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Enter The Elephant Man

Earth, once ruled by creatures of incredible proportions, now stands of the utopia of man, but to Alexander, the world shrank too small for him. He does not complain after all they are the ruling species. The inconveniences caused by not being part of the majority is that he is as heavy as 12 steak ready beef with a bit more weight to boot, that would lead to a person of average height to death, but he is also slightly shorter than history’s tallest man being multiplied by 2 and stacked from sole of the shoe to head. Being an elephant made this sort of proportions possible but he wishes he was like them. “These hairless apes have it so good. I wish I could have such a great life,” he sighs to himself, knowing that all of the housing was meant to accommodate humans and that he is the freak around here.

He works with a construction crew, the only job that would need muscle like his, with him around. Accidents have been prevented or if he could not do so, keep himself in a state of focus and get the human out of the situation even if it burns him. Despite being unable to use the water due to his size which leads him to be left dirty and without clothes feeling cold is inevitable. To him the land used for constructing a building is where he sleeps. He mostly relies on rain to clean himself and then again he still is working. The only place he can go is to the wildlife reserve but due to the distance not only creating noise pollution is inevitable, but he may have to cross dirty water which would make him sick and the zoo is the only place for his healthcare, which for him means that he can only get himself fixed up in prison. At least, for him the zoo, despite having him in some sense of horror knowing that his family and friends are in here forever, it is better than the circus, or as it has the reputation of being animal hell, his kind already went crazy with the circus; Flora, once a performer in the circus, went crazy when she was brought out of hell and into captivity, he knew the humans wanted to be nice, but a zookeeper still got hurt by them, and Janet, who got shot 47 times by an officer for endangering human children on her back.

His place of work is in Los Angeles where a building that can withstand earthquakes is needed to be built by a big corporate company willing to pay this band of workers that are far from their birth homes much more than any their work so far, the company is obviously trying to outlast its competitors even in a crisis, which Alexander knew was a sign of greed on them but the look on all the workers and their contractor shined like gold, Alexander thought in delight, “Due to living with humans, I am now used to eating meat. And even then it was just Mc Donald’s, but know I can feel full again, I feeling I miss ever since I moved to America due to the food shortage at my home.” Alexander found his only friends being his workmates, the company representative, which is just being friendly with him for his services, and the suppliers in the shipyard. “Don’t worry we have a full prove guarantee that the building is to your specifications, we have Alexander, he can jump once, that can make the ground shake just enough to test the structure and keep the surrounding building intact, just with a little bit of apologizing on our part,” the contractor promised. With an impressed look on the representative’s face the job was given to them.

The floor need to be broken down and moved away before anything can be done. In one stomp, the ground softens. With the ground soft enough and with a few holes dug into the ground. Three of the workers go and work the vehicles, two work on the trucks and one on an excavator, Alexander worked as an excavator. While the holes are being dug in and the dirt is being thrown into the trucks. A small ringing of chants that kept on repeating, but he pays no mind. Until, a grenade enters the excavator and blows up, the mixture of a crowd chanting with the screams of an injured man, Alexander yelled as he rips the door open and pulled the casualty out of the vehicle and put him to the side, the workers run towards the injured man and Alexander, took their place as the wall, bellowed in simmering anger, “Why do you people attack here, we are working!” He emphasizes on “working”, the response of them is a bunch of insults, with reference to the smell and them being poor, puts Alexander in a state of brimming rage, with a rock tossed to the head, making a bleeding scratch. This is the limit, in a loud demonically low, Alexander brought a mighty stomp onto the rioters in front of him, leaving 8 corpses under his foot while 2 others who had their legs stomped off, then killed the other 2 rioters that have become running man, the rioters disappeared in fear. Before Alexander went after them in rage, his friends tried to reign him in so that no poorer souls needed to be sent to hell in rage.

