You are Odysseus, you are travelling home from the Trojan War when you are confronted by a series of adventures and conflicts with fantastical beasts such as the Cyclopes.
Using your Features of a Myth list write a new episode for Odysseus to overcome during the 10 year journey and add your episodes to the comments below.
it was a drak night a hot brezy air flwoed in my hair when i was runing there was a ten feet tall lady standing in front of me i was shoked it was the great Athena she took me by the hand and push me with her to into the sky she shod me haven and hell she said the awesome Baraa you well become leke us i was scared what about my life Athens said you well watch over the world
a huge flame went in the middle of the eath out of the core of the eath and a man show up he struk a flame at Athena i said
Hurcel
yes my little one
i don't now why but i was turning into a werewolf Athena said one time i was a alpha of wolfs they always howled when i dot mad a weped behend hurcels and he was shoked he said o little one you will never ever is your family again i grwoled a sniffed you did not pick the right word my firand i kelled him i was shoked at my powers zue and proseydan and hes son persyus walked next to me and said you are mothe nature i was amused you can heal anything you kill anything you please your are one of us so i walked to Athena i healed her but she was a little mody for a cupple days but at the end of the i was proud
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Baraa
5/1/2013 02:43:00 am
It was a dark night a hot breezy air flowed in my hair: I was running. When I was running there was a ten feet tall lady who was standing in front of me. I was shocked: it was the great Athena. She took me by the hand and pushed me into the sky. She showed me heaven, and hell. She said, 'AWESOME Baraa! You will become one of us!'
I was scared, and said, 'What about my life?' She said, 'You will watch over the world!'. A huge flame went into the middle of the Earth. Out of the Earth's core, a man was laughing, evilly. He struck a flame at Athena.
I said, 'Hercules!'
He said, 'Oh, my dear, they are lying to you! You will never see your family again!'
I don't know why, but I was turning into a werewolf. Athena said a time ago, that I was an Alpha of the wolves. They howled when I was very very angry. I whipped behind Hercules, and he said, 'Oh, litle one! You have much to learn! He was walking and a flame behind him appeared. He wasn't there. Then the flame dissapeared. I growled and sniffed the ashes that were on the ground.
Zeus and Posideon, and his son Perseus walked out of a mysterious shadow. They walked slowly towards me. Zeus said, 'You can never believe this, but everyone doubts her, and uses her name in sentences.' Perseus said, in a shallow voice, which then became high-pitched, 'You are Mother Nature!'. I was extatic.
Posideon said, 'You can kill anything when you please. You can heal anything as you please. You are the one who made these creatures.'
'That means I can heal Athena zeus said 'any time you please
i step towards Athen and i had this flame and green leaves come out of my hands .i healed her not nowing that i could before my eyes .Athena was a little moody for a couple of days
but at the end of the day i was proud of my self and in the back round a old man laughed
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Sasha Miller
4/29/2013 04:35:00 am
My story of the odyssey:
Once upon a time, a man named Odysseus, was travelling home from the Trojan War with his eleven boats with 13 men on each, then, as he was looking at his map and saw that the sea root they where going included snake dragons, he didn't understand the description at first, but then he understood, since there was a picture of that, the worst news was they blocked the path! And there was NO good news, unfortunately. Then, as they where approaching the snake monsters ( we call them the snuk ) they caught a gust of wind from the cave of the snuk's, then the enormous beasts came sliding towards them, it was a terrible sight, there where 10 snakes, and they where NOT just ordinary snakes, they where GIGANTIC, about as big as a ferry, they each had 100 eyes in one eye, and they could see a long distance, 1,000 miles! Worst of all the terrifying creatures, was that they had 12 very sharp teeth ( as sharp as a needle, and shaped as a needle! ) they where yellow, so that caused a very stinky breath. " HELP, HELP, ODYSSEUS " Cried the 13 men on the boat that Odysseus was on, and you could hear the ones on the other 10 too, " Calm down my men," cried Odysseus, " they might be big, but all i can say now is....you 5 boats! Get rowing, you 5! Get rowing to! This boat, that i am on, get you swords out!" " WHAT?" yelled the Odysseus's helper, Sir. Edlik,
" WE ARE GOING TO FIGHT THEM?" " yes," replied Odysseus, "We will fight for life, if you like you can stand over there and not do any fighting, but i don't recommend that, since then i will have only 12 men left, i need you, you are the 10th greatest fighter ever, you fought the great beast of wonders, and he had 10 eyes, remember?
You won, which is why i picked YOU, nobody else, i will fire you if you don't do your job correctly" But Sir. Edlick was already hiding under the table, " FINE, IF YOU WANT US TO GET HURT, GO FOR IT!!!!!" Odysseus sighed, and said nothing else.....
