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The Making of Rain by Eve F.

Once upon a time, Rain had a different form. This form no human had ever seen before, only the animals that inhabited the earth at this time. Rain was a very mischievous animal. He would harass all the other animals and torture them. One day, he was in the middle of harassing a little chipmunk when a passer-by saw what was happening and ran to tell the chief of all the animals. Later that day while Rain was wandering the fields, a messenger bird came to him with a note. The note informed him to go the chief’s house at once. Rain didn't really care what the chief wanted with him and strayed to walk off in a different direction. He came back to his house very late the next day.

When dawn broke, there was a knock on his door. Rain didn't want anyone interrupting his slumber and decided to just keep sleeping. But the knock became eager and harsher. So Rain got up lazily and opened the door. It was Father Crow. He immediately bound his arms tightly and threw Rain to the floor. Rain screamed and tried to get the ropes undone, but they were too tight to even let him sit up strait. Father Crow looked down at him and smiled with a hard look. A couple seconds later, two big animals Rain had never seen before started picking him up and walked on the same route he was all too familiar with. The chief’s house was right up ahead and rain started getting scared. Rain wondered if the chief was mad at him for not going to his house the day he was called for. “I’ve done nothing wrong!” Rain screamed. The two big animals chuckled and opened the door to the chief’s house.

As they entered the house, the chief was sitting there with a content smile plastered on his face. Rain started to struggle, and the big animals threw him to the floor, untying his bounds. Rain leaped up and tried to run, but the animals kept him still. “You must be punished for what you've done,” said the chief nonchalantly. Rain just shuddered and looked down and was awaiting what the chief's punishment. The chief yanked his jaw up fiercely and heard a crack. The chief looked deeply in his eyes and Rain was paralyzed with pure terror.

The chief spoke after the long silence. “ I see beauty in your eyes,” the chief said knowingly. “But you've made so horrible choices in your life, he continued. Everybody needs a second chance you see, and just like everybody I'll give //you// one.” Rain was shocked. He was sure he would be sentenced to something horrid and cruel, even death. He sighed with relief as the chief started talking again. “You'll have a second chance, but if you mess this up you'll spend the rest of eternity up in the sky. You'll be mystical water falling from the heavens. Wonderful right?” Rain looked up at him. A pain shot up from his jaw to his ear. Rain didn't think anyone knew about his drastic fear of water. Now he was vulnerable. On the way home, Rain made a vow to himself that he wouldn't to anything mischievous so he wouldn't have to pay the torturous punishment.

The next day, Rain saw a puddle of water on the ground. He avoided it and started to walk by. Hungry, he noticed Coyote eating berries as he walked by. He walked over to Coyote and told him the berries were poisonous and that he would die without if he ate them. Coyote dropped the berries and ran away to the stream to wash his mouth out. Rain quickly took all the berries on the bush and stuffed them in his mouth. He was about to pick the last one last as Coyote came back and saw all the berries were missing. He put two and two together and stared running to the chief’s house to tell on Rain for tricking him and stealing all his berries. Rain was confused for a little while longer, then realized what Coyote was doing and ran after him. When he reached the house, Coyote was walking back out. Rain ran up to Coyote and pinned him to the ground. He was furious and he yelled at Coyote for telling on him. Chief ran outside and roughly pulled Rain off of Coyote. Those two huge beasts held onto him tightly again as the Coyote ran away swiftly.

Chief came up to Rain's face. He said, “I told you, you only had one more chance.” Rain knew what he did and impatiently listened to the chief. “Your punishment is a creative one if I may say so myself. For the rest of eternity, Rain, you must stay up in the sky and fall whenever water falls. You will be the water and feel the pain as you fall. You will be what is now called //rain//. Rain was speechless. He was so scared that he fainted. When he woke up, he was up in the sky watching everything from above. To this day, you can still hear the faint screams whenever the rain falls and feel the sadness in his voice about the mistakes he made.

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