dragons at the same time, said Adam. For once just trust me.”
Out of nowhere a terrible gust of wind blew through their campsite. There was a sudden pause and then the trees in the distance dropped one by one like dominoes and dragons came from all sides. They were trapped. The sky arose in darkness and god’s devious laughter could be herd from all directions. Fear ran through their veins. Hearts were pumping and people were sweating. They all knew what was coming next. Adam, who would usually be whimpering on the floor, stood up tall and confident. All people started to walk in together but facing towards the dragons. Each nervous step was slow and careful. The dragons were full of joy and relief. There facial expression said, finally we got them. You could see the smirks on the faces and the confidence in their eyes. All of a sudden the silence broke as Mary fell on the floor. “Adam rushed to pick her up and the people all ran to each and formed a battle formation. The dragons all rushed in with their claws ready to strike but all of a sudden Adam screamed, “ stop”.
“God I challenge you. I bet you, you can’t squeeze this land and crush it with you bear hands. We are exactly in he middle of the earth come squash us your self unless you are chicken”, ordered Adam.
God replied in his deep scratchy voice.” As you wish Adam. You will be the destruction of your people. Get ready to be squashed!”
God’s hand fitted on the edge of the land. Slowly he lifted the land. The dragons backed away from the people laughing and hissing. They went back about 200 meters and stopped and looked far into the land at god’s hand. The earth started to shake as it was lifted higher. God was so furious that a mere mortal dared to test his strength that he forgot that his dragons were still on the earth. With a single swift movement his hands clamed together like a cobra’s teeth daggering into it pray. His arrogance leads him to think that the earth was crushed. As all the dust settled he saw in surprise that the earth was still there just there were high land because the land was squashed upwards. God rubbed his eyes and checked again at the earth it was true. He was tricked. Adam was laughing in surprise as well. The people were cheering and shouting not at just the fact that they survived but that god destroys his own creatures.
“Adam you did it. Thank you. You are a good friend and a great leader”, said Mary happily while she gave Adam a hug. “It finally over now. We have won.”
This myth was about how mountains were formed. They were formed in this story because god pushed the earth together and this cause land to rise because when the land was pushed together all of the middle land had to go somewhere and the only room was in the sky. God’s anger and arrogance cause him to be tricked and made him destroy his dragons.
By: Rishi Patel
