Iris's+Myth

by Iris
Have you ever wondered how the beautiful, unique, and magical snowflakes came to be? I sure have! I was so curious that I did some research about it. It’s quite surprising and interesting. I’ll tell you.

It all happened in Japan a very, very long- time-ago. There was a bunch of fairies doing their normal jobs, making snow. They always used the same ingredients, candy canes, ice cream and the most important ingredient of all, fairy dust.

It wasn’t an ordinary day in Japan. In fact, it was the most important day in winter the snow festival. They picked all the candy canes form the candy cane tree, which used all the ice cream from the ice cream lake. They used all their fairy dust: All this for one snow festivity. All the fairies were taking a break from preparing the snow festival.

There was a certain fairy who didn’t have any friends. Her name was Seppen. She was naturally unique ever since she was born. She had bright orange hair, the color of fire. She wore it in perky girlish pigtails every day, which wasn’t the typical fairy style. Her wardrobe was different too. Her long-sleeved candy cane striped shirt combined with a lemon green tank top didn’t look like the normal elegant, pristine simple dress. Her wings also stood out. They were jagged like lightning with splatter paints freely spread in wild stripes. All though this may look cool the fairies didn’t appreciate it.

Seppen always wanted friends, so she tried to show off. “Hey, look at me. I can balance on one foot,” she gloated on a log on the front playground. Unfortunately, she couldn’t balance as well as advertised and fell. Seppen knocked all the candy canes, ice cream and fairy dust in the mud. There wasn't any more of these ingredients because they used them all. This wasn’t Seppen’s intentions obviously. Now the fairies hated her even more. She had to think of something fast. She didn’t want to ruin the festival for everyone. She thought, “Why do I have to use those three ingredients. I can find another recipe that makes snow.”

The first thing she tried was a rose from the queen’s castle. The queen happily gave Seppen the rose for she was looking forward to the festival. She already picked out an outfit and everything. Seppin needed a batch of cotton candy made by the most talented candy fairy in Japan. The candy fairy joyfully gave the cotton candy to Seppen and was happy to get her business. The most difficult thing about making a new recipe for snow was finding a new recipe for fairy dust. Seppen thought for a little bit, and it came to her. Mermaid scales had the same amount of magic as fairy dust. But she had to get a special type of mermaid. Seppen decided that the rainbow mermaid would have enough magic. She went to the rainbow mermaid and asked. Seppen pleaded for hours and reluctantly the mermaid gave her the scale.

Seppen mixed all the ingredients together, but it didn’t make snow, it made something that resembled a snow star. It looked like tones crystals that formed a shape. It was delicate and cold. It had intricate shapes. It wasn’t like anything Seppen had ever seen before. Seppen was sure that the fairies would be impressed. Then she remembered something. All those ingredients were really rare and there wasn’t any more of them. “The same thing happened with the last recipe,” she thought. She used three different the last time so maybe she could do the same thing this time. She could use sorrel and limes she could even use troll finger nails because the best thing about her creation was that every one of them would be unique, just like how she was unique.

So each one would be a little different. She told the other fairies her idea, and they loved it. They realize that just because you look different that you can still do great things and be a good friend. The other fairies apologized to Seppen for being exclusionary, and they all became friends.

“What are you going to name your new creation, Seppen?” questioned one of Seppen’s new friends. Seppen decided to name her creation snowflake because her name means snowflake in Japanese. That’s how snowflakes came to be and why they are all unique and different.

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