A One Man Change
Many years ago in a civilization of Egypt called The
Sanjalahs, where a pharaoh named Tuntankamon ruled the population, a tradition
of this civilization was to have every year a competition between the most
skillful and powerful tribute form each district of Egypt. The competition was
conformed by three different events were the participants (forced to compete)
need to prove their intelligence to survive and also their resistance. In the
Egyptian code was stipulated that the winner of the competition of the 4
districts, will have the opportunity to change anything he or she want in the
Egyptian empire but nothing against the pharaoh and his family.
They day of the inauguration was approaching and each
district presented their participants for the most important competition, it
could be man or woman, the north district one chose a man with an extreme force
of power, the south one, sent an intelligent woman, the east one an slave
because of the resistance he got because of too many years of hard work in the
temples and the pyramids, and finally the west district as always, chose the
pharaoh’s son Palah.
All the participants had 3 weeks for preparing their
selves physical and mentally. While each of the competitors were preparing for
the special event the son of the pharaoh was taking lessons from his father of
leading and commanding the entire empire. As in the past years, Palah has won
all the competitions for 5 years and he knew that he would win the next one because
“accidentally” all of the other participant will die in the different events or
maybe between them. Many people knew
that the competition was made to praise their future pharaoh.
The day of the competition arrived with an amazing
inauguration in the temple of the pharaoh with the exposition of the new
structure of Egypt, it was like a mix between a cat and a human, they called it
the Sphinx, unfortunately in the inauguration there was a earthquake that
caused the rupture of the nose of the Sphinx, and as a commemoration of the 21st
birthday of Palah, the pharaoh decided to keep it from that day, forever.
The first event was a race in camel across the
dessert with no food or drink, just a bottle of water and a slice of bread. In
this challenge Palah was the first to return from the dessert and he was
completely healthy, the woman didn’t have problems because she is so smart and
could organize the food, the slave could cross the complete dessert without
using half of the slice of bread and half of the bottle of water and he arrived
walking, because the other part of the bread and the water he gave it to the
man who was so tired and his camel died in the middle of the race. The first
event was conquered by all of the competitors; the pharaoh realized that the
salve helped the, man so he could return because his camel was ill and poisoned
before the race.
For the second try-out they must demonstrate their
courage to save an important member of their family or a person near to them
from a group of crocodiles in the Nile River. In this challenge unfortunately
the woman died due to a bite in the hip and no one could help her because it
was in the rules of the game, “A participant must die in this event and person
who help the other participant will be sacrificed”. The man and Palah were the
guilty of the dead of the woman, as in every thing in live, the law of the
strongest. The slave didn’t about his life and saved the son of the woman that
was in danger between 2 crocodiles, the rules didn’t say something about saving
other person’s relative.
For the last event, the test was of life or death, 2
of the 3 participants must die before the sun set. The challenge was to survive
to tigers and to the other 2 competitors; the survivor will be crowned as the
champion of the competition. The event started and the tigers were released, 1
tiger per participant, Palah quickly killed his tiger because it was trained to
obey Palah and he could leave the combat while the other 2 killed their tigers.
The strong man had the biggest tiger and the slave had a common tiger, both of
them were really hungry and angry. Half an hour passed and both competitors
were still alive, when suddenly the big tiger jumped over the man and eat his
complete face, the slave took advantage that both tigers were busy with the
dead body and knock-out them. Palah was surprised, so he entered in the arena
took a kopesh and cut off an arm of the slave. The salve scream a lot and kick
Palah in the face and he fall down, when the slave was about to kill Palah all
the imperial guards entered to the arena threating the slave to leave the son
of the pharaoh. The salve proposed to obey the guards and left free Palah, with the condition
of being crowned champion and with the wish as winner to delete this
competition from the traditions of Egypt and the liberty…
At the end of the day there was no person from the
competition alive, because of a poor slave contradicting the pharaoh of Egypt.
After that day the citizens of that city realized the situation and revealed.
“You don’t need a cape or superpowers to be a
superhero”
