The small horde of children bounded into the orchard toward an old man. The mock fear he put on his face transitioned quickly to joy as he ran to escape the little marauders. But it was a slow run, for he had no intention of escaping. Soon he was indeed captured by them.

A small one spoke. "Tell us a story, grandpa! The wakeup story!"

"Okay, help me pick apples and a story I will tell."

He paused. "Once there was a magic unicorn..."

"No!"

"No unicorn? How about bumble-monsters?"

"No!"

The old man shook his head with a smile. "Hmm, I get my stories mixed up sometimes. Let's see.... A long time ago there was a terrible war and many people died. The winner of the war, called the World Order, was very mean to everyone. They even gave lots of spankings to little children."

A chorus of boos rang out from the audience gathered around him.

The old man continued. "They had all manner of fearsome weapons and nobody dared to oppose them. Then along came Dr. Hsu. He found a way to turn on the magic in good people by modifying their genetics, or something complicated like that. With the magic they were able to defeat the World Order and stop the spankings to children, well mostly."

Cheers sounded.

"Now this magic was very useful. Just by thinking about it some could move things from one place to another, even heavy things like big boulders. Picking apples would be so much easier if you could just think the apples from the tree right into the basket. Others could look inside your body and fix broken parts inside, like a doctor. Still others were very good at finding lost people. This was called the Awakening."

"I want some magic!"

"Ah, the magic is gone now. I will get to that part.

" The good people started the New Republic and everyone lived in peace. But Dr. Hsu was still worried that the New Republic would use their magic to do bad things, so he made a virus to give magic to everyone. Now a virus is usually bad, like the ones that make you sick, but this one was good. After this everyone was happy for a long time.

"But some people had much stronger magic than others and became evil. They took advantage of the ones with weaker magic. People became unhappy again. Dr. Hsu thought that might happen so he had planted an un-magic seed long before. Two heroes saw the badness that magic was causing in the world. Facing terrible danger they sprouted the un-magic seed and magic ended in the world. That is why there is no magic now and we can be happy once again.

"Now off with you! Time for lunch."

An old woman smirked as she walked up to the old man and kissed him. "So now we are 'two heroes' that 'sprouted the un-magic seed'? Our story gets better every time."