A long time ago, when gods still wandered between men, every forest had his guardian.
A guardian you must know, was a beast as strong and powerfull as nothing else.
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In a forest that didn't have any guardian for centuries the gods came down and told the animals:
"You have to choose your guardian now"
And so the animals started a converence.
"This teeth will bite everybody in pieces that attacks" braged the strong white wolf.
"My hands are strong, I will crush every invader with it" said the big grizzly.
And so the big animals bragged about their strenght, the deer with its huge antler,
the bear with its strong hands and the wolf with his sharp teeth.
But the smaller animals couldn't compare to them and just listened to what they said in silence.
They argued and argued and argued. It became sunset already, and a golden cloud arrived.
it was so beautifull when it surrounded the trees and it smelled so lovly sweet that the animals forgot the time.
When the next morning arrived they were surrounded by huge dorny bushes that struggled the trees and forced them to die.
Now the animals recognized the cloud were parasiteric spores, that now destroyed the forest.
The big animals tried to destroy them in order to protect the forest.
But they couldn't destroy it, it was just to much. In there need they looked up for the wise owl.
"uhu..." it said... "Uhu... we have to-uhu find the origin of this dorny bushes and destroy it on the first Uhuu. tree that was infected... uhuuu"
So the big animals tried to find the tree but the bushes were so strong and so close they were trapped. They just were to big to get any further.
Now a small snake said. "I will go and Ssssss-earch-sssshhh. I will sssssss-oon return. ssshhh"
so the snake began to crawl under the bushes and searched for the first tree the spores had infected.
She finally found it and returned to report it to the other animals.
The mice and hamsters said "We will eat the roots of the bush on the first tree. It will free the forest. Our teeth are made for this task."
The squirrels said "From the description of the snake most of them are on the top of it. Can you climb like us?
We are better for this task our teeths are made for it as well and we are great climber."
The mice and hamsters had to admit, that they couldn't climb. And so the squirrels were sent out.
They run under the bushes, as they were small enought to get throu...
Soon they found the tree the snake had described and began their work.
The roots were no match for their sharp little incisors.
But the roots were toxic and soon the sqirrels felt the effects of the poison, when some of them fall down of the tree... dead.
But they did not stop, they did not care... They were like "If we don't do it now, all will die the whole forest will. We must hold out!"
And soon the roots were less and less but also the squirrels biting them.
more and more dead squirrels lied under the tree. And finally the last bite broke the last root, before the last squirrel fell down.
Now that the roots were dead the bush died in an instant. And the big animals could break through it.
When the bear and the wolf arrived the place where all the squirrels lied dead on the ground, they couldn't believe it.
Then a shining light surrounded the area, little light balls came out from the dead squirrels and formed a huge unformy shape.
The animals knew "The gods of the forest had spoken"... The squirrels that satisfied themself for the sake of others, became the guardian of the forest.
And so it happened, that this forest is not guarded by a big animal but by the spirits of the little brave squirrels.
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