The Scorpion King-Part One

THE SCORPION KING-A FABLE BY GWENDOLEN RIX ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A VERY DARK AND DANGEROUS KINGDOM ITS GOVERNING PRINCIPLES WERE HATRED AND GLOOM ITS GOVERNMENT WAS ESTABLISHED BY AN EVIL DICTATOR AND DROVES OF HIS EVIL INSECTS UNDER FOOT “FROM WHENCE DID THIS EVIL DICTATOR EVOLVE?” THOUGHT THE INSECTS “FROM WHENCE DID HE GET HIS AUTHORITY?” FOR HE STOMPED HIS REPTILIAN FEET AND HE SNORTED FIRE HIS BREATH WAS PUTREFYING LIKE DEATH ONE DAY A PETRIFIED ANT CAME BEFORE THE SCORPION’S THRONE AWAITING A JUDGMENT, A DECREE HE WAITED AND HE WAITED AND HE WAITED AND FINALLY THE RULER AGREED TO SEE HIM HIS VOICE BOOMED WITH DISDAIN HIS EYES LOOKED LIKE SMOKE AND HIS NOSTRIL EMITTED MAGGOTS AND VARIOUS WORMS HE SAT ON HIS THRONE ROOM CHAIR ALL ALONE IN HIS GLORY SHOUTING OUT ORDERS TO HIS LOW LIFE ORDERLIES KILLS THOSE LOW LIFE INSECTS! EVERY ONE OF THEM! EAT THEM FOR SUPPER IF YOU WISH! WE ARE OVERPOPULATED! WE ARE CROWDED! OUR RESOURCES ARE DEPLETED! WE DON’T NEED THEM ANYWAYS! THEY ARE A BURDEN! SO THEY SYSTEMATICALLY DEVISED A PLAN TO SLOWLY KILL OFF THE REST OF THE INSECTS EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM NO MATTER WHAT THEIR GIFTS OR TALENTS THEY HAD NO VALUE. THEY WERE ALL LIABILITIES. THE MASTER SCHEMER THOUGHT HE HAD THE WORLD I N HIS HANDS AS HIS PLANS BEGAN TO UNFOLD TO LIMIT THE POPULATION OF INSECTS AS HE PLANNED OF MURDERING MOST ALL OF THE INSECT KINGDOM A TEENY TINY EARTHWORM EMERGED ON THE SCENE READY TO DELIVER THE INSECT WORLD… HE SPOKE OF LOVE HE SPOKE OF KINDNESS HE SPOKE OF ALWAYS PUTTING YOUR BEST PINCER FORWARD HIS CAUSE WAS CLEAR…SAVING THE INSECTS! HE PETITIONED THE OTHER KINGDOM MEMBERS OF A DIFFERENT WAY THAN HATRED HE PETITIONED THEM TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER THIS NOTION OF LOVE DIDN’T SETTLE WELL WITH THE KING OF THE SCORPIONS SO HIS DEMISE WAS PLANNED ALONG WITH THE OTHERS HE SLOWLY TURNED THE KINGDOM AGAINST THE EARTHWORM HE UNRAVELED HIS PLANS SLOWLY OVER TIME HE CONVINCED MANY OF THE OTHER INSECTS THAT EARTHWORMS WERE NO LONGER NEEDED THE SOIL WAS FULLY TILLED AND NOURISHED