The Myth of King Pallo Natalie Iris- 6th grade
One day on a magical island, there was a ruler named Pallo. Pallo knew his island had some rare gold in the sand, so one day he decided to go digging for gold.“ I’ m going to go dig for some gold today!” Pallo said to Belle.“ It is dangerous though. You can turn evil if you find gold three times in an hour.” Said Belle.“ I will be fine” Pallo said back. After that conversation, he decided to go to beach gold since there was usually a lot of gold there. When he got there, he forgot all about if you find gold three times in one day, you will turn evil. He started digging and then after 4 tries, he found some of the rare gold.“ Be careful King Pallo!” Said a person.“ I will be fine.” Said Pallo to the person. After he talked to the person, he found gold again! Pallo thought he was so lucky, but in reality, if he finds one more box of gold, he will turn evil.
He was struggling to find another box of gold, but then all the sudden he saw something gold looking in the sand. Pallo decided to go near it and start digging. After digging, he found a third box of gold!“ I’ m rich!” He thought. Pallo opened the third box and looked at all the gold. When Pallo looked at all the gold, he turned evil. When he was walking back, he saw some of his people.“ Hello king Pallo!” A happy person said.“ Leave me alone you peasant.” Pallo said in anger. When he returned, he was not acting respectful to anyone, even his sister!“ Pallo is evil because of the gold!” Belle said in fear to her sister, Anastasia.“ There is a cure to the evilness from the gold,” Anastasia said calmly.“ We have to get the Mirror of Good and make him look at himself. That will turn him back, and his bad actions he has done.” Anastasia said to Belle who had calmed down.“ Where can we find it?” Belle asked.“ It’ s in the painting in the kings room.” Anastasia said back.
They decided to ask a guard where he currently was.“ Do you know where King Pallo is?” Asked Belle.“ He’ s in his ruling desk, making new rules.” Said the guard.“ I will make everyone my slaves and have no equality!” Pallo yelled from his ruling desk.“ We better hurry.” Said Anastasia. They rushed to the kings room and looked for the painting with the mirror.“ Found it.” Said Belle.“ Ok, lets hurry!” Anastasia said to Belle. When they looked for King Pallo at his ruling desk, he wasn’ t there.“ Let’ s check outside.” Anastasia said in fear. When they looked outside, they saw everyone becoming his slaves.“ Everyone will become my slaves!” Pallo said.“ We have to get him to look at the mirror quickly before he does anything else that’ s bad.” Belle said to Anastasia. They rushed to Pallo quickly, but guards surrounded him for protection.“ Hey, there’ s a slave escaping over there!” Anastasia said to distract some of the guards.
They approached Pallo and got the Mirror of Good out.“ Pallo, I warned you about the gold turning evil.” Belle said in fear.“ Who are you?” Pallo said in confusion.“ It’ s us, your sisters.” Anastasia said.“ I don’ t believe you. Guards, take these two to the prison.“ Belle, quickly get out the mirror and make it face him!” Anastasia said. Belle then took out the mirror and nearly dropped the mirror. Instead, she threw it to Anastasia.“ King Pallo,” Anastasia said with the mirror facing him.“ What?” Pallo said looking at Anastasia, then the mirror. After when he looked in the mirror, he turned back to normal and everything bad he had done had gone back to normal.“ What happened?” Pallo asked in confusion.“ Why did you find three boxes of the rare gold? I told you it was dangerous.” Belle said furiously.“ I forgot all about it. It was just the thought of being the richest person in the world was so temping, I’ m sorry.” Pallo said being disappointed in himself.“ It’ s fine, just make sure it doesn’ t happen again.” Belle said.“ We are glad you are back to normal, Pallo.” Anastasia said.“ Me too, Anastasia.” Pallo said.