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The Adventures of Yoyo
Adventures of Yoyo
At the beginning of the world there was a time when all living beings were in peace. They were following a simple code: “you can’t eat anything that moves”. All the animals including the predators followed that rule, they just ate grass and berries.
One day everything changed, the predators started growing big teeth and claws. All this happened during the night when everybody in the community was sleeping. All the bears, lions, coyotes and the other predators began to kill all the innocent small animals. The little animals that survived hid and the predators began to starve. It looked like the end of the world.
But there was a little gray mouse called Yoyo that didn’t hide. Before all of this, she had been friends with a bear so when she heard that all the predators were changing she refused to believe that it was a natural change. One day she went to her friend’s house to see how he was, but the mouse realized that her friend’s eyes were different and that he was watching her like she was food. Yoyo was very scared so she ran out of there. She felt confused, she didn’t want to believe he wanted to eat her.
When she was going back home she passed beside a river and noticed that a coyote was drinking water. Suddenly something strange happened, the coyote’s body began to transform. His claws and fangs started to get bigger and sharper. In that moment, she realized that there was something wrong with the water, so she decided to take a sip. She noticed that the water had a different taste, something slightly acid and bitter. Yoyo decided to go upstream to the source of the river.
By the time she arrived to the top of the mountain where the river began, she found a lot of barrels with a rare substance inside of them. When she was inspecting a big snake appeared behind her and lunged at her, but he wasn’t able to catch her when she ran around the trees. When there was no other place to run, the snake attempted a final attack but he realized that he was tangled in the tree trunks and rocks.
―You caught me! ―the snake admitted.
―Why did you do all of this?
―Because I was jealous of all the animals that had legs, they never see me. I’m always on the ground and they step on me.
―You made the big animals hunt us! How can I cure them? ―Yoyo asked.
―There is no cure, you all deserve this.
―Then I’m going to leave you trapped here.
―No! No! Please I will tell you how to help your friends, there is a cure, but you must untangle me.
―Okay, I’m all ears.
When the snake told her how to cure her friends she immediately helped them. All the animals returned to normal, no one was being hunted anymore. The community and all her friends were back; she was very happy. You could say it is amazing how a little mouse saved them all from the end of the world, but even more amazing how jealousy almost ended the world.
