Connor: Blog Of The Day- Story Version

The Rat Government
By Connor

I am the great rat king.  In my kingdom we are known for raiding the other animals.  Our superior intellect helps us to swindle these animals out of their food.  One day my followers brought back a lion and we kept it hostage.  The lion is still in chains, but I have reason to fear that many of our kind may die.  In short my fellow rats we need a hero.  

That was the full speech I gave, imagine my surprise when one of my weaker guards chose to do it.  We sent Vlad in there a few days later and he walked out carrying the lion 's tail.  Soon Vlad was telling all these crazy stories and I decided to have someone check his "proof."  As it would turn out the lion was still alive, just missing a tail.  I talked with the lion about how he would earn his freedom.  In the morning Vlad's bones lay in the stadium where we had left the lion.  Suddenly a rat named James started telling the whole kingdom that I had killed Vlad.  Sure enough the lion got hungry again and ate the rest of my guards and my followers.  Now I am the great rat king of an empty kingdom.

The End