Kara Theisen

Mrs. Morrell

English III

September 3, 2012

The only thing on the Earth was water, lonely Crow, and  limited supply of seeds. Each time Crow accidentally dropped a seed from his wings, he noticed it created a small piece of land that floated above the water. The thought came to him that he could finally start something that would last very long. When he dropped four seeds by accident, this time over the land, he noticed that it immediately turned into a large palm tree. 

From the beginning of his life the seeds had always been connected to his wings and as he grew older more seeds would fall off. Crow realized that these seeds were his ticket to creation. When he looked up at the large palm tree he was four coconuts attached and decided to fly up to grab them down. Crow laid them on the ground and realized that one of the coconuts was slightly cracked. By using his strong beak, Crow pried it open the crack even wider until it snapped in half. When both halves fell to the ground he saw that the coconut contained juice. Crow tipped the coconut towards his beak to try the juice but a few drops landed on the land below him. As time passed, the drops of juice had turned into springs of fresh water and the coconut seeds that fells with the drops of juice turned into freshwater fish of all different types. 

Crow decided to use more of the seeds he started with to create more land. He took sixteen more seeds from his wings and dropped four along the north coast, four along the east, four along the south, and four along the west of the island. The land expanded even larger to the point where Crow had to fly from one end of the island to the other because walking would take to long. He noticed that he started to run low on the seeds that grew palm trees and lands and wondered how he could get more. Crow dived down into the springs where the fish lived and told them to come up above water. Once they gathered at the top of the water, Crow asked them if they could go deep down to the bottom of the springs and search for more seeds. They agreed to do this for him on the condition of Crow expanding their springs for them to be able to move around more. Crow said to them all, “The more seeds you find, the larger your springs will get!”

The fish were successful in their search for seeds and noticed a huge change in the land that surrounded them along with the extension of their springs throughout the land. Crown had expanded the land so much that he was not even able to see where it ended no matter how high he flew up into the sky. He cried tears of joy, realizing that he created something huge. His tears hit the ground and turned into birds of all different species. They all flew up to Crow and immediately asked him what they could do to help to expand the Earth even further. He asked them all to go and spread the seeds the fish had gathered for him all over the land and in the water. 

All the birds set out on their journeys across the land and started dropping seeds all over. The seeds turned into more trees, more springs, and more land. As the birds flew all around, many began to sweat with all the hard work. Their sweat had fallen to the ground causing different animals to appear across the land. Throughout the next few months, all of the different animals had listened to Crow on what to do and all worked together to expand the Earth into what it is today!