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while until there was only one rabbity thing left. When he ran out of other rabbity things to eat, he began to eat his own body parts until he could no longer reach himself any longer. Finally, he died, too.

The water creatures didn't discover the loss of the rabbity things until one fruity thing fell from a tree onto the surface below. To everyone's surprise, he not only survived but he reported the rabid danger was over.

There was great rejoicing as the water creatures climbed back out of the slime-infested waters to the slimy surface to live. In only a short span of time, the fruity things and vegetable creatures created a brilliant civilization that became the envy of the other civilizations that weren't so brilliant. One of these just happened to be the civilization ruled by King Nakka the Just. That kind of brings us back to our story.

A significant item of interest concerns the life span of the fruity things and vegetable creatures. Due to the rotton soil brought forth from the ground of slime, the two species ruled by Fruity Thing Control lived about eighteen hours before they withered and died. During this time, the creatures threw great hour-long parties that usually ended with the death of the creatures born at the beginning of these parties. As such, not much work really got done during the rest of the day.

King Nekka the Just was a ruler who felt that all creatures needed to worship him at all times. His own subjects obeyed this decree mainly because they had nothing better to do. However, when King Nakka discovered there was a whole civilization that lived entire life spans without even thinking about him, let alone worship him, he became very angry and made plans to attack Fruity Thing Control.

Unfortunately, King Nakka had problems of his own. The life span of his subjects was about an hour, and the trip to Fruity land was over three hours long. If King Nekka sent a task force to destroy Fruity Thing Control, it was quite conceivable that none of his subjects would survive the trip. That was when he came up with his historic invasion plan.

Great sea arks were built to house entire families of King Nakka's people. It was the king's intention to have these families reproduce themselves until their grand children reached Fruity Thing Control to attack. In several hours, and several generations later, the sea armada was launched.

For two hours, the arks maintained their course with new generations born by the hour.

However, during the second hour, the offspring of offspring began to confuse their orders and no one was really sure who was supposed to be attacked. Finally, utilizing this confusion, a contingent of spies from Fruity Thing Control met up with the fourth generation of travelers and convinced them they were rebels who were really supposed to attack King Nekka. Unlike King Nekka, they wrote down their instructions so the new offspring would always remember their orders.

When the eighth generation reached home, the soldiers searched for King Nekka so they could attack but it was reported that King Nekka died many hours before their invasion of the homeland began, and King Nekka left no message for the soldiers for when they returned home. As the soldiers debated amongst themselves, no reproductions took place and an hour passed. Several hours later, the whole incident was forgotten; there was no one left to remember it.

History, as usual, repeated itself. But who was listening anyway?

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