Sam's+Myth

A long time ago, as you all know, there were giant lizard-creatures who walked the Earth. Many called them dinosaurs, but their real name is “lacertasaurthingies.” The lacertasaurthingies were a proud race who had many technological advantages, such as running water, advanced economy, domesticated creatures, and most prominently, extremely powerful war machines.

These machines, called “kitties,” created a trail of destruction miles wide. The kitties were made of the bones of dead lacertasaurthingies, which is why we find their ancient bones scattered and in the wrong formation. The cities built by the lacertasaurthingies gave off such an aura of grandeur you had to be impressed when you saw them. But, bear in mind, this was not a utopia. There was discontent between leaders.

The world was divided into three main tribes: the land-crawlers, the sea-dwellers, and the sky-creatures. The sea-dwellers wanted the land-crawlers to stop fishing and encroaching on their territory; the land-crawlers wanted the sky-creatures to stop eating their food; the sky creatures wanted the sea-dwellers to to stop shooting down their people when they flew over.

Eventually there was a giant war. Bodies lined the floor, blood filled the seas, corpses littered the battlefield. Cities were decimated, lands were scarred, the sky went black, the seas rolled and rumbled. The blasts shook the ground and separated the one continent into seven. At some point one person from each tribe was left: a tyrannosaurus rex, an archaeopteryx, and an ichthyosaur. They all died fighting each other in an epic battle of teeth, gore, blood, death, blood, and death (I put blood and death twice because there was so much of it).

 The moral of this story is that war ends all things, including dinosaurs.


 * The End **

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