My first news Break
Author's Note: The
picture says it all. It's a ruined Coliseum and I thought of Zeus.
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It's a very unusual
place for me to walking by but I find myself facing a white half-ruined multi-pillar
Colosseum with pieces of its structures all around me. Whoever caused this mess
is no match for me for sure but my curiosity had to overcome my fear. I
ventured forth as I picked my path through the broken pieces of mortars and
slabs. I chanced myself upon whom I may presume is the owner of the place.
"Hello there.
Are you whom I assumed and presumed to be the dweller of this.... ruined place?" The gray-bearded person
who was sitting there looking forlorn on a broken-off piece of the marble
piece, looked up and then shouted at me.
"Of course, I
am. You think any fool would like to come here and sit down just to look at
this mess?" he is obviously very upset and I could be intruding on his
misery now. But I saw one small manlike creature trying to run with a broken
off the slab of the structure. The gray-bearded man points his finger and a
small bolt of lightning came out. It struck the small manlike creature on his
buttocks causing him to drop the load. It must be a painful jolt of pain.
"Perhaps I
can help, if I may." I looked at the gray-bearded man who now glared at me
with his eyes which seems to be blazing with fire. "I could help as I can
restore this place for you to its original."
"You are a
puny human who has overstepped your stay here on my mount..... But if you can
do it, I would consider offering you a home here." The gray-bearded man
was from a serious murderous look into that of a smiling happy man.
"Well if I
did, you know repair this place, would you be kind enough to allow me to record
this in the God's News Edition. It's my real first break since I did the
article on the Mayan Prophecy but that was given the third-page print."
When I completed the statement, I was looking sheepishly at the ground and
expecting the worse. The last time I tried, I was chased by the minions of Hell
on the instruction of Lucifer. I know who I am addressing here and he could
obliterate me with his lightning bolts.
"So you are
the irritating Imp for a reporter from the God's News Edition. I should have
known as you are here for the latest scoop on my woes. I can read the headlines
now; 'Zeus being zapped by Gaia.' or 'One too many ladies for Zeus'. Okay, I
submit it to you. How would you do it?" The gray-bearded man has slumped
down on his shoulder. He should be as this is his twelfth time redoing his great
hall on Mount Olympus.
I took out the
lamp I borrowed from Aladdin and rubbed the Genie out.
"Oh, my
God-ness! When did I have you as a master? Look, according to Tales and Stories
rules, I am to serve only Aladdin and not you. So tell me, how can you be holding
the lamp?" The blue-bodied sandy desert version of mine was unhappy to be
popped out of his slumber. I took the distant cousin of mine and whisper some
good words into his ears. He was soon whizzing around repairing the place while
I sat next to Zeus.
"What did you
tell him?" Zeus had to ask.
"Family
secrets. It won't be fair for me to reveal it all. We have our ethics and
responsibility as reporters. We tell the truth and not the whole truth
sometimes." I winked at the God of Olympia. Soon the place was restored to
its original state but I added in a new design. It's a love sign with a cupid-drawn
figure on it and the wordings; "Love to my wife, Zeus."
"She would
love that and won't destroy it again," I explained the Zeus why I added
the new design.
"But I have
many wives...." The gray-bearded God had to protest.
"That's why I
did not name the wife name here." We both smiled. But I felt a smack on my
head.
"Get up, you
oaf. Hades has just crumbled Mount Olympus. Get there to get the first-hand report
on the mess. I am sure Zeus was involved in one of his 'sow the seeding' stuff
which caused it." That was my editor smacking me on the head to wake me up
from my slumber.
I grabbed my bag
and ran out on the Cloud Express. I reached in my bag and took hold of the oil
lamp I borrowed from Jasmine. Maybe it would work.......
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