Alternate Ending Of The Four Seasons

The Four Seasons In the beginning, the Earth was ruled by the king of the sky. He lived in a palace made of frozen moonbeams. His palace was surrounded by a wall of lightning. The gates to his palace were rainbows. The sky king could see all of the trees of the Earth from his throne in the clouds. They rose out of the fog that surrounded the Earth like a veil, towering above the other creatures like giants. The trees would tell him stories about what the other creatures were doing beneath the massive, green canopy. They talked all day about the squirrels and the birds and the otters. As much as the king loved talking to the trees and hearing their stories, he was easily bored and longed to see the animals for himself. In fact, he wanted it so much that that was all he thought about. He
One day, he decided that he must strip the trees of their leaves so that he could see the ground. “ Why must you take our leaves?”, the trees complained. “Why can’t you come to the ground and walk like the other creatures?” “I am the king! I mustn't walk on the ground like the ordinary creatures”, he replied. The trees continued to protest, but the king paid them no heed. He summoned the winds and blew all of the leaves from the trees. The trees cried out desperately, but their voices were lost in the wind. Even today, on the windiest of nights, their wild howls can be heard ripping through the darkness. The leaves cracked and covered the ground. Snow began to fall, settling on the ground in a thick white powder. Icicles, formed by the freezing wind, crystallized on the tree branches. The tree trunks towered above the wide, white world, skeletons rising from their graves. Now the king could see all of the creatures of the Earth for himself. They were beautiful. The birds soared in great arcs above the trees. The squirrels raced about, collecting nuts and stuffing food into their mouths like greedy children. The otters dove in and out of holes in the ice,