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Adventures of Yoyo
At the beginning of the world there was a time when all the living beings were in peace. They were following a code, it was simple “you can’t eat anything that can move”. All the animals including the predators were following that rule, they just ate grass and berries.
One day everything changed, the predators started growing big teeth and claws. All this happened by night when everybody in the community were sleeping. All the bears, lions, coyotes and the other predators started a slaughter, they killed all the innocent small animals. All the little animals that survived started to hide so 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. She had a bear friend before everything started so when she found out that all the predators were changing she refused to believe that it was a natural change. One day she went to his 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 food. Yoyo was very scared so she ran out of there. She felt confused, she didn’t want to believe he was trying to eat her.
When she was going back home she passed beside the river and noticed that a coyote was drinking water. Suddenly something strange happened, the coyote started transforming his body. 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 kind of 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 she ran around the trees. When there was no other place to run the snake throw his last attack but the snake realized that he was tangled up in the tree trunks and rocks.
―You catch 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 down here and they always step on me.
―You made that 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 let me out of here.
―Ok I’m all ears.
When the snake told her how to cure their friends she immediately cured them. All the animals returned to normality, they weren’t being hunted anymore. The community and all her friends were back; she was very happy. You could say is amazing how a little mouse saved them all from the end of the world, but is even more amazing how jealousy almost ended the world.
