Once upon a time, there lived two best friends, Marcella and Iris.

These two girls were

inseparable. They spent every day, every hour, every minute with each other!

One day Marcella and Iris were sitting in the field talking because they never got bored of
each other. They were in deep conversation till they heard something. A giant army of huge
men were running at them with spears and spathas. The girls jumped up and ran back home
as fast as they could to get away. They were terrified. Clueless of what was happening. They
arrived back at the central square to discover it was completely destroyed. Marcella and Iris
looked at each other in terror. What was happening, they thought. Was this some sort of
war, or a joke? They proceeded running back to their homes but as they ran, looking at their
surroundings, they realised the whole village had been destroyed. But they couldn’t stop
until they got home. The army was still running behind them but they were much slower
than the girls. Marcella and Iris were astounded by the amount of damage that the village
had been through, it's as if there never was a town. The girls were also really sad too, to see
the village completely destroyed, all of their life, their childhood. They ran up to the house,
nothing. Absolutely nothing, just ruins of their home. Iris shed a tear but they knew they had
to keep going. So they kept running, until they lost sight of the army. They have never been
this far out of the village, so really they had no clue where they were going. But they kept
walking straight. After what had felt like hours of walking, they stopped. They looked around
and noticed a huge mountain ahead of them. There was also a sign. A sign that said “
Apennine Mountains, Italy.” They’ve never heard of the Apennine Mountains but they knew
Italy was the country right beside theirs, they learnt that in school. They decided to climb the
Apennine Mountains because they couldn’t just stay there and wait till the army reached
them again. They started the climb. It was very tiring, but they made it. Once they got to the
top, they saw all of Italy and all of the neighbouring countries. It was insane. Marcella looked
to the right and noticed something, it was a wooden house. It was strange, a wooden house
in the middle of the Apennine Mountains. She knocked and heard voices. Her eyes widened.
She carefully opened the door to find that half of their village was hiding inside! They were
shocked. All of their friends and family were inside. They sat down and everyone started
explaining all at once. Apparently, the village had been evacuated due to the war that has
begun with the other tribe. They were really mad at us for taking their land to use as an
extension for the palace, so they stood up and fought back. The villagers also said that they
had been searching for the two of them, worried sick, so they built this house to wait in and
see if the girls came, which they did. Marcella and Iris finally understood everything that had
happened. It was terrible but at least they know what happened and that everyone is okay.

Now that the girls are here, they could finally proceed down the mountain, all together. It
was a bit chaotic though. As they all went down the mountain, people were falling on top of
each other and tumbling all over the place. It was tough, but they made it down the
mountain. Everyone took a break. They stood for five minutes and carried on. They walked
for 7 hours straight through the forest, seeing nothing but trees. Then suddenly, they found
huge open land. Nobody was there. It was just plain land. Everybody's eyes lit up. No one
said anything but they knew they found their new home. Quikly, everyone went to work. Yes
they were tired from the walk but if they wanted to call this home, they needed to build. So
all the adults cut wood from the trees with whatever materials they had, the kids helped the
adults carry all the supplies and Marcella and Iris directed everyone where they needed to
go, as they always did. By the time the sky had turned pitch black, they had already
constructed 5 beautiful buildings for the villagers to live in, which was just enough for the
tiny town.

Ever since then, they kept building and changing and evolving the new so-called home,
which they decided to call Rome. Marcella and Iris always stayed together, helping anyone
that needed help. Everyone was peaceful and they lived a better life than they had ever lived
before.

THE END