“What was that for?” bellowed Adam.
“He is our treacherous enemy yet you still think he will help us. What is the matter with you?” Mary retorted.” “Listen up everyone. Our only option is to stay here for now, as the dragon cannot cross the river but by tomorrow afternoon he will be here with some of his friends, so let’s leave tomorrow morning. If you don’t get up in time, then you will be left behind. Do you understand”, hollered Mary.
“Yes” replied the people obediently looking on in disbelief as they continued to mourn for the people who did not make it this far.
Mary and the rest of the ill-fated citizens went to sleep. Upon awakening they all drowsily followed Mary and Adam who had been good friends ever since childhood and were always together wherever they were. Adam was almost like a following shadow glooming behind Mary. The exhausting journey to their new location took hours of travelling but they finally made it. The people collapsed on the uneven ground and were completely out of energy. Their arduous and gruelling journey absorbed up most of their energy like a withering plant desperately draining every last drop of water from its soil.
“Mary.” whimpered Adam who was uncontrollably out of breath. “Don’t you think we are travel too much? I don’t think everybody can take much more of this agonizing punishment in one day,” as the glistening droplets of sweat slowly trickled down Adam’s neck.
“Adam! Don’t you know that we have to do this, or we should just give up now and walk into the dragon’s mouth? They are quicker and stronger then we are and they have God on their 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, as she angrily glanced at Adam.
“Yes I understand’, countered Adam, but every one is not like you. We can’t keep walking for long periods. We need rest.” Adam turned and hobbled to the others heatedly, his eyes crimson red with anger.
“Well if that’s all you need to say, I need to go and help the others.” As Mary marched away she turned around and guiltily said, “Adam you know I love you but we have been friends for so long, don’t you trust me?”
“It’s not that, but we are sick of running away, and we can’t 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. I have been your shadow and follower but you have to listen to me, for once. It may be our only hope.”
Out of nowhere a terrible gust of ghastly wind blew through their campsite. The sky darkened; casting eerie shadows over the uneven, muddy ground. 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 once again and God’s devious laughter could be heard from all directions ringing in people’s heads. Spine tingling fear ran through their veins causing a shiver to run down to the tip of their toes. Hearts were beating like a drum and people were sweating profusely. They all knew what was coming next. Adam, who would usually be whimpering on the floor, stood up tall and confident, as his back arched, ready for action. Facing towards the perilous dragons, all the victims started to huddle in together. Each nervous painstaking step was slow and careful. The dragons beamed triumphantly as their sneering faces started to snicker and a fiery blaze lit their glowing eyes. They hissed like a cobra before it stroke. 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 guard Mary and shaped a battle formation. The dragons slithered in with their claws ready to strike but unexpectedly Adam screamed, “stop”. Everything paused…..Adam broke into another sweat as his heart nervously pumped and he could feel his knees collapsing underneath him but he stood up tall and brave like a true warrior.
“God, I challenge you. I bet you can’t squeeze this land and crush it with you bare hands. We are exactly in he middle of the earth, come and squash us your self unless you are a coward,” ordered Adam.
He responded in his deep abrasive voice.” As you wish, Adam. You will be the destruction of your people. Get ready to be squashed!” Adam tightened his fist and his teeth clenched together as he waited for God to test his strength.
God’s hand fitted on the edge of the land. Slowly he lifted the earth. The dragons backed away from the people laughing and hissing. They went back about 200 meters and stopped and looked far into the land in 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 clamped together like a cobra’s teeth daggering into it pray. Adam and Mary gripped each other’s hand and theirs eyes shut. As they awoke the dust was not settled and they thought that they were in an after life. The smoky dust settled leaving the sun to shimmer over the earth clearing the sky. The pearl blue sky drank the fear and dreadfulness away from the earth. God’s arrogance lead him to think that the earth was crushed. As all the dust settled he saw in surprise that the earth was still there. The only thing left was high land because the land was squashed upwards. God rubbed his enormous astonished 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 destroyed his own creatures. God’s eyes changed into a fiery red colour and his monstrous roar echoed through the trees as he rampaged back into his gloomy castle out of the stroboscopic mist.
“Adam you did it. Thank you. You are a good friend and a great leader”, screamed ecstatically while she gave Adam a hug. “It is finally over now. We have won!”
So, that is how mountains were formed. They were created 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
