Pobble Narrative

The Sleeping Giant

For a thousand years, he had been sleeping, now he was awake.

The ground began to shake. And a colossal, monstrous hand, which had been lying motionless in a seemingly eternal slumber just minutes earlier, emerged from the earth.

There was an alarming groan as he slowly began to rise up through the ground. Arm after arm soon there was a leg then standing high up in the air hovering over a city stood a manipulative giant. 

He stood over the park in terror and one by one dragged his feet along the floor. As he groaned and thumped right through the park towards the city in anger. He knocked trees to their death and crushed anything that stood between him and his nemesis.

He left a trail of destruction everywhere he went and got closer and closer to the city as the loud groans echoed through the air. Screams of kids and adults made his ears miserable and made him even angrier. Everyone tried to get to safety quick but the giant was so big that he knocked over everything that was in reach of the next fifty yards.

Houses were destroyed, people were badly injured and some were sadly killed. But no matter how hard it was for the giant to reach the city he kept going until he was right next to the biggest tower in the city. He was sore and reckless but he was not going to give up. The city’s cries were getting louder and louder with every step the giant took. 

He couldn't take it anymore. The crying was terrible and over that, a big tree branch had stabbed into his foot while he was clearing a path to the city. He angerly smashed against the tower and knocked it down. The giant growled in pain but he had completed his quest.

His journey was not over yet though. He still had to destroy the city and restore the forest. No matter what comes his way he won’t give up. Then the giant left the city and slowly started to disappear over the horizon. The city was now left in silence, everything was destroyed and many people had nowhere to live. The giant was nowhere to be seen and slowly people started to emerge out of their hiding spots. The damage was terrible and many people were forced to leave their homes and move on but for some, it was too much to take in. 

But now it was safe again. At least that’s what they thought...

The End