A Giant, Tiny and Human Story

Pirates

Nate POV

We soon arrived at the Giant house. It really was GIANT!

"Whoa," I was really amazed. Mark and Felix put down Matt and Jack onto a kitchen table. Jack put his hand down and let Sam and I get off.

"Everything's extremely big," Sam pointed out.

"Y-yeah," I began stuttering. I began carefully walking on the table.

I stumbled, caught myself, and started walking again.

"H-how are Giants so big?" Sam asked.

"The same way Tinies are so small: Giants were made extra big and Tinies extra small," Jack answered.

I looked at the distance from the table, where I was, to the kitchen counter. It looked a lot bigger than it probably was. Taking a deep breath, I ran down the table, and just as I got to the edge, I jumped, went through the air and landed with a roll.

"Don't do that!" Matt looked full of concern as Mark carefully picked up Sam and brought her over.

"I'm fine!" I reassured him. Matt just sighed.

On the counter, Sam and I started walking. Not to anywhere in particular, I just hadn't seen a Giant kitchen before. The counter stretched for miles, and then I saw something.

A small pile of thin paper arranged in circles with tall sides. I went over to the pile.

"We could use these like boats," I thought out loud. Sam gripped one and separated it from the pile.

"It's too thin."

"Then use more than one?" I thought that would work.

"What are ya thinkin'?" Jack asked.

"If we used a bunch of these as a sort of boat, would it actually float?" I asked.

"That's a coffee filter. It would leak really easily, an' water would get in," Jack answered.

"Tinfoil is thicker and would float, if you want," Felix asked, making an effort to be quiet.

"Okay?" I agreed. Felix walked over somewhere and came back with a silver sheet of paper.

"You can fold it into stuff," Felix said as he cut a piece of paper.

"Can you get a smaller piece and they can make little tinfoil hats or something?" Matt thought out loud.

"That would be adorable," Jack agreed. Felix got another piece. Jack and Matt started making the big piece into a boat for us, and placed us in.

The smaller piece was handed to us.

"How do you make this a hat?" I asked.

"Let me try," Sam took the foil and started trying to arrange it into a hat. She took the foil and started arranging it around my head, making it a little bit bigger. She folded some stuff and made a triangle hat.

"Like that?" she asked the Humans.

"That is adorable," Jack declared.

"Here can you make one for me?" Sam asked me.

"Yeah. Here..." I took another piece and made it into a similar hat.

"Want to go in water?" Jack asked, picking up the boat.

"Okay," I answered as Mark turned the water on.
"That should be good," he turned the water off once a not much water was in there to him, but the water probably would go over my head.

Jack rolled up his pants and removed his shoes and socks, and then got in the water and placed us down. The water went to Jack's knees.

"This is cool," Sam commented.

"Yeah," I said as Jack gently pushed the boat and we slowly moved. Sam made a circle with her fingers and put it around her eye.

"We're on uncharted waters, Captain," she joked.

"Is there any nearby uncharted lands we could look for treasure on?" I played along. Mark placed a giant lid in the sink.

"There's an island! I bet there's a lot of buried treasure there!" Sam yelled.

"Let's set sail!" I said as I looked around for Jack. Jack came over and grabbed the boat, bringing it over to the island and holding it still.

"Let's go treasure hunting!" I laughed.

"Ay ay, Captain!" we got onto the lid.

"This island appears to be abandoned," I said.

"What is this island called?" Sam asked.

I noticed Jack was intentionally moving our boat away from the island.

"Jack!"

"Jack Island?" Sam was still playing.

"Sam, our boat!" I pointed.

"Hey! Jack!" Sam yelled at him.

"Yer boat floated away!" Jack told us.

"Now you're stranded!"

"Oh no! We're stranded on this island! Now what do we do?" I asked Sam.

"We can't swim so I guess we're stuck here," she answered. I looked around.

Jack had the boat and was in the corner of the sink.

"I guess it's just the two of us on this island," I realized.

"Yeah. Uh, now what?" Sam wondered.

"Jack?" we called his name.

"Hwat?"

"We're, uh, not able to get off..." I replied.

"Here," Jack offered a hand for us to get on and then Felix lifted Jack out of the water.