There once was a group of Friars living on a mountain top, basically communing and doing the things that Friars do. It was discovered that the soil around their monastery was extraordinarily fertile, and many strange and amazingly wonderful plants and flowers grew in the area. The Friars decided to cultivate these plants and flowers and see what types of new plants they could come up with.

After a while, people heard about all the wondrous plant life the Friars were developing. They came from miles around to tour the Monastery area. The Friars, who were very business minded for a group of religious folk, decided to start charging the people money for the seeds and tours.

After a while, they made such a tremendous profit that they decided to drop religion all together and become very wealthy and materialistic, which seemed to be more noble (not to mention a lot more fun).

The Pope heard about this, and as the owner of the land, decided to send a priest out to talk the Friars back into their religious life. When the priest arrived, the Friars responded badly to his conversion attempts and slit the priest’s throat. Needless to say, the Pope was very upset at the news, and decided he’d have to brings out the big guns. (No, I won’t mention religious canons.)

The Pope decided to send Bishop Hue to settle the matter. Now Bishop Hue was known to have a very bad temper. He went to see the Friars, who tried to slit his throat, too. Bishop Hue defended himself, slaying all the Friars, burning the monastery to the ground, destroying all the plant life, and ruining the area for many, many years to come.

MORAL: Only Hue can prevent Florist Friars.

~author unknown