It stepped forward, timidly.
Facing it, the other laughed, looming over the first. A glint of defiance filled its features before the other struck. Opening wide, the blades sliced through the fragile fibers that held it together and it lay, slain, defeated. A single piece of paper became two, then three, then a flurry like snow, too many to count. The other’s rage was complete. Gladiator champion. The audience cowered in fear as the dual blades, fixed in place by the great red handles, raked their gaze across them. Who was to be the next competitor? The scissors grinned, already tasting the cut paper between their teeth. For who could cut down the scissors? Shoot. The only word to describe it. The way it came to the clearing in the palm of the universe. It shot. Through the air and onto the scissors, crushing them, it shot. And then again. Up and down, and no way for the blades to retaliate, for its skin was hard and uncuttable. The scissors scraped against it in vain, but it was not long before they lay bent and broken like so many of their victims had before. The rock rose above, victorious, and the crowds cheered. Until it looked upon them with its cold, hard eyes, inviting the next competitor with a grim eagerness. The rock, unsmashable, uncuttable. Flurries. Flurries in the wind. Dancing, bent to the wind’s will, the flurries of broken paper flew. Suddenly whole again. Mended and prepared, once more, to fight. The rock rose up against it, but the paper laughed its merry, high laugh, and knew that there were no blades to cut it now. Up it flew, and it settled over the rock like a blanket of white, pristine cotton. The rock stumbled, but it could not see; it smashed against the ground, trying to rid itself of the cause of its claustrophobia. But the paper was resilient, and the rock was not. It crumbled with each smash, until it lay unmoving and scattered, like bits of paper in the wind. For power, alas, does not last. because somehow i was like "rock, paper, scissors. philosophical gladiator wars"
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