In a state of melancholy, he wanted to walk off to the zoo, to heal up, but after a step, he felt too weak due to blood loss, in his desperation, he meditated for the safety of the people who broke the area and the souls who provoke him for safe travels in the afterlife, he closes in eyes accepting death, while his friends cried for him to hold on. In Alexander’s lifeless state all the people who are in the company including the boss, who came out shouting only to stop when he saw the lifeless elephant body before him, all came to hug his body to keep his body to a happy afterlife. In a state of miracles, a young lady who just ran into the construction site, when she stopped she said, “Alright everyone, your friend will be fine.” All the workers look on in anticipation as she does her work and his head gets bandaged, due to his state, he has to be moved to the zoo for his rest. Finally, awake, he woke up to Judy, “Oh, you’re awake! You got a message that your boss wanted to tell you something.” The look of Alexander went from surprise due to literally being resurrected from the dead to a sense of dread, he lost his job due to causing a public relations nightmare that puts the company’s marketability in jeopardy. He felt crushed, even more than his wounds already did.

“Looks like I will have to work with you, right?” Alexander asks in a begrudging manner.

“Umm… Yea, surprised you did not want with u…” before Judy can finish that sentence Alexander intrudes with in a booming voice, “We want to be free, not be enclosed in this… JAIL CELL!” This feeling of want for freedom has all the animals call in unison.

“But I have no choice, do I” he asked rhetorically, in an act of pity she gave him banana with tree bark, his favorite. From then on, he worked at the zoo, much to his own dislike.

It’s been months since the incident at his last job, he has gotten used to his new job, where he trained new zookeepers in helping to feed his kind, where the skills used can be used to train with other animals, he made a new friend in a monkey that can also communicate with humans, named Chester.

“You have to try out for this talent show, it going to make you free.” Chester exclaims excitedly, knowing how Alexander look like he has given up on freedom. In a weird move of glee, he trumpeted a sound of victory, the talent can be seen.

“So, I will take it as a yes then,” Chester states, knowing Alexander’s new joy. With the zoo hearing him, he panics and asked, “I wasn’t too loud, was I?”

“So, what song will you be performing?” Judy asked.

“Hey you got a trumpet and a human vocal cord right?” Chester prompted.

“Yea…” Alexander replied.

“Let’s do ‘build our machine’.” Judy suggested.

“You mean the new song that got famous due the new game.” Chester said, in questioning.

“Stop, what are you talking about?” Alexander shouted in confusion. Judy played the song in response to Alexander. The tune of the song bringing a sense questioning with it ending with Alexander wondering, “Couldn’t Chester do this singing bit?” With the thought of being famous and Alexander’s longing for freedom in Chester’s head. He went with, “Whoever sell the most tickets in our respective shows at different times, will go for the competition.” Judy and Alexander agreed with Chester’s proposal.

With the days usually spent practicing with only one animal, it was used to host shows for Chester and Alexander to practice. With the decision on whether can do the singing without fail, Chester backed out for the reason of he felt exhausted, leaving Alexander to be the main singer for the competition representing the zoo, In Judy’s eyes, in his own he represent himself as a resume for someone to take him out of the zoo.

The show was started and was running with almost half of the contestants have been either booted or shortlisted and it’s Alexander and Judy’s turn in the open, the look of the audience varies between confusion and finding this a joke. Even the judges wanted to shoo the duo away, but in a single request at a louder volume the audience and the judges are interested in the elephant that can talk, with some snickering at the joke they thought it was going on. With the performance on the way, Judy went with a speed that the song went with fingers of the devil, shredding the cords on the piano while Alexander sung with a power that required no speakers, the audience went from thinking it is a joke to screaming in joy and clapping in rhythm with the song this was the first ever “gold shower” in the season, the judges was reminded of Susan Boyle. And the ending left with no one wanting to challenge “the great elephant” as the judges called Alexander. With the victory, one of the judges named Simon, asked if Alex wanted a record label, Alexander graciously gave this opportunity to Judy, saying “I believe that the opportunity to become famous should belong to Judy, the woman who gave me the spotlight.” Judy looked at Alexander in shock and wanted to have him to this opportunity, but clearly he must have heard her drunken wishes to be famous. She could only say in tears of joy, “Alex…”

Before Alexander’s name can be fully spoken, he interrupted with, “Dreams never die, my friend. Dreams never die.” With the crowd hearing this, the audience gave a standing ovation, with Judy hugging her friend in acceptance of the gift. Simon questions Alexander, “Then what do you plan to do with your gifts.”

He could only reply, “Someone is already after me, and he means well.”

Days later, Chester asked, “Why did you not take the chance to leave the zoo, I mean you do hate this place.” He gave a smile and a word of “Youth” implying that she needs to chase her dream when young so that her elder years can be fun and worth all the trouble of working hard.

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