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**// Kristina Curran, Josh Contreras //** __ **// Why Cats Are Afraid Of Water //** __

**// Poseidon is the god of the ocean. He likes everything that lives in the sea. He hates everything that doesn’t live in the sea. Every cat loved the water, and Poseidon especially hated any type of cat. He hated them because they were annoying. //** **// Everyday and sometimes at night cats would always come and swim in the oceans. They would always come up and bother Poseidon. Poseidon tried a lot to get rid of all the cats. Nothing ever worked. //** **// One day Poseidon came up with a special poison to get rid of all the cats. He put one drop into the ocean and any cat that went into the ocean would be affected by it, and would be scared of water. After that cats never wanted anything to do with water. //** **// That’s why cats are afraid of water. Some cats in the world still like water. That’s because they never swam in the ocean. Some cats were smart enough to stay away from Poseidon so they will never be affected and will still be able to swim. //**

__ Why Do People Have Freckles? __ The mortal, Mary, was sitting in her bed chamber looking at herself in the mirror. “I am the most beautiful woman in the world! Maybe even the universe!” Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, overheard this statement and became angry. Aphrodite became angry with the Idea that someone was more beautiful then her. She placed a curse upon Mary to make her look ugly. Aphrodite says “Upon your face I speckle you with freckles all over the place.” The next morning Mary awoke to her smooth, flawless complexion covered in freckles. Mary was so upset thinking the freckles make her look ugly. Aphrodite was bragging about what she did to Mary for thinking she was more beautiful than her, while Mary heads to a party. When she gets there, all her friends say “Wow Mary! You’re even prettier than before!” Aphrodite heard this and got even angrier. So, she cursed everyone in the room to have freckles just like Mary and all of their descendents would have freckles just like them. Even though not everybody has freckle, they’re still beautiful. And all the same. All of the people at the party that had freckles will always have them, and that’s why some people have freckles.

By: Brandy Perry and Taylor Crosslin

Taylor Fox & Darius Jackson Period 2nd Nov. 4, 2010

__ The Ageing Curse __ Our story begins in Ancient Greece with the goddess of youth Hebe. When a mortal enrages the goddess, a curse is unleashed upon everyone in the world. One day in Ancient Geece a mortal named Belle was in a furious rage because of the killing of her son. Hebe, the goddess of youth, came down, distuised as an elderly woman. Hebe tried to help Belle. Hebe asked, “Why are you so angry?” Belle didn’t speak so Hebe asked again. Belle was frustrated and hurt Hebe. Hebe was angered and showed her majestic self to Belle. Bele was shocked and tried to apologize to her. Hebe wouldn’t take it and unleased her anger. Hebe made a ageing curse and unleashed it on Belle, but it was so powerful it spread across the world. After the spread, some of the innocent mortals died. Hebe was sad and fled back to the heavans. The curse she sent down was an ageing curse that was only meant for Belle, but it spread around toeveryone. To this day the curse is still upon us.

Rico Vassar Ash Schulz

__Why True Love Doesn’t Exist __ This is a story of Eros god of love and Hades god of the under world. Husband to Persephone queen of the underworld. This is a story of how true love never came to be. It was a hot summer day when two couples Taylor and Brandon, Jerry and Carrie went to the beach to cool down. Hades who was known as a hot head couldn’t take the heat either so he went to the beach disguised as a mortal. While at the beach he saw the two couples. This made Hades mad and he wanted to get rid of the true love by breaking their hearts. Eros saw what Hades was doing and flew down from Olympus to stop it. When Eros got to the beach he disguised himself as a wise old man and warned the two couples that Hades wants to destroy their true love. While Eros was protecting the two couples from Hades, he let his guard down. Hades did everything he could do until he struck Eros and killed him. When Eros died true love went him and couples everywhere were affected. Nobody has ever had true love since that awful day.

** T Johnson, Blanca Sharp, Brittany Rac ** ** 2nd period ** ** 11/4/10 **  __ ** Twins ** __ Hercules is the god of strength. He came to earth one day and saw a beautiful woman; she was a body builder. Her name was Haley Hanneman. They meet in a magical forest. They fell in love with each other and soon were married. A couple of months later, Haley found out she was pregnant. She told Hercules. He got mad because he wasn’t ready to be a father, so he left. One year later, Hercules came back to get revenge. He had found out Haley had cheated on him. In the middle of his rage, Haley had given birth to a handsome baby boy named Carl Hanneman. Hercules was so furious, he ripped Carl in half! Then threw both half’s of Carl on the ground! Haley was really upset and slapped Hercules. As Hercules looked at the kid in half on the ground, he noticed the two half’s were growing the other half of the body. When the bodies were done growing, they looked identical. They named their new identical twins Carl, and Chon Hanneman. That’s why there are twins.