When the fight was over, ( and they lost a hole ship full of men,)
They carried on with there journey, Odysseus sat down and looked at his map once again, he saw that they where going to mass Angel love, Angel love is a part of the ocean where there are clown fish, sea turtles, flying fish and other clean fish swimming on a series of brightly coloured corals, the water is fresh and clean, there are 4 Angels which tell you to come over and drink, they are nice, but the water is magical, if you DARE drink it, you will fall in love with the next person they touch, the corals are under a cliff on to of the sea which is called , mouthwatering, if you go there you are always thirsty, even if you have drank 60 bottles already, the water is so clean you drink it, and you know what happens. As the boats reached mouthwatering,they began to feel thirsty of course, they heard the angels say to them: " Come, oh Come, feel thirsty? Come have some water! Plenty for you! "
They nearly died while they where passing mouthwatering, and as another way, Angel love we could call it. As they where about to come back to Ithaca, a big GREEN whale came and splashed 5 of Odysseus's ships " HELP HELP " They shouted to Odysseus ( the men on each boat ) But Odysseus couldn't do anything of course.
Eventually, they arrived in Ithaca, safe and sound, Penelope (Odysseus's wife ) was so happy to see them, and Odysseus's son, was too. The End. By Sasha Miller.
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HANNAH
4/29/2013 04:35:08 am
Long long ago in 565 BC in ancient Greece Odessyeus the king of Greece was walking around town he was a strong man with exceptional sword fighting skills.
One day he was about to buy something then suddenly a beast came out of nowhere and was destroying the village Odessyeus was thinking how am i suposed to defeat a beast that spits out fire, has laser eyes, as tall as a building and as strong as an ox. Suddenly he remembered what he had bought, it was a magnifier. Then he suddenly grew to an amazing height and chased the beast away through a jungle, desert and rocky mountains and killed it. After that he shrunk back again and the village offered him many thank you gifts.
THE END
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Hannah Draft 2
4/29/2013 08:39:21 pm
Long long ago in 565 BC in ancient Greece the king of Greece was walking around town.
One day I was about to buy a magnifier from a villager that go it from the goddess Athena. Then suddenly a beast called king kong came out of nowhere and was destroying the village I was thinking how am I supposed to defeat a beast that spits out fire, has laser eyes, as tall as a building and as strong as an ox. Suddenly he remembered what he had bought the magnifier. Suddenly I grew to an amazing height and chased the beast away through a jungle, desert and rocky mountains for 9 years and then finally killed it by covering my sword in snake venom. After that I shrunk back to normal size again and the village offered me many rich thank you gifts.
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Hannah Draft 2
5/1/2013 02:59:16 am
My Great Adventure
By Hannah
One day I was walking around town and a villager started telling me a story how he got a magnifier from the goddess Athena he said that I could buy it for £30,000 or get a 99% of and get it for £1. Then suddenly a beast called king Kong came out of nowhere and was destroying the village I was thinking how am I supposed to defeat a beast that spits out fire, has laser eyes, as tall as a building and as strong as an ox. Suddenly I remembered what I had bought, the magnifier. Suddenly I grew to an amazing height and chased the beast away through a jungle, desert and rocky mountains for, 9 years and then finally killed it by covering my sword in snake venom. Then after that I shrunk back to normal size again and the village offered me many rich thank you gifts like rubies, diamonds and solid gold bars……….
THE END
Arthur
4/29/2013 05:18:28 am
Odysseus was on his boat when he saw a mysterious wind which blew great grey clouds across the sun. He could not do anything and the boat ran on to some rocks. He tried but he was stuck: the boat would not move. Exhausted from the effort, he fell on to his knees and begged the goddess Athena for help. So she made an earthquake. Huge cracks appeared in the ground. Then he stood up and got on his boat. It slowly went back on to the sea and he set sail.
The End
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Lucas Plunket Greene
4/29/2013 05:21:07 am
The Trip of a Life Time
By Lucas Plunket Greene
When we hit the waves of the Catacombus region we knew we were nearly home. I thanked the gods but one of the men decided to betray me and let lose the three-headed dog that we had been garding. The whole crew was killed apart from Kyron and I. We battled day and night; non-stop until his heart stopped beating. He was brave but not brave enough. Luckily a Catacombean haled me on to Terebitha were they bandaged my wounds and that is where my adventure started.
I lived with them for many years, fighting for them and wining wars. Now though, there is a dangerous threat that we cannot understand. Sipres is a woman with the power to steal your soul. Today is the day that I set voyage to slaughter the beast that has been devouring lives. Today is the day I change history. On my journey I have been having the worst nightmares of being slaughtered by the Sipres. This morning we hit the land of Dalvatican. We were all ready for what was inside the dark shadowy cave. Suddenly, she was all around us in the wet cave. That is when we realized she was just a shadow flying round the room. Just then the door shut and we were locked in the pitch-black cave, my men were dropping like flies. We were all going to be dead men if we did not find a way out quickly. Finally my last man fell, I was all alone. Then a miraculous thing happened, she started to grow weak without more souls to feed on. At last she was not able to fly but she could still appear throughout the room. I swung my axe at her, it missed and it went flying out of my hand. At that moment I could feel that I had won so I turned around, my axe had hit her in the middle of her back but it was not over. As I was leaving, she grabbed my soul but only ate half. I was in shock for moths. Now I am the hero of the city.
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Lucas draft 2
4/29/2013 08:44:43 pm
When we hit the waves of the Catacombus region we knew we were nearly home. I thanked the gods but one of the men decided to betray me and let lose the three-headed dog that we had been guarding. The whole crew was killed apart from Kyron and I. We battled day and night; non-stop until his heart stopped beating. He was brave but not brave enough. Luckily a Catacombean haled me on to Terebitha were they bandaged my wounds and that is where my adventure started.
