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The Great Cockroach
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Katiana Flores
Patricio Sosa
The Great Cockroach
After the devastation the cockroach came out of his sad cave, everything was only dirt and misery. Before the destruction all the animals lived in peace and fraternity and then suddenly a disease turned lions into zombies and everything fell apart, the zombie lions started to eat everybody. After a few months the cockroach saw something amazing, there was a golden eagle flying in the sky. It was the only living thing apart from zombies he had seen in a while. Amazed the cockroach approached to the Eagle and begged for help “where did you come from?” the kind Eagle said “I came from space, I left the Earth right after the devastation” and then she took the cockroach to space and the cockroach saw how ugly the Earth looked, they both came back sad and the Eagle said “I met someone who can help us” and the cockroach said “Who?” the Eagle said “I met an Paiute Indian from space” and the cockroach said “What did he tell you?” the Eagle said “He told me that he lived on Earth, thousands of years ago, but he left because he saw this coming”; “Let’s go talk to him” the cockroach said. The Eagle took the cockroach, they were going out to space looking for the Paiute Indian, but suddenly a zombie lion appeared and bit the Eagle’s wing. Hurt, the Eagle killed the zombie but the injury was tremendous, lying on the floor the golden Eagle was dying, after a few minutes the Eagle died. The cockroach was so sad that she went back to his cave. The cockroach came back the next day to bury his dear friend but she wasn’t there anymore instead there was a beautiful big tree, the only one on Earth. The cockroach walked towards the beautiful tree and found there was a golden apple hanging from a branch. He flew up there and had a little bite from the golden apple. Suddenly the cockroach fainted and woke up minutes later to find out he had super powers, like the Eagle had. He flew to space to fulfill the mission they had. After a few days the cockroach found the old Paiute Indian and explained the situation, the Paiute said “ It’s a shame that Mr. Golden Eagle died, and sure, I’ll help you restore earth”. They returned to the Earth and started to kill the zombie lions with their super powers, after the last one died and there was no living thing on Earth but a cockroach, a Paiute Indian and a tree. Happy and full of joy, the cockroach celebrated, but the Paiute Indian had disappeared. Suddenly a lot of cockroaches came out of under the tree and started to turn into many animals. Now there were oceans, rivers, mountains and any kind of animal you can think of. And the world, full of joy had been restored and was full of happiness.
The moral of the story is: no one can achieve anything on their selves, with help of others and teamwork you can do it all.
