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THE TRIDENT

A long time ago, in ancient Greece, Aleck Sedlier was working by the beach. Now Aleck was just a simple farmer, and only sixteen at that. When he was plowing near the beach, he saw something shinny wash up on shore. Now he usually wouldn’t care but it kept on reflecting the sun at his eyes. After a while he decided to go see what it was. When he got there was a golden trident. At once he knew whom it belonged to. “It’s Poseidon’s trident!!!” He yelled with much enthusiasm, hoping nobody heard him. He realized he had a chance to get back at Poseidon; both his parents had died in the ocean and he believed Poseidon had killed them. Down in the ocean, Poseidon was freaking out. He tried to accuse everybody of stealing his trident. He tried to execute any given suspects. A couple hours after Poseidon lost his trident; a messenger came to tell him where it was. When the messenger told him that Aleck Sedlier had it, Poseidon freaked out even more. “I didn’t even mean to kill his parents, it was my first day on the job! Now he has a perfect chance to get revenge!” After all that freaking out, he realized he would have to go up there and get it. While he was on his way there, Aleck was practicing with the trident. When Poseidon rose out of the water with great power (secretly afraid that he might die by his own weapon of the seas). They fought for three long days. Aleck had a crazy idea, to run up to Poseidon and stab him. When he was running to stab him, he tripped and the trident slit his throat. That was the end of Aleck Sedlier. Everybody else lived happily ever after.