Post by angel624 on Mar 30, 2010 23:02:18 GMT -5
I love to write short stories and stuff. ^^ I don't really have any dragon ones yet...but here's one I wrote for my sci fi class this semester, that I think is pretty good (and I'll post more as more come along):
Tursiops Truncatus
We used to be so friendly to your kind. Why wouldn't we have been?
Ever since the first human met the first dolphin, we got along quite swimmingly. We were very similar: we lived in tightly-knit family groups, we were very intelligent, and we loved to eat fish. Of course, you were trapped on the land while we were trapped in the sea. We thought it was a shame. We were naïve.
Your ancestors put a few of us in tanks on the land. They trained us, kept our minds active. We learned about how fun it was to perform in front of cheering crowds. We felt your caresses and loved you with all our hearts and souls and minds. Not like a human loves, of course. Our love was so much more pure than yours.
Then you had to make us better. Not just our tank brethren, but all of us. You kept meddling in our affairs. It was the beginning of the end.
You gave us voices. You gave us the freedom to go on land. You gave us a new way to think. You gave us emotion. You made us human.
Not like it hadn't been happening for years. Ever since you were children, you believed we thought the same as you. We were heroes, ready to save anyone who was in trouble. So you came to the conclusion that we could help you fix the land you polluted. You forgot that we were animals. Intelligent animals, yes. But animals nonetheless.
You thought you were doing the right thing. When you gave us voices, we lost our whistles. When you gave us the land, we lost the ocean; our flukes can't push us through the water as well as they did before. When you gave us human thought, we lost our instincts. When you gave us emotion, we lost our innocence.
Then, living side-by-side with us in these new land-dwelling bodies, you noticed the fish were vanishing rapidly. Would you like to know why? It is because you took us away. We weren't there to eat the fish anymore; not even the sharks or our whale cousins could eat enough to keep the seas in balance without us. The fish numbers rose until they choked out all sea life.
And now the seas are dead. Because you made us human.
We wept, we damned your race, we grew angry. We realized just how far we had come from our noble ancestors, whether they were ocean-dwellers or tank-dwellers. We were unable to do anything about it. Now we live on a filthy land, watching our dead ocean.
So now you know why we're here to change you, as you changed all of us. We were a balance, dolphins and humans; one controlled the seas, the other controlled the land. You destroyed that balance. So pay the price.
Go. Fix our oceans. Don't worry; we'll take better care of the land than you did.
Tursiops Truncatus
We used to be so friendly to your kind. Why wouldn't we have been?
Ever since the first human met the first dolphin, we got along quite swimmingly. We were very similar: we lived in tightly-knit family groups, we were very intelligent, and we loved to eat fish. Of course, you were trapped on the land while we were trapped in the sea. We thought it was a shame. We were naïve.
Your ancestors put a few of us in tanks on the land. They trained us, kept our minds active. We learned about how fun it was to perform in front of cheering crowds. We felt your caresses and loved you with all our hearts and souls and minds. Not like a human loves, of course. Our love was so much more pure than yours.
Then you had to make us better. Not just our tank brethren, but all of us. You kept meddling in our affairs. It was the beginning of the end.
You gave us voices. You gave us the freedom to go on land. You gave us a new way to think. You gave us emotion. You made us human.
Not like it hadn't been happening for years. Ever since you were children, you believed we thought the same as you. We were heroes, ready to save anyone who was in trouble. So you came to the conclusion that we could help you fix the land you polluted. You forgot that we were animals. Intelligent animals, yes. But animals nonetheless.
You thought you were doing the right thing. When you gave us voices, we lost our whistles. When you gave us the land, we lost the ocean; our flukes can't push us through the water as well as they did before. When you gave us human thought, we lost our instincts. When you gave us emotion, we lost our innocence.
Then, living side-by-side with us in these new land-dwelling bodies, you noticed the fish were vanishing rapidly. Would you like to know why? It is because you took us away. We weren't there to eat the fish anymore; not even the sharks or our whale cousins could eat enough to keep the seas in balance without us. The fish numbers rose until they choked out all sea life.
And now the seas are dead. Because you made us human.
We wept, we damned your race, we grew angry. We realized just how far we had come from our noble ancestors, whether they were ocean-dwellers or tank-dwellers. We were unable to do anything about it. Now we live on a filthy land, watching our dead ocean.
So now you know why we're here to change you, as you changed all of us. We were a balance, dolphins and humans; one controlled the seas, the other controlled the land. You destroyed that balance. So pay the price.
Go. Fix our oceans. Don't worry; we'll take better care of the land than you did.
