Shagrious

Here is an example of a myth created for an English IX project.

Shagrious
Once in a peacefully big city called Smurfville, from the sky fell a ball of fire that carried a weird creature inside, a fat cyclops with a blue eye, noseless, with a mustache, frog arms and duck legs, his name was Gargomel the son of the two gods from the Smurfology: Duck  creator of the water and all water animals and Frog creator of the land and all the land animals, together they formed the world and their son wanted to destroy everything because he didn't like humans.



After he woke up at earth a disease started and some of the people of the city became hairy, ugly, zombie look, cannivals; these cannivals started attacking the normal people an with these the affected were more. And in a desperate way of ending with the disease a wall was put to divide the habitants in healthy, the ones inside, and the unhealthy, the ones outside, the  infected, and with this wall they stopped the spreading.



 One day the king of Smurfcity made an assembly to decide who must go to the woods and ask the enchanter how could they kill the cyclops, but there was a condition the chosen one must had to exit the city by the sewer´s bars to protect the security of the city, they searched for the one until one day a tiny, ugly and very skinny man called Shagrious appeared, he was the only one who could pass by the bars of the sewers. His king send him to look for the enchanter and gave him a canteen.



Then he started the travel  with his only aid: a canteen. When he passed through the bars the canivals instantly attacked him but after noticed he was like them the attack stopped and they went away.



<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal">  After traveling for some hours through the woods wondering if he could complete the mission he arrived to the anchanters house, he explained the situation to the enchanter and asked him how can he beat the god and cure all the infected people. After hearing the story the enchanter told Shagrious where to find the two head unicorn beacause it´s blood was the only thing that could harm the skin of Gargomel also he told him that the only way to cure people was giving them the heart of the cyclops to eat, and then he made a spell that turned Shagrious into a handsome and strong man and then gave him a shiny and magic armor.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal">Shagrious continued his travel with the canteen and the magic armor until he found a big  city in the coast, just like the enchanter said. He entered the city searching for the king so he could ask for help then suddenly he saw a young beautiful lady named Megara Foxious in the fountain, he walked toward her  they started talking for some time and they fell in love. After knowing this lady he continued the search for the king, when he met the king he explained the situation of his city and what his mission was and the king acceded and lend him a boat to sail to the isle where the unicorn lived.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal">He started sailing on the boat without knowing where to go, but fortunately he remmebered the instructions the encharter told him. After two days Shagrious arrived to the isle and started searching for the two head unicorn so he could get the blood, he searched the entire island and when he found the unicorn a battle started between both of them, several minutes passed and the unicorn started to get tired, some mores minutes later it fell to the  ground almost unconcious. So Shagrious told the unicorn he needed the blood to destroy the god´s son, the unicorn understood the noble cause of that young warrior and cut one of his two horns,  the horns were filled with blood, Shagrious took it and put it in his armor so he could use it when he needed it, then he started the sailing to the coast city.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal">His return wasn´t as comfortable as he spectec it because Gargomel attacked the city, half of it was destroyed, and after searching for Megara he discovered that the king´s daughter   Megara Foxious was kidnapped, this made Shagrious angrier because now he was not only attacking his city but also he had stealed the woman he was in love with. The king asked him to save Megara and in exchange he could have her hand. Shagrious accepted and he was a given a spear to kill the cyclops.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal">He was almost in Gargomel´s lair and suddenly he fell in a giant cave filled with extrange flowers he had never seen, he became to feel sleepy and after some seconds he fell asleep. Some hours passed and he woke up senseless without knowing where he was then he reacted and cut some flowers to use them as weapons to face Gargomel.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal">At the time he saw the lair of Gargomel he started to plan his strategy, first he build up a suit of leaves and mud so he could not been seen while on movement, then he made a potion with the flowers he found at the cave, so he would throw it to Gargomel and when he fell asleep would be the time to attack.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal">Finally Shagrious arrived to Gargomel´s lair he slipped pass the guards on the entrance and  then he threw the potion to the cyclops, after seeing this Gargomel went furiously to attack Shagrious but before he delivering the strike he fall unconsious, Shagrious took his spear, covered it with the unicorn´s blood  and with a powerful strike hit the cyclop´s eye killing him, then he cut the chest of Gargomel and got the heart. He rushed to free the princess, he found her in a prision beside a horse which was the cyclop´s food. They took the horse and scaped evading the cannivals that were on the cave, they went directly to Smurfcity so they can cure all the sick people first.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal">All the  hairy, ugly, zombie look, cannivals became weak, almost normal people, then Shagrious arrived with the horse and gave them the heart of the god, instantly the smell of the heart atractec the cannivals so they started eating it and they slowly were turned into normal people.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal">Shagrious and princess Megara arrived to the city on the coast in the horse, they were welcomed by all the habitants and everybody thanked Shagrious for killing the cyclops, the king of coast city give him a sign of gratitude, the hand of her daughter so they can get married whenever they wanted to.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Mangal">After the extintion of the disease and the evil god the wall in Smurfcity was taken down. Shagrious and Megara got married one week after the disappearance of Gargomel and atfer the wedding they decided to stay at Smurfcity and since that day Shagrious is known as the savior of both cities.