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One cold morning the strange water dragon plunged into the deep blue sea
to hide and as he was swimming and listening to the music sounds from the two
cities, he devised a tedious plan with the purpose of destroying these wonderful
musical combinations and all musical games which were inspired by this artistic
communication of those cities.

This is what he did:

The next morning, before the sun rises, he flew three times over the two cities
and started blowing a strange ΄΄ White wind΄΄ to the castles and the bridge which
was standing among them. Those, who saw this terrible white Wind, recognized it
but it was too late to do something. The steam of Jealousy flavored with the vapor of
Discord, so was its name, was overdoing across the bridge which connected the two
cities and soon covered all the area of the tale.
Within a few hours the residents of the cities began to envy each other,
one town to decry the music of the other town... and unfortunately all sort of disgraceful
events occurred one after the other. But in this perfect plan of the white wind,
the Dragon of the story had not reckoned a small detail in.
The resistance
of the children
from both cities!
As you see,
he considered them young,
weak
and insignificant.

A young brave boy who lived there and was called Nikos Skalkottas
watching the vapor of jealousy and discord which had transformed all his friends from
nice people to jealous and arrogant
personalities, decided to take action .

The next evening he met in secret
a wise seagull, in the church town of
Saint Paraskevi and asked for help.
The wise seagull advised him to ask
for help from his grandfather who was
one of the musicians of the Wind Band
of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the
one city.

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