Week 11 Story: Dude's Bowling Ball

Dude

"Well, that's just your opinion, man," replied Dude to Jesus. 

Jesus was Dude's arch-nemesis. Jesus never believed in Dude's crazy outlandish ideas. Dude was an open-minded individual, who believed that anything was possible, and Jesus could not stretch his imagination that far.

Jesus said, "There is no way that your bowling ball can fall through the sky and into that lava mountain or whatever you call it."

Dude retorted, "It's a volcano, bro, and I can make it."

Dude and Jesus lived among the clouds and this world is all they have known because for as long as they can remember, the sky people have been scared of the volcano land down below. Dude was different and he believed in magic and bowling. He thought that his bowling ball had magic powers. Walter, his friend, always had Dude's back and let's just say he was the muscle of the two knuckleheads. Walter had a little bit of a temper, so when Jesus was pestering Dude about his idea, Walter was not too happy. 

Walter overheard Jesus from across the cloud and said, "Jesus, go bring someone else down. Your opinions are not needed here. If Dude says that his bowling ball can fall into that volcano, I believe it. In fact, I think that it will create a whole new world once that volcano erupts from the impact."

Dude hadn't thought past the impact part, but this excited him. Jesus scoffed and stormed off onto the next cloud. 

Walter said, "What are you waiting for? Drop the ball."

Dude replied, "Man, I feel like this is New Year's all over again."

Dude threw the ball through the cloud and watched it soar through the sky. At one point, it looked as if the ball was going to miss the mountain, but Walter was confident it would make it. It did. After thirty minutes of falling, it finally reached the mouth of the volcano and boy, did it erupt. Walter and Dude watched in awe. 

Jesus saw what happened from afar and he tried to hide his amazement and then continued to move farther away from the other two men. He did not want to hear the words, "I told you so." He was such a hater. 

As the lava spread, it created a circular formation that later hardened and became lava land. This made Dude happy because it was the bowling ball that created this magical red land. The only problem they had to solve now was how to get down there and not burn to death from the heat. He would have to formulate another idea in order to make lava-proof overalls. 

Dude was over the moon excited. He jumped up in the air and yelled, "Bowling balls rock!"

Walter joined in and there was a whole new adventure unfolding before their eyes.

This is a retelling of the Creation of the World; Myths and Legends of British North America by Katharine Berry Judson. Link Here. In the original story, the chief's daughter fell through the sky and swans caught her fall. There was nowhere for her to live because the world was made of water, so many animals dove down to grab some piece of Earth. Many animals passed on attempting this, but the frog succeeded. The turtle ended up holding up Earth for her so she could live there and when the turtle moved his foot it caused an earthquake. In my version of the story, I created a new piece of land from the "Sky World" down to this volcano world that no one was able to inhabit. Instead of a person falling, I used a bowling ball. I wanted to stick with the ridiculous and casual theme that I had in my first story. This will be added to my portfolio, which you can go here. I also want to note that I am basing my portfolio stories on the movie "The Big Lebowski." Walter and Dude are best friends in the movie and Jesus is their bowling competitor, not the biblical Jesus. They are all bowlers. Dude is the main character who was mistaken for another man with the last name Lebowski and men came to hunt the other Lebowski down when one of the men peed on Dude's rug. This is what started the whole debacle of the main plot in The Big Lebowski.