A Short Story Of Spyros: The Hero's Tale Of Meteora

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In the land of Meteora, the gods were known as failures. They were banished from Olympia. Their city loomed with dark clouds that were there for eternity.Not even a streak of delicate sun could streak through these clouds. The gods there grew to be gloomy and expressionless gods who hope to die. The city lurks with the scent of death. The town`s people`s eyes have lost colour. The eyes of the people of Meteora is a stale, hopeless grey. The citizens of Meteora were giving up, and they were losing all hope. They had to climb a 400 foot wall and break the seal at the top to be accepted back into Olympus. They were giving up, until one day a small streak of sunlight broke through the thick black clouds. That day, a baby was born, and his name was Spyros.

Spyros was a bright,positive boy filled with excitement. He grew up to be a strong and brave young man. He was so different from the rest of the people in Meteora that they could not believe he was from this town as them. Even without a mother or father, he always looked at the cup as half full. His happiness was a disease that infected everyone in the town. The town became a better place for everyone ever since Spyros was born . Spyros loved to climb. He could climb anything, from trees, buildings to anything that was taller
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The old woman`s name was Zenobia. She was a mysterious woman that always kept a golden silky scarf with her. Yet what no one knows is that she was the daughter of Hermes. Zenobia`s scarf had flew onto the tallest tree in meteora; the Blockade. The tree rose to an astonishing 250 feet. It cut through the clouds making its own path into the sky. Spyros saw the scarf at the top of the tree, and whoosh! Spyros came up and down the tree in under 5 seconds. .Spyros returned the scarf and walked away. Zenobia saw something in the boy that she has never seen before, and that was hope, hope for the

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