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This story was chosen as a top 50 finalist for 500 Words 2023.

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The Green City Harry R.

There once was a city of green, green trees, cars, people, dogs and lots more. All the different shades of green were there. There was a city of yellow, a city of red and a city of blue and non of them liked each other. They all thought they were the best and they should rule, they were rude, horrible and stroppy to each other.The Green city was good at Karate and gardening. The blue city was good at Swimming and Sailing. The Red city was good at tag rugby and loved camping and the Yellow city all ate beige food and were excellent at pillow fighting with yellow pillows.After one particularly stroppy day where Blue city had lost a sailing race and Red city had lost a Rugby match there was a big argument about who was the best, Yellow and Green joined in shouting too.Green city were very cross and wanted to prove Green was best so they did something very sneaky. They sneakily sent over a cloud of green rain onto red city, red city had loads of smudges of green on it. The next day Red city bombarded the city of green with an army of red paintballs, there was a big battle. Yellow city arrived with their pillows they whooped everyone in sight and there were yellow feathers everywhere. Blue city threw buckets of blue water from their boats and made the pillows soggy and heavy.The General of the City of Green army was called General Johnny he had a massive buckle around his waist, a mohawk and one of his cheeks had a scar. His muscles were average but his mind was strong and he was sick of the fighting. He shouted STOP so loudly you could hear it from the other side of the world. The Blue, yellow, green and Red cities had a moment of silence, they looked around, and at that moment a confetti canon on the furthest hill went BOOOOOMMMMM. Everybody stared at the rainbow confetti as it rained down on them.They all looked at each other and the big beautiful mess made everybody laugh, General Johnny shouted 'Oi mates, why are we fighting? you must all be sick of it now? why can't we all just be rainbow cities? There was a lot of maybes, a few boos, but more than half of the people shouted Hurray for Rainbow cityFrom that day forward everyone was friends and everybody enjoyed every sport and activity. General became the Rainbow king, his buckle represented all the cities and he dyed his mohawk.rainbow. He got his karate black belt too.The people in the cities wore rainbow clothes the babies were born with rainbow skin. Everybody loved everybody, they hugged and they smiled and it was the best.And there was no more stroppinessThe End.I hope you enjoy the story

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