I lived with them for many years, fighting for them and wining wars. Now though, there is a dangerous threat that we cannot understand. Sipres is a woman with the power to steal your soul. Today is the day that I set voyage to slaughter the beast that has been devouring lives. Today is the day I change history. On my journey I have been having the worst nightmares of being slaughtered by the Sipres. This morning we hit the land of Dalvatican.
We were all ready for what was inside the dark gloomy cave. Suddenly, she was all around us in the wet cave. That is when we realized she was just a shadow flying round the room. Just then the door slammed shut and we were locked in the pitch-black cave, my men were dropping like flies. We were all going to be dead men if we did not find a way out quickly. Finally my last man fell, I was all alone. Then a miraculous thing happened, she started to grow weak without more souls to feed on. At last she was not able to fly but she could still appear throughout the room. I swung my axe at her, it missed and it went flying out of my hand. At that moment I could feel that I had won so I turned around, my axe had hit her in the middle of her back but it was not over. As I was leaving, she grabbed my soul but only ate half. I was in shock for moths. Now I am the hero of the city.
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Eva scialom
4/29/2013 05:57:02 am
Odysseus was walking on a steep cliff it was almost vertical. His men had trouble following him since he ran so quickly. A wind was blowing and it was pooring with rain so they stopped and took shelter under fallen trees.
At night Odysseus would not sleep he would stay standing with his sword tightly grasped in his hands. He would not blink because if he did creatures would take away his men like they did with his wife. Later that night something had startled him and as he turns his head he sees a familiar face, his wife was there all his men are gone but for the first time he didnt notice.
"how did you"
"find us."
As he stands there pondering how she new that he asks
"how do you"
"Know what im going to say"
"WHY ARE YOU HERE" he barks frustatedly.
"I wanted to tell you that I never actualy loved you , I would never have been dumb enough to get captured I did that so I could get away from you " she turned grey and became a hydra he couldnt do anything the three headed dragon was undefeatable because every time one head of 2 more grow. Odysseus was bieng ripped limb by limb until he woke up.
He got Up and saw a giant king cobra nearly five times as big as him and his tail could wrap around the earth endlessly. He wanted to scream but he couldnt and he was tied to the ground so he couldnt grab his sword. The snake started talking " I am the son of hades god of tartarus, I am god of future and nightmare, you see I take your worst fear and I plant it in your nightmares so it will grow and blossom into your future, and every time you escape by waking up I will add another layer of nightmare, driving you crazy with inception, until you stay asleep and let me wrap you up with fear."
"why"
"well I love studying a certain anxiety called fear for some reason it brings me joy."
"have you ever felt fear"
"actualy no"
"then why do you enjoy it"
"I dont understand the question"
" we protect what we love
we love what we know,
we know what we are taught. You dont know fear so you fear fear itself."
"thats nonsence"
"is it "
"yes"
"is it though"
The snake opened his mouth revealing fangs
"I see even though your a big scary snake your biggest fear is death"
"not even close"
Odysseus pulls with all his might but he couldnt get up.
"you will never get up"
Then a feater fell onto his chains key lock. With his back turned the snake foolishly said " since youre so patheticly hopless the only way of defeating me is to find my one fear"
The chain was broken so he got it off picked up his sword and said "I guess your only fear is being wrong" the snake turned around and got his head cut off in one blow clean. He woke up and said "the only way to overcome your fears is to understand them"
By Eva
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Eva draft 2
4/29/2013 08:40:01 pm
Odysseus was walking on a steep cliff it was almost vertical. His men had trouble following him since he ran so quickly. A wind was blowing and it was pouring with rain so they stopped and took shelter under fallen trees.
At night Odysseus would not sleep he would stay standing with his sword tightly grasped in his hands. He would not blink because if he did creatures would take away his men like they did with his wife. Later that night something had startled him and as he turns his head he sees a familiar face, his wife was there all his men are gone but for the first time he didn’t notice.
"How did you,"
"Find us."
As he stands there pondering how she knew that he asks
"how do you"
"Know what I’m going to say."
"WHY ARE YOU HERE!" he barks frustrated.
"I wanted to tell you that I never actually loved you I would never have been dumb enough to get captured I did that so I could get away from you. " she turned grey and became a hydra he couldn’t do anything the three headed dragon was undefeatable because every time one head of 2 more grow. Odysseus was being ripped limb by limb until he woke up.
He got Up and saw a giant king cobra nearly five times as big as him and his tail could wrap around the earth endlessly. He wanted to scream but he couldn’t and he was tied to the ground so he couldn’t grab his sword. The snake started talking " I am the son of hades god of tartarus, I am god of future and nightmare, you see I take your worst fear and I plant it in your nightmares so it will grow and blossom into your future, and every time you escape by waking up I will add another layer of nightmare, driving you crazy with inception, until you stay asleep and let me wrap you up with fear."
"Why?"
"Well I love studying a certain anxiety called fear for some reason it brings me joy."
"Have you ever felt fear."
"Actually no."
