There used to be a great warrior named Jon. During his time on
earth Jon lived a very different life than many warriors. Growing up Jon was
gifted with a magical weapon that a great sorcerer gave to him. Many people
believe Jon was given this weapon because of how well he lived in his previous
life. after being given this weapon Jon soon found out that it could change
forms throughout a fight. In many instances this special ability would
give him the advantage in any quarrel that Jon found himself in.
Growing up as a young boy Jon put it on himself to protect
his homeland and surrounding cities from monsters and help whoever wanted or
needed his assistance because of the incredible weapon he possessed. Progressing
into manhood Jon became one of the strongest and most talented men that this
world had ever seen but through all his battles and monsters he had slain Jon would
have no idea what challenge was lurking around the corner.
A man from a distant village came running up to Jon in a
panic that his entire home was being burned alive by a crimson fire-breathing
leopard. The man told Jon that the reason the leopard was attacking the village
was because they had to take one of her mystic fire stones to give to the Gods.
He then continued by pleading with Jon that he was the only one with the skill
and capabilities to be able to defeat this leopard. Jon told the man that he
would go and defeat this leopard for his village! Jon had never dealt with any
animals that were able to breathe fire out of their mouth before, but as with
all the other fights he had been in he was ready for the challenge.
As soon as he got to the village a darkness had fallen over
the entire sky with no light other than the red embers of the burnt down huts
all around the village. Jon then got a sudden inner feeling as he then understood
the importance and emergency of the situation he had walked into. With each
step that Jon took he could feel the heat of every little fire that was burning
around him, but still he lurked around looking for the leopard that had
destroyed everything in the village. Just as Jon was about to let his guard
down a giant glowing red leopard shot out at him like a scorching ball of fire.
Jon was shocked and frightened by the quickness and power that this leopard showed
him. Frantically Jon was trying to figure out what kind of weapon he wanted to
use in this situation. Suddenly it came to him that he could make his magic
weapon turn into an ice bow that shot out frost arrows.
The battle with this terrifying leopard went on and on with
each foe exchanging shots with fire and ice. But eventually the leopard made a
mistake that caused her to lose the battle. Jon had noticed that each time the
leopard shot a fire ball at him she always returned to a pit of fire to
replenish the fire that was all around her body. So once she shot her last fire
ball, instead of aiming at the beast Jon shot an arrow straight into the fire
pit nearest the leopard and hit her in the center of her heart. As a few seconds
went by the frost arrow that entered the leopard's heart had slowly started to
turn a blue color before freezing over and shattering into a thousand pieces!
After this fight Jon returned to the man just outside of the
village to tell him the good news that the leopard was gone. Jon also told him
the bad news that the entire village was basically burned to the ground. The
man then was moved to sheer joy that Jon was able to kill the beast and
informed Jon that they could rebuild their new village all because of him! Satisfied
and proud of himself Jon took all that he had learned from this experience to
heart. Then after Jon had his last interaction with the man of the village he packed
up his belonging and headed back to his home village.
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Author's
notes: The story that inspired this was the story of Thataka in the PDE
Ramayana. I changed the name of Rama to Jon for this story for two reasons. One
I didn't want to keep his name so the story could have my own special touch to
it. Secondly, I changed it to Jon because of “Jon Snow” who is one of the main
characters in Game of Thrones! Since Rama fought off monsters using a magic
weapon I thought it would be really cool to translate that idea into this
story. I tried to give the weapon the same feel that it had in the original
story so I kept that aspect so it could change into anything that Jon wanted it
to be. This is also where I got the frost arrows idea from. I used the
bow concept for Jon in the story because Rama uses a bow in many of his stories
even though Jon Snow uses a sword in his stories. I didn't really want to use
the same monster that was in the original story so I changed it to a leopard
that uses fire to give it a little more danger to the plot. That is also an
extension of Game of Thrones because there are fire-breathing dragons in the
main story line so in my story the leopard was given fire to match. In the
Ramayana, Rama was guarding the village from Thataka attacking it, but I wanted
it to resemble Game of Thrones by Jon protecting the ice wall in the North.
I tried to place as many Game of Thrones ideas into this story as I could
think of to give the reader a cool mash up story! Hope all who read this story
enjoyed it! In case anyone is interested in Game of Thrones or didn't quite understand what I was referencing here is a link.
Bibliography: PDE Ramayana: Thataka- Source
