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A Hero's Journey Essay

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Jack stood raised over Zach, ready to bring radiator pipe down onto Zach's head. As Jack winded up to bring the pipe down, Zach stuck his hand up and it hit the radiator pipe. At 17, both of them were evenly matched in strength, but still not superhuman, except for Zach's advantage. There was a large crack and Jack opened his eyes in surprise. The radiator pipe snapped in half as soon as Zach’s hand made contact with the metal pipe. Zach wasted no time, jumped into the air, and roundhouse kicked him hard in the stomach, and almost leveled his ribs. He grabbed the water that they were fighting over and he unfurled his 16-foot black-as-night wings. That was one thing special about Zach. He could fly.

He remembered the stories as a child, about his ancestors dreaming of going to mars, and how his grandfather was one of the first people to journey to the red planet. He remembered it was nothing like they said, and the oxygen was breathable and not something lethal that would kill humans in seconds. He remembered how his grandfather used to talk about Zach’s great-great-great grandfather, who was the first one to go to the moon. He knew that space exploration was a huge part of their family's bloodline, and he hoped that he could travel to another moon, or explore a new galaxy. …show more content…

He sat on a rock and looked sadly at the unconscious Jack. “Is this what they had become?” he thought. “ We used to be best friends, but now he wants to kill me.” He remembered back when he was sick, and the terrible scientists that gave him the medicine, that turned him into some mutant flying freak. Ever since then, Jack was stuck on the twisted mindset that he needed to kill Zach, because he needs to rid the world off all of the defects, Zach being one of them. Zach could see Jack coming around, so he took off and continued his search for a

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