Kids Corner
The Kids Corner section of this fortnight’s newsletter have been written by Vivaan our school captain. I trust you enjoy his piece as much as I did!
The Broken Curse.
As Emma teetered and wobbled along the railway platform, cold rain began falling steadily. One solitary light flickered and popped, dying out completely, leaving her in murky darkness. “Great” she muttered, fossicking around her handbag. She pulled the lifeless Samsung device out. The battery was dead. She edged closer to the small glow of light from the ticketing office at the end of the platform only to see the man arising from the dark.
She ran as fast as she could with doom on her back. This night was the most intense of all. She ran and ran her heart beating faster and faster. Thump! There was silence. After minutes she flickered her eyelashes, “Is this a dream?”
Emma was in this bright red and orange land where everyone is punished for their sins. Then a dark voice arises, “Welcome to the darkest place in the universe…Hell!” The figure is summoned from the dark. “Emma, you have not realised what you have done just by doing a small joke, your sin will never be forgiven.” Then he explained, “remember that time you changed your dad’s watch setting?”
“Yes, but what’s that got to do with?”
He interrupted, “That watch setting was important for the whole world, the time held the curse of Zeus on Atlas that if Atlas even touched the ring of the watch the time would change and the whole world would be dropped by Atlas! In fact, in one year so the earth would be destroyed, and Atlas would be punished by death. That responsibility was given to your dad by Atlas as he won the trust of him.”
Emma then said with curiosity “How was Atlas given the curse?”
The devil answered, “Because Atlas gave the Earth to Hercules to hold, Zeus thought that as an act of laziness and gave him this curse.”
“So then how will I stop this curse?”
“It’s all up to you to fight Zeus in a war!”
So then Emma goes on a journey into the World of the Gods to get different powers of water, fire, wind and lightning. As she scuttled to the chamber of Poseidon who holds the power of water, Poseidon noticed she was there for the power of water. Taking a pity on her Poseidon gave her a chance to get all the powers she wanted at once if she passed the test.
Poseidon said, “ I will give you all the powers of the gods if you answer this question, “Why did Hercules go to Atlas?”
Nervously she answers, “To find where the three golden apples were”.
Poseidon then says, “You have been granted the powers of all gods!”
Then she wanders off to the mighty battlefield of the Greek Gods. Where Zeus said, “Welcome Emily I know that you want to defeat me to break Atlas’s curse, is that right?”
“Yes, because the curse you gave to Atlas was clearly unfair.”
“We will see about that, let the battle begin!”
Zeus starts with a blow of wind on Emma, Emma defends it with the earth shield and shoots venom and kills Zeus.
How did she do that? She's just a human. Then she said, “I am the main Goddess of the whole universe. I was here to defeat Zeus because he set up Atlas to give the Earth to Hercules, but evilly he turns on him and gives him the curse. I was here to defeat evil!”