Noah and the Giant
Long ago, there was a man named Noah who was spoken to by God himself. God had told Noah that a great flood was coming to the earth and that he must build an ark in order to save a pair of each of the animals of the world. After years of preparation, the time of the flood was near and Noah had gathered pairs of all the animals of the earth except the unicorn. As the rain started to fall, a pair of giants the size of a mountains approached the Ark. Scared for the animals and the ark, Noah ran to meet the giants to see why they were approaching. "Why are you here, giants? " shouted Noah, "You are both tall enough to withstand the flood and would not fit on my ark anyways!" The male giant boomed a response "It is not the water we fear, as we will be taller than the flood. We fear that we will not be able to find food when the water wipes out the animals and plants. We wish to make a trade." "What trade?" Noah asked. "We see that you have failed to acquire a unicorn for your ark. If you will give us food during the flood we will bring you a unicorn and promise not to harm you, your people or your ark." Noah thought for a moment before agreeing to the trade.
A night passed and the waters slowly started to rise, and Noah thought that the giants had failed to find a unicorn. As soon as Noah started to close the doors of the ark he heard the booming voice of the giant, "Wait!, we have found for you the last unicorn, and our deal is complete." Noah thanked them for keeping their part of the deal and every day of the flood he gave the giants some of the food stored on the ark. When the flood had finally ended, Noah and the animals left the ark to find an empty land. Noah immediately started to plant new crops for the future but the giants were disappointing at the barren land. In anger, the male giant wrecked the progress that Noah had made, breaking his promise not to harm Noah's people or anything on the ark. Noah approached the giants and said "You have broken your promise and must be exiled for your sins, if you ever come back I will use the strength of God to kill you both." The giants ran far away, and struggled to find enough food to sustain them. Years went by and the giants shrunk from the size of mountains to the size of a very large human, and this is where Goliath the giant had his origins.
Author's Notes
In the original story,
The Giant and the Flood, a single giant named Og approaches Noah with a unicorn since Noah could not find one. The unicorn was so giant that Noah had to attach a rope to it's horn and as it passed by a mountain the giant jumped on the unicorn so it could steal the unicorn's food as Noah threw it out to it. Noah made a deal with the giant, since the giant was strong enough to destroy the ark, that if he fed the giant then the giant must be his servant when the flood stopped. The giant, out of hunger, agreed to the bargain. After years of serving the humans, Og got tired of the work and tried to kill the humans. Since he broke the promise, Moses killed Og. In my version of the story, I felt that it would make more sense for the giant to live and be an ancestor of Goliath from the famous story, David and Goliath. Because of this, there needed to be two giants so that they could be exiled together and continue the giant bloodline. I also cut out some of the story that I did not think was necessary, like the dialogue where Moses is speaking with a bird, or when Og sacrifices animals to a grape vine.
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