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LOST HERO WRITING ASSIGNMENT by Sage Olson

One day, Aeolus god of the winds was on an extremely rare day of leave as a reward for finding a revolutionary way of redoing the godly Postal Service. One of Aeolus’s favorite things to do back in the days of the Greeks was to fly around the country and observe what mortals were up to. Of course he could have asked his thousands of servants to tell him what was going on in the world, but he preferred to do it himself (he never got much time to himself, what with being on Olympus Weather every twelve Minutes). As he was flying past Detroit he saw a closed car plant. "Nothing interesting here," he said to no one in particular. As he was about to fly away to a more active place where he could find something more entertaining to watch, he heard a faint noise like the clang of metal on metal then he spotted a flash of movement, something purple and gold. He flew in for a closer look. "Now this here sounds promising," he murmured to himself. Flying closer, he figured out what the purple and gold thing was. It was boy, probably fifteen or sixteen wearing a purple silk shirt with gold edging. He was running from something or at least it looked like he was. Then from out of the car plant came four cyclopes. Three of them wore only loincloths but the last wore a chainmail muumuu. The one in the muumuu shouted at the others, "Get that boy!" The others complied by stomping and creating an immense amount of noise. The boy looked back and saw the cyclopes coming after him. A look of fear came into his eye and he began to run faster. While the boy was being chased after by the others, the one in the muumuu (who must have been the leader judging by how the others obeyed her commands) went back into the car plant and around on a route that looked like it would intercept the boy before he could make it out of the car plant and away. As this was all happening, Aeolus floated above an unseen and unheard audience to this game of cat and mouse, and in this case he thought the cat was going to win… As Aeolus floated above the abandoned car plant, the boy ran on. He tried to duck behind a broken crane to catch his breath and to hide from his pursuers but they spotted him, and he had to run on. Breathing heavily, he ran towards the entrance. Thirty yards…twenty yards… ten yards… Almost out, and then the cyclops in the muumuu appeared in front of him. "Ma Gasket never loses a prize and you little demigod," taking hold of him by the shirt and lifting him up, "and you are my prize." she roared. Aeolus floating on the wind, thought to himself, "Demigod? Of which god, I wonder?" The other three cyclopes stomped up, "What shall we do with him Ma?" they said. "What do you think, you idiots? Give him a piggyback ride." Ma Gasket said "Cleeg go and get my salsa!" Ma Gasket roared. The one who had to be Cleeg got up and clumped off, "OK, Ma." he said meekly. As he went to get the salsa, Ma Gasket growled at the other two. "What are you two waiting for? GO AND GET A FIRE GOING! As all the bickering was happening, the demigod was fighting to get free. "Let me go, you ugly, bad-tempered, foul-smelling beast!" Ma Gasket laughed, "And why should I let you go?" "Because if you don’t," the demigod replied, "I will stab you with this." He raised a dagger and brought it down on Ma Gasket’s hand. "Arrrgh!" she roared, as the demigod slipped free. "Never mess with sons of mercury," he said tauntingly. He was about to run, when Cleeg came back and they both ran into each other, whumph! Both went down. The demigod got up fast, bringing his dagger up and stabbed Cleeg in the chest and then raising his dagger a second time, stabbed down again. Cleeg disintegrated into a pile of dust. And that’s when Ma Gasket’s hand grabbed him. "You stabbed my Cleeg! I’m roasting you right now!" Ma Gasket hauled him to a crude roasting spit big enough to roast even a human, and tied him to it. Sump and Torque were making a fire beneath the spit. "You really shouldn’t eat me," the demigod said. "And why’s that?" said Ma Gasket. "Because I broke my leg and to help it heal I was taking special medicine and as a side effect it makes me poisonous to monsters." Ma Gasket started sharpening a carving knife and said, "I don’t believe you. You’re the son of Hermes, god of lies, right?" And so as Aeolus flew away, his fun gone, all he could hear was the sound of a knife being sharpened. sagelosthero.pdf

cool story, sage - casey Nice ending. -Choji