The magic flute

We were told to come up with a different ending to this story.

Petrisor was a 10 year old (same as me) who took such good care of his flock of sheep that the spirit of the forest offered a reward. This spirit was an old man who had a house full of riches. Petrisor ignored the gold, and jewelry since he did not think he had much use for them and instead picked an old wooden flute. The flute turns out to be magical. 

My first ending: The child has never had a flute before and certainly not one that produced such beautiful sounds. So, he plays the flute all day instead of caring for the sheep. He becomes fat and lazy. The flute is like one of today's phones. The sheep get eaten by wolves. The spirit of the forest learns that even the best children cannot handle the addiction given by magical objects and from now on encourages people to only use the simple things they can make themselves.

A more intricate ending I came up with: Petrisor takes the small wooden flute and goes home. When he wakes up he sees the whole house filled with the gold and precious stones he did not take. He takes a few with him, and a sword and continues his job as a shepard. He gives away everything else to the people in his vilalge. When his singing is not enough, he uses the sword to defend his flock. Still, one day he notices that his sheep are disappearing at night-time. He sets guard, and finds it is a zmeu from the other land who must have suddenly taken a fancy of sheep milk. The zmeu is imune to the singing. So, he captures Petrisor and takes him home. He then locks him in a small room and forgets to give him much food (as if he had COVID-19; but back then people had to work hard to survive independent of the many viruses and other afflictions). There Petrisor hides under the bed. When the zmeu comes in and looks for him, he does not find him. Just as the zmeu opens the door, he sees Petrisor jumping out of his hiding place. Petrisor kills the zmeu with his sword. Once he gets out, he finds a beautiful girl in the kitchen. She turns out to be the daugther of the emperor, who had been stollen by the zmeu. Petrisor takes her back to her father. The emperor marries them when they reach the kingdom since they travelled unchaperoned. He does not know Petrisor is a shepard since he sees only the nice clothes and things he's taken from the zmeu's palace and assumes that Petrisor must own a kingdom. They all live happily until the end of their days. In Petrisor's village, some other children learn to take care of sheep, and Petrisor gives them the magic flute to keep the wolves at bay.

In the orginal story, Petrisor uses the flute to make the wolves dance with the sheep until the leader of the wolfes swears to keep away from them. In the end the emperor finds out about the magic flute, and tries to buy it from Petrisor at any cost. This does not work since Petrisor is not interested in gold or other riches; he only cares about sheep and is happy with his job. The emperor then locks Petrisor up and takes the flute away. When war comes he plays it to make his enemies dance, but it has not effect on them. He is taken prisoner, but one of his man picks up the flute and releases Petrisor who ends the war with his playing.