LEONIDUS THE MANLY HORSE

By: Devon Beers

Not so big now are you.

Once upon a time there was a wooden horse. His name was Leonidus and he was a wooden horse. He was so upset because his father was taking all the glory of being the war stopper. His father’s name was Trojan. Leonidus was picked on because he was a very little horse made of wood. All he wanted to do was fit in.

One day Leonidus was walking to the market and out of nowhere a man ran by him screaming “Aghhhhhhhhh!”

“Run kids! Argos Panoptes is coming and he can see all over so hide good.” Then the chaos spread like wildfire. Crowds of people started running and hurrying to get to the best hiding spots. Unfortunately little Leonidus was a small colt who wasn’t very fast, leaving him stranded in the open.

“Rawwr! Who dares try to hide from me. I will find you and I will tag you,“ said the monster. “Guys why wont you play with me? It’s not fair.” And the monster sat down and began to cry.

“Well I’ll play with you, Mister Argos.”

HIDE AND GO SEEK.

Argos was finding the horse every time but would not except to be found so Leonidus wanted to quit. He told the almighty Argos that he was bored and walked away. Argos got angry and ran after the horse. Since Leonidus was slow he couldn’t get away so he screamed “Help! Help!” but everyone just ignored him. “Daddy help!” he screamed. Out of nowhere the Trojan horse prevailed.

“Ill help you boy!” screamed the father. The little horse, Leonidus got away just in time.

THE RETURN

Back at the fortress of the sheltered walls there waited a colt for the return of his father. He waits a long time, but his father, Trojan, doesn’t show. Then out of nowhere, he saw a moving figure. It was very slow so it couldn’t have been the great Trojan horse, but unfortunately it was. He rushed over to see his dad for a second before his dad turned into a big pile of rubble.

LATER

Several years later, on that very same day, a colt turns into a Stallion and he is just happy to be out and able to roam freely. Then on the anniversary of the Trojan horses death Chimaeras shows up. He was hideous with his mixture of a lion, goat and snake. To tell you the truth the animal was hideous to see. All of the town hid in fear at just the rawer of the beast. But one didn’t and that was Leonidas.

THE FIGHT IN THE BEGINNING

“Hey you stop hurting the people of this town.”

“What are you talking about, I just came to have a little snack and if you don’t get out of my way you will be my toothpick.”

“Take that back said the young stallion.”“Only if you leave me alone will I take it

back and if you don’t you will be fire wood for my cave ha, ha, ha.”

THE ENDING BATTLE

The battle struck out. People all around saying give him a wheel, another wheel. The fight lasted days on end. Crashing and hitting all of the stuff made the two tired. They both were wishing that they weren’t there at the moment. Finally the cay came when the horse was going to give up, but so was the Chimaeras. Then at the last blow of the horse the Chimaeras fell of a cliff and died. The from all the fighting and pain Leonidus layed down and slept for a while.