The Stories in Forest 2 -- Rescue from The Hunters

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THE DEEP HOT DESERT

  Once upon a time, in the deep hot desert, there lived a big gray elephant, he was young and handsome, but he was not happy. Every day he imagined, "How wonderful if I could stay in the forest, I could be cool and comfortable all day." But in the desert like that, he could hardly find any water anywhere. The only water he found was a hot little puddle, no bigger than his foot. Everywhere in the desert was dry, the mud was cracked, and everywhere was burning hot like fire.

  One day, the elephant was stomping in the sandy desert, he fanned his face with his ears, he could stand no day in such a hot desert, he whispered to himself, "I will keep walking, until I cannot. This desert is no place for me; I will walk to a forest where my parents used to live. So it's cool, I can stay comfortable, not with any sun heat." So cheerfully, he walked and walked, day by day, he kept walking, with his eyes straight to the front... until...

  "Ouch!" He bumped into a rock that made him almost fall over,       

  "Who put a rock here?!" He looked around, there was no one, but only sand, endless sand.

  As he started to walk again, he heard a little sound, "Who stepped on me? So rude!"

  From that voice, the elephant was surprised to see that the ROCK popped out a little head, it wasn't a rock, it was a turtle!

  The elephant stepped back and said. "I apologize; I was rushing to the forest, didn't see you on the ground."

  "Forest?!" The turtle looked at the elephant with an astonished voice,  “Did you say FOREST! I always wanted to be in the forest! A turtle like me, I can never walk to the forest, I’m too slow." The elephant leaned his head down. He looked at the little cute creature and replied, "Then why don't you come with me, turtle."

  "Yeah, great!" said the turtle, "You are so kind, I love kind people. By the way, I have a name..."

  "Well, you are a turtle." said the elephant.

  "Turtles also have names! My name is Neasenulagesaka, you can call me ‘Neaka’ for short."

  "All right." said the elephant in the mumbly voice. He really didn't want to stay for this long.

  "Ok, climb from my trunk, turtle. You can stay on my back."

  "Say ‘Neaka’ please, don't you remember?" said the turtle.

   "All right, all right, Neaka." replied elephant in the frustrated way.

  "Yes!” He climbed happily on elephant's trunk and onto his back.

  "We're on our way--" said the elephant. As he walked, the elephant turned his head and said, "My name is Ethan, you can call me ‘Ethan’ for short...Oh, well, I don't have a short name." Turtle and elephant all laughed.

                               

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GREAT PLACE TO LIVE

  The elephant kept on walking and walking...one day, the elephant suddenly stopped.

  "What's happening?" The turtle asked.

  "I smell water!” cried the elephant happily. "We must reach the forest!"

"How could you know?" The turtle asked confused.

The elephant replied, "Elephants can reportedly smell water from miles away."

The turtle was so excited, and said, "I wanna run!"

  "Are you making a joke? You better stay on my back; my walking is faster than your running." The elephant laughed.   🐘 🐢

  They both were very eager to get to the water. The elephant started to walk faster. In the direction of the sound of the water, they reached the forest and saw a beautiful flowing river, and a pleasant meadow, they had never seen in the dessert. Elephant said to himself, "For all this walking, I finally reached the place where I can live." The turtle couldn't wait to get down to the elephant's back.

They drank the crispy and refreshing water. Ethan wiped his mouth with his trunk and said, "I can drink a lot, like an elephant."

  "You ARE an Elephant!" said the turtle laughing. They hiccupped as they walked by the river, they enjoyed seeing the beautiful flowers, and were amazed on how bees were busying on collecting pollen. As they were wandering by the river, they happened to find a green dark misty cave.

  "This can be our new home!" Neaka said excitedly.

  Ethan said, "Let's go take a rest, I am feeling a little exhausted."

  "I'm not really." said the turtle.

  "Of course you are not; you've been staying on my back all the time." Ethan replied.