"Then why do you enjoy it"
"I don’t understand the question."
" we protect what we love
we love what we know,
we know what we are taught. You dont know fear so you fear fear itself."
"that’s nonsense"
"is it "
"yes"
"is it though"
The snake opened his mouth revealing fangs
"I see even though you’re a big scary snake your biggest fear is death"
"not even close"
Odysseus pulls with all his might but he couldn’t get up.
"You will never get up"
Then a feather fell onto his chains key lock. With his back turned the snake foolishly said " since you’re so pathetically hopeless the only way of defeating me is to find my one fear"
The chain was broken so he got it off picked up his sword and said "I guess your only fear is being wrong" the snake turned around and got his head cut off in one blow clean. He woke up and said "the only way to overcome your fears is to understand them"
By Eva
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Nicholas
4/29/2013 06:15:14 am
Odyssey’s New Adventure
By Nicholas Reichert
We were sailing home from a dangerous battle and then we spotted a beautiful island a mile away. We decided to camp there for the night and find food. So we lowered anchor and rowed to the island. We set up camp and started to look for food. We found a dark cave and cautiously we stole into the cave. Inside it smelt horrid but we kept going , we had smelt worse!
Suddenly we saw two pairs of hideous yellow eyes staring at us from the darkness. Then we heard an awful loud grumbling growl and the whole cave was filled with hot black smoke. Then we felt something cold and slimy slither by. We panicked and ran as fast as we could to the entrance of the cave. There we saw a two- headed dragon storm angrily out of the cave!
Hot orange fire blasted from the dragon’s enormous mouth. We ran for our lives, our hair scorched from the dragon’s breath.
In a flash, Aqua-Man, the God of water sent buckets of water raining down on the scaly dragon. It put out the fire. Clouds of steam rose from the dragon’s nostrils and he cursed Aqua-Man.
We hurried to the boats and rowed quickly to the ship. Luckily the dragon had no wings and could not follow us. We were happy to get off that island and continue our journey home.
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Nicholas draft 2
4/29/2013 08:41:15 pm
We were sailing home from a dangerous battle and then we spotted a beautiful island a mile away. We decided to camp there for the night and find food. So we lowered anchor and rowed to the island. We set up camp and started to look for food. We found a dark cave and cautiously we stole into the cave. Inside it smelt horrid but we kept going , we had smelt worse!
Suddenly we saw three pairs of hideous yellow eyes staring at us from the darkness. Then we heard an awful loud grumbling growl and the whole cave was filled with hot black smoke. Then we felt something cold and slimy move by. We panicked and ran as fast as we could to the entrance of the cave. There we saw a three- headed dragon storm angrily out of the cave!
Hot orange fire blasted from the dragon’s enormous mouth. We ran for our lives, our hair scorched from the dragon’s breath.
In a flash, Aqua-Man, the God of water sent buckets of water raining down on the scaly dragon. It put out the fire. Clouds of steam rose from the dragon’s nostrils and he cursed Aqua-Man.
We hurried to the boats and rowed quickly to the ship. Luckily the dragon had no wings and could not follow us. We were delighted to get off that island and continue our journey home.
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Nik Hazman
4/29/2013 06:15:26 am
Odysseus was in the forest. He was trying to get out of the forest until he found a bridge. And over the bridge there was a boat that was tied to a tree. He was trying to get over the bridge until a troll came under the bridge. He said that if you want to get across my bridge you have to get me a coconut. Odysseus said: okay I will get you a coconut. He search under a rock but the coconut was not there. Then he can se a coconut up on that tree. He tried to climbed up the tree but he fell. So he tried to throw a rock at it. And a coconut was about to fall. He threw more rocks at it and it fell. He grabbed the coconut and gave it to the troll. The troll said: Okay you can get across my bridge. Odysseus got to the boat, untied it and pushed it to the ocean and sailed away. THE END
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Nik draft 2
4/30/2013 06:00:29 am
After the trojan war odysseus landed on a island. Then he saw a forest. He was lost in the forest until he found a bridge. Over the bridge there is a boat that is tied to a tree.Suddenly, a magical troll was blocking the bridge.Odysseus has a sword to kill the troll. The troll point his hand to odysseus and shoot rocks at him.
He kept hiding behind trees to trees. But the troll made the trees into stones. Odysseus kept throwing rocks at the troll. And Odysseus found a wooden knife and he throw it to the troll. The knife hit the troll and fell to a pointy rocks and died. So odysseus went to the boat and untied it and sailed away.
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ollie
4/29/2013 08:27:01 pm
Odysseus and Medusa.
I was in the forest of terror searching for Medusa, but I couldn’t see anything, just dead tree’s and bark. I used my sword of strength to swipe the tree until it breaks. I safely got through the forest, and on the hill side I saw a cemetery nearby so I went to have a look as Medusa always turn’s people into stone in cemetery’s
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Ollie continued
4/30/2013 05:57:57 am
Odysseus and Medusa.
I was in the forest of terror searching for Medusa, but I couldn’t see anything, just dead tree’s and bark. I used my sword of strength to swipe the tree until it breaks. I safely got through the forest, and on the hill side I saw a cemetery nearby so I went to have a look as Medusa always turn’s people into stone in cemetery’s.
