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Yothin Chinsaen
Srikranuanwittayakom School
Khon Kaen Province
Mattayom 5
bradpitt_simpson@yahoo.com
The Great Catastrophe
Once upon a time in a galaxy very far away from our beautiful earth, there was a planet called ‘Ancient World.’ The Ancient World was separated into five equal territories.
Northern Territory was ruled by the elves who had immortal lives and excellent intelligence. Eastern Territory was ruled by the dwarfs of the Monumental Mountains who were very skilled at concealing themselves from dangers. This was because of their heredity, which had been inherited by the generations of generations since the ancient time in the past.
Middle Territory was ruled by humans who were brave and skilled at using sword. Western Territory was ruled by the magicians who had supernatural power and were knowledgeable. Southern Territory was ruled by the tree-protectors who looked like general gigantic trees but they could speak and move.
There was once the rumor that a man who was cutting wood near the edge of the Ancient Forest saw six or seven tree-protectors take a walk and speak with other trees. The man left the forest for the village, telling what he saw to the villagers in an inn.
Nonetheless, nobody believed him. No one had seen any tree-protector thenceforth. Nowadays, the story of these moving trees was hardly known. In the first place, they usually stayed quietly in deep forest where was possessed by primitive trees. In the other place, they did not usually talk with humans, elves, dwarf, or even magicians. By this reason, people that thought the tree-protectors existed only in a fable.
The Ancient World had been peaceful for two millenniums. There had not been any war happening since the War of the Five Armies ended two millenniums ago. Everywhere people talked about melody and peace.
Humans, elves, dwarfs, and magicians adventured around the Ancient World happily.
Nevertheless, the golden period of civilization passed by very rapidly, whereas the populations of the Ancient World still enjoyed their happiness. They completely forgot the fact that there remained half-alive devils living in the darkest part of this mysterious world. It once was widely known that those low devils used to be the followers of the Dark Lord who wanted to rule the whole Ancient World in darkness.
After the Great War of the Five Armies finished in the end of the dark period and the Dark Lord surrendered, they were expelled by the Council of Magicians. Most of them concealed in the forest and waited for the Dark Lord to return.
The voice of death whispered about the return of the Dark Lord. The devils realized that the time had come. They all awoke again after a very long sleep underneath the ground – actively and bloodthirstily. At the same time, the unseen hands of dark shadows started to extend from the middle of the Ancient Forest. All the tree-protectors realized that this was the signal of great disaster.
As a result, they decided to surrender the Ancient Forest and headed towards small woods near Central Territory’s boundary. This was the greatest phenomenon that the tree-protectors appeared out of the Ancient Forest; the last time they did so was so long ago that no one could remember.
Meanwhile, the dark power started to cover the Ancient Forest. The Dark Lord secretly gathered his armies in this forest while the tree-protectors still kept sleeping senselessly. The number of his followers increased rapidly and would soon become the most enormous army as anyone could imagine.
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he daytime was getting shorter than it used to be, whereas the nighttime, which always brought bitter nightmares, was getting longer and colder. The starlight, which used to shine brightly, vanished without any farewell as though they had abandoned the sky.
The wind whispered in the air, the water in the river cried, and the trees rumored about the inescapable catastrophe. The information spread over the Ancient World very swiftly. Terrifyingly, many a wolf barked in the night. A few huge trolls were seen walking awkwardly near small woodland in Northern Territory.
The return of the Dark Lord was rumored everywhere. The uncivilized monsters, which lived underground, came out of their holes; they all headed towards the south where the stronghold of the Dark Lord was settling. The calamity was in coming.
Every minute passed made the enemies stronger and stronger. For that reason, all humans simultaneously came to assemble at the Holy Valley to find the solution to this unavoidable problem. They had gathered for seven days though they could not reach a consensus.
While worry was covering the whole world and they almost despaired of hope, the horn of the last alliance of elves, dwarfs, and magicians rang out loud. The army paraded into the valley extremely, grandly and then stopped.
Unexpectedly, a lot of tree-protectors flooded into the valley; all the eyes looked at them amusedly because such an astonishing event came once in a very long time.
Having planned already, the whole army combined together and headed out of the valley, going southward. The two huge armies between lightness and darkness met at the battlefield.
Finding that their forest having been destroyed over wide area, the tree-protectors exploded their anger. They all bellowed with fury.
Suddenly, the two armies crashed heavily. The ground shook violently as though it was ready to erupt any time. Swords and shields made a loud noise when they clashed. All the warriors fought for their liberty.
Meanwhile, the rain was pouring down heavily. The wind was stronger and stronger. Unpredictably, a large amount of water in the river spilt towards the battlefield. It transformed into nine horses and flooded into the battlefield. When the sun appeared above the horizon, the war ended perfectly. The Dark Lord was destroyed by his own power.
A lot of humans, elves, dwarfs, magicians, tree-protectors, trolls, wolves, and devils died together in the battlefield, which had then become known as Death Lake. Nobody had known how many people or devils died in the war up to now.
The elves started to sing the song of death to commemorate all the warriors in the war. The tree-protectors came back to their woodland. The Ancient World came back to the age of liberty again. There was no war, but love and harmony.
The catastrophe would happen to the world if all humans ignored it. Even if the catastrophe happened to the world, we could solve it with harmony. Any world that has no harmony is thought to be the world of war and cruelty, which are the causes of great catastrophe.
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