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Mengjiao Zhou
Dr. Raina Manuel – Paris
Myth and Symbol
3/24/2015
The hero
It must have been around midnight when I first stirred from my slumber.
I glance at the sky above with puffy eyes. Only a few stars dot the night.
Polar bears do not hibernate in the colder months, but I thoroughly enjoyed sinking into the deep sleep. It let me get into my head. Things aren’t nearly as quiet and lonely inside my head than it is in North Pole.
My grumbling tummy forces me out of my cave and into the cold. It’s time to hunt.
To my surprise, treading through the dark lifts my spirits quite a bit. It is a lovely evening – the air is clear, the snow is hard… it’s perfect.
It has been a long time since I last felt at peace. Ever since she left, things just haven’t been the same.
I am not a fan of jumping into the water to catch fish. Therefore, I dig a hole through softer ice, spread my net, and wait for them to come to me. I have a lot of time to kill, anyway.
An explosion of noise jolts me awake just as I was about to drift off to sleep. I stand on all fours and stare at the hole, anticipating a catch. When a shadow passes, I drop my paw in and quickly pull out my meal. What I manage to grab ahold of throws me off guard, and I throw it to the side almost immediately, startled by its screaming.
“A penguin?” I mutter under my breath as soon as my heart slows to a regular pace.
The penguin gets up, takes a deep breath, and then kneels before me.
“Prince Jay,” she begins. “I am here to ask you to come back to your kingdom and claim your rightful throne as Prince.” lead the forthcoming war between the penguins and the polar bears.”
I gawk at her in disbelief. “I beg your pardon?”
“There is a war looming, Prince Jay. A war between the penguins and the polar bears. The King of penguins – your father – wants you to lead it.”
“Rightful throne as Prince? A war? My father?” I exclaim. “What are you talking about?”
“My apologies, Prince Jay. This must all be very confusing for you.”
“Oh yeah,” I say with a nod.
“I’ll explain everything to you right now.”
“Right now?”
“Yes,” she says. “You see, the penguins and the polar bears have never gotten along. We have been at a war with them for sixteen years, ever since the King of polar bears kidnapped you. He was able to grab ahold of some magic to wipe your memories and, regrettably, turn you into a polar bear.”
I continue to gawk at her some more, unsure of what to believe and how to react.
“Hope was lost when the search for your being led to one too many dead ends. We all thought you were dead… that is, until an anonymous animal left the King of Penguins a little present three days ago.”
“A little present?” I say in a small voice.
“Yes. A mirror,” she replies. “Your face was in the mirror. We were, of course, very puzzled at first. But then the King of penguins saw the birthmark on your left arm and knew that it was you. His son.”
I absently graze my birthmark.
“The King of penguins is ill right now, Prince Jay. He sent me here to take you home.”
“B-but – ”
“We need a leader. We need the Prince of penguins to protect our kingdom from the polar bears who want nothing more than to exploit your father’s failing health.”
“I…” I begin, my body tense. “I want to help. I really do… but can’t you see? I’m no warrior. I’m no Prince. I’m a nobody. I can’t lead a war much less lead anything!”
“Do not doubt yourself, Prince Jay. You may not believe a lot of what I just told you, but believe this; you were born with an immense amount of power. Much more than you could ever imagine. You just have to find a way to channel it.”
I take a couple of steps back, my face pulled into a frown. “I don’t want to channel anything. I just want to be left alone. I lost the love of my life, recently, and the last thing I want to do is fight.”
“There are millions of lives at stake here, Prince Jay. In addition to that, your father and mother are waiting for you. Don’t you want to come home and see them before anything happens, at least?”
My stomach twists into a bunch of knots. “Of course I do, but – ”
Before I get the chance to finish my sentence, the penguin pulls me down the hole and zaps me into unknown territory.
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My father… he’s old. And so very sick.
“My son… come closer.”
I draw myself closer to the edge of his bed.
“I know that we barely know each other. I know that I have not performed my duties as your father. I know that I have failed you. And for that I am truly, truly sorry.”
“It’s not your fault,” I say.
“It is my fault. I should’ve kept looking for you. I should’ve tried harder.”
I don’t respond.
“Right now, the last thing that I should be asking for is your help… but you are my son. My only son. And as the Prince of the penguins, you must take it upon yourself to defend your kingdom,” he chokes out slowly, each word harder to drag out than the one before. “Your home.”
“My home,” I repeated.
“You were born with great power, my son. Take control of that power and lead this kingdom to victory.”
I hang my head low. “I don’t know what to say.”
