The Unique boy
Once upon a time, there was a very poor family that lived in the edges of the
kingdom. They lived from the production and sell of pumpkins pies. The father
harvested, the mother cooked the pies, and their son travelled to the kingdom
to sell them. But one day, the king ate one of these pies, and found out that
he was allergic, so it was prohibited them in all the lands of the kingdom. The
poor family got poorer than ever and they only ate their pumpkins. The boy was
very upset and started hating the king and the royalty, for what they’ve done.
But the boy, who was very clever, thought of a solution for their poorness. His
mother always told him of an elf that lived in the forest, and if you answer
correctly to hid three tests, he will grant you a wish. So the boy, with all
his courage, went inside the forest. After travelling for three days and three
nights, he found a little door at the bottom of an old tree. He knocked the
door and a very weird voice asked who dared to bother an elf. He opened the
door and told him what was he doing alone in the forest. He answered that he
was searching for the magic elf, which could grant him a wish. “I am him” the
elf said, but you have to accomplish three tests. In these tests, he was
supposed to demonstrate three values: courage, humbleness and loyalty. The boy
accepted, with the condition that he couldn’t regret.
The
first test was about courage, where he must travel to the darkest part of the
forest and bring back a dragon scale. The boy arrived to the dragon’s shelter,
where the creature was sleeping. The boy rushed towards the dragons to pull out
a scale with his own hands, but the dragon woke up and got angry. The boy
trembled of fear and jumped behind the rocks. The dragon asked him what was he
doing there, as the frightened boy answered that he needed a scale from him.
The big monster had a gentle unknown side, and asked the boy why he didn’t ask
for one. The boy realized that he let his fear to control him. The dragon was
glad when the boy asked him kindly for what he needed, so he gave him the
scale. As the boy left, the dragon told him: “the bravest man is not the one
that doesn’t know fear, but who knows it and controls it”.
The
boy ran to the elf’s home, excited for having the scale and finished the first
test. The second test was about humbleness and consisted in leaving aside his
pride. He should go to the kingdom and beg some money to the king himself. This
was a very hard task, because the boy hated him for all what he has done to his
family. But the love for his family was bigger, so he traveled to the kingdom,
entered to the castle and stood in front of the king. He begged him some coins
and the king gave him a big cauldron full of golden coins. But the boy only
accepted a few coins, as the king got very astonished. The boy left the kingdom
and went back with the elf. He gave him the coins, accomplishing the second
test. Finally, the third task was about loyalty, and consisted in defending
something or someone that he loved, at all cost. The elf told him that until
this point, he has been very brave. In this task, he was supposed to find the
cure for his unicorn, which was poisoned by an evil orange dwarf. The boy had
to convince the dwarf to tell him were was the cure, by any means, but it
wouldn’t be easy. The boy went home to visit his unicorn, but when he tried to
touch it, the creature attacked him because of his illness. But the kid didn’t
gave up, because he loved his friend. He went to visit the evil orange dwarf,
which tried to convince the boy to go back because the risk he was taking
didn’t worth it. The boy didn’t gave up either, so he went home to bring the
unicorn to the dwarf. When he arrived, the evil creature told him his friend
was sick and he must left him alone. But the boy didn’t gave up again, and
brought his unicorn with the elf. The boy told him he didn’t found the cure,
but he will never left his friend alone. The elf seemed very satisfied, and
told him he had acknowledge what loyalty meant, and as he had accomplished the
three tests, he will concede him a wish, about anything he wanted. The boy
asked to live with his family a happy life, and the elf told him that it was
already conceded. But the boy keep worried and the elf asked why, as the boy
answered he was worried about his friend, but the elf told him to not be
worried, because his wish had the word family, and his friend was part of his
family. Besides, the elf told him “I will give you what you have brought to me:
the scale, symbol of courage, that will be transformed into a cauldron with no
end; and the coins, that will full fill the cauldron forever. The boy rushed to
his unicorn and went back home, gave the cauldron to his father, and lived
happily aver after.
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