Theseus and the Minotaur (alternative ending)

This is what the author wrote before:

"Why do we need to send tributes to Crete every year?' Prince Theseus asked his father, the king of Athens.

'To keep King Minos from sinking our ships or making war on us,' said King Aegeus (though he did not like to talk about it).

'And what do we send?'

'Seven men and seven women,' said the king.

'As slaves?'

'Not as slaves,' said the king reluctantly. 'To feed the Minotaur."

And this is what I've changed:

"How terrible and sad! Never again shall we do that!' replied Theseus with anger surging inside him. "This year, I will go and solve this problem, even if it takes to kill the disgusting Minotaur!

Even though the king could see his son's determination, he still tried very hard to persuade him to give up. But no matter what the king said, Theseus would not give in. When the time came for the ships to set sail, the king looked at his son with tears in his eyes and with a sad expression because he knew that the probability of his son's return was very little. As he was thinking about this, he suddenly thought of a brilliant idea, so he said. "Good luck, Theseus. On your returning trip, if you succeed, you shall pull up a white sail; but if you fail, you shall tell your man to raise up a black sail." The prince looked at his father with confidence in his eyes and he replied. "I shall return safely!"

When the ships arrived at Crete, the king looked down at the sacrificers and asked who will be the bravest to go first. The courageous Theseus answered with a determination look. The evil king laughed coldly. "Well, well. As you wish, you will go first then!! Ha ha ha!" Behind his throne, the king's little daughter- Ariadne sat watching his cruel father. "I must do something!" she thought, "I have to think of a plan that could save the brave prince AND my poor brother- the Minotaur."

The Minotaur was actually the son of the evil King Minos. The Minotaur wasn't born a very vicious child, he was changed because so many people came to attck him in his labyrinth. The intellectual Ariadne crept up to Theseus as he boldly walked into the dangerous labyrinth and told him about the Minotaur. At first, he didn't believe her and thought she was only trying to change his impression of her father, but then he gradually began to believe her and listened to her ingenius plan, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of thread and told him to hold on to it so he wouldn't get lost in the labyrinth. She also prepared a potion to let Theseus tell the Minotaur to drink it so it will change back to the good-hearted Minotaur. Ariadne also knew another way out of the smothering, dark and creepy labyrinth so after Theseus had done his important mission, he and Ariadne slipped out of that secret exit which was filled with cobwebs since nobody had been there for twenty years. When they were safe and successfully rescued both the Minotaur and Ariadne from their sinister father, Theseus quickly set sail and put on a new white sail and sailed home.

Theseus promised to marry Ariadne, so after they arrived back at Athens, they married and lived happily ever after with Theseus' father, after Aridne made a potion for him to have the strenght of a young man but the wisdom of an old man. As for the evil King of Crete, he was so frustrated and sad that he died of a terrible disease.

The End