How it all began(Tara Callinan) How it all began
by
Tara Callinan

Once upon a time before there was any life or any proper world there was only one place that was dark and murky. It was just black, there was nothing going on there and it didn’t make any sound at all. It was a lonely place and it was waiting for something to happen. After so many years, that I can’t recall how long, a tiny green bud sprouted out of the ground. That dark murky place looked so much better than it had before! The bud had made a difference that would in time cause everything to change.

So now it was growing and developing, getting ready for its big day when the bud would open up and show off its pretty petals to this ugly and unattractive place. You might be wondering what encouraged this tiny bud to grow and show that dark ugly place how much more beautiful it can be. Well in case you are wondering, a baby pixie was urging this little bud to grow and blossom so she could add so much more to this horrible place.

The pixie kept willing the bud to open up and at last the bud flowered. The pixie sprang out of the flower once she got the chance and took one look around the place. As soon as she did the pixie knew what she had to do. She nurtured the plant with her magic powers until finally the plant grew into a tree. It was a beautiful cherry blossom tree and it gave off so much light that a blue sky and a golden ground appeared. The pixie was delighted and excited - for this was the start of a world!

I don’t quite know why she knew...what I do know is that it has something to do with being a pixie.

Back to the story.

The flowers on the tree were seeds for other cherry blossom trees. So when they fell off they would have to be cared for too. Now the pixie was going to have to work very hard indeed. But the pixie had an idea. Using her magic powers she sprinkled dust onto each flower. The dust would help the flower grow a little bit faster and when they turned into trees some of their flowers would turn into pixies so that they would help the trees grow too. In no time at all there were hundreds of pixies and trees. The pixies kept nurturing trees and the world was becoming populated with forests and pixies.

After about a century there were enough pixies to fill a country but over time the world had grown wider so there was still space for more pixies. Now animals, birds and insects were starting to pop out of nowhere and even pixies couldn’t explain how this was happening. A thousand years passed and in those thousand years the world grew bigger and bigger while the pixies grew taller and stronger. They were also beginning to lose their magic powers. Another thousand years passed and in that space of time the pixies grew huge and decided they weren’t pixies anymore. They called their kind humans and also thought of a name for their world. They named it Earth and humans continued to make the Earth a better place.

It all started off as nothing really and now the Earth was a beautiful place. That is how long it takes to create a world. Now I have told you how it all began.

The End.

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