Stay 'way from the sun, by HW

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Stay ‘way from the Sun By HW

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nce upon a time, again, on the island of Crete, there was a labyrinth, with a Minotaur guarding it day and night, eating anyone who dared to enter. But a great hero defeated this beast, freed all of the victims, and followed a string back out. Unfortunately it wasn’t his idea, but the incredibly witty Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos and he burned with fury when he figured out that his daughter sabotaged the deadly maze. He also realized that the only person dauntless enough to cross him, and the only one who had enough experience building, was Daedalus. So, the extremely vengeful ruler decided to have Daedalus and his son thrown into the deep caverns of the labyrinth. Daedalus knew about this, and all the times when he was supposed to be working, he was steadily crafting, day in and day out, wings. Once the wings were finished, Daedalus and his son Icarus went out at midnight to test them out. They attached the ropes to their arms with wax, got a running start, and leaped. Every midnight they did this, to make sure they worked perfectly. One morning, right before the crack of dawn they decided they were ready. Daedalus and Icarus fastened the wax straps of the wings to their arms, and leapt upwards leaving behind all of the forgotten rules and dreams of the city, forever. They sailed happily, but when they were only ten feet of the ground, Daedalus seriously warned Icarus, “Stay ‘way from the sun me boy, fer yer wings be made a wax.”

Things went pretty well for about, twenty minutes, and then the sun rose. Daedalus, being older and wiser, spotted the sunrise first and cried out. Icarus, on the other hand, did not, and decided to show off for his father. He flew higher and higher, sweeping across the sky, without a care in the world. So when his wise father called out for Icarus to come down, he didn’t listen, he thought that his father was jealous of his new tricks. Daedalus, down below was scared silly for his son. He cried out once more, a final time, for his son to fly down, but Icarus did not listen. Instead he boasted, “I will go up so high father!” he laughingly cried, “I will venture up so high! Perhaps I will catch a glimpse of the sun god and his fire blazing hor-” Unfortunately he never got to finish that sentence. For at that exact moment, the sun shone upon his wings and melted them. Daedalus, in the meantime, had just turned his head to witness his son plummet to his doom, flailing his arms in a turtle like fashion, towards the earth, tumbling away from the sun, the thing he was told exactly to do.

At this time, most people would crazily panic, but Daedalus, because he was a usual cool cucumber, froze, made a little cross on his forehead, and kept going. He did make it out of the city, and when he landed in the next country, Ileaden, He said a quick prayer, had a moment of silence for his lost son, and asked the nearest sea merchant if anyone had bought that particular sea. The Merchant shook his head, and replied, “No one be claimed da’ sea, but me saw yer son drop to da bottom.” He excitedly nodded his head, “So then I mades a conversation wit meself, and I said “Now Jonnythun, whut doya make of that! A boy drops into my very sea.”” He continued, “and then me said, “Now I outta have a moment of silenc fer the aching father,’ So I did and then I said, Noy Jonnythun, you shuld name yer very sea after da lost boy!’ and so that’s exactly whut me’s is gonna do!” Daedalus was so pleased! He squirmishly shook the man’s hand, and took off, running towards the harbor. He was free, and even though he had lost his son, the very sea Icarus landed in, would be named after him, after the boy who had forgotten to listen to his father’s pleading, ‘Stay ‘way from the sun’.

Your Parents are usually right!