  "Oh! That's right." turtle just realized it. They both laid in the misty cave.

  Ethan was so tired and fell fast asleep. Ethan dreamed the beautiful fairies flying around, and magical rainbow flowing through the air from his eyes, like sparkling dash of magic. He dreamed that he stayed with his mom and dad playing in the grassy hill happily…

  The next morning, Ethan and Neaka were playing so hard, they can't even stop. They were picking fruit. Ethan lifted Neaka on his trunk high up in the air, and Neaka grabbed the stems tightly with his little mouth, he pulled and twisted. Every time the fruit fell, it would fall on Ethan's head that made them chuckle.

  As they played and played, they suddenly saw a herd of gray elephants. Each one was holding the twigs. The leader was wrinkled but looked strong. He was holding the biggest brown twig with leaves on it. Ethan got so excited, so he carried the turtle and went straight ahead to them. As the elephants put down the twigs and they were marching in circle. The leader saw him with his black peering eyes, he said in the deep low voice to Ethan, "Who are you? I've never seen you before."

Ethan took a breath, "Hi! My...my name is Ethan." He said in a nervous way. "I came here from the desert."

  "Get away from us!" The leader said in the furious way, "We don't know who you are!"

  "Well, of course you know who he is." Neaka smiled at the leader cutely,           "He is an Elephant, same as you."

  "Don't interrupt!" said the leader unhappily, Neaka stopped smiling.

  Ethan looked at the leader and said, "My parents used to live here, but there was once a hunter came that killed my mom, so my dad had to take me to the deep hot desert to survive. But there was not much food in the desert, so my dad died too..."

  "Oh, too bad! You need a tissue? "Neaka said.

  Without even looking at Ethan, leader replied, "I don't believe you. You are make things up. Get away from us!"

  By this moment, one elephant stepped up and said, "Please, just let him stay."

  "I am the leader. Do what I ordered!" The leader said impatiently and showed them to leave.

  So Ethan walked away slowly and sadly. They went back to the meadow.   

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FIRE SPARKS

  "Why don't we play and have some fun!" said Neaka.

  They soon forgot all about what had happened before. The forest had so many things to explore and to be enjoyed, every day with the birds singing woke them up, they went to pick fruits, laid down on the meadow, and played in the river. They really enjoyed the pleasant time. The forest was so beautiful, the sunshine was just right to warm their bodies.

  One day, they were laying on the soft grass daydreaming, the turtle said, "What a nice place, I wish this day would never end."

"I wish the same, but... I’m feeling a little bit lonely." Ethan said.

  "What! You feel lonely even when you stay with me?!" said the turtle with his mouth pouted.

  Ethan turned his head to the turtle, "Elephants belong in the group, but I am the only elephant that is being lonely in this forest."

  The turtle frowned...

  One night, they were going to the bed, the turtle wasn't feeling sleepy, so he decided to take a walk around the cave. Suddenly he saw some little sparks of fire.

  He quickly knew this was not right. He scrambled into the cave, he used his little head to lifted Ethan's big ear up and shouted,
  "Hurry up, Ethan! Go, take a look!"

Ethan yawned, “What is it! Can't you see I am trying to sleep?"

  "But you got to see this, something is going wrong!" turtle yelled.

  Ethan stood up tiredly, as he walked out the cave. Soon he realized that turtle was right, "Neaka! You climb on my back. I will take you half way to the fire. You go there to see what's going on." Turtle agreed, but he didn't think he would ever reach the fire.

As the elephant was walking closer to the fire, he dropped the turtle down, "Now you have to walk all the way to the tent, and hear what they are talking about. If there was a trouble, try to find their guns and unload the bullets." Neaka knew this was a serious job, this was all about his best friend Ethan, so without any hesitate, turtle followed the direction of fire, he walked and walked, it was a very long way for him... when he reached the tent, it was nearly late night.