When I got there I saw a snake so I knew she was near. All of a sudden I saw her and she saw me so I through my excexution boomerang to chop her head and it was no use because it went somewhere else. Medussa was trying to get eye contact with me so I got my mirror and put it in her face and so she turned to stone and suddenly my excicution boomerang came back.
Could Odysseus kill his next pray?
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Rosie Goncalves
4/29/2013 08:28:39 pm
1st draft-Odysseus`s adventure
One day there was a man called Odysseus that was on his way from the Trojan War to get to his wife and kids. Odysseus was walking and he was trying to find his way. Then, he looked around and he saw that he was in a dry, hot desert. Odysseus could hear a noise; it was a shriek, like someone was in pain. Odysseus followed the sound and he found a young girl, about 25 years old, tied up.
Then, he saw that a deadly python was hurting the girl and sucking her blood. As soon as Odysseus laid eyes on the python the python was approaching Odysseus in a scary, menacing way. The girl was now crying in pain and sadness. Odysseus took out his silver sword and he sliced the beast in half. But the python came back alive. Odysseus could not do anything. The girl screamed “help!” The python told Odysseus “there is no way you can defeat me now!” Odysseus had an idea. He told the Python “look, if you go forward then turn left we can play a fighting game, let’s see who is stronger, now, let me go there so I can arrange everything”. The python said “yeah, but what about this girl, she could run away”. Odysseus said “leave her here, you can sort that out when we get back".
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Garret
4/29/2013 08:40:31 pm
I up on a rustic beach with gritty sand, I rubbed my eyes and I looked, I could see people with colourful patterns on their faces, they had blood shot eyes and robes made out of animal skins. I stated looking closer at them all and it came to my conclusion that they were capables ,when
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garret
4/30/2013 02:39:57 am
Draft 2
I was just about to jump up; the man behind me hit me on the head and knocked me out cold.
Whilst I was knocked out the seven tribal men carried me to there village where they hooked me up to a stick and put me over a fire, I was getting ready to die and the gods where looking down at me, "Zeus we have to do something "Athena cried!
"Please, please Zeus does something" Athena cried once more.
"That’s enough, I know my Brother is wrong, that is the reason I am going to give this man the Powers of a God!" shouted Zeus with fear.
Know let us get back to Odeseyus part of the story.
I Woke up and the only thing I could smell was smoke, I opened my eyes and could see everything! Suddenly a lightning bolt struck , once the lightning ended I could see the mighty Zeus, He spoke " with the power vested in me I grant you the Power of a God , then a second Lightning bolt struck and hit me . All of a sudden I was able to brake free from the ropes and when I was free I killed all the Tribal men. I said to Zeus with gratitude "thank you".
“Don’t be so happy, I am going to take all them powers back off of you “said Zeus.
Odeseyus forgot all about it and carried on his trip alone and the world carried on.
THE END
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Iuri
4/29/2013 08:43:35 pm
Odysseus was in his house like when his wife Pandora she came in the house with a box, a magic box. She said that the god Zeus gave to them after their marriage. But after, he told me never to open it.
But in a calm day Pandora saw the box with no one around she opened the box.
Then tons of giants beast came of the box and started to make mass destruction a second later Odysseus started killing them but they were to strong but Odysseus was stronger a second later they entered Pandora’s body. She turned into a monster but Odysseus knew she was still the person he loved.
Odysseus still fought her but in the middle of it, Zeus interrupted the fight and told Odysseus that if he killed the beast Pandora would come back for him and would leave chaos. After Odysseus heard that he cute the monster had with a fast slice and got Pandora
THE END
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Ollie
4/29/2013 08:45:13 pm
Odysseus and Medusa.
I was in the forest of terror searching for Medusa, but I couldn’t see anything, just dead tree’s and bark. I used my sword of strength to swipe the tree until it breaks. I safely got through the forest, and on the hill side I saw a cemetery nearby so I went to have a look as Medusa always turn’s people into stone in cemetery’s
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Saad
4/29/2013 08:45:31 pm
one day I was with my fighters and we were going through the woods I saw a tree moving I was scared and our way was blocked so we needed to stop. And then the tree stood up and ran up to us. My fighters ran away but I was brave enough so I battled with but it was really hard but I tried by best. So I had an idea to climb on his back and stab him on his neck. so ran up to his back and jumped and claimed and then stabbed him in the neak.And while it fell in the river I jumped and dived into the river and I then I swam to the fighters in the other side of the river and they started calling me a hero I was so happy. THE END
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Sasha Miller ( 2nd draft\draft 2 )
4/30/2013 04:14:19 am
My story of the Odyssey:
Once upon a time, a man named Odysseus was travelling home from the Trojan War with his 11 boats with 13 men on each. Then, as he was looking at his map, a fearsome creature jumped out from behind a rock. Every man on every boat stared at the creature and then looked to face Odysseus.
"Sir, what is this BEAST doing here? I thought this cave was locked, plus I never knew that a dragon or whatever lived here. What is the name of the beast?" asked one of Odysseus's best sailors.
