The Unremarkable Boy

Once upon a time, a long time ago, prehistoric days infact, there lived a very unremarkable boy named Bill Ugg.
I call him unremarkable because, you see, he came from a very remarkable family.
Every member of Bill Uggs family had invented or discovered something.
His father Doug Ugg had invented the wheel and his mother Mary Ugg had discovered how to make fire; his brother Oscar Ugg had discovered counting and his sister Meg Ugg had invented the art of cave painting but poor Bill hadn't invented anything.
One day however, Bill told his parents that he was going out for a walk so that he could discover something or come up with some brilliant idea for a new invention and, saying that, he walked off into the forest.
As Bill was walking through the forest however, down from the sky swooped a gigantic, shrieking Pterodactyl that snatched up Bill in her claws then the Pterodactyl carried him off up to her nest that was high upon a hilltop.
"Rarrk!", squawked the Pterodactyl to a terrified Bill, "You are to watch over my eggs, little human, until they hatch, understand? if you don't I shall come back and eat you".
Then the Pterodactyl mother took off again, spreading her wings wide and soaring into the sky, leaving poor Bill alone in the nest with her eggs.
"What will I do? Oh, what will I do?", thought bill, peering over the edge of the nest at a big lake far below, "I'll never climb down from this hill. Its too high".
Just then, however, as Bill was looking round about him, he suddenly had a brilliant idea and then, rolling the Pterodactyls eggs out of the nest, he began to push the empty nest with all his might.
He pushed and pushed until he had pushed the nest half way off of the hilltop and then, getting back inside the nest, he started to jump up and down until the nest was tipped over and then he and it both fell down onto the big lake below but then, just as Bill had hoped, the nest started to float.
It floated just like a big round boat upon the lake and then, using an old dinosaur bone that he found in the nest as an oar, he paddled it all the way to the edge of the lake.
No sooner had the boy stepped ashore however when he heard a loud sobbing sound and, looking round about he saw a giant, long necked diplodocus who was crying.
And when the boy asked the Diplodocus why she was crying, the dinosaur pointed with her long neck towards her baby dinosaur who was trapped upon a high ledge.
"Don't worry", said Bill, "Let me climb up your long neck and I'll carry your baby safely to the ground".
And so that is what the Diplodocus did and Bill climbed up her neck and, even though the baby dinosaur was much heavier than he had anticipated, still Bill managed to carry the baby dinosaur back down, over its mother, to the ground.
Just then however, as Bill was waving goodbye to the Diplodocus mother and child, he heard a loud squawk that sounded familiar and, looking up and trembling with terror, the boy saw the Pterodactyl who had carried him off earlier.
The flying dinosaur had returned to her nest you see and, discovering that Bill had escaped and had taken her nest with him had gone looking for him to punish him.
"Steal my nest and abandon my children would you?", the Pterodactyl squawked as she circled above him, casting her enormous shadow over him, "Well I'll peck you apart piece by piece and then gobble up all the pieces for my breakfast".
Then, folding her great leathery wings behind her, the Pterodactyl began to dive towards him and as she did she opened her large, green tooth filled beak wide.
However, just as the Pterodactyl was about to snap him up in her jaws, the Diplodocus mother, snapping off a large tree branch and holding it in her mouth, used it as a club to swat the Pterodactyl with and she hit it so hard that she knocked the terrible flying lizard right out of the air.
"Oh thank you", said Bill to the Diplodocus mother.
"Don't mention it", she replied, "After all, you helped save my baby".
But then Bill, waving goodbye once more to the Diplodocus, ran home to the cave of his family and, when he got back home, he told his Mother, Father, Sister and Brother all about the remarkable adventure he had just had.
"Wow thats amazing", his father said.
"Yes", agreed Bill but then, frowning, the boy added, "Still, I never did manage to discover or invent something".
"Oh but you did", said his mother, smiling.
"I did?", asked Bill, confused, "What?".
"Well that thing you just told us. What do you call it?", she asked.
"A Story?", suggested Bill.
"Yes that story", said his mother, "I've never heard anything like it before; a very remarkable invention".
And so thats how the story was first invented and also how a seemingly unremarkable young boy proved that he was not so unremarkable after all.