The Awakening A sculptor had set up a shop in a far away town called Quayton. In Quayton not many unusual or unnatural things happened. It was just a normal town in a normal countryside. It was a usual day in Quayton, the sculptor was busy creating works of art in his study, when suddenly, he vanished. In the study, a magical being appeared. It was red, with little black wings and it had two protruding horns growing out its forehead. However, it flew gracefully across the work bench and to the dark slate flooring. The work room was cluttered with sculpting tools and such like. But, in the corner of the large room was a cluster of sculptures that the sculptor hadn't put in his car for his sales yet. The cluster of sculptures contained: a lion, a wolverine, a bear, a tiger, a lynx, a fox, an otter, a horse, a snake, a bat and a wolf. The mysterious creature flew over to the sculptures and threw dust at them. They awoke one by one and as they came to their senses they asked the creature to explain who he was and what they were. Mephistopheles explained how he woke them up from their deep slumber. He told the sculptures of his plan to kill an angel. He told them to help him and as they had no principles, they said yes. The living sculptures were ready to strike. But the angel stopped them. She told them how the evil mephistopheles was sent to kill her by the devil and she finally convinced them to rebel and defy mephistopheles- there was to be a mutiny. The rebellion was to begin with the angel taunting mephistopheles and then the sculptures would fight him with a sneak attack. The plan worked and mephistopheles was sent plummeting down to the underworld. After the demon was gone, the angel told the animal statues of her gratitude towards them and that as a reward she would give them their freedom as normal animals and not statues. The animals accepted and thanked the good-hearted angel. The sculptor was given back to his home and forgot that he ever left. He continued his sculpting until he died at the age of 88 from natural causes. The End By Eve Dickinson