"My dear sailor, I will answer your question, but i will have to do it later," replied Oddysseus with the wind from the beast's cave flowing in his hair. "As we have to turn into heroes now, we will have to kill this beast," he gulped, "which will be hard,"
As Odysseus looked at the horrible beast once again, he took a very quick picture of it on his magical Z4l. The Z4l is a magical item that only royal ones can have. This allows you to take a picture of the beast, dragon etc to find out details of the creature. Odysseus looked at the creature's details and saw that it was called "a snuk". The snuk is a type of beast that lives on land near the sea
"So yes, that cave was locked," said Odysseus to himself. "That was not the snuk's cave. It was something else, but what?"
But there was not time to discover the mystery. We have to fight! Odysseus took out his sword and so did the other men. They stared at the beast in amazement. The beast was terrifying. The snuk had lighted eyes that blinded you if you looked straight into it's eyes. It had a snake head, cat ears, whiskers and tail. It had the body of a horse, and it had chicken legs, the mouth of a human, and the arms of a human, but they where slimy. The worst of all the terrifying beasts, it had needle teeth (as sharp as a needle!), and it had yellow teeth. So that caused a smelly breath (the smell of rotten eggs and meat). As Odysseus's men where staring, Odysseus managed to fight the beast. One of Odysseus's men saw him (the helper of Odysseus, Sir Edlik) and said "WHAT ARE YOU DOING? It was crazy enough for us to go this route instead of the other and....."
"NO," interupted Odysseus, "You are the 10th best beast fighter ever.You rerember how you fought the beast of wonders?" yelled Odysseus over the growling that the snuk was making. "YOU WILL HELP ME FIGHT FOR LIFE. You want to be the first best fighter ever? Then here is your chance! GO, GET YOUR SWORD OUT!"
"Fine, I will," replied Sir Edlik.
When the fight was over (and they lost a whole ship full of men), they carried on with their journey. Odysseus sat down and looked at his map once again. He saw that they where going to pass Angel Love. Angel Love is a part of the ocean where there are clown fish, sea turtles, flying fish and other clean fish swimming on a series of brightly coloured corals. The water is fresh and clean. There are four Angels, which tell you to come over and drink. They are nice, but the water is magical. If you DARE drink it, you will fall in love with the next person you touch. The corals are under a cliff on top of the sea, which is called Mouthwatering. If you go there, you are always thirsty, even if you have drunk 60 bottles already. The water is so clean you can drink it, and you know what happens. As the boats reached Mouthwatering,they began to feel thirsty, of course. They heard the angels say to them, "Come, oh come, feel thirsty? Come have some water! Plenty for you!"
They nearly died while they where passing Mouthwatering, and as another way to call it, Angel Love. As they where about to come back to Ithaca, a big GREEN whale came and splashed five of Odysseus's ships off course.
"HELP HELP," they shouted to Odysseus (the men on each boat), but Odysseus could not do anything of course.
Eventually, they arrived in Ithaca, safe and sound. Penelope (Odysseus's wife) was so happy to see them, and Odysseus's son, was too. THE END!
By Sasha Miller
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Rosie Goncalves 2ND DRAFT
4/30/2013 06:02:28 am
One day there was a man called Odysseus that was on his way the Trojan War to get to his wife and kids. Odysseus was walking and he was trying to find his way. Then, he looked around and he saw that he was in a dry, hot desert. Odysseus could hear a noise; it was a shriek, like someone was in pain. Odysseus followed the sound and he found a young girl, about 25 years old, tied up.
Then, he saw that a deadly python was hurting the girl and sucking her blood. As soon as Odysseus laid eyes on the python the python was approaching Odysseus in a scary, menacing way. The girl was now crying in pain and sadness. Odysseus took out his silver sword and he sliced the beast in half. But the python came back alive. Odysseus could not do anything. The girl screamed “help!” The python told Odysseus “there is no way you can defeat me now!” Odysseus had an idea. He told the Python “look, if you go forward then turn left we can play a fighting game, let’s see who is stronger, now, let me go there so I can arrange everything”. The python said “yeah, but what about this girl, she could run away”. Odysseus said “leave her here, you can sort that out when we get back".
So, as agreed, Odysseus went to the organized location of the fight. Odysseus was going to trick the Python, the Python is called Undefeated. So Odysseus made a cage in 10 minutes and a rope thing to put on top to trap the python. Odysseus came back to the Python and said "are you ready Undefeated?" The Python agreed so they went to the location for the fight. Odysseus said "Let the fight begin!" Then, Odysseus said to Undefeated "I have a surprise for you, close your eyes". "Alright" said the python. Odysseus pulled the rope and the huge cage trap fell and confined the Python. The python was so intimidating, it had green scales on the body and the sharpest of fangs. The Python said "GET ME OUT OF HERE!!!!!!!" Odysseus said "Sorry Mate, I tricked you!". Odysseus was running to the young girl and untied her. Odysseus asked "what is your name?" The young girl said "I am called Jennifer, some people call me Jenny, but I prefer to be called Jennifer, what is your name?" Odysseus said, "I am called Odysseus".
Odysseus opened a bag and Jennifer said "what are you doing?" Odysseus said " I am trying to get some potions to treat your bite wounds. I always have this with me on every adventure I have incase me or others get hurt". Odysseus Poured the potion on a dry piece of cotton and cleaned the bite wound that Jennifer received. Jennifer said "thank you Odysseus,you saved my life". Odysseus said "you welcome".
