July 26, 2021
Prompt: Our planet consists of beautiful and unique creatures. An elephant is one such creature. Imagine and elephant with wings, describe this magnificent creature and it’s surroundings.
I never thought I would see anything like it.
A creature that defied physics, outshone butterflies, and moved more gracefully than antelope.
The creature was large, and gray. Standing on four immense and stable legs, it rose like a mighty wall, seeming immovable. Two tusks, as sharp as spears jutted out from its face, framing the snakelike trunk. Its wise eyes regarded me, appearing to hold all the secrets of the world.
I froze.
It slowly and calmly turned its head, and its four legs appeared to be moving tree trunks. Around its feet, delicate iridescent flowers shook with every step as it traveled with calculated movements away from me. Its tail swung, rough like a rope. Its expansive ears waved gently like fans with every breeze that ruffled the leaves on the tall trees overhead. Sunlight filtered through the branches, giving the forest and ethereal feeling, but the beautiful scenery paled in comparison to the creature’s most stunning feature.
Matching the violet flowers below, ginormous wings lay folded on the creature’s back. As I watched, entranced, the large creature unfolded them, and carefully shook itself, almost like a wet dog. The wings were longer than the creature itself, and almost as wide. Biologically speaking, they remained similar to a bee’s wings, but all my wits were chased out of my mind upon the appearance of the unique wings. They caught the sunlight, and shone brighter than the stars themselves.
But how, I wondered, can such a huge creature fly?
I should have known.
Faster and faster, the wings rotated, flapping front, then whipping back. Below them, hapless flowers were uprooted, and petals flurried through the air as if caught in a hurricane. As if caught in a hurricane.
I yelled, fearing for my safety, and rushed to safely rest behind the dense shrubbery and low hanging branches that surrounded the clearing. The gusts of air from the creatures wings grew stronger and stronger, ripping the greenery below from its roots. I could feel the shockwaves from the impact rustling the leaves I hid behind. Slowly but surely, the ginormous creature rose off the ground. Before I knew it, it had vanished, the only evidence of the scientific anomaly being the stacks of ruined poppies and the hole in the canopy from which the creature had exited. I would never forget the wondrous and magnificent creature.
