Rise of the Guardians 2

Chapter 28

I awoke at the sound of Melvin's bray. I stretched, yawned, blinked,and then gasped. The first word that came to mind was Paradise. It was a beautiful valley, with a crystal blue river and thousands, if not millions, of orange, pink and yellow truffula trees.

"Hey, Once" I whispered and prodded his shoulder. He didn't move. "Once!" Still no response. I punched him in the shoulder "Once-ler!"

He awoke with a start. "Oh!" He sat up "We're gunna be there soon. It's like-Whoa" He gasped, took in the sight and we both got down from the wagon. "This is...the most beautiful place...that I have ever seen"

We began to walk, and were soon greeted by three Humming Fish. They sang for us before disappearing into the river. Once pulled out his guitar and began to sing.

"This is it!" He sang "This is the Place. These Truffula trees are just what I needed. I'm gonna chop one down and make my thneed" He held the last word for a couple seconds. "But first!" He threw his guitar up in the air, unintentionally knocking a Barbaloot high in to the air. "Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na, Na-na-na-na-na-Now you!" I rolled my eyes at his silliness, but smiled and joined in with the group of forest animals that had gathered around us.

Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na"

"That's great!" We began to move forward towards a clearing and I beckoned Melvin forward.

"La-la-lo-lo-lo-la,ha-ha-hahaha,uba-huba-huba-huba-ho-howhow" Once opened the back of the wagon and I grabbed a spoon and began to sing, pretending it was a microphone.

"So, now our friendship can begin, hand in hand and wing and fin-"

"-There's nothing you and I can't do, so lets all make our dreams come true Yodleo, Yodleo" He lapsed into yodeling and I whistled along. We began to unload the wagon, tossing things out as we went. I heard Once's yodeling falter and I turned to see what had caused it. The Barbaloots, fish and Swans were all glaring at us. One bird was smaking a stick against it's wing.

"Hey, guys" Once said nervously "Come on, where's my back up chorus?" They bared their teeth at us.

"What?" I said. Thinking quickly, Once grabbed something from the wagon to help protect us from the cute little forest animals of doom. The bad news was he grabbed two of the marshmallow bags he had brought with us. A Barbaloot jumped at us and it's claws tore the bag opened, showering marshmallows down of us all. The animals loved them and soon completely forgot about us.

Once put on his green gloves, grabbed his axe and proceeded to chop down a tree. I grabbed my tent and went a distance to put it up. I finished and when I returned to Once, I saw the strangest thing happening.