The Jelly beans you see today were not always as they appear....
Back in the early days of the Akram Kingdom there was a high demand for crops and meats. One such crop was Beans, they were an essential part of a normal diet back then for young children, who disliked the taste so much they would rather do chores! One day a one such child had gotten so disgusted by the beans that he took his a years supply and left the village of Adventurers to go bury them far away. He traveled the outskirts of the Adventurer Village for a while still protected by the influence of the Village guard.
As he left the outskirts and the guards influence he began seeing more creatures that he had never seen before, they appeared to be worms of various sizes. From worms the size of you fingers to worms the size of a full grown Human being! These Worms seemed to like the smell of the beans and started following this child for a while. He began to get curious as to whether they would eat them or not so he could stop his travels to bury the beans far away, so he dropped a few and kept moving forward for a while then looked back. To his surprise the worms did not stop to eat the beans but kept coming after him! The beans that the worms slid over seemed to turn a reddish hue.
Well from this point the child had figured out that the worms were not interested in the beans as he had originally thought, but instead were after him. So he did what any young child would do and ran. With the load of beans on his cart he was slowed down and exhausted fairly quick, but he kept going because he knew the worms would be there behind him before long. As he rounded a tree and headed South he found a giant waterfall.
It was here he had decided to make camp for the night and climbed up a tree for protection against the worms during the night. In the morning he had expected to see the tree surrounded by worms trying to get to him, but instead he saw nothing but the waterfall and trees. It was here at the base of the Waterfall he decided to bury the beans, so he began digging a large hole. When it was around lunch time he was done digging but had become very hungry, when he went to get some of the food he had packed it was missing! Had the worms eaten it instead he wondered? Then out of the corner of his eye he noticed something move, and slowly get larger. It was a Bean! A bean was growing right in front of his eyes, and it grew arms and legs and a face. Flabbergasted by this sight the child fell back into his own hole and just stared in amazement as the Bean started jumping around and then it turned to him and spoke.
"Why have you brought us all here young child?" It asked. The child shockingly replied "I don't like the taste of beans so I came here to bury you all." The Bean kept jumping and thought for a while about what the child had said. "Well now I think I can help you there young one, Fetch me a drink from the water at the bottom of the waterfall there and bring it to me." The boy went and got some water for the bean without asking why he needed it and brought it back quickly. "What are you going to do to help me get rid of these beans?" the boy asked. "Why I'm going to give them a chance!" Replied the Bean. As he drank the water the Bean walked around the sack of beans and dropped some water on them. Soon more of the beans were starting to change and grow!
Soon every bean in the sack had got out of it and had grown to be around the size of a small child. While the original Bean had grown to be the size of one and a half grown Men. He declared to the Beans to enjoy life and started his jumping once more. Soon the entire batch of beans was hopping and bouncing, then from inside the woods came red beans riding the worms! The worms left as soon as the Red Beans had gotten off them, as if they were scared of something. When all the beans had finished becoming aware of themselves the Giant Bean grabbed the wooden bat the child had brought with him and asked what it was for. The child told him of a game were one hits a balls and another goes and retrieves it. The Beans were fascinated with the idea of this "game" and asked if he had a ball with him.
He grabbed his ball from the cart and taught the Giant bean how to hit the ball, and the others how to throw it back. Soon they were playing the game like they had known it from the start. The Giant Bean hit the ball so hard one time that it hit another bean and it fell down, to everyone's surprise it bounced! One by one they started falling backwards and learned their skin was rubber like. The Giant bean had decided at this point to call them Jelly Beans. In the end the child had said he had to go home and the Jelly Beans followed him there, when they got close enough to the Village of Adventurers they stopped and said they would go no further. When asked they said it was not their place and said their good byes to the child and left him to go back to the waterfall.
~Zurn
Edited by Zurn, 23 October 2013 - 03:55 PM.