Once Finishing the story “The Blazing World” we then discussed how different aspects of symbolism and real-world problems that we as a class could connect this story, to our world today. There is a certain type of symbolic meaning within this story, the Empress being a person in charge of beings that are humanlike/animal entities. I believe this may symbolize the impact of humanity on nature and just how much our actions effect what happens within the confines nature. This idea can play on both sides of the spectrum, positive or negative. On the good side; humans being the more intellectual species that share earth, have a great weight in how different elemental problems can be fixed, but on the bad side; humans have such a powerful presence on this earth that we can cause a great deal of damage due to our large-scale global economy, and pollution as a side effect from this scale of production. To apply this to the spinoff story I wrote, I focused on the fish people from “The Blazing world”. I thought that these characters would be perfect if they applied themselves to the challenge of cleaning up the oil spill within the Gulf of Mexico, that occurred on April 20th 2010. This greatly impacted marine life, being that thousands of gallons of oil were being spurted out of a pipe and into the ocean. Applying to the theme of industry hurting nature and how pollution is a looming problem within our world. Enjoy!
April 20th, 2010
We open this story with the Empress holding a meeting of minds, the fish beings have heard through the grapevine that the BP oil company have just screwed up big time. They notify the empress that a wellhead blowout within one of the oil harvesting pipes has occurred, and now hundreds of gallons of crude oil are being dispersed into the ocean, dismaying the underwater environment. A fish man solder is late to the meeting, he uses his tail to swim fast. Once arrived, he then peaks his head out of the horizon of water, seeing many of fish beings doing the same, within the royal courtroom. Where the great Empress dwells upon the throne…
Fish man marine biologist: “Oh my, Empress, what ever will we will do? Our great sea is being destroyed as we speak! Oil, oil everywhere!!!!!”
Empress: “Silence fish being! While I understand this is an environmental emergency, panicking will not fix anything, we need to think about solutions. Army fish general, send out your swimmers down to the Gulf of Mexico, and see if they can assess the situation, only then can we get to fixing it.”
Four-star Fish General: “Yes Madam… Ok, I need only one volunteer for this mission, all I need is an assessment of the situation, gather intel and then report back ASAP!”
The aforementioned late fish soldier began to feel the fear and excitement flow through his fish body, he then raises his flipper to volunteer, this is his chance to prove himself to the empress.
Four-star Fish General: “Perfect brave fish, get some rest inside of your coral bed tonight, and then leave tomorrow at sunrise, may the aquatic gods of Neptune and Poseidon be with you!
Upon leaving the North Pole, the nameless grunt of the Empress’s fish army swam for days and nights. Through storms of freezing cold water, and sunny beaches along the east coast. He even stopped at the seaside clam shack in Rhode Island and got a few crab cakes to satisfy his hunger along the way. I guess this means he’s a cannibal. It was a long journey, but eventually he began to feel the changes of water consistency and color, once he got to the coast of Florida.
Fish Soldier: “Ah fuck, I can barely breath, my gills are being choked to death by this thick oil, I better try and dodge blotches of oil within the water, this is going to be hard! I need to use my aquatic wet army issued sonar to find the vibrations of the erupting oil, only then can I gather intel of exactly what is happening!”
After countless hours of swimming around the gulf, trying to figure out exactly where this oil spill was located, he swam upon something that astounded his slippery fish eyes. A monstrosity even bigger than his sea brain could ever comprehend. The sticky oil, dead sea animals, the countless plastic bottles and old cars that were dumped into the ocean ever since humanity’s industrialization of the world, began to construct a monster like being! Something far scarier than anything in the Twilight Zone! It stood two hundred feet out of the water, using old barges and boats to keep its monster feet and legs afloat. The fish soldier knew this monster was too big to be Faught by his lonesome. He then swam in the direction of north as fast as his fins could possible rudder. He was like David Hasselhoff at the end of the original SpongeBob movie, scared out of his god damn mind. After days of backtracking, he finally got back to the north pole, he then proceeded to try and tell everyone the horrors of what he saw.
Fish Soldier: “Empress, Army General, Fish men and woman, non-binary fish, you all must bear witness to the terror I have seen! A monster of pollution beyond comprehension. Standing as large as a small mountain. Dead sea critters and human pollution held together by sticky oil, with five arms and two legs! The monster was so large that I could not fight it. We need every fish being within the marine sanctum to try and exterminate this beast!”
Empress: “Brave fish, where was this beast, what do you think its plans where?”
Fish Soldier: “It looked to be moving north, towards the inner coast of Florida. What ever will we do!
Empress: “Young fish, we will do everything in our power to stop this beast.”
Four Star Fish General: “All military fish, tomorrow we fight! Kiss your loved once goodbye, for you may never see them again, you can thank BP oil for that!”
As the fish got ready for the fight, no one slept well that night, for the extinction of everything was about to be a possibility. Once the morning sun peeked above the horizon, it was freaking go time! The Empress, being the wise leader these beings so heavily respected, knew she must be part of this fight…
Empress: “Fish beings, you must get together into one school of fish, I will then use the magic power of the frozen north pole, this will combine us all into one being, thus being large enough to destroy this foe, my throne will be the upon the top, I will be commanding the movements. May Poseidon and Neptune be with us all. UNITE!!!!!”
The fish people got together in the water, they formed a humanoid shape with arms and legs, with the Empress commanding at the top of the head, she then said some magic words that I as a narrator will not repeat. Ice formed around everyone, jointing them all into one gargantuan being, fit enough to take on this monstrosity of pollution and oil. These great beings were off in the direction of south, to try and clean up this mess. They swam under sea level, so they would not gain the attention a gigantic ice/fish monster would obviously bring. Time passed; and they were then face to face with their target, as it was heading to Miami beach.
Empress: “There it is, time to take out the fuckin’ trash!”
She then threw a huge right hook, hitting the beast across its face. Tires, gallon milk jugs, poolside patio furniture and 1974 black Cadillacs flew off the beasts disgusting body, all covered in oil.
Pollution monster: “ARRRHRHHRR”
The monster fell down onto the gold sand beach, crushing hundreds of innocent sun bathers with pollution and oil. The Empress then thought that some causalities were a small sacrifice for the safety of everyone on earth. The pollution monster was defeated with one punch, so she decided to cover the entire area of its nasty repulsive body with a sheet of ice, and then shoot all of the remains into space, were it all floated around forever, not bothering anyone ever again. No fish beings were hurt during the fight. While some marine life and humans lost their existence due to the oil spill, many were saved. The Empress and her army then escaped the area, and went back to the North Pole, where she and the rest of the fish army celebrated their victory.
The End.
Sprockets and Springes 