BJ Betros, Taylor Johnson 2nd period Michals __ Poseidon-Hurricanes __

Poseidon is the king of the sea. He is able to control the storms and happenings of the seas and oceans. One day he and his son were fighting because it was time for his son to go to his moms but Poseidon didn’t want him to leave yet but his son left anyway and that made him very mad, so he started stomping and throwing things. The entire ruckus caused the waves in the sea to go crazy and it made the weather bad and really windy. His son went back to try to stop him but it was to late the storm was too bad. The ocean started spinning and so did the storm. It just kept getting bigger and bigger. Now every time Poseidon and his son start fighting that’s when hurricanes started since that day.

Robin McGregor Reading 2nd 11-4-10 __<span style="color: red; display: block; font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Why Are There Stars In The Sky? __ <span style="color: #6600ff; display: block; font-family: Andy; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Listen as Hercules and Isabella tell you about why there is stars in the sky. And what their use is. <span style="color: #00b0f0; display: block; font-family: Andy; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Strong Hercules and Isabella, his secret love, were always wondering why there are stars in the sky. As time grew they knew they knew they had to figure out what their use was. One day they figures out, that they are just big balls of fire, and they look like shapes of a star. <span style="color: fuchsia; display: block; font-family: Andy; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Time and time went by and they did lots of experiments and research. Until, one day Hercules told Isabella that he might have an explanation. He says,”I believe everytime I’m with you, I fall more in love with you, and a star quickly rises to the sky.” Isabella knew that coudnt’t be correct. <span style="color: #66ff33; display: block; font-family: Andy; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">The next day they sat out at night, and Hercules gazed as he falls in love. They looked at the sky and another star appeared. Isabella was very surprised; she couldn’t believe her eyes. Now everytime you see stars and his true love, Isabella think of. That’s why there’s stars in the sky.

Haidyn Work, Brandon Baack

Two best friends named Regiles and Panor went fishing. They had a net and threw it in to the ocean. They waited then suddenly something was pulling the net. They pulled the net up and it was Poseidon’s daughter. She was all tangled up.

Posieden was outraged. He was so mad that he sent Regiles to the underworld. Surprisingly Ponor was not caught; he managed to get away. Panor was devastated by the loss of his friend. Poseidon’s daughter was sad about what happened. She said to Panor, "I’ll give to you a seashell to communicate until your friend. Also I have information about how your friend can get out of the underworld. The only sure way to escape is when the tectonic plates of the world shift, but nobody knows how or when this occurs."

Panor was very appreciative about what Poseidon’s daughter did for him. He said, "Thank you for what all you have done for me." Then he talked through the seashell and said, "The only way to escape is through the cracks in the earth." Panor told Regulis to look for a crack that might be big enough to squeeze through. So while Regulis was working he came upon a black substance that made him sneeze. He gathered it in his pouch. One day as Regulis was searching for a way out Hades caught him. He grabbed his foot and held him above his head to swallow him. All Regulis could do was watch his terrible fate. Then he hit Hades directly in the nose with the pouch full of black powder. This caused Hades to sneeze forcefully. The sneeze caused a shift in the tectonic plates and Regulis escape. The friends were joyfully reunited. This shift is known as an earthquake; the black powder is known as pepper.

<span style="color: #c0504d; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif';">Josh Marek <span style="color: #c0504d; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif';">2nd <span style="color: #4f6228; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif';">Logen and Hates <span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif';"> One day in the town hall Logan was looking at all the cool pictures. Logan was looking at this picture when out of noware the god named Hates said, “da you like the pictuue.” Logan said, “ya it is guit wonderful,” they talked for a long time, and Hates says, “maby we should hang out sometime.” Logan said, “Ya that would be fun.” So they went everyware together and came really close. <span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif';">Logen and Hates were riding on Hates’s horses when out of noware Logan’s horse bucked and Logan fell off. He hit his head on a big rock. Hates jumped off the horse, and went to go check on Logan He had no puluse. Hates got so mad and started to bang on the ground. <span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif';"> When he banges on the ground. He makes a earthquack. When he is reminded of something. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Agency FB','sans-serif';"> He is reminded of Logan when he goes to the horse stable. When he lookes at the horse he startes to cry and bang on the ground. That is how earthquacks started.