Tressia's+story

//On a dark and cloudy day, a servant was walking down the street to buy some bread for Memphis. But the servant was having a hard time finding the market. But if he didn’t hurry, Memphis would be very mad. He stumbled across a type of market, but it wasn’t the bread market. It was a place to buy statues and jewels. He sees a sphinx next to the door. He decides to buy it and hope that Memphis won’t be mad at him. Some people say that it will bring good luck to the owner. Others say that the owner will be cursed. But he buys it anyway.

On his way home, with the bread and the sphinx, people stare at him, wondering what will happen to the servant because of the sphinx. He walks all the way back to Mt. Olympus, where Memphis lives. On the way up, he trips and falls more than half way down the mountain. On his second try to get up, he makes it. He gets to the castle and walks up to Memphis. “I bought this sphinx for you, my master.” “ It is beautiful.” She replied. “ But it’s not what I sent you to get.” The servant bows down. “ I’m sorry. But when I saw it I just couldn’t help myself.”

Memphis wanted to punish him but decided that he meant well, so she let it slide. She grows to like the sphinx and rewards the servant for finding it. The next day Memphis wakes up to find the sphinx was missing. She looks everywhere for it. Then her servant comes up to tell Memphis that he had sold it to a market place for more than they had payed for it.// B//ut she was furrious. " What do you mean you sold it?!" " Well, you looked upset about me buying it, so I took it back." " Well, you better go get it back, or else I'll be making a statue out of you!"

The servant walks all the way down to the market place and tries to buy it again. " I'm sorry. I can't sell it to you." " Why not? I need that sphinx!" " I'm sorry, but I can't help you." So the servant goes to another market to see if he could find another sphinx to buy. He ends up going to every single market and still can't find another sphinx. " Oh my. Memphis is going to make a statue out of me! Unless I can find anouther stupid sphinx!" He thought to himself. But little did he know that Memphis had made a copy and that he sold the fake one.

On his way back to Mt. Olympus, he was scared to get back because he was afraid of Memphis. Afraid of what she might do to him because he sold the sphinx. So when he got back, he found Memphis talking to her friend Isis. " What are you going to do about your servant not knowing about the fake sphinx?" Isis asked. " I'll just keep on letting him think that he sold the real one for a while to teach him a lesson for not listening to me." She replied. " Good idea. Maybe he'll learn his lesson and listen more often." Isis replied back. " But don't you think it's a little mean to make him suffer?" " No I don't. This is a lesson to teach him to listen to me." Memphis said.

Later that day after Isis had left, he walked up to confront Memphis about hearing her talking about the fake sphinx. " I heard you talking to Isis about making me suffer for not listening to you. That is evil. Why would you do that to your most trusted servant? The one who helps you with every single thing." He asked her. " I just wanted to teach you to listen without making your life misrable." She replied. " But since that wasn't enough, I guess I'll have to turn you into a sphinx as a punishment for not listening to me." So for the rest of his miserable life, he was put in a showcase for people to see what would happen when you disobey a god or goddess.//