From: Pele@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: MetamorphosisII
Date: Sat Aug 20 09:11:40 1994
Ok..here's the second part to the story.  I'm sure none of you were in any 
suspense  :)

As the caterpillar's eyes focused on his body, he found that he now had 
legs growing from his side.  He stared in astonished horror as he looked 
around his cocoon.  In his attmept to ruan away from being forced
into undergoing the metamorphosis he had driven himself to the one place 
that he could undergo it.  He was by himself, alone to look at himself.

He knew what was expected of him and he knew what he had to do.  This 
brought him great sadness and the tears rolled down his face as he began 
to spin another web.  All night he lay in the lonely room he had created 
changing as he was required to do.  Being something that he hated.  
Finally, he could stay awaked no longer and he fell asleep.

The sunlight had somehow managed to edge it's way through the dense 
foliage and into the caterpillar's home and through the thick webbing that 
he had created to rest softly on his wing.  He looked across in 
astonishment when he realized that in truth he had a wing.  In fact, he 
had two of them!  He also had six legs!  HE was what everyone wanted him 
to be. As quickly as he could, he tore away at his web, freeing himself 
from his silk cell.

Once open to the air he flew out of his cocoon.  All around him were the 
cocoons of his brothers and sisters who were still metamorphising.  He 
flew out of the home, almost excited by the beauty of the view he
was afforded by his flight.  He took off into the air, flying high and 
flying low.  He flew below and landed near a pool of water where he saw 
his reflection and marveled.  He was beautiful!  He flew off again to the 
top of the tree and looked down.  It was just as beautiful as he had 
imagined.  He smiled.

Suddenly, a wave of sadness hit him as he now realized that he would never 
be a worm and that he would always be something that others wanted him to 
be.  No matter how beutiful that was, it was not what he wanted.  He flew 
down and rested by the bark where he found the old worm resting after 
having eaten a full lunch.  The worm recognized him at once.

"Hello there," he smiled.  "I see you did it anyway."

"It was an accident," replied the caterpillar.  "This is not what I want.  
I want to be like youg!"  He started to sob.  Soon the tears
 were enormous.  HIs friend tried to console him.

"Sometimes, my friend," he said.  "We are not allowed to choose our own 
destiny."  Somehow, that only made him feel worse.  The caterpillar, now 
turned butterfly took off into the air, without saying goodbye.  He flew 
through the winds, blinded by his own tears. 

Mere moments after leaving the worm, he found himself caught in something. 
He looked around and noticed that he was caught in a spider's web.  He 
fought to free himself.  The more he struggled, the more he got entangled.
By the time the spider got there, he was already too exhasted to move.  
The spider didn't seem interested in eating the butterfly, though for he 
simply smiled and then walked over to him and started spinning a web.

After a while, the spider had engulfed the butterfly in a web cocoon of 
his own and hung the butterfly upside down from his strong webbing.  The 
butterfly felt lonely and depressed.  

But soon, a wonderful thing happend!  The butterfly, whose eyes were not 
covered by the webbing, looked down into a puddle of water that
had settled on the tree he was caught in.  And in the puddle, he could see 
his reflection.  He was now a long, grey/white worm!  He smiled as he 
realised that he was what he wanted to be.  

"I am a worm!"  He screamed.  "I am a worm!"  Soon he was laughing, and 
then he let out bombastical laughter that rang throughout the little 
forest

Only a little distance away, the worm swallowed a piece of bark and smiled 
in knowing satisfaction at the laughter he heard.  And he looked up at the 
trickle of light that had seeped through the leaves to land on a small 
caterpillar moving slowly down the bark to say hello to the wisest animal 
he knew.


Well, guys. That's it.  Thanx for reading.  I'd love some comentary.  If 
you dont' like it, I'd like to know.  Thanx again.


-Pele-