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AGE
05
The Colour Valienthen
Eli Kay
Writer
Once upon a time, in a beautiful world called
Yee, lived all the colours of the rainbow. They
all loved it there; it was the most wonderful
place to live.
Blue had a big house up in the clouds, with
hanging gardens and all sorts of flowers. Green
lived in a tree house, on the tallest tree of the
realm. Red had built a diamond studded castle
and resided there, and Violet who was obsessed
with candies and sweets, lived in a beautiful
gingerbread house full of chocolate pieces,
candy canes and gobstoppers.
Life was perfect in Yee, and everyone was
happy.
One day though, everything changed. A
new resident appeared into town. Everyone
was curious to meet that colour, so they all
gathered at the Town Hall to see this colour for
themselves.
"What is your name?" asked Yellow.
"Valienthen" replied the colour. Everyone
gasped. Valienthen could hear them whisper to
each other in suspicion.
"Where did you come from?" asked Indigo
which was Blue's cousin.
"What do you mean, where did I come from?
I was always here." Valienthen said again trying
to give them a big smile, even though it felt like
they were becoming hostile.
"That is hard to believe! If you were here all
along, we would have known about you. You
would be registered as a natural colour of the
rainbow." said Blue who was kind of the leader.
Then Green added, "There is only one
explanation. It is not natural!"
With that comment, all colours of the rainbow
started shouting and complaining. They didn't
want Valienthen to stay in Yee. They couldn't
understand what Valienthen was. They were
afraid. They stood there day and night, arguing
about it and fighting with each other so loudly
that Valienthen's soul was saddened and
decided to leave.
Nobody noticed the absence. They were
too busy trying to analyze how the way of the
rainbow should be. But they went too far.
Violet and Yellow started believing that
Indigo was not a true colour of the rainbow, but
only a wannabe. They petition to remove the
rights of Indigo as a colour.
Blue stated that Orange was merely a freak
child of Red and Yellow, and that true colours
of the rainbow should never mix. So the
petition to deny Orange a place on the rainbow
was signed. Orange and Indigo were out of the
rainbow and therefore not allowed to stay in
the realm with the other colours.
Sad and shameful, they begun their journey
towards another land, in hope of finding a place
to stay. A few days into their journey, they saw
a magnificent castle, with stone dragons carved
on the side, and a huge wooden door. They
decided to knock and when Valienthen opened
the door they were both shocked.
"It's You!" they cried out and when Valienthen
let them in and offered them supper and cake
with strawberries.
They told of everything that had happened
in the realm of the Rainbow. Orange started
crying and Indigo sighed. But Valienthen
remained there, smiling.
"Why are you smiling at our demise?"
"It is not your demise I am smiling at, but
at the turn of events. You see there is not only
one rainbow in the sky, but everywhere the
sun shines and the rain falls, there shall be
one. And if the residents of the realm of the
Rainbow don't want us there, we can join other
rainbows where we'll be accepted for being a
Blue's cousin, a child of Red and Yellow and a
Valienthen."
Those words gave the two colours great joy
and relief. They decided to stay at the Rock
Castle with Valienthen and join the most
brilliant rainbow in the sky. For what the
residents of the realm of the Rainbow didn't
know, was that the rainbow is not composed of
7 colours, but of all the variations of the colour
spectrum. So poor Red, Yellow, Green, Blue
and Violet of the realm of the Rainbow could
never form a perfect rainbow again, and their
realm became dark and lifeless very quickly.
And like all stories, there is always a lesson
to be learned from all this.