“Just say yes. Promise me that you will do me proud.”
“Father…”
“Promise me.”
“This is all a little too much at once,” I begin. “I barely – ”
My words are interrupted by a fistful of coughs that suffocate my father breathless. Seeing him ill breaks my already broken heart into even smaller pieces.
“I promise,” I whisper.
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I stand in the middle of my new bedroom, head spinning.
“This is all too sudden,” I voice aloud. “I was a commoner and now I’m a Prince?”
The thought sends an incredulous chuckle out my system.
“How am I supposed to win a war?”
A knock on the door interrupts my thoughts. I open the door and am greeted by the penguin who brought me here earlier.
“How are you holding up, Prince Jay?”
“Um… okay, I guess.”
“I know that you must be a little… overwhelmed right now.”
I scoffed. “That’s the biggest understatement of the century.”
The penguin shoots me a sad. “Polar bears murdered my parents a couple of years ago, Prince Jay. They were innocent people who lost their lives simply because the polar bears felt like taking them.”
I felt my heart hammer in my chest. “I… I’m so sorry to hear that.”
“It just goes to show you how imperative it is that we win this war. If we don’t fight back, the kingdom will perish. Millions of lives will be lost. So fight, Prince Jay. And be brave.”
“Be brave, huh?” I say.
“Yes. Muster up all the courage you have in that body of yours and lead us to glory.”
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My heart pounds against my chest as soon as I catch sight of the leader of the enemy. All of a sudden, the world seems to be spinning at an excruciatingly fast pace – round and round and round. It’s her. The love of my life.
Princess Lilith.
Judging from the expression that sprawls across her face the instant our eyes meet, she is just as taken aback as I am.
What is she doing here? Why is she leading the pack of polar bears? Where is her father?
A plethora of questions run through my head, all confusing, all jumbled up, all too difficult to process. It takes me several minutes to compose myself. Several minutes to roll words out of the tip of my tongue when we find ourselves standing in front of each other.
“You’re the new leader?” I began. “H-how… how is this possible? You’re the Princess.”
“I am the heir to the throne. I am the first and only choice,” she explains with a quiver in her gentle voice.
We stare at each other for a couple of minutes, both wanting to say so much but neither uttering a single word.
I have a waddle of penguins behind me, all ready to fight for our rightful kingdom… but I don’t feel like fighting. I don’t feel like laying a single finger on the opposing team. Not anymore, at least. Not with Princess Lilith as their leader. She is my better half. My family, too.
I glance at the expectant faces across from me, and then at the expectant faces behind me. A lump of heat grows in my chest, expanding and expanding until all I can feel is nothing and everything at the same time. Numb, that’s what I am right now. Numb.
“I can’t do this,” Princess Lilith and I say at the same time.
A gasp escapes my lips. “What did you say?”
“I… can’t fight you,” she replies, shaking her head. “I can’t.”
Her words sends shockwaves throughout the pack of polar bears. Voices arise. Murmurs turn into shouts and shouts turn into protests. Soon enough, both sides roar with life – much more so that I can handle.
With her hands in mine, I whisper, “I don’t want our families to fight.”
“I don’t either.”
“What we need…” I take a deep breath and then let it out – slowly. “What we need is for our parents to negotiate.”
“Negotiate?” She repeats slowly.
“Negotiate” I say with a firm nod. “Let’s suggest a peace treaty to the elders.”
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The elders had a long and trying discussion. A heated one filled with hardly an ounce of diplomacy and one too many curse words. It was hard watching my parents fight with hers in such a harsh manner. It was almost unbearable.
Princess Lilith and I sat in silence throughout the entire trial. What we proposed was a 500-year peace treaty between the two kingdoms. No attacks, no crossing borders, no animosity, period.
In this case, uniting the polar bears and the penguins would cause problems. But if one kingdom doesn’t cross paths with the other kingdom, there wouldn’t be any problems. What’s theirs would be theirs, and what’s ours would be ours. The divide would remain just that, a divide.
The notion seemed pretty simple in my head, but I guess I was wrong.
Alas, the plan was set in motion. How?
Love.
Love set the plan in motion. The love that our parents had for us. The love that Princess Lilith and I had for each other. They wanted us to be happy.
It took the elders a good fifteen hours to come into terms with the proposal, but at least all was settled. After millions of years grazed by war, hatred, and violence, the kingdoms were finally at peace. And that was all that mattered.
What came afterwards was a marriage. My union with Princess Lilith. All I ever wanted was to lead a life with her. Not lead a kingdom, no. Just her. And you know what?
I am doing just that.

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