Predict

Will the humans and animals destroy the Yakwawiak?

Kitselemukong watched from the top of the highest mountain as they fought. It was a hard battle, for the Yakwawiak were strong. The Yakwawiak tried to crush the animals and people beneath their huge feet. They stabbed them with their sharp tusks and threw them up into the air with their trunks. The piercing sound of their screams as they fought was terrible to hear. Even when they were wounded and bleeding, the huge monsters continued to fight.

All through that long day, the fight went back and forth. It went from the edge of the great salt water to the wide river that flows through the heart of the land. Many of the bravest animals, those who were almost as large and powerful as the Yakwawiak, were killed. The giant bear and the great wolf fell, and the huge beaver fell in battle. Only their bones buried in the earth show that they ever lived. Many of the people and the other animals were also killed in the fight, but they still fought bravely. One of the bravest was Two Hawks Flying.

The air was filled with the terrible screams of the Yakwawiak as they fought. Mountains were pushed over and valleys gouged out by the monsters as they fought. The earth sank down and became marshy as it was trampled under the feet of the huge creatures. Blood soaked into the ground.

But Two Hawks Flying saw that the Yakwawiak were too powerful. The human beings and the animals could not defeat them alone.

“Great One,” he shouted, “you must help us now.”