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Andrés Treviño 

Patricio Torre 

The End of the Beginning

            The earth was not always such a polluted place.  It was once a planet with vast oceans, endless forests and millions of animals.  Beautiful sunsets and glorious sunrise’s started and ended our days in the most magnificent of ways.  The skies smiled, the rain was joyous, the oceans were friendly and the sun glided peacefully overhead as in watch of our harmonious lifestyle. But it soon became a dark and vial home.  Everyday species went endangered, oceans and lakes went dry, and entire forests disappeared from the face of the planet. Humans were to blame.

            Shots were fired in the distance. “Run, run!” said the mountain. “Watch out for the hunters!” The exhausted big brown grizzly fell on his front legs and landed on his chin next to a rabbit hole. “What's all that noise!?” exclaimed the big old rabbit poking his head out of tall grass. “They killed my family and now they are coming for me” said the bear with a breathless voice. “I saw everything” exclaimed the mountain, “last week they started to cut off all of my long green hair, and now they are trying to kill my friends. They don't understand that we are part of the same team and that we need to work together in order to survive.” “Well I’ll be damned, my carrots are not growing any more because of this gosh darn it acid rain that’s been pouring for the last few months. I'm starving and loud rumbling noises are heard all day and night. My son’s hole has been covered up with a hard cement and now he pokes out his head into a Victoria's Secret department store.” Suddenly a deep voice rumbled in the sky, “My children, don't be afraid it will all soon come to an end and everything will go back as it was 4 billion years ago.” All of the creatures and landforms on earth shouted with excitement since they knew that they were given a second chance, soon humans would wipe themselves out and the chaos they once brought into Earth would vanish.

            There was once a time, in which humans and nature lived in peace and harmony, that time ended.  We tried in many ways to communicate to the humans, but they never listened.  Their greed for money and material items led them astray and made them forget about us and our whole home was on the verge of dying because of them.  “The humans were doomed, they decided to ignore us and take us for granted, their fate was inevitable”, the mountain said to the creatures. “We have been given another opportunity now that the humans have wiped themselves out, we must grow, rebuild and if we are to face humans again, there will be no second chance.”