Short story Germany Part I/IV

  • Erasmus project “TogEUther”:  The beginning of a short story: the German part

    In a galaxy, far away from us, there is the planet Globania. The planet is completely covered with land except for a little sea in the middle of the land. Of course, there are more little lakes and rivers, but this sea is something special because a different folk live in the sea. Their name is Glubkons. The Glubkons have just one eye, blue skin and they only eat fish from the ground of the sea and a jelly that they get from mussels. On the rest of the earth´s surface live different other folks. The biggest group are called the Europaniens. They are on old folk made up of many smaller tribes and their land is called Europania. Their special features are that they have green skin and three eyes. They only eat self-grown plants and no meat. Nonetheless, they have animals for milk, eggs and their pelts when they have died.

    Why am I telling you this? Well, I´m a Glubkon and we had to leave our home and go to the Europania because of the fish and the mussels.  We have eaten too many of them without caring for the sustainability and now there aren´t enough for us.  But, most importantly, we fighting against giant turtles, who have been trying to take over our house for years. Unfortunately I´m not allowed to take part in the combat because I´m only 15 years old. However, when I am older, I will be allowed to fight against the five-meter long turtles, great! Over the years, the turtles have mutated. Now they have thicker skin and it´s hard to force them away so they don´t eat our houses. The elderly, like my grandpa Phill, didn’t have any chance against the horrible creatures.

    So we were forced to leave our little city called Glubio. We could only take a few things like clothes, a bit to eat in case the Europaniens wouldn´t take us in, and my Crab Max. We packed my uncle’s Bubble-Scooter, which was very slow. Moreover, you must imagine, the giant turtles were like everywhere! On the top of all that, we did not know the way, so we had to pay to some sharks to take us to the surface. It was almost all we had, but we gave them everything. They showed us the way, but it was the wrong one! We did not know what to do. In addition, my little brother fell ill and we had no medicine. Then, like a miracle, out of nowhere we saw some more Glubkons and they took us with them, they had a good map. We would have dies without them, that’s for sure.

    So it took us a long time to see the sun. My sister and I volunteered to search for the villages and towns of the Europaniens. I asked myself if the Europaniens would take us in or leave us to fight for ourselves. I would have understood if they had not let us in: we are so different in so many ways!

    I also asked myself how I would live there, in this strange country, with different food, language, traditions. So yes, we all were very tired, nervous and worried.

    However, the Eropaniens are known for their solidarity and their readiness to help others. That´s why we risked everything we had, our lives, just to get to them. Will they take us in? My heart pounded…

    Milly and I headed off on our search for the Europaniens. When it was getting dark, we wanted to go back but then we saw a fire. It was the first time that we had seen a fire…

     

     

    To be continued by Italy, France and Spain.