Odysseus took Jennifer back home from the desert to find her parents. Jennifer was really happy. Odysseus ran home to the island of Ithaca, he saw his wife, named Carola, and his son and daughter, Harry and Lilly.
THE END. Rosie.
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Nicholas
5/1/2013 06:33:21 am
Odyssey’s New Adventure (Version 2 Draft 2)
By Nicholas Reichert
We were sailing home from a dangerous battle and then we spotted a beautiful island a mile away. We decided to camp there for the night and find food. So we lowered anchor and rowed to the island. We set up camp and started to look for food. We found a dark cave and cautiously we stole into the cave. Inside it smelt horrid but we kept going , we had smelt worse!
Suddenly we saw three pairs of hideous yellow eyes staring at us from the darkness. Then we heard an awful loud grumbling growl and the whole cave was filled with hot black smoke. Then we felt something cold and slimy slither by. We panicked and ran as fast as we could to the entrance of the cave. There we saw a three- headed dragon storm angrily out of the cave!
Hot orange fire blasted from the dragon’s enormous mouth. We ran for our lives, our hair scorched from the dragon’s breath.
In a flash, Poseidon, the God of the Sea sent buckets of water raining down on the scaly dragon. It put out the fire. Clouds of steam rose from the dragon’s nostrils and he cursed Poseidon.
We hurried to the boats and rowed quickly to the ship. Luckily the dragon had no wings and could not follow us. We were happy to get off that island and continue our journey home.
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arthur draft 2
5/1/2013 05:04:36 pm
Odysseys saw a swirly green monster by the rocks he decided to kill it so he stepped onto the rocks he got a huge rock and he slammed the rock onto his head then the monster was knocked him out and put him in a huge box then locked the box and pushed the monster out to sea the end
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iuri 2
5/2/2013 12:09:18 am
Odysseus was in his house like when his wife Pandora she came in the house with a box, a magic box. She said that the god Zeus gave to them after their marriage. But after, he told me never to open it.
But in a calm day Pandora saw the box with no one around she opened the box.
Then tons of giants beasts came of the box and started to make mass destruction a second later Odysseus started killing them but they were to strong but Odysseus was stronger a second later they entered Pandora’s body. She turned into a monster but Odysseus knew she was still the person he loved.
Odysseus still fought her but in the middle of it, Zeus interrupted the fight and told Odysseus that if he killed the beast Pandora would come back for him and would leave chaos. After Odysseus heard that he cute the monster had with a fast slice and got Pandora
THE END
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iuri Achiilles
5/4/2013 04:44:00 am
Achilles Heel
Achilles was a warrior of the Trojan War he was one of the best warriors.When he was a baby he was bathed in a magic river that made him indestructible.But the person that bathed him in the river hold him by his heel.When the Trojan War was almost finished Achilles got a poisonous dart in his heel and died.
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Iuri Goncalves Achillies
5/4/2013 05:22:19 am
Achilles Heel
Achilles was a warrior of the Trojan War he was one of the best warriors.When he was a baby he was bathed in a magic river that made him indestructible.But the person that bathed him in the river hold him by his heel.When the Trojan War was almost finished Achilles got a poisonous dart in his heel and died.
About Achilles family: Achilles was a semi-god his father was:Peleus.His mother was:Thetis.He had no brother or sisters.
There was a film About This story the actor was Brad Pitt,it's a film with violence and about the Trojan war and Achilles the film's name is:Troy.Troy is the city where the battle happened.
If you don't know about this war is about a girl named Helen of Troy.Helen was married with the king Paris,she was the most beautiful girl in the world.Helen loved Perseus and Perseus loved her.But one day when king Paris saw Helen and Perseus together he started the Trojan War.
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Iuri Goncalves final draft Achilles
5/4/2013 05:37:09 am
Achilles Heel
Achilles was a warrior of the Trojan War, he was one of the best warriors.When he was a baby, he was bathed in a magic river that made him indestructible. But the person that bathed him in the river hold him by his heel.When the Trojan War was almost finished, Achilles got a poisonous dart in his heel and died.
About Achilles family: Achilles was a semi-god. His father was: Peleus. His mother was: Thetis.He had no brothers or sisters.
There was a film about this story, the actor that made Achilles was Brad Pitt. It's a film with violence and about the Trojan war and the film's name is: Troy. Troy is the city where the battle happened. The battle was 10 years long.
If you don't know about this war is about a girl named Helen of Troy. Helen was married with the king Paris, she was the most beautiful girl in the world. Helen loved Perseus and Perseus loved her. But one day when king Paris saw Helen and Perseus together he started the Trojan War.
Saad
5/4/2013 09:15:13 pm
Once upon a time there was a hero and a beast. The hero was called arion he always whats to beat the beast. And one day he was on the ship and he kept looking for the beast an he took 4 hours until he saw the beast the beast was bigger then the ship i was really scared so i jumped in the ocean but he kept on flowing us so i was thinking and thinking but and then i had a idea it was to go under the water and he would not see me and jump on his back and stab hime so i actually did it and killed him and went back on my ship and carried on and that was my adventure
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Nicholas
5/6/2013 06:26:46 am
The Serpent of the North
Long, long ago, before we were born, there was a little village in Eastern Africa in Kenya, where a young man lived, his name was Tom.
