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Chapter 9 - Through The Forest
I slept peacefully in the great big forest that night. Something there made me feel at home. It was wonderful being with nature again. I hadn't been there for so long. Anyway, when I woke up, the sun was poking through the canopy, and the birdies were chirpin'.
I yawned, stretched, and went over to wake up George and Shilah. When I went over to George, he was muttering in his sleep. "Oooh, yeah, I'll have some more Spooce. Mmmm... thanks princess." I started chuckling. I still didn't know George too well, but I knew him well enough to scream "HOLY ODD THE SLIGS ARE COMING!!!!" in his ear. It was hilarious! He jumped up all scared and started screamin' like a little girl. Then, when he realized I was jokin' around, he got pissed and smacked me, and we rolled around on the forest floor for a while. This woke Shilah up, so we started to have some breakfast and talk about what we needed to do.
We sat around the campfire and talked for a while. We decided that we needed to head in the direction we last saw the airship travelling in. But the main problem was we didn't know how to catch up! But Shilah solved our problem. He indicated that he could carry both of us pretty fast through the forest. What a nice beast!
So we ate up the last of the Spooce and went on our way. Shilah was haulin' butt! He was really flying. The first couple of hours were great. We flew through the forest, seeing all sorts of ponds, creeks, big huge trees, and all sorts of cool nature stuff! We also saw birds, animals, and Fuzzles and stuff. It was great! After that though, it started to slow down. I could tell Shilah was getting tired, so I told him we could take a break. We rested for a little bit, found some stuff to eat drink, and started up again.
Shilah was still going slower than before. It was a few hours before he collapsed, and we still weren't even out of the forest. So I told the guys to start setting up camp. George tried to light a fire whlie I went out to get some grub. I was just walking throgh the woods, pickin' up whatever I could find, when I heard something in the bushes. The camp was out of earshot, I had deal with whatever it was myself. I was repeating the chant mantra in my head for when the thing came out. I was ready to take it on. The bushes started to wiggle a little more. Then they started to shake reall hard! I was getting scared. That thing was ready to charge me. Just as I started chant, the thing popped out of the bushes!
I was so scared. It was big, it was muscular, it was ready to rip me to shreds! It stepped into the light, and I saw that it was... an Elum! I switched from scared outta my mind to super-happy in a second. I was stunned. This guy would solve our travel problems. I went up to pet him, and he took an immediate liking to me. I grabbed all the food I brought and started leading him back to camp.
George was really excited. He started jumping for joy. He took the Elum, started petting it, feeding it, and cleaning it up. He even began to make a saddle for it. They were gonna be best buddies, I could tell.
I layed in my makeshift hammock (which I made out of leaves and some grass), looking up through the trees at the stars. It was a good day. Tommorow we'd get up and out of this forest (the prospect made me fell sad; I had grown to love this forest). Nothing could go wrong. Nothing at all.
END OF CHAPTER.
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