Ugly Duckling by Mark Antony Raines

Once upon a time  long ago  on a old farm  which  was looking at bit worse for wear sat a mother duck sitting  on her nest awaiting  for her newly laided  eggs  to hatch.

"It typical  your  father  has gone withome his mates to investigate  some  new pond  and left me to sit here  bored out  my brain  waiting  for  you  lot to hatch;so hurry  up and get on with it "

said Mother Duck

Suddenly a cracking  sounds  could be  heard and out from  under her bottom  tiny quack s could be heard; the mother  duck  sat up to give the  poor  little things  some  air .

"You look all so cute and cuddly"

Mother Duck  then counted  her new borns it was only five so number  six was not hatched  yet.

Sitting  in the nest  was one large  I would  say brown egg but it s a strange world  now where a colour can cause offence, so that  us call it a different egg in shade instead  less of this back to the  story. 

So the Mother Duck informed the five others  that playtime  at the pond will have  to wait  until  the  last egg was hatched. 

After a long night and into the dawn of a new day and some very very very very bored duckling s awaiting finally  the different  egg hatched. 

But what stepped  out of the cracked egg  shell was a odd looking  bird who was much bigger than the rest and had the most uglylist face you  ever  did see and when he walked  it was  with a funny  wobble. 

 In unison the the other duckling s said 

'You are very ugly "

Mother  Duck said

"Don't be so rude he is your  brother  and he is probably a late developer ,now come  on line up its time to  go to  for the pond for some playtime. 

The other duckling s waited  until  the  mother duck was ahead  of them and all turned and said  to  the ugly  bird .

'look you are far too ugly and awkward  to be with  us in the pond so why  don't  you  go away  and hide "

So the poor different duckling  felt instantly  upset  and run away  crying and generally  feeling  very sorry for himself. 

Days and Days went by ,with the odd comments from passing members of the animal kingdom  , "oh boy your an ugly looking Bird ,bet your own mother don't love you!"

 The  ugly different looking Bird just retreated into himself some more feeling very very very very unloved.

Little did he know his mother was missing him lots and was very angry with his give other siblings for telling him to go away,in return each of  the ugly different birds siblings had a guilty conscious for their horrid words and attitude to a member of their family.

 Suddenly one day a pigeon flow by and said "Oh Boy what a beauty" this keep happening all day,He even got a couple of wolf whistles  from the geese flying over ,so to see what the fuss was all about,he went to the pond.

In the ripple of the pond a reflection looked back at him,he was a magnificent white swan.

Passing by at this exact moment was his mother and his give siblings ,the mother duck in an instant knew that the swan was once the ugly duckling ,his siblings all in unison said sorry for being so cruel .

Then a flash of built up angry and frustration the swan preceded to.peck and bite until all were DEAD,nothing left but corpes floating to the bottom of the pond,and for a brief while red coloured pond water.

The End.