How The Lion Instilled Fear Into The Animals

How The Lion Instilled Fear into the Animals

Once upon a time, before men had begun to build our magnificent buildings, before we had begun to build any buildings, when the world still belonged to the animals, there was a beautiful creature. He had a long curly tail, soft golden yellow hair, a large furry mane and intelligent, thought provoking, brown eyes. He was muscular from head to toe; every inch of him bristled with muscle. God had named this creature a lion. Now in order for you to understand the story I must delve off the main story and explain some things to you. In his time animals were much different than today in many ways. For starters most of them were vegetarians, and the ones that did eat meat only ate dead animals. They had small kingdoms which were ruled by one race of animals (In this story we will only talk about one of these kingdoms). This particular kingdom was in what is now called South Sudan; it was located on the savannah, and was ruled by lions. This kingdom was medium sized with about 15,000 animals of all kinds and about 50 lions. These lions were not like today’s lions, they, like most animals, were vegetarians; however the most extraordinary difference between the lions of then and the lions of now is that back then they ruled the kingdom peacefully, justly, and fairly. They treated all of their citizens with respect and treated them like close friends. One day the animals of the savannah decided that they did not want to be ruled by a few people any more. They decided that they wanted to make their own decisions and to be governed by people that they chose, with the majority deciding the major decisions. They started to practice and train for a revolt, (which was no small task for creatures who had never killed a living thing before) they spent months learning to bite, kill and to be ruthless in their behavior. On the 3^rd day of the 7^th month that they had been training they struck. They attacked and ruthlessly murdered the lions, who despite their bodies being built for killing had no training or experience in killing because they never had before. They killed dozens of lions. Soon there were only 10 lions left (This is where the young lion comes in). The young lion became furious; he assembled all of the remaining lions, which were scattered all over the savannah. They went in to hiding from the animals. While they were in hiding they trained and learned the most painful ways to kill the animals. After a number of days they planned their attack. They planned to attack them when the animals were gathered together to elect a leader. They planned to burn all of the grass and vegetation on the savannah. After that they would let the lack of food weaken the animals, and then they would kill them at leisure. Their plan worked perfectly. They killed thousands of animals in mere months. Soon there were only a few hundred animals left. The lions soon realized that they were in quite a predicament.With no animals or vegetation left the lions began to starve. They were still furious however and not ready to forgive the animals.After much discussion and argument, they compromised and decided to have just enough animals to keep everything going and the rest they would kill and eat. That is why today the animals on the savannah fear the lion and the lion kills the animals. The moral of this story is to think about the consequences of your actions and then act accordingly.
2011 Adam Y Edwards ©