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Land of The Dead
By: Jake Pithers
I’m Ulysses, my crew and I are on our way home, we have had so much problems in our way. Many of the gods are mad at us for boasting, using the gods to build a wooden horse, and much more, they have made our simple journey yet so hard. We have met from an evil sorcerer to giants, our gods have done everything to make our voyage hard to get back home. When we met Circe, the evil sorcerer she turned on us and she had “You have to go, take the underworlds rout.” At first me and my crew were very skeptical we thought that she was trying to kill us! So we began our journey to the underworld, I have heard that the drop down to the underworld is a little harsh, but were soldiers what could go wrong? All of a sudden boom it hits we were FALLING in the ocean!? When the ship hit the surface I was beginning to think that I was dreaming, Falling in the ocean, evil sorcerers, underworld, ghosts WHAT! This is defiantly not a dream my crew seems amazed by what they are seeing, spirits of people that have passed away! Immediately something whispers ULYSSSES…MOM? Its my mother she had died years ago and I’m in front of her! All of the ghosts are trying to scare us. As we slowly rowed everyone was saying comeback when your properly dead, as we got to the end my mother yelled wait! She said on the left there is Charybdis and on the right there is Scylla, Ulysses mother said you will have to stay towards to middle or it will be very hard to get by they will suck your boat and crew right into a whirlpool. If you do drift better to lose 6 men than all of your men, as they went through 6 men we grabbed and gargled down! Now were in even more trouble, and our trouble has just begun!