He was a very kind man, but he was very poor. One day, the Sultan’s men came to the village and told the villagers that there was a terrible four-headed serpent attacking the kingdom and if someone kills it they would be rewarded with twenty five bags of gold.
Tom knew if he killed the serpent he would be rich beyond his wildest dreams. With that money, he could save his family from starvation. So he took out his boat and rowed out to sea.
He rowed for two whole days until a storm came out of nowhere and sent him off course. He was lost, confused and afraid. Suddenly he heard a gigantic roar and he saw an enormous purple line in the wild water. After that, the water started to bubble. Then the serpent rose from the water.
Tom drew a shining sword and started to fight the serpent. Tom swung his sword and cut one of its heads off. But surprisingly it grew back. Confused, Tom swung it round again and this time he chopped it in half. Then the clouds went away and there was blue sky. Tom rowed to the castle. The Sultan thanked him and gave him twenty- five bags of gold and he and his family were never poor again!
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Lucas Plunket Greene
5/6/2013 04:28:47 pm
THIS IS A STORY ABOUT A ONCE ORDINERY CHILD OF THE STREET WHO’S LIFE WAS CHANED BY ONE GOD.
The boy’s name was Lucas and this is what happened. One day there was a child who lived on the street that begged for food and money but that day the god took pity on the poor boy. The god was Zeus, he blessed him with the stealth of a lion, the speed of a cheater and the powers of Zeus himself. As he grew up fighting Terafing beasts and enemies but to this day the boy never knew what he was up against when he agreed to destroy the black wonderer.
He left when he was 29. He had an elite trained army with him and he settled on for the island of Agetm, the shadow village that was blown to the middle of the green fog. There were no survivors and the journey was rough, he traveled for a year. At last he found the island of Agetm but he did not notice that the battle had already started. The back wonderer was surrounding us. My men were being slaughtered by the second but finally I could see the shadowy figure closing in, I threw thunder everywhere. I hit the figure in the middle of the head and it was all over. We had won but that is how I remember myself.
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NIK
5/7/2013 03:53:07 am
Long, long time ago, there is a kid named Kel. His parents died because the house fell apart. Now kel lives with his uncle Oli. Uncle Oli took care of him until he was 17 years old. Because he died from a heart attack. uncle Oli is 73 years old.
23 years later.
Kel is 40 years old.He had joined the war. There were 103 soldiers in the war. It was 1109 in Doha and it' s filled with desert. 2 days later, Suddenly a beast came out from the sand. One of my soldiers said : I know what is that it' s a sand monster. The sand monster shoot sand all over the soldiers. And it killed 91 of my soldiers. But then I saw water. I ran as fast as i can to filled the bucket with water. And I speared the water to the monster. And the monster died.
THE END BY NIK
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arthur
5/7/2013 04:02:40 am
Moses was a shepherd boy who lived in Malawi a long time ago. He spent his day dreaming and watching his sheep outside the town walls. One day he had a dream that his town was invaded by a brutal army. He fled back to the town and he said to everybody to flee. The villagers thought that he was mad and laughed at Moses. He was so hurt he could not hold his tears in.
That night the army did invade and both his parents were killed. He kept on walking up and down the fields, wailing. He saw the people in his dream and ran back down to the town. He rang a bell that sent people to come to the field, and after a big battle they fought off the brutal army.
The people said sorry to Moses for not believing him.
The end
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Eva
5/7/2013 07:05:52 am
The forrgoten
As hades walked in the pools of tartarus he screamed with anger " Why do my brothers rule the world as I am watching dead come get tortured for eternity!? There all fools they dont know how it feels to be forgotton while..."
He ponders with his head up "Well I cant invite them myself since I cant get out of this stupid hell pit but I might have an idea" as he looked at the river of death with its dead souls flowting and screaming but nobody could hear them. He pointed to one at random and turned it living again.It was a young girl who was blind she died by falling into a snake pit.
"listen little girl I shall give your eye site back on one condition."
"what what? I would do anything!"
"you shall have to serve me for the rest of eternity. I shall make you imortal but you do anything wrong I shall take it away and put you back in that river"
" yes master"as hades grinned He had set up a plan and had sent the girl to mount olympus.he had said to spread the word that they were invited to bath in the pools of tartarus at sundawn.at noon they were all in a hot steaming pool when zeuse asks
"who am I"
All of them were hipnotised asking who they were hades replyed with a smurk.
"peasants from the nearest village " they all left to the village after they left the girl asks.
"what happened"
He replyed "well you see this is no ordinary pool its the pool of the forgoten when go in you forget who you are but its only temporary so I shall go to my new palace olimpia as they went they saw the locked doors then athena shows I knew that there was something wierd about you inviting us so I stayed behind."
"WHAT"
"I shall cast a spell to break them out of there state but I need to keep you down "she threw her sword straight in his arm as it launched him back to tartarus she braught back the the gods and everything was going well for now...