  The turtle reached the tent and ducked his head through it, and saw a thin tall man and a fat short man. The fat man was sitting on a chair, drank the beer and bit the big ham.

  "Stop eating, Fatty. We got to sleep now. Tomorrow we’ll have to wake up early to hunt the elephants." the tall man said.

  "Oh! I know, I know..." said the fat man, while he was still eating, "I know by tomorrow, I will be rich!"

  "No, Fatty. WE will be rich!" They all laughed greedily.

  By hearing this, the turtle got shocked! "What am I gonna do?! What am I gonna do?!" The turtle thought. He climbed out the tent. By this time, there was a big orange parrot that flew right before his eyes. "Stop, stop! Over here!" yelled the turtle.

  "What's happening, turtle?" said the bird, as he flew down.

  "Can you do me a favor, bird?” without waiting for the bird reply, turtle continued, "Can you help me send the message to the elephant, who lives in the cave right by the side of the river? There are two hunters that are coming to kill the elephants tomorrow."

  The bird replied, "That is a very big emergency, I will be straight there!" The bird lifted up into the air, faster than a blink of eye and disappeared into the night.

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TROUBLE IN THE FOREST

  The turtle sneaked back to the tent. He saw the tall man handed two guns to the fat man.

  "Fatty! You'll have to load the bullets in these two guns. I'll go check the car gas." The fat man wiped his greasy mouth, and started to load the bullets as he was whistling.

  By now, the bird reached to the tunnel and told the Ethan the massage.

  "Oh, No!" said Ethan, "I have to inform other elephants."

  The bird said, "It's too dangerous, you can't go out there."

  But Ethan didn't care; he said strongly, "I have to! Or else, they will have trouble." He went out to find the group...

  Back to the tent, both two men were sleeping with big snoring. The turtle thought it was time to do what Ethan told him. He sneaked to the guns that were laying against the wall, but it was too high for turtle to reach, so he pushed his head to the guns, "Bonk!" the two guns fell on the ground heavily.

  "What's that noise, Fatty! I just heard a noise." The tall man sat up quickly.

  The turtle froze frightened; he knew he walked very slowly, so he would never get to hide, if they had come.

  "What...I didn't hear anything..." the fat man said dreamily, and turned another side fell asleep again. The tall man listened closely, there was not a sound so he went back to sleep too. As the snoring noise came again, the turtle quickly unloaded the bullets with his little mouth, then he used his feet to dig a hole and pushed the bullets in and buried them. After that he was so tired, he felt like he had to lay down to sleep, but he couldn't stop, he knew he walked slow, so he decided to walk into the car first thing in the night.

  In the forest, Ethan was still trying to find the group of elephants he had seen before, he searched and searched, with the help of the bird. The bird was looking at the faraway places, while flying low in the night. As Ethan was walking, the bird suddenly called, "I see them! I see them!" In the direction of the elephants, Ethan followed the bird and found them.

  As they reached the herd of elephants, he saw the elephants sleeping soundly. The leader was on the top of the hill, laying down by the tree. He soon found out Ethan was coming closer, he quickly stood up and walked toward the Ethan and said," What are you doing here, get away!"

  "But...I just need to tell you tomorrow there are hunters that are going to kill us." Ethan said with heavy breath.

  The leader said, "I don't believe you, like I said, you are just making things up."      

  Before the leader continued, the bird said, "That is true, the turtle asked me to send the message to him. He especially came just to rescue your group." The leader got shocked and looked at the Ethan.

  "Then what are we gonna do?" The leader asked in the worry.

  "I know there is the cave that is very safe. Please follow me." Ethan said.

  The leader called all the elephants in his herd, one by one, the elephants holding on one another's tail and followed Ethan, as they went toward the cave, the leader stayed in the back to protect his group, to make sure no elephants got lost. When they reached the cave, Ethan let all the elephants to hide in the cave. But there were so many elephants they could not fit all. So Ethan decided to stay outside with the leader.

