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Time of Giants.

Once long, long ago there were Giants roaming this earth tall strong men and women that could pull a tree out by its roots. There were also Fairies, dainty little creatures with wings. With these wings Fairies could fly. The Giants believed in brute force for everything they were terrible men and women that were always looking for trouble. At the same time there were Dragons, these Dragons were covered in a scaly skin that protected them from most of the attacks of the Giants. The Dragons and Fairies wanted only one thing and that was to be left in peace so that they could go about their daily tasks. The Dragons were not meat eaters nor were the Fairies but the Giants only ate meat, no animal be it large or small was safe from the Giants.

The Fairies were very good at making healing ointments and lotions and often helped a Dragon that had been injured by the Giants. Soon the two races, Dragons and Fairies got together to stop the Giants from Killing off every animal that they came across. In those far off days of long ago there were no colours in this world every thing was either black or white. This is when the Fairies came up with the idea of giving everything on earth its own colour. This helped all the animals to hide when the Giants were out hunting. This solved many problems but the Giants were so big that even though many animals escaped from them, others were still being killed.

The Fairies and the Dragons got together and talked for many a long hour; one of the Dragons came up with the idea for the Fairies who were very skilled in magic to make the giants small. If the Giants were one third of their height and weight, they would not be so strong and need so much meat to eat and things would be more peaceful for all of the folk on the earth. The Fairies not only made the Giants smaller and weaker but also showed them how to grow corn and other things that the Fairies themselves ate. This is how farming started and for a while all was peaceful on earth until one of the Dragons was caught happily eating corn from the fields of one of the Farmers. The Farmer swore he would stop that Dragon eating his corn even if he had to kill him. This killing of Dragons soon became a sport with the Farmers.

In China the Dragons and the Humans became friends and lived peacefully together also in other parts of the world Dragons were treated with respect. Wales is such a country, Dragons are National signs and most Welsh Firms have a Dragon for a logo. Then the Humans started off killing one another. Knights in armour with lances and swords went out deliberately to kill the Dragons. Their excuse for this killing was that Dragons eat young Maidens. This of course was not true dragons do not eat meat and they do not breathe fire from their noses. What the Dragon does have for its defence is a couple of glands that produce acid. This acid is so strong that it dissolves anything that is steel such as armour and swords. The knights were afraid of this acid because it caused terrible wounds to their flesh and parts of their bodies were dissolved and they died a terrible death.

A terrible disease swept over the world and most of the Dragons died. A few that lived in remote mountain areas managed to avoid the illness and as they are a long living race of creatures, some may still exist today in the remote parts of China for example. The Fairies too managed to save a few of the Dragons and gave them the power to become invisible. That is another reason that dragons are not to be seen.  They do not want to be seen as they recognise mankind as their worst enemy. The last Dragons that freely roamed the earth were tall with powerful wings and a long barbed tail that was in fact another deadly weapon as some of the knights of long ago can vouch for.

Many of the animals of long ago such as the Winged Horse, the Unicorn, The Phoenix, the animal that rises from its own ashes. There are many more some we cannot remember most of them now live on a planet far out in space in the Andromeda area. There they have a planet all of there own and here all live in peace. Sooner or later mankind or the humans will discover this planet and see the creatures that he hunted so long ago. I hope that by this time we will have learned to live in peace among our own nations and families and can meet in peace and harmony with each other. When this time comes the Fairies will also make themselves known and mankind will benefit even more from the knowle