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SAVING THE DAY

  It was nearly morning, the tall man was ready to hunt, he called the fat man in bed, "Wake up, Fatty, we’re late!" The tall man went outside to start the engine, the fat man got up and was busy packing his food, "Wait for me!" shouted the fat man, as he packed one more bag of food, he took the guns and walked clumsily with all his heavy bags.

  "Why do you pack so much food? We are going hunting!" The tall man said unhappily.

  "But we do have to eat." replied the fat man with excitement.

  They drove into the forest, they looked and looked, but they could not find any elephants. The fat man started to complain, "Are you sure you hunted a few years ago?"

"Sure I did." The tall man stopped the car angrily and got down.

The turtle in the car thought, "What a great friend, Ethan saved

all the elephants in the meadow. Phew! I actually did not really

have to unload the bullets."

  As the tall man got down the car, the fat man followed. He laid down by the big tree and started to unpack his food. While he was just about to eat, the tall man shouted, "Look, Fatty! I found some elephant poops and there are some elephant footprints!" The tall man turned his head to fat man, "Come on, Fatty, it's not a picnic! Quickly clean up and let's go!" The fat man grabbed a big hamburger put into his mouth and went on, “Coming..." he said with his mouthful. Neaka in the car heard the conversation and thought, "Smart Ethan! Good thing I have already unloaded the bullets in the gun." The car followed where the foot prints would lead. The car thumped and bumped on the waddled road. The fat man used a binoculars searched while his mouth was still chewing. Suddenly he yelled out, "I see an elephant!"

  The tall man got excited, while he was driving. "Where?!  Where?!"

  "Right there!" said the fat man, holding the binoculars.

  "Where?!" The tall man grabbed the binoculars from fat man. Through the binocular, he saw a mighty elephant laying on the meadow.

  "Yeah! I see it!" The tall man put on the high speed and zoomed to the direction. They quietly stopped the car near to the elephants. The fat man jumped out the car, "Yeah!"

  The tall man said, "Shush...you are gonna scare away the elephants."

  The fat man took the gun and walked sneakily.  The turtle soon rolled down the car and followed the fat man. He raised the gun pointed to the leader and whispered, "Here we go, I will be rich!" Before he was about to shoot, the turtle took a big bite on his leg, “Ouch! Something bit me!" This sound made the leader elephant stand up.

  "Stupid Fatty!" The tall man said madly.

  The leader elephant found the fat man, he ran to the fat man and used his truck to grab him and raised him high in the air, and threw him far away.

  The tall man got quite frightened. He raised the gun pointed at the leader elephant. By this time, Ethan saw the tall man, and he soon realized this tall man was the man that killed his mom years ago. Ethan fiercely ran to the tall man with all the imagines of his mom. The tall man quickly pointed to him with his hands shaking. Ethan wasn't sure if the gun had been unloaded, he thought he might die, but he was fearless, he wanted to kill this tall man before he died, for the deed of his mom and the herd.

  The tall man shot, nothing came out, only a puff of dust. As Ethan ran toward to him, the tall man dropped the gun and started to run desperately! "Ahhaaaa---"

  Ethan chased him down the cliff. The tall man had nowhere to go, so Ethan pushed him off the cliff as hard as possible. Ethan stood up on the high cliff and watched, he was happy, but he was even happier that he had saved the herd. He raised his trunk with a long shout of joy.

  By hearing this sound, all the elephants came out. They knew they were saved. The leader walked to the herd of elephants and pointed to Ethan with his truck and said, "From now on, this young man will be our leader!"

  The sky was so blue and the white clouds seemed smiling. The trees with breeze of wind seemed nodding their heads. The birds were flying high in the sky with happy singing. The animals proudly watched him standing on the cliff.  All the elephants raised their trunks and bowed, with a long shout to Ethan respectfully.

  Up came a little cute voice," Ethan, get down, I need to climb on